I just have a different idea of not so long ago. I was thinking pre-PC era, although nobody was thinking about 60fps Wing Commander. But go further forward and read a review of a 3dfx voodoo card, which revolutionised PC gaming, and they'll talk about smooth 30fps gaming: http://tech.mit.edu/V117/N49/threedfx.49a.html
That's 1997 and we're still only talking 16bit colour, so I still think you're lightly rewriting history.
Roll forwards to 2000 and the geforce 256 was the next real revolution.
They describe 31fps as reasonable, and they're still benchmarking with 16bit colour. Indeed later in that article they refer to 30fps as "the magical barrier".
Also, you must be joking about running windowed for more performance. Dropping resolution, sure, but not windowed. voodoo and voodoo 2 couldn't even do windowed 3d.
No. Given lots of LCD screens top out at 60fps, and most CRTs were less than 85hz, this simply isn't true. Yes refresh rates of LCDs have gone up, but have you checked what yours is running at? Mine's at 60hz.
Bare minimum changes over time. 15fps was considered smooth not so long ago, then 30fps was the quake era gold standard, now 60fps. I don't really know where it will usefully end. Clearly it matters a lot more with some game types.
I guess there could be an element of uncanny valley going on there. Low fidelity leaves you wiggle room for your brain to fill in, but maybe with higher fidelity you realise how crap the actors are?
Run that 92 octane leaded gas in your new car and you'll burn out your exhaust valves, because it will still be burning when the valve opens.
You will, but because of differing flame speeds, not because of the octane rating which is unrelated to flame speed. You can merrily run BP Ultimate 102 RON in a modern engine.
Aspergers may be on the austisic spectrum, but they're nothing alike in real terms.
It's a spectrum! The EM spectrum is quite similar...
You can't expect people at the mild end to show the same symptoms and behaviours as those as the severe end. Let's be honest here, we're all on the autistic spectrum somewhere, and I can easily believe the slashdot crowd are skewed towards one end from the population mean.
Sticking with your drug analogy, I think in many ways you have a supplier and a dealer. The street dealers aren't who you care about most, but they're still up to no good. This guy wasn't providing random information he was provided targeted and tailored information about drugs, right up to the brink of providing them. He was deemed by a judge (not a jury) to have broken UK law.
The problem , as with drugs, if the suppliers are good enough, you still end up having to deal with the dealers as part of your strategy.
And you're quite right, I am free to wait for copyright to expire, although given current terms, that basically means selecting different content, which is fine.
No, you've lost me. He linked to content which was illegal (and nobody I believe is arguing that point) and made a pile of money from advertising (~£150k) by providing people easy access to this illegal content. Sorry, but if people want to make movies and charge money for it, you've a simple moral choice. Pay the money to watch a film you end up thinking is shit, or you don't.
Do you really think you have a moral right to access all content produced without charge? I'm not siding with the MPAA in claiming this guy cost them billions of dollars, but he *did* make money based on someone else's work. Presumably he made considerably less than the market value of what he was providing access to.
The market needs to decide that this content isn't worth what the studio charges for it, and react by not watching it.
He was definitely morally guilty as he's a chancer who thought he could make a bundle of cash by skirting the law. He made money with advertising by hosting links to pirated content, where he provided facilities for the people with the pirated content to provide and update the links, and took a more custodial role than a simple hands off search engine. He shouldn't be extradited, but he should be charged in the uk, and fined sufficiently that he hasn't made a profit out of this venture (which netted him hundreds of thousands of pounds I believe).
Add to that war loans to the UK which were actually repaid in full eventually which netted you quite a pretty penny. I'm not complaining here, as I believe the US offered to write those debts off at one point but we declined the offer, and the deal was far from unfair.
VW/Audi/Porsche/Skoda/Seat/Bugatti/Lamborghini/Bentley you mean? Assuming we're just sticking to cars... I don't/think/ I've missed any, but I wouldn't be surprised.
Yep, and it means when UK people hear about US gas guzzlers, it sounds far worse than it is (although it's often not that great to start with). Read a car report that lists 62.8mpg instead (there's plenty out there for tax band reasons, even a BMW 520d gets that), and that way it's pretty good whichever way you cut it.
Other distances are imperial e.g. we still have furlongs in horse racing, and horses are still in hands. Fuel economy is still typically talked of in miles per gallon. Cold temperatures are in Celsius, hot in Farenheit. Clothes are still normally measured in inches.
The others are because the parent corporation (EA and Microsoft) have their own, competing platforms, and either flat-out refuse to put their games on Steam (Microsoft)
Erm, microsoft *do* list games on Steam, as Microsoft Flight's on, as are a couple of other titles. But it's entirely their choice whether they go on steam or not, as you say.
My point was entirely supplementary to that of vehicle control and I assure you doesn't in any way relate to airbagless rally cars. But on your point, let's be honest, if you've got more than your thumb at 6, and you're not texting, you're doing better than some.
I'd disagree. Encourage a swift and tidy wind up if you genuinely believe it to be a waste of effort. Do everything you can to wrap it up like that, *then* put it on github and see what happens. OSS developer time isn't an infinite resource, and it'd be best to divert as much attention as possible away from dead ends.
Entirely true. Problem is, you can make the same argument for all the other sources too and they'll show even more deaths. I'm sure if you applied measures to bring the safety of coal into line with nuclear you'd blow its price sky high. You'd have to make mining far safer, and capture almost all of the pollutants emitted from the power plants. Good luck with that.
In the grand scheme of things, are the disasters all that bad? Look at fukashima. Death toll from the earthquake and tsunami was in the order of 20k people. How many confirmed deaths cause by nuclear power? At least five. Total deaths after all's said and done? It's going to look paltry next to the natural disaster. If you can make these accidents considerably less common than natural disasters (and face it, we have), and kill far fewer people, that's possibly an acceptable risk.
I've got quite a few GU10 LED lights, and the only failures I've had have been faulty wiring as a result of shoddy manufacturing. After taking them apart and resoldering the contacts they worked fine again. That was only a couple though, and these were £4 direct from China bulbs.
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I just have a different idea of not so long ago. I was thinking pre-PC era, although nobody was thinking about 60fps Wing Commander. But go further forward and read a review of a 3dfx voodoo card, which revolutionised PC gaming, and they'll talk about smooth 30fps gaming: http://tech.mit.edu/V117/N49/threedfx.49a.html
That's 1997 and we're still only talking 16bit colour, so I still think you're lightly rewriting history.
Roll forwards to 2000 and the geforce 256 was the next real revolution.
http://m.tomshardware.com/reviews/leadtek-winfast-geforce-256-ddr-review,157-4.html
They describe 31fps as reasonable, and they're still benchmarking with 16bit colour. Indeed later in that article they refer to 30fps as "the magical barrier".
Also, you must be joking about running windowed for more performance. Dropping resolution, sure, but not windowed. voodoo and voodoo 2 couldn't even do windowed 3d.
No. Given lots of LCD screens top out at 60fps, and most CRTs were less than 85hz, this simply isn't true. Yes refresh rates of LCDs have gone up, but have you checked what yours is running at? Mine's at 60hz.
24fps with a panned shot is plain jerky *and* blurry.
Bare minimum changes over time. 15fps was considered smooth not so long ago, then 30fps was the quake era gold standard, now 60fps. I don't really know where it will usefully end. Clearly it matters a lot more with some game types.
I guess there could be an element of uncanny valley going on there. Low fidelity leaves you wiggle room for your brain to fill in, but maybe with higher fidelity you realise how crap the actors are?
I really don't get why people are so attached to 24fps. Can you imagine this with computer games?
Run that 92 octane leaded gas in your new car and you'll burn out your exhaust valves, because it will still be burning when the valve opens.
You will, but because of differing flame speeds, not because of the octane rating which is unrelated to flame speed. You can merrily run BP Ultimate 102 RON in a modern engine.
Aspergers may be on the austisic spectrum, but they're nothing alike in real terms.
It's a spectrum! The EM spectrum is quite similar...
You can't expect people at the mild end to show the same symptoms and behaviours as those as the severe end. Let's be honest here, we're all on the autistic spectrum somewhere, and I can easily believe the slashdot crowd are skewed towards one end from the population mean.
Seriously, flamebait? You really can't disagree with the freetards here!
Sticking with your drug analogy, I think in many ways you have a supplier and a dealer. The street dealers aren't who you care about most, but they're still up to no good. This guy wasn't providing random information he was provided targeted and tailored information about drugs, right up to the brink of providing them. He was deemed by a judge (not a jury) to have broken UK law.
The problem , as with drugs, if the suppliers are good enough, you still end up having to deal with the dealers as part of your strategy.
And you're quite right, I am free to wait for copyright to expire, although given current terms, that basically means selecting different content, which is fine.
No, you've lost me. He linked to content which was illegal (and nobody I believe is arguing that point) and made a pile of money from advertising (~£150k) by providing people easy access to this illegal content. Sorry, but if people want to make movies and charge money for it, you've a simple moral choice. Pay the money to watch a film you end up thinking is shit, or you don't.
Do you really think you have a moral right to access all content produced without charge? I'm not siding with the MPAA in claiming this guy cost them billions of dollars, but he *did* make money based on someone else's work. Presumably he made considerably less than the market value of what he was providing access to.
The market needs to decide that this content isn't worth what the studio charges for it, and react by not watching it.
He was definitely morally guilty as he's a chancer who thought he could make a bundle of cash by skirting the law. He made money with advertising by hosting links to pirated content, where he provided facilities for the people with the pirated content to provide and update the links, and took a more custodial role than a simple hands off search engine. He shouldn't be extradited, but he should be charged in the uk, and fined sufficiently that he hasn't made a profit out of this venture (which netted him hundreds of thousands of pounds I believe).
I don't believe he directly hosted any content.
What stereo spread? What sort of angular difference do you end up with?
Add to that war loans to the UK which were actually repaid in full eventually which netted you quite a pretty penny. I'm not complaining here, as I believe the US offered to write those debts off at one point but we declined the offer, and the deal was far from unfair.
VW/Audi/Porsche/Skoda/Seat/Bugatti/Lamborghini/Bentley you mean? Assuming we're just sticking to cars... I don't /think/ I've missed any, but I wouldn't be surprised.
Sell your house? So you're working on the premise that the people after you aren't in any real rush to nail you then...
Entirely true, when we use Imperial, we use Imperial :)
Yep, and it means when UK people hear about US gas guzzlers, it sounds far worse than it is (although it's often not that great to start with). Read a car report that lists 62.8mpg instead (there's plenty out there for tax band reasons, even a BMW 520d gets that), and that way it's pretty good whichever way you cut it.
That pretty much sums it up.
Other distances are imperial e.g. we still have furlongs in horse racing, and horses are still in hands.
Fuel economy is still typically talked of in miles per gallon.
Cold temperatures are in Celsius, hot in Farenheit.
Clothes are still normally measured in inches.
The others are because the parent corporation (EA and Microsoft) have their own, competing platforms, and either flat-out refuse to put their games on Steam (Microsoft)
Erm, microsoft *do* list games on Steam, as Microsoft Flight's on, as are a couple of other titles. But it's entirely their choice whether they go on steam or not, as you say.
My point was entirely supplementary to that of vehicle control and I assure you doesn't in any way relate to airbagless rally cars. But on your point, let's be honest, if you've got more than your thumb at 6, and you're not texting, you're doing better than some.
I also read somewhere that 9 and 3 (or even lower) reduces injuries due to airbag inflation too.
I'd disagree. Encourage a swift and tidy wind up if you genuinely believe it to be a waste of effort. Do everything you can to wrap it up like that, *then* put it on github and see what happens. OSS developer time isn't an infinite resource, and it'd be best to divert as much attention as possible away from dead ends.
Entirely true. Problem is, you can make the same argument for all the other sources too and they'll show even more deaths. I'm sure if you applied measures to bring the safety of coal into line with nuclear you'd blow its price sky high. You'd have to make mining far safer, and capture almost all of the pollutants emitted from the power plants. Good luck with that.
http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/03/deaths-per-twh-for-all-energy-sources.html
In the grand scheme of things, are the disasters all that bad? Look at fukashima. Death toll from the earthquake and tsunami was in the order of 20k people. How many confirmed deaths cause by nuclear power? At least five. Total deaths after all's said and done? It's going to look paltry next to the natural disaster. If you can make these accidents considerably less common than natural disasters (and face it, we have), and kill far fewer people, that's possibly an acceptable risk.
I've got quite a few GU10 LED lights, and the only failures I've had have been faulty wiring as a result of shoddy manufacturing. After taking them apart and resoldering the contacts they worked fine again. That was only a couple though, and these were £4 direct from China bulbs.