As long as you satisfy all of the natural instincts that your cat has that she would otherwise satisfy for herself outside, then it's fine to keep a cat indoors. Otherwise, it's not very humane and it sounds a little selfish on your part.
I don't even think their statement is very honest. We have this line:
The installation flow has no deceptive steps
So, when I go to a project's download page, and I see a bunch of ads with giant green "DOWNLOAD NOW" buttons, that isn't supposed to be deceptive? Then there's this:
the clear option to completely decline the offer is always available
The "clear option" is a greyed-out "Decline" button on the bottom left of the installer. The green Accept button is on the bottom right of the installer, which is the place that people have been trained to click to go to the next step. While it's true that the decline button is always visible, making it appear greyed-out and away from the Accept button is not exactly clear (and possibly deceptive). Moreover, instead of "Decline" and "Accept", how about "Only Install Filezilla" or "Install Offer And Filezilla". THAT would be clear and non-deceptive.
Here's a hint for SF: if you want to identify bad actors, one indication is that they are an advertiser. The advertiser's goal is to steal attention and make people click on something, even (especially?) if it wasn't what they intended to click on. Advertisers ruin everything about the internet, they're the reason why we needed popup blocking in the first place. Whenever a new technology comes along, advertisers are there to shit all over it. Excuse me, "monetize" it. If you're putting ads on your site, and you have no control over the content of those ads (i.e. fed from a third-party network), then those ads are going to be annoying and deceptive. I fully expect to go to SF one day and see some ad screaming about how "one weird tip" can allow me to download Filezilla.
The kind of people drawn to anonymous decentralized currencies aren't the kind that are going to be deterred by measurable financial risk.
The kind of people who use an anonymous decentralized currency as an investment (and leave their investment sitting in the exchange) are not the typical users of bitcoins. Once you have BTC, why not transfer that directly to your wallet? Why keep it in the uninsured exchange at all?
What merchants? Searching for the first 8 digits of a Wells Fargo Mastercard brings up an Excel file with several worksheets in it, including one that lists a bunch of websites and login information (including bank websites). It's on a user's FTP share at their job. So someone decided to put their important file there and they have no clue it's publicly available.
It's easy enough for me to click the Decline button instead of Accept (I'm one of the minority of users who reads things like that), but the installer doesn't even work that well. I was using Windows Remote Desktop to connect with a client's server, and the connection was pretty spotty. The server desktop was more like a slideshow. So instead of trying to edit code directly, I decided to upload all of their code to an FTP server, edit it locally, and then download the changes. So, I go to install Filezilla on the remote server. The entire SourceForge site is a mess. My remote desktop connection is already a slideshow and then SF is showing me Flash ads on every page, including the download pages, and when I finally punch through that mess and get the installer which I know is coming, I run the thing and it tells me I don't have an internet connection. Which is interesting, since I'm running the installer via remote desktop. Maybe it uses a port that was blocked on the network. After a few futile attempts to find a non-installer link on SF, I jumped back to my local PC and found a usable URL that I pasted into the remote desktop session to download. At least Filezilla is hosted on download.filezilla-project.org, but I'm sure there are a lot of projects hosted on SF that don't have a great alternative place to download.
Dice completely ruined the reputation of SourceForge. Slashdot isn't completely in the shitter yet, but I feel like it's inevitable. Well, we had a good run, anyway.
Thanks, that looks interesting. If countries like Japan, China, the US, Peru, Spain, etc don't get serious about protecting fish stocks, our oceans are screwed.
Here's a page designed by someone who misses Geocities that talks about the Atlantic stocks which includes several graphs showing the decline since the 60s and 70s:
I would highly recommend that you watch the documentary End Of The Line. The data that they show and the conclusions that they reach are pretty difficult to argue against. The world and its oceans look like a massive, massive place that we cannot possibly influence. But, as they say in the movie, we are fighting a war against fish, and we are winning. If we keep doing what we're doing then there will in fact come a day when we won't have any more fish to eat. The scary thing is that it looks like that day is coming really soon. Things like the jellyfish swarms should be a red alert alarm that we have a major problem on our hands, but there are always going to be people who look at those concerned with the low levels of fish in the ocean and write those peoples and their opinions off as some sort of environmental fanaticism. Unfortunately, this is reality.
Yes, it means shit changes. Species go extinct. Other species move in to fill a niche when condition change. That's how life works. Preserving the status quo, and attempting to freeze the environment in a particular point in time, is futile and shortsighted.
Right, so we might as well just take every fish that we possibly can out of the ocean. A fishing net that can hold 14 747s is not big enough, we need larger nets so that we can also mistakenly catch whales, sharks, rays, dolphins, turtles, etc. Because that's how life works, being caught in a gigantic net when you're not even being hunted. We should also speed up production on more boats that can catch 3,000 tons of tuna in a single trip, because the ocean can totally sustain a tuna fleet like that. I mean, who cares if the boat catches and kills tons and tons of other species that they just get rid of, those things shouldn't have been swimming near the tuna, right? Who cares if Japan is allotted 6,000 tons of bluefin tuna to catch in a year (they only need that boat to make 2 trips, then they can relax!), but instead they catch between 12,000 and 20,000 tons? That doesn't affect me! I don't give a shit if my grandchildren ever taste tuna! They'll be happy with their peanut butter and jellyfish sandwiches. This doesn't make me angry because I know that Japan isn't alone in these practices, so I can't blame them. Hell, the Pacific bluefin tuna stocks are down 96%, you know what that means? Yeah, baby, we still have 4% left! Go get it! In the recent catch 90% of the fish were juveniles who had never reproduced. You know what that means? Last generation, fuckers! Get it while you can! We need to get that boat that can catch 3,000 tons at once out there to finish off those cocky fuckers, what with their "waaa, I'm the top of the food chain" bullshit.
This is exactly the way the world works - people discover fishing, they discover nets, build boats, and entire villages, cities, and countries survive because of the plentiful fish that the ocean provides. Then we build a fishing fleet bigger than the world has ever seen, take everything we possibly can out of the ocean in order to get the high-dollar stuff we're after, leave nothing for the local communities, and they can all go fuck themselves because this a fucking dynamic planet. I'm right there with you, pal.
Computers cost money... How do you think companies pay for them? Advertising.
Not really.
Currently my company has 6 web servers online, happily serving up content. Right now our Sonicwall is moving data at 30mbps, to make sure all those little users get their little content. Traffic should peak for today at around 35mbps within a couple of hours from now.
How do we pay for those servers and that network connection and the Sonicwall and everything else we have sitting on our network at the data center that we rent space from? We provide a useful service. Our customers pay us for the service that we provide because they find it useful, we charge them more than the cost to us, and that difference is what we call "profit". We use that "profit" to do things like update our network infrastructure, to improve our quality of service. Tonight we'll be installing a new Sonicwall NSA 2600 in fact, that will boost our max throughput to 150mbps (also, thanks to Dell for explicitly naming their devices "NSA" and removing all doubt).
We do all of this - managing and maintaining the network infrastructure necessary to deliver the content that our customers pay us for - without ever hosting a single advertisement on any of our servers, or without showing an ad on any of our pages. This is because we provide a service that people feel is valuable enough to pay us more money than it costs us to provide the service and produce the content. That's our business model - providing a valuable service. That's why we show up more than once on the first page of Google's results when people search for our targeted keywords, even though we don't pay Google.
Maybe more companies should get into the business of providing something valuable and useful, and then they wouldn't need to depend on annoying their users in order to make a profit. As a user, I certainly don't feel the need to support any site that depends on advertising (sorry, Slashdot - I would pay a monthly fee before I see ads). That is why I use Ghostery to block all ad networks, and NoScript helps out as well. Opera's content blocker picks up any slack.
It's virtually the same as a sting operation involving agents sitting behind profiles showing underage female pictures. They aren't talking to the program, they are talking to an agent. The agent is showing them pictures of what they think is a young girl with the intention of making them think that they are talking to a young girl. I don't think it's really relevant that in one case it is a profile with static images vs. an animated movie. It doesn't even need to be a reactive "real-time" animation, it might as well just be a pre-rendered scene. You would get much better detail and realism if it was pre-rendered, anyway.
My friends who visit online porn websites tell me that sometimes they show ads for webcam sites, where there is someone sitting there looking at a computer and typing as if they were interacting with you when in fact they aren't reacting to you at all. Sounds like that.
I think the world's knowledge of shit-controlling technology is pretty up there. If they want to change their sanitation then they will need to demand it.
That's one of the things that the rivers of shit have in common with the US Congress: the only reason they're there is because of apathy.
If the speed of light is the absolute max speed in the universe, with no shortcuts in practice
That's a pretty big "if", though, isn't it? We aren't nearly qualified to even speculate on the answer to that question. If you consider the distances even in our own solar system, where the planets are enormous distances from each other compared with the scale we know, our experience of manned exploration goes from the Earth to the Moon, no farther. We still have a lot to learn. We'll blow ourselves up long before we learn it, but still, there's a lot we don't know.
We've recently celebrated the accomplishments of the Voyager probes. The Flight Data System computers on both Voyager spacecraft are 16-bit machines with a whopping 16KB of memory. Each spacecraft had a total of 6 computers, with a total memory of around 68KB. The CPU clock speeds are around 250KHz, although since it takes around 80 microseconds to execute an instruction, that makes around 8,000 instructions per second.
The phone in my pocket has 2GB of memory and 4 CPUs running at 1.7GHz. So my phone has around 30,000 times as much memory as Voyager, and the CPU is... well, my math isn't that good. 3.39 DMIPS/MHz is how many instructions per second for a quad-core Krait 300 1.7GHz chip again? I think it's 4.2 Brazilian times faster at Getting Stuff Done.
Anyway, we're pretty stupid around this planet. That's my point. I think I made it.
A legal loophole not to extradite him? Why would that matter to the fine folks of the 66th Military Intelligence Command, based at Lucius D. Clay Kaserne? Or why would that matter to the fine folks at Dagger Complex, which is operated on behalf on the NSA? Look at the list of US military installations in Germany. You want to know what one of the best things about Russia is, as far as Snowden is concerned? No US bases. Certainly not any US bases specifically for NSA personnel.
What are the Germans going to do if the NSA abducts and renditions Snowden when he is Germany? Are they going to claim that wasn't legal? Oooooooooh, that really scares the completely law-abiding NSA.
Thanks, I'm working on revising it with some of the things that have happened lately, and once that's finished I'm going to get it online and then see what we can do. Maybe a petition will be the only thing that comes of it, but it seems like something needs to change.
I've been trying to do that as well. I wrote an essay articulating what I think the major problems are and some possible solutions (including term limits for all of congress, banning lobbying money from the system, and removing the parties from control of the election process). The first step was taking back control of our elections, and I was going after the League of Women Voters to get involved with the goal of having them moderate the debate process again. They were completely apathetic to the idea, I frankly don't even know if they read the essay. It isn't even very long. Apathy is the major thing threatening this country, no one cares about anything that goes on as long as it doesn't directly affect them. The politicians are in office for one reason: to stay there. And people will keep voting in the same people because those are the options that get presented to them. It's hard to find any momentum in a push to get that changed.
Seriously man, there's a reason why our games don't look as awesomely smooth and detailed and complex as a big budget animated film- it's because in order to get that level of detail, yes on that SAME resolution display, you need a farm of servers crunching the scene data for hours, days, etc.
That reminds me of the Final Fantasy movie from 2001, I remember watching that and being struck by the realism of the characters, especially the individual strands of hair of the female lead. Apparently she had 60,000 strands of hair that were individually animated and rendered, and her model had 400,000 polygons. The Wikipedia article has some interesting details:
Square accumulated four SGI Origin 2000 series servers, four Onyx2 systems, and 167 Octane workstations for the film's production. The basic film was rendered at a home-made render farm created by Square in Hawaii. It housed 960 Pentium III-933 MHz workstations. Animation was filmed using motion capture technology. 1,327 scenes in total needed to be filmed to animate the digital characters. The film consists of 141,964 frames, with each frame taking an average of 90 minutes to render. By the end of production Square had a total of 15 terabytes of artwork for the film. It is estimated that over the film's four-year production, approximately 200 people working on it put in a combined 120 years of work.
To your point, this bears repeating:
with each frame taking an average of 90 minutes to render
This isn't exactly a GPU pumping out 40 frames per second where it can afford to make several mistakes in each frame. Also to your point, here's another interesting detail:
Surprisingly for a film loosely based on a video game series, there were never any plans for a game adaptation of the film itself. Sakaguchi indicated the reason for this was lack of powerful gaming hardware at the time, feeling the graphics in any game adaptation would be far too much of a step down from the graphics in the film itself.
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As long as you satisfy all of the natural instincts that your cat has that she would otherwise satisfy for herself outside, then it's fine to keep a cat indoors. Otherwise, it's not very humane and it sounds a little selfish on your part.
I don't even think their statement is very honest. We have this line:
The installation flow has no deceptive steps
So, when I go to a project's download page, and I see a bunch of ads with giant green "DOWNLOAD NOW" buttons, that isn't supposed to be deceptive? Then there's this:
the clear option to completely decline the offer is always available
The "clear option" is a greyed-out "Decline" button on the bottom left of the installer. The green Accept button is on the bottom right of the installer, which is the place that people have been trained to click to go to the next step. While it's true that the decline button is always visible, making it appear greyed-out and away from the Accept button is not exactly clear (and possibly deceptive). Moreover, instead of "Decline" and "Accept", how about "Only Install Filezilla" or "Install Offer And Filezilla". THAT would be clear and non-deceptive.
Here's a hint for SF: if you want to identify bad actors, one indication is that they are an advertiser. The advertiser's goal is to steal attention and make people click on something, even (especially?) if it wasn't what they intended to click on. Advertisers ruin everything about the internet, they're the reason why we needed popup blocking in the first place. Whenever a new technology comes along, advertisers are there to shit all over it. Excuse me, "monetize" it. If you're putting ads on your site, and you have no control over the content of those ads (i.e. fed from a third-party network), then those ads are going to be annoying and deceptive. I fully expect to go to SF one day and see some ad screaming about how "one weird tip" can allow me to download Filezilla.
The kind of people drawn to anonymous decentralized currencies aren't the kind that are going to be deterred by measurable financial risk.
The kind of people who use an anonymous decentralized currency as an investment (and leave their investment sitting in the exchange) are not the typical users of bitcoins. Once you have BTC, why not transfer that directly to your wallet? Why keep it in the uninsured exchange at all?
What merchants? Searching for the first 8 digits of a Wells Fargo Mastercard brings up an Excel file with several worksheets in it, including one that lists a bunch of websites and login information (including bank websites). It's on a user's FTP share at their job. So someone decided to put their important file there and they have no clue it's publicly available.
It's easy enough for me to click the Decline button instead of Accept (I'm one of the minority of users who reads things like that), but the installer doesn't even work that well. I was using Windows Remote Desktop to connect with a client's server, and the connection was pretty spotty. The server desktop was more like a slideshow. So instead of trying to edit code directly, I decided to upload all of their code to an FTP server, edit it locally, and then download the changes. So, I go to install Filezilla on the remote server. The entire SourceForge site is a mess. My remote desktop connection is already a slideshow and then SF is showing me Flash ads on every page, including the download pages, and when I finally punch through that mess and get the installer which I know is coming, I run the thing and it tells me I don't have an internet connection. Which is interesting, since I'm running the installer via remote desktop. Maybe it uses a port that was blocked on the network. After a few futile attempts to find a non-installer link on SF, I jumped back to my local PC and found a usable URL that I pasted into the remote desktop session to download. At least Filezilla is hosted on download.filezilla-project.org, but I'm sure there are a lot of projects hosted on SF that don't have a great alternative place to download.
Dice completely ruined the reputation of SourceForge. Slashdot isn't completely in the shitter yet, but I feel like it's inevitable. Well, we had a good run, anyway.
Thanks, that looks interesting. If countries like Japan, China, the US, Peru, Spain, etc don't get serious about protecting fish stocks, our oceans are screwed.
Those particular numbers come from a Pew Environment Group report from January:
http://www.pewenvironment.org/news-room/other-resources/new-scientific-report-shows-pacific-bluefin-tuna-population-down-964-percent-85899441247
Complete with various articles discussing it:
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jan/09/overfishing-pacific-bluefin-tuna
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/10/pacific-bluefin-tuna-overfishing_n_2448967.html
Here's a page designed by someone who misses Geocities that talks about the Atlantic stocks which includes several graphs showing the decline since the 60s and 70s:
http://www.bigmarinefish.com/bluefin.html
I would highly recommend that you watch the documentary End Of The Line. The data that they show and the conclusions that they reach are pretty difficult to argue against. The world and its oceans look like a massive, massive place that we cannot possibly influence. But, as they say in the movie, we are fighting a war against fish, and we are winning. If we keep doing what we're doing then there will in fact come a day when we won't have any more fish to eat. The scary thing is that it looks like that day is coming really soon. Things like the jellyfish swarms should be a red alert alarm that we have a major problem on our hands, but there are always going to be people who look at those concerned with the low levels of fish in the ocean and write those peoples and their opinions off as some sort of environmental fanaticism. Unfortunately, this is reality.
Not that it's any of my business, buy why do you want to watch 5 hours of a 72-year old man getting beaten by 5 hookers?
My house is "visible from space"
That's nothing, the guy 2 posts above you says his car is visible from space. So you must either live in a small house, or that guy drives a huge car.
Yes, it means shit changes. Species go extinct. Other species move in to fill a niche when condition change. That's how life works.
Preserving the status quo, and attempting to freeze the environment in a particular point in time, is futile and shortsighted.
Right, so we might as well just take every fish that we possibly can out of the ocean. A fishing net that can hold 14 747s is not big enough, we need larger nets so that we can also mistakenly catch whales, sharks, rays, dolphins, turtles, etc. Because that's how life works, being caught in a gigantic net when you're not even being hunted. We should also speed up production on more boats that can catch 3,000 tons of tuna in a single trip, because the ocean can totally sustain a tuna fleet like that. I mean, who cares if the boat catches and kills tons and tons of other species that they just get rid of, those things shouldn't have been swimming near the tuna, right? Who cares if Japan is allotted 6,000 tons of bluefin tuna to catch in a year (they only need that boat to make 2 trips, then they can relax!), but instead they catch between 12,000 and 20,000 tons? That doesn't affect me! I don't give a shit if my grandchildren ever taste tuna! They'll be happy with their peanut butter and jellyfish sandwiches. This doesn't make me angry because I know that Japan isn't alone in these practices, so I can't blame them. Hell, the Pacific bluefin tuna stocks are down 96%, you know what that means? Yeah, baby, we still have 4% left! Go get it! In the recent catch 90% of the fish were juveniles who had never reproduced. You know what that means? Last generation, fuckers! Get it while you can! We need to get that boat that can catch 3,000 tons at once out there to finish off those cocky fuckers, what with their "waaa, I'm the top of the food chain" bullshit.
This is exactly the way the world works - people discover fishing, they discover nets, build boats, and entire villages, cities, and countries survive because of the plentiful fish that the ocean provides. Then we build a fishing fleet bigger than the world has ever seen, take everything we possibly can out of the ocean in order to get the high-dollar stuff we're after, leave nothing for the local communities, and they can all go fuck themselves because this a fucking dynamic planet. I'm right there with you, pal.
How can it be so cheap ?
Outsourcing.
Computers cost money... How do you think companies pay for them? Advertising.
Not really.
Currently my company has 6 web servers online, happily serving up content. Right now our Sonicwall is moving data at 30mbps, to make sure all those little users get their little content. Traffic should peak for today at around 35mbps within a couple of hours from now.
How do we pay for those servers and that network connection and the Sonicwall and everything else we have sitting on our network at the data center that we rent space from? We provide a useful service. Our customers pay us for the service that we provide because they find it useful, we charge them more than the cost to us, and that difference is what we call "profit". We use that "profit" to do things like update our network infrastructure, to improve our quality of service. Tonight we'll be installing a new Sonicwall NSA 2600 in fact, that will boost our max throughput to 150mbps (also, thanks to Dell for explicitly naming their devices "NSA" and removing all doubt).
We do all of this - managing and maintaining the network infrastructure necessary to deliver the content that our customers pay us for - without ever hosting a single advertisement on any of our servers, or without showing an ad on any of our pages. This is because we provide a service that people feel is valuable enough to pay us more money than it costs us to provide the service and produce the content. That's our business model - providing a valuable service. That's why we show up more than once on the first page of Google's results when people search for our targeted keywords, even though we don't pay Google.
Maybe more companies should get into the business of providing something valuable and useful, and then they wouldn't need to depend on annoying their users in order to make a profit. As a user, I certainly don't feel the need to support any site that depends on advertising (sorry, Slashdot - I would pay a monthly fee before I see ads). That is why I use Ghostery to block all ad networks, and NoScript helps out as well. Opera's content blocker picks up any slack.
If you want my money, provide something I want.
It's virtually the same as a sting operation involving agents sitting behind profiles showing underage female pictures. They aren't talking to the program, they are talking to an agent. The agent is showing them pictures of what they think is a young girl with the intention of making them think that they are talking to a young girl. I don't think it's really relevant that in one case it is a profile with static images vs. an animated movie. It doesn't even need to be a reactive "real-time" animation, it might as well just be a pre-rendered scene. You would get much better detail and realism if it was pre-rendered, anyway.
My friends who visit online porn websites tell me that sometimes they show ads for webcam sites, where there is someone sitting there looking at a computer and typing as if they were interacting with you when in fact they aren't reacting to you at all. Sounds like that.
I think the world's knowledge of shit-controlling technology is pretty up there. If they want to change their sanitation then they will need to demand it.
That's one of the things that the rivers of shit have in common with the US Congress: the only reason they're there is because of apathy.
Why can't you demand a bigger wage, with bigger houses, cars and TVs, like the rest of us?
A good first step would probably be demanding basic sanitation.
How does one cite a hypothetical?
Of course the robot has an incentive to play. If it didn't play, there would be no use for it.
If the speed of light is the absolute max speed in the universe, with no shortcuts in practice
That's a pretty big "if", though, isn't it? We aren't nearly qualified to even speculate on the answer to that question. If you consider the distances even in our own solar system, where the planets are enormous distances from each other compared with the scale we know, our experience of manned exploration goes from the Earth to the Moon, no farther. We still have a lot to learn. We'll blow ourselves up long before we learn it, but still, there's a lot we don't know.
We've recently celebrated the accomplishments of the Voyager probes. The Flight Data System computers on both Voyager spacecraft are 16-bit machines with a whopping 16KB of memory. Each spacecraft had a total of 6 computers, with a total memory of around 68KB. The CPU clock speeds are around 250KHz, although since it takes around 80 microseconds to execute an instruction, that makes around 8,000 instructions per second.
The phone in my pocket has 2GB of memory and 4 CPUs running at 1.7GHz. So my phone has around 30,000 times as much memory as Voyager, and the CPU is ... well, my math isn't that good. 3.39 DMIPS/MHz is how many instructions per second for a quad-core Krait 300 1.7GHz chip again? I think it's 4.2 Brazilian times faster at Getting Stuff Done.
Anyway, we're pretty stupid around this planet. That's my point. I think I made it.
A legal loophole not to extradite him? Why would that matter to the fine folks of the 66th Military Intelligence Command, based at Lucius D. Clay Kaserne? Or why would that matter to the fine folks at Dagger Complex, which is operated on behalf on the NSA? Look at the list of US military installations in Germany. You want to know what one of the best things about Russia is, as far as Snowden is concerned? No US bases. Certainly not any US bases specifically for NSA personnel.
What are the Germans going to do if the NSA abducts and renditions Snowden when he is Germany? Are they going to claim that wasn't legal? Oooooooooh, that really scares the completely law-abiding NSA.
Thanks, I'm working on revising it with some of the things that have happened lately, and once that's finished I'm going to get it online and then see what we can do. Maybe a petition will be the only thing that comes of it, but it seems like something needs to change.
I've been trying to do that as well. I wrote an essay articulating what I think the major problems are and some possible solutions (including term limits for all of congress, banning lobbying money from the system, and removing the parties from control of the election process). The first step was taking back control of our elections, and I was going after the League of Women Voters to get involved with the goal of having them moderate the debate process again. They were completely apathetic to the idea, I frankly don't even know if they read the essay. It isn't even very long. Apathy is the major thing threatening this country, no one cares about anything that goes on as long as it doesn't directly affect them. The politicians are in office for one reason: to stay there. And people will keep voting in the same people because those are the options that get presented to them. It's hard to find any momentum in a push to get that changed.
Why do you assume that the Democratic and Republican parties would allow him to participate in their presidential election process?
Hell, my new gaming rig draws under 100W while playing most games
Impressive, my video card alone requires 2 additional power connectors in addition to what it draws from the motherboard.
Seriously man, there's a reason why our games don't look as awesomely smooth and detailed and complex as a big budget animated film- it's because in order to get that level of detail, yes on that SAME resolution display, you need a farm of servers crunching the scene data for hours, days, etc.
That reminds me of the Final Fantasy movie from 2001, I remember watching that and being struck by the realism of the characters, especially the individual strands of hair of the female lead. Apparently she had 60,000 strands of hair that were individually animated and rendered, and her model had 400,000 polygons. The Wikipedia article has some interesting details:
Square accumulated four SGI Origin 2000 series servers, four Onyx2 systems, and 167 Octane workstations for the film's production. The basic film was rendered at a home-made render farm created by Square in Hawaii. It housed 960 Pentium III-933 MHz workstations. Animation was filmed using motion capture technology. 1,327 scenes in total needed to be filmed to animate the digital characters. The film consists of 141,964 frames, with each frame taking an average of 90 minutes to render. By the end of production Square had a total of 15 terabytes of artwork for the film. It is estimated that over the film's four-year production, approximately 200 people working on it put in a combined 120 years of work.
To your point, this bears repeating:
with each frame taking an average of 90 minutes to render
This isn't exactly a GPU pumping out 40 frames per second where it can afford to make several mistakes in each frame. Also to your point, here's another interesting detail:
Surprisingly for a film loosely based on a video game series, there were never any plans for a game adaptation of the film itself. Sakaguchi indicated the reason for this was lack of powerful gaming hardware at the time, feeling the graphics in any game adaptation would be far too much of a step down from the graphics in the film itself.
Yes, because the only thing stopping True Blood from becoming a reality was the lack of artificial blood.