Yes, but I'm shocked at how no one is talking about the amount of electricity being wasted to generate digital coins.
I thought we were trying to be all green now, yet the very idea of bitcoin and the idea that we'll be running mining for the next 2 decades runs very counter to that idea.
And you missed my point... complaining about the theft is the "1st world" part... yes, in other parts of the world where power is expensive and people are poor, it is more of an issue, but to affluent people, this is much ado about nothing.
While that is a nice idea, reality has a funny way of poking a hole in it.
It only takes one person or group to invent something, then pretty soon everyone has it.
We haven't tested nuclear weapons for 20 years or so in the US, we haven't developed new nuclear weapons for even longer.
Since that time, Pakistain and North Korea have both tested nuclear weapons and Iran clearly has a program for it.
So our lack of development in no way is stopping anyone else, and your nice happy thoughts do not stop those who are tyrants and amoral at heart.
Had Germany not lost the war in 1945, sometime in 1946-1947 timeframe, they would have ended up with nuclear weapons at some point. They were behind, but they did have a program for it.
So we had to do it, to prevent them from doing so.
But on a related topic I think we really should start seriously considering whether we should postpone certain paths of research instead of just doing things because we can.
Yes, but who is this "we" group of people?
Are you aware that all of humanity does not make decisions as a single group? The problem is, if we don't do it, someone else will.
If your neighbor has any brains, he can fix that with a 6 pack of beer (or your preferred beverage).
The gesture goes a long way to making it all ok. If someone needed to use my outlets all weekend for something, a 12 pack of beer would be totally awesome!
Really, these are first world problems being talked about here...
Don't be silly, if my neighbor needs to use my outlet sometime for an hour, I could care less if he/she tells me.
At most, they can take 15 cents of power an hour. They would have to be using it all day, every day, before I'd really care.
An hour a week? Blah, not worth remotely caring about.
Opening my front door costs me more money in lost cold air from the AC than an hour of time on an outlet does.
Really, this is much ado about nothing.
Why does my personal situation fit within the conversation?
Frankly, there isn't an EV version of the Odyssey, so the problem remains, the EV cars being offered are these little things that are useless for anyone trying to move a family around.
An EV version of the Suburban would be very useful, all that torque would be wonderful for towing, the total amount of gas to be saved is far larger than what a little Honda Civic burns...
I just get tired of people telling me "oh, you don't need that urban assault vehicle, buy a minivan instead", as if that matters or has anything to do with anything related to EVs.
No, the GP is just wrong... upscaling can't make up for missing 75% of the original information...
Taking a 480p DVD and "upscaling" it to 1080p doesn't make up for the missing information. Too much was lost to put in on DVD in the first place.
More pixels means nothing if the spatial resolution sucks, look at some modern 16 megapixel cameras, a basic SLR with a good lens at 8mp will generally take a better image.
With a good source, 4K will outright crush 1080P, with a good source, 1080P will outright crush 480P.
I have seen them all in person, this is the truth, everything else is a lie and hope.
That was because the morons at OCZ released them with beta level firmware that made the first batch of 3 and 4 series drives not be recognized 100% of the time by many BIOSes.
A few years ago when SSDs were brand new, the constant firmware updating required of these drives was common enough that I remember it.
It is why I paid a premium for my first SSD, an Intel X25-G2 160GB drive that was $550 at the time (ouch, those were the days).
Still works perfectly, in a daily use machine, with 97% life left. It will be thrown out from being too small long before it fails.
While all SSD companies have had their teething problems, OCZ has had more of them, and that rep sticks around, even if it isn't always justified.
Maybe their current drives are fine, but once the "2" drives came out and still had problems, I never looked at them again.
Now we use mostly Samsung drives, with a mix of Intel in there. I would try the new Crucial drives as well, but have no need, Samsung and Intel work well, why mess with success?
At the end of the day, that is OCZ's problem. They can't be low enough in price to be worth trying, they can't be fast enough to risk it. Being 10% faster or 10% cheaper isn't worth it when it comes to reliability.
Amen, the difference is like being slapped by a cold, wet fish...
4K is a huge, massive improvement over 1080P, anyone who says otherwise either has crappy eyes or hasn't really seen them next to each other.
Multiple people here keep saying, "oh 1080P is like retina at normal distances", and they are all stupid and full of it.
Even "retina displays"... aren't... On my iPad 4, I can still see the pixels, we need another jump in resolution before tablets get there. Massive improvement over the iPad 2 mind you, but not "retina" yet.
The amount of bad information out there is just sad.
This of course is why we get the government that we do.
Most of the posts on this topic are wrong. Most of the people posting here are misinformed.
On a tech site, that is really, really sad.
Back to point, let me help you out... 35mm film, which is what the vast majority of films are produced on, are about 4K in resolution. Most of the recent work done to take 30, 50, and 70 year old movies and scan in the 35mm film frames was actually done at 4K so it wouldn't have to be done twice.
Films like "The Sound of Music", which is decades and decades old, is beautiful on Blu-Ray and will be even nicer on 4K, due to the fact that the restoration process was done at 4K.
On a TV I just don't get it: I can barely tell the difference between DVD and 1080p resolution on a 65" TV. I mean, it's a great step up from my old 460p set for reading text when used as a monitor, but when watching a film I just don't see what the fuss is about.
Then it's you, because to me the difference is so clearly night and day, DVDs are completely unwatchable.
Not everyone has great eyesight, perhaps your eyesight just doesn't see it, and that is ok. But I assure you the difference for those of us who can see it, is night and day...
The Peloponnesian War war was over 2,000 years ago, Wikipedia gives the dates as 431â"404 BC.
Those are really accurately listed dates for an event which happened nearly 2,000 years before the printing press was invented and all books had to be copied by hand.
How many actual, original books in the world more than 700 years old actually exist today? That number is amazingly few, but some of course do exist.
Now, a more interesting question... We have a reasonably accurate idea of what humans have been doing, in general going back about 4,000 years, give or take a thousand.
What were humans doing 100,000 years ago? 75K years? 50K years? 25K years? 10K years?
Those are all amazingly fuzzy.
There seems to be a monster gap between the end of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago and the rise of humans. I have yet to get a decent answer as to what was going on prior to, say, the Macedonian Empire somewhere in the 800 BC timeframe.
Try this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegean_civilizations
There are a lot of dates and information tossed around there, are the records really so good that we have a complete history that we're SO sure is accurate that we're willing to say, "this is what happened, there can be no doubt?"
For pete's sake, there are people in the world today who dispute what happened during WWII, fast forward 2,000 years, what will history write about that? And that is with thousands of hours of film and millions of pictures taken as evidence!:)
I am not enough of a history expert to be able to say one way or another, but when I look for information on humanity going back more than a little bit, it all turns into "well, some interesting stuff happened, so lets fill in some details".
Or to put it another way... The New Testament seems to be much more recently written with accounts that seem to be in a similar time period, it seems that it was written in a much small period of time in a different style as the Old Testament.
Beyond that, the events described in the Old Testament don't seem to take into account the history of the Earth. It has simply been around too long, without humans on it, for that to make any sense to me. Then there is the early history of humans where it is a few random bits of tools and human remains and a whole lot of guessing and filling in the blanks. When did Noah live? Where is the Ark?
BTW, I have asked these questions before from religious people, I went to a Lutheran school for 6 years, I never did get a worthwhile answer, way too often it was "God created the world as it is, he put it all here for us to find, we are imperfect beings that can't understand everything about God's plan".
Great, but as far as I'm concerned, that is a cop-out "I have no idea" answer. That isn't a crime, and it doesn't make it wrong, but what it really says is, "frankly, there is a big hole between ancient human history and the Bible and frankly we have no idea how it all works out, we just believe and that is good enough for us".
If there's an exception in the parent/child relationship that warrants such extreme monitoring I'm up for discussing it, but saying I "just don't get it" because I'm not a parent isn't really a valid argument.
But that's just it, you aren't qualified to discuss it, you don't have kids so you don't understand, you can't understand, you lack the experience and perspective to understand.
If/when you have kids, then you'll understand, you'll look back on this, as all of us parents do to our pre-parent times, smack yourself on the forehead, and say "what was I thinking?".
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Bitcoins are not rare, they are 1s and 0s in a computer, it is artificial scarcity, nothing more.
I thought we were trying to be all green now, yet the very idea of bitcoin and the idea that we'll be running mining for the next 2 decades runs very counter to that idea.
Even when the costs do come down, SSDs are likely to be priced at 2x HDD prices, just because they can.
The market prices superior products at higher prices, just because it can.
You might not care, and that's fine, but for those of us who do, we went all SSD awhile ago and love it.
And you missed my point... complaining about the theft is the "1st world" part... yes, in other parts of the world where power is expensive and people are poor, it is more of an issue, but to affluent people, this is much ado about nothing.
It only takes one person or group to invent something, then pretty soon everyone has it.
We haven't tested nuclear weapons for 20 years or so in the US, we haven't developed new nuclear weapons for even longer.
Since that time, Pakistain and North Korea have both tested nuclear weapons and Iran clearly has a program for it.
So our lack of development in no way is stopping anyone else, and your nice happy thoughts do not stop those who are tyrants and amoral at heart.
Had Germany not lost the war in 1945, sometime in 1946-1947 timeframe, they would have ended up with nuclear weapons at some point. They were behind, but they did have a program for it.
So we had to do it, to prevent them from doing so.
That's just life in the real world.
In the US and Europe, it is indeed a 1st world problem.
But on a related topic I think we really should start seriously considering whether we should postpone certain paths of research instead of just doing things because we can.
Yes, but who is this "we" group of people?
Are you aware that all of humanity does not make decisions as a single group? The problem is, if we don't do it, someone else will.
The gesture goes a long way to making it all ok. If someone needed to use my outlets all weekend for something, a 12 pack of beer would be totally awesome!
Really, these are first world problems being talked about here...
At most, they can take 15 cents of power an hour. They would have to be using it all day, every day, before I'd really care. An hour a week? Blah, not worth remotely caring about. Opening my front door costs me more money in lost cold air from the AC than an hour of time on an outlet does. Really, this is much ado about nothing.
The reason Americans don't want nukes is fear and lack of information, not facts and awareness.
People are stupid, what can I say?
Yea, based on the facts as offered, they can go rot...
Frankly, there isn't an EV version of the Odyssey, so the problem remains, the EV cars being offered are these little things that are useless for anyone trying to move a family around.
An EV version of the Suburban would be very useful, all that torque would be wonderful for towing, the total amount of gas to be saved is far larger than what a little Honda Civic burns...
I just get tired of people telling me "oh, you don't need that urban assault vehicle, buy a minivan instead", as if that matters or has anything to do with anything related to EVs.
Taking a 480p DVD and "upscaling" it to 1080p doesn't make up for the missing information. Too much was lost to put in on DVD in the first place.
More pixels means nothing if the spatial resolution sucks, look at some modern 16 megapixel cameras, a basic SLR with a good lens at 8mp will generally take a better image.
With a good source, 4K will outright crush 1080P, with a good source, 1080P will outright crush 480P.
I have seen them all in person, this is the truth, everything else is a lie and hope.
That was because the morons at OCZ released them with beta level firmware that made the first batch of 3 and 4 series drives not be recognized 100% of the time by many BIOSes.
A few years ago when SSDs were brand new, the constant firmware updating required of these drives was common enough that I remember it.
It is why I paid a premium for my first SSD, an Intel X25-G2 160GB drive that was $550 at the time (ouch, those were the days).
Still works perfectly, in a daily use machine, with 97% life left. It will be thrown out from being too small long before it fails.
While all SSD companies have had their teething problems, OCZ has had more of them, and that rep sticks around, even if it isn't always justified.
Maybe their current drives are fine, but once the "2" drives came out and still had problems, I never looked at them again.
Now we use mostly Samsung drives, with a mix of Intel in there. I would try the new Crucial drives as well, but have no need, Samsung and Intel work well, why mess with success?
At the end of the day, that is OCZ's problem. They can't be low enough in price to be worth trying, they can't be fast enough to risk it. Being 10% faster or 10% cheaper isn't worth it when it comes to reliability.
Amen, the difference is like being slapped by a cold, wet fish...
4K is a huge, massive improvement over 1080P, anyone who says otherwise either has crappy eyes or hasn't really seen them next to each other.
Multiple people here keep saying, "oh 1080P is like retina at normal distances", and they are all stupid and full of it.
Even "retina displays"... aren't... On my iPad 4, I can still see the pixels, we need another jump in resolution before tablets get there. Massive improvement over the iPad 2 mind you, but not "retina" yet.
Which is really sad, you'd expect people on a tech forum to know... something about tech...
The amount of misinformation on this story makes me think that either we have a bunch of trolls, or we have a bunch of really, really stupid people.
Or maybe both...
This of course is why we get the government that we do.
Most of the posts on this topic are wrong. Most of the people posting here are misinformed.
On a tech site, that is really, really sad.
Back to point, let me help you out... 35mm film, which is what the vast majority of films are produced on, are about 4K in resolution. Most of the recent work done to take 30, 50, and 70 year old movies and scan in the 35mm film frames was actually done at 4K so it wouldn't have to be done twice.
Films like "The Sound of Music", which is decades and decades old, is beautiful on Blu-Ray and will be even nicer on 4K, due to the fact that the restoration process was done at 4K.
On a TV I just don't get it: I can barely tell the difference between DVD and 1080p resolution on a 65" TV. I mean, it's a great step up from my old 460p set for reading text when used as a monitor, but when watching a film I just don't see what the fuss is about.
Then it's you, because to me the difference is so clearly night and day, DVDs are completely unwatchable.
Not everyone has great eyesight, perhaps your eyesight just doesn't see it, and that is ok. But I assure you the difference for those of us who can see it, is night and day...
If I wanted to, I probably could, but it would take living off the wired grid and changing my life in ways that I'm unwilling to do so.
So could I just up and disappear? Sure, but I don't want to, so I don't, and thus can't avoid the NSA.
However, I'm also not planning to do anything the NSA would care about, so I am pretty safe in that regard.
Anyone posting your quote should be required to post their real name.
Amen to that... Why is prostitution illegal while porn is not? The whole thing smacks of religious nut jobs who want to regulate your private life.
I do believe a "whoosh" is in order here...
The Peloponnesian War war was over 2,000 years ago, Wikipedia gives the dates as 431â"404 BC.
Those are really accurately listed dates for an event which happened nearly 2,000 years before the printing press was invented and all books had to be copied by hand.
How many actual, original books in the world more than 700 years old actually exist today? That number is amazingly few, but some of course do exist.
Now, a more interesting question... We have a reasonably accurate idea of what humans have been doing, in general going back about 4,000 years, give or take a thousand.
What were humans doing 100,000 years ago? 75K years? 50K years? 25K years? 10K years?
Those are all amazingly fuzzy.
There seems to be a monster gap between the end of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago and the rise of humans. I have yet to get a decent answer as to what was going on prior to, say, the Macedonian Empire somewhere in the 800 BC timeframe.
Try this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegean_civilizations
There are a lot of dates and information tossed around there, are the records really so good that we have a complete history that we're SO sure is accurate that we're willing to say, "this is what happened, there can be no doubt?"
For pete's sake, there are people in the world today who dispute what happened during WWII, fast forward 2,000 years, what will history write about that? And that is with thousands of hours of film and millions of pictures taken as evidence! :)
I am not enough of a history expert to be able to say one way or another, but when I look for information on humanity going back more than a little bit, it all turns into "well, some interesting stuff happened, so lets fill in some details".
Or to put it another way... The New Testament seems to be much more recently written with accounts that seem to be in a similar time period, it seems that it was written in a much small period of time in a different style as the Old Testament.
Beyond that, the events described in the Old Testament don't seem to take into account the history of the Earth. It has simply been around too long, without humans on it, for that to make any sense to me. Then there is the early history of humans where it is a few random bits of tools and human remains and a whole lot of guessing and filling in the blanks. When did Noah live? Where is the Ark?
BTW, I have asked these questions before from religious people, I went to a Lutheran school for 6 years, I never did get a worthwhile answer, way too often it was "God created the world as it is, he put it all here for us to find, we are imperfect beings that can't understand everything about God's plan".
Great, but as far as I'm concerned, that is a cop-out "I have no idea" answer. That isn't a crime, and it doesn't make it wrong, but what it really says is, "frankly, there is a big hole between ancient human history and the Bible and frankly we have no idea how it all works out, we just believe and that is good enough for us".
I would at least respect that answer more.
I just know that both will be required, solar and wind aren't able to do it all by themselves, but then neither can nuclear.
Middle of the road. :)
If there's an exception in the parent/child relationship that warrants such extreme monitoring I'm up for discussing it, but saying I "just don't get it" because I'm not a parent isn't really a valid argument.
But that's just it, you aren't qualified to discuss it, you don't have kids so you don't understand, you can't understand, you lack the experience and perspective to understand.
If/when you have kids, then you'll understand, you'll look back on this, as all of us parents do to our pre-parent times, smack yourself on the forehead, and say "what was I thinking?".