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  1. Re: Get rid of Frames!!!! on Human Eye's Oscillation Rate Determines Smooth Frame Rate · · Score: 2

    The poster to whom you replied mentioned recordings and while not exactly correct he is closer than you are about recordings. What he was pointing out is that the recordings he mentioned, analog tape and vinyl records, operate using discrete sampling, the same as digital does. This is because the recoding/reading process of analog tape has limits and so does the groove on vinyl records. Listening to a concert with all acoustic instruments is about the only way to guarantee no discreteness. Even analog amps can introduce discreteness at the edges and even the speakers can introduce a level of discreteness over the compressed air waves coming out a trumpet or of off violin or piano strings. The problem is about getting the level of discreteness below your ability to notice and there is no reason why digital can't do that as well as analog.

  2. Re:It's in the image on Human Eye's Oscillation Rate Determines Smooth Frame Rate · · Score: 1

    Diddibiker said that motion blur happens because of the camera shutter speed, not the projector and yes, camera shutter speed very definitely does affect motion blur. You can easily test this with any film camera and digital ones do a pretty good job reproducing the effect as well. Use a relative slow shutter speed like 1/60 s and snap pics of cars going by on the freeway while standing on the shoulder of said freeway. 1/60 s is usually where most fixed shutter speed cameras were set in the past. You get blurry cars. For a "fancy" effect, pan with the cars and you get a blurry background. The blur is not from being out of focus. Then do the same thing with the shutter speed at 1/1000 s and you get no blur. Another way to see this but more extreme is to open the shutter for seconds at a time at night as a car goes by, you get a big line from its lights. That is also motion blur.

  3. Re:The human eye is proof God exists on Human Eye's Oscillation Rate Determines Smooth Frame Rate · · Score: 1

    The correct answer (from a doctrinal standpoint) to your first question is "No, he suffered for our sins in the Garden of Gethsemane."

    Yes, human suffering is real and it is caused by God in the sense that Lenin's great-great-great-grandparents are the cause of all the deaths in the Soviet Union.

  4. Re:Comfort Women Documentary on Sony: 'The Interview' Will Have a Limited Theatrical Release · · Score: 1

    for the same reason i am expected to be paying for the sins of people who lived in the US at the same time my great-great-grandfathers were living in Europe: because playing the victim can be a pretty good gig for some people.

  5. Re:I never have understood on Serious Economic Crisis Looms In Russia, China May Help · · Score: 1

    Sort of like the current guy then.

  6. Re:Interesting on Hotel Group Asks FCC For Permission To Block Some Outside Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    It is only embezzling if your company has a policy against it and you do it anyway. If your company does not care and accommodates such behavior, then how is it embezzling? Is not the definition of embezzling stealing from your employer and how can you steal what is given to you? I seldom travel for work these days but my company does have travel coordinators that do the booking when we do travel and they actually track all the loyalty programs employees belong to to aid the employee in getting credit in those programs, so I seriously doubt it is against company policy to take advantage of such programs.

  7. Re: I briefly considered CatGenie... on An Automated Cat Litter Box With DRM · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it is a totally screwed up sentence but you got the point. I figure pointless and whimsical comments are about the only way to gently nudge cat owners into seeing the error of their ways.

  8. Re:I don't think you understand... on Meet the Doctor Trying To Use the Blood of Ebola Survivors To Create a Cure · · Score: 1

    So I write "nigger" and another non-white cop dies? Or do I have to call you a nigger for the effect to happen? That is about the biggest stretch I have ever seen. If I use "whitey" does another non-Black cop shoot a black kid as well?

  9. Re:not original on Uber Pushing For Patent On Surge Pricing · · Score: 1

    Uh yeah, if your process is supposed to produces square wheels and does produce square wheels why would you say that your process isn't working? What other definition of working should be used? And square wheels can be used to propel a vehicle.

  10. Re:Home of the brave? on Top Five Theaters Won't Show "The Interview" Sony Cancels Release · · Score: 1

    No, I saw the reality. That people have rights and they don't lose those right simply because the give somebody else a job or pool their money to make speech happen. I know, i know. I also missed the point about Citizen's United saying that money equals speech. Whatever.

  11. Re: I briefly considered CatGenie... on An Automated Cat Litter Box With DRM · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I highly recommend not having cats. Doing that has reduced the time I've never spent cleaning up after them to zero.

  12. Re:sigh on An Automated Cat Litter Box With DRM · · Score: 1

    No but I also don't use my printer so much that paying the OEM price will break me. If you are printing that kind of volume, you probably should be researching better options than ink-jet.

  13. Re:I don't think you understand... on Meet the Doctor Trying To Use the Blood of Ebola Survivors To Create a Cure · · Score: 1

    Look the AC is ridiculous but so is the assertion that a Black man killed an Asian and a Hispanic/Latino because some idiot on the internet used a racial epithet.

  14. Re:Supply / Demand curve on Uber Pushing For Patent On Surge Pricing · · Score: 1

    demand increased but supply did as well. that is the other part... as supply increases, price falls.

  15. Re:Detect price gouging on Uber Pushing For Patent On Surge Pricing · · Score: 1

    And if the grocers thought that was a more efficient way of making money, then they would be doing that. Instead, they realize that loaves of bread are not exactly in short supply within the US and are available at many outlets so the current system is more efficient for bread.

  16. Re:Detect price gouging on Uber Pushing For Patent On Surge Pricing · · Score: 1

    trains and buses maybe as they are considered public transportation and are paid for almost entirely out of taxes not rider fees. taxis are private enterprises (aka evil corporations) and are funded almost exclusively by rider fees.

  17. Re:Detect price gouging on Uber Pushing For Patent On Surge Pricing · · Score: 2

    Why should you get to demand that someone gives you a service for less than they think the service is worth simply because you are poor?

  18. Re:And I'm so tired of this on Uber Pushing For Patent On Surge Pricing · · Score: 1

    And using them on parts produced by any form of casting has been known (therefore obvious) since shortly after people learned the art of casting. My 7th grade shop teacher taught me that back in the late 1970s.

  19. Re: not original on Uber Pushing For Patent On Surge Pricing · · Score: 1

    Except most /.ers who continually deny that such a thing exists.

  20. Re:not original on Uber Pushing For Patent On Surge Pricing · · Score: -1, Troll

    Not to mention that free market economics have been proven by the leftists to not even work and you cannot patent something that does not even work.

  21. free market on Uber Pushing For Patent On Surge Pricing · · Score: 1

    So the good guys are now trying to patent free market economics? This is awesome.

  22. Re:Home of the brave? on Top Five Theaters Won't Show "The Interview" Sony Cancels Release · · Score: 1

    quotes please from a source other than your ass.

  23. Re:Public land closures on Hot Springs At Yellowstone Changed Their Color Due To Tourist Activity · · Score: 1

    Sure they "own" it. It is public land so everyone owns it and the federal government is required by the documents that created the western states to use those lands to generate revenue. One of the recipients of the generated funds is supposed to be public education in those states and not public education in the eastern states. The feds renege on that promise every time they refuse mining, logging, drilling, etc. permits. If the federal government does not like the agreement then it should admit that it will no longer live up to its obligations and the states can then act accordingly.

  24. Re:No Internet? on Cuba Says the Internet Now a Priority · · Score: 1

    Because the capitalist paradise never promised that everyone would have everything. That is exactly the promise of communism.

  25. Re:Home of the brave? on Top Five Theaters Won't Show "The Interview" Sony Cancels Release · · Score: 1

    Citizens United stated that just because a group of people form a corporation for the purpose of pooling their money in order to produce a film about a candidate for political office (aka making political speech, aka exercising their first amendment rights) do not lose their first amendment rights. IOW, US law requires that group of people to form a corporation for the purpose of pooling money and the people have a first amendment right so such a corporation inherits that right from the people forming it. The majority opinion also discussed shutting down every media outlet in the country because they are all corporations or other forms of non-person businesses and would have to be treated at least as strictly as Citizens United because their primary purpose seems to be to make money.

    Hobby Lobby said that just because a person or family members form a corporation does not mean that they lose any of their rights.

    Neither of those decisions said anything about a corporation being treated as a person. It is a huge difference.