Actually, the big labels are shareholders on Spotify so they do have seen the opportunity.
If I remember correctly they were offered stock for next to nothing at the very beginning, exactly so they'd have them on board. So they haven't really invested money, but the founders have given them an incentive to make Spotify successful and gain credibility. It's still tough to say how it'll work out though because Spotify is a huge success but not a huge cash cow.
The article sucks, that's what. Each card got a 8kx8k maximum resolution, so in theory you could have four such cards with 268 MP total. It's actually better spelled out in the AMD press release...
2. 268 megapixels is supported only with low refresh rates on future generation 8K x 8K display technology. For 3D gaming using current generation monitors and 60Hz refresh rates, 98.4 megapixels can be achieved.
Note that the last one is four times the MP count of this setup, so you should be able to drive a 5120×3200x6 = 98.4 MP display. I wouldn't exactly expect 3D performance at 15360x6400 effective resolution though...
I've also noticed something (not directed at you) interesting in that a lot of Windows users seem incapable of understanding why one would want lots of non-maximized windows, or any non-maximized windows for that matter,
Guilty as charged. I've tried fiddling with windows to fit them right, I've tried using virtual desktop but unless there's some really compelling reason to have something side-by-side I've found it easier and faster to navigate between them while always having the window controls in the same place. However, I do like the split view in Dolphin but I used to use Norton Commander back in the oooooooooold days.
Now, from this perspective a six och nine monitor setup seems completely useless
Yes, I wouldn't run my desktop as one big screen. But I'm definately looking at the possibility of running three screens - one maximized window per screen, of course. For example specs left, code center, docs right sounds like near ideal development setup for me.
So it's 1600 megabits in 7200 seconds. 1600 / 7200 = 0.22 megabit / sec.
Honestly, even ADSL upload speeds in the western world tend to be better than that.
Yes, but looking at it from a different angle that's much more than a household had ten years ago, then then were normally on 64 kbps ISDN or 512/128kbit ADSL that was brand new.
Sure, it sounds very slow to us but they're less than a decade behind. If they're still only a decade behind in 2020, I'd say they're doing quite fine.
In order for his statement to be false, 50%+1 of humans currently alive (...) Take a class in formal logic sometime and spend some time translating natural language into symbolic logic. It's eye opening.
Since we're already involved in logical asshattery, "currently alive" was entirely your own interpretation. "Most humans" may just as easily refer to all humans past, present and future which would be a pretty good conjecture.
However, the trend in camera tech, at least at the consumer level, is making that increasingly irrelevant. Flash and HDD based camcorders are gradually devouring DV camcorders in the lower end market.
And in recent years, also the prosumer/HDV market. I was deciding on a HD camcorder in 2007 and was on the tipping point, but landed at tape because flash was expensive, hard to edit and the first AVCHD implementations not that great, HDD was better on price but still had AVCHD limitations. Now they're in the third-fourth generation encoding chips, editing software has caught up, flash prices has dropped a lot, I'd go with flash on any camera costing less than 2000$.these days. And if not that, then HDD not tape.
Why not? Patents are imaginary property, after all. Just multiply all patents with all potential royalties and you can have whatever number you please.
I'd argue that drivers should be modular and have no business being directly in the kernel in the first place - but that's just me.
I don't anyone ever argued that drivers should not be modular, in fact that's why there's kernel modules. I'm guessing you're talking about one of the two general flamewars:
1) Monolithic kernel or microkernel 2) Stable ABI for drivers
The first is about making the kernel into a big message-passing daemon, which it turns out has a performance penalty and ultimately doesn't have big enough benefits because a kernel panic and a major subsystem hang/crash both are ugly and if the hardware is left in a borked state it might not really help.
The other is a stable ABI, which has been suggested about 234,533,458 times to date. My only real comment to that is that seeing how crappy many Windows drivers are, do you honestly want them making blobs for a 1% operating system which will get about as much priority, support and bugfixes? Drivers based on specs or donated source almost always suck less.
I quite like Bernard Cohen's take on things, cited in that same article, that effectively suggests that we can keep getting uranium from seawater at least as long as the time we have until the sun burns out.
Sounds a lot like how we can replace fossil fuels with biodiesel. On a small scale yes, to supply the world with energy? Right. I don't know how few parts per million there is in sea water, but good luck on that.
LOL this thread pretty much sums up Wikipedia.... it's like the saying "Democracy is the worst of all possible systems, except for every other we've tried". As long as you go into every page with a small thought "What angry mob would have an interest in controlling this page?" you'll do fine. Actually I think it's getting worse since it became lot of book citations, because you can't practically verify those. Combine wikipedia with references to online scans by Google books, and we'd really be talking.
How far do you sit from your TV. I have a chart to show you.
About 2 meters from a 42" LCD screen when I'm in my chair, more like 3 meters if I use the couch if it's a movie or good enough, otherwise I might just watch it on the monitor (1920x1200) which is definitively close enough.
Depressing I could have dealt with, but what really pissed me off about Pan's Labyrinth was the false expectations you got from the trailers. I was expecting something like the films about Narnia only darker, where they enter a different world and stay there. When I got out of the cinema I thought it sucked, because it was like ordering steak and getting fish - then it doesn't really help how good the fish is. It was really only later after I got over that disappointment that I realized it was actually a good movie.
Speak for yourself, to me 480p vs 1080p is the difference between a movie and a moving picture. All the little details that that aren't important but somehow my brain notices aren't there are there in 1080p. Of course it doesn't make a good movie anu more than CDs make good music, but it's definately improvement if you ask me. Now if only we could get 1080p60 for smooth pans under all circumstances, I'd be happy. If you desperately want the p24 feel, you can put a filter on it.
and more ultra fail combat moments from the main character. How many times did froto get stabbed ?
What do you expect from a hobbit dragged out of a peaceful life? Might as well drag the average american off their couch, hand them a sword and throw them in a duel to the death. The only real issue is to make it semi-credible that he survives it all, not merely be wounded.
That depends entirely on who will be using them. If those persons aren't able to move/exercise on their own then it's good, I'd take one of these over a wheelchair any day. If it's used for superhuman strength then I imagine it'll still take normal strength on the inside. But yeah, if you use it only for convienience and all the time then maybe. But that's really no different from a couch potato that barely gets his ass out to the car and back. In fact, I'm fairly sure that this motion will be more exercise than sitting in a car no matter what.
' Christianity is the creativity to be whatever it needs to be. Like the ability to ignore pretty much the whole old testament between when he got mad at us and when he forgave us. As long as you show him your love of course, otherwise you'll still be burning in hell but we try to not think about that much. And the creepy ritual where you eat the flesh and blood of Christ, try taking five seconds outside and realize how fucked up that is. Seriously, it sounds like something out of the kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard and christians got the worst case of Stockholm syndrome ever. I got you into this but I love you, as long as you love me and do as I say and accept my "flesh".
Ok, so I realize this is heavy flamebait but I'm seriously tired of people claiming that their religion is "this", where "this" at any time refers to the parts that fits current situation and society and ignore everything else in the book and every other interpretation that's made of the book (crusades, anyone?) and all the parts of it that we know are plain wrong such as earth being the center of universe. Or the wonderful double standard of sometimes quoting scripture as words of god to turn around and say that the gospels and whatnot are second-hand material that needs to be interpreted to understand their true essence. And when the world is evil and noone can claim god is punishing the sinners, there's always excuses for an omnipotent not to intervene, usually blaming humanity. Why he should get away with that crap about bløming the victim when we'd never accept a rapist saying she asked for it is beyond me.
Getting humans further than the moon, and back again (eg to Mars and back) with chemical rockets is a joke. Never going to happen.
A quite important thing about space... if you're first going somewhere, it doesn't stop by itself. Yes, Mars is much longer but it doesn't take equivalently more energy. There's lots of other concerns but saying "chemical rockets can't do it" is the joke here. Escape velocity is just a little bit more than GEO, and we send satellites there all the time. What's costly is bringing fuel to Mars just to burn it on the return, but if we had that chemical rockets would do just fine.
With DRM, the media companies tried to prevent people from sharing their music. But cracking the DRM led to the same problem as before. With DPP, the media companies are offering an easier dishonest way to get music: instead of cracking the DRM, just steal other consumer's songs...
Easier? Presumably one stolen key == one possessor, or they copyright cartels have achieved nothing. How's that going to get you any cred in the scene, passing them around to a few topsites? Crack the DRM and you can have a million billion copies. No, this is just another smoke and mirror play to make people think of it as property.
The incentives are still all wrong. If I have DPP, it's in my best interest to break and share it so that noone's interested in taking my DPP. I've got no incentive to protect your copyright, which is why you can't win. If someone burns out 100 songs for a MP3 CD at a party and forget it there, they don't care. They still have their music, and they weren't planning on selling anything.
What is it now, the secret Linux on ARM "this will crush Intel any day now" idiot brigade doing the modding? I guess I'm in for another dose of negative karma on this post, but wtf.... we're talking about 2-500$ quad-core CPUs with a 95W TDP. There's not an ARM processor in sight that is even remotely competing in this class. Maybe if this was about some low-end Atoms the question could have made a little bit of sense, but now it's just to laugh at. And the ARM fanbois with no humor I guess.
They have to keep up the idea that there's competition by having many different brands offering many different options. Truth is that in many markets it's now a grand choice of Intel, Intel and Intel. Then you usually make more money keeping your customers confused and selling outdated or low-end processors to high-end prices than making it all very obvious. AMD is struggling badly to carve out any sort of niche where they can get a premium, delivering value processors isn't making them enough money to do what's necessary neither in R&D nor in process development. Intel on the other hand is pounding away at systems-on-a-chip, SSDs, higher-end graphics and really moving towards the Intel computer with your choice of Dell, HP or Compaq sticker. You can tell nVidia fears that future too.
If you imagine ARM as a women's flyweight newbie and Lynnfield as the men's heavyweight world champion in boxing, you got a pretty good idea how that match will play out. Not nearly the same class and the results are as expected.
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If you got the cash, drool:
http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-16033-Samsung+Unveils+Three+New+Displays+at+the+SID+2008.html
"Samsung Electronics released three new TV displays at the SID 2008. Our first is an ultra-definition (3840x2160), 120Hz, 82" LCD TV."
Now there's a decent monitor ;)
Actually, the big labels are shareholders on Spotify so they do have seen the opportunity.
If I remember correctly they were offered stock for next to nothing at the very beginning, exactly so they'd have them on board. So they haven't really invested money, but the founders have given them an incentive to make Spotify successful and gain credibility. It's still tough to say how it'll work out though because Spotify is a huge success but not a huge cash cow.
The article sucks, that's what. Each card got a 8kx8k maximum resolution, so in theory you could have four such cards with 268 MP total. It's actually better spelled out in the AMD press release...
2. 268 megapixels is supported only with low refresh rates on future generation 8K x 8K display technology. For 3D gaming using current generation monitors and 60Hz refresh rates, 98.4 megapixels can be achieved.
Note that the last one is four times the MP count of this setup, so you should be able to drive a 5120×3200x6 = 98.4 MP display. I wouldn't exactly expect 3D performance at 15360x6400 effective resolution though...
I've also noticed something (not directed at you) interesting in that a lot of Windows users seem incapable of understanding why one would want lots of non-maximized windows, or any non-maximized windows for that matter,
Guilty as charged. I've tried fiddling with windows to fit them right, I've tried using virtual desktop but unless there's some really compelling reason to have something side-by-side I've found it easier and faster to navigate between them while always having the window controls in the same place. However, I do like the split view in Dolphin but I used to use Norton Commander back in the oooooooooold days.
Now, from this perspective a six och nine monitor setup seems completely useless
Yes, I wouldn't run my desktop as one big screen. But I'm definately looking at the possibility of running three screens - one maximized window per screen, of course. For example specs left, code center, docs right sounds like near ideal development setup for me.
I know you're making fun but at the bottom here is 24 monitors in a four-way setup for 55MP of "because we can".
So it's 1600 megabits in 7200 seconds. 1600 / 7200 = 0.22 megabit / sec.
Honestly, even ADSL upload speeds in the western world tend to be better than that.
Yes, but looking at it from a different angle that's much more than a household had ten years ago, then then were normally on 64 kbps ISDN or 512/128kbit ADSL that was brand new.
Sure, it sounds very slow to us but they're less than a decade behind. If they're still only a decade behind in 2020, I'd say they're doing quite fine.
In order for his statement to be false, 50%+1 of humans currently alive (...) Take a class in formal logic sometime and spend some time translating natural language into symbolic logic. It's eye opening.
Since we're already involved in logical asshattery, "currently alive" was entirely your own interpretation. "Most humans" may just as easily refer to all humans past, present and future which would be a pretty good conjecture.
However, the trend in camera tech, at least at the consumer level, is making that increasingly irrelevant. Flash and HDD based camcorders are gradually devouring DV camcorders in the lower end market.
And in recent years, also the prosumer/HDV market. I was deciding on a HD camcorder in 2007 and was on the tipping point, but landed at tape because flash was expensive, hard to edit and the first AVCHD implementations not that great, HDD was better on price but still had AVCHD limitations. Now they're in the third-fourth generation encoding chips, editing software has caught up, flash prices has dropped a lot, I'd go with flash on any camera costing less than 2000$.these days. And if not that, then HDD not tape.
Why not? Patents are imaginary property, after all. Just multiply all patents with all potential royalties and you can have whatever number you please.
You fed the troll. You lose.
I'd argue that drivers should be modular and have no business being directly in the kernel in the first place - but that's just me.
I don't anyone ever argued that drivers should not be modular, in fact that's why there's kernel modules. I'm guessing you're talking about one of the two general flamewars:
1) Monolithic kernel or microkernel
2) Stable ABI for drivers
The first is about making the kernel into a big message-passing daemon, which it turns out has a performance penalty and ultimately doesn't have big enough benefits because a kernel panic and a major subsystem hang/crash both are ugly and if the hardware is left in a borked state it might not really help.
The other is a stable ABI, which has been suggested about 234,533,458 times to date. My only real comment to that is that seeing how crappy many Windows drivers are, do you honestly want them making blobs for a 1% operating system which will get about as much priority, support and bugfixes? Drivers based on specs or donated source almost always suck less.
I quite like Bernard Cohen's take on things, cited in that same article, that effectively suggests that we can keep getting uranium from seawater at least as long as the time we have until the sun burns out.
Sounds a lot like how we can replace fossil fuels with biodiesel. On a small scale yes, to supply the world with energy? Right. I don't know how few parts per million there is in sea water, but good luck on that.
LOL this thread pretty much sums up Wikipedia.... it's like the saying "Democracy is the worst of all possible systems, except for every other we've tried". As long as you go into every page with a small thought "What angry mob would have an interest in controlling this page?" you'll do fine. Actually I think it's getting worse since it became lot of book citations, because you can't practically verify those. Combine wikipedia with references to online scans by Google books, and we'd really be talking.
Unfortunately evaluating !(clusterfuck) leads to a clusterfuck because it implements its own operator!.
How far do you sit from your TV. I have a chart to show you.
About 2 meters from a 42" LCD screen when I'm in my chair, more like 3 meters if I use the couch if it's a movie or good enough, otherwise I might just watch it on the monitor (1920x1200) which is definitively close enough.
Depressing I could have dealt with, but what really pissed me off about Pan's Labyrinth was the false expectations you got from the trailers. I was expecting something like the films about Narnia only darker, where they enter a different world and stay there. When I got out of the cinema I thought it sucked, because it was like ordering steak and getting fish - then it doesn't really help how good the fish is. It was really only later after I got over that disappointment that I realized it was actually a good movie.
Speak for yourself, to me 480p vs 1080p is the difference between a movie and a moving picture. All the little details that that aren't important but somehow my brain notices aren't there are there in 1080p. Of course it doesn't make a good movie anu more than CDs make good music, but it's definately improvement if you ask me. Now if only we could get 1080p60 for smooth pans under all circumstances, I'd be happy. If you desperately want the p24 feel, you can put a filter on it.
and more ultra fail combat moments from the main character. How many times did froto get stabbed ?
What do you expect from a hobbit dragged out of a peaceful life? Might as well drag the average american off their couch, hand them a sword and throw them in a duel to the death. The only real issue is to make it semi-credible that he survives it all, not merely be wounded.
That depends entirely on who will be using them. If those persons aren't able to move/exercise on their own then it's good, I'd take one of these over a wheelchair any day. If it's used for superhuman strength then I imagine it'll still take normal strength on the inside. But yeah, if you use it only for convienience and all the time then maybe. But that's really no different from a couch potato that barely gets his ass out to the car and back. In fact, I'm fairly sure that this motion will be more exercise than sitting in a car no matter what.
That's what real Christianity is.
'
Christianity is the creativity to be whatever it needs to be. Like the ability to ignore pretty much the whole old testament between when he got mad at us and when he forgave us. As long as you show him your love of course, otherwise you'll still be burning in hell but we try to not think about that much. And the creepy ritual where you eat the flesh and blood of Christ, try taking five seconds outside and realize how fucked up that is. Seriously, it sounds like something out of the kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard and christians got the worst case of Stockholm syndrome ever. I got you into this but I love you, as long as you love me and do as I say and accept my "flesh".
Ok, so I realize this is heavy flamebait but I'm seriously tired of people claiming that their religion is "this", where "this" at any time refers to the parts that fits current situation and society and ignore everything else in the book and every other interpretation that's made of the book (crusades, anyone?) and all the parts of it that we know are plain wrong such as earth being the center of universe. Or the wonderful double standard of sometimes quoting scripture as words of god to turn around and say that the gospels and whatnot are second-hand material that needs to be interpreted to understand their true essence. And when the world is evil and noone can claim god is punishing the sinners, there's always excuses for an omnipotent not to intervene, usually blaming humanity. Why he should get away with that crap about bløming the victim when we'd never accept a rapist saying she asked for it is beyond me.
Getting humans further than the moon, and back again (eg to Mars and back) with chemical rockets is a joke. Never going to happen.
A quite important thing about space... if you're first going somewhere, it doesn't stop by itself. Yes, Mars is much longer but it doesn't take equivalently more energy. There's lots of other concerns but saying "chemical rockets can't do it" is the joke here. Escape velocity is just a little bit more than GEO, and we send satellites there all the time. What's costly is bringing fuel to Mars just to burn it on the return, but if we had that chemical rockets would do just fine.
With DRM, the media companies tried to prevent people from sharing their music. But cracking the DRM led to the same problem as before.
With DPP, the media companies are offering an easier dishonest way to get music: instead of cracking the DRM, just steal other consumer's songs...
Easier? Presumably one stolen key == one possessor, or they copyright cartels have achieved nothing. How's that going to get you any cred in the scene, passing them around to a few topsites? Crack the DRM and you can have a million billion copies. No, this is just another smoke and mirror play to make people think of it as property.
The incentives are still all wrong. If I have DPP, it's in my best interest to break and share it so that noone's interested in taking my DPP. I've got no incentive to protect your copyright, which is why you can't win. If someone burns out 100 songs for a MP3 CD at a party and forget it there, they don't care. They still have their music, and they weren't planning on selling anything.
What is it now, the secret Linux on ARM "this will crush Intel any day now" idiot brigade doing the modding? I guess I'm in for another dose of negative karma on this post, but wtf.... we're talking about 2-500$ quad-core CPUs with a 95W TDP. There's not an ARM processor in sight that is even remotely competing in this class. Maybe if this was about some low-end Atoms the question could have made a little bit of sense, but now it's just to laugh at. And the ARM fanbois with no humor I guess.
They have to keep up the idea that there's competition by having many different brands offering many different options. Truth is that in many markets it's now a grand choice of Intel, Intel and Intel. Then you usually make more money keeping your customers confused and selling outdated or low-end processors to high-end prices than making it all very obvious. AMD is struggling badly to carve out any sort of niche where they can get a premium, delivering value processors isn't making them enough money to do what's necessary neither in R&D nor in process development. Intel on the other hand is pounding away at systems-on-a-chip, SSDs, higher-end graphics and really moving towards the Intel computer with your choice of Dell, HP or Compaq sticker. You can tell nVidia fears that future too.
If you imagine ARM as a women's flyweight newbie and Lynnfield as the men's heavyweight world champion in boxing, you got a pretty good idea how that match will play out. Not nearly the same class and the results are as expected.