Nah, just poke around those sites and audiophile forums. There are lots of hilarious stuff, like "CD finalizer toolkit", which was a device you put your CDs in and it worked it over with special light to make pits more pronounced, which really brought out the nuances in sound.
I do believe in expectations changing perception, but charging $980 for subjective emotions and belief while selling something objectively undistinguishable from $20 cable is what I called "borderline fraudulent". You're basically selling autosuggestion, which is achievable much cheaper and much more effective. Why not just close your eyes and imagine you're on live performance, while you're at it?
Hmm, iOS still lacks even FileReader API? Well, sucks then, but still.
I assumed we're talking about educational use of interpreters on the phone, so it's still useful - you can store predefined art in app cache and user generated sprites and whatnot in local storage.
It might still have some limited I/O outside that if iOS/Android do support "downloading" from data: URIs.
Others have pointed out the free dev tools, I'll just mention that modern Windows come with PowerShell installed, which is very worth learning if you're doing lots of automation on Win, and before that they had Windows Scripting Host allowing anyone to write for a (godawful) VBScript and JScript environment.
Huh? I was not arguing about objective superiority of anything, though I did mention objectively measurable difference.
What you're arguing about is subjective superiority of objectively identical experience. I find that quite silly if you're the one experiencing and borderline fraudulent (depending on strength of your belief in "experience") if you're the one selling.
Different kinds of food have different chemical composition which results in different combination of neurons firing etc etc etc.
Different kinds of cables - as long as they do transmit the data faithfully, which doesn't take $1000 cable - result in same signal arriving at the acoustic system receiver.
IOW, $90 bottle of wine and three-buck-Chuck objectively give different experience - what subjective is only whether it is a better experience or not, but $20 cable and $1000 cable give objectively same experience.
"Instant on" by itself has nothing to do with tablets - netbooks (and even laptops and desktops with SSD) just as well boot up in 30-45 sec and resume in 5.
Judging food quality is extremely hard, so high prices just might be somewhat justified, but fancy cars and watches are usually bought not for "experience", but as status symbol. I don't think you can show off $1000 audio cables to anyone except fellow audiophiles, others will just think you're an excentric (if you're rich) or an idiot (if you're not).
Actually, netbook form-factor are much more comfortable while lying down or sitting straight, as evidenced by tablet stands and lap-desks made for those cases.
Tablets are most comfortable form-factor while standing/walking, which is why they were used by doctors, for example, even before tablet boom, and while squatting on the toilet - which is a big part of tablet usage today.
I was just comparing the "harder" part. With physical documents, common sense easily lets anyone assess risks, try to prevent them and detect when security failed to start preparing for fallout early. With electronic, it's common sense only for top tier of users, and even with alleged pros we still get "Company X reports there was a break-in on the customer DB server a month ago. Check your credit cards for strange charges and change your passwords everywhere"
> "These are secure documents, I shouldn't put them on Dropbox" isn't any harder than "these are secure documents, I shouldn't put them in my briefcase and take them home" was twenty years ago.
Not really. Anyone can tell documents were stolen from briefcase by such telltale signs like broken locks or MY FUCKING GOD THE BRIEFCASE'S GONE, and anyone can tell electronic documents were stolen from his/her PC by such telltale signs as... hmm... eh... documents popping up on piratebay a month later?
Concepts of physical security are known to everyone, digital security awareness as common sense is still somewhere in the future and better left to professionals.
This small step up for texture dimensions won't give much impact on modern hardware, and from a bit of testing Skyrim seems to be mostly CPU/VS limited, not pixel shading limited, anyways.
You keep talking about "research", may be _you_ care to provide a research that shows "24 fps should be enough for everyone"? (hint: it's not, and it's the reason for current studies for 50p/60p/72p film and television).
Why, you can just go here http://frames-per-second.appspot.com/ and tell us "I don't see any difference". And then we'll just tell you to visit your eye doctor.
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You can, but you can't use it to run external code, just scripts packaged with the app or typed by user.
Nah, their engineers are great, it's just engineers make bad managers and marketers.
Nah, just poke around those sites and audiophile forums. There are lots of hilarious stuff, like "CD finalizer toolkit", which was a device you put your CDs in and it worked it over with special light to make pits more pronounced, which really brought out the nuances in sound.
I do believe in expectations changing perception, but charging $980 for subjective emotions and belief while selling something objectively undistinguishable from $20 cable is what I called "borderline fraudulent". You're basically selling autosuggestion, which is achievable much cheaper and much more effective. Why not just close your eyes and imagine you're on live performance, while you're at it?
Easy, just fire up Unreal Speccy. It has built-in asm and debugger, I believe.
Why would you want BASIC in modern age with all the choice of simple scripting languages?
Hmm, iOS still lacks even FileReader API? Well, sucks then, but still.
I assumed we're talking about educational use of interpreters on the phone, so it's still useful - you can store predefined art in app cache and user generated sprites and whatnot in local storage.
It might still have some limited I/O outside that if iOS/Android do support "downloading" from data: URIs.
True, but you don't need a lot of storage for an interpreter and source code. You'll even have some space left for a few art assets.
Others have pointed out the free dev tools, I'll just mention that modern Windows come with PowerShell installed, which is very worth learning if you're doing lots of automation on Win, and before that they had Windows Scripting Host allowing anyone to write for a (godawful) VBScript and JScript environment.
HTML5's offline application cache, local storage and FileSystem portions are meant to handle all of this.
And if JS is not enough for you, go to http://repl.it/ and try your hand at a dozen languages.
There's a lot of REPLs for different langauges and with different I/O capabilities - from plain "println" to graphics - all over the web.
Huh? I was not arguing about objective superiority of anything, though I did mention objectively measurable difference.
What you're arguing about is subjective superiority of objectively identical experience. I find that quite silly if you're the one experiencing and borderline fraudulent (depending on strength of your belief in "experience") if you're the one selling.
Uhhh, not quite.
Different kinds of food have different chemical composition which results in different combination of neurons firing etc etc etc.
Different kinds of cables - as long as they do transmit the data faithfully, which doesn't take $1000 cable - result in same signal arriving at the acoustic system receiver.
IOW, $90 bottle of wine and three-buck-Chuck objectively give different experience - what subjective is only whether it is a better experience or not, but $20 cable and $1000 cable give objectively same experience.
"Instant on" by itself has nothing to do with tablets - netbooks (and even laptops and desktops with SSD) just as well boot up in 30-45 sec and resume in 5.
Judging food quality is extremely hard, so high prices just might be somewhat justified, but fancy cars and watches are usually bought not for "experience", but as status symbol. I don't think you can show off $1000 audio cables to anyone except fellow audiophiles, others will just think you're an excentric (if you're rich) or an idiot (if you're not).
Actually, netbook form-factor are much more comfortable while lying down or sitting straight, as evidenced by tablet stands and lap-desks made for those cases.
Tablets are most comfortable form-factor while standing/walking, which is why they were used by doctors, for example, even before tablet boom, and while squatting on the toilet - which is a big part of tablet usage today.
I was just comparing the "harder" part. With physical documents, common sense easily lets anyone assess risks, try to prevent them and detect when security failed to start preparing for fallout early. With electronic, it's common sense only for top tier of users, and even with alleged pros we still get "Company X reports there was a break-in on the customer DB server a month ago. Check your credit cards for strange charges and change your passwords everywhere"
> "These are secure documents, I shouldn't put them on Dropbox" isn't any harder than "these are secure documents, I shouldn't put them in my briefcase and take them home" was twenty years ago.
Not really. Anyone can tell documents were stolen from briefcase by such telltale signs like broken locks or MY FUCKING GOD THE BRIEFCASE'S GONE, and anyone can tell electronic documents were stolen from his/her PC by such telltale signs as... hmm... eh... documents popping up on piratebay a month later?
Concepts of physical security are known to everyone, digital security awareness as common sense is still somewhere in the future and better left to professionals.
This small step up for texture dimensions won't give much impact on modern hardware, and from a bit of testing Skyrim seems to be mostly CPU/VS limited, not pixel shading limited, anyways.
Oh, and what did you mean by:
'synthetic images with temporal smoothing' -> oh yeah.
Some unfamiliar words? Don't be shy, ask if you don't understand something.
Yes, and I used at least 100Hz capable CRT monitors for that exact reason.
But wait, so you agree that 60Hz flicker is still noticeable and that's the reason non-flickering LCDs are better?
And I thought that it had to flicker at 24fps for it to be noticed by the eye, right, right?
And you're yet to deliver a research showing 24 fps is enough, don't forget that.
So you can't trust your own eyes? You only want to read smart words, experimental proof is too lowly for you?
So it seems you don't have a research on hand to show us that 24 fps is totally enough for synthetic images without temporal smoothing.
And you was talking so confidently, I almost believed you talk from knowledge :(
You keep talking about "research", may be _you_ care to provide a research that shows "24 fps should be enough for everyone"? (hint: it's not, and it's the reason for current studies for 50p/60p/72p film and television).
Why, you can just go here http://frames-per-second.appspot.com/ and tell us "I don't see any difference". And then we'll just tell you to visit your eye doctor.