Just want to make this clear: it's your assertion that the Slashdot community makes purchasing decisions on HP laptops based on CSGO, which "professionals" commonly are using these laptops at 1024x768 running in 16:9 instead of 4:3. Even more, you believe you are representative of people who might purchase this laptop.
No, it's not my assertion. I never said anything about speaking for the Slashdot community or consumers as whole. I'm not sure how you got that impression.
And yes, I am representative of the people who might purchase this laptop. I actually drew on my own personal experience as a long-time competitive gamer who now has a career that requires travel, but still like to take competitive gaming seriously. I try to only play league games on my desktop (it's more performant, obviously), but having a 144 Hz laptop makes practicing on the road much less painful.
I'll go out on a limb and guess that these CSGO pros that you "know" aren't real -- because very few professionals use high settings, even fewer play at a 16:9 resolution (favoring 4:3 instead), and literally all but a handful play at resolutions under 1080p. You don't know what you're talking about, quite frankly.
If you care about 240 Hz you generally don't care about resolution because you need to run your game at a low resolution anyway in order to get a a high enough FPS to take advantage of your monitor's refresh rate. There is no point in having a 240 Hz (or 144 Hz) monitor if you're going to render at 1440p and only push out 60 fps.
\In any case, RTX 2070 or not, it's not pushing enough frames for a display like this to matter.
This is objectively incorrect. People who play competitive shooters (such as myself) such as Counter-Strike Global Offensive target 200 fps minimum and like to have close to 400 fps. An RTX 2070 is more than capable of that at the low settings competitive games are typically played at. I personally play at 1024 x 768 stretched to 16:9 in Global Offensive, which is a common resolution amongst professionals
And before someone replies to me here claiming that "humans can't see more than 30 fps" -- yes, they can. I can tell the difference between 60 Hz and 144 Hz with ease. And although the difference between 144 Hz and 240 Hz is less noticeable, 240 Hz still looks "smoother" when dramatic screen shifts happen, such as when quickly turning 180 degrees to face a flanker.
I'm sure some governments have known this for awhile. I wonder how many people have been framed? And how would you ever prove your innocence?
I have similar worries in regard to the proliferation of 'deep fakes' and other methods of realistic video editing that is indistinguishable from original recordings.
I imagine we will deal with these issues to the best of our ability as time goes on, but "Damn future, you scary!"
Considering I just went to Youtube and tried searching for "Black Panther Full Movie", "Lego Movie Full Movie", and "It Follows Full Movie", but could not find copies of any of these movies, I think it is safe to say that you are either ill-informed or a liar, or these movies you're talking about are sufficiently buried that the small proportion of people who access them shouldn't be a concern.
And to the point in the article, Youtube can't reasonably be expected to police everything someone uploads. They already try pretty hard and the systems they do have in place end up getting abused. If you can think of a happier medium or useful technical solution, please provide it, but arguing that Youtube is purely a cesspool of copyrighted material is not only incorrect, but not overly useful to anyone.
Employment literally assumes a certain amount of time worked per week; by not working even a small fraction of that time, a person is clearly violating good faith.
And here you are posting on Slashdot during working hours. Bad, worker bee, bad!
About five years ago when more and more things started showing up that listened and watched inside our homes, I posed the question of what would it be like to live in a world where you don't have privacy even in the sanctity of your own home, being watched and listened to 24/7/365; I was dismissed as a nutjob and ignored, everything I pointed out likewise dismissed as nonsense. Yet here we are today, with devices intended to be installed in EVERY ROOM OF YOUR HOUSE that will watch and listen to you. How do you all feel about this now? Is it still nonsense to you? Or are you all so thoroughy deluded into believing that Amazon and whoever else aren't surveilling you every moment these devices are powered on? Or are you of the camp that says "I have nothing to hide therefore I have nothing to fear"? Or maybe the "My life is UNINTERESTING, therefore no one will bother"? You are all FOOLS.EVERYTHING I SAID WOULD HAPPEN, IS HAPPENING *NOW*. You all LET IT HAPPEN.
Maybe you said all the things you said somewhere other than Slashdot, because I can assure you that if those comments were made here, people weren't disagreeing with you. Slashdot is well known for it's support of privacy (including digital).
Your comment makes it sound like you were the only person on Slashdot saying that putting listening devices in your house is a bad idea. However, you can go back to any Slashdot story that mentions Google Home, Alexa, or any other device with an always-on microphone, and find large swaths of comments mentioning the privacy violation, at least one one of which has been modded up to +5 insightful.
I agree with the point of view expressed, but please... give off your high horse.
given that the words remind some people of America's peculiar institution
I find it odd how 'slavery' is so often framed as an American phenomenon, when it was/is a worldwide institution. The US was simply the last superpower to abolish it locally. Slavery is unfortunately alive and well, which should be clear to anyone willing to take a look around.
As for the topic at hand: The folks arguing for this might have a point if the terms being used were 'whitey' and 'blackey' or something equivalently racist, but I find the terms 'master' and slave' to be sufficiently "anodyne" considering they refer to a relationship between two things and neither term explicitly refers to a particular type of individual. Are we going to get rid of 'parent' and 'child' as well because some people were beaten by their parents?
In case you were wondering what it sounds like when an auditorium full of people crack their knuckles simultaneously, here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
When I request an Uber, it's usually at my door in less than five minutes and I can see it's progress. Formerly, when requesting a cab, it could take up to thirty minutes to arrive, if it bothered to show up at all -- and it cost twice as much.
Every time a discovery like this is made I find it very cool, but is there any real application or point to identifying a larger prime number? Or all of the GIMPS folks burning CPU cycles just for the fun of it?
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It's the location that is expensive, not the building materials. I thought that was pretty clear to everyone...
Out of curiosity, what OS are you running?
Just want to make this clear: it's your assertion that the Slashdot community makes purchasing decisions on HP laptops based on CSGO, which "professionals" commonly are using these laptops at 1024x768 running in 16:9 instead of 4:3. Even more, you believe you are representative of people who might purchase this laptop.
No, it's not my assertion. I never said anything about speaking for the Slashdot community or consumers as whole. I'm not sure how you got that impression.
And yes, I am representative of the people who might purchase this laptop. I actually drew on my own personal experience as a long-time competitive gamer who now has a career that requires travel, but still like to take competitive gaming seriously. I try to only play league games on my desktop (it's more performant, obviously), but having a 144 Hz laptop makes practicing on the road much less painful.
I'll go out on a limb and guess that these CSGO pros that you "know" aren't real -- because very few professionals use high settings, even fewer play at a 16:9 resolution (favoring 4:3 instead), and literally all but a handful play at resolutions under 1080p. You don't know what you're talking about, quite frankly.
If you care about 240 Hz you generally don't care about resolution because you need to run your game at a low resolution anyway in order to get a a high enough FPS to take advantage of your monitor's refresh rate. There is no point in having a 240 Hz (or 144 Hz) monitor if you're going to render at 1440p and only push out 60 fps.
\In any case, RTX 2070 or not, it's not pushing enough frames for a display like this to matter.
This is objectively incorrect. People who play competitive shooters (such as myself) such as Counter-Strike Global Offensive target 200 fps minimum and like to have close to 400 fps. An RTX 2070 is more than capable of that at the low settings competitive games are typically played at. I personally play at 1024 x 768 stretched to 16:9 in Global Offensive, which is a common resolution amongst professionals
And before someone replies to me here claiming that "humans can't see more than 30 fps" -- yes, they can. I can tell the difference between 60 Hz and 144 Hz with ease. And although the difference between 144 Hz and 240 Hz is less noticeable, 240 Hz still looks "smoother" when dramatic screen shifts happen, such as when quickly turning 180 degrees to face a flanker.
It's almost like if you give an 18-year-old a $60,000 deferred loan they'll waste it!! Whooda thunk?!
It doesn't matter what anyone can imagine. You still haven't produced the article in question even after being asked for it.
I'm sure some governments have known this for awhile. I wonder how many people have been framed? And how would you ever prove your innocence?
I have similar worries in regard to the proliferation of 'deep fakes' and other methods of realistic video editing that is indistinguishable from original recordings.
I imagine we will deal with these issues to the best of our ability as time goes on, but "Damn future, you scary!"
Considering I just went to Youtube and tried searching for "Black Panther Full Movie", "Lego Movie Full Movie", and "It Follows Full Movie", but could not find copies of any of these movies, I think it is safe to say that you are either ill-informed or a liar, or these movies you're talking about are sufficiently buried that the small proportion of people who access them shouldn't be a concern.
And to the point in the article, Youtube can't reasonably be expected to police everything someone uploads. They already try pretty hard and the systems they do have in place end up getting abused. If you can think of a happier medium or useful technical solution, please provide it, but arguing that Youtube is purely a cesspool of copyrighted material is not only incorrect, but not overly useful to anyone.
Woosh!
Employment literally assumes a certain amount of time worked per week; by not working even a small fraction of that time, a person is clearly violating good faith.
And here you are posting on Slashdot during working hours. Bad, worker bee, bad!
About five years ago when more and more things started showing up that listened and watched inside our homes, I posed the question of what would it be like to live in a world where you don't have privacy even in the sanctity of your own home, being watched and listened to 24/7/365; I was dismissed as a nutjob and ignored, everything I pointed out likewise dismissed as nonsense. Yet here we are today, with devices intended to be installed in EVERY ROOM OF YOUR HOUSE that will watch and listen to you. How do you all feel about this now? Is it still nonsense to you? Or are you all so thoroughy deluded into believing that Amazon and whoever else aren't surveilling you every moment these devices are powered on? Or are you of the camp that says "I have nothing to hide therefore I have nothing to fear"? Or maybe the "My life is UNINTERESTING, therefore no one will bother"? You are all FOOLS. EVERYTHING I SAID WOULD HAPPEN, IS HAPPENING *NOW*. You all LET IT HAPPEN.
Maybe you said all the things you said somewhere other than Slashdot, because I can assure you that if those comments were made here, people weren't disagreeing with you. Slashdot is well known for it's support of privacy (including digital).
Your comment makes it sound like you were the only person on Slashdot saying that putting listening devices in your house is a bad idea. However, you can go back to any Slashdot story that mentions Google Home, Alexa, or any other device with an always-on microphone, and find large swaths of comments mentioning the privacy violation, at least one one of which has been modded up to +5 insightful.
I agree with the point of view expressed, but please... give off your high horse.
given that the words remind some people of America's peculiar institution
I find it odd how 'slavery' is so often framed as an American phenomenon, when it was/is a worldwide institution. The US was simply the last superpower to abolish it locally. Slavery is unfortunately alive and well, which should be clear to anyone willing to take a look around.
As for the topic at hand: The folks arguing for this might have a point if the terms being used were 'whitey' and 'blackey' or something equivalently racist, but I find the terms 'master' and slave' to be sufficiently "anodyne" considering they refer to a relationship between two things and neither term explicitly refers to a particular type of individual. Are we going to get rid of 'parent' and 'child' as well because some people were beaten by their parents?
Are you seriously suggesting that the word "fuck" is inherently childish?
Grow the fuck up.
Or, maybe, it is not too partisan to call out the same guys, who have once mocked an opponent for being computer illiterate?
Good job conflating a candidate's computer literacy with the competence of an IT department.
So Quake, but without all the nuance that makes it Quake.
> I just don't get how people can spend so much money on so little real content.
ePenis bragging rights, aka Vanity.
The same morons (*) who pay thousands of dollars for a Rolex watch or a Gucci bag ($2,000+ WTF?)
(*) Paying $20 - $500 for a watch is fine. Paying $5,000 for a watch is vanity, aka More money then brains.
I know, right?! It's almost as if humans have different preferences so choose to spend their money in different ways!
...and there are also proposals that women should get paid days off during menstruation. That's bleeding-edge feminism.
No pun intended?
I wouldn't be surprised though if movies start becoming more interactive as a way to prevent piracy.
I believe they call that a video game.
If we pay (say) $20/hour for everyone for flipping burgers (or breathing) then any other job that's harder MUST pay more.
Depends on what you mean by "harder".
I've worked in both bars and restaurants, as well as in tech in the finance industry.
While, the tech work required more specialized skills and knowledge, the restaurant and bar work was certainly more grueling and left me more tired.
It's easier to find a qualified worker for the service industry, but for a candidate that is qualified for both the finance work is certainly easier.
In case you were wondering what it sounds like when an auditorium full of people crack their knuckles simultaneously, here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
How do you know someone runs Linux on their desktop at home?
They'll tell you! Linux desktop users are the vegans of tech.
When I request an Uber, it's usually at my door in less than five minutes and I can see it's progress. Formerly, when requesting a cab, it could take up to thirty minutes to arrive, if it bothered to show up at all -- and it cost twice as much.
Every time a discovery like this is made I find it very cool, but is there any real application or point to identifying a larger prime number? Or all of the GIMPS folks burning CPU cycles just for the fun of it?