The 240 Hz uses some kind motion interpolation crap. What the need is an LCD that flashes the backlight for a very short time each 1/60 second, roughly equivalent to how a TV does. It's not the frame rate, it's the length of the flash. At some point, only older folks will even know what a good CRT looks like, and how little motion blur it has. You'll have to pry my CRT TV from my cold, dead hands. And that's not even getting into the crappy image you get from an analog video source due to digital upscaling, ugh.
Besides, newer LCDs are using pulsed LEDs to eliminate sample-and-hold blur (as distinct from blur due to the LCD's slow response). You want flicker like CRTs used to do, at least if you want people like me to replace our CRT TVs with LCDs.
Half your resolution lost, however. The human visual system can fill in the blanks from the other eye's perception, but that's just literally plugging holes.
Wow, I didn't know I could literally plug holes just by partially blocking one eye's vision. I'll have to remember that next time I have some hold plugging to do; could save a lot of time.
The loss of one's privacy should always be opt-out, but anyone concerned with privacy should always assume that it's currently being violated and thus take steps to actively protect it. Thus, anyone in China who wants privacy is going to have to do things like ensure that the Chinese CA is disabled in their browser (and actually verify that by accessing a side signed with it).
So does this mean that in 2020 I won't be able to get a lower speed (for a lower price), even if I want it and don't need 100 Mbps? I guess the government knows what's best for me.
Um...whether you think global warming is bullshit or not, why would you want to halt carbon dioxide reduction policies? I mean, modify them, sure...but why completely halt them? Global warming being real or not, there is no denying that we as a species pump way too much crap into our atmosphere. Regardless of how much this affects our planet, you can't honestly tell me that it's a GOOD thing...
Because there might be BETTER things to spend our LIMITED resources on than reducing C02 emissions. It's not like C02 is the only thing we're releasing into the atmosphere.
The ultimate dream would be a truly holographic sensor that records exactly where, when, and at what angle each photon hit the sensor, so that the zoom, exposure time, and focus can be changed in post-processing (as well as a lot of other cool stuff).
No, the ultimate sensor would record the quantum wavefunctions of the "photons", rather than the collapse of them. Then you could.. well I'm not sure what that would allow, but it's clearly capturing more information.
Well, I was replying to the apparent claim that competition wouldn't naturally result in net neutrality. I agree that we don't have competition, hence we must either eliminate that which is preventing competition, or achieve net neutrality via even more regulation (good luck with that not having any unforeseen side-effects!).
I think the original was just missing quotes. I read it as
The world rolled, "It's eyes!" when the problem of Flash cookies came to light several months ago.
where they were using the 19th definition of rolled: 19. To make a sustained, trilling sound, as certain birds do. In other words, it was another way of saying they Tweeted it. Clearly they were referring to the fact that these cookies flashed a bright light, and were answering the question of the thing they affect. Their answer was "it is eyes!". Simple, really.
But practical matters dictate there won't be operating rooms and doctors everywhere and not enough so in a major accident they just do what they got to do.
Actually, it's state-enforced licensing that results in this shortage. So instead of being able to choose a surgeon who has gotten full sleep but isn't as skilled, you have to take the skilled zombie surgeon.
One of the most common arguments that I hear out of net neutrality opponents is that competition will somehow keep most ISP's net neutral without any messy government regulation. But what happens if all the major ISP's start blocking certain sites (like Pirate Bay)?
Any competitor which doesn't block it will get more business.
With most people (in the U.S. at least) having at most 1-3 broadband providers to choose from, exactly where are you supposed to you go when all the big ones agree on a blacklist?
To the competitor that eventually pops up, or the one that defects from the blocking.
And how can you open up a competing provider when all the wire and fiber are in the hands of monopolies like AT&T, Time-Warner, etc.? It's not like you can just start up a Mom & Pop broadband provider and start laying hundreds of miles of cable. Even Google will have a hard time competing with the big telco's and cableco's with the relatively minor bit of fiber optic they own.
The problem there is that the government funded their cabling, yet the companies turned around and monopolized it. Either have the government take the cabling back, or make the companies pay the government (us) back. Currently their "low" rates are effectively subsidized, thus making competition difficult because a new competitor wouldn't be subsidized.
As you can see, it's not a free market in the first place.
What sold me on the iPhone was that I could hear the phone ring, and actually receive the call. With Windows Mobile, more often than not, I would get the call.. go to answer... phone locks up... reboot phone... call person back. FAIL on the basic UI of the phone. The other features would work well... just often found myself rebooting the phone when it came time to get a call
Simple solution really, you just need to reboot before you get a call.
well, it makes them look more powerful, so... i say go for it! life is more fun with omnipresent vigilantes/supervillains (exactly which description fits them best depends on the beholder, or course).
There are advantages, but I think it allows demonization in the end. Instead of "thousands of people marched in protest", it's "thousands of members of Anonymous marched in protest". At least for me, the latter is more easily written off as some fringe group whose views are shaped by small group of leaders.
Has the concept of "the people" being fed up with something, spontaneously organizing, and taking action been so forgotten that the only way the press can deal with it is to attribute it to a fictional group named Anonymous?
FileVault is a proprietary tool from a big and famous manufacturer. This means that you can be sure that there is a built-in backdoor for government bodies to use, in case you would be a terrorist suspect or trying to seize control by a coup. These backdoors are usually found and used against you in practice.
He simply mentions the above because his article is written for such people, terrorist suspects and people trying to seize control by a coup (but not by other means).
what comes next? A reverse-competitive bidding process, whereby various cities write off their taxes on both the profits and the capital equipment, waive requirements like community access programs, and more- just to get google to give them fiber-to-the-home, something that has no proven public benefit. Which is idiotic- I don't want my tax dollars used to fund capital expenditures for corporations!
Oh come on, what's the worst that could happen? You act like the corporations are going to take the government money, spend it on things other than infrastructure, then use their monopoly to get high prices for crappy service, even going to far as to block others from competing using their own money.
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The 240 Hz uses some kind motion interpolation crap. What the need is an LCD that flashes the backlight for a very short time each 1/60 second, roughly equivalent to how a TV does. It's not the frame rate, it's the length of the flash. At some point, only older folks will even know what a good CRT looks like, and how little motion blur it has. You'll have to pry my CRT TV from my cold, dead hands. And that's not even getting into the crappy image you get from an analog video source due to digital upscaling, ugh.
Besides, newer LCDs are using pulsed LEDs to eliminate sample-and-hold blur (as distinct from blur due to the LCD's slow response). You want flicker like CRTs used to do, at least if you want people like me to replace our CRT TVs with LCDs.
Scratching the surface requires a third dimension, duh!
Now, how about something for the 1% of us with blindness? Will it allow us to see (and in 3D, no less)?
Wow, I didn't know I could literally plug holes just by partially blocking one eye's vision. I'll have to remember that next time I have some hold plugging to do; could save a lot of time.
Whoops, I got opt-out and opt-in switched. Argh! Privacy loss should be opt-in.
The loss of one's privacy should always be opt-out, but anyone concerned with privacy should always assume that it's currently being violated and thus take steps to actively protect it. Thus, anyone in China who wants privacy is going to have to do things like ensure that the Chinese CA is disabled in their browser (and actually verify that by accessing a side signed with it).
So does this mean that in 2020 I won't be able to get a lower speed (for a lower price), even if I want it and don't need 100 Mbps? I guess the government knows what's best for me.
Because there might be BETTER things to spend our LIMITED resources on than reducing C02 emissions. It's not like C02 is the only thing we're releasing into the atmosphere.
No, the ultimate sensor would record the quantum wavefunctions of the "photons", rather than the collapse of them. Then you could.. well I'm not sure what that would allow, but it's clearly capturing more information.
As I read this, there are three comments. One is about porn, and another is about Slashdot itself. Slashdot in a nutshell.
Yes, but it's organic anti-nuclear horseshit. Big difference.
Well, I was replying to the apparent claim that competition wouldn't naturally result in net neutrality. I agree that we don't have competition, hence we must either eliminate that which is preventing competition, or achieve net neutrality via even more regulation (good luck with that not having any unforeseen side-effects!).
where they were using the 19th definition of rolled: 19. To make a sustained, trilling sound, as certain birds do. In other words, it was another way of saying they Tweeted it. Clearly they were referring to the fact that these cookies flashed a bright light, and were answering the question of the thing they affect. Their answer was "it is eyes!". Simple, really.
Actually, it's state-enforced licensing that results in this shortage. So instead of being able to choose a surgeon who has gotten full sleep but isn't as skilled, you have to take the skilled zombie surgeon.
Any competitor which doesn't block it will get more business.
To the competitor that eventually pops up, or the one that defects from the blocking.
The problem there is that the government funded their cabling, yet the companies turned around and monopolized it. Either have the government take the cabling back, or make the companies pay the government (us) back. Currently their "low" rates are effectively subsidized, thus making competition difficult because a new competitor wouldn't be subsidized. As you can see, it's not a free market in the first place.
FanDroids
There, fixed that for you.
You *DO* have that right. It's just a question of whether someone else is violating it.
Simple solution really, you just need to reboot before you get a call.
There are advantages, but I think it allows demonization in the end. Instead of "thousands of people marched in protest", it's "thousands of members of Anonymous marched in protest". At least for me, the latter is more easily written off as some fringe group whose views are shaped by small group of leaders.
Has the concept of "the people" being fed up with something, spontaneously organizing, and taking action been so forgotten that the only way the press can deal with it is to attribute it to a fictional group named Anonymous?
They didn't have Windows for them to come in through.
I, for one, will not buy a 1TB SSD until it's small enough that I'm guaranteed to lose it within the first day of getting it.
He simply mentions the above because his article is written for such people, terrorist suspects and people trying to seize control by a coup (but not by other means).
Oh come on, what's the worst that could happen? You act like the corporations are going to take the government money, spend it on things other than infrastructure, then use their monopoly to get high prices for crappy service, even going to far as to block others from competing using their own money.