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  1. Re:Who Wants This? on The Trouble With 4K TV · · Score: 1

    For regular blockbusters, 70mm releases were fairly common.
    For plotless films, IMAX was truly spectacular.

  2. Re:cable and sat don't have the bandwidth for it on The Trouble With 4K TV · · Score: 1

    Provided, of course, that compression doesn't render the whole 4k thing moot. At the local sports bar, the football pitch looks like a very blotchy quilt of neon green.

  3. Re:cable and sat don't have the bandwidth for it on The Trouble With 4K TV · · Score: 3, Informative

    OTA gives 19 Mbps to each channel, usually split into 3 stations. So 20 for a single 4x channel sounds about right.

    OTA uses MPEG-2, and (in my experience) for a good, decent 1080i signal, between 12-15 Mb/s is required, before things look a bit blurry. I do have an OTA EyeTV setup, with a 1080p monitor, and I can quite easily see the bitrates.
    Ironically, I've taken to streaming my PBS shows, because although my downstream bandwidth is a mere fraction of a full ATSC stream, the image quality is far superior to what is possible with a 9 Mb/s "720p" sub channel.
    For Bluray, 25 Mb/s AVC is very common, and that doesn't include the lossless audio. It's in another league entirely, provided that the grain hasn't been scrubbed out of existence. (Pan's Labyrinth isn't realistic, though it is shiny)

    More efficient coding standards may help cut the bandwidth requirements quite severely, but at a certain point, you'll have to decide that you just don't care about image quality. And that sort of attitude won't sell 4k screens.

  4. Re:Windows 8 Is Failing on It's Own on 'Gorilla Arm' Will Keep Touch Screens From Taking Over · · Score: 1

    "Plus?"

    I've also used terminals where the enter key was underneath the shift key. Ah, LOCIS, you were so much cooler than the other interface.

  5. Re:They have a guide line on How To Make PC Gaming Better · · Score: 3, Insightful

    CPU model numbers are fine.

    i3 i5 i7.
    Biger has more power.
    220, 3470 etc... bigger is more power.

    Quick, hotshot! Which has more power, a 5450,or a 4870?A 2700K, or a 3470?

  6. Re:Define horrible on GNU Grep and Sed Maintainer Quits: RMS and FSF Harming GNU Project · · Score: 1

    Is this some sort of role playing exercise? "Imagine you don't know how to program?"

  7. Re:warfighters? on DARPA's Headless Robotic Mule Takes Load Off Warfighters · · Score: 1

    Apparently soldiers in the marine corps are easily offended

  8. Re:Someone tell me on Islamic Hacker Group Resumes Attacks On Banks · · Score: 1

    It's quite obvious-- the decadence of the west, and the unwillingness of its peoples to embrace the joy that is to found in submission to a particular brand of monotheism, can only be properly understood by blaming the Jews, who through the banks and Hollywood, control the world. This also explains why an ordinary office tower bearing the name "World Trade Center" became a target. To truly understand, you must leave rationality behind, and embrace the conspiracy.

  9. Re:WTFGA on LG Introduces Monitor With 21:9 Aspect Ratio · · Score: 1

    Why are mobile phones even part of this discussion? A mobile phone, or a tablet only needs so much resolution before the pixels start melting into eye candy. A computer monitor, on the other hand, gives you more space to arrange your windows, at the expense of less eye candy. It's a different rationale all together.

    It is handy to see all of your emails while browsing the web. And Farmville's full screen mode, IIRC, does display more of the grid on higher resolution monitors.

    But I have a feeling that the antipathy towards lower resolution screens come from the "HD" crze where resolving anything less than a bluray is considered déclassé.

  10. Re:Is it Islam or something else? on Atheist Blogger Sentenced To 3 Years in Prison For Insulting Islam · · Score: 1

    Hypatia was murdered by Christians in Alexandria.

  11. Re:WTFGA on LG Introduces Monitor With 21:9 Aspect Ratio · · Score: 1

    my tablet is 4:3. 2048*1536. Or 3:4, depending on I hold it.

  12. Re:Newspapers are losing money, why buy? on Washington Post To Go Paywall, Along With Buffett-Owned Local Papers · · Score: 1

    I'm going to ask you to show your work.

  13. Re:Oh fucking dicks on Washington Post To Go Paywall, Along With Buffett-Owned Local Papers · · Score: 2

    You could always try The Daily Mail A surprising number of people outside the UK think it's a real newspaper.

  14. Re:Online International Newspapers on Washington Post To Go Paywall, Along With Buffett-Owned Local Papers · · Score: 1

    Traditionally, newspapers survived on advertising-- local advertising. The internet ripped apart this cushy model.

  15. Re:Newspapers are losing money, why buy? on Washington Post To Go Paywall, Along With Buffett-Owned Local Papers · · Score: 2

    One is the the internet, the second is every newspaper is simply recycling stories from UPI, Reuters, and AFP

    For the most part, the New York Times doesn't recycle wire service stories. That's part of their charm. Neither does the Washington Post, (but I prefer the Times). There are a lot of papers out there who rely on wire services for anything that's not local news-- and those papers are probably unsustainable.

  16. Re:Sanctions on Thorium Fuel Has Proliferation Risk · · Score: 1

    that's Scotland. They'll be going away soon., leaving England with only pain, misery, and despair.

  17. Re:I Don't Want To Be Part of Your Fucking Ecosyst on Apple Patents Wireless Charging · · Score: 2

    That's how it works - more or less - in the PC space

    Exactly. If I want to run Microsoft Office on FreeBSD on the new MacBookPro, it's hassle free. Everything just works.

  18. Re:Worlds Gone Mad on Apple Patents Wireless Charging · · Score: 1

    What's the range of your charger? I've got an inexpensive oral-b, and although there are no electrical wires or contacts per se, the toothbrush still has to be mounted on the little plastic protrusion on the charging base.

  19. Re:Stupid summary on BP and Three Executives Facing Criminal Charges Over Oil Spill · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A few states, such as Australia and the UK have such a thing as corporate manslaughter. Not every murderer acts on his own initiative, sometimes he has his employer's interests at heart. UK version

  20. Re:Nullified on Stratfor Hacker Could Be Sentenced to Life, Says Judge · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ooh, National Security. Convenient excuse, that. Stratford should have paid attention to securing it's own shit instead of crying to the FBI. Oh well. At least their reputation is in the gutter where it belongs.

  21. Re:250$ buys you a lot of netbook... on $250 Chromebook With Ubuntu Linux Is Very Fast · · Score: 1

    if you're using a P90 to encode video, it'll be unusable for a week.

  22. 33 percent for kids with disabilities? on With NCLB Waiver, Virginia Sorts Kids' Scores By Race · · Score: 1

    That's Horrifying. Some children, because of intellectual disabilities, are, regrettably, not able to regurgitate the correct answers to the test questions. But quite a few individuals with physical disabilities are quite intelligent. I have cerebral palsy, but could probably do quite well on these sorts of tests, even without a decent education. My concern is that, in an effort to boost scores among a particular subgroup of the population, kids like me would be relegated to an educational experience that fails to prepare them for college and grad school.

  23. Re:Awesome on Boeing 787 Makes US Debut · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In this country, executives get paid for performance-- or at least for tweaking the stock price. Unions, with their incessant demands for decent working conditions, interfere with the creation of totemic representations of shareholder value.

  24. Re:Scientific proof on New Jersey Residents Displaced By Storm Can Vote By Email · · Score: 1

    perhaps you meant "smaller than epsilon". Or are you suggesting that the system has a " negative fault capacity"?

  25. Re:It's just absentee voting on New Jersey Residents Displaced By Storm Can Vote By Email · · Score: 1

    A rotten borough with no poll tax and five million voters? It's hardly New Romney or Old Sarum.