720p60 is definitely sharper on LCD TV's (because interlaced video doesn't display well on LCD).
No TV "displays" interlaced video these days. They all have deinterlacers. If 720p60 uncompressed video still looks better than 1080i - even on still scenes - then that's a pretty bad deinterlacer.
I've got games that claim to be 720p only, but play in 1080i/p if you disable 720p, and they are sharper in 1080i on my LCD (one of those so-called LED ones) screen. It has a good deinterlacer.
But I don't see 1080i going away and throwing out all of the horizontal resolution either. Especially for 24p content that's pulled down (and is actually progressive underneath).
Any decent TV should pull it back up and give you 1080p24.
The best use of 32k (and approx 0.2 MIPS) I've ever seen is Exile. The map data alone would have been bigger than 32k if it wasn't mostly procedurally generated, and it had a physics engine and particle effects. On one more limited platform (the Acorn Electron) game data had to be visible onscreen around the playing area because memory was so tight. There was nothing left for any kind of HUD, so information (like weapon power remaining) had to be communicated to the player by sound. If you wanted to save your progress, the computer had to be crashed and (soft)-restarted first.
The guy just wants his $50 back because the graphics in the game aren't as good as advertised.
I suspect that he wants a lot more than $50.
Do you think he even tried to take it back to the store? I wouldn't be surprised if he was already on the look out for a lawsuit before he even heard of the game.
In ATSC over the air, most (if not all) 720p signals are 29.97 frames per second
Really? I thought most sports channels were 720p60. In fact, I've never heard of anyone shooting anything at 29.97. It's either 60p, or 24p which gets pulled down to 60p.
They are displayed at the same time on interlaced CRT televisions, due to the first field not being completely faded while the second is being drawn.
To say they're displayed at the same time is a little confusing, since the relationship between the top and bottom fields of the same frame is the same as the relationship between the bottom field of one frame and the subsequent top field of the next. They, too, if your description was accurate, would be "displayed at the same time." Then the whole show would be shown at the same time. On the plus side I'd be able to get a lot more done in my day.
Doesn't that rather depend on what you're predicting, and how good previous algorithms were?
Isn't that a bit like complaining that "10mph is not impressive" while commenting on a story about the world's fastest snail?
In the UK, where the weather seems pretty unpredictable, "it will be pretty much the same as yesterday" is right about 70% of the time.
I can predict with 99.9% accuracy what the weather will be like in five minutes. Does that mean any prediction less than 99.9% accurate is not impressive?
a) Because hacking isn't just a case of having access to everything or nothing. What if you can only hack the password database, but you can't hack the system that those logins are used for?
b) Because, lazy as people are, you now have some very likely candidate email/password combinations to try on all the systems you can't hack into.
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No, no I didn't (ok, actually, yes I did. But I could've heard it eight months ago)
PPH seems (as far as I know) to have made a good point here, in that temperature is not a property of particles.
You don't understand the concept of posting on Slashdot.
It didn't say all their properties become scale invariant.
Not understanding the concept of scale invariance, I may well be talking out of my bum, but maybe temperature is already a scale invariant property.
"People can come up with statistics to prove anything. Forfty percent of all people know that." - Homer Simpson
720p60 is definitely sharper on LCD TV's (because interlaced video doesn't display well on LCD).
No TV "displays" interlaced video these days. They all have deinterlacers. If 720p60 uncompressed video still looks better than 1080i - even on still scenes - then that's a pretty bad deinterlacer.
I've got games that claim to be 720p only, but play in 1080i/p if you disable 720p, and they are sharper in 1080i on my LCD (one of those so-called LED ones) screen. It has a good deinterlacer.
But I don't see 1080i going away and throwing out all of the horizontal resolution either. Especially for 24p content that's pulled down (and is actually progressive underneath).
Any decent TV should pull it back up and give you 1080p24.
The best use of 32k (and approx 0.2 MIPS) I've ever seen is Exile. The map data alone would have been bigger than 32k if it wasn't mostly procedurally generated, and it had a physics engine and particle effects. On one more limited platform (the Acorn Electron) game data had to be visible onscreen around the playing area because memory was so tight. There was nothing left for any kind of HUD, so information (like weapon power remaining) had to be communicated to the player by sound. If you wanted to save your progress, the computer had to be crashed and (soft)-restarted first.
Specially if you need to extract data from it
That's not what it's for, is it? Except by the method of reading, with your eyes.
People with functioning brains will remember CRT monitors measured in inches
What's the problem with that?
Except that you usually cannot return an opened video game (or opened CD or DVD), because of the suspicion of piracy
Amazon don't seem to have a problem with it, in my experience. I've sent back a few because they weren't technically up to scratch, in my opinion.
The guy just wants his $50 back because the graphics in the game aren't as good as advertised.
I suspect that he wants a lot more than $50.
Do you think he even tried to take it back to the store? I wouldn't be surprised if he was already on the look out for a lawsuit before he even heard of the game.
In ATSC over the air, most (if not all) 720p signals are 29.97 frames per second
Really? I thought most sports channels were 720p60. In fact, I've never heard of anyone shooting anything at 29.97. It's either 60p, or 24p which gets pulled down to 60p.
They are displayed at the same time on interlaced CRT televisions, due to the first field not being completely faded while the second is being drawn.
To say they're displayed at the same time is a little confusing, since the relationship between the top and bottom fields of the same frame is the same as the relationship between the bottom field of one frame and the subsequent top field of the next. They, too, if your description was accurate, would be "displayed at the same time." Then the whole show would be shown at the same time. On the plus side I'd be able to get a lot more done in my day.
So if it's five inches across and three feet away from your face, it looks like it's actually ten inches across and six feet away.
I see. And is this technology applicable in any other, uh, areas?
A 70% prediction rate is not impressive.
Doesn't that rather depend on what you're predicting, and how good previous algorithms were?
Isn't that a bit like complaining that "10mph is not impressive" while commenting on a story about the world's fastest snail?
In the UK, where the weather seems pretty unpredictable, "it will be pretty much the same as yesterday" is right about 70% of the time.
I can predict with 99.9% accuracy what the weather will be like in five minutes. Does that mean any prediction less than 99.9% accurate is not impressive?
Jesus. Can't even spam right. Kids these days.
Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings, is that you?
You can't just copy/paste code and expect it to work
Yes you can. You'll be disappointed, but you can.
Twitch today announced that the Justin.tv website, mobile apps, and APIs are no longer in service.
Oh, dear. What was that when it was at home, then?
a) Because hacking isn't just a case of having access to everything or nothing. What if you can only hack the password database, but you can't hack the system that those logins are used for?
b) Because, lazy as people are, you now have some very likely candidate email/password combinations to try on all the systems you can't hack into.
TL;DR
How he stayed sane
What makes you think he did?
Goddammit. There are three Is in "investigating."
*palmface*
Ya flamin' galah.