I'm taking my wife on vacation to a resort. She has always wanted to swim with dolphins, and given the recent hate mongering about captive cetaceans I anticipate it the opportunity will be lost forever in the US within 15 years. It's unfortunate our kids won't have the same opportunities.
Oh, boo-hoo. Take a boat offshore, bob around in the water for a bit and if any dolphins want to swim with you, they can. There are plenty of places where they do.
Taking this campaign to its logical conclusion, they will probably eventually call for a closure of all zoos.
There are more reasons to run a zoo than simply to entertain the gawking masses.
Oh, and god forbid you go see animals on safari. That's exploitation as well.
Who says that?
Your tasty snack is based on the suffering of dairy cows, who live for only a few short years before they are brutally killed and ground into burger. How can you live with yourself?
While still holding the view that cetaceans shouldn't be kept in captivity for little more than entertainment purposes? Pretty well, actually.
Your basic cow has been domesticated for centuries. Living on a farm in a herd and getting turned into burgers is what a cow is these days. It's not like they're highly intelligent or highly social animals. Release a cow into the wild, and it wouldn't have the capacity to understand that it was anywhere other than on a bigger farm.
For example, if the display knows that the next frame is going to come at exactly X milliseconds in the future, then perhaps it could start transitioning all pixels to grey at time X - N, where N is the average time it takes for pixels to transition to grey, and then when the frame is received, it could then transition all pixels from grey to the next frame pixel colors faster.
What's the reason for transitioning to grey? Is it to minimise the likely "distance" (time) to the new colour?
Won't most pixels, most of the time, remain a similar colour in the next frame? I don't understand the ins and outs, but wouldn't you lose as much, if not more, as you'd gain?
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Can you explain to me how you can support safaris and zoos while decrying cetacean captivity on ethical grounds?
Who said anything about elephant-back safaris until now? When I hear "safari" I think "jeep."
And when did I say I support all zoos?
Awesome, so you would be fine with this if we managed to breed stupid dolphins incapable of surviving in the wild?
Cows have never been highly intelligent or highly social.
Don't Be a Server Hugger!
Don't be a telling-me-what-to-do-with-my-server... er.
When electricity was new, a LOT of people were bitten by the bug.
The discovery of electricy being a pre-requisite for the invention of the bug zapper, of course.
The fact that life expectancy has, by some accounts, doubled in less than 150 years makes me doubt that we're seeing evolution in action in this case.
The advancement of medical science might have something to do with it...
I've managed teams on five continents, and I haven't seen a single one work.
I wonder what the common factor could be...
This does sound a bit like the "there aren't enough [gender] [job title] in [field]!" stories you get from time to time.
I'm taking my wife on vacation to a resort. She has always wanted to swim with dolphins, and given the recent hate mongering about captive cetaceans I anticipate it the opportunity will be lost forever in the US within 15 years. It's unfortunate our kids won't have the same opportunities.
Oh, boo-hoo. Take a boat offshore, bob around in the water for a bit and if any dolphins want to swim with you, they can. There are plenty of places where they do.
Taking this campaign to its logical conclusion, they will probably eventually call for a closure of all zoos.
There are more reasons to run a zoo than simply to entertain the gawking masses.
Oh, and god forbid you go see animals on safari. That's exploitation as well.
Who says that?
Your tasty snack is based on the suffering of dairy cows, who live for only a few short years before they are brutally killed and ground into burger. How can you live with yourself?
While still holding the view that cetaceans shouldn't be kept in captivity for little more than entertainment purposes? Pretty well, actually.
Your basic cow has been domesticated for centuries. Living on a farm in a herd and getting turned into burgers is what a cow is these days. It's not like they're highly intelligent or highly social animals. Release a cow into the wild, and it wouldn't have the capacity to understand that it was anywhere other than on a bigger farm.
Or ticket sales.
The old black and white movie Stalker...
Most of it's in colour, as I recall.
At best, you can capture an exact copy of the PCM digital audio via the SPDIF output
Also AC3, on some discs - and in a lot of cases, it's a superior mix to what eventually ended up on the DVD.
As for the video, I'd think there's probably only a handful of laserdiscs that haven't been superseded by superior DVDs or Blu-rays.
It's a tarp!
No, wait...
Welcome... to the world of tomorrow!
https://github.com/kripken/ems...
True, actually. They'd write and give you notice of their pending, uh, inquisit.
Thunderbolt is everywhere, you're just not looking.
That's what fundies say about Jeebus.
http://pigroll.com/img/plug_in...
Using a laptop at home with a big ass-video card?
An oldie but a goodie: http://xkcd.com/37/
especially once USB gets its shit together and provides enough power to run HDDs without an extra power supply.
It already does... for 2.5" drives.
I really think it will turn out that the big bang/big crunch is a constant process where the universe is shaped like a stretched torus...
Based on any science in particular, or just a love of doughnuts?
Why are you posting as AC?
Maybe he doesn't have an account. Jeez.
Didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition...
You patent it, I'll rustle up some investors, and before we know it we'll be sitting onna beach, earning twenny percent.
Sounds like we'd better start panicking now.
I'm not panicking until the Daily Mail tells me to!
Or, alternatively: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
So it's gonna hit stores earlier than G-Sync?
Yes, but only compatible stores will be opening their doors early enough for you to buy it first.
For example, if the display knows that the next frame is going to come at exactly X milliseconds in the future, then perhaps it could start transitioning all pixels to grey at time X - N, where N is the average time it takes for pixels to transition to grey, and then when the frame is received, it could then transition all pixels from grey to the next frame pixel colors faster.
What's the reason for transitioning to grey? Is it to minimise the likely "distance" (time) to the new colour?
Won't most pixels, most of the time, remain a similar colour in the next frame? I don't understand the ins and outs, but wouldn't you lose as much, if not more, as you'd gain?
NTSC at 59.997 fps
It's 59.94 fps, you insensitive clod!
Sure, because a bathtub full of water is totally like 80% as deep as an ocean.
I doubt any of the passengers could tell the difference between 50 miles up and 62 miles up.