Hmmm...this sounds like something that could cause "screen lag" if the card tries a 1+ second refresh rate because it thinks the computer is busy.
The graphics card doesn't set a frame rate based on how busy the computer is - the new thing is that it tells the monitor what to display and the monitor does it right away, instead of waiting for the next 60th of a second to roll around.
If your computer's having a tough time rendering, and can only mange 50fps, this would have previously resulted in stutter as the monitor's apparent output varied between 60fps and 30fps, because frames could only be displayed at each 1/60th of a second interval. Now they can be displayed at any time (there is presumably a fixed minimum between frames, or at least a practical one).
Until now, you've typically needed a separate over-the-air TV tuner device (like Nuvyyo's Tablo DVR) if you wanted local live programming wrapped in a slick interface.
What, like the Freeview+ box I've had for two years, which has BBC iPlayer, Netflix, Wuaki, YouTube, Curzon and several other on-demand services that I've never heard of installed on it, as well as being able to receive over-the-air channels?
catering to those determined to leave cable and satellite behind.
I don't know about the US, but "cord-cutting" doesn't mean discarding satellite on the other side of the pond. We've got Freesat here, 200+ channels free-to-air beamed down from space.
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Hmmm...this sounds like something that could cause "screen lag" if the card tries a 1+ second refresh rate because it thinks the computer is busy.
The graphics card doesn't set a frame rate based on how busy the computer is - the new thing is that it tells the monitor what to display and the monitor does it right away, instead of waiting for the next 60th of a second to roll around.
If your computer's having a tough time rendering, and can only mange 50fps, this would have previously resulted in stutter as the monitor's apparent output varied between 60fps and 30fps, because frames could only be displayed at each 1/60th of a second interval. Now they can be displayed at any time (there is presumably a fixed minimum between frames, or at least a practical one).
Stop saying moot!
Or fixing the low quality light saber effect in A New Hope
Actually I don't think they did that. They look just as shoddy in the Special Edition as they do in the original.
The tennis guy?
Hey! That's the combination to my tired old joke safe!
That oughta hold the little FRBs.
Sheesh, talk about only seeing the downside. More people will die because even more people won't die?
Let me just go and run the numbers on that. It might take a while.
Ask Slashdot: Why Are Some Great Games Panned and Some Inferior Games Praised?
Ask Slashdot: why does this guy think his opinion is the objective truth, so everyone else's must be wrong?
Has the Internet Killed Curly Quotes?
Fuck 2016. You've killed Bowie, Rickman, Fisher... and now you've killed my favourite Vaudeville act of the 1920s.
RIP Curly.
By virtue of having two forms (open/close) we get exactly one bit more information.
No. That bit of information is already conveyed by the context and positioning of the quote marks.
Do you not own a television as well?
Governments around the world shut down the internet more than 50 times in 2016
No, no they didn't...
...what?
kept several of abandoned articles on Wikipedia afloat.
If only someone at Slashdot was paid to do some editing...
I wouldn't, because I'm not a masochist. Next question.
Next year's releases are:
Super Luigi Run
Zelda Run (only it's actually Link doing the running, whatever)
Metroid Run
Huh. I guess uBlock isn't working. I can still see this ad.
This is not remotely news.
No-one really uses the concept of relativistic mass any more. Things just have invariant (rest) mass.
MUFFIN (My User Friendly -- Flexible Interface)
Hah. My ex called hers that as well.
Until now, you've typically needed a separate over-the-air TV tuner device (like Nuvyyo's Tablo DVR) if you wanted local live programming wrapped in a slick interface.
What, like the Freeview+ box I've had for two years, which has BBC iPlayer, Netflix, Wuaki, YouTube, Curzon and several other on-demand services that I've never heard of installed on it, as well as being able to receive over-the-air channels?
catering to those determined to leave cable and satellite behind.
I don't know about the US, but "cord-cutting" doesn't mean discarding satellite on the other side of the pond. We've got Freesat here, 200+ channels free-to-air beamed down from space.
Federals agents
Jesus Christs, Slashdots, yous can'ts evens gets the firsts words rights. Yous sounds likes this guys:
https://theinfosphere.org/imag...
Anyone who (yeah, I know) read the previous article would know this already. Way to up the story count, I guess...
You need a bad actor that you can identify.
Leave Shatner alone!
But you were previously talking about getting a job and losing a house as a consequence, not losing a job... so I'm confused.
Then the phone is sold off every two weeks, and a new one obtained illegally... meanwhile he does nothing all day. Where is his income from?
Selling stolen phones.