You should be able to disable Optimus in the BIOS, and I think that leaves you with just the nVidia GPU. Or your BIOS might give the choice of which to use exclusively.
I tried it once, briefly, to see if it gave me smoother 60fps YouTube video - it didn't, but it could have been any number of things beyond that, and it involved reinstalling drivers (of which nVidia gives me a confusing number to choose from)), so I might have got things into a mess. I haven't reinstalled since, and I'm still slightly suspicious of my drivers...
A joke stand on its own without the laugh track. Watch other funny shows with gags, you do not need laugh tracks (think comedy films for example where there is NO laugh racks).
Those are different forms of entertainment. They're written differently, they're shot differently, they're edited differently, they aim for a different effect on the audience.
But BBT needs those laugh track and i will tell you why since you apparently did not watch one of the video.
I did watch the video. I didn't find it funny, and I covered the reasons in my other post. BBT needs the laugh track because that's the type of sitcom it is. It's the same as a Bond film needing explosions and guns.
And that is essentially why they add laugh tracks because it is a mostly unhumoristic show
It's laugh-track/audience comedy (not sure what the weighting is; I know some scenes are entirely tracked because the timing comes off badly, but not all) They are different to non-laugh track comedies. People laugh along with it but not solely because it has a laugh track and not solely because of the words the actors say and how they say them, but because of the combination of the two.
If the creators of BBT wanted a non-laugh-track comedy it would be written, shot, and edited differently.
But add a laugh track and people will start to smirk and laugh. Why ?
Because they find it funny, not because they're morons. Just because they might not find it funny without the laughter, doesn't mean it is intrinsically unfunny, because the audience laughter (tracked or not, tracked always coming off worse, but still) is part of the overall experience, as is the fourth wall setup, the incidental-music segues, and all the rest of the common sitcom tropes that they employ.
Take the laugh-track/audience laughter out of any laugh-track/audience sitcom and your left with the same bizarre Pinter-esque nightmare.
Take the music or sound effects out of an action movie and you get the same effect. It's all part of the same piece of entertainment.
Laugh tracks are also a crime against comic timing, possibly second only to post-production editing, which should be done absolutely minimally in the case of a sitcom.
There was a blog post a while back from someone who went to see a sitcom being recorded, with audience, and loved every minute of it. When it came to the TV broadcast, though, they'd edited it to shreds, forcing in the best takes of just about every individual line instead of letting longer parts play out in one take. It was abysmal.
Same thing happened on the last series of a sitcom I enjoyed, compared to the previous two series. It was really jarring.
Go to youtube and search "big bang theory without laugh track" and see what I mean.
What does that tell you? All it tells you is that we're used to a certain presentation of certain forms of entertainment, and when our expectations are not met it's jarring and disconcerting. Take a non-laugh-tracked "sitcom" (if they still fit that definition) like Peep Show or The Office or [insert non-laugh tracked sitcom you do find funny here] and add a laugh track and it will probably be just as un-funny because it throws the whole thing out of whack.
Take a production of MacBeth and have everyone perform it in flippers. Probably not going to last long.
If something makes someone laugh (for example, BBT with audience laughter), it's funny. If something doesn't make someone laugh (for example, BBT without laugh track) that doesn't mean that the first version wasn't "funny", and that the viewer must be therefore have been suffering some kind of delusion when they laughed the first time round.
You don't find BBT funny either way; fine. That doesn't mean anyone who does is wrong, whether they laugh at the un-laugh-tracked version or not.
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"Whose"? Yeesh. "Who's," of course.
Gartner's near-future predictions include: Writers will be replaced. By 2018, 20% of all business content
So a) whose going to "write" the other 80% of business content, if not "writers"? and b) people who create business documents are not "writers."
You should be able to disable Optimus in the BIOS, and I think that leaves you with just the nVidia GPU. Or your BIOS might give the choice of which to use exclusively.
I tried it once, briefly, to see if it gave me smoother 60fps YouTube video - it didn't, but it could have been any number of things beyond that, and it involved reinstalling drivers (of which nVidia gives me a confusing number to choose from)), so I might have got things into a mess. I haven't reinstalled since, and I'm still slightly suspicious of my drivers...
Is there an enterprise level equivalent of Semantic MediaWiki, a Knowledge Management System that can store meaningful facts and allows queries on it?
I asked my Knowledge Management System and it said that no, no there isn't.
Okey dokey.
I show how the concept of the public domain has been crushed by demonstrating just how little popular music exists in it.
Are you sure it wouldn't suck anyway?
Mine's never greyed anything out.
Unfortunately, it tends to crash the whole OS a lot if you do that.
That's probably why it's greyed out then...
I've had the same experience though - not the whole OS, but instability when running Firefox on the GPU.
Wow, a laptop with a removeable keyboard!
So unlike the old Surface, the tablet with an attachable keyboard...
Not only that, but "it’s impossible to close the laptop all the way." Just what I've been looking for!
Now, we have so much data and fast bandwidth is so expensive, that transferring data to another site physically is actually a consideration.
Was there ever a time this wasn't true?
Only games are "allowed" to run on the real GPU.
Anything you tell it to will run on the GPU.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
'Voices From Chernobyl' Author Svetlana Alexievich Wins Lit Nobel
I didn't even know they were flammable.
It was Marvin the Martin, in the Valles Marineris, with an Illudium Pu-36 explosive space modulator.
[...] 4.91% of [...] 100,000 [...] is 4.9 million
What were you saying about a maths fail? ;)
Rookie Dongle Warns Parents When Their Kids Are Driving Too Fast
Poor guy. I mean, bad enough that your parents are Mr and Mrs Dongle, but then they name you "Rookie"? He should sue.
These devices interface extremely well with humans but might not be very good modes of communication for an Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.
I never thought they would be.
In other news, cars are useless for exploring the oceans.
Recognising a silly joke? Etc.
Boarding Pass Barcodes Can Reveal Personal Data, Future Flights
Now that's a neat trick.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Hah! That's exactly what a people would say!
No, wait...
A joke stand on its own without the laugh track. Watch other funny shows with gags, you do not need laugh tracks (think comedy films for example where there is NO laugh racks).
Those are different forms of entertainment. They're written differently, they're shot differently, they're edited differently, they aim for a different effect on the audience.
But BBT needs those laugh track and i will tell you why since you apparently did not watch one of the video.
I did watch the video. I didn't find it funny, and I covered the reasons in my other post. BBT needs the laugh track because that's the type of sitcom it is. It's the same as a Bond film needing explosions and guns.
And that is essentially why they add laugh tracks because it is a mostly unhumoristic show
It's laugh-track/audience comedy (not sure what the weighting is; I know some scenes are entirely tracked because the timing comes off badly, but not all) They are different to non-laugh track comedies. People laugh along with it but not solely because it has a laugh track and not solely because of the words the actors say and how they say them, but because of the combination of the two.
If the creators of BBT wanted a non-laugh-track comedy it would be written, shot, and edited differently.
But add a laugh track and people will start to smirk and laugh. Why ?
Because they find it funny, not because they're morons. Just because they might not find it funny without the laughter, doesn't mean it is intrinsically unfunny, because the audience laughter (tracked or not, tracked always coming off worse, but still) is part of the overall experience, as is the fourth wall setup, the incidental-music segues, and all the rest of the common sitcom tropes that they employ.
Take the laugh-track/audience laughter out of any laugh-track/audience sitcom and your left with the same bizarre Pinter-esque nightmare.
Take the music or sound effects out of an action movie and you get the same effect. It's all part of the same piece of entertainment.
it simply fakes its appeal by using social proof
There's nothing "fake" about it. It's all part and parcel of the experience.
There are sitcoms that are funny without the crutch of laugh tracks.
Yes, and they're a different kind of sitcom.
Laugh tracks are also a crime against comic timing, possibly second only to post-production editing, which should be done absolutely minimally in the case of a sitcom.
There was a blog post a while back from someone who went to see a sitcom being recorded, with audience, and loved every minute of it. When it came to the TV broadcast, though, they'd edited it to shreds, forcing in the best takes of just about every individual line instead of letting longer parts play out in one take. It was abysmal.
Same thing happened on the last series of a sitcom I enjoyed, compared to the previous two series. It was really jarring.
Go to youtube and search "big bang theory without laugh track" and see what I mean.
What does that tell you? All it tells you is that we're used to a certain presentation of certain forms of entertainment, and when our expectations are not met it's jarring and disconcerting. Take a non-laugh-tracked "sitcom" (if they still fit that definition) like Peep Show or The Office or [insert non-laugh tracked sitcom you do find funny here] and add a laugh track and it will probably be just as un-funny because it throws the whole thing out of whack.
Take a production of MacBeth and have everyone perform it in flippers. Probably not going to last long.
If something makes someone laugh (for example, BBT with audience laughter), it's funny. If something doesn't make someone laugh (for example, BBT without laugh track) that doesn't mean that the first version wasn't "funny", and that the viewer must be therefore have been suffering some kind of delusion when they laughed the first time round.
You don't find BBT funny either way; fine. That doesn't mean anyone who does is wrong, whether they laugh at the un-laugh-tracked version or not.
I'd love that job. You get to watch TV and make an overwhelmingly positive contribution to the human experience.