I think most knowledgeable gamers will agree; 75fps is much smoother than 60fps, and when milliseconds count, that 15fps advantage translates into more frags.
Also, shutter-based stereo glasses which rely on flashing an image for the left eye, then the right, need twice the response rate to give a comfortable sense of movement. If you want even 40Hz animation, you're going to need a screen capable of 80Hz.
Some screens are now capable of 8ms response time, giving 125fps.
I live in New Zealand, and in the last 25 years having worked with many different CRT-based devices (both TVs to monitors) I have never NEVER come across one where the elements are arranged in a triangle of dots.
And it's not just shadow mask vs aperture grill. Even the colour tellys from the 70's had the pixels arranged in strips. Now these strips were usually offset vertically by 1/2 pixel from one strip to the next, but they were nothing like a collection of dots. The Philips 19" CRT I'm looking at now has the pixels in the exact same arrangement - columns, no dots.
I wonder if the dots is an american thing (maybe NTSC colour model works better with this arrangement or something?)
I'd love to, but I'm afraid I just can't afford the royalties to Thomson/Fraunhoffer every time I want to encode my favourite music to mp3.
how about 40 gigs of music inside a teddy bear? Give that one to your kids (or what-have-you) for christmas and they'll love you forever... And hey, you'll be able to make one yourself, because Limor told you how to do so on her cool webpage about the DIY mp3 player she built. Squeeze the left hand to go back a track, the right hand to go forward, push the nose to play/pause, headphones plug into the base of his neck (in the back)
Squeeze the groin to pay your subscription to Fraunhoffer.
...is the horrible bug that causes both firefox and mozilla proper to stall indefinitely when trying to connect to any site at seemingly random times. This happens in both Win32 and Linux builds. The only known remedy apparently is to hit 'stop' then 'reload'.
It's embarrasing as much as anything else, giving a windows-using friend Firefox to replace IE only to find that 1 out of 10 page loads fail, and they go back to "good old" IE, oblivious to the security hole he's just let himself in for.
That's great and all that it can play mp3 files, but for those of us that want more freedon and quality a Vorbis player would be much nicer.
I realise that this is just another "Look what I can cram into a small case!" story which has an intrinsic nerdy cool factor, but honestly mp3 players this size are a dime a dozen.
Pretty much the same agenda for any business that's becoming irrelevant. I'm sure stagecoach drivers put up similar arguments when cars came onto the scene.
Honestly, why do people continue to take these clowns seriously?
If you define evolution as change over time. Plenty of examples: Peppered Moths, island-dwelling birds losing flight so as not to be swept out to sea, domestic animal/plant breeding, bacteria resistance to antibiotics, etc.
If, however, you are referring to a system where genetic mutations and natural selection result in an organism more complex than either parents, then that has never been observed, either in living ecosystems nor the fossil record.
It is the latter definition that is in most peoples minds when discussing the validity of evolution.
Torro is one such example. A further-removed variant is Meccano.
The grandfather poster doesn't know how right he is though - Lego does have a virtual monopoly, and they charge like a wounded bull for the privelege of buying anything bearing their trademark.
And with many of the newer sets you are locked into building what they want you to - the blocks are becoming less generic and therefore less useful for anything other than what's photographed on the box.
...perhaps they could fix the horrible bug that causes both firefox and mozilla proper to stall indefinitely when trying to connect to a random site.
It's embarrasing as much as anything else giving a windows-using friend Firefox to replace IE, only to find that 1 out of 10 page loads fail, and they go back to "good old" IE, oblivious to the security hole he's just let himself in for.
God is by definition omnicient and infallible. So if god tells you to kill homosexuals (he does!) or when he tells you that pi = 3 or when he tells you that the universe was created in 7 days around 3000 years ago what do you?
1. The Israelites were to kill homosexuals dwelling among them (and sorcerers, rapists, etc). Look up Hebrew civil law and see how it supplements (but does not define) moral law. Sin or not, thou shalt not kill.
2. Pi=3? I assume you refer to the bronze sea. It wasn't perfectly circular, you know. Do you have any idea of the tolerances used in construction in that age, even if it were to be circular? 5% isn't bad.
3. According to young-earth creationism, the universe was created in 6 days around 6000-10000 years ago.
Well, with Cedega (formerly WineX), they basically have...... which has always puzzeled me. If Cedega implements DirectX and other Win32 libraries, then why does every game that works with it need explicit support? It seems very rare that even an older game will work properly if it's not officially supported by Transgaming. I smell something fishy.
No, it doesn't count. Marching ants on Lasso selects have been in just about every paint program since the ancient Amiga.
And they have nothing to do with highlighting. All they do is define a boundary, not the area enclosed by said boundary.
Think of what happens when you do a marquee select on a group of files in Windows XP or a recent GNOME file browser. You get a semi-transparent box, as opposed to the hollow rectangle drawn on systems like Win98 (or those newer interfaces, if you turn the eye-candy off).
Hollywood still laughably bases the success of any given movie by its first weekend takings at the box office. But the fact is, due to increased workloads or general apathy, most people wait until a movie has been out for a while before bothering to see it. In many cities even with the theatres running at 100% duty, there just aren't enough hours in the weekend to fit in everybody who wants to watch the latest blockbuster.
I know my movie-going timetable is not based around movie release schedules, but when I feel like going to the movies (the subtle difference between, "I feel like a trip to the movies, what's on this weekend?" and "Hey Movie X is out, let's put down what we're doing and go see it tonight!"). Star Wars movies are the exception to this rule:)
To say nothing of those who prefer to bypass the cinema entirely and wait for the DVD. And don't get me started on cinema prices these days, hell I could *own* a movie on DVD for the cost of going to see it twice and putting up with out of focus projectors, rustling chip packets and jaffas rolling down the aisles...
Possibly, but introducing money to a project can change the very focus of that project.
You may suddenly find that you're not driven by a desire to make good software, but driven by the pursuit of more money, and that can be a very dangerous position.
For reasons like this, people such as Eric Raymond advocate not funding Free software projects unless it's asked for.
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Does this take into account those of us in the southern hemisphere, where the weather is great and sunny this time of year?
Looking at the comments in the article they're almost all from England or Scotland, so that says most of it.
Now all we need to do is figure out how to bombard a body with slightly greasy solar atoms.
I think most knowledgeable gamers will agree; 75fps is much smoother than 60fps, and when milliseconds count, that 15fps advantage translates into more frags.
Also, shutter-based stereo glasses which rely on flashing an image for the left eye, then the right, need twice the response rate to give a comfortable sense of movement. If you want even 40Hz animation, you're going to need a screen capable of 80Hz.
Some screens are now capable of 8ms response time, giving 125fps.
Just for the record:
I live in New Zealand, and in the last 25 years having worked with many different CRT-based devices (both TVs to monitors) I have never NEVER come across one where the elements are arranged in a triangle of dots.
And it's not just shadow mask vs aperture grill. Even the colour tellys from the 70's had the pixels arranged in strips. Now these strips were usually offset vertically by 1/2 pixel from one strip to the next, but they were nothing like a collection of dots. The Philips 19" CRT I'm looking at now has the pixels in the exact same arrangement - columns, no dots.
I wonder if the dots is an american thing (maybe NTSC colour model works better with this arrangement or something?)
Don't forget that XFree86 has had this sub-pixel text rendering for some time.
Hell, it's right there in the KDE control panel. You just tell it what shape your pixels are (usually RGB horizontal).
... suddenly characters in the Old Testament living to 900 years doesn't seen quite so implausible.
I'd love to, but I'm afraid I just can't afford the royalties to Thomson/Fraunhoffer every time I want to encode my favourite music to mp3.
how about 40 gigs of music inside a teddy bear? Give that one to your kids (or what-have-you) for christmas and they'll love you forever... And hey, you'll be able to make one yourself, because Limor told you how to do so on her cool webpage about the DIY mp3 player she built. Squeeze the left hand to go back a track, the right hand to go forward, push the nose to play/pause, headphones plug into the base of his neck (in the back)
Squeeze the groin to pay your subscription to Fraunhoffer.
...is the horrible bug that causes both firefox and mozilla proper to stall indefinitely when trying to connect to any site at seemingly random times. This happens in both Win32 and Linux builds. The only known remedy apparently is to hit 'stop' then 'reload'.
It's embarrasing as much as anything else, giving a windows-using friend Firefox to replace IE only to find that 1 out of 10 page loads fail, and they go back to "good old" IE, oblivious to the security hole he's just let himself in for.
That's great and all that it can play mp3 files, but for those of us that want more freedon and quality a Vorbis player would be much nicer.
I realise that this is just another "Look what I can cram into a small case!" story which has an intrinsic nerdy cool factor, but honestly mp3 players this size are a dime a dozen.
Pretty much the same agenda for any business that's becoming irrelevant. I'm sure stagecoach drivers put up similar arguments when cars came onto the scene.
Honestly, why do people continue to take these clowns seriously?
Please don't ever link to talkorigins.org when discussing open minds again.
Is is a site notorious for exaggeration and plain misinformation about such topics.
You might as well link to Microsoft's "Get the facts" campaign page to encourage open minded discussion about Linux.
Evolution is a fact. It's been observed.
Yes that's true.
If you define evolution as change over time. Plenty of examples: Peppered Moths, island-dwelling birds losing flight so as not to be swept out to sea, domestic animal/plant breeding, bacteria resistance to antibiotics, etc.
If, however, you are referring to a system where genetic mutations and natural selection result in an organism more complex than either parents, then that has never been observed, either in living ecosystems nor the fossil record.
It is the latter definition that is in most peoples minds when discussing the validity of evolution.
I didn't mean to imply Meccano was derived from Lego(tm).
All I was saying was that products like Torro, Tyco and Meccano are alternatives, not derivatives.
Torro is one such example. A further-removed variant is Meccano.
The grandfather poster doesn't know how right he is though - Lego does have a virtual monopoly, and they charge like a wounded bull for the privelege of buying anything bearing their trademark.
And with many of the newer sets you are locked into building what they want you to - the blocks are becoming less generic and therefore less useful for anything other than what's photographed on the box.
...perhaps they could fix the horrible bug that causes both firefox and mozilla proper to stall indefinitely when trying to connect to a random site.
It's embarrasing as much as anything else giving a windows-using friend Firefox to replace IE, only to find that 1 out of 10 page loads fail, and they go back to "good old" IE, oblivious to the security hole he's just let himself in for.
Of course by that I mean the bitboys Glaze3D
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But what use will these drives be if you aren't a pathetic masturbator?
God is by definition omnicient and infallible. So if god tells you to kill homosexuals (he does!) or when he tells you that pi = 3 or when he tells you that the universe was created in 7 days around 3000 years ago what do you?
1. The Israelites were to kill homosexuals dwelling among them (and sorcerers, rapists, etc). Look up Hebrew civil law and see how it supplements (but does not define) moral law. Sin or not, thou shalt not kill.
2. Pi=3? I assume you refer to the bronze sea. It wasn't perfectly circular, you know. Do you have any idea of the tolerances used in construction in that age, even if it were to be circular? 5% isn't bad.
3. According to young-earth creationism, the universe was created in 6 days around 6000-10000 years ago.
Let's not beat that straw man too hard now.
What makes you assume it was perfectly circular? I don't think that "round all about" requires that.
Yes, slashdot, it's possible to believe in God and science
Of course it is, just don't make the mistake of calling the philosophical doctrine of evolution a science.
That's another unprovable belief for this discussion.
Well, with Cedega (formerly WineX), they basically have... ... which has always puzzeled me. If Cedega implements DirectX and other Win32 libraries, then why does every game that works with it need explicit support? It seems very rare that even an older game will work properly if it's not officially supported by Transgaming. I smell something fishy.
No, it doesn't count. Marching ants on Lasso selects have been in just about every paint program since the ancient Amiga.
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And they have nothing to do with highlighting. All they do is define a boundary, not the area enclosed by said boundary.
Think of what happens when you do a marquee select on a group of files in Windows XP or a recent GNOME file browser. You get a semi-transparent box, as opposed to the hollow rectangle drawn on systems like Win98 (or those newer interfaces, if you turn the eye-candy off)
Hollywood still laughably bases the success of any given movie by its first weekend takings at the box office. But the fact is, due to increased workloads or general apathy, most people wait until a movie has been out for a while before bothering to see it. In many cities even with the theatres running at 100% duty, there just aren't enough hours in the weekend to fit in everybody who wants to watch the latest blockbuster.
:)
I know my movie-going timetable is not based around movie release schedules, but when I feel like going to the movies (the subtle difference between, "I feel like a trip to the movies, what's on this weekend?" and "Hey Movie X is out, let's put down what we're doing and go see it tonight!"). Star Wars movies are the exception to this rule
To say nothing of those who prefer to bypass the cinema entirely and wait for the DVD. And don't get me started on cinema prices these days, hell I could *own* a movie on DVD for the cost of going to see it twice and putting up with out of focus projectors, rustling chip packets and jaffas rolling down the aisles...
Possibly, but introducing money to a project can change the very focus of that project.
You may suddenly find that you're not driven by a desire to make good software, but driven by the pursuit of more money, and that can be a very dangerous position.
For reasons like this, people such as Eric Raymond advocate not funding Free software projects unless it's asked for.