I'll take lower spatial resolution for more temporal resolution, thanks.
You might not recall that the original Doom engine was frame-rate locked to, you guessed it, 30fps. When the code was released and tweaked engines came out that barrier was quickly lifted and the game became much better.
...which is why we are okay with 24 & 30 fps for movies/videos.
No we aren't. While static or slightly moving elements such as people look passable at 24fps I have never, NEVER seen a pan or tilt at that frame rate that didn't blur into a juddery mess. Yet those exact same movies looked absolutely beautiful when the DVD was played through a 100Hz motion-interpolating TV. Why? Because the motion detection created the missing frames and produced an effective 50fps experience.
The main objection to high frame rate motion is one of conditioning: people are used to seeing low-budget TV shows shot at 50 or 60 interlaced fields per second, giving an effective temporal resolution of 50 or 60fps. The horrible stop-start 24fps motion has come to be associated with high-budget cinema. Therefore when they see a smoother frame rate in a cinema and they perceive it as cheap but don't know why. Ref: the Soap Opera effect.
The same thing happened with talkies, colour film and the demise of film grain.
This is news for nerds, and great to see old line-of-sight wireless technology being used.
However are there any redeemable features of this HFT role? Because I struggle to find any description for High-Frequency Trader that is more polite than "parasitic scum that contributes nothing to society". Most jobs at least make some positive contribution to society as a whole in exchange for wages. These guys spend their days finding ways to exploit society.
Is that true today? When you take your new iPad out of the box do you no longer get a message demanding you connect it to an iTunes-capable PC/Mac before shutting itself off?
Yes, I saw the bit where you wrote "to answer your question" and then failed to do so.
However your latest post has answered it fairly clearly and confirmed what I had suspected earlier - that you have no idea what you are talking about. Footsoldiers and leadership, indeed.
So I merely offer my apologies. I had hoped to engage in a rational debate with someone capable of critical thought. Unfortunately you do not yet qualify.
Nowhere in your above tangential assumption-heavy ramblings did I see an answer to my question, so I will rephrase it slightly in case you managed to miss it:
Do you believe that people who claim life begins at conception (one "pro-life" position) do so out of a desire to oppress women?
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And yet their x86 packages and media are labelled i386. I suspect it's time for an update.
Even Fedora use i686 these days.
I'll take lower spatial resolution for more temporal resolution, thanks.
You might not recall that the original Doom engine was frame-rate locked to, you guessed it, 30fps. When the code was released and tweaked engines came out that barrier was quickly lifted and the game became much better.
I'll go back to my Sega consoles now.
...which is why we are okay with 24 & 30 fps for movies/videos.
No we aren't. While static or slightly moving elements such as people look passable at 24fps I have never, NEVER seen a pan or tilt at that frame rate that didn't blur into a juddery mess. Yet those exact same movies looked absolutely beautiful when the DVD was played through a 100Hz motion-interpolating TV. Why? Because the motion detection created the missing frames and produced an effective 50fps experience.
The main objection to high frame rate motion is one of conditioning: people are used to seeing low-budget TV shows shot at 50 or 60 interlaced fields per second, giving an effective temporal resolution of 50 or 60fps. The horrible stop-start 24fps motion has come to be associated with high-budget cinema. Therefore when they see a smoother frame rate in a cinema and they perceive it as cheap but don't know why. Ref: the Soap Opera effect.
The same thing happened with talkies, colour film and the demise of film grain.
This is news for nerds, and great to see old line-of-sight wireless technology being used.
However are there any redeemable features of this HFT role? Because I struggle to find any description for High-Frequency Trader that is more polite than "parasitic scum that contributes nothing to society". Most jobs at least make some positive contribution to society as a whole in exchange for wages. These guys spend their days finding ways to exploit society.
Cool, it sounds like you're not suited for your job. Kindly step aside to make room for someone else. Thanks.
Easy - it's not Google.
As in: Bing Is Not Google.
Isn't that that search engine that nobody uses, except characters in Hollywood action movies?
Yes, I know. I was being deliberately obtuse, merely as a light-hearted jab at the US-centric nature of Slashdot.
... play a high adrenalin, high stakes game
Apt choice of words there.
Which government predicts this? China?
Yeah I think you'll find he never actually sees your latter posts, and has a simple script automatically replying for him now.
Is that true today? When you take your new iPad out of the box do you no longer get a message demanding you connect it to an iTunes-capable PC/Mac before shutting itself off?
I wasn't aware electrotherapy was in common use in 2000AD?
But I'd be on Mars.... Did you push your life to the limits? Did you live up to your potential?
I'm sure your kids would take great comfort from that in their counselling sessions.
Not to sound snarky and I agree with nearly all of your post, but being a father to your kids is your most important job at present.
Yes, I saw the bit where you wrote "to answer your question" and then failed to do so.
However your latest post has answered it fairly clearly and confirmed what I had suspected earlier - that you have no idea what you are talking about. Footsoldiers and leadership, indeed.
So I merely offer my apologies. I had hoped to engage in a rational debate with someone capable of critical thought. Unfortunately you do not yet qualify.
Nowhere in your above tangential assumption-heavy ramblings did I see an answer to my question, so I will rephrase it slightly in case you managed to miss it:
Do you believe that people who claim life begins at conception (one "pro-life" position) do so out of a desire to oppress women?
Pretending life begins at some point in pregnancy is just hand-waving designed to repress women...
I'm curious - are you merely regurgitating what you have heard somewhere else or do you actually believe that?
Okay perhaps the dollar bill has outlived its usefulness, I don't know.
But what savings could be gained by doing away with the useless penny?
also the moon.
This should lead to another patch for the all-important Tricorder app.
Thank you Richard for your massive contributions to the software world.
My question is:
Did you ever get that printer in the AI lab working?
What clowns thought that giving Microsoft, I mean, Microsoft, the keys to PC bootloader was a good idea?
Erasing is part of the writing process, unless you're only refreshing existing contents.
I assume you voted third party then, as any responsible American should have done?
The Black Hole gave me nightmares as a little kid (Max's spinning blades killing that guy). I've always seen it as really dark almost-horror film.
So it's not just me... good to know.
That, and the big dog in The Neverending Story.