The only reason you are "seeing" a difference, is because the 30fps is interlaced. It is displaying only half the samples in the horizontal direction per field. The human eye has to integrate out aliasing effects per field, to see the full resolution of the picture. This aliasing is the interline twitter we have all seen. The eye has to try and filter out the 30-cycle flicker between the two fields. In order to save bandwidth, it was decided to refresh alternately the odd lines and the even lines. This means that for a given signal bandwidth the number of pixels in an interlaced standard will be twice the number of pixels of a progressively scanned system, resulting in good static resolution but poorer temporal resolution. The flicker perception of the human eye demands a refresh rate of at least 60 times per second to prevent flicker.
The eye is not seeing a difference, it is what the brain interperets.
Between 30 and 60fps the human eye can not see the difference, this means that if you display 60 different frames per second you can only see the difference between half of them. The ONLY reason to have more than 30 fps, is if you come into a graphic intensive area, it gives you more room above 30fps, thus you can stay at a lifelike playing level, even in heavy graphics.
What you feel is right is the only thing that matters... the rest is just hype.
I just don't understand how there will be more of a story out of "matrix". Neo is a god of his world.. he is the "one" how can there be anything else to extrapolate from this story.
Unless maybe the movie didn't tell us everything the first time, or things were left out intentionally to make profit on these additional matrices.
Movie producers wouldn't do that... would they?
IDE to SCSI Converters?
Posted by Cliff on 04:55 AM October 3rd, 2002
from the how-well-do-they-work dept.
ericdano asks: "Addonics has announced a pair of SCSI solutions, which convert common ATAPI devices and IDE hard drives to high-speed SCSI devices on all Windows, Macintosh, and Linux-based computers: the IDE-SCSI converter ($100) for hard drives and the ATAPI-SCSI converter ($110) for ATAPI-based CDRW, DVD-R/RW, DVD-ROM or CD-ROMs. The company has also announced a high-performance single-channel Ultra160 SCSI PCI host controller ($170) with 160MB/sec. data throughput. How safe are these products?"
"Because it is Microsoft! Gees, you call yourself a slashdot reader?"
Please.. You haven't tried the recognition. I too was skeptical, but didn't knock it until I tried it myself. You "real slashdotters" need to lighten up and recognize that the world doesnt revolve arround linux, or yourself. Under any other name, this product would be cool to you, but because it's labeled Microsoft, you become intolerent.
Im sorry I don't pride myself on hating microsoft. I don't remember that being the *point* of slashdot.
"Sorry to say But, it looks really cool to me"
Thats really unfourtunate that the/. community is turning into a type of religion... making you feel guilty for enjoying a Microsoft product.
Some of you say: "linux can compete with the tablet" ofcourse they can... but at this time.. Tablet PC is currently the only major product of its type.
Find me a better laptop that swivels and is equipped with a digitizer. You won't be able to.
No.
The software is not "learning" your handwriting. They found that by learning.. it ended up causing even worse recognition. Instead of "learning", Microsoft bought code from to companies that were working on this type of OCR, and combined their own code with them.
I personally tried writting on one of these using the prodigal "Hello World" and it converted it to text very quickly. Then I wrote it again, but also adding twitching into the words... It still was able to read it. Very powerful software.
It is a huge misconception that the deaf can read lips, when only 30% of what is said is visible on the lips, the rest has to be guessed. Now imagine them trying to decifer the text on "Virtual" lips.
"built in camera so you can capture all those special moments."
well i noticed the camera only points at the user, so what special moments will this camera capture?...ahh. nevermind
This brings to attention.... when our backbones fail... what do we do? Whens the last time a major internet problem (other than a DoS) caused a large outage? What precautions are there to backup a backbone?
"I just saw at www.slashdot.org (an intersting news site) that it was
announced at Comdex that Windows NT 5.0 won't be shipping until 1999. I
find that sort of amusing. Linux will probably be at revision 3.0 by then;) Seriously though. Often when I complain about a NT4.0 "feature" I get
told "just wait 5.0 will have that fixed and more..." but I guess MS is
falling behind...
Vince"
well, i think it helps because the "clicks" don't always register with windows.. so I need an audible sound of recognision so i KNOW that windows has accepted the click... otherwise im sitting here waiting for nothing because it didnt figure out that I clicked the mouse.
Slashdot Mirror
has an old buggy, insecure XMB 1.6 - Magic Lantern board if anyone wants a board to "test"
http://gooogle.searchking.com/googleBcool/
Why would I need to search for another search engine ON A SEARCH ENGINE?
Anyone else notice this site is the "GeoURL InterContinental Ballistic Missile Address Server"
If anyone wants to "Pirate" eBooks, then it may be for the better. Hopefully pirating eBooks can spark reading, the way that mp3s sparked music.
People will read again!
The only reason you are "seeing" a difference, is because the 30fps is interlaced. It is displaying only half the samples in the horizontal direction per field. The human eye has to integrate out aliasing effects per field, to see the full resolution of the picture. This aliasing is the interline twitter we have all seen. The eye has to try and filter out the 30-cycle flicker between the two fields. In order to save bandwidth, it was decided to refresh alternately the odd lines and the even lines. This means that for a given signal bandwidth the number of pixels in an interlaced standard will be twice the number of pixels of a progressively scanned system, resulting in good static resolution but poorer temporal resolution. The flicker perception of the human eye demands a refresh rate of at least 60 times per second to prevent flicker.
The eye is not seeing a difference, it is what the brain interperets.
Between 30 and 60fps the human eye can not see the difference, this means that if you display 60 different frames per second you can only see the difference between half of them. The ONLY reason to have more than 30 fps, is if you come into a graphic intensive area, it gives you more room above 30fps, thus you can stay at a lifelike playing level, even in heavy graphics.
What you feel is right is the only thing that matters... the rest is just hype.
I just don't understand how there will be more of a story out of "matrix". Neo is a god of his world.. he is the "one" how can there be anything else to extrapolate from this story. Unless maybe the movie didn't tell us everything the first time, or things were left out intentionally to make profit on these additional matrices. Movie producers wouldn't do that... would they?
IDE to SCSI Converters?
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Posted by Cliff on 04:55 AM October 3rd, 2002 from the how-well-do-they-work dept.
ericdano asks: "Addonics has announced a pair of SCSI solutions, which convert common ATAPI devices and IDE hard drives to high-speed SCSI devices on all Windows, Macintosh, and Linux-based computers: the IDE-SCSI converter ($100) for hard drives and the ATAPI-SCSI converter ($110) for ATAPI-based CDRW, DVD-R/RW, DVD-ROM or CD-ROMs. The company has also announced a high-performance single-channel Ultra160 SCSI PCI host controller ($170) with 160MB/sec. data throughput. How safe are these products?"
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/03/0
"Because it is Microsoft! Gees, you call yourself a slashdot reader?" Please.. You haven't tried the recognition. I too was skeptical, but didn't knock it until I tried it myself. You "real slashdotters" need to lighten up and recognize that the world doesnt revolve arround linux, or yourself. Under any other name, this product would be cool to you, but because it's labeled Microsoft, you become intolerent. Im sorry I don't pride myself on hating microsoft. I don't remember that being the *point* of slashdot.
Okay.. whats your reason?
Well, its just another Tablet PC for the rest of us.
"Sorry to say But, it looks really cool to me" Thats really unfourtunate that the /. community is turning into a type of religion... making you feel guilty for enjoying a Microsoft product.
Some of you say: "linux can compete with the tablet" ofcourse they can... but at this time.. Tablet PC is currently the only major product of its type.
Find me a better laptop that swivels and is equipped with a digitizer. You won't be able to.
No. The software is not "learning" your handwriting. They found that by learning.. it ended up causing even worse recognition. Instead of "learning", Microsoft bought code from to companies that were working on this type of OCR, and combined their own code with them. I personally tried writting on one of these using the prodigal "Hello World" and it converted it to text very quickly. Then I wrote it again, but also adding twitching into the words... It still was able to read it. Very powerful software.
It is a huge misconception that the deaf can read lips, when only 30% of what is said is visible on the lips, the rest has to be guessed. Now imagine them trying to decifer the text on "Virtual" lips.
Considering the script is in .gif form... these aren't going to be able to translate anything.
With the influx of the library/patriot act stories on slashdot lately, im begining to think most of the readers are old, cranky, librarians.
i need to spend more time reading the article, and less time trying to be funny.
"built in camera so you can capture all those special moments." well i noticed the camera only points at the user, so what special moments will this camera capture? ...ahh. nevermind
This brings to attention.... when our backbones fail... what do we do? Whens the last time a major internet problem (other than a DoS) caused a large outage? What precautions are there to backup a backbone?
im glad they added the "feature" to "improve" their "network"
First mention of slashdot in usenet 1997/11/18:
;) Seriously though. Often when I complain about a NT4.0 "feature" I get
told "just wait 5.0 will have that fixed and more..." but I guess MS is
falling behind...
"I just saw at www.slashdot.org (an intersting news site) that it was announced at Comdex that Windows NT 5.0 won't be shipping until 1999. I find that sort of amusing. Linux will probably be at revision 3.0 by then
Vince"
Link!
it only goes back to Dec 20, 1997
s lashdot.org/
http://web.archive.org/web/19971221012817/http://
well, i think it helps because the "clicks" don't always register with windows.. so I need an audible sound of recognision so i KNOW that windows has accepted the click... otherwise im sitting here waiting for nothing because it didnt figure out that I clicked the mouse.
yeah, they are just introducing those into the market..
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