Specifically, it's the DPI on the retina, not the DPI on the screen. If the image encompasses the same angle at the eyeball, it will look the same size.
And in a movie theater, there's exactly one row that's in this sweet spot for any one retina. For seats closer to the front, the viewer can't see the entire screen in their FOV, so their effective DPI is less (and therefore, the image seems blurred). For seats further back, the viewer can see MORE than the screen in their FOV, so they get reduced detail.
Only if your projectionist can't focus. A home DLP projector has a lens too
Actually, YES, that is part of the problem. Compared to a quality home DLP projector, the glass in a commercial projector is probably in sorry shape, and manned by kids who know absolutely nothing:)
As a circumsized man I have never had any desensitization, I have only once had any issue with going all the way, and I think that had more to do with my emotional and inhebriated state.
One thing I will say though, is make sure you are using an appropriately sized condom. I used to have a much more challenging go at it until I switched to a "large" size condom (Trojan Magnum is my current cover of choice) and I have have had much few issues with application and protection.
If you are experiencing desensitization and having difficult reaching a climax, see your doctor!
Absolutely, I am circumcised, and have no problems with sensation. To be honest, bareback leaves me so sensitive that I have trouble making things last, but with a thin condom I have good sensation and good control, which I like.
You are absolutely right about condom size. I tried-out Lifestyles thins for a bit, but they were too small, and I always felt like I was wrapped in shrinkwrap, and couldn't concentrate on the fun. Then I tried Trojan Ultra-Thins (a bit larger), and they made me a believer. As with all ultra-thin condoms, you have to be careful of breakage, but you can take steps to prevent it (and the extra sensation is worth it).
Oh, and one last suggestion: if sex is lacking in stimulation, you might want to "prime the pump" a little more. A little extra titillation prior to getting it on can make you both more sensitive (and frenzied), which can help.
Movie theaters nowadays use a 1080p or bigger format with an even higher bitrate than Blu-ray Disc. Had you seen the film in a movie theater, might you have noticed the same compositing failures?
Not at all. It's the DPI that determines the visibility of artifacts, not the raw resolution.
A 1080p home screen is much smaller than a massive cinema screen, and thus has much crisper pixels. The same "pixels" seen on a cinema screen have been "analog scaled" via a lens, so the details are lost in scale blur.
The incredibly high DPI of current 1080p screens (especially those in the 35-50" range) is more than any movie watcher will ever need. This is the same reason why I believe that any new consumer HD resolutions beyond 1080p will fall flat - there's absolutely no notable improvement in visual quality with affordable screen sizes.
"A little more speed" ? how a bout a lot more speed ? Putting the OS on a quality SSD gave lots of people immense performance gains....Until the SSD starts to fragment. This drops the amazing read speeds and the write speeds fall into the toilet. Right now, there are solutions, but they're either rare or sketchy.
High-performance SSDs are not ready for prime time yet, not with the general populace. I give it at least two years - this is time for Windows 7 to gain traction in the marketplace, and time for all this TRIM bullshit to get worked-out. Until then, rotational media will still rule.
Except this is not a fix because the new Slashdot discussion system has no equivalent to "Nested" on the old discussion system. I hate reading comments on Slashdot any other way - if I have to click on something while I'm reading a thread of posts, it really annoys me.
If Slashdot drops the old discussion system without creating a Nested mode in the new system, I will stop reading Slashdot, that simple.
But, just because you're athletic doesn't mean you're always working out and brimming-over with energy. I'm in excellent shape, but work is draining, so I still come home tired many nights. Sometimes I just want to veg-out.
On nights when I'm not tired I like to lift weights, and on the weekends I like to play Ultimate Frisbee (really good for cardio). And yes, don't forget sex - it really is a nice workout. But sometimes I come home, and all I want to do is just zone-out on the couch for an hour or two and recover from the workday. A good book or a game where I can sit still is more conductive to this than flailing-about with a Wiimote.
It's hardly surprising to me to note that my DS gets more use than the Wii, precisely for this reason.
You've already made this comment before, and I've already responded, so I'll keep it short and sweet.
If you're using a slow 2.2 GHz Quad core, that's not the fault of the industry, that's the fault of YOU. I have already made it clear that the top-end Core 2 Duo chips would run circles around your P4, but apparently you'd prefer to pretend they don't exist. As for your dog-slow quad core, that was YOUR purchasing decision. You can purchase MUCH FASTERquad cores today for reasonable prices, but apparently you're still suck in the year 2006.
The reason Core 2 / Quad destroys the P4 despite having a slower clock speed: Core 2 ups the Instructions Per Clock versus the Pentium 4. The increase is between %60 and %100 more IPC. If you read my previous response to you on the subject, you'd actually know that, instead of continuing to spout your ignorant bullshit.
And if you can't find a video codec with multiple core support, you're looking in the wrong place. Video decode is one of those embarrassingly-easy things to parallelize, and so your "boast" is really just outing you as a lazy bastard who can't take five seconds to search Google.
Specialist firms will use a laser to read the disks and will copy them for you - for a much larger fee.
It's not all that large, if you take advantage of the fact that almost nobody wants to buy these things. Sure, purchasing a laser turntable costs around 10k, but did you know you can "rent" one for ten days if you put-up a (fully-refundable) 5k deposit?
As far as I can see, the only cost to you would be: * %4 service charge (if you use a credit card). * Lost interest on $5,000 for a month (if you use cash).
It's not discs that are cutting our data lifetimes, it's flash. Flash stores data by isolating a charged gate between dielectrics, but the isolation isn't perfect. The charge bleeds-off over the course of years. The top-end for flash lifetime sitting on the shelf is around 10 years.
If you took the drive off the shelf every few years and re-wrote all the data, that could help, but otherwise you have a VERY limited data lifetime. Compared to magnetic or optical data storage, flash sucks for shelf life.
Exactly. a P4 will NOT struggle browsing. in fact my 3.5ghz single core (no HT enabled) P4 Kicks the crap out of all dualcore gaming rigs. Dualcore and Quadcore is useless for gaming.. raw Ghz is what is needed and my really old computer kicks the crap out of the new stuff in gaming.
No. Take a look at this review here. The EE 965 is 3.73 GHz dual-core, and the Core 2 Duo E6700 is 2.66 GHz. If you extrapolate the results to account for the 1.4 difference in clock speed, the Core 2 Duo E6700 is %65 to %75 faster than the P4, clock-for-clock.
And just in case you don't believe me, you can check the gaming performance, which is single-threaded. When not GPU-limited, the Core 2 is up to %110 faster than the P4 at the same clock speed.
For general use, you would need a 4.4 GHz Pentium 4 to match a Core 2 Duo at 2.66 GHz (not all that fast today).
For gaming, you would need a 5.6 GHz Pentium 4 to match a Core 2 Duo at 2.66 GHz.
For reference, you can get a 2.8 Ghz Core 2 Duo (even faster!) here for just over $100. Not a lot of dough for blistering performance, eh?
P.S. if you are disabling HT on your P4, you are doing yourself a disservice. The I/O latency on the P4 is high, and the branch mispredict penalty is huge. Every time this happens, the P4 HT can switch threads in a single clock tick, while it will otherwise waste dozens of clocks purging the pipeline / waiting on I/O. This is exceptionally good for multitasking, but is also good for newer games that actually use 2 or more threads. Sure, it took a hit in older single-threaded games, but newer games should show a perforance increase with HT enabled.
That's easy - The Peter / Dana relationship was pretty engrossing in the first film, and of course was gone in the second. The chemistry between those two practically held the first film together.
And no, not even the romance of the nerds in Ghostbusters II could make up for that loss.
1. passenger is belted-in securely, and we are traveling at-speed. NO BEEPING. 2. passenger anticipates drop-off, removes safety belt as I brake. BEEPING COMMENCES. 3. passenger exits vehicle, and I accelerate away as quickly as possible. BEEPING CONTINUES. 4. driver gives-up and brings the vehicle to a complete stop for five seconds. BEEPING STOPS.
The problem is, the time spent with the vehicle stopped while the passenger exits doesn't count toward the "reset" time, because most of that time they're still on the seat, and once they're off I want to leave quickly. So long as there is still weight on the seat, nothing short of clicking-in the belt will stop the beeping once it has started.
I agree, bikers should enjoy no such special dispensations. Especially when I hear them cry and whine about helmet laws.
Yes, (1) bikers have a higher rate of accidents than cars, and (2) they enjoy a higher rate of fatalities versus cars.
(1) is an educational problem on both sides. Car drivers don't pay the necessary attention to see and avoid motorcyclists. On the other hand, just as many motorcyclists as car drivers drive irresponsibly. This combination is the reason for the high accident rate.
(2) is endemic to riding a bike at high speeds in mixed traffic. Bikes are inherently less safe compared to cars, as they are less stable (less maneuvering options to avoid an accident), and offer less protection in a collision. The fact that they have to survive mixed traffic just makes surviving a crash even harder.
Oh yeah, today it just beeps at you continuously if it detects someone in the seat, but the belt is not connected.
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP...forever, until you connect the belt. Even if the passenger exits the vehicle, you have to come to a complete stop for several seconds to reset the system (this has been the bane of my existence for quick pickups/dropoffs). BEEP BEEP BEEP...
God help me if any of the intricate sensors in this system should fail. I would normally call something like this an optional fix, but all that beeping guarantees I'll be driving it immediately to the nearest repair shop.
There was the Creative Labs 3D Blaster VLB, which used the 3Dlabs GLint 300SX chipset (AKA, "Gaming GLint"), which was a cut-down single-chip version of their professional GLint chipsets.
That was really the only VLB 3D card. Even the NV1 was PCI.
Not even a good troll, since The Seventh Guest required an SVGA graphics card with 512k to display the full 256-color palette at 640x480. VGA cards fell-back to 16 colors, which looked like crap.
Unfortunately, they screwed up the fuel efficiency when they went to the new design as well, but if you don't mind buying used it's definitely worth a test drive.
Don't pay attention to the poor COMBINED gas mileage numbers for the new xB, they're off. I get 27MPG COMBINED in my 2008 xB, according to the onboard computer (and in-exchange for that I get power you could only dream of). I'm an aggressive driver, and I wasn't satisfied with the piddly engine on the old xB, so I was delighted when I drove the 2008-model.
If you're not a spirited driver, you'll like the old model. If you like solid acceleration, you'll like the new model. I do agree that they should have considered keeping both trim-levels, but then you have to consider the number-of-models-versus-sales trade-offs Scion is forced to make: they don't sell a whole lot of cars, so they can only afford so many different models.
Except that most community slips start at (high) hundreds of dollars per-year, and popular locations can run you thousands of dollars per-year. The fact is, there is limited marina space keeping in-water storage prices high, so if your boat is of the portable size, it's likely cheaper to keep it at home. This goes double if you already have reasons for owning a pickup truck.
When you can purchase a used 15-20' sailboat for under $2000, it's outrageous to think you'd spend that much yearly just to store it. Most people don't have that kind of money for a hobby.
Hello ? I've just been to DELL and selected their middle-of-the-range desktop with all defaults. It does run a quad-core but with only 3G of RAM and Vista-32 family edition. 3GB is the sweet spot for vista32. Few will want to pay more for the 64-bit version.
Okay, but Dell is hardly the only player in the industry (nor are they the largest player). HP (the largest by-far) is selling nothing but 64-bit Vista and 4GB ram for all their mid-range desktops (try pricing a base m9500z, they will not offer you a 32-bit version of Vista, and they will give you a "free" upgrade to 4GB). Their lowest-end desktop ($279) has 2GB of RAM and 32-bit Vista, so they're just waiting for the next RAM process shrink to make the final jump across the entire product range.
The mass-market desktop in 2009 runs Vista 64 with 4GB. In 2010, virtually all desktops will run with 4GB+ and Windows 7 64. The 64-bit transition will go over without massive user uproar or cataclysmic upheaval, simply because it still does 32-bit quite well.
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Specifically, it's the DPI on the retina, not the DPI on the screen. If the image encompasses the same angle at the eyeball, it will look the same size.
And in a movie theater, there's exactly one row that's in this sweet spot for any one retina. For seats closer to the front, the viewer can't see the entire screen in their FOV, so their effective DPI is less (and therefore, the image seems blurred). For seats further back, the viewer can see MORE than the screen in their FOV, so they get reduced detail.
Only if your projectionist can't focus. A home DLP projector has a lens too
Actually, YES, that is part of the problem. Compared to a quality home DLP projector, the glass in a commercial projector is probably in sorry shape, and manned by kids who know absolutely nothing :)
As a circumsized man I have never had any desensitization, I have only once had any issue with going all the way, and I think that had more to do with my emotional and inhebriated state.
One thing I will say though, is make sure you are using an appropriately sized condom. I used to have a much more challenging go at it until I switched to a "large" size condom (Trojan Magnum is my current cover of choice) and I have have had much few issues with application and protection.
If you are experiencing desensitization and having difficult reaching a climax, see your doctor!
Absolutely, I am circumcised, and have no problems with sensation. To be honest, bareback leaves me so sensitive that I have trouble making things last, but with a thin condom I have good sensation and good control, which I like.
You are absolutely right about condom size. I tried-out Lifestyles thins for a bit, but they were too small, and I always felt like I was wrapped in shrinkwrap, and couldn't concentrate on the fun. Then I tried Trojan Ultra-Thins (a bit larger), and they made me a believer. As with all ultra-thin condoms, you have to be careful of breakage, but you can take steps to prevent it (and the extra sensation is worth it).
Oh, and one last suggestion: if sex is lacking in stimulation, you might want to "prime the pump" a little more. A little extra titillation prior to getting it on can make you both more sensitive (and frenzied), which can help.
Movie theaters nowadays use a 1080p or bigger format with an even higher bitrate than Blu-ray Disc. Had you seen the film in a movie theater, might you have noticed the same compositing failures?
Not at all. It's the DPI that determines the visibility of artifacts, not the raw resolution.
A 1080p home screen is much smaller than a massive cinema screen, and thus has much crisper pixels. The same "pixels" seen on a cinema screen have been "analog scaled" via a lens, so the details are lost in scale blur.
The incredibly high DPI of current 1080p screens (especially those in the 35-50" range) is more than any movie watcher will ever need. This is the same reason why I believe that any new consumer HD resolutions beyond 1080p will fall flat - there's absolutely no notable improvement in visual quality with affordable screen sizes.
"A little more speed" ? how a bout a lot more speed ? Putting the OS on a quality SSD gave lots of people immense performance gains. ...Until the SSD starts to fragment. This drops the amazing read speeds and the write speeds fall into the toilet. Right now, there are solutions, but they're either rare or sketchy.
High-performance SSDs are not ready for prime time yet, not with the general populace. I give it at least two years - this is time for Windows 7 to gain traction in the marketplace, and time for all this TRIM bullshit to get worked-out. Until then, rotational media will still rule.
Except this is not a fix because the new Slashdot discussion system has no equivalent to "Nested" on the old discussion system. I hate reading comments on Slashdot any other way - if I have to click on something while I'm reading a thread of posts, it really annoys me.
If Slashdot drops the old discussion system without creating a Nested mode in the new system, I will stop reading Slashdot, that simple.
Just shoot them all so we get rid of all the noise pollution! Damn jumbo jets keep me up at night, and damn birds wake me up in the morning!
Hey Charlie, where have you been lately? The Inq has been boring without you.
Or On A Boat, perhaps?
But, just because you're athletic doesn't mean you're always working out and brimming-over with energy. I'm in excellent shape, but work is draining, so I still come home tired many nights. Sometimes I just want to veg-out.
On nights when I'm not tired I like to lift weights, and on the weekends I like to play Ultimate Frisbee (really good for cardio). And yes, don't forget sex - it really is a nice workout. But sometimes I come home, and all I want to do is just zone-out on the couch for an hour or two and recover from the workday. A good book or a game where I can sit still is more conductive to this than flailing-about with a Wiimote.
It's hardly surprising to me to note that my DS gets more use than the Wii, precisely for this reason.
You've already made this comment before, and I've already responded, so I'll keep it short and sweet.
If you're using a slow 2.2 GHz Quad core, that's not the fault of the industry, that's the fault of YOU. I have already made it clear that the top-end Core 2 Duo chips would run circles around your P4, but apparently you'd prefer to pretend they don't exist. As for your dog-slow quad core, that was YOUR purchasing decision. You can purchase MUCH FASTER quad cores today for reasonable prices, but apparently you're still suck in the year 2006.
The reason Core 2 / Quad destroys the P4 despite having a slower clock speed: Core 2 ups the Instructions Per Clock versus the Pentium 4. The increase is between %60 and %100 more IPC. If you read my previous response to you on the subject, you'd actually know that, instead of continuing to spout your ignorant bullshit.
And if you can't find a video codec with multiple core support, you're looking in the wrong place. Video decode is one of those embarrassingly-easy things to parallelize, and so your "boast" is really just outing you as a lazy bastard who can't take five seconds to search Google.
Yup, SATA 3.0 plus USB 3 are both going to be released in-bulk soon. I'd definitely buy a system with these blazing new I/O options.
More on the Corning lasers here.
From the article: they want 100 mW devices?!?
How exactly are we supposed to use these safely without eye protection? You can cause eye damage with much less power.
Specialist firms will use a laser to read the disks and will copy them for you - for a much larger fee.
It's not all that large, if you take advantage of the fact that almost nobody wants to buy these things. Sure, purchasing a laser turntable costs around 10k, but did you know you can "rent" one for ten days if you put-up a (fully-refundable) 5k deposit?
As far as I can see, the only cost to you would be:
* %4 service charge (if you use a credit card).
* Lost interest on $5,000 for a month (if you use cash).
Not a bad price for archiving your vinyl library.
It's not discs that are cutting our data lifetimes, it's flash. Flash stores data by isolating a charged gate between dielectrics, but the isolation isn't perfect. The charge bleeds-off over the course of years. The top-end for flash lifetime sitting on the shelf is around 10 years.
If you took the drive off the shelf every few years and re-wrote all the data, that could help, but otherwise you have a VERY limited data lifetime. Compared to magnetic or optical data storage, flash sucks for shelf life.
Exactly. a P4 will NOT struggle browsing. in fact my 3.5ghz single core (no HT enabled) P4 Kicks the crap out of all dualcore gaming rigs. Dualcore and Quadcore is useless for gaming.. raw Ghz is what is needed and my really old computer kicks the crap out of the new stuff in gaming.
No. Take a look at this review here. The EE 965 is 3.73 GHz dual-core, and the Core 2 Duo E6700 is 2.66 GHz. If you extrapolate the results to account for the 1.4 difference in clock speed, the Core 2 Duo E6700 is %65 to %75 faster than the P4, clock-for-clock.
And just in case you don't believe me, you can check the gaming performance, which is single-threaded. When not GPU-limited, the Core 2 is up to %110 faster than the P4 at the same clock speed.
For general use, you would need a 4.4 GHz Pentium 4 to match a Core 2 Duo at 2.66 GHz (not all that fast today).
For gaming, you would need a 5.6 GHz Pentium 4 to match a Core 2 Duo at 2.66 GHz.
For reference, you can get a 2.8 Ghz Core 2 Duo (even faster!) here for just over $100. Not a lot of dough for blistering performance, eh?
P.S. if you are disabling HT on your P4, you are doing yourself a disservice. The I/O latency on the P4 is high, and the branch mispredict penalty is huge. Every time this happens, the P4 HT can switch threads in a single clock tick, while it will otherwise waste dozens of clocks purging the pipeline / waiting on I/O. This is exceptionally good for multitasking, but is also good for newer games that actually use 2 or more threads. Sure, it took a hit in older single-threaded games, but newer games should show a perforance increase with HT enabled.
That's easy - The Peter / Dana relationship was pretty engrossing in the first film, and of course was gone in the second. The chemistry between those two practically held the first film together.
And no, not even the romance of the nerds in Ghostbusters II could make up for that loss.
and Rob Schneider?
Can he play...The Stapler? ...Rated PG-13
No, but it did involve a not-so-slick scientist hitting on a strong-but-hot young thing. That's not going to work if they're both 60.
Actually, that's one of the reasons Ghostbusters 2 was marginal - they completely lost this dynamic.
Allow me to explain:
DROP-OFF
1. passenger is belted-in securely, and we are traveling at-speed. NO BEEPING.
2. passenger anticipates drop-off, removes safety belt as I brake. BEEPING COMMENCES.
3. passenger exits vehicle, and I accelerate away as quickly as possible. BEEPING CONTINUES.
4. driver gives-up and brings the vehicle to a complete stop for five seconds. BEEPING STOPS.
The problem is, the time spent with the vehicle stopped while the passenger exits doesn't count toward the "reset" time, because most of that time they're still on the seat, and once they're off I want to leave quickly. So long as there is still weight on the seat, nothing short of clicking-in the belt will stop the beeping once it has started.
I agree, bikers should enjoy no such special dispensations. Especially when I hear them cry and whine about helmet laws.
Yes, (1) bikers have a higher rate of accidents than cars, and (2) they enjoy a higher rate of fatalities versus cars.
(1) is an educational problem on both sides. Car drivers don't pay the necessary attention to see and avoid motorcyclists. On the other hand, just as many motorcyclists as car drivers drive irresponsibly. This combination is the reason for the high accident rate.
(2) is endemic to riding a bike at high speeds in mixed traffic. Bikes are inherently less safe compared to cars, as they are less stable (less maneuvering options to avoid an accident), and offer less protection in a collision. The fact that they have to survive mixed traffic just makes surviving a crash even harder.
Oh yeah, today it just beeps at you continuously if it detects someone in the seat, but the belt is not connected.
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP...forever, until you connect the belt. Even if the passenger exits the vehicle, you have to come to a complete stop for several seconds to reset the system (this has been the bane of my existence for quick pickups/dropoffs). BEEP BEEP BEEP...
God help me if any of the intricate sensors in this system should fail. I would normally call something like this an optional fix, but all that beeping guarantees I'll be driving it immediately to the nearest repair shop.
There was the Creative Labs 3D Blaster VLB, which used the 3Dlabs GLint 300SX chipset (AKA, "Gaming GLint"), which was a cut-down single-chip version of their professional GLint chipsets.
That was really the only VLB 3D card. Even the NV1 was PCI.
Not even a good troll, since The Seventh Guest required an SVGA graphics card with 512k to display the full 256-color palette at 640x480. VGA cards fell-back to 16 colors, which looked like crap.
And yeah, I've played it on both.
Unfortunately, they screwed up the fuel efficiency when they went to the new design as well, but if you don't mind buying used it's definitely worth a test drive.
Don't pay attention to the poor COMBINED gas mileage numbers for the new xB, they're off. I get 27MPG COMBINED in my 2008 xB, according to the onboard computer (and in-exchange for that I get power you could only dream of). I'm an aggressive driver, and I wasn't satisfied with the piddly engine on the old xB, so I was delighted when I drove the 2008-model.
If you're not a spirited driver, you'll like the old model. If you like solid acceleration, you'll like the new model. I do agree that they should have considered keeping both trim-levels, but then you have to consider the number-of-models-versus-sales trade-offs Scion is forced to make: they don't sell a whole lot of cars, so they can only afford so many different models.
Except that most community slips start at (high) hundreds of dollars per-year, and popular locations can run you thousands of dollars per-year. The fact is, there is limited marina space keeping in-water storage prices high, so if your boat is of the portable size, it's likely cheaper to keep it at home. This goes double if you already have reasons for owning a pickup truck.
When you can purchase a used 15-20' sailboat for under $2000, it's outrageous to think you'd spend that much yearly just to store it. Most people don't have that kind of money for a hobby.
Hello ? I've just been to DELL and selected their middle-of-the-range desktop with all defaults. It does run a quad-core but with only 3G of RAM and Vista-32 family edition. 3GB is the sweet spot for vista32. Few will want to pay more for the 64-bit version.
Okay, but Dell is hardly the only player in the industry (nor are they the largest player). HP (the largest by-far) is selling nothing but 64-bit Vista and 4GB ram for all their mid-range desktops (try pricing a base m9500z, they will not offer you a 32-bit version of Vista, and they will give you a "free" upgrade to 4GB). Their lowest-end desktop ($279) has 2GB of RAM and 32-bit Vista, so they're just waiting for the next RAM process shrink to make the final jump across the entire product range.
The mass-market desktop in 2009 runs Vista 64 with 4GB. In 2010, virtually all desktops will run with 4GB+ and Windows 7 64. The 64-bit transition will go over without massive user uproar or cataclysmic upheaval, simply because it still does 32-bit quite well.