It's not 240hz input. I have recently bought a plasma TV with advertised "600hz". However, the TV accepts up to 60hz input. Where do these x10 frames come into play? In dejuddering. The panel interpolates frames so the motion is smoother. It also helps with 3d content, faster switching between eyes.
A good friend of mine was pulled over by a cop who claimed he was speeding, driving over 100kph in a 50kph zone. This was a *really* old and ran down car so the friend proposed that if the cop can reach 100kph in his car, he'll agree with the ticket. After about 2 minutes of struggling to go over 30kph, with the cop swearing heavily at the car, he gave up on the ticket.
Not that it really means much (and neither is the article), but according to the Steam Hardware & Software Survey, the most common resolution is 1920x1080, by far. Surely this only includes Steam users, generally gamers and desktop users, which care for having a reasonable monitor setup.
I honestly find it easier to scan 132 columns with my eyes rather than 80 columns with my eyes and fingers, having to scroll the text because not enough of it fits on the screen and losing my position. For example, I prefer reading long log lines which fit without wrapping, one event per line, rather than taking up a few lines and having many less lines on the screen.
Today it manifests in the ability to optimize developer time. A script I can today code in 30 minutes and run for 5 minutes is better than an application I had to write 15 years ago that took 4 hours to write, just to be able to run it under an hour of processing.
It allows to developers to focus on developing new features easily, and not wasting time optimizing a 5 second operation to 2 seconds.
Start-menu search is a godsend, rendering the need for menus redundant and slow. It searches through the start menu, control panel (with a TON of synonymous definitions to make stuff easy to find), indexed locations (hardly use that but still). Easy window tiling using the keyboard (winkey-left/right moves the window to the left/right half of the screen), winkey-up/down for maximize/minimize, the ability to drag a maximized window without restoring. A more streamlined taskbar which allows you to move icons around and not waste space on "quick launch". Instant preview on alt-tab both on the alt-tab popup and behind, making other windows transparent. Instant preview on grouped tasks. The Resource Monitor. Volume per application.
Windows 7 works well on a 1.333ghz single core Atom with 1 or 2 GB of memory. I have that on my Netbook. The lowest I've personally seen for Windows 7 was a P3-600mhz laptop with 384mb of RAM. While not particularly fast, it did run and could play StarCraft 1 perfectly on our LAN.
Oblig response. These accusations are retarded in a level that shows how blind these groups are to their cause. I thought their cause was to reduce animals getting hurt. Not pixels on computer monitors.
It's true that using only full-screen applications is bad when you want to cross-use them. That's why the added the ability to tile two applications horizontally, which is what people usually do in these times. I hope though, that they allow further tiling and not limiting it to 2 applications.
"Win7 removed the Quick Launch" What crack you are talking? Win7 took the Mac approach you so love and combined the real-estate for applications you want to launch and applications which are already running. If you want a new instance of an application just right-click (or left-click-drag-up) the icon and run it.
IMHO, the Ribbon is categorized much better than in the previous Office versions. Also, people usually want to apply several actions from the same category before moving to another. For that the Ribbon works great. As for keyboard shortcuts, just hold or tap Alt and you see the shortcut overlayed. It's as simple as that. As for the actual shortcuts being confusing, I agree.
This has already been done to a great extent using the search box in the Start menu. Want to start some application? Just write its name. Want to reach some obscure Control Panel applet? Just write something that has to do with it.
Adding such functionality to controls and menu options can be awesome:)
Ultimately, what you get is an assisted command line interface - quick and expressive.
No. You wouldn't *be* at both places at the same time. The only thing that will happen is that for an outside observer, you would seem to be in both places at the same time, or even be at a closer position before being in the original position. Just if a supersonic airplane was flying your way, you'd first hear the noise from its later position and only after that you'll here the noise from the previous location. This *isn't* time travel, but rather just an illusion.
Not wooshed, but rather washed... By a rather large mass of moving water.
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I feel this is done on purpose to direct attention to it. Previously, it "just was there", as a part of the page. Now they want it to be like an application toolbar - something which lets you select between your apps which appear below it.
I like it quite a bit. Gives a fresh look to the whole Google experience.
In case you weren't trolling, the big mistake is having so many toolbars and file menus. I really like the slick design of Chrome and Firefox. More space for the pages, less space for clutter. The top bar of Google pages has been reserved for ages now. The only difference is that they added added the Notifications and Share buttons.
I've been with you until the part about Doom 3. I've played Doom 3, everything on max, dark room - all the things needed to enjoy a dark atmospheric game.... It was *OK*, but felt a bit boring.
Then I fired up jDoom with a 3d model pack and played it with a friend............... DAMN!! That was FUN. Pure unadulterated fun.
Doom 3 is technically superior, but the old Dooms are just funner... And to be honest, the old monsters were SCARIER and much more vile than the new ones.
Or at least not this horrible piece of consolitis-ridden software. What's up with console ports forcing a 70 degrees FOV? It's too easy to become disoriented and get motion sickness. What's up with only two weapons? It's the friggin' Duke. I want a full spectrum of guns, not just the latest two. What's up with no actual save option? I don't want to play the same easy section again and again just to get stuck in the same hard spot. Regardless, the game is far from polished and not really fun.
Seems like it's the same story as with Doom 3. When it came out, I was playing some jDoom (original wads, high-res and mouse look) and it was a ton more fun than D3.
I hear countless people praising Duke Nukem HD which is a similar case, while the new game is well... agonizingly mediocre.
That is usually done so you don't accidentally skip a cut-scene if you didn't mean to. What could work though is something like "hold button X to skip". In which case you can skip it as you will but won't skip it by mistake.
How about on the right of the currently visible tab itself? This is the tab that interests you right now, so it's intuitive to let it have more space while the other tabs are minimal.
You could even place the URL bar there when double-clicking or ctrl-L-ing. Or go with the Google approach of a bar underneath only when needed.
Why would anyone need a bookmark toolbar? It's easier to just type in a letter or two from the bookmark's name and you get it as a first choice. In Firefox 4 its even easier - Instead of opening the 3-4 sites you normally visit using bookmarks, I just have them open as App Tabs and get live update notifications.
The search bar is even a greater mystery to me. Why do you need to clutter the UI for something you can do from the same address/awesome bar? I just ctrl-L or ctrl-T and type what I want to search for. In actuality I have an address keyword for different searches: g for normal Google search gg for I'm feeling lucky img for images vid for video alpha for Worlfram Alpha dict for dictionary.com and so on..
The trees don't have to be regenerated but rather updated. It's not that difficult with kd-trees. Surely, it's not optimal, but can give reasonable results.
New hardware supports occlusion testing on the GPU. There's a query method to test how many or if any fragments were actually drawn between the beginning of the query and its end. You can then hierarchically draw bounding boxes and only actually draw the geometry you want. Check this out.
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It's not 240hz input. I have recently bought a plasma TV with advertised "600hz". However, the TV accepts up to 60hz input. Where do these x10 frames come into play? In dejuddering. The panel interpolates frames so the motion is smoother.
It also helps with 3d content, faster switching between eyes.
A good friend of mine was pulled over by a cop who claimed he was speeding, driving over 100kph in a 50kph zone.
This was a *really* old and ran down car so the friend proposed that if the cop can reach 100kph in his car, he'll agree with the ticket.
After about 2 minutes of struggling to go over 30kph, with the cop swearing heavily at the car, he gave up on the ticket.
Not that it really means much (and neither is the article), but according to the Steam Hardware & Software Survey, the most common resolution is 1920x1080, by far.
Surely this only includes Steam users, generally gamers and desktop users, which care for having a reasonable monitor setup.
I honestly find it easier to scan 132 columns with my eyes rather than 80 columns with my eyes and fingers, having to scroll the text because not enough of it fits on the screen and losing my position.
For example, I prefer reading long log lines which fit without wrapping, one event per line, rather than taking up a few lines and having many less lines on the screen.
Today it manifests in the ability to optimize developer time.
A script I can today code in 30 minutes and run for 5 minutes is better than an application I had to write 15 years ago that took 4 hours to write, just to be able to run it under an hour of processing.
It allows to developers to focus on developing new features easily, and not wasting time optimizing a 5 second operation to 2 seconds.
Because it's much more user-friendly than XP?
Start-menu search is a godsend, rendering the need for menus redundant and slow. It searches through the start menu, control panel (with a TON of synonymous definitions to make stuff easy to find), indexed locations (hardly use that but still).
Easy window tiling using the keyboard (winkey-left/right moves the window to the left/right half of the screen), winkey-up/down for maximize/minimize, the ability to drag a maximized window without restoring.
A more streamlined taskbar which allows you to move icons around and not waste space on "quick launch".
Instant preview on alt-tab both on the alt-tab popup and behind, making other windows transparent.
Instant preview on grouped tasks.
The Resource Monitor.
Volume per application.
Windows 7 works well on a 1.333ghz single core Atom with 1 or 2 GB of memory. I have that on my Netbook.
The lowest I've personally seen for Windows 7 was a P3-600mhz laptop with 384mb of RAM.
While not particularly fast, it did run and could play StarCraft 1 perfectly on our LAN.
Oblig response.
These accusations are retarded in a level that shows how blind these groups are to their cause. I thought their cause was to reduce animals getting hurt. Not pixels on computer monitors.
It's true that using only full-screen applications is bad when you want to cross-use them.
That's why the added the ability to tile two applications horizontally, which is what people usually do in these times.
I hope though, that they allow further tiling and not limiting it to 2 applications.
In Capitalist USA, Man exploits Man.
In Soviet Russia, Man exploits Man.
"Win7 removed the Quick Launch" What crack you are talking?
Win7 took the Mac approach you so love and combined the real-estate for applications you want to launch and applications which are already running. If you want a new instance of an application just right-click (or left-click-drag-up) the icon and run it.
IMHO, the Ribbon is categorized much better than in the previous Office versions.
Also, people usually want to apply several actions from the same category before moving to another. For that the Ribbon works great.
As for keyboard shortcuts, just hold or tap Alt and you see the shortcut overlayed. It's as simple as that.
As for the actual shortcuts being confusing, I agree.
This has already been done to a great extent using the search box in the Start menu.
Want to start some application? Just write its name.
Want to reach some obscure Control Panel applet? Just write something that has to do with it.
Adding such functionality to controls and menu options can be awesome :)
Ultimately, what you get is an assisted command line interface - quick and expressive.
Not only Microsoft!
It will also force Apple to buy... um... Apple!
Considering it can run on a Voodoo2 (which was released in 1998), I'd say you should stop trying to run games on a toaster...
No. You wouldn't *be* at both places at the same time.
The only thing that will happen is that for an outside observer, you would seem to be in both places at the same time, or even be at a closer position before being in the original position.
Just if a supersonic airplane was flying your way, you'd first hear the noise from its later position and only after that you'll here the noise from the previous location.
This *isn't* time travel, but rather just an illusion.
Not wooshed, but rather washed... By a rather large mass of moving water.
I feel this is done on purpose to direct attention to it.
Previously, it "just was there", as a part of the page. Now they want it to be like an application toolbar - something which lets you select between your apps which appear below it.
I like it quite a bit. Gives a fresh look to the whole Google experience.
In case you weren't trolling, the big mistake is having so many toolbars and file menus. I really like the slick design of Chrome and Firefox. More space for the pages, less space for clutter.
The top bar of Google pages has been reserved for ages now. The only difference is that they added added the Notifications and Share buttons.
I've been with you until the part about Doom 3.
I've played Doom 3, everything on max, dark room - all the things needed to enjoy a dark atmospheric game.... It was *OK*, but felt a bit boring.
Then I fired up jDoom with a 3d model pack and played it with a friend............... DAMN!! That was FUN. Pure unadulterated fun.
Doom 3 is technically superior, but the old Dooms are just funner... And to be honest, the old monsters were SCARIER and much more vile than the new ones.
Or at least not this horrible piece of consolitis-ridden software.
What's up with console ports forcing a 70 degrees FOV? It's too easy to become disoriented and get motion sickness.
What's up with only two weapons? It's the friggin' Duke. I want a full spectrum of guns, not just the latest two.
What's up with no actual save option? I don't want to play the same easy section again and again just to get stuck in the same hard spot.
Regardless, the game is far from polished and not really fun.
Seems like it's the same story as with Doom 3.
When it came out, I was playing some jDoom (original wads, high-res and mouse look) and it was a ton more fun than D3.
I hear countless people praising Duke Nukem HD which is a similar case, while the new game is well... agonizingly mediocre.
That is usually done so you don't accidentally skip a cut-scene if you didn't mean to.
What could work though is something like "hold button X to skip". In which case you can skip it as you will but won't skip it by mistake.
How about on the right of the currently visible tab itself?
This is the tab that interests you right now, so it's intuitive to let it have more space while the other tabs are minimal.
You could even place the URL bar there when double-clicking or ctrl-L-ing.
Or go with the Google approach of a bar underneath only when needed.
Why would anyone need a bookmark toolbar?
It's easier to just type in a letter or two from the bookmark's name and you get it as a first choice.
In Firefox 4 its even easier - Instead of opening the 3-4 sites you normally visit using bookmarks, I just have them open as App Tabs and get live update notifications.
The search bar is even a greater mystery to me. Why do you need to clutter the UI for something you can do from the same address/awesome bar?
I just ctrl-L or ctrl-T and type what I want to search for. In actuality I have an address keyword for different searches:
g for normal Google search
gg for I'm feeling lucky
img for images
vid for video
alpha for Worlfram Alpha
dict for dictionary.com
and so on..
Ya... Like by scrolling to the end of the page where all the answers are, visible to everyone?
The trees don't have to be regenerated but rather updated. It's not that difficult with kd-trees. Surely, it's not optimal, but can give reasonable results.
New hardware supports occlusion testing on the GPU. There's a query method to test how many or if any fragments were actually drawn between the beginning of the query and its end. You can then hierarchically draw bounding boxes and only actually draw the geometry you want.
Check this out.