Then why are 3rd party games running at 1080p60 instead of 720p30 like they are on the PS3 / 360 ?
Even 720p30 is stretching the truth for the XBox 360. I play Halo with my son in splitscreen, and boy is it pixellated. It appears to be upscaled from something less than 720 lines, does NOT fill the width of the screen, and seems to have no anti-aliasing. Nor does it hold a steady 30 fps.
Maybe not all 360 games are like this, but it is a flagship game after all.
So there's a lot of room for improvement even at 720p. I feel the next gen is way overdue, although I won't be running out to buy one if it releases at the same price point as the PS3 did, whereas $300 for the U is a decent launch price.
I dunno. The electronics markets with super-low prices used to be legend here in the US. But I think that gradient was dissipated through the vast expansion of asian imports in the 00's. When I stopped by the Guang Hua Digital Plaza in Taiwan, really, it felt a lot like ebay. Or there is Harbor Freight, which is an unabashed Chinese tool shop right in your neighborhood, with low-to-moderate quality stuff for very low prices.
when shipping across the planet it is much more efficient to ship a pallet load of CDs (or more likely a shipping container full of pallets of CDs) then it is to ship the same quantity individually wrapped and addressed.
Not so much as in the past. It amazes me that I can buy trivial things on ebay from Hong Kong to my home in the southwest US for as little as $3.50 including shipping. It seems to me that all the routers from there to here (and I mean, physically routing packages), must be highly automated and efficient to make this economically feasible. So the value of retailers and their warehouses has gone down a lot.
"The Right Stuff" aside, why? Only moderate amounts of exercise are required to minimize disease. Living under house arrest at 0G it's hard to see the relevance of being able to bench 300 earth-pounds or run a 5 minute mile. Perhaps excessive exercise would just be a waste of food.
I don't care about the candy either and run fvwm on Ubuntu. But it's a hack, because more and more the graphical desktop is tied into things like mounting removable media and hardware administration GUIs. So, my wife and kids can't use USB sticks or check the printer queue any more. Sure, with enough effort I can hack around all that, but it amounts to maintaining a mini-distro.
Forward error correction is a pretty basic principle in encoding and has been used nearly since "the beginning" in the 1940s. They're used in several places up and down the protocol stack; WiMax uses Reed-Solomon coding, for example. But I guess this implementation uses a better algorithm at a different level in the stack.
I see what you're saying, but look how easily you can maim yourself with any power-tool - just touch the blade while it's running. Or a car: just turn the wheel 15 degrees in either direction into oncoming traffic.
That said, most of us aren't old enough to remember, but it took about a hundred years during the industrial revolution to make common machines (from farm equipment to sewing machines to water heaters) safe enough that people weren't killed or maimed on a pretty steady basis. Invent a new machine, and you're back on that learning curve (ouch!)
Perhaps the best solution is for scientists to be more careful with language, as they are amongst themselves, and NOT try to communicate with people lacking the intelligence or education to understand what they are saying (such as the person you responded to). If they had said something like, "the base risk on a daily basis is 1e-6 and there is no evidence for an elevated risk assessment at present" they probably would have been better off, since nobody would have bothered to listen.
For the highest levels of assurance, per the ISO/IEC 15408, there must be mathematical proofs that the implementation conforms to a mathematical model of security. If done this way, it doesn't matter that "any computer powerful enough to be interesting is powerful enough to do [other things]".
That's called "trying to define the problem away." The point is that the mathematical model of security will never capture all of the users' security needs because the basic objectives (e.g. "privacy") are not well-defined nor objective.
Besides, some of the most practically useful security techniques are not mathematically proven. There is no proof that the basis of encryption (integer factorization) is NP-complete. There is no mathematical proof that tamper-resistant chips or devices are effective, yet in practice cable companies use them for a reason.
Yeah, I think there's a sort of analogue to Godel's incompleteness theorems here, in that any computer powerful enough to be interesting is powerful enough to do things that some stakeholder didn't want and will consider an "exploit." Of course "exploit" is fundamentally a subjective label, so of course it can't be "solved," outside some more formal definition of "exploit" that will inevitably fall short of people's wishes.
It is absurdly out of hand. I noticed the other day when my 14-year-old fired up the XBox it hit him with another "Notice of Change to EULA" (which he of course ignored).
The whole libertarian notion of mutual consent has become a complete farce. How could we have known 6 years ago when we bought this thing how much to pay for it, based on changes they would make far in the future, churned out by a team of lawyers so productive we'd never even have time to read it, even if we had the legal background to do so? Again, this is a legal sham.
No, seriously. Here is the email I received from PayPal on 10/10/2012 at 1am:
Notice of Policy Updates
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They are just taking it away from you, running it through an expensive bureaucracy, and then handing back 1/4 of what they took
There's no point trying to have this discussion with made-up numbers. The question is whether government administration in a given sector is more or less effective and efficient than private industry, so it's all about the numbers. And not just "golly that number sounds too big!"-type numbers (which is how many people comprehend medicare fraud, for example), but how those numbers compare to the alternative.
The quote from the unnamed Foxconn source is interesting, if true. (Good luck swapping the hard drive (flash) or battery like I have with my 80GB iPod!)
But this story has so much "attitude" it's unpleasant to get through.
I'm curious about the new packet filter. First, I'd like to see benchmarks on performance due to multi-core use (it certainly seems like a good idea).
And second, because I've hated every packet filter I ever used (tried to use) - ipfwadm, iptables, ipchains, ipfw, tc, lartc. Hate 'em.
Well, perverse incentives are a ubiquitous problem. Even in sports, which are purpose-built for empirical performance measurement, you have players who want to stand out so they can get a big contract instead of helping the team win, or who try to injure the opposition instead of improving their own performance, performance-enhancing drugs, and so on.
I can't say industry jobs are really any different or better as far as self-promotion goes.
I can't tell which way you're arguing? Those overworked grad students and those well-off tenured professors are the same people, at different points during their career. Were it not for the hope of the tenured professorship, nobody would do the work of tenure track.
The simple fact is that nice tenured positions are rare (and increasingly so), and they are given according to merit, and that is a recipe for harsh competition. Full professors at research universities are not just people who bothered to get a Ph.D. They are elite, whether or not you believe it or want to hear it.
Signed, a Ph.D. who never got close to a professorship at a research university.
Oh, so Outlook for Mac can open.pst files now? You can drag an email onto the calendar to create an appointment now? It has an actual threaded view instead of "arrange by conversations"? It supports plugins and addins? Do meetings have the "Propose new Time" function? You can right-click on Mail or Calendar and open a new window?
This isn't some comprehensive list I got off a website, either. Just various major omissions I have personally noticed in Outlook 2011 for Mac, off the top of my head.
Then they failed to fully condemn the attacks because they were too busy apologizing. This is the problem.... Only days/weeks later did his cabinet nail him to the wall for it and force him to change course and start saying "the right things".
What statements are you referring to? It appears to me the first official statement was the day after the attack, by the secretary of state:
Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet. The United States deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. Our commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation. But let me be clear: There is never any justification for violent acts of this kind.
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Even 720p30 is stretching the truth for the XBox 360. I play Halo with my son in splitscreen, and boy is it pixellated. It appears to be upscaled from something less than 720 lines, does NOT fill the width of the screen, and seems to have no anti-aliasing. Nor does it hold a steady 30 fps. Maybe not all 360 games are like this, but it is a flagship game after all.
So there's a lot of room for improvement even at 720p. I feel the next gen is way overdue, although I won't be running out to buy one if it releases at the same price point as the PS3 did, whereas $300 for the U is a decent launch price.
I dunno. The electronics markets with super-low prices used to be legend here in the US. But I think that gradient was dissipated through the vast expansion of asian imports in the 00's. When I stopped by the Guang Hua Digital Plaza in Taiwan, really, it felt a lot like ebay. Or there is Harbor Freight, which is an unabashed Chinese tool shop right in your neighborhood, with low-to-moderate quality stuff for very low prices.
Not so much as in the past. It amazes me that I can buy trivial things on ebay from Hong Kong to my home in the southwest US for as little as $3.50 including shipping. It seems to me that all the routers from there to here (and I mean, physically routing packages), must be highly automated and efficient to make this economically feasible. So the value of retailers and their warehouses has gone down a lot.
"The Right Stuff" aside, why? Only moderate amounts of exercise are required to minimize disease. Living under house arrest at 0G it's hard to see the relevance of being able to bench 300 earth-pounds or run a 5 minute mile. Perhaps excessive exercise would just be a waste of food.
Maybe it is time to switch back to Debian. Ah, the eternal tradeoff between stale packages and instability :)
I don't care about the candy either and run fvwm on Ubuntu. But it's a hack, because more and more the graphical desktop is tied into things like mounting removable media and hardware administration GUIs. So, my wife and kids can't use USB sticks or check the printer queue any more. Sure, with enough effort I can hack around all that, but it amounts to maintaining a mini-distro.
Forward error correction is a pretty basic principle in encoding and has been used nearly since "the beginning" in the 1940s. They're used in several places up and down the protocol stack; WiMax uses Reed-Solomon coding, for example. But I guess this implementation uses a better algorithm at a different level in the stack.
OK, guns. Flame away :)
That said, most of us aren't old enough to remember, but it took about a hundred years during the industrial revolution to make common machines (from farm equipment to sewing machines to water heaters) safe enough that people weren't killed or maimed on a pretty steady basis. Invent a new machine, and you're back on that learning curve (ouch!)
Perhaps the best solution is for scientists to be more careful with language, as they are amongst themselves, and NOT try to communicate with people lacking the intelligence or education to understand what they are saying (such as the person you responded to). If they had said something like, "the base risk on a daily basis is 1e-6 and there is no evidence for an elevated risk assessment at present" they probably would have been better off, since nobody would have bothered to listen.
That's called "trying to define the problem away." The point is that the mathematical model of security will never capture all of the users' security needs because the basic objectives (e.g. "privacy") are not well-defined nor objective.
Besides, some of the most practically useful security techniques are not mathematically proven. There is no proof that the basis of encryption (integer factorization) is NP-complete. There is no mathematical proof that tamper-resistant chips or devices are effective, yet in practice cable companies use them for a reason.
Yeah, I think there's a sort of analogue to Godel's incompleteness theorems here, in that any computer powerful enough to be interesting is powerful enough to do things that some stakeholder didn't want and will consider an "exploit." Of course "exploit" is fundamentally a subjective label, so of course it can't be "solved," outside some more formal definition of "exploit" that will inevitably fall short of people's wishes.
The whole libertarian notion of mutual consent has become a complete farce. How could we have known 6 years ago when we bought this thing how much to pay for it, based on changes they would make far in the future, churned out by a team of lawyers so productive we'd never even have time to read it, even if we had the legal background to do so? Again, this is a legal sham.
Not that I am defending it.
There's no point trying to have this discussion with made-up numbers. The question is whether government administration in a given sector is more or less effective and efficient than private industry, so it's all about the numbers. And not just "golly that number sounds too big!"-type numbers (which is how many people comprehend medicare fraud, for example), but how those numbers compare to the alternative.
But this story has so much "attitude" it's unpleasant to get through.
I'm curious about the new packet filter. First, I'd like to see benchmarks on performance due to multi-core use (it certainly seems like a good idea). And second, because I've hated every packet filter I ever used (tried to use) - ipfwadm, iptables, ipchains, ipfw, tc, lartc. Hate 'em.
Iran's inflation isn't caused by an abundance of currency, but by a shortage of goods. This is intentional, in fact we are the ones causing it.
I can't say industry jobs are really any different or better as far as self-promotion goes.
Because society is so accepting of child sexual abuse? According to the story the police have two dozen investigators assigned to this case!
The simple fact is that nice tenured positions are rare (and increasingly so), and they are given according to merit, and that is a recipe for harsh competition. Full professors at research universities are not just people who bothered to get a Ph.D. They are elite, whether or not you believe it or want to hear it.
Signed, a Ph.D. who never got close to a professorship at a research university.
This isn't some comprehensive list I got off a website, either. Just various major omissions I have personally noticed in Outlook 2011 for Mac, off the top of my head.
It's a toy.
Of course this makes one wonder, will it be "real" MS Office? Or some incomplete remake, like Office for Mac... or even worse?
I agree the focus on the enterprise is their best hope. The "surfing youtube" niche is full.
It's the serf mentality: if we no longer had a king, who would allow us to farm his land?
What statements are you referring to? It appears to me the first official statement was the day after the attack, by the secretary of state:
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