But if the input is progressive, there is no need to wait for the next frame for the scaler. And as the scaler must be able to resize a frame during 1/30th second anyway, the lag is no where near the dreaded linedouble lag some more expensive hdtv have.
What the parent wanted to say with "underrated" is: It has become common practice lately for "l33t" wannabe scientist/armchair experts to bash einstein _just because_ he is widely seen as a genius by john sixpack.
You know, the old "something everybody likes must be bad" mentality, only applied onto a person.
ideally, your next gen console will be digitally connected to your HDTV and thus the whole deinterlacer, linedoubler, scalers, ect completely bypassed.
Any its not microseconds we are talking about (even at full framerate you get 18 ms simply refresh latency), but tens of seconds (because smart linedoublers need at least 4 field for adaptive deinterlaceing)
If you think THAT way of thinking (not knowing basic facts,not bothering to get to know WHY everything else seems to not care about that "obvious" misstake, but jumping to conclusions ("doesnt work")) helps science, then welcome to the dark age.
Its all in the spin of the post.
And he DIDNT ask a question. He spread FUD. His main message wasnt "how does it work?". It was "that is nonsense that cant work how stupid those dumb d00des are..."
a:) Nuclii dont have energy either, its just the potential energy of the strong force. Same stuff, just another force, also derived from a potential.
b) Fusion of 4 Protons->4He: net gain around 20MeV. Fission of on Uran235 nucleus: net gain about 150-200MeV (depending on educts) I know exactly what graph you mean (i had to learn it also for my particly phyiscs examn), but it showes binding energy PER NEUTRON/PROTON, not per core. So the "little" gain of 235 in Uran-fission more than makes of the "big" gain of the 4 involved in the standart fusion.
(but of course this is only riding on semantics, per Kg fusion is better)
This is a research reactor. You could build it in greenland, and still the best in the field on the world would want to research there, just because its the best place to be if you are in the field.
Its like TESLA, or LHC. The facility doesnt come to the people, the people come to the facility.
Well, gravity does of course have energy, because its created by a potential. And of course you get gravitational binding energy (for example the reason jupiter is producing energy).
Also, you get a lot more energy per nucleus from fission then from fusion (factor 4 or 5), it only seems the other way because hydrogen is so damn light:)
PLEASE, OH PLEASE dont talk out of you ass. If you dont know the science behind it, dont say it couldnt work.
Fyi: Binding energy in atoms depends on the size of the nucleus, because of symetry and force range issues.
Iron is the state will the stongest binding. Fusing 2 lighte cores will yield energy because the product is closer to iron, smashing a very heavy core into 2 parts will yield energy because the lighter resulting cores are closer to Fe47.
Just looking into wikipedia, or just googling would have given you that information, and in less time it took you to write down that testimony of you ignorance.
As long as i can get winword and excel on windows, why should i get linux/k/open office?
Its the same: Console is everything for money, no free content, no nothing (encrypted binarys, ect). PC is mods, user made content, freeware games, emulators, ect.
God, imagine traveling even FASTER, with NOTHING beneath you to use for emergency break. Where you just drop down and die if somethingfucks up. That would be much more dangerous right?
My 2 year old siemens s55 gets 10days-2weeks standby with a 740mAh battery. Like the greatparent said: the phone is absolutly NOTHING to write about (except LINUX LINUX LINUX LINUX... its slashdot, alright...)
They have a big cluster in the USA, they got just a few weeks ago 10 or so dual opteron servers in the netherlands (that will serve europe more or less completely), and these servers could take the asian part of load (plus increase redundance).
Its just wastefull routing everything around large parts of the globe, plus keeping the database in different phyiscal locations cant hurt, either.
Wich kinda makes sense, right, because the eruption was a quarter century ago, and at that resolution stuff changes over time, so people MIGHT want pictures acutally representing reality....
Because flash SUCKS at serial transfer rate. Yeah, the access time is orders of magnitudes better then a HD, but you wont get intant on if you have to load your 512 MB RAM with 10MB/s (which today only HIGH-Speed flash drives even reach).
...as the users want it to be. Maybe you are looking at the wrong sort of stuff, but i usually by books and manga on ebay (if something interesting pops up), and for "like new" quality i usually pay about 1/3 or the retail price. You cant have to be patient. (ebay SHOPS are something i never visit. The whole concept seems to be missing the whole point)
I mean, would you spend a TFlop or 100 for simulating crash tests or supernovae or the big bang, or to recreate a below average human who ends up liking american idol and cant get 5*5 right?
You may feed a computer with Gbytes of data to get a simply yes/no answer about some criteria (like stability of a construction, or classification of an even). But you may also feed a computer with a few kbyte of data and produce terabyte of data (think n-body solutions of large scale, initially random systems).
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But if the input is progressive, there is no need to wait for the next frame for the scaler.
And as the scaler must be able to resize a frame during 1/30th second anyway, the lag is no where near the dreaded linedouble lag some more expensive hdtv have.
What the parent wanted to say with "underrated" is:
It has become common practice lately for "l33t" wannabe scientist/armchair experts to bash einstein _just because_ he is widely seen as a genius by john sixpack.
You know, the old "something everybody likes must be bad" mentality, only applied onto a person.
[ ] You understand relativity :)
ideally, your next gen console will be digitally connected to your HDTV and thus the whole deinterlacer, linedoubler, scalers, ect completely bypassed.
Any its not microseconds we are talking about (even at full framerate you get 18 ms simply refresh latency), but tens of seconds (because smart linedoublers need at least 4 field for adaptive deinterlaceing)
If you think THAT way of thinking (not knowing basic facts,not bothering to get to know WHY everything else seems to not care about that "obvious" misstake, but jumping to conclusions ("doesnt work")) helps science, then welcome to the dark age.
Its all in the spin of the post.
And he DIDNT ask a question. He spread FUD. His main message wasnt "how does it work?". It was "that is nonsense that cant work how stupid those dumb d00des are..."
a:) Nuclii dont have energy either, its just the potential energy of the strong force. Same stuff, just another force, also derived from a potential.
b) Fusion of 4 Protons->4He: net gain around 20MeV.
Fission of on Uran235 nucleus: net gain about 150-200MeV (depending on educts)
I know exactly what graph you mean (i had to learn it also for my particly phyiscs examn), but it showes binding energy PER NEUTRON/PROTON, not per core. So the "little" gain of 235 in Uran-fission more than makes of the "big" gain of the 4 involved in the standart fusion.
(but of course this is only riding on semantics, per Kg fusion is better)
They got money!
My pet project didnt!
This sucks!
(and i wouldnt want money to be given to some ball-lighning gurus either....)
Or -1, Troll, because this is at least the 5th time i see this stupid list reposted here on slashdot.
This is a research reactor.
You could build it in greenland, and still the best in the field on the world would want to research there, just because its the best place to be if you are in the field.
Its like TESLA, or LHC. The facility doesnt come to the people, the people come to the facility.
Well, gravity does of course have energy, because its created by a potential. And of course you get gravitational binding energy (for example the reason jupiter is producing energy).
:)
Also, you get a lot more energy per nucleus from fission then from fusion (factor 4 or 5), it only seems the other way because hydrogen is so damn light
PLEASE, OH PLEASE dont talk out of you ass. If you dont know the science behind it, dont say it couldnt work.
Fyi: Binding energy in atoms depends on the size of the nucleus, because of symetry and force range issues.
Iron is the state will the stongest binding. Fusing 2 lighte cores will yield energy because the product is closer to iron, smashing a very heavy core into 2 parts will yield energy because the lighter resulting cores are closer to Fe47.
Just looking into wikipedia, or just googling would have given you that information, and in less time it took you to write down that testimony of you ignorance.
As long as i can get winword and excel on windows, why should i get linux/k/open office?
Its the same: Console is everything for money, no free content, no nothing (encrypted binarys, ect).
PC is mods, user made content, freeware games, emulators, ect.
God, imagine traveling even FASTER, with NOTHING beneath you to use for emergency break. Where you just drop down and die if somethingfucks up.
That would be much more dangerous right?
My 2 year old siemens s55 gets 10days-2weeks standby with a 740mAh battery.
Like the greatparent said: the phone is absolutly NOTHING to write about (except LINUX LINUX LINUX LINUX... its slashdot, alright...)
They have a big cluster in the USA, they got just a few weeks ago 10 or so dual opteron servers in the netherlands (that will serve europe more or less completely), and these servers could take the asian part of load (plus increase redundance).
Its just wastefull routing everything around large parts of the globe, plus keeping the database in different phyiscal locations cant hurt, either.
This has nothing to do with paranoia.
Its just policy. Just like the "now filming" in a military base.
They are ballons (of the hot air powered kind), out of focus because they are quite high above the ground. Thats also the reason no shadow is visible.
Rembember, those pics (the higher resolution ones) were made by aircraft, not sattelites, so the depht of field is not that large.
There are anti aircraft missiles stationed up there, and the non-censored pic would show how many, perhaps they could even be identified.
Wich kinda makes sense, right, because the eruption was a quarter century ago, and at that resolution stuff changes over time, so people MIGHT want pictures acutally representing reality....
NO YOU CANT.
Because flash SUCKS at serial transfer rate. Yeah, the access time is orders of magnitudes better then a HD, but you wont get intant on if you have to load your 512 MB RAM with 10MB/s (which today only HIGH-Speed flash drives even reach).
You mean the one thats responsible for the sucky performance with memory depending apps, the one that creates more then 150ns memory access latency?
Great work, guys!
...as the users want it to be.
Maybe you are looking at the wrong sort of stuff, but i usually by books and manga on ebay (if something interesting pops up), and for "like new" quality i usually pay about 1/3 or the retail price.
You cant have to be patient.
(ebay SHOPS are something i never visit. The whole concept seems to be missing the whole point)
one moment:
the 210Gflops are single precision, but the linpack score should be doubles, IIRC.
So your cell should get 20Gflops (still quite fast)
I mean, would you spend a TFlop or 100 for simulating crash tests or supernovae or the big bang, or to recreate a below average human who ends up liking american idol and cant get 5*5 right?
You may feed a computer with Gbytes of data to get a simply yes/no answer about some criteria (like stability of a construction, or classification of an even).
But you may also feed a computer with a few kbyte of data and produce terabyte of data (think n-body solutions of large scale, initially random systems).