How is this insightful? He said nothing. Sony's players are defective how? I have a PS3 and it plays BD movies. Doesn't seem defective to me. Also, you won't be hooking this up to a Sony player as it's a Sanyo product. Sanyo != Sony even though a lot of the letters are the same.
You were an HD-DVD fanboy weren't you? Bitter that your format ate dirt? I can understand the viewpoint of HD vs. SD, cost vs. utility increase but the Sony bashers are just useless to any conversation. Yes, you don't like Sony. Yes, they've made some stupid moves. No, not all their products suck.
Aside from the DRM in BD (which is pretty much par for the course and not a Sony-only issue) what's wrong with BD? If you don't like HD video, stick to DVDs. Nobody is forcing you to upgrade. And if you're going to bash Sony, do it on a Sony article.
You do know that a T1 is only 1.544mbit, right? Yeah, it'll be dedicated, but over 30 days, at full download 24/7 you'd only be able to grab 477 GB. Is it really worth the 193kb/s cap and $150/mo for less than 2x the cap?
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I took a 2D and 3D graphics class at college using DirectX. My 2D group decided to use C++. My 3D group used C#. C# was by far easier to implement.
So I don't know where you got your "using any DirectX components for example is nightmare through C#" statement.
A bosenova or bose supernova is a very small, supernova-like explosion, which can be induced in a Boseâ"Einstein condensate (BEC) by changing the magnetic field in which the BEC is located, so that the BEC quantum wavefunction's self-interaction becomes attractive.
In the particular experiment when a bosenova was first detected, this procedure caused the BEC to implode and shrink beyond detection, and then suddenly explode. In this explosion, about half of the atoms in the condensate seem to have disappeared from the experiment altogether, remaining undetected either in the cold particle remnants or in the expanding gas cloud produced.
That's actually pretty interesting. So, it won't happen unless the magnetic field is changed in such a way that the quantum wavefunction becomes self-attractive (whatever that means.) So, don't do that and we're all set? Though, the part about it making atoms disappear is pretty cool. I wonder what actually happens to them...
Yes, they could send molten pieces of magnet raining down from the heavens over Switzerland/France?...wait, that would be pretty fucking awesome. Carry on
We don't make CPUs that are 5GHz @ 5nm... they're barely making 22nm chips and that seems like its pretty much the limit of lithography at this point.
Though, clock speed is tied to the processing pipeline. We could easily make a chip go 30GHz but it would only do one step instead of the hundred+ that the Intel/AMD chips do. As for a useful CPU, 4GHz is about the top right now for commercial chips (I don't feel like asking google the fastest chip. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader)
If you try to put the data on the same partition you can "play" the data track. Though, you're supposed to make the audio cd in session 1, close the session (not the disc) and then put the data in session 2. The audio cd player will only access session 1 (for this purpose) and won't/can't "play" the data on session 2.
1. if the universe did start with a big bang and it was 13.7 billion years ago, then everything originated at a central point. Ok. Now that the top speed of something is c, we should be able to see anything that originated from the big bang.
2. if there is anything else out there, it couldn't have been a part of the big bang. If it were, it would have had to move faster than light to get out of our viewable range.
Your ship analogy is a bit flawed. No, you can't see the second set of ships because they're below the horizon. If the world were flat, you could.
Lets say you see your pal out there. Your pal then sees something even further out. At that moment, the light from that object is at your pal, moving at c toward you. He sends a message, also at c. Since their starting points were the same (barring any really odd relativity movement) then both the message and the object's light would reach you at the same time. (well, you'd probably see the object first because it would take time for your friend to think of a message to say, turn on the signaling lamp etc but you get the point)
So, if something has been able to affect something we can see, which the effects can only move as fast as light, then we should be able to see what is causing the effect since the light from the affecting body gets to the effected body at the same time as the effects are seen by us. Since they both move at a constant c, then voila! (seriously, affect and effect... I must have fucked that up somewhere in that paragraph...)
Same for me. I have a 26" HDTV and I can tell the difference. It's only 1080i but at that size 1080p wouldn't be much of a difference. I have Hot Fuzz on HD DVD with the 360's HD player (I know it's not BD) and it has that dual format; HD DVD on one side, DVD on the other (if BD did this... omg) Having the same movie to compare output is a great way to show people the difference in video quality.
I haven't bought a standard DVD since I got my PS3. There are a lot of movies out there in BD but most stores don't carry them all. Best Buy has a big selection but they're a bit pricey. Though, a good place to look through to see if there's anything you want. (you can always order it online)
Aside from the rootkit/drm fiasco with Sony, their formats aren't the problem, it's their marketing and business decisions. UMD is dying because nobody wants to pay $30 for a movie they can only watch on their PSP. I love having movies on my PSP but I only buy them when they're in the bargain bin for $5-10. Start selling combo movies with a BD/DVD combo disc (like HD DVD did) and a UMD disc all bundled for $5-10 more than the standard DVD and they'd have no problems with their formats.
The players themselves, the PS3 is great. New games are starting to come out that are worth buying and BD is starting to get a decent number of new titles since HD died. Start working on low-cost (~$100) 1080i players and I see their problems turning around.
The DRM isn't so much an issue. Just as there's ripping software for DVDs, it'll come out for BD as well. Most people don't even have BD drives in their PCs anyway so it's not really a big deal at the moment. If they had the combo discs, this would be even less of an issue as you could just rip the DVD. And a lot of BD movies I've bought come with the Digital Copy disc which negates the DRM issue as well.
If Sony can bring the price on discs down (seriously, it doesn't cost $10-15 more to make a BD disc over DVD) and start selling a low budget BD player then all these issues would be moot. And, as I said before, start selling bundles and they could get more people to buy as well. DVD for $15, BD+DVD for $20, BD+DVD+UMD for $25 and I'd be all over it like a pig in shit.
Pretty sure that efficiency is based off the light from the product's operating spectrum that is turned into electricity. So, if it works off 1% of the EM Spectrum and has 15% efficiency, it is converting 0.15% of the incoming EM Spectrum into electricity. That would mean that a 500x increase is 75%.
Yes, these figures are directly from my ass and I'm sure that each wavelength has more/less potential energy than another but there you go. 500x isn't as far fetched when you talk about how much of the spectrum a solar cell can use.
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except an IQ of 100 is average. So, with only 4 people adding to the pool, 2 would be above and two would be below regardless of how smart any of them were.
But the Nahalem core is moving it on-silicon. Why would they start working on a new chip that moves it off again? Yes, it'll definitely save them money. But, for a server, does the nominal cost really matter that much? They're already using enough silicon for 6 cores, whats a bit more for the memory controller?
I very much agree with 64-bit support.
However, I don't see SSD as a viable alternative yet. Yes, the performance is a step up but the finite life of flash memory makes me not want to get one just yet. When the lifetime of a drive is comparable to platters then it will be ready for mainstream.
Though, it is a great idea for OS/App drives with a conventional HDD for storage. If the OS/Apps crap out you can always reinstall.
There wasn't much in terms of technical specs in TFA. 6 cores, 16MB cache, anything else? Clock speed? 16MB of L2? L3? FSB? DDR(n)? (Though this is probably more up to the MB manufacturer) Why are they moving the memory controller off silicon? That in itself seems like a step backwards.
I would like to see them pushing consumer multi-core computing more personally. Get MS and other application manufacturers to support more cores. Servers have been doing it for ages and with pretty much all consumer level chips being dual core they should be pushing this angle more.
Though, them incorporating all of the cores on a single piece of silicon is definitely a step forward; the lack of additional specs and the notion of moving the memory controller make this seem like not as big of an announcement...
I started playing EVE about a month ago. I love the system however missions seem to be the same thing over and over except with a different explanation as to why you are killing more pirates.
If they could make it so that events happen in real-time and the decisions of other players and of the NPCs affect the game world in general (not just faction/corporation interactions) and the story revolves around everyone in the game so there's more depth to what you are doing, then EVE would be perfect. Oh, and add some puzzle missions where I have to figure out clues etc instead of just "bring this item to this station for me" and "there's pirates doing stuff, go stop them" missions. I have only done level 1 missions as I haven't been playing too long and only solo, but it doesn't look like it's going to change...
I thought the same thing for COD4. My brother had gotten the game and wanted me to play online with him. He was explaining the experience system and how cool it was.
The first thing that came to mind was exactly that, the people who have been playing a while will just make it that much harder to catch up. It's like the cheaters vs. non-cheaters except it's sanctioned by the game. Really, the upgrades my brother was talking about did sound cool, but it seemed like it would detract from new players wanting to start up or those who aren't all that good to begin with.
What I thought would be a good idea is do the exact opposite. Keep a rank for each player based on how well they do and levy a handicap on them. This would even out playing between the "uber" players and the "noobs" so that everyone can have fun. Which is what I think the point of it all should be about anyway.
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How is this insightful? He said nothing. Sony's players are defective how? I have a PS3 and it plays BD movies. Doesn't seem defective to me. Also, you won't be hooking this up to a Sony player as it's a Sanyo product. Sanyo != Sony even though a lot of the letters are the same.
You were an HD-DVD fanboy weren't you? Bitter that your format ate dirt? I can understand the viewpoint of HD vs. SD, cost vs. utility increase but the Sony bashers are just useless to any conversation. Yes, you don't like Sony. Yes, they've made some stupid moves. No, not all their products suck.
Aside from the DRM in BD (which is pretty much par for the course and not a Sony-only issue) what's wrong with BD? If you don't like HD video, stick to DVDs. Nobody is forcing you to upgrade. And if you're going to bash Sony, do it on a Sony article.
this is one reason i love being a computer graphics geek. when it's my turn to do something like this, ill just show them video games :P
Whoops, got my math a bit off... it's 488.53 GB ( ( 1.544 / 8 ) * 86400 * 30 ) / 1024 = 488.53
You do know that a T1 is only 1.544mbit, right? Yeah, it'll be dedicated, but over 30 days, at full download 24/7 you'd only be able to grab 477 GB. Is it really worth the 193kb/s cap and $150/mo for less than 2x the cap?
I took a 2D and 3D graphics class at college using DirectX. My 2D group decided to use C++. My 3D group used C#. C# was by far easier to implement. So I don't know where you got your "using any DirectX components for example is nightmare through C#" statement.
A bosenova or bose supernova is a very small, supernova-like explosion, which can be induced in a Boseâ"Einstein condensate (BEC) by changing the magnetic field in which the BEC is located, so that the BEC quantum wavefunction's self-interaction becomes attractive.
In the particular experiment when a bosenova was first detected, this procedure caused the BEC to implode and shrink beyond detection, and then suddenly explode. In this explosion, about half of the atoms in the condensate seem to have disappeared from the experiment altogether, remaining undetected either in the cold particle remnants or in the expanding gas cloud produced.
That's actually pretty interesting. So, it won't happen unless the magnetic field is changed in such a way that the quantum wavefunction becomes self-attractive (whatever that means.) So, don't do that and we're all set? Though, the part about it making atoms disappear is pretty cool. I wonder what actually happens to them...
They're not the one that coined the name. Blame the scientists that first noticed the phenomenon.
Yes, they could send molten pieces of magnet raining down from the heavens over Switzerland/France? ...wait, that would be pretty fucking awesome. Carry on
We don't make CPUs that are 5GHz @ 5nm... they're barely making 22nm chips and that seems like its pretty much the limit of lithography at this point.
Though, clock speed is tied to the processing pipeline. We could easily make a chip go 30GHz but it would only do one step instead of the hundred+ that the Intel/AMD chips do. As for a useful CPU, 4GHz is about the top right now for commercial chips (I don't feel like asking google the fastest chip. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader)
If you try to put the data on the same partition you can "play" the data track. Though, you're supposed to make the audio cd in session 1, close the session (not the disc) and then put the data in session 2. The audio cd player will only access session 1 (for this purpose) and won't/can't "play" the data on session 2.
All we need to do is get Fusion working and we have all the He we want!
The problem I see with that is:
1. if the universe did start with a big bang and it was 13.7 billion years ago, then everything originated at a central point. Ok. Now that the top speed of something is c, we should be able to see anything that originated from the big bang.
2. if there is anything else out there, it couldn't have been a part of the big bang. If it were, it would have had to move faster than light to get out of our viewable range.
3. Someone is smoking something and I want some
Your ship analogy is a bit flawed. No, you can't see the second set of ships because they're below the horizon. If the world were flat, you could.
Lets say you see your pal out there. Your pal then sees something even further out. At that moment, the light from that object is at your pal, moving at c toward you. He sends a message, also at c. Since their starting points were the same (barring any really odd relativity movement) then both the message and the object's light would reach you at the same time. (well, you'd probably see the object first because it would take time for your friend to think of a message to say, turn on the signaling lamp etc but you get the point)
So, if something has been able to affect something we can see, which the effects can only move as fast as light, then we should be able to see what is causing the effect since the light from the affecting body gets to the effected body at the same time as the effects are seen by us. Since they both move at a constant c, then voila! (seriously, affect and effect... I must have fucked that up somewhere in that paragraph...)
Same for me. I have a 26" HDTV and I can tell the difference. It's only 1080i but at that size 1080p wouldn't be much of a difference. I have Hot Fuzz on HD DVD with the 360's HD player (I know it's not BD) and it has that dual format; HD DVD on one side, DVD on the other (if BD did this... omg) Having the same movie to compare output is a great way to show people the difference in video quality.
I haven't bought a standard DVD since I got my PS3. There are a lot of movies out there in BD but most stores don't carry them all. Best Buy has a big selection but they're a bit pricey. Though, a good place to look through to see if there's anything you want. (you can always order it online)
Aside from the rootkit/drm fiasco with Sony, their formats aren't the problem, it's their marketing and business decisions. UMD is dying because nobody wants to pay $30 for a movie they can only watch on their PSP. I love having movies on my PSP but I only buy them when they're in the bargain bin for $5-10. Start selling combo movies with a BD/DVD combo disc (like HD DVD did) and a UMD disc all bundled for $5-10 more than the standard DVD and they'd have no problems with their formats.
The players themselves, the PS3 is great. New games are starting to come out that are worth buying and BD is starting to get a decent number of new titles since HD died. Start working on low-cost (~$100) 1080i players and I see their problems turning around.
The DRM isn't so much an issue. Just as there's ripping software for DVDs, it'll come out for BD as well. Most people don't even have BD drives in their PCs anyway so it's not really a big deal at the moment. If they had the combo discs, this would be even less of an issue as you could just rip the DVD. And a lot of BD movies I've bought come with the Digital Copy disc which negates the DRM issue as well.
If Sony can bring the price on discs down (seriously, it doesn't cost $10-15 more to make a BD disc over DVD) and start selling a low budget BD player then all these issues would be moot. And, as I said before, start selling bundles and they could get more people to buy as well. DVD for $15, BD+DVD for $20, BD+DVD+UMD for $25 and I'd be all over it like a pig in shit.
You forgot Black Osama
Pretty sure that efficiency is based off the light from the product's operating spectrum that is turned into electricity. So, if it works off 1% of the EM Spectrum and has 15% efficiency, it is converting 0.15% of the incoming EM Spectrum into electricity. That would mean that a 500x increase is 75%.
Yes, these figures are directly from my ass and I'm sure that each wavelength has more/less potential energy than another but there you go. 500x isn't as far fetched when you talk about how much of the spectrum a solar cell can use.
NSA Press Conference: We have decided to take over the EFF in hopes that their participation with our goals will aid in furthering the United States' interests in National Security. We have assessed their allegations and decided that they were unwarranted and unfounded. Thank you for all your cooperation and we appreciate all the help from the leaders of the EFF.
EFF @ Gitmo: Fuck, I don't want a cock-meat sandwich...
except an IQ of 100 is average. So, with only 4 people adding to the pool, 2 would be above and two would be below regardless of how smart any of them were.
But the Nahalem core is moving it on-silicon. Why would they start working on a new chip that moves it off again? Yes, it'll definitely save them money. But, for a server, does the nominal cost really matter that much? They're already using enough silicon for 6 cores, whats a bit more for the memory controller?
I very much agree with 64-bit support. However, I don't see SSD as a viable alternative yet. Yes, the performance is a step up but the finite life of flash memory makes me not want to get one just yet. When the lifetime of a drive is comparable to platters then it will be ready for mainstream. Though, it is a great idea for OS/App drives with a conventional HDD for storage. If the OS/Apps crap out you can always reinstall.
There wasn't much in terms of technical specs in TFA. 6 cores, 16MB cache, anything else? Clock speed? 16MB of L2? L3? FSB? DDR(n)? (Though this is probably more up to the MB manufacturer) Why are they moving the memory controller off silicon? That in itself seems like a step backwards.
I would like to see them pushing consumer multi-core computing more personally. Get MS and other application manufacturers to support more cores. Servers have been doing it for ages and with pretty much all consumer level chips being dual core they should be pushing this angle more.
Though, them incorporating all of the cores on a single piece of silicon is definitely a step forward; the lack of additional specs and the notion of moving the memory controller make this seem like not as big of an announcement...
I started playing EVE about a month ago. I love the system however missions seem to be the same thing over and over except with a different explanation as to why you are killing more pirates.
If they could make it so that events happen in real-time and the decisions of other players and of the NPCs affect the game world in general (not just faction/corporation interactions) and the story revolves around everyone in the game so there's more depth to what you are doing, then EVE would be perfect. Oh, and add some puzzle missions where I have to figure out clues etc instead of just "bring this item to this station for me" and "there's pirates doing stuff, go stop them" missions. I have only done level 1 missions as I haven't been playing too long and only solo, but it doesn't look like it's going to change...
I thought the same thing for COD4. My brother had gotten the game and wanted me to play online with him. He was explaining the experience system and how cool it was.
The first thing that came to mind was exactly that, the people who have been playing a while will just make it that much harder to catch up. It's like the cheaters vs. non-cheaters except it's sanctioned by the game. Really, the upgrades my brother was talking about did sound cool, but it seemed like it would detract from new players wanting to start up or those who aren't all that good to begin with.
What I thought would be a good idea is do the exact opposite. Keep a rank for each player based on how well they do and levy a handicap on them. This would even out playing between the "uber" players and the "noobs" so that everyone can have fun. Which is what I think the point of it all should be about anyway.
until you go through the maximum writes on all the storage cells in a year on a busy DB.
That's the same thing I do. If there's an issue with a piece of HW, the 1-3 egg reviewers will be the ones to point it out.