Have you ever watched a movie on a new 120hz or 240hz TV, with the frame-interpolation feature on? Try watching a whole movie like that and really getting into it.
Film is 24fps because it is easy to get absorbed into the movie, rather than being jerked back to reality by home-video-amateur-too-real 30 or 60fps.
Alright, so I don't know if that's WHY it's 24fps, but I'm very happy with 24. Unless you've been sitting there playing a 60fps game for hours immediately before, 24fps looks smooth.
Plus, framerate has nothing to do with clarity of picture. But you are right that resolution doesn't matter so much with film, because in my experience a DVD player over component outputting 480p to a nice 720p plasma will look awesome from any reasonable distance (indeed, because of the softness of the picture).
Windows 7 is fantastic. Windows Vista was fine (on nice hardware) once SP1 came out. XP came out over EIGHT YEARS AGO.
You can cling to the past as much as you want, but you just exemplify the GP's point. The rest of the world is moving on without you, and no, they don't care about your idealistic anti-corporate view (why don't you use Debian?). If you can't afford the 250 bucks to build a new Windows-7-capable machine, then you need to get a job and move out of your mother's basement.
I'd normally agree with you on OSS zealots making ridiculously biased anti-Microsoft assertions. However, the GP did not appear to be doing that, I think he was just pointing out how annoying it is to have multiple people work on different versions of a file when you have to email it around, and it just so happens that different versions of Word is one of the many problems with that.
Google Docs, despite its weak formatting tools and apparently censorship issues (which I've never run into myself in my heavy usage) is fantastic for sharing and collaborating on one document, and making sure everyone can edit it and has the right version.
Since they probably wouldn't be the ones installing LogMeIn, you can remedy the friend problem. After you install it, remove the startup entry with msconfig and set the services to manual. Then tell them if they need help to double click the LogMeIn icon you put on their desktop.
$40 for 19 years sure is nice, but who wants to make that kind of investment, assuming there's 10+ bulbs in the house to replace? I'd rather pay $4 for a 6-pack and have to replace them in a few months.
GP didn't mention Interplay at all in his post, and the Russians he refers to made a mod. He was expressing gratitude that Bethesda isn't going after the (Russian) creators of said mod.
You're right, Ford Fiestas are always in shitty condition! My girlfriend's father has one, and apparently on a family vacation long ago, during a flood, they forded (ha) a river with it to get around traffic. Maybe that's why it's in such shitty condition...
While it's true that my evidence is anecdotal, given that the USA is not the entire world, it is a fact that RAM is cheap as hell now, and that every recent processor that's not in a netbook is 64-bit, which is probably why all these computers come with way too much for their target market: Joe Schmoe USA thinks he's getting a faster computer because it has 12GB of RAM.
No, Joe: it's because it's a 3 GHz quad-core. He'll probably never use more than 1-2GB for his own applications (but will indeed use another 2GB on the crapware that comes preloaded, and Windows+Superfetch).
Hmm. I'm not sure I'm supporting my original point anymore, mostly since I don't remember why I was making this argument in the first place. Oh well, here goes.
My favorite from Microsoft was for Visual C++ Express Edition. They used to have a couple of 17-18 year old Asian girls smiling and pointing at a computer screen as the headline picture for Express Edition's website. Who smiles and laughs at code with a friend anyway? Not hot Asian chicks.
Or the fact that the monitor isn't plugged into anything.
By the way, I'd already read this on a couple other news sites, and the bluntness of Slashdot's headline cracked me up. The other sites said something like "Microsoft hires racist marketing team". Then Slashdot steps in with "MS PHOTOSHOPS WHITE DUDE OVER SOME BLACK GUY".
As a side note to those not familiar, VirtualPC is free "as in beer", but not "as in speech", *if* you are running the biz or ultimate version of windows.
Thank you for pointing that out, but was there anyone that actually thought a Microsoft product was "free as in speech"?:-)
I suppose I should clarify that "Vista x64 is great" does not mean I love everything about Vista. It means I had no problems with the 64-bit aspect of it (since 2008 anyway).
I agree with you: Vista x64 is great. I'd like to add that 7 x64 is even better, not only for the usability improvements, but for:
- the much-improved (or updated, I suppose) native x64 driver support, and
- XP Mode, which I guess was already possible with Vista if you also owned VMWare and XP, but it's nice that it comes with 7 Pro/Ultimate.
I'd also like to point out that if you're hearing XP x64 is "fine and dandy", you're hearing from the happy minority. I'd probably be among that group if I stubbornly clung to the past after getting 4GB of RAM and a 64-bit CPU.
I don't feel like trudging through your whole comment since you neglected to use paragraphs, but I'd just like to point out that most mid-range pre-built consumer desktops now come with 4-8GB of RAM. Check out Best Buy sometime if you can choke back the vomit long enough:-)
Semicolons are not simply "for lists".
They are primarily used in place of a comma and conjunction for joining two complete sentences.
When used in lists, semicolons aren't used after every item, as you did; they are used only if "compound items" in the list contain commas, in order to avoid confusion.
Multiple blades work better than one if you grow more than peach fuzz. The idea is to not have a raw face from 400 strokes with a one-blade piece of shit.
I've never owned a Mac. I'm not butthurt. I just think irrelevant jokes that completely set themselves up, especially when based on an unfunny generalization, are not funny.
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Exactly. I'd like to note that all of Valve's games are still DX9, and they still rule, and they also look pretty damn nice in my opinion.
Have you ever watched a movie on a new 120hz or 240hz TV, with the frame-interpolation feature on? Try watching a whole movie like that and really getting into it.
Film is 24fps because it is easy to get absorbed into the movie, rather than being jerked back to reality by home-video-amateur-too-real 30 or 60fps.
Alright, so I don't know if that's WHY it's 24fps, but I'm very happy with 24. Unless you've been sitting there playing a 60fps game for hours immediately before, 24fps looks smooth.
Plus, framerate has nothing to do with clarity of picture. But you are right that resolution doesn't matter so much with film, because in my experience a DVD player over component outputting 480p to a nice 720p plasma will look awesome from any reasonable distance (indeed, because of the softness of the picture).
Windows 7 is fantastic. Windows Vista was fine (on nice hardware) once SP1 came out. XP came out over EIGHT YEARS AGO. You can cling to the past as much as you want, but you just exemplify the GP's point. The rest of the world is moving on without you, and no, they don't care about your idealistic anti-corporate view (why don't you use Debian?). If you can't afford the 250 bucks to build a new Windows-7-capable machine, then you need to get a job and move out of your mother's basement.
I'd normally agree with you on OSS zealots making ridiculously biased anti-Microsoft assertions. However, the GP did not appear to be doing that, I think he was just pointing out how annoying it is to have multiple people work on different versions of a file when you have to email it around, and it just so happens that different versions of Word is one of the many problems with that.
Google Docs, despite its weak formatting tools and apparently censorship issues (which I've never run into myself in my heavy usage) is fantastic for sharing and collaborating on one document, and making sure everyone can edit it and has the right version.
Since they probably wouldn't be the ones installing LogMeIn, you can remedy the friend problem. After you install it, remove the startup entry with msconfig and set the services to manual. Then tell them if they need help to double click the LogMeIn icon you put on their desktop.
Doesn't it rain diamonds on Neptune?
$40 for 19 years sure is nice, but who wants to make that kind of investment, assuming there's 10+ bulbs in the house to replace? I'd rather pay $4 for a 6-pack and have to replace them in a few months.
GP didn't mention Interplay at all in his post, and the Russians he refers to made a mod. He was expressing gratitude that Bethesda isn't going after the (Russian) creators of said mod.
I can't believe it was still unchanged after all these hours! I made a small revision inside, but left the password the same.
You're right, Ford Fiestas are always in shitty condition! My girlfriend's father has one, and apparently on a family vacation long ago, during a flood, they forded (ha) a river with it to get around traffic. Maybe that's why it's in such shitty condition...
While it's true that my evidence is anecdotal, given that the USA is not the entire world, it is a fact that RAM is cheap as hell now, and that every recent processor that's not in a netbook is 64-bit, which is probably why all these computers come with way too much for their target market: Joe Schmoe USA thinks he's getting a faster computer because it has 12GB of RAM.
No, Joe: it's because it's a 3 GHz quad-core. He'll probably never use more than 1-2GB for his own applications (but will indeed use another 2GB on the crapware that comes preloaded, and Windows+Superfetch).
Hmm. I'm not sure I'm supporting my original point anymore, mostly since I don't remember why I was making this argument in the first place. Oh well, here goes.
Luckily I use Gmail, sent it to a friend when I saw it, and thus still have it:
Here.
My favorite from Microsoft was for Visual C++ Express Edition. They used to have a couple of 17-18 year old Asian girls smiling and pointing at a computer screen as the headline picture for Express Edition's website. Who smiles and laughs at code with a friend anyway? Not hot Asian chicks.
Or the fact that the monitor isn't plugged into anything.
By the way, I'd already read this on a couple other news sites, and the bluntness of Slashdot's headline cracked me up. The other sites said something like "Microsoft hires racist marketing team". Then Slashdot steps in with "MS PHOTOSHOPS WHITE DUDE OVER SOME BLACK GUY".
I'm not usually a Grammar Nazi - it's just when I see Grammar Nazis making mistakes that I have to play their game.
Thank you for pointing that out, but was there anyone that actually thought a Microsoft product was "free as in speech"? :-)
I suppose I should clarify that "Vista x64 is great" does not mean I love everything about Vista. It means I had no problems with the 64-bit aspect of it (since 2008 anyway).
I agree with you: Vista x64 is great. I'd like to add that 7 x64 is even better, not only for the usability improvements, but for:
- the much-improved (or updated, I suppose) native x64 driver support, and
- XP Mode, which I guess was already possible with Vista if you also owned VMWare and XP, but it's nice that it comes with 7 Pro/Ultimate.
I'd also like to point out that if you're hearing XP x64 is "fine and dandy", you're hearing from the happy minority. I'd probably be among that group if I stubbornly clung to the past after getting 4GB of RAM and a 64-bit CPU.
I don't feel like trudging through your whole comment since you neglected to use paragraphs, but I'd just like to point out that most mid-range pre-built consumer desktops now come with 4-8GB of RAM. Check out Best Buy sometime if you can choke back the vomit long enough :-)
Semicolons are not simply "for lists". They are primarily used in place of a comma and conjunction for joining two complete sentences. When used in lists, semicolons aren't used after every item, as you did; they are used only if "compound items" in the list contain commas, in order to avoid confusion.
"English" "Let's"
Multiple blades work better than one if you grow more than peach fuzz. The idea is to not have a raw face from 400 strokes with a one-blade piece of shit.
I don't see why I'd need a mouse that can track around on my syphilis. But then again, no one should need more than 640K eh?
the Mach c Turbo?
...but I don't think the lasers would get dull, so how would they make any money? DRM to shut down the lasers after so many uses?
the Lazor Blade?
I've never owned a Mac. I'm not butthurt. I just think irrelevant jokes that completely set themselves up, especially when based on an unfunny generalization, are not funny.