Side-note, minor rant, the 360 and PS3 both have 512MB of RAM (ignoring the 360's small cache RAM on the side), but on the 360 its unified and on the PS3 its divided between graphics and processor. That is to say, using all 512MB on the 360 for processing data wouldn't be possible without eliminating video output.
Name me the first PC game that could do 1920x1080 at 60fps with 7.1 near-perfect audio... a year, and an actual good AAA title game not some shabby space shooter that could do 100fps on a cell phone. The PS3, at many years old and 'stagnant' can do this, so could PCs do it two years earlier? Five? I don't actually remember a PC game running with those specs prior to the PS3, not without a $5000+ gaming rig to inflate the performance significantly.
Higher frame rates mean more lighting due to faster aperture speeds, not to mention better film stock and higher speed hardware. It also means more frames to distribute, meaning larger video files that don't fit as easily on a disc.
Just because people might value something doesn't mean its going to be sold to them at every convenience. IE lots of people love eating fresh seafood but its not sold at Harvey's because it wouldn't be cost effective.
As someone else posted, most everyone can see the difference between 24 and 30. Just because 24 is the magic number we use for when film begins to look real doesn't mean its the maximum number at all. Sure, 800fps is probably way overkill, but 48 at least certainly isn't.
Thanks for the intelligent reply. I've often wondered about this while watching modern vs. older movies. I've sometimes considered that maybe we pan faster these days than we used to, overshooting the eye's ability to watch, but then I see a nice horse-following pan in an older western and realize that's not true either.
Lack of blur is the problem, and current film stock would make sense as a cause.
I think you've confused multiple areas of videography together.
In nfps video, there are n frames per second, each distinct (except in interlaced video transmission).
Even if every frame is identical to the previous, such as looking at an LCD image of your computer's desktop without moving the mouse, you're getting the data at a fixed frame rate. Film your computer screen while stationary using a cell phone camera sometime and watch the flicker due to unmatched refresh rates.
Do real problems include other users on Slashdot posting their opinions? Because I'll take the rant about low frame rates over the rant about a random idiot online any day.
I've always used screens rated 85Hz or better, and I quite prefer the 100+Hz models when possible.
One of the reasons I stayed away from LCD so long was because I loved my high refresh rate CRTs so much. My present LCD does 85Hz only at 1280x1024 or lower sadly.
The difference is actually quite substantial and matters. The parliamentary democracy in Canada is vastly different from the form of democracy in the USA or that in India or Israel. Australia's I understand is different again but I haven't researched it personally. You should do yourself a favour and look those each up because they're quite fascinating and it would stop you from claiming that the USA has a form of government that it doesn't have.
Exactly. I had embedded video working in the Netscape days, it was Microsoft's silly foray into <object> land that screwed things up for some people.
While I get the appeal of using flash to get custom buttons, etc. I'd much rather just have an embedded video that uses my local decoder's abilities (VLC, Media Player, or what have you).
I don't think you understand the concept -- this functionality could easily be hidden in a legitimate app with motion sensing capabilities, like a step counter or a level.
Strangely, if I charge up a Volt and drive it within its battery charge, I'll never need fuel in the tank at all, not when I accelerate, not ever.
The Volt is an all electric car with a portable generator to charge the battery, it is not a traditional hybrid at all. The fact that the generator uses gasoline is of no real importance in fact; the drive train would be identical if it used diesel or solar to charge the batteries as all actual power delivery is done from an electric motor.
Dual overlapping projections running full time with polarized filters is better. No image flicker back and forth.
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I'm not sure you're aware how many lines of code are in the Linux kernel these days. Incidentally, if I could, I wouldn't have glibc on my system at all, its a horrible representative of GNU.
That'd be the Vizio polarized technique which is even less exciting than flipping screens as it uses every other scanline for opposing eyes iirc. The result is that 1080p video becomes 540p per eye instead, interlaced.
From what I observe, regardless of hand position most drivers are doing it wrong. Tailgating, cutting people off, never use turn signals, not accelerating before trying to merge on to a highway, running stop signs. I see almost all of this every day on the way to work, and it's only 17km. Hand position is the least of their problems.
Agreed wholeheartedly. But i don't blame drivers at all -- I blame the idiots who gave them the plastic that says they can drive.
I drive over 50Mm a year (that's 50 thousand km or about 30 thousand miles for the metric impaired) for work all over the province of Ontario up here in Canada, and there seems to be about 1/6 of drivers who are either clueless or distracted (head down fetching a CD, fixing hair in mirror, etc.) and about 5% who are genuine jerks with no thought to external consequences. I watched a small Honda cut in front of a full length transport truck with all his wheels down. One of us was smart enough to check how many wheels he had on the road and know he needed distance... and one of us was in a rush and cut in front of him almost causing a jack-knife.
I have no respect at all for complete idiots on the road endangering others -- and I'm a bit of an aggressive driver myself but I signal, I leave room, and I watch my mirrors to understand traffic flow behind me. I also only drive in the left lane when moving faster than those in the lanes to my right.
The question is, why do we do road-side license suspensions (we do that in this province) for speeding when the guy eating soup while driving a truck is more of a hazard due to his inability to react to changes in the grid?
I drive with a thumb looped through the left side of the steering wheel almost precisely at 9 o'clock and my right hand down at the shifter. I use the rest of my fingers when I need a grip on the wheel, but as I do mostly highway driving, I rarely do.
Sadly, I'm stuck with airbags. I'm 6'6" tall so I sit with my seat as far back as it goes, and my steering wheel telescoped out toward me, so my arm has about a 30 degree bend from straight.
If you play video games, there are a lot of 3D video games (on the PS3 at least), whether you want 3D for TV or not. Some of them are headache inducing personally, like Motorstorm Apocalypse and others are beautiful like Uncharted 3. YMMV.
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Side-note, minor rant, the 360 and PS3 both have 512MB of RAM (ignoring the 360's small cache RAM on the side), but on the 360 its unified and on the PS3 its divided between graphics and processor. That is to say, using all 512MB on the 360 for processing data wouldn't be possible without eliminating video output.
Name me the first PC game that could do 1920x1080 at 60fps with 7.1 near-perfect audio ... a year, and an actual good AAA title game not some shabby space shooter that could do 100fps on a cell phone. The PS3, at many years old and 'stagnant' can do this, so could PCs do it two years earlier? Five? I don't actually remember a PC game running with those specs prior to the PS3, not without a $5000+ gaming rig to inflate the performance significantly.
Higher frame rates mean more lighting due to faster aperture speeds, not to mention better film stock and higher speed hardware. It also means more frames to distribute, meaning larger video files that don't fit as easily on a disc.
Just because people might value something doesn't mean its going to be sold to them at every convenience. IE lots of people love eating fresh seafood but its not sold at Harvey's because it wouldn't be cost effective.
As someone else posted, most everyone can see the difference between 24 and 30. Just because 24 is the magic number we use for when film begins to look real doesn't mean its the maximum number at all. Sure, 800fps is probably way overkill, but 48 at least certainly isn't.
Thanks for the intelligent reply. I've often wondered about this while watching modern vs. older movies. I've sometimes considered that maybe we pan faster these days than we used to, overshooting the eye's ability to watch, but then I see a nice horse-following pan in an older western and realize that's not true either.
Lack of blur is the problem, and current film stock would make sense as a cause.
I think you've confused multiple areas of videography together.
In nfps video, there are n frames per second, each distinct (except in interlaced video transmission).
Even if every frame is identical to the previous, such as looking at an LCD image of your computer's desktop without moving the mouse, you're getting the data at a fixed frame rate. Film your computer screen while stationary using a cell phone camera sometime and watch the flicker due to unmatched refresh rates.
Do real problems include other users on Slashdot posting their opinions? Because I'll take the rant about low frame rates over the rant about a random idiot online any day.
I've always used screens rated 85Hz or better, and I quite prefer the 100+Hz models when possible.
One of the reasons I stayed away from LCD so long was because I loved my high refresh rate CRTs so much. My present LCD does 85Hz only at 1280x1024 or lower sadly.
I can't play an FPS without proper head-bob ... makes me feel like I'm floating around, very unreal and annoying.
The difference is actually quite substantial and matters. The parliamentary democracy in Canada is vastly different from the form of democracy in the USA or that in India or Israel. Australia's I understand is different again but I haven't researched it personally. You should do yourself a favour and look those each up because they're quite fascinating and it would stop you from claiming that the USA has a form of government that it doesn't have.
Exactly. I had embedded video working in the Netscape days, it was Microsoft's silly foray into <object> land that screwed things up for some people.
While I get the appeal of using flash to get custom buttons, etc. I'd much rather just have an embedded video that uses my local decoder's abilities (VLC, Media Player, or what have you).
What you just said is very ignorant-centric.
The vendor is no more at fault than Ford is when you drive 120 mph into a tree.
To the unwashed masses: learn to use your smart phone, pay someone for training, and don't be ignorant about it.
You probably want to read up on the Bulgarian (and Russian) "Virus Factories" ... here's a copy: http://www.people.frisk-software.com/~bontchev/papers/factory.html
There are many.
Now, its from 1991, and I read it at the time through a BBS I frequented, but the facts remain valid.
It wouldn't be that hard to introduce a system hook that requests a password from the user while disabling background data and sensors.
I don't think you understand the concept -- this functionality could easily be hidden in a legitimate app with motion sensing capabilities, like a step counter or a level.
Strangely, if I charge up a Volt and drive it within its battery charge, I'll never need fuel in the tank at all, not when I accelerate, not ever.
The Volt is an all electric car with a portable generator to charge the battery, it is not a traditional hybrid at all. The fact that the generator uses gasoline is of no real importance in fact; the drive train would be identical if it used diesel or solar to charge the batteries as all actual power delivery is done from an electric motor.
Dual overlapping projections running full time with polarized filters is better. No image flicker back and forth.
I'm not sure you're aware how many lines of code are in the Linux kernel these days. Incidentally, if I could, I wouldn't have glibc on my system at all, its a horrible representative of GNU.
Convictions please? no? Free country, right to due process and innocent until proven guilty.
Take your FUD away until someone gets convicted.
That'd be the Vizio polarized technique which is even less exciting than flipping screens as it uses every other scanline for opposing eyes iirc. The result is that 1080p video becomes 540p per eye instead, interlaced.
I always wondered how Nascar drivers managed to merge back into traffic after exiting the pits when it requires merging right :)
Agreed wholeheartedly. But i don't blame drivers at all -- I blame the idiots who gave them the plastic that says they can drive.
I drive over 50Mm a year (that's 50 thousand km or about 30 thousand miles for the metric impaired) for work all over the province of Ontario up here in Canada, and there seems to be about 1/6 of drivers who are either clueless or distracted (head down fetching a CD, fixing hair in mirror, etc.) and about 5% who are genuine jerks with no thought to external consequences. I watched a small Honda cut in front of a full length transport truck with all his wheels down. One of us was smart enough to check how many wheels he had on the road and know he needed distance ... and one of us was in a rush and cut in front of him almost causing a jack-knife.
I have no respect at all for complete idiots on the road endangering others -- and I'm a bit of an aggressive driver myself but I signal, I leave room, and I watch my mirrors to understand traffic flow behind me. I also only drive in the left lane when moving faster than those in the lanes to my right.
The question is, why do we do road-side license suspensions (we do that in this province) for speeding when the guy eating soup while driving a truck is more of a hazard due to his inability to react to changes in the grid?
I drive with a thumb looped through the left side of the steering wheel almost precisely at 9 o'clock and my right hand down at the shifter. I use the rest of my fingers when I need a grip on the wheel, but as I do mostly highway driving, I rarely do.
Sadly, I'm stuck with airbags. I'm 6'6" tall so I sit with my seat as far back as it goes, and my steering wheel telescoped out toward me, so my arm has about a 30 degree bend from straight.
If you play video games, there are a lot of 3D video games (on the PS3 at least), whether you want 3D for TV or not. Some of them are headache inducing personally, like Motorstorm Apocalypse and others are beautiful like Uncharted 3. YMMV.
3D wasn't expensive to develop at all, that's the lie.
3D is just a high refresh rate and an IR transmitter sync'd to vsync to flip which image each eye sees.
This isn't high tech, it was done long ago, including in video games in the early 90's.