Exactly. These idiots don't understand the 3 types of consumers:
1. Buy it, 2. Pirate it, 3. Ignore it.
If content isn't legally available I just ignore it. Yeah, as kids we used to pirate the fuck out of everything. As adults we support the content producers like so they can continue to produce more.
While I don't agree with it, I can understand why some pirate. Of course these aren't mutually l exclusive and there ARE exceptions. If you bought it AND you pirate then is it really piracy??? No.
This just proves that piracy is a **business opportunity and free marketing.**
But god forbid these idiots don't provide a legal way to buy old movies, TV shows, music, games, etc. legally and then they wonder why people pirate.
Make ALL the content available for purchases dumbasses and we'll buy more if it.
It's kind of fuckin hard to buy it when it isn't legally available for sale! Go figure!!
> console gamers are some of the most demanding 60 fps even when it doesn't make sense
Frankly, you don't know what the fuck you are talking about.
1. Dark Souls dipped down to a shitty 12 FPS on last gen consoles before it got remastered and got frame locked to 60 FPS on current gen consoles.
12 FPS is a SHIT experience. PERIOD.
It ALWAYS makes sense for 60 FPS **minimum.** If you can't hit 60 FPS then YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG. I say that as a ex console developer, graphics and UI expert.
2. Many consoles games run at a CRAPPY 30 FPS. Many crappy console ports are framed locked to either 30 or 60 FPS _even_ when ported to PC and are completely broken when run at 120 or 144 FPS.
3. It is NOT _just_ console gamers, nor just PC gamers demanding 60 FPS. Sega's arcade Daytona USA ran at a silky smooth 60 fps back in 1994!! Because frame rate **matters** -- especially for racing games.
Why?
30 FPS = 1000 ms/30 f/s = 33.33 ms input lag 60 FPS = 1000 ms/60 f/s = 16.66 ms input lag.
Next gen phones and tablets are now targeting 120 FPS *precisely* to minimize input lag.
Professional drummers can detect as little as 1 ms input lag I'm told !!
Gamers bitched for years about micro-stuttering: when a game runs at mostly 60 fps and dips for 1 frame down to 30 FPS. (I'm one of the people who can detect this -- and no I'm not special, many others can too.) Benchmarks now show the 99% percentile so we can see when games do this as a result of us demanding GPU manufacturers look into this issue.
SHMUPS are another genre where 60 FPS matters.
Fighting games have traditionally run at 60 FPS such as Soul Calibur on the Dreamcast. Because 30 FPS is shit for competitive play.
4. 60 FPS games do NOT sell any better then 30 FPS. Devs know this and fucking lazy. The majority of gamers don't know, don't care, or can't tell the difference between 30 and 60.
5. Some of us demand 60 FPS because there is a HUGE difference between 120 FPS, 60 FPS, and a crappy 30 FPS. The hardest hits are pans.
Even among scholars opinions can and do vary widely. How and Who would we decide in those cases?
i.e. Correct me if I'm wrong but my impression is that the hard sciences tend to have the least variance while the soft sciences tend to have the most variance.
e.g. Clarke's Third Law Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Weinberg's Law If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs then the first time a woodpecker came along it would destroy civilization.
> What they really need are a few judges who weigh the arguments and...
Yes, for some (most?) topics that would work quite well ! i.e. If you have a PhD you get to judge the quality of accuracy.
For other topics who determines who gets to judge? Popularity probably isn't a good measuring stick on most cases except in the case of niche cases. For example, on the topic of multiplayer games you probably DO want to listen to YouTube streamers who constantly play and stream the game. e.g. If you play Starcraft 2 you've probably watched PiG, Winter, etc streamers give tips & info.
Some topics are purely subjective and based on opinion -- there is no authority on the matter -- there is no way to reconcile differences. Although since that is the current way Wikipedia works right now so at least we would have *some* improvements.
candela is a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency 540e12 hertz and that has a radiant intensity in that direction of 1/683 watt per steradian.
Go read all of Karl Pribram's research/books or C.J.S. Clarke's Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem, and thanatology examples such as Ring and Valarino 1998; Sabom 1982 and 1998, etc.
Also of interest will be Jonathan Shear's Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem, David Chalmers's Toward a Scientific Basis of Consciousness, and David Bohm's work.
You keep using this fundamental units, it doesn't mean what you think it means.
The SI system is a complete clusterfuck of "fundamental units":
* Amp depends on the definition of kg * candela depends on the definition of kg * Kelvin depends on the definition of kg * Mole depends on the definition of kg
These units should be ORTHOGONAL; not dependent on one another.
* Who defines what is offensive? * What is or isn't offensive? (The person receiving it??)
Also what if someone is offended by the truth (such as China's retarded ban on the number 64 -- a reference to the 1989 Tiananmen Square murder -- does national Law trump Censorship ?
It is obvious you aren't a programmer. You aren't thinking about it from a programmer's debugging perspective. Would you rather:
* Start from a simpler base that ALREADY works (such as an Earthworm) and trying to figure out how the pieces work, or
* Start from complexity literally billions of order complicated and TRY to debug that???
Just to put the connections into perspective:
* Each neuron may be connected to up to 10,000 other neurons, * The minimum total number of connections is estimated to be 100+ trillion. The number of these synapses are at least 1,000 times the number of stars in our galaxy. Yeah, good luck simulating THAT !
> It's like saying we can only make a functional wing from feathers, and not aluminum.
No, that analogy is flawed.
When reverse engineering you ALWAYS start with something that ALREADY works.
You don't start from scratch and "HOPE" it "eventually" works when you don't have a way to determine if it is or isn't working correctly. That is the height of stupidity.
Theory ALWAYS comes AFTER application.
There are a few big problems in Science at the moment:
* Scientists don't have a fucking clue what Consciousness is. There is (currently) no ability to measure it, store it, load it, etc. Without a way to MEASURE it, HOW do you know if what you are doing is moving towards or away from the goal post??? Science will advance when Consciousness is part of the equations.
* Scientists are under the delusion that Consciousness is this magically emergent property. This is the typical ignorance of man -- viewing things ass-backwards.
e.g. Rene Descartes got it completely backwards. It is NOT I think, therefore I am but I AM, therefore I (may) think. (It is obvious Descartes never spent any time learning how to meditate without any thoughts for any significant period of time..)
The actuality is that Consciousness is the Foundation of reality -- not energy. Peter Russel does a great job explaining this in his Primacy of Consciousness talk. Anyone who has had a shared OBE can tell also tell you this -- but unless you have had one you don't have a frame of reference to understand the implications of this -- Consciousness has the ability to operate outside the confines of space-time. Tom Campbell's My Big Toe is a REALLY interesting "map of the territory" so to speak that goes into more detail.
* Trying to use a Linear process to understand a Non-Linear system will never work. Scientists have yet to (re)discover that Consciousness is Non-Linear due to the Property of Free Will./sarcasm Yeah, good luck trying to use a deterministic system to modal THAT.
* Mind != Brain. There have been dozens of experiments showing the Non-Locality of Mind. Using a Linear system will never modal that.
But like Max Planck said:
Science Advances One Funeral at a Time.
The entire approach to the solution (and problem) to AI, like creating Artificial Life, is all wrong.
> only million cpu's, isn't that a few orders of magnitude to small to emulate a human brain anyways, which has hundreds of billions of neurons?
Yup, this "simulation" is off by an order of magnitudes.
The brain is estimated to have 86 Billion Neurons; the number of connections even higher.
Trying to use inorganic matter to simulate consciousness is a fools errand. They should start with bio-organic computing instead -- they would have better luck.
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Exactly. These idiots don't understand the 3 types of consumers:
1. Buy it,
2. Pirate it,
3. Ignore it.
If content isn't legally available I just ignore it. Yeah, as kids we used to pirate the fuck out of everything. As adults we support the content producers like so they can continue to produce more.
While I don't agree with it, I can understand why some pirate. Of course these aren't mutually l exclusive and there ARE exceptions. If you bought it AND you pirate then is it really piracy??? No.
This just proves that piracy is a **business opportunity and free marketing.**
But god forbid these idiots don't provide a legal way to buy old movies, TV shows, music, games, etc. legally and then they wonder why people pirate.
Make ALL the content available for purchases dumbasses and we'll buy more if it.
It's kind of fuckin hard to buy it when it isn't legally available for sale! Go figure!!
> console gamers are some of the most demanding 60 fps even when it doesn't make sense
Frankly, you don't know what the fuck you are talking about.
1. Dark Souls dipped down to a shitty 12 FPS on last gen consoles before it got remastered and got frame locked to 60 FPS on current gen consoles.
12 FPS is a SHIT experience. PERIOD.
It ALWAYS makes sense for 60 FPS **minimum.** If you can't hit 60 FPS then YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG. I say that as a ex console developer, graphics and UI expert.
2. Many consoles games run at a CRAPPY 30 FPS. Many crappy console ports are framed locked to either 30 or 60 FPS _even_ when ported to PC and are completely broken when run at 120 or 144 FPS.
3. It is NOT _just_ console gamers, nor just PC gamers demanding 60 FPS. Sega's arcade Daytona USA ran at a silky smooth 60 fps back in 1994!! Because frame rate **matters** -- especially for racing games.
Why?
30 FPS = 1000 ms/30 f/s = 33.33 ms input lag
60 FPS = 1000 ms/60 f/s = 16.66 ms input lag.
Next gen phones and tablets are now targeting 120 FPS *precisely* to minimize input lag.
Professional drummers can detect as little as 1 ms input lag I'm told !!
Gamers bitched for years about micro-stuttering: when a game runs at mostly 60 fps and dips for 1 frame down to 30 FPS. (I'm one of the people who can detect this -- and no I'm not special, many others can too.) Benchmarks now show the 99% percentile so we can see when games do this as a result of us demanding GPU manufacturers look into this issue.
SHMUPS are another genre where 60 FPS matters.
Fighting games have traditionally run at 60 FPS such as Soul Calibur on the Dreamcast. Because 30 FPS is shit for competitive play.
4. 60 FPS games do NOT sell any better then 30 FPS. Devs know this and fucking lazy. The majority of gamers don't know, don't care, or can't tell the difference between 30 and 60.
5. Some of us demand 60 FPS because there is a HUGE difference between 120 FPS, 60 FPS, and a crappy 30 FPS. The hardest hits are pans.
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5. Just because YOU can't tell the difference between a shity 24 FPS and 60 FPS doesn't imply no one else can.
6. Your final clue stick would be to ask Hmm, WHY are the VR guys targeting 90 FPS??
Because people get motion sickness at lesser frame rates!
Next time instead of spouting bullshit try RESEARCHING the topic.
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The holy trinity of graphics:
* 120 FPS
* 12-bit / channel HDR
* 300 DPI
Wow. Thanks for that link! I'm going to coin a new phrase:
Practice safe hex -- use an ad blocker.
> And then they run other Javascript that blocks out the content of the site itself because they have detected that you are running an ad blocker.
If you are blocking content because someone blocked ads then users will just go elsewhere to get that content.
Forbes does this bullshit. Guess what, I don't care about Forbes anymore.
Your broken business model isn't my problem.
Ah, you're right. For some reason my brain tuned that part out. DOH!
Which VM you using? VMWare, VirtualBox, etx?
Windows has always been a joke of security. That said, knock on wood, haven't had any security issues.
Only reason to keep Windows is for a few games I play.
And no, I'm still not downgrading to spyware.
Hanlon's Razor
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
That's a really good point.
Even among scholars opinions can and do vary widely. How and Who would we decide in those cases?
i.e. Correct me if I'm wrong but my impression is that the hard sciences tend to have the least variance while the soft sciences tend to have the most variance.
Haha, yeah I was debating whether to include that PS4 satire or not.
Indeed.
Murphy's Computer Laws
e.g.
Clarke's Third Law
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Weinberg's Law
If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs then the first time a woodpecker came along it would destroy civilization.
> What they really need are a few judges who weigh the arguments and ...
Yes, for some (most?) topics that would work quite well !
i.e. If you have a PhD you get to judge the quality of accuracy.
For other topics who determines who gets to judge? Popularity probably isn't a good measuring stick on most cases except in the case of niche cases. For example, on the topic of multiplayer games you probably DO want to listen to YouTube streamers who constantly play and stream the game.
e.g. If you play Starcraft 2 you've probably watched PiG, Winter, etc streamers give tips & info.
Some topics are purely subjective and based on opinion -- there is no authority on the matter -- there is no way to reconcile differences. Although since that is the current way Wikipedia works right now so at least we would have *some* improvements.
o MSDOS
| Win 3.0
| Win 3.11
| WinNT 4.0
| Win 2000
| WinXP
v---+-> Win 7 Pro
+-> Linux
+-> OSX
+-> FreeBSD
I see no need to run MS's latest spyware that constantly breaks.
Robots don't dream -- there are no brainwaves. Either it is trying materials at random or enumerating the permutations.
Who the fuck writes this garbage?
function DreamUp()
{
return Math.floor(Math.random() * NUM_MATERIALS);
}
No, I'm not.
"Except in a situation where any word in that position would be capitalized, such as at the beginning of a sentence or in material using title case."
> How?
Too lazy to do dimensional analysis?
*sigh*
candela is a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency 540e12 hertz and that has a radiant intensity in that direction of 1/683 watt per steradian.
1 Watt = 1 joule per second,
1 Joule = 1 Newton meter.
1 Newton = 1 kg * m/s^2
QED.
So, yeah, candela is a derived unit, not a fundamental unit.
Go read all of Karl Pribram's research/books or C.J.S. Clarke's Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem, and thanatology examples such as Ring and Valarino 1998; Sabom 1982 and 1998, etc.
Also of interest will be Jonathan Shear's Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem, David Chalmers's Toward a Scientific Basis of Consciousness, and David Bohm's work.
Uh, you DO realize that gravity is non-uniform and depends on the distance away from the core, right?
i.e.
The acceleration has its maximum at 3480 km and a value of 10.68 m/s^2
You keep using this fundamental units, it doesn't mean what you think it means.
The SI system is a complete clusterfuck of "fundamental units":
* Amp depends on the definition of kg
* candela depends on the definition of kg
* Kelvin depends on the definition of kg
* Mole depends on the definition of kg
These units should be ORTHOGONAL; not dependent on one another.
Same reason /. doesn't support Unicode. Lazy devs.
Hold on I need to enter my PIN number. =P
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Redundant, noun, duplicate information. Also see: redundant
Excellent points! I would also add:
* Who defines what is offensive?
* What is or isn't offensive? (The person receiving it??)
Also what if someone is offended by the truth (such as China's retarded ban on the number 64 -- a reference to the 1989 Tiananmen Square murder -- does national Law trump Censorship ?
Gloried Table Lookup is NOT Artificial Intelligence; more like Artificial Ignorance.
It is obvious you aren't a programmer. You aren't thinking about it from a programmer's debugging perspective. Would you rather:
* Start from a simpler base that ALREADY works (such as an Earthworm) and trying to figure out how the pieces work, or
* Start from complexity literally billions of order complicated and TRY to debug that???
Just to put the connections into perspective:
* Each neuron may be connected to up to 10,000 other neurons,
* The minimum total number of connections is estimated to be 100+ trillion. The number of these synapses are at least 1,000 times the number of stars in our galaxy. Yeah, good luck simulating THAT !
> It's like saying we can only make a functional wing from feathers, and not aluminum.
No, that analogy is flawed.
When reverse engineering you ALWAYS start with something that ALREADY works.
You don't start from scratch and "HOPE" it "eventually" works when you don't have a way to determine if it is or isn't working correctly. That is the height of stupidity.
Theory ALWAYS comes AFTER application.
There are a few big problems in Science at the moment:
* Scientists don't have a fucking clue what Consciousness is. There is (currently) no ability to measure it, store it, load it, etc. Without a way to MEASURE it, HOW do you know if what you are doing is moving towards or away from the goal post??? Science will advance when Consciousness is part of the equations.
* Scientists are under the delusion that Consciousness is this magically emergent property. This is the typical ignorance of man -- viewing things ass-backwards.
e.g. Rene Descartes got it completely backwards. It is NOT I think, therefore I am but I AM, therefore I (may) think. (It is obvious Descartes never spent any time learning how to meditate without any thoughts for any significant period of time..)
The actuality is that Consciousness is the Foundation of reality -- not energy. Peter Russel does a great job explaining this in his Primacy of Consciousness talk. Anyone who has had a shared OBE can tell also tell you this -- but unless you have had one you don't have a frame of reference to understand the implications of this -- Consciousness has the ability to operate outside the confines of space-time. Tom Campbell's My Big Toe is a REALLY interesting "map of the territory" so to speak that goes into more detail.
* Trying to use a Linear process to understand a Non-Linear system will never work. Scientists have yet to (re)discover that Consciousness is Non-Linear due to the Property of Free Will. /sarcasm Yeah, good luck trying to use a deterministic system to modal THAT.
* Mind != Brain. There have been dozens of experiments showing the Non-Locality of Mind. Using a Linear system will never modal that.
But like Max Planck said:
The entire approach to the solution (and problem) to AI, like creating Artificial Life, is all wrong.
> only million cpu's, isn't that a few orders of magnitude to small to emulate a human brain anyways, which has hundreds of billions of neurons?
Yup, this "simulation" is off by an order of magnitudes.
The brain is estimated to have 86 Billion Neurons; the number of connections even higher.
Trying to use inorganic matter to simulate consciousness is a fools errand. They should start with bio-organic computing instead -- they would have better luck.