* A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
* Science progresses funeral by funeral.
Wait till Scientists discover White Holes in a few years... its gonna be a field day for astrophysics.:-)
1. There are some great open source programs out there -- unfortunately if I can't freaking compile _your_ code _I_ can't help verify that my patches actually work! Result? Not even going to waste my time trying to compile your crap.
2. Give me a freakin SUMMARY of WHAT problem your open source program solves.
3. Use a GOOD coding style with _descriptive_ variable names. Have a wiki or page that DESCRIBES the coding standard used by the project.
4. List what LICENSE the code is. Is it GPL? BSD? MIT? Apache? Public Domain? NOCC? etc. Code Available =/= Open Source =/= Free!
No kidding! This "justification" for "war" is sounding like a broken record.
Wasting money to kill others (who disagree with you) is spiritually retarded.
When are people going to demand that violence is NOT the solution -- it is precisely part of the problem in the first place!
I'm reminded of MLK Jr's speech who said it a little more eloquently:
A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war, "This way of settling differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
> but an LCD doesn't go to black between refreshes so it doesn't suffer from flicker at any signal rate
That's not entirely true and misleading. I have an Asus VG248QE that supports nVidia LightBoost (even in 2D!) that inserts black frames between refreshes. Here is a video of the Asus VG278H that also supports LightBoost. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD5gjAs1A2s
I would _literally_ like to see hard evidence of movies shot at 60 Hz, 72 Hz, 96 Hz, 100 Hz, 120 Hz, and 144 Hz played back on
a) CRT, and
b) LCD with LightBoost to determine what the minimum refresh rate needs to be. I know from personal experience that on a CRT my eyes MUCH prefer 100 Hz to 60 Hz.
> Having 120 Hz cables and monitors is really the brute force version of this, instead of motion blurring you just throw up razor-sharp images on the screen and let the brain do the motion blurring instead of the computer.
Agreed that is a "better" solution then blurring the hell out of everything at a low refresh rate.
> The only thing it improves is latency, Yes. The other benefit with a high refresh rate is for gaming you can turn V-Sync OFF. As a gamer / drummer latency drives me nuts because V-Sync "on" lags input likes crazy. We're talking about 1 or 2 milliseconds here and it is annoying as heck.
Governments *force* you under duress to pay taxes. The *only* way to get out of them is NULL and VOID every CONTRACT you made. Open Source creators voluntarily give their code freely(1) away for the benefit of everyone.
(1) As in Free Speech, but may also be As in Free Beer.
Exactly. What/. did that was so revolutionary back in the day (~2000) that -users- could self-police and help separate out the Signal from the Noise (or vice versa). Hell, even Digg and Reddit copied the model and took it to an extreme.
> TV shows are shot at 24 or 30 frames per second? i'm confused. lol Movies are shot at 24 fps. NTSC is at 29.97 Hz. The Hobbit was shot at 48 fps.
> not sure why anyone would need 60 FPS. Because anything less then 100 Hz looks stuttery as hell. Caveat: I suspect the minimum is around 96 Hz.
To use a poor analogy: 24 fps is like the flickering of fluorescent lights at 60 Hz. Most people won't get a head-ache but some do. The solution is to raise the minimum range so that no one gets headaches.
While I agree that is a good backup plan, if/when my GTX Titan dies I already have 2x GTX 560 Ti w/ 448 cores in 2 different machines. (The GTX Titan replaced one of them.)
I _don't_ want 2 sets of GPU drivers installed on my system, just one.
Is this the first multiplier unlocked Intel chip (K series) that I can buy without a crappy Intel IGPU? So it should be cheaper, right? I already have a high end discrete GPU.
Having our own dedicated TeamSpeak server our gaming group rarely uses Skype anymore. The quality of Skype is noticeably better but _dynamic_ "conference" calls are a pain to setup with Skype. Microsoft is not making a dime off us and probably never will. We'll probably switch to an open source Skype replacement at some point in a year or two.
I don't know how the hell Microsoft "justified" the billions it paid for Skype. You can't "buy" popularity as much as Microsoft would like.
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Now if only he could learn how to sing ... /me ducks :-)
Agreed. Why do you think Max Planck said:
* A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
* Science progresses funeral by funeral.
Wait till Scientists discover White Holes in a few years ... its gonna be a field day for astrophysics. :-)
Translation: I'm too lazy to skip comments I don't like and would rather whine about it instead.
Yup, procedural cities are nothing new.
Here is an cool open source "night time city" project using procedural textures + buildings
http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=3237
Index ... scroll down to "Pixel City"
http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?page_id=16458
I can't agree more!
1. There are some great open source programs out there -- unfortunately if I can't freaking compile _your_ code _I_ can't help verify that my patches actually work! Result? Not even going to waste my time trying to compile your crap.
2. Give me a freakin SUMMARY of WHAT problem your open source program solves.
3. Use a GOOD coding style with _descriptive_ variable names. Have a wiki or page that DESCRIBES the coding standard used by the project.
4. List what LICENSE the code is. Is it GPL? BSD? MIT? Apache? Public Domain? NOCC? etc. Code Available =/= Open Source =/= Free!
Was wondering that myself. I would of thought "Bald Eagle" would of been a likely candidate but looks like the roadmap:
* Hierofalcon CPU SoC 2014 Q2 ... doesn't include any mention.
* Bald Eagle APU/CPU Q1/2 2014 - The next generation high-performance x86-based embedded (???) processor
* Steppe Eagle APU SOC Q1/Q2 2014
-- :-/
With all these "bird" names does that mean AMD has flown the coop?
And/or how does it compare to Jerico? (2006)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0805663/
And when the internet goes down/out what is your _backup_ control plan??
... like the government scorned when one shows that their "system" is a house of cards.
Yeah, lets shoot the messenger and ignore the message. That will "solve" the problem. Oh wait....
No kidding! This "justification" for "war" is sounding like a broken record.
Wasting money to kill others (who disagree with you) is spiritually retarded.
When are people going to demand that violence is NOT the solution -- it is precisely part of the problem in the first place!
I'm reminded of MLK Jr's speech who said it a little more eloquently:
* Full transcript & audio of the brilliant speech:
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm
> but an LCD doesn't go to black between refreshes so it doesn't suffer from flicker at any signal rate
That's not entirely true and misleading. I have an Asus VG248QE that supports nVidia LightBoost (even in 2D!) that inserts black frames between refreshes. Here is a video of the Asus VG278H that also supports LightBoost.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD5gjAs1A2s
Also see:
http://www.blurbusters.com/zero-motion-blur/lightboost/
> We perceive fluid motion as around 25-30 FPS so 60 FPS is perfect smoothness for movies and television.
You do realize that fighter pilots can detect motion up to 200+ FPS right? Yes, 200.
http://amo.net/NT/02-21-01FPS.html
I would _literally_ like to see hard evidence of movies shot at 60 Hz, 72 Hz, 96 Hz, 100 Hz, 120 Hz, and 144 Hz played back on
a) CRT, and
b) LCD with LightBoost
to determine what the minimum refresh rate needs to be. I know from personal experience that on a CRT my eyes MUCH prefer 100 Hz to 60 Hz.
> Having 120 Hz cables and monitors is really the brute force version of this, instead of motion blurring you just throw up razor-sharp images on the screen and let the brain do the motion blurring instead of the computer.
Agreed that is a "better" solution then blurring the hell out of everything at a low refresh rate.
> The only thing it improves is latency,
Yes. The other benefit with a high refresh rate is for gaming you can turn V-Sync OFF. As a gamer / drummer latency drives me nuts because V-Sync "on" lags input likes crazy. We're talking about 1 or 2 milliseconds here and it is annoying as heck.
Yeah the 1080p is the tradeoff.
Did you mean 2560? I agree 2560 x 1440 is an absolute god send compared to crappy 1080p once you've had 1900x1200.
I don't know of any high resolutions (1440+) available at 100+ Hz. :-(
> codec is an abbreviation coder/decoder
Or alt. compression/decompression.
http://oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/codec
Agreed that the mods are ignorant.
Governments *force* you under duress to pay taxes. The *only* way to get out of them is NULL and VOID every CONTRACT you made.
Open Source creators voluntarily give their code freely(1) away for the benefit of everyone.
(1) As in Free Speech, but may also be As in Free Beer.
Now quite trolling.
Considering iOS 7 isn't available to the general public of course you won't hear outcries (just yet).
However even artists are pointing out the stupidity of the lack of contrast:
http://boomcookie.tumblr.com/post/52922782067/why-ios-7-design-fails
Good UI can be summarized up with four words:
Signal-To-Noise ratio
iOS7 is a garbage design because it blurs the ling between signal-to-noise.
The LSD color scheme is just a visual distraction, symptom, of the problem.
> UseNet was ruined by trolls.
Exactly. What /. did that was so revolutionary back in the day (~2000) that -users- could self-police and help separate out the Signal from the Noise (or vice versa). Hell, even Digg and Reddit copied the model and took it to an extreme.
I know. :-( Wish they would upgrade 1080p to at least 120 Hz.
Looks like we'll have to wait another 20 years before people figure out the importance of 100+ Hz.
*sigh*
--
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
> TV shows are shot at 24 or 30 frames per second? i'm confused. lol
Movies are shot at 24 fps. NTSC is at 29.97 Hz. The Hobbit was shot at 48 fps.
> not sure why anyone would need 60 FPS.
Because anything less then 100 Hz looks stuttery as hell. Caveat: I suspect the minimum is around 96 Hz.
To use a poor analogy: 24 fps is like the flickering of fluorescent lights at 60 Hz. Most people won't get a head-ache but some do. The solution is to raise the minimum range so that no one gets headaches.
You'll want want one of these ... nice and bright, and goes all the way up to 144 Hz.
ASUS VG248QE Black 24" 144Hz 1ms (GTG) HDMI
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236313
Don't have a cow man. :-)
The picture shows it supports OpenGL ES 2.0 but how much video RAM do the various models have?
http://files.linuxgizmos.com/freescale-imx6q.jpg
Anyone have any specs on the GPU such as texture fill rate, bandwidth, etc?
Aside, while the Arduino has a RTC (Real-Time Clock) the Raspberry Pi doesn't. At least this i.MX does.
While I agree that is a good backup plan, if/when my GTX Titan dies I already have 2x GTX 560 Ti w/ 448 cores in 2 different machines. (The GTX Titan replaced one of them.)
I _don't_ want 2 sets of GPU drivers installed on my system, just one.
http://worrydream.com/refs/Lockhart-MathematiciansLament.pdf
Is this the first multiplier unlocked Intel chip (K series) that I can buy without a crappy Intel IGPU? So it should be cheaper, right? I already have a high end discrete GPU.
Next story. Can we get some "real" news please?
Having our own dedicated TeamSpeak server our gaming group rarely uses Skype anymore. The quality of Skype is noticeably better but _dynamic_ "conference" calls are a pain to setup with Skype. Microsoft is not making a dime off us and probably never will. We'll probably switch to an open source Skype replacement at some point in a year or two.
I don't know how the hell Microsoft "justified" the billions it paid for Skype. You can't "buy" popularity as much as Microsoft would like.