_Your_ use case isn't the same as everyone else's.
I can gave 3 reasons:
* Because I read _multiple_ topics.
* I keep tabs open for months at a time where I can come back and resume where I left off.
* I usually have between 50 - 100 tabs open on my iPhone & iPad Pro because its faster then navigating a shitty bookmark / menu system having to drill down multiple levels of the hierarchy.
"Lastly, NVIDIAâ(TM)s fourth and final latency optimization for VR Direct is VR SLI. And this feature is simple enough: rather than using alternate frame rendering (AFR) to render both eyes at once on one GPU, split up the workload such that each GPU is working on each eye simultaneously. AFR, though highly compatible with traditional monoscopic rendering, introduces additional latency that would be undesirable for VR. By rendering each eye separately on each GPU, NVIDIA is able to apply the performance benefits of SLI to VR without creating additional latency. Given the very high performance and low latencies required for VR, itâ(TM)s currently expected that most high-end games supporting VR headsets will need SLI to achieve their necessary performance, so being able to use SLI without a latency penalty will be an important part of making VR gaming commercially viable."
> If I recall, they filmed the Hobbit at an unusually high framerate.
Yes, they did at 48 FPS. They made two mistakes:
* 48 fps STILL looks like shit since it is sub 60 FPS. There is a reason VR try to aim for 96 FPS as a minimum. The sweet spot is between 96 Hz and 120 Hz for _smooth_ motion. * A high frame can't save crappy directing. They had TWO directors due to the extreme workload -- Peter almost suffered complete burn-out due to Warner Bros fucking them over.
There is an excellent documentary on Netflix called Mission Blue
The problem is that we've let greed over-rule sustainability. All the environmental disasters we are seeing are just the natural consequences of choosing false profits over scientific prophets.
This begs the question though -- What can the average citizen do to make an impact? The article mentions stabilize the population as one possible solution. What are others?
1. Let's send humans (with the chance that they could get killed) instead of a probe *facepalm* 2. Tendency to beam in THEN draw their weapons -- they started fixing this in later seasons *double facepalm* 3. Let's use these shitty 14" monitors instead of Wall-to-Wall screens 4. Let's use a flat console that has ZERO tactile feedback instead of having actual physical buttons 5. Let's not put any seat belts or anything else to hold onto in the bridge when the ships gets rocked 6. Riker/Captain telling another officer Shields up" when it would be far faster for them to hit a button right next to them 7. "Shields at maximum strength" - Uh, shouldn't shields always be at max strength if they are on? Again, why isn't there a button next to the captain's char? 8. Constantly using voice commands to _another_ officer who has to listen, and then execute it. This is about a 3+ second DELAY. Good thing they always ran into enemies who were patient!
Uh, the WHOLE point of a company is to maximize revenues while minimizing expenses. I'm not saying it is right, but that's the nature of the beast (Capitalism).
How MUCH profit is too much? 2x? 5x? 10x? 20x? Where do you draw this arbitrary line and make a stand saying "You are fleecing your customers TOO much?"
Apple has a LONG history of driving hardware expenses down to maximize profits. i.e. When they sold (Floppy) Disk Drives for the Apple 2.
The Disk II was finally available in July 1978 with the first full version of DOS, 3.1. It had an introductory price of $495 (including the controller card) if you ordered them before Apple had them in stock; otherwise, the price would be $595.
The resulting product, the Disk II, was almost obscenely profitable: For about $140 in parts ($80 after the shift to Alps) [not counting labor costs], Apple could package a disk drive and a disk controller in a single box that sold at retail for upwards of $495
Oh, I agree, that analytics has gone completely nuts / overboard in games.
And I definitely agree that addictive games, such as EverQuest, WoW, etc, destroyed lives.
But games aren't accessing your photos, scanning them using facial recognition to detect who your friends are, accessing your contacts, etc. to the same depth as FailBook.
> FaceBook is no different from visiting a physical store.
There is definitely a difference.
1. They only keep the video feed for a limited time. 2. They don't know who I am -- there is some (small) guarantee of anonymity in public.
With FecesBook people are voluntarily giving HUGE amounts of information over.
Yes, the amount of information collected at games, stores, and FazeBook are all bad, but FaceBook is by far worse.
Today, the Internet was completely shocked to find out that Corporations sell things above cost -- what is collectively called "at a profit" in the business -- in order to sustain their infrastructure, support, and logistics of all the engineering, design, implementation, fees, certifications, and quality assurance needed to sell a product.
When Millennials were asked:
"How do companies produce these things you buy?"
they replied:
"I thought it was all magic pixie dust. What do you mean "people" have to spend months writing software for our devices? What's an Operating System? How is it different from an app?"
* Serif along with the opposite Sans Serif, and * Proportional along with the opposite Non-proportional aka monospaced
You are conflating proportionality with serifs. Traditionally, monospaced typefaces are Sans Serif, but that is NOT a hard rule.
For example, you can have:
* monospaced Serif typefaces -- e.g. Courier New (which look like crap on electronic displays, but look good in print) and * monospaced Sans serif typefaces. -- e.g. Inconsolata, Source Code Pro (which look great on electronic displays, but look OK in print.)
The easiest way to tell if a font is serif or not is to look at the "S" or "s".
> Seriously though, what about...other addictive games...
The difference is that other addictive games aren't data-mining the shit out of you compared to FecesBook because they don't have access to your contacts.
But your point is that other addictive games are bad definitely should be noted. They certainly don't get a "free pass" just because "See, we aren't as bad as FailBook!"
There needs to be a US law that a person can request all the data a company has collected about you.
> I have a feeling the culture will eventually become dumb and toxic enough that the thing implodes an people will move to some other format for social media.
If history is any indicator, I sadly concur. Consider the landscape of Social Media "platforms":
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The million dollar question is: can A.I. become _actually_ conscious?
Imagine the answer to that day is "Yes" and a future day where Scientists have _finally_ figured out how Consciousness is represented.
They can:
* download it * duplicate it * upload it
No longer would a human's life be reduced to doing demotivating and demoralizing menial tasks where a human is just-another-cog in some assembly line building parts, doing janitorial work, etc.
A.I. could potentially allows us as a species to increase the quality of life. This is why we invent machines in the first place!
A) To do all the boring crap that we don't want to do in the first place, and B) Scale up. i.e. Farm machines can do what it would take hundreds of people to do. C) To do it faster D) With less mistakes E) Cheaper
A.I. is just the natural evolution of empowering a tool to do human's tasks.
If the secret of consciousness is eventually found, it would also effectively, this would end death.
The implications of "A.I. become truly sentient" are mind-blowing.
A.I. is just like any other technology. It can be abused, or used correctly
Do we need to proceed with caution? Yes. Do we need to panic? No.
We need to proceed methodically and with careful consideration viewing ALL the angles: Both positive and negative, instead of a knee-jerk "The World is DOOMED! Doomed, I tell you!"
A.I. is eventually going to happen -- whether we want it or not.
Silicon Consciousness has a lot to offer and teach Carbon-based Consciousness.
Slashdot Mirror
Incorrect.
Science is a Subtractive system: It removes falsehoods.
There is a corresponding Additive system but the arrogance of the male ego is too blind to recognize it.
_Your_ use case isn't the same as everyone else's.
I can gave 3 reasons:
* Because I read _multiple_ topics.
* I keep tabs open for months at a time where I can come back and resume where I left off.
* I usually have between 50 - 100 tabs open on my iPhone & iPad Pro because its faster then navigating a shitty bookmark / menu system having to drill down multiple levels of the hierarchy.
Stop fucking worshipping technology already.
It is just a tool -- it can be used, or abused.
It isn't a god -- so stop pretending it is.
Engrish might give that a run for its money.
The epitome of laziness:
* Bug-fixes
No Shit,Sherlock! What specifically did you fix??? As a customer I want to know does it effect me? I can't tell that when the list is nondescript.
Giving some vague description is fucking useless.
Your information is out-of-date. You are talking about old school VR from the 90's.
In contradistinction, VR today renders each frame for each eye. And that was THREE years ago.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/...
Everyone bitches that the cable monthly bill costs too much.
Welcome to TV a la carte.
And yes, it sucks.
> If I recall, they filmed the Hobbit at an unusually high framerate.
Yes, they did at 48 FPS. They made two mistakes:
* 48 fps STILL looks like shit since it is sub 60 FPS. There is a reason VR try to aim for 96 FPS as a minimum. The sweet spot is between 96 Hz and 120 Hz for _smooth_ motion.
* A high frame can't save crappy directing. They had TWO directors due to the extreme workload -- Peter almost suffered complete burn-out due to Warner Bros fucking them over.
There is an excellent documentary on Netflix called Mission Blue
The problem is that we've let greed over-rule sustainability. All the environmental disasters we are seeing are just the natural consequences of choosing false profits over scientific prophets.
This begs the question though -- What can the average citizen do to make an impact? The article mentions stabilize the population as one possible solution. What are others?
As opposed to closed source where source code is held hostage and no one can use it???
Open Source is a better paradigm for benefiting society in the long run.
The EA kiss of death is well documented by Forbes and Wikipoodia
1. Kesmai (2001)
2. Bullfrog Productions (2001)
3. Westwood Studios (2003)
4. Maxis. (2004)
5. Origin Systems (2004)
6. Pandemic Studios (2009)
7. Phenomic (2013)
8. DreamWorks Interactive (2013)
9. Black Box Games (2013)
10. Mythic Entertainment (2014)
11. Visceral Games (2017)
You are confusing marketing with intelligence. There is no correlation between the two.
As attributed to P. T. Barnum
Yeah, TNG does some pretty dumb shit.
1. Let's send humans (with the chance that they could get killed) instead of a probe *facepalm*
2. Tendency to beam in THEN draw their weapons -- they started fixing this in later seasons *double facepalm*
3. Let's use these shitty 14" monitors instead of Wall-to-Wall screens
4. Let's use a flat console that has ZERO tactile feedback instead of having actual physical buttons
5. Let's not put any seat belts or anything else to hold onto in the bridge when the ships gets rocked
6. Riker/Captain telling another officer Shields up" when it would be far faster for them to hit a button right next to them
7. "Shields at maximum strength" - Uh, shouldn't shields always be at max strength if they are on? Again, why isn't there a button next to the captain's char?
8. Constantly using voice commands to _another_ officer who has to listen, and then execute it. This is about a 3+ second DELAY. Good thing they always ran into enemies who were patient!
It does, Inconsolata-g is better -- it fixes the "one" and lower case "L" glyph from looking to similar.
You can find it and other good recommendations here:
https://www.slant.co/topics/67...
* Andale Mono
* Anonymous Pro
* Consolas
* Deja Vu Sans Mon
* Droid Sans Mono
* Envy Code R
* Fira Code
* Hack
* Inconsolata-g
* Input
* Liberation Mono
* Lucida Console
* M+ 1m
* Menlo
* Meslo LG
* Monaco
* PT Mono
* Proggy Clean
* Source Code Pro
* Ubuntu Mono
Uh, the WHOLE point of a company is to maximize revenues while minimizing expenses. I'm not saying it is right, but that's the nature of the beast (Capitalism).
How MUCH profit is too much? 2x? 5x? 10x? 20x? Where do you draw this arbitrary line and make a stand saying "You are fleecing your customers TOO much?"
Apple has a LONG history of driving hardware expenses down to maximize profits. i.e. When they sold (Floppy) Disk Drives for the Apple 2.
Oh, I agree, that analytics has gone completely nuts / overboard in games.
And I definitely agree that addictive games, such as EverQuest, WoW, etc, destroyed lives.
But games aren't accessing your photos, scanning them using facial recognition to detect who your friends are, accessing your contacts, etc. to the same depth as FailBook.
> FaceBook is no different from visiting a physical store.
There is definitely a difference.
1. They only keep the video feed for a limited time.
2. They don't know who I am -- there is some (small) guarantee of anonymity in public.
With FecesBook people are voluntarily giving HUGE amounts of information over.
Yes, the amount of information collected at games, stores, and FazeBook are all bad, but FaceBook is by far worse.
/Oblg. X marks the spot, aka Handyman's Invoice
Today, the Internet was completely shocked to find out that Corporations sell things above cost -- what is collectively called "at a profit" in the business -- in order to sustain their infrastructure, support, and logistics of all the engineering, design, implementation, fees, certifications, and quality assurance needed to sell a product.
When Millennials were asked:
"How do companies produce these things you buy?"
they replied:
"I thought it was all magic pixie dust. What do you mean "people" have to spend months writing software for our devices? What's an Operating System? How is it different from an app?"
More News at 10. Film at 11.
> there are three basic types of fonts, Sans, Serif, and monospace,
Incorrect.
There are at least 2 properties of typefaces.
* Serif along with the opposite Sans Serif, and
* Proportional along with the opposite Non-proportional aka monospaced
You are conflating proportionality with serifs. Traditionally, monospaced typefaces are Sans Serif, but that is NOT a hard rule.
For example, you can have:
* monospaced Serif typefaces -- e.g. Courier New (which look like crap on electronic displays, but look good in print)
and
* monospaced Sans serif typefaces. -- e.g. Inconsolata, Source Code Pro (which look great on electronic displays, but look OK in print.)
The easiest way to tell if a font is serif or not is to look at the "S" or "s".
/Oblg. World's first artist and art critic
NPR did a fantastic interview with Cow Clicker's creator, Ian Bogost, back in 2011.
Cow Clicker Founder: If You Can't Ruin It, Destroy It
> Seriously though, what about ...other addictive games ...
The difference is that other addictive games aren't data-mining the shit out of you compared to FecesBook because they don't have access to your contacts.
But your point is that other addictive games are bad definitely should be noted. They certainly don't get a "free pass" just because "See, we aren't as bad as FailBook!"
There needs to be a US law that a person can request all the data a company has collected about you.
> I have a feeling the culture will eventually become dumb and toxic enough that the thing implodes an people will move to some other format for social media.
If history is any indicator, I sadly concur. Consider the landscape of Social Media "platforms":
Timeline/History of Social Media
-- ... *facepalm*
I thought Idiocracy (2006) was supposed to be a political satire and not a mockumentary / documentary / instruction manual
> when they re-engineered the MX518 to fail
Link please?
I have two MX518, two G500, and two G500s because I want backup mice when they fail -- which they haven't (yet). *knock on wood.*
> Wow - imagine if the banks could have an Undo button. Reset. Start over.
Technically, the problem is NOT the debt, but usury.
Also, you DO realize that for thousands of years Judaism has the concept of "Year of Jubilee" where ALL debts are erased, right?
They realized that usury is a cancer to any society -- because it is not sustainable. Debt is a just a symptom of a broken system.
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The million dollar question is: can A.I. become _actually_ conscious?
Imagine the answer to that day is "Yes" and a future day where Scientists have _finally_ figured out how Consciousness is represented.
They can:
* download it
* duplicate it
* upload it
No longer would a human's life be reduced to doing demotivating and demoralizing menial tasks where a human is just-another-cog in some assembly line building parts, doing janitorial work, etc.
A.I. could potentially allows us as a species to increase the quality of life. This is why we invent machines in the first place!
A) To do all the boring crap that we don't want to do in the first place, and
B) Scale up. i.e. Farm machines can do what it would take hundreds of people to do.
C) To do it faster
D) With less mistakes
E) Cheaper
A.I. is just the natural evolution of empowering a tool to do human's tasks.
If the secret of consciousness is eventually found, it would also effectively, this would end death.
The implications of "A.I. become truly sentient" are mind-blowing.
A.I. is just like any other technology. It can be abused, or used correctly
Do we need to proceed with caution? Yes.
Do we need to panic? No.
We need to proceed methodically and with careful consideration viewing ALL the angles: Both positive and negative, instead of a knee-jerk "The World is DOOMED! Doomed, I tell you!"
A.I. is eventually going to happen -- whether we want it or not.
Silicon Consciousness has a lot to offer and teach Carbon-based Consciousness.
Things are going to get REAL interesting ...