If you do any research into the path of an HD signal from source to destination, you will see that it is recompressed at different levels severlal times. MPEG2 is near-lossless at higher bitrates, and scales well to at least 200Mb/s for various size sources. The signal is only recompressed down to 19Mb/s or whatever for the final hop.
"Uncompressed" sources would be the 80Mb/s MPEG2 streams (or whatever the studio chooses to produce the show in, that number sticks in my head). If I remember properly, this is progressive, even for 1080, but don't quote me on this.
Uncompressed 1080p video is 354Mb/s, or 156GB an hour, or approximately 75 GMail account-fuls an hour. (All hail Slash-units)
What file system are you running that gives you limitless file size? Better yet - what universe are you from that you have an infinite amount of storage material for said file.
Oh, pardon me. You must have one of those new-fangled Turing machines...
I'll take a teeny tiny magnesium panasonic toughbook laptop that I can throw across the room to clatter on the floor and chip the ceramic tile, while operational, over your teeny tiny vaio laptop any day.
Writing HTML is not programming. Drawing a stick figure with a smiley face is not art.
You are trying to imply that an artist should be able to write the next vector raytracing engine for HalfLife 3 with no knowledge of calculus. I claim BS. This is like giving the typical slashdotter with no art experience a contract to make a painting styled after a Rembrandt. "Its real simple! you just dip the paint brush in the paint, and drag across the paper"
In game development, there is a need for REAL programmers, REAL artists, and REAL musicians. Some people can pull off being two of these well enough, or even all three, but generally this is not the case.
Computer science is a science, mainly by the definition of "Methodological activity, discipline, or study".
Games are a work of art as much as a program. If you swap the personnel of the art department with the gaming engine department, the game will look like Duke Nukem Forever, and, uh... never mind.
Personally, the best programmers I know have graduated with degrees in electrical or computer engineering, not ComSci. ComSci folks seem to be too focused in the software realm. Yeah, this seems stereotypical, but based on observation. YMMV.
Ok - now I know nothing of Renault cars, but do they brake by wire? Every car has a braking system that is stronger than the engine. (Slashdotters - this is not flame bait - though it is a blatant overgeneralization it is in most cases true)
Unless the car brakes by wire instead of having a master cylinder, there should be no way that it could not stop. An ABS system that malfunctioned would not affect the brakes' capabilities.
Brake fade due to boiling of the fluid could be a problem going from 120 to stop with a wide open throttle, but given the amount of air passing over the brakes I would still think it possible to stop.
Using the e-brake (hand brake)(parking brake) might help, in addition to hte fading main brakes. If the rear brakes are disc brakes, they usually have a smaller drum brake for the e-brake because drums lock up better (so your car doesnt roll down the hill)
Also if this person was really fearing for his safety... life is more dear than property. screw the engine - either shift to neutral and hope it has a damn good rev-limiter, or (worse) downshift and use the engine+rev limiter as a kamikazi-style brake and hope it doesnt go boom!
I realize that many fields are easily accessible to amateurs, yet others remain obviously out of reach. Compare this to selling lemonade on the street corner.
In many fields there is independent innovation. In electronics, for instance, people have been home-brewing radios, amplifiers, computers, etc.. for seemingly forever.
Hoewever, it is technologically and physically impossible to build a cyclotron in your back yard. (Though if memory serves me properly, people have tried to build nuclear reactors from smoke alarm materials in the past).
As always there is a limit to what independents can do by themselves, but that limit is always expanding with newly available tech.
Has everyone forgotten the horrid episode IV-and-a-half, also known as 'Star Wars Holiday Special'? Episode I was definitely not the first sub-par installment (in our chronology at least).
I also vaguely remember the two 'Ewok Adventures' I used to watch as a kid, and enjoyed, though at the time I was not yet old enough to be a good critic. When are these three bastard children going to be re-released?
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While I have not seen one of these monitors operational, it sounds like the technology is something thats been around for quite awhile, albeit in cheap children's toys and advertisements. The toy images are non-holographic where there is what looks like a linear fresnel lens adhered to a specially printed paper. These are able to give multiple images if you move your head, and some are intended to simulate 3D, depending on the shape of the lensing and printing on the paper.
If this is the case, then the sweet spot for these monitors may be quite limited to a certain distance, and angle, but this does not limit the coolness factor.
This is just conjecture, however, based on their claim of using parallax.
The comment was meant tongue in cheek - obviously it flew too high...
The meaning of the post was that reboots of Windows used to be so common that watching the POST usually took a great amount of time relative to the time that the system was useful, keeping me off of Windows.
Sadly I have to agree with you. However - it seems that most games worthwhile are becoming dual release games... I mean what else do you need besides Tux Racer, UT2004.
BTW if you ever move to playing Armagetron - look for Patsy on 'darnish
Used to be blue screens and reboots kept me off Windows and watching the POST count up memory - so the BIOS has kept me off windows. Windows (XP) has proved more stable - but it regularly dumps core as well, if not as often.
Thankfully modern POST routines skip many power-up tests - so most of the time it is GRUB keeping me off of Windows:-)
Oh... and the other alternatives that GRUB permits...
"(Of course, any hardware that uses the operator as a heat-sink is ASKING to lose.)"
Many products use the user as a heat sink successfully. Handheld radios used by ham radio operators often rely on the user to hold them. Given the relatively large surface area, and the fact that the radio is conveniently palm sized, sometimes with metal casing, the operator generally is unaffected by the transferred heat.
If these same radios are left on a tabletop in a windless day and connected OQO style... transmitting nonstop... they would probably get uncomfortably warm if someone went to pick them up.
Of course this is not the intended operation mode or duty cycle...
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If you do any research into the path of an HD signal from source to destination, you will see that it is recompressed at different levels severlal times. MPEG2 is near-lossless at higher bitrates, and scales well to at least 200Mb/s for various size sources. The signal is only recompressed down to 19Mb/s or whatever for the final hop.
"Uncompressed" sources would be the 80Mb/s MPEG2 streams (or whatever the studio chooses to produce the show in, that number sticks in my head). If I remember properly, this is progressive, even for 1080, but don't quote me on this.
Uncompressed 1080p video is 354Mb/s, or 156GB an hour, or approximately 75 GMail account-fuls an hour. (All hail Slash-units)
- Strydre
> Since the size of these files is unbounded
What file system are you running that gives you limitless file size? Better yet - what universe are you from that you have an infinite amount of storage material for said file.
Oh, pardon me. You must have one of those new-fangled Turing machines...
*rimshot*
Tough audience...
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I'll take a teeny tiny magnesium panasonic toughbook laptop that I can throw across the room to clatter on the floor and chip the ceramic tile, while operational, over your teeny tiny vaio laptop any day.
Hence the comment: "possibly licensing shackled replacement".
I was pondering the broken pseudocode in your .sig, which prompted me to dream up this as a possibly licensing shackled replacement:
:-P
do() || do_not();
isNot(there,try);
You tried to sum up all of Slashdot's awesome creativity potential in one post. Sadly, you failed.
I, for one, welcome our new friggin-laser-armed shark overlords.
Joke's on you. Google for "MC Hawking".
Frelling N3wb...
Writing HTML is not programming. Drawing a stick figure with a smiley face is not art.
You are trying to imply that an artist should be able to write the next vector raytracing engine for HalfLife 3 with no knowledge of calculus. I claim BS. This is like giving the typical slashdotter with no art experience a contract to make a painting styled after a Rembrandt. "Its real simple! you just dip the paint brush in the paint, and drag across the paper"
In game development, there is a need for REAL programmers, REAL artists, and REAL musicians. Some people can pull off being two of these well enough, or even all three, but generally this is not the case.
Computer science is a science, mainly by the definition of "Methodological activity, discipline, or study".
Games are a work of art as much as a program. If you swap the personnel of the art department with the gaming engine department, the game will look like Duke Nukem Forever, and, uh... never mind.
Personally, the best programmers I know have graduated with degrees in electrical or computer engineering, not ComSci. ComSci folks seem to be too focused in the software realm. Yeah, this seems stereotypical, but based on observation. YMMV.
- Strydre
NA
Oh, we got it. WE just did not want to admit that we got it.
Nope, but there's always... no, never mind...
BTW, I think I've finally found Myself.
I'm sorry, but I'm not allowed to argue unless you've paid.
Best part of the article...
... But I think we just disagree.
Gizmodo:
Gates: No, I actually don't think we disagree.
How many of these would it take to equal the processing power in an R2 astromech? I want to make a hyperspace jump NOW dammit!
And no, I do not want to starburst - it is way too random - you never know where you are going to revert to realspace. Plus I do not have a Leviathan.
Well, for that matter, I do not have a hyperdrive unit either, so the computations would be for naught.
Ok - now I know nothing of Renault cars, but do they brake by wire? Every car has a braking system that is stronger than the engine. (Slashdotters - this is not flame bait - though it is a blatant overgeneralization it is in most cases true)
Unless the car brakes by wire instead of having a master cylinder, there should be no way that it could not stop. An ABS system that malfunctioned would not affect the brakes' capabilities.
Brake fade due to boiling of the fluid could be a problem going from 120 to stop with a wide open throttle, but given the amount of air passing over the brakes I would still think it possible to stop.
Using the e-brake (hand brake)(parking brake) might help, in addition to hte fading main brakes. If the rear brakes are disc brakes, they usually have a smaller drum brake for the e-brake because drums lock up better (so your car doesnt roll down the hill)
Also if this person was really fearing for his safety... life is more dear than property. screw the engine - either shift to neutral and hope it has a damn good rev-limiter, or (worse) downshift and use the engine+rev limiter as a kamikazi-style brake and hope it doesnt go boom!
or reach under the dash and pull fuses randomly.
I realize that many fields are easily accessible to amateurs, yet others remain obviously out of reach. Compare this to selling lemonade on the street corner.
In many fields there is independent innovation. In electronics, for instance, people have been home-brewing radios, amplifiers, computers, etc.. for seemingly forever.
Hoewever, it is technologically and physically impossible to build a cyclotron in your back yard. (Though if memory serves me properly, people have tried to build nuclear reactors from smoke alarm materials in the past).
As always there is a limit to what independents can do by themselves, but that limit is always expanding with newly available tech.
- Strydre -
Has everyone forgotten the horrid episode IV-and-a-half, also known as 'Star Wars Holiday Special'?
Episode I was definitely not the first sub-par installment (in our chronology at least).
I also vaguely remember the two 'Ewok Adventures' I used to watch as a kid, and enjoyed, though at the time I was not yet old enough to be a good critic. When are these three bastard children going to be re-released?
While I have not seen one of these monitors operational, it sounds like the technology is something thats been around for quite awhile, albeit in cheap children's toys and advertisements. The toy images are non-holographic where there is what looks like a linear fresnel lens adhered to a specially printed paper. These are able to give multiple images if you move your head, and some are intended to simulate 3D, depending on the shape of the lensing and printing on the paper.
If this is the case, then the sweet spot for these monitors may be quite limited to a certain distance, and angle, but this does not limit the coolness factor.
This is just conjecture, however, based on their claim of using parallax.
Too late... 1TB disks are available, yet pricey.
The comment was meant tongue in cheek - obviously it flew too high...
The meaning of the post was that reboots of Windows used to be so common that watching the POST usually took a great amount of time relative to the time that the system was useful, keeping me off of Windows.
bleh
Sadly I have to agree with you. However - it seems that most games worthwhile are becoming dual release games... I mean what else do you need besides Tux Racer, UT2004.
BTW if you ever move to playing Armagetron - look for Patsy on 'darnish
Used to be blue screens and reboots kept me off Windows and watching the POST count up memory - so the BIOS has kept me off windows. Windows (XP) has proved more stable - but it regularly dumps core as well, if not as often.
:-)
Thankfully modern POST routines skip many power-up tests - so most of the time it is GRUB keeping me off of Windows
Oh... and the other alternatives that GRUB permits...
"(Of course, any hardware that uses the operator as a heat-sink is ASKING to lose.)"
Many products use the user as a heat sink successfully. Handheld radios used by ham radio operators often rely on the user to hold them. Given the relatively large surface area, and the fact that the radio is conveniently palm sized, sometimes with metal casing, the operator generally is unaffected by the transferred heat.
If these same radios are left on a tabletop in a windless day and connected OQO style... transmitting nonstop... they would probably get uncomfortably warm if someone went to pick them up.
Of course this is not the intended operation mode or duty cycle...
Ooohhhh!!! What Lovely Wallpaper! Where do they find fields with clouds so puffy and skies so blue?!?