Thats true, if you're on a newer device. Whatever streaming device you're using though has to support DD+, not just DD. Alot of older devices dont have the built in decoder support to decode DD+ into either DD or PCM 5.1. Or the manufacturers dont want to have to pay for DD+ support, either way there are alot of 5.1 capable devices that wont do netflix in 5.1
And it says right there on the page "THIS IS A RESEARCH SYSTEM. This is also an early release of a research system. We know the APIs and function names are likely to change, and that several tools need to be made available to make this all complete. "
It also has not been updated in 3 months, so its not extremely active either. Its not surprising its from CMU though, their flite library is widely used for speech synthesis all over the place for text to speech.
Either way, the actual parsing being done on mobile devices is minimal at this point. Apple does not do it, and google does it only in specific circumstances with very basic things like 'play music', 'open gmail', etc. There is no in depth parsing to actually figure out context and meaning without the online component as of yet
Unless something has changed recently all that speech to text is not done on the phone, its all offloaded to servers. There are companies out there that most companies like apple, google, amazon, all the tv providers, etc, contract out to to handle their speech to text needs. They return back the text along with lists of intents for easy indexing and parsing
that one asscreed is notoriously poorly ported. It has the control issues you mentioned, but also has a permanently locked fps to 60fps, and yet still manages to have frame drops and stutters even on cards like a 1080. Its a great game, but a horrid port
But you can do that without a shield too. Just install moonlight, it understands nvidia's streaming protocol so it can talk to GFE running on your pc and stream just the same as the shield does
But even their source states just because someone is using 'organically' approved pesticides does not necessarily make it better, you dont know quantity of use: Gillman says just because an organic farmer used some authorized chemicals is no reason to shun the food. But it's important for consumers to know what's going on. For him, the answer to the ambiguity around organic labeling is to go local. "I go to the farmers market and talk to the growers to see who is serious about reducing pesticide use," he says. "I'd rather buy food from someone who used Roundup once than someone who uses organic pesticides all the time."
So even the source would rather have food from someone using a non-organically approved pesticide once vs. an organic farmer who is using a ton of an approved pesticide
Not having to worry about phone/cord destruction. I had an htc evo something something (the one with the kickstand) for a long while and it was great. Until the dog ran over to my nightstand and then dragged my phone off with him having it land directly on the usb port, killing the port. Switching to built-in wireless charging (like on my nexus 5) means you can just throw your phone down and your done and not have to worry about destroying a usb port, and if it somehow gets busted you can still use your phone for as long as you have a wireless charging pad
That being said I did end up upgrading to a 5x, and the one thing I wish they would have kept was the built in wirelesss charging, so useful
It depends on the devices they plan to be on. If they want to have any sort of compatibility with existing 4k capable devices they will have to maintain their hevc encoded library. Since those devices wont magically gain an AV1 decoder its either they completely ditch support for any current 4k capable device, or they continue encoding for them
The industry is already using it. While netflix may have their name on AV1, they are already using HEVC for all of their 4k content. So is every other big player in the content industry, if its 4k, its hevc at this point. So I wouldnt say the industry isnt biting, they are using whats currently available and feasible to get to market
Thats up to apple. Only reason this is now a 'feature' is because they are releasing updated hardware with kabylake parts that support native HEVC (and VP9) decode with the intel gpu. Previously they couldnt and would have relied on whether or not there was a sufficient 3rd party gpu which only the pro's would have so there was no point in adding it. So theoretically they can, the hardware supports it, whether or not they will do it is another story
seeing as how I bought it, i know what i paid and I know what the specs are, so no, Im not off. Besides even if your going by retail and want to compare apples to apples the 8gb surface laptop is 1299, again overpriced compared to 699 retail of the acer
yea its definitely priced too high. I recently bought an acer switch alpha 12 for 480$ which has twice the ram and ssd space as the base model of this and a non-gimped version of windows. Plus its a 2in1 so it has a touchscreen for a reason
This is what I want to know as well. I ran with a SSD cache for many years on my z68 board and its great for gaming. On games with large maps like bf4 if you've been playing the game consistently it turns that 1-2min map load into 20seconds and thats just with an SSD cache. Im still a little miffed it just stopped working for no apparently reason my z170 build, kept getting some nebulous error and could never get the caching to work again
Thats not what this is talking about at all. This concerns companies like tegna and hearst television. Those are the ones who own all the local tv stations, not comcast/disney/nbc
yea there are tons of 3d printed cases on etsy for all the rPI variants. So you can make it look like a mini-nes, snes, n64, atari, whatever you want. Nintendo style usb controllers have also existed for a long long time
So there really is no point to an NES classic, unless you are that much against downloading some roms that you would now be willing to pay 100-300$ for 30 games. If you are willing to mod an NES classic to insert all your own roms than why even bother
Well it does include the new 'game mode', but if your running windows just for gaming you probably have already tweaked your system as much as possible and it wont do much. Its mostly there for the people that have 10 browser toolbars installed all sucking down resources and then wonder why games run like shit, it just changes priorities for the processes you specify as games
part of the point of having your own setup in a normal family room environment is you dont need all that ridiculous expensive stuff just to make it better than a theater. You dont need sound deadening, you dont have other loud ass theaters right next to your family room, if someone else in your house has shit blaring them tell them to turn it down, otherwise for a family of 2-4 its not even a problem unless you have neighbors who are constantly doing construction in which case you have other problems
Lighting, turn off your lights and just have dark enough shades to make the room black, you dont need theater lighting
Seats, just get the most comfortable couch you can, you dont need recliners and to replicate the experience when you have a couch that 3 people can fully lay down on comfortably, much rather have that than separate recliners.
Speakers, you dont need them mounted inside the ceiling, this is your own house. You can get 2 front facing towers and a center. Then either some speaker stands or wall/ceiling mounts/hangers for all the rears.
You most definitely can get a home theater experience that beats a movie theater in 3-5k easily. Your estimates and advice seem based on those that must have an entirely dedicated and replicated theater experience in a separate room of their house, but you really dont need all of that.
My system was all in about that range ~2k for 1080p+3d projector 300 for 100in motorized screen 350 for pioneer 7.1 receiver (woot refurb of a 600$ one) 350 for pioneer 5.1 system (i suppose you could count it as 500 since thats the normal price of that speaker set, just caught it on amazon during BF)
Thats 3k for audio and video done. You dont need some ridiculous speaker setup to rival a movie theater when you're talking about a ~20x20ft room, you just need some good clarity and separation. You dont need a 10k$ projector when ones in the 2k-4k range work just fine. So much of this stuff is just epeen and for custom installers to be able to over charge clients who happen to be rich. Good on them for having that much and shelling out to have it all installed and setup right but you dont really need it to have a better than a theater experience
+1 its why I never look at anything near SF and would never consider it
Just to maintain the same cost of living they would have to pay me 1.6x my current salary, and thats to maintain. Let alone I would still be facing an increase in housing costs since I bought my house at the bottom of the bubble and its value has increased 1.5x since then. All that for a gain of................... nothing. Living in colorado we have all the exact amenities that SF can provide and more, except for a bay, all while costing much less.
Ive never understood the mindset of SF/NYC's 'awesomeness'. Ive been to both, multiple times. Sure there may be lots of things to do and places to eat, but in a diverse large city such as denver, or austin, or the ilk of those, you can find all the exact same things to do, types of food and restaurants to eat at, etc. You just may have 10-20 choices instead of 100
That happens? since when? I have been running windows 10 since release and not once has it ever attempted to update while I was using it. At most I have a message in the action center saying updates are available and ready, or that it will need to reboot to update, but I have never had a forced update/reboot occur during usage
Theres a reason there is an 'active hours' setting. It specifically states that windows will never automatically reboot due to an update during active hours with a note below that states 'We'll check to see if your using the device before rebooting'
So............you havent been paying attention maybe?
we went to do our usual christmas eve movie. The only option was a theater that was basically a 40 seater with recliners and reserved seating. Ticket price was still the same.
They've finally started to realize that was people want is to just watch movies at home, and so they are just trying to replicate that experience. This is why I never go to the theaters unless prodded by friends, otherwise my own home theater setup provides a much better experience
People do enjoy watching first run movies and live sports in a crowd where the reaction of the spectators is part of the entertainment, and a source of stories aftewards.
And that is why I dont go to the movies. Having to deal with stupid crowd reactions during a first run movie is not something I want or enjoy, at most it would be a story afterwards about how annoying it was
This gets trotted out during every new console pre-hype, and post-release is always shown to be false. At this point consoles are basically just x86 pc's. Even common pcs really dont have huge amounts of overhead and in the end the people developing the games are still running through various apis to abstract the functionality anyway.
Its always 'a console can dedicate 100% of its hardware to the game so it has to run better than a pc!', yet every single time the console comes out and its performance is basically that of a standard gaming pc from 2 years earlier. Which would line up with the lead time on the new console. Theres nothing magical about a console
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Thats true, if you're on a newer device. Whatever streaming device you're using though has to support DD+, not just DD. Alot of older devices dont have the built in decoder support to decode DD+ into either DD or PCM 5.1. Or the manufacturers dont want to have to pay for DD+ support, either way there are alot of 5.1 capable devices that wont do netflix in 5.1
And it says right there on the page
"THIS IS A RESEARCH SYSTEM. This is also an early release of a research system. We know the APIs and function names are likely to change, and that several tools need to be made available to make this all complete. "
It also has not been updated in 3 months, so its not extremely active either. Its not surprising its from CMU though, their flite library is widely used for speech synthesis all over the place for text to speech.
Either way, the actual parsing being done on mobile devices is minimal at this point. Apple does not do it, and google does it only in specific circumstances with very basic things like 'play music', 'open gmail', etc. There is no in depth parsing to actually figure out context and meaning without the online component as of yet
Unless something has changed recently all that speech to text is not done on the phone, its all offloaded to servers. There are companies out there that most companies like apple, google, amazon, all the tv providers, etc, contract out to to handle their speech to text needs. They return back the text along with lists of intents for easy indexing and parsing
that one asscreed is notoriously poorly ported. It has the control issues you mentioned, but also has a permanently locked fps to 60fps, and yet still manages to have frame drops and stutters even on cards like a 1080. Its a great game, but a horrid port
But you can do that without a shield too. Just install moonlight, it understands nvidia's streaming protocol so it can talk to GFE running on your pc and stream just the same as the shield does
But even their source states just because someone is using 'organically' approved pesticides does not necessarily make it better, you dont know quantity of use:
Gillman says just because an organic farmer used some authorized chemicals is no reason to shun the food. But it's important for consumers to know what's going on. For him, the answer to the ambiguity around organic labeling is to go local. "I go to the farmers market and talk to the growers to see who is serious about reducing pesticide use," he says. "I'd rather buy food from someone who used Roundup once than someone who uses organic pesticides all the time."
So even the source would rather have food from someone using a non-organically approved pesticide once vs. an organic farmer who is using a ton of an approved pesticide
Its still funny that that myth persists, the whole no pesticides in organic food. Its just flat out wrong. All farmers use pesticides, organic or not
Not having to worry about phone/cord destruction. I had an htc evo something something (the one with the kickstand) for a long while and it was great. Until the dog ran over to my nightstand and then dragged my phone off with him having it land directly on the usb port, killing the port. Switching to built-in wireless charging (like on my nexus 5) means you can just throw your phone down and your done and not have to worry about destroying a usb port, and if it somehow gets busted you can still use your phone for as long as you have a wireless charging pad
That being said I did end up upgrading to a 5x, and the one thing I wish they would have kept was the built in wirelesss charging, so useful
It depends on the devices they plan to be on. If they want to have any sort of compatibility with existing 4k capable devices they will have to maintain their hevc encoded library. Since those devices wont magically gain an AV1 decoder its either they completely ditch support for any current 4k capable device, or they continue encoding for them
The industry is already using it. While netflix may have their name on AV1, they are already using HEVC for all of their 4k content. So is every other big player in the content industry, if its 4k, its hevc at this point. So I wouldnt say the industry isnt biting, they are using whats currently available and feasible to get to market
Thats up to apple. Only reason this is now a 'feature' is because they are releasing updated hardware with kabylake parts that support native HEVC (and VP9) decode with the intel gpu. Previously they couldnt and would have relied on whether or not there was a sufficient 3rd party gpu which only the pro's would have so there was no point in adding it. So theoretically they can, the hardware supports it, whether or not they will do it is another story
seeing as how I bought it, i know what i paid and I know what the specs are, so no, Im not off. Besides even if your going by retail and want to compare apples to apples the 8gb surface laptop is 1299, again overpriced compared to 699 retail of the acer
yea its definitely priced too high. I recently bought an acer switch alpha 12 for 480$ which has twice the ram and ssd space as the base model of this and a non-gimped version of windows. Plus its a 2in1 so it has a touchscreen for a reason
This is what I want to know as well. I ran with a SSD cache for many years on my z68 board and its great for gaming. On games with large maps like bf4 if you've been playing the game consistently it turns that 1-2min map load into 20seconds and thats just with an SSD cache. Im still a little miffed it just stopped working for no apparently reason my z170 build, kept getting some nebulous error and could never get the caching to work again
Thats not what this is talking about at all. This concerns companies like tegna and hearst television. Those are the ones who own all the local tv stations, not comcast/disney/nbc
yea there are tons of 3d printed cases on etsy for all the rPI variants. So you can make it look like a mini-nes, snes, n64, atari, whatever you want. Nintendo style usb controllers have also existed for a long long time
So there really is no point to an NES classic, unless you are that much against downloading some roms that you would now be willing to pay 100-300$ for 30 games. If you are willing to mod an NES classic to insert all your own roms than why even bother
Well it does include the new 'game mode', but if your running windows just for gaming you probably have already tweaked your system as much as possible and it wont do much. Its mostly there for the people that have 10 browser toolbars installed all sucking down resources and then wonder why games run like shit, it just changes priorities for the processes you specify as games
part of the point of having your own setup in a normal family room environment is you dont need all that ridiculous expensive stuff just to make it better than a theater. You dont need sound deadening, you dont have other loud ass theaters right next to your family room, if someone else in your house has shit blaring them tell them to turn it down, otherwise for a family of 2-4 its not even a problem unless you have neighbors who are constantly doing construction in which case you have other problems
Lighting, turn off your lights and just have dark enough shades to make the room black, you dont need theater lighting
Seats, just get the most comfortable couch you can, you dont need recliners and to replicate the experience when you have a couch that 3 people can fully lay down on comfortably, much rather have that than separate recliners.
Speakers, you dont need them mounted inside the ceiling, this is your own house. You can get 2 front facing towers and a center. Then either some speaker stands or wall/ceiling mounts/hangers for all the rears.
You most definitely can get a home theater experience that beats a movie theater in 3-5k easily. Your estimates and advice seem based on those that must have an entirely dedicated and replicated theater experience in a separate room of their house, but you really dont need all of that.
+1
My system was all in about that range
~2k for 1080p+3d projector
300 for 100in motorized screen
350 for pioneer 7.1 receiver (woot refurb of a 600$ one)
350 for pioneer 5.1 system (i suppose you could count it as 500 since thats the normal price of that speaker set, just caught it on amazon during BF)
Thats 3k for audio and video done. You dont need some ridiculous speaker setup to rival a movie theater when you're talking about a ~20x20ft room, you just need some good clarity and separation. You dont need a 10k$ projector when ones in the 2k-4k range work just fine. So much of this stuff is just epeen and for custom installers to be able to over charge clients who happen to be rich. Good on them for having that much and shelling out to have it all installed and setup right but you dont really need it to have a better than a theater experience
many home projectors have 3d, the 1080p one Ive used for years has 3d, and its a much better effect than seeing it in a theater
Once you own a 1080/4k+3d projector at home with a good 5.1-7.1 sound setup, there is absolutely no reason to ever go to a theater ever again
+1 its why I never look at anything near SF and would never consider it
Just to maintain the same cost of living they would have to pay me 1.6x my current salary, and thats to maintain. Let alone I would still be facing an increase in housing costs since I bought my house at the bottom of the bubble and its value has increased 1.5x since then. All that for a gain of ................... nothing. Living in colorado we have all the exact amenities that SF can provide and more, except for a bay, all while costing much less.
Ive never understood the mindset of SF/NYC's 'awesomeness'. Ive been to both, multiple times. Sure there may be lots of things to do and places to eat, but in a diverse large city such as denver, or austin, or the ilk of those, you can find all the exact same things to do, types of food and restaurants to eat at, etc. You just may have 10-20 choices instead of 100
That happens? since when? I have been running windows 10 since release and not once has it ever attempted to update while I was using it. At most I have a message in the action center saying updates are available and ready, or that it will need to reboot to update, but I have never had a forced update/reboot occur during usage
Theres a reason there is an 'active hours' setting. It specifically states that windows will never automatically reboot due to an update during active hours with a note below that states 'We'll check to see if your using the device before rebooting'
So............you havent been paying attention maybe?
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we went to do our usual christmas eve movie. The only option was a theater that was basically a 40 seater with recliners and reserved seating. Ticket price was still the same.
They've finally started to realize that was people want is to just watch movies at home, and so they are just trying to replicate that experience. This is why I never go to the theaters unless prodded by friends, otherwise my own home theater setup provides a much better experience
People do enjoy watching first run movies and live sports in a crowd where the reaction of the spectators is part of the entertainment, and a source of stories aftewards.
And that is why I dont go to the movies. Having to deal with stupid crowd reactions during a first run movie is not something I want or enjoy, at most it would be a story afterwards about how annoying it was
This gets trotted out during every new console pre-hype, and post-release is always shown to be false. At this point consoles are basically just x86 pc's. Even common pcs really dont have huge amounts of overhead and in the end the people developing the games are still running through various apis to abstract the functionality anyway.
Its always 'a console can dedicate 100% of its hardware to the game so it has to run better than a pc!', yet every single time the console comes out and its performance is basically that of a standard gaming pc from 2 years earlier. Which would line up with the lead time on the new console. Theres nothing magical about a console