Rectangular and black with a touchscreen... nothing at all like the GRiDpad? (and...); best of all: manufactured by Samsung, "modified from the Samsung PenMaster which never made it to commercial distribution"
Ah yes. The mythical times when rulers were noble, costs of life reasonable and children respected their elders. Always in the youth of the storyteller, since the dawn of recorded history.
(vs. obviously less remarkable recent times; who cares about MD, miniDV, DVD, DVcam, HDV or Bluray)
Hey y'all old man, just be glad you're not among the ~1% of (then) young DN3D fans who just didn't make it, over the years... (according to analysis of population stats, made on here by somebody doing them on a daily basis, in reply to my written wondering)
Some algorithms find better balance than others. Hq4x, used as one of the examples in the paper, does that for me - maybe not as "smooth", but generally nice enough. Plus it rarely gives something weird, IMHO maintains decent consistency in the look of the games.
Or maybe I'm just used to it... (with it and similar around for a decade+, in various emulators)
Don't forget Kinect units, millions of them, watching... [__O_OO__] Used since launch to make the AI a bit "stronger"... and we're just (recklessly) starting.* But we already put Kinect units even on killer quadcopters; we do it ourselves! O_o
*but seriously, such senses might well play a crucial part in emergence of reasonably strong "AI"...
So, the real story of MS-Nokia - dumping few billion of "external" money into the latter, large part of which will be spent by Nokia on US-based licenses for the OS? (for a start)
It seems MS very much does make softswitch of sorts. One which seems to be a quite extensive and mature product; also with SIP (so such action by Skype could be as well, a bit, a move to avoid duplication; Lync most likely getting Skype integration, etc.)
"Semi-serious videos with controlled lighting" kinda hints at not finding kids running around like lunatics all that fascinating. And yes, bad rolling shutter, one of the things which excludes most makers from having "really proper video recording" (though I should have added in the above post that the very latest gen of Canon compacts was botched, is no better than an average one)
BTW - at least in my part of the woods, people seem to have largely realized (after a small craze lasting a decade+, starting in the first half of the 90s) how dreadful, horrible, uninteresting and quickly ignored home videos are (how videocameras are built to handle long stretches of recording didn't help at all; TBH nothing technical could either harm or help much). I'm still marvelled at how they managed it.
Too bad mostly only Canon, for some reason, seems to get the hang of really proper video recording, so far; even in basically lowest-end A1200/2200... (well, if it would come down to it / in a last resort, just adding a Canon digicam for video isn't so bad; low-light isn't that much of an issue in semi-serious videos with controlled lighting, plus it's good to have some compact which can be always at hand anyway - and it seems that, say, SX130 would even use the same stash of NiMH AAs as the DSLR in question;p )
If the famed NYTimes (IIRC) article is any indication (a test on pedestrians, using poster-sized 5, 10 and 15 MP versions of the same image, IIRC; from good camera, no doubt) - at this point "buy the low light performance, not the resolution" seems to be a good advice also if the budget-limited adept plans some larger prints.
Seriously? You're trying to claim the analog is superior to digital?
I doubt that's the exact point of somebody preferring optical S/PDIF.
The pixels are not the pixels that are on the source image, doesn't that bother you? Doesn't it bother you that you're seeing an interpolated image? That your image isn't 1:1 with what your recording source is?
Oh come on. Doesn't it bother you that we're still far from good holographic screens? (they will be felt essentially similar to a window or mirror) Or that you display is certainly not calibrated (and not placed a room with the same lighting / etc.) exactly the way the display of the editor was?
Also chess and hockey (here's hoping for crossover). Electronic music, Tetris, RAR, Chatroulette (well, last two not so Soviet)
Though I'm not quite sure how them putting the first satellite and man into space (or first photograph of far side of the Moon, first lunar flyby, first spacecraft reaching the escape velocity of the Earth & on circumsolar orbit; first lunar impact, soft landing + photos from the surface some time later; first flyby of another planet and atmospheric probes; and those are just launched by R-7) leaves much for "We had to beat the commies into space";p
(maybe even somewhat more focused; to bad either cash strapped, (also) forced into crazed crash projects, or worse / both ; but BTW, check out Atlas V and Taurus II main engines, and first stage of the latter;p )
PS. But IMHO you still see the past through rose-coloured glasses, a bit...
But "they" are developing new RTG tech (Stirling one, for example)... NVM how it's not something you can improve much (kinda like nobody tries making ships with hulls ignoring Archimedes' principle, despite it being 2k+ years old)
There were no "massive" campaigns, just some protests here and there (a good thing, really; we don't want to go back to the recklessness with most things nuclear from the very early days, or allow unconditional nuclear-faithful take over). And Juno doesn't use them for practical reasons.
Which is not such a bad thing, it means most of those places can have DTV for a relatively long time / no reason to force upgrades so soon (switch-overs to H264 are sort of planned, IIRC - but only after a few more years at least, when natural rotation of equipment will have time to make things easier); my place only will have DVB-T (H264/AAC one)... this year... maybe... wouldn't be the first delay. (and "weird" frame rates make displaying tons of existing material easier (unit of second is arbitrary anyway); likewise interlace, plus it's easier on the bandwidth)
And yet, places with taxes (or even with "high" ones) generally lead in positive societal factors, are most pleasant to live in, most "free", and so on. What do you think buys you civilization?
Systems of governance are ultimately a reflection of their society. In the case of "economic damage" we're talking about a society with masses of people unable to keep balanced personal budgets; generally at the forefront when it comes to rates of living on a debt, consumptionism, etc.
From where do you think those "fucktards in Government and greedy cunts on Wall Street" originate? Most people would cut a slice of the cake for themselves, given the chance (vs. merely claiming they wouldn't). Also, notice how universally the extended families of military members describe them as noble & honorary (nvm frightening rates still thinking that Iraq had anything to do with 9/11). Or how, even when generally bitching at "government waste", if in the family there's some engineer or blue collar worker doing some public project... then of course the work is essential, and the price fair.
Ah, but there actually is a very clear link here. Sure, not when it comes to actual relationship between the two. But how a lot of people were convinced in one... was enough for quite an events.
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Rectangular and black with a touchscreen... nothing at all like the GRiDpad? (and...); best of all: manufactured by Samsung, "modified from the Samsung PenMaster which never made it to commercial distribution"
Ah yes. The mythical times when rulers were noble, costs of life reasonable and children respected their elders. Always in the youth of the storyteller, since the dawn of recorded history.
(vs. obviously less remarkable recent times; who cares about MD, miniDV, DVD, DVcam, HDV or Bluray)
Hey y'all old man, just be glad you're not among the ~1% of (then) young DN3D fans who just didn't make it, over the years... (according to analysis of population stats, made on here by somebody doing them on a daily basis, in reply to my written wondering)
Some algorithms find better balance than others. Hq4x, used as one of the examples in the paper, does that for me - maybe not as "smooth", but generally nice enough. Plus it rarely gives something weird, IMHO maintains decent consistency in the look of the games.
Or maybe I'm just used to it... (with it and similar around for a decade+, in various emulators)
Wait, the Doom guy is an altered photo? Where can I meet him?
;)
Don't forget Kinect units, millions of them, watching... [__O_OO__] Used since launch to make the AI a bit "stronger"... and we're just (recklessly) starting.* But we already put Kinect units even on killer quadcopters; we do it ourselves! O_o
*but seriously, such senses might well play a crucial part in emergence of reasonably strong "AI"...
So, the real story of MS-Nokia - dumping few billion of "external" money into the latter, large part of which will be spent by Nokia on US-based licenses for the OS? (for a start)
It seems MS very much does make softswitch of sorts. One which seems to be a quite extensive and mature product; also with SIP (so such action by Skype could be as well, a bit, a move to avoid duplication; Lync most likely getting Skype integration, etc.)
So how long until some crafty people / botnet herders appropriate it as a "stock" indexing / resource validation mechanism of sorts(?)...
"Semi-serious videos with controlled lighting" kinda hints at not finding kids running around like lunatics all that fascinating. And yes, bad rolling shutter, one of the things which excludes most makers from having "really proper video recording" (though I should have added in the above post that the very latest gen of Canon compacts was botched, is no better than an average one)
BTW - at least in my part of the woods, people seem to have largely realized (after a small craze lasting a decade+, starting in the first half of the 90s) how dreadful, horrible, uninteresting and quickly ignored home videos are (how videocameras are built to handle long stretches of recording didn't help at all; TBH nothing technical could either harm or help much). I'm still marvelled at how they managed it.
Too bad mostly only Canon, for some reason, seems to get the hang of really proper video recording, so far; even in basically lowest-end A1200/2200... (well, if it would come down to it / in a last resort, just adding a Canon digicam for video isn't so bad; low-light isn't that much of an issue in semi-serious videos with controlled lighting, plus it's good to have some compact which can be always at hand anyway - and it seems that, say, SX130 would even use the same stash of NiMH AAs as the DSLR in question ;p )
If the famed NYTimes (IIRC) article is any indication (a test on pedestrians, using poster-sized 5, 10 and 15 MP versions of the same image, IIRC; from good camera, no doubt) - at this point "buy the low light performance, not the resolution" seems to be a good advice also if the budget-limited adept plans some larger prints.
Seriously? You're trying to claim the analog is superior to digital?
I doubt that's the exact point of somebody preferring optical S/PDIF.
The pixels are not the pixels that are on the source image, doesn't that bother you? Doesn't it bother you that you're seeing an interpolated image? That your image isn't 1:1 with what your recording source is?
Oh come on. Doesn't it bother you that we're still far from good holographic screens? (they will be felt essentially similar to a window or mirror) Or that you display is certainly not calibrated (and not placed a room with the same lighting / etc.) exactly the way the display of the editor was?
Analog ... cables that cause weirdness just from coiling it
Just make an "8" out of it with a zip-tie. (and, ultimately, the sound signal in analogue; I can assure you that)
Maybe that's ultimately because people should use other words when texting.
Sir, are you or have you ever been a member of the communist party?
(but seriously...)
...the universities offered for far less in the 60s...
How can one even say that seriously? (I guess you also feel nostalgic for "myth of past middle-class glory"?)
"Inherently capitalist" is also drive to use the advantage given by... capital. By itself.
Also chess and hockey (here's hoping for crossover). Electronic music, Tetris, RAR, Chatroulette (well, last two not so Soviet)
;p
;p )
Though I'm not quite sure how them putting the first satellite and man into space (or first photograph of far side of the Moon, first lunar flyby, first spacecraft reaching the escape velocity of the Earth & on circumsolar orbit; first lunar impact, soft landing + photos from the surface some time later; first flyby of another planet and atmospheric probes; and those are just launched by R-7) leaves much for "We had to beat the commies into space"
(maybe even somewhat more focused; to bad either cash strapped, (also) forced into crazed crash projects, or worse / both ; but BTW, check out Atlas V and Taurus II main engines, and first stage of the latter
PS. But IMHO you still see the past through rose-coloured glasses, a bit...
But "they" are developing new RTG tech (Stirling one, for example)... NVM how it's not something you can improve much (kinda like nobody tries making ships with hulls ignoring Archimedes' principle, despite it being 2k+ years old)
There were no "massive" campaigns, just some protests here and there (a good thing, really; we don't want to go back to the recklessness with most things nuclear from the very early days, or allow unconditional nuclear-faithful take over). And Juno doesn't use them for practical reasons.
Did you ever ask / check if it's NOT available? Particularly in 1985? (scepticism, and all ;) )
Which is not such a bad thing, it means most of those places can have DTV for a relatively long time / no reason to force upgrades so soon (switch-overs to H264 are sort of planned, IIRC - but only after a few more years at least, when natural rotation of equipment will have time to make things easier); my place only will have DVB-T (H264/AAC one)... this year... maybe... wouldn't be the first delay. (and "weird" frame rates make displaying tons of existing material easier (unit of second is arbitrary anyway); likewise interlace, plus it's easier on the bandwidth)
Just be careful not to time it during some emo holiday, if there is any; for one example.
;/ )
(I also tried to figure out some apt way of using sensory deprivation chambers... no luck
We just make it up as we go (that, and a list of cognitive biases, or how (from) "our minds operate mostly on guesses...")
And yet, places with taxes (or even with "high" ones) generally lead in positive societal factors, are most pleasant to live in, most "free", and so on. What do you think buys you civilization?
Systems of governance are ultimately a reflection of their society. In the case of "economic damage" we're talking about a society with masses of people unable to keep balanced personal budgets; generally at the forefront when it comes to rates of living on a debt, consumptionism, etc.
From where do you think those "fucktards in Government and greedy cunts on Wall Street" originate? Most people would cut a slice of the cake for themselves, given the chance (vs. merely claiming they wouldn't). Also, notice how universally the extended families of military members describe them as noble & honorary (nvm frightening rates still thinking that Iraq had anything to do with 9/11). Or how, even when generally bitching at "government waste", if in the family there's some engineer or blue collar worker doing some public project... then of course the work is essential, and the price fair.
...like linking saddam hussein to bin ladin.
Ah, but there actually is a very clear link here. Sure, not when it comes to actual relationship between the two. But how a lot of people were convinced in one... was enough for quite an events.