Out of interest, do you tend to put curly braces for a short function or If statement on the same line as the function name or the "If" like "if(hello) {... }", or at least the opening brace on the same line?
Btw, a hint if you're using Visual Studio 2010 is to press ctrl and mouse wheel to change the font size on the fly. Big for small sections, small text for a larger overview. You might like to use Arial or something for this as I tend to find it more readable.
Always on the look out for decent music which was created from an algorithm, I haven't ever come across anything that's even remotely worth listening to.
Well, I guess the best I heard was a 'music' AI from a weird Amiga PD bat and ball game which had a sparse texture, and rhythmic, funky bassline, with occasional interspersed chord. Wish I could remember the name.
I love harmonies too, and I bet there's nothing out that creates decent harmonies.
Well, maybe there's another use for those graphene panels, as they're supposed to be extremely strong, and virtually invisible.
What I'm slightly confused is why we really need a coating at all. Okay it protects it to a degree, but there's got to be a better material which doesn't scatter or reflect light. Heck, my glasses seem to do a much better job of avoiding reflections.
Maybe OLED or QLED will reduce the need for a coating?
Reminds me of the widescreen fiasco, and something I tend to be slightly bitter about (regardless of the rectangle-ness of our overall view of the world, what isn't considered is that our accuracy of colour/detail/shape perception when we concentrate on something without looking directly at it, is proportional to the distance from our direct line of sight, so a square TV would be ideal in that sense).
Glossy screens affect even everyone who's aware of the problem, because purchasing say a laptop becomes much more tricky. When all is said and done, people have to be vote with their wallets if they don't like the pathetic "oooh- it shines! shiny-shiny-ness". Sanity will prevail, even if it takes a while.
Watts are generally more interesting because that gives you the actual power/energy usage that a particular device consumes/creates. It tends to irritate me slightly when measurements are given in amps, volts or other units because they certainly don't give you the full picture.
What's the largest faultless 1-atom-thick graphene sheet they've created so far? And by faultless, I mean absolutely perfect with no imperfections, because any tiny holes (or cracks or whatever) in the graphene reduce the strength many-fold.
I heard they created a 1cm square, but I don't think it was faultless.
Hi can you convert that to the more familiar Wh/Kg ? It'd then be possible to compare it to traditional Lithium Ion batteries which usually have that as their metric.
It doesn't mean hidden in that way. It means hidden before the results come through, and then everyone can help themselves to everyone else's opinion afterwards.
Only to those cases where there's a a hint of honest IP defense. Standard troll crap gets fought (and presumably thrown out). I quote:
"When we feel like people are really abusing the patent regimen, and we have a good case that the patent is invalid, that it should never have been issued, it's not a patentable thing, or there's a lot of prior art, then we fight those out," Whitehurst said during an interview with Network World at this week's Red Hat Summit in Boston.
In the whole of your post, you speak about using the computer for work, rather than actually really wanting to use it.
500+ years from now, I'm sure we'll all be up and about doing fun things, but we won't necessarily be using computers to do dull stuff, but only the stuff we really want - creating, art, music, writing, communicating etc.
I was very wary about buying an LCD monitor a couple of years back due to latency and off-angle viewing. But the one I ended up with (Hazro 24" S-IPS) works a treat. Unless you notice lag even more than I do, something like that should be fine. Make sure you get an IPS panel though as the cheap TN ones are crap. Alternatively, you could wait for Blue Phase mode LCD or the upcoming OLED TVs which should correct all problems (including blurring).
Hardforum.com or avsforum.com is probably a good place to start your research as they know a bit more about lag compared to most.
You missed the part in the article which explains how games (or indeed any software) which runs at 30fps tends to have twice the lag as games which run at 60fps. This is due to the rendering pipeline often used in games. The logic goes that if 60fps has x lag, then 120fps may have x/2 lag.
Can you give me some verification and links to your comment, and I might see if I can fit it into the article. As you say, there should always be a sensible balance between latency and throughput.
Hmmm, wouldn't it be wonderful if we could make monitors just that incy wincy bit larger so that I could have all the programs in view ready to launch when I want! Then I'd have the real-estate of Ubuntu 11 and the launchbar-at-hand of Ubuntu 10.
When I want to express angles in a circle, it often helps to use values from 0 to 1. You could call them revolutions or cycles. Anyway, I do this so much that I've had to convert all the trig functions to divide by 2pi. Examples include:
For nice fast RAM access, doesn't the new AMD Fusion GPU share the same silicon with the CPU anyway? Nvidia are planning something similar to with their upcoming kepler/maxwell GPU.
The future is surely where you'll be able to buy a single fully integrated CPU/GPU/RAM module. Not very modular maybe, but speed, programming ease, power efficiency, size and weight would be amazing and more than make up.
The comments on the linked blog are much more informative than the ones in this Slashdot thread this time. The general consensus over there is that the German Mennekes (type II) connector is the one that will hopefully be used, as it is much more future-proof (3.7 - 43.5kW in one connector). Let's hope sanity wins in the end, and it wins over the other designs.
Remember, we should all be aiming towards universality and quality, since this one decision will have a massive effect for years, possibly decades to come.
Well said. It is absolutely ridiculous, and I thought it was just me having that problem. The partial solution I have found is to make it full screen before the video starts, back to small, and then when you next go back to big it should be okay.
Yeah, I meant digital post-pro. If it merely imitates that kind of blur, it could look quite effective. I've never heard it mentioned, so it's definitely worth pointing out.
Slashdot Mirror
Out of interest, do you tend to put curly braces for a short function or If statement on the same line as the function name or the "If" like "if(hello) { ... }", or at least the opening brace on the same line?
Btw, a hint if you're using Visual Studio 2010 is to press ctrl and mouse wheel to change the font size on the fly. Big for small sections, small text for a larger overview. You might like to use Arial or something for this as I tend to find it more readable.
Always on the look out for decent music which was created from an algorithm, I haven't ever come across anything that's even remotely worth listening to.
Well, I guess the best I heard was a 'music' AI from a weird Amiga PD bat and ball game which had a sparse texture, and rhythmic, funky bassline, with occasional interspersed chord. Wish I could remember the name.
I love harmonies too, and I bet there's nothing out that creates decent harmonies.
What are your top 4 favorite songs that you created?
Mine are:
1: Mandelbrot Set
2: Chiron Beta Prime
3: Todd the T1000
4: Blue sunny day
Well, maybe there's another use for those graphene panels, as they're supposed to be extremely strong, and virtually invisible.
What I'm slightly confused is why we really need a coating at all. Okay it protects it to a degree, but there's got to be a better material which doesn't scatter or reflect light. Heck, my glasses seem to do a much better job of avoiding reflections.
Maybe OLED or QLED will reduce the need for a coating?
Reminds me of the widescreen fiasco, and something I tend to be slightly bitter about (regardless of the rectangle-ness of our overall view of the world, what isn't considered is that our accuracy of colour/detail/shape perception when we concentrate on something without looking directly at it, is proportional to the distance from our direct line of sight, so a square TV would be ideal in that sense).
Glossy screens affect even everyone who's aware of the problem, because purchasing say a laptop becomes much more tricky. When all is said and done, people have to be vote with their wallets if they don't like the pathetic "oooh- it shines! shiny-shiny-ness". Sanity will prevail, even if it takes a while.
Yes, he could have done that :P
Watts are generally more interesting because that gives you the actual power/energy usage that a particular device consumes/creates. It tends to irritate me slightly when measurements are given in amps, volts or other units because they certainly don't give you the full picture.
Thanks, that's 8x better than Lithium Ion. I'd certainly call that "pretty good"! (I thought it was 125x worse until I saw the all-important 'k').
What's the largest faultless 1-atom-thick graphene sheet they've created so far? And by faultless, I mean absolutely perfect with no imperfections, because any tiny holes (or cracks or whatever) in the graphene reduce the strength many-fold.
I heard they created a 1cm square, but I don't think it was faultless.
Then why isn't graphite dangerous since I'm sure you'll get a few tiny fragments of graphene in there somewhere?
Hi can you convert that to the more familiar Wh/Kg ? It'd then be possible to compare it to traditional Lithium Ion batteries which usually have that as their metric.
It doesn't mean hidden in that way. It means hidden before the results come through, and then everyone can help themselves to everyone else's opinion afterwards.
Only to those cases where there's a a hint of honest IP defense. Standard troll crap gets fought (and presumably thrown out). I quote:
"When we feel like people are really abusing the patent regimen, and we have a good case that the patent is invalid, that it should never have been issued, it's not a patentable thing, or there's a lot of prior art, then we fight those out," Whitehurst said during an interview with Network World at this week's Red Hat Summit in Boston.
In the whole of your post, you speak about using the computer for work, rather than actually really wanting to use it.
500+ years from now, I'm sure we'll all be up and about doing fun things, but we won't necessarily be using computers to do dull stuff, but only the stuff we really want - creating, art, music, writing, communicating etc.
I was very wary about buying an LCD monitor a couple of years back due to latency and off-angle viewing. But the one I ended up with (Hazro 24" S-IPS) works a treat. Unless you notice lag even more than I do, something like that should be fine. Make sure you get an IPS panel though as the cheap TN ones are crap. Alternatively, you could wait for Blue Phase mode LCD or the upcoming OLED TVs which should correct all problems (including blurring).
Hardforum.com or avsforum.com is probably a good place to start your research as they know a bit more about lag compared to most.
You missed the part in the article which explains how games (or indeed any software) which runs at 30fps tends to have twice the lag as games which run at 60fps. This is due to the rendering pipeline often used in games. The logic goes that if 60fps has x lag, then 120fps may have x/2 lag.
I was mainly talking about the GUI from both VS and the apps that Java tends to create.
Hi, I wrote the article in the story.
Can you give me some verification and links to your comment, and I might see if I can fit it into the article. As you say, there should always be a sensible balance between latency and throughput.
Hmmm, wouldn't it be wonderful if we could make monitors just that incy wincy bit larger so that I could have all the programs in view ready to launch when I want! Then I'd have the real-estate of Ubuntu 11 and the launchbar-at-hand of Ubuntu 10.
When I want to express angles in a circle, it often helps to use values from 0 to 1. You could call them revolutions or cycles. Anyway, I do this so much that I've had to convert all the trig functions to divide by 2pi. Examples include:
double nsin(double n) return sin(n*6.28318530717958);
double natan(double n) return atan(n)/6.283185307179586;
I almost never use raw sin, atan, etc. any more (I'm coding a raytracer at the mo). Anyway, I just find it interesting that tau crops up there too.
For nice fast RAM access, doesn't the new AMD Fusion GPU share the same silicon with the CPU anyway? Nvidia are planning something similar to with their upcoming kepler/maxwell GPU.
The future is surely where you'll be able to buy a single fully integrated CPU/GPU/RAM module. Not very modular maybe, but speed, programming ease, power efficiency, size and weight would be amazing and more than make up.
The comments on the linked blog are much more informative than the ones in this Slashdot thread this time. The general consensus over there is that the German Mennekes (type II) connector is the one that will hopefully be used, as it is much more future-proof (3.7 - 43.5kW in one connector). Let's hope sanity wins in the end, and it wins over the other designs.
Remember, we should all be aiming towards universality and quality, since this one decision will have a massive effect for years, possibly decades to come.
Well said. It is absolutely ridiculous, and I thought it was just me having that problem. The partial solution I have found is to make it full screen before the video starts, back to small, and then when you next go back to big it should be okay.
Yeah, never thought I'd be a victim of a whoosh but there we go. In my defense, I barely read the second part of his comment.
Yeah, I meant digital post-pro. If it merely imitates that kind of blur, it could look quite effective. I've never heard it mentioned, so it's definitely worth pointing out.