The magic behind keeping the full resolution image lies with the TI SmoothPicture technology that uses the mirror array and optical actuator of a DLP display system to slightly modify the left and right channel frames and then optically offset the grid pattern created in the above diagram. With the high switching speed of the mirrors of the DLP technology all of the original pixels in the image can be displayed with a 8ms field time and thus allowing the display to show 60 effective frames in under a second (8ms x 120 = 960 ms). An added benefit of this offset and displacement method that the DLP technology uses is that the images on the screen are somewhat softened thus lessening edge artifact. Oh, and also, you can get DLPs in sizes up to 73-in; who doesnâ(TM)t want to take on the zombies with that kind of screen?
So DLPs are effectively interlacing pixels instead of scanlines and using an actuator to achieve full resolution. The DLP chip is really outputting 960x1080P / 120Hz, but interlaced together to produce the image at 1920x1080 / 60Hz. The difference of 3D of course is the way each 2 frames interlace (part of same image or split in the way 3D would be).
"The problem is zealots see everything as a threat or challenge; and believe compromise and cooperation is selling out"
This is a perfect description of the teacher in question.
If the reply wasn't confrontational in the same way, then it may have been more receptive.
It's like meeting a drunk woman in a bar that calls you an a$$hole because you're a man and that they're all no good. Sure, you could tell her to go f'erself, but if you sympathize and buy her drinks, you can find out that she just got dumped and can work your way into her pants in no time.
It would be a great idea to explore (2nd choice, Instant Runoff, etc). But the system was rigged (maybe not rigged, but it certainly works out that way) to be a 2 party system a long time ago. Try convincing the 2 controlling parties who have something to lose that this would be a good idea.
Don't forget about Microsoft! Games for Windows is a cruel joke. It seems to be primarily about them padding profits by giving the PC sloppy seconds on games that get shoveled out for the 360. They tend to look like ass and play even worse because nobody bothers to make the games actually play like PC games and take advantage of the strengths of the platform. Seems like Microsoft is more determined than anyone to kill PC gaming.
First off - playing with a gamepad can be a lot easier and more relaxing than playing with mouse / keyboard combo. For C&C3, you should be using mouse / keyboard. For GoW, Bioshock, Assasin's Creed, you're better off with the gamepad.
Secondly - have you played a lot of the 360 ports? The 3 above are pretty good games. Viva Pinata, Grid, DMC4... these games are all better on the PC assuming you've got the hardware to support them. Higher (selectable) resolutions / more detailed textures / smoother gameplay / etc.
Not only that, but many are different than the typical FPS / RTS / TBS / MMO / etc that are on PCs. They're not $3 casual games, but they're not as hardcore as typical PC titles tend to be. Wider audience and all that. Outrun 2 is a fantastic example - looks way better than arcade or console ports, and finishes very fast, but it's a fun relaxing ride which most PC games are not (also conrols with 360 gamepad).
Don't get me wrong - I'm just as sick of waiting 6-12 months for the *possibility* of PC ports of 360 games, having to wait several months for patches to make them playable sucks even more, and I refuse to double dip if I picked up the 360 version - but the porting of games to PC is a good thing overall.
Exactly. Whats the best way to keep kids off of sweets? Either A) forbid them to ever have them so they binge sweets while at school or at a friends house or B) Let them eat all the candy they can get over a weekend and watch how they get a stomach ache and don't eat that much candy again.
Bull - you sound like someone who either doesn't have kids or at least never tried that. Don't overestimate the ability for the wee ones to make bad choices and continue to make them even after experiencing said consequences. Seriously - everyone would be eating grass and oats and kale if all it took was 1 or 2 times of binging and getting sick. Besides - candy is yummy!
Even with all the different DVD drives, the original xbox was pretty solid. The 360 OTOH is the first console I ever had which failed (DVD failure ~9 months). I skipped the PS2 but a friend had that fail as well.
...is that the themes in the book / movie really hit home for a lot of people. Sitting back in your chair laughing at the idiots may be fun for the armchair warriors at large, but not everyone has really been tested and that was one of the core themes FC - how do you know what you've got if you never put it to the test? How do you know how you'll react to a fight when you've never been in one? How can you prove you've really pushed yourself to the limit without scars to show for it?
And talk about a way to find out - if it's either kick some tail or get yours kicked in for you, I think that almost everyone would go into a full on a$$ kicking mode. At that point, it's the better man that wins but either way you're gonna push yourself harder than posting comments on a web site.
For the office warrior who never got into a fight in his life, I can easily see this as thrilling beyond compare.
I wouldn't recommend this to everyone, and there should probably be some safeguards put into this as even the UFC has rounds and referees to stop fights when it's clear that 1 person is taking too much of a beating, but I get it.
When their wages reach 40 to 50% of US wages then the outsourcing will be less of an issue and -maybe- wages and job security will recover here in the States.
Nope - when their wages reach 40-50%, you're going to see outsourcing to different countries. Already there's plenty of outsourcing to South America and soon (already) former Soviet countries because India's getting too expensive. Everyone else is going to have to catch up to our wages before job security comes back to the states as things stand now.
Less than a year is fine in plenty of cases - there's plenty of IT jobs that have to do with time based projects or "at will" contracts.
Some contracts last a few weeks and some continue for as long as you provide value to the company you're contracting to. I've never had an employer call anyone moving from contract to contract a "job hopper". If anything, they like it when they hear that the project was completed successfully before you moved on.
Depends where you're at to be sure but more often then not it's long lines and angry customers / staff. But the USPS is a good example - been around a long time and pretty damn reliable. Still, I'd hate the idea of people going "Telco".
Just because you have a problem hording away data you don't need doesn't mean there's nothing worth keeping. This is more true of businesses where for legal reasons records need to be kept for a certain ammount of time, but personally I'd be annoyed if I lost all the data / documents / software / images / etc I had.
Besides documents and such I'd lose, massive pr0n loss can be devistating.;-)
Problem is of course getting users who rarely or never use a computer at all - is it because they can't adapt to current systems and interfaces or are we in such a rural area that there really aren't any to have experience with? The bias torwards an operating system (largely Windows of course) will shape any direction to what users quickly adapt to.
But still, KDE and GNOME are largely on the same level as far as interfacing users - if someone wants to really hit a new paradigm the world needs, shouldn't there be more research on technology? Ie: new interfaces (Mice are so last decade), real 3D environments (the Solaris 3D demo was a step but still 2D except for window management and manipulation), and something else or two equally cutting edge that we haven't seen yet?
"A trip to town meant scouting the area for bandits first, as often or not higher level people would camp the town and slaughter us newbies without restraint. Later on, I formed a group of my own bandits and we did a similar thing as the post. We threatened people on the highway with a simple choice: gold or death. They were out in the middle of no where with the potential to lose an item, so they usually paid. If we attacked the wrong person, we paid dearly as they came back with a posse and hunted us down. That my friends is role playing."
Technically, that's thuggery. Role-playing involves a lot more assuming and acting out roles, getting out of your every day persona. Diablo II would be a great example of a game called an RPG that has little if anything to do with RPGing.
When I go to the movies, I usually bring my own candy. According to you I shouldn't because:
1. It's material, which makes this a lot clearer than virtual or intellectual goods.
2. The definition of fraud can be interpreted as "using unethical means to feed oneself while depriving the theater of it's inflated costs for food and drink".
3. There's a rule (in the form of a sign on the entrance saying NO FOOD OR DRINK) disallowing me from bringing my own sustanence.
So obviously, taking candy into the theater is fraud and anyone doing so is committing a crime.
No - places that cook steak rare are either specifically allowed to like a steak house or they're just not following health code & food guidelines. Plenty of places will turn you down for a rare request (Applebees, Olive Garden, etc).
As far as the bacteria goes, you're right. A few other posters rightly pointed out the possibility of parasites (wasn't that more of an issue with pork or chicken?) and similar enternally generated conditions, but the bulk of food poisoning comes from poor sanitary practices along the way. That's why cooking burgers through is important while a steak may be enjoyed rare with a minimum of risk.
I mean sure, it takes a lot more grain to have a hamburger as opposed to eating an equally filling ammount of grain directly, but if humans were meant to get energy from as closely to the sun as possible, we'd be green and sprouting leaves.
Arguing thermodynamics is pointing at carnivores and omnivores, telling them how misguided and inefficient their diet is.
I don't remember everything that DIVX had for content protection, but they required a dedicated connection so you could only watch movies when you paid up. Sure, DVDs that cost half as much are nice but not when you need to pay over and over. And DVDs proved without any doubt that people don't want to bother with complicated DRM bullshit.
But hey, if companies like Sony continue to want to spend millions to ruin a potentially good technology, then more power to them. I waited until DIVX was on the way out before I picked up my 1st DVD player, and even if HD DVD and BluRay go south, something will pick up the slack if there's a real demand for it.
Cause we all know it went to hell when we allowed that pesky VCR and damn audio cassette tapes to be used for recording. There's nothing fair about fair use when it prevents the fat cats from getting theirs.
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...and especially don't eat their shit! Note - some store bought Probiotics are made from fecal matter, so this is a possibility.
The magic behind keeping the full resolution image lies with the TI SmoothPicture technology that uses the mirror array and optical actuator of a DLP display system to slightly modify the left and right channel frames and then optically offset the grid pattern created in the above diagram. With the high switching speed of the mirrors of the DLP technology all of the original pixels in the image can be displayed with a 8ms field time and thus allowing the display to show 60 effective frames in under a second (8ms x 120 = 960 ms). An added benefit of this offset and displacement method that the DLP technology uses is that the images on the screen are somewhat softened thus lessening edge artifact. Oh, and also, you can get DLPs in sizes up to 73-in; who doesnâ(TM)t want to take on the zombies with that kind of screen?
So DLPs are effectively interlacing pixels instead of scanlines and using an actuator to achieve full resolution. The DLP chip is really outputting 960x1080P / 120Hz, but interlaced together to produce the image at 1920x1080 / 60Hz. The difference of 3D of course is the way each 2 frames interlace (part of same image or split in the way 3D would be).
"The problem is zealots see everything as a threat or challenge; and believe compromise and cooperation is selling out"
This is a perfect description of the teacher in question.
If the reply wasn't confrontational in the same way, then it may have been more receptive.
It's like meeting a drunk woman in a bar that calls you an a$$hole because you're a man and that they're all no good. Sure, you could tell her to go f'erself, but if you sympathize and buy her drinks, you can find out that she just got dumped and can work your way into her pants in no time.
Suddenly Soviet Russia sounds nice.
... being deaf and all.
It would be a great idea to explore (2nd choice, Instant Runoff, etc). But the system was rigged (maybe not rigged, but it certainly works out that way) to be a 2 party system a long time ago. Try convincing the 2 controlling parties who have something to lose that this would be a good idea.
...wow.
Don't forget about Microsoft! Games for Windows is a cruel joke. It seems to be primarily about them padding profits by giving the PC sloppy seconds on games that get shoveled out for the 360. They tend to look like ass and play even worse because nobody bothers to make the games actually play like PC games and take advantage of the strengths of the platform. Seems like Microsoft is more determined than anyone to kill PC gaming.
First off - playing with a gamepad can be a lot easier and more relaxing than playing with mouse / keyboard combo. For C&C3, you should be using mouse / keyboard. For GoW, Bioshock, Assasin's Creed, you're better off with the gamepad.
Secondly - have you played a lot of the 360 ports? The 3 above are pretty good games. Viva Pinata, Grid, DMC4... these games are all better on the PC assuming you've got the hardware to support them. Higher (selectable) resolutions / more detailed textures / smoother gameplay / etc.
Not only that, but many are different than the typical FPS / RTS / TBS / MMO / etc that are on PCs. They're not $3 casual games, but they're not as hardcore as typical PC titles tend to be. Wider audience and all that. Outrun 2 is a fantastic example - looks way better than arcade or console ports, and finishes very fast, but it's a fun relaxing ride which most PC games are not (also conrols with 360 gamepad).
Don't get me wrong - I'm just as sick of waiting 6-12 months for the *possibility* of PC ports of 360 games, having to wait several months for patches to make them playable sucks even more, and I refuse to double dip if I picked up the 360 version - but the porting of games to PC is a good thing overall.
Exactly. Whats the best way to keep kids off of sweets? Either A) forbid them to ever have them so they binge sweets while at school or at a friends house or B) Let them eat all the candy they can get over a weekend and watch how they get a stomach ache and don't eat that much candy again.
Bull - you sound like someone who either doesn't have kids or at least never tried that. Don't overestimate the ability for the wee ones to make bad choices and continue to make them even after experiencing said consequences. Seriously - everyone would be eating grass and oats and kale if all it took was 1 or 2 times of binging and getting sick. Besides - candy is yummy!
They provide a case with high quality printed sleeve, and media to rip from? Except for being priced $4 too high, what's not to like?
Even with all the different DVD drives, the original xbox was pretty solid. The 360 OTOH is the first console I ever had which failed (DVD failure ~9 months). I skipped the PS2 but a friend had that fail as well.
...It is not before one hapless American, searching for the nearest terrorist, blurts out to a startled passerby "Please fondle my buttocks"
...is that the themes in the book / movie really hit home for a lot of people. Sitting back in your chair laughing at the idiots may be fun for the armchair warriors at large, but not everyone has really been tested and that was one of the core themes FC - how do you know what you've got if you never put it to the test? How do you know how you'll react to a fight when you've never been in one? How can you prove you've really pushed yourself to the limit without scars to show for it?
And talk about a way to find out - if it's either kick some tail or get yours kicked in for you, I think that almost everyone would go into a full on a$$ kicking mode. At that point, it's the better man that wins but either way you're gonna push yourself harder than posting comments on a web site.
For the office warrior who never got into a fight in his life, I can easily see this as thrilling beyond compare.
I wouldn't recommend this to everyone, and there should probably be some safeguards put into this as even the UFC has rounds and referees to stop fights when it's clear that 1 person is taking too much of a beating, but I get it.
When their wages reach 40 to 50% of US wages then the outsourcing will be less of an issue and -maybe- wages and job security will recover here in the States.
Nope - when their wages reach 40-50%, you're going to see outsourcing to different countries. Already there's plenty of outsourcing to South America and soon (already) former Soviet countries because India's getting too expensive. Everyone else is going to have to catch up to our wages before job security comes back to the states as things stand now.
Less than a year is fine in plenty of cases - there's plenty of IT jobs that have to do with time based projects or "at will" contracts.
Some contracts last a few weeks and some continue for as long as you provide value to the company you're contracting to. I've never had an employer call anyone moving from contract to contract a "job hopper". If anything, they like it when they hear that the project was completed successfully before you moved on.
can we have a do-over of the last 6 YEARS?
Depends where you're at to be sure but more often then not it's long lines and angry customers / staff. But the USPS is a good example - been around a long time and pretty damn reliable. Still, I'd hate the idea of people going "Telco".
This is insightful?
;-)
Just because you have a problem hording away data you don't need doesn't mean there's nothing worth keeping. This is more true of businesses where for legal reasons records need to be kept for a certain ammount of time, but personally I'd be annoyed if I lost all the data / documents / software / images / etc I had.
Besides documents and such I'd lose, massive pr0n loss can be devistating.
Problem is of course getting users who rarely or never use a computer at all - is it because they can't adapt to current systems and interfaces or are we in such a rural area that there really aren't any to have experience with? The bias torwards an operating system (largely Windows of course) will shape any direction to what users quickly adapt to.
But still, KDE and GNOME are largely on the same level as far as interfacing users - if someone wants to really hit a new paradigm the world needs, shouldn't there be more research on technology? Ie: new interfaces (Mice are so last decade), real 3D environments (the Solaris 3D demo was a step but still 2D except for window management and manipulation), and something else or two equally cutting edge that we haven't seen yet?
"A trip to town meant scouting the area for bandits first, as often or not higher level people would camp the town and slaughter us newbies without restraint. Later on, I formed a group of my own bandits and we did a similar thing as the post. We threatened people on the highway with a simple choice: gold or death. They were out in the middle of no where with the potential to lose an item, so they usually paid. If we attacked the wrong person, we paid dearly as they came back with a posse and hunted us down. That my friends is role playing."
Technically, that's thuggery. Role-playing involves a lot more assuming and acting out roles, getting out of your every day persona. Diablo II would be a great example of a game called an RPG that has little if anything to do with RPGing.
But thuggery is still a lot of fun. >:D
Give me a break.
When I go to the movies, I usually bring my own candy. According to you I shouldn't because:
1. It's material, which makes this a lot clearer than virtual or intellectual goods.
2. The definition of fraud can be interpreted as "using unethical means to feed oneself while depriving the theater of it's inflated costs for food and drink".
3. There's a rule (in the form of a sign on the entrance saying NO FOOD OR DRINK) disallowing me from bringing my own sustanence.
So obviously, taking candy into the theater is fraud and anyone doing so is committing a crime.
No - places that cook steak rare are either specifically allowed to like a steak house or they're just not following health code & food guidelines. Plenty of places will turn you down for a rare request (Applebees, Olive Garden, etc).
As far as the bacteria goes, you're right. A few other posters rightly pointed out the possibility of parasites (wasn't that more of an issue with pork or chicken?) and similar enternally generated conditions, but the bulk of food poisoning comes from poor sanitary practices along the way. That's why cooking burgers through is important while a steak may be enjoyed rare with a minimum of risk.
I mean sure, it takes a lot more grain to have a hamburger as opposed to eating an equally filling ammount of grain directly, but if humans were meant to get energy from as closely to the sun as possible, we'd be green and sprouting leaves.
Arguing thermodynamics is pointing at carnivores and omnivores, telling them how misguided and inefficient their diet is.
I don't remember everything that DIVX had for content protection, but they required a dedicated connection so you could only watch movies when you paid up. Sure, DVDs that cost half as much are nice but not when you need to pay over and over. And DVDs proved without any doubt that people don't want to bother with complicated DRM bullshit.
But hey, if companies like Sony continue to want to spend millions to ruin a potentially good technology, then more power to them. I waited until DIVX was on the way out before I picked up my 1st DVD player, and even if HD DVD and BluRay go south, something will pick up the slack if there's a real demand for it.
Cause we all know it went to hell when we allowed that pesky VCR and damn audio cassette tapes to be used for recording. There's nothing fair about fair use when it prevents the fat cats from getting theirs.