4K is the limit of human visual perception, so 4K makes sense in that you can't see the individual pixels when the entire screen is in your field of view. Going higher that 4K for video entertainment is pointless, it's only a marketing numbers game to get more money out of naive consumers. Recently, I discovered many vendors make TOSlink cables with gold-plated connectors. That's right, OPTICAL cables with gold plating, which does absolutely nothing to improve the light-conducting properties of the fiber! Consumers are stupid, and have been trained by Monster Cable that "Gold plated audio cable = good!" Even if it's not an analog electrical audio cable...
Yep, that's exactly the reason I want a 4000x8000 resolution smart phone -- because it would be AWESOME for VR! 4000x4000 for each eye stereo video is the limit of human visual perception. With my Samsung Occulus and S7, I can still see the pixels.
The absolute size of the TV is irrelevant. It's the ratio of the size of the TV to how close you're sitting to it! An 8K phone even makes sense if you're using it for google cardboard style VR goggles. If your sitting 4' away from your 55" TV, you can see the difference 4K makes. Agreed, most people don't sit close enough to the TV to tell the difference!
Human visual perception is limited to about 4000 pixels and 256 different levels of color. Encoding higher resolution is imperceptible by human beings, so what's the point?
A secret master key sounds pretty naive. EVERY decoding device needs to include that master key in some shape or form; eventually someone is going to reverse-engineer it and release it! Or more likely, like the failure of the Great Wall of China, somebody will just bribe one of the gatekeepers.
Again, human visual perception is limited to about 4000 pixels across the field of view, so having a screen with greater resolution is only useful if you are planing on looking at just a fraction of the screen at a time. I think most movies assume you're looking at the whole screen!
That's exactly the point I keep trying to make: human visual perception is limited to approximately 4000 pixels across the field of view. Doubling that resolution is absolutely imperceptible to a human viewer!
Great... so, how long will it take to download that 48Gbps video over my 100Mbps Comcast internet connection? Only 20 days for a 1 hour movie? Awesome! As I try to tell anyone buying a 4K TV: figure out where your 4K content is going to come from first! Comcast doesn't have 4K content, although they keep saying "Any day, real soon now!" And downloading 4K video from Netflix or Amazon Prime is probably going to put you over Comcast's new 1TByte/month data cap, costing you up to an additional $200/month. ($10 per each 50GB over the limit).
8K is TWICE the resolution of human eye, which can only distinguish about 4000 pixels across the field of vision. Higher resolution is only useful if you're sitting close enough to only see half the screen in your field of view! Point it, 4K is the point of diminishing returns in video resolution. At 4K, you cannot distinguish individual pixels when the entire screen is in your field of view. Higher resolution for a TV screen is pointless. Higher resolution for a camera only makes sense if you plan on blowing the image or a section of the image up.Satellite cameras can still use all the resolution they can get.
The mapping software won't help Intel find a viable business model as desktop computers go out of vogue. The future of consumer electronics is ARM running Linux, not X86 running Windows. Touchscreen will also lose market share as they are partially replaced by voice control, especially in automotive applications.
I drove coast to coast once by driving 24 hours, sleeping for 8 hours, then driving 24 hours. Do you know why I stopped after driving 24 hours? Because when I reached Denver, I realized I was driving as if I was drunk, so the safest thing to do was get some sleep. Pretty much the same argument applies to ANY driving shift over 12 hours: it should be illegal because it is definitely unsafe. In fact, aren't long haul truckers legally required to not drive more than 12 hours straight? According to WikiPedia: "Commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers are limited to 11 cumulative hours driving in a 14-hour period, following a rest period of no less than 10 consecutive hours. Drivers employed by carriers in "daily operation" may not work more than 70 hours within any period of 8 consecutive days." Why aren't ride sharing operators held to the same standard? Are they even required to get a chauffeur license?
Uber is an innovation over "do X, but do it on the internet" as a business model. Instead, it's "do X on the internet as a way of avoiding all the regulation and taxes that limit the profitability of X". All the "ride sharing" and "room sharing" services are based on avoiding regulation and taxation... meaning they will only be profitable for the few years it takes for every jurisdiction to change the statutes to tax the heck out of "doing X on the internet" as well. Most of the AirBNB rooms in New York City are now illegal, so it is now necessary to check with the local jurisdiction before renting.
They make a few bucks selling old books, but you've got to sell a LOT of old books at $0.25 each to buy a single new book! Probably a better strategy would be to put unused books into storage on the off chance that somebody wants them some day, Libraries have an obligation to preserve history, not just to meet the changing demands of current customers!
Yes and no. There is a need for testing and training for all databases, some organizations create test databases for that, but less imaginative places just insert fake records in the actual database to use for testing and training.
EVERY phenomena astronomers can't explain has a simple explanation: black holes. They just don't understand black holes. "Dark matter"? Nope, black holes. Gamma radiation bursts? That's just stars getting sucked into black holes. The "alien megastructure" around Tabby's star? Ok, that one might just be cosmic dust.
I'm pretty sure Monet and Van Gogh had vision problems; it's obvious from their paintings. But gauging neurological problems from brush strokes sounds pretty sketchy to me.
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4K is the limit of human visual perception, so 4K makes sense in that you can't see the individual pixels when the entire screen is in your field of view. Going higher that 4K for video entertainment is pointless, it's only a marketing numbers game to get more money out of naive consumers. Recently, I discovered many vendors make TOSlink cables with gold-plated connectors. That's right, OPTICAL cables with gold plating, which does absolutely nothing to improve the light-conducting properties of the fiber! Consumers are stupid, and have been trained by Monster Cable that "Gold plated audio cable = good!" Even if it's not an analog electrical audio cable...
Yep, that's exactly the reason I want a 4000x8000 resolution smart phone -- because it would be AWESOME for VR! 4000x4000 for each eye stereo video is the limit of human visual perception. With my Samsung Occulus and S7, I can still see the pixels.
The absolute size of the TV is irrelevant. It's the ratio of the size of the TV to how close you're sitting to it! An 8K phone even makes sense if you're using it for google cardboard style VR goggles. If your sitting 4' away from your 55" TV, you can see the difference 4K makes. Agreed, most people don't sit close enough to the TV to tell the difference!
Human visual perception is limited to about 4000 pixels and 256 different levels of color. Encoding higher resolution is imperceptible by human beings, so what's the point?
A secret master key sounds pretty naive. EVERY decoding device needs to include that master key in some shape or form; eventually someone is going to reverse-engineer it and release it! Or more likely, like the failure of the Great Wall of China, somebody will just bribe one of the gatekeepers.
8K buys you nothing when human visual perception is limited to 4K! "Duh, bigger numbers better!" appears to be the new marketing mantra.
Again, human visual perception is limited to about 4000 pixels across the field of view, so having a screen with greater resolution is only useful if you are planing on looking at just a fraction of the screen at a time. I think most movies assume you're looking at the whole screen!
That's exactly the point I keep trying to make: human visual perception is limited to approximately 4000 pixels across the field of view. Doubling that resolution is absolutely imperceptible to a human viewer!
Great... so, how long will it take to download that 48Gbps video over my 100Mbps Comcast internet connection? Only 20 days for a 1 hour movie? Awesome! As I try to tell anyone buying a 4K TV: figure out where your 4K content is going to come from first! Comcast doesn't have 4K content, although they keep saying "Any day, real soon now!" And downloading 4K video from Netflix or Amazon Prime is probably going to put you over Comcast's new 1TByte/month data cap, costing you up to an additional $200/month. ($10 per each 50GB over the limit).
8K is TWICE the resolution of human eye, which can only distinguish about 4000 pixels across the field of vision. Higher resolution is only useful if you're sitting close enough to only see half the screen in your field of view! Point it, 4K is the point of diminishing returns in video resolution. At 4K, you cannot distinguish individual pixels when the entire screen is in your field of view. Higher resolution for a TV screen is pointless. Higher resolution for a camera only makes sense if you plan on blowing the image or a section of the image up.Satellite cameras can still use all the resolution they can get.
Just for grins and giggles, they should name the drone delivery system "Skynet"!
The mapping software won't help Intel find a viable business model as desktop computers go out of vogue. The future of consumer electronics is ARM running Linux, not X86 running Windows. Touchscreen will also lose market share as they are partially replaced by voice control, especially in automotive applications.
I drove coast to coast once by driving 24 hours, sleeping for 8 hours, then driving 24 hours. Do you know why I stopped after driving 24 hours? Because when I reached Denver, I realized I was driving as if I was drunk, so the safest thing to do was get some sleep. Pretty much the same argument applies to ANY driving shift over 12 hours: it should be illegal because it is definitely unsafe. In fact, aren't long haul truckers legally required to not drive more than 12 hours straight? According to WikiPedia: "Commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers are limited to 11 cumulative hours driving in a 14-hour period, following a rest period of no less than 10 consecutive hours. Drivers employed by carriers in "daily operation" may not work more than 70 hours within any period of 8 consecutive days." Why aren't ride sharing operators held to the same standard? Are they even required to get a chauffeur license?
When are they going to start advertising the biggest perk of being an Uber driver: all the passed-out drunk pussy you can rape!
Uber is an innovation over "do X, but do it on the internet" as a business model. Instead, it's "do X on the internet as a way of avoiding all the regulation and taxes that limit the profitability of X". All the "ride sharing" and "room sharing" services are based on avoiding regulation and taxation... meaning they will only be profitable for the few years it takes for every jurisdiction to change the statutes to tax the heck out of "doing X on the internet" as well. Most of the AirBNB rooms in New York City are now illegal, so it is now necessary to check with the local jurisdiction before renting.
95% of the volume of a library is empty space. Move the shelves closer together!
They make a few bucks selling old books, but you've got to sell a LOT of old books at $0.25 each to buy a single new book! Probably a better strategy would be to put unused books into storage on the off chance that somebody wants them some day, Libraries have an obligation to preserve history, not just to meet the changing demands of current customers!
"They have control of the public schools"??? You know most schoolbooks are the ones approved in that bastion of liberal thought know as Texas, right?
Damn! That explains why I can't find any ZZ Top in the library CD catalogue!
Yes and no. There is a need for testing and training for all databases, some organizations create test databases for that, but less imaginative places just insert fake records in the actual database to use for testing and training.
EVERY phenomena astronomers can't explain has a simple explanation: black holes. They just don't understand black holes. "Dark matter"? Nope, black holes. Gamma radiation bursts? That's just stars getting sucked into black holes. The "alien megastructure" around Tabby's star? Ok, that one might just be cosmic dust.
That's why I always film my sex acts with prostitutes, so if I get busted, I can claim I was legally producing adult films!
So, if you pay a prostitute with counterfeit money... have you just committed rape?
How many guys out there are thinking right now, "Damn! Why didn't I think of that!"
I'm pretty sure Monet and Van Gogh had vision problems; it's obvious from their paintings. But gauging neurological problems from brush strokes sounds pretty sketchy to me.