1. Pretend to invent your own metric by lack of pre-existing satisfactory metric
2. Describe it using esoteric terms you know your audience won't grasp/buzzwords
3. Make up phony results
4. ???
5. Ask for a raise, errr, I mean, profit!
Wouldn't it be a far better cost/effort equation to just buy a better HD camera in the damn first place?
What about you do buy a HD camera and combine it with a 12 megapixel still camera? Besides just a HD camera doesn't fix the issues you can fix by then adding HDR shots to the mix.
Actually that was the first thought that occurred to me, that it could be used to store videos by storing a high resolution keyframe and then only themovement data. Then it occurred to me that it's already what our modern video compression algorithms do. You can tell when you skip a WMV video ahead (or that it skips) and that artifacts look like they belong on the object they appeared on, until the next full keyframe.
So my by reckoning, it'll only be a few years before the stuff featured in CSI and similar shows isn't *total* bollocks. A lot of people see photos and stuff being magically enhanced to perfect resolution, revealing the identity of some suspect, and think that can be done in real life.
No not at all. You can get a good resolution out of a video if and only if you have a good picture to go with it, and it doesn't bring out any more data than you have in both your picture and video, it only combines what they have. Infinite zoom with a mere security camera as shown on CSI is theoretically impossible, well, with the exception of aliasing-based super-resolution techniques, but that sort of processing is done on many frames, takes the necessary aliasing and probably a few other conditions like noise level and what not.
I'm afraid it's going to be used in music videos to suddenly make make flowers or tentacles spread on walls, or other such stupid uses.
By the way, considered how you can modify an object in a scene by replacing a frame of it, or adding a picture to the mix, does it mean we can make Clint Eastwood look like he's 30 again by using a picture of him when he was young on some recent footage of him, or even do entire "head transplants" on videos?
The other cool part of it is that it derives a cloud of points from the video, meaning it can turn a video into a 3D model, apparently. However it seems like their program only uses it internally.
My point was that he talks as bad about Slashdotter as any other Slashdotter does. Often on Slashdot do you hear self deprecating comments and people joking that we don't have girlfriends or a life, and also regular complaints of how we think we're smarter than anyone else.
Dark Room Sex Wii Game? No images? So basically you wave your rod in the air before a completely dark screen while picturing yourself waving it inside a real woman? Wow, sounds amazing, I gotta buy this thing right now!
Jokes apart, if they made more Wii games that don't have anything displayed on the screen, I'd probably buy a Wii, as so far I don't since I don't even have a TV. But if you just need headphones then that's cool..
Sorry about nitpicking but that's quite a stretch to claim that someone who said that something was the greatest evening on television ever watches a lot of TV, as it doesn't really imply any such thing, unless you imagine that the person in question has made sure to watch everything on TV ever in order to rightfully emit this statement.;-)
How is that going to affect boss matches? Unless the boss monster has a load of minions, that could be quite a challenge!
Indeed, I only hope the monsters drop these "health orbs" through specific orifices. Would give a new sense to beating the proverbial shit out of them. Mostly if that shit heals your wounds.
Everyone here acts like they are so much smarter than everyone else and that a teenager can't know what is right because he isn't fat enough from sitting around eating twinkys and playing games on the computer. You never even had a girlfriend I bet because you're to busy being smarter than everyone else.
Despite a complete lack of clue he sounds just like any other Slashdotter.
Scratch that, he does sound just like any other Slashdotter.
The worst is that I initially misread your post as tongue-in-cheek, I thought it read "It should read: "we spend most of our wanking hours on-line"". Dunno if that would have made sense anyways.
Either that or the Republicans can take a joke. I'm pretty sure they knew exactly the type of material Colbert would go for.
From wikipedia : "Colbert was invited to speak at the dinner by Mark Smith, outgoing president of the White House Press Corps Association. According to a report in New York magazine, "Smith later told the Times he hadn't seen much of Colbert's work.""
Never underestimate the incompetence and lack of professionalism that reigns in Washington DC;-).
While that is true, I showed that to my GF who is from Hong Kong and knows English as a second language, cannot do it at all, but she can read perfectly and a bit faster than me
Taht's satnrge, bceusae I'm Fenrch and Esnligh is my socend lgnaugae and yet I'm albe to btoh raed it fsat but aslo wtire lkie taht..
Or Apple's reputation of "just working" will go down the tubes because they no longer have total control over the hardware.
If Apple starts trying to support every combination of 3rd party hardware out there, OSX will start having reliability problems just like Windows does.
Not necessarily. Basically, that would be the problem if Apple went out of its way to allow clone makers to make and sell clones. Then they'd have to support whatever's out there. But because Apple will never help anyone trying to make and sell Hackintoshes, then clone makers will be stuck with either using hardware that's already supported by Apple, or to solve the hardware support issues themselves. At the end of the day, the difference is that Apple doesn't have to support more than its own hardware, cause in their mind everyone else can just go fuck themselves, and it'll be up to anyone else making clones to make sure that what they sell works correctly. And I think Apple may profit from all of that as long as they, at least officially, keep being against clone makers.
I think one of the potential side effects of the eventual success of clone makers such as Psystar would be that Mac OS X would start to rival a declining Windows on regular personal computers, eventually becoming an OS of choice, and that actual Apple computers, even if outnumbered by clones, will still be seen as "the real thing" you want to get if you liked just the OS on a clone. Of course that's the most optimistic way to see what may happen.
Created for the specific purpose of circumcision, right. Besides if Christianity wanted you to cut off your foreskin then Europeans would be circumcised too. Which we are not.
...but for the rest of us with girlfriends, wives, zero personality problems & no desire to watch cartoons of Japanese schoolgirls being fornicated by huge alien tentacles, "up to 8MB" will be just fine and dandy.
I for one welcome you as one of our negative stereotype-reinforcing overlords! We need more of you, TV shows don't do enough of a job at depicting us all as Aspergers syndrome sufferers.
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1. Pretend to invent your own metric by lack of pre-existing satisfactory metric
2. Describe it using esoteric terms you know your audience won't grasp/buzzwords
3. Make up phony results
4. ???
5. Ask for a raise, errr, I mean, profit!
Actually it was +1 Funny, +1 Insightful and +1 Informative. I guess the Funny one was for the part you didn't like.
Oh, good to know, can the other consoles do that too?
Wouldn't it be a far better cost/effort equation to just buy a better HD camera in the damn first place?
What about you do buy a HD camera and combine it with a 12 megapixel still camera? Besides just a HD camera doesn't fix the issues you can fix by then adding HDR shots to the mix.
Actually that was the first thought that occurred to me, that it could be used to store videos by storing a high resolution keyframe and then only themovement data. Then it occurred to me that it's already what our modern video compression algorithms do. You can tell when you skip a WMV video ahead (or that it skips) and that artifacts look like they belong on the object they appeared on, until the next full keyframe.
So my by reckoning, it'll only be a few years before the stuff featured in CSI and similar shows isn't *total* bollocks. A lot of people see photos and stuff being magically enhanced to perfect resolution, revealing the identity of some suspect, and think that can be done in real life.
No not at all. You can get a good resolution out of a video if and only if you have a good picture to go with it, and it doesn't bring out any more data than you have in both your picture and video, it only combines what they have. Infinite zoom with a mere security camera as shown on CSI is theoretically impossible, well, with the exception of aliasing-based super-resolution techniques, but that sort of processing is done on many frames, takes the necessary aliasing and probably a few other conditions like noise level and what not.
I'm afraid it's going to be used in music videos to suddenly make make flowers or tentacles spread on walls, or other such stupid uses.
By the way, considered how you can modify an object in a scene by replacing a frame of it, or adding a picture to the mix, does it mean we can make Clint Eastwood look like he's 30 again by using a picture of him when he was young on some recent footage of him, or even do entire "head transplants" on videos?
The other cool part of it is that it derives a cloud of points from the video, meaning it can turn a video into a 3D model, apparently. However it seems like their program only uses it internally.
My point was that he talks as bad about Slashdotter as any other Slashdotter does. Often on Slashdot do you hear self deprecating comments and people joking that we don't have girlfriends or a life, and also regular complaints of how we think we're smarter than anyone else.
Dark Room Sex Wii Game? No images? So basically you wave your rod in the air before a completely dark screen while picturing yourself waving it inside a real woman? Wow, sounds amazing, I gotta buy this thing right now!
Jokes apart, if they made more Wii games that don't have anything displayed on the screen, I'd probably buy a Wii, as so far I don't since I don't even have a TV. But if you just need headphones then that's cool..
Sorry about nitpicking but that's quite a stretch to claim that someone who said that something was the greatest evening on television ever watches a lot of TV, as it doesn't really imply any such thing, unless you imagine that the person in question has made sure to watch everything on TV ever in order to rightfully emit this statement. ;-)
How is that going to affect boss matches? Unless the boss monster has a load of minions, that could be quite a challenge!
Indeed, I only hope the monsters drop these "health orbs" through specific orifices. Would give a new sense to beating the proverbial shit out of them. Mostly if that shit heals your wounds.
Everyone here acts like they are so much smarter than everyone else and that a teenager can't know what is right because he isn't fat enough from sitting around eating twinkys and playing games on the computer. You never even had a girlfriend I bet because you're to busy being smarter than everyone else.
Despite a complete lack of clue he sounds just like any other Slashdotter.
Scratch that, he does sound just like any other Slashdotter.
I've been wishing they'd bring a few more adult oriented games to the wii for a while.
I completely agree, they're missing on some many "adult-oriented" opportunities with this controller.
Muahaha beat you to it by a minute!
You don't get out a lot do you?
"The Mike Huckabee "bump" bit lead to the greatest evening on televsion EVER"
Whooosh...
The worst is that I initially misread your post as tongue-in-cheek, I thought it read "It should read: "we spend most of our wanking hours on-line"". Dunno if that would have made sense anyways.
Whooosh..
we spend most of hour waking ours on-line
Fixed it for you!
Either that or the Republicans can take a joke. I'm pretty sure they knew exactly the type of material Colbert would go for.
From wikipedia : "Colbert was invited to speak at the dinner by Mark Smith, outgoing president of the White House Press Corps Association. According to a report in New York magazine, "Smith later told the Times he hadn't seen much of Colbert's work.""
Never underestimate the incompetence and lack of professionalism that reigns in Washington DC ;-).
While that is true, I showed that to my GF who is from Hong Kong and knows English as a second language, cannot do it at all, but she can read perfectly and a bit faster than me
Taht's satnrge, bceusae I'm Fenrch and Esnligh is my socend lgnaugae and yet I'm albe to btoh raed it fsat but aslo wtire lkie taht..
Or Apple's reputation of "just working" will go down the tubes because they no longer have total control over the hardware.
If Apple starts trying to support every combination of 3rd party hardware out there, OSX will start having reliability problems just like Windows does.
Not necessarily. Basically, that would be the problem if Apple went out of its way to allow clone makers to make and sell clones. Then they'd have to support whatever's out there. But because Apple will never help anyone trying to make and sell Hackintoshes, then clone makers will be stuck with either using hardware that's already supported by Apple, or to solve the hardware support issues themselves. At the end of the day, the difference is that Apple doesn't have to support more than its own hardware, cause in their mind everyone else can just go fuck themselves, and it'll be up to anyone else making clones to make sure that what they sell works correctly. And I think Apple may profit from all of that as long as they, at least officially, keep being against clone makers.
I think one of the potential side effects of the eventual success of clone makers such as Psystar would be that Mac OS X would start to rival a declining Windows on regular personal computers, eventually becoming an OS of choice, and that actual Apple computers, even if outnumbered by clones, will still be seen as "the real thing" you want to get if you liked just the OS on a clone. Of course that's the most optimistic way to see what may happen.
Created for the specific purpose of circumcision, right. Besides if Christianity wanted you to cut off your foreskin then Europeans would be circumcised too. Which we are not.
...but for the rest of us with girlfriends, wives, zero personality problems & no desire to watch cartoons of Japanese schoolgirls being fornicated by huge alien tentacles, "up to 8MB" will be just fine and dandy.
I for one welcome you as one of our negative stereotype-reinforcing overlords! We need more of you, TV shows don't do enough of a job at depicting us all as Aspergers syndrome sufferers.
Most people use the internet for email, YouTube and websurfing
Fixed it for you. You're welcome.