I have seen an example of this video enhancement technology where they have some crappy video of a car leaving a parking garage and the front license plate is completely unreadable due to grainy pixelation. But when they selected the area of the plate and compared the data from every frame of the video it because quite clear what the license plate said. It is very convincing.
Ever since the 9/11 conspiracy theorists started posting captured stills of the airplane hitting the tower, pointing out unknown devices strapped to the underside, I have wished that someone with access to this image processing technology would analyze the full video sequence to see if there is really anything there or not. It sure would be nice to use some high-tech tools to put this whole thing to rest.
OK, so data agglomeration, sales, and purchases are legal. So someone can find out what I bought for dinner last week. When I purchase something in a public place with electronic funds I am not naive enough to believe that no one will ever see that information.
But if I choose to tell a single person something in confidence in a private place, I would expect that to be kept private. I think collecting FACTS about me is VASTLY different than eavesdropping on my "private" conversations to determine what it is that I THINK.
A lot of people take movies seriously, yet we have porn.
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A lot of people take video games seriously, yet we have DoA.
I don't think he was talking about the "seedier side" of the games as much as the complete garbage side. I think the grandparent's point was that when a movie is made out of a game the general public sees the movie as a reflection on the game. So if the movie is complete and utter tripe, then the general public wonders why "gamers" would even waste their time on something like this. Even the seedy side of games COULD be well done and entertaining.
But it certainly doesn't look like this movie will be. Hopefully I am wrong. . . but I doubt it.
The heat transfer from the "chip" to the water would not be that good, true. But it does take a very large amount of energy to change the phase of water from a liquid to a gas. This energy, by definition, has to come from the chip, therefore producing a cooling effect on the chip. Given one of the previous posts' points about the 100*C boiling point of water, and the need for reduced pressure in the device to make it operate at reasonable temperatures this sounds very much like a modified heat pipe design. The steam created from the boiling of the liquid will eventually have to be consensed so it can return to the droplets to complete the cycle.
But a couple of the problems that I see with this are:
* How do you get enough liquid in the device to effectively cool the chip without them all combining into a thin film over the surface?
* How do you get the droplets to make a complete cycle? It seems to me that they would just move around the chip in a cirlce, which seems LESS EFFICIENT than a heat pipe simply due to liquid contact area.
* It certainly won't replace a pump that is capable of transporting the coolant to an external radiator.
It's a very interesting phenomenon, but I don't see how this could make a chip cooler any better than the designs that we have right now.
I saw that the article was quoted as saying that there were "an additional 25 jumbled letters" after smithycode. As I and others have found, there are actually 31 letters that follow the same bold and italicized formatting.
So, did the judge make some mistakes in displaying his message??
Tom's Hardware and other reviewers may not be able to buy their tested items from retailers, but I can think of a great way to get retail items without any cost to them. When they receive a "cherry picked" piece of hardware they can post it on their website and ask for users to register to purchase a matching retail item to trade. The "winning" user can then get a retail part, ship it to the reviewer, and receive the primo hardware in return. This way the reviewer gets to test both parts, and the user has a good chance of getting a hand-picked piece of hardware. Win-win. Just an idea.
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I have seen an example of this video enhancement technology where they have some crappy video of a car leaving a parking garage and the front license plate is completely unreadable due to grainy pixelation. But when they selected the area of the plate and compared the data from every frame of the video it because quite clear what the license plate said. It is very convincing.
Ever since the 9/11 conspiracy theorists started posting captured stills of the airplane hitting the tower, pointing out unknown devices strapped to the underside, I have wished that someone with access to this image processing technology would analyze the full video sequence to see if there is really anything there or not. It sure would be nice to use some high-tech tools to put this whole thing to rest.
But if I choose to tell a single person something in confidence in a private place, I would expect that to be kept private. I think collecting FACTS about me is VASTLY different than eavesdropping on my "private" conversations to determine what it is that I THINK.
I don't think he was talking about the "seedier side" of the games as much as the complete garbage side. I think the grandparent's point was that when a movie is made out of a game the general public sees the movie as a reflection on the game. So if the movie is complete and utter tripe, then the general public wonders why "gamers" would even waste their time on something like this. Even the seedy side of games COULD be well done and entertaining.
But it certainly doesn't look like this movie will be. Hopefully I am wrong. . . but I doubt it.
But a couple of the problems that I see with this are:
* How do you get enough liquid in the device to effectively cool the chip without them all combining into a thin film over the surface?
* How do you get the droplets to make a complete cycle? It seems to me that they would just move around the chip in a cirlce, which seems LESS EFFICIENT than a heat pipe simply due to liquid contact area.
* It certainly won't replace a pump that is capable of transporting the coolant to an external radiator.
It's a very interesting phenomenon, but I don't see how this could make a chip cooler any better than the designs that we have right now.
I saw that the article was quoted as saying that there were "an additional 25 jumbled letters" after smithycode. As I and others have found, there are actually 31 letters that follow the same bold and italicized formatting. So, did the judge make some mistakes in displaying his message??
Tom's Hardware and other reviewers may not be able to buy their tested items from retailers, but I can think of a great way to get retail items without any cost to them. When they receive a "cherry picked" piece of hardware they can post it on their website and ask for users to register to purchase a matching retail item to trade. The "winning" user can then get a retail part, ship it to the reviewer, and receive the primo hardware in return. This way the reviewer gets to test both parts, and the user has a good chance of getting a hand-picked piece of hardware. Win-win. Just an idea.