Yup, it's got big pixels. About 21 per inch, actually. For comparison, an SD 32" CRT (640x480) has 25 per inch, while a regular 32" CRT (320x240) has 12.5. Just don't sit as close and you won't notice. More pixels would be a marginal benefit for any cinematic content, for an astronomically higher price - the smaller the pixels, the harder quality control is.
Oh, Gruyere, definitely. Emmentaler is fine, but certainly its popularity can be attributed merely to the region's inadequate defense of the name, allowing cheap knockoffs to proliferate.
Just for completeness, an unladen 747 is 180 tons, an F14 is 20 tons. However a 747's wingspan is over 5 times as large, and the overall cross section (and how many of those concrete blocks its impact would be distributed over) is probably at least 5 times as much considering the cabin size. So roughly speaking, a 747 could be expected to do twice as much damage as the F14.
Whether twice the damage done to the test block in that video matters is an exercise for the reader.:)
Also, recommended viewing angle is 36 for THX, 30 for most others, so you're talking about roughly 2000 pixels, or twice 1080p exactly for THX at the recommended distance. Preferred distance varies by person as mentioned elsewhere, but the resolution standards were set with movies in mind.
However some of the language used that I read implies that 2 arc minutes for 2 pixels is the average over a larger area. http://www.clarkvision.com/imagedetail/eye-resolut ion.html - this guy claims the actual maximum is 0.3 arc minutes (and gives citations), which is significantly higher, so a THX sized screen could have a maximum of 7200 pixels across - beyond that it categorically does not matter (if you're not sitting closer than the recommended distance).
The biggest thing I think is being missed is that everyone's talking about subjective measurement of two devices sitting side by side. For most source material, even HD source material, there might not be any difference in real satisfaction between 720p and 1080i/p for more than 75% of the user base. (Emphasis on 'might', I have no data and it's hard to quantify 'satisfaction')
Hell, for standard TV signals, some HD screens look worse because SD CRTs tend to blur an image rather naturally whereas the god-awful hardware in the flat panel LCD/plasma botches the scaling.
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Something that sells 100 million units to 100 million people is popular enough to sell 100 million units. Something that sells 100 million units to 50 million people is popular enough to sell 100 million units.
Do you think brand loyalty varies so wildly that any player that could sell 100 million would be so different? I know several people who bought iPods despite having NO previous brand loyalty (and in some cases a strong antipathy).
You probably visit too much. The system takes that into account. It's fair to complain about, but most likely it's the result of the editors examining 'bad' moderation and doing some simple analysis on how to classify problem users. You always lose some wheat with the chaff, but on the whole it probably works better than not. Sorry it got you too.
I actually intentionally unchecked 'willing to moderate', and apparently the setting got lost or ignored. Or maybe it's a catch-22, but I get mod points every week or two. I use them if I see a good reason to, but at least half of them return to the pool.
Actually, when the aggregate of all your posts, plus writing style, which is extremely hard to disguise, is considered, it's not that hard to link it, if anyone cares to.
Yeah, that's why I went back and put 'realistically' in there. For that to happen you'd have to have the suspicion that some slashdotter is someone you know of, and have access to written material of that person. Likely that it's never happened, certainly not to 0.01% of the user base. I see no way that, for example, an employer could find your/. posts if you took a few reasonable steps to separate your online persona.
I think allowing anon posts is essential, but I see no reason to argue about theirs being the first ones culled when the number of posts is overwhelming. They can always sign the bottom, and in fact I see that done fairly often. As someone's sig pointed out, people are probably recognized most by their sigs - I rarely pay attention to the posters name.
God forbid you get an account and mod up some of those posts that are so insightful.
Registered users are necessary for the system to work. Without them, picking out a few good posts to mod up would be infeasible, no one would do it, the system would be worthless, and everyone with one of those late-posted insightful comments wouldn't even bother coming.
Allowing anon comments is a nicety, but it's as much leeway as can be given and still have the system work.
The system isn't perfect, but/. has the user base it does because it works. I'd put money down that any system that favored the end-of-day AC posts would crash and burn the entire user-base in under a year.
It sounds like you care, so do the rest of us a favor and actually participate instead of coach from the sidelines?
Hell, at least with the current system, someone that posts anon at end-of-day has a small chance of being modded up on an evening story, and even if they're getting recognized 1/20th as often as they should, that's still infinitely more than not posting at all.
There's no surrender in registering. What are you losing? I have no idea.
What do you stand to gain? You can realistically have a conversation if you accept e-mail notifications. You gain the ability to moderate down those nonsense +5's, metamoderate the ones that put them there in the first place. Save your prefs, etc.
The system only has value by having people registered. By refusing to you're merely complaining about things you're being too lazy to help fix.
There's an advantage to attaching a name to your words, but you always have the ability to take the penalty and detach that name to say something that either needs to be said, or probably shouldn't be said but you feel like it anyway.
Stop seeing registering as surrender, stop celebrating your sloth (or maybe paranoia, but I have no idea what your reasons are. I can't even understand them). Really, it's just another column in a database that can't realistically even be linked to you. You seem to care by what you say, so why don't you care enough to participate that much? Stage fright?
Another one is Games. So now thanks to MS's latest marketing push, stores have sections labeled 'Games for Windows'. So what about games that run on more than one OS? No one's going to make 6 inches of shelf space for games that the consumer may assume don't run on windows because they're not in the windows section... so those go under 'Games for Windows' too. Lock-in works in the minds of consumers as well.
Well, you need 10 kg of plutonium for critical mass. I'm not sure what would be harder, having them live long enough to reach the target, or getting them all to crash into each other at the same time.
It's not really some 'alternate theory' that's competing with 'THE theory of evolution'. I'd say it's a further understanding of concepts related to the body of the whole.
I think your original insinuation is wrong. Neanderthals had skulls shapes that differ from any modern human in pronounced ways, had different stature, bone structure, teeth, etc. To say "It's a guy with arthritis" is silly and wouldn't be a reasonable claim by any student of the field of evolution or biology.
I think the scientists deserve a little more credit than being called wrong because you half-remember an article about a subject popularized by jurassic park proposed in a paper 30 years old based on 50 year old research. *Shrug* but that's half the fun of/., right?:)
Well, a possible exception to this scenario is that some well-maintained systems can run unattended for a long time before some small details change enough to upset it. Current projects that go unfinished were unseen anyway and wouldn't be missed.
So he could take his leave and be unavailable when the realize they needed him 2 years ago.
Nintendo turned a profit being #3, and invested in radical technology in a somewhat conservative fashion. They were never in danger of dying and anyone saying such was misinformed or trolling.
Sony has invested heavily in conservative technology that has failed to put it head and shoulders above its competition, and will not be able to turn a profit on hardware for a long time. They can't rely on revenue from PS3 games largely because many once-exclusive series are heading to 360, and poor console sales will equate to few game sales.
However, claiming that Sony might die is probably premature - PS2 is still selling at a profit, and PS2 games are still selling, and new PS2 games are still being made. Their financials don't look pretty from what I recall, but I too doubt they're going anywhere.
I was making Jello and took a 2 cup pyrex measuring cup from the recently-finished dishwasher. Filled it with tap water and put it in the microwave. I forgot how long I put it in and I didn't see any condensation on the rim so I figured it wasn't long enough and put it in for another minute. When I took it out the handle was much warmer than I thought it should be, so I carefully tapped a pinch of Jello powder into the measuring cup from about 2 feet in the air. Yup, I had superheated water. It erupted into a frothing boiling mass that emptied half of the water from the cup. It was really neat to witness firsthand, but I'm very glad I knew about it beforehand, or else I would probably have dumped the whole packet in while holding the damned thing.
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Yup, it's got big pixels. About 21 per inch, actually. For comparison, an SD 32" CRT (640x480) has 25 per inch, while a regular 32" CRT (320x240) has 12.5. Just don't sit as close and you won't notice. More pixels would be a marginal benefit for any cinematic content, for an astronomically higher price - the smaller the pixels, the harder quality control is.
Why they changed it, I can't say.
People just liked it better that way.
Oh, Gruyere, definitely. Emmentaler is fine, but certainly its popularity can be attributed merely to the region's inadequate defense of the name, allowing cheap knockoffs to proliferate.
*cricket* *cricket*
What?
Just for completeness, an unladen 747 is 180 tons, an F14 is 20 tons. However a 747's wingspan is over 5 times as large, and the overall cross section (and how many of those concrete blocks its impact would be distributed over) is probably at least 5 times as much considering the cabin size. So roughly speaking, a 747 could be expected to do twice as much damage as the F14.
:)
Whether twice the damage done to the test block in that video matters is an exercise for the reader.
I love that video btw.
Also, recommended viewing angle is 36 for THX, 30 for most others, so you're talking about roughly 2000 pixels, or twice 1080p exactly for THX at the recommended distance. Preferred distance varies by person as mentioned elsewhere, but the resolution standards were set with movies in mind.
t ion.html - this guy claims the actual maximum is 0.3 arc minutes (and gives citations), which is significantly higher, so a THX sized screen could have a maximum of 7200 pixels across - beyond that it categorically does not matter (if you're not sitting closer than the recommended distance).
However some of the language used that I read implies that 2 arc minutes for 2 pixels is the average over a larger area. http://www.clarkvision.com/imagedetail/eye-resolu
The biggest thing I think is being missed is that everyone's talking about subjective measurement of two devices sitting side by side. For most source material, even HD source material, there might not be any difference in real satisfaction between 720p and 1080i/p for more than 75% of the user base. (Emphasis on 'might', I have no data and it's hard to quantify 'satisfaction')
Hell, for standard TV signals, some HD screens look worse because SD CRTs tend to blur an image rather naturally whereas the god-awful hardware in the flat panel LCD/plasma botches the scaling.
Something that sells 100 million units to 100 million people is popular enough to sell 100 million units.
Something that sells 100 million units to 50 million people is popular enough to sell 100 million units.
Do you think brand loyalty varies so wildly that any player that could sell 100 million would be so different? I know several people who bought iPods despite having NO previous brand loyalty (and in some cases a strong antipathy).
You probably visit too much. The system takes that into account. It's fair to complain about, but most likely it's the result of the editors examining 'bad' moderation and doing some simple analysis on how to classify problem users. You always lose some wheat with the chaff, but on the whole it probably works better than not. Sorry it got you too.
I actually intentionally unchecked 'willing to moderate', and apparently the setting got lost or ignored. Or maybe it's a catch-22, but I get mod points every week or two. I use them if I see a good reason to, but at least half of them return to the pool.
Actually, when the aggregate of all your posts, plus writing style, which is extremely hard to disguise, is considered, it's not that hard to link it, if anyone cares to.
/. posts if you took a few reasonable steps to separate your online persona.
Yeah, that's why I went back and put 'realistically' in there. For that to happen you'd have to have the suspicion that some slashdotter is someone you know of, and have access to written material of that person. Likely that it's never happened, certainly not to 0.01% of the user base. I see no way that, for example, an employer could find your
I think allowing anon posts is essential, but I see no reason to argue about theirs being the first ones culled when the number of posts is overwhelming. They can always sign the bottom, and in fact I see that done fairly often. As someone's sig pointed out, people are probably recognized most by their sigs - I rarely pay attention to the posters name.
Ahh, but you see, everyone is likewise flawed, but by admitting it you've proven that you're qualified to pilot, err, moderate.
God forbid you get an account and mod up some of those posts that are so insightful.
/. has the user base it does because it works. I'd put money down that any system that favored the end-of-day AC posts would crash and burn the entire user-base in under a year.
Registered users are necessary for the system to work. Without them, picking out a few good posts to mod up would be infeasible, no one would do it, the system would be worthless, and everyone with one of those late-posted insightful comments wouldn't even bother coming.
Allowing anon comments is a nicety, but it's as much leeway as can be given and still have the system work.
The system isn't perfect, but
It sounds like you care, so do the rest of us a favor and actually participate instead of coach from the sidelines?
Hell, at least with the current system, someone that posts anon at end-of-day has a small chance of being modded up on an evening story, and even if they're getting recognized 1/20th as often as they should, that's still infinitely more than not posting at all.
There's no surrender in registering. What are you losing? I have no idea.
What do you stand to gain? You can realistically have a conversation if you accept e-mail notifications. You gain the ability to moderate down those nonsense +5's, metamoderate the ones that put them there in the first place. Save your prefs, etc.
The system only has value by having people registered. By refusing to you're merely complaining about things you're being too lazy to help fix.
There's an advantage to attaching a name to your words, but you always have the ability to take the penalty and detach that name to say something that either needs to be said, or probably shouldn't be said but you feel like it anyway.
Stop seeing registering as surrender, stop celebrating your sloth (or maybe paranoia, but I have no idea what your reasons are. I can't even understand them). Really, it's just another column in a database that can't realistically even be linked to you. You seem to care by what you say, so why don't you care enough to participate that much? Stage fright?
Another one is Games. So now thanks to MS's latest marketing push, stores have sections labeled 'Games for Windows'. So what about games that run on more than one OS? No one's going to make 6 inches of shelf space for games that the consumer may assume don't run on windows because they're not in the windows section... so those go under 'Games for Windows' too. Lock-in works in the minds of consumers as well.
I'm sorry, but I've read that sentence about 8 times now, and it's still not making any more sense. Was it supposed to?
Well, most people aren't interested in the year, so it comes last.
When sorting dated files alphabetically, MMDD is in order for an entire year (as long as you have leading zeros on the single digits).
howzat?
Don't you mean http://worsethanfailure.com/? :D
Well, you need 10 kg of plutonium for critical mass. I'm not sure what would be harder, having them live long enough to reach the target, or getting them all to crash into each other at the same time.
So as soon as Windows has no more users, we'll all be safe?
Whoops! Thanks for pointing that out. Sorry Miyako, I fail at /.
Oh, you mean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuated_equilibriu m
/., right? :)
It's not really some 'alternate theory' that's competing with 'THE theory of evolution'. I'd say it's a further understanding of concepts related to the body of the whole.
I think your original insinuation is wrong. Neanderthals had skulls shapes that differ from any modern human in pronounced ways, had different stature, bone structure, teeth, etc. To say "It's a guy with arthritis" is silly and wouldn't be a reasonable claim by any student of the field of evolution or biology.
I think the scientists deserve a little more credit than being called wrong because you half-remember an article about a subject popularized by jurassic park proposed in a paper 30 years old based on 50 year old research. *Shrug* but that's half the fun of
Do you have a link? I can find no references whatsoever to 'bubble theory' in an evolutionary context.
Well, a possible exception to this scenario is that some well-maintained systems can run unattended for a long time before some small details change enough to upset it. Current projects that go unfinished were unseen anyway and wouldn't be missed.
So he could take his leave and be unavailable when the realize they needed him 2 years ago.
How is Google's search biased? Live.com ranks maps.live.com lower than google does (page 6).
Are you blaming Google for MS not buying ad space on google?
The argument goes something like...
Nintendo turned a profit being #3, and invested in radical technology in a somewhat conservative fashion. They were never in danger of dying and anyone saying such was misinformed or trolling.
Sony has invested heavily in conservative technology that has failed to put it head and shoulders above its competition, and will not be able to turn a profit on hardware for a long time. They can't rely on revenue from PS3 games largely because many once-exclusive series are heading to 360, and poor console sales will equate to few game sales.
However, claiming that Sony might die is probably premature - PS2 is still selling at a profit, and PS2 games are still selling, and new PS2 games are still being made. Their financials don't look pretty from what I recall, but I too doubt they're going anywhere.
Off topic, but anyway...
I was making Jello and took a 2 cup pyrex measuring cup from the recently-finished dishwasher. Filled it with tap water and put it in the microwave. I forgot how long I put it in and I didn't see any condensation on the rim so I figured it wasn't long enough and put it in for another minute. When I took it out the handle was much warmer than I thought it should be, so I carefully tapped a pinch of Jello powder into the measuring cup from about 2 feet in the air. Yup, I had superheated water. It erupted into a frothing boiling mass that emptied half of the water from the cup. It was really neat to witness firsthand, but I'm very glad I knew about it beforehand, or else I would probably have dumped the whole packet in while holding the damned thing.
Remember kids, knowing is half the battle.
He doesn't have anything to worry about, he's firing blanks.