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Comment a fun analogy (Score 1) 158

Ooooh 4k! What an impressive buzz word! Unfortunately, I feel like it might not be quite 1 gigabit per second filling it. Here's an example. If I give you a small container filled with peanut butter, you'd be sort of happy. If I give you a gigantic container with a big, flashy title and the fill it with horse manure, you actually were better off with the smaller container. 4K is a resolution. It's just a container. I care about the pixels inside of it. When Direct TV's "HD" signal had to display confetti falling at the superbowl, 1920x1080 @ 30 effective FPS @ about 2 megabits = pixels the size of cats. Seriously, I saw 1 inch wide pixels. It's a static bitrate so for the encoding, pixels that don't move are lower quality and ones that do move are higher quality. When they're all moving, it looks like a 1996 dial up streaming video. In fact, with downscaling (since nobody owns 4k monitors) you'd actually get a better overall quality with 8 megabits per second crammed into 1080 than you would with it crammed into 4k.

Comment Re:what an idiot (Score 1) 263

Oh I forgot one! You know "the men who stare at goats?" Yeah, that was a gigantic drug-fueled waste of time by pretend scientists who thought halucinogens made them super smart and gave people super powers with quantum waves of life force and blah blah blah and other bullshit that doesn't exist in real science.

Comment really? (Score 1) 986

So it output a ridiculous amount of energy. That means it works. Just because they can't understand it doesn't mean it doesn't work. I don't care if it uses nuclear fusion or elf magic. It does exactly what it was supposed to do so why don't scientists stop making fun of it and build a power plant using it. If I invented the single most money-making device in over a century, exceeding even personal computers, I wouldn't open source the specs even if I had an established patent. China would just steal it a decade sooner. I'd keep that sucker so top secret, I'd have $100 billion company before anyone figured out how it worked.
"We're confused and don't like the person personally" it not a sufficient reason to not take the device seriously. We were using quantum effects and technology before scientists figured out how and why it worked. Same thing here.

Comment I don't get it (Score 1) 429

How does using bittorent on public wifi clog up "residential" routers. Do the residential ones see the corporate coffee shop ones under heavy stress and get "sympathy congestion?"
Also, over half of all public wifi I've seen cuts any client off for 24 hours if they use X amount of bandwidth, usually 1GB. If they don't implement something like that, or really good QOS, or port-blocking then their network is misconfigured and they brought it on themselves. The proper way to fix that is to offer to fix it, not boot people off with some stupid hack.

Comment Re:what an idiot (Score 1) 263

I have solid, proven, documented proof that the highest IQ test ratings, the best software programming I can achieve, and the greatest creative problem solving and creativity is after 8.5 hours of sleep and a sufficient diet with lots of B vitamins. That is supported by all of science and biology. Having random, idiotic ideas pop into my head while my synapses fire randomly because of THC does not constitute a superior means of thinking, it is in fact completely inferior. It is illogical and useless and the thought patterns would be easily achieved in a superior way by simple concentration and mental exercises while not under the influence of drugs.

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