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Comment: Re:Bullwinkle never knew (Score 1) 235

by Botia (#39957591) Attached to: Stone-Throwing Chimp Back In the News With Better Plan

Instinctual behaviors are not considered planned behaviors. This is a unique display from the chimp in question that other chimps don't do, so it is not instinctual. Previous questions were if it was perhaps a learned behavior or that the initial gathering and stockpiling was unrelated to the use of the rocks to throw at zoo visitors. The fact that he seems to have recognized that he has a better chance of successfully attacking the visitors by portraying peaceful action and concealing his weapons gives much more evidence that this chimp is capable of advanced thought and planning.

...and too much beer.

Comment: Re:Slashvertisement (Score 1) 119

by Botia (#39888349) Attached to: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 Benchmarked

Actually high performance computing has created more demand. Nvidia GPU's are being used in massive supercomputers using OpenCL and CUDA. "AMD GPU's support OpenCL." There are a many more people who are interested in the latest and greatest GPU than you may think, specifically on a news for nerds site. So yeah, sweat article and thanks for the heads up about the new benches MojoKid.

They did not focus on the general purpose computing circuitry so that power and heat could be reduced. The main focus was on gaming. Seperate cards will be created specifically for computing.

Comment: Re:Can people actually tell the difference? (Score 2) 607

by Botia (#39827943) Attached to: <em>Hobbit</em> Film Underwhelms At 48 Frames Per Second

15 years ago, back when we had CRT's for monitors, this was widely studied. 24 fps was used for movies as it was the minimum frame rate required for people to detect motion. 60 fps was determined to be the rate at which 85% of people could no longer detect frames. I remember one person we tested could detect frames up to about 85 fps. I'm not sure where these other numbers came from (i.e. 120fps, 240 fps, etc).

Comment: Interferance (Score 2) 414

by Botia (#39473089) Attached to: Maybe the FAA Gadget Ban On Liftoff and Landing Isn't So Bad

Being a doubter I had always questioned the ban on electronics. This was until one time we couldn't land due to interference. The landing systems were inoperable. We were unable to land until the stewardess found the person whose device was causing the interference. After the flight I did some research and found that faulty grounding in the plane can result in devices causing interference with the electronics. In our case it wiped out the landing navigation. I doubt this is the case with all planes but I can speak of at least one.

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