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>If you believe that the purpose of a film format is simply to convey moving images to the viewer with as much fidelity and control as possible, as I do, then 48 FPS is objectively better

As used in the current film, 48FPS diminishes selectivity of detail, one of the most important attributes of any artform. In this film it is ALL detail, ALL the time.

For an analogy, think of it in literary terms: 48FPS is akin to a writer endlessly pouring over every minute detail of his scene, at the expense of plot, characterization, theme, etc. In literature, that might become a hallmark of style (Dickens), but even so, when the plot needs to move, one dials down the descriptiveness. In film, we're swept along at the movie's pace, and there isn't always time to process the blanket intensity of detail at 48 FPS. It can easily draw our attention to non-essential parts of the shot, and overwhelm visual attention at the expense of auditory story-tracking.

FWIW, I saw the film in 48 FPS 3D, and I truly tried to be as open minded and objective about what I was viewing, trying to approach the content, style, and technology on its own terms. (I find this is often the way to get the most enjoyable experience out of a movie.) There were moments when I found the level of detail breathtaking. Unfortunately, there were more where I found it to be distracting, and the motion strangely awkward. For the most part, I did appreciate the lack of motion blur on panning shots.

Perhaps what is needed is a new method of dialing the detail up or down within the shot when using HFR, beyond the current means of focus, depth of field, and lighting. Like a painter selectively using detailed rendering techniques on different faces within a scene, filmmakers shooting at 48 FPS could then more easily direct their audience's glance and attention according to the aims of the narrative.

But as in any art, there's no easy answer here. It's always going to be about tradeoffs.
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It looks really cool as a concept, but I've found that playing around with the values and since closing the tab my eyes are really messed up now.

I would hate to see this on a film, it'd do my eyes in completely.

Still, really nice concept.
I don't universally hate soap operas or the soap opera look, and I do think the association made by most people is simply that soap operas tend to be low budget while also being shown at 60 Hz. I believe the fundamental reason for bad-looking soap operas is the low budgets. They are 60 Hz because that's just how television has worked for a very long time.
I just saw [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZb8EXUrQTo) video and I hereby withdraw any and all association I had or I implied I had with the deranged senile people. I hope everyone who still is a part of the NRA dies a slow and painful death (without the use of guns).
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Seeing as you're more experienced on the Windows stack (saw your C# posts), I'd suggest not dealing with NodeJS at all if your aim is to push out and maintain this project with less friction.

If you're thinking it'll scale, it's much better to deal with scaling problems in a stack you're familiar with. So for your server stack I'd suggest these:

- PaaS: AppHarbor or Azure Cloud Services. You can easily scale up with them by a few clicks.

- Server-side: Seeing as you chose NodeJS, I assume you're going to use the stack's asynchronous nature, might I suggest looking up SignalR (http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AsynchronousScalableWebApplica...)

- ORM Layer: NHibernate

- DB: MySQL

Again, I'm not saying not to use NodeJS because I'm some sort of Microsoft Fanboy, I'm just giving suggestions based on how much "better" you can push out your project "quicker", and maintain/support it with lesser friction.
>...where Apple beats three community-developed libraries.

That's just in one very restricted area (JSON parsing) where there are TONS of third-party libraries of varying quality for the exact same thing. Doesn't mean much in the big picture.

>I'm also skeptical because I don't see how Apple has any incentive to optimise code ever.

And yet, they use to do it all the time in OS X, replacing bad performing components with better ones. From 10.1 on, each release actually had better performance on the SAME hardware, until Snow Leopard at least. They had hit a plateau there I guess where all the low hanging fruit optimisations were already made.

Still, it makes sense to optimise severely, if not for anything else to boast better battery life.
The argument remains though...
So, here is a deletion listing from a week or so back:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...

I'd love to know which of these deletions are bringing about the end of Wikipedia.
Because then there isn't a sense of community with other people/sites doing the same thing.
Partially true, it has taken me a long time to learn haskell. However if you want to learn anything there is some upfront effort involved.

I don't get to write haskell at work, but I see its principles everywhere with an additional layer of cruft over the top. Examples include doing functional style programming in python, linq in C#, passing around functions and callbacks in JavaScript and trying to reason about side effects.
> You just can't compare the requirements of "science" part with requirements of "real world business system". The "science" requirements are almost laughably trivial. And the documentation of business system will run into thousands of pages.

Indeed, and even then usually crap is delivered.
You are cordially invited to get over it.
HFR is just a messenger. It's no fault of HFR if filmmakers don't know yet how to make it "cinematic". HFR is the future, it must be - and filmmakers WILL learn how to use it.
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>The other opinion, which is that 24 FPS has some inherent artistic merit that makes it the ideal format for cinema, is bizarre and incomprehensible to me

Well, it depends. For one, it coincides better with the ~1/25 rate of which a retina persists an afterimage, which might give it a better perceptual look over a higher frame rate.

And perhaps it's not the "as much fidelity" part that is asked of the film medium, but the illusion of a different world, which better fidelity would destroy.

>and that type of argument could be (and probably was) used to argue against audio ("talkies"), color, surround sound, digital color correction, etc.

Well, from a purely artistic perspective, the argument is not incomprehensible at all, even against audio, color, surround sound and such, depending on the prevailing theory of art.

And, purely empirically, I'd go on to say that the more technologically advanced a movie, the worse film it is. But I come from a European/French perspective on the art of cinema, and I wouldn't consider Avatar or LoTR as a "good" film at all.
Isn't it possible to have a Pure ARMv8 SoC? And leave all the old things behind?
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I have an admin account. It really isn't that big of a deal. It just means there's a few extra things I can do that non-admins can't. And when I fuck up, people shout at me more.

Really, that's all you get from it: more work and more drama.

Everyone else sees Wikipedia administrators as supreme overlords when in fact they are basically janitors.
Conflating predictability with rationality appears to be a common failing amongst the supposedly sane.

Just look at the hysteria that flares up every time an event like this occurs. Guns are bad, gunmen are mad. Unless they're police or military, in which case they're obviously in perfect mental health and heroes to boot. Very rational.
Driving cars on public roads is heavily regulated. Buying and owning cars is almost entirely unregulated, it doesn't require a license or insurance, so long as it is only driven on private property.
> It's amazing how well my eyes reconstruct the original image from the demo

Hmm. It didn't work for me at all. On the latest Firefox beta it was flickering at about 10fps (ballpark guess), which was slow enough for me to see the individual images and made it look like the normal picture plus horrible static (IE, analog TV noise of old). It also took 40% of my CPU.

It looks better on chrome (and only took 10% CPU), but there's still a lot of noise there. And the flickering is unbearable.
The Drift Ghost is definitely better in almost all respects as a motorcycle helmet cam. The GoPro form factor is ill-suited to helmet mounting.
>What a bunch of random, clueless and non-technical crap. I especially like the part where he compares the operating costs of Intel (a company owning a number of multi-billion-dollar fabs that are far above the competition in capabilities) and ARM holdings (a comparatively tiny intellectual property shop).

Yes, he sounds like someone in the late nineties comparing the nearly bankrupt Apple with competitors worth ten times more, like Sun and Dell.

Crazy right?
Having it is easy (which is what they've decided to do in this compromise), it's supporting it that's hard.
Drift HD Ghost too; much better than GoPro as a helmet cam.
"a cipher (or cypher) is an algorithm for performing encryption or decryption"

So when you say "cipher", that means you want every possible algorithm. Since algorithms can produce output shorter than the input, you get the infinite amount of inputs.

With one-time pads, fourier analysis would only work if the key is not truly random.

How do you reverse a "mod26"? You can't. I give you the number 17. You know this number is produced using the equation: "SECRET mod 26 = 17". How do you know if 43 or 69 was the input?
Too bad nothing in the doodle has anything to do with anything Ramanujan did. (Beyond the level of "both contain square-root signs".)
The first time I heard the term "dithering" it was on my Amiga. They were referring to this kind of temporal dithering, not the kind of we all think about now. The point back then was to display more than 4096 colors on the screen at once. I believe the loaded up 2 hardware screen buffers with the 2 images and then page flipped back and forth as fast as possible.

I don't remember there being as much flicker, but since the goal was to get more subtle colors the images were probably much closer to each other than this demo.
> After building it, I am pretty unwilling to add stuff unless I really need to.

I was kind of thinking this way ten years ago, when I was building my first gentoo systems. I wanted them to be exactly adapted to my needs, the perfect match for my day to day usage. It was indeed great for educational purpose, one should always be able to build something perfectly fit, and I went that way for several years.

But then, there was this pain of always lacking something, not to mention the fun my friends had when visiting me, wanting to do something I wasn't commonly doing and heard me saying : "oh wait, I've just have to compile a few softwares for that" (granted the compiling stuff is gentoo related, but you see the idea : there was always something I need that I didn't have).

Today, I install kde-meta (which is a package that install everything in standard kde distribution) and I'm very happy with that. It's extremely rare that I want to do something desktop related and can't do it right away. Other people can use my computer without starring at me with blank face while I explain what wmii is (but I still have all my keyboard shortcuts and tweaks from wmii in kde) and I even don't feel the "bloated" aspect since I have now a very powerful system with huge storages.
Trust me, the example code that I get from my university is proof enough. And it makes me sad, because it makes my peers believe it's acceptable to write such poor code.
The code works fine (enough); that's why they will (now) ship nightlies of Win64 builds. The problem is two-fold: 1) They don't want their engineers to spend time fixing Win64 errors, and rely solely on people who care a lot about Win64 (thanks, m_kato!) to clean up after the "normal" people. 2) For some silly reason, they have nowhere near enough machines (and people to run them) to properly support development. This is even ignoring Win64 builds - multiple checkins will typically share an integration build, and checkins frequently has to stop to back out a bad change and wait for the machines to catch up to make sure the problem is fixed. They have a system (try servers) to fake-checkin to run the tests to make sure things are good - but due to resource constraints people are encouraged to reduce the coverage; heck, they have a "high score board" to shame the heavy users.
Randomness is about having a uniform probability of results, but that does not translate into a uniform distribution of results, nor can it, because of the de-correlation between random results. Specifically, the chance of getting the same result multiple times is non-zero, and actually can be fairly high with a lot of samples, whereas the chance of duplicate results in a uniform distribution is zero.

Read the article for more details and examples.
The emperor's gorgeous new clothes.
What is the intended audience for this language?

"[Rust] supports a mixture of imperative procedural, concurrent actor, object-oriented and pure functional styles. Rust also supports generic programming and metaprogramming, in both static and dynamic styles."

IMO, Rust tries too much (norrowed pointers, managed boxes, owned closures, ...). I am convinced that the language(s) of the future will be simple and safe.
It apparently didn't occur to David that the reason why the code in banks suck might be because they don't actually employ "the very best".

I live in London, arguably the current world financial capital, but I'd have to be fairly desperate to work for a bank. (Not suggesting I'm the very best, of course, but rather taking banker money is like being a whore.)
Enlightenment has been around since 1997, when "the internet" was still a dorky-sounding term (and it wasn't equated with "low attention-span theater").

Ever hear the old saw "Unix _is_ user friendly; it's just picky about who it's friends with." ? The E/EFL reflects this attitude, and you know what ? That's their prerogative. I don't think they're particularly worried about gaining huge adoption.

Not every piece of software is written to pad a resume, or try to take over the world, or make millions of dollars, or to build up somebody's ego.
This driver attempts to match the official drivers as closely as is reasonable. It has almost all of the functionality of the official drivers now, but won't have a stable-ish API or actual tests until the end of December.

Let me know if you have any feedback, this is the first Go language library that I have built.
Interesting! Do you have ideas on how one could be constructive even if other parties are acting in bad faith?
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Related blog post:
http://blog.bitbucket.org/2012/12/21/autocompleting-your-use...
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The worst[1] code I've seen is code produced by academics with the purpose of teaching undergrads.

[1] In terms of needing refactoring, poorly named variables and functions, just doing The Wrong Thing you don't ever do in real life.
Apart from the 2.7K mode (where would that be useful) the Sony matches the specs you mention. Specs aren't everything and I haven't tried either product. Go Pro has the better accessory ecosystem at the moment and may still be the better product in many ways.
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It's the default official tool next to the GUI, isn't it? And it's basically the default installation option? I've been using that for a while.
(The "cost structure" of the company is built to support much higher margin chips.")

That is where you got it completely wrong. Intel can produce ARM based SoC that earns nearly the same margin as they are currently selling their CPU.

Not to mention you keep referencing x86 and Intel as the same thing. As the way they are and for the foreseeable future. I could literally bet anything that Intel wont die. Simply because Intel could still be the BEST Fab player you could ever imagine. In terms of State of Act Fabs, they beat TSMC, UMC, GF, and Samsung Combined! And Intel aren't dumb either, that have the best of the best Fab Engineers. And the Resources and R&D that is put now for the coming 3 - 5 years in the future.

So Intel wont die.

x86? That depends. If you look at the die shot of SoC you will notice CPU are playing less and less part in die areas. It used to be 50+%, Now it is less then 30%. CPU, or ISA is becoming less important. You will need a combination of CPU, GPU, Wirless, I/O and other things to succeed.
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WebRTC provides this directly in-browser via a javascript API. It works right now in the latest version of chrome without any special flags, and also in the latest stable firefox if media.peerconnection.enabled is turned on.

This is capable of sending multiple video/audio/data streams directly between two browsers even if they are behind a NAT router.

http://www.webrtc.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC

edit: Sorry i misread your post. WebRTC does not solve the user discovery problem but any other web tech can be used for signalling anyway (AJAX/EventSource/Websockets)

Also, there is already a SIP implementation built on this API

http://sipml5.org/
Ditto. Poor salary to working conditions to peer respect ratios... let alone the senior management being clueless...
That's extending the analogy to false extremes.

Any public use or brandishing of firearms, other than pursuant to self defense/defense of others, is a criminal act (with obvious exceptions like public ranges, public uninhabited land depending on State law, etc.)

[note: visibility does not imply brandishing, in the case of open carry]
Yes, that is the thing: Bell's inequality has been verified experimentally and that leads to a non-hidden variables reality (for the usual meaning of 'reality'):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem
Yes, well. I was in student politics, so I have no such experience :)

Constructive conversations generally move much faster. You still need some formality to ensure people come out of a decision process with something that can be verified later. And generally the process of doing that helps clarify what, in fact, are the points of difference.
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could you use this same technique to enhance the apparent resolution of a screen?
I stand corrected, it now seems that the lead developer of botocore works at amazon now:

http://www.elastician.com/2011/12/looking-at-clouds-from-bot...
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Note to OP. Linking to the print version might hide some crud but it makes the line length too wide to be comfortable reading.
GitHub for Windows has a decent git implementation for cli. Uses PowerShell and posh-git though, but a *nix head like me finds it very usable.
I recently learned Haskell and am writing code in it on a daily basis, although I'm still a novice.

In my limited experience, Haskell is like any other PL, you can write clean, readable code or a horrible mess.

My major concern with Haskell right now is with maintainability/changability of code. One recent example that bit me in the ass was: I wrote an elegant solution to check whether a list of files exists, using sth like foldr (&&) True doesFileExist. Then I realized I really need to print out which file is actually missing, but only the first N to avoid flooding the user with error messages. At this point FP becomes a pain IMO, and it'd be much easier to add a counter variable and printfs in the imperative program and move on. Actually this is fairly common, think about adding printfs for debugging: not so easy in Haskell, as IO changes the type signatures of the function and its callers. So, in my limited experience, changing code in Haskell is expensive and its effect are not localized.
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"We got very strong feedback saying we should still make a product that just has USB," Siminoff told Ars before Apple decided to update its guidelines, "but I still feel good about the decision to just refund everyone's money, because we just wanted to make a product that we believed in."

This is bordering on pedantic. There is a difference between being honorable and being reasonably flexible. This is not art. This is a product that people use. His own customers told him that they wanted something with "just USB" that they could use, and he refuses it?

What will happen when he can't injection mold his case the same way he 3d printed it? What happens when X Y or Z happens? He'll just throw in the towel?
> Apple lifts block on combo 30-pin+Lightning charging accessories

This is so impressive. It sounds like the UN is lifting an embargo on some dangerous and forbidden tech.

"In an unexpected development, the DPRK acquired some Lightning Charging Accessories that it plans to use against the West."