http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCq6E6tnQKg
I didn't think it was just hipsters who host podcasts, buy every new portable device and have accounts on every social network.
>>13
Which is also about the time the last real innovations in game play came out. Maybe Morrowind was the very last.
People still play Asteroids. How many people will play the recent crop of shit in 25 years?
I'm not referring to the Wii interface which actually *is* innovative even if the games you play on it are re-hashes of re-hashes.
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Anonymous2009-09-16 19:41
>>13
Maybe PC games (the last game I enjoyed, and I still do was Warcraft 3 and its expansion).
Console games are still going strong! (as in Sony and some 3rd party companies may release games that aren't rehashes from time to time. Microsoft is just awful)
i hate these kinds of people.
we need a new word for geeks, something that is offensive so as no hipster faggot would ever willingly label themselves as such.
in the meantime i will either be a boffin, egghead, basement dweller, or nerd.
Has anybody else noticed the incredible quality bump YouTube received recently for (at least) HD videos?
The "normal" quality you get doing nothing special is 854x480, H.264 at (a bit over) 1 megabaud. Then you have the HD mode, which server 1280x720 at 2.2 megabauds.
However there are caveats in usual FailTube fashion. 854 is not divisible by 16, not even by 8 - just by 2. Keeping 16:9 is cool and all, but goddamn, 854 is just a heinous number.
The fullscreen mode always uses 1280 x whatever as the hardware-blitted resolution for hardware acceleration. This is ideal for the HD video, which can go out without any software resizing, but the 480p video goes 854x480->1280x720->hardware, creating the rather striking irony of using more CPU power than the HD one. (The good thing about this is that you can switch to HD while in fullscreen mode and get all the quality)
Also, I just tested this HTML5 <video> bullshit that is all the fuzz lately and I became depressed (again). Theora's performance is the least of problems: fucking Firefox managed to deliver a "solution" which needs so much CPU power that it's useless in practice: if you dare do anything else than display the video at 100% zoom completely unobscured, you're already dead. Seriously, what is Firefail doing? Is the resizer written in C using floating point arithmetic calculating the sample position and weights for each pixel independently and then dividing by 4.0 and round-converting back to integer or something? Flash smokes it so much in performance it's not even funny. On a machine that can do 640x480->1280x720 software in Flash at a full 30fps, fucking <video> stalls with 640x480->720x540 and the *audio* starts stuttering. Pathetic. And just drawing the fucking controls over the video increases CPU usage a 33%. This is fucking ridiculous. In Flash you can cover the whole fucking video with a transparent image and it's barely noticeable.
That's really unfortunate because I hate plugins in general and Flash in particular, but c'mon. Less "freedom" faggotry and more assembly, motherfuckers.
(And yes, I tested with trunk builds too: little difference, since just 10% of the time is spent actually decoding the video, 90% of it is wasted getting it to the screen)
>>36
define life, you conceited hipster trash.
i'd probably surprise you
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Anonymous2009-09-17 7:41
>>37
Life is going out every weekend and getting so drunk that you can't remember a thing. Life is sucking your friends cock for a bag of weed and then wasting all day laughing at the walls.
Life is not conforming to what the hive mind MAN wants you to do! fucking sheeple don'e know shit! you'll never understand life like i do!
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Anonymous2009-09-17 7:42
Nobody understands me.
They're just jealous of me and my super intelligence and coolness. THey wish they were me.
SO WHAT if i only know HTML! I"M A FUKIN GEEK! IF YOU DON"T LIKE IT THEN GET OUT YOU LOSER
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Anonymous2009-09-17 7:44
FUCKING LOSERS DON"T KNOW WHAT BEING A GEEK IS!
GEEK IS DIFFERENT NOW IT"S NOT THE SAME AS IT WAS 40 YEARS AGO GRANDPA! GEEK IS ALL ABOUT BUYING THE LATEST APPLE PRODUCTS AND TWITTERING WHAT YOU HAD FOR BREAKFAST SO EVERYBODY CAN READ IT.
YOU PATHETIC FUCKS GET OUT OF MY ?PROG? ONLY GEEKS ARE ALOUD
>>42
that's a shame.
come back when you get a life, you loser.
good places to get a life are digg and steve job's twitter page. go forth and live, my child
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Anonymous2009-09-17 8:39
I bite heads of chickens for a living. What the fuck am I supposed to call myself now that you fucking nerds have co-opted my job title?
>>29 s/baud/bps/ #fixme: handle plurals
It's technically not the right term but it's more legible and sounds better. Also, it's perfectly possible for a baud to equal a bit.
>>24 This page is sort of a speculative glance at what a programming language on a Klingon computer system would look like. The language itself is named var'aq, which happens to be meaningless in standard Klingon but sounds like it might be named after some famous Klingon computer scientist or mathematician. It's really something of a Klingon Basic, a simple, loosely-typed programming language designed mostly just to be used for programming things like command displays and high-level control systems. In its eventual final incarnation, we're looking at concurrency, advanced mathematics, and even native support for distributed programs (try finding that in the C++ standard library). This page is a bit more than that, though. In it I try to imagine what Klingon hacker culture is like based on what's known about Klingon culture in general. For example, it's a man's world on Qo'noS, Chancellor Azetbur's history-making tenure notwithstanding.
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Anonymous2009-09-17 14:59
WHOS THAT JULIA ONE IN THE VIDEO?? SHE LOOKS YOUNG
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Anonymous2009-09-17 19:18
~ nuqneH { ~ 'u' ~ nuqneH disp disp } name
nuqneH
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Anonymous2009-09-18 8:56
I predicted this would happen a few years ago, which is why I learned Ruby. It seems that it doesn't matter how traditional a geek you are, if you code in Ruby you can still hang out with the cool new crew. Bye faggots, I'm getting some Starbucks
the reason these morons think they're geeks is because they hang around with "popular" people. popular people don't know anything about computers because they don't need to, they are only interested in partying and fucking cheerleaders or whatever.
compared to their friends (who struggle to use a mouse), these hipster morons seem like technology gods just because they have heard of javascript and know how to use twitter.
because these people have never met true geeks they actually begin to believe that they know ANYTHING; resulting in the kind of facepalm inducing hilarity found in this video.
Assuming the axiom of choice and, given an infinite cardinal σ and a cardinal μ, there exists a cardinal κ such that μ + κ = σ if and only if μ ≤ σ. It will be unique (and equal to σ) if and only if μ < σ.
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Anonymous2013-08-31 23:57
\sum_{i=0}^{\infty} \, f(i) = \infty means that the sum of the infinite series diverges in the specific sense that the partial sums grow without bound.
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Anonymous2013-09-01 0:42
Modern understanding of infinity began in 1867–71, with Cantor's work on number theory. An 1872 meeting between Cantor and Richard Dedekind influenced Cantor's thinking and culminated in Cantor's 1874 paper.
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Anonymous2013-09-01 1:28
For example, the existence of sufficiently large cardinals implies that there is an inner model satisfying the axiom of determinacy (and thus not satisfying the axiom of choice).
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Anonymous2013-09-01 2:13
Given any set X of pairwise disjoint non-empty sets, there exists at least one set C that contains exactly one element in common with each of the sets in X.
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Anonymous2013-09-01 2:58
Statements in this class include the statement that P = NP, the Riemann hypothesis, and many other unsolved mathematical problems. When one attempts to solve problems in this class, it makes no difference whether ZF or ZFC is employed if the only question is the existence of a proof. It is possible, however, that there is a shorter proof of a theorem from ZFC than from ZF.