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why are our ruling class assholes so hell bent on destruction of family unit, and pushing gay trans shit everywhere? that i think we will not know for a long time.
The Woke Monster eventually eats everyone ... Libs are now turning on Ruth Bader Ginsburg
When Ruth Ginsburg passed away in 2020, she was basically sainted by the left.
Now that three Trump-appointed justices provided the votes necessary to overturn Roe v. Wade? Not so much:
June 24, 2022 2:00pm EDT
Roe v. Wade overturned: Liberal journalists rage at Ruth Bader Ginsburg for not retiring
'Thanks especially to RBG today for making this possible' one writer tweeted about the Supreme Court decision
https://notthebee.com/article/with-the-fall-of-roe-v-wade-liberals-are-realizing-theyre-really-really-mad-at-ruth-ginsburg-for-not-retiring-when-obama-was-president-
The Woke Monster eventually eats everyone ... Libs are now turning on Ruth Bader Ginsburg
When Ruth Ginsburg passed away in 2020, she was basically sainted by the left.
Now that three Trump-appointed justices provided the votes necessary to overturn Roe v. Wade? Not so much:
June 24, 2022 2:00pm EDT
Roe v. Wade overturned: Liberal journalists rage at Ruth Bader Ginsburg for not retiring
'Thanks especially to RBG today for making this possible' one writer tweeted about the Supreme Court decision
Queer-owned business shut down by employees for not being woke enough
Mina’s World, a cafe in Philadelphia that prided itself in being “Queer-owned,” has officially closed its doors after a woke employee revolt.
The Simpsons somehow predicted the future again in this clip from 2006 😭
The employees even demanded the owners relinquish their ownership and hand the business over to the workers. They gave them 24 hours.
Mina’s World, a cafe in Philadelphia that prided itself in being “Queer-owned,” has officially closed its doors after a woke employee revolt.
We all learned this from Dr Suess, didn't we?
richwicks says
We did, but have the millennials even read a Dr. Seuss book or seen one of the cartoons?
Was wondering if someone would bring this up. :)
My take: fuck no
HunterTits says
richwicks says
We did, but have the millennials even read a Dr. Seuss book or seen one of the cartoons?
Was wondering if someone would bring this up. :)
My take: fuck no
My friend has two young children. I'll make certain they are exposed to them. I loved Dr. Seuss as a kid, although my friend (Asian) said he was weirded out by what I considered the whimsical drawings.
In anycase... I'm an "archivist" - I collect stuff not in order to... um... NOT pirate it, but rather to preserve it. Several books of Dr. Seuss are now out of print, but I have them. I have the complete Loony Tunes archive, including the "problematic ones". They can burn books all they fucking like, but I have a 6 TB HD, and I'm just a nothing archivist. I know people ...
Cohen media group have been releasing 4K scans of Buster Keaton films. Volume 1 has a great scan of "The General." The stunts buster does are even more phenomenal with the high def scan. This movie was my son's favorite from when he was 3 until about 6 years old.
stereotomy says
Cohen media group have been releasing 4K scans of Buster Keaton films. Volume 1 has a great scan of "The General." The stunts buster does are even more phenomenal with the high def scan. This movie was my son's favorite from when he was 3 until about 6 years old.
I should look up Buster Keaton, I'm not really familiar with him.
However:
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4K is fine for archival, but I worked at RCA, and the reason RCA decided on 1080p is that it was basically the resolution that the eye could see. You CAN differentiate between 4K and 1080p, but it's really difficult even for people with perfect vision and better than perfect vision. 4K is the outer limit of what you can see, and if I played a 1080p (lossless) video on a 4K display and a 4K (lossless) video on the same display, I'd bet $10,000 you couldn't reliably differentiate. If you saw them s...
I agree that unless you are viewing things from about 3 feet, you can't notice a difference in resolution. What you will notice is any enhanced color (4:4:4) instead of 4:2:0 color subsampling. HDR (high dynamic range) is mostly overrated at this point because most displays can't really reproduce HDR, and even if they can, HDR encoding is hit or miss; i.e., it's mostly crap, and there's a really big learning curve on the encoding end that few studios have even come close to achieving.
Oh my goodness! What could make this woman – who had been called a "national treasure" for years – suddenly be unpopular with the mob that supposedly loves her?
Nope, it's not the overtly sexual language in the song. Nor is it any other raunchy, filthy, obscene word.
She used the word "spaz."
If you can think of a permanent way to store digital data for 1,000 years, seriously, I'll make you a billionaire.
richwicks says
If you can think of a permanent way to store digital data for 1,000 years, seriously, I'll make you a billionaire.
HeadSet says
richwicks says
If you can think of a permanent way to store digital data for 1,000 years, seriously, I'll make you a billionaire.
@HeadSet - I am not kidding.
I've looked into OTPs (One Time Programmable memories) but I need at least 1GB of storage. It's been suggested I store it online and I COULD do that, but it invites tampering. I could store just the SHA256SUM (and maybe the md5sum, and a few other cryptographic hashes). You might be able to solve one hash, but if you had 1/2 dozen of them, solving them all simultaneously becomes a very complex parametric equation which I expect to forever remain impossible to solve.
Taylor Swift finally faces the woke mob
Her response to reports about her private jet sparks ire
Alas, recent reports of Swift’s private jet usage finally suggest she’s not the woke hero she makes herself out to be. The digital marketing agency Yard discovered that Swift’s planes emit more CO2 in seven months than 1,184 average people would in an entire year. She apparently has two jets (how luxurious!) that took 170 trips in just 200 days this year, and the average flight time is just 80 minutes.
Yet rather than say she was sorry and promise to “educate herself” and “do better,” as the PR-crafted celebrity apologies usually go, a rep for Swift tried to pass the buck.
“Taylor’s jet is loaned out regularly to other individuals,” her spokesperson said. “To attribute most or all of these trips to her is blatantly incorrect.”
Ah, well, in that case everything is totally fine! The carbon emissions are offset, you see, by Swift’s generous lending of her private plane to her less wealthy friends. Isn’t charity great? ...
Several commenters then turned their sights on Swift, noting that she once changed the lyrics to her song “Picture to Burn” because they were deemed homophobic. Swift originally sang in the tune that if her ex-lover told his friends she was crazy, she would tell hers that he is gay. She later amended the line to say “that’s fine, you won’t mind if I say.”
If activists are now focused on removing ableism from songs, then Swift has plenty of objectionable material. In “Blank Space,” she says ex-lovers would describe her as “insane.” In “Me!” she says she “went psycho” during a phone call with a lover and duet partner Brendon Urie sings there’s a lot of “lame guys” out there. Back in 2019, a disabled fan zeroed in on the latter two examples, saying she was “disappointed” and had a “problem” with the “ableist” lyrics.
“While it’s trendy to use words referring to mental health terms like ‘psycho’ or ‘crazy,’ these words are often used negatively,” the fan wrote. “Using these words adds to the stigma that surrounds mental illness. This stigma is oppressive and makes people with mental illness feel like there is something wrong with them, which of course is not true.”
Pffft... How about several thousand. How about 100 thousand?
This is old dude, c'mon:
https://www.science.org/content/article/dna-could-store-all-worlds-data-one-room
This is from today:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twist-bioscience-present-flash-memory-120000492.html
Let me know if you'd like to see a white paper. In the past you never read white papers I linked you to al la bitcorn. Seriously, acted like what I said never happened.
the reason RCA decided on 1080p is that it was basically the resolution that the eye could see
richwicks says
the reason RCA decided on 1080p is that it was basically the resolution that the eye could see
Right on Richwicks!
I'll add a little bit more, though...
For a computer monitor showing static data, 4k is enormously better than 1080p. Once a frame is frozen on the screen we can focus on a specific part and the higher resolution becomes important. In fact, a pair of 4k monitors is a better setup. 2x 4k is is great because we can have the entire set of static data laid out before us and then, with the bare minimum subconcious of effort, focus in on one part or another; and when we focus in on a part—5% of that enormous 2x screen—we get that part in the high resolution we need. When we focus in on a specific part, all the other parts could be at 480p and we wouldn't even notice.
So, taking all that about static image and moving to video, I still think there's a benefit in 4k video in the right situation. If you have a large display and the video is a wide-angle view of something, you want that wide-angle view to fill your entire vision field. But that means your area of ocular concentration is a small patch. If that small patch is to be high enough resolution and the entire screen has to also follow at that resolution, then you need 4k so that the small patch you are actually concentrating on is a megapixel.
Smartphone resolution, which is definitely way beyond excessive for optical accuity, has another purpose: Resolution Independence. If I tell the phone to draw a line 1 pixel wide,
[... Resolution Independence ...]
Who does this? Nobody.
1080p is what people 2000 years will be using for viewer screens now.
Having said that, I've had a 4K monitor, and the damned thing is so fucking huge, I wouldn't even see I opened a web browser on the right of my screen as I was looking at my left, so I would open another instance. 2K is where I'm comfy with, even 2 2K screens, 4K is too much.
1080p is what people 2000 years will be using for viewer screens now.
Absolutely not. It's already difficult to find 1080p screens for TVs larger than 32 inches.
https://slaynews.com/news/woke-hollywood-celeb-comes-to-grim-realization-i-wont-be-woke-enough-for-the-left-one-day/
I don't think you've programmed a smartphone for the last decade. There's a nominal coordinate system (all floating-point values) and a scale factor. The original iPhone (for example) used a scale factor of 1.0x, but newer iPhones have used 2x and 3x "natively" as well as some funky scale factors to help out people who would like a magnified view. In addition to the pixel density dictating a 2x or 3x scale factor, the screens have gotten physically bigger, so that the original 480x320 iPhone is dwarfed by the 2778x1284 pixel iPhone 13 Pro Max.
https://slaynews.com/news/woke-hollywood-celeb-comes-to-grim-realization-i-wont-be-woke-enough-for-the-left-one-day/
“Sometimes I wonder — did I and others cutting them off make them dig their heels in deeper, fuel their ignorance with a nitro-boost of resentment and spite?
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