all this "pro" stuff needs a mid-range program. persons go from limp consumer trash that accomplishes nothing, to duanting professional programs that even the pros using them for 5-10 years barely know how to use all the things in them. going from MSes Movie maker to adobee premier , its like WTF , i just wanted to ______ (insert simple task here) not make a Epic Warner bros movie
@DragonLord yea that is much easier and better thought out interfacing. I used Canopus (now grass valley) stuff before, and they would put out a mid-range package called Just-Edit, that well did just that. Bought by grass valley scared the pants off me, because grass valley was the same insane layers of stuff everywhere. when i just wanted to ______ so now i use thier Edius.
Seems google has now 2 different stock names. as particular aspects of the company are somehow seperated. ahh I dont know enough to say it correct. but no less something different happening google.com/…
I find it interesting that the name picked is: Alpha - meaing the first, or alpha ape , alpha male etc Bet - wager on uncertian outcome
in 10 seconds why they really split "taxes , corporate damage from military and low approval things from consumers if any of that other stuff steps on toes, taxes"
As for Google's Alphabet, or rather Alphabet's Google, it's an umbrella company they are using to encompass everything they currently own under one unified name. So they can stop labeling all their different projects/spin-off companies as Google x.
> What is Alphabet? Alphabet is mostly a collection of companies. The largest of which, of course, is Google. This newer Google is a bit slimmed down, with the companies that are pretty far afield of our main internet products contained in Alphabet instead. What do we mean by far afield? Good examples are our health efforts: Life Sciences (that works on the glucose-sensing contact lens), and Calico (focused on longevity).
> Fundamentally, we believe this allows us more management scale, as we can run things independently that aren’t very related.
Now that they've done it, I'm kinda suprised it hadn't happened earlier.
Ugh... I wish I could subscribe to just a playlist on YouTube. I like this guys Minecraft videos, but don't want the rest of his rubbish haha
A is for Always Listen to the google bot B is for Bad kids in google private prisons C is for Caring, google incubators care for your children D is for Death , always follow google robots instructions
E is for everything, we know about you F is for how ucked you are now
JMG if I bounty this question superuser.com/questions/958056/… you think i will find out more info about win10 scaling and 4k monitors and all? I would be trying to gather up a lot of (so called) opinion, aka User experience info .
The funny thing is he wants the top to look like the bottom. and at regular res the top is beutifull, and the bottom looks like crap . But i understand he wants everything to scale.
I have at least 3 programs that i also assume would have not only micro icon/button stuff, but probably would have teeny text too, as the text is already way small.
Hmm... I'm still working on my csv scraper/database insert python script. Currently I run it via cmd.exe. I link the .py and follow it with the .csv file I want it to parse. How do I get it to run through every file in a folder, one at a time?
@Bob I mentioned that I was merely having second thoughts about Win10 (due to privacy issues) in Database Admin's chat room and ended up having someone digging into me about it. <_<
@bob i'm sure there is. but that was my exact point... i'm allowed to express concern but i was basically marked out as some sort of hyperbolic tinfoin nutter, hah.
@marcusdoesstuff not even . . hyperbolic tin hat nerds , dont worry about web hype, they worry more about the 50 layers of crap in the system that doesnt make the web hype :-)
i bought two 3TB drives the other day... i was going to run them in raid 0 but then reminded myself how they're not that safe if the house goes up in flames.
@marcusdoesstuff the most claims (quantity but not quality) i have heard so far, is your old licence will get sucked up into oblivion after 6mo. but really getting 7 re-activated only ever requires a bit of begging and pleading anyway :-) It even seems like after some time of the OS being out, they unload the work on a computer (not human) as if they just do not care as much anymore.
"We may automatically check your version of the software and download software updates or configuration changes, including those that prevent you from accessing the Services, playing counterfeit games, or using unauthorised hardware peripheral devices."
some of that stuff is not OUR fault, if they would quit giving china all the specs and plans and have them build it, then freaking china couldnt clone the dang thing .
The interface was (mostly) the same, but the hardware was different.
The only thing they really did wrong was re-using the VID & PID. More a matter of USB standards than legality.
In the cases where they passed it off as the real chips, that is counterfeiting and illegal.
But in other cases it was sold under a different name entirely. It's not the act of manufacturing hardware with the same functionality, but rather the act of pretending to be some other hardware. AFAIK laws only deal with how they're sold, not how they communicate via any given protocol (behaviour) (VID & PID). Bit of a legal grey area.
@marcusdoesstuff 'long as it's not trying to pretend to be other hardware, there shouldn't be a problem.
i don't particularly like the anti-piracy stuff as it's in the same line as internet censorship. pretty inevitable though... and honestly piracy doesn't exactly encourage product development. so i'm in two minds about it.
Why didn't a single one of the people (again) know anything about how any of that happened? You would have to have missed everything, to not know there was a fire and firemen on the scene for quite some time before any explosion occured.
Why does it always seem that the people most into creating any of the conspiracy things, the loudest of all, are the most ill informed, when they seem to be making it thier Job to analise it.
I suppose they also missed that chemicals found hundreds of feet away , would ignite when water was poured on them. That the chemicals stored were probably 80% there to make products for american companies :-) Who probably were more interested in saving 5cents than for any of it to be safe.
That lithium batteries are made in china by the thousands of tons, and lithium metals used to make these batteries reacts with water to form hydrogen. Plus sodium (self igniting in water), and the calcium carbonate (creating acetelyn), all of which would be logically and unsafely strored with other hundreds of oxidisers and even crude oil products for creating plastics.
@bertieb low profile ? I thought i had seen some where a round center area of the plate containing the eth jack was decorativly jutisoned out from the rest of the plate. but at least these exist, amazon.com/Single-Surface-Female-Unshielded-CNE43767/dp/… like any phone surface mount
yea amazon probably not the best place to get specs , especially on electronics , EX the pyle wall plate "79.2 x 82.8 x 24 inches ; 4 ounces " Okkay.
Problem is the real electronics sites, are very hard to search, like it helps to have a model number going in. diy.stackexchange.com the DIY home stack exchange has a lot of people there.
30fps is horrible. Less than 60fps is horrible. It looks worse, it feels worse, it makes gaming harder, it makes targeting harder, it makes typing harder... I'd rather have lower detail graphics, lower resolution, but 60 fps, than the reverse.
The difference is completely obvious to me. Anything less than 60fps is unacceptable. The occasional frame drop down to 59fps isn't really noticeable, but if you go lower than about 55 fps, it feels basically unplayable to me.
Not to mention: if you aren't hitting 60 fps on "average" scenes, you'll probably be getting under 30 fps on the "worst-case" scenes. If you're getting 60 fps on average scenes, you might get 50 on the worst-case scenes.
On a current-gen card, most games that are 3 years old or newer will have a pretty large variance in framerate stability from scene to scene, where the most complex scenes will drop you below 50 for even the very best GPUs, and the average will be 60fps at 1080p, less at 2k, and way the hell less at 4k.
The variance is an unfortunate fact of life, but seeing it drop into the 20s is just unacceptable for me. I'll probably stick with 1080p until my next GPU upgrade after buying one of the Maxwell cards this year.
And when I do upgrade to something more than 1080p60, it'll probably be 1440p144 (2K with a much higher refresh rate) and FreeSync or G-Sync.
And it's still debatable whether it's visually any better than one step lower, while often requiring double or more rendering time.
It's just some arbitrary point specifically picked to be above current-gen GPU capabilities for the hell of it, not picked for any particular visual effect.
@Bob On my current GPU(s), most games are pretty good at 1080p60 with two or three exceptions to the maximum detail settings: Shadows, Reflections, and AA. If I keep those three at medium/low (which looks very noticeably worse than putting them on maximum!), I get pretty good FPS. If I put them on max, it's a slideshow.
The visual effect is stark and obvious. Yet those specific settings always carry such an enormous performance cost that I can never use them.
Seeing real-time physically based rendering shadows is quite beautiful compared to the shadows of old. Of course, I can set shadows to maximum on a 2010 game and get solid 60 fps, but that's because my card's performance was a pipe dream at that point.
@Bob I generally don't have any problems with setting things like textures and shaders to max. Those are VRAM-bound and shader-bound, respectively. At 1080p, the 3 GiB of VRAM my card has is more than sufficient for even ridiculous-quality textures. And the shader cores (2048 of them) is nothing to shake a stick at.
The funny thing though is that people who have 4K displays today often find themselves needing to either (1) suffer extremely noticeable frame drops well below the 60 fps gold standard, even on average-complexity scenes, OR (2) turn down the detail across the board to at least medium, if not low. I'm talking about games released Q2 2014 and later, bear in mind.
It also really depends on the game. I'm pretty sure I can hear my GPU crying whenever a smoke blooms in Insurgency, let alone a field full of them. And that's not even a particularly modern engine.
3840 x 2160 x 60 = 497,664,000 pixels per second. 2560 x 1440 x 144 = 530,841,600 pixels per second. If a Titan X is designed to run at "near maximum" (not actually the highest detail, but quite high in general; specific settings may have to be set to medium or low) at 4K, and it costs $1000, that means the first ~$600 GPUs that will be able to run 1440p144 at smooth, high FPS at max settings will arrive in maybe late 2017.
@DragonLord At this point, I'm satisfied with "lowballing" it down to 1080p60. The main reason is that I don't have the money to put out for a new monitor and a new GPU. So if I stay at 1080p60 with the GTX 980 Ti that I'm seriously contemplating buying, that means I'll get consistent 60fps performance out of it for years to come.
@Bob True, and some driver optimizations may be able to calculate that nothing changes in a frame and so avoid re-calculating stuff, but a lot of the new physically based rendering stuff (check out Unreal Engine 4 and some of the games made with it) tells the driver to re-calc just about everything, for every pixel, every frame, since all the shaders are per-pixel.
@allquixotic: other than video ram (and well, the titan X has more than pretty much anything else out there) the 980TI is pretty much the same card. (and eh, I'm pretty certain when you get it, and you try it on 1080p, you'll be seeing ludiciously high framerates ;p)
Even if you aren't interested in survival games, you might want to check out ARK: Survival Evolved. It's a great tech demo for games to come, in pretty much all the popular genres except strategy (strategy games will have lower reqs in general).
And in an effort to have a larger subscriber base rather than having people quit because their 5 year old PC can't run it, MMOs will probably not be (fully) using that kind of advanced rendering for a number of years yet, unless they implement some kind of backwards compatibility that takes the game back to running well on early DX10 cards like the AMD HD5000 generation.
Survival, FPS, RPG, first-person or third-person action-adventure, racing... those types of games in the AAA category will definitely be using physically-based rendering in the next few years, and boy is it costly in terms of performance.
For reference, in ARK: Survival Evolved at 1080p60, I get between 40 and 50 FPS average, with medium detail across the board, shadows disabled, no AA, and about 75% of the maximum view distance. On an R9 280X whose Tahiti core was top of the line in Q12012. (It was released at a time when Nvidia had no good answer to Tahiti; it was king of GPUs for like 4 months.)
Star Citizen is much the same despite being a different engine entirely (CryTek vs. UE4).
I want to execute the following code from the command-line:
DO $$ BEGIN EXECUTE ns.proc(); END $$;
Because I'm using this in a shell script, I have to escape the $$, otherwise they are translated to the process ID. So my code becomes:
DO \$\$ BEGIN EXECUTE ns.proc(); END \$\$;
Due to the na...
> Runs a command in a shell and buffers the output.
@OliverSalzburg Use execFile.
> This is similar to child_process.exec() except it does not execute a subshell but rather the specified file directly. This makes it slightly leaner than child_process.exec. It has the same options.
Or just use spawn.
@OliverSalzburg No shit, that's exactly why you should use it!
Is there anything you really need from exec that spawn cannot do?
Okay, let's start with the fact that I'm not calling exec directly. The application is using a dependency, which in turn uses exec. If I can avoid pulling that apart, I would prefer it
If the solution is as simple as using a different identifier than $$ or wrapping something in quotes, then that would obviously be preferable, because it requires much less work
@Bob Yeah, I was also trying to avoid that. I just wanted to make sure I'm not missing any obvious solutions, because I'm not familiar with all the technologies at work here
said its Xeon D processor is made up of 4.3 billion transistors -- implying a transistor density of approximately 26.88 million transistors per square millimeter.
The thing is, it's quite possible, that whoever wrote the execution/spawning abstraction in this software had a point when he picked exec over spawn or execFile. So, just switching to a different method might have implications that aren't immediately apparent to me or even you
If you really want to leave it alone, load the command from a file.
@OliverSalzburg Just about any case where the shell is invoked (analogous to using system in C, btw) is basically because someone was lazy or didn't know better
the cases where it's actually beneficial or necessary are vanishingly rare
the only "useful" things I can think of right now are env variables and redirects (which should be done in the programming language, not passed to the shell)
again, because people are lazy
most of the time, such a call at the very best opens up a security hole
in worse cases, like now, it actively interferes with what you need to do
and it can often be near-impossible to figure out why after the fact
or how you've suddenly managed to wipe out /
even worse on *nix where /bin/sh can be any one of dozens of shells, with diferent special syntax
@Bob I've seen someone with an Osprey Ozone 28, a lightweight wheeled pack, and she said that it's held up to several years of highly intensive use, including over rough terrain. However, negative Amazon reviews have led me to select the more expensive Meridian instead.
@OliverSalzburg also, making your own fork of the library is also suboptimal :\ (the only clean answer would be for upstream to fix it, which often just won't happen)
'cause now you're gonna have to merge any changes
Hm. I wonder if there's some way to get node to use execvp
Relying on the shell when you both need the environment and rely on tools that can parse paths in the platforms native format is quite nice as it turns out
I want to execute the following code from the command-line:
DO $$ BEGIN EXECUTE ns.proc(); END $$;
Because I'm using this in a shell script, I have to escape the $$, otherwise they are translated to the process ID. So my code becomes:
DO \$\$ BEGIN EXECUTE ns.proc(); END \$\$;
Due to the na...
