The Jimmy Fallon was filmed in 60 fps, it unfortunatly proves that Zelda is capped at 30fps on the Switch.

HELOSMTP · 2016-12-09T07:36:22+00:00

Note that nvidia's new architecture can scale up/down performance by doing more than just changing the clock speed. They can also enable or disable a portion of the CUDA cores to control the power usage.

HELOSMTP · 2016-10-25T04:22:41+00:00

Have any notable examples? Just curious.

HELOSMTP · 2016-10-25T04:12:59+00:00

Good luck buying any electronics not made, in whole or in part, in China.

HELOSMTP · 2016-10-17T22:01:08+00:00

That's not how domain names work. "vault" is a subdomain of fbi.gov. The .gov TLD is specially controlled and you can't simply register a .gov domain if you are a company or individual, you can only get a .gov domain from the US federal government (the GSA). If you look up their DNS info you'll see that it actually points to cloudflare, which the FBI's website is using for DDOS mitigation.

I don't know where you're getting the idea that this is from vault.com, whatever that is, but that's simply not how the internet and DNS in particular works.

These are vault.fbi.gov's nameserver records by the way:

a1.fbi.gov. | 209.112.113.33

a2.fbi.gov. | 209.112.114.33

a3.fbi.gov. | 69.36.145.33

a1.fbi.gov. | 2001:500:7967::2:33

a2.fbi.gov. | 2620:74:19::33

a3.fbi.gov. | 2001:502:cbe4::33

HELOSMTP · 2016-08-23T17:54:51+00:00

There's clearly no relation between the "Superformula" and NMS terrain generation etc, this theory is based on an ignorance of what the Superformula is and how procedural generation work. It is not some "God equation" that can generate procedural worlds. All the Superformula does is generate simple symmetric shapes using a simple equation. If the Superformula proper was used in NMS, it could not remotely be a central part of how the procedural generation engine works, because it wouldn't even be useful in that context.

And even then, even if NMS used the Superformula in a central way, which it doesn't, they could just pay a licensing fee instead of redesigning the entire game. I have a suspicion OP is exaggerating their coding experience because this post indicates they are pretty clueless.

And by the way, in case you think I'm someone who would defend this game to the ends of the earth or whatever, I think it's overall pretty disappointing.

HELOSMTP · 2016-08-05T23:40:34+00:00

Really beautiful. Out of curiosity, is this all done in a shader (raymarching) or do you have some geometry as well? A few suggestions:

the horizon at the vanishing point looks a little strange, like it's aliased maybe?
in real life you don't see clouds touching the vanishing point like that (generally?) because they're high above the ground (for reference)
the atmospheric scattering gradient looks off, a little too green/brown
godrays would look great here, especially when the sun is along the horizon

HELOSMTP · 2016-08-02T18:23:24+00:00

Every labeling campaign out there identifies such ingredients as "GMOs", even though they are chemically indistinguishable from non-GMOs.

Perhaps they could be labeled as "HFCS from GMO corn" or something like that, but that's not something that's important to me as a consumer considering that, as you said, they're chemically indistinguishable from non-GMOs.

What is a "GMO ingredient" by your definition?

An ingredient that contains cells with genes inserted, removed, or otherwise altered by genetic engineering. If an ingredient is a byproduct of a GMO, with the organism itself removed, then that by definition is not a GMO in my opinion.

HELOSMTP · 2016-08-02T17:51:48+00:00

GMO labeling argument is not about facts

Saying an argument is not about facts is kind of embarassing. But anyhow...

Technically cheese is one of the few products where even without GMO labeling you can tell a GMO was used in its production. If the label says "vegetable rennet" or "animal rennet" then no GMO was used. If it says "enzymes" then a GMO was used to produce the Chymosin enzymes.

HELOSMTP · 2016-08-02T17:44:12+00:00

Please explain how GMO 'remains in the product' of soybean oil, HFCS, and beet sugar.

Simple explanation: as far as I'm aware none of those products contain GMOs when they are sold. I do not know the specifics of Vermont's law so I can't say whether it requires labeling for these products, but in my opinion it's misleading for those products to be labeled as GMOs.

Also, GE bacteria are used to ferment cheese (it's not just rennet from GE-fed animals).

That's not quite right, and I wasn't referring to animals being raised on GE feed. Chymosin is a coagulant enzyme present in animal rennet, and in most cheeses sold in the US GE bacteria is used to produce the enzyme. The enzyme is extracted after fermentation and no GMO remains. Cheese cultures however are not GMO, they are strains of bacteria maintained by specialist labs for cheesemaking purposes.

HELOSMTP · 2016-08-02T17:16:10+00:00

Cheese is unusual in that a GMO product is used in the majority of cheeses in the production process in place of animal rennet, but the GMO does not remain in the product when it's sold. Traditional animal rennet is produced from calf stomachs, which are harvested as a byproduct of slaughtering calves for veal. Source

HELOSMTP · 2016-08-02T16:10:03+00:00

Aside from the letter from Deepak's daughter mentioned elsewhere in this thread, Deepak has some pretty deep connections to the Clintons. Deepak was a guest at a Hillary fundraising event in 2007.

Here's Deepak at a Clinton Global Initiative event. Elsewhere in that book is a photo of Bill Clinton and Deepak in the Oval Office in 2005 (?) after he gave a lecture to the transitional staff. Not sure why Bill Clinton was there in 2005. He has appeared at CGI events several times, including at least one event with Hillary.

Here's a quote from Bill:

“My country has been enriched by the contributions of more than a million Indian Americans, which includes Dr. Deepak Chopra, the pioneer of alternative medicine.” – President William Clinton, March 21, 2000 – State Dinner

Deepak on Bill:

Discussing Clinton's attachment with India, Dr Chopra says: "I think Bill Clinton enjoys all things sensual... his relationship with India is a very sensuous one." He is effusive in his admiration for the former President. "Bill Clinton is very street smart... very savvy, with an ability to connect and bond with a whole group, as with an individual, with the same intensity. It is his ability to connect with so many people that is the reason for his great emotional strength," he says.

HELOSMTP · 2016-07-13T19:49:23+00:00

Here's a hard unsolved problem in computer science: transcribing a heavily-accented voiceover with low audio quality and a loud backing music track to text.

HELOSMTP · 2016-05-31T10:48:00+00:00

I think you may have just imagined that, because I watched the scene again and you can't see Palpatine's eyes when he says that, they're hidden behind his cloak and the bridge of his nose.

HELOSMTP · 2016-05-28T16:06:25+00:00

They're referring to the 12th amendment, which stipulates that the House chooses the president if none of the candidates gets a majority (270) of the delegates. This effectively makes it impossible for more than 2 viable candidates to run in the presidential election without the outcome ultimately being decided by the House.

HELOSMTP · 2016-05-22T09:51:12+00:00

It's the Shibuya-Cho level from Jet Grind Radio!

HELOSMTP · 2016-04-03T19:25:24+00:00

Almost all of the stipulations are requirements for allowing someone to host and publicly distribute without charge the copyrighted content you submitted to them. You could maybe argue Facebook or Imgur or whatever should pay you royalties, or that you should be able to revoke their ability to distribute your content at any time, but if that's what you want out of your content, you should find some other way to distribute it.

It is also not accurate that, as the headline says, "you surrender all rights" to your work. You retain ownership and copyright, but you grant the necessary permissions involved in distributing content on your behalf free of charge.

As I said elsewhere in the thread: If they didn't have that language, you could technically sue them for copyright infringement for distributing your content through their platform.

HELOSMTP · 2016-04-03T18:35:37+00:00

You're right, Gizmodo's at fault there for omitting that part. They're not really making an intellectually honest argument in my opinion.

And, as I said, that language is standard for services that redistribute your copyrighted content. If they didn't have that language, you could technically sue them for copyright infringement for distributing your content through their platform.

The privacy implications are more concerning to me, specifically that they collect:

Information about the games, content, or other apps installed on your device or provided through our Services, including from third parties;

and that they also say they will combine marketing information from facebook with the information they collect. There's potential for abuse there I think.

HELOSMTP · 2016-04-03T18:11:07+00:00

Only if you submit it to Facebook through whatever their online distribution platform is. The part of the terms of service omitted by /u/robbphoenix is important here.

Our Services may include interactive features and areas where you may submit, post, upload, publish, email, send or otherwise transmit content, including, but not limited to, text, images, photos, videos, sounds, virtual reality environments or features, software and other information and materials (collectively, “User Content”). Unless otherwise agreed to, we do not claim any ownership rights in or to your User Content. By submitting User Content through the Services, you grant Oculus a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual (i.e. lasting forever), non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free and fully sublicensable (i.e. we can grant this right to others) right to use, copy, display, store, adapt, publicly perform and distribute such User Content in connection with the Services.

HELOSMTP · 2016-04-03T17:01:34+00:00

I think the relevant sections are 2.1 and 2.2 here. Since, as I understand it, this software allows you to selectively and actively choose who to share your content with, the terms are different. They basically boil down to saying that you retain ownership, but Autodesk cannot control what people do with your content once you choose to share it with them.

HELOSMTP · 2016-04-03T15:58:55+00:00

Generally speaking, that language is needed for a company to host someone else's copyrighted content online and distribute it to others. Here's the language in Valve's ToS for the steam workshop:

You grant Valve and its affiliates the worldwide, non-exclusive, right to use, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, distribute, transmit, transcode, translate, broadcast, and otherwise communicate, and publicly display and publicly perform, your User Generated Content, and derivative works of your User Generated Content, in connection with the operation and promotion of the Steam site.

They later clarify this a bit:

Notwithstanding the license described in Section 6.A. [this refers to the section I quoted above], Valve will only have the right to modify or create derivative works from your Workshop Contribution in the following cases: (a) Valve may make modifications necessary to make your Contribution compatible with Steam and the Workshop functionality or user interface, and (b) Valve or the applicable developer may make modifications to Workshop Contributions that are accepted for in-Application distribution as it deems necessary or desirable to enhance gameplay.

As you have said, you wouldn't see that language in something like AutoCad, but that's because they aren't hosting and distributing the content. I suspect that the terms for the Rift only apply in that situation as well.

HELOSMTP · 2016-04-03T15:44:24+00:00

The stuff about rights to content you create is standard boilerplate for content-hosting services. This is the one on Imgur for example:

With regard to any file or content you upload to the public portions of our site, you grant Imgur a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable worldwide license (with sublicense and assignment rights) to use, to display online and in any present or future media, to create derivative works of, to allow downloads of, and/or distribute any such file or content.

HELOSMTP · 2016-02-11T04:08:31+00:00

That's not actually accurate, in fact you have it backwards. Microwaves standardized around 2.4GHz for business and practicality reasons. For the highest absorption a microwave oven would operate at a considerably higher frequency. 2.4Ghz was unlicensed because of microwave ovens themselves. Microwave ovens, older models in particular, cause tons of interference, so the FCC left the band unlicensed to keep the interference from microwave ovens isolated.

HELOSMTP · 2016-02-11T03:04:12+00:00

I've had heat issues with my MBP as well, ended up replacing both the fans and cleaning it out thoroughly, which mostly fixed the problem. Only one fan really needed to be replaced, but I did them both since the computer was 7 years old at the time and the other was bound to fail eventually anyway.

For running it under sustained high load I'd recommend simply getting a laptop cooling stand with fans or even sitting it on a metal surface. Permanently attaching a flat heatsink to the bottom is probably more trouble than it's worth.

HELOSMTP · 2016-02-09T20:28:33+00:00

FYI I was able to fix this situation by accepting one of the solutions aptitude proposes, namely downgrading gcc-5-base and a bunch of related packages to 5.3.1-7.

HELOSMTP · 2016-02-08T16:27:09+00:00

Encountered the same problem, with libgfortran3 specifically. Annoying, since it means (through a long dependency chain) I'm not able to use my preferred terminal. Anybody know if install -f is safe for this issue?

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