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mirumu

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  1. You don't want to be here today. Coldest day of one of the coldest winters we've had. The rain has just set in for the next few days too. Everything is cold and gray. I'd much rather be on an island near the equator at the current point in time.
  2. In terms of mainstream live action movies/TV series I'm only buying Blu-ray at this point. No DVDs. If something new I want is DVD-only then I'll skip it and wait for the inevitable BD release. For the more film festival-type titles I may make an exception and buy a DVD simply because BD versions may be years away, but in most cases I'll wait for a BD release. For anime about half the Japanese discs I'm buying new are Blu-ray and the only reason I'm buying some on DVD is because they're shows that are unlikely to ever become available on BD. In terms of my collection in it's entirety though it'd still be over 90% DVD even today so Kris's Blu-ray adoption must exceed mine quite substantially.
  3. With my E500s dead and my elderly E5C needing regular cable repairs these JH13s are certainly looking rather appealing.
  4. Happy birthday! Hope you're having a great one.
  5. I'm really looking forward to this one as well. It's a definite buy for me so I'd rather avoid the trailers and experience it all for the first time once the game it out. After Ico and SotC I don't have much concern about buying this one sight unseen.
  6. Here's one of our locals. The Giant Weta. Their body can grow up to 4 inches long. Fully grown adults can weigh more than sparrows. They can survive being frozen in ice. They have been known to bite humans when angry, but generally tend to be fairly placid in nature. There's said to be none left on the mainland, but some of the islands around the country still have small populations of them.
  7. USB is a standard. I expect any USB cable I buy to work for any USB device I connect to it be it an external hard drive, a scanner, a midi controller, DSL modem, etc, etc. If the cable is not as resistant to noise (this would appear to be the case here) then it's worse than almost any cheap USB cable I can buy. I made no posts on the thread, but I don't see a problem with the spec having been posted there. It isn't something that should be a problem to a vendor who truly stands behind their product. If he wants to make a $xxxx USB cable that meets the specs then that's fine. I'd still disagree that it does anything extra, but at least we'd still know it at least meets the minimum requirements for a USB cable.
  8. I'll be doing the same. Very sad news.
  9. Just heard this myself. There still seems to be some doubt amongst the news sources, but it does seem likely given how many seemingly trustworthy places are reporting it.
  10. Seems fine to me if he wants to deviate from the spec. He just shouldn't call it a USB cable.
  11. Well it's probably not surprising if as indicated by his latest post he's using Wikipedia as his USB spec.
  12. It also requires the signaling lines be a twisted pair. In the photo shown they aren't. As far as I can tell it does meet the low speed spec, but even there they do recommend twisted signaling lines. I certainly wouldn't trust my data to this cable.
  13. The differences between some of those are not subtle. i.e. transformers have a measurable frequency response. In general though it seems like you're talking about what goes on at that other forum rather than here.
  14. June 27 in Japan. I'm not aware of it being licensed for an English language version as of yet, but it seems inevitable it'll happen sometime.
  15. It's a shame libre.fm hasn't really got off the ground yet. Edit: Although it seems further along than last time I looked. Hmmmmm.
  16. South Park season 12 is out on Blu-ray I believe. Not sure what their plans are when it comes to releasing the earlier seasons.
  17. It's noticeable, but in different ways. Of course there isn't the same inner detail you'll get from live action film, but edges are smoother and more defined and small touches in the artwork are more visible. Anime also tends to suffer heavily on DVD from compression artifacts like macro-blocking and noise. These problems are more visible in animated material given the large areas of the same color. On the anime Blu-rays I've seen these problems haven't really existed. The worst problem I've seen was some color banding on the White Album Blu-rays, but the problem appears to also be present on the DVDs. Iron Man makes for a good demo disc as there's huge detail in many of the scenes. The Dark Knight is great for showing off superior black levels. Ratatouille and Corpse Bride also have very clean, detailed and color rich transfers. The newer version of The Fifth Element (avoid the original BD release) and Speed Racer also look very good. Some of the older titles benefit a surprising amount as well. I was quite impressed how good The Searchers looked after all these years.
  18. I've been importing a few anime Blu-rays from Japan lately. Code Geass R2 and White Album. The quality isn't perfect, but they are still quite a step up from DVD. It's a fair point you make about the quality of animation, but as with live action film I still find it preferable to see what detail there is rather than have it blurred away on a poor DVD transfer. Rebuild of Evangelion: 1.11 looks to have a pretty spectacular Blu-ray transfer too from the few screen grab comparisons I've seen.
  19. Hmmmm, time to buy some Uncle Ben's stock I see...
  20. I think you can do it with anything that has some minimum level of processing capability. Even if a few features have to be implemented in software it shouldn't hurt performance too much. It's just that for NVidia GPUs they've decided to implement it using the CUDA functionality. Probably more for marketing reasons than anything. Whether it's the only way they could have done it is anyone's guess.
  21. From NVidia's descriptions CUDA is neither software or hardware, but an "architecture" which is some fuzzy combination of the two. This is the closest I've seen to an official description of how OpenCL works with NVidia GPUs.
  22. Yes, there's no implementations of OpenCL available yet to my understanding. I looked into getting a dev kit or something from Khronos Group a while back, but nothing was available. I know what you mean, but it's not quite that clear cut. CUDA refers to the GPGPU hardware in modern NVidia GPUs and it is exposed to developers via the "C for CUDA" API. OpenCL does indeed compete with the CUDA API, but it still sits on top of the CUDA hardware.
  23. Oh that's right. I wonder how long they plan to drag it out for? I don't know about anyone else but I'm barely buying DVDs any more.
  24. OpenCL is designed to provide an abstracted view of the hardware and a way of specifying tasks that maximizes parallelism and portability. The idea is that OpenCL can deal with the problem of hardware optimization and hand off the tasks to the units that will execute them the fastest or most efficiently be they CPUs, GPUs or whatever. If we take Blu-ray decoding for example the picture is actually split into four quadrants each of which can be decoded independently in parallel. OpenCL may for example hand off say three of these decode tasks to your GPU and one to your CPU. If you have a weaker GPU and a faster CPU it may do the opposite. Essentially it makes better use of the hardware available and avoids compute resources sitting idle when there's work they could be doing.
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