Yeah, saw this ages ago... and there is clearly an Ohio State banner behind her, so the Knicks and Wizards had nothing to do with it, but that is what a recent Reddit thread said... she may have been at the Knicks/Wizard game, but this was from when she was at Ohio State...
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Meh, yet another reason to stick with the Glorious PC Gaming Master Race.

What's that you say? Your "next gen" consoles are struggling with little old 1080p?

Oh... what's this? Why, it's my new 1440p monitor!!

Suck it, filthy console peasants!
MUHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

...ahem...
sorry, lost the run of myself there...

Also best viewed 720 or 1080p fullscreen

*quality
and...

Music by DJ Butcher:
1. Get Busy Pt. 2;
2. Cocaine;
3. All in check.

@Orz, out of curiosity, I priced this build myself.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/259dQ

Couldn't find that specific case or the water cooling, but even allowing $2000 (which is ridiculous) for case and cooling, it still comes in under $10k if you build it yourself.

Then add about another $3300 for a 4k monitor (not much point building this thing to run 1080p)

There ya go. 4k gaming for less than $15k.

Proud member of the Glorious PC Gaming Master Race.
I feel bad for all you dirty console peasants, especially since your new machines can't even run games in 1080p!

Meanwhile, I shall be over here with my oculus and my 120hz 1440p monitor with the Best Damn Control System Ever: the awesome keyboard/mouse/xbox-360-xcontroller-when-I-need-it combo.

Also, if you really must be a dirty console peasant, here is a simple guide:
the ps4 has better hardware, the xbone has a better controller.

MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA!

Or at least I will be until my wife finds out how I spent on new PC hardware....

To my eye, it seems like YouTube has been actively trying to piss users off with shit like this for a while now. I don't have enough of a tinfoil hat on to actually think that is true, but it sure seems like it.

This guy hit a lot of the issues, but here's my rundown of annoyances:
* I've used GMail forever. In the past year, Google decided that means that I want their services for everything. YouTube, Google+, etc. etc. No, I don't.

* GMail inbox now has handy-dandy tabs that separate my email into "Primary" (the one I actually want), "Social" (can I rename this 'trash'?), and "Promotions" (kill it with fire). I don't want that crap, other than as a filter that immediately trashes it and marks as spam.

* YouTube embeds used to not show annotations by default. Which was nice, because annotations suck. Now, the embed player seems to decide that you want them all the time, unless you want to sign in and go through a 19-step process to disable them.

* Caching and streaming used to work. I don't have a massively fast connection, and I live on the opposite side of the earth which gives me high latency. BUT, my connection is fast enough that I used to be able to pick out videos that I really want to watch in high quality, set to 1080p, pause, and let it cache for a few minutes. With that head start, I could probably play the video the whole way through. Now, if I pause, the player decides that I really want it to shittily try to transition down to a lower quality, which frequently garbles the whole video stream for a moderate duration and occasionally crashes it altogether. Thanks for that!


Plenty more issues, but I guess I'll stop there. Basically, all that Google/YouTube have accomplished is to encourage me to put on Adblock Plus, Adblock Plus Element Hiding Helper (hide the entire f*&$ing comments section, nag-bars, etc. -- highly recommended), and Flash Video Downloader. That last one lets me simply download videos, at any quality available, so I can watch at my leisure.

Of course, YouTube is in a constant arms race with all those downloader plugins, so they periodically break for a day or so while they are updated to circumvent the YT blocks. But generally, they work well and let me download material to use when teaching classes here in rooms with no net connection.

Living in Thailand, most TV shows aren't available here until WAY after the Western airdate, if ever.

I live in a pretty small town. Western movies don't play here, and if I travel an hour or so to a town where they do, they do they are dubbed in Thai with no English subtitles. DVDs are readily available, but they are usually pirated cam copies burned to disc, and again dubbed in Thai.

Games? Not available in stores in my town. Bangkok, sure -- but again they are almost always pirated copies burned to disk. Console games are the same way and any shops selling the game will also chip the console to play pirated disks. I could, and admittedly probably SHOULD use steam for PC games.

Other software? Basically same story as games. If you go to a computer store here, advertising usually says that they are sold with Linux OS or bare drives. But, the shop will automatically put on a pirated Windows plus loads of software (office, Photoshop if you ask for it, etc.) upon purchasing the hardware. They are usually fairly inept at it, frequently have viruses or fail to actually activate the OS, etc. so I tell them to leave the drives bare and do all that stuff myself. But for 99% of people who buy a PC here, they will automatically get a pirated OS and software along with it.

Basically, my default mode of getting ANY media is piracy. Price (free versus not) is a part of that. Incomes are low here, but cost of living is comparatively even lower. Still, if media was fully available here but equal to the price in, say, the US the vast majority of people here don't have enough disposable income to afford much if any of it. A bigger issue for me personally is convenience. Piracy (torrents, etc.) as a distribution system is infinitely more convenient, easy, and "customer"-friendly than any more legitimate service. I get what I want very quickly, usually in multiple options for filesize vs quality on up to as-good-as-broadcast/blu-ray 1080p, with most everything available from a single source (isoHunt, kickass, PirateBay, take your pick). In terms of user experience, legitimate distribution can't even begin to compete with that -- and that is BEFORE considering price.

Instead, they exacerbate the difference by treating paying customers with open contempt. Pay for TV service? Enjoy 10 minutes of ads for every 12 minutes of show. Buy a DVD? Sit through un-skippable ads, dire piracy warnings, etc. before the show actually starts. Move or simply take the disk on vacation to another country and you will likely be screwed by region locking. Buy software? Get some DRM that slows things down or restricts fully NORMAL use of the software, nags you to register, etc. On the other hand, if you pirate stuff all of that goes away. No ads. Watch/use the media wherever you want, whenever you want, on whatever device you want. Software DRM circumvented easily, usually hours after the first release if not *before*.

I honestly see it as a problem that I am not supporting the creators of the media that I enjoy. But, Pandora's box has been opened on this one. Generation X and Y learned to scoff at the idea of paying for music due to Napster. iTunes has been extremely lucky to turn that around even slightly, making lots of mistakes along the way (DRM and device-locking, etc.). Gen Y and beyond are going to have the same attitude towards piracy with regards to ALL MEDIA that we learned to have towards music. I don't think there is any getting around that.

For content creators, I think that funding via Label / Publisher / Network is going to die out. And soon. The good news is that something akin to an evolution of patronage of arts and creators can work even better than it did in the past. The Motzarts and Beethovens of the future don't need 1 rich duke or king to commision a work, they need 10,000 average Joes on kickstarter or the like. I see things trending more and more in that direction, and all the time. I think it is an exciting time -- unless you're an exec in one of the old dinosaur publishers/networks.

Here's a 1080p version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMfOM5HdcaQ

So they keep every ping ever sent to every server in existence? They keep copies of every video ever uploaded to youtube multiplied by THE NUMBER OF TIMES ITS BEEN VIEWED? They keep copies of every single video game ever created multiplied by THE NUMBER OF TIMES IT'S BEEN DOWNLOADED (on Steam, Pirate Bay, etc.)

Every single IP capera in existence, streaming video (often times 1080p video) to remote locations around the world is having it's stream recorded non stop, 24/7. I'd say those cameras alone produce at least 10 terabytes of data EVERY SECOND.

Whatever.

Maybe this is an answer in itself, but I have a hard time figuring that out.

Detecting the motion in the introductory stuff is very easy and obvious, but then right after it says "Here we go!" (35 seconds in), there are several flashes in a row where I couldn't detect any motion at all because they flash on and off the screen extremely quickly. Frustration with that threw off my ability to catch some later, particularly on the first viewing. Some are still easy after that, but many were just plain too fast.

I though "OK, that is a result -- too fast for me to catch", but then I decided to cheat. Downloaded the video (1080p version) and played it back in VLC at very slow speeds and finally frame by frame. In VLC, it appears that the first three flashes are literally *one single frame*, so obviously there can't be any motion there. The fourth is two frames. Good luck.

Spoiler alert? -- Between "Here we go!" (35 seconds) and "Which is easier for seeing motion?" (49 seconds), frame by frame checking tells me that 1-3 are one frame (no motion), then they all go left except for the final 2, which are 3 frames going right. I think that I could see the final 2 moving right in my original viewing, but I doubt I saw any of the 2 frame sets moving left.

Between "Which is easier? ..." and the end of the video, I now find it easy to detect the direction in full-speed playback for all of them. I don't think it was *as* easy in my first viewing, but I do think that I correctly got most of them. Frustration with the middle section made it much more difficult though.

Spoilers again, during that final session they go L L R R L L L L (I think, I didn't actually frame-by-frame analyze it but they all seem clear).

The link provided (and the video itself) suggests that detecting the motion should be more or less difficult based on the size of the view area. Maybe my view area is too large (I was playing it fullscreen on a 40 inch LED TV that I use for a monitor), but I didn't really notice much of a difference in difficulty across the various sizes -- I just concentrate on a spot in the middle of the screen and I didn't even notice that they were different sizes until the video mentioned it.

I have no idea what those results are supposed to reveal about my IQ. Back in Middle School, I tested into the "gifted" program with an IQ between 130-140. I thought that the *real* IQ test was rather weird, but at least it made more sense than this...

The footage was shot in 4K, using a Red Epic camera. That's why I mention 4K. This footage was then edited down to a 1080p video, because that's what makes the most sense right now for online streaming.

downloaded in 1080P for scrutinizing

You know what I think its cool about this, the thumbnail is going to attract people in the exact manner the colour display is meant to. So that is worth expressing.

Of course, 1080p wins the moment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson%27s_Bird-of-paradise