Quote from Hyperactive :

Well all the species are direct result of the environment so saying the environment is random from the pov of species is kinda strange thing to say.

theres millions and billions of indipendent influences actors and other factors creating the environment a species and its genes live in
the sum of all that is essentially random fron in internal pov

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There is definite set of foot steps leading to this moment and if it was random there would be no clear chain of events just like there is no chain of events leading to the specific random lottery numbers we get every week.

it is random thats why you end up with the ridiculous argument that evolution is impossible if you calculate the probability of this planet ending up in exactly the state its in right now assuming that this is the only way it could have gone

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In true central limit theorem situation the number of species would decrease over time when in fact it is the exact opposite that is happening.

no it wouldnt

Quote from MadCat360 :

No, it's not. It's random mutation tempered by natural selection, or in other words, the natural conditions. It it were truly random we would be a mess, genetically and physiologically.

the environment is random as far as the species in it are concerned
central limit theorem basically

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* Actually fitness refers to a technical term in biology. "Fitness" is the entity's aptitude to reach reproduction age and to then subsequently reproduce *successfully*. Fitness can be quantified for the species by the statistics of death before reproduction age, and by the reproduction rate. If the offspring is stillborn then one or both of the mating pair were unfit.

adds nothing to the etymology of where fitness as a biological term comes from and why it has nothing to do with strength

could you move the "new" link on the "New Posts" search back to the left of the thread links (where it used to be) so the location where you have to click doesnt jump around with every thread?

did your mums boyfriend enjoy that you polished his exhaust tip?

so today we updated the drivers to v2.00 and the firmware to v53 and... still nothing

Quote from Scawen :

But the pre-distortion render texture would be 4278x2922 (96 MB for the colour and z buffer) so I'm still not really keen to try that yet!

so what?
you need a pretty insane graphics card to get anywhere near 75fps in most modern games and get the full enjoyment out of your dk2 so you can expect the majority of rift users to have at least 2-3gb of vram

Quote from Hyperactive :

I think I'd be really surprised if kunos really releases 1.0 today. I think the netcode and all of its other functionality needs at least half year of development before I'd dare to call it 1.0. It is just a number but it can set a dangerous and not so good precedent imho.

ever heard of netkar pro?

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

This is the fundamental problem with the world.

said the apple zealot

have you tried toying around with the display overdrive function which supposedly helps reduce black smearing?

german making his debut in a green car at spa and doing well
deja vu much?

Quote from Alric :

Also, if the physics were ever updated to say 1000hz then it wouldn't matter what the screen hz was as long as it was under the 1000 it would still be perfectly smooth?

nah thats not how it works
it would only completely get rid of it if the refreshrate of your screen and the physics rate would be inegral number multiplicates of each other

so with the targeted refreshrate of 90hz for the cv1 a 900hz phyiscs rate would result in a compltely smooth image but 1000 would still give you some stuttering

that said at 1000hz the time offset would probably be so small to not be noticeable

i personally prefer af and aa to be off by default since i force them through the driver anyway (especially for aa where the driver offers much better lookign options than lfs)

no need to limit the framerate since no matter what framerate you have beyond 100 fps the car wont move any quicker than 100 steps a second

one of the the problems with lfs is that there hasnt been any new content since s2 dropped 9 years ago
one of the easiest ways to get some more content into the game and add some variety to the selection of tracks is to add already existing different versions of the tracks

yeah its definitely a problem of not syncing the physics updates with the monitor
the only reliable solution for it was my old crt which supported arbitrary refreshrates of 100hz and above

the other solution is like scawen mentioned by enabling the graphics to interpolate between physics steps (most easily achieved with decoupling the physcis and graphics into seperate thread afaik) but that has the downside of introducing lag between your inputs and the graphics

theres no task bar it looks and behaves exactly like a fullscreen game except that you can alt tab out of it like its a window (no flashing black screens and all that rubbish)

you could try dota2 or any other modern free to play game as most games support that mode these days (especially competitive ones thta people stream a lot)

Quote from Scawen :

Hmm, no, I think high persistence is the actual pixel remaining lit / fading out too slowly. Low persistence, I guess is just making it brighter for a shorter period of time (though the final result appears a little darker).

yeah so it acts more like a crt where the pixels only flash on briefly
the point is though that an oled screen itself shouldnt blur either way since the pixels themself take near as makes no difference 0 time to switch states

however on a sample and hold display you also get additional (non display related) motion blur becuase your eyes have time to smear the image across the retina for the 1/75th of a second its being displayed (and if the display is seriously bright you can also get the effect of seeing a ghost image persist in your vision like you have after looking into the sun or a flashlight)

Quote from Scawen :

It lights up the pixels for a shorter time so they don't linger, causing blur, when you move your head.

so the bluring in high persistence isnt really pixel switch blurring but rather eye burn in from sample and hold displays?

does he also have a deal with perisoft for copying his motion rig design? ^^

how much smaller in degrees is the fov on the dk2 comapred to dk1?

Quote from Matrixi :

The track I've driven the most in Assetto Corsa (other than Nordschleife) is Blackwood, even with all the official laser scanned real tracks available.

bl has this strange quality about it that makes it feel like home

i think wed need a colour adjustment mode to finetune things
my monitor is reasonably close to srgb and i still get a fair bit of ghosting (mind you i have very cheap red/cyan glasses but still)

Quote from Scawen :

Oculus aren't able to be clear on what the DK2 will require as you can see here:
https://developer.oculusvr.com ... topic.php?f=20&t=9151

i think theyre pretty clear in saying that theyve never officially supported anythign below 7 and that anything working on antique xp is luck but not to be expected

does the oculus even support xp?

Quote from Crashgate3 :

I think you hit a nerve. Does this mean Dustin is a fat drifter?

he also spends a lot of time on the ice so similar to drifters hes basically a figure skater