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Sunday, July 26
10% Satellites
I'm really behind. I recognised about 10% of the clips in this - Shirobako, which I love, Nanatsu no Taizai was there briefly, Chuunibyou, Kill la Kill, which I haven't seen but is very distinctive, and likewise Super Sonico. The rest is a blur.
Yep, those are all from Shirobako.
I'm really behind. I recognised about 10% of the clips in this - Shirobako, which I love, Nanatsu no Taizai was there briefly, Chuunibyou, Kill la Kill, which I haven't seen but is very distinctive, and likewise Super Sonico. The rest is a blur.
I'm going to do a writeup of Shirobako when I have a moment, in the meantime, it's good, watch it.
The new Ushio and Tora is pretty good so far. If you like 90s anime but hate 90s video quality, it's pretty much perfect. The only change I've seen so far - apart from the radical technical improvements - is that Ushio now has a flat-screen TV for Tora to destroy.
It's moving along at a cracking pace, too, faster if anything than the original OAV series. The manga ran for 33 volumes and the TV version is set for 39 episodes, so they're not going to need any filler on this one. ANN rate it an A, so either I'm not just running on nostalgia fumes here or they've got some seriously old-time anime fans writing for them.
It's being done by Studio Mappa, which was founded a few years ago by anime veteran Masao Maruyama, formerly of Madhouse, and it's incredibly faithful to the original. When they wrap up Ushio and Tora, I'd love to see them pick up another older show and give it the same treatment - like, oh, Dirty Pair.
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Wednesday, July 15
Sorry About That Glitch...
We had a firewall issue that blocked access to our DNS servers, which effectively shut down... Everything.
We had a firewall issue that blocked access to our DNS servers, which effectively shut down... Everything.
Then we had a NAT issue after I fixed the firewall. The two problems were related, but I'm still not sure exactly why they happened in the first place.
Anyway, all coming back to normal now.
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Friday, July 10
What Took You So Long, Old Man?
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Yuggoth
Yuggoth and its cloudy moon Nithon, image captured by the NOOA probe Elder Sign.
And so it came to pass...
Flyby is 14th July, 50 years to the day after Miskatonic 4's historic flyby of Mars.
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Monday, July 06
Ushio And Tora 2015
So it seems they kicked this thing off with a production meeting where they asked: How can we update Ushio and Tora to make it relevant to the 21st century?
So it seems they kicked this thing off with a production meeting where they asked: How can we update Ushio and Tora to make it relevant to the 21st century?
And then fired everyone who offered suggestions.
This show is triple-distilled Essence of the 90s, but in 1080p widescreen. It's perfect.
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Sunday, July 05
Semantic UI
Semantic UI is Bootstrap done right.
Semantic UI is Bootstrap done right.
Not that Bootstrap is awful; it's quite good and very useful. It's just that Semantic UI actually makes sense. And in the world of HTML, CSS, and Javascript, that's a rare thing.
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Saturday, July 04
Happy Fourth!
Hope you're enjoying the festivities and the warm summer weather.
Hope you're enjoying the festivities and the warm summer weather.
Meanwhile, it's nothing degrees here in Sydney. Woke up this morning and looked at my Nexus 7 and the weather widget is showing a little snowflake. IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO DO THAT.
Turned out that it was the frost symbol, not actual snow, but still.
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Saturday, June 20
MLP:FIM:EG:RR
For a sequel to a spinoff of the fourth iteration of a cartoon designed to sell toys to six-year-old girls, that was surprisingly good.
For a sequel to a spinoff of the fourth iteration of a cartoon designed to sell toys to six-year-old girls, that was surprisingly good.
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Wednesday, June 17
Nano Nano
So AMD paper-launched their new video card lineup at E3 yesterday. We already knew that most of the 300-series were just 200-series cards with new stencils and (in some cases) more memory.
So AMD paper-launched their new video card lineup at E3 yesterday. We already knew that most of the 300-series were just 200-series cards with new stencils and (in some cases) more memory.
The extra memory is welcome, though; with 2GB with 285 came up a bit short; with 4GB the 380 is a much better card, though it's the exact same chip.
The real excitement was around the new Fury cards - the top end cards now get a name and not just a number. We knew that the Fury and Fury X were coming, because AMD announced their use of HBM (High Bandwidth Memory) months ago, but they still kept a surprise up their corporate sleeves.
HBM is a new answer to video cards' ever-growing demand for memory bandwidth. If you look at Nvidia's current high-end cards, they use a 384-bit memory bus running at an effective 7GHz. With HBM, AMD have flipped that around and only run at 1GHz - which demands far less power - but on a bus that's 4096 bits wide.
And they achieve that by attaching the memory not to a circuit board, but to a silicon interposer. 4096 traces on a circuit board would be hugely expensive - and just plain huge - but on silicon it's easy. The interposer is far larger than a normal chip, but since it only carries wires and not transistors, it can be built easily on old, reliable equipment, and doesn't have the size restrictions of actual logic chips.
Anyway, AMD showed the water-cooled Fury X, which offers 50% more performance than their previous high-end card at the same power consumption - 8.6 TFLOPS vs. 5.6 TFLOPS - the air-cooled Fury, about 15% slower and 15% cheaper, the forthcoming Fury X2, which is two Fury Xs on a single card, and the R9 Nano, which came as a complete surprise.
Essentially, the Fury X is the fastest single-GPU card AMD can currently make; the Fury is the best price/performance they can achieve; the Fury X2 is the fastest card they can make that can actually fit in a normal computer.
Anyway, AMD showed the water-cooled Fury X, which offers 50% more performance than their previous high-end card at the same power consumption - 8.6 TFLOPS vs. 5.6 TFLOPS - the air-cooled Fury, about 15% slower and 15% cheaper, the forthcoming Fury X2, which is two Fury Xs on a single card, and the R9 Nano, which came as a complete surprise.
Essentially, the Fury X is the fastest single-GPU card AMD can currently make; the Fury is the best price/performance they can achieve; the Fury X2 is the fastest card they can make that can actually fit in a normal computer.
The Nano is designed to deliver the best possible performance per watt. The Fury X delivers 50% better performance per watt than the previous generation (using the same 28nm silicon process at TSMC), but the Nano is designed to run not at the optimum settings for performance, but at the optimum settings for power consumption, and the result is that it's faster than AMD's previous high-end card at about half the power.
And half the size. By high-end video card standards, it's tiny, about 6" long.
AMD haven't yet release final specs and pricing for the Nano, but I'll be watching for it eagerly. I don't need the absolute fastest video card I can get, but the card I have barely fits in the case, and makes upgrades incredibly awkward. The Nano should be about twice as fast as the card I have, use less power, and take up half the room. And give me more DisplayPort outputs so I can run a full 4K triple-monitor setup.
The real breakthroughs in performance will come in the next couple of years, as AMD and Nvidia combine HBM and HBM2 (twice as fast) with the next-generation 14nm silicon processes that are finally coming on line for them. But AMD with its Fury range and Nvidia with their Maxwell linup (960, 970, 980, and Titan) have given us a tantalising taste of the near future. Moore's law isn't dead quite yet.
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Tuesday, June 16
Apparently Some Classic JRPG Fan Found A Magic Lamp...
They could have wished for world peace, a cure for cancer, and a really big pie. But no...
At E3, Sony announced an actual release of the much delayed The Last Guardian, a PS4 remake of Final Fantasy VII, and (here much of the audience lost their minds), Shenmue III.
At E3, Sony announced an actual release of the much delayed The Last Guardian, a PS4 remake of Final Fantasy VII, and (here much of the audience lost their minds), Shenmue III.
One commenter on Reddit described it as a fanfic version of an E3 event.
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