I literally did.

You may be too retarded and emotional ("who the fuck are 'they'?", "like a fucking sheep", "biggest non-scientific bullshit I've heard in my life", etc.). If you're dying to prove to the internet that I'm wrong, go for it. Get your data, do your math, and show the internet.

Best of luck.

My initial observation stands. In fact, your asking irrelevant questions and demanding proof for math only strengthens the validity of that observation.

It really is how it works more often than not. Look at the reproducibility crisis for example.

The earth hasn't been around long enough (more specifically the beginning of single celled life on earth -- something like 3.4 billion years ago) for evolution to actually work the way they say it does (or has been observed in DNA differences like between humans and chimps -- and that's only a 2% difference). Some biologists/evolutionists recognize this problem, but like Science always does, they're being laughed at. Which is fine, cause they're just making it up too.

Come on. Anyone with a basic understanding of the topic would know that I'm referring to the rate of fixation.

Evolution is fake and literally impossible. It can't hold up to basic math (fixed mutation rate vs time). Your using its banning as the bar for "something fucking majorly gone wrong in the schooling system" just demonstrates how inverted and screwed up the western school system really is.

I think that your restaurant example here is flawed, though. For one, the restaurant industry won't just "break" as you say; it will simply need to adjust. Primarily, rather than convenience of sit-down restaurants in close proximity to office/industrial areas, they will need to move to being more convenient and proximal to residential areas: either by physically moving their locations or by integrating more with delivery services like DoorDash and GrubHub and others.

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Here's the DVD:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.extremetech.com%2Fwp...

Here's the upscale:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.extremetech.com%2Fwp...

Differences (Focus on the model, because the disrupter beam isn't frame-perfect -- there's a one-frame offset by mistake that I need to go back and fix).

Sharper text across the hull.
Cleaner hull, period. All of the shapes are sharper. You can make out the fine detail in the greebling at the rear of the model in the upscale, where these blocks tend the blur together in the DVD.

If you want to see the difference (and this one *is* frame-perfect) against the previous upscale, look at the disrupter beam itself:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.extremetech.com%2Fwp...

There's far less distortion and many fewer artifacts in the energy beam hitting the shields in "CurrentDefiant" than in "Defiant3", and the CurrentDefiant model should look much sharper to you than Defiant2.

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I cannot show you the DVD credits at genuine quality because YouTube's compression algorithm makes such terrible hash of them, they are *vastly* worse than anything you see off the disc. That makes it really frustrating to do comparisons, as you can imagine.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FOqG_A72Q5fM%3Ft...

The upscaled credits are probably the single-best place to see what the show can look like compared to what you'd see on the DVD. While I realize I'm asking you take my word for it, I didn't pour 20-40 hours of work per week for 9 months into this project to scrape out a tiny, near-unnoticeable quality gain. (Whether you like the quality of the upscale is a different question, of course, but the *difference* is noticeable).

The version of the credits above has a much sharper station and deals with the heavy aliasing that crawls across the entire image when you play back the DVD. The PAL versions are much better than the NTSC versions in this regard.

The S1 - S3 credits are a different story. They're in far worse shape and I can't do much with them beyond a bit of sharpening. The S4-S6 credits, however, clean up beautifully.

The problem with AI upscaling is that it's uneven. Some stuff gets a huge amount of extra detail, some stuff doesn't. It's jarring, you are admiring the great skin detail one second and the next someone's hair is smudged and back to SD.

This is much less of an issue than it used to be and different models are tuned differently as far as what kind of an effect they create. Some, like Theia, are user-adjustable. Like you, I hoped the studio would create its own version. I've given up on that and decided to do it myself. It won't compare to what ViacomCBS could do, but it certainly beats the nothing they've done.

(Also, running the DVDs through the processing methods I outline will improve their output quality, even if you do nothing to upscale them thereafter).

You said: " Will it ever be possible to design and manufacture your own CPU, GPU, ASIC or RAM chip right in your own home?"

The answer to this question is that it's already *possible* to build these components in your own home. The problem is that the manufacturing techniques readily available to consumers for building and wiring hardware together do not lend themselves to the rigors of modern semiconductor manufacturing.

But can you build *something?* Hell yes you can. Check this thing out:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.extremetech.com%2Fex...

It's a 16-bit CPU with 256 bytes of memory and every single component is implemented in human-scale components.

No advance in 3D printing is going to allow you to manufacture, say, a Core i7 in your house because you lack all of the industrial manufacturing and processing tools necessary for creating the wafer that such a chip requires. But there have absolutely been explorations of using 3D printing to create circuits that can cheaply and easily be applied to all manner of surfaces, including clothing. The final product of these efforts wouldn't be the sort of silicon you'd play a game on, so it might not meet your definition of being a CPU, RAM, ASIC, etc -- but these are definitely subjects of existing research in manufacturing.

Mission accomplished. Stallman will forever be a pedo or at best linked to pedos. After all... he RESIGNED.

Make them fire you. Never give in to this evil. But what does Stallman know of evil anyway?

Software-as-a-service is only a value if it provides me with access to the same (or better) software for less money than I would have paid otherwise. This is generally just about impossible to do. In my case, I buy one copy of Office and use it for 8-12 years. I'm not remotely interested in Office 365, which offers the unparalleled option of... paying Microsoft far more money over that same 8-12 year period.

Other people, with different needs, feel differently. If you need 3-5 Office licenses and being up on the latest and greatest is important to you, then maybe O365 is a good deal. If you really want cloud storage, maybe O365 is a good deal. I do not want cloud storage and do not need multiple licenses. I therefore consider it a remarkably poor deal indeed. It would need to cost on the order of $10 / year for me to be interested, and MS isn't cutting the price *that* low.

Most companies have engineered these deals to pad their own bottom lines first, and any actual concern for the customer is... decidedly secondary.