Controlled focus and depth of field are as important to proper cinematic grammar as mise en scene and montage. The last thing you want as a director is the audience's eyes wandering all over the place in a totally uncontrolled manner focusing on unimportant elements within the image. It is not a problem to be minimized or eliminated, but a grammar to be enhanced.
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Franklin
Helping my son to write a game on Scratch was one of the funnest things I've done in years. It reminded me of how much fun it all *should* be.
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Franklin Brauner
I would think that for proper integration into OSX Leopard, it would be good to have the iPhone out the door.
Also, there's not been a major hardware upgrade in quite a while, perhaps the delay will mean something in the pipeline as exciting and important as the iPhone, like systems matched to Leopard. This delay could make the Leopard release
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Franklin Brauner
It'll wander around for a few decades, eating the flesh of the living, but eventually the rot will overcome its limbs and it'll lay there writhing, a threat to no one who keeps their distance -- or, the brainstem will become severed (by a bullet, blunt object, or axe) and THEN it'll be what we know is dead in a natural sense.
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Franklin Brauner
Toast 8 for OS X currently ships with Tivo Transfer, which I use on my MacBook to download shows, watch 'em on the go, and burn when I feel. It's highly elegant, though a bit slow downloading shows via my home Airport Extreme network. Downloading remotely would be nice, as now you can only download locally...but still, it's liberated me (as fay as that sounds).
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Franklin Brauner
Well, it looks like Bills worst nightmare has come true, as evidenced by Ballmers comments. Google is now what Microsoft used to be - a lot of small teams working on their own projects without levels of bureaucracy interfering.
I'm no fan of Microsoft, but your description of Google sounds an awful lot like a terrorist network built up of autonomous cells.
Being free from bureaucracy is generally a good thing, but in a corporation autonomous teams working independently ultimately allows any central authority deniability when "evil" occurs. Let's not forget that power of any kind is historically abused. This is precisely what's made Microsoft "evil" in the past.
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Franklin Brauner
...if only the rest of the world used it. I mean, if you're going to screw with something like time, it would be nice to be in congress with the rest of the planet.
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Franklin
I too am a cinephile who grew up with epic presentations (remember the add blitz on Quest for Fire, which stressed the largesse of the presentation). What I wish would have taken off was Maxivision48, which was a practical variant of Showscan. The Maxivision48 system ran at 48fps (twice the amount of a "normal" 24fps film), giving the audience twice the information. But it was backwards compatible, meaning that a movie shot at 48fps, could create standard 24fps prints for theaters that didn't have the Maxivision48 projector add-on. When digital 2K took the lead, my heart sank.
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Franklin
There seems to have been very little consideration given to quality for either the present or the future. Simply slapping a big HDTV into theaters is a bad, short-sighted idea, and will surely be a further nail in the coffin for theatrical presentations. AMC for example has lost money for nine years straight, and now they want to dump money into this shit?
Have you noticed that crap like Wild Hogs whupped the ass off of Zodiac this weekend? Your assumption is that anyone, from the studios to the theater owners to the movie goes, cares about quality. I think all theater goes care about these days is the quantity of fake cheese put on their nachos. The sad and simple truth is that the theaters will exist despite the quality of product or projection because kids need a place to go out on Friday and Saturday night with their friends, and dad's home theater is too close to home.
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Franklin
If they keep it closed, it won't make any difference whatsoever.
Like how the iPod didn't make any difference whatsoever?
Also, consider the historical advances that occur from copycat UI design. I'm inclined to believe that regardless of market failure or success that the iPhone will have a visible impact on design and interface in that sector.
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Franklin
Hands down, I love the Wii. My kids love it. My wife (!) loves it. Everyone who comes over loves it, and wants one. And the Wiimote has proven itself to be a huge hit for all. However...
As much as I love the Wiimote, I'm not so sure EVERY game should utilize it -- for the same reason I don't want EVERY movie I see to be 3D. This first wave of Wii games have felt almost obligitory in their use of the Wiimote, and I can't help but think that developers are sometimes shoehorning in the Wiimote controller schema -- even when traditional game interface techniques would have served it better (Tony Hawk comes to mind). I know that, during this first generation of Wii games, to exclude the Wiimote would seem lazy on the developers part, but I'm hoping that I won't have to wave my controller around the air in EVERY game for the Wii.
Sometimes, you just want Vanilla.
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Franklin Brauner
To put this in to perspective, if BayTSP were trying to bust me for doing drugs, it'd be like getting arrested because I was hanging out with some dealers, but they never saw me using, buying, or selling any drugs."
And why, exactly, are you hanging out with drug dealers?
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Franklin
It's crazy to think a USB cable is better if purchased from Apple because they charge you more. Let's not confuse hardware with software quality.
Perhaps, but it's not so crazy to think that a computer is better if purchased from Apple because they charge you more. Let's not confuse cables with components.
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Franklin
I haven't used Vista, nor do I know how its new security "features" work, but I'm wondering Vista security would interfere if the USB solution you suggest. Just curious.
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Franklin
Personally, I think part of the answer is application lock-in; people who use some app that they can't get away from, and where the developers force them to upgrade to the next OS because otherwise, the next version or revision of the locked-in app won't work.
I suspect that it's the perception of application lock in. There's nothing worse than the cage door being open and being afraid to leave.
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Franklin
Slashdot Mirror
Is this really news yet?
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Franklin Brauner
Controlled focus and depth of field are as important to proper cinematic grammar as mise en scene and montage. The last thing you want as a director is the audience's eyes wandering all over the place in a totally uncontrolled manner focusing on unimportant elements within the image. It is not a problem to be minimized or eliminated, but a grammar to be enhanced.
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Franklin
Shouldn't Google be keeping "offsite" backups of the data the way they do with website cache?
Okay. We lose the original elements to Grindhouse or 300. Is it really such a big cultural loss?
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Franklin Brauner
Helping my son to write a game on Scratch was one of the funnest things I've done in years. It reminded me of how much fun it all *should* be.
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Franklin Brauner
I would think that for proper integration into OSX Leopard, it would be good to have the iPhone out the door.
Also, there's not been a major hardware upgrade in quite a while, perhaps the delay will mean something in the pipeline as exciting and important as the iPhone, like systems matched to Leopard. This delay could make the Leopard release
--
Franklin Brauner
It'll wander around for a few decades, eating the flesh of the living, but eventually the rot will overcome its limbs and it'll lay there writhing, a threat to no one who keeps their distance -- or, the brainstem will become severed (by a bullet, blunt object, or axe) and THEN it'll be what we know is dead in a natural sense.
--
Franklin Brauner
Isn't the easiest way to "make water not wet" to freeze it?
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Franklin Brauner
Toast 8 for OS X currently ships with Tivo Transfer, which I use on my MacBook to download shows, watch 'em on the go, and burn when I feel. It's highly elegant, though a bit slow downloading shows via my home Airport Extreme network. Downloading remotely would be nice, as now you can only download locally...but still, it's liberated me (as fay as that sounds).
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Franklin Brauner
The article states that a crawler can't read, but they can -- robots.txt.
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Franklin Brauner
Well, it looks like Bills worst nightmare has come true, as evidenced by Ballmers comments. Google is now what Microsoft used to be - a lot of small teams working on their own projects without levels of bureaucracy interfering.
I'm no fan of Microsoft, but your description of Google sounds an awful lot like a terrorist network built up of autonomous cells.
Being free from bureaucracy is generally a good thing, but in a corporation autonomous teams working independently ultimately allows any central authority deniability when "evil" occurs. Let's not forget that power of any kind is historically abused. This is precisely what's made Microsoft "evil" in the past.
--
Franklin Brauner
...if only the rest of the world used it. I mean, if you're going to screw with something like time, it would be nice to be in congress with the rest of the planet.
--
Franklin
I too am a cinephile who grew up with epic presentations (remember the add blitz on Quest for Fire, which stressed the largesse of the presentation). What I wish would have taken off was Maxivision48, which was a practical variant of Showscan. The Maxivision48 system ran at 48fps (twice the amount of a "normal" 24fps film), giving the audience twice the information. But it was backwards compatible, meaning that a movie shot at 48fps, could create standard 24fps prints for theaters that didn't have the Maxivision48 projector add-on. When digital 2K took the lead, my heart sank.
--
Franklin
There seems to have been very little consideration given to quality for either the present or the future. Simply slapping a big HDTV into theaters is a bad, short-sighted idea, and will surely be a further nail in the coffin for theatrical presentations. AMC for example has lost money for nine years straight, and now they want to dump money into this shit?
Have you noticed that crap like Wild Hogs whupped the ass off of Zodiac this weekend? Your assumption is that anyone, from the studios to the theater owners to the movie goes, cares about quality. I think all theater goes care about these days is the quantity of fake cheese put on their nachos. The sad and simple truth is that the theaters will exist despite the quality of product or projection because kids need a place to go out on Friday and Saturday night with their friends, and dad's home theater is too close to home.
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Franklin
It's likely the "actual room" that they keep their server in.
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Franklin Brauner
If they keep it closed, it won't make any difference whatsoever.
Like how the iPod didn't make any difference whatsoever?
Also, consider the historical advances that occur from copycat UI design. I'm inclined to believe that regardless of market failure or success that the iPhone will have a visible impact on design and interface in that sector. -- Franklin
...was it ever fresh?
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Franklin Brauner
Hands down, I love the Wii. My kids love it. My wife (!) loves it. Everyone who comes over loves it, and wants one. And the Wiimote has proven itself to be a huge hit for all. However...
As much as I love the Wiimote, I'm not so sure EVERY game should utilize it -- for the same reason I don't want EVERY movie I see to be 3D. This first wave of Wii games have felt almost obligitory in their use of the Wiimote, and I can't help but think that developers are sometimes shoehorning in the Wiimote controller schema -- even when traditional game interface techniques would have served it better (Tony Hawk comes to mind). I know that, during this first generation of Wii games, to exclude the Wiimote would seem lazy on the developers part, but I'm hoping that I won't have to wave my controller around the air in EVERY game for the Wii.
Sometimes, you just want Vanilla.
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Franklin Brauner
Another Windows in two years, why bother upgrading?
Because two years in Microsoft time = 8 years in real time.
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Franklin
To put this in to perspective, if BayTSP were trying to bust me for doing drugs, it'd be like getting arrested because I was hanging out with some dealers, but they never saw me using, buying, or selling any drugs."
And why, exactly, are you hanging out with drug dealers?
--
Franklin
It's crazy to think a USB cable is better if purchased from Apple because they charge you more. Let's not confuse hardware with software quality.
Perhaps, but it's not so crazy to think that a computer is better if purchased from Apple because they charge you more. Let's not confuse cables with components.
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Franklin
...and I buy my kids Macs.
You see, I love my kids.
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Franklin
Your quote:
You can pay $1300 for a mac...or you can spend $700 for a PC. Which do you THINK parents are going to buy?
...yesterdays article, throw in a little Google Earth for good measure (pun intended), and...I think you get the idea.
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Franklin
I haven't used Vista, nor do I know how its new security "features" work, but I'm wondering Vista security would interfere if the USB solution you suggest. Just curious.
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Franklin
Personally, I think part of the answer is application lock-in; people who use some app that they can't get away from, and where the developers force them to upgrade to the next OS because otherwise, the next version or revision of the locked-in app won't work.
I suspect that it's the perception of application lock in. There's nothing worse than the cage door being open and being afraid to leave.
--
Franklin