Yeah, as a photographer, I'd be concerned with the digitization of my work without some form of DRM. Now, I don't know at what resolution the CD-ROM images are stored, but the fact that they may well (in the case of current publications) be reductions of my drum-scanned originals bothers me. Having an end-user slap their print magazine down on a flatbed scanner is akin to someone ripping MP3s from their vinyl LP collection... It's not going to be that great in quality. But in CD-ROM redistribution, where it comes from someone with access to the original source... That's something else entirely. It makes it trivally easy for someone to copy those files and put them on the web or use them in other ways.
Macrovision also raises the sync level. In NTSC, normal sync is around -40 IRE, while on average, a video with Macrovision will have a -30 IRE sync. Sometimes there's a little more compression on the high end too, with max brightness being 97 IRE instead of 100 IRE, but I've found that to be less of an issue than the overall flux.
as our eyes drift to the blue and red end of the spectrum...
Um. Dude. Blue & Red are at opposite ends of the spectrum. Hence UV at one end and IR at the other...(ok, sure, violet is on the other side of blue from red, but in between you've got all the greens, yellows & oranges...)
If you can find a copy of Audio Systems Design and Installation by Philip Giddings (out of print, but maybe in a library?) it has some chapters dedicated to rack design, including the ISO (or was it ANSI?) spec. Don't have my copy handy right now, or I'd give you the standard number.
Yeah, but laptops still require processing power, which adds to the cost. My above-mentioned dream tablet would be an appliance more along the lines of 3Com's Audrey, but wireless, with handwriting recognition and the Quartz engine driving the graphics.
HD resolution is going to be wasted on a tablet screen (at least at current DPI for LCD's).
Indeed, 1920 x 1080 (1080i) doesn't seem too likely in a tablet yet.
Personally, I'd be quite content with a tablet as a wireless graphic terminal (even VNC could work in a pinch) to an existing Mac on the network. No major CPU necessary, so low power is an option. Just like the X workstations I used to use, but portable, wireless, and sans keyboard. No reason for it not to exist in some form -- whether it's used on the couch or in the board room...
Still not seeing it. And the.au is in the URL, so I should be seeing the same thing you are...
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Do they have a free POP3? Looks to me like they charge $29.95 a year to use POP3... If you can point me to something that says different, I'd appreciate it, because I was looking for that...
And the public buys airplanes how often? If I buy a plane ticket, is boycotting Boeing planes really that viable an option? Even if Boeing was using sweatshop labor and dumping napalm on the rainforest, I don't think the public would have much recourse.
And between the first movies and the comic books, you had Predator 2 which had a shot of an Alien skull in the trophy case of the Predator's spaceship, thus putting the two species in the same universe.
Couldn't have been that long ago, since they had to edit the ~143 minute Attack of the Clones to fit just under a year ago, IIRC. (Seem to recall a November IMAX release...)
I recall something similar, except the way I remember it, the goal was to have the sound equally good in every seat in the theater. Don't know if that's still the case for theater certification or not. THX does have their own EQ curve that is applied in certified receivers and such. I seem to recall it boosts the highs a bit, but I'm not certain.
In a previous/. discussion on the death of cursive writing, one of the arguments FOR writing longhand was that it made you think harder about what you were committing to paper. A million monkeys with computers can generate a nive USENET feed, but if they had to write in script, there might be better stuff to read. *shrug*
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Yeah, as a photographer, I'd be concerned with the digitization of my work without some form of DRM. Now, I don't know at what resolution the CD-ROM images are stored, but the fact that they may well (in the case of current publications) be reductions of my drum-scanned originals bothers me. Having an end-user slap their print magazine down on a flatbed scanner is akin to someone ripping MP3s from their vinyl LP collection... It's not going to be that great in quality. But in CD-ROM redistribution, where it comes from someone with access to the original source... That's something else entirely. It makes it trivally easy for someone to copy those files and put them on the web or use them in other ways.
Macrovision also raises the sync level. In NTSC, normal sync is around -40 IRE, while on average, a video with Macrovision will have a -30 IRE sync. Sometimes there's a little more compression on the high end too, with max brightness being 97 IRE instead of 100 IRE, but I've found that to be less of an issue than the overall flux.
If you can find a copy of Audio Systems Design and Installation by Philip Giddings (out of print, but maybe in a library?) it has some chapters dedicated to rack design, including the ISO (or was it ANSI?) spec. Don't have my copy handy right now, or I'd give you the standard number.
As my photography teacher said, "the camera body is just a box to keep the dark in."
Silly, by the time it's released, ticket prices will be $15 each, so they'll only need to rope in 30 million people...
Yeah, but laptops still require processing power, which adds to the cost. My above-mentioned dream tablet would be an appliance more along the lines of 3Com's Audrey, but wireless, with handwriting recognition and the Quartz engine driving the graphics.
Personally, I'd be quite content with a tablet as a wireless graphic terminal (even VNC could work in a pinch) to an existing Mac on the network. No major CPU necessary, so low power is an option. Just like the X workstations I used to use, but portable, wireless, and sans keyboard. No reason for it not to exist in some form -- whether it's used on the couch or in the board room...
I might be missing the point, but don't ALL vector graphics scale by definition?
Well, that means that Yahoo can import mail from other POP3 accounts, but doesn't let you use a POP3 mail reader to pull down your Yahoo mail...
Do they have a free POP3? Looks to me like they charge $29.95 a year to use POP3... If you can point me to something that says different, I'd appreciate it, because I was looking for that...
Hell, attach mirrors to the speaker cone and point them at that from different angles. Play music through the speaker and instant light show!
And the public buys airplanes how often? If I buy a plane ticket, is boycotting Boeing planes really that viable an option? Even if Boeing was using sweatshop labor and dumping napalm on the rainforest, I don't think the public would have much recourse.
What do AVP, LXG and ID4 have in common? Three more letters: FOX.
Alien^3 vs Godfather 3...
Been done.
A friend of mine living near the Simi Valley fire... (He's gonna love getting slashdotted...)
Multiverse could also be the different incarnations of Michael Moorcock's "Eternal Champion" (Elric, Hawkmoon, Corum, etc...)
And between the first movies and the comic books, you had Predator 2 which had a shot of an Alien skull in the trophy case of the Predator's spaceship, thus putting the two species in the same universe.
Couldn't have been that long ago, since they had to edit the ~143 minute Attack of the Clones to fit just under a year ago, IIRC. (Seem to recall a November IMAX release...)
Clearly, "A system for preliminary appraisal and selection" fits the bill.
Yeah, I had his hypercube model and manifold fly-thru software on my Mac SE around 12 years ago. Good stuff.
I recall something similar, except the way I remember it, the goal was to have the sound equally good in every seat in the theater. Don't know if that's still the case for theater certification or not. THX does have their own EQ curve that is applied in certified receivers and such. I seem to recall it boosts the highs a bit, but I'm not certain.
In a previous /. discussion on the death of cursive writing, one of the arguments FOR writing longhand was that it made you think harder about what you were committing to paper. A million monkeys with computers can generate a nive USENET feed, but if they had to write in script, there might be better stuff to read. *shrug*