Sure. It's not even particularly new. (ok, hacking totally diffferent platform styles into an existing game MAY be...) but back in 1990 I was using the level editor that came with Arkanoid 2: Revenge of Doh to build self clearing boards of increasing complexity. Since all the angles in paddle/ball games are predictable, you could arrange bricks in such a fashion that releasing the initial ball from center, far right or far left would clear the board without further player input.
Raquetball in liquid nitro, then throwing the ball and watching it shatter instead of bounce is fun too.
Though when I saw that demo, one of the lab assistants was dipping the Oreos he was eating in the nitro before taking each bite (he was using long handled clamps for the dipping...)
Granted, Cubase SX for OS X was announced a full six months before the release, but still...
[And yes, I know ProTools and Cubase are on entirely different levels... And there are probably people who would get miffed if I tried comparing Cubase to Digital Performer too, but it looks like Steinberg will get their music software to the OS X market before any of them. [OK, so Emagic got Logic out the door first, but Apple owns them, so I think they had help...]]
Sure, there are a few friends of the court briefs for the defense. The one I found interesting was from Dr. Seuss Enterprises, et al...
Their argument is that by extending copyright, the holders have been able to release the property in formats that did not exist or might not have been possible at the time of the original writing. Siting in particular the film adapatation of the Grinch and its subsequent release on DVD. They also mention derivative works in the form of CD-ROM games.
Now, there's no great argument that someone couldn't or wouldn't take a public domain source and create similar treatments. After all, part of Edred's argument is that the bulk of Disney's early feature work was based on Bros. Grimm fairy tales, and Disney Corp. has had no problem exploting new forms of media with material that's a few hundred years old...
"one-sided propaganda". Not to be sided with propaganda that gives an equal voice to differing viewpoints. Oh wait, that woudn't be propaganda any more, now, would it?
Reggio is a documentarian. The images he chooses to cut together may have a spin that tells his story, but the nature of his work is, by definition, allowing the images to speak for themselves.
Don't like his ideals? Don't see his movie. Not like box-office is a big driving force in his work to begin with.
"alone with his orchestra" seems like a bit of an oxymoron...
Glass's ensembles can do some pretty top-notch stuff, though rumor is one of the trumpet players on Koyaanisqatsi had to be gotten really drunk before he'd record his part.
I just hope the pipe organ is back. Those low D's really shake a theatre.
Sure, it's great that the guy documented his project so others could replicate it, but it might be more useful if he mentioned how he calculated the optimal port length. Specs on resonance frequency, Vas, power handling, and other things might be nice as well. Or why he chose a ported sub rather than an isobaric or sealed design or something else. Not that there's a correct choice, but knowing a little bit about how and why he made his decisions might help others down the line.
I had my swiss army knife confiscated at a nightclub last week. My initial thought was, "What do they think I'm going to do? Hijack the club and fly it into a nearby landmark?"
FYI, the digital cinema version of Episode II, with a run time of about 2 hours 20 minutes, was ~68 GB. So yes, your estimate of 100 gig for a 3hr film is probably on the mark.
The UK DVD of Star Wars Ep II will be missing the 26 frames of head-butt in the fight sequence between Jango Fett & Obi-Wan, for ratings reasons...
Likewise, the UK version of Disney's Lilo & Stitch has Lilo climbing into a cabinet with a pizza box lid for a door, while in the US version she climbs into a clothes drier. The UK ratings board had issues with that...
Scanning/seeking to the end of the offending video chapter would, indeed, work if such functionality were not being locked out. Selecting Chapter 1 would have mixed results. Ideally, most of the time you'd want Title 1, Chapter 1. There are exceptions, of course. I can think of a handful of DVDs featuring branched video (Matrix, Beauty & the Beast Special Edition, and a couple of others) where Title 1 isn't necessarily the feature, or if it is, it would be uncertain which flavour of the feature.
My day gig is QCing DVDs for THX, so I've seen all sorts of odd authoring (and not all of it intentional...)
It's my understanding that most discs released in Japan are authored to start the feature on disc insert rather than go to a menu as is common in the states. Something about loading up a jukebox full of movies and being able to have them autoplay, I think.
I QC'd discs for Willow for a number of regions, and the Japanese disc was the only one that worked that way.
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Sure. It's not even particularly new. (ok, hacking totally diffferent platform styles into an existing game MAY be...) but back in 1990 I was using the level editor that came with Arkanoid 2: Revenge of Doh to build self clearing boards of increasing complexity. Since all the angles in paddle/ball games are predictable, you could arrange bricks in such a fashion that releasing the initial ball from center, far right or far left would clear the board without further player input.
The "full digital projection movie" for Episode II was only 68 GB and fit nicely on 14 DVD-Rs... (plus another two for trailers)
Not that anybody makes 70mm prints anymore...
Raquetball in liquid nitro, then throwing the ball and watching it shatter instead of bounce is fun too.
Though when I saw that demo, one of the lab assistants was dipping the Oreos he was eating in the nitro before taking each bite (he was using long handled clamps for the dipping...)
Granted, Cubase SX for OS X was announced a full six months before the release, but still...
[And yes, I know ProTools and Cubase are on entirely different levels... And there are probably people who would get miffed if I tried comparing Cubase to Digital Performer too, but it looks like Steinberg will get their music software to the OS X market before any of them. [OK, so Emagic got Logic out the door first, but Apple owns them, so I think they had help...]]
Sure, there are a few friends of the court briefs for the defense. The one I found interesting was from Dr. Seuss Enterprises, et al...
Their argument is that by extending copyright, the holders have been able to release the property in formats that did not exist or might not have been possible at the time of the original writing. Siting in particular the film adapatation of the Grinch and its subsequent release on DVD. They also mention derivative works in the form of CD-ROM games.
Now, there's no great argument that someone couldn't or wouldn't take a public domain source and create similar treatments. After all, part of Edred's argument is that the bulk of Disney's early feature work was based on Bros. Grimm fairy tales, and Disney Corp. has had no problem exploting new forms of media with material that's a few hundred years old...
"one-sided propaganda". Not to be sided with propaganda that gives an equal voice to differing viewpoints. Oh wait, that woudn't be propaganda any more, now, would it?
Reggio is a documentarian. The images he chooses to cut together may have a spin that tells his story, but the nature of his work is, by definition, allowing the images to speak for themselves.
Don't like his ideals? Don't see his movie. Not like box-office is a big driving force in his work to begin with.
"alone with his orchestra" seems like a bit of an oxymoron...
Glass's ensembles can do some pretty top-notch stuff, though rumor is one of the trumpet players on Koyaanisqatsi had to be gotten really drunk before he'd record his part.
I just hope the pipe organ is back. Those low D's really shake a theatre.
Uh huh. The infamous "Seven Seconds of Silent but Deadly..."
Sure, it's great that the guy documented his project so others could replicate it, but it might be more useful if he mentioned how he calculated the optimal port length. Specs on resonance frequency, Vas, power handling, and other things might be nice as well. Or why he chose a ported sub rather than an isobaric or sealed design or something else. Not that there's a correct choice, but knowing a little bit about how and why he made his decisions might help others down the line.
I had my swiss army knife confiscated at a nightclub last week. My initial thought was, "What do they think I'm going to do? Hijack the club and fly it into a nearby landmark?"
Sounds like a job for the Bill of Rights: Security Edition!!!
We also have a Constitutional right to travel across state lines without showing papers, but that doesn't stop airports... http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/18/19 51245&mode=nested&tid=123
So then you've got 400 clipboards. What's your next step if you're not going to save it to individual files?
Not to troll, just wondering where you're going with this.
Episode 5. But it won't be until Episode 6 that Harry realizes that Hermione is his twin sister and the jealous love triangle with Ron is resolved...
Of course, that puts Harry's owl as R2-D2 and Voldemort as Vader.
Kuhn inhales his food.
FYI, the digital cinema version of Episode II, with a run time of about 2 hours 20 minutes, was ~68 GB. So yes, your estimate of 100 gig for a 3hr film is probably on the mark.
Actually, most of the Hollywood big-wigs are Jewish, and releasing a film at the end of the year means that Oscar voters will remember it.
P2P doesn't kill people. People kill people?
Dubs are lip-synced to the film using ADR equipment. They have to have picture reference for that to work.
The UK DVD of Star Wars Ep II will be missing the 26 frames of head-butt in the fight sequence between Jango Fett & Obi-Wan, for ratings reasons...
Likewise, the UK version of Disney's Lilo & Stitch has Lilo climbing into a cabinet with a pizza box lid for a door, while in the US version she climbs into a clothes drier. The UK ratings board had issues with that...
Or their presidential candidate, the alGore.
I may be mistaken, but I don't believe any studios have released 70mm prints in quite a few years.
Scanning/seeking to the end of the offending video chapter would, indeed, work if such functionality were not being locked out. Selecting Chapter 1 would have mixed results. Ideally, most of the time you'd want Title 1, Chapter 1. There are exceptions, of course. I can think of a handful of DVDs featuring branched video (Matrix, Beauty & the Beast Special Edition, and a couple of others) where Title 1 isn't necessarily the feature, or if it is, it would be uncertain which flavour of the feature.
My day gig is QCing DVDs for THX, so I've seen all sorts of odd authoring (and not all of it intentional...)
I QC'd discs for Willow for a number of regions, and the Japanese disc was the only one that worked that way.