Yeah, there is a bit of a problem with the back-references... "Hey, C-3P0 has been living with Shmi who's married to Owen Lars' father, but when he buys the droids from the Jawas in Ep IV he's clueless!"
Maybe he didn't recognize 3P0 in gold... Yeah, that's the ticket.
In the mid-80's, Jean-Michel Jarre played a laser harp for his Rendez-vous concert in Houston, and later Lyon. Around the same time, the geek TV show Beyond 2000 ran a segment on another guy who built and played laser harps.
The interesting thing, Jarre's lasers went off into the clouds, but he did seem to be wearing a particular glove with a wire hanging from the wrist. I'm not sure what kind of sensors he was using. The harp on Beyond 2000 was a closed system and thus could detect if the beam had been broken or not, and if so, where. Once again, Jarre's system would have had to identify that his hand was interrupting a beam, and which beam it was, without having a second fixed endpoint for the laser beams.
I never did work out exactly how he managed to use it as a trigger. (and half debated that it was just a stage effect and another keyboardist on the stage was really covering his parts...)
Ah, well, as you said, you haven't seen Ep II yet. There's marketing. Lots of signs, billboards, vid screens, etc. Not a droid, per se, but they finally realized that inhabitants of some of these planets might actually try to sell you something.
I've met projectionists that might do this. It's not unheard of. Especially if the projectionist has unrestricted access to the print and keys to the building. He could do it himself, late night, and not even have to have it as part of an official screening.
You have to guess that this is going to open on at least 3000 screens domestically. If it's opening in a week, it's not hard to assume that their distribution channels might have some of those prints in place already.
Apple seems to have devalued X over the years. Back around 1988-89, there was the Mac II, followed closely by the Mac IIx. Their other big seller at the time was the Mac SE, which, naturally, should have been followed by the Mac SEx. But NOOOOOooo. Instead, they came out with the Mac SE/30. So back then, X=30, and now they're telling us X=10.
Method of displaying multiple sets of information in the same area of a computer screen
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A method for displaying on a computer screen multiple sets of information needed on a recurring basis, comprising the steps of: (1) Establishing an area on the computer screen in which the multiple sets of information are to be displayed, the established area having a maximum size which is substantially less than the entire area of the screen. (2) Providing within the established area a plurality of selection indicators, one for each of the multiple sets of information. (3) Selecting one of the multiple sets of information for display within the established area by pointing to one of the selection indicators within the established area, whereby the selected set of information will be substituted within the established area for the set of information previously being displayed therein. A selected set of information may also be moved out of the selected area by pointing to its selection indicator and dragging it away.
Filed June 23, 1994. I guess that does put it before I remember Altsys doing similar it in Freehand (before Frehand was sold to Macromedia).
El Capitan is directly across the street from Grauman's Chinese Theater, where it will no doubt be playing on normal film. The two theaters never compete.
Sure they've got DLP, but do they have QuBit systems?
THX is going to load this puppy onto hard drives in a QuBit before they get to the projection stage, so it could only be shown where the two lists overlap.
IIRC, they eventually settled it so you could send them a proof-of-purchase, your original program disks and a vial of blood harvested from a virgin under the full moon's light and get a CD-only version of the installer. But back at the time, it was a HUGE issue for a lot of bureaus and design shops.
You bet. Have you ever tried to find a virgin at a design shop? It's not easy. And the pasty service bureau employees don't always have the best veins...
American Gods was the only novel on the list that I've read this year, too. But I can't help but think it wasn't as good as his previous novels. I thought Neverwhere was brilliant and captivating. Stardust had it's moments and was overall entertaining. But American Gods seemed to plod on a bit. Wasn't as enjoyable in my opinion.
I think it's probably handled differently in different states, as posted elsewhere in this topic.
I do seem to recall hearing about "the reasonable expectation of privacy" in some discussions on this matter... instances where a person would normally be safe to assume they wouldn't be watched -- like a bathroom, shower stall, some changing rooms, etc.
Would they be any happier if used books were just given away?
Book Crossing lets you set your unwanted books loose in the wild, with a tracking number in case someone finds it. Basically like Where's George or PhotoTag crossed with GeoCaching.
Using your own link, I might argue that an existing advertisement falls under the category of "Privately-owned art that is publicly displayed." That means that the film company would HAVE to alter it because they don't have permission to use the original ads.
In yesterday's article about the State of Colorado vs Tattered Cover bookstore, the judges came out and confirmed that the First Amendment protects what we read as well as what we say.
The best quote being from Colorado Supreme Court Justice Bender who wrote "Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights, and of the First Amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation--and their ideas from suppression--at the hand of an intolerant society."
I would think that the sites a person visits should be protected in the same way our choice of reading material is. There really isn't any difference between the two media.
Regardless of platform, I've successfully dealt with 24x36 inch, 300 ppi CMYK images before... usually movie poster files that had multiple layers, but a flattened tiff should be even easier to work with.
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I gotta agree with the others here. I've been running OS X on a Beige G3 300 since the weekend OS X came out almost a year ago. No problems, no major complaints that haven't been dealt with in software updates.
There may be plenty of other reasons not to use OS X in your workflow depending on what apps you normally use, but if the only thing holding you back is because you don't think it will perform well on an iBook, you'd be surprised.
Apple had something similar as a browser plugin years ago. Hot Sauce Meta Content Format. Don't know if it predates the SGI's or FSV or anything.
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Looking back at the Blizzard legal analysis from a few days ago, I see the following bit...
section 1201(c)(3) states that, "nothing in this section shall require that the design of, or design and selection of parts and components for, a consumer electronics, telecommunications, or computing product provide for a response to any particular technological measure." The reason for this is to prevent copyright holders from forcing copy protection measures onto computer and consumer electronics manufacturers. An example would be a music publisher who releases a CD that has watermarking in the music. The watermark states, "do not rip into MP3 format." There is no obligation for CD manufacturers to build in a system that can detect and obey that watermark.
I'm all for having the voiceover around. To me, having the voice over adds a Daschell Hammett / film noir detective element that gets obliterated by the director's cut. With the different things that can be done in DVD authoring, there's absolutly no reason why both can't be on the same disc. The multi-threaded discs of The Abyss and T2 both show how you can jump in and out of different cuts seamlessly.
The studio just needs to say, yes Mr. Scott, you can put your version on the disc, but we'll also have this.
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Maybe he didn't recognize 3P0 in gold... Yeah, that's the ticket.
The interesting thing, Jarre's lasers went off into the clouds, but he did seem to be wearing a particular glove with a wire hanging from the wrist. I'm not sure what kind of sensors he was using. The harp on Beyond 2000 was a closed system and thus could detect if the beam had been broken or not, and if so, where. Once again, Jarre's system would have had to identify that his hand was interrupting a beam, and which beam it was, without having a second fixed endpoint for the laser beams.
I never did work out exactly how he managed to use it as a trigger. (and half debated that it was just a stage effect and another keyboardist on the stage was really covering his parts...)
Ah, well, as you said, you haven't seen Ep II yet. There's marketing. Lots of signs, billboards, vid screens, etc. Not a droid, per se, but they finally realized that inhabitants of some of these planets might actually try to sell you something.
You have to guess that this is going to open on at least 3000 screens domestically. If it's opening in a week, it's not hard to assume that their distribution channels might have some of those prints in place already.
I don't buy it for a second.
Method of displaying multiple sets of information in the same area of a computer screen
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Filed June 23, 1994. I guess that does put it before I remember Altsys doing similar it in Freehand (before Frehand was sold to Macromedia).
El Capitan is directly across the street from Grauman's Chinese Theater, where it will no doubt be playing on normal film. The two theaters never compete.
Hard disk. They feed 9-13 DVDs one at a time into a QuBit to transfer the content.
AotC will probably open on 3000 screens...
That means there will be at least 60 screenings before opening day...
Sometimes it's good to work for THX...
THX is going to load this puppy onto hard drives in a QuBit before they get to the projection stage, so it could only be shown where the two lists overlap.
"You must be THIS thin to ride this ride..."
Isn't this essentially the same thing Michael posted last week? here, perhaps
American Gods was the only novel on the list that I've read this year, too. But I can't help but think it wasn't as good as his previous novels. I thought Neverwhere was brilliant and captivating. Stardust had it's moments and was overall entertaining. But American Gods seemed to plod on a bit. Wasn't as enjoyable in my opinion.
I do seem to recall hearing about "the reasonable expectation of privacy" in some discussions on this matter... instances where a person would normally be safe to assume they wouldn't be watched -- like a bathroom, shower stall, some changing rooms, etc.
But he'd just get in trouble for plagiarizing it from slashdot.
Book Crossing lets you set your unwanted books loose in the wild, with a tracking number in case someone finds it. Basically like Where's George or PhotoTag crossed with GeoCaching.
And nobody makes a buck. Is that any better?
Using your own link, I might argue that an existing advertisement falls under the category of "Privately-owned art that is publicly displayed." That means that the film company would HAVE to alter it because they don't have permission to use the original ads.
The best quote being from Colorado Supreme Court Justice Bender who wrote "Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights, and of the First Amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation--and their ideas from suppression--at the hand of an intolerant society."
I would think that the sites a person visits should be protected in the same way our choice of reading material is. There really isn't any difference between the two media.
Regardless of platform, I've successfully dealt with 24x36 inch, 300 ppi CMYK images before... usually movie poster files that had multiple layers, but a flattened tiff should be even easier to work with.
What, you think WIPO should arbitrate?
I gotta agree with the others here. I've been running OS X on a Beige G3 300 since the weekend OS X came out almost a year ago. No problems, no major complaints that haven't been dealt with in software updates.
There may be plenty of other reasons not to use OS X in your workflow depending on what apps you normally use, but if the only thing holding you back is because you don't think it will perform well on an iBook, you'd be surprised.
Apple had something similar as a browser plugin years ago. Hot Sauce Meta Content Format. Don't know if it predates the SGI's or FSV or anything.
Are these two at odds?
The studio just needs to say, yes Mr. Scott, you can put your version on the disc, but we'll also have this.