Given that fact, why do all of our digital image capture technologies use a similar 3-colour mechanism? Is it simply so that the translation from input to output is simpler?
Has anyone ever designed a mechanism that captured digital images across the natural light frequency spectrum, without artificially filtering the light into "human" shades? It seems that this would be simpler, in a way. At least, it supports a more general case of radiation capture.
Why do you assume that "MacIntosh" isn't a perfectly valid apple (the fruit) search term? Where do you think that Apple (the company) got the idea from?
Yet they end up with Turbo,a 300-pound talking
creature,whose favorite past times are robbing pawn shops,smoking stogies and creating mayhem -
all with an attitude.
Poochie, meet Bender. Bender, Poochie.
Krusty: Whaddya got in mind? Sexy broad? Gangster octopus? Myers: No, no. The animal chain of command goes mouse, cat, dog. Weinstein: Uh, a dog? Isn't that a tad predictable? Lady: In your dreams. We're talking the original dog from hell. Oakley: You mean Cerberus? Lady: We at the network want a dog with attitude. He's edgy, he's "in your face." You've heard the expression "let's get busy"? Well, this is a dog who gets "biz-zay!" Consistently and thoroughly.
Again, I'm sure even that is somewhat less cool in real life. Driving all day? Unlikely. Probably more like drive for 2 laps, return to garage. Wait two hours for data to be downloaded, analyzed, and the engine to be tuned or tested. Repeat, for weeks on end.
Doing destructive testing like in the video is way too expensive, even for Ferrari, to do on a regular basis.
I always used this as the canonical silly idiot warning, until I found one in a package of beef jerky I bought. It's a more reasonable warning when it's actually packed in with food. And assuming that they manufacture and print only one model of gel packet for both food and electronics industries, it's not surprising to see the warning in the box for a new stereo.
Riiight. In the same way, people in Ethiopia are far better fed than people in Luxembourg, because the total calorie consumption in Ethiopia is much greater.
Ummm, I have never seen a software controlled 'conventional DVD player'
So? It would be straightforward to make one. The point is that re-encoding the content isn't necessary.
and why bother with that when you can just convert it to a divx, or mpeg?
Hmm. Spending ages de-encoding, editing, re-encoding (with loss of quality), and storing gigabytes of data for each new edit you wish to make of a given film, versus using your existing DVD and any number of tiny edit lists to accomplish the same thing. You're right, it's a tough call.
The only examples they give here are editing out violence or sex from a film. But this ability would allow for all kinds of neat tricks. A fan-produced edit like the Phantom Edit could be distributed as an edit list file, which would be very small.
More elaborate functions like splicing multiple sources, and separation of video and audio tracks would allow some fantastic fan-created mutations of films, without any sort of copyright issues whatsoever, because absolutely no content from the movie is redistributed.
You're trying to find the pathological case, so you might just refine it to make it impossible, but my solution would be to note that the car at the back of the line is going faster than the other left-lane traffic, realize that he is going to have to pass them, and accelerate above 65mph long enough to pass him before he makes his move. I do this sort of thing routinely.
You have to think ahead, not just react to the current situation. Predicting other drivers' behaviour is actually very easy with enough experience.
I'm a bit concerned about the way the cards are mounted. System bus connectors aren't just data connections -- they're structural foundations for today's giant hardware.
How are those tiny little serial connectors supposed to support the weight of my 2007 GeForce Maxx Fury 7 video blaster with its jet turbine fan? They'll snap like twigs, I tell ya!
They still seem to be highly focused on stopping pure digital copies.
It seems they haven't seen the state of a typical Divx "screener" movie on the net. They're absolutely *awful* quality wise, but are still hot commodities on the net. The slight quality loss in a single first generation digital->analog->digital copy might scare off the audio/videophiles (who buy their media anyway), but it's *not* going to matter to those that are downloading.
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Given that fact, why do all of our digital image capture technologies use a similar 3-colour mechanism? Is it simply so that the translation from input to output is simpler?
Has anyone ever designed a mechanism that captured digital images across the natural light frequency spectrum, without artificially filtering the light into "human" shades? It seems that this would be simpler, in a way. At least, it supports a more general case of radiation capture.
So, they'll be paying the equivalent of the salary of a single developer for a year. And this is impressive, why?
Why do you keep putting C in quotes? Was it not really C?
Why do you assume that "MacIntosh" isn't a perfectly valid apple (the fruit) search term? Where do you think that Apple (the company) got the idea from?
I don't see much point in buying that 20G drive, when the 200 Petabyte drives will be out in 2025.
Riiight. And the thought of how it also put a lower bound on how often you had to buy ink didn't cross the mind of any HP executives.
Sour grapes. Pbbbbt!
On the other hand, simply setting the human food on fire would be a more efficient chemical process than running it through a human.
Apart from the incredible inefficiency of human metabolism as a means of storing and providing energy.
You think so? You still need to factor in the CD reading speed. 100Mb ethernet is much faster than a typical CD drive, and has lower latency to boot.
Poochie, meet Bender. Bender, Poochie.
- The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie ShowDoing destructive testing like in the video is way too expensive, even for Ferrari, to do on a regular basis.
Real jobs are always less cool than you think.
I always used this as the canonical silly idiot warning, until I found one in a package of beef jerky I bought. It's a more reasonable warning when it's actually packed in with food. And assuming that they manufacture and print only one model of gel packet for both food and electronics industries, it's not surprising to see the warning in the box for a new stereo.
"Discontinued products" simply means they aren't manufacturing them any more, i.e. anything that isn't in the current "Products" section.
Riiight. In the same way, people in Ethiopia are far better fed than people in Luxembourg, because the total calorie consumption in Ethiopia is much greater.
So? It would be straightforward to make one. The point is that re-encoding the content isn't necessary.
and why bother with that when you can just convert it to a divx, or mpeg?
Hmm. Spending ages de-encoding, editing, re-encoding (with loss of quality), and storing gigabytes of data for each new edit you wish to make of a given film, versus using your existing DVD and any number of tiny edit lists to accomplish the same thing. You're right, it's a tough call.
No, it doesn't. All that it requires is a conventional DVD player that can skip around the film according to rules listed in a file.
More elaborate functions like splicing multiple sources, and separation of video and audio tracks would allow some fantastic fan-created mutations of films, without any sort of copyright issues whatsoever, because absolutely no content from the movie is redistributed.
By which I mean right-lane traffic.
You have to think ahead, not just react to the current situation. Predicting other drivers' behaviour is actually very easy with enough experience.
How are those tiny little serial connectors supposed to support the weight of my 2007 GeForce Maxx Fury 7 video blaster with its jet turbine fan? They'll snap like twigs, I tell ya!
It seems they haven't seen the state of a typical Divx "screener" movie on the net. They're absolutely *awful* quality wise, but are still hot commodities on the net. The slight quality loss in a single first generation digital->analog->digital copy might scare off the audio/videophiles (who buy their media anyway), but it's *not* going to matter to those that are downloading.
Wierd. I totally don't remember any native Americans in the book.
Anyone who read the books would probably be aware that Tolkein has been dead for 30 years.
It's hard to believe, but those annoying, out of place, obviously-merchandise-driven Ewok scenes were actually in the original theatrical release!
It's true. If you can find a copy of the original you can see for yourself.