What would be the result of this? Major labels terminating their license agreements with Apple to sell music via iTMS, certainly. iTunes subsequently waning in utility & popularity
And the RIAA would just love to throw a big "I told you so" back at the 'Net.
manage to ruin your life completely, by marginalizing you out of existence, to the extent that nobody wants to hire or date you and where even your old highschool pals fake not recognizing you on the street
What's great is when you're already in this situation; there's nowhere to go but up, so blog away!
I think what some people are missing here is that all of the movies since Little Mermaid were *finalized* in a computer.
The original drawings were still done on paper (and perhaps on cells), but once the animation sequence was scanned into the computer (as lines), it was then cleaned up and painted, and composed in a computer.
What this article is about is that the drawings steps are being moved into the computer as well, so all of the actual artwork done will now be in the computer from start to finish. Storyboards and sketches will probably be done on paper, but most likely everything that winds up on the screen will be 100% digital origin.
I don't think they are going 3D necessarily, as much as they are going digital. There are a lot of tools that will assist 2D animation.
The way it has been done up until a few years ago was for animators to draw the cells, then a painter had to play the role of a professional coloring book painter and fill in the lines with colors.
Not long ago, they replaced the painting job with computers by scanning in the cells, doing some cleanup work, and then using the computers to do most of the painting.
I imagine the next step that's coming now is to put the original drawing process into a computer application. This will have the benefit of making the painting job easier, since the scanning and cleanup steps can be mostly eliminated.
Simplest way to think of it is that Disney is probably going to start using roughly the same technology as Flash animations.
Macromedia apparently has some kind of a business partnership with one of the oldest and most infamous privacy-invading companies on the net: doubleclick.
I was a bit more than disturbed when I stumbled across this little gem of horror in the flash plugin settings.
For those who can't see the screenshot it shows a panel: [Macromedia Flash Player Settings:] Privacy Allow doubleclick.net to access your camera and microphone? ( )Allow (*)Deny
While I admit that it's set to Deny by default, I imagine they could easily change this just as covertly as they have acknowledged their partnership with doubleclick in the first place...
I really have less fear of anything Microsoft might do, when Macromedia is forming partnerships with companies and sharing their technology in frightening ways like this...
Since we have a tendency to revert to 25 hour circadian cycle anyway, it should be even easier for us to operate on a mars day than an earth day, as long as we don't have our cycle forced to reset by factors such as sunlight or alarm clocks.
As to the dusty solar panels -- I wonder why they don't build on a robotic arm to brush off the dust? There must be more to it than just dust, or it would seem like a small investment could greatly prolong the life of the mission.
Are there any DVD players that will ignore the "no skip" flag?
I'm considering purchasing a DVD player and I'd like to know if anyone has encountered one which presumes freedom to the consumer who buys it, not to the companies who make the discs that it plays.
If there are no such players, then I think that this is a sign that some flags are not so easily ignored, as I'm sure the DVD player manufactuers would like to advertise this as a feature to get an edge over their competition.
why should we be able to record creations other people have done if they don't want us to?
Why should we be forced to percieve a presentation at the time and whim of someone else, when it is quite reasonable (and no cost to the content owner) to offset the presentation to a time much more at our convenience?
Why should we be restricted from using a device to augment what our mind is already capable of (memory recall)?
To counterbalance your question, why should content producers be allowed to make extra money on repeated presentations of the same material when they already made money on the initial presentation?
The answer is that they have as much of right to make extra money, as I have a right to time-shift their programming and/or augment my memory recall using an artifical device.
The problem is that some segments of these rights are mutually exclusive.
What is irrtating people is that the issue is being resolved in favor of the content producers, without giving any balance to those of us who desire to continue to legitimately enjoy rights which we have experienced in the past.
There's a picture of aurora on spaceweather.com taken by someone in Orlando, Florida. In addition, I saw an aurora during the previous cycle about a hundred miles south of Orlando. It was mostly just a reddish haze that slowly changed in intensity, but it was reported the next day as a rare aurora event.
I'm even further south now, so I obviously don't watch for them much. Perhaps I may keep a closer eye on the spaceweather site to see if I can catch one again =)
Sure, lots of stars have solar mass ejections. But not many stars can claim that they IMPRESSED anyone with them, since there was nobody there to see it.
Ah, but if a star has a solar mass ejection, and there's nobody there to observe it, does it make a sound?
By the way, shouldn't all these "innocent" people who's computers are DDOSing those websites get served for "attacking" the servers?
After all, ignorance is no excuse for breaking the law.
I'm being sarcastic, of course, but really where do you draw the line? Can't anyone who does something illegal online claim that it wasn't them, but a virus instead?
In SWG you can fish in most any sizable body of water, but different parts of a given lake provide better fishing at different times of day.
I've seen where different places have a higher/lower fish density, but I've never seen this density vary by time of day.
The fish you catch vary by planet, of course, but also by region of the planet,
I've gotten all seven varieties of fish standing in one spot. I understand that up until recently, the fish are the same on all planets.
and they have different nutritional characteristics.
Which operates pretty much exactly the same way that other resources in the game do -- completely random attributes with no justification for the sudden change. The fish can have a quality of 800 one week and less than 100 the next. Not only that, but all fish share the same set of attributes on a particular planet during that week. If you catch a bluefish or a laa, they will have the same meat attributes on the same planet.
Very rarely you hook, not a fish, but some item from the game's spawn tables -- not lightsabers or Imperial AT-AT walkers, but just about anything else you can get or make in the game, including droids.
I fished a lot up until I stopped playing about 2-3 weeks ago. I never caught anything other than fish in over a hundred catches.
Besides, if it were easy to catch random items, it would very much upset the crafters, as they are unhappy as it is with how hard it is to sell things.
There is no Fisher class, but it's possible to make a living fishing.
How exactly? And while fishing is a fun diversion from a complete grind of a game, it itself becomes a boring grind after about 20 minutes if you need to collect seafood for yourself or someone else.
I will never buy another ATI card, unless they are the last video card company left on earth.
I was repeatedly burned by them with how quickly they would drop support for their older cards once they came out with a newer product line.
Their included video tuner/capture software was bloated and poorly designed, and their drivers were constantly failing me.
This was about five years ago. I do not intend to change my mind despite any improvments they've made. They *really* pissed me off back then with constant crashes and no helpful support.
I think situations like this call for a hardware upgrade.
Does anyone know of a simple inexepnsive telephone line recording device which can be quickly activated while in the midst of a telephone conversation?
Also, what are the laws concerning recording incoming calls from telemarketers?
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What would be the result of this? Major labels terminating their license agreements with Apple to sell music via iTMS, certainly. iTunes subsequently waning in utility & popularity
And the RIAA would just love to throw a big "I told you so" back at the 'Net.
What would have been news would be if someone had figured out how to make unencrypted mp3s from iTunes music without the round trip to a burned CD.
My SB Live sound card has a "record" channel which is labeled "What U hear", which will record whatever sound the sound card is currently playing.
My question: is this an digital-analog-digital conversion, or does it catch the digital info before it's converted to analog?
Is this a common feature in most sound cards? It would seem like a big loophole for almost any DRM scheme if it's a digital copy...
I kept waiting for the voice of Morpehus to come to Neo at critical times in the story, "Use the Source, Neo."
Why laugh when you can profit?
I'm sure that's in the rules of acquisition somewhere...
manage to ruin your life completely, by marginalizing you out of existence, to the extent that nobody wants to hire or date you and where even your old highschool pals fake not recognizing you on the street
What's great is when you're already in this situation; there's nowhere to go but up, so blog away!
Bombardier also built the monorails used at Walt Disney World. They seem to do well in the "miscellaneous" category of transportation vehicles. =)
Revolutions might have been an eye candy, but I definitely snoozed through a part of it.
You bought a ticket. Their goal is achieved regardless of any other factors.
Since there was no sequel planned, quality can take a walk.
The only teaching this did was further confirmation that that you can make a mediocre sequel to a successful movie and sell tickets.
I think what some people are missing here is that all of the movies since Little Mermaid were *finalized* in a computer.
The original drawings were still done on paper (and perhaps on cells), but once the animation sequence was scanned into the computer (as lines), it was then cleaned up and painted, and composed in a computer.
What this article is about is that the drawings steps are being moved into the computer as well, so all of the actual artwork done will now be in the computer from start to finish. Storyboards and sketches will probably be done on paper, but most likely everything that winds up on the screen will be 100% digital origin.
I don't think they are going 3D necessarily, as much as they are going digital. There are a lot of tools that will assist 2D animation.
The way it has been done up until a few years ago was for animators to draw the cells, then a painter had to play the role of a professional coloring book painter and fill in the lines with colors.
Not long ago, they replaced the painting job with computers by scanning in the cells, doing some cleanup work, and then using the computers to do most of the painting.
I imagine the next step that's coming now is to put the original drawing process into a computer application. This will have the benefit of making the painting job easier, since the scanning and cleanup steps can be mostly eliminated.
Simplest way to think of it is that Disney is probably going to start using roughly the same technology as Flash animations.
Macromedia apparently has some kind of a business partnership with one of the oldest and most infamous privacy-invading companies on the net: doubleclick.
I was a bit more than disturbed when I stumbled across this little gem of horror in the flash plugin settings.
For those who can't see the screenshot it shows a panel:
[Macromedia Flash Player Settings:]
Privacy
Allow doubleclick.net to access your camera and microphone?
( )Allow (*)Deny
While I admit that it's set to Deny by default, I imagine they could easily change this just as covertly as they have acknowledged their partnership with doubleclick in the first place...
I really have less fear of anything Microsoft might do, when Macromedia is forming partnerships with companies and sharing their technology in frightening ways like this...
Since we have a tendency to revert to 25 hour circadian cycle anyway, it should be even easier for us to operate on a mars day than an earth day, as long as we don't have our cycle forced to reset by factors such as sunlight or alarm clocks.
As to the dusty solar panels -- I wonder why they don't build on a robotic arm to brush off the dust? There must be more to it than just dust, or it would seem like a small investment could greatly prolong the life of the mission.
Agent Smith awakes in a strange but fair land, surrounded by pointy-eared people and a really hot elf-daughter.
slavery is freedom
restriction is protection
compliance yields enjoyment
Are there any DVD players that will ignore the "no skip" flag?
I'm considering purchasing a DVD player and I'd like to know if anyone has encountered one which presumes freedom to the consumer who buys it, not to the companies who make the discs that it plays.
If there are no such players, then I think that this is a sign that some flags are not so easily ignored, as I'm sure the DVD player manufactuers would like to advertise this as a feature to get an edge over their competition.
why should we be able to record creations other people have done if they don't want us to?
Why should we be forced to percieve a presentation at the time and whim of someone else, when it is quite reasonable (and no cost to the content owner) to offset the presentation to a time much more at our convenience?
Why should we be restricted from using a device to augment what our mind is already capable of (memory recall)?
To counterbalance your question, why should content producers be allowed to make extra money on repeated presentations of the same material when they already made money on the initial presentation?
The answer is that they have as much of right to make extra money, as I have a right to time-shift their programming and/or augment my memory recall using an artifical device.
The problem is that some segments of these rights are mutually exclusive.
What is irrtating people is that the issue is being resolved in favor of the content producers, without giving any balance to those of us who desire to continue to legitimately enjoy rights which we have experienced in the past.
I love how so much space is wasted at the low end, as if the difference between 90min - 1 day is significant enough to need to occupy five values.
A lot more reasonable spread would be:
000 Forever
001 1 Year
010 6 months
011 3 months
100 1 month
101 1 week
110 3 days
111 1 day
It makes no sense that an archival period should be less than a day, due to the need to time-shift programming around your life.
Besides, wasn't time-shifting granted as a valid reason for allowing broadcasts to be recorded, and won the case for VCRs?
There's a picture of aurora on spaceweather.com taken by someone in Orlando, Florida. In addition, I saw an aurora during the previous cycle about a hundred miles south of Orlando. It was mostly just a reddish haze that slowly changed in intensity, but it was reported the next day as a rare aurora event.
I'm even further south now, so I obviously don't watch for them much. Perhaps I may keep a closer eye on the spaceweather site to see if I can catch one again =)
Sure, lots of stars have solar mass ejections. But not many stars can claim that they IMPRESSED anyone with them, since there was nobody there to see it.
Ah, but if a star has a solar mass ejection, and there's nobody there to observe it, does it make a sound?
The first of the three was a Class X8 flare.
Considering the sun nearly punched through to the next magnitude class, I wonder if it's even got a label?
I only see classes A, B, C, M, and X in the graph on spaceweather.com. If this keeps up we might need a label for the next order of magnitude.
By the way, shouldn't all these "innocent" people who's computers are DDOSing those websites get served for "attacking" the servers?
After all, ignorance is no excuse for breaking the law.
I'm being sarcastic, of course, but really where do you draw the line? Can't anyone who does something illegal online claim that it wasn't them, but a virus instead?
This would be a good idea, but until we can protect against client-side enhancements akin to aimbots, this will be easily abused.
Besides, if it were easy to catch random items, it would very much upset the crafters, as they are unhappy as it is with how hard it is to sell things.
How exactly? And while fishing is a fun diversion from a complete grind of a game, it itself becomes a boring grind after about 20 minutes if you need to collect seafood for yourself or someone else.I will never buy another ATI card, unless they are the last video card company left on earth.
I was repeatedly burned by them with how quickly they would drop support for their older cards once they came out with a newer product line.
Their included video tuner/capture software was bloated and poorly designed, and their drivers were constantly failing me.
This was about five years ago. I do not intend to change my mind despite any improvments they've made. They *really* pissed me off back then with constant crashes and no helpful support.
I think situations like this call for a hardware upgrade.
Does anyone know of a simple inexepnsive telephone line recording device which can be quickly activated while in the midst of a telephone conversation?
Also, what are the laws concerning recording incoming calls from telemarketers?
Surely somewhere there must have been a power cord/breaker that could have been pulled to effectively "purge" the system? =P