Really, who gives a shit. The Death Star blew up entire planets. Countless Jedi were slaughtered by the Dark Side. Focus on a larger plot point, will ya?
Because we're talking about a movie, where character points tend to have more personal impact than big spectacle.
Yeah my girlfriend sometimes helps me with game playability testing. Therefore, I'd love to see her run her own development house.
An editor does a hell of a lot more for a film than a gameplay tester does for a game. An editor is the one who shapes the film, controls its movement, and decides which of the 20% of the shot footage goes into the final film. They understandably work closely with the director, but the editor and the producer are the two who have the best chance of reigning in a director's impulses.
we plugged the LD player into my monitor's S-video input while the PC played the DVD
And the reason why DVD looks better than Laserdisc is right there -- S-video is an inherently bad video transport. It's better by a mile than composite video, but no where near as good as a decent component connection. I think it's limited to NTSC/480 interlaced. Basically, your laserdisc connected video S-video was better than a VHS player connected by the same, but Laserdisc is still recorded in composite format. It had a horizontal resolution of 425 lines vs 240 for NTSC.
Because the Laserdisc is a composite signal, a DVD is capable of much better color separation and contrast. In Laserdisc's defense, due to its analog nature, although the video quality can be substantially lower, at least it won't suffer from compression artifacts like DVDs can. Early DVDs could be such poor encoding quality that the Laserdisc version could look substantially better! But by the end of Laserdisc's run, DVD encodings had easily surpassed what Laserdisc had to offer. DVDs also allow for progressive scan, though earlier DVDs may be encoded with an inferior, low-res, interlaced video.
Oh sure you can do HD from 35mm film. JJ Abrams is shooting Episode VII on the same film type that Lucas shot the original Star Wars on. It's hard to track down numbers, since analog film doesn't really have "pixels," but I've seen sources that say that a frame of 35mm film can have an effective resolution around 5400 x 4000. So, better than HD, even better than 4k.
Of course, that would rely on the original film stock being available and being in excellent quality to get that good of a digital image from it. The type of film scanner used will greatly affect the quality of the resulting image as well.
Bleeding edge features are of little interest to me, because approximately 0% of them will work reliably across all major browsers when they are first introduced
But you NEED the bleeding edge features. Everyone does. Or at least, those bleeding edge features that we call "security fixes."
I wish firefox/chrome et all did what so many software companies have done in the past -- have a stable/older branch, and a development, rapid-release branch. All security fixes would get pushed to the stable. But I guess that's not cool and fresh and hip enough, so no one wants to much around in the stinky old stable branch.
Woolsey was a neoconservative when Bill Clinton tried throwing a bone to that growing movement by appointing him. Woolsey was a member of the Project for a New American Century, and one of the signees of their founding document that urged a strike to remove Saddam Hussein from power.
He was also John McCain's advisor on energy and climate change during his 2008 campaign, of all things.
It'll be interesting to see how Star Trek Beyond (2016) turns out, now that J.J. Abrams has moved on to Star Wars and Orci and Kurtzman are no longer writers. The current director directed three Fast and Furious movies though, so he's not known for his subtlety. Simon Pegg gets a chance to write, though.
Fall of the Soviet Union was 25 years ago. Do you think Putin hasn't changed his worldview one bit since then?
Putin greatly regrets that the Soviet Union broke apart. He's said more than once that the Soviet breakup is the worst political catastrophe of the 20th century. More recently, it's pretty clear that he considers the former Soviet states as still belonging to Russia, they are under Russia's sphere of influence. He has no problem just taking whatever parts are convenient for Russia's interests, as Ukraine found out when they doubted they were still under Russian authority.
Those attitudes are also fairly prominent in predominently-Christian sub-saharan Africa. It's not an Islam problem, it's "barbaric tribes trying to masquerade as civilations" problem.
Saudi Arabia should have been targeted (by the US) right after 9-11, or perhaps earlier. Nowadays, it has paid its way into the pockets of the leading politicians of America, so it's protected - even from criticism.
Even though Saudi-born and supported Wahhabism and salafism is responsible for most of those twisted interpretations of Islam.
I guess it's a corollary to the old saying I've heard repeated a few times before: "If you have several bad roommates in a row, then you're probably the bad roommate."
This is what got Galileo in trouble, for example. It wasn't that he was interested in the Copernican mathematical model -- the Church was fine with people using whatever mathematical predictive models they wanted. But Galileo was tried because he wanted to assert that he had found the TRUE order of the cosmos, not merely a better mathematical model.
Well, that and he basically called the pope a simpleton in his writing. The pope didn't lead the charge to get Galileo in trouble, but he stopped protecting him from those who were.
Fine, then how about NOAA, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and Japan's Meteorological Agency agreeing Jan-Mar 2015 to be the hottest Jan-Mar on record, globally of course. Abnormal high temperatures in Europe, Asia, Western Canada, Alaska, and the Western US, while abnormal cold temperatures hit central and eastern US and Canada.
So, Im in Texas and it was the coolest, wettest summer I've ever experienced!
This is due to the high-pressure systems in the Pacific that are caused by unusually warm waters in the West Pacific Ocean. That feeds a high-pressure ridge that pushes storms that usually would hit the US West Coast north into the Arctic instead, where they get chilled and then head back south through the Midwest. It's a large factor in both the West's deep drought, as well as the storms that absolutely socked the South, Midwest, and Northeastern US in the last couple years. All thanks to warm water elsewhere! Fortunately, that's created a temperator differential which has fed what looks to be a record El Nino this year, so it's likely the West will get the flooding they need, and that might give the rest of the US a break.
The people murdered by the jihadists were going about their daily lives. For future reference, what metric can I use to tell that the killers are losing?
Hmm, and what percentage of the French population was killed that night? Or even just the Paris population for that matter?
I personally read these articles to find the name of the apps they say are "hard to monitor" and make sure I in no way ever use them. Think about this long and hard. Why would they tell "them" exactly what apps to use because they can't monitor them?.
It's a way to bring political pressure against the makers of the apps. Especially a good way to put public political pressure on the politicians of the countries that host the apps in question.
The investigators then realized that the terrorists associates might later read the article and realize that their encryption methods might now be compromised and abandon them
I'm not sure why anyone would come to that conclusion. There was nothing that indicated that encryption was compromised. Everyone can tell if you're using encryption, since it's not obviously crackable or plain-text (stenography excluded).
Third: I cringe watching how those stupid terrorists are killing our open society "by proxy" -- the dirty job being taken up by all you right-wing nutjobs. Go get a life. Go to Syria or Irak and enjoy your phantasies.
The right wingers just want to go kill the stupid terrorists. It's the left wingers who won't "let a good disaster to go to waste" (taking away rights) and actively seek such disasters when no options present themselves (growing ISIS via inaction).
"Taking away rights" in the name of security isn't a left-wing thing, or at least it's not only a left-wing thing. The right is just as likely to restrict whatever is needed in the name of fighting terrorism. Just listen to Marco Rubio (I'm certain he'll be the Republican choice for President) blasting Rand Paul for his opposition to the US government's overarching surveillance program. He blames successful suicide attacks on people opposed to extreme actions justified by finding and defeating terrorists. Except for the few libertarian-leaning folks, the right-wing in the US is all about letting the national security folks do whatever they want to "keep America safe."
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"Han shot Greedo first."
Really, who gives a shit. The Death Star blew up entire planets. Countless Jedi were slaughtered by the Dark Side. Focus on a larger plot point, will ya?
Because we're talking about a movie, where character points tend to have more personal impact than big spectacle.
Yeah my girlfriend sometimes helps me with game playability testing. Therefore, I'd love to see her run her own development house.
An editor does a hell of a lot more for a film than a gameplay tester does for a game. An editor is the one who shapes the film, controls its movement, and decides which of the 20% of the shot footage goes into the final film. They understandably work closely with the director, but the editor and the producer are the two who have the best chance of reigning in a director's impulses.
we plugged the LD player into my monitor's S-video input while the PC played the DVD
And the reason why DVD looks better than Laserdisc is right there -- S-video is an inherently bad video transport. It's better by a mile than composite video, but no where near as good as a decent component connection. I think it's limited to NTSC/480 interlaced. Basically, your laserdisc connected video S-video was better than a VHS player connected by the same, but Laserdisc is still recorded in composite format. It had a horizontal resolution of 425 lines vs 240 for NTSC.
Because the Laserdisc is a composite signal, a DVD is capable of much better color separation and contrast. In Laserdisc's defense, due to its analog nature, although the video quality can be substantially lower, at least it won't suffer from compression artifacts like DVDs can. Early DVDs could be such poor encoding quality that the Laserdisc version could look substantially better! But by the end of Laserdisc's run, DVD encodings had easily surpassed what Laserdisc had to offer. DVDs also allow for progressive scan, though earlier DVDs may be encoded with an inferior, low-res, interlaced video.
Oh sure you can do HD from 35mm film. JJ Abrams is shooting Episode VII on the same film type that Lucas shot the original Star Wars on. It's hard to track down numbers, since analog film doesn't really have "pixels," but I've seen sources that say that a frame of 35mm film can have an effective resolution around 5400 x 4000. So, better than HD, even better than 4k.
Of course, that would rely on the original film stock being available and being in excellent quality to get that good of a digital image from it. The type of film scanner used will greatly affect the quality of the resulting image as well.
Bleeding edge features are of little interest to me, because approximately 0% of them will work reliably across all major browsers when they are first introduced
But you NEED the bleeding edge features. Everyone does.
Or at least, those bleeding edge features that we call "security fixes."
I wish firefox/chrome et all did what so many software companies have done in the past -- have a stable/older branch, and a development, rapid-release branch. All security fixes would get pushed to the stable. But I guess that's not cool and fresh and hip enough, so no one wants to much around in the stinky old stable branch.
The insanity and heel-nipping of Mozilla started long before Eich was named CEO, and it will continue for long after.
But good try trying to tie this into some dumb social justice argument, though.
Woolsey was a neoconservative when Bill Clinton tried throwing a bone to that growing movement by appointing him. Woolsey was a member of the Project for a New American Century, and one of the signees of their founding document that urged a strike to remove Saddam Hussein from power.
He was also John McCain's advisor on energy and climate change during his 2008 campaign, of all things.
It'll be interesting to see how Star Trek Beyond (2016) turns out, now that J.J. Abrams has moved on to Star Wars and Orci and Kurtzman are no longer writers.
The current director directed three Fast and Furious movies though, so he's not known for his subtlety.
Simon Pegg gets a chance to write, though.
Fall of the Soviet Union was 25 years ago. Do you think Putin hasn't changed his worldview one bit since then?
Putin greatly regrets that the Soviet Union broke apart. He's said more than once that the Soviet breakup is the worst political catastrophe of the 20th century.
More recently, it's pretty clear that he considers the former Soviet states as still belonging to Russia, they are under Russia's sphere of influence. He has no problem just taking whatever parts are convenient for Russia's interests, as Ukraine found out when they doubted they were still under Russian authority.
Those attitudes are also fairly prominent in predominently-Christian sub-saharan Africa. It's not an Islam problem, it's "barbaric tribes trying to masquerade as civilations" problem.
The strawmen, they are everywhere!
Bunny culture.
Saudi Arabia can go first frankly...
Saudi Arabia should have been targeted (by the US) right after 9-11, or perhaps earlier. Nowadays, it has paid its way into the pockets of the leading politicians of America, so it's protected - even from criticism.
Even though Saudi-born and supported Wahhabism and salafism is responsible for most of those twisted interpretations of Islam.
I see your point of confusion. It refers to love, not sex. That is a "trifle" that is best to not confuse.
Maybe he means "gay" as a slang term for "dumb," "ridiculous." :-P
I have gay friends who use the term gay like that. Talk about confused.
Does that hold true if you think they're morons?
I guess it's a corollary to the old saying I've heard repeated a few times before: "If you have several bad roommates in a row, then you're probably the bad roommate."
"Yes! We are free from the war-torn hellhole of Syria!"
"Welcome to Detroit."
Our last declared war was WW2. All those other "wars" since then technically weren't wars.
Which is nothing but a meaningless semantic, and actions speak louder than words.
Thank you, Roland Emmerich, but you should really register a Slashdot account.
This is what got Galileo in trouble, for example. It wasn't that he was interested in the Copernican mathematical model -- the Church was fine with people using whatever mathematical predictive models they wanted. But Galileo was tried because he wanted to assert that he had found the TRUE order of the cosmos, not merely a better mathematical model.
Well, that and he basically called the pope a simpleton in his writing. The pope didn't lead the charge to get Galileo in trouble, but he stopped protecting him from those who were.
Fine, then how about NOAA, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and Japan's Meteorological Agency agreeing Jan-Mar 2015 to be the hottest Jan-Mar on record, globally of course. Abnormal high temperatures in Europe, Asia, Western Canada, Alaska, and the Western US, while abnormal cold temperatures hit central and eastern US and Canada.
So, Im in Texas and it was the coolest, wettest summer I've ever experienced!
This is due to the high-pressure systems in the Pacific that are caused by unusually warm waters in the West Pacific Ocean. That feeds a high-pressure ridge that pushes storms that usually would hit the US West Coast north into the Arctic instead, where they get chilled and then head back south through the Midwest. It's a large factor in both the West's deep drought, as well as the storms that absolutely socked the South, Midwest, and Northeastern US in the last couple years. All thanks to warm water elsewhere! Fortunately, that's created a temperator differential which has fed what looks to be a record El Nino this year, so it's likely the West will get the flooding they need, and that might give the rest of the US a break.
The people murdered by the jihadists were going about their daily lives.
For future reference, what metric can I use to tell that the killers are losing?
Hmm, and what percentage of the French population was killed that night? Or even just the Paris population for that matter?
I personally read these articles to find the name of the apps they say are "hard to monitor" and make sure I in no way ever use them. Think about this long and hard. Why would they tell "them" exactly what apps to use because they can't monitor them?.
It's a way to bring political pressure against the makers of the apps. Especially a good way to put public political pressure on the politicians of the countries that host the apps in question.
The investigators then realized that the terrorists associates might later read the article and realize that their encryption methods might now be compromised and abandon them
I'm not sure why anyone would come to that conclusion. There was nothing that indicated that encryption was compromised. Everyone can tell if you're using encryption, since it's not obviously crackable or plain-text (stenography excluded).
Third: I cringe watching how those stupid terrorists are killing our open society "by proxy" -- the dirty job being taken up by all you right-wing nutjobs. Go get a life. Go to Syria or Irak and enjoy your phantasies.
The right wingers just want to go kill the stupid terrorists. It's the left wingers who won't "let a good disaster to go to waste" (taking away rights) and actively seek such disasters when no options present themselves (growing ISIS via inaction).
"Taking away rights" in the name of security isn't a left-wing thing, or at least it's not only a left-wing thing. The right is just as likely to restrict whatever is needed in the name of fighting terrorism. Just listen to Marco Rubio (I'm certain he'll be the Republican choice for President) blasting Rand Paul for his opposition to the US government's overarching surveillance program. He blames successful suicide attacks on people opposed to extreme actions justified by finding and defeating terrorists. Except for the few libertarian-leaning folks, the right-wing in the US is all about letting the national security folks do whatever they want to "keep America safe."