It may have been a reporter's father, so the benefits are skewed enormously. But it did gain national recognition, so I'd say it did a little more than harass someone at the bottom of the chain.
Since when does having served in any military capacity provide carte blanche for any behavior and imbue one with near mystical wisdom about life?
Obviously you can't rely on that, but it does highlight that everyone's treated as an enemy combatant - even those that have fought for our side.
If you're going to apply it universally, then you really ought to make sure it's something a 90-year old can handle. Taking off shoes and putting them back on isn't exactly always easy at 90. They should be ready to offer an effective alternative anyway.
So either you have a war or you con them into believing that they can have all the wives they want in heaven if they'll just walk into the nearest mall and blow themselves up.
So these wives must be soulless or never lived on earth or essentially "newborn." Or where would they all come from? I guess a wife is not a companion in Islam so maybe it wouldn't matter. Just a bunch of heavenly Realdolls that move.
Well sure - given that the original source material is 35mm and the Blu-Ray was probably mastered from a 4K scan. Almost no work needs done. Making movies 3D that weren't 3D to begin with is just as bad as Turner colorizing old B&W movies. Let the director have the final say and then don't let the directors make changes later, either (Lucas).
When you buy 3D movie tickets at the theater it comes with a pair of passive 3D glasses that are compatible with most TV's now. Just don't recycle your glasses at the end of the movie. The glasses are so overpriced in the store, that buying movie tickets to get the glasses is actually cheaper.
And what's the bitrate of those "4K" releases? Blu-Ray is only 1080p and it takes 30-40Mbps. 4K is quadruple the resolution (double width and height) and I'd expect 100Mbps. So far, all 4K content is download-only. I don't want to settle for low-bitrate 4K and I don't want to download a 200GB file and hit my download cap before my second movie.
Not every Blu-Ray is compressed well. Sometimes space is sacrificed for special features or the bitrate is low to avoid dual layer. When Ben-Hur was released on Blu-Ray, they opted for two discs due to all the compression artifacts they'd get for the massive crowd shots.
For a regular length movie, a dual-layer Blu-Ray has plenty of space if there are no special features on the same disc.
And there's almost no reason to watch OTA networks via cable. When I watch a local channel OTA, they're using the majority of 20Mbps. Cable and Satellite re-compress that signal - which degrades it in and of itself - and at a much lower bitrate.
And at 10 feet, it's way beyond retina - most of the detail is invisible. Plug in a screen size of 150 inches, and it tells you that it's just barely retina at 10 feet away. Which means you're still actually getting the benefit of the detail, not just maintaining a sharp picture.
4K is horizontal resolution. That's not a marketing trick, they're using digital theater projection lingo. Makes more sense with theater, since all movies are the same width, but not all are the same height due to aspect ratio differences.
But for some material out there 480p is as good as it will ever get (old 80s tv shows).
Which was ironically shot on 35mm film and would just need to be re-edited to be released in 4K. Just look at Star Trek or Seinfeld in HD. On the other hand, shows from the 90's and 2K's are shot on digital at a much lower resolution.
The only reason to move to 4K in the home is larger screens. That and for computer screens. As in larger than 60". HD TV's came around before the content too.
Good luck installing "a full blown application" shipped as.msi on a Mac or installing "a full blown application" shipped as.dmg on a non-Apple PC. You end up having to ship not one but twelve "full blown applications": one each for Windows 7, OS X, X11/Linux, Android, iOS, Windows RT, PS3, PSP, Xbox 360, Windows Phone, Wii U, and 3DS, and eight of these twelve platforms need the hardware maker's permission before the app will even run.
When I hear RIA, I think of Gmail - not Farmville.
For example, Flash has 3D graphics, while WebGL is on only 32.43% of web browsers. Flash has webcam access, while getUserMedia is on only 47.23% of web browsers.
Please don't do this in an RIA. Just do a full blown application. The vast majority of RIA's are not games - there's a lot of things that don't need fancy graphics at all. I just don't know what this poster was doing in their app.
Flash had cross-origin requests before HTML did, and even as of right now, 9.61% of browsers don't support XDomainRequest or cross-origin XMLHttpRequest.
This is a security risk. Why would I want XSS attacks to be allowed rather than blocked?
Considering replacing Flash animations with canvas animations? They won't play on 19.27% of browsers.
Again - most things don't need animations at all. I'm considering that it wasn't likely that the projects in question were graphics-heavy.
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It may have been a reporter's father, so the benefits are skewed enormously. But it did gain national recognition, so I'd say it did a little more than harass someone at the bottom of the chain.
Since when does having served in any military capacity provide carte blanche for any behavior and imbue one with near mystical wisdom about life?
Obviously you can't rely on that, but it does highlight that everyone's treated as an enemy combatant - even those that have fought for our side.
News for nerds. Stuff that matters.
Maybe you don't live here, but I do. It's important to keep up on the state of this mess.
If you're going to apply it universally, then you really ought to make sure it's something a 90-year old can handle. Taking off shoes and putting them back on isn't exactly always easy at 90. They should be ready to offer an effective alternative anyway.
If they were just following orders, then they shouldn't have expected him to take his shoes off. It's what their own signs said.
So either you have a war or you con them into believing that they can have all the wives they want in heaven if they'll just walk into the nearest mall and blow themselves up.
So these wives must be soulless or never lived on earth or essentially "newborn." Or where would they all come from? I guess a wife is not a companion in Islam so maybe it wouldn't matter. Just a bunch of heavenly Realdolls that move.
That's still not a trick. That just enables perfect 2x scaling of 1080p content without aliasing.
You give him too much credit - I agree with you, but they were clearly talking about content and not delivery.
1080p is still not there on satellite or cable. Production, maybe, but not delivery.
Or, you can mount it to the wall and have a little more desk space. Doesn't have to be quite as close.
Because it's matching a theater standard and they came up with the terms 2K and 4K long before we had 1080p.
That's already been done at 1080p:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quattron
It actually looks pretty nice.
Considering Nyquist's theorem for audio, maybe similar is true for video. And double the resolution is needed to give that effect.
Jaws 4K--why not?
Well sure - given that the original source material is 35mm and the Blu-Ray was probably mastered from a 4K scan. Almost no work needs done. Making movies 3D that weren't 3D to begin with is just as bad as Turner colorizing old B&W movies. Let the director have the final say and then don't let the directors make changes later, either (Lucas).
When you buy 3D movie tickets at the theater it comes with a pair of passive 3D glasses that are compatible with most TV's now. Just don't recycle your glasses at the end of the movie. The glasses are so overpriced in the store, that buying movie tickets to get the glasses is actually cheaper.
And what's the bitrate of those "4K" releases? Blu-Ray is only 1080p and it takes 30-40Mbps. 4K is quadruple the resolution (double width and height) and I'd expect 100Mbps. So far, all 4K content is download-only. I don't want to settle for low-bitrate 4K and I don't want to download a 200GB file and hit my download cap before my second movie.
Not every Blu-Ray is compressed well. Sometimes space is sacrificed for special features or the bitrate is low to avoid dual layer. When Ben-Hur was released on Blu-Ray, they opted for two discs due to all the compression artifacts they'd get for the massive crowd shots.
For a regular length movie, a dual-layer Blu-Ray has plenty of space if there are no special features on the same disc.
4K Blu-rays are being made; but dead in the water as the downloads are the way to go.
I'd really rather buy a disc than wait to download a 100GB 4K video file or settle for a crappy bitrate.
It would start out how HD satellite did. Movies. Most films were shot on film or digital 4K. There's no shortage of content for a movie channel.
And there's almost no reason to watch OTA networks via cable. When I watch a local channel OTA, they're using the majority of 20Mbps. Cable and Satellite re-compress that signal - which degrades it in and of itself - and at a much lower bitrate.
And at 10 feet, it's way beyond retina - most of the detail is invisible. Plug in a screen size of 150 inches, and it tells you that it's just barely retina at 10 feet away. Which means you're still actually getting the benefit of the detail, not just maintaining a sharp picture.
4K is horizontal resolution. That's not a marketing trick, they're using digital theater projection lingo. Makes more sense with theater, since all movies are the same width, but not all are the same height due to aspect ratio differences.
But for some material out there 480p is as good as it will ever get (old 80s tv shows).
Which was ironically shot on 35mm film and would just need to be re-edited to be released in 4K. Just look at Star Trek or Seinfeld in HD. On the other hand, shows from the 90's and 2K's are shot on digital at a much lower resolution.
The only reason to move to 4K in the home is larger screens. That and for computer screens. As in larger than 60". HD TV's came around before the content too.
TV isn't interactive - if you're moving, you're doing it wrong.
At almost 40 inches, how much higher is the pixel density than 1080p on a 20-inch screen, really?
Do any of the 3 have anything but basic vector animation? I thought they only had a limited subset.
Good luck installing "a full blown application" shipped as .msi on a Mac or installing "a full blown application" shipped as .dmg on a non-Apple PC. You end up having to ship not one but twelve "full blown applications": one each for Windows 7, OS X, X11/Linux, Android, iOS, Windows RT, PS3, PSP, Xbox 360, Windows Phone, Wii U, and 3DS, and eight of these twelve platforms need the hardware maker's permission before the app will even run.
Flash runs on all of those? I had no idea.
When I hear RIA, I think of Gmail - not Farmville.
For example, Flash has 3D graphics, while WebGL is on only 32.43% of web browsers. Flash has webcam access, while getUserMedia is on only 47.23% of web browsers.
Please don't do this in an RIA. Just do a full blown application. The vast majority of RIA's are not games - there's a lot of things that don't need fancy graphics at all. I just don't know what this poster was doing in their app.
Flash had cross-origin requests before HTML did, and even as of right now, 9.61% of browsers don't support XDomainRequest or cross-origin XMLHttpRequest.
This is a security risk. Why would I want XSS attacks to be allowed rather than blocked?
Considering replacing Flash animations with canvas animations? They won't play on 19.27% of browsers.
Again - most things don't need animations at all. I'm considering that it wasn't likely that the projects in question were graphics-heavy.