In other news, Tim Bookman in an interview with Plumbers Today refrained from making blanket depricating remarks about plumbing professionals. Posters on the online forum Slashdot reprimanded Bookman for sidestepping inflammatory remarks about plumbers. "He should just accept that plumbers are a bunch of greedy bastards and his profession is a joke," remarked one poster.
I think Red Hat 8 is a little like base camp 2 on Everest. Red Hat dove into the server/developer Linux market before it was clear it was there. They budgeted their supplies to make it to the corporate desktop without dying. Now, base camp 3--the home desktop--is a ways away, but they're a step closer and the corporate desktop will build up supplies for that trek.
I found the r_enableDoomIII 0 command worked wonders on my machine. Of course, the game looks a lot like a Windows desktop with that setting disabled. Still, I got like 80 fps on my Neomagic 128 card on my laptop. Can't beat that.
Instead of splitting them up, I'd rather just see a judgement that says "Microsoft has to provide any and all information requested by any body necessary for interoperability with Microsoft products."
That means Samba can can go to some court-appointed committee and say "we need documentation on protocol X" and the Linux-NTFS team can say "we need documentation on file system Y" and Gobe and Corel can say "we need documentation on the.DOC format" and Ximian can say "we need documentation on the Outlook->hotmail interface" and so on.
How come I never hear about this as a proposal? A nice open ended "you can't have intra-application secrets" clause.
I like how he makes utterly false claims about his data based on his misleading graphs.
Look at his debian growth graph. He conveniently skips the year 2001, making it look like the growth in recent years is something other than linear. He even states "Note that the number of packages seems to be growing exponentially."
The truth is, he's crammed two years of growth into a one year slot on the graph, making it appear to be accellerating. In actuality, if you imagine that growth spread over two years (as it actually is) it looks damn linear.
I guess even volunteers without corporate agendas are subject to fradulent data analysis.
So under the law currently on the books, if I sit down with my buds every week and record some songs and then stream a random mix of them off the server in the closet in my dorm room for other students to listen to, the government expects me to pay $0.07 per song to the RIAA?
Or do I only have to pay $0.07 per Britney Spears track? If that's the case, why don't all the webcasters just play independent music? Doesn't Britney Spears' CD explicity prohibit public exhibition anyway?
Yeah, nooneimportant installs GNOME as the default. And there are notreallyany desktop agnostic distros. Red Hat is basically the only thing keeping GNOME alive.
You keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Main Entry: irony 1 a : the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning b : a usually humorous or sardonic literary style or form characterized by irony c : an ironic expression or utterance 2 : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result
Columbus had full lockdown for almost all footage, and tried to fake fluidity in editing. He's a hack.
While I agree Columbus is hack, I totally disagree with your analysis of why he's so bad. Smoothness in editing doesn't come from tracking the camera, it comes from motivating the cuts and camera movements. This is what continuity editing is all about.
There are many many scenes in movie history with no camera movement whatsoever that are cut so beatifully that they come off as smooth as glass. It's about coaching the actors to give you the emotional responses you need for motivated cuts and setting up the shots beforehand such that the editing tells part of the story.
You can track every damn shot in the movie and it will still be a piece of shit if you don't pay attention to continuity.
Director Chris Colubus is the reason Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was as poor as it was. From where I was sitting, the continuity was crap and all the subtlety in the characters in the book went in one of Columbus's ears and out the other.
Take for example the scene where Madam Hooch drags Harry off for his horseplay in flying class. In the book the scene was extremely tense because you are wondering how Madam Hooch will react. The scene in the movie--because of the music choice, the way the scene is cut and the coaching of the actors--comes of completely flat.
It's sometimes hard to see because the story is so enchanting, but most of the scenes are just completely flat because of Columbus's shoddy directing. Thankfully, the third Harry Potter installment won't be directed by Columbus, but most likely Alfonso Cuaron, director of the current release "Y Tu Mama Tambien" and the 1998 remake of "Great Expectations" with Gwyneth Paltrow and Ethan Hawke.
Though Cuaron might not be the best director in the world, perhaps he will avoid Columbus's biggest mistake. There are certain things that make a good movie that simply aren't necessary to make a good book. Chris Columbus took the parts of Harry Potter that make it a great book and put them on the screen, but he didn't make the necessary changes to make it into a great movie.
It's a Canon Powershot S110. Mostly it's in low light situations that blur becomes an issue. In full daylight the pictures are fantastic, but when there's not a lot of light around I can't take pictures worth crap.
I agree that exposure time is the issue--the problem is the camera wants a certain amount of light to expose the picture. In order to get enough light in a shorter amount of time you need a more sensitive CCD, otherwise you'll sacrifice the dynamic range.
People go on and on about how high the resolution on a camera is, but I rarely take a picture with my 2 megapixel camera that's sharp enough to take advantage of all 2000 of those pixels. If I jitter the camera just slightly, I cut the effective resolution in half. Most of the time I could've taken the picture at a lower resolution and scaled the picture up in the GIMP and gotten the same damn picture.
What I really want is a more sensitive CCD that can take sharper pictures with less light and more brilliant color. A razor sharp 1600x1200 picture can be printed at nearly any size and look great. Unless you have nerves of steel to hold the camera steady, you're not going to be able to take a picture sharp enough to take advantage of 11 megapixels. Unless it's high noon in Arizona and the blinding sun is at your back, your CCD just won't be fast enough.
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In other news, Tim Bookman in an interview with Plumbers Today refrained from making blanket depricating remarks about plumbing professionals. Posters on the online forum Slashdot reprimanded Bookman for sidestepping inflammatory remarks about plumbers. "He should just accept that plumbers are a bunch of greedy bastards and his profession is a joke," remarked one poster.
Yeah it's a great help if the odds of a drive failing is rare but you can't risk it.
Thank god they make drives that don't ever fail, or we'd ALL have to take that risk.
It's 1.2 inches thick, and 16 megs of ram, which means:
1) Can't keep it in my pocket
2) Can't really use it for MP3s.
I think Red Hat 8 is a little like base camp 2 on Everest. Red Hat dove into the server/developer Linux market before it was clear it was there. They budgeted their supplies to make it to the corporate desktop without dying. Now, base camp 3--the home desktop--is a ways away, but they're a step closer and the corporate desktop will build up supplies for that trek.
I found the r_enableDoomIII 0 command worked wonders on my machine. Of course, the game looks a lot like a Windows desktop with that setting disabled. Still, I got like 80 fps on my Neomagic 128 card on my laptop. Can't beat that.
Erik
Upcomingmovies.com has some good info on Pixar's upcoming films:
2003: Finding Nemo
2004: The Incredibles
2005: Cars
Apparently Ray Gunn and The Incredibles were an either/or proposition, and it looks like it's going ot be The Incredibles.
Here's a good overview of Pixars plans.
Instead of splitting them up, I'd rather just see a judgement that says "Microsoft has to provide any and all information requested by any body necessary for interoperability with Microsoft products."
.DOC format" and Ximian can say "we need documentation on the Outlook->hotmail interface" and so on.
That means Samba can can go to some court-appointed committee and say "we need documentation on protocol X" and the Linux-NTFS team can say "we need documentation on file system Y" and Gobe and Corel can say "we need documentation on the
How come I never hear about this as a proposal? A nice open ended "you can't have intra-application secrets" clause.
Erik
Hmm. From 1999 to 2002 it looks linear to me. There's a difference between asymptotic and exponential.
Fraud is probably a stronger word than I should have used. Hasty and unsubstatiated are better words.
Erik
I like how he makes utterly false claims about his data based on his misleading graphs.
Look at his debian growth graph. He conveniently skips the year 2001, making it look like the growth in recent years is something other than linear. He even states "Note that the number of packages seems to be growing exponentially."
The truth is, he's crammed two years of growth into a one year slot on the graph, making it appear to be accellerating. In actuality, if you imagine that growth spread over two years (as it actually is) it looks damn linear.
I guess even volunteers without corporate agendas are subject to fradulent data analysis.
Erik
The real ultimate silent PC.
Erik
So under the law currently on the books, if I sit down with my buds every week and record some songs and then stream a random mix of them off the server in the closet in my dorm room for other students to listen to, the government expects me to pay $0.07 per song to the RIAA?
Or do I only have to pay $0.07 per Britney Spears track? If that's the case, why don't all the webcasters just play independent music? Doesn't Britney Spears' CD explicity prohibit public exhibition anyway?
Erik
Perhaps something like:
(hp|ir|pos|a|solar|min|lin|un)(i|u)(x|s)
Erik
These motherboards are trying to fill a niche that doesn't exist.
You mean the OEMs-looking-for-cheap-marketable-components market?
Yeah, that market never existed, never will. What are these guys thinking?
Erik
Yeah, no one important installs GNOME as the default. And there are not really any desktop agnostic distros. Red Hat is basically the only thing keeping GNOME alive.
Erik
What do you guys think?
As a decent web designer and fledgling software engineer, I think there's a big difference between web design and software engineering.
Erik
This is the thing. Colleges and universities are obselete.
Keep telling yourself that.
Erik
The criteria for a good game, not surpising, kids say is an interesting storyline and unique characters.
What?!? I thought it was l33t gr4ph1X that you can turn off to get 120fps. And railgun jumping.
Kids these days.
Erik
For the irony impaired...
You keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Main Entry: irony
1 a : the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning b : a usually humorous or sardonic literary style or form characterized by irony c : an ironic expression or utterance
2 : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result
Perhaps you were thinking of "analogy"?
Erik
Columbus had full lockdown for almost all footage, and tried to fake fluidity in editing. He's a hack.
While I agree Columbus is hack, I totally disagree with your analysis of why he's so bad. Smoothness in editing doesn't come from tracking the camera, it comes from motivating the cuts and camera movements. This is what continuity editing is all about.
There are many many scenes in movie history with no camera movement whatsoever that are cut so beatifully that they come off as smooth as glass. It's about coaching the actors to give you the emotional responses you need for motivated cuts and setting up the shots beforehand such that the editing tells part of the story.
You can track every damn shot in the movie and it will still be a piece of shit if you don't pay attention to continuity.
Erik
Director Chris Colubus is the reason Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was as poor as it was. From where I was sitting, the continuity was crap and all the subtlety in the characters in the book went in one of Columbus's ears and out the other.
Take for example the scene where Madam Hooch drags Harry off for his horseplay in flying class. In the book the scene was extremely tense because you are wondering how Madam Hooch will react. The scene in the movie--because of the music choice, the way the scene is cut and the coaching of the actors--comes of completely flat.
It's sometimes hard to see because the story is so enchanting, but most of the scenes are just completely flat because of Columbus's shoddy directing. Thankfully, the third Harry Potter installment won't be directed by Columbus, but most likely Alfonso Cuaron, director of the current release "Y Tu Mama Tambien" and the 1998 remake of "Great Expectations" with Gwyneth Paltrow and Ethan Hawke.
Though Cuaron might not be the best director in the world, perhaps he will avoid Columbus's biggest mistake. There are certain things that make a good movie that simply aren't necessary to make a good book. Chris Columbus took the parts of Harry Potter that make it a great book and put them on the screen, but he didn't make the necessary changes to make it into a great movie.
Erik
do you really need to watch TV? Do you really need to attend that stupid class?
Do you really need to write 500 word posts on slashdot?
(Sorry, I couldn't resist.)
Erik
Basically, yeah.
I want to be able to pull out the camera in a dimly lit restaurant and take a snapshot of my friends. Without a tripod.
Erik
It's a Canon Powershot S110. Mostly it's in low light situations that blur becomes an issue. In full daylight the pictures are fantastic, but when there's not a lot of light around I can't take pictures worth crap.
I agree that exposure time is the issue--the problem is the camera wants a certain amount of light to expose the picture. In order to get enough light in a shorter amount of time you need a more sensitive CCD, otherwise you'll sacrifice the dynamic range.
Erik
People go on and on about how high the resolution on a camera is, but I rarely take a picture with my 2 megapixel camera that's sharp enough to take advantage of all 2000 of those pixels. If I jitter the camera just slightly, I cut the effective resolution in half. Most of the time I could've taken the picture at a lower resolution and scaled the picture up in the GIMP and gotten the same damn picture.
What I really want is a more sensitive CCD that can take sharper pictures with less light and more brilliant color. A razor sharp 1600x1200 picture can be printed at nearly any size and look great. Unless you have nerves of steel to hold the camera steady, you're not going to be able to take a picture sharp enough to take advantage of 11 megapixels. Unless it's high noon in Arizona and the blinding sun is at your back, your CCD just won't be fast enough.
Erik
My roomate has had his Powerbook for four years and has "never had any problems." He'd have to be insane to "upgrade" his system to OS X.
Erik