I've been a huge Be fan for years, and I bought and used both Be and Gobe Productive, but honestly, Gobe Productive is a blatant ripoff of ClarisWorks. And if I'm not mistaken, much of their core coding team used to work for Claris. Just the start up/new document screen is damn near identical to previous versions of ClarisWorks. Of course, ClarisWorks is now AppleWorks, which has been updated to compete with MS Office. So not only is Gobe copying another program, it's copying an old one.
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Re:How this movie could have been stronger...
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Uhm. The movie was based (somewhat) in reality. The girl and Danilov were real. Vassily really did fall in love with her, though Danilov's importance was over-stressed to be sure.
As far as Koenig's character, the short little part about his son indicated that they intended to have more depth to his character but they just couldn't afford it time-wise. I think it was clear that Ed Harris was really trying to play that tortured-soul grey-area character, but the editing really didn't support it.
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Re:They could have paid more attention to language
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The language stuff had a big effect on me. The two sides would speak either Russian or German in the background, but whenever there was some important dialog, it was in English.
Danilov dictates a letter to Vassily and corrects his English spelling, but then dictates a letter to a Russian secretary which turns out in Russian. Sasha (the kid) speaks "Russian" to the other Russians, and then speaks "German" to Koenig perfectly fluently. There's are such disconnects everywhere.
I think the best way to handle it was to have the Russians speak English and write in Russian (have Danilov spell out Russian words with Russian letters), and have the Germans speak and write in German with subtitles. If half the actors in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon can fake Mandarin, Ed Harris can fake German.
And another nitpick, not about the movie, but about Katz's article. If I can go to IMDb.com and find out that it's not Ranya (where did that come from?) but Tania, so can you. Same deal with Vassily and Koenig. Oops, maybe I shouldn't trust IMDb so much: they list Jude Law's character as Vassily, but his grandfather is Vassili's Grandfather.
Filter out files smaller than a certain size.
To spammers, bandwidth is their only expenditure, so they squeeze every bit from every picture to get the number of pictures up. Plus, you get higher quality porn too.
What do you mean when you say "burn in"?
Most overclockers use Quake, RC5 or SETI after successfully overclocking their machines, but that's just to test stability under extreme stress.
What's more, chips aren't produced to operate at a specific speed; their performance is controlled by the quality of the process. Better quality means higher tolerance for stress and heat, and chips with a higher tolerance are marked for a higher speed. If you overclock a chip, you're betting that the tolerance is higher than the plant thought. If you underclock it, you get the same speed as another chip, but with a higher tolerance.
Urk. That was supposed to be a fixed width font, but I forgot the tag.
Jebediah: [on film] A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.
Edna: Embiggens? I never heard that word before I moved to Springfield
Ms.Hoover: I don't know why. It's a perfectly cromulent word.
Jebediah: [on film] A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.
Edna: Embiggens? I never heard that word before I moved to
Springfield
Ms.Hoover: I don't know why. It's a perfectly cromulent word.
I had to do that for a "Square One" (a Rubix Cube ripoff/variant) I got for Christmas, but only because I had no idea how to take it apart. Following some program's instructions ("move NWBluWhi by 3 turns vertically") is just plain tedium when you can accomplish the same thing in about the same amount of time by ripping it apart.
I saw The Chinese Feast on the International Channel over the weekends, or at least parts of it. The subtitles were hard to follow and I kept leaving (the International Channel doesn't have normal commercial breaks), but the opening battle was great and I found it to be rather funny.
I don't know about God of Cookery, but if it was definitely worth the title of "Iron Movie".
Divx, the DVD system, is long dead. There is no reason to think people will be confused about it for long -- few people knew about the system when it was still alive! And I would guess that those few people who knew about Divx already know about "DivX;-)".
Tell me, how do you pronounce "DivX;-)"? "DivX;-)" is what's referred to as a logo; Divx is the codec's actual name. The same thing goes for "Yahoo!" by the way. Don't take my word for it -- ask the copy editor of the New York Times. Points six and seven are particularly important here.
I'll be the first to admit that these Divx people can't choose a good name. First, the name of a failed and despised subscription scheme, then whacko capitalization, and finally a cheesy and pointless smilie-face. I think all the work they did to hack the MPG4 codec was just a ruse to see how silly of a name they could get people to accept. Unfortunately, it seems to be working.
DVD's are huge, too. DVD's take a long time to rip and encode, too. But there are people around who will take care of these issues, compress it into a CD-sized DivX movie, and offer it for download online.
Try ripping a DVD some time. It's a pain in the ass. Then go to one of the DVD/DivX release sites and see how many are released all the time. And it will only get easier.
Many companies (Sony, Aiwa, Sharp, Kenwood, et cetera) make MD decks and portable units.
Do they have to buy licenses from Sony?
Now, I'm not saying that solid state media are the be-all, end-all either. Frankly, I've no problems with CDs, and wouldn't mind if MP3-CDs became the industry format. They're even cheaper than MD's and can hold more. I personally, wouldn't use either MD's or solid state media players, but both have their own market segment and proponents. I can't really claim any authority as to which one is better, so I'm only going to say this: I've been under the impression that Sony controls the MD format, the players and encoders, something that tends to put them at a natural disadvantage.
They feed on other little beasties that fall down from above, who either get their energy from the sun or from other beasties. All our energy comes from the sun, though it may be seperated by a few million years (oil) or a few links in the food chain (plants and animals).
You get to transfer 64/128 MB of pictures/mp3 from your camera to the evilla or from the evilla to your portable mp3 player.
If you'll notice, Sony's memory stick-compatible portable music players don't say "mp3" anywhere on the box. They're not mp3 players. They use a special propritary and SDMI-capable format. You have to convert all your mp3s to that format before you can upload. And thanks to SDMI, you can't listen to the songs on your computer until you delete them off the player.
In theory, the memory sticks are a cool idea. (Insert obligitory Homer Simpson quote here.) Same deal with MD players. If they were made an open industry standard compatible with non-Sony products, they'd be darned nifty.
Oh yeah, the moral of my story (to bring it back on topic) was that while there are reasons why things happen in this industry, they're generally pretty stupid ones.
In short, expect the future of.NET to be decided by its box design.
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They'd talk about GPS, and how it's used for missle tracking.
And email their congressmen to get GPS turned back on in war zones.
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I've been a huge Be fan for years, and I bought and used both Be and Gobe Productive, but honestly, Gobe Productive is a blatant ripoff of ClarisWorks. And if I'm not mistaken, much of their core coding team used to work for Claris. Just the start up/new document screen is damn near identical to previous versions of ClarisWorks. Of course, ClarisWorks is now AppleWorks, which has been updated to compete with MS Office. So not only is Gobe copying another program, it's copying an old one.
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Uhm. The movie was based (somewhat) in reality. The girl and Danilov were real. Vassily really did fall in love with her, though Danilov's importance was over-stressed to be sure.
As far as Koenig's character, the short little part about his son indicated that they intended to have more depth to his character but they just couldn't afford it time-wise. I think it was clear that Ed Harris was really trying to play that tortured-soul grey-area character, but the editing really didn't support it.
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The language stuff had a big effect on me. The two sides would speak either Russian or German in the background, but whenever there was some important dialog, it was in English.
Danilov dictates a letter to Vassily and corrects his English spelling, but then dictates a letter to a Russian secretary which turns out in Russian. Sasha (the kid) speaks "Russian" to the other Russians, and then speaks "German" to Koenig perfectly fluently. There's are such disconnects everywhere.
I think the best way to handle it was to have the Russians speak English and write in Russian (have Danilov spell out Russian words with Russian letters), and have the Germans speak and write in German with subtitles. If half the actors in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon can fake Mandarin, Ed Harris can fake German.
And another nitpick, not about the movie, but about Katz's article. If I can go to IMDb.com and find out that it's not Ranya (where did that come from?) but Tania, so can you. Same deal with Vassily and Koenig. Oops, maybe I shouldn't trust IMDb so much: they list Jude Law's character as Vassily, but his grandfather is Vassili's Grandfather.
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Filter out files smaller than a certain size.
To spammers, bandwidth is their only expenditure, so they squeeze every bit from every picture to get the number of pictures up. Plus, you get higher quality porn too.
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I am now a 16 year old kid.
...and it's '16-year', not '16 year'.
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What do you mean when you say "burn in"?
Most overclockers use Quake, RC5 or SETI after successfully overclocking their machines, but that's just to test stability under extreme stress.
What's more, chips aren't produced to operate at a specific speed; their performance is controlled by the quality of the process. Better quality means higher tolerance for stress and heat, and chips with a higher tolerance are marked for a higher speed. If you overclock a chip, you're betting that the tolerance is higher than the plant thought. If you underclock it, you get the same speed as another chip, but with a higher tolerance.
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Urk. That was supposed to be a fixed width font, but I forgot the tag.
Jebediah: [on film] A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.
Edna: Embiggens? I never heard that word before I moved to Springfield
Ms.Hoover: I don't know why. It's a perfectly cromulent word.
f33r the l33t formatting
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That's cromulent, by the way:
Jebediah: [on film] A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.
Edna: Embiggens? I never heard that word before I moved to
Springfield
Ms.Hoover: I don't know why. It's a perfectly cromulent word.
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What you say!!
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It is?
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I had to do that for a "Square One" (a Rubix Cube ripoff/variant) I got for Christmas, but only because I had no idea how to take it apart. Following some program's instructions ("move NWBluWhi by 3 turns vertically") is just plain tedium when you can accomplish the same thing in about the same amount of time by ripping it apart.
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Just break it apart and reassemble it. It works pretty well and you can fool people into thinking you're some kind of genius.
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I saw The Chinese Feast on the International Channel over the weekends, or at least parts of it. The subtitles were hard to follow and I kept leaving (the International Channel doesn't have normal commercial breaks), but the opening battle was great and I found it to be rather funny.
I don't know about God of Cookery, but if it was definitely worth the title of "Iron Movie".
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But then, the agents jump from building to building just like the good guys, and can dodge bullets like Neo.
I think we have to face facts and accept that not all parts of The Matrix can be rationalized.
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I should check my own links sometimes. Bill Walsh is actually the copy editor for The Washington Post, not The New York Times.
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Divx, the DVD system, is long dead. There is no reason to think people will be confused about it for long -- few people knew about the system when it was still alive! And I would guess that those few people who knew about Divx already know about "DivX ;-)".
;-)"? "DivX ;-)" is what's referred to as a logo; Divx is the codec's actual name. The same thing goes for "Yahoo!" by the way. Don't take my word for it -- ask the copy editor of the New York Times. Points six and seven are particularly important here.
Tell me, how do you pronounce "DivX
I'll be the first to admit that these Divx people can't choose a good name. First, the name of a failed and despised subscription scheme, then whacko capitalization, and finally a cheesy and pointless smilie-face. I think all the work they did to hack the MPG4 codec was just a ruse to see how silly of a name they could get people to accept. Unfortunately, it seems to be working.
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Uhm.. wouldn't it be rather easy, then, for the Matrix AI's to say "this person is dead" as soon as they connect?
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All I can say is "DivX to the rescue."
DVD's are huge, too. DVD's take a long time to rip and encode, too. But there are people around who will take care of these issues, compress it into a CD-sized DivX movie, and offer it for download online.
Try ripping a DVD some time. It's a pain in the ass. Then go to one of the DVD/DivX release sites and see how many are released all the time. And it will only get easier.
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Many companies (Sony, Aiwa, Sharp, Kenwood, et cetera) make MD decks and portable units.
Do they have to buy licenses from Sony?
Now, I'm not saying that solid state media are the be-all, end-all either. Frankly, I've no problems with CDs, and wouldn't mind if MP3-CDs became the industry format. They're even cheaper than MD's and can hold more. I personally, wouldn't use either MD's or solid state media players, but both have their own market segment and proponents. I can't really claim any authority as to which one is better, so I'm only going to say this: I've been under the impression that Sony controls the MD format, the players and encoders, something that tends to put them at a natural disadvantage.
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They feed on other little beasties that fall down from above, who either get their energy from the sun or from other beasties. All our energy comes from the sun, though it may be seperated by a few million years (oil) or a few links in the food chain (plants and animals).
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BeIA doesn't have to use BFS if the OEM doesn't think it's needed. It probably doesn't have a hard drive either.
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You get to transfer 64/128 MB of pictures/mp3 from your camera to the evilla or from the evilla to your portable mp3 player.
If you'll notice, Sony's memory stick-compatible portable music players don't say "mp3" anywhere on the box. They're not mp3 players. They use a special propritary and SDMI-capable format. You have to convert all your mp3s to that format before you can upload. And thanks to SDMI, you can't listen to the songs on your computer until you delete them off the player.
In theory, the memory sticks are a cool idea. (Insert obligitory Homer Simpson quote here.) Same deal with MD players. If they were made an open industry standard compatible with non-Sony products, they'd be darned nifty.
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Oh yeah, the moral of my story (to bring it back on topic) was that while there are reasons why things happen in this industry, they're generally pretty stupid ones.
.NET to be decided by its box design.
In short, expect the future of
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