Very well put, I couldn't start learning CGI until I installed Apache on Windows. I wouldhave loved to learn without having to get other stuff working (although it was very easy).
I just wanna say, FUCK YEAH! Although I am not in the same boat because I am a semester out of high school, and now not going to colledge so I am a 'visionary' and 'going to be rich someday'. And fuck the mpaa.
I am really getting tired of people insulting the intelligence of the average person. The average person might not try when they don't have to or care about computers, but people like intelligent movies. The sixth sense is the ninth highest grossing movie of all time. The usual suspects is a modern classic. The matrix has action, but also questions reality. Star wars is about the conflict between good and evil and is on an epic scale. Fight Club is about separation from the norms of society with ties to budist philosophy. There are many many movies that are succesful because they are intelligent and many that are not because they are blatant explosion saturated and without real sustanence. Do you really think that you are that different from everyone else?
hotmail.com's ip address is 64.4.11.7. I think the problem is that hotmail.com is actually down. I could ping them and resolve the IP address, but I cannot get a response from the site. So try it yourself I guess -> 64.4.11.7
Don't forget java in the embeded market. Writing programs for PDA's or cell phones in java? hell yeah. The only place java isn't being used very effectily is in desktop applications. Which makes sense I guess, but if more people would write applications in java it might start to make more progress. Also if swing wasn't so slow, but that another story.
1. Java has done very well without Micrsoft support. I agree that Micrsoft support would be optimal, but I think that java is good enough that it doesn't need it, even though it could benefit from it.
2. Microsoft was not really supporting or helping Java or Sun all along. They did some shitty shit with Visual J++. They put "windows only" extensions and nullified the whole point of Java, thus screwing over programmers, themselves, and Sun to an extent, while at the same time blatantly breaking the licensing and contracts that they had with Sun for the development of a Java IDE.
3. I love java, but where it works best right now is Windows, which is rediculous. If it is to have a bright future on other operating systems, which I completely believe it does, it will need to have everything be more syncronized and not come out with different OS versions at different times. It shows disrespect for their own cross-platform philosophy.
That's what this is all about is making cable carry it right? I personally think that while the government has done some shitty shit, I want them to stick everyone with this. I want HDTV forced on myself and everyone else because it's so good. If I'm forced to adopt it and I lose alot of cash, it would be worth it if it was wide spread. You can bet that all the people in charge of regulating and pushing HDTV have actually seen it. Why do you think they are pushing so hard? They know that people will want it after seeing true digital from start to finish high definition video for 10 seconds.
With my next computer, which hopefully isn't too far away, I am probably going to buy a Samsung SyncMaster 1200 22" monitor for around $750. Big resolution, big refresh rates etc. When HDTV comes to me I will already have something capable of its resolution and with a decoder card I'll be set. That is the way I see alot of people going, especially with DVD's being common on computers finally and what not, people are really starting to get used to using their comptuer for everything. And why not? its made to be versitile so the more things you use it for the more efficient you are.
Games are not like OS's and office applications. People don't depend on them. Fun is good, money is bad, balance them out and you win, end of story. MS can't control games like they OS and office standards, except for direct X. For the most part, what people want will win out because what you are using for games doesn't depend on what everyone else is using near as much. I think that is the distinction you are missing. I also think that the Xbox and the gamecube are going to rock.
Look at what I actually said. I know that DVD pricing is not going to change and I never said it would. You are agreeing with me that the pricing is rediculous and that was my point. I understand why they do, its because they can. And maybe you are getting screwed, but I'm trying to keep it to a minimum, hence copying movies. I never said anything about trying to have an impact on the MPAA, I just don't buy DVD's because of their price, although I do hate the MPAA.
I didn't like him either after seeing parts of Titanic, but after seeing basketball diaries and especially The Beach I have realized the he is actually a really great actor and I dropped all my bias against him.
$20 is rediculous considering that a VHS tape costs $15 and down and DVD's cost alot less to make. Think about it for a second, if it is possible to produce a Divix disc at 2 - 3 dollars and make a profit (theoretically although if no one buys them I guess its not making a profit) then why should $20 be the standard price tag. Some DVD's cost $25 and $30. I consider myself a movie lover but I do not consider myself a tool of corporations. DVD's could offer a better product (quality and extra features) at a lower price but people like you assume that $20 is fair when in fact $10 would be more than fair because of the extremely high profit margins. Not to mention CSS and all that crap.
OK, first of all I have tried most if not all of the major codecs out there one way or another and compared size to quality. Regular Divix is very similiar to ASP of course and they are even both accelerated by my DVD decoding hardware - thanks ATI! Anyway 200MB's less? Most of the movies that I have seen could be better in some way, and I think that the ones I have made are better than what I see for one reason or another. I fit The Way of the Gun into 200MB EASILY. I figured from a few tests that I could fit The Beach into 120MB at acceptable quality. I don't know about the new DiviX but I am itching to try it out. As for a new Codec, its a pretty small price to pay to HAVE a free movie instead of paying however much to buy it. I know DVD's have alot of great stuff on them but $20 is rediculous.
Yes he did do Alien 3. The first was directed by Ridley Scott , the second by James Cameron (I think) , and the third by Fincher. The fourth ( which I think was the best although no one agrees with me) I don't know the director, but the cinemetography was done by Darius Khondji who also did the beach I beleive.
This sounds kind of cool but not like something I would save some money for. What I want is more quality and while this might increment it, it doesn't really take the problem head on just by using DVD RAM. I think that high definition digital video camera's are where its at.
Expensive? definitly, and not going to be in the consumer range anytime soon for sure, but combine the incredibly sharp picture of HDTV with being able to see your moments in that sharp picture would be worth alot. Instead of just seeing some fuzzy crappy picture of your wedding you could finally see a widescreen colorful picture of everyone there. Its along way off for sure, and JVC isn't helping anything but I think it would be where video cameras stop looking like crap and take a turn into true photography. I think that the best way to accomplish this would be to just use a hard drive in the camera. Then there isn't an issues with capturing video to computers because they could be put into files. People would certainly have to burn DVD's with only an hour or less video on them, but who wants to really save all of the video they take? If some of it could be easily discarded I think people would learn to throw away all the useless crap pretty quick. No one wants the half an hour trying to convince their kid to jump off the high dive, they just want the few minutes leading up to it and the few minutes after.
Some kind of heavy compression would have to be used, MPEG 2 is already somewhat out of date, and MPEG 4 only goes up to DVD resolution so neighther would really do the trick. Also the compression would take quite a bit of power so that is another obstacle I guess. Luckily MPEG 2 acceleration already works with MPEG 4 video (at least for me) so that's one problem solved already. It will happen, it will just take time.
The point is, progression of quality is constent because whoever can do it gets an edge. HDTV is better - and not just by a little bit. People will want everything they can get and high resolution is enough of a leap to make people spend more money.
Think about how a time-shifting recorder works. There doesn't necessarily need to be a standard unless there is some direct interchange of recordings which no one is going to make a standard for anyway because it would be seen as a tool for piracy and nothing else.
Have you ever seen HDTV? I am guessing you haven't because it looks incredible and I think that anyone who has seen it is pretty excited about the possibilities. You are right though that content matters more than quality, that's why people go back to playing emulation and bootleg movies on the internet. HDTV is great, and I think that once people see it, it will be hard to go back.
Can anyone name an incident where copy protection really worked and there was no way to get around it. I can't even think of something that wasn't fairly easy to get around. Of course I am only 19 and don't have the history that some slashdot people do, but I can't remember anything that was really impossible to manipulate. Cable TV seems like the hardest to me and even then there are cable descramblers and such all over the place.
Don't forget director and cast commentary. That is the only reason I will actually buy a super overpriced DVD at all. I won't buy one without it, not only is it cool, but it is a sign that the main people who worked on the movie actually cared about it. (Think Fight Club -> 4 commentaries!)
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Very well put, I couldn't start learning CGI until I installed Apache on Windows. I wouldhave loved to learn without having to get other stuff working (although it was very easy).
Yeah, stock up on Linux and BSD CD's. Get the current versions of everything.
I just wanna say, FUCK YEAH! Although I am not in the same boat because I am a semester out of high school, and now not going to colledge so I am a 'visionary' and 'going to be rich someday'. And fuck the mpaa.
I am really getting tired of people insulting the intelligence of the average person. The average person might not try when they don't have to or care about computers, but people like intelligent movies. The sixth sense is the ninth highest grossing movie of all time. The usual suspects is a modern classic. The matrix has action, but also questions reality. Star wars is about the conflict between good and evil and is on an epic scale. Fight Club is about separation from the norms of society with ties to budist philosophy. There are many many movies that are succesful because they are intelligent and many that are not because they are blatant explosion saturated and without real sustanence. Do you really think that you are that different from everyone else?
hotmail.com's ip address is 64.4.11.7. I think the problem is that hotmail.com is actually down. I could ping them and resolve the IP address, but I cannot get a response from the site. So try it yourself I guess -> 64.4.11.7
Don't forget java in the embeded market. Writing programs for PDA's or cell phones in java? hell yeah. The only place java isn't being used very effectily is in desktop applications. Which makes sense I guess, but if more people would write applications in java it might start to make more progress. Also if swing wasn't so slow, but that another story.
A few points:
1. Java has done very well without Micrsoft support. I agree that Micrsoft support would be optimal, but I think that java is good enough that it doesn't need it, even though it could benefit from it.
2. Microsoft was not really supporting or helping Java or Sun all along. They did some shitty shit with Visual J++. They put "windows only" extensions and nullified the whole point of Java, thus screwing over programmers, themselves, and Sun to an extent, while at the same time blatantly breaking the licensing and contracts that they had with Sun for the development of a Java IDE.
3. I love java, but where it works best right now is Windows, which is rediculous. If it is to have a bright future on other operating systems, which I completely believe it does, it will need to have everything be more syncronized and not come out with different OS versions at different times. It shows disrespect for their own cross-platform philosophy.
MPEG 4 cannot go beyond DVD resolution as I understand it.
That's what this is all about is making cable carry it right? I personally think that while the government has done some shitty shit, I want them to stick everyone with this. I want HDTV forced on myself and everyone else because it's so good. If I'm forced to adopt it and I lose alot of cash, it would be worth it if it was wide spread. You can bet that all the people in charge of regulating and pushing HDTV have actually seen it. Why do you think they are pushing so hard? They know that people will want it after seeing true digital from start to finish high definition video for 10 seconds.
With my next computer, which hopefully isn't too far away, I am probably going to buy a Samsung SyncMaster 1200 22" monitor for around $750. Big resolution, big refresh rates etc. When HDTV comes to me I will already have something capable of its resolution and with a decoder card I'll be set. That is the way I see alot of people going, especially with DVD's being common on computers finally and what not, people are really starting to get used to using their comptuer for everything. And why not? its made to be versitile so the more things you use it for the more efficient you are.
Games are not like OS's and office applications. People don't depend on them. Fun is good, money is bad, balance them out and you win, end of story. MS can't control games like they OS and office standards, except for direct X. For the most part, what people want will win out because what you are using for games doesn't depend on what everyone else is using near as much. I think that is the distinction you are missing. I also think that the Xbox and the gamecube are going to rock.
Look at what I actually said. I know that DVD pricing is not going to change and I never said it would. You are agreeing with me that the pricing is rediculous and that was my point. I understand why they do, its because they can. And maybe you are getting screwed, but I'm trying to keep it to a minimum, hence copying movies. I never said anything about trying to have an impact on the MPAA, I just don't buy DVD's because of their price, although I do hate the MPAA.
I didn't like him either after seeing parts of Titanic, but after seeing basketball diaries and especially The Beach I have realized the he is actually a really great actor and I dropped all my bias against him.
$20 is rediculous considering that a VHS tape costs $15 and down and DVD's cost alot less to make. Think about it for a second, if it is possible to produce a Divix disc at 2 - 3 dollars and make a profit (theoretically although if no one buys them I guess its not making a profit) then why should $20 be the standard price tag. Some DVD's cost $25 and $30. I consider myself a movie lover but I do not consider myself a tool of corporations. DVD's could offer a better product (quality and extra features) at a lower price but people like you assume that $20 is fair when in fact $10 would be more than fair because of the extremely high profit margins. Not to mention CSS and all that crap.
OK, first of all I have tried most if not all of the major codecs out there one way or another and compared size to quality. Regular Divix is very similiar to ASP of course and they are even both accelerated by my DVD decoding hardware - thanks ATI! Anyway 200MB's less? Most of the movies that I have seen could be better in some way, and I think that the ones I have made are better than what I see for one reason or another. I fit The Way of the Gun into 200MB EASILY. I figured from a few tests that I could fit The Beach into 120MB at acceptable quality. I don't know about the new DiviX but I am itching to try it out. As for a new Codec, its a pretty small price to pay to HAVE a free movie instead of paying however much to buy it. I know DVD's have alot of great stuff on them but $20 is rediculous.
Yes he did do Alien 3. The first was directed by Ridley Scott , the second by James Cameron (I think) , and the third by Fincher. The fourth ( which I think was the best although no one agrees with me) I don't know the director, but the cinemetography was done by Darius Khondji who also did the beach I beleive.
SGI stands for Silicon Graphics Incorporated
This sounds kind of cool but not like something I would save some money for. What I want is more quality and while this might increment it, it doesn't really take the problem head on just by using DVD RAM. I think that high definition digital video camera's are where its at.
Expensive? definitly, and not going to be in the consumer range anytime soon for sure, but combine the incredibly sharp picture of HDTV with being able to see your moments in that sharp picture would be worth alot. Instead of just seeing some fuzzy crappy picture of your wedding you could finally see a widescreen colorful picture of everyone there. Its along way off for sure, and JVC isn't helping anything but I think it would be where video cameras stop looking like crap and take a turn into true photography. I think that the best way to accomplish this would be to just use a hard drive in the camera. Then there isn't an issues with capturing video to computers because they could be put into files. People would certainly have to burn DVD's with only an hour or less video on them, but who wants to really save all of the video they take? If some of it could be easily discarded I think people would learn to throw away all the useless crap pretty quick. No one wants the half an hour trying to convince their kid to jump off the high dive, they just want the few minutes leading up to it and the few minutes after.
Some kind of heavy compression would have to be used, MPEG 2 is already somewhat out of date, and MPEG 4 only goes up to DVD resolution so neighther would really do the trick. Also the compression would take quite a bit of power so that is another obstacle I guess. Luckily MPEG 2 acceleration already works with MPEG 4 video (at least for me) so that's one problem solved already. It will happen, it will just take time.
The point is, progression of quality is constent because whoever can do it gets an edge. HDTV is better - and not just by a little bit. People will want everything they can get and high resolution is enough of a leap to make people spend more money.
Don't forget muti-threaded, peer to peer, code morphing , 3D , distributed, and 'e'
Think about how a time-shifting recorder works. There doesn't necessarily need to be a standard unless there is some direct interchange of recordings which no one is going to make a standard for anyway because it would be seen as a tool for piracy and nothing else.
Have you ever seen HDTV? I am guessing you haven't because it looks incredible and I think that anyone who has seen it is pretty excited about the possibilities. You are right though that content matters more than quality, that's why people go back to playing emulation and bootleg movies on the internet. HDTV is great, and I think that once people see it, it will be hard to go back.
Can anyone name an incident where copy protection really worked and there was no way to get around it. I can't even think of something that wasn't fairly easy to get around. Of course I am only 19 and don't have the history that some slashdot people do, but I can't remember anything that was really impossible to manipulate. Cable TV seems like the hardest to me and even then there are cable descramblers and such all over the place.
Yep, they scored a kick ass in Maximum PC.
Don't forget director and cast commentary. That is the only reason I will actually buy a super overpriced DVD at all. I won't buy one without it, not only is it cool, but it is a sign that the main people who worked on the movie actually cared about it. (Think Fight Club -> 4 commentaries!)