Originals of a lot of records (x-rays for one example) do not transfer well to digital. Heck, transferring any analog recording, visual or auditory, to digital inevitably means a loss of fidelity at some point or another. You either save a far-too-small file that someone looks at and misses detail (or dismisses an important detail as compression artifacting) later, or your file is completely freaking huge.
About a year ago I went to the dentist and was surprised to discover they didn't bother with x-ray film anymore -- it was already all digital. They pointed the machine at my jaw, stepped a few yards away (didn't even go behind a partition, though I did have a lead apron protecting some of my more sensitive anatomy), pushed a button on a remote, and a monitor lit up on my right with an x-ray of my teeth. The dentist sat down and started 'exploring', using brightness/contrast controls, and was quickly able to identify my various dental imperfections. I really enjoyed it because I was able to watch the whole time, and was impressed by the clarity.
Last month I went with my wife to get her wrists examined (thought maybe carpal tunnel, turns out it's not), and her x-rays were all-digital too. She went to Radiology and by the time we walked back down the hall to the Orthopedics department, her hand and wrist x-rays were appended to her file and the physician called them up and looked them over using similar software to my dentist, and again I was impressed by the clarity and by how quickly and easily she was able to look everything over and explain things to us.
"It's the same argument that we have whenever they -- when some kid goes nuts, right, and shoots up his school, and they find the video game, right? 'Oh, he had Doom on his computer.' Well of course he had Doom on his computer! He was a violent fuck. Violent people like video games. I don't think one leads to the other."
Apparently, once studio execs had a chance to look at dailies and storyboards and so forth, they realized the film had an excellent chance of attracting a broader audience than just Trek fans. They pushed the release date to May '09 so it wouldn't have to compete with other Christmas releases for general audience attention; a May release also gives it the chance to become a runaway summer blockbuster hit. (I'll believe it when I see it.) Abrams decided this was a good thing after all, because it would give him the opportunity to make sure everything (including the all-important special effects) are as good as they can possibly be.
What this means for Trek fans, myself included, is that the film better be damn good if they got an extra four months to work on it. Personally, I'm expecting it to be a fairly lukewarm experience -- but then again, there are always possibilities...
I'm really looking forward to the whole video-game-as-a-sequel-to-a-movie, and have high hopes since the original team have such an involved role in it.
Mod parent up -- I've been running DD-WRT v23 SP2 on a 54GL and have had zero problems. Current uptime is 68 days, and that's only because I had to break down my equipment to move it to another room. Actual uptime would be more like a year, without ever having to look at it or even think about it.
Seems more appropriate to/. In no particular order...
1. Starcraft: Ghost (apropos for more than one reason)
2. Ghost in the Shell
3. Norton Ghost
4. IRC GHOST
5. G.ho.st
6. xiph.org's ghost codec
7. tachyon ghosts
8. DH's superheroine Ghost, Marvel's supervillain Ghost, Nedor's superhero The Ghost
9. Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts for the NES
10. D&D's undead ghost creature
They made up the name after Intel made up 'netbook', it's a relatively new development -- basically a netbook's hardware in a desktop case with a desktop-sized harddrive.
This seems like a fairly blatant attempt to enforce separation between the macbook and the pro.... they need a differentiating factor. Firewire seems to have been chosen.
Fools! I'll simply purchase a Firewire-to-USB adapter!
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Originals of a lot of records (x-rays for one example) do not transfer well to digital. Heck, transferring any analog recording, visual or auditory, to digital inevitably means a loss of fidelity at some point or another. You either save a far-too-small file that someone looks at and misses detail (or dismisses an important detail as compression artifacting) later, or your file is completely freaking huge.
About a year ago I went to the dentist and was surprised to discover they didn't bother with x-ray film anymore -- it was already all digital. They pointed the machine at my jaw, stepped a few yards away (didn't even go behind a partition, though I did have a lead apron protecting some of my more sensitive anatomy), pushed a button on a remote, and a monitor lit up on my right with an x-ray of my teeth. The dentist sat down and started 'exploring', using brightness/contrast controls, and was quickly able to identify my various dental imperfections. I really enjoyed it because I was able to watch the whole time, and was impressed by the clarity.
Last month I went with my wife to get her wrists examined (thought maybe carpal tunnel, turns out it's not), and her x-rays were all-digital too. She went to Radiology and by the time we walked back down the hall to the Orthopedics department, her hand and wrist x-rays were appended to her file and the physician called them up and looked them over using similar software to my dentist, and again I was impressed by the clarity and by how quickly and easily she was able to look everything over and explain things to us.
of Penny Arcade said it best:
"It's the same argument that we have whenever they -- when some kid goes nuts, right, and shoots up his school, and they find the video game, right? 'Oh, he had Doom on his computer.' Well of course he had Doom on his computer! He was a violent fuck. Violent people like video games. I don't think one leads to the other."
Where is the correlation!=causation tag?
Apparently, once studio execs had a chance to look at dailies and storyboards and so forth, they realized the film had an excellent chance of attracting a broader audience than just Trek fans. They pushed the release date to May '09 so it wouldn't have to compete with other Christmas releases for general audience attention; a May release also gives it the chance to become a runaway summer blockbuster hit. (I'll believe it when I see it.) Abrams decided this was a good thing after all, because it would give him the opportunity to make sure everything (including the all-important special effects) are as good as they can possibly be.
What this means for Trek fans, myself included, is that the film better be damn good if they got an extra four months to work on it. Personally, I'm expecting it to be a fairly lukewarm experience -- but then again, there are always possibilities...
I wish I could mod you higher than 5.
I bought my wife a diamond ring, doesn't that count?
This is Slashdot. We need car analogies, not library analogies.
It's as though you bought a used car from your neighbor, but had to buy new ignition keys from the car manufacturer.
We prefer Lunatarian, you insensitive clod!
Touche. At least she has a name now -- though I kind of liked not knowing. Added to her mystery. She'll always be Thirteen to me...
Yannow, it's pretty out in the open now...
I was horrified to find that it had been dropped.
I'm really looking forward to the whole video-game-as-a-sequel-to-a-movie, and have high hopes since the original team have such an involved role in it.
Just remember -- don't cross the streams.
Whoops.
I'll tell you when you're older.
Be grateful he didn't sleep in the nude.
Not to mention it's cheaper too.
I can't wait to have Majel Barrett narrate my on-screen events.
Mod parent up -- I've been running DD-WRT v23 SP2 on a 54GL and have had zero problems. Current uptime is 68 days, and that's only because I had to break down my equipment to move it to another room. Actual uptime would be more like a year, without ever having to look at it or even think about it.
Isn't it nice when things just work?
They're working closely with J.J. Abrams to identify the source of the Pattern.
Because there's really no more efficient way of introducing security exploits which necessitate expensive upgrades to the latest version.
I'm sorry, did I say 'expensive'? I meant 'profitable' -- Freud strikes again!
Oh, really? There's a bathroom right over there.
There should have been only one!
Now you're thinking with portals!
Seems more appropriate to /. In no particular order...
1. Starcraft: Ghost (apropos for more than one reason)
2. Ghost in the Shell
3. Norton Ghost
4. IRC GHOST
5. G.ho.st
6. xiph.org's ghost codec
7. tachyon ghosts
8. DH's superheroine Ghost, Marvel's supervillain Ghost, Nedor's superhero The Ghost
9. Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts for the NES
10. D&D's undead ghost creature
They made up the name after Intel made up 'netbook', it's a relatively new development -- basically a netbook's hardware in a desktop case with a desktop-sized harddrive.
They're called 'nettops' -- MSI and Asus both make them, as well as Koolu, CompuLab, and Everex.
This seems like a fairly blatant attempt to enforce separation between the macbook and the pro. ... they need a differentiating factor. Firewire seems to have been chosen.
Fools! I'll simply purchase a Firewire-to-USB adapter!