Maybe the photo lab blanked out those pictures. It's not inconceivable; there are laws and such to report child pornography and things. Maybe there's a similar arrangement for national security sites.
If there really was some gizmo, though, it sounds like they figured out a way to get the camera to overexpose the film. Easiest way to do that would be to trick the camera into thinking that it was really dark somehow. There's no reason why you couldn't work around that, though, at least with a semi-professional camera.
Alternately, maybe they beamed a ton of X-rays at you.;)
The thing I hate about the idea of watching a bootleg is that it ruins that first viewing experience. Once you've watched a crappy bootleg of a movie, you can never get that back.
I sometimes even avoid reading reviews too deeply, to avoid spoilers, but I will visit a sit like Rotten Tomatoes to get a feeling of whether a movie is going to just plain suck or not.
Watching a great movie for the very first time in a theater setting is, for me, just one of greatest joys in cinema. The second viewing is never quite the same.
It's like those "interviews" where they try to show just how dumb the average Joe is. Go out on the street with a world map and let people point out Iraq. Sure, 90% might find it, but when you only show the 10% who search for ages and finally point to India or even Florida, you "show" just how dumb the population is.
I think you greatly underestimate how truly uninformed most Americans really are about geography.
This isn't actually related to what this guy did, but real restorations often are purposefully "ugly" so that you can tell the difference between the original material, and the restoration. This is to preserve the historical record.
First, this problem takes like a few minutes to correct. If you're applying the patch on command, instead of just blindly patching automatically, then you should be around long enough to do a smoke test and make sure you didn't bork anything.
Second, if you only have one server, it's eventually going to go down for one reason or another, whether it's a botched upgrade, misconfiguration, or simple hardware/power failure. A little downtime isn't ideal, but it's the expected situation, and for a small business, usually not fatal.
If reliability is that important to you, then you simply need a test server. If you can't or won't, you have to live with less than reliable service. That's all there is to it.
There will always be bugs with updates, because you simply can't test every configuration out there, especially for a time-sensitive security update.
Umm... there weren't any supervillains until the storyline called for them. I'm not sure how "realistic" it is for supervillains to even exist, especially if some unstoppable vigilante is always picking them off.
If you can get away with just putting the computer to sleep, rather than powering it off entirely, S3 sleep (suspend to RAM) works pretty well on modern hardware. Pretty much instantaneous sleep and resume.
Umm, read-only Blu-ray drives have dropped to something like $100-$125 (at least on NewEgg). And they're faster than the drive in the PS3 (although that doesn't really matter for movie playback).
I'll grant you that the PS3 is probably one of the most capable CE-style Blu-ray players, but if you have your computer hooked up to your TV or just sit in front of your monitor, it's certainly a cheaper option.
I was interested in FIOS speeds a little, but I discovered that they would be cutting the independently-powered copper and replacing it with an 8-hour battery on the wall of the house. But... if they do that, and then a hurricane comes, then the landline is nothing more than a glorified cellphone with an 8-hour battery... most hurricane power outages last much longer than that, and there is a need to call city lines for messages on drinking water and the like that just aren't available from radio.
While having a phone line powered by the telco is nice... I'm not sure if that 8 hour battery is only going to last 8 hours into an emergency. Seems more like it's going to last for 8 hours of usage, which should be plenty. Are you really going to be yapping on the phone for 8 hours in the middle of a severe power outage?
What I'd be more worried about is the longevity of those batteries. If your battery fails and it needs to be replaced, and the next day a hurricane or tornado blows through... well, I wouldn't want to be you.
So an airship that is designed to move heavy cargo across long distances will likely encounter weather conditions that are different than its port of departure.
So, umm, why can't the airship just park and wait out the storm?
If we're talking about an airship being used to move freight long distances, then presumably timeliness is not particularly important. We don't drive oil tankers through hurricanes, either.
The threat we need to evaluate is sudden turbulence or storms causing a problem, not large, slow-moving weather systems who paths can be predicted well in advanced. Certainly long enough to ensure that a cargo airship could take a detour or simply wait for the storm to pass.
Actually, chances of surviving a fire on the ground in an aircraft are quite low. Most of the fatalities in air crashes come from people who burn to death shortly after impact, rather than the impact itself.
I'm also reminded of numerous crashes which happen quite close to the ground which result in massive casualties--Tenerife, in particular, comes to mind. The greatest loss of life in aviation history came about because of a collision on the ground.
One of the things that makes airline accidents so deadly isn't necessarily the altitude, but the speed and the fact that these things are carrying so much damn fuel. I wonder which has more energy, the envelope of the Hindenburg or your average passenger jet fuel tank...
(Incidentally, airships can crash land from quite high altitudes with minimal ill effects. Because they're lighter than air, and contain so much lifting gas, even sizable holes leak quite slowly in comparison to the envelope volume, and the airship drops slowly. Fatal airship crashes have usually involved loss of control, rather than a sudden loss of lift; even the Hindenburg, with the entire envelope aflame, crashed rather gently.)
Thing is, why would you want to re-compress a Blu-ray movie down to something usable? Why not just buy a DVD and compress that?
The compression on a high def disc isn't as high as it could be, but it's usually as pretty darn good as you can get for a given picture quality and level of technology.
Nobody's invented a magical codec that beats the ones used on current discs by any sort of significant margin, so the only thing recompressing gets you is reduced resolution or increased artifacting. Now, these may be acceptable trade-offs for the storage savings, but again, I wonder why not just rip from a DVD source instead.
The kind of people who would rip Blu-ray movies at this point (videophiles, basically) are probably the ones who want to keep the whole thing, not transcode it.
It is misleading to say that he ruled against the government. He represents a branch of the government, an independent judiciary, and he made a decision contrary to that of other branches of government.
It's a bit of an abuse of the term, but "government" in this context is usually taken to mean the executive, as represented by the Department of Justice in a court of law.
I suppose it derives from its usage in parliamentary systems, where what we could call an administration is called the government.
And if you're tempted to use a different theme for each location, just DON'T. What's more important to you, being able to tell what a machine does, or knowing where it's at? If you do theme by location, all you're going to clarify is where it's at.
Actually, I'd rather have both. It's kinda important to know where machine foo.bar.baz is when it becomes unreachable, because it probably means you're going to have to do a rack crawl. I think the idea of using subdomains for location, and hostnames for functions, makes a lot of sense.
Oddly enough, there actually is such a thing as dehydrated water. Normal drinking water isn't actually pure water; that's what we would call distilled water.
Of course, if you're going to add water to something, might as well make it Gatorade or something similar.
Building solar plants can often be an environmentally unfriendly process. Once they're in operation, though, fairly clean technology.
Something to be said for shading effects and so on, too, but we're talking about putting a bunch of mirrors/panels in the middle of a desert. The wildlife would probably welcome a little patch of shade.
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Maybe the photo lab blanked out those pictures. It's not inconceivable; there are laws and such to report child pornography and things. Maybe there's a similar arrangement for national security sites.
If there really was some gizmo, though, it sounds like they figured out a way to get the camera to overexpose the film. Easiest way to do that would be to trick the camera into thinking that it was really dark somehow. There's no reason why you couldn't work around that, though, at least with a semi-professional camera.
Alternately, maybe they beamed a ton of X-rays at you. ;)
The thing I hate about the idea of watching a bootleg is that it ruins that first viewing experience. Once you've watched a crappy bootleg of a movie, you can never get that back.
I sometimes even avoid reading reviews too deeply, to avoid spoilers, but I will visit a sit like Rotten Tomatoes to get a feeling of whether a movie is going to just plain suck or not.
Watching a great movie for the very first time in a theater setting is, for me, just one of greatest joys in cinema. The second viewing is never quite the same.
We have deserts in America too. We just don't live in them!
Never been to Southern California, have you?
(And don't get me started on Phoenix.)
It's like those "interviews" where they try to show just how dumb the average Joe is. Go out on the street with a world map and let people point out Iraq. Sure, 90% might find it, but when you only show the 10% who search for ages and finally point to India or even Florida, you "show" just how dumb the population is.
I think you greatly underestimate how truly uninformed most Americans really are about geography.
This isn't actually related to what this guy did, but real restorations often are purposefully "ugly" so that you can tell the difference between the original material, and the restoration. This is to preserve the historical record.
People are used to .0 releases being not quite there yet. The problem with KDE 4.0 is that it was more like an alpha than a release candidate.
You're allowed to shoot escaped convicts on sight, right?
Pretty ironic, considering what this guy did with his 2nd amendment rights.
First, this problem takes like a few minutes to correct. If you're applying the patch on command, instead of just blindly patching automatically, then you should be around long enough to do a smoke test and make sure you didn't bork anything.
Second, if you only have one server, it's eventually going to go down for one reason or another, whether it's a botched upgrade, misconfiguration, or simple hardware/power failure. A little downtime isn't ideal, but it's the expected situation, and for a small business, usually not fatal.
If reliability is that important to you, then you simply need a test server. If you can't or won't, you have to live with less than reliable service. That's all there is to it.
There will always be bugs with updates, because you simply can't test every configuration out there, especially for a time-sensitive security update.
And contrariwise, if it's not important enough to test, then it's not important enough to not go down. So grin and bear it.
So, what happens at 25?
When you become 25, you've become wise enough to know better. Usually. Either that, or natural selection generally takes care of it.
Umm... there weren't any supervillains until the storyline called for them. I'm not sure how "realistic" it is for supervillains to even exist, especially if some unstoppable vigilante is always picking them off.
If you can get away with just putting the computer to sleep, rather than powering it off entirely, S3 sleep (suspend to RAM) works pretty well on modern hardware. Pretty much instantaneous sleep and resume.
Don't sell the gameplay short. Sands of Time had absolutely revolutionary gameplay in its day; still does, to some extent.
Umm, read-only Blu-ray drives have dropped to something like $100-$125 (at least on NewEgg). And they're faster than the drive in the PS3 (although that doesn't really matter for movie playback).
I'll grant you that the PS3 is probably one of the most capable CE-style Blu-ray players, but if you have your computer hooked up to your TV or just sit in front of your monitor, it's certainly a cheaper option.
Since when can you get a Wii (plus this add-on) for under $50?
I was interested in FIOS speeds a little, but I discovered that they would be cutting the independently-powered copper and replacing it with an 8-hour battery on the wall of the house. But... if they do that, and then a hurricane comes, then the landline is nothing more than a glorified cellphone with an 8-hour battery... most hurricane power outages last much longer than that, and there is a need to call city lines for messages on drinking water and the like that just aren't available from radio.
While having a phone line powered by the telco is nice... I'm not sure if that 8 hour battery is only going to last 8 hours into an emergency. Seems more like it's going to last for 8 hours of usage, which should be plenty. Are you really going to be yapping on the phone for 8 hours in the middle of a severe power outage?
What I'd be more worried about is the longevity of those batteries. If your battery fails and it needs to be replaced, and the next day a hurricane or tornado blows through... well, I wouldn't want to be you.
So an airship that is designed to move heavy cargo across long distances will likely encounter weather conditions that are different than its port of departure.
So, umm, why can't the airship just park and wait out the storm?
If we're talking about an airship being used to move freight long distances, then presumably timeliness is not particularly important. We don't drive oil tankers through hurricanes, either.
The threat we need to evaluate is sudden turbulence or storms causing a problem, not large, slow-moving weather systems who paths can be predicted well in advanced. Certainly long enough to ensure that a cargo airship could take a detour or simply wait for the storm to pass.
Actually, chances of surviving a fire on the ground in an aircraft are quite low. Most of the fatalities in air crashes come from people who burn to death shortly after impact, rather than the impact itself.
I'm also reminded of numerous crashes which happen quite close to the ground which result in massive casualties--Tenerife, in particular, comes to mind. The greatest loss of life in aviation history came about because of a collision on the ground.
One of the things that makes airline accidents so deadly isn't necessarily the altitude, but the speed and the fact that these things are carrying so much damn fuel. I wonder which has more energy, the envelope of the Hindenburg or your average passenger jet fuel tank...
(Incidentally, airships can crash land from quite high altitudes with minimal ill effects. Because they're lighter than air, and contain so much lifting gas, even sizable holes leak quite slowly in comparison to the envelope volume, and the airship drops slowly. Fatal airship crashes have usually involved loss of control, rather than a sudden loss of lift; even the Hindenburg, with the entire envelope aflame, crashed rather gently.)
Thing is, why would you want to re-compress a Blu-ray movie down to something usable? Why not just buy a DVD and compress that?
The compression on a high def disc isn't as high as it could be, but it's usually as pretty darn good as you can get for a given picture quality and level of technology.
Nobody's invented a magical codec that beats the ones used on current discs by any sort of significant margin, so the only thing recompressing gets you is reduced resolution or increased artifacting. Now, these may be acceptable trade-offs for the storage savings, but again, I wonder why not just rip from a DVD source instead.
The kind of people who would rip Blu-ray movies at this point (videophiles, basically) are probably the ones who want to keep the whole thing, not transcode it.
You even got the right answer. Congratulations. :-)
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It is misleading to say that he ruled against the government. He represents a branch of the government, an independent judiciary, and he made a decision contrary to that of other branches of government.
It's a bit of an abuse of the term, but "government" in this context is usually taken to mean the executive, as represented by the Department of Justice in a court of law.
I suppose it derives from its usage in parliamentary systems, where what we could call an administration is called the government.
And if you're tempted to use a different theme for each location, just DON'T. What's more important to you, being able to tell what a machine does, or knowing where it's at? If you do theme by location, all you're going to clarify is where it's at.
Actually, I'd rather have both. It's kinda important to know where machine foo.bar.baz is when it becomes unreachable, because it probably means you're going to have to do a rack crawl. I think the idea of using subdomains for location, and hostnames for functions, makes a lot of sense.
Oddly enough, there actually is such a thing as dehydrated water. Normal drinking water isn't actually pure water; that's what we would call distilled water.
Of course, if you're going to add water to something, might as well make it Gatorade or something similar.
For instance, I saw the preview to Journey to the Center of the Earth. It seemed to be this kind of random movie.
To be fair, that's a lot like how the original Verne book plays out, too.
Building solar plants can often be an environmentally unfriendly process. Once they're in operation, though, fairly clean technology.
Something to be said for shading effects and so on, too, but we're talking about putting a bunch of mirrors/panels in the middle of a desert. The wildlife would probably welcome a little patch of shade.