As stated in the article, it's for car financing. I've actually seen the commercial but did not remember the name of the company.
What is more interesting is to see what of the domain names?
Pets.com domain is now owned by PetSmart, who cannot render the page in Firefox correctly. TechieGold.com is still around. Computer.com is owned by Tech Depot. LifeMinders.com is owned by "Cross Media Marketing Corporation" Epidemic.com is one of those weird search engines, this one owned by "Netincome Corp" OurBeginning(s).com now points to Ashton Stationery.
Note none of the "noun" Dot Coms survived... Warehouse.com or Drugstore.com or Shoes.com. But there's plenty of "name" ones that people remember (eBay, etc).
Actually 1.33:1 (the "Academy Ratio") is literally full-frame on a regular TV. A 1.85:1 movie is only "full-frame" on widescreen TVs (16:9 as opposed to 4:3).
When a movie shot to be framed in 1.85:1 is full-frame on a TV it usually makes sense to have it be "open matte" or "unmatted" which means the entire 1.33:1 image of the film is shown. There's many DVDs of this type.
The "widest" movie I can think of off the top of my head is It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World which is 2.75:1.
The difference here is how the "full screen" (or properly, 4:3 ratio'd) film is put into DVD.
Some, mostly old Kung Fu flicks, are simply "squeezed". The image is all there but everyone is especially tall and skinny. This is certainly a rarity.
Many are converted to "pan and scan" - which means that a 4:3 area is cropped out of the much wider film. A Few Good Men (VHS copies at least) have this - it often gives you a sickening feeling because the "panning" is so unnatural.
A very small amount are "open matte" - take, for example, Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. The film is not "matted" to look widescreen in the DVD release, it is simply left as the camera got it. In movies such as the first two installments of the Harry Potter series, the director Christopher Columbus framed the movie to work well in widescreen as well as open matte. The result is a movie that (in theory) looks as good in widescreen as it does in full screen.
Then there's the cases where the director or cinematographer are not involved and the person doing the mastering and transfer to DVD can only guess as to which part of the image is how the film should've been framed. An easy example would be Spoorloos (The Vanishing) which had different ratios in releases by Criterion and Fox Lorber (I would put my money on Criterion knowing the right ratio).
Hence, many times, you don't get more or less image with a specific kind of frame. What film enthusiasts instill is the concept of viewing the film in OAR, the Original Aspect Ratio. That is, under the director's original intentions, whatever those were (Kubrick shot EWS for open matte viewing at home).
I don't save any money. Therefore I have nothing to steal of value at the bank!
If they want to steal from me, they have to steal my investments, and most of the time, I mix them in with Coke and down them at nights! No whisk(e)y for you!
The fact is, most people won't even know they can't fix Windows. They are left with three choices:
1. Keep on using Windows. 2. Switch to Mac and buy all new hardware ($1000+) just to check email and have a small headache learning a new system. 3. Switch to Linux and have a big headache learning a new system.
Most people will do #1. #2 doesn't exist. A new Mac is a lot more expensive than buying Windows. And #3 will only affect highly skilled pirates, who are probably using Linux already.
First off, the Carmack poster references the 1973 movie The Mach which has nothing to do with rap whatsoever (and predates it anyways). Maybe a pimp movie, yes, but not an 80's rap star.
And as far as the submission says, "You may not think it, given the proliferation of sequels and movie tie-ins that clog up the charts like that sickly white glue in the veins of heavy smokers."...What?
So Halo 2, Half-Life 2, GTA:SA aren't good games?
Video games are completely opposite movies and TV shows. Sequels are usually better, or, at least, of very equal quality. Look at some of the obvious progressions like SMB -> SMB2 -> SMB3 -> SMW. All of those games were amazing but each one was able to top the one before it.* Halo 2 is far far better than Halo:CE in many respects. The SSX series improves from title to title. It's the nature of the media. Games, by nature, are repetitive. Especially things that are multi-player or non-mission based. You play them over and over and over. Think of your favorite game. You've probably played it well over 100 hours, possibly even 500 hours or 1000 hours or more. Who has ever seen a movie more than 50 times?
Saying "sequels are bad" in videogames is like saying sequels are bad in software or cars or appliances. It doesn't really apply. Even with movies, sequels get a bad rap. Sure, there's Leprechaun in Space and Air Bud: World Pup but look at IMDB's top 250 -- there's a lot of sequels or franchises in there.
* OK, Super Mario Brothers 2 wasn't that cool, but you could pick stuff up and it set the visual themes for Mario games for the next decade.**
the largest use of graphics in movies is kids movies
You're... insane. Sure, CGI-only movies like Jimmy Neutron, Shrek 2, and Finding Nemo are all "kids" movies, but there's "graphics" in almost every single major movie released, especially in the top-grossing.
To whit (graphic/CG-intensive movies in bold:
*** 2004 Shrek 2 Spider-Man 2 The Passion of the Christ The Incredibles Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Meet the Fockers The Day After Tomorrow The Bourne Supremacy National Treasure* The Polar Express
*** 2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Finding Nemo Pirates of the Caribbean** The Matrix Reloaded Bruce Almighty*** X2: X-Men United Elf Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines The Matrix Revolutions Cheaper by the Dozen
Even going back to... *** 1995 Toy Story Batman Forever Apollo 13 Pocahontas Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Goldeneye Jumanji Casper Se7en Die Hard With a Vengeance
I would say that the larger movies are action films and family-friendly kid fare. However, you don't need CG to make either of those work. Like it or not, CG at this point is everywhere.
* I didn't see this one but I imagine it to be standard action/adventure popcorn fare. My guess is that is IS CG-intensive but having not seen it, I won't comment. ** The skeletons! *** Sure, some CG was used, but this could be easily done w/o CG.
Just a pedantic comment, but Google didn't invent spidering the web - I could find relevant stuff on Hotbot years before. It's just that Google had a pretty good interface, some nice extras (caching all the pages), and a slightly improved version of presenting relevant stuff. But still not that good. Try searching for "mortgage" and your hometown, for example.
Bush is a bad president because his inauguration total was around $40 mil, while Clinton was a good president because his '93 inauguration was only $33 million.
Mind you, in real (inflation-adjusted) terms, they're about the same. I don't have the exact figure for both, but Clinton's 1993 expenditure is about $42m in today's dollars.
To put it into perspective, that's about 18.1 cents for every U.S. adult.
I got a Chinese bootleg NES cartridge with 42 games on it (later I saw some with 100 or more games). Combining that with this player would be nice. What would be nicer is if someone found an "adapter" which made this thing run off of, say, a 512MB memory card so you can fit as many damn NES games on it as you want.
That's not interesting or insightful. It's just a blanket statement.
"All local bread is better than global bread."
Is it? Is there any conclusive proof to this anywhere? As far as I can tell, both the local bakeries, regional grocery stores, and national chains all offer different kinds of bread - from nutritionally useless white bread to donuts to whole grain bread.
Food is cheap right now. It's one of the few things (along with tech) that gets cheaper and cheaper and cheaper each year. And that's all food. From partially hydrogenated soybean oil (mmmmMMM!) to spinach and legumes. Milk does seem to be getting more expensive, in real terms, and I'm not sure if it's simply other costs going up and the Milk Price Support Program or something similar, increasing the overall costs, or what. It seems, however, that pricing differences between the producer and the consumer do not seem to correlate, even abroad.
But, in summary, not all mass produced food = cheap, not all mass produced food = poor quality, nor cheap = quality. I think the only difference is that for local food producers to compete, they have to have exceptional quality if they want to stay in business.
I use Paint over Photoshop. Sure, the pixel by pixel work is a bit tedious, but I think of it like making a mosaic. Just one with millions and millions of pixels. I start with a base and slowly add more detail. I'm working on a picture of Johnny Carson right now. I think it's coming together quite nicely.
Real Player for Enterprise has "no product registration" (you just "register" - fake info is OK - for the download). It has no in-player ads or anything else. Only for Win NT/XP/2K.
By that logic, find a book that teaches calc just by you reading it. No pencil, no paper, no calculator, no graphing paper. Just the book.
However, calc software (or math software) certainly exists that can teach mathematics along with you having a pencil, paper, calculator, etc.- just like the book.
Your post nad this post don't seem to agree. Which has more players? WoW or FFXI? Maybe WoW has more players in the US and FFXI more players in the world?
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As stated in the article, it's for car financing. I've actually seen the commercial but did not remember the name of the company.
What is more interesting is to see what of the domain names?
Pets.com domain is now owned by PetSmart, who cannot render the page in Firefox correctly.
TechieGold.com is still around.
Computer.com is owned by Tech Depot.
LifeMinders.com is owned by "Cross Media Marketing Corporation"
Epidemic.com is one of those weird search engines, this one owned by "Netincome Corp"
OurBeginning(s).com now points to Ashton Stationery.
Note none of the "noun" Dot Coms survived... Warehouse.com or Drugstore.com or Shoes.com. But there's plenty of "name" ones that people remember (eBay, etc).
Did you not see the extended version of Episode I?
At the end the Jedi defeats the evil koopa and then Padme comes out and she's all like,
"Sorry, Jedi, but your Princess is in another castle."
I think you meant Major Major Major Major.
Yossarian!!!
Actually 1.33:1 (the "Academy Ratio") is literally full-frame on a regular TV. A 1.85:1 movie is only "full-frame" on widescreen TVs (16:9 as opposed to 4:3).
When a movie shot to be framed in 1.85:1 is full-frame on a TV it usually makes sense to have it be "open matte" or "unmatted" which means the entire 1.33:1 image of the film is shown. There's many DVDs of this type.
The "widest" movie I can think of off the top of my head is It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World which is 2.75:1.
There's also an interesting article from 1953 on the up-and-coming "CinemaScope" process.
The difference here is how the "full screen" (or properly, 4:3 ratio'd) film is put into DVD.
Some, mostly old Kung Fu flicks, are simply "squeezed". The image is all there but everyone is especially tall and skinny. This is certainly a rarity.
Many are converted to "pan and scan" - which means that a 4:3 area is cropped out of the much wider film. A Few Good Men (VHS copies at least) have this - it often gives you a sickening feeling because the "panning" is so unnatural.
A very small amount are "open matte" - take, for example, Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. The film is not "matted" to look widescreen in the DVD release, it is simply left as the camera got it. In movies such as the first two installments of the Harry Potter series, the director Christopher Columbus framed the movie to work well in widescreen as well as open matte. The result is a movie that (in theory) looks as good in widescreen as it does in full screen.
Then there's the cases where the director or cinematographer are not involved and the person doing the mastering and transfer to DVD can only guess as to which part of the image is how the film should've been framed. An easy example would be Spoorloos (The Vanishing) which had different ratios in releases by Criterion and Fox Lorber (I would put my money on Criterion knowing the right ratio).
Hence, many times, you don't get more or less image with a specific kind of frame. What film enthusiasts instill is the concept of viewing the film in OAR, the Original Aspect Ratio. That is, under the director's original intentions, whatever those were (Kubrick shot EWS for open matte viewing at home).
This, the week after a similar weakness* is shown on 24?
Remember to always question policy this way: WWJBD? What Would Jack Bauer Do?
That is all.
* Yes I know, it's TV.
I don't save any money. Therefore I have nothing to steal of value at the bank!
If they want to steal from me, they have to steal my investments, and most of the time, I mix them in with Coke and down them at nights! No whisk(e)y for you!
The fact is, most people won't even know they can't fix Windows. They are left with three choices:
1. Keep on using Windows.
2. Switch to Mac and buy all new hardware ($1000+) just to check email and have a small headache learning a new system.
3. Switch to Linux and have a big headache learning a new system.
Most people will do #1. #2 doesn't exist. A new Mac is a lot more expensive than buying Windows. And #3 will only affect highly skilled pirates, who are probably using Linux already.
First off, the Carmack poster references the 1973 movie The Mach which has nothing to do with rap whatsoever (and predates it anyways). Maybe a pimp movie, yes, but not an 80's rap star.
...What?
And as far as the submission says, "You may not think it, given the proliferation of sequels and movie tie-ins that clog up the charts like that sickly white glue in the veins of heavy smokers."
So Halo 2, Half-Life 2, GTA:SA aren't good games?
Video games are completely opposite movies and TV shows. Sequels are usually better, or, at least, of very equal quality. Look at some of the obvious progressions like SMB -> SMB2 -> SMB3 -> SMW. All of those games were amazing but each one was able to top the one before it.* Halo 2 is far far better than Halo:CE in many respects. The SSX series improves from title to title. It's the nature of the media. Games, by nature, are repetitive. Especially things that are multi-player or non-mission based. You play them over and over and over. Think of your favorite game. You've probably played it well over 100 hours, possibly even 500 hours or 1000 hours or more. Who has ever seen a movie more than 50 times?
Saying "sequels are bad" in videogames is like saying sequels are bad in software or cars or appliances. It doesn't really apply. Even with movies, sequels get a bad rap. Sure, there's Leprechaun in Space and Air Bud: World Pup but look at IMDB's top 250 -- there's a lot of sequels or franchises in there.
* OK, Super Mario Brothers 2 wasn't that cool, but you could pick stuff up and it set the visual themes for Mario games for the next decade.**
You're... insane. Sure, CGI-only movies like Jimmy Neutron, Shrek 2, and Finding Nemo are all "kids" movies, but there's "graphics" in almost every single major movie released, especially in the top-grossing.
To whit (graphic/CG-intensive movies in bold:
*** 2004
Shrek 2
Spider-Man 2
The Passion of the Christ
The Incredibles
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Meet the Fockers
The Day After Tomorrow
The Bourne Supremacy
National Treasure*
The Polar Express
*** 2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Finding Nemo
Pirates of the Caribbean**
The Matrix Reloaded
Bruce Almighty***
X2: X-Men United
Elf
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
The Matrix Revolutions
Cheaper by the Dozen
Even going back to...
*** 1995
Toy Story
Batman Forever
Apollo 13
Pocahontas
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Goldeneye
Jumanji
Casper
Se7en
Die Hard With a Vengeance
Source: Box Office Mojo
I would say that the larger movies are action films and family-friendly kid fare. However, you don't need CG to make either of those work. Like it or not, CG at this point is everywhere.
* I didn't see this one but I imagine it to be standard action/adventure popcorn fare. My guess is that is IS CG-intensive but having not seen it, I won't comment.
** The skeletons!
*** Sure, some CG was used, but this could be easily done w/o CG.
You mean against Sega, Nintendo, SNK (Neo-Geo), and the 3DO?
Wait, oh you mean companies today.
That said, Apple != gaming. Apple = cool but overly expensive. Much like Sony != gaming but = cool and overly expensive.
Just a pedantic comment, but Google didn't invent spidering the web - I could find relevant stuff on Hotbot years before. It's just that Google had a pretty good interface, some nice extras (caching all the pages), and a slightly improved version of presenting relevant stuff. But still not that good. Try searching for "mortgage" and your hometown, for example.
Google Suggest's 'p' search term will definitely still be Paris Hilton.
Mind you, in real (inflation-adjusted) terms, they're about the same. I don't have the exact figure for both, but Clinton's 1993 expenditure is about $42m in today's dollars.
To put it into perspective, that's about 18.1 cents for every U.S. adult.
I got a Chinese bootleg NES cartridge with 42 games on it (later I saw some with 100 or more games). Combining that with this player would be nice. What would be nicer is if someone found an "adapter" which made this thing run off of, say, a 512MB memory card so you can fit as many damn NES games on it as you want.
Not only that, IT STILL SHOWS UP! I just searched and still had an ad come in on the right side in Google.
That's not interesting or insightful. It's just a blanket statement.
"All local bread is better than global bread."
Is it? Is there any conclusive proof to this anywhere? As far as I can tell, both the local bakeries, regional grocery stores, and national chains all offer different kinds of bread - from nutritionally useless white bread to donuts to whole grain bread.
Food is cheap right now. It's one of the few things (along with tech) that gets cheaper and cheaper and cheaper each year. And that's all food. From partially hydrogenated soybean oil (mmmmMMM!) to spinach and legumes. Milk does seem to be getting more expensive, in real terms, and I'm not sure if it's simply other costs going up and the Milk Price Support Program or something similar, increasing the overall costs, or what. It seems, however, that pricing differences between the producer and the consumer do not seem to correlate, even abroad.
But, in summary, not all mass produced food = cheap, not all mass produced food = poor quality, nor cheap = quality. I think the only difference is that for local food producers to compete, they have to have exceptional quality if they want to stay in business.
I use Paint over Photoshop. Sure, the pixel by pixel work is a bit tedious, but I think of it like making a mosaic. Just one with millions and millions of pixels. I start with a base and slowly add more detail. I'm working on a picture of Johnny Carson right now. I think it's coming together quite nicely.
Real Player for Enterprise has "no product registration" (you just "register" - fake info is OK - for the download). It has no in-player ads or anything else. Only for Win NT/XP/2K.
One of the sites I maintain has more WebTV users than Opera users.
That's right. WebTV.
If that's not a nail in Opera's coffin, I don't know what is.
By that logic, find a book that teaches calc just by you reading it. No pencil, no paper, no calculator, no graphing paper. Just the book.
However, calc software (or math software) certainly exists that can teach mathematics along with you having a pencil, paper, calculator, etc.- just like the book.
IBM? Wouldn't they just be able to hit big red that 'Help' button?
Your post nad this post don't seem to agree. Which has more players? WoW or FFXI? Maybe WoW has more players in the US and FFXI more players in the world?
Well, here's to hoping Sega comes out with a really good college football game. To some extent, they could compete.