I've used RCS, Perforce, ClearCase, and StarTeam and IMHO StarTeam is the worst. It is slow, full of inconsistencies, and has a hopeless command line interface. It gives you no history of changes and can't even tell you what happened between two labels unless you have your entire source tree checked out from one of the labels. Nice slick GUI, no substance.
What is a progressive DVD? Is that same as any other DVD but played on a player thats capable of playing it progressively? So basically any DVD movie can be progressive as long as you have the right player?
Most DVDs where the content originated on film are encoded at 24 frames per second progressive (24P) since this is the same as film frame rate and compresses better than interlaced material. When played back at 480i (60 fields/second interlaced) a process called 3:2 pulldown is used to repeat one field from every other frame in order to get 60 fields per second rather than 48.
DVD players which can output 480P simply take the 24P material and repeat each frame 3 or 2 times alternately. For example original frames 1-24 will be played back 1,1,1,2,2,3,3,3,4,4,... in order to generate 60 progressive frames from the original 24.
And oh anybody heard anything about 720p DVD's? Will they be "burned" on same DVD media format? Will they require different DVD players? Will they be bigger in size (resulting in a new DVD media disc format) since I imagine with increased resolution movies would need more space on a DVD disc?
HD-DVDs are a year or two away. They will require new players. They will most likely be the same size/format but use different materials/manufacturing methods/laser frequencies, etc. in order to achive the higher storage densities required by HDTV.
Many schools offer a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Computer Science (and in many other disciplines.)
MSCS is not the only acronym for a Masters degree
in Computer Science.
Sounds pretty familiar. I went to John Abbott College (just outside Montreal, Canada) in 1978 and cut some of my programming and hacking teeth on an HP3000. Those were the days.
Anyone other Abbott veterans remember those times at 13 Maple Street...
What's with third degree? Since when is it a crime to leave a job because your employer is not using technology that interests you. It was a free country last time I checked.
He had a British accent but surely Bashir was of Arabic descent. For that matter, Picard had a British accent despite the fact that he was supposed to be French.
Of course the original Brit on Star Trek was John Winston's Lieutenant Kyle.
In TOS the mandatory expendable crewmember in every landing party was a security guy in a red shirt. In those days I think they actually attempted to follow the departmental color scheme as opposed to using whatever color looked best on a particular actor.
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I've used RCS, Perforce, ClearCase, and StarTeam and IMHO StarTeam is the worst. It is slow, full of inconsistencies, and has a hopeless command line interface. It gives you no history of changes and can't even tell you what happened between two labels unless you have your entire source tree checked out from one of the labels. Nice slick GUI, no substance.
Get a progressive DVD player. A line doubler will not compensate for the lack of a progressive output.
What is a progressive DVD? Is that same as any other DVD but played on a player thats capable of playing it progressively? So basically any DVD movie can be progressive as long as you have the right player?
Most DVDs where the content originated on film are encoded at 24 frames per second progressive (24P) since this is the same as film frame rate and compresses better than interlaced material. When played back at 480i (60 fields/second interlaced) a process called 3:2 pulldown is used to repeat one field from every other frame in order to get 60 fields per second rather than 48.
DVD players which can output 480P simply take the 24P material and repeat each frame 3 or 2 times alternately. For example original frames 1-24 will be played back 1,1,1,2,2,3,3,3,4,4,... in order to generate 60 progressive frames from the original 24.
And oh anybody heard anything about 720p DVD's? Will they be "burned" on same DVD media format? Will they require different DVD players? Will they be bigger in size (resulting in a new DVD media disc format) since I imagine with increased resolution movies would need more space on a DVD disc?
HD-DVDs are a year or two away. They will require new players. They will most likely be the same size/format but use different materials/manufacturing methods/laser frequencies, etc. in order to achive the higher storage densities required by HDTV.
BTW, you want a MSCS. You forgot the "c".
Many schools offer a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Computer Science (and in many other disciplines.)
MSCS is not the only acronym for a Masters degree
in Computer Science.
I could careless "careless" is a word but you should have used "care less"
Ummm... if you want to be picky about grammar, it's "I couldn't care less".
"I could care less" is a bastardization which means the exact opposite of what people who say it think it does.
Sounds pretty familiar. I went to John Abbott College (just outside Montreal, Canada) in 1978 and cut some of my programming and hacking teeth on an HP3000. Those were the days.
Anyone other Abbott veterans remember those times at 13 Maple Street...
What's with third degree? Since when is it a crime to leave a job because your employer is not using technology that interests you. It was a free country last time I checked.
Letterbox or no, *every* prime-time drama and comedy is filmed or shot in HDTV.
He had a British accent but surely Bashir was of Arabic descent. For that matter, Picard had a British accent despite the fact that he was supposed to be French.
Of course the original Brit on Star Trek was John Winston's Lieutenant Kyle.
Satan oscillate my metallic sonatas.
In TOS the mandatory expendable crewmember in every landing party was a security guy in a red shirt. In those days I think they actually attempted to follow the departmental color scheme as opposed to using whatever color looked best on a particular actor.