I don't think it's at all similar in technology, just the effect. A photo finish is much faster than any scanning imager could handle.
what you see as a blurred stretched line as background is more likely the result of the camera (which is likely operating at a VERY high shutter speed) panning to keep the subjects in focus.
If you had to wait for a scanner to take the picture you'd get the opposite effect, the background and anything sitting still would be crystal clear and the racers would just be a blur if they showed up at all.
For that matter I serously doubt that the bar codes map to any Non-alphanumeric characters in ASCII that alone brings your set of possibilitys down to a more manageable chunk.
Wow, if ticket takers are willing to accept a barcode displayed on an LCD I imagine that it'll only be a matter of tiem till someone writes a Java phone program that quickly cycles through a bunch of random barcode numbers till it hits on one that the system accepts.
You'd probably have several seconds to do it before the person scanning it gives up trying to scan the "bad phone display" and tries another way to verify the ticket.
Generally Apple machines, like Dell machines have more and bigger fans than necessary so they can turn them more sowly and produce LESS noise than a standard PC.
Why not? it was only a year ago that $90 was the going rate for a 256Mbyte usb key.... we've quadrupled the storage for that price in a year, why would we not be able to do the same this year??
Isn't AUDIO_TS supposed to be for DVD-Audio, while VIDEO_TS is for DVD-Video?
Yes, it is, but on both types of discs you are supposed to have both folders, even if one is completely empty. That is part of the standard, and many DVD players that adhere to the stanndard will not recognize it as a DVD if one of the folders is missing.
Usually the reason why crappy DVD-Video players play back things that don't play in other players isn't because the pickup is better, but because the decoder is more tolerant of non-standard discs. Some discs that play on PCs and these cheap players just won't play on the better ones because the disc itself is not made to the proper DVD spec. Most often I've seen either improperly encoded video or missing AUDIO_TS folders. Next to that is not having the files organized properly on the disc, or the wrong file system (ISO vs UDF)
It was on his audio commentary at the end of one of the Audible.com editions of either Shadow of the Hegemon or Ender's Shadow. I think it was Ender's Shadow because he also talked about how it was a fan who gave him the idea of combining Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow into one movie script so that internal dialog could be externalized into conversations between Ender and Bean.
Yeah, throw a twelve-year-old kid today's New York Times crossword puzzle and see how many they're actually able to complete before "I don't understand any of these, this sucks, are we there yet?"
There is a solution to that, don't buy the kid the NY Times, buy him/her an EASY crosswords book. They are usually on the bottom shelf of any convenience store magazine rack.
You really liked Ender's Shadow better than Shadow of the Hegemon?
To me Ender's Shadow was the necessary, if tedious, backstory to launch the shadow series. Let's face it Ender's shadow was mostly just a re-telling of Ender's game, so there were not really many surpises, it just set up the characters and beginnings of a new plot for the rest of the shadow series.
I agree with you about Speaker being the best of the series though.
He's saying that mostly because Hollywood types have been telling him he has to make a lot of changes that he feels would kill the story because they say his story won't sell as a movie.
He's been offered several times to make a movie of Ender's Game if only they'd be allowed to make ender a teenager and give him a love interest, because then it might work as a date movie. Obviously that's not the Ender's Game Card wrote or wants to see on screen.
He's been picking out examples like this lately as a way of telling Hollywood execs "see we can make Ender my way and people will buy it".
While a kick to the groin definitely hurts that would have to be one hell of a kick to kill him, and I think Ender would know right away that he'd killed Bonzo by the fact his foot went halfway through him.
The kick is just to show that Bonzo is dead or unconscious at that point.
Funny you should say that, as the Harry Potter series is what convinced Card to give Hollywood another go at it. Before that he was convinced that it's just impossible to get enough good child actors to pull it off as live action.
Isn't it a little early for you to be getting bitter about competition with Linux? You only just made your first code release 9 days ago and the only information I can find about it is it's coded in Pascal and it finally boots and recognizes IRQ. I think there's a few years of development and some communication about what you can do well (when you have somethinig that you can do) before you need to get upset about Linux beating you to new hardware.
I thought it was just one technical reason: the capacity of the disc. That's really all there was to it, right? The point HD-DVD had going for it was that the discs and players would have been cheaper to make.
That's true if you are just looking at it as a storage medium like CD-R/CD-RW on a PC.
As a video/media format Blue-ray offers a much more dynamic and useful menu system. Right now DVD menus are not much more than a short looping (and usually poorly looped) MPEG 2 stream. Blu-ray's specs included a default configuration for set top players that included Java support which would really push the flexibility well beyond what we can accomplish with plain old DVD menus.
Have you ever tried to play the little games on the kids DVDs?? now imagine if they had had an actual programming language to work with rather than just 'if button x is pressed jump to 5:35 in the video stream'.
Basically DVD menuing (and HD-DVD menuing) amounts to
10 play video 20 check for button press 30 goto 10
I thought it was open Coors... then you get iron hot, add carbon, make steel.
No no no... that won't work at all, if you open the Coors before attempting work it will never happen. The correct order is get iron hot, add carbon, make steel, repeat as necessary THEN open Coors.
"How long will a complete transition to IPV6 take? Many many years IMO, if it ever happens at all. None of the firms I know of or work with have even started looking into migrating yet. Hell they are'nt even talking about it."
This is the thing that bothers me, it looks like y2k all over again. No body thinks it's a problem until there's a last minute scramble to get the issue resolved.
The only difference is this time around there's no clearly defined cutoff date and when the transition happens it'll probably be spread out over months or years as people start to clue in that they are missing half the internet.
Most of the technological hurdles in connectivity have been overcome, even home users can upgrade their linksys routers in 5 minutes or so to take advantage of IPv6 but for some reason ISPs are holding back and because of that businesses are holding back. Everyone is waiting for somone else to make the first move.
I admit to having pirated the updated Windows 95 version of C&C back in the day because I was annoyed that I bought the game early and got the DOS only version and people who bought or pirated it later got the high res Windows version for less $$.
I'd do the same for games I've paid for already to get cd-free versions if it weren't for the fact that on a Mac I can make my own cd-free version anyway.
Unfortunately I do have friends using it....and a handful that still use Yahoo too. Luckily Gaim and Trillian (and other clients based on Gaim like Adium) exist. I personally can't stand either Yahoo or MSN's clients. They are loaded with more useless features than I can deal with. (backgrounds, animated backgrounds, nudges, etc. )
I don't mind if you like using a gaudy purple flower skin with red text, but don't make me look at it on my end.
...they provide absoloutely great services for free, the best of which is their yahoo messenger. Its the only place where the relatively uninitiated can log in and chat to complete strangers a planet away. MSN won't let you do it without paying them. And don't talk to me about the IRC channels; yahoo is to them what a concorde is to a guy jumping off his house.
Um, check again, I've never had to pay for access to hotmail or MSN Messenger. I think you are thinking of the MSN Network (similar to AOL) where the "good bits" of the internet (as chosen by MS) get spoon fed to the masses. Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger and AIM/ICQ are all free (ad supported) services, and they'll all stay that way until ad revenues disappear, then more than likely the client will disappear with them.
I can't see why this is needed unless Apple foresees video Podcasts from independent video "bloggers" or DIY TV show sites, but even that is a stretch.
Well, I know I already watch a couple of video podcasts. Mind you they are both from Revision 3, but it's a start. (Systm and Diggnation) I've also downloaded the odd bit of video from some other video podcasts via DTV.
To tell the truth I watch more Video podcasts than actual television, but I'm the wierd sort who put his satellite subscription on hold during the summer....this fall I'm seriously wondering why I ought to re-start it.
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I don't think it's at all similar in technology, just the effect.
A photo finish is much faster than any scanning imager could handle.
what you see as a blurred stretched line as background is more likely the result of the camera (which is likely operating at a VERY high shutter speed) panning to keep the subjects in focus.
If you had to wait for a scanner to take the picture you'd get the opposite effect, the background and anything sitting still would be crystal clear and the racers would just be a blur if they showed up at all.
For that matter I serously doubt that the bar codes map to any Non-alphanumeric characters in ASCII that alone brings your set of possibilitys down to a more manageable chunk.
That's assuming no prior knowledge of what constitutes a valid bar code.
I seriously doubt that the bar codes would be completely random numbers.
Wow, if ticket takers are willing to accept a barcode displayed on an LCD I imagine that it'll only be a matter of tiem till someone writes a Java phone program that quickly cycles through a bunch of random barcode numbers till it hits on one that the system accepts.
You'd probably have several seconds to do it before the person scanning it gives up trying to scan the "bad phone display" and tries another way to verify the ticket.
Since when do PCs come with extar controllers and AV adapters?
Generally Apple machines, like Dell machines have more and bigger fans than necessary so they can turn them more sowly and produce LESS noise than a standard PC.
... or maybe he wanted to save himself typing "MP2 or MP3" and reduced it to MP#
Why not? it was only a year ago that $90 was the going rate for a 256Mbyte usb key. ... we've quadrupled the storage for that price in a year, why would we not be able to do the same this year??
Isn't AUDIO_TS supposed to be for DVD-Audio, while VIDEO_TS is for DVD-Video?
Yes, it is, but on both types of discs you are supposed to have both folders, even if one is completely empty.
That is part of the standard, and many DVD players that adhere to the stanndard will not recognize it as a DVD if one of the folders is missing.
Usually the reason why crappy DVD-Video players play back things that don't play in other players isn't because the pickup is better, but because the decoder is more tolerant of non-standard discs. Some discs that play on PCs and these cheap players just won't play on the better ones because the disc itself is not made to the proper DVD spec. Most often I've seen either improperly encoded video or missing AUDIO_TS folders. Next to that is not having the files organized properly on the disc, or the wrong file system (ISO vs UDF)
It was on his audio commentary at the end of one of the Audible.com editions of either Shadow of the Hegemon or Ender's Shadow. I think it was Ender's Shadow because he also talked about how it was a fan who gave him the idea of combining Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow into one movie script so that internal dialog could be externalized into conversations between Ender and Bean.
Yeah, throw a twelve-year-old kid today's New York Times crossword puzzle and see how many they're actually able to complete before "I don't understand any of these, this sucks, are we there yet?"
There is a solution to that, don't buy the kid the NY Times, buy him/her an EASY crosswords book. They are usually on the bottom shelf of any convenience store magazine rack.
You really liked Ender's Shadow better than Shadow of the Hegemon?
To me Ender's Shadow was the necessary, if tedious, backstory to launch the shadow series.
Let's face it Ender's shadow was mostly just a re-telling of Ender's game, so there were not really many surpises, it just set up the characters and beginnings of a new plot for the rest of the shadow series.
I agree with you about Speaker being the best of the series though.
He's saying that mostly because Hollywood types have been telling him he has to make a lot of changes that he feels would kill the story because they say his story won't sell as a movie.
He's been offered several times to make a movie of Ender's Game if only they'd be allowed to make ender a teenager and give him a love interest, because then it might work as a date movie. Obviously that's not the Ender's Game Card wrote or wants to see on screen.
He's been picking out examples like this lately as a way of telling Hollywood execs "see we can make Ender my way and people will buy it".
While a kick to the groin definitely hurts that would have to be one hell of a kick to kill him, and I think Ender would know right away that he'd killed Bonzo by the fact his foot went halfway through him.
The kick is just to show that Bonzo is dead or unconscious at that point.
Harry Potter, similarly, is comparatively easy.
Funny you should say that, as the Harry Potter series is what convinced Card to give Hollywood another go at it. Before that he was convinced that it's just impossible to get enough good child actors to pull it off as live action.
Isn't it a little early for you to be getting bitter about competition with Linux?
You only just made your first code release 9 days ago and the only information I can find about it is it's coded in Pascal and it finally boots and recognizes IRQ. I think there's a few years of development and some communication about what you can do well (when you have somethinig that you can do) before you need to get upset about Linux beating you to new hardware.
The menu as you describe would be dead easy in Java. not so in the current DVD-Video menu format.
I thought it was just one technical reason: the capacity of the disc. That's really all there was to it, right?
The point HD-DVD had going for it was that the discs and players would have been cheaper to make.
That's true if you are just looking at it as a storage medium like CD-R/CD-RW on a PC.
As a video/media format Blue-ray offers a much more dynamic and useful menu system.
Right now DVD menus are not much more than a short looping (and usually poorly looped) MPEG 2 stream. Blu-ray's specs included a default configuration for set top players that included Java support which would really push the flexibility well beyond what we can accomplish with plain old DVD menus.
Have you ever tried to play the little games on the kids DVDs?? now imagine if they had had an actual programming language to work with rather than just 'if button x is pressed jump to 5:35 in the video stream'.
Basically DVD menuing (and HD-DVD menuing) amounts to
10 play video
20 check for button press
30 goto 10
I thought it was open Coors ... then you get iron hot, add carbon, make steel.
No no no... that won't work at all, if you open the Coors before attempting work it will never happen. The correct order is get iron hot, add carbon, make steel, repeat as necessary THEN open Coors.
"How long will a complete transition to IPV6 take? Many many years IMO, if it ever happens at all. None of the firms I know of or work with have even started looking into migrating yet. Hell they are'nt even talking about it."
This is the thing that bothers me, it looks like y2k all over again. No body thinks it's a problem until there's a last minute scramble to get the issue resolved.
The only difference is this time around there's no clearly defined cutoff date and when the transition happens it'll probably be spread out over months or years as people start to clue in that they are missing half the internet.
Most of the technological hurdles in connectivity have been overcome, even home users can upgrade their linksys routers in 5 minutes or so to take advantage of IPv6 but for some reason ISPs are holding back and because of that businesses are holding back. Everyone is waiting for somone else to make the first move.
I admit to having pirated the updated Windows 95 version of C&C back in the day because I was annoyed that I bought the game early and got the DOS only version and people who bought or pirated it later got the high res Windows version for less $$.
I'd do the same for games I've paid for already to get cd-free versions if it weren't for the fact that on a Mac I can make my own cd-free version anyway.
Unfortunately I do have friends using it. ...and a handful that still use Yahoo too.
Luckily Gaim and Trillian (and other clients based on Gaim like Adium) exist.
I personally can't stand either Yahoo or MSN's clients. They are loaded with more useless features than I can deal with. (backgrounds, animated backgrounds, nudges, etc. )
I don't mind if you like using a gaudy purple flower skin with red text, but don't make me look at it on my end.
...they provide absoloutely great services for free, the best of which is their yahoo messenger. Its the only place where the relatively uninitiated can log in and chat to complete strangers a planet away. MSN won't let you do it without paying them. And don't talk to me about the IRC channels; yahoo is to them what a concorde is to a guy jumping off his house.
Um, check again, I've never had to pay for access to hotmail or MSN Messenger. I think you are thinking of the MSN Network (similar to AOL) where the "good bits" of the internet (as chosen by MS) get spoon fed to the masses. Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger and AIM/ICQ are all free (ad supported) services, and they'll all stay that way until ad revenues disappear, then more than likely the client will disappear with them.
I can't see why this is needed unless Apple foresees video Podcasts from independent video "bloggers" or DIY TV show sites, but even that is a stretch.
Well, I know I already watch a couple of video podcasts. Mind you they are both from Revision 3, but it's a start. (Systm and Diggnation)
I've also downloaded the odd bit of video from some other video podcasts via DTV.
To tell the truth I watch more Video podcasts than actual television, but I'm the wierd sort who put his satellite subscription on hold during the summer.