Are you saying the projected image on a movie screen is about 4000 pixels wide? I've wondered for a long time about this. I recall that the resolution for the work in T2 wasn't nearly as high as it is today. Can you elaborate on this? For example, since almost every single frame of Pleasantville was scanned into digital form so it could be made black and white, or only have some color to it, what resolution would it have been scanned at? Was the finished output significantly less detailed than the capabilities of the film it was projected on? One more question, when movies are filmed with digital cameras and projected with digital projectors, will that be the end of film grain? I hate the grainy look as I prefer sitting about in the sixth row from the front. Audiences are used to the look of grain, but they don't know what they're missing.
I've had fun getting into the main computer lab after hours at UC Berkeley. After it's dark, 7pm or so, everyone going in is supposed to have a key card. The elevators and stair shafts also need them. I don't even attend UCB but was wondering if my friend was in there that night when he wasn't at his apartment. The comp lab is on the second floor which is underground and has no cell phone reception. After I tailed in following a guy with a card. I wend to the elevator and went in. Going in is no problem, but to get it to move to your floor requires a card. I stood around for a minute, and then it moved. Although I hadn't usea a card, because some one else called the elevator, it went to their floor. All I had to do was act as though I was going to a different floor and wait until someone called the elevator to the second floor. With security like this, I don't think anyone malevolent will have the slightest problem getting in there anytime soon.
it doesn't matter how many hours it takes to fill the 20gigs the first time. Deleting the files is quick becuase the HD does it. Moving the files from directory to directory within the player is fast because its on the drive already. How many people are going to put their music on the 20GB and then delete it? Not many. Most will just keep adding music in perhaps at most several hundred MegaByte amounts. As the owner of a USB based Iomega HipZip, I can tell you that USB is tolerable. It won't matter to me if I spend all night getting 6GB on a USB HD. I'll be asleep.
This would be great for those of us with 1.4GHz Athlons rumbling away in the corner.
Athlons don't rumble. If you have the money to buy a heatsink made of this new material you have the money to buy a NoiseControl Silverado. They're 86 bucks with shipping when you get them imported. They're silent and cool. http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/01q2/010521/coole r-29.html for more info.
Riiight, people spent hundreds or thousands of hours downloading songs and now they don't want to even pay a dollar per song. How sad. Consider if a CD of 12 songs was excellent and every song was a keeper. $12 bucks isn't too much to ask.
Excellent point. I have a full tower case with two extra fans I put in, but there's only a small slot under the front of it for air intake. Not even any holes facing out. So I removed the extra 3.5 inch slot cover for airflow. I did this for my Athlon 1.2GHz, and GeForce2 Pro, but as it happens now the top of my 45GB Deskstar gets considerable airflow directly over the top of it. I hope that's staving off a breakdown.
I could have sworn that the percentage of households with a PC continues to grow. As does the household penetration of internet connections. To suggest that the number of users downloading mp3s has stabilized is bull shit. MP3 player costs continue to drop. Everyday more people discover the convenience of carrying around several or more CDs at once without having to change the disk or store the media.
What's this idiotic flawed analogy about a horse and a barn door? If you have to think of it that way, then there are many cows that escaped, and the MPAA are a bunch of cowboys trying to round them all up and one by one get them back inside. The cows are all the methods of copying and circumventions. There is not just one horse, and the barn door doesn't matter until every cow is back inside.
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Nigger, jew boy, skin head, chink, inbred redneck.
Funny isn't it! No it isn't. Calling someone a fag isn't funny, or insightful. Ever.
Sure, the entire web is your back yard and the entire real world is my back yard. NOPE. You navigate to parts of the web which have different geographical locations. I will not try to make analogies about the physical roads compared to wires and internet access. In brief, parts of the the web are free. Some web sites ask you look at ads. Don't visit that neighborhood again. Currently there is no way to see you are driving to a ad-infested neighborhood and turn around before the ad starts to load. Maybe if there was you would bitch that seeing the ads ahead took up some bandwidth?
I do think that unlike the web, with broadcasts the waves that travel by me are fair game. It should be up to those broadcasting to make their transmissions incomprehensible to me. Laws prohibiting my listening are wrong.
Your description sounds very interesting and I would like to play around with aqua while someone explained the features to me as well as you did. All of your descriptions led me to one conclusion however; aqua still isn't perfect for multitasking. Comparing Windoze to a desk, I would say it lets me get out plenty of items from the drawers, but the drawers remain open until the item goes back. Aqua lets me take out all the items but closes all the drawers until the items go back, so to put something back I open the drawer again then close it. I think I'm missing something though because that would be too cumbersome. I never really cared for the unified top bar because it seemed like it took more effort to switch apps or navigate instead of having everything laid out in front of me.
I'm assuming I can customize Aqua however so plenty of stuff stays out in front? Bottom line Windoze is for those whose real desk is a mess but they know where everything is, while Aqua is for neat-freaks.
If only we had the power spike from Goldeneye. Anyone who didn't secure their computers properly would get the machine fried by black hat hackers. It would be an excellent mark of shame.
In nearly every multistory building today, ventilator systems have to keep the higher floors from getting too warm because heat rises. A system should be designed to take the warm air from all the floors and pass it through turbines before it exits the roof. I'm sure it would not be as efficient as what this article suggests, placing turbines into the exterior of the structure, but it would save some electricity costs.
As far as this article is concerned, I don't see this design going into the replacement for the WTC. Buildings today are carefully designed to obstruct as little wind as possible. Having giant turbines between two buildings over an avenue would place massive forces on the buildings. It's hard enough designing skyscrapers, I doubt the designers are keen to add extra force to compensate for.
Oh come off it. Both sides retaliate continuously. What does the US do? Nothing, because we think it's not our problem. Actually we try to do something, but do we directly send our military there? No, because it's not our country. We do send money and military supplies to Israel. That makes us Israli sympethyzers in the eyes of Palestinians, so why shouldn't they cheer? They're at war with Israel and we're the enemy.
Really? The NSA is woefully behind in technology? I can't prove that any of these supercomputers went to the NSA but looking at this list, the government now owns at least seven of the top five-hundred supercomputers. Most of these are in the top 200 and all were bought in the past four years. Note the computer's uses are classified so who knows if the NSA got them or all went to the FBI and CIA.
An elected judiciary? How would that work? It seems to me than the public would never have allowed the civil rights victories to happen. Either the progressive judges never would have been elected, or the judges would have been too concerned about keeping their jobs to rule correctly.
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I think they word Timothy was looking for was decent, not descent.
That is so true. Just like the Nike Hercules/Ajax program that lasted for all of about twenty years. If we develop scramjet technology and use it for our ICBMs, odds are China and other countries will develop scramjets too. All the while the US still pours money into it's missile shield, which will probably be unable to deal with missiles now traveling at Mach eight instead of four. So the projected lifespan of the missile sheild? About twenty years.
Beep, wrong. In a simplified way, it's not illegal for a company to have a monopoly, but to engage in anti-competitive practices. The court found Microsoft guilty of anti-competitive practices. If the Courts refuse all of MS's eventual appeals, MS is guilty.
I could have sworn this was meant as sarcasm, yet four people so far have taken this seriously. Now when taken seriously it takes all the fun out of his joke, and leaves RelliK with no satisfaction. Satisfaction I'm giving him now. The question I pose is, does not giving him satisfaction by taking him seriously outweigh how stupid you sound when it was a joke in the first place?
Oh, and this isn't a flame, it's constructive criticism.
I can't help but think of all the kids considered in this study. Plenty of kids I grew up with went home and did nothing but watch TV. Given how large the penetration of TV is I can't help but think that anyone who doesn't watch a whole mass of TV is at a distinct advantage.
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Athlons don't rumble. If you have the money to buy a heatsink made of this new material you have the money to buy a NoiseControl Silverado. They're 86 bucks with shipping when you get them imported. They're silent and cool. http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/01q2/010521/coole r-29.html for more info.
What's this idiotic flawed analogy about a horse and a barn door? If you have to think of it that way, then there are many cows that escaped, and the MPAA are a bunch of cowboys trying to round them all up and one by one get them back inside. The cows are all the methods of copying and circumventions. There is not just one horse, and the barn door doesn't matter until every cow is back inside.
Funny isn't it! No it isn't. Calling someone a fag isn't funny, or insightful. Ever.
I do think that unlike the web, with broadcasts the waves that travel by me are fair game. It should be up to those broadcasting to make their transmissions incomprehensible to me. Laws prohibiting my listening are wrong.
I'm assuming I can customize Aqua however so plenty of stuff stays out in front? Bottom line Windoze is for those whose real desk is a mess but they know where everything is, while Aqua is for neat-freaks.
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As far as this article is concerned, I don't see this design going into the replacement for the WTC. Buildings today are carefully designed to obstruct as little wind as possible. Having giant turbines between two buildings over an avenue would place massive forces on the buildings. It's hard enough designing skyscrapers, I doubt the designers are keen to add extra force to compensate for.
Really? The NSA is woefully behind in technology? I can't prove that any of these supercomputers went to the NSA but looking at this list, the government now owns at least seven of the top five-hundred supercomputers. Most of these are in the top 200 and all were bought in the past four years. Note the computer's uses are classified so who knows if the NSA got them or all went to the FBI and CIA.
You even mentioned Scary Movie, which came out last year (2000)
Oh, and this isn't a flame, it's constructive criticism.