The 1920x1080 figure quoted is the upper end of the HDTV standards. There is a very good reason the new digital cameras used by Lucas et al.. are capturing at that size. If you capture at 1920x1080 digital, then you cut an entire step out of the process of producing for the much more lucrative home markets.
I know that no one is broadcasting or releasting at 1080i resolution yet, but it's only a matter of time. DVD has allowances for this, as do some of the new tubes coming out of sony. Even my 19inch monitor sitting here on my desk does 1920x1080.
Scott
PS. DivX encoded 1920x1080 Lightwave rendered animations look sweeeeeeeet...
... vulgar,... profane, hateful, bigoted or otherwise objectionable information...
I wonder how those restrictions would stand up to a Constitutional test by the ACLU. The others are already covered under existing case law (ie.. obscenity laws or laws regarding libel).
Off to EFF.net to see what they've got on this.
(so much for meeting my deadlines this week).
LIke most news papers, Lancaster News probably makes more money from selling back issues and reprints than the papers themselves. It doesn't surprise me that the article is already in the for pay section.
Some of us have always been post-microsoft. Learned to program on a mainframe in 1979, first computers were a C-64 and a Timex Sinclair 1000 --still have it -- and then on to an Amiga running System V and later an intel box for Linux. I run Windows for a few applications --Lightwave, photoshop, lightscape, others nto yet ported to linux-- but development and pleasure is on non-ms OS's.
Microsoft's point of view appeared to be one of incomprehension.
They seemed incapable of believing in a reality where someone would not want one of their products. It was incomprehensible to them. Somewhere around 1990 they started believing their own hype and removed themselves from the reality of the marketplace the rest of the world operates in.
It'll take 20 years to settle all of the appeals and other lawsuits this one will generate. By then, Microsoft will either be but a bit player in the overall game or they'll have begun to innovate and contribute the the overall improvement of the computing world.
My bet is that they'll be a bit player, but hey, I"ve been wrong before.
Photoshop 5.5, Lightwave 6.0, Lightscape, Java, MySQL, Sound Forge w/ Accoustic Mirror, Winamp, the Sims, Chessmaster.. I think you get the idea.
I will not dispute that hard drives, ram, bus speed, the phase of the moon, and other factors influence the overall system performance. I do welcome any and all updgrades and improvements in any of the myriad of factors that make my computer faster.
Faster CPU's give me faster renders, more and faster ram help there and help with compiling and other memory intensive tasks, faster and larger hard drives help when I do need to load that 4k by 4k image into photoshop or scrub through a 45 minute avi file.
The faster each and every component gets, the better the overall performance.
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Aw geez... now I want to pull all of those old SF novels out of storage and read them again. So much for learning C++ this week.
Hmm.. Plasma -> Gas -> Liquid -> Solid and then the Bec. I can see it now. Bec Beer, when iced just isn't cold enough.
Scott
this got hacked. Now let's see if AOL goes ahead and opens it up for developers or if they take the wimps way out with DMCA based lawsuits?
Scott
The 1920x1080 figure quoted is the upper end of the HDTV standards. There is a very good reason the new digital cameras used by Lucas et al.. are capturing at that size. If you capture at 1920x1080 digital, then you cut an entire step out of the process of producing for the much more lucrative home markets.
I know that no one is broadcasting or releasting at 1080i resolution yet, but it's only a matter of time. DVD has allowances for this, as do some of the new tubes coming out of sony. Even my 19inch monitor sitting here on my desk does 1920x1080.
Scott
PS. DivX encoded 1920x1080 Lightwave rendered animations look sweeeeeeeet...
... vulgar, ... profane, hateful, bigoted or otherwise objectionable information...
I wonder how those restrictions would stand up to a Constitutional test by the ACLU. The others are already covered under existing case law (ie.. obscenity laws or laws regarding libel).
Off to EFF.net to see what they've got on this.
(so much for meeting my deadlines this week).
Scott
LIke most news papers, Lancaster News probably makes more money from selling back issues and reprints than the papers themselves. It doesn't surprise me that the article is already in the for pay section.
Some of us have always been post-microsoft. Learned to program on a mainframe in 1979, first computers were a C-64 and a Timex Sinclair 1000 --still have it -- and then on to an Amiga running System V and later an intel box for Linux. I run Windows for a few applications --Lightwave, photoshop, lightscape, others nto yet ported to linux-- but development and pleasure is on non-ms OS's.
Microsoft's point of view appeared to be one of incomprehension.
They seemed incapable of believing in a reality where someone would not want one of their products. It was incomprehensible to them. Somewhere around 1990 they started believing their own hype and removed themselves from the reality of the marketplace the rest of the world operates in.
It'll take 20 years to settle all of the appeals and other lawsuits this one will generate. By then, Microsoft will either be but a bit player in the overall game or they'll have begun to innovate and contribute the the overall improvement of the computing world.
My bet is that they'll be a bit player, but hey, I"ve been wrong before.
Why make faster CPU's? Well, let me see..
Photoshop 5.5, Lightwave 6.0, Lightscape, Java, MySQL, Sound Forge w/ Accoustic Mirror, Winamp, the Sims, Chessmaster.. I think you get the idea.
I will not dispute that hard drives, ram, bus speed, the phase of the moon, and other factors influence the overall system performance. I do welcome any and all updgrades and improvements in any of the myriad of factors that make my computer faster.
Faster CPU's give me faster renders, more and faster ram help there and help with compiling and other memory intensive tasks, faster and larger hard drives help when I do need to load that 4k by 4k image into photoshop or scrub through a 45 minute avi file.
The faster each and every component gets, the better the overall performance.