Yeah, but conversely they could encode the movie in MPEG-4 and increase the bitrate, so the end result could be the same size as MPEG-2, just higher quaility - I think that's what the previous poster had in mind.
Minority Report on the other hand was great, and well if it counts Monsters Inc. was too- the only two sci-fi movies in recent memory I can stand...
You serious?! Minority report had a typical Spielberg 'happy' ending, which completely spolit it for me. The first 2/3rds of the movie was great, but getting back with his wife? Come on! The same thing happened with A.I. It could have been an amazing film if Kubrick had directed it, unfortunatly we get another cheesy ending, where David gets to come back and spend a day with his mum.... If only he had had the balls to finish the film then David plunges into the water.
Can you imagine what Speilberg would have done with Blade Runner? Errrrgh - it makes he shudder just thinking about it!
Just as a additional point, although standard 35mm cinema film actually runs at 24fps, it actually projects 48 fps - Each physical frame is shown twice . This is because you get an unbearable flicker if you only show 24 images a second.
Yes, but if the file was encrypted again, then the fingerprint would change, so It would be pretty much constantly changing (when you consider the scale of the entire network)
'Physics Genius' - you obviously have no clue about compression formats! So you loose data when you use a zip/gzip/bzip file? Then why does anyone use them?
OK, if you are arguing semantics, then yes the compressed file has 'lost' some information, but the compression algorithm can recreate that information.
Very simple example: a file that contained 20 'a' s (aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa) could be compressed by recording in the compressed file that the file is 20 x the letter 'a'. The decompressor can recognise this and write out the contents of the original file.
You're either trying to be a troll or a know anything about compression - whichever it is, don't bother posting!
As subject, if you look under the Red_Hat_8x_RPMS folder in the mozilla-1.2 directory, there is now two folders: vanilla and xft , with pre-built RPMs!
Get them now from a mirror...
Well seeing as phoenix uses the gecko rendering engine, any improvements to Mozilla/Gecko will get incorporated into pheonix, so development on Mozilla is good for Phoenix....
People should really read up on how things work before they start posting like they know _all_about DNS; so here are a few facts:
1. every DNS zone (including the . root zone) has a TTL (time to live) - the amount of time you are allowed to keep the results of a query. The idea being that if you a server looks up a zone e.g. foobar.com it doesn't have to look again until the TTL runs out. This is typically about 24 hours for an average.com domain (but can be set to whatever the controller of the domain's DNS likes)
2. The TTL of the . root zone is* 6 months. This means an ISP's server only has to recheck a top level domain (.org,.com,.net) every 6 months. This means that if all the top level DNS servers were out for say a day, then 99% of the other servers out there wouldn't even notice, as they wouldn't need to query the roots for on average another 3 months. Sure, if the root servers were down for longer, the TTL would run out on more and more DNS servers, but in principle the root servers would have to be down for a sustained time to start to significantly affect the Internet's DNS.
* - the TTL of the root domains at the moment has been changed to 3 hours, presumably as they are changing the top level infrastructure and need to have the changed propogate quickly.
3. this is why all ISPs who have correctly setup DNS servers would not have noticed anything. If run your own DNS server on your home box, and don't run it all the time, you'll be checking the root servers the first time you do a DNS query when you switch your machine on; so would probably notice something. Lesson - use your ISPs DNS server to resolve domains!
Yeah, but to be fair to them, it is a pretty 'new and innovative' idea on the desktop. Lots of 'new' ideas are only new within a certain market, and I think this is the first mainstream commerical desktop using this sort of technology...
Just my £0.02
Indeed, I believe you are right. I do know some local councils (I think mine) have a policy of fining cinemas as well if they do not comply. It also gets quite complicated if you look at Cinema clubs. If you have a member's only cinema (i.e. no joe blogs public), then you can show what you like full stop.
I'm involved in a student cinema, and as we show stuff just to the (student) members, we don't bother with ratings. OK, mainly this is because all our memebrs are >18, but we have certainly shown a number of independent films that are not rated...
This sort of thing is not uncommon in the UK. If I recall correctly, Jurassic Park (1 or 2) had similar cuts. This is mainly due to the rating system in the UK, which is quite different to the states. In the UK, there are 5 certificates:
U - Any age
PG - Parental Guidance - If you are under 12, you have to be with a parent to see it
12 - 12 yeras or over
15 - 15 years or over
18 - you get the idea...
These are all legally binding (i.e. the cinema will get fined if they let a 10 year old into a 12 film).
Basically, if AotC got a 12 cert, then Lucas would loose all those kids who he seems to be aiming at, and it would be less £££ (or $$$) for George.
UCI in Manchester has a digital projector. It was in the Trafford Centre (screen 7 in think), but they moved it to the new Filmworks complex in the City centre. I saw Mission to Mars on it in the trafford centre - the actual film (as in plot) was crap, but it did look good, although it is true that you can see pixelation in it in certain places
When will these guys (the networks) realise that this sort of thing will only infuriate joe bloggs, and the people that _really_ want to copy stuff still will. At the end of the day, whatever method they use, they've gotta send the signal to your TV, so there's always going to be somehow to record. And that's assuming that some clever hacker doesn't work out how to decrypt/circumvent it. It's the same thing with P2P file sharing stuff. Most files are uploaded by 1, maybe 2 people, and get spread to hundreds and thousands of others. It's no accident that all the copies of Madonna's ray of beautiful light stranger music on napster/edonkey/gnutilla are all the same size...
I don't know if it fits your requirements, but what about some kind of X windows client to the DNS system? DNS is a relational, distributed database, and I'm sure there must be some kind of X frontend to it? Can anyone think of anything?
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Yeah, but conversely they could encode the movie in MPEG-4 and increase the bitrate, so the end result could be the same size as MPEG-2, just higher quaility - I think that's what the previous poster had in mind.
Can you imagine what Speilberg would have done with Blade Runner? Errrrgh - it makes he shudder just thinking about it!
On how long it is before Google slaps a trademark infringement on them and the site is taken down....
Anyone fancy a bet?
Just as a additional point, although standard 35mm cinema film actually runs at 24fps, it actually projects 48 fps - Each physical frame is shown twice . This is because you get an unbearable flicker if you only show 24 images a second.
Yes, but if the file was encrypted again, then the fingerprint would change, so It would be pretty much constantly changing (when you consider the scale of the entire network)
Nope, I think you'll find that encrypting the file would alter the bits in the file and therefore change the fingerprint.
'Physics Genius' - you obviously have no clue about compression formats! So you loose data when you use a zip/gzip/bzip file? Then why does anyone use them?
OK, if you are arguing semantics, then yes the compressed file has 'lost' some information, but the compression algorithm can recreate that information.
Very simple example: a file that contained 20 'a' s (aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa) could be compressed by recording in the compressed file that the file is 20 x the letter 'a'. The decompressor can recognise this and write out the contents of the original file.
You're either trying to be a troll or a know anything about compression - whichever it is, don't bother posting!
As subject, if you look under the Red_Hat_8x_RPMS folder in the mozilla-1.2 directory, there is now two folders: vanilla and xft , with pre-built RPMs! Get them now from a mirror...
Now if only I'd waited a couple of hours ;-)
Well seeing as phoenix uses the gecko rendering engine, any improvements to Mozilla/Gecko will get incorporated into pheonix, so development on Mozilla is good for Phoenix....
1. every DNS zone (including the . root zone) has a TTL (time to live) - the amount of time you are allowed to keep the results of a query. The idea being that if you a server looks up a zone e.g. foobar.com it doesn't have to look again until the TTL runs out. This is typically about 24 hours for an average .com domain (but can be set to whatever the controller of the domain's DNS likes)
2. The TTL of the . root zone is* 6 months. This means an ISP's server only has to recheck a top level domain (.org, .com, .net) every 6 months. This means that if all the top level DNS servers were out for say a day, then 99% of the other servers out there wouldn't even notice, as they wouldn't need to query the roots for on average another 3 months. Sure, if the root servers were down for longer, the TTL would run out on more and more DNS servers, but in principle the root servers would have to be down for a sustained time to start to significantly affect the Internet's DNS.
* - the TTL of the root domains at the moment has been changed to 3 hours, presumably as they are changing the top level infrastructure and need to have the changed propogate quickly.
3. this is why all ISPs who have correctly setup DNS servers would not have noticed anything. If run your own DNS server on your home box, and don't run it all the time, you'll be checking the root servers the first time you do a DNS query when you switch your machine on; so would probably notice something. Lesson - use your ISPs DNS server to resolve domains!
Yeah, but to be fair to them, it is a pretty 'new and innovative' idea on the desktop. Lots of 'new' ideas are only new within a certain market, and I think this is the first mainstream commerical desktop using this sort of technology... Just my £0.02
I'm involved in a student cinema, and as we show stuff just to the (student) members, we don't bother with ratings. OK, mainly this is because all our memebrs are >18, but we have certainly shown a number of independent films that are not rated...
- U - Any age
- PG - Parental Guidance - If you are under 12, you have to be with a parent to see it
- 12 - 12 yeras or over
- 15 - 15 years or over
- 18 - you get the idea...
These are all legally binding (i.e. the cinema will get fined if they let a 10 year old into a 12 film). Basically, if AotC got a 12 cert, then Lucas would loose all those kids who he seems to be aiming at, and it would be less £££ (or $$$) for George.UCI in Manchester has a digital projector. It was in the Trafford Centre (screen 7 in think), but they moved it to the new Filmworks complex in the City centre. I saw Mission to Mars on it in the trafford centre - the actual film (as in plot) was crap, but it did look good, although it is true that you can see pixelation in it in certain places
When will these guys (the networks) realise that this sort of thing will only infuriate joe bloggs, and the people that _really_ want to copy stuff still will. At the end of the day, whatever method they use, they've gotta send the signal to your TV, so there's always going to be somehow to record. And that's assuming that some clever hacker doesn't work out how to decrypt/circumvent it. It's the same thing with P2P file sharing stuff. Most files are uploaded by 1, maybe 2 people, and get spread to hundreds and thousands of others. It's no accident that all the copies of Madonna's ray of beautiful light stranger music on napster/edonkey/gnutilla are all the same size...
I don't know if it fits your requirements, but what about some kind of X windows client to the DNS system? DNS is a relational, distributed database, and I'm sure there must be some kind of X frontend to it? Can anyone think of anything?