They were a conversion from the laserdisc masters, weren't they.
I agree, quality is pretty good, although it is limited to standard definition. And you do get all the limitations of both DVD format and Laserdisc format.
They'll survive perfectly well if I stop buying Sony products, or even if all of Slashdot does. The vast majority of their customers are people who don't give a shit about this stuff.
No. They applied new technology to something they already knew about.
A pinhole camera is educationally interesting but not much use for practical purposes. You simply don't get enough light coming though. It's easily solved by optics. Most cameras use a lens to squeeze more light through the aperture. But this requires a certain thickness. Not a problem if you can afford a few CM of thickness, but unsuitable for flat cameras.
You can also solve the problem by using lots of pinholes. But if you use a single CCD, you get interference from lots of similar but different images. So you need to use some pretty sophisticated computer processing to unmerge these images.
This is just an announcement of an update to how they weight their stats, of some interest to those who care about sales figures and the like. Not everything the RIAA does has to be evil or malicious. Sometimes they're just running a record industry association.
To be fair, at least in the UK, and Germany I can find a decent number of films "to buy" on Amazon prime.
Can't see the advantage over blu-ray though and can see several disadvantages.
My Nokia 3510i would last 3 days easily, and often managed 5 or so without a recharge. It was also quite good as a phone. When it was on vibrate, I could actually feel it.
You can probably set up call forwarding so if your main phone dies, it goes to the backup.
For turn markings and the like, there's no reason not to have marking 100 yards each side of the turn.
Curiously, in Britain, it's the narrow winding roads that are the least likely to have road markings in the first place. And compared to the nice broad straight roads that are pretty much the norm in the US, some of our country roads are extremely narrow and twisty.
Maybe Japan is different, but I really suspect that 4K and 8K broadcasts are simply not going to be a big thing. People who with the latest technology are a lot more into streaming than broadcast TV.
The broadcasters giving streaming services another leg up seems idiotic, and business as usual.
Risk is exciting. It isn't any harder to walk on a high wire if it's higher up, but it seems more dangerous. Trapeze stunts aren't harder to do without a safety net. Performers still do the more dangerous version of these stunts.
This was probably pretty easy for them. Apparently they have two people watching the movie, and they discuss it afterwards. They also watch it in "cinema-like" conditions, which I guess means they also have a projectionist.
The price is probably worked out assuming that there are going to be a lot of controversial films, that need long reports, management sign off, discussion with the film-maker over what needs to be cut to get a rating and the potential for appeals.
That number is wildly inaccurate. It was based on an approximate count of the number of cameras on a busy London shopping street, extrapolated to assume the number was consistent for all businesses, and guessing the number for government organisations.
I can totally understand that they don't like adblock. And I guess there's no reason they shouldn't bar them, if they feel it appropriate. They aren't part of the advertising industry, after all.
However, they are clearly operating in the same sphere. It would benefit the advertisers have both sides aware of the views of the other.
If we only use Mersenne primes in encryption, we'd be trivially easy to crack. Even without a list of the primes, you only need to work through a few million of them. That doesn't take long even for a desktop PC. And you'd need a key almost a megabyte long!
He also committed to a yearly $50,000 donation to help students produce socially conscious short films.
Good for him. I hope they represented a wide range of viewpoints and opinions.
Look, the objection to "SJW"s isn't that they're socially conscious. The basic principles they claim to support are all well worth supporting. It's the level of bigotry and hatred of anyone who doesn't share the exact same opinions that comes with it. If you have a socially conscious movie then that's great. Go for it.
I think that's the case for everyone. Stackoverflow will rarely give entire pages of algorithm. Usually it's simply a case of "you need to use these two functions together" or something. At which stage you're really not into the realm of creativity, and just providing a few instructions.
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They were a conversion from the laserdisc masters, weren't they.
I agree, quality is pretty good, although it is limited to standard definition. And you do get all the limitations of both DVD format and Laserdisc format.
They'll survive perfectly well if I stop buying Sony products, or even if all of Slashdot does. The vast majority of their customers are people who don't give a shit about this stuff.
No. They applied new technology to something they already knew about.
A pinhole camera is educationally interesting but not much use for practical purposes. You simply don't get enough light coming though. It's easily solved by optics. Most cameras use a lens to squeeze more light through the aperture. But this requires a certain thickness. Not a problem if you can afford a few CM of thickness, but unsuitable for flat cameras.
You can also solve the problem by using lots of pinholes. But if you use a single CCD, you get interference from lots of similar but different images. So you need to use some pretty sophisticated computer processing to unmerge these images.
This is just an announcement of an update to how they weight their stats, of some interest to those who care about sales figures and the like. Not everything the RIAA does has to be evil or malicious. Sometimes they're just running a record industry association.
To be fair, at least in the UK, and Germany I can find a decent number of films "to buy" on Amazon prime. Can't see the advantage over blu-ray though and can see several disadvantages.
My Nokia 3510i would last 3 days easily, and often managed 5 or so without a recharge. It was also quite good as a phone. When it was on vibrate, I could actually feel it.
You can probably set up call forwarding so if your main phone dies, it goes to the backup.
Evidence so far seems to be that it is safer. They're doing further tests to demonstrate this more conclusively.
For turn markings and the like, there's no reason not to have marking 100 yards each side of the turn.
Curiously, in Britain, it's the narrow winding roads that are the least likely to have road markings in the first place. And compared to the nice broad straight roads that are pretty much the norm in the US, some of our country roads are extremely narrow and twisty.
You can be driving too fast without breaking the speed limit. People pay more attention and drive more carefully if there are no white lines.
And even if people are speeding, encouraging them to break the law is surely better than punishing them after the fact.
Maybe Japan is different, but I really suspect that 4K and 8K broadcasts are simply not going to be a big thing. People who with the latest technology are a lot more into streaming than broadcast TV.
The broadcasters giving streaming services another leg up seems idiotic, and business as usual.
Automatic conversion to JPEG would solve this problem and offer a benefit in terms of storage space and user download times.
Fair point. I'm not American so I forgot that different rules would apply (In Britain, working on-site is a factor but not the sole criterion)
I'd imagine there's an overlap between the people who install that software, and the people who really don't want their browser history shared.
Speaking as a contractor, I'll work on site if you insist. You're the boss. Provide me with equipment and coffee, and I'll suck it up.
We're whores. We want your money. We don't care if your demands are stupid, as long as we can meet them.
Risk is exciting. It isn't any harder to walk on a high wire if it's higher up, but it seems more dangerous. Trapeze stunts aren't harder to do without a safety net. Performers still do the more dangerous version of these stunts.
He's a "science guy". Not a scientist. He popularizes sciences, since that is his job, and he seems to do pretty well.
This was probably pretty easy for them. Apparently they have two people watching the movie, and they discuss it afterwards. They also watch it in "cinema-like" conditions, which I guess means they also have a projectionist.
The price is probably worked out assuming that there are going to be a lot of controversial films, that need long reports, management sign off, discussion with the film-maker over what needs to be cut to get a rating and the potential for appeals.
None of this really applies here.
Really surprised that he accepted their assurance that they'd "put a note on his account", especially the second time.
Didn't he try contacting customer support and checking that this attack vector no longer works?
That number is wildly inaccurate. It was based on an approximate count of the number of cameras on a busy London shopping street, extrapolated to assume the number was consistent for all businesses, and guessing the number for government organisations.
I think "mbfdd@tao16wiwroba1969f" would be enough for a password secure enough for most purposes.
I can totally understand that they don't like adblock. And I guess there's no reason they shouldn't bar them, if they feel it appropriate. They aren't part of the advertising industry, after all.
However, they are clearly operating in the same sphere. It would benefit the advertisers have both sides aware of the views of the other.
If we only use Mersenne primes in encryption, we'd be trivially easy to crack. Even without a list of the primes, you only need to work through a few million of them. That doesn't take long even for a desktop PC. And you'd need a key almost a megabyte long!
True. Although I would say that this would be biased in Netflix favour. It's the internet-savvy kids who consume a lot of online media.
Good for him. I hope they represented a wide range of viewpoints and opinions.
Look, the objection to "SJW"s isn't that they're socially conscious. The basic principles they claim to support are all well worth supporting. It's the level of bigotry and hatred of anyone who doesn't share the exact same opinions that comes with it. If you have a socially conscious movie then that's great. Go for it.
I think that's the case for everyone. Stackoverflow will rarely give entire pages of algorithm. Usually it's simply a case of "you need to use these two functions together" or something. At which stage you're really not into the realm of creativity, and just providing a few instructions.