Imax, 65mm negative, oriented horizontally, 71mm x 53mm image size
You found it while I was still looking. I was even wondering about this in my initial post.
I was surprized to find the IMAX A/R is 1.43:1, or TV like. But it makes sense thinking back to how the screen looks, it isn't much wider than it it tall. It is just REALLY big.
Okay, next question. What is the "resolution" of the film used. How many "dots" per square mm? We know it is 48 frames a second.
Oh, and the audio format for IMAX is 8 or 10 channel. They actually store the sound track on CDs (4 or 5). The film itself only contains sync information to keep all the CDs in the right place.
I wonder if they have any plans to increase the quality of the audio portion. 44.1kHz/16-bit is pretty poor these days (yes, I can hear the difference going to 96kHz/24-bit).
I was going to post a comment asking what is wrong with doing optical transfers? I'd think the film-digital-film conversion would loose something. I guess their new magical process tries to add something in the process. But what is the size of a IMAX print, 62mm or something? There will be an aweful lot of dots to process and store.
I think the audio in IMAX theaters is digital as is the sound track for most modern movies, so someone already digitized it, all is left is for them to work some magic on those bits to try to get more out of them.
I don't get it either. You can't shine shit. You can't recreate information that was orginally lost when shooting on 35mm.
Um, a 320 kilobits per second.wav would sound like crap.
CD audio is 44,100 samples per second per channel. Each sample is 16 bits and there are 2 channels.
That works out to 1411200 bits per second, or just over 1378 kbps.
Anyway, after working with 96kHz/24bit/multitrack studio equipment CDs sound like crap too. Which is what DVD-A is pretty close to. I think Vorbis streams have support for higher sampling rates, greater bit depth, and >2 channels.
I like it with Exim. Still allow exim to do the local delivery, but put SpamAssassin in as a "transport_filter". I also have Exiscan running on incoming connections so viruses never even make it into the spool.
On the ST:TNG machine I played, you got points for flipping a flipper. It wasn't much, but I was bored, so I trapped the ball on the right flipper, and flipped the left for an hour until I got a high score.
I got my copy of the OpenSSH source from ftp.openssh.org the day it was released, and mine doesn't contain the bf-test.c file and the MD5 checksum is correct.
In the orginal box set that I got, yes, The Magician's Nephew was last, but now I've seen sets with it labeled #1.
I asked someone about it at a book store. She told me that C.S.L. wrote it first and intended it to be first, but his publisher thought The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was a better story and put it first.
Sounds like she might have been full of it, though.
I'm thinking the batteries aren't that much lighter than a flywheel.
But one of the biggest reasons not to use the electric motors as generators during breaking to store the power in batteries, is it is probally more efficient to not conver the mechanical energy to electrical, and then when you start rolling again, to turn the stored electrical back to mechanical. Just store the energy as mechanical in the first place.
On the other hand high energy flywheels are about as scary as wet cell batteries when things go wrong. I saw a video of a Kevlar flywheel coming apart and doing its best to take apart the shield around it.
What are you going to tunnel to? You own slow dialed up machine at home? Most people use these open WiFi networks because of the bandwidth available, if you have the bandwidth at home, why go out? (I'm joking a little there.)
The quality of LAME's --r3mix setting just makes me smile. Is there an equalivant setting with the Ogg Vorbis encoder? Something that uses VRB, allows it to go as high as needed to encode the audio well, but saves every chance it can?
Ogg is a collective name for "systems" (to use an MPEG term) of audio and/or video. One of the possible audio formats is Vorbis. I think one could call a Ogg file with just a lone Vorbis audio stream a Vorbis file. But the file extension will still be.ogg.
Ogg Vorbis on DVD players will be a bit more work for the manufacturers. Don't forget that MP3 is really MPEG Audio Layer 3. By supporting MPEG systems they get automatic MP3 decoder support. If they want to add Ogg Vorbis support that means they'll have to include a totally seperate set of routines in their decoding software.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see the support. But we'll probally see it adopted much quicker in dedicated MP3 players first, cause they don't have full MPEG support so they aren't getting something for nothing, they just have custom audio decoding software.
I'll even admit after I read the article, after I posted I was like, "oh, there goes some karma". But now I see myself modded to 5. Oh well, I guess as long as I'm not reading the moderators don't read either. Sort of like there is some strange universal balance.
I'd guess his demonstration won't be something on the order of breaking the encryption scheme on DVDs. It will be something so obvious, that people will wonder, "why is that illegal?". Just to so how silly the DMCA is.
Actually it displays the background color included in the PNG. I have ugly black-instead-of-transparent backgrounds on my site. With no background in the PNG it displays as gray (or maybe the default Windows background color, which is gray on my test machine).
That's why good PPP implimentations escape the '+' character. And why smart people include "S2=255" in their init string. The S2 register defaults to 43. (The decimal value for the '+' character.) Setting it to 255 disables the the "+++" feature. Of course with out being able to go "+++" (wait) "ATH0" you need to be able to hang up the modem by manipulating the control lines (which most programs can do). Oh, I say "wait" cause good modems require a 3 second pause after the "+++" to enter command mode. I think that is how some modems go uneffected as you can't get the "+++" to be the only thing sent for 3 seconds and then continue with the commands.
Ah the old BBS days. I remember some fool on the local board I hung out on had some crappy term program that would hang up if it saw "NO CARRIER" at the start of a line. Now why would a communication program issue an ATH0 after the carrier had been dropped?
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People doing porn in a datacenter? Does that happen often?
I don't even want to know what they'd be sprayed with.
Imax, 65mm negative, oriented horizontally, 71mm x 53mm image size
You found it while I was still looking. I was even wondering about this in my initial post.
I was surprized to find the IMAX A/R is 1.43:1, or TV like. But it makes sense thinking back to how the screen looks, it isn't much wider than it it tall. It is just REALLY big.
Okay, next question. What is the "resolution" of the film used. How many "dots" per square mm? We know it is 48 frames a second.
Oh, and the audio format for IMAX is 8 or 10 channel. They actually store the sound track on CDs (4 or 5). The film itself only contains sync information to keep all the CDs in the right place.
I wonder if they have any plans to increase the quality of the audio portion. 44.1kHz/16-bit is pretty poor these days (yes, I can hear the difference going to 96kHz/24-bit).
I was going to post a comment asking what is wrong with doing optical transfers? I'd think the film-digital-film conversion would loose something. I guess their new magical process tries to add something in the process. But what is the size of a IMAX print, 62mm or something? There will be an aweful lot of dots to process and store.
I think the audio in IMAX theaters is digital as is the sound track for most modern movies, so someone already digitized it, all is left is for them to work some magic on those bits to try to get more out of them.
I don't get it either. You can't shine shit. You can't recreate information that was orginally lost when shooting on 35mm.
Um, a 320 kilobits per second .wav would sound like crap.
CD audio is 44,100 samples per second per channel. Each sample is 16 bits and there are 2 channels.
That works out to 1411200 bits per second, or just over 1378 kbps.
Anyway, after working with 96kHz/24bit/multitrack studio equipment CDs sound like crap too. Which is what DVD-A is pretty close to. I think Vorbis streams have support for higher sampling rates, greater bit depth, and >2 channels.
I like it with Exim. Still allow exim to do the local delivery, but put SpamAssassin in as a "transport_filter". I also have Exiscan running on incoming connections so viruses never even make it into the spool.
Well when Japan gets it's 100 billionth citizen that'll be something they'll have to consider.
What did they say, they have 127 million now? Over 1/1000 of the way there.
On the ST:TNG machine I played, you got points for flipping a flipper. It wasn't much, but I was bored, so I trapped the ball on the right flipper, and flipped the left for an hour until I got a high score.
I thought the Shuttle launches were connected to earthquakes in third world countries.
I guess I held out longer than you, but I remember all those goings ons too.
I remember they got their photos in Wired (along with all the Taco looks like Crusher jokes), but I don't remember when.
Yeah, Stargate SG-1 and Farscape are on on Friday night.
I got my copy of the OpenSSH source from ftp.openssh.org the day it was released, and mine doesn't contain the bf-test.c file and the MD5 checksum is correct.
So if the file was modified it happen later.
It was my favorite book, but thinking back it might not have been, had I not read the others first.
I'm a how-does-it-work type of guy, I liked that part of the book.
In the orginal box set that I got, yes, The Magician's Nephew was last, but now I've seen sets with it labeled #1.
I asked someone about it at a book store. She told me that C.S.L. wrote it first and intended it to be first, but his publisher thought The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was a better story and put it first.
Sounds like she might have been full of it, though.
Isn't the Magician's Nephew the first book in the series?
I'm thinking the batteries aren't that much lighter than a flywheel.
But one of the biggest reasons not to use the electric motors as generators during breaking to store the power in batteries, is it is probally more efficient to not conver the mechanical energy to electrical, and then when you start rolling again, to turn the stored electrical back to mechanical. Just store the energy as mechanical in the first place.
On the other hand high energy flywheels are about as scary as wet cell batteries when things go wrong. I saw a video of a Kevlar flywheel coming apart and doing its best to take apart the shield around it.
What are you going to tunnel to? You own slow dialed up machine at home? Most people use these open WiFi networks because of the bandwidth available, if you have the bandwidth at home, why go out? (I'm joking a little there.)
Are you being sarcastic? I used to think Yahoo was serious, but look at them today.
Bonus points for both of us for saying Yahoo Serious.
The quality of LAME's --r3mix setting just makes me smile. Is there an equalivant setting with the Ogg Vorbis encoder? Something that uses VRB, allows it to go as high as needed to encode the audio well, but saves every chance it can?
Ogg is a collective name for "systems" (to use an MPEG term) of audio and/or video. One of the possible audio formats is Vorbis. I think one could call a Ogg file with just a lone Vorbis audio stream a Vorbis file. But the file extension will still be .ogg.
Ogg Vorbis on DVD players will be a bit more work for the manufacturers. Don't forget that MP3 is really MPEG Audio Layer 3. By supporting MPEG systems they get automatic MP3 decoder support. If they want to add Ogg Vorbis support that means they'll have to include a totally seperate set of routines in their decoding software.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see the support. But we'll probally see it adopted much quicker in dedicated MP3 players first, cause they don't have full MPEG support so they aren't getting something for nothing, they just have custom audio decoding software.
I'll even admit after I read the article, after I posted I was like, "oh, there goes some karma". But now I see myself modded to 5. Oh well, I guess as long as I'm not reading the moderators don't read either. Sort of like there is some strange universal balance.
I'd guess his demonstration won't be something on the order of breaking the encryption scheme on DVDs. It will be something so obvious, that people will wonder, "why is that illegal?". Just to so how silly the DMCA is.
and this is what you get when some friggin genius patents the delay there.
Really? Is there a patent on the delay after "+++" to enter command mode? Is that why some modems don't impliment this (absolutely needed) feature?
Actually it displays the background color included in the PNG. I have ugly black-instead-of-transparent backgrounds on my site. With no background in the PNG it displays as gray (or maybe the default Windows background color, which is gray on my test machine).
That's why good PPP implimentations escape the '+' character. And why smart people include "S2=255" in their init string. The S2 register defaults to 43. (The decimal value for the '+' character.) Setting it to 255 disables the the "+++" feature. Of course with out being able to go "+++" (wait) "ATH0" you need to be able to hang up the modem by manipulating the control lines (which most programs can do). Oh, I say "wait" cause good modems require a 3 second pause after the "+++" to enter command mode. I think that is how some modems go uneffected as you can't get the "+++" to be the only thing sent for 3 seconds and then continue with the commands.
Ah the old BBS days. I remember some fool on the local board I hung out on had some crappy term program that would hang up if it saw "NO CARRIER" at the start of a line. Now why would a communication program issue an ATH0 after the carrier had been dropped?