You could also try and look at die-sublimation printers, which are the best in color fidelity and resultion as anything else on the market.
However,the ink may be quite expensive, but at least I've seen die-sublimation printers that do accept plain white paper, and the quality on plain white paper is even exceptional.
I actually downloaded the new version of xcode which will produce so-called 'universal' binaries with both PPC and x86 (it says so specifically) code in them.
All-in-all a very easy change for the developer, if you made sure you developed neatly (like you would do if you are a UNIX programmer anyway) and avoid all the endian and size issues.
I could see a future of apple though, where they would run multiple architectures (not only x86 and PPC) at the same time indefinitely.
Actually the commodore 64 had a lot of viruses from what I remember. It attached itself on each floppy you inserted. But in those days you didn't lose 160 GB of data.
I don't know how it is in the US, but in the Benelux (Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands) you should not be able to get a trademark on a common word. So both Jaguar and Tiger should not be able to get a trademark.
However you can get a trademark on a image mark, which could include a common word, but it will also be accompanied by the font used, other graphic elements and the colors used.
sub-pixel antialiasing can be done for any image, not just fonts, so you just render the user interface of a window, including fonts at 9 times the resultion (3x3). Then you have to have an OpenGL implementation that knows how to sub pixel antialiasing, and tell it what type of monitor are hooked up. (Apple renders the user interface on a OpenGL texture).
I think he was talking about CRT projectors. I have one at home, 12 year old, does around 700 lines (you can actually do 1024 lines, but the picture doesn't get any sharper). Very nice blacks and very good color. I bought one second hand for about 1500 euro.
Modern CRT projectors have a much higher resolution (there are some which can sharply resolve 4000 lines), brightness, and refresh rates as well, which is why they are used for high resolution, stereo-graphic simulation.
It is called a CRT, although technically it doesn't have a 20.000hr lamp life, it has a tube life.
Although they weigh a lot, are difficult to set up initially are very big, and they don't produce a lot of light. They are cheap when you buy them second hand, even with new tubes. They also produce a very nice picture. And if you have a dark room, the light coming from this projector can blind you still.
I've an apple for about a year, and have been programming on it. It is very fun. However I can't seem to wrap my mind around their development manuals.
I guess I'm completely used to reading man-pages, and it probably has something to do with, me, being dyslectic.
Anyway I found that some of their header files, such as for their CoreAudio API is documented very clearly. After trying to read the manuals for weeks, I could read the documentation that was left their by a programmer in one go, and finally understand why they did what they did (the API's themself are also pretty foreign).
And the CoreAudio API development manual is not the only one I have problems with, neither can I understand the whole QuickTime API. So I am left wondering, who is writing these development manuals. And am I the only one with the problem reading these manuals.
That is the point of the discussion, if Java is supposed to be fully object-oriented, why are the basic types not objects.
This is about trying to add and int to a List, why do I need to convert (box) the int to an Integer to add it to the List.
There are many object oriented languages like Python, where the basic integer is an object.
I guess Java has int and Integers, because, they copied it from C++ and at the same time disallowing operator overloading. They broke the no-operater-overloading-law with Strings, where you can add two Strings (which should be a normal object) together using the + operator. Why haven't they added all the operators for the Integer as well.
Just some inconsistencies in Java I have always wondered about when I was programming in it. You should try a language like Python, to see how fun a real object-oriented language should feel.
Because you're not allowed to run a emulator, as your executable needs to be signed by a key, after microsoft or de media companies first looked at your code and find it appropriate to run it on the OS.
The OS that you run also needs to be signed by microsoft or the media companies or the CPU will not run that executable.
Your film and a film from Hollywood will be different because one of them is signed/encrypted, The only software that can access the hardware to decrypt the Hollywood movie, will need to be signed by the OS/hardware vendor.
That is what DRM is about, making sure that executables can only access specific hardware after the hardware sees that the code was correctly signed.
As DRM will probably be using public key encryption, even using an electron microscope to read the public key from the CPU after you have broken it open. You still don't have anything.
So once all the hardware en driver/player software and movies are DRMed, you can only do what the media companies want you to do. Unless the private key gets in the open, there is nothing you can do about it.
And in the real doom scenario, it will even be possible for CPU manufacturers to not let you run anything about windows. At that point you will have to pay microsoft when you want to program something.
And because this is possible the companies like microsoft, will try to do anything to make this happen.
I believe you can not easily change the power level, however you can do pulse width modulation. There are also now laser light modulators, that can change the frequency of a laser to an other color.
And yes, people are working on a projector build with a single laser and that gismo to modulate light. There have been expensive two laser versions helium and argon. The argon laser actually produces 4 colors, blue and green.
The green laser pointer from thinkgeek also uses a frequency divider to change the color of the second laser. The thinkgeek Laser is actual a red laser that pumps a ultraviolet laser of which the frequency is divided by two to get green.
The only thing that may happen in the long run, is that it may replace the port system of BSD. I right now run Gentoo (the portage part) on top of OS X. Not every package is there yet (actually most aren't), but I do see the possibilities.
Except that MSFT signed a deal when they sold of their own UNIX initiative, that they would never enter the UNIX market them self, so why would they need a UNIX resell license?
I'm rather dyslectic and being dutch I make many errors, the english language is so much easier (which is why I write documentation in english).
However I found out that my spelling improves a lot when it is cold, like about 18 degrees C. Luckily the office I work in is at about that temperature.
I found out on IRC where I do use the dutch language, and someone commented to me that I almost didn't make any mistakes, and it was very cold in my house. Some weeks later it happened again. Sure that is not much of a statistic:-)
I think the 550W power suply is more for stability than actual usage.
If a piece of equipment shortly uses a lot of power then you don't want the voltage to dip to much. And using bigger capasitors may not always be an option.
In the old film world the negatives had three coats, one for red, green and blue. Using a chemical and photographic process they could make the blue coating do a threshold kind of thing, so that the place where the blue screen was is completely solid, while the actors are completely transparent. From this they could make a traveling matt (to selectively process different parts of the picture) . In most materials the blue wavelength is not that bright and the blue screen stands out against it.
Before this, when they only had black and white film stock they used a black screen and used threshold to matt it against the actors.
Now today with digital effects, they load the negatives in the computer and the keying can be done on a any color, using a RGB triplet and an indication of color variance. Why they use green these days is because the green coating on film and the sensors on video cameras is much more accurate, so that you get much sharper edges.
For scale model work they use orange screen because when lit with a ultraviolet light it will phosphoresce into a nice bright orange. As the ultraviolet light is not picked up by the camera, the lighting of the model is not affected.
To be honest, plan 9, does have an interesting premiss.
--- WARNING SPOILER ---
Alien sightings are covert up by the governments (in X-files style fashion) so the aliens make zombies so the population will find out about the aliens, so they can tell us to stop the advancements in weapons that could someday destroy the galaxy.
--- END SPOILER ---
it was just horribly badly acted, designed and directed. Still I enjoy watching these movies and I wouldn't put them in the worst movies of all time category.
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You could also try and look at die-sublimation printers, which are the best in color fidelity and resultion as anything else on the market.
However,the ink may be quite expensive, but at least I've seen die-sublimation printers that do accept plain white paper, and the quality on plain white paper is even exceptional.
I actually downloaded the new version of xcode which will produce so-called 'universal' binaries with both PPC and x86 (it says so specifically) code in them.
All-in-all a very easy change for the developer, if you made sure you developed neatly (like you would do if you are a UNIX programmer anyway) and avoid all the endian and size issues.
I could see a future of apple though, where they would run multiple architectures (not only x86 and PPC) at the same time indefinitely.
You don't need to, the music on the iPod is nothing but a copy of your iTunes.
By connecting your new iPod to your iTunes, your new iPod will be a copy of your iTunes, en thus the same as your old iPod.
From a consumer point of few it is not possible to have more music on your iPod than is in your iTunes.
Actually the commodore 64 had a lot of viruses from what I remember. It attached itself on each floppy you inserted.
But in those days you didn't lose 160 GB of data.
I don't know how it is in the US, but in the Benelux (Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands) you should not be able to get a trademark on a common word. So both Jaguar and Tiger should not be able to get a trademark.
However you can get a trademark on a image mark, which could include a common word, but it will also be accompanied by the font used, other graphic elements and the colors used.
sub-pixel antialiasing can be done for any image, not just fonts, so you just render the user interface of a window, including fonts at 9 times the resultion (3x3). Then you have to have an OpenGL implementation that knows how to sub pixel antialiasing, and tell it what type of monitor are hooked up. (Apple renders the user interface on a OpenGL texture).
I think he was talking about CRT projectors. I have one at home, 12 year old, does around 700 lines (you can actually do 1024 lines, but the picture doesn't get any sharper).
Very nice blacks and very good color. I bought one second hand for about 1500 euro.
Modern CRT projectors have a much higher resolution (there are some which can sharply resolve 4000 lines), brightness, and refresh rates as well, which is why they are used for high resolution, stereo-graphic simulation.
Get a modern CRT projector for at home, it is less bright, but the quality will be much better than these digital cinemas.
And yes, these CRTs will resolve 4K lines easily, your problem would be getting the content and getting a player that can play this content.
For a couple of thousand euros/dollars you will be able to get a second hand CRT projector that would resolve 2K lines, such as the Sony G90.
And you also ignored that apple has a HD cinema display that is double that resolution.
It is called a CRT, although technically it doesn't have a 20.000hr lamp life, it has a tube life.
Although they weigh a lot, are difficult to set up initially are very big, and they don't produce a lot of light. They are cheap when you buy them second hand, even with new tubes. They also produce a very nice picture. And if you have a dark room, the light coming from this projector can blind you still.
I've an apple for about a year, and have been programming on it. It is very fun. However I can't seem to wrap my mind around their development manuals.
I guess I'm completely used to reading man-pages, and it probably has something to do with, me, being dyslectic.
Anyway I found that some of their header files, such as for their CoreAudio API is documented very clearly. After trying to read the manuals for weeks, I could read the documentation that was left their by a programmer in one go, and finally understand why they did what they did (the API's themself are also pretty foreign).
And the CoreAudio API development manual is not the only one I have problems with, neither can I understand the whole QuickTime API. So I am left wondering, who is writing these development manuals. And am I the only one with the problem reading these manuals.
That is the point of the discussion, if Java is supposed to be fully object-oriented, why are the basic types not objects.
This is about trying to add and int to a List, why do I need to convert (box) the int to an Integer to add it to the List.
There are many object oriented languages like Python, where the basic integer is an object.
I guess Java has int and Integers, because, they copied it from C++ and at the same time disallowing operator overloading.
They broke the no-operater-overloading-law with Strings, where you can add two Strings (which should be a normal object) together using the + operator. Why haven't they added all the operators for the Integer as well.
Just some inconsistencies in Java I have always wondered about when I was programming in it. You should try a language like Python, to see how fun a real object-oriented language should feel.
Because you're not allowed to run a emulator, as your executable needs to be signed by a key, after microsoft or de media companies first looked at your code and find it appropriate to run it on the OS.
The OS that you run also needs to be signed by microsoft or the media companies or the CPU will not run that executable.
Your film and a film from Hollywood will be different because one of them is signed/encrypted, The only software that can access the hardware to decrypt the Hollywood movie, will need to be signed by the OS/hardware vendor.
That is what DRM is about, making sure that executables can only access specific hardware after the hardware sees that the code was correctly signed.
As DRM will probably be using public key encryption, even using an electron microscope to read the public key from the CPU after you have broken it open. You still don't have anything.
So once all the hardware en driver/player software and movies are DRMed, you can only do what the media companies want you to do. Unless the private key gets in the open, there is nothing you can do about it.
And in the real doom scenario, it will even be possible for CPU manufacturers to not let you run anything about windows. At that point you will have to pay microsoft when you want to program something.
And because this is possible the companies like microsoft, will try to do anything to make this happen.
Here you can buy a analogue HD component capture card:
http://www.aja.com/
granted, not cheap, and you will need a stripe array.
4 colors, blue, green, green, green :-)
I believe you can not easily change the power level, however you can do pulse width modulation. There are also now laser light modulators, that can change the frequency of a laser to an other color.
And yes, people are working on a projector build with a single laser and that gismo to modulate light. There have been expensive two laser versions helium and argon. The argon laser actually produces 4 colors, blue and green.
The green laser pointer from thinkgeek also uses a frequency divider to change the color of the second laser. The thinkgeek Laser is actual a red laser that pumps a ultraviolet laser of which the frequency is divided by two to get green.
Luckily these chambers don't look at all suspicious when you bring it on a airplane in a suitcase.
1 in 455 for every hundred years means 45k years, so I guess we are already a little overdue to die, that could just be a statistical anomaly.
The only thing that may happen in the long run, is that it may replace the port system of BSD. I right now run Gentoo (the portage part) on top of OS X. Not every package is there yet (actually most aren't), but I do see the possibilities.
Next on the list:
Gentoo on win32
Except that MSFT signed a deal when they sold of their own UNIX initiative, that they would never enter the UNIX market them self, so why would they need a UNIX resell license?
I'm rather dyslectic and being dutch I make many errors, the english language is so much easier (which is why I write documentation in english).
:-)
However I found out that my spelling improves a lot when it is cold, like about 18 degrees C. Luckily the office I work in is at about that temperature.
I found out on IRC where I do use the dutch language, and someone commented to me that I almost didn't make any mistakes, and it was very cold in my house. Some weeks later it happened again. Sure that is not much of a statistic
I think the 550W power suply is more for stability than actual usage.
If a piece of equipment shortly uses a lot of power then you don't want the voltage to dip to much. And using bigger capasitors may not always be an option.
Sodipodi
http://www.sodipodi.com/
Very nice. For the simple cad like drawings I like xfig.
In the old film world the negatives had three coats, one for red, green and blue. Using a chemical and photographic process they could make the blue coating do a threshold kind of thing, so that the place where the blue screen was is completely solid, while the actors are completely transparent. From this they could make a traveling matt (to selectively process different parts of the picture) . In most materials the blue wavelength is not that bright and the blue screen stands out against it.
Before this, when they only had black and white film stock they used a black screen and used threshold to matt it against the actors.
Now today with digital effects, they load the negatives in the computer and the keying can be done on a any color, using a RGB triplet and an indication of color variance.
Why they use green these days is because the green coating on film and the sensors on video cameras is much more accurate, so that you get much sharper edges.
For scale model work they use orange screen because when lit with a ultraviolet light it will phosphoresce into a nice bright orange. As the ultraviolet light is not picked up by the camera, the lighting of the model is not affected.
To be honest, plan 9, does have an interesting premiss.
--- WARNING SPOILER ---
Alien sightings are covert up by the governments (in X-files style fashion) so the aliens make zombies so the population will find out about the aliens, so they can tell us to stop the advancements in weapons that could someday destroy the galaxy.
--- END SPOILER ---
it was just horribly badly acted, designed and directed. Still I enjoy watching these movies and I wouldn't put them in the worst movies of all time category.