AoTC WAS shot digitally, as has been the last of the trilogy. Sony and Lucasfilm have invested a ton of money on making digital film happening and, guess what, they have achieved it, as demostrated by the movies awesome quality.
Not only they have matched film properties, but also surpassed them in many departments (and I am not even talking about convenience and cost).
"Most films shot now are digitized, or shot digitally in the first place."
Actually, digital shots are still uncommon, Attack of the Clones being the first to be the first live feature film ever to be entirely shot digitally (I said live, which means without counting 3D animation movies, which obviously are all 100% digital as well).
Digitalization is an entirely different issue and also pretty obvious: any film in DVD has been digitized, period. However, the level of what Lowry has done with Star Wars is unheard of. Or better said, unseen:-)
I wish the studios could get all the classical movies in the vaults under a similar process, to preserve them intact, digitally, forever. Of course, the restorations should be performed as you restore a painting, studying the period, the medium and the history of the film to get as closer as the original first print as possible.
And then, start releasing them in Blu-ray format. I have a Marantz high definition projector with Minolta lens that is begging for a restored copy of The Godfather, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Seven Samurais, Hidden Fortress and of course, Beyond the Valley of the Ultravixens (and two zillion other jewels:-)
Well, yeah, they are far far far from dead. Like, you know, way past the point of putrefaction.
CRTs _don't_ display "true black" (as "black in in paper" black or "total absence of light" black, not as in NTSC so-called "true black"). Nothing does.
The fact is that you are repeating the same lousy, irrelevant "arguments" that video purists do with video projection. The argument is as follows:
"CRT projectors are better than ANYTHING else because they could give you 'true black'".
Yeah, whatever dude. Never mind that DiLA or even DLP beat the crap out of any CRT proyector image quality (whose setup will probably cost you the same as a mid-of-the-line DLP). And never mind that a _film_ projector would never give you true black (hint, there's a huge light bulb behind the film, and the film is _transparent_). So until we don't get a true reflective e-ink-sort-of-thing technology with additive color instead of substractive, no "true black" for you, mister. Take out your 3M MatchPrints, because that's as true black as you ever going to get in your color proofs.
But really, this argument is all irrelevant. Right now, you can get color matching in a LCD as good or better (because it could be better controlled) than with CRT technology. Period.
What was the thread about again? Oh yeah, 20" LCD iMacs. I want two.
Once you get the TCP/IP stack on the Mac going? Netatalk?
You are probably talking about Mac OS 9 or earlier. The name of the game at this point is Mac OS X, now in black fur with its 10.3 version (aka Panther). No need for Netatalk (no need for AppleTalk at all) and TCP/IP is there, in fact the backbone of OS X communications.
Merging a Mac OS X Panther computer in ANY corporate environment today is easy. Just plug and play. You can even store your user directory in a Windows server, like any PC user. TCP/IP, SMB sharepoints and print services, CUPS, NFS, WebDAV, FTP, VPN, LDAP... anything that has to do with networking, anything you can think about is present in Mac OS X 10.2 or 10.3 (the later being more complete and smooth).
And the fun thing is that no setup is needed for all this stuff to work. It seamlessly integrates, fire and forget and enjoy.
At least for BMW's Mini car here in Spain. If you buy a Mini and try to repair it outside an official BMW/Mini repair shop or install anything that is not officially sanctioned by BMW, your guarantee will be void.
So with that information, either you buy the car or you don't, but you can't hardly complain if they explain this to you when you buy the car. It's their way or the highway, with another car.
So, like with the Lexmark (if they also warn the potential buyer), the choice is in the consumer hands.
Or so they claim here. It seems they have all their bases covered and don't give a damn about ECC for a reason.
[Srinidhi Varadarajan, an assistant professor of computer science at Virginia Tech, and Jason Lockhart, director of the College of Engineering's High Performance Computing and Technology Innovation, initiated the venture at Virginia Tech. Varadarajan is an expert in reliability, a key issue in successfully exploiting terascale computing.]
They keep on going:
[Component failures are endemic to any large-scale computational resource. While previous generations of supercomputers engineered reliability into systems hardware, today's high performance computing environments are based on inexpensive clusters of commodity components, with no systemic solution for the reliability of total machine.]
And now for the solution for your reliability problem.
[Virginia Tech has the first comprehensive solution to the problem of transparent fault tolerance, which enables large-scale supercomputers to mask hardware, operating system and software failures - a decades old problem. It's a software program called Deja vu, designed by Varadarajan. He also integrated the software with Apple's G5s. This work will enable the terascale computing facility to operate as the first reliable supercomputing facility, according to Varadarajan, a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award recipient.]
Why don't you zip it and please read the facts from the horse's mouth:
["Virginia Tech will have one of the top ranked supercomputing facilities in the world, supporting significant "big science" research. It is anticipated that Virginia Tech will realize at least a five to one return on this investment in terms of annual research grant and contract activity," says Glenda Scales, assistant dean of computing and distance learning at Virginia Tech.]
Let me say that again: Five to one return of investment projected. At least. If they are saying this outloud, I can assure you Ms. Scales knows what the hell she's talking about.
Someone pointed out that Intel or AMD could underclock one of their chips and beat Transmeta's offerings to dead. Well, why go that far? A simple 600MHz IBM PowerPC 750CX processor delivers as much battery time while being a far more powerful processor. Today. Granted, it won't run Windows but, hey, it would be able to power a TabletMac (Unix on a table, what a concept), say, something like a Powerbook Duo with 10.3. What the heck, I bet an iBook running Virtual PC with a good amount of RAM would beat the pants out of a Transmeta.
The truth here is that, unfortunately (?) Transmeta chips have _not_ delivered on their promise. Lots of hot air, but no goods delivered.
Mr. Torvalds would be better getting a job at IBM, Sun or, heh, even Apple.
Complete bull. Lots of software use Altivec. Software that needs that kind of processing power, of course. It just doesn't pay to go around optimizing your average Word's code for vector processing, you know.
For video encoding/decoding, image manipulation, sound manipulation, 3D, 2D deformation, AltiVec doesn't only pay. In fact, it is the only game in town and it beats the pants of the MMXs and 3DNows of this world.
But you now the single biggest piece of software that is going (or is already) to use Altivec? MacOS X. All the bells and wisthles of Quartz, its QuickTime layer (wait for QT5 to see this to the extreme), its OpenGL layer... all of them eating Altivec cycles like CRAZY, optimized for that unit and kickin ass at that. And as time passes, the more vectorization of code we will see.
So see, any app running on MacOS X, like Maya, Premiere, Final Cut and whatever other software WILL be accelerated to some degree by Altivec.
So please, forget about the crappy G5 rumors and rampant speculation of sites that just want to catch up hits and ads: Apple won't let VE die because it has invested quite a lot in it, it is a key part of its OS and and is at the heart of its marketing strategy (which attacks the CONTENT CREATORS as well as the consumers).
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Their heirs should get what is due as well. After all, they actually visualize all the bloody characters in the first place.
If Google ever releases a browser based on Firefox and promotes it in every frikkin page they have, I believe things could get pretty shaky for MS.
And once you are there, who knows what could happen. I can see a Google browser becoming a truly powerful and dominant consumer platform.
The quality is awesome, no matter the look Lucas went for, which is an entirely different subject from the features and quality of the 24P format.
Please do your homework.
AoTC WAS shot digitally, as has been the last of the trilogy. Sony and Lucasfilm have invested a ton of money on making digital film happening and, guess what, they have achieved it, as demostrated by the movies awesome quality.
Not only they have matched film properties, but also surpassed them in many departments (and I am not even talking about convenience and cost).
"Most films shot now are digitized, or shot digitally in the first place."
:-)
:-)
Actually, digital shots are still uncommon, Attack of the Clones being the first to be the first live feature film ever to be entirely shot digitally (I said live, which means without counting 3D animation movies, which obviously are all 100% digital as well).
Digitalization is an entirely different issue and also pretty obvious: any film in DVD has been digitized, period. However, the level of what Lowry has done with Star Wars is unheard of. Or better said, unseen
I wish the studios could get all the classical movies in the vaults under a similar process, to preserve them intact, digitally, forever. Of course, the restorations should be performed as you restore a painting, studying the period, the medium and the history of the film to get as closer as the original first print as possible.
And then, start releasing them in Blu-ray format. I have a Marantz high definition projector with Minolta lens that is begging for a restored copy of The Godfather, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Seven Samurais, Hidden Fortress and of course, Beyond the Valley of the Ultravixens (and two zillion other jewels
"CRTs are far from dead"
Well, yeah, they are far far far from dead. Like, you know, way past the point of putrefaction.
CRTs _don't_ display "true black" (as "black in in paper" black or "total absence of light" black, not as in NTSC so-called "true black"). Nothing does.
The fact is that you are repeating the same lousy, irrelevant "arguments" that video purists do with video projection. The argument is as follows:
"CRT projectors are better than ANYTHING else because they could give you 'true black'".
Yeah, whatever dude. Never mind that DiLA or even DLP beat the crap out of any CRT proyector image quality (whose setup will probably cost you the same as a mid-of-the-line DLP). And never mind that a _film_ projector would never give you true black (hint, there's a huge light bulb behind the film, and the film is _transparent_). So until we don't get a true reflective e-ink-sort-of-thing technology with additive color instead of substractive, no "true black" for you, mister. Take out your 3M MatchPrints, because that's as true black as you ever going to get in your color proofs.
But really, this argument is all irrelevant. Right now, you can get color matching in a LCD as good or better (because it could be better controlled) than with CRT technology. Period.
What was the thread about again? Oh yeah, 20" LCD iMacs. I want two.
j.
Once you get the TCP/IP stack on the Mac going? Netatalk?
You are probably talking about Mac OS 9 or earlier. The name of the game at this point is Mac OS X, now in black fur with its 10.3 version (aka Panther). No need for Netatalk (no need for AppleTalk at all) and TCP/IP is there, in fact the backbone of OS X communications.
Merging a Mac OS X Panther computer in ANY corporate environment today is easy. Just plug and play. You can even store your user directory in a Windows server, like any PC user. TCP/IP, SMB sharepoints and print services, CUPS, NFS, WebDAV, FTP, VPN, LDAP... anything that has to do with networking, anything you can think about is present in Mac OS X 10.2 or 10.3 (the later being more complete and smooth).
And the fun thing is that no setup is needed for all this stuff to work. It seamlessly integrates, fire and forget and enjoy.
At least for BMW's Mini car here in Spain. If you buy a Mini and try to repair it outside an official BMW/Mini repair shop or install anything that is not officially sanctioned by BMW, your guarantee will be void.
So with that information, either you buy the car or you don't, but you can't hardly complain if they explain this to you when you buy the car. It's their way or the highway, with another car.
So, like with the Lexmark (if they also warn the potential buyer), the choice is in the consumer hands.
j.
... China laughs.
Bill Gates would be like, "it wasn't supposed to be funny!"
But it is.
j.
Or so they claim here. It seems they have all their bases covered and don't give a damn about ECC for a reason.
[Srinidhi Varadarajan, an assistant professor of computer science at Virginia Tech, and Jason Lockhart, director of the College of Engineering's High Performance Computing and Technology Innovation, initiated the venture at Virginia Tech. Varadarajan is an expert in reliability, a key issue in successfully exploiting terascale computing.]
They keep on going:
[Component failures are endemic to any large-scale computational resource. While previous generations of supercomputers engineered reliability into systems hardware, today's high performance computing environments are based on inexpensive clusters of commodity components, with no systemic solution for the reliability of total machine.]
And now for the solution for your reliability problem.
[Virginia Tech has the first comprehensive solution to the problem of transparent fault tolerance, which enables large-scale supercomputers to mask hardware, operating system and software failures - a decades old problem. It's a software program called Deja vu, designed by Varadarajan. He also integrated the software with Apple's G5s. This work will enable the terascale computing facility to operate as the first reliable supercomputing facility, according to Varadarajan, a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award recipient.]
So maybe, just maybe, you and other people could:
1. READ before posting.
2. Then READ a little more.
3. Did I say READ already.
-sigh- Whatever.Why don't you zip it and please read the facts from the horse's mouth:
["Virginia Tech will have one of the top ranked supercomputing facilities in the world, supporting significant "big science" research. It is anticipated that Virginia Tech will realize at least a five to one return on this investment in terms of annual research grant and contract activity," says Glenda Scales, assistant dean of computing and distance learning at Virginia Tech.]
Let me say that again: Five to one return of investment projected. At least. If they are saying this outloud, I can assure you Ms. Scales knows what the hell she's talking about.
You can find it here
Someone pointed out that Intel or AMD could underclock one of their chips and beat Transmeta's offerings to dead. Well, why go that far? A simple 600MHz IBM PowerPC 750CX processor delivers as much battery time while being a far more powerful processor. Today. Granted, it won't run Windows but, hey, it would be able to power a TabletMac (Unix on a table, what a concept), say, something like a Powerbook Duo with 10.3. What the heck, I bet an iBook running Virtual PC with a good amount of RAM would beat the pants out of a Transmeta.
The truth here is that, unfortunately (?) Transmeta chips have _not_ delivered on their promise. Lots of hot air, but no goods delivered.
Mr. Torvalds would be better getting a job at IBM, Sun or, heh, even Apple.
Complete bull. Lots of software use Altivec. Software that needs that kind of processing power, of course. It just doesn't pay to go around optimizing your average Word's code for vector processing, you know. For video encoding/decoding, image manipulation, sound manipulation, 3D, 2D deformation, AltiVec doesn't only pay. In fact, it is the only game in town and it beats the pants of the MMXs and 3DNows of this world. But you now the single biggest piece of software that is going (or is already) to use Altivec? MacOS X. All the bells and wisthles of Quartz, its QuickTime layer (wait for QT5 to see this to the extreme), its OpenGL layer... all of them eating Altivec cycles like CRAZY, optimized for that unit and kickin ass at that. And as time passes, the more vectorization of code we will see. So see, any app running on MacOS X, like Maya, Premiere, Final Cut and whatever other software WILL be accelerated to some degree by Altivec. So please, forget about the crappy G5 rumors and rampant speculation of sites that just want to catch up hits and ads: Apple won't let VE die because it has invested quite a lot in it, it is a key part of its OS and and is at the heart of its marketing strategy (which attacks the CONTENT CREATORS as well as the consumers).