one question I have to ask: what is Linux Torvalds' stand on this suit?
Linus is a techie. Since the Slashdot reader base is mostly techies, we should be able to understand that he will never get involved in the political side of things unless he really has to.
I would say this is an example of a situation where he really doesn't have to get involved.
Which console was played the most. The XBOX won with the addition of the XBOX Live (and the mod chip with Linux). The PS is still used all the time to play GTA or some old classics and we ended up saleing the GameCube to buy a new XBOX game.
So what you're trying to say is... you play more games than your 13 year old sister and 11 year old brother.
Your competition was missing the point. In the end, it's all about the games, not the console. There are some games for the GameCube that are brilliant, and because of this, the console system is just that much better.
My point was proven when you mentioned that the PS is still being played because of old classics. I would always take an old console and a brilliant game, over a flash new console with crap gameplay.
I have to agree, in that I haven't seen the Bebop series, but have seen and enjoyed the Bebop movie tremendously.
I'm waiting for Madman in Australia to release the boxset of Bebop episodes, and then I'll buy that. The series will obviously give me a greater understanding of the characters, and then I can watch the movie again with a different perception!
So why did I like the movie without any of the episodes behind me? Well, besides the excellent art, action, and music (brilliant music!!)... the characters were interesting, and the villan enigmatic. I don't want to spoil the movie for anyone, so I won't go into specifics, but I felt that I had a good understanding of the motives behind Vincent.
All in all, I definitely recommend it, even for non-viewers of the series.
Getting a little off-topic here, but my point is hopefully interesting...
Literal English translations of Japanese phrases are practically famous for sounding really weird. One of my favourites was a Real Estate place that I spied in Japan. A friend translated the title into this: "Big Tree Unmoving Product".
Anyway, what I want to know is... do Japanese translations of English phrases sound equally strange to Japanese people? It would be interesting to know.
Don't forget His and Her Circumstances. I recently borrowed this off a friend, and it's extremely good! There are some absolutely classic scenes in this series. Highly recommended.
Actually, I found the fictitious case study good because it highlights a practical scenario in which the escape codes were used to hack into another machine. It was relatively believable, except possibly for the convenient set of circumstances in which the hacker discovered information on remote computers.
I definitely thought it was a good addition to the report, though.
Wow, you're right! This looks like it resolves the complete 1920x1080. At 57", it probably needs to as well. Looks like it does 1080p too! This seems like a very impressive screen. Wish I could see it in action with the right material.
... and I block your "bullshit" call with this "clueless" card! *whacks card on table* :-) Sorry, my friend, I believe you are mistaken.
Take 1920x1080i @ 30hz
Deinterlace it.
Now you have 1920x540p @ 60hz
Mate, when you deinterlace 1080i, you get 1080p! Well, OK, if you've got a very simple deinterlacer, then it essentially just repeats one line twice on the screen, but even then it still has 1080 lines. They don't call 'em line doublers for nuthin'.
My set (which is fairly low end) has 1200 horizontal TV lines of resolution.
If your set is low end, I very much doubt that you have 1200 vertical lines of resolution (horizontal dots), much less than 1200 horizontal lines of resolution (vertical dots).
High end plasma screens can do 1280 horizontal dots, and high end RPTVs can do 1280 horizontal dots. If it's a CRT, though, there's no commercial tube out there that will do 1280 horizontally.
In a 1:1 area, the height of the set, 1200 pixels can be resolved. Now, my set is 1.77:1 (16:9). So expanding that to the full width of the set, you get (1.77*1200) 2124 pixels.
If you have a widescreen television that can do 1200 horizontally, then it's 1200 in a 16:9 area! No manufacturer ever quotes the resolution that they achieve in a 1:1 area. They always go for the maximum figures.
You're also assuming that the resolution is uniform across the whole screen. That is actually untrue for CRT. The resolution of a tube is more dense in the middle of the tube than it is on the outside, for the simple fact that the electron dot is not a dot towards the extremities. It's actually oval, due to the angle of deflection. Manufacturers quote minimum/maximum dot pitches in a tube spec, to reflect the difference in dot pitch on the outside of the tube, and in the middle of the tube.
By the way, thanks for that link to that Allan Jayne website. It's a good read. I've bookmarked it for future reference.
... we don't want to accuse SlashDot of being USA-centric after all:)
For a great website about OZ happenings in the digital broadcasting world, check out http://www.dba.org.au/ . It has an excellent FAQ area which should answer many general questions on digital television for anyone around the world.
All television stations in the major capital cities are now transmitting standard digital signals (576i). High definition signals (576p,720p,1080i) will be transmitted from the 1st of July this year. All stations are _required_ to broadcast a minimum of 1080 hours per year of HD transmissions. Channel 10 have already stated that they will broadcast HD continuously, so they're going beyond the obligations.
If you want to get into the HD thing, you basically need a HD television, and a HD digital set-top box. Your existing antenna should work perfectly fine (read the DBA FAQ for more info). Currently, the cheapest HD capable TV available is one by Palsonic, and retails for a little over $3000 AUS. The _only_ HD digital set-top box available is the DG-TEC DH2000a. It does the job decently, but has a loyal following of dgtec haters. Read the forums on the DBA website for more information. There are a few more HD set-top boxes due to be released "any day now".
One thing to know... there is NO consumer television available that can fully resolve the resolution of the 1080i signal. Plasma can't, CRT tubes can't, rear projection sets can't. That does _not_ mean the television is useless, though. if you have a 76cm (32") widescreen TV that could fully resolve 1080i, you would have to sit about 30-40 cms from the television to be able to see the picture in its full glory. If you're sitting 3 meters back, there's no way that you could see all the detail.
Does that mean HD signals are a waste of time? Absolutely not! A HD signal is much clearer than your standard signal, even if you can't see all the detail. The sweet spot for a 76-86cm TV is around the 720p area (any more resolution, and you just can't see it from a viewing distance). For larger displays, full 1080i resolution is definitely an improvement.
I've already bought my HD display. Now I'm just waiting for a decent HD set-top box, and also waiting for that July 1st deadline. It's a pretty exciting time for television!
Yep, Sandman won the 1991 World Fantasy Award for best short story. Well, it wasn't the Sandman comic as such that won it, but a section from it called "A Midsummer Night's Dream". This was basically the first time that a comic had won a literary prize.
Unfortunately, there was such a shock from the win, the committee responsible for the awards changed the rules so that NO graphic novel could even be nominated for the award, much less win it.
It just goes to show you how narrow-minded people can be. But I'm sure the Oscars will never suffer from a fate like that...
Wait until the Extended edition of TTT gets released on DVD. I absolutely loved the extended FOTR, because of the extra detail it gave the characters and story.
While I enjoyed TTT quite a bit, there's so much that P.J. can add to it. And I don't doubt that he will add to it in the Extended edition. Let's hope he really goes for it and adds an hour extra worth of new material. 4 hours for a movie... it'll be on-par with "Gone with the Wind" for length:).
Just to keep things on topic.... does anybody really pay much attention as to who wins in the Oscars?! We're all aware of how political it has become, and the results are meaningless because of it.
so all that I have to do is run my NAT through a cheap OpenBSD box
If only it was that easy. The research paper mentions that Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, or Solaris machines are more evasive if you use them as hosts! The IPid field is left untouched by NAT gateways, and will thus expose different windows machines behind the gateway.
I seem to remember most theatres efficiently taking Titanic, a three hour and fourteen minute film, to the tune of six-hundred million dollars domestic and eighteen-hundred million dollars worldwide.
I guess it's easy to forget the number one grossing film of all time.
Yup, I guess it is easy to forget a movie like the Titanic:).
Unfortunately, you can't measure efficiency solely based on the total gross product of a movie. From what I understand, the studios contract with the theaters where they earn around 90% of profits for the first week after release.... therefore efficiency, in the eyes of a studio, is how many times they can show a movie in the first week of release.... therefore, the shorter the movie, the more efficient it is. A studio will not release a three hour movie if they can help it. It's a shame, really, because I like long movies (except if the movie is crap, in which I'm itching to exit as soon as I can:).
There are a few films that defy the 3 hour barrier. You've named the Titanic, but Gone With The Wind went for a massive 4 hours. Films _can_ run for a long period, and still be a big money spinner. They are few and far between, though. That you cannot dispute.
I bought the original Matrix DVD, and I bought the original LOTR dvd set (2 disc), and now that they've brought out the newer ones, I was not only quite pissed that they've brought out 'bigger' versions, I half contemplated buying the new editions.
You can NOT compare the way they handled the Matrix, to the way they handled the LOTR release. New Line, right from the start, announced in a press release their intentions to release two separate DVD versions. They kept everyone informed as to their intentions, and thus have my respect for that. If you didn't do any research on the DVD release schedule, then you have noone to blame but yourself.
... the extended cut packs a fair amount into an extra 30 minutes
Twenty of which is in the extended closing credits which includes some ten thousand names from the LOTR fan club.
The extra 30 minutes did NOT include the fan club credits. It was all extra scenes not originally included in the movie. Thank god Peter Jackson saw fit to release this on DVD, because the extra scenes really make the movie more complete. They absolutely HAD to cut out the scenes for the theatrical release though, because nearly 3 hours is longer than what most theatres can take efficiently.
As far as I'm concerned, anything that ends with.com _should_ indicate that the domain is a company! I feel that it's just plain wrong for personal websites to be setup in the.com TLD.
Having said that, though, Uzi Nissan does have a business in that name. He is most definitely entitled to keep the domain name. I really wish there was a transcript of the conclusion that the Judge came to. I'd really like to know the reason why Nissan Motors won the case.
I was once a happy and energetic person. I used to love to be involved in life. Whether it was work or play, all my activities were fun and interesting.
Then I saw my first duplicate Slashdot article.
The effect was immediate. Life just lost that shine. I'm wandering around now, dazed and confused, exclaiming "Why! Why does Slashdot have to post duplicates!". My sex drive has vanished, my work productivity has become non-existant, my exuberance has all but dried up. All I can be fed up doing these days, is slothing around the house muttering curses against the evilness of duplicated news stories.
Please consider people like us, Mr. Slashdot editor, the next time you submit a story.
But when a grown adult man daydreams about living in an underground wizard cave instead of about girls, money, and cars, I believe that there is a problem.
Wow... so in other words, if we don't daydream about girls, money, and cars, you consider the person flawed. Am I the only one that thinks this is really sad? I would say that we should dream of who we want to be. If that dream involves a female companion, being filthy rich, or owning a stable of high performance machines... then so be it. But if you dream of other things, then that dream is a worthy goal because it is you who dreamed it. Moreover if others dream differently to you, then don't chide them, but respect their dream for what it is. Your dream is not the only one, after all.
Have a look at http://www.theloudspeakerkit.com/ . Their M4 bookshelf speaker sounds about right for your needs. It's shielded, so there's no magnetic interference if you place it next to a computer screen. The performance from this speaker is brilliant for the price, and your audiophile hubby will definitely be impressed.
Plus, being a kit, your hubby get to build it! Any self respecting geek loves to put things together.
The prices are in $AUS, so you'll need to multiply by 0.56 to convert it into $US (assuming you're in the USA, of course:). You'll probably need to email them about shipping costs, as they don't have overseas locations in their online order page.
I'm a fairly casual fan of anime, and I really enjoy anime articles when I see them on Slashdot. So please Slashdot, I'd like to see more anime evangelism.
BTW, I don't think that anyone really believes that North American animation is not good enough. It's just different from Japanese animation. The world would be a poorer place if either style didn't exist.
In any case, it will be interesting to see if the DVD release uses the 30fps source or the 24fps source...
I'd think that they would use both. The 24fps source would be for the NTSC DVD release, and the 30fps source for the PAL DVD release. That way they don't have to waste time with any more conversions.
Most of us have jobs that involve much more difficult tasks than updating a web page with a blurp and a link several times a day. If we were too lazy to do something as simple as run a search before posting a story, it's highly likely we'd be at SERIOUS risk for losing our jobs.
And it's exactly this elitest attitude that really annoys me. Since I assume you're not a Slashdot editor, I'm going to assume you have very little idea of the work involved. In other words, you're talking out of your arse.
Horses for courses, Mr. Anonymous Coward. You can't compare a job posting news stories, to a job that is a little more sensitive (i.e handling credit card numbers).
I'm not saying that you shouldn't point out Tim's mistake. Something like "Hey Timothy, this one's a duplicate, buddy"... says what you need, without inferring that the editor is the reincarnation of the devil. Just please don't jump up and down in a rampage, declaring that "my life has been ruined because Timothy has posted a duplicate story".
Slashdot Mirror
Linus is a techie. Since the Slashdot reader base is mostly techies, we should be able to understand that he will never get involved in the political side of things unless he really has to.
I would say this is an example of a situation where he really doesn't have to get involved.
DeeK
So what you're trying to say is
Your competition was missing the point. In the end, it's all about the games, not the console. There are some games for the GameCube that are brilliant, and because of this, the console system is just that much better.
My point was proven when you mentioned that the PS is still being played because of old classics. I would always take an old console and a brilliant game, over a flash new console with crap gameplay.
DeeK
Yep, I can accept that. But still, as a native english speaker, describing "real estate" as an "unmoving product" is hilarious!
I just wonder if there are things in the english language that are equally funny for japanese people.
DeeK
I have to agree, in that I haven't seen the Bebop series, but have seen and enjoyed the Bebop movie tremendously.
... the characters were interesting, and the villan enigmatic. I don't want to spoil the movie for anyone, so I won't go into specifics, but I felt that I had a good understanding of the motives behind Vincent.
I'm waiting for Madman in Australia to release the boxset of Bebop episodes, and then I'll buy that. The series will obviously give me a greater understanding of the characters, and then I can watch the movie again with a different perception!
So why did I like the movie without any of the episodes behind me? Well, besides the excellent art, action, and music (brilliant music!!)
All in all, I definitely recommend it, even for non-viewers of the series.
DeeK
Getting a little off-topic here, but my point is hopefully interesting ...
... do Japanese translations of English phrases sound equally strange to Japanese people? It would be interesting to know.
Literal English translations of Japanese phrases are practically famous for sounding really weird. One of my favourites was a Real Estate place that I spied in Japan. A friend translated the title into this: "Big Tree Unmoving Product".
Anyway, what I want to know is
DeeK
- They are adding features to Mozilla that made me move away from IE!
DeeKDon't forget His and Her Circumstances. I recently borrowed this off a friend, and it's extremely good! There are some absolutely classic scenes in this series. Highly recommended.
DeeK
Actually, I found the fictitious case study good because it highlights a practical scenario in which the escape codes were used to hack into another machine. It was relatively believable, except possibly for the convenient set of circumstances in which the hacker discovered information on remote computers.
I definitely thought it was a good addition to the report, though.
dave
Wow, you're right! This looks like it resolves the complete 1920x1080. At 57", it probably needs to as well. Looks like it does 1080p too! This seems like a very impressive screen. Wish I could see it in action with the right material.
DeeK
:-)
Sorry, my friend, I believe you are mistaken.
Mate, when you deinterlace 1080i, you get 1080p! Well, OK, if you've got a very simple deinterlacer, then it essentially just repeats one line twice on the screen, but even then it still has 1080 lines. They don't call 'em line doublers for nuthin'.
If your set is low end, I very much doubt that you have 1200 vertical lines of resolution (horizontal dots), much less than 1200 horizontal lines of resolution (vertical dots).
High end plasma screens can do 1280 horizontal dots, and high end RPTVs can do 1280 horizontal dots. If it's a CRT, though, there's no commercial tube out there that will do 1280 horizontally.
If you have a widescreen television that can do 1200 horizontally, then it's 1200 in a 16:9 area! No manufacturer ever quotes the resolution that they achieve in a 1:1 area. They always go for the maximum figures.
You're also assuming that the resolution is uniform across the whole screen. That is actually untrue for CRT. The resolution of a tube is more dense in the middle of the tube than it is on the outside, for the simple fact that the electron dot is not a dot towards the extremities. It's actually oval, due to the angle of deflection. Manufacturers quote minimum/maximum dot pitches in a tube spec, to reflect the difference in dot pitch on the outside of the tube, and in the middle of the tube.
By the way, thanks for that link to that Allan Jayne website. It's a good read. I've bookmarked it for future reference.
DeeK
- A true 1080p monitor (it will upconvert 1080i to true 1920 x 1080 progressive @ 60hz) is being released in the US this year
Any information on it? The only thing that I've heard will come close to true 1080x1920 is a LCOS rear projection system.DeeK
... we don't want to accuse SlashDot of being USA-centric after all :)
... there is NO consumer television available that can fully resolve the resolution of the 1080i signal. Plasma can't, CRT tubes can't, rear projection sets can't. That does _not_ mean the television is useless, though. if you have a 76cm (32") widescreen TV that could fully resolve 1080i, you would have to sit about 30-40 cms from the television to be able to see the picture in its full glory. If you're sitting 3 meters back, there's no way that you could see all the detail.
For a great website about OZ happenings in the digital broadcasting world, check out http://www.dba.org.au/ . It has an excellent FAQ area which should answer many general questions on digital television for anyone around the world.
All television stations in the major capital cities are now transmitting standard digital signals (576i). High definition signals (576p,720p,1080i) will be transmitted from the 1st of July this year. All stations are _required_ to broadcast a minimum of 1080 hours per year of HD transmissions. Channel 10 have already stated that they will broadcast HD continuously, so they're going beyond the obligations.
If you want to get into the HD thing, you basically need a HD television, and a HD digital set-top box. Your existing antenna should work perfectly fine (read the DBA FAQ for more info). Currently, the cheapest HD capable TV available is one by Palsonic, and retails for a little over $3000 AUS. The _only_ HD digital set-top box available is the DG-TEC DH2000a. It does the job decently, but has a loyal following of dgtec haters. Read the forums on the DBA website for more information. There are a few more HD set-top boxes due to be released "any day now".
One thing to know
Does that mean HD signals are a waste of time? Absolutely not! A HD signal is much clearer than your standard signal, even if you can't see all the detail. The sweet spot for a 76-86cm TV is around the 720p area (any more resolution, and you just can't see it from a viewing distance). For larger displays, full 1080i resolution is definitely an improvement.
I've already bought my HD display. Now I'm just waiting for a decent HD set-top box, and also waiting for that July 1st deadline. It's a pretty exciting time for television!
DeeK
Yep, Sandman won the 1991 World Fantasy Award for best short story. Well, it wasn't the Sandman comic as such that won it, but a section from it called "A Midsummer Night's Dream". This was basically the first time that a comic had won a literary prize.
...
Unfortunately, there was such a shock from the win, the committee responsible for the awards changed the rules so that NO graphic novel could even be nominated for the award, much less win it.
It just goes to show you how narrow-minded people can be. But I'm sure the Oscars will never suffer from a fate like that
DeeK
Wait until the Extended edition of TTT gets released on DVD. I absolutely loved the extended FOTR, because of the extra detail it gave the characters and story.
... it'll be on-par with "Gone with the Wind" for length :).
.... does anybody really pay much attention as to who wins in the Oscars?! We're all aware of how political it has become, and the results are meaningless because of it.
While I enjoyed TTT quite a bit, there's so much that P.J. can add to it. And I don't doubt that he will add to it in the Extended edition. Let's hope he really goes for it and adds an hour extra worth of new material. 4 hours for a movie
Just to keep things on topic
- so all that I have to do is run my NAT through a cheap OpenBSD box
If only it was that easy. The research paper mentions that Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, or Solaris machines are more evasive if you use them as hosts! The IPid field is left untouched by NAT gateways, and will thus expose different windows machines behind the gateway.I guess it's easy to forget the number one grossing film of all time.
Yup, I guess it is easy to forget a movie like the Titanic
Unfortunately, you can't measure efficiency solely based on the total gross product of a movie. From what I understand, the studios contract with the theaters where they earn around 90% of profits for the first week after release.
There are a few films that defy the 3 hour barrier. You've named the Titanic, but Gone With The Wind went for a massive 4 hours. Films _can_ run for a long period, and still be a big money spinner. They are few and far between, though. That you cannot dispute.
You can NOT compare the way they handled the Matrix, to the way they handled the LOTR release. New Line, right from the start, announced in a press release their intentions to release two separate DVD versions. They kept everyone informed as to their intentions, and thus have my respect for that. If you didn't do any research on the DVD release schedule, then you have noone to blame but yourself.
Twenty of which is in the extended closing credits which includes some ten thousand names from the LOTR fan club.
The extra 30 minutes did NOT include the fan club credits. It was all extra scenes not originally included in the movie. Thank god Peter Jackson saw fit to release this on DVD, because the extra scenes really make the movie more complete. They absolutely HAD to cut out the scenes for the theatrical release though, because nearly 3 hours is longer than what most theatres can take efficiently.
As far as I'm concerned, anything that ends with .com _should_ indicate that the domain is a company! I feel that it's just plain wrong for personal websites to be setup in the .com TLD.
Having said that, though, Uzi Nissan does have a business in that name. He is most definitely entitled to keep the domain name. I really wish there was a transcript of the conclusion that the Judge came to. I'd really like to know the reason why Nissan Motors won the case.
DeeK
I was once a happy and energetic person. I used to love to be involved in life. Whether it was work or play, all my activities were fun and interesting.
Then I saw my first duplicate Slashdot article.
The effect was immediate. Life just lost that shine. I'm wandering around now, dazed and confused, exclaiming "Why! Why does Slashdot have to post duplicates!". My sex drive has vanished, my work productivity has become non-existant, my exuberance has all but dried up. All I can be fed up doing these days, is slothing around the house muttering curses against the evilness of duplicated news stories.
Please consider people like us, Mr. Slashdot editor, the next time you submit a story.
DeeK
- But when a grown adult man daydreams about living in an underground wizard cave instead of about girls, money, and cars, I believe that there is a problem.
WowDeeK
Have a look at http://www.theloudspeakerkit.com/ . Their M4 bookshelf speaker sounds about right for your needs. It's shielded, so there's no magnetic interference if you place it next to a computer screen. The performance from this speaker is brilliant for the price, and your audiophile hubby will definitely be impressed.
:). You'll probably need to email them about shipping costs, as they don't have overseas locations in their online order page.
Plus, being a kit, your hubby get to build it! Any self respecting geek loves to put things together.
The prices are in $AUS, so you'll need to multiply by 0.56 to convert it into $US (assuming you're in the USA, of course
DeeK
I'm a fairly casual fan of anime, and I really enjoy anime articles when I see them on Slashdot. So please Slashdot, I'd like to see more anime evangelism.
BTW, I don't think that anyone really believes that North American animation is not good enough. It's just different from Japanese animation. The world would be a poorer place if either style didn't exist.
DeeK
DeeK
And it's exactly this elitest attitude that really annoys me. Since I assume you're not a Slashdot editor, I'm going to assume you have very little idea of the work involved. In other words, you're talking out of your arse.
Horses for courses, Mr. Anonymous Coward. You can't compare a job posting news stories, to a job that is a little more sensitive (i.e handling credit card numbers).
I'm not saying that you shouldn't point out Tim's mistake. Something like "Hey Timothy, this one's a duplicate, buddy"
DeeK