I think I was the only one that, when watching The Sixth Sense, assumed he was dead from the beginning. Which meant the movie had no twist at all, but was still alright.
Also if he's so smart why is he trying to do his colour correction in ANY ambient light, instead of under a hood like the real professional photographers do.
The first thing a computer forensics person would do is take one or more copies of your hard drive and work from that - for the very reason you were talking about, in case there's some logic bomb they don't defuse.
So you wipe the files, they make another copy from their backup, waterboard you for a while, and try again:)
I concur.. I've been to a lot of those places recently (again, except the US) and take my laptop out of my backpack but leave it in its neoprene sleeve thingie. It's never been a problem.
Or you could try dragon boating. It's a team sport, easy to get into and good exercise. It's not hard to find a dragon boat club in Australia, can't vouch for anywhere else in the world (except for maybe Asia!). Although the world championships in 2011 are being held in Florida, so there must be some dragon boaters in the US:)
As of OS X 10.5 Carbon is slowly becoming "deprecated" and new APIs and 64-bit updates to APIs will not be available through Carbon, Objective-C/Cocoa is the One True Way to write apps for OS X. Basically if Adobe want their apps to take advantage of all the 64-bit goodness in Leopard and beyond they will have to rewrite their apps.
There was a whole thing about this in the in-depth Leopard review Ars Technica did - see the 64-bit section of that review.
That's because most people (YouTube included) serve the flash video file as a regular HTTP download - meaning you can't really skip forward reliably without downloading a whole bunch of extra data. If they used Flash Media Server which uses a proper streaming protocol most of these issues are resolved, you can freely jump around the stream and the FMS server will just start streaming your client the bits it needs.
Only downside is FMS ain't cheap, however there are some open source implementations.
I was there at the end of July and it was a pleasant 45 minute train ride to the Hauptbahnhof in the centre of town, and there's about 3 services an hour. Not necessarily the cheapest at 8.80EUR or so, but for 18EUR my wife and I had an all day "partner ticket" we could use on the metro all we wanted for the day we were there (so only 40c more than two singles from the airport to the city centre).
Most cities I've been to the airport services have been a bit expensive, but that's life (eg. Sydney AirportLink, Heathrow Express..)
What's Y2K got to do with tech flops? While there's no way to know one way or another, it could well be that nothing major happened precisely because people made effort to remediate and test any issues prior to 1/1/2000.
From that list it looks like both formats got the new release (The Departed), and Blu-Ray got a bunch of old movies that won't be significantly better in quality than the SD DVD version anyway.
Your Flickr screen name has nothing to do with your Yahoo! account name. I signed up for Flickr when it was still the "oldskool" login. They announced that they would be turning those off in preference for Y! logins not long after (this was a few years ago), but I guess it didn't happen. Either way I already had a Y! account which I didn't use much but it was there, so I converted the login across. Didn't have to change my Flickr name or anything else. On all the computers I use the cookie remembers who I am so I can't remember the last time I actually had to login (which is occasionally annoying because I can never remember what my Y! account name is).
Either way, you could be jblow1234@yahoo.com but sign up for Flickr as "JoePhotography" if it's available.
The Flex IDE and the Charting package is US$750, the Flex SDK which includes the command line MXML -> SWF compiler and the whole component library (ie. UI controls, RPC, everything else) is a free download from Adobe. Excluding charts, which is a component library anyway and not dependant on the IDE, you can build everything with the free SDK that you can with the package. You could always write your own charting components or find an open source one if you needed charts.
I've already mentioned this in another comment, but Adobe Flex is here today and lets you build Rich Internet Applications that compile down to SWF files that run on Flash Player 9. Unlike all the other technologies you've mentioned, Flash Player 9 will work on the majority of systems and browsers out there today.
Flex is close (http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/). It might not be "vendor independent" but it's based on a lot of open standards and it's client platform has an extremely high penetration:
ActionScript 3 is based on the latest draft ECMAScript spec, includes goodies like E4X for painless XML parsing
There are open actionscript compilers out there, but even so...
The Flex 2 SDK (including the MXML compiler and the component library) is "free" (the Eclipse based IDE and Charting isn't)
The only non-open thing about it is the Flash Player, which may bug you. At least the Flash Player works the same on every browser, unlike HTML + Javascript.
I'm biased though, I just got a job at an Adobe partner..:)
I think before this phone is released (note they don't have FCC approval etc yet, it'll be a few months at least) there will be a widescreen iPod (only) in the same form factor with the same features - the fancy interface, coverflow, etc. The only difference is it'll have the 30/80GB (or 40/100GB?) hard drives of the current iPods and cost the same, replacing the current iPod Video models.
Maybe it'll also have the WiFi support and Widgets / Safari? Although that'd be getting into PDA territory, not to mention bad for battery life.
I meant the "next" version, not the currently shipping one. I seem to recall reading something that Shake has been discontinued and they're writing a successor from scratch.
They've said it's Intel only. Given that by the time it's out (late 2007 at the earliest) anyone that's serious about video editing will have likely moved to the Intel Macs it's not an issue. And if you're just doing it for kicks, then iMovie or your exisitng version of Final Cut isn't going to stop working.
Eventually even Apple will stop releasing Universal Binaries of their software, probably when they do major rewrites like Adobe is doing. Isn't the new rewrite of Shake Intel only?
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I think I was the only one that, when watching The Sixth Sense, assumed he was dead from the beginning. Which meant the movie had no twist at all, but was still alright.
Also if he's so smart why is he trying to do his colour correction in ANY ambient light, instead of under a hood like the real professional photographers do.
The first thing a computer forensics person would do is take one or more copies of your hard drive and work from that - for the very reason you were talking about, in case there's some logic bomb they don't defuse.
So you wipe the files, they make another copy from their backup, waterboard you for a while, and try again :)
I concur.. I've been to a lot of those places recently (again, except the US) and take my laptop out of my backpack but leave it in its neoprene sleeve thingie. It's never been a problem.
Or you could try dragon boating. It's a team sport, easy to get into and good exercise. It's not hard to find a dragon boat club in Australia, can't vouch for anywhere else in the world (except for maybe Asia!). Although the world championships in 2011 are being held in Florida, so there must be some dragon boaters in the US :)
As of OS X 10.5 Carbon is slowly becoming "deprecated" and new APIs and 64-bit updates to APIs will not be available through Carbon, Objective-C/Cocoa is the One True Way to write apps for OS X. Basically if Adobe want their apps to take advantage of all the 64-bit goodness in Leopard and beyond they will have to rewrite their apps.
There was a whole thing about this in the in-depth Leopard review Ars Technica did - see the 64-bit section of that review.
I'm pretty sure they said Safari passed at some point, but the latest Safari 3 on Windows gives the same result as your screengrab from Konq.
Why are you drinking warm beer?
.co.uk domain name. So I guess I was right, even though I wasn't guessing!
I was going to joke that he's probably English, then noticed the
I've used a few Linux GUIs, there's obviously more than 2 blind users.
That's because most people (YouTube included) serve the flash video file as a regular HTTP download - meaning you can't really skip forward reliably without downloading a whole bunch of extra data. If they used Flash Media Server which uses a proper streaming protocol most of these issues are resolved, you can freely jump around the stream and the FMS server will just start streaming your client the bits it needs.
Only downside is FMS ain't cheap, however there are some open source implementations.
So what kind of career are you in now? Just interested :)
What's so nightmarish about it in your opinion?
I was there at the end of July and it was a pleasant 45 minute train ride to the Hauptbahnhof in the centre of town, and there's about 3 services an hour. Not necessarily the cheapest at 8.80EUR or so, but for 18EUR my wife and I had an all day "partner ticket" we could use on the metro all we wanted for the day we were there (so only 40c more than two singles from the airport to the city centre).
Most cities I've been to the airport services have been a bit expensive, but that's life (eg. Sydney AirportLink, Heathrow Express..)
..or wait until Sunday when someone who has bought a copy from the store has cut the binding off and scanned / OCR'd it with some proper equipment.
What's Y2K got to do with tech flops? While there's no way to know one way or another, it could well be that nothing major happened precisely because people made effort to remediate and test any issues prior to 1/1/2000.
From that list it looks like both formats got the new release (The Departed), and Blu-Ray got a bunch of old movies that won't be significantly better in quality than the SD DVD version anyway.
Right here. ;)
Your Flickr screen name has nothing to do with your Yahoo! account name. I signed up for Flickr when it was still the "oldskool" login. They announced that they would be turning those off in preference for Y! logins not long after (this was a few years ago), but I guess it didn't happen. Either way I already had a Y! account which I didn't use much but it was there, so I converted the login across. Didn't have to change my Flickr name or anything else. On all the computers I use the cookie remembers who I am so I can't remember the last time I actually had to login (which is occasionally annoying because I can never remember what my Y! account name is).
Either way, you could be jblow1234@yahoo.com but sign up for Flickr as "JoePhotography" if it's available.
The Flex IDE and the Charting package is US$750, the Flex SDK which includes the command line MXML -> SWF compiler and the whole component library (ie. UI controls, RPC, everything else) is a free download from Adobe. Excluding charts, which is a component library anyway and not dependant on the IDE, you can build everything with the free SDK that you can with the package. You could always write your own charting components or find an open source one if you needed charts.
I've already mentioned this in another comment, but Adobe Flex is here today and lets you build Rich Internet Applications that compile down to SWF files that run on Flash Player 9. Unlike all the other technologies you've mentioned, Flash Player 9 will work on the majority of systems and browsers out there today.
The only non-open thing about it is the Flash Player, which may bug you. At least the Flash Player works the same on every browser, unlike HTML + Javascript.
I'm biased though, I just got a job at an Adobe partner..
Would you say your extra life is more of a.. you know.. second life?
I think before this phone is released (note they don't have FCC approval etc yet, it'll be a few months at least) there will be a widescreen iPod (only) in the same form factor with the same features - the fancy interface, coverflow, etc. The only difference is it'll have the 30/80GB (or 40/100GB?) hard drives of the current iPods and cost the same, replacing the current iPod Video models.
:)
Maybe it'll also have the WiFi support and Widgets / Safari? Although that'd be getting into PDA territory, not to mention bad for battery life.
Anyway, that's just my amateur punditry
They sure do, as of a week or two ago! It's the Linksys iPhone, but as you can see on the page there Linksys is a division of Cisco.
I'm sure it wasn't a coincidence, but so they could get more money out of Apple in any trademark negotiations (actively shipping product and all...)
I meant the "next" version, not the currently shipping one. I seem to recall reading something that Shake has been discontinued and they're writing a successor from scratch.
Just Googled it, see this article about the future of Shake
They've said it's Intel only. Given that by the time it's out (late 2007 at the earliest) anyone that's serious about video editing will have likely moved to the Intel Macs it's not an issue. And if you're just doing it for kicks, then iMovie or your exisitng version of Final Cut isn't going to stop working.
Eventually even Apple will stop releasing Universal Binaries of their software, probably when they do major rewrites like Adobe is doing. Isn't the new rewrite of Shake Intel only?