Actually, I do work a little differently in vim. I use the multi-level undo, and I enjoy spending my first day on a new installation trying to figure out how to get scp:// urls working and then fixing whatever's broken with the syntax coloring this time.
Still, at some point in the late 80s, I began to hate emacs, and that's the way it still is. I guess I had to build it one too many times.
The problem now is that all the good developers from the 90s are married and enjoy spending time at home with their rugrats, and have the "just a job" mentality. You know, go to work, work, go home, don't work.
Having been through employers who tried both XP and Scrum (not Beck but similar), the only positive thing I have to say about either is that if your developers really suck, teaching them XP and/or Scrum will allow you to keep much closer tabs on their lack of progress. Otherwise, like most "new" methodologes, it's a way for people to teach classes and sell books.
Dear Confused Guy from Finland: Believe me, as much as Party A tries to get (qualified) voters from party B off the rolls, Party B tries to get more (qualified or unqualified or perhaps dead) voters from party B back on the rolls. That's the problem with one-sided bullshit. You people from outside the country don't know what you're talking about, and most people inside the USA don't know what they're talking about or refuse to admit what they really know. Saying that polling irregularies in Ohio are a Republican problem (excuse me - I never say ROTFL but this is one time I'm going to say ROTFL!!!) is like saying that war is an American problem.
How does an editorial hitpiece and a link to a poorly-written Wikipedia entry wind up on the front page of Slashdot? I wish Pudge were around to put out the smackdown.
I don't know if I can stand to hear about countless back and forth lawsuits that are coming. Why put it off. I'll just give up the rest of my money now.
Resolution doesn't have anything to do with sensitivity.
The human eye only has significant visual acuity in a small region of the retina, and even there it pales by the standards of a film camera or even a $200 digicam.
Time was you could immigrate to Australia. Time was you could own a firearm there. However stupid and reactionary you think the USA is, Australia has only itself to blame for its protectionism and inexorably diminishing personal liberty.
I happen to have the Star Wars Ultimate Edition on Laserdisc. A lot of effort went into making this a superior laserdisc release. This is documented in the materials that are part of the set. Color balancing across the matinee wipes (particularly numerous in the first film) was a nightmare. Glitch elimination software (fairly common now but exotic then) that filtered out scratches, specks, and so on, based on frame-to-frame comparison, produced a very clean image. It is not bad source material. It has high contrast and very good color.
2-3 years ago, I encoded and burned a set of soft telecined (24fps) anamorphic DVDs from the laserdiscs and the quality was very good even when viewed on a 1080i projector. I did it with Linux tools (!) including very careful tweaking with mencoder and some pretty painful editing with avidemux. Removing the hard telecine on the laserdisc is no problem and it gives clean results.
I'm going to do it again in a few months with Liquid Pro (mostly for the improved capture, but with more mencoder work if necessary) and I expect results that will just rock. I don't know what you really expect, particularly from the first film. Despite it being shot in a goofy large negative format, it's still not the world's greatest source material, mostly because of the heavy use of multi-layered optical printing.
This is just FYI. Don't even think of asking me for copies.
"Be Slashdot Editors for a Day" must be English teachers this year. I better look closely at today's postings. Some of them might actually make sense and/or be less than 2 weeks old.
Yeah - the fundamental problem with all these "supercolliders will destroy the Earth/Universe" hypotheses is that all these "extreme" conditions have existed here and there throughout the universe since the beginning of time.
Has anyone here ever tried to buy a ProDVD license? I have, on behalf of a former employer, and the result (by email) was always no reply. Every year or so our production system would stop working until someone realized that another "free" key had gone bad.
So not only does Jörg keep his software non-free - he doesn't take money for it either. I concluded a long time ago that his thought processes are not standard issue.
The ancient Greeks, among others, believed the Earth to be round. That's not five hundred years ago; it's more like 2300.
It took over 50 years to locate Pluto. I think that calling Pluto a "planet" is, among other things, fitting recognition of the countless thousands of astronomer-hours that eventually led to its discovery.
Anyway, I don't care if we wind up with 100 planets in the Solar System. I like planets.
While they're at it they should create a category of "minor astronomers." In their spare time these same busybody pinheads probably wander around their suburban neighborhoods measuring grass with rulers and checking their watches to see if anyone's leaving a trash can out on the sidewalk too long.
I've lived here for 3 years and visited for much longer.
The Bay Area has one of the most stubbornly backward, if not the most stubbornly backward, communications infrastructures in a major US metropolitan area. Ask someone about the "A/B" cable system. I don't know if DSL is available here everywhere or not now but there were large areas where it wasn't a couple years ago. Cellphone coverage? Sucks.
Transportation? Rush hour commutes are awful again (they were light during the dot bomb era). Mass transit? SF has "mass transit." San Jose has "mass transit." Ostensibly the East Bay has "mass transit." All the mass transit "connects." So here are some projects for you:
1) Get from somewhere in San Jose to San Francisco International Airport using mass transit ($80 cab ride from the Sikh Mafia) 2) Get from somewhere in San Francisco to San Jose International Airport using mass transit ($100+ cab ride) 3) Go from SF to some city served by Caltrain 4) Go from San Mateo (for example) to Pleasanton
Answers: 1) Take bus or walk to SJ VTA light rail. (~30 min.) Take VTA to end of line at Mountain View. (~45 min.) Take Caltrain to Millbrae. (~30 min.) Take BART to airport BART terminal. (~10 min.) Take AirBART to airport. (~10 min.) Add in about an hour of waiting. Presto! 3 hours to go 45 miles! Alternatively, take something-or-other to Santa Clara Caltrain, thence to Millbrae.
2) Take busses/MUNI rail/MUNI trolley/whatever to either Caltrain or BART station. (Up to 60 min.) Take BART to Millbrae to change to Caltrain if necessary. (Another 20 min.) Take Caltrain to Santa Clara station (45 min.) Take shuttle to airport. (20 min.) Add a little under an hour of waiting, and presto! Another 3+ hour trip to go 50 miles!
3) BART connects to Caltrain at Millbrae (which is 15 miles S of SF) and is not particularly close to it anywhere else. The mindbogglingly slow N-line MUNI rail goes to the SF Caltrain station. Not much else does. So how to get to BART? That's a toughie. Hope you live downtown or in the Mission. Otherwise get out the transit map. PS It's complicated.
4) San Mateo is a 35 minute drive across the San Mateo bridge and 580 to Pleasanton. However, the Transbay bus does not get you from San Mateo to Pleasanton. Instead, you must take (if you're insane, because no one would actually do this) Caltrain to Millbrae, change to BART, and take BART *ALL THE WAY* through SF, the transbay tunnel, Oakland, San Leandro, etc., to Pleasanton. Good Lord - that would take (*figuring*) 2 hours? 2-1/2? Even better, at rush hour the train that would take you from San Mateo to Millbrae runs only every hour or so because of the express/baby bullet trains.
By way of comparison: NYC has the subway and affordable cabs - with flat rates to the airports. You can go anywhere you want in NYC on the subway and maybe a cab. You will get reamed on a cab ride here, and you can't go where you want on the mass transit....
If I heard something on XM and liked it, I'd probably run out and buy it on a released CD so I wouldn't have to listen to all the compression artifacts.
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The reason you don't write books is that you don't have anything to say that anyone wants to hear.
Actually, I do work a little differently in vim. I use the multi-level undo, and I enjoy spending my first day on a new installation trying to figure out how to get scp:// urls working and then fixing whatever's broken with the syntax coloring this time.
Still, at some point in the late 80s, I began to hate emacs, and that's the way it still is. I guess I had to build it one too many times.
The problem now is that all the good developers from the 90s are married and enjoy spending time at home with their rugrats, and have the "just a job" mentality. You know, go to work, work, go home, don't work.
They've got some nerve.
Having been through employers who tried both XP and Scrum (not Beck but similar), the only positive thing I have to say about either is that if your developers really suck, teaching them XP and/or Scrum will allow you to keep much closer tabs on their lack of progress. Otherwise, like most "new" methodologes, it's a way for people to teach classes and sell books.
Dear Confused Guy from Finland: Believe me, as much as Party A tries to get (qualified) voters from party B off the rolls, Party B tries to get more (qualified or unqualified or perhaps dead) voters from party B back on the rolls. That's the problem with one-sided bullshit. You people from outside the country don't know what you're talking about, and most people inside the USA don't know what they're talking about or refuse to admit what they really know. Saying that polling irregularies in Ohio are a Republican problem (excuse me - I never say ROTFL but this is one time I'm going to say ROTFL!!!) is like saying that war is an American problem.
How does an editorial hitpiece and a link to a poorly-written Wikipedia entry wind up on the front page of Slashdot? I wish Pudge were around to put out the smackdown.
I don't know if I can stand to hear about countless back and forth lawsuits that are coming. Why put it off. I'll just give up the rest of my money now.
Yes, correct. Also see Wikipedia.
Resolution doesn't have anything to do with sensitivity.
The human eye only has significant visual acuity in a small region of the retina, and even there it pales by the standards of a film camera or even a $200 digicam.
There's the breaking and entering part too.
Time was you could immigrate to Australia. Time was you could own a firearm there. However stupid and reactionary you think the USA is, Australia has only itself to blame for its protectionism and inexorably diminishing personal liberty.
My $.02 anyway.
I did all the crap they talk about, maybe better.
I happen to have the Star Wars Ultimate Edition on Laserdisc. A lot of effort went into making this a superior laserdisc release. This is documented in the materials that are part of the set. Color balancing across the matinee wipes (particularly numerous in the first film) was a nightmare. Glitch elimination software (fairly common now but exotic then) that filtered out scratches, specks, and so on, based on frame-to-frame comparison, produced a very clean image. It is not bad source material. It has high contrast and very good color.
2-3 years ago, I encoded and burned a set of soft telecined (24fps) anamorphic DVDs from the laserdiscs and the quality was very good even when viewed on a 1080i projector. I did it with Linux tools (!) including very careful tweaking with mencoder and some pretty painful editing with avidemux. Removing the hard telecine on the laserdisc is no problem and it gives clean results.
I'm going to do it again in a few months with Liquid Pro (mostly for the improved capture, but with more mencoder work if necessary) and I expect results that will just rock. I don't know what you really expect, particularly from the first film. Despite it being shot in a goofy large negative format, it's still not the world's greatest source material, mostly because of the heavy use of multi-layered optical printing.
This is just FYI. Don't even think of asking me for copies.
It has taken me years to rip my CDs
Like that's the hardest thing in that world.
Yeah, who wouldn't like to copy everything off any arbitrary iPod to any arbitrary iTunes library with one drag and drop.
Just that one feature totally rocks. w00t dee d00t!
Gapless playback doesn't suck either.
"Be Slashdot Editors for a Day" must be English teachers this year. I better look closely at today's postings. Some of them might actually make sense and/or be less than 2 weeks old.
Yeah - the fundamental problem with all these "supercolliders will destroy the Earth/Universe" hypotheses is that all these "extreme" conditions have existed here and there throughout the universe since the beginning of time.
The cool people know what I'm talking about. Cheers,
... nice board full of bids there now .... :P
Has anyone here ever tried to buy a ProDVD license? I have, on behalf of a former employer, and the result (by email) was always no reply. Every year or so our production system would stop working until someone realized that another "free" key had gone bad.
So not only does Jörg keep his software non-free - he doesn't take money for it either. I concluded a long time ago that his thought processes are not standard issue.
The ancient Greeks, among others, believed the Earth to be round. That's not five hundred years ago; it's more like 2300.
It took over 50 years to locate Pluto. I think that calling Pluto a "planet" is, among other things, fitting recognition of the countless thousands of astronomer-hours that eventually led to its discovery.
Anyway, I don't care if we wind up with 100 planets in the Solar System. I like planets.
While they're at it they should create a category of "minor astronomers." In their spare time these same busybody pinheads probably wander around their suburban neighborhoods measuring grass with rulers and checking their watches to see if anyone's leaving a trash can out on the sidewalk too long.
Personally I think Pluto makes a fine 9th planet.
Those are funny ones.
I've lived here for 3 years and visited for much longer.
The Bay Area has one of the most stubbornly backward, if not the most stubbornly backward, communications infrastructures in a major US metropolitan area. Ask someone about the "A/B" cable system. I don't know if DSL is available here everywhere or not now but there were large areas where it wasn't a couple years ago. Cellphone coverage? Sucks.
Transportation? Rush hour commutes are awful again (they were light during the dot bomb era). Mass transit? SF has "mass transit." San Jose has "mass transit." Ostensibly the East Bay has "mass transit." All the mass transit "connects." So here are some projects for you:
1) Get from somewhere in San Jose to San Francisco International Airport using mass transit ($80 cab ride from the Sikh Mafia)
2) Get from somewhere in San Francisco to San Jose International Airport using mass transit ($100+ cab ride)
3) Go from SF to some city served by Caltrain
4) Go from San Mateo (for example) to Pleasanton
Answers:
1) Take bus or walk to SJ VTA light rail. (~30 min.) Take VTA to end of line at Mountain View. (~45 min.) Take Caltrain to Millbrae. (~30 min.) Take BART to airport BART terminal. (~10 min.) Take AirBART to airport. (~10 min.) Add in about an hour of waiting. Presto! 3 hours to go 45 miles! Alternatively, take something-or-other to Santa Clara Caltrain, thence to Millbrae.
2) Take busses/MUNI rail/MUNI trolley/whatever to either Caltrain or BART station. (Up to 60 min.) Take BART to Millbrae to change to Caltrain if necessary. (Another 20 min.) Take Caltrain to Santa Clara station (45 min.) Take shuttle to airport. (20 min.) Add a little under an hour of waiting, and presto! Another 3+ hour trip to go 50 miles!
3) BART connects to Caltrain at Millbrae (which is 15 miles S of SF) and is not particularly close to it anywhere else. The mindbogglingly slow N-line MUNI rail goes to the SF Caltrain station. Not much else does. So how to get to BART? That's a toughie. Hope you live downtown or in the Mission. Otherwise get out the transit map. PS It's complicated.
4) San Mateo is a 35 minute drive across the San Mateo bridge and 580 to Pleasanton. However, the Transbay bus does not get you from San Mateo to Pleasanton. Instead, you must take (if you're insane, because no one would actually do this) Caltrain to Millbrae, change to BART, and take BART *ALL THE WAY* through SF, the transbay tunnel, Oakland, San Leandro, etc., to Pleasanton. Good Lord - that would take (*figuring*) 2 hours? 2-1/2? Even better, at rush hour the train that would take you from San Mateo to Millbrae runs only every hour or so because of the express/baby bullet trains.
By way of comparison: NYC has the subway and affordable cabs - with flat rates to the airports. You can go anywhere you want in NYC on the subway and maybe a cab. You will get reamed on a cab ride here, and you can't go where you want on the mass transit....
If I heard something on XM and liked it, I'd probably run out and buy it on a released CD so I wouldn't have to listen to all the compression artifacts.
Me too, if I couldn't find it at http://allofmp3.com/ or http://musicmp3.ru/ *cough*.