"This movie could have kicked ass, but you'll never know if you left "minutes" into it."
It didn't though. But it wasn't really a kick in the nuts either. No worse than I thought it would be.
Anyone who went to see Jurassic Park 3 expecting a movie experience that included more than pretty dinosaurs must have been in serious denial. I mean what the hell did you expect? "Oooh, a second sequel to a cheezy dinosaur movie! Break out the oscars!"
It's a special effects movie, and people should have known that going in. Just accept it for what it is.
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"Look, Divx isn't that great. I've used it-mpeg2 is far superior. Why is this? Because the size of files isn't important any more. People have 30 gig hard drives, and broadband connections. Who cares if the file size is bigger?"
The main reason some of us like DivX is because it allows you to backup a whole DVD to a single CD while maintaining acceptable quality. MPEG2 can't do that. ________________________________________________ __
Don't push to far, your dreams are china in your hand
Don't wish to hard because they -something- -something-
And you can't -something- ...
Come on people, it was a big hit in the 80's. Was I the only one hanging out at fifth-grade discos back then?
(And in case it wasn't clear, I was in the fifth grade myself at the time so I'm not some creepy weirdo... at least not THAT kind of creepy weirdo.)
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"You just can't bring back the 60's mentality. Star Trek is an issues show, and any issues that correspond with the TOS era from the 60's just don't exist anymore."
The 60's thing has been done. The logical next step is obvious:
Q: What predates the 1960's?
A: The 1950's!
They could dress all the girls in poofy pastel dresses, all the boys would wear either light blue college jackets or black leather, depending on if they're good guys or bad guys, and all the people in engineering could wear black horn-rimmed glasses.
And I'm sure they could squeeze out a least a season or two with just the storyline of pinko aliens trying to take over the universe.
Scary thing is, I'd probably watch that.
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if the probe is laying on it's side or on an angle, isn't it going to be difficult for it to blast off without it flopping around the surface?
You're forgetting that the gravity is almost negligible, so if it is at an angle it wouldn't flop around. Unless there's a rock in it's direct path it should fly nicely into space.
It seems the filmmakers missed a class. They could have solved this so easily.
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Teen Movie Making 101
Rule 54a: A pair of glasses wil turn any cool supermodel/stud into a geeky social pariah.
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But there might be an explanation for it.. Maybe they had budget problems and couldn't afford any glasses. After all, they DID have to use linux.
"The magic bean; the Holy Grail: fusion. The idea is to take two isotopes of the hydrogen atom - deuterium and tritium - and mash them together with a little energy, which in turn releases enormous amounts of energy in the form of a single neutron."
That doesn't seem quite right. The neutron is also a biproduct, and D-T fusion is just a step on the way.
This is what happens in Deuterium-Tritium Fusion.
D + T = H-2 + H-3 -> He-4 + n + E
The result is helium (He-4), neutron (n), and energy (E) in the form of part gamma radiation and (a smaller) part kinetik energy.
That is not the end goal of fusion. There are a couple of reasons for this, first of all Tritium (T or H-3) is not a good fuel source. Tritium is a hydrogen isotope that in addition to a proton and an electron also contains two neutrons. It's radioactive, very toxic, and most importantly EXTREMELY expensive.
A better, but more difficult, solution is to use Deuterium-Deuterium fusion. Deuterium (D or H-2) is a hydrogen isotope with only one neutron. Deuterium is much cheaper to produce than tritium and is perfectly harmless. Furthermore the fusion reaction would look like this.
2D = 2H-2 -> He-4 + E
No free neutron is produced. This is a good thing. Neutron's can't be magnetically confined, so they simply fly out until it hits something, usually the physical confinement of the fusion reaction, wearing it down over time. The energy is released as gamma radiation.
Deuterium is the fuel source we assume will eventually be used when fusion becomes a commercial alternative.
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But the most effecient form of fusion is neutron fusion. This is when a protium (P or H-1) is used as fuel. Its two components, a proton and an electron, fuse into a neutron.
P = H-1 = e + p -> n + E
This is partly what the sun does, it produces helium from protium. The sun takes two steps, first producing two neutrons and then joining them with protium to produce helium.
"The evolution of the home entertainment system will see the eventual extinction of proprietary 'black boxes'"
and
"The GPU and frame buffer memory reside on the IES Slide Bay, a proprietary technology"
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Evolution is by definition gradual. In this case the stages should be from the current "all proprietary" to their "less proprietary" to the future "not proprietary". THAT'S evolution.
"I feel that Rambus have taken patenting to be a method of market domination. This isn't what patents are about."
Sure it is. Patents are supposed to give you a temporary monopoly for your invention, and in exchange you have to share the details of that invention. If your invention is the only way of achieving something (as Rambus seem to be claiming), more power to you.
Patents DO push for innovation... in the long run. The technology is known by everyone and once the patent runs out can be used by everyone. The alternative is keeping your technology secret, and that wouldn't do jack for innovation.
The way Rambus handled the situation might not have been the best, but they DO have the patents and they aren't trivial "one-click" ones either. The memory manufacturers know this. Companies will never pay royalties unless they absolutely, positively have to.
If I hade patents and someone used them without compensating me, I'd be screaming foul too.
Simple. Just use a completely white screen and a completely black screen and then flip between the two a number of times per second. As anyone who's tested this will tell you, you will be able to tell 85Hz from 100Hz, at least if you have a decent monitor with reasonably fast phosphors.
And the the thing about movies at 24fps being fast enough, that's just bunk. It's nowhere near fast enough (except for chick-flicks). People just think it is because they have never seen anything higher. If you watch real 50fps film you will notice the difference.
Hopefully some big-shot movie guy *cough*George Lucas*cough* will realize this and start shooting at higher framerates. Since we're bound to shift to digital cameras and projectors soon, higher frame rates would be one of my top priorities.
Besides, it'd greatly increase the odds of finding freeze-frame nudity on DVDs.
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It didn't though. But it wasn't really a kick in the nuts either. No worse than I thought it would be.
Anyone who went to see Jurassic Park 3 expecting a movie experience that included more than pretty dinosaurs must have been in serious denial. I mean what the hell did you expect? "Oooh, a second sequel to a cheezy dinosaur movie! Break out the oscars!"
It's a special effects movie, and people should have known that going in. Just accept it for what it is._ __
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Boss: You've been watching a Star Trek marathon again haven't you? How many times do I have to tell you; you *can't* build anti-matter spacecraft!
Engineer: I can too! Hey that sounds catchy..._ __
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I think it's "free software"-friendly components._ _____________
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Just because it's april first does not make everything an april fools joke._ _______
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On a brighter note, the region 2 version might have all the bells and whistles included. Yet another reason to get that region-free player.
There's more information here._ __
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The main reason some of us like DivX is because it allows you to backup a whole DVD to a single CD while maintaining acceptable quality. MPEG2 can't do that._ __
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Don't wish to hard because they -something- -something-
And you can't -something-
Come on people, it was a big hit in the 80's. Was I the only one hanging out at fifth-grade discos back then?
(And in case it wasn't clear, I was in the fifth grade myself at the time so I'm not some creepy weirdo... at least not THAT kind of creepy weirdo.)_ __
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The 60's thing has been done. The logical next step is obvious:
Q: What predates the 1960's?
A: The 1950's!
They could dress all the girls in poofy pastel dresses, all the boys would wear either light blue college jackets or black leather, depending on if they're good guys or bad guys, and all the people in engineering could wear black horn-rimmed glasses.
And I'm sure they could squeeze out a least a season or two with just the storyline of pinko aliens trying to take over the universe.
Scary thing is, I'd probably watch that._ __
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I'm a college student currently lodged in student housing, and a machine the size of my bathroom could still fit comfortably on the average desk.
I'm not bitter. I'm not._ ______
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So it's true, OS X really is ahead of it's time.
Funny how when the PR guys say those things, they always make it sound like more than just two hours.
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Oh, I don't know. It'd be nice to be able to say "I only buy those magazines for the articles." and have people actually believe you.
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Rice has more genes than humans. Most people would consider themselves superior to rice. Even those who aren't.
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if the probe is laying on it's side or on an angle, isn't it going to be difficult for it to blast off without it flopping around the surface?
You're forgetting that the gravity is almost negligible, so if it is at an angle it wouldn't flop around. Unless there's a rock in it's direct path it should fly nicely into space.
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It seems the filmmakers missed a class. They could have solved this so easily. - Teen Movie Making 101 Rule 54a: A pair of glasses wil turn any cool supermodel/stud into a geeky social pariah. - But there might be an explanation for it.. Maybe they had budget problems and couldn't afford any glasses. After all, they DID have to use linux.
"The magic bean; the Holy Grail: fusion. The idea is to take two isotopes of the hydrogen atom - deuterium and tritium - and mash them together with a little energy, which in turn releases enormous amounts of energy in the form of a single neutron."
That doesn't seem quite right. The neutron is also a biproduct, and D-T fusion is just a step on the way.
This is what happens in Deuterium-Tritium Fusion.
D + T = H-2 + H-3 -> He-4 + n + E
The result is helium (He-4), neutron (n), and energy (E) in the form of part gamma radiation and (a smaller) part kinetik energy.
That is not the end goal of fusion. There are a couple of reasons for this, first of all Tritium (T or H-3) is not a good fuel source. Tritium is a hydrogen isotope that in addition to a proton and an electron also contains two neutrons. It's radioactive, very toxic, and most importantly EXTREMELY expensive.
A better, but more difficult, solution is to use Deuterium-Deuterium fusion. Deuterium (D or H-2) is a hydrogen isotope with only one neutron. Deuterium is much cheaper to produce than tritium and is perfectly harmless. Furthermore the fusion reaction would look like this.
2D = 2H-2 -> He-4 + E
No free neutron is produced. This is a good thing. Neutron's can't be magnetically confined, so they simply fly out until it hits something, usually the physical confinement of the fusion reaction, wearing it down over time. The energy is released as gamma radiation.
Deuterium is the fuel source we assume will eventually be used when fusion becomes a commercial alternative.
-
But the most effecient form of fusion is neutron fusion. This is when a protium (P or H-1) is used as fuel. Its two components, a proton and an electron, fuse into a neutron.
P = H-1 = e + p -> n + E
This is partly what the sun does, it produces helium from protium. The sun takes two steps, first producing two neutrons and then joining them with protium to produce helium.
4P = 4H-1 -> 4e + 4p -> 2e + 2p + 2n -> He-4
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If humans have 4 billion base pairs and the fugu has 400 million, how could we share 70% of our dna?
The problem with an alias is that netsol send out bills/notices to the address listed.
I don't suppose anyone's gotten it to work in windows 98 with two monitors?
For me it works fine if it's on the primary display, but if it's on the secondary display the menus and buttons don't work.
Let's see if I can figure out bugzilla....
"The evolution of the home entertainment system will see the eventual extinction of proprietary 'black boxes'"
and
"The GPU and frame buffer memory reside on the IES Slide Bay, a proprietary technology"
-
Evolution is by definition gradual. In this case the stages should be from the current "all proprietary" to their "less proprietary" to the future "not proprietary". THAT'S evolution.
Baby steps.
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Sure it is. Patents are supposed to give you a temporary monopoly for your invention, and in exchange you have to share the details of that invention. If your invention is the only way of achieving something (as Rambus seem to be claiming), more power to you.
Patents DO push for innovation... in the long run. The technology is known by everyone and once the patent runs out can be used by everyone. The alternative is keeping your technology secret, and that wouldn't do jack for innovation.
The way Rambus handled the situation might not have been the best, but they DO have the patents and they aren't trivial "one-click" ones either. The memory manufacturers know this. Companies will never pay royalties unless they absolutely, positively have to.
If I hade patents and someone used them without compensating me, I'd be screaming foul too.
Simple. Just use a completely white screen and a completely black screen and then flip between the two a number of times per second. As anyone who's tested this will tell you, you will be able to tell 85Hz from 100Hz, at least if you have a decent monitor with reasonably fast phosphors. And the the thing about movies at 24fps being fast enough, that's just bunk. It's nowhere near fast enough (except for chick-flicks). People just think it is because they have never seen anything higher. If you watch real 50fps film you will notice the difference. Hopefully some big-shot movie guy *cough*George Lucas*cough* will realize this and start shooting at higher framerates. Since we're bound to shift to digital cameras and projectors soon, higher frame rates would be one of my top priorities. Besides, it'd greatly increase the odds of finding freeze-frame nudity on DVDs.