If you want proof of this, there are videos of Netflix having a working demo of their streaming tech on OS X from back in March, but they still haven't released it for the main site, since they still haven't gotten approval on the DRM from the studios.
And they also need Microsoft to release Silverlight 2.0...
He is refering to the fact that putting the orbiter in such a vulnerable position on the external tank was probably the worst idea to come out of the STS program, A design flaw. After the foam loss of STS-1 it was obvious and we/NASA just became more and more cocky as the orbiter was spared debilitating damage.
I wish I could mod this up. STS-121 was not intended to launch until we understood all the data collected from STS-114. This launch standdown is not the same thing as a grounding. Atlantis is still processing to prepare for STS-121, its just that its launch date is still TBD, the mission was never officially set for September.
This particular debris came off the PAL ramp. No debris has fallen from there since STS-7 in 1983, after which it was redesigned. The foam that damaged Columbia came off the Bipod ramp.
In fact one of the agendas for STS-114 and STS-121 is collecting data to eliminate the need for PAL ramps, as they are one of the places looked at to reduce potential for debris.
IMO, there really are no alternatives to the service Netflix can provide. Specfically their ratings and recommendations model. While there are cheaper services, like Wal-Mart and DVD Avenue, Netflix's recommendation system makes them work the extra few dollars a month.
They claim over 13,000 titles (though I suspect disc sets are broken up to get this figure), and I have only personally rated about 1,100. Thats a heck of a lot of titles I haven't been exposed to, and Netflix makes it easier to find stuff that would interest me.
Unless Amazon.com gets into the DVD Rental business, Netflix simply has no competition, in my book.
It seems odd to me that the most common criticism for Battlefield Earth was the religious views of some of the people involved. I'm not defending the film, and perhaps its mostly lemmings spouting such criticism, but it seems an odd contrast compared to the religious parralels in films like Star Wars and The Matrix that people just eat up.
At Holloween Horror Night at Universal's Islands of Adventure, i got to ride the Incredible Hulk at night during a hard Florida rain storm. On one hand it was cool since the lights were off except for strobes (Halloween and all), on the other hand the rain stung very very hard and caused mild welting. I will never do that again.
I dont believe AOLTW has any controling shares in Sun.
They did enter into a Netscape/Sun technology cross-breeding alliance 3 years ago, which just expired in March. You will recall that is when technologies such as iPlanet were shared with Sun, who now totally own it since the alliance is over.
Just to clarify, most of Mozilla is already under or will soon be (if not everyone who contributed to a particular file has been contacted for approval yet) under the MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license
You and others have said the keyphrase there... "seems faster" and "feels faster". Microsoft has taken a page from Mac OS X (or they both took a page from somewhere else, who cares). The appearance to the user is everything. On a sufficiently accelerated display device, things fading in/out and sliding around, or highlighting on roll over makes things appear more responsive.
Bah, I wanted to say more, but my boss is being nosey.
This is annecdotal, but Windows XP seems to let me get to work as soon as the taskbar appears, while systray apps (er. "notification icons") are still loading. Windows 2000 bogged down alot while stuff was loading.
Like I said, this is annecdotal, as the problem could have been with the apps (I don't have Live!Ware installed for XP, for example).
It's called HDTV. Wait for Monsters Inc to be ABC's Saturday Night Movie in 3 years. Hopefully ABC will come to their senses by then and drop 760p in favor of 1080i like all the other networks, but even 760p is way better than DVD.
Unless you have a damn nice video processor, those VCD's are probably going to look like shit blown up to 54" on an HDTV-capable display (due to the sheer lines of resolution the display is capable of).
Broadcast NTSC is bad enough on my 65", I Don't want to think about VCD.
It's in the spec, but noone is implementing it in consumer gear. The highest anyone supports is 1080i. Some mfg's even had 720p units for a while, but most have since have dropped native 720p support. It's all ususally (down)converted to 1080i but the input device (receiver/tuner).
Remember, 1080p requires *alot* of bandwidth, that the chips required to do it just aren't feasable to put in consumer gear.
540p/1080i - aside from minor timing differences, use the same bandwidth
720p - uses even more
1080p - insane amount
Remember that I'm talking about video bandwidth here, not the bitrate of the data being transmitted.
This is further hampered by the fact that the ATSC broadcasting standard limits video bandwdith to below the requirement of 1080p, anyway (can't recall exact MHz).
Well, not that I'm a fan of Weakest Link or anything, but since I got my HDTV, I'd rather watch HDTV content than broadcast NTSC content (if I'm just surfing). It's like a bad IMAX movie. It's still cool.
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And they also need Microsoft to release Silverlight 2.0...
I wish I could mod this up. STS-121 was not intended to launch until we understood all the data collected from STS-114. This launch standdown is not the same thing as a grounding. Atlantis is still processing to prepare for STS-121, its just that its launch date is still TBD, the mission was never officially set for September.
This particular debris came off the PAL ramp. No debris has fallen from there since STS-7 in 1983, after which it was redesigned. The foam that damaged Columbia came off the Bipod ramp.
In fact one of the agendas for STS-114 and STS-121 is collecting data to eliminate the need for PAL ramps, as they are one of the places looked at to reduce potential for debris.
Casting Association of America? Where did you pull that one from?
Maybe you are thinking of the SAG.
IMO, there really are no alternatives to the service Netflix can provide. Specfically their ratings and recommendations model. While there are cheaper services, like Wal-Mart and DVD Avenue, Netflix's recommendation system makes them work the extra few dollars a month.
They claim over 13,000 titles (though I suspect disc sets are broken up to get this figure), and I have only personally rated about 1,100. Thats a heck of a lot of titles I haven't been exposed to, and Netflix makes it easier to find stuff that would interest me.
Unless Amazon.com gets into the DVD Rental business, Netflix simply has no competition, in my book.
It seems odd to me that the most common criticism for Battlefield Earth was the religious views of some of the people involved. I'm not defending the film, and perhaps its mostly lemmings spouting such criticism, but it seems an odd contrast compared to the religious parralels in films like Star Wars and The Matrix that people just eat up.
At Holloween Horror Night at Universal's Islands of Adventure, i got to ride the Incredible Hulk at night during a hard Florida rain storm. On one hand it was cool since the lights were off except for strobes (Halloween and all), on the other hand the rain stung very very hard and caused mild welting. I will never do that again.
Huh? ATI regularly submits patches to XFree86 and it's ati driver.
Sure they distributed their own optimized drivers for their professional FireGL line, but they are far from being "hands off" to the XFree86 project.
Fixed link for the lazy
http://www.gamers.com/news/1147215
:)
Even the PS One is getting a price cut to $50
I dont believe AOLTW has any controling shares in Sun.
They did enter into a Netscape/Sun technology cross-breeding alliance 3 years ago, which just expired in March. You will recall that is when technologies such as iPlanet were shared with Sun, who now totally own it since the alliance is over.
Just to clarify, most of Mozilla is already under or will soon be (if not everyone who contributed to a particular file has been contacted for approval yet) under the MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license
Heh. She kicks high...
You and others have said the keyphrase there... "seems faster" and "feels faster". Microsoft has taken a page from Mac OS X (or they both took a page from somewhere else, who cares). The appearance to the user is everything. On a sufficiently accelerated display device, things fading in/out and sliding around, or highlighting on roll over makes things appear more responsive.
Bah, I wanted to say more, but my boss is being nosey.
This is annecdotal, but Windows XP seems to let me get to work as soon as the taskbar appears, while systray apps (er. "notification icons") are still loading. Windows 2000 bogged down alot while stuff was loading.
Like I said, this is annecdotal, as the problem could have been with the apps (I don't have Live!Ware installed for XP, for example).
It's called HDTV. Wait for Monsters Inc to be ABC's Saturday Night Movie in 3 years. Hopefully ABC will come to their senses by then and drop 760p in favor of 1080i like all the other networks, but even 760p is way better than DVD.
Wow. could you imagine a Dreamworks PDI Pixar team?
I think I need to sit down.
Unless you have a damn nice video processor, those VCD's are probably going to look like shit blown up to 54" on an HDTV-capable display (due to the sheer lines of resolution the display is capable of).
Broadcast NTSC is bad enough on my 65", I Don't want to think about VCD.
It's in the spec, but noone is implementing it in consumer gear. The highest anyone supports is 1080i. Some mfg's even had 720p units for a while, but most have since have dropped native 720p support. It's all ususally (down)converted to 1080i but the input device (receiver/tuner).
Remember, 1080p requires *alot* of bandwidth, that the chips required to do it just aren't feasable to put in consumer gear.
540p/1080i - aside from minor timing differences, use the same bandwidth
720p - uses even more
1080p - insane amount
Remember that I'm talking about video bandwidth here, not the bitrate of the data being transmitted.
This is further hampered by the fact that the ATSC broadcasting standard limits video bandwdith to below the requirement of 1080p, anyway (can't recall exact MHz).
Well, not that I'm a fan of Weakest Link or anything, but since I got my HDTV, I'd rather watch HDTV content than broadcast NTSC content (if I'm just surfing). It's like a bad IMAX movie. It's still cool.
1080i doesn't take any more bandwidth than 540p.
My ~$3,000 Toshiba 65" HDTV has 1600 lines of resoultion and supports 1080i natively.
That scene and story was only done for the Teaser. The WTC has no such role in the film.
"(by the way, does anyone know how much data a standard-sized stripe can hold?).."
About 140 bytes. "Smart cards" typically have anywhere from 1KB to 32KB. Not counting those newer optical ones which hold about 5MB.