Sorry, thats blatently incorrect. Apple chose to use the term, Apple did not make up the term. I studied film at Hampshire college, where they never ever fail for a moment to remind you that Ken Burns got his start in film there. Over. And. Over.
That effect was referred to as the Ken Burns effect off and on even then, which was 12 years ago.
The term "pan and scan" has nothing to do with the ken burns effect. Pan and scan is specifically used in the industry (and solely used, in my experience) to refer to the cropping of an image from one frame size to another, usually putting film onto TV.
I've *never* heard it used to refer to what the "ken burns effect" is... thats just the way you shoot static material -- keep the image framing changing to draw the eye where you want it. Ken Burns just shoved it down people's throat.
Sysprep will clear out the license key. You can pre-populate a volume one in the inf file but if you leave it out the minisetup will just prompt for it. Easy enough, its on almost every PC these days, just tell the users to enter it, or DIY.
Well look at the two choices. Gates is an intellectual, one of the biggest philanthropists in history, and is spending billions of dollars helping to improve education around the world (especially in the US with his new project) and helping to cure real killer diseases like Malaria.
Bush is the crowning achievement of the anti-intellectualism movement in America, couldn't imagine doing something good for another human being, but rather would lie and thieve his way to his own and his frieds' personal benefit at the expense of everyone else.
Fault Gates as you will for his business practices (although they're tame compared to Balmer and nearly every other CEO or ex CEO in business), but I know which of the two I'd rather spend time with.
I can say for certainly that with a 15mbit FIOS connection, you absolutely see a difference in everything. Downloads are consistently over a megabyte per second, often pushing 1.5-1.6. Downloading demos from XBox Live takes five or six minutes for 500-600 meg. Bittorrents scream, even normal web access cranks.
The iBook that eventually died had its on-board memory fail six months into the warranty period.
When I brought it to the apple store, the fix they did (after trying to convince the bonehead that it was supposed to have 256 meg of RAM and not 128) was to replace the 128 meg SODIMM with a 256 meg one... something I didn't notice until I went to put a 512 in there. So my defective logic board wasn't replaced even when it WAS under warranty.
I have two dead iPods and a dead iBook to show for my experiment with Apple. One died just out of warranty, the replacement I bought had the drive go with less than a month left on the warranty. The replacement came, and turns out had a bad dock connector. Unfortunately they wouldn't honor a warranty on the replacement and in the two remaining weeks of the warranty, I didn't happen to use the replacement. So now I've got two dead iPods.
I also have a iBook that died with the extremely common logic board failure two months out of warranty... a problem that they extended the warranty coverage for on the G3 iBooks, but didn't do on the G4 even though its a very common problem.
Apple was the reason I left ten years of Linux use as my primary desktop OS behind, and Apple is the reason I'll be going back.
Actually I was serious that the ad worked, but was joking about Walmart. I hadn't heard of that company and I'll give them a look now. Its all very complicated just so I can enslave myself to wasting half a saturday mowing form now on. I might just not water and let it all die instead.
I've bought quite a few games off there (Marble Madness, Zuma, Bejeweled 2, and that frog one thats totally escaping me right now...). The funny thing is I play Geometry Wars a lot, and I don't have the slightest inclination to buy it because I can't manage to get close to running out the four minute demo.
You've got amazing reflexes or have been popping speed pills if you're able to get that far! I'm clearly too old to do it myself.
And what about your mail sitting in relays on the net? I'd bet at least once in a while one of those gets picked up by a backup system.
If you want to tell someone something securely, you need to make up a language only you two know and whisper it in their ear.
What you're doing is only marginally more secure (and enormously more of a pain in the ass) than using GMail. At least when a disk croaks at Google you won't lose your mail. Disk croaks at your house, its gone.
Oh wait, you have backups? Did your e-mails you deleted off your home system magically get deleted off of them, too?
I've got a number of accounts with Dreamhost, and quite a large amount of data stored there. Probably half of it is, in fact, encrypted backups of data I have at home, since the accounts have a lot more storage and transfer than I ever come close to using.
However, I have absolutely no idea what their fault tolerance story is there. They probably run them, but at best I'm sure its just RAID. I can't imagine they actually provide real backups for their hosted sites (although I may be wrong... I ran a hosting company in my distant past, and even with the drop in storage and hardware prices lately, I can't see the economics in that...)
Fact of the matter is, there is no good reliable way to ensure data is protected over the long term right now. RAID of course doesn't do it, but it helps with availability. I have a terabyte of RAID at home just because I want to reduce those risks. Offline disk-to-disk backups are an option. Half a terabyte of my RAID storage gets mirrored nightly onto a pair of external 250 gig drives that are powered down when not syncing. Thats not half bad either, at least I'm safe from a software problem that corrupts data as long as I catch it within 24 hours. Critical data is encrypted and uploaded to my dreamhost account once a week. I keep meaning to convince my parents to put a storage array at their house and I can do rsync over ssh between the two so we both can act as an off-site backup for the other.
But the fact of the matter is, I have gigabytes of data in the form of family pictures and videos I have absolutely no good way of ensuring are still available to my kids or grandkids (if I ever have them) forty years from now. DVDs won't do it, I've had lots of those fail already. Half my CDs I've burned in the last ten years have failed. Tapes aren't an option, they're not keeping pace with harddrive storage growth.
I can engineer pretty robust solutions to this for myself, but joe six pack sure can't. Amazon or Google offering some ability to really reliably store personal data long term is a big deal. Its a solution that is critically needed, and most people don't even realize they need it.
However, I think Amazon is nuts charging for it. Google will just come in and do the same for free sooner or later.
You know the scaler in your Sony TV is better than the one in that DVD player. Its placebo that you think it looks better, or you don't have the settings between the two inputs you used matched up. If you used a 480i component signal (if you have a DVD player that supports it) or even 480p, you'd get a better picture. You just have to tell the TV that the source material on that input is cinematic (I don't remember what they call it, I set it up ages ago in my Sony set) and let it do the rest. It'll do the 3:2 pulldown and scaling itself.
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You wouldn't have.
Zonk on the other hand would run it today, and again tomorrow.
*ducks*
Boy you're smart.
How does it matter one bit that you never heard it called that? I did frequently, so while your datapoint is interesting, it is completely irrelevant.
But thanks for replying. Bye.
Sorry, thats blatently incorrect. Apple chose to use the term, Apple did not make up the term. I studied film at Hampshire college, where they never ever fail for a moment to remind you that Ken Burns got his start in film there. Over. And. Over.
That effect was referred to as the Ken Burns effect off and on even then, which was 12 years ago.
The term "pan and scan" has nothing to do with the ken burns effect. Pan and scan is specifically used in the industry (and solely used, in my experience) to refer to the cropping of an image from one frame size to another, usually putting film onto TV.
I've *never* heard it used to refer to what the "ken burns effect" is... thats just the way you shoot static material -- keep the image framing changing to draw the eye where you want it. Ken Burns just shoved it down people's throat.
Listen to them side by side, I never thought they were that close... pitch is totally different, and its not as drawn out.
Actually if you RTFA, Apple didn't announce anything, PortalPlayer announced it, and Apple has not confirmed it.
As such there was nothing said about Apple's plans, as it was not an apple release.
Sysprep will clear out the license key. You can pre-populate a volume one in the inf file but if you leave it out the minisetup will just prompt for it. Easy enough, its on almost every PC these days, just tell the users to enter it, or DIY.
Why?
Having a family doesn't mean not having disposable income and not having one doesn't automatically give you it.
I wish I had mod points, I almost blew coffee out my nose when I read it.
Well look at the two choices. Gates is an intellectual, one of the biggest philanthropists in history, and is spending billions of dollars helping to improve education around the world (especially in the US with his new project) and helping to cure real killer diseases like Malaria.
Bush is the crowning achievement of the anti-intellectualism movement in America, couldn't imagine doing something good for another human being, but rather would lie and thieve his way to his own and his frieds' personal benefit at the expense of everyone else.
Fault Gates as you will for his business practices (although they're tame compared to Balmer and nearly every other CEO or ex CEO in business), but I know which of the two I'd rather spend time with.
In my eye, its not even porn. But there is no clear definition of porn at this time.
Yeah, if you don't start with a horse, a midget, a tub of lard and a big blue tarp it hardly qualifies.
Thats some real spin there.
I can say for certainly that with a 15mbit FIOS connection, you absolutely see a difference in everything. Downloads are consistently over a megabyte per second, often pushing 1.5-1.6. Downloading demos from XBox Live takes five or six minutes for 500-600 meg. Bittorrents scream, even normal web access cranks.
The iBook that eventually died had its on-board memory fail six months into the warranty period.
When I brought it to the apple store, the fix they did (after trying to convince the bonehead that it was supposed to have 256 meg of RAM and not 128) was to replace the 128 meg SODIMM with a 256 meg one... something I didn't notice until I went to put a 512 in there. So my defective logic board wasn't replaced even when it WAS under warranty.
I have two dead iPods and a dead iBook to show for my experiment with Apple. One died just out of warranty, the replacement I bought had the drive go with less than a month left on the warranty. The replacement came, and turns out had a bad dock connector. Unfortunately they wouldn't honor a warranty on the replacement and in the two remaining weeks of the warranty, I didn't happen to use the replacement. So now I've got two dead iPods.
I also have a iBook that died with the extremely common logic board failure two months out of warranty... a problem that they extended the warranty coverage for on the G3 iBooks, but didn't do on the G4 even though its a very common problem.
Apple was the reason I left ten years of Linux use as my primary desktop OS behind, and Apple is the reason I'll be going back.
In a movie theater, no matter where I sit, the loudest person in the theater always ends up sitting next to me.
Don't let your girlfriend catch you saying that.
Deep space exploration via robotic probe is not sexy. A mission to Mars, a la...well..Mission to Mars, is sexy.
Clearly you didn't see Mission to Mars, or as we put it when we saw it, "Mission To Take My Eight Bucks".
Actually I was serious that the ad worked, but was joking about Walmart. I hadn't heard of that company and I'll give them a look now. Its all very complicated just so I can enslave myself to wasting half a saturday mowing form now on. I might just not water and let it all die instead.
I need to buy a lawn mower this weekend. I had no idea Wal Mart sold them.
That'll save me some money!
Not so smart, are you?
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I didn't even have to search, its posted about 20 times in the comments of the story.
Um.
None of those car companies have a trademark on the term "car".
There is, however, a trademark on the term "superhero".
So your post, while moderated rather positively, is quite incorrect in drawing some comparison between the two.
I've bought quite a few games off there (Marble Madness, Zuma, Bejeweled 2, and that frog one thats totally escaping me right now...). The funny thing is I play Geometry Wars a lot, and I don't have the slightest inclination to buy it because I can't manage to get close to running out the four minute demo.
You've got amazing reflexes or have been popping speed pills if you're able to get that far! I'm clearly too old to do it myself.
And what about your mail sitting in relays on the net? I'd bet at least once in a while one of those gets picked up by a backup system.
If you want to tell someone something securely, you need to make up a language only you two know and whisper it in their ear.
What you're doing is only marginally more secure (and enormously more of a pain in the ass) than using GMail. At least when a disk croaks at Google you won't lose your mail. Disk croaks at your house, its gone.
Oh wait, you have backups? Did your e-mails you deleted off your home system magically get deleted off of them, too?
I've got a number of accounts with Dreamhost, and quite a large amount of data stored there. Probably half of it is, in fact, encrypted backups of data I have at home, since the accounts have a lot more storage and transfer than I ever come close to using.
However, I have absolutely no idea what their fault tolerance story is there. They probably run them, but at best I'm sure its just RAID. I can't imagine they actually provide real backups for their hosted sites (although I may be wrong... I ran a hosting company in my distant past, and even with the drop in storage and hardware prices lately, I can't see the economics in that...)
Fact of the matter is, there is no good reliable way to ensure data is protected over the long term right now. RAID of course doesn't do it, but it helps with availability. I have a terabyte of RAID at home just because I want to reduce those risks. Offline disk-to-disk backups are an option. Half a terabyte of my RAID storage gets mirrored nightly onto a pair of external 250 gig drives that are powered down when not syncing. Thats not half bad either, at least I'm safe from a software problem that corrupts data as long as I catch it within 24 hours. Critical data is encrypted and uploaded to my dreamhost account once a week. I keep meaning to convince my parents to put a storage array at their house and I can do rsync over ssh between the two so we both can act as an off-site backup for the other.
But the fact of the matter is, I have gigabytes of data in the form of family pictures and videos I have absolutely no good way of ensuring are still available to my kids or grandkids (if I ever have them) forty years from now. DVDs won't do it, I've had lots of those fail already. Half my CDs I've burned in the last ten years have failed. Tapes aren't an option, they're not keeping pace with harddrive storage growth.
I can engineer pretty robust solutions to this for myself, but joe six pack sure can't. Amazon or Google offering some ability to really reliably store personal data long term is a big deal. Its a solution that is critically needed, and most people don't even realize they need it.
However, I think Amazon is nuts charging for it. Google will just come in and do the same for free sooner or later.
You know the scaler in your Sony TV is better than the one in that DVD player. Its placebo that you think it looks better, or you don't have the settings between the two inputs you used matched up. If you used a 480i component signal (if you have a DVD player that supports it) or even 480p, you'd get a better picture. You just have to tell the TV that the source material on that input is cinematic (I don't remember what they call it, I set it up ages ago in my Sony set) and let it do the rest. It'll do the 3:2 pulldown and scaling itself.
It was actually a failed attempt at a runny reply that got modded up as a serious post.
If football is indeed the american soccer
No, no, no. Soccer is european football, not the other way around.
Most families probably have both footballs and soccer balls, or for you european types, footballs and footballs: round edition.