The bulb in the projector doesn't turn on and off continuously.
of course not. my bad i didn't mention the shutter, but the effect is the same (light on and off).
The School was the Polytechnical University for Media Technology and Design in Hagenberg, Upper Austria, and while i think howstuffworks is a great resource, i'm sure what i learned there is correct.
For much of the 'silent' period, films were shot at roughly 16 frames per second and shown on a projector with a three-bladed shutter. Each individual frame was shown three times, so around 48 screen images were projected every second, (close enough to fifty to give a reasonably flicker-free result).
Nowadays, movies are INDEED filmed with 24 frames per second and therefore are also projected with 24 frames per second. But, the frames are shown multiple times (i think two is standard, but i've heared about three, too).
And no, the film doesn't have to have the frames on it multiple times. The transport mechanism in a projector works like this: light off, move the film forward to the next frame, stop, light on, light off, move forward, stop, light on,.....
Now, instead of having ONE phase of light during a frame, modern projectors have TWO or THREE of them:
light off, move forward, stop, light on, light off, light on, light off, move forward....
but actually writing out 0.333.. ad infinitum is major work, and writing it out three times and summing it up is exactly as much work (ha, infinity rules!) and you better hire lots of monkeys to do that work for you;)
The only thing that's illegal is the CSS decryption libraries needed to play most (but not all) CSS "protected" DVDs.
libdvdcss uses various fallback mechanisms, if its original decryption mechanism fails. the last step in that line is - afaik - actually brute-forcing the encryption. this would be illegal under the dmca.
BUT the default mechanism is, it has a list with ALL legal player keys - which were trade secrets, perfectly legal to reverse-engineer. in fact, you can reverse-engineer the player keys from ANY encrypted dvd. so ANY DVD playable on ANY of the players that uses one of the onehundredsomething original player keys is playable with libdvdcss WITHOUT violating any "you can't break copy protection" laws.
see the libdvdcss homepage for more details (google will help you find it)
Think about it. You correctly identified rays as going THROUGH the subject, to a hypothetic receptor on the other side. Obviously, for an image to manifest, the amount of energy that moves through the subject has to vary, otherwise the image would be all-white (or all-gray). Hence, we have some of the rays moving straight through, and the rest of the rays being scattered away. Some of those will be going straight back to where they originated from. Hence, you get just the same image (well, inversed) if you place the receptor right at the source.
Let me share something with you. I'm austrian, both my granddads were fighting in ww2.
One of them was a teacher and had to join the NSDAP (national socialist german workers' party) or he would have been banned from teaching (he had a family to support, too), so technically he was a nazi without supporting the actual ideology.
Being in the NSDAP still didn't save him from having to "defend his home soil" in africa (wehrmacht/regular army) once the war started. (Austria joined the german reich in 1938 in a still embarassing mixture of being taken by force -- the german army apparently was ready to crush what was left of the austrian one after our civil war -- and being overly enthusiastic, welcoming and flag-waving. The official version is that austria was the first victim of germany, but the pictures and movies from the time seem to tell a different story.)
The other one, my mother's father, was a Siebenburgener Sachse, a member of the german minority in romania. When romania joined the war he couldn't join the german regular army (because he wasn't a german citizen) and he didn't want to join the regular romanian army (because he had bad experiences with how the romanians treated the germans, or so i was told). Hence, he joined the SS after getting himself stretched so he met the minimum height.
He died when i was six, but what my mother told me about him was twofold: Firstly, he was -- and i guess that didn't change even after the war -- a nazi by heart and very convinced of his ideology. And secondly, she told me that he wouldn't have hurt a fly.
Obviously, she loved her father and probably has a very idealized picture of him, also seeing him more as a victim of the war (he came back from a russian POW camp weighing something around thirty kilos, iirc, and suffered from diabetes afterwards).
I do not know wether he was actually involved in any war atrocities, but even without that i see a huge dissonance between not hurting a fly and being a member of the SS and a convinced nazi (because nazism in itself IS aggressive and violent). But i have no doubt at all that both aspects were part of his personality, because people just aren't only good or only evil.
Two different people from very different backgrounds with different motivations for joining nazi organisations. Yet, i can understand both of them in some way, and even though i despise fascism and racism nowadays, i know that if i was in their position i might have acted the same.
Of course, anyone who lives in the time I live in and knows what I know and STILL insists in being a fascist or racist or neo nazi should be severely beaten with a cluestick.
Just my two cents.
Especially for this post, i'll double up my regular signature with this jewel that i strongly believe in: -- "You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake." -- Jeannette Rankin
Be assured, they do. 70. No, hundreds. No, wait. MILLIONS of them.
they don't know who
They know who, they just won't tell anyone else.
Apart from that, laws of physics dictate that you can't create energy or mass, and hence this whole procreating-parent-child-father-mother-thingie is ILLEGAL anyhow.
(Just when we thought that 3.-???-4.-Profit!!!-Soviet-Russia was bad enough...)
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well, it goes from the start to the '\0' :)
so how big can a directory get before it is full?
maybe he's in soviet russia :)
just wanted to add, here in the german-speaking countries (germany, austria, parts of switzerland, ...), the names go like this:
;)
1 000 000 = Million
1 000 000 000 = Milliarde
1 000 000 000 000 = Billion
1 000 000 000 000 000 = Billiarde
good thing we have exponential notation
FIST level support? You didn't even have cluebats?
of course not. my bad i didn't mention the shutter, but the effect is the same (light on and off).
The School was the Polytechnical University for Media Technology and Design in Hagenberg, Upper Austria, and while i think howstuffworks is a great resource, i'm sure what i learned there is correct.
if you check the first few paragraphs of this, you'll see that the concept isn't new either:
Nowadays, movies are INDEED filmed with 24 frames per second and therefore are also projected with 24 frames per second. But, the frames are shown multiple times (i think two is standard, but i've heared about three, too).
.....
....
;)
And no, the film doesn't have to have the frames on it multiple times. The transport mechanism in a projector works like this: light off, move the film forward to the next frame, stop, light on, light off, move forward, stop, light on,
Now, instead of having ONE phase of light during a frame, modern projectors have TWO or THREE of them:
light off, move forward, stop, light on, light off, light on, light off, move forward
at least thats what i learned in school
prepare to have your testicles removed by the RIAA inquisition.
hmm you should really try to hit on some of the sweet girls from the .mpeg family... yo'd be in for a nice surprise!
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Robot #2: We believe he was built and that he was a very well programmed robot but he wasn't our Messiah.
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This article was probably written by SCO in an attempt to destroy IBMs public image.
well... i would say that
/__ 10 * 0.3
;)
_n_
\ -a
lim
n->infinity a=1
is 1.
but actually writing out 0.333.. ad infinitum is major work, and writing it out three times and summing it up is exactly as much work (ha, infinity rules!) and you better hire lots of monkeys to do that work for you
but IANAM
ah you silly 'merkins with your confusing naming schemes :)
congress?
yeah. maybe we could write a text editor that offers such a feature.
yes, but the "j" in "joker" will be written "sm" and the picture on the card will show him holding a crack pipe.
libdvdcss uses various fallback mechanisms, if its original decryption mechanism fails. the last step in that line is - afaik - actually brute-forcing the encryption. this would be illegal under the dmca.
BUT the default mechanism is, it has a list with ALL legal player keys - which were trade secrets, perfectly legal to reverse-engineer. in fact, you can reverse-engineer the player keys from ANY encrypted dvd. so ANY DVD playable on ANY of the players that uses one of the onehundredsomething original player keys is playable with libdvdcss WITHOUT violating any "you can't break copy protection" laws.
see the libdvdcss homepage for more details (google will help you find it)
Think about it. You correctly identified rays as going THROUGH the subject, to a hypothetic receptor on the other side. Obviously, for an image to manifest, the amount of energy that moves through the subject has to vary, otherwise the image would be all-white (or all-gray). Hence, we have some of the rays moving straight through, and the rest of the rays being scattered away. Some of those will be going straight back to where they originated from. Hence, you get just the same image (well, inversed) if you place the receptor right at the source.
you made me laugh. thank you very much. you have been sigged.
Let me share something with you. I'm austrian, both my granddads were fighting in ww2.
One of them was a teacher and had to join the NSDAP (national socialist german workers' party) or he would have been banned from teaching (he had a family to support, too), so technically he was a nazi without supporting the actual ideology.
Being in the NSDAP still didn't save him from having to "defend his home soil" in africa (wehrmacht/regular army) once the war started. (Austria joined the german reich in 1938 in a still embarassing mixture of being taken by force -- the german army apparently was ready to crush what was left of the austrian one after our civil war -- and being overly enthusiastic, welcoming and flag-waving. The official version is that austria was the first victim of germany, but the pictures and movies from the time seem to tell a different story.)
The other one, my mother's father, was a Siebenburgener Sachse, a member of the german minority in romania. When romania joined the war he couldn't join the german regular army (because he wasn't a german citizen) and he didn't want to join the regular romanian army (because he had bad experiences with how the romanians treated the germans, or so i was told). Hence, he joined the SS after getting himself stretched so he met the minimum height.
He died when i was six, but what my mother told me about him was twofold: Firstly, he was -- and i guess that didn't change even after the war -- a nazi by heart and very convinced of his ideology.
And secondly, she told me that he wouldn't have hurt a fly.
Obviously, she loved her father and probably has a very idealized picture of him, also seeing him more as a victim of the war (he came back from a russian POW camp weighing something around thirty kilos, iirc, and suffered from diabetes afterwards).
I do not know wether he was actually involved in any war atrocities, but even without that i see a huge dissonance between not hurting a fly and being a member of the SS and a convinced nazi (because nazism in itself IS aggressive and violent). But i have no doubt at all that both aspects were part of his personality, because people just aren't only good or only evil.
Two different people from very different backgrounds with different motivations for joining nazi organisations. Yet, i can understand both of them in some way, and even though i despise fascism and racism nowadays, i know that if i was in their position i might have acted the same.
Of course, anyone who lives in the time I live in and knows what I know and STILL insists in being a fascist or racist or neo nazi should be severely beaten with a cluestick.
Just my two cents.
Especially for this post, i'll double up my regular signature with this jewel that i strongly believe in:
--
"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake." -- Jeannette Rankin
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Fabienne: Whose text is this?
Butch: It's source code, baby.
Fabienne: Whose source code is this?
Butch: It's SCO's. (or so they claim)
Fabienne: Who's SCO?
Butch: SCO's dead, baby. SCO's dead.
Be assured, they do. 70. No, hundreds. No, wait. MILLIONS of them.
They know who, they just won't tell anyone else.
Apart from that, laws of physics dictate that you can't create energy or mass, and hence this whole procreating-parent-child-father-mother-thingie is ILLEGAL anyhow.
(Just when we thought that 3.-???-4.-Profit!!!-Soviet-Russia was bad enough...)