Luckily, lower production costs would mean higher quality. The focus will be on the script rather than the special effects and paying movie actors a fair wage would get rid of some of the dead wood.
Do you know how much film costs *alone*?
$60 per minute. Approximately. That's before processing.
I guarantee you that you're wrong. Go look at it again. I work for the company that did the HD-35 mm transfers for Fox (Fotokem). I stared at a 35 mm print of the 1080/24p master all day for six weeks. The stuff you say is there simply isn't. You can't see it once it hits the screen.
Get better eyes.
You know, VCDs are supposedly VHS quality?
Sure. The only problem is that when you lose bandwidth on analogue, you lose signal sharpness. When you lose it on digital, you get blocking. This happens with all CCDs (it's a rectangular grid - all the images you get out of the system have that display embedded into them. Fourier Transform the image, and compare it to the transform of a film cel).
I pretty much think that when Outlook and Outlook Express gain any sort of effective spam control, spam will start to all but disapear. At this point, I can't imagine that anyone who uses something other than the default isn't doing something about spam yet, meaning that the people who still use the default email program are really the only people still getting spam.
Won't happen. Blue Mountain Arts had their eCards dumped into the trash by the junkmail filter in OE. Blue Mountain Arts complained to a court. Microsoft offered to help them fix their cards so that they didn't trigger the junkmail filter. Blue Mountain Arts ignored them, sued them, and got a court injunction to force Microsoft to remove their anti-spam measures from their software.
If you want someone to beat up, send a nasty email to Blue Mountain Arts.
I thought Apple's Inkwell handwriting technology was first in this area?
Didn't the newton have hadwriting regognition?
Irrelevent, as handwriting recognition isn't the Tablet PC's shtick. Handwriting recognition with the ability to modify the handwriting as if it was typed text is.
You have to pay for Microsoft Product Support Services. From Knowledge Base Article 815411: "In special cases, charges that are ordinarily incurred for support calls may be canceled if a Microsoft Support Professional determines that a specific update will resolve your problem." May be canceled. Or maybe not. So it's entirely up to Microsoft whether or not to charge you for the fix to a problem they admit having! Of all the nerve. Avoid Service Pack 1, or better yet, avoid Windows.
Lame FUD attempt. The fix doesn't cost you anything. Phoning technical support may cost you money under some circumstances, but downloading hotfixes has always been and still is free.
If you look at the first image, it has two times, 54 seconds and 1 minute 25 seconds. The second time is shown at well over double the length of the first, even though it only took ~50% longer. If you look closely, you will see that 1:25 got placed at 1.25, and 0:54 got placed at 0.54, hence the error.
Any of the images where the minutes are different are going to be skewed a fair amount. The error will decrease as the minute difference increases
Tish tish...
What's a little graph between friends? Besides, consider it payback for that benchmark Apple pulled where they ran a version of BYTEmark compiled for the 486 on a Pentium II, but optimized the crap out of it for their CPU.
Or.. "There are jobs in Billings, MT.. if you're an H1B that's had a job description tailored to your specific resume?"
Which is it? I wonder.
Hmmm... I used to be an H1B. I now have a green card, and 4 or 5 years from now, I'll be a US Citizen. (Yep, I have to wait that long... it's the law...). I'm really glad I have that green card because I've not seen ANY companies who will hire H1Bs right now.
That's none. Zip. Nada.
Oh, and just FYI: H1Bs are people too. They pay US taxes. They buy US goods. They put at least 50% of their earnings back into the federal and local economies. Blame the companies who hire them over other qualified applicants (and note that word - qualified), not the people themselves.
I have never used VS.net( at not least yet) but the mfc and the win32api are nightmares.
Yes the ide's are cool but the documention from msdn is not always correct. Try writing a program using the socket api in win32. It almost made me cry with fustration.
Don't try writing sockets code under Linux or BSD then, because you'll be crying like a baby very shortly.
X has supported this for longer than Windows existed BUT (and this is the huge BUT) no-one is demanding support for this stuff from the apps. No amount of architectural support and documentation makes one single X application actually paste images.
May I suggest that the reason no one is demanding it is because it's very basic, expected behavior. And if you don't have it, your app is assumed to be so borked that there's no point asking the author, because the author is obviously braindead?
I'm just wondering... why would anyone risk watching a new series or serial on the SciFi channel?
They've proven that they can't be trusted to finish what they started. As a result, I don't trust them any more. How do you know that Children of Dune won't be cancelled just before the last episode? Or that any of their new series won't just be given the boot?
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Since Windows NT isn't a multiuser timesharing system, the power of 'root', in particular remotely, isn't that great. The remote login and remote administration tools for NT are patched on kludges.
You can install Hummingbird Inetd or Interix, or use the built in but anaemic Telnet server that comes with W2K, but since NT's focus is not to be a symmetrical multi-user timesharing system, the default system most people think of as 'NT' isn't that fun to hack into.
Now, I've supported many simultaneous users on an NT box running Interix, but that's the exception. I've wondered for awhile how well Apache would run in an Interix subsystem. But it's not interesting enough that I've tried it.
Look at PSTools on www.sysinternals.com.
They let you do all kinds of wonderful things on a system as long as you have a user account with which to access it, through RPC.
Amongst other things, you can remotely install and run executables. Very handy.
Meanwhile, "flapjacks" are a kind of oaty biscuit. Confused yet?
They weren't always the oaty biscuit (cookie for you 'merkins). Check out the "Schizoid Man" episode of the Prisoner if you want to see how language has evolved:)
Back in the '80s Microsoft was in the habit of screwing up/obfuscating the symbol tables on the software they released - until the courts made them stop that practice.
References?
Oh, and the reason they stopped is because it was too easy to screw up the ordinal way of loading functions when you released updated DLLs unless you were EXTREMELY careful -- even if it was an order of magnitude faster to do the lookup. Much more flexible to lookup by name.
The biggest problem with Outlook (Express) that I have, and that remarkably few people seem to realise is a problem, is that it will automatically load any remote object embedded in an HTML e-mail. Sounds harmless until you realise that *just by previewing an HTML e-mail message*, you are allowing a spammer to know that your e-mail address exists. I'm sure this is happening to me, there is NO option to turn it off (except for the ingenious "go offline every time you read your e-mail" solution given to me by an IRCer),
Emphasis mine.
Perhaps you should spend more time learning your tools, before waxing lyrical about problems in them that don't exist.
Tools->Options...->Read->Read All Messages In Plain Text.
What were the downsides again? MS loses money on each XBox. Sony breaks even (more or less) on each PS2. MS should have reason to be scared shitless
And so Sony damn well should be. At this point they should be raking in money; they're past the hump, and their components should be much cheaper than when they started manufacturing.
The PS2 was, after all, released a year before the XBOX in the US. Earlier still in Japan.
The era of free music -- as it was in the 16, 17, and 1800s -- will once more be upon us.
Music was free in the 1600s, 1700s and 1800s?
Free for whom? Perhaps you'd like to expound on this view of yours. Or are you just assuming that because you weren't alive then, and you'd like it all to be free...
There is not comparision. This not add bloat to Mozilla exactly, nor a lot of time to developers. In the Microsoft side, instead, you have easter eggs of the size of a flight simulator [eggscentral.com].
Once you have access to the CPU on an XBOX after it has done the disc copy protection check you could EASILY allow the user to pop in a (non-signed) DVD and then reset the CPU, but not do a full BIOS reset. The result? A linux-based boot disk for pirated games. You don't need to do the whole emulation business.
Given that the CD eject button also acts as a reset button... just how do you think this will work?
I'd like to point out that you've already admitted you aren't a web developer, you have no experience in web development
So have you decided yet whether web developers are (a) stupid or (b) the only people who know anything about how the web works? You seem to be oscillating, and it'd be easier to debate with you if one knew exactly where you were coming from.
You keep ignoring the fact that I've run my own tests -- which were MUCH more extensive than the Opera gang's.
Also, that person I ignored, I did so rightly; because they seem to be under the impression that whenever I mention Netscape 4.7, I'm talking about Netscape 7.01 -- proving that they're completely and utterly cracked.
And you're the one who started flinging insults, so if we're making accusations of arrogance, you need look no further than the mirror or smooth reflective surface of your choice.
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Luckily, lower production costs would mean higher quality. The focus will be on the script rather than the special effects and paying movie actors a fair wage would get rid of some of the dead wood.
Do you know how much film costs *alone*?
$60 per minute. Approximately. That's before processing.
Remember; you're dealing here with a whole load of children whose perfect idea of a Saturday afternoon would be dropping a 747 on Bill Gates' house.
It's amusing to see it slip and start hitting their 'own' now though.
>> You know, VCDs are supposedly VHS quality?
According to whom?
The people who created the VCD standard.
PS: I love how he said, "This is an interesting time." You think he knows that's a curse in many cultures?
Wishing someone interesting times is a curse. Noting that you're living in them is not.
I guarantee you that you're wrong. Go look at it again. I work for the company that did the HD-35 mm transfers for Fox (Fotokem). I stared at a 35 mm print of the 1080/24p master all day for six weeks. The stuff you say is there simply isn't. You can't see it once it hits the screen.
Get better eyes.
You know, VCDs are supposedly VHS quality?
Sure. The only problem is that when you lose bandwidth on analogue, you lose signal sharpness. When you lose it on digital, you get blocking. This happens with all CCDs (it's a rectangular grid - all the images you get out of the system have that display embedded into them. Fourier Transform the image, and compare it to the transform of a film cel).
Simon
I pretty much think that when Outlook and Outlook Express gain any sort of effective spam control, spam will start to all but disapear. At this point, I can't imagine that anyone who uses something other than the default isn't doing something about spam yet, meaning that the people who still use the default email program are really the only people still getting spam.
Won't happen. Blue Mountain Arts had their eCards dumped into the trash by the junkmail filter in OE. Blue Mountain Arts complained to a court. Microsoft offered to help them fix their cards so that they didn't trigger the junkmail filter. Blue Mountain Arts ignored them, sued them, and got a court injunction to force Microsoft to remove their anti-spam measures from their software.
If you want someone to beat up, send a nasty email to Blue Mountain Arts.
Simon
I thought Apple's Inkwell handwriting technology was first in this area?
Didn't the newton have hadwriting regognition?
Irrelevent, as handwriting recognition isn't the Tablet PC's shtick. Handwriting recognition with the ability to modify the handwriting as if it was typed text is.
You have to pay for Microsoft Product Support Services. From Knowledge Base Article 815411: "In special cases, charges that are ordinarily incurred for support calls may be canceled if a Microsoft Support Professional determines that a specific update will resolve your problem." May be canceled. Or maybe not. So it's entirely up to Microsoft whether or not to charge you for the fix to a problem they admit having! Of all the nerve.
Avoid Service Pack 1, or better yet, avoid Windows.
Lame FUD attempt. The fix doesn't cost you anything. Phoning technical support may cost you money under some circumstances, but downloading hotfixes has always been and still is free.
But nice try though.
Simon
I see your Donnie Darko, and raise you a Miracle Mile and a "The Quiet Earth". :-)
Simon
The images appear to be incorrect.
If you look at the first image, it has two times, 54 seconds and 1 minute 25 seconds. The second time is shown at well over double the length of the first, even though it only took ~50% longer. If you look closely, you will see that 1:25 got placed at 1.25, and 0:54 got placed at 0.54, hence the error.
Any of the images where the minutes are different are going to be skewed a fair amount. The error will decrease as the minute difference increases
Tish tish...
What's a little graph between friends? Besides, consider it payback for that benchmark Apple pulled where they ran a version of BYTEmark compiled for the 486 on a Pentium II, but optimized the crap out of it for their CPU.
Simon
Or.. "There are jobs in Billings, MT.. if you're an H1B that's had a job description tailored to your specific resume?"
Which is it? I wonder.
Hmmm... I used to be an H1B. I now have a green card, and 4 or 5 years from now, I'll be a US Citizen. (Yep, I have to wait that long... it's the law...). I'm really glad I have that green card because I've not seen ANY companies who will hire H1Bs right now.
That's none. Zip. Nada.
Oh, and just FYI: H1Bs are people too. They pay US taxes. They buy US goods. They put at least 50% of their earnings back into the federal and local economies. Blame the companies who hire them over other qualified applicants (and note that word - qualified), not the people themselves.
Simon
I have never used VS.net( at not least yet) but the mfc and the win32api are nightmares.
Yes the ide's are cool but the documention from msdn is not always correct. Try writing a program using the socket api in win32. It almost made me cry with fustration.
Don't try writing sockets code under Linux or BSD then, because you'll be crying like a baby very shortly.
X has supported this for longer than Windows existed BUT (and this is the huge BUT) no-one is demanding support for this stuff from the apps. No amount of architectural support and documentation makes one single X application actually paste images.
May I suggest that the reason no one is demanding it is because it's very basic, expected behavior. And if you don't have it, your app is assumed to be so borked that there's no point asking the author, because the author is obviously braindead?
Simon
I'm just wondering... why would anyone risk watching a new series or serial on the SciFi channel?
They've proven that they can't be trusted to finish what they started. As a result, I don't trust them any more. How do you know that Children of Dune won't be cancelled just before the last episode? Or that any of their new series won't just be given the boot?
Since Windows NT isn't a multiuser timesharing system, the power of 'root', in particular remotely, isn't that great. The remote login and remote administration tools for NT are patched on kludges.
You can install Hummingbird Inetd or Interix, or use the built in but anaemic Telnet server that comes with W2K, but since NT's focus is not to be a symmetrical multi-user timesharing system, the default system most people think of as 'NT' isn't that fun to hack into.
Now, I've supported many simultaneous users on an NT box running Interix, but that's the exception. I've wondered for awhile how well Apache would run in an Interix subsystem. But it's not interesting enough that I've tried it.
Look at PSTools on www.sysinternals.com.
They let you do all kinds of wonderful things on a system as long as you have a user account with which to access it, through RPC.
Amongst other things, you can remotely install and run executables. Very handy.
Meanwhile, "flapjacks" are a kind of oaty biscuit. Confused yet?
:)
They weren't always the oaty biscuit (cookie for you 'merkins). Check out the "Schizoid Man" episode of the Prisoner if you want to see how language has evolved
They have *every* Spectrum game I hold copyright on up there. No-one has ever asked for permission to distribute and I've not given it.
Yeah right... which is why you're posting as an anonymous coward and not letting them know which games they can put up.
Simon Cooke
(Ex-Tech Editor, Your Sinclair magazine)
Back in the '80s Microsoft was in the habit of screwing up/obfuscating the symbol tables on the software they released - until the courts made them stop that practice.
References?
Oh, and the reason they stopped is because it was too easy to screw up the ordinal way of loading functions when you released updated DLLs unless you were EXTREMELY careful -- even if it was an order of magnitude faster to do the lookup. Much more flexible to lookup by name.
Simon
The biggest problem with Outlook (Express) that I have, and that remarkably few people seem to realise is a problem, is that it will automatically load any remote object embedded in an HTML e-mail. Sounds harmless until you realise that *just by previewing an HTML e-mail message*, you are allowing a spammer to know that your e-mail address exists. I'm sure this is happening to me, there is NO option to turn it off (except for the ingenious "go offline every time you read your e-mail" solution given to me by an IRCer),
Emphasis mine.
Perhaps you should spend more time learning your tools, before waxing lyrical about problems in them that don't exist.
Tools->Options...->Read->Read All Messages In Plain Text.
What were the downsides again? MS loses money on each XBox. Sony breaks even (more or less) on each PS2. MS should have reason to be scared shitless
And so Sony damn well should be. At this point they should be raking in money; they're past the hump, and their components should be much cheaper than when they started manufacturing.
The PS2 was, after all, released a year before the XBOX in the US. Earlier still in Japan.
The era of free music -- as it was in the 16, 17, and 1800s -- will once more be upon us.
Music was free in the 1600s, 1700s and 1800s?
Free for whom? Perhaps you'd like to expound on this view of yours. Or are you just assuming that because you weren't alive then, and you'd like it all to be free...
There is not comparision. This not add bloat to Mozilla exactly, nor a lot of time to developers. In the Microsoft side, instead, you have easter eggs of the size of a flight simulator [eggscentral.com].
Which, for the record, is about 128kb, +/- 64kb.
Simon
Now that's some crazy lookin' French.
No shit... it looks more like Dutch or German.
Once you have access to the CPU on an XBOX after it has done the disc copy protection check you could EASILY allow the user to pop in a (non-signed) DVD and then reset the CPU, but not do a full BIOS reset. The result? A linux-based boot disk for pirated games. You don't need to do the whole emulation business.
Given that the CD eject button also acts as a reset button... just how do you think this will work?
Simon
I'd like to point out that you've already admitted you aren't a web developer, you have no experience in web development
So have you decided yet whether web developers are (a) stupid or (b) the only people who know anything about how the web works? You seem to be oscillating, and it'd be easier to debate with you if one knew exactly where you were coming from.
You keep ignoring the fact that I've run my own tests -- which were MUCH more extensive than the Opera gang's.
Also, that person I ignored, I did so rightly; because they seem to be under the impression that whenever I mention Netscape 4.7, I'm talking about Netscape 7.01 -- proving that they're completely and utterly cracked.
And you're the one who started flinging insults, so if we're making accusations of arrogance, you need look no further than the mirror or smooth reflective surface of your choice.
Go suck a ferret.