Only when the resolution of the digital projector is the same (or better) than that of the movie.
If they have to downsample (which I believe they do for the Texas Instruments DLP projectors they use) then there is a loss of information.
Hence there is more resolution on a 35mm film than on current DLP projectors, therefore, despite the slight loss going from digital to analogue, the picture is better than going from lotsapixels (tm) digital to notquitesolotsapixels (tm) . Until the analogue copy starts to degrade........
Interestingly, DLY has nowhere near the resolution or colour saturation etc of NEW 35mm film. A brand spanking new reel of old-fashioned film is a better visual medium.
Where DLP wins is that after a few showings it is still dust free and as good as new. So theoretically if you canch an early showing you should really go to a film version but if you wait a week - then go to a DLP version.
You are confusing your iBooks with your PowerBooks;)
The iBook is still around 1200 as before and the PowerBook is still around 2200 as before but the PowerBook is now a bit faster (and has better graphics etc etc....)
Indeed, I would vote for an iPod as my definition of the best mp3 player. It already hs firewire, it's lovely and small, has more than acceptable battery life, weighs less than 200g, has more than enough storage, works as an exceptionally handy general stirage medium, works perfectly with my G4 powermac, works acceptably with my PC at work and looks cool.
The problem is that this article asserts that the Nomad is the best - this is, however, merely a subjective decision. I initially read it and thought "ooh, a new iPod". I'm also sure others will read it and go "ooh, a new ****" (replace **** with an mp3 player of your choice).
This immediately puts people who disagree with the initial assertion on the wrong foot - and biasing their comments etc accordingly.
Surely a posting to Slashdot should be, at least title-wise, objective, to avoid knee-jerk reactions by other people who, rightly or wrongly, have differing opinions about the subject-matter at hand.
Troc
PS Yes, I used too many commas, however I'm at work and we've a box of them that are nearing their use-by date.
They probably have a definition of "men" somewhere that states "a man is defined as someone who belongs to the cult^h^h^h^hchurch of Scientology"
Troc
Re:the bad guy is always a german...
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Unless the bad guy is really really evil... and then he has a British accent.
*shrug*
It would appear that Hollywood believes that Germans, Russians (and South Africans!) are nasty and evil but that we British are the truly evil;)
Nowadays of course the most evli of thel amm are Chinese or Arabic. (with British bosses of course)
In the UK we usually cast Americans as Gung-ho idiots with Germans as the bas guys and the British (stiff upper lip and all that) as the heroes.... unless its a modern art-house or whatever and then everyone is cockney.
I coudl go on but my generalisations will start to disagree with each other.
Apple's operating system is designed to be used with ONE button. However, if you have 2 or more (and/or a scroll wheel etc) it will hapily support them too. BUT THEY ARE NOT NECESSARY.
Well as an examiner working for the Eurpoean Patent Office, I can tell you you'd be amazed how often we have to tell applicants their application is pants because of something they cited. The idiots.
Applicants try to get the broadest possible protection every time they apply for a patent - so all it takes is one [lazy, overworked, unskilled, american - pick one] examiner to fail to read properly and crap gets granted!
Not an easy job to do well but a very easy one to screw up in.
As long as these vending machines aren't from the Sirius Cybernetic Corp. and they don't rename the technology General People Personalities I guess we are all ok
now I'm scared... Now I realise your awesome use of English and your grasp of modern language usage is simply vastly superior to mine in every possible way, which explains why my failure to see any value in your posts is merely a failure on my part;)
Or something. It's early on a Friday morning and my sarcasm organ isn't sufficiently stocked with caffeine as yet.
But, I mean - do you really expect that Slashdotters will be impressed with your membership of somehting as crass as MENSA?
That's fairly difficult as by steering things in certain directions you run the risk of revealing your ideas before they have been patented, thus increasing the prior art out there and reducing patentability.
Patents were designed to do two things. One was to foster innovation by FORCING disclosure of invention (or runing the risk of having secrets stolen) and thus adding to the sum of knowledge. The other was to protect the inventor so they could profit from their invention. This is why patenting is relatively cheap (here in europe the initial patent fees are substantially below the cost to the office of dealing with them) but the recurrent annual maintainence fees increase almost exponentially towars the last few years the patent can be valid - to dissuade the patentee from holding the patent too long, especially if it turns out to be a pointless patent they aren't making money out of.
Hohum
Troc
PS Yes I am apatent examiner;)
PPS Here in europe you can't patent software or business methods.....
The Russian sites are as far north as Canada anyway so would have no advantage (well except they are alreasy set-up;) and Sea Launch is too small to launch anything of any decent size. The European launch site would be an good choice however as it's very well equipped and around 2 degrees off the equator (iirc) which is the best that anyone has at present.
To be honest a Mars mission would probably be assembled from parts launched on various launches and would then leave from low earth orbit.....
Well, back in the 'good old days' (TM) when there were only a few of us, the ratio of crap to gems was vastly different. We still had all the rants for/against just about everything but 90% of/. users actually knew what they were talking about and, more importantly, happily shared their informed opinions and knowledge with the rest of the community.
Nowadays you can replicate that aspect by browsing at +2 but you then miss out on the rather fun ranting that still occurs.
Too much noise on the signal and too many tech wannabies here I guess. I only pop on to see what the script kiddies are ranting about and then I go and get my news elsewhere.
If one is stuck you can still find the odd informed person around here if you ask the right question in the right way but it's hard to filter the noise out.
The USPTO suffers because their database is badly organized and complex to search... The European Patent Office (EPO) have access, internally, to no only their own patent database, but also pretty well every major scientific publication on record and other data.
When a patent application is presented, a search is undertaken, looking at everything, not just previous patent data to see if there is any prior art whatsoever. I' not sure about the States, but I would hope it would be the same. If not, it would explain why the USPTO keep awarding crap patents.
Troc
PS I'm not a patent examiner, but I might be in a month or two. The EPO, where I'd be working actively searches and expects their examiners to submit more data to theie databases on a regular basis to aviod the problems we seem to be seeing in the US these days.
Cue man huddled in corner wearing the ragged remains of an expensive armani suit, Italian shoes with holes in the soles and a placard with 'unfashionable and homeless' scrawled upon it with the dieing ink from a Mont Blanc pen....
Girl asks her dad as they walk by "what happened to the lawyer, daddy?"
Heh... problem with hacking too, you could lure them down with food or whatever (or just catch them whilst asleep during long distance IP) read the message and let them go - or even change said message - and nobody would know.
I guess you could rig the package to explode if tampered with. Maybe for long distance, we could use a modified avian carrier such as an albatross.
Example a : The winner of the "high jump" event was essentially a large spring.
Well that's because it's a good way to solve that particular problem.
Example b: The winners of the "relay" event was a team of three off-the-shelf remote controlled cars.
With a pretty clever gripper if you ask me.... plus some fancy driving thus indicating some good cooperation between humans and their creations.
If you think you could do better - then enter yourself next time. I mean, yes all the rockets were flippin ESTES model rockets with addons but next year they'll have been developed etc etc. We are at the begining of development of this kind of thing (the affordable, small, designed by small groups on a budget) and it's going to take a while for robots of this nature to mature.
Just look at Robot Wars and the quality of the robots now compared with the first series.
Slashdot Mirror
I still have one ;)
;)
I works some of the time but is a little bit flakey. It has tennis, squash, hockey and breakout.
For a really authentic time I can even tape some coloured cellophane to the screen to get coloured bricks in breakout
heh
John
Only when the resolution of the digital projector is the same (or better) than that of the movie.
If they have to downsample (which I believe they do for the Texas Instruments DLP projectors they use) then there is a loss of information.
Hence there is more resolution on a 35mm film than on current DLP projectors, therefore, despite the slight loss going from digital to analogue, the picture is better than going from lotsapixels (tm) digital to notquitesolotsapixels (tm) . Until the analogue copy starts to degrade........
Troc
Interestingly, DLY has nowhere near the resolution or colour saturation etc of NEW 35mm film. A brand spanking new reel of old-fashioned film is a better visual medium.
Where DLP wins is that after a few showings it is still dust free and as good as new. So theoretically if you canch an early showing you should really go to a film version but if you wait a week - then go to a DLP version.
It's only 330 or so Gigs after all.
You are confusing your iBooks with your PowerBooks ;)
The iBook is still around 1200 as before and the PowerBook is still around 2200 as before but the PowerBook is now a bit faster (and has better graphics etc etc....)
iTunes supports it perfectly.
;)
Well iTunes should do - it seems to talk to just about anything.
I'd still get an iPod
Troc
PS OK, iTunes probably doesn't talk to God.
Everyone has an aunt?
Troc
Indeed, I would vote for an iPod as my definition of the best mp3 player. It already hs firewire, it's lovely and small, has more than acceptable battery life, weighs less than 200g, has more than enough storage, works as an exceptionally handy general stirage medium, works perfectly with my G4 powermac, works acceptably with my PC at work and looks cool.
The problem is that this article asserts that the Nomad is the best - this is, however, merely a subjective decision. I initially read it and thought "ooh, a new iPod". I'm also sure others will read it and go "ooh, a new ****" (replace **** with an mp3 player of your choice).
This immediately puts people who disagree with the initial assertion on the wrong foot - and biasing their comments etc accordingly.
Surely a posting to Slashdot should be, at least title-wise, objective, to avoid knee-jerk reactions by other people who, rightly or wrongly, have differing opinions about the subject-matter at hand.
Troc
PS Yes, I used too many commas, however I'm at work and we've a box of them that are nearing their use-by date.
They probably have a definition of "men" somewhere that states "a man is defined as someone who belongs to the cult^h^h^h^hchurch of Scientology"
Troc
Unless the bad guy is really really evil... and then he has a British accent.
;)
*shrug*
It would appear that Hollywood believes that Germans, Russians (and South Africans!) are nasty and evil but that we British are the truly evil
Nowadays of course the most evli of thel amm are Chinese or Arabic. (with British bosses of course)
In the UK we usually cast Americans as Gung-ho idiots with Germans as the bas guys and the British (stiff upper lip and all that) as the heroes.... unless its a modern art-house or whatever and then everyone is cockney.
I coudl go on but my generalisations will start to disagree with each other.
In the meantime just wait for the signal
Troc
Low UIDs are overrated
Troc
Every bleedin' time we get this.
Apple's operating system is designed to be used with ONE button. However, if you have 2 or more (and/or a scroll wheel etc) it will hapily support them too. BUT THEY ARE NOT NECESSARY.
Troc
Nope, the easiest way to convert to pdf is to use the print dialogue box in OS X and print to a file instead of the printer.
;)
A 5670 key?
;)
that must be required for some weird specialist stuff
Troc
Well as an examiner working for the Eurpoean Patent Office, I can tell you you'd be amazed how often we have to tell applicants their application is pants because of something they cited. The idiots.
Applicants try to get the broadest possible protection every time they apply for a patent - so all it takes is one [lazy, overworked, unskilled, american - pick one] examiner to fail to read properly and crap gets granted!
Not an easy job to do well but a very easy one to screw up in.
hohum
Troc
You mean stolen as in BOUGHT by Apple (with Apple stock no less)
Troc
As long as these vending machines aren't from the Sirius Cybernetic Corp. and they don't rename the technology General People Personalities I guess we are all ok
Troc
Ooh MENSA
;)
now I'm scared... Now I realise your awesome use of English and your grasp of modern language usage is simply vastly superior to mine in every possible way, which explains why my failure to see any value in your posts is merely a failure on my part
Or something. It's early on a Friday morning and my sarcasm organ isn't sufficiently stocked with caffeine as yet.
But, I mean - do you really expect that Slashdotters will be impressed with your membership of somehting as crass as MENSA?
Troc
That's fairly difficult as by steering things in certain directions you run the risk of revealing your ideas before they have been patented, thus increasing the prior art out there and reducing patentability.
;)
Patents were designed to do two things. One was to foster innovation by FORCING disclosure of invention (or runing the risk of having secrets stolen) and thus adding to the sum of knowledge. The other was to protect the inventor so they could profit from their invention. This is why patenting is relatively cheap (here in europe the initial patent fees are substantially below the cost to the office of dealing with them) but the recurrent annual maintainence fees increase almost exponentially towars the last few years the patent can be valid - to dissuade the patentee from holding the patent too long, especially if it turns out to be a pointless patent they aren't making money out of.
Hohum
Troc
PS Yes I am apatent examiner
PPS Here in europe you can't patent software or business methods.....
The Russian sites are as far north as Canada anyway so would have no advantage (well except they are alreasy set-up ;) and Sea Launch is too small to launch anything of any decent size. The European launch site would be an good choice however as it's very well equipped and around 2 degrees off the equator (iirc) which is the best that anyone has at present.
To be honest a Mars mission would probably be assembled from parts launched on various launches and would then leave from low earth orbit.....
Troc
Well, back in the 'good old days' (TM) when there were only a few of us, the ratio of crap to gems was vastly different. We still had all the rants for/against just about everything but 90% of /. users actually knew what they were talking about and, more importantly, happily shared their informed opinions and knowledge with the rest of the community.
Nowadays you can replicate that aspect by browsing at +2 but you then miss out on the rather fun ranting that still occurs.
Too much noise on the signal and too many tech wannabies here I guess. I only pop on to see what the script kiddies are ranting about and then I go and get my news elsewhere.
If one is stuck you can still find the odd informed person around here if you ask the right question in the right way but it's hard to filter the noise out.
Hohum
Troc
Patent Examining
The USPTO suffers because their database is badly organized and complex to search... The European Patent Office (EPO) have access, internally, to no only their own patent database, but also pretty well every major scientific publication on record and other data.
When a patent application is presented, a search is undertaken, looking at everything, not just previous patent data to see if there is any prior art whatsoever. I' not sure about the States, but I would hope it would be the same. If not, it would explain why the USPTO keep awarding crap patents.
Troc
PS I'm not a patent examiner, but I might be in a month or two. The EPO, where I'd be working actively searches and expects their examiners to submit more data to theie databases on a regular basis to aviod the problems we seem to be seeing in the US these days.
Dunno
I think "egodammed" could be a new concept..
Cue man huddled in corner wearing the ragged remains of an expensive armani suit, Italian shoes with holes in the soles and a placard with 'unfashionable and homeless' scrawled upon it with the dieing ink from a Mont Blanc pen....
Girl asks her dad as they walk by "what happened to the lawyer, daddy?"
"he's been ego-dammed"
Troc
Heh... problem with hacking too, you could lure them down with food or whatever (or just catch them whilst asleep during long distance IP) read the message and let them go - or even change said message - and nobody would know.
I guess you could rig the package to explode if tampered with. Maybe for long distance, we could use a modified avian carrier such as an albatross.
Troc
Great, someone ate the packets again.
African or European Packet?
Well that's because it's a good way to solve that particular problem.
With a pretty clever gripper if you ask me.... plus some fancy driving thus indicating some good cooperation between humans and their creations.
If you think you could do better - then enter yourself next time. I mean, yes all the rockets were flippin ESTES model rockets with addons but next year they'll have been developed etc etc. We are at the begining of development of this kind of thing (the affordable, small, designed by small groups on a budget) and it's going to take a while for robots of this nature to mature.
Just look at Robot Wars and the quality of the robots now compared with the first series.
Troc.