Currently, the quality and definition of LCD screens and LCD chips used in projectors is due to the fact that the driver circuitry for each cell is in the area around the cell. And the yeild for both is limited by not having redundant driver circuitry for each cell. If these transistors truely are transparent, does this mean that the driver circuitry could be in the middle of each cell, and the area between each cell could be reduced to a bare minimum? And does this mean that they could have additional circuirty so the cells could be self-healing and could eliminate both "burned on" and "burned off" pixels?
I saw it in Atlanta and was very pleased with the performance.
You were lucky enough to either see it in a proper concert hall, with an orchestra that cared enough to rehearse throughly, or both. My wife and I were very excited to be there, and were sorely disappointed. I doubt we'll ever attend that sort of concert again.
I paid $150 for two tickets to "The Music of the Lord of the Rings", and it was a major disappointment. The orchestra was under-rehearsed, with several noticable flubbed notes and a lifeless performance. But mainly the evening was disappointing because it was in a crappy venue, the Auditorium Theater. It looks great, but there was no shell behind the orchestra, and the sound was weak. A 120 piece orchestra should have the ability to get loud at moments, and the crappy venue robbed me of that experience. The whole show lacked the dynamics of the film score. If the show had been in Orchestra Hall or the Chicago Opera House, or if the cheap bastards who put on the show had bothered to rent a bandshell, it would have been a lot better.
So be careful. This sounds like the old cash-in. You're going to hear a second-string orchestra with maybe one full rehersal of the material, in a acoustically dead venue designed for amplified music playing music they couldn't give a shit about.
Read "Heart of a Soldier", James B. Stewart's biography of Rick Rescorla, head of security for Morgan Stanley, who died in the collapse of the WTC, after getting everyone in the company safely out of the building. Rescorla's best friend Daniel Hill had written a paper for the US government proposing using a plane to attack a building years before. It's a great and deeply moving read.
References to computer network infrastructure as "cyber" sound very amateur to me.1995 already happened. Could we please get an adult vocabulary and start talking about serious subjects with maturity?
I'd imagine that a lot of people are very interested in "cyber" security - like insuring the person they are cybering with is actually the sex they claim to be. Especially when they are using an adult vocabulary.
Smart designers invented the Fortwo's main style and safety feature: a bulky steel cell, visible inside and out, that frames the passenger compartment like a roll cage and absorbs the shock of a head-on collision. What happens if some Detroit-engineered behemoth plows into the featherweight Fortwo? I got a pretty good idea, watching a Smart-sponsored crash test with a Mercedes E-Class: The big sedan crumpled, and the Fortwo ricocheted.
Ricocheted!
Personally, I'd prefer a car that can actually bounce when slammed into by some cretin piloting some huge land barge. The truth is that this car, being so much smaller, closer to the ground and with the driver nearer to the front, is likely to be the safest car on the road. The principle cause of car crashes is not some inherant safety factor of the car, but driver error. And being up away from the road, isolated from the driver in front of you by a couple of yards of hood makes one a far less safe driver. The belief that one is safe makes one more reckless.
Yes but that mouse costs from 100 to 200 dollars. This is much much cheaper.
The patent has expired...so, other than inertia, there is little reason to buy Wacom's version. I've seen "Wacom style" tablets selling for as little as $39. All we need now is a standard set of drivers for us to have universal support in all software. Tablets and pens are so enjoyable to use. I used to do most of my 3D modeling with a Wacom pen; it is a lot easier on the wrist than a mouse, causing a LOT less strain. I'd bet a lot of gamers will discover the joys of pen tablets if games started supporting them, especially the pressure and angle features.
For a vodkaphile on a budget nothing beats pearl vodka, it's smoother than Grey Goose and costs only ~$20/750ml
"Home Theater" magazine has a regular food and drink column, and one time they did a blind taste test of vodkas. To their shock and horror, cheap-ass Gordon's in the plastic jug came out on top of all the pricy vodkas. Armed with this knowledge and an empty Stoli bottle, I was able to fool a friend who was a vodka snob. He never knew his was drinking the cheap stuff.
Yea, I noticed those too.. They always seem to put them into the action scenes. What a horrible way to deter bootlegs.
It's like the "pop-up" commercials in the middle of TV shows these days - they'll do it until people stop watching. The dots are put on there by burning each print with a laser, and each individual print has a different pattern. The idea is that they can track which print was used to make a copy. Of course this is moronic, as the dots are large enough to be noticable even in a crappy, VCD resolution, copy made with a camcorder in the theater. So any pirate group worth their salt will take a few minutes to clone-paint out the dots with a pirate copy of a tool like Combustion.
Silly, silly Hollywood movie studio executives!
Note: I see at least 100 films a year in the theater, so I'm a good example of the sort of person that the studios really ought not piss off.
Anyone else notice the "cigarette burns" in the upper right corner were green "Incredible" logos?
No, but I did notice that this film had the usual moronic Deluxe print red dots at several points. It's part of the MPAA's "customer annoyance" program.
I'm surprised that no one has yet called out the voice performance by Brad Bird doing the fashionista Edna "E" Mode. Her lines, interactions with Mr/Mrs I, and her demonstration of the dangers of capes were, IMHO, the funniest lines in the movie.
I have to see it again, just for Edna. She's based on the famous Hollywood costume designer Edith Head (471 films credited on IMDB!). Most of her best lines are throwaways, like her annoyance at not being able to design for superheros anymore - just supermodels - "There's nothing super about them, darling!" There's also a little bit of Elsa Klench and Gloria Vanderbilt thrown in as well.
Re-reading what I just wrote, I feel compelled to note that I am, in fact, a hetrosexual male.
It's gonna play hell with the voting schedule when each voting machine is disassembled randomly by voters who want to verify the machine is doing the right thing.
The real security would be something more like mutual distrust: The various party's representatives would have the right to verify the PROMs in randomly selected machines, each suspecting the other of dirty tricks. It has to be easier to find people skilled enough to verify the checksum of a PROM than to make sure the old lever voting machines are working properly.
Actually, though, the code on the machine doesn't matter one bit if the voter can see that the printed ballot has the right selections on it, and if that piece of paper is the authoritative record. Voter-verifiable paper trail... that's the real answer.
Having a paper recept that the voter can check is part of the answer, agreed. But there are so many other places where the vote can be rigged after that. Personally, I'd love to see the Australian open source voting software (I forget the name) mandated by Congress.
And how do you verify that the dump you just got from the machine was actually a dump of the code running on the machine and not just a dump from some backup partition made to look like the real thing?
By taking the actual machines apart and confirming the hardware design. By putting all the software on a PROM and tracking every step of the process of burning the PROM, and putting it into the machine. Look, they have been able to track all this using the old lever machines. It's easy enough.
Could it be that Mozilla's plans to put on a large ad in the NY Times has caused the paper to be more open-source friendly/aware?
I doubt that a single page, one-time ad could sway editoral content of the New York Times. If that was the case, every movie review would be a rave. It might have brought the validity of open source to a particular writer's attention, but it's not as if open source hasn't been in the news for a number of years.
* This is, BTW, the most compelling argument I've seen against Bush thus far. As an Atheist, that much God-stuff in the White House is scary shit. But then...Kerry has done nothing to suggest he's any different.
Kerry is a practicing Catholic...who is pro-choice. That is a very strong indicator that he is a man of his own mind and doesn't support a particular position just because his church says so. I find that very reassuring.
...or my sister: "I'm voting the way my husband votes." (and you thought the Taliban had been driven out of power)
I'm in Kansas at the moment, and I have to admit that I have yet to hear a single impassioned defense of Bush's record from any Republican I'm talked to. I find that heartening. But most of the Republicans I've talked to who are supporting Bush are doing so for one reason - they are actually wealthy enough that they benefited from Bush's tax cut. And even some of the (wealthy doctors) are iffy on him.
Suppose for a moment that Prince Harry prefers men with guns...
Well, that's even better for him then, eh? I wouldn't worry though...it's not like he joined the Navy or anything.
"You say that I am ignoring the time-honored traditions of the Royal Navy? And what might they be? I shall tell you in three words: rum, buggery and the lash! Good morning, sirs!"
for the first 2 LotR movies, the DVD versions are in my opinion far superior, but I don't know if I could have sat through either in a cinema.
My wife and I did and we loved it. Trilogy Tuesday, we were able to see the extended versions of The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers before the premiere of The Return of the King. Most people would think you'd have to be insane to want to spend 12 hours in a theater. Luckliy, none of those people were there in the theater with us. It was our 21st anniversary, and we spent it in the company of 400 other people who loved the same thing we did. Best audience I've ever seen a movie with.
I wish they'd promote the DVD release by doing it again this year and show all three extended films in a row. I'd happily pay $50 a ticket for the privilege.
The thing is, Al does NOT have to ask permission, any more than the morning shock jocks who do parody songs have to ask permission. He just has to pay the copyright fee necessary to record the original song. Al asks permission because Al is a really nice guy. (Horrible shame about what happened to his parents.)
In the case of the DFC, the guy who ran it on Spinnwebe actually talked to Bil Keene and decided to take it down rather than fight to keep it up.
I remember, and it was a damn shame. Spinn could have had an impact on the future of free expression, but he just didn't have the stomach for it. If I remember correctly, it was mainly because Keene made the case that this wasn't just any cartoon family, this was his wife and kids.
Just goes to show you lawyers aren't always the answer.
True, but the question has to make it all the way to the Supreme Court to be answered once and for all. They have stated that we can use as much of the orignal material as needed, but no more, for the purpose of parody. In the case of the DFC, it required the orignal sappy cartoon be re-contextualized with new captions that turned Keene's cliche'd suburban world view on it's head. "Bil Keene vs. Spinnwebe" would have established that right, and we would be able to see an evening of "Star Wars" movies with new, hopefully funny, soundtracks.
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Currently, the quality and definition of LCD screens and LCD chips used in projectors is due to the fact that the driver circuitry for each cell is in the area around the cell. And the yeild for both is limited by not having redundant driver circuitry for each cell. If these transistors truely are transparent, does this mean that the driver circuitry could be in the middle of each cell, and the area between each cell could be reduced to a bare minimum? And does this mean that they could have additional circuirty so the cells could be self-healing and could eliminate both "burned on" and "burned off" pixels?
The things men do when there are not enough women around. I guess it keeps his hands from going crazy on those long alaskan nights.
Yeah, but does it fix the problem with system panics when resuming from Sleep mode? I understand that it's an ATI driver issue.
You were lucky enough to either see it in a proper concert hall, with an orchestra that cared enough to rehearse throughly, or both. My wife and I were very excited to be there, and were sorely disappointed. I doubt we'll ever attend that sort of concert again.
I paid $150 for two tickets to "The Music of the Lord of the Rings", and it was a major disappointment. The orchestra was under-rehearsed, with several noticable flubbed notes and a lifeless performance. But mainly the evening was disappointing because it was in a crappy venue, the Auditorium Theater. It looks great, but there was no shell behind the orchestra, and the sound was weak. A 120 piece orchestra should have the ability to get loud at moments, and the crappy venue robbed me of that experience. The whole show lacked the dynamics of the film score. If the show had been in Orchestra Hall or the Chicago Opera House, or if the cheap bastards who put on the show had bothered to rent a bandshell, it would have been a lot better.
So be careful. This sounds like the old cash-in. You're going to hear a second-string orchestra with maybe one full rehersal of the material, in a acoustically dead venue designed for amplified music playing music they couldn't give a shit about.
Read "Heart of a Soldier", James B. Stewart's biography of Rick Rescorla, head of security for Morgan Stanley, who died in the collapse of the WTC, after getting everyone in the company safely out of the building. Rescorla's best friend Daniel Hill had written a paper for the US government proposing using a plane to attack a building years before. It's a great and deeply moving read.
I'd imagine that a lot of people are very interested in "cyber" security - like insuring the person they are cybering with is actually the sex they claim to be. Especially when they are using an adult vocabulary.
It's easy enough to imagine. The Wired story says this:
Ricocheted!
Personally, I'd prefer a car that can actually bounce when slammed into by some cretin piloting some huge land barge. The truth is that this car, being so much smaller, closer to the ground and with the driver nearer to the front, is likely to be the safest car on the road. The principle cause of car crashes is not some inherant safety factor of the car, but driver error. And being up away from the road, isolated from the driver in front of you by a couple of yards of hood makes one a far less safe driver. The belief that one is safe makes one more reckless.The patent has expired...so, other than inertia, there is little reason to buy Wacom's version. I've seen "Wacom style" tablets selling for as little as $39. All we need now is a standard set of drivers for us to have universal support in all software. Tablets and pens are so enjoyable to use. I used to do most of my 3D modeling with a Wacom pen; it is a lot easier on the wrist than a mouse, causing a LOT less strain. I'd bet a lot of gamers will discover the joys of pen tablets if games started supporting them, especially the pressure and angle features.
"Home Theater" magazine has a regular food and drink column, and one time they did a blind taste test of vodkas. To their shock and horror, cheap-ass Gordon's in the plastic jug came out on top of all the pricy vodkas. Armed with this knowledge and an empty Stoli bottle, I was able to fool a friend who was a vodka snob. He never knew his was drinking the cheap stuff.
It's like the "pop-up" commercials in the middle of TV shows these days - they'll do it until people stop watching. The dots are put on there by burning each print with a laser, and each individual print has a different pattern. The idea is that they can track which print was used to make a copy. Of course this is moronic, as the dots are large enough to be noticable even in a crappy, VCD resolution, copy made with a camcorder in the theater. So any pirate group worth their salt will take a few minutes to clone-paint out the dots with a pirate copy of a tool like Combustion.
Silly, silly Hollywood movie studio executives!
Note: I see at least 100 films a year in the theater, so I'm a good example of the sort of person that the studios really ought not piss off.
No, but I did notice that this film had the usual moronic Deluxe print red dots at several points. It's part of the MPAA's "customer annoyance" program.
I have to see it again, just for Edna. She's based on the famous Hollywood costume designer Edith Head (471 films credited on IMDB!). Most of her best lines are throwaways, like her annoyance at not being able to design for superheros anymore - just supermodels - "There's nothing super about them, darling!" There's also a little bit of Elsa Klench and Gloria Vanderbilt thrown in as well.
Re-reading what I just wrote, I feel compelled to note that I am, in fact, a hetrosexual male.
The real security would be something more like mutual distrust: The various party's representatives would have the right to verify the PROMs in randomly selected machines, each suspecting the other of dirty tricks. It has to be easier to find people skilled enough to verify the checksum of a PROM than to make sure the old lever voting machines are working properly.
Having a paper recept that the voter can check is part of the answer, agreed. But there are so many other places where the vote can be rigged after that. Personally, I'd love to see the Australian open source voting software (I forget the name) mandated by Congress.
By taking the actual machines apart and confirming the hardware design. By putting all the software on a PROM and tracking every step of the process of burning the PROM, and putting it into the machine. Look, they have been able to track all this using the old lever machines. It's easy enough.
I doubt that a single page, one-time ad could sway editoral content of the New York Times. If that was the case, every movie review would be a rave. It might have brought the validity of open source to a particular writer's attention, but it's not as if open source hasn't been in the news for a number of years.
Kerry is a practicing Catholic...who is pro-choice. That is a very strong indicator that he is a man of his own mind and doesn't support a particular position just because his church says so. I find that very reassuring.
...or my sister: "I'm voting the way my husband votes." (and you thought the Taliban had been driven out of power)
I'm in Kansas at the moment, and I have to admit that I have yet to hear a single impassioned defense of Bush's record from any Republican I'm talked to. I find that heartening. But most of the Republicans I've talked to who are supporting Bush are doing so for one reason - they are actually wealthy enough that they benefited from Bush's tax cut. And even some of the (wealthy doctors) are iffy on him.
Well, that's even better for him then, eh? I wouldn't worry though...it's not like he joined the Navy or anything.
"You say that I am ignoring the time-honored traditions of the Royal Navy? And what might they be? I shall tell you in three words: rum, buggery and the lash! Good morning, sirs!"
-Winston Churchill addressing the Sea Lords, 1912
Prince Harry's apparently figured it out. He's joining the Army. Hard to be swamped by teenage girls when you're already surrounded by men with guns.
Anyone have experience with a dual-layer drive and a G5? Are the drivers there? Does Toast support them?
My wife and I did and we loved it. Trilogy Tuesday, we were able to see the extended versions of The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers before the premiere of The Return of the King. Most people would think you'd have to be insane to want to spend 12 hours in a theater. Luckliy, none of those people were there in the theater with us. It was our 21st anniversary, and we spent it in the company of 400 other people who loved the same thing we did. Best audience I've ever seen a movie with.
I wish they'd promote the DVD release by doing it again this year and show all three extended films in a row. I'd happily pay $50 a ticket for the privilege.
I have nothing but pity for those poor schmoes who still measure their TV set in inches.
The thing is, Al does NOT have to ask permission, any more than the morning shock jocks who do parody songs have to ask permission. He just has to pay the copyright fee necessary to record the original song. Al asks permission because Al is a really nice guy. (Horrible shame about what happened to his parents.)
I remember, and it was a damn shame. Spinn could have had an impact on the future of free expression, but he just didn't have the stomach for it. If I remember correctly, it was mainly because Keene made the case that this wasn't just any cartoon family, this was his wife and kids.
True, but the question has to make it all the way to the Supreme Court to be answered once and for all. They have stated that we can use as much of the orignal material as needed, but no more, for the purpose of parody. In the case of the DFC, it required the orignal sappy cartoon be re-contextualized with new captions that turned Keene's cliche'd suburban world view on it's head. "Bil Keene vs. Spinnwebe" would have established that right, and we would be able to see an evening of "Star Wars" movies with new, hopefully funny, soundtracks.