Sure, it's a lot more expensive, but there's dedicated camera systems that'll do a million frames per second - and more.
One of the bigger problems, especially with this 'array', though has been noted above : exposure time. This might be correctible post-shooting, though. As each frame's exposure will overlap the next, whatever is similar in both could be presumed a no-motion area. Gets quite tricky, though.
And of course the array posted about has parallax issues, etc. etc.
Here's a fun high-end-ish camera: http://www.cordin.com/productsie.html
The 510 at 25,000,000 fps for example. Only captures 48 frames, but that should be enough for something fun... Light travels at ~300,000,000m/s In the delta between frames*, light should thus travel 12 meters. Over 48 frames, it should travel 576 meters.
In other words... if you set this camera up, hooked the shutter to a flash so that the flash fires the exact moment the camera starts its run, then you should be able to see the light travel down, say, a hallway. Better yet...if the flash is short enough, you should see a 'shelled sphere' sort of shape pass through the hallway, and bounced light bounce off the walls to other objects where the direct light from the flash wouldn't reach.
Can't say I've seen any real-life animations of this, though. There's a few temporal raytracers that can do this.
* again: exposure time means there's some blurring. You don't take a picture of a single moment in time. If you did, you would likely get no picture at all as no photon / electron / film-state change would occur to be recorded.
Asteroid: Any of numerous small celestial bodies that revolve around the sun, with orbits lying chiefly between Mars and Jupiter and characteristic diameters between a few and several hundred kilometers. Also called minor planet, planetoid. I.E. still in space and orbiting.
Meteor: A bright trail or streak that appears in the sky when a meteoroid is heated to incandescence by friction with the earth's atmosphere. Also called falling star, meteor burst, shooting star. I.E. that which is shooting through the atmosphere, heating it and itself up in the process due to friction.
Meteoroid: A solid body, moving in space, that is smaller than an asteroid and at least as large as a speck of dust. I.E. still in space, not necessarily orbiting, smaller than an Asteroid. I think you meant this one.
Meteorite: A stony or metallic mass of matter that has fallen to the earth's surface from outer space. I.E. Fallen onto the Earth. It's what you may find if you're either lucky, or very observant.
So just to conclude.. this is indeed a Meteoroid, as it's not big enough to actually be an Asteroid. But it's more fun to say, and less confusing to the masses - especially the Nintendo owners out there.
What people "don't get", for a large part, is this:
Microsoft has been developing Windows with a media player included since the days of Windows 3.1 . The media player was an installation option wich was on by default, and you could only not install it by explicitly going for a custom install and looking throgh the menus to disable the checkbox.
Given the above, I think it's been established that Microsoft has been shipping Windows + media player for a very, very long time.
Now only recently, Microsoft has been convicted of being a monopoly. Fair enough.
However, under this new monopoly labeling, they are not allowed to ship a media player along with their OS, despite this media player having been there for many, many years.
Users of Windows 3.1 went to 95, to 98, to XP and have always found a trusty media player to play back music and video with. Now, all of a sudden, they may find themselves having Windows XPstripped, and there is no longer a media player. MS could just add a link to it on the web, but I'm assuming that would be found to be just as illegal - they'd then have to link to other mediaplayers as well and etc. etc.
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Now here's Apple. Apple have been shipping Quicktime with their OS for many, many years. They are not a monopoly now, but who knows.. they may be in the future. So the question that would be posed then is : Should Apple be forced to remove Quicktime from their OS should such a conviction go through ?
Obviously the answer should be yes - but does it make sense ? I don't think so. And neither do I think it makes sense with Microsoft and their mediaplayer for Windows.
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What I feel makes this most ridiculous to begin with is the following: The claim is that QuickTime and Realmedia players don't come with Microsoft - only WMP does. As a result, they feel they are being wronged.
I could share this sentiment if, and only if, WMP actually played back QuickTime and Realmedia media files. By default it doesn't. In fact, you have to jump through several hoops to make it do so.
Yet there are literally thousands of websites which use either QuickTime (movie trailers, anyone?) or Realmedia (streaming media, lots of it). And whenever anybody visits those websites, one of two things will typically happen: 1. Browser complains it can't show the file, and the website will have a handy "Download QT/RM here!" link. 2. Browser pops up a dialog asking if you would like to download QT/RM.
The other option: 3. User thinks 'eek' and browses to a site with WMP content instead. Is a negligable occurance.
From an end-user perspective, the claims are thus absolutely ridiculous.
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If, however, they would go at it from the angle of Webmasters and such choosing Windows Media content *because* WMP ships with the #1 desktop operating system, which is made by a convicted monopoly, rather than QT/RM. Then I could understand.
Given the previous statement on the vast presence of QT/RM sites on the web, though, I don't think they'd really have much of a basis for complaining.
Just my 2 eurocents on that.
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That said - a bare Windows OS with full optionability would be cool with me. An alternative offering by OEM vendors of a Windows OS where options also offer competitors' products would, too, be cool with me. And when done, re-label the current Microsoft Windows OS to Microsoft Windows Productivity Suite, and all should be well.
DVD playing included - any 'multimedia' notebook/laptop (thus with DVD player, usually burner even) you buy that has an instant-on feature will play back the DVDs as well. If yours doesn't, check for firmware upgrades.
My acer aspire 2000 does this, and it's quite nice:)
Well that's sad for him, but what does that matter ?
He's from Norway. He probably has access to Norwegian TV channels.
He was just implying that Swedish TV Channels, or at least a subset of them anyway, do carry the show(s) he wants to see. However, he doesn't have access to them.
Since they are not even trying to get his money for the show, there's no basis whatever for any claims of monetary losses.
Okay, to cover the latter part first... If I never intended to buy a movie in the first place, and I download it, watch it, enjoy it, then there's no claims of monetary losses - right ? Riiight.
Anyway, on to the first part. You say that they're not even trying to get his money. Well, who says ?
Let's say that Paramount (they own Star Trek, yes? not sure anymore) has been trying to pimp Enterprise off to the Nordic broadcasters for the sum of Large_Amount. The Nordic broadcasters look at the figure, the amount of people who would actually watch it, and say "Uhh. no. Our subscribers / our government-sponsored income figures show that you'll have to come down on that price if you want it to be shown here."
So now here is the grandparent who goes "oi! wtf. I want to see that. *clicks on to a torrent site*.
Now... did Paramount try to get grandparent's money ? Sure they did - not directly, but indirectly through the broadcasting service for sure.
So.. if he wants to see Enterprise on TV - he should complain to his broadcasters.
If he wants the latest Enterprise on TV - he should complain to Paramount (since they, and about every other station and movie distributor, tend to want to cater to the U.S. market first, then reap as much as they can by selling an entire season of weekly shows to a foreign broadcaster, who can then make it a daily show).
Or.. he could order the DVDs from the states.(Surely he's got a region-free DVD player. Saves him a silly Nordic packaging as well.)
Anyway.. plenty of legal options available before going to illegal (yep) torrents.
Of course you can already compose the image so that whatever is of interest is in view. And when in doubt: don't zoom in.
As for the photographer in the view - well, because > 180 degree fisheye lenses cost a bundle. However, there's panoramic reflectors that allow this. And, in fact, there's a popular thing done by CG artists for a year of 2 where they take a picture of a mirror-surface ball (ballbearings work nicely), and then use a panoramic image editor/processor (such as HDRshop) to change that image into a more traditional panoramic image or virtual environment (a la PTviewer or QuickTime panoramas)
190Gb in a single image is challenging even for 'consumer' filesystems.
But anyway, the trick is not to load a 190Gb file into memory. You load a small chunk of it.
And if the chunk is small enough, you can certainly load/unload chunks as you go in order to get interactive performance.
The only time the entire image would be affected is if you are affecting the entire image - e.g. brightening the whole thing or somesuch.
If you're just zooming/panning, however, no need to address the entire image.
And yes, there's plenty of file formats which make this easy.. TIFF for example, and any RAW file even better (as any pixel location should be in a predictable location on the drive, without need for decoding)
This is the same ILM that launched the OpenEXR initiative, right ? That digital image format which allows, among other, storage of data with a dynamic range that film can't even dream about capturing ?
There's absolutely no particular need to 'compress' contrast (I suspect this means fitting the black and white point of the film in a 0.0.. 1.0 range, applying a curve (log?) to the result, to make it pretty), as they could just take a clipping from the range caught on the film. In addition, CGI can be rendered within any range you like.
As for resolution.. I'm not sure if this is a 'trade secret' at ILM, but common resolutions have always been 1k, 2k and 4k. Sometimes a company will work with 1.5k and interpolate that up to 2k for final output, just to save some time and get a softer image whilst they're at it - hey, sometimes people add 'film noise' in post, just to match stock film. eek.
Anyway, check out the OpenEXR site, log in to the downloads area, and there's a nice big StarWars shot with R2D2 and whatnot in OpenEXR format available for you*.
* though it may have been removed - I seem to recall something like that on othe openexr-announce list.
I made the switch to Thunderbird a while ago because Outlook Express kept locking up on me for unknown reasons. (That's right, not because of security issues - my OE was locked down tight. And yes, this would be on the Win32 platform.)
However, I found many issues with Thunderbird which have convinced me that although Thunderbird has more options and probably more long-term viability, it is not the better e-mail client for the average user.
I'll list some of the issues I found in 2 weeks' time, just in regular use, below.
And yes, don't worry, I'll go waste* an hour or two of my time perusing a giant bugzilla database to see if there's any previous report of the issues I encountered. Wouldn't want anybody just reporting it and have some sort of moderator just label it a dupe, after all. Even though they are probably able to tell, from memory, whether it is a dupe or not, and I have to spend a serious amount of time to find out:P ( I moderate a private Bugzilla, so I do know the issues involved. ) * waste, depending on whether the issues get addressed. I'll happily concede if a majority of users believe that how I think things should work is not the right way.
1. Mail Filters not applied to Local Folders on incoming mail. Problem: When fetching mail, the Mail Filters specified for the Local Folders group is not run automatically. Solution: Tools > Run Message Filters... manually Expected: Mail to be filtered automatically, dur.
2. Headers area does not scroll Problem: When dealing with an e-mail with a lot of headers, viewing all headers causes the header area to be sufficiently large to extend outside of the screen, and there is no scrollbar to scroll down! Solution: View > Message Source (Ctrl+U) manually Expected: I'd expect a scrollbar where scrolling is required for proper operation.
3. Message filters have no quick summary preview Problem: There is no quick way to see what a specific message filter does. Solution: Double-click the message filter or choose Edit... to see the full details Expected: See Outlook Express's Mail Rules dialog. ( yes, OE's mail rules ruleset is much more limited, but its user-friendliness is much better )
4. Cannot rename with change-of-caps only Problem: When renaming a folder, say, 'test' to, say, 'Test', the warning about a folder with that name already existing pops up. Solution: Rename to something else first, e.g. 'Test dammit', then rename to proper target, g.g. 'Test'. Expected: I'd expect to just be able to change the case of a folder without it thinking I'm making 2 folders of the same name.
5. Save dialog uses an internal variable, rather than the actual filename field, causing issues. Problem: Step1: Save an e-mail to a file called 'test' Step2: Start saving an e-mail to a file called 'test', but rather than hitting the Save button select the previous 'test' file and rename it (hit F2) to 'test2' Step3: Hit the save button Watch as Thunderbird complains how the file 'test2' already exists. Now check the filename field.. still reads 'test', right ? So it shouldn't try saving to 'test2' Solution: Go to filename field, add a character, backspace it, then hit Save. Expected: I expect whatever application to save the file under the filename I actually specify in the filename field - and not what it has stored in some variable. Note: ThunderBird isn't the only application to have this issue. Is it the use of a particular file dialog handling API ?
6. Mail imported from OE excludes 'read/unread' flag. Problem: Mail imported from OE is all unread. Solution: Means you have to go mark all of them read, and then compare with OE side-by-side to mark unread that which was actually unread. Expected: I would've expected the read/unread status to have come across properly.
7. There's no 'Stop processing any more rules/filters' option in Mail Filters. Problem: Filter A: [Message subject] contains [hello] move to
I don't know why you encapsulated that "Try" over there in quotes - unless you're implying something.
If you want to try out a game, get the demo. If there is no demo, see if you can play it at a store. If none of the above, check online reviews (not from gaming sites, but on forums) to see whether other people think it's worth it. If not - don't get it. If so, and you believe you agree, buy the game. If it turns out you still think it sucks - tough luck; you get the same problem with going to the movies / eating out at a restaurant, etc.
Explore all the above before even thinking about "Trying" out the game, which would be a fourth and least desirable option.
I think the origin is more along the same lines as that of abandoning a ship; women and children first.
Why ? Women are the ones who produce children And children still have potential full lives ahead of them Men either: - have procreated, and thus they're expendable - have not procreated, in which case they should have(?)
'tWas just an example;) Personally, I think both sides in that conflict are messed up beyond reasoning from the current generation in charge - hopefully the next will bring improvement.
( America's perpetual veto over any judgments on Israel makes their involvement, beyond the arms deals, quite obvious. )
I could similarly say that if I were a Palestinian and a crazed up female Israeli border guard decided to play target practice on me, I'd shoot them. Like I said, just an example.
Whatever AC decided to write something about 'racist' needs to get a clue, as there's no races mentioned in the first place (duh) and the nationalities are examples. Perhaps the politically correct statement would have been:
"If a man, woman, or child were to make an attempt at killing me, I would react with appropriate force - which may very well be lethal in its own right. In light of the man, woman, or child all having demonstrated an equally capable mindset of killing me, a statement including 'women and children' becomes hollow."
obligatory "I'll get flamed for this" statement aside...
What's with the age-old "they killed women and children" stuff ? In war and terror, women and children *kill*. In war and terror, women and children get killed.
If I were an Israeli borderguard and a woman strapped with explosives runs towards me, I would... kill them.
If I were a Sudan military or somesuch and a rebel child points an AK47 at me ready to fire, I would... shoot them in the legs, hopefully, but good chance I'd aim for the chest due to the larger surface area and it'd probably... kill them.
These particular 'women and children' statements are hollow when put into perspective this way, in my opinion.
Now you may not share that point of view, or you may point out that these are "innocent women and children". Perhaps or, in the case of terrorist attacks, likely so. But does that mean the men were not innocent ? Does it mean that the loss of their life is somehow not as disturbing/devastating as that of the women and children ?
Although I commend Valve for helping out should they happen to catch a user in trouble on an un-official forum, I feel that I should point out that I hope this doesn't become an expected thing.
Most developers have a support forum / e-mail where users can be helped as quickly as possible. It doesn't benefit tech support if they have to start roaming other forums. In fact, it's the proverbial slippery slope - today it's Shacknews, tomorrow it may be some more obscure forum, and next week they're hiring chinese-capable staff to start hunting down lost users on chinese forums.
Official support should certainly not be expected, but in my humble opinion not encouraged either, on un-official forums/mailing lists/etc.
Should a user still want to post in an un-official location, then the support they should expect to get is peer-support. If those peers can't resolve the issue, then the right place to go is the official support areas, rather than wondering why the developer isn't reading the thread.
Video2000@Wikipedia "Video 2000 was technically superior to both Betamax and VHS, but the format was introduced at a time when VHS had already established itself as the de facto home video standard, and failed to overturn its position."
We had Video2000 at home, and it was awesome. Very old 8hr tapes (4hr/side) are still running better than brand-new SVHS tapes. Sad.
Just for kicks, do a content search on all *.wav files on your drive, searching for the string 'deepz0ne'.
You may run across more hits. That doesn't necessarily mean that the author of the software they came with used a cracked copy of SoundForge.
For example, the Digital Eel game "Dr. Blob's Organism" demo has the deepz0ne string in "powerdn.wav", but doesn't have it in any of the others. That makes me think they probably just grabbed a sound effect off of a (presumably) royalty-free sound effects library (CD/DVD/online), and that particular sound effect happened to be authored or modified in a warez version of SoundForge.
Similarly the mediaplayer sounds... whose are they, really ? Were they authored/modified by an MS Employee ? If not - where does MS's responsibility come in ? Do -you- check every asset you acquire in good faith belief to see if they may have been touched by a cracked piece of software ?
Not really... all digital cameras have an infrared filter built-in. Some even allow them to be flicked away (SONY's NightShot stuff). However, these filters are only effective enough to not get a bunch of IR wash over your image. It will still react to a remote's IR emitter. Let alone using nice and strong IR emitters and projecting those onto the movie screen. You'd need very strong, or a series, of IR filters in front of your camera.
I think the TOS has more specific wording, such as it being against the TOS to download copyright protected works where explicit permission is required. Websites, Slashdot comments, etc. give you an implicit permission to download (making a copy, in a way) and keep for your own perusal, the works portrayed. They do not, however, give you an implicit permission to grab their work and use it yourself. (e.g. downloading a nice image from a website and using it on your own website, without making sure you're allowed to use that image.) That sort of permission is explicit.
Anyway, you probably knew this, and it can be summarized to one thing: Act in the spirit, not the letter, of the law/TOS/etc.
The appropriate people are the ones breaking the law. Not the ones making it possible to. This is the very base reasoning behind saying that P2P apps aren't illegal, the users 'abusing' them are the ones comitting illegal acts.
You can't apply this reasoning at will where it best suits your purposes/beliefs.
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Are you talking about a copyright flag a la broadcasts, or about Macrovision copy protection flag a la VHS and many DVDs ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrovision
Okay.. Ham Radio is dead, right ?
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And you say this 2 days after the Slashdot article entitled
Ham Radio Served as Main Link to Disaster Area
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/02/23432
That's a quick death it died after having proved that it's still worth having as an alternative.
Sure, it's a lot more expensive, but there's dedicated camera systems that'll do a million frames per second - and more.
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One of the bigger problems, especially with this 'array', though has been noted above : exposure time.
This might be correctible post-shooting, though. As each frame's exposure will overlap the next, whatever is similar in both could be presumed a no-motion area. Gets quite tricky, though.
And of course the array posted about has parallax issues, etc. etc.
Here's a fun high-end-ish camera
http://www.cordin.com/productsie.html
The 510 at 25,000,000 fps for example. Only captures 48 frames, but that should be enough for something fun...
Light travels at ~300,000,000m/s
In the delta between frames*, light should thus travel 12 meters.
Over 48 frames, it should travel 576 meters.
In other words... if you set this camera up, hooked the shutter to a flash so that the flash fires the exact moment the camera starts its run, then you should be able to see the light travel down, say, a hallway.
Better yet...if the flash is short enough, you should see a 'shelled sphere' sort of shape pass through the hallway, and bounced light bounce off the walls to other objects where the direct light from the flash wouldn't reach.
Can't say I've seen any real-life animations of this, though. There's a few temporal raytracers that can do this.
* again: exposure time means there's some blurring. You don't take a picture of a single moment in time. If you did, you would likely get no picture at all as no photon / electron / film-state change would occur to be recorded.
Okay, it's cool. However, it may not be the best pick if you want to offload pictures from your camera / camera's card.
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There's lots more options here
http://fhoude34.free.fr/PortableHD_Main.htm
Most are going to be a good bit bigger, but have more functionality as well.
Just to correct something...
Asteroid:
Any of numerous small celestial bodies that revolve around the sun, with orbits lying chiefly between Mars and Jupiter and characteristic diameters between a few and several hundred kilometers. Also called minor planet, planetoid.
I.E. still in space and orbiting.
Meteor:
A bright trail or streak that appears in the sky when a meteoroid is heated to incandescence by friction with the earth's atmosphere. Also called falling star, meteor burst, shooting star.
I.E. that which is shooting through the atmosphere, heating it and itself up in the process due to friction.
Meteoroid:
A solid body, moving in space, that is smaller than an asteroid and at least as large as a speck of dust.
I.E. still in space, not necessarily orbiting, smaller than an Asteroid. I think you meant this one.
Meteorite:
A stony or metallic mass of matter that has fallen to the earth's surface from outer space.
I.E. Fallen onto the Earth. It's what you may find if you're either lucky, or very observant.
So just to conclude.. this is indeed a Meteoroid, as it's not big enough to actually be an Asteroid. But it's more fun to say, and less confusing to the masses - especially the Nintendo owners out there.
What people "don't get", for a large part, is this :
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Microsoft has been developing Windows with a media player included since the days of Windows 3.1 . The media player was an installation option wich was on by default, and you could only not install it by explicitly going for a custom install and looking throgh the menus to disable the checkbox.
Given the above, I think it's been established that Microsoft has been shipping Windows + media player for a very, very long time.
Now only recently, Microsoft has been convicted of being a monopoly. Fair enough.
However, under this new monopoly labeling, they are not allowed to ship a media player along with their OS, despite this media player having been there for many, many years.
Users of Windows 3.1 went to 95, to 98, to XP and have always found a trusty media player to play back music and video with.
Now, all of a sudden, they may find themselves having Windows XPstripped, and there is no longer a media player. MS could just add a link to it on the web, but I'm assuming that would be found to be just as illegal - they'd then have to link to other mediaplayers as well and etc. etc.
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Now here's Apple. Apple have been shipping Quicktime with their OS for many, many years. They are not a monopoly now, but who knows.. they may be in the future.
So the question that would be posed then is : Should Apple be forced to remove Quicktime from their OS should such a conviction go through ?
Obviously the answer should be yes - but does it make sense ? I don't think so.
And neither do I think it makes sense with Microsoft and their mediaplayer for Windows.
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What I feel makes this most ridiculous to begin with is the following
The claim is that QuickTime and Realmedia players don't come with Microsoft - only WMP does. As a result, they feel they are being wronged.
I could share this sentiment if, and only if, WMP actually played back QuickTime and Realmedia media files. By default it doesn't. In fact, you have to jump through several hoops to make it do so.
Yet there are literally thousands of websites which use either QuickTime (movie trailers, anyone?) or Realmedia (streaming media, lots of it).
And whenever anybody visits those websites, one of two things will typically happen
1. Browser complains it can't show the file, and the website will have a handy "Download QT/RM here!" link.
2. Browser pops up a dialog asking if you would like to download QT/RM.
The other option
3. User thinks 'eek' and browses to a site with WMP content instead.
Is a negligable occurance.
From an end-user perspective, the claims are thus absolutely ridiculous.
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If, however, they would go at it from the angle of Webmasters and such choosing Windows Media content *because* WMP ships with the #1 desktop operating system, which is made by a convicted monopoly, rather than QT/RM. Then I could understand.
Given the previous statement on the vast presence of QT/RM sites on the web, though, I don't think they'd really have much of a basis for complaining.
Just my 2 eurocents on that.
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That said - a bare Windows OS with full optionability would be cool with me. An alternative offering by OEM vendors of a Windows OS where options also offer competitors' products would, too, be cool with me.
And when done, re-label the current Microsoft Windows OS to Microsoft Windows Productivity Suite, and all should be well.
DVD playing included - any 'multimedia' notebook/laptop (thus with DVD player, usually burner even) you buy that has an instant-on feature will play back the DVDs as well. If yours doesn't, check for firmware upgrades.
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My acer aspire 2000 does this, and it's quite nice
Well that's sad for him, but what does that matter ?
He's from Norway. He probably has access to Norwegian TV channels.
He was just implying that Swedish TV Channels, or at least a subset of them anyway, do carry the show(s) he wants to see. However, he doesn't have access to them.
Okay, to cover the latter part first...
If I never intended to buy a movie in the first place, and I download it, watch it, enjoy it, then there's no claims of monetary losses - right ? Riiight.
Anyway, on to the first part. You say that they're not even trying to get his money. Well, who says ?
Let's say that Paramount (they own Star Trek, yes? not sure anymore) has been trying to pimp Enterprise off to the Nordic broadcasters for the sum of Large_Amount. The Nordic broadcasters look at the figure, the amount of people who would actually watch it, and say "Uhh. no. Our subscribers / our government-sponsored income figures show that you'll have to come down on that price if you want it to be shown here."
So now here is the grandparent who goes "oi! wtf. I want to see that. *clicks on to a torrent site*.
Now... did Paramount try to get grandparent's money ? Sure they did - not directly, but indirectly through the broadcasting service for sure.
So.. if he wants to see Enterprise on TV - he should complain to his broadcasters.
If he wants the latest Enterprise on TV - he should complain to Paramount (since they, and about every other station and movie distributor, tend to want to cater to the U.S. market first, then reap as much as they can by selling an entire season of weekly shows to a foreign broadcaster, who can then make it a daily show).
Or.. he could order the DVDs from the states.(Surely he's got a region-free DVD player. Saves him a silly Nordic packaging as well.)
Anyway.. plenty of legal options available before going to illegal (yep) torrents.
ish.. more TLDs.. *gag*
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oh well, updated anyway
http://www.pointzero.nl/dump/domains.xml
( don't nag about well-formedness, it's for simple parsing only )
Of course you can already compose the image so that whatever is of interest is in view. And when in doubt: don't zoom in.
As for the photographer in the view - well, because > 180 degree fisheye lenses cost a bundle.
However, there's panoramic reflectors that allow this.
And, in fact, there's a popular thing done by CG artists for a year of 2 where they take a picture of a mirror-surface ball (ballbearings work nicely), and then use a panoramic image editor/processor (such as HDRshop) to change that image into a more traditional panoramic image or virtual environment (a la PTviewer or QuickTime panoramas)
190Gb in a single image is challenging even for 'consumer' filesystems.
But anyway, the trick is not to load a 190Gb file into memory. You load a small chunk of it.
And if the chunk is small enough, you can certainly load/unload chunks as you go in order to get interactive performance.
The only time the entire image would be affected is if you are affecting the entire image - e.g. brightening the whole thing or somesuch.
If you're just zooming/panning, however, no need to address the entire image.
And yes, there's plenty of file formats which make this easy.. TIFF for example, and any RAW file even better (as any pixel location should be in a predictable location on the drive, without need for decoding)
This is the same ILM that launched the OpenEXR initiative, right ?
.. 1.0 range, applying a curve (log?) to the result, to make it pretty), as they could just take a clipping from the range caught on the film.
That digital image format which allows, among other, storage of data with a dynamic range that film can't even dream about capturing ?
There's absolutely no particular need to 'compress' contrast (I suspect this means fitting the black and white point of the film in a 0.0
In addition, CGI can be rendered within any range you like.
As for resolution.. I'm not sure if this is a 'trade secret' at ILM, but common resolutions have always been 1k, 2k and 4k. Sometimes a company will work with 1.5k and interpolate that up to 2k for final output, just to save some time and get a softer image whilst they're at it - hey, sometimes people add 'film noise' in post, just to match stock film. eek.
Anyway, check out the OpenEXR site, log in to the downloads area, and there's a nice big StarWars shot with R2D2 and whatnot in OpenEXR format available for you*.
* though it may have been removed - I seem to recall something like that on othe openexr-announce list.
Just my 2cts.
I made the switch to Thunderbird a while ago because Outlook Express kept locking up on me for unknown reasons. (That's right, not because of security issues - my OE was locked down tight. And yes, this would be on the Win32 platform.)
:P
However, I found many issues with Thunderbird which have convinced me that although Thunderbird has more options and probably more long-term viability, it is not the better e-mail client for the average user.
I'll list some of the issues I found in 2 weeks' time, just in regular use, below.
And yes, don't worry, I'll go waste* an hour or two of my time perusing a giant bugzilla database to see if there's any previous report of the issues I encountered. Wouldn't want anybody just reporting it and have some sort of moderator just label it a dupe, after all. Even though they are probably able to tell, from memory, whether it is a dupe or not, and I have to spend a serious amount of time to find out
( I moderate a private Bugzilla, so I do know the issues involved. )
* waste, depending on whether the issues get addressed. I'll happily concede if a majority of users believe that how I think things should work is not the right way.
1. Mail Filters not applied to Local Folders on incoming mail.
Problem: When fetching mail, the Mail Filters specified for the Local Folders group is not run automatically.
Solution: Tools > Run Message Filters... manually
Expected: Mail to be filtered automatically, dur.
2. Headers area does not scroll
Problem: When dealing with an e-mail with a lot of headers, viewing all headers causes the header area to be sufficiently large to extend outside of the screen, and there is no scrollbar to scroll down!
Solution: View > Message Source (Ctrl+U) manually
Expected: I'd expect a scrollbar where scrolling is required for proper operation.
3. Message filters have no quick summary preview
Problem: There is no quick way to see what a specific message filter does.
Solution: Double-click the message filter or choose Edit... to see the full details
Expected: See Outlook Express's Mail Rules dialog.
( yes, OE's mail rules ruleset is much more limited, but its user-friendliness is much better )
4. Cannot rename with change-of-caps only
Problem: When renaming a folder, say, 'test' to, say, 'Test', the warning about a folder with that name already existing pops up.
Solution: Rename to something else first, e.g. 'Test dammit', then rename to proper target, g.g. 'Test'.
Expected: I'd expect to just be able to change the case of a folder without it thinking I'm making 2 folders of the same name.
5. Save dialog uses an internal variable, rather than the actual filename field, causing issues.
Problem:
Step1: Save an e-mail to a file called 'test'
Step2: Start saving an e-mail to a file called 'test', but rather than hitting the Save button select the previous 'test' file and rename it (hit F2) to 'test2'
Step3: Hit the save button
Watch as Thunderbird complains how the file 'test2' already exists. Now check the filename field.. still reads 'test', right ? So it shouldn't try saving to 'test2'
Solution: Go to filename field, add a character, backspace it, then hit Save.
Expected: I expect whatever application to save the file under the filename I actually specify in the filename field - and not what it has stored in some variable.
Note: ThunderBird isn't the only application to have this issue. Is it the use of a particular file dialog handling API ?
6. Mail imported from OE excludes 'read/unread' flag.
Problem: Mail imported from OE is all unread. Solution: Means you have to go mark all of them read, and then compare with OE side-by-side to mark unread that which was actually unread.
Expected: I would've expected the read/unread status to have come across properly.
7. There's no 'Stop processing any more rules/filters' option in Mail Filters.
Problem:
Filter A: [Message subject] contains [hello] move to
I don't know why you encapsulated that "Try" over there in quotes - unless you're implying something.
If you want to try out a game, get the demo.
If there is no demo, see if you can play it at a store.
If none of the above, check online reviews (not from gaming sites, but on forums) to see whether other people think it's worth it.
If not - don't get it.
If so, and you believe you agree, buy the game. If it turns out you still think it sucks - tough luck; you get the same problem with going to the movies / eating out at a restaurant, etc.
Explore all the above before even thinking about "Trying" out the game, which would be a fourth and least desirable option.
I think the origin is more along the same lines as that of abandoning a ship; women and children first.
Why ?
Women are the ones who produce children
And children still have potential full lives ahead of them
Men either:
- have procreated, and thus they're expendable
- have not procreated, in which case they should have(?)
'tWas just an example ;) Personally, I think both sides in that conflict are messed up beyond reasoning from the current generation in charge - hopefully the next will bring improvement.
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( America's perpetual veto over any judgments on Israel makes their involvement, beyond the arms deals, quite obvious. )
I could similarly say that if I were a Palestinian and a crazed up female Israeli border guard decided to play target practice on me, I'd shoot them.
Like I said, just an example.
Whatever AC decided to write something about 'racist' needs to get a clue, as there's no races mentioned in the first place (duh) and the nationalities are examples. Perhaps the politically correct statement would have been
"If a man, woman, or child were to make an attempt at killing me, I would react with appropriate force - which may very well be lethal in its own right. In light of the man, woman, or child all having demonstrated an equally capable mindset of killing me, a statement including 'women and children' becomes hollow."
obligatory "I'll get flamed for this" statement aside...
What's with the age-old "they killed women and children" stuff ?
In war and terror, women and children *kill*.
In war and terror, women and children get killed.
If I were an Israeli borderguard and a woman strapped with explosives runs towards me, I would... kill them.
If I were a Sudan military or somesuch and a rebel child points an AK47 at me ready to fire, I would... shoot them in the legs, hopefully, but good chance I'd aim for the chest due to the larger surface area and it'd probably... kill them.
These particular 'women and children' statements are hollow when put into perspective this way, in my opinion.
Now you may not share that point of view, or you may point out that these are "innocent women and children". Perhaps or, in the case of terrorist attacks, likely so. But does that mean the men were not innocent ? Does it mean that the loss of their life is somehow not as disturbing/devastating as that of the women and children ?
Just my thoughts...
Although I commend Valve for helping out should they happen to catch a user in trouble on an un-official forum, I feel that I should point out that I hope this doesn't become an expected thing.
Most developers have a support forum / e-mail where users can be helped as quickly as possible. It doesn't benefit tech support if they have to start roaming other forums. In fact, it's the proverbial slippery slope - today it's Shacknews, tomorrow it may be some more obscure forum, and next week they're hiring chinese-capable staff to start hunting down lost users on chinese forums.
Official support should certainly not be expected, but in my humble opinion not encouraged either, on un-official forums/mailing lists/etc.
Should a user still want to post in an un-official location, then the support they should expect to get is peer-support. If those peers can't resolve the issue, then the right place to go is the official support areas, rather than wondering why the developer isn't reading the thread.
Just my 2 cts, as I've been there.
Video2000@Wikipedia
"Video 2000 was technically superior to both Betamax and VHS, but the format was introduced at a time when VHS had already established itself as the de facto home video standard, and failed to overturn its position."
We had Video2000 at home, and it was awesome. Very old 8hr tapes (4hr/side) are still running better than brand-new SVHS tapes. Sad.
Beta, psha.
Just for kicks, do a content search on all *.wav files on your drive, searching for the string 'deepz0ne'.
You may run across more hits. That doesn't necessarily mean that the author of the software they came with used a cracked copy of SoundForge.
For example, the Digital Eel game "Dr. Blob's Organism" demo has the deepz0ne string in "powerdn.wav", but doesn't have it in any of the others. That makes me think they probably just grabbed a sound effect off of a (presumably) royalty-free sound effects library (CD/DVD/online), and that particular sound effect happened to be authored or modified in a warez version of SoundForge.
Similarly the mediaplayer sounds... whose are they, really ? Were they authored/modified by an MS Employee ? If not - where does MS's responsibility come in ? Do -you- check every asset you acquire in good faith belief to see if they may have been touched by a cracked piece of software ?
Not really... all digital cameras have an infrared filter built-in. Some even allow them to be flicked away (SONY's NightShot stuff).
However, these filters are only effective enough to not get a bunch of IR wash over your image. It will still react to a remote's IR emitter. Let alone using nice and strong IR emitters and projecting those onto the movie screen.
You'd need very strong, or a series, of IR filters in front of your camera.
I think the TOS has more specific wording, such as it being against the TOS to download copyright protected works where explicit permission is required.
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Websites, Slashdot comments, etc. give you an implicit permission to download (making a copy, in a way) and keep for your own perusal, the works portrayed.
They do not, however, give you an implicit permission to grab their work and use it yourself.
(e.g. downloading a nice image from a website and using it on your own website, without making sure you're allowed to use that image.)
That sort of permission is explicit.
Anyway, you probably knew this, and it can be summarized to one thing
Act in the spirit, not the letter, of the law/TOS/etc.
Theheck?
The appropriate people are the ones breaking the law. Not the ones making it possible to.
This is the very base reasoning behind saying that P2P apps aren't illegal, the users 'abusing' them are the ones comitting illegal acts.
You can't apply this reasoning at will where it best suits your purposes/beliefs.
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