Still can't watch quicktime movies unless I'm running MacOS or Windows
because Apple wrote a license which forbids operating quicktime on
alternative platforms.
"Not only was Apple helpful with the technology issues," Graham said, "but they even changed the QuickTime license..."
Where's the blackhole and who's the whore?
>In many European countries and Japan, the >population density is much greater (2-3x)
This is true. Japan has half the population of the US (130m vs 270m) in a country roughly the size of California, in which 90% of the population lives on 10% of the land.
I think most people forget that the purpose of education isn't to teach material in a curriculum, but to teach students to learn.
I still don't have a degree yet, but I learned Pascal in high school, then went on to teach myself various other languages (including C and PHP). I worked at an ISP as a self-taught programmer for 6 months and earned a decent pay ($4k+/month) before I decided to go back to school to get a degree.
Being able to teach your self, IMHO, is especially important for programmers because of the nature of the industry. No matter what you "learned" in college, five-ten years into your career, your "knowledge" will be outdated. If you learned to learn, however, you will never be outdated.
So to get back to the main thread, what language you learned is, IMHO, inconsequential. It's just a language. Any good programmer should be able to learn a new language in at most a few weeks. There are other fields in CS that can not be mastered as easily, and any good college program should concentrate on such topics.
And for those of you who never took chemistry, H2O is water (the main content of that thing you get when you turn the tap or flush the toilet -or take a shower, if that's something you do).
I don't think CG characters will ever completely replace human actors, but they may replace many. For an example, you might have a Jim Carrey movie where all the other characters are CG. Or, as is already happening, scenes that require hordes of extras will be done in CG (like the battle scenes in The Patriot).
If you're an actor, the question is, can you be replaced by computers? Or are you good enough that even the best animators/modelers armed with the fastest computers won't be able to replace you. No offence to actors, but this might be humanity's las chance to get rid of bad actors.
Wow, where did this come from. Do you mean 30 hours per frame per CPU (even that seems a bit long)? If it took their entire render farm 30 hours to render a frame, it would take over a month to render a second of the film. The trailer would've taken 5-6 years!
"Nihongo hanashimasen" would be more accurately translated as "I don't talk Japanese". "I don't speak Japanese" should be "Nihongo shaberemasen".
On the other hand "Nihongo hanashimasen" would be more convincing as the some what off phrasing would coincide with the actual intent. "Me no English" is more convincing that "I don't speak or comprehend a word of English", isn't it?
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> Millions of innocent civilians getting fried to a crisp.
They weren't fried. Some closer to ground-zero evaporated, others melted, burned, or died slowly due to radiation.
Read "Day of Deceit" by Robert Stinett on elaborate (and apparently overwhelming) evidence supporting the "conspiracy" theory.
>>And that our major ships, that should have been
>>in dock, were strangely away.
>The carriers were conveying aircraft to reinforce two of our military island >garrisons (Wake and Midway).
In an interview Stinett says that two of the three carriers were delivering planes, one (Lexington) was out doing nothing. See:
http://www.independent.org/tii/forums/000524ipfTra ns.html#02
Being both Japanese and American (I have both passports) I can tell you that the Japanese have very different views on WW2 than the Americans in some regards.
It's true that the Japanese government hasn't yet offered official apologies to those who deserve it, and it's also true that textbooks don't give the entire truth, or may even be misleading.
But then, what is the truth? Are Americans as close to the truth as we think we are? In recent years, there's been evidence showing that we American's have been mislead too. There's evidence showing that Washington (and particularly FDR) knew that the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor, and even made things easier for them (read "Day of Deceit" by Robert Stinett). There's also evidence showing that the Japanese were preparing for surrender _before_ Hiroshima & Nagasaki were bombed, and that the US knew of this but bombed them anyway. Very few Americans know of the Tokyo raid towards the end of the war that killed around 100,000 civilians (more than were killed in Hiroshima or Nagasaki).
Unlike the Germans, who made field trips to concentration camps mandatory after the war, the Japanese do seem a little slow in admitting guilt. The US and it's allies did a great job revealing ugly facts from the defeated nations, but nobody has done so for our government. There's a whole lot of ugly records from our history burried in national archives, that may or may not ever come out. Ask your self again: could we have gotten it all wrong too?
MD recorders compress the audio data when recording, so there's obviously some quality degredation there (I've had an argument with someone once about whether MP3s or MDs had higher quality). But I'm not sure if it's for anti-piracy reasons.
I think the MD specs include two formats: rewritable formats for recording, and ROMs. ROMs are for commercial MDs where music is sold recorded on to them, like CD's (I've only seen this in Japan though). I've also heard that such ROM disks had some kind of copy-protection scheme, but that's pretty much the extent of my knowledge...
I know they do something similar in Japan. Some office buildings have huge refrigerated water tanks on top of them, and the water is cooled during the night when electricity is cheaper, and then used for air conditioning during the day. It's economical, but probably not ecological. In fact, it sounds aweful inefficient to me (isn't there a rule in thermal dynamics about how energy is lost every time it's transferred from one medium to another?).
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because Apple wrote a license which forbids operating quicktime on
alternative platforms.
How 'bout doing some research before speaking.6 /crossover_partone.html
See:
http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2001/09/0
"Not only was Apple helpful with the technology issues," Graham said, "but they even changed the QuickTime license..."
Where's the blackhole and who's the whore?
>In many European countries and Japan, the >population density is much greater (2-3x)
This is true. Japan has half the population of the US (130m vs 270m) in a country roughly the size of California, in which 90% of the population lives on 10% of the land.
I think most people forget that the purpose of education isn't to teach material in a curriculum, but to teach students to learn.
I still don't have a degree yet, but I learned Pascal in high school, then went on to teach myself various other languages (including C and PHP). I worked at an ISP as a self-taught programmer for 6 months and earned a decent pay ($4k+/month) before I decided to go back to school to get a degree.
Being able to teach your self, IMHO, is especially important for programmers because of the nature of the industry. No matter what you "learned" in college, five-ten years into your career, your "knowledge" will be outdated. If you learned to learn, however, you will never be outdated.
So to get back to the main thread, what language you learned is, IMHO, inconsequential. It's just a language. Any good programmer should be able to learn a new language in at most a few weeks. There are other fields in CS that can not be mastered as easily, and any good college program should concentrate on such topics.
And for those of you who never took chemistry, H2O is water (the main content of that thing you get when you turn the tap or flush the toilet -or take a shower, if that's something you do).
I don't think CG characters will ever completely replace human actors, but they may replace many. For an example, you might have a Jim Carrey movie where all the other characters are CG. Or, as is already happening, scenes that require hordes of extras will be done in CG (like the battle scenes in The Patriot).
If you're an actor, the question is, can you be replaced by computers? Or are you good enough that even the best animators/modelers armed with the fastest computers won't be able to replace you. No offence to actors, but this might be humanity's las chance to get rid of bad actors.
> it took them over 30 hours to render each frame
Wow, where did this come from. Do you mean 30 hours per frame per CPU (even that seems a bit long)? If it took their entire render farm 30 hours to render a frame, it would take over a month to render a second of the film. The trailer would've taken 5-6 years!
"Nihongo hanashimasen" would be more accurately translated as "I don't talk Japanese". "I don't speak Japanese" should be "Nihongo shaberemasen".
On the other hand "Nihongo hanashimasen" would be more convincing as the some what off phrasing would coincide with the actual intent. "Me no English" is more convincing that "I don't speak or comprehend a word of English", isn't it?
> Millions of innocent civilians getting fried to a crisp. They weren't fried. Some closer to ground-zero evaporated, others melted, burned, or died slowly due to radiation.
Read "Day of Deceit" by Robert Stinett on elaborate (and apparently overwhelming) evidence supporting the "conspiracy" theory. >>And that our major ships, that should have been >>in dock, were strangely away. >The carriers were conveying aircraft to reinforce two of our military island >garrisons (Wake and Midway). In an interview Stinett says that two of the three carriers were delivering planes, one (Lexington) was out doing nothing. See: http://www.independent.org/tii/forums/000524ipfTra ns.html#02
Being both Japanese and American (I have both passports) I can tell you that the Japanese have very different views on WW2 than the Americans in some regards.
It's true that the Japanese government hasn't yet offered official apologies to those who deserve it, and it's also true that textbooks don't give the entire truth, or may even be misleading.
But then, what is the truth? Are Americans as close to the truth as we think we are? In recent years, there's been evidence showing that we American's have been mislead too. There's evidence showing that Washington (and particularly FDR) knew that the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor, and even made things easier for them (read "Day of Deceit" by Robert Stinett). There's also evidence showing that the Japanese were preparing for surrender _before_ Hiroshima & Nagasaki were bombed, and that the US knew of this but bombed them anyway. Very few Americans know of the Tokyo raid towards the end of the war that killed around 100,000 civilians (more than were killed in Hiroshima or Nagasaki).
Unlike the Germans, who made field trips to concentration camps mandatory after the war, the Japanese do seem a little slow in admitting guilt. The US and it's allies did a great job revealing ugly facts from the defeated nations, but nobody has done so for our government. There's a whole lot of ugly records from our history burried in national archives, that may or may not ever come out. Ask your self again: could we have gotten it all wrong too?
MD recorders compress the audio data when recording, so there's obviously some quality degredation there (I've had an argument with someone once about whether MP3s or MDs had higher quality). But I'm not sure if it's for anti-piracy reasons. I think the MD specs include two formats: rewritable formats for recording, and ROMs. ROMs are for commercial MDs where music is sold recorded on to them, like CD's (I've only seen this in Japan though). I've also heard that such ROM disks had some kind of copy-protection scheme, but that's pretty much the extent of my knowledge...
I know they do something similar in Japan. Some office buildings have huge refrigerated water tanks on top of them, and the water is cooled during the night when electricity is cheaper, and then used for air conditioning during the day. It's economical, but probably not ecological. In fact, it sounds aweful inefficient to me (isn't there a rule in thermal dynamics about how energy is lost every time it's transferred from one medium to another?).