This seems to be an additional factor that was ignored in the analysis. Availability of movies is also going to be a factor of how many people are competing for the same limited pool of rental titles.
When you have movies in your list that are, shall we say, not in heavy competition, you are going to be more likely to get them in short order than you are popular movies.
Even the heavy renter can be made happy by timely shipment of Sword-Fist of the Dragon-Nuns...};^)
You're right. My apologies. That's the problem with sparring with ideolouges. You end up framing the debate on their terms.
So here's my stance, as free as I can make it from the traditional political spectrum.
Pro Corporate: Suprised? How else are you going to feed 8 billion people? Con Corporate Pillage: We have been robbed blind by the current system. How does your retirement account look these days?
Pro Democracy: Best system yet devised for governing. I sincerely want ours to work. Con Monied Aristocracy posing as Democracy. Who does your senator work for? You?
Pro Freedom (and Right)of Speech: Possibly the most valuable freedom we have. Con Concentration of Media in small number of Hands. Con dillution of the Freedom of Information Act, that let's us know what our government does in our name. Con the dillution of our freedom to have a little privacy (not a right, but every bit as important).
Con a government that asks us to trade these hard earned freedoms for the magic beans of "safety."
Con a government that speaks in the name of the American People, but refuses to acknowledge that the nation speaks in many voices, voices that question more often than preach.
No one ever said living free would be safe or comfortable.
I don't have answers, but I sure as hell have questions.
Hehe. When I said we're so right, you can see left from here, I'm not just talking about republicans, sorry. While I could rally to Clinton's defense by saying that's that's just one quote versus, oh, say, the Patriot Act, and the castrating of the Freedom of Information Act, that would be too easy.
I my opinion, we have a two party system in name only. I practice, we are sliding toward an aristocracy (at best), and facism at worst. Democrats are Republicans that live in working class districts. My hope for them died when their spines surrendered to their wallets.
For every cancer cell inyour body, I can point to ten helthy cells. Horray for you.
Capitalism works great...for those with the capital. Just like freedom of the press is great for the owner of the presses. Not so great for the poor. Or, the unemployed. Any of those hanging out on/.? Are you happy with the attention you're getting from the government on the economy? Are you enjoying the low mortgage rates on houses too expensive to contemplate?
The great 90's economy of the Clinton Era (since you seem to like talking him) was a big shell game pulled off on the backs of the retirement accounts of the working poor & middle class. That we're only noticing this now is nobody's fault but our own. But hey...the War Show is on...who got time to pay attention to all this hand-waving?
Liberal bias in Slashdot. Bah. Set up another straw man, I'm tired of hearing about liberal bias. Have you looked out the window recently? This country is so far right, we can't see left from here.
If it's really a burden for you, there are plenty of sources for you. I would recomend FOX and CNN for starters. They are very right-friendly, and you will feel very comfy there. No one will question government motives, no one will ask embarrasing questions about corporations. You can safely dream that this is the same country portrayed in "Leave it To Beaver."
Thanks for stopping by, and sorry for making all this liberal noise about rights & privacy. I mean really, what were we thinking?
As a final note, I'd caution you about the internet, it's a rough neighborhood, and you may bump into some ideas that aren't the same as yours. I wouldn't worry though, It'll all be cleaned up in a couple of years. I hear Disney's buying it.
There's a big difference between game testing and participating in an open beta.
QA folk have to mercilessly replay every nook & cranny of the game looking for buggies. Worse yet, when found the next step: Play the buggy area over & over until you can provide a "recipie" for recreating the bug.
From what I understand, this raw format is 12 bit/channel, with the extended luminance range that implies.
I'm actually looking at this camera to capture HDR images to use with Lightwave's HDRI renderer. (of which there are some sample on the page you link). More study is needed.
1) Throw a shitload of light on the scene (This is what they did for the effects work on "Darby O'Gill and the Little People..Peter Jackson eat your heart out)
2) Use a diopter, a lense that changes focal length split down the middle, so that half the image is at 20mm, and the other half is at 120mm (for instance). This was a trick pioneered by Orson Wells, I beleive.
That's because Photoshop & most digital cameras only use RGB colorspace (24 bits) which is a crappy color space, and one that we're currently stuck with because of our display devices.
High Dynamic Range Images use a higher bit depth (12 bits per chanel?). Many of the Nikon cameras can save out these 12 bit/channel images, which, with the proper manipulation software (HDRShop, others) can be used for much finer and subtler manipulation.
So, (math skills permiting), I make that out as 4096 levels per channel, as opposed to the current 256/channel in a standard 24 bit image.
It's still an RGB system, but it's a much better RGB system.
The next step is to get manufacturers on board & start making HDRI Video Cards & Monitors.
Yeah, I'd like to sign up for Lead Non-Coder. Pffft. Here's a hint: A good game is a collaboration between Engineers and Artist (non-coders). Art is not something you tack on when the code's complete.
I will now fail to acquire a ten foot pole, which will preclude my touching this.
Also: "Depending on how good the game is, how much the public like it, and any porting to other platforms, the revenue from the game could be a modest 50,000 pounds (75,000 US Dollars) up to a substantially larger sum in excess of a million pounds."
Or a really modest 0 pounds. The public, god bless 'em, can like something zero-much. Not trying to be an ass, but someone really needs some clue-sticking re: current state of the game industry. And I'm not even talking about the current down turn, just on the relative odds of success for any developer. It's a damn tough world, adjust your expectations accordingly.
That being said, done properly, it could be a good education for young 'uns who want to get into the industry. But education & opportunity are not necessarily equal. You might then be able to leverage that education into an opportunity. Therein lies the trick.
I seem to recall some talk about dream sleep being the method by which short term memory is moved into long-term memory (sort of like doing a nightly backup).
What good is 8 more hours a day, if you forget all the moments of your life?
The "Computers can play chess better than humans so they must be intelligent" argument drives me nuts.
Show me a damned computer that can *invent* a game like chess, then I'll be impressed. Should I call my calculator intelligent because it can figure the square root of 209384298332 faster than I can?
A chess program is good at following a set of chess rules (designed by people). End of story.
Slashdot Mirror
that's why I joined the gym.
...that had an aux input.
Now I just have to get around to buying an MP3 jukebox...};^)
This seems to be an additional factor that was ignored in the analysis. Availability of movies is also going to be a factor of how many people are competing for the same limited pool of rental titles.
When you have movies in your list that are, shall we say, not in heavy competition, you are going to be more likely to get them in short order than you are popular movies.
Even the heavy renter can be made happy by timely shipment of Sword-Fist of the Dragon-Nuns...};^)
Not to trod on the amazing career of a consumate Troll, but can some mod this asshat down for a truly offensive Sig line? (Parent Comment #5777137)
Man, when Fark makes fun of you for being gullible, that's bottom of the barrel.
Hell, that's about as embarrasing as appointing someone from DoubleClick as head of your national privacy adminis....D'oh!
...on my drive? Spybot S&D found three from just today's browsing. (Also Avenue A, courtesy of /.)
Bang-up job with the clean up.
If you're all about the privacy rights, get your damn cookies off my drive.
You're right. My apologies. That's the problem with sparring with ideolouges. You end up framing the debate on their terms.
So here's my stance, as free as I can make it from the traditional political spectrum.
Pro Corporate: Suprised? How else are you going to feed 8 billion people?
Con Corporate Pillage: We have been robbed blind by the current system. How does your retirement account look these days?
Pro Democracy: Best system yet devised for governing. I sincerely want ours to work.
Con Monied Aristocracy posing as Democracy. Who does your senator work for? You?
Pro Freedom (and Right)of Speech: Possibly the most valuable freedom we have.
Con Concentration of Media in small number of Hands. Con dillution of the Freedom of Information Act, that let's us know what our government does in our name. Con the dillution of our freedom to have a little privacy (not a right, but every bit as important).
Con a government that asks us to trade these hard earned freedoms for the magic beans of "safety."
Con a government that speaks in the name of the American People, but refuses to acknowledge that the nation speaks in many voices, voices that question more often than preach.
No one ever said living free would be safe or comfortable.
I don't have answers, but I sure as hell have questions.
Hehe. When I said we're so right, you can see left from here, I'm not just talking about republicans, sorry. While I could rally to Clinton's defense by saying that's that's just one quote versus, oh, say, the Patriot Act, and the castrating of the Freedom of Information Act, that would be too easy.
/.? Are you happy with the attention you're getting from the government on the economy? Are you enjoying the low mortgage rates on houses too expensive to contemplate?
I my opinion, we have a two party system in name only. I practice, we are sliding toward an aristocracy (at best), and facism at worst. Democrats are Republicans that live in working class districts. My hope for them died when their spines surrendered to their wallets.
For every cancer cell inyour body, I can point to ten helthy cells. Horray for you.
Capitalism works great...for those with the capital. Just like freedom of the press is great for the owner of the presses. Not so great for the poor. Or, the unemployed. Any of those hanging out on
The great 90's economy of the Clinton Era (since you seem to like talking him) was a big shell game pulled off on the backs of the retirement accounts of the working poor & middle class. That we're only noticing this now is nobody's fault but our own. But hey...the War Show is on...who got time to pay attention to all this hand-waving?
Bye bye karma...it was fun while it lasted...};^)
At the risk of my karma:
Liberal bias in Slashdot. Bah. Set up another straw man, I'm tired of hearing about liberal bias. Have you looked out the window recently? This country is so far right, we can't see left from here.
If it's really a burden for you, there are plenty of sources for you. I would recomend FOX and CNN for starters. They are very right-friendly, and you will feel very comfy there. No one will question government motives, no one will ask embarrasing questions about corporations. You can safely dream that this is the same country portrayed in "Leave it To Beaver."
Thanks for stopping by, and sorry for making all this liberal noise about rights & privacy. I mean really, what were we thinking?
As a final note, I'd caution you about the internet, it's a rough neighborhood, and you may bump into some ideas that aren't the same as yours. I wouldn't worry though, It'll all be cleaned up in a couple of years. I hear Disney's buying it.
The music of small bands would only be available in compact cars.
There's a big difference between game testing and participating in an open beta.
QA folk have to mercilessly replay every nook & cranny of the game looking for buggies. Worse yet, when found the next step: Play the buggy area over & over until you can provide a "recipie" for recreating the bug.
Appears to save in an extended bit-range format:
JPEG (EXIF 2.2)
TIFF (8-bit)
RAW (12-bit)
From what I understand, this raw format is 12 bit/channel, with the extended luminance range that implies.
I'm actually looking at this camera to capture HDR images to use with Lightwave's HDRI renderer.
(of which there are some sample on the page you link). More study is needed.
Visual Boy Advance, an amazingly solid GBA Emulator:
Homepage
SourceForge
There were two approaches:
1) Throw a shitload of light on the scene (This is what they did for the effects work on "Darby O'Gill and the Little People..Peter Jackson eat your heart out)
2) Use a diopter, a lense that changes focal length split down the middle, so that half the image is at 20mm, and the other half is at 120mm (for instance). This was a trick pioneered by Orson Wells, I beleive.
That's because Photoshop & most digital cameras only use RGB colorspace (24 bits) which is a crappy color space, and one that we're currently stuck with because of our display devices.
High Dynamic Range Images use a higher bit depth (12 bits per chanel?). Many of the Nikon cameras can save out these 12 bit/channel images, which, with the proper manipulation software (HDRShop, others) can be used for much finer and subtler manipulation.
So, (math skills permiting), I make that out as 4096 levels per channel, as opposed to the current 256/channel in a standard 24 bit image.
It's still an RGB system, but it's a much better RGB system.
The next step is to get manufacturers on board & start making HDRI Video Cards & Monitors.
and not "Advertisment."
Yeah, I'd like to sign up for Lead Non-Coder. Pffft. Here's a hint: A good game is a collaboration between Engineers and Artist (non-coders). Art is not something you tack on when the code's complete.
I will now fail to acquire a ten foot pole, which will preclude my touching this.
Also: "Depending on how good the game is, how much the public like it, and any porting to other platforms, the revenue from the game could be a
modest 50,000 pounds (75,000 US Dollars) up to a substantially larger sum in excess of a million pounds."
Or a really modest 0 pounds. The public, god bless 'em, can like something zero-much. Not trying to be an ass, but someone really needs some clue-sticking re: current state of the game industry. And I'm not even talking about the current down turn, just on the relative odds of success for any developer. It's a damn tough world, adjust your expectations accordingly.
That being said, done properly, it could be a good education for young 'uns who want to get into the industry. But education & opportunity are not necessarily equal. You might then be able to leverage that education into an opportunity. Therein lies the trick.
Good luck to all, it will be required.
I'm sure the Scots will be surprised to hear the sheep they cloned is an American icon.
But hey guys...you can keep the haggis!
Well, you're only putting your head inside an 8000 amp electromagnet. I feel *much* better about that idea.
What's that, like sitting in front 10 x 10^8 CRTs for, say the next 100 years?
I'd make the old ?/profit gag, but I'm too lazy.
Here's a list for the upper midwest, for starters.
Extinct
Nope....just on/off.
Imagine! A book...that you can put addresses in!
This will revolutionize that "Interweb" thing all the kids are excited about.
Do I smell...patent?
(Sorry...news you can lose, IMHO)
Professional GBA developers use them as well, as low cost dev units for programmers and artist.
A couple hundred bucks vs. 6 grand for a full kit.
You do the math.
I seem to recall some talk about dream sleep being the method by which short term memory is moved into long-term memory (sort of like doing a nightly backup).
What good is 8 more hours a day, if you forget all the moments of your life?
The "Computers can play chess better than humans so they must be intelligent" argument drives me nuts.
Show me a damned computer that can *invent* a game like chess, then I'll be impressed. Should I call my calculator intelligent because it can figure the square root of 209384298332 faster than I can?
A chess program is good at following a set of chess rules (designed by people). End of story.