I always answer this with "Fifty Percent Capasity."
I think this glass would be more useful to gather information about the drinking habit of your patrons. Say a bar owner has a special and the glasses will tell him how much his patrons are drinking. I know you can tell that by looking at you books too, but this tells you abotu how long it took to refill and so on and so on..
A stripped down version of windows is simple. It's just Win95 with the updates and patches to make it support USB and other new tech and enhancements to suports current hardware like SSE2 and 3DNOW!2 and so on WITHOUT the fancy IE, Media Player, MSN and all that web-enabled crap and fancy desktop. If Win95 could be made to just support all current tech, i'd revert to it in a heartbeat. Doesn't take up so much overhead just to keep a fancy GUI and stuff i don't need runing.
I've lost count of the times when a young/senior person in the family went missing and we'd have to form a search party. I remember quite clearly thinking 'Can't wait for the day i can put a transponder on them' and here it is.
It use to be that soemone would bring a DV cam into the cinema and record the movie, capture and burn it, the FedEX or T1 it to Malaysia/Macau to be stamped into thousands of bootleg copies. That takes a couple of days. Now, I suppose they could setup a stream from a souped up laptop and the bootlegging can start as soon as the movie ends! Woohoo!
Will it be Ad on or Ad free? And If we pay can we get the artical linked to Cached so that Avantgo doesn't download the whole bloody site and but just 1 page? I'd Pay for that.
At the risk of soundding like a troll, I personally agree with the artical. Unlike the RIAA, where most of the crap that comes out of it is out of a template and manufactured in mass quantity for the sheer raping of boy/girl-band lovers, it actualy takes the hard work and effort of many 100's if not 1000's of people to make a movie. And for whats it worth, i feel that we should just pay the money asked of us to see that movie. I mean, where i come from, pirated movies are = to 1USD each, but i still go to the movies, pay more to see the movie. So why can't we just do the same here? I mean, sure with enough hacking, copy protection will fail anyway, but unlike charging for MP3s which is really like getting raped, there is value in paying for a movie.
Heres somethingi9nteresting. In Malaysia, we passed a law requiring that all optical disc stamping machines be licensed and the machine set to stamp an ID number on the discs as well because it was found that while the owners did legit jobs, then then use the same plates to stamp unautherised copies of the same job for CHEAP sale. The goverment figured that if you cannot modify the data then just have the numeber stamped in the serial area of the disc. What they didn't realize was that a Taiwanese company makes a machine capable of erasing the ID number while preserving the data integrety of the disc. So what to stop this from happening? since it's a 'unique ID' the ID has got to be written in an area on the disc that is easily modifiable, like in the start or end, for which this machine can easily be adapted to erase. Besides which pirate in his right mind would leave the ID data on the fakes?
I'm sure lots of you in recording will know what a pain in the ass it is to master your own DVD movie right now. This is step forward where we will nolonger have a DVD-RAM drive for data storage, a DVD-r drive for data transport and a DVD-Video capable (read hell of expensive) drive for video. I can finally see the DVD-R market take off now.
I think that FF the movie was more of a Proof of Concept. Being so, most proof of concepts don't make much in teh begeining but only later, so if Square was to only hang on to it and work out a better story for another movie...
Anmd besides i think culture may play a part in what went wrong because in Asia, a cartoon usually means action, like most of all the anime (Godzilla?) but in the west, a cartoon is funny, and even more so since all of what came out of CGI anumation (think Pixar) are funny cartoons. So maybe a near true to life action CGI movie just didn't sink very well on round 1.
Thats what's it'll be good for:) Think about it, it's about time we updated Digital Beta tape to something of higher capacity anyway. Afterall, all that video that comes off a camera on dither D-Beta or other digital tapes are still only NTSC standard at the best, if we are going to come out with better quality video sure as hell we are going to have a better medium (assuming were not shooting on film, I love film)
... kinda bad...
but i'm torn on the issue. it's a good or bad thing..
If it wern't for piracy, most of us here in Malaysia would never have had our hands on such great software as photoshop, where each copy would otherwise cost more then our median monthly income.
but then again, having adobe out of asia would mean that tech support for adobe in asia will get much worse and it might hurt sales considering that most publishing houses that use adobe aoftware will have less incentive to buy orginal, considering the problems with support and such...
I second that anti-PDF notion... PDF puts full control in the hands of the creators and practically no control in the hands of the users. HTML will look damn good at any resolution, in the font I choose, with or without images as I see fit, with the margins that I want it to have.
You're not getting it, the whole point of.pdf isn't for editing or that matter printing. It's suppose to represent paper on screen. It's so that you can look at the printed pages of (in your case) a manual, on screen just as you would a book.
The reason you have no control over the content of the.pdf is the same as why you dont go around applying blanko on books and changing its content. But however just like a book, you have the option of 'book marking', Indexing, and leaving a little post-it note on the page with your thoughts and writing in the margins.
At the same time, the reason PostScript and i belive according to the artical the Camalot project was created it so that Font, Objects, Content and Formatting is expressed the SAME way regardless of generation, machine or platform, and so letting you change the formatting (margins and all) kinda defeats the prupose doesn't it?
... but i feel for publishing purposes, i have yet to see anything with the ease of use of Acrobat. Espcially in publishing, where you have to mail upteen versions of magazine pages etc to clients who arn't technically oriented but whose go ahead for a run is needed.
Besides, even with pros, acrobat gives WYSIWYG, embeded fonts, compression for text and images and so on.... i think the size overhead for all this is worth every bit it takes up...
And even if you don't agree, which is more moronic, sending in MS Publisher.PUB or Pagemaker and PDF?
THere is a limited quantity of GeForce2 MX with a PCI interface in the market. Anyone ever thought of getting taht? even if it's to hard to find I'm sure any OEM will make at least a TNT2 for PCI if they were to include it in the box or sold as as option
Really, this seems to have the all appeal of a public execution. I think the only thing more entertaining then this is to watch Osama being tortured in the town center.
We sould do this to spammers more often
If they could store light in a medium, in this case the yttrium silicate crystal, then one other property of light being that it is infinitely compressable, does that mean that we can use that same crystal as a battery that we could charge an infinite amount of energy into? Think laptop battary with the life of 1 year. (Or if the crystal becomes unstable at one point because of the amount of energy in it, make a bomb that releses pure energy and leaves no trace of itself?)
... a mac with USB 2.0 then some fancy lifestyle thing... just think about it.. USB2.0 will let you use a 16x10x40 Ext CD-R drive instead of a crappy 6x USB1/Firewire 'enabled' drive...
Remember the radio that runs on a crank? theres a device that uses a sort of bike break like device that genarates DC power to charge dead battries. I don't have a link for this but there is such a thing. The only catch is that you haver to hand crank your battry back to life in lieu of a wall socket.
Microsoft has a more stable OS.. It's called DOS.
(It may have something to do witht the fact that they didn't really write it themselves but bought it and modifyed it)
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I always answer this with "Fifty Percent Capasity."
I think this glass would be more useful to gather information about the drinking habit of your patrons. Say a bar owner has a special and the glasses will tell him how much his patrons are drinking. I know you can tell that by looking at you books too, but this tells you abotu how long it took to refill and so on and so on..
A stripped down version of windows is simple. It's just Win95 with the updates and patches to make it support USB and other new tech and enhancements to suports current hardware like SSE2 and 3DNOW!2 and so on WITHOUT the fancy IE, Media Player, MSN and all that web-enabled crap and fancy desktop. If Win95 could be made to just support all current tech, i'd revert to it in a heartbeat. Doesn't take up so much overhead just to keep a fancy GUI and stuff i don't need runing.
I've lost count of the times when a young/senior person in the family went missing and we'd have to form a search party. I remember quite clearly thinking 'Can't wait for the day i can put a transponder on them' and here it is.
It use to be that soemone would bring a DV cam into the cinema and record the movie, capture and burn it, the FedEX or T1 it to Malaysia/Macau to be stamped into thousands of bootleg copies. That takes a couple of days. Now, I suppose they could setup a stream from a souped up laptop and the bootlegging can start as soon as the movie ends! Woohoo!
This could be common place :
Honey, could you please close the.. um... hole in the wall? Theres a draft in here"
Will it be Ad on or Ad free? And If we pay can we get the artical linked to Cached so that Avantgo doesn't download the whole bloody site and but just 1 page? I'd Pay for that.
At the risk of soundding like a troll, I personally agree with the artical. Unlike the RIAA, where most of the crap that comes out of it is out of a template and manufactured in mass quantity for the sheer raping of boy/girl-band lovers, it actualy takes the hard work and effort of many 100's if not 1000's of people to make a movie. And for whats it worth, i feel that we should just pay the money asked of us to see that movie. I mean, where i come from, pirated movies are = to 1USD each, but i still go to the movies, pay more to see the movie. So why can't we just do the same here? I mean, sure with enough hacking, copy protection will fail anyway, but unlike charging for MP3s which is really like getting raped, there is value in paying for a movie.
Heres somethingi9nteresting. In Malaysia, we passed a law requiring that all optical disc stamping machines be licensed and the machine set to stamp an ID number on the discs as well because it was found that while the owners did legit jobs, then then use the same plates to stamp unautherised copies of the same job for CHEAP sale. The goverment figured that if you cannot modify the data then just have the numeber stamped in the serial area of the disc. What they didn't realize was that a Taiwanese company makes a machine capable of erasing the ID number while preserving the data integrety of the disc. So what to stop this from happening? since it's a 'unique ID' the ID has got to be written in an area on the disc that is easily modifiable, like in the start or end, for which this machine can easily be adapted to erase. Besides which pirate in his right mind would leave the ID data on the fakes?
Finally, someone has come to recognized my preferred solution to fight spammers: kick them in the genitals.
Yes, and togather with a message saying, 'Don't you pull another Shifman like that again, you hear me?
I'm sure lots of you in recording will know what a pain in the ass it is to master your own DVD movie right now. This is step forward where we will nolonger have a DVD-RAM drive for data storage, a DVD-r drive for data transport and a DVD-Video capable (read hell of expensive) drive for video. I can finally see the DVD-R market take off now.
I think that FF the movie was more of a Proof of Concept. Being so, most proof of concepts don't make much in teh begeining but only later, so if Square was to only hang on to it and work out a better story for another movie...
Anmd besides i think culture may play a part in what went wrong because in Asia, a cartoon usually means action, like most of all the anime (Godzilla?) but in the west, a cartoon is funny, and even more so since all of what came out of CGI anumation (think Pixar) are funny cartoons. So maybe a near true to life action CGI movie just didn't sink very well on round 1.
Thats what's it'll be good for :) Think about it, it's about time we updated Digital Beta tape to something of higher capacity anyway. Afterall, all that video that comes off a camera on dither D-Beta or other digital tapes are still only NTSC standard at the best, if we are going to come out with better quality video sure as hell we are going to have a better medium (assuming were not shooting on film, I love film)
... kinda bad...
but i'm torn on the issue. it's a good or bad thing..
If it wern't for piracy, most of us here in Malaysia would never have had our hands on such great software as photoshop, where each copy would otherwise cost more then our median monthly income.
but then again, having adobe out of asia would mean that tech support for adobe in asia will get much worse and it might hurt sales considering that most publishing houses that use adobe aoftware will have less incentive to buy orginal, considering the problems with support and such...
I second that anti-PDF notion... PDF puts full control in the hands of the creators and practically no control in the hands of the users. HTML will look damn good at any resolution, in the font I choose, with or without images as I see fit, with the margins that I want it to have.
You're not getting it, the whole point of
The reason you have no control over the content of the
At the same time, the reason PostScript and i belive according to the artical the Camalot project was created it so that Font, Objects, Content and Formatting is expressed the SAME way regardless of generation, machine or platform, and so letting you change the formatting (margins and all) kinda defeats the prupose doesn't it?
... but i feel for publishing purposes, i have yet to see anything with the ease of use of Acrobat. Espcially in publishing, where you have to mail upteen versions of magazine pages etc to clients who arn't technically oriented but whose go ahead for a run is needed.
.PUB or Pagemaker and PDF?
Besides, even with pros, acrobat gives WYSIWYG, embeded fonts, compression for text and images and so on.... i think the size overhead for all this is worth every bit it takes up...
And even if you don't agree, which is more moronic, sending in MS Publisher
That'll make them think twice before they pull another /Bernie/ /Shifman/ !
THere is a limited quantity of GeForce2 MX with a PCI interface in the market. Anyone ever thought of getting taht? even if it's to hard to find I'm sure any OEM will make at least a TNT2 for PCI if they were to include it in the box or sold as as option
Really, this seems to have the all appeal of a public execution. I think the only thing more entertaining then this is to watch Osama being tortured in the town center.
We sould do this to spammers more often
I'm nowhere near qualified to ponder this, but...
If they could store light in a medium, in this case the yttrium silicate crystal, then one other property of light being that it is infinitely compressable, does that mean that we can use that same crystal as a battery that we could charge an infinite amount of energy into? Think laptop battary with the life of 1 year. (Or if the crystal becomes unstable at one point because of the amount of energy in it, make a bomb that releses pure energy and leaves no trace of itself?)
... a mac with USB 2.0 then some fancy lifestyle thing... just think about it.. USB2.0 will let you use a 16x10x40 Ext CD-R drive instead of a crappy 6x USB1/Firewire 'enabled' drive...
I want one too... wait.. with those going at 25.. i think i'll take 2,0 :)
nuff said
Remember the radio that runs on a crank? theres a device that uses a sort of bike break like device that genarates DC power to charge dead battries. I don't have a link for this but there is such a thing. The only catch is that you haver to hand crank your battry back to life in lieu of a wall socket.
Microsoft has a more stable OS.. It's called DOS.
(It may have something to do witht the fact that they didn't really write it themselves but bought it and modifyed it)
:)
Well it'd be perfect to cluster, it's take up less space so you can put the cluster of them on a shelf instead of a room...