was the low frame rate. The 3D was beautiful, but camera movements were still restricted by either moving very slowly or introducing jarring strobing artifacts. That part hasn't changed since 24 fps was introduced 4096 years ago or whenever it was. And James Cameron knows it - he was shot down for trying to film Avatar at 48fps.
While cinemas are busy upgrading to digital this and 3D that, it would seem a perfect time to apply a small firmware upgrade to digital projectors and begin moving on from the horrible 24fps cinema format.
Whoever modded my parent post down, please go look up Censorship in a dictionary. That is *not* what's happening here.
YouTube are under no obligation, legal or otherwise, to keep keep any particular content available in perpetuity. Sure, they're being cowardly sods for giving in to claims of copyright infringement so quickly but that's another issue.
Yes, the PC game market isn't hauling in as much coin from the masses as the console market, but I don't think game sales have much to do with either quality of the content or general use of 3D applications. I don't for example see Google Earth mentioned anywhere and that's most likely one of the most popular 3D applications on PCs today.
OpenGL is great and all, but let's not pretend Direct3D is somehow lacking in any area other than interoperability (though that is the very reason I won't use it).
One example - take any decent PC game less than two years old, and run it on a mid-range PC that's less than two years old, on a 1080p 40" TV (the standard gaming setup these days). Then try comparing it to the closest match on a current-generation games console. QED.
Well... yes. What else would I use? The only realistic alternative to using a 10+ year old car is to not use one at all.
With new cars being priced such that only the very wealthy can afford them, the second hand market is several times larger than that of the new car market.
Generally one can buy say a 10 year old car (maybe 8-9 years if one finds a bargain) and run it for a further 5-10 years. Mind you, I'm talking Japanese cars here. American cars might be somewhat... different.
I think we need to make sure the general masses are aware of these closed-door shenanigans, and one vector is the likes of social networking sites. I assume there's already something like a "Stop ACTA" group on Facebook? If not, someone should make one.
It might be one instance where geeks have legitimate cause for using such marketing-demographic-trawling sites as Facebook, twitter, bebo, etc.
you might appreciate the ability to play back 720p content when your friend sends you his high-resolution videos and you don't want to wait a few hours while your netbook transcodes them down to 600p.
That's not pirating. If they don't release the source to a derivative of GPLd code then it's copyright infringement, to be sure, but very different from making copies of commercial (read: non-free) products without paying.
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No.
The real question is what the blistering hell are remote kill switches doing on cars in the first place?
I'm sure there's an iPhone analogy somewhere here...
So what? McDonalds has a lot more traffic through than Blockbuster. And Bed, Bath & Beyond have more monthly sales than Max's Mercedes Motors.
They're different entities serving completely different purposes.
That must be frustrating. Though I imagine similar sentiments among people with one working ear when stereo movies first came out.
was the low frame rate. The 3D was beautiful, but camera movements were still restricted by either moving very slowly or introducing jarring strobing artifacts. That part hasn't changed since 24 fps was introduced 4096 years ago or whenever it was. And James Cameron knows it - he was shot down for trying to film Avatar at 48fps.
While cinemas are busy upgrading to digital this and 3D that, it would seem a perfect time to apply a small firmware upgrade to digital projectors and begin moving on from the horrible 24fps cinema format.
Neither does colour, multi-channel sound, or a big screen.
What's your point?
Whoever modded my parent post down, please go look up Censorship in a dictionary. That is *not* what's happening here.
YouTube are under no obligation, legal or otherwise, to keep keep any particular content available in perpetuity. Sure, they're being cowardly sods for giving in to claims of copyright infringement so quickly but that's another issue.
Just do the not-evil thing, and leave. Where's the problem here?
Most other potentially dangerous activities don't involve devices whose sole reason for being is to terminate human life.
Yes, the PC game market isn't hauling in as much coin from the masses as the console market, but I don't think game sales have much to do with either quality of the content or general use of 3D applications. I don't for example see Google Earth mentioned anywhere and that's most likely one of the most popular 3D applications on PCs today.
OpenGL is great and all, but let's not pretend Direct3D is somehow lacking in any area other than interoperability (though that is the very reason I won't use it).
One example - take any decent PC game less than two years old, and run it on a mid-range PC that's less than two years old, on a 1080p 40" TV (the standard gaming setup these days). Then try comparing it to the closest match on a current-generation games console. QED.
I can't help with the AD part, but here's your central patching service:
for host in `cat /storage/enterprise/Workstations.txt`; do ssh root@$host "yum -y update"; done
done :)
Do you use 10 year old cars?
Well... yes. What else would I use? The only realistic alternative to using a 10+ year old car is to not use one at all.
With new cars being priced such that only the very wealthy can afford them, the second hand market is several times larger than that of the new car market.
Generally one can buy say a 10 year old car (maybe 8-9 years if one finds a bargain) and run it for a further 5-10 years. Mind you, I'm talking Japanese cars here. American cars might be somewhat... different.
Is it just me, or has Apple become more and more oppressive to users and developers over the last couple of years?
No, I'm afraid they've always been like that. They've just kept quiet about it.
Clothes: the "spec" is open. Anybody can make their own pants if they wish to, and nobody is going to come ask for license money.
Yes, but try doing that with shoes.
The presentation was not muzzled. YouTube merely stopped hosting it. He's welcome to distribute it himself in any way he sees fit.
I think we need to make sure the general masses are aware of these closed-door shenanigans, and one vector is the likes of social networking sites. I assume there's already something like a "Stop ACTA" group on Facebook? If not, someone should make one.
It might be one instance where geeks have legitimate cause for using such marketing-demographic-trawling sites as Facebook, twitter, bebo, etc.
That sounds an awful lot like a broken window fallacy.
you might appreciate the ability to play back 720p content when your friend sends you his high-resolution videos and you don't want to wait a few hours while your netbook transcodes them down to 600p.
Honestly, do people not think about these things?
If you ignore the products that they market to businesses...
For pretty much all businesses, that is a very smart decision.
HHGTTG, and a bit of Princess Bride and Python thrown in.
I take my hat off to you, sir.
You're thinking of the shuttlecock, I mean, ramscoop in front of Red Dwarf.
That's not pirating. If they don't release the source to a derivative of GPLd code then it's copyright infringement, to be sure, but very different from making copies of commercial (read: non-free) products without paying.
I can start using the 64 bit Linux Flash plugin that I've been using for over a year now...
(not that I really blame the editors that much - Adobe haven't exactly gone out of their way to advertise it)
The same thing that happens to us slightly underweight folks when we don't take in enough food to sustain our frames - we just grow weak and die.
ereaders with DRM don't count as proper ereaders IMO.
All well and good, but: