And it's been that way for far too long. I find pans and tilts difficult to track in theatres as they come across horribly jittery unless they're done extremely slowly.
The only way I can really enjoy sweeping pans in movies is with an interpolating TV like 100Hz ones with the Philips Natural Motion chip.
This is where both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD really missed the boat. They should be pushing film studios to change to a much more natural-looking 48fps (or 50 or 60 for TV compatibility if necessary). Or failing that interpolate the motion themselves. Hell, they already have the motion vectors from all that MPEG compression.
I've long suspected that the firefox dev team, like the OOo team, have fallen for the old two lies of optimization:
1 - don't 2 - (for experts only) don't yet
Follow those principles and bloated code is practically a certainty. Of course when you do optimize, comment well and maintainability need not suffer.
A tangent: Why is firefox on Windows so much faster than firefox on Linux? Navigating to any page, even on the local net, takes about 3 seconds on Linux, but is instantaneous on a slower windows box.
I'm pretty sure this all comes back to the almighty buck.
Remember that it effectively costs nothing to send an email, but I've yet to see an SMS messaging service with a pricing model I like. That isn't to say I don't use SMS, I just don't like it:)
With telcos buying up ISPs in droves, it's in their interests to keep kids off email and TXTing each other for as long as possible. As a side-effect, don't expect much progress from your ISP on the spam-battling front.
And yet, if those monkeys are truly typing randomly, any set of 130,000 characters they type has exactly the same chance of being Hamlet as it does anything else.
Let's say my cat just traipsed on my keyboard and typed "dsafhhrnvcdbqwtrwqerwe897509k;ln b,.cnjhcvdsytwejbhd". Yesterday I might have asked you what were the chances of a cat randomly typing "dsafhhrnvcdbqwtrwqerwe897509k;ln b,.cnjhcvdsytwejbhd", and you might have replied "vanishingly small, so much so that it just isn't going to happen in your lifetime". And you'd be right from a statistical point of view. Yet it happened.
How do you figure? Are you seriously telling me that not one person is going to read this (badly) scanned work and, when the book proper comes out, decide they've "done that" and no longer want to own it?
No one is going to attempt an OCR on it and upload it in Plucker format, or HTML? I read most of my books on my PDA these days...
By gum you're right. It's not using the same binary as 99.9% of implementations, but a grey code is nonetheless a binary system, and therefore could be referred to by some as "a binary", or one of the "binaries".
Hence your statement, while wildly misleading, is correct if one interpretation is taken.
Except that isn't a right, it's a legally defensible position, meaning you can't (shouldn't) be arrested for it but the distributor is under no obligation to make it easy for you.
I've noticed that with the GIMP proper too. Under Linux one can select File->Print and get a beautiful Gutenprint dialog that lets you select parameters for your printer as well as orientation, scaling, etc.
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And it's been that way for far too long. I find pans and tilts difficult to track in theatres as they come across horribly jittery unless they're done extremely slowly.
The only way I can really enjoy sweeping pans in movies is with an interpolating TV like 100Hz ones with the Philips Natural Motion chip.
This is where both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD really missed the boat. They should be pushing film studios to change to a much more natural-looking 48fps (or 50 or 60 for TV compatibility if necessary). Or failing that interpolate the motion themselves. Hell, they already have the motion vectors from all that MPEG compression.
I've long suspected that the firefox dev team, like the OOo team, have fallen for the old two lies of optimization:
1 - don't
2 - (for experts only) don't yet
Follow those principles and bloated code is practically a certainty. Of course when you do optimize, comment well and maintainability need not suffer.
A tangent: Why is firefox on Windows so much faster than firefox on Linux? Navigating to any page, even on the local net, takes about 3 seconds on Linux, but is instantaneous on a slower windows box.
I'm not going to debate this with you, as I'm sure many others here will. If you are truly serious, I merely have this to say:
GET OUT
and leave your programmers card at the door.
NOW!
I'm pretty sure this all comes back to the almighty buck.
:)
Remember that it effectively costs nothing to send an email, but I've yet to see an SMS messaging service with a pricing model I like. That isn't to say I don't use SMS, I just don't like it
With telcos buying up ISPs in droves, it's in their interests to keep kids off email and TXTing each other for as long as possible. As a side-effect, don't expect much progress from your ISP on the spam-battling front.
I think I'll stick with email for now.
And yet, if those monkeys are truly typing randomly, any set of 130,000 characters they type has exactly the same chance of being Hamlet as it does anything else.
Let's say my cat just traipsed on my keyboard and typed "dsafhhrnvcdbqwtrwqerwe897509k;ln b,.cnjhcvdsytwejbhd". Yesterday I might have asked you what were the chances of a cat randomly typing "dsafhhrnvcdbqwtrwqerwe897509k;ln b,.cnjhcvdsytwejbhd", and you might have replied "vanishingly small, so much so that it just isn't going to happen in your lifetime". And you'd be right from a statistical point of view. Yet it happened.
And they don't just pick up an off-the-shelf laser turntable because...?
How do you figure? Are you seriously telling me that not one person is going to read this (badly) scanned work and, when the book proper comes out, decide they've "done that" and no longer want to own it?
No one is going to attempt an OCR on it and upload it in Plucker format, or HTML? I read most of my books on my PDA these days...
Good for him. It's important for one to be happy in life, and sometimes care-free.
... or the rather pretty xscreensaver hack.
By gum you're right. It's not using the same binary as 99.9% of implementations, but a grey code is nonetheless a binary system, and therefore could be referred to by some as "a binary", or one of the "binaries".
Hence your statement, while wildly misleading, is correct if one interpretation is taken.
And they'll promptly go buy a mac and forget about it. Is that what you were aiming for?
Okay people it's time we started seriously contributing to the Gnash project so people who want flash content have some alternative to run it on.
Except if you're a small ma and pa shop then the end user is the IT staff.
The world isn't always as black and white as we might like it to be.
Though DVDShrink works well under WINE I believe it's fallen into disrepair of late. K9Copy seems like nice alternative these days.
What rights? Fair use like copying?
Except that isn't a right, it's a legally defensible position, meaning you can't (shouldn't) be arrested for it but the distributor is under no obligation to make it easy for you.
Hello LPRng. Is anyone still developing it?
Weren't both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray's protection schemes cracked totally in february?
Or am I missing something?
Okay, but Bush never went to war either. The US hasn't made a declaration of war since 1942.
Because it doesn't work.
Look up Windows Refund Day to see what I mean.
That looks like a bug. No antialiasing is being performed. There is an antialiasing checkbox in the Line Style area but it has no effect.
I've noticed that with the GIMP proper too. Under Linux one can select File->Print and get a beautiful Gutenprint dialog that lets you select parameters for your printer as well as orientation, scaling, etc.
Under Windows you get, well, nothing.
This is a product we're talking about here, the name for which is supposedly meant to be meaningful and promote its use.
BTW, your daughter's name sucks.
How about GNUPaint then?
They're probably still bitter that Cinepaint, a fork that they wanted nothing to do with but now seems to be doing so much better than they'd thought.
So is it a brightly-lit intersection?