1. I have a widescreen monitor so Tree Style Tab does a much better job of hierarchically grouping tabs than the half-arsed Firefox Tab Grouping effort. Most other people also have a widescreen monitor. 2. Some people do use Firefox Hello. Now that Microsoft Corporation have predictably deprecated the Linux Skype client, it's not as viable as it once was. Besides, much better commercial alternatives exist such as Zoom. 3. I fully agree with you about Pocket.
That's great that Caldera, later rebranded as SCO, is dead. Now what about the actual perpetrators of that Linux debacle, Darl McBride and Chris Sonntag?
5. They waste real walltime, when trying to view YouTube videos for example and those horrible inline non-skippable ads appear. Time is money and all that.
They seem to be playing a leapfrog game with AdBlock Plus, as every few weeks the video ads come back for a while before ABP gets an update.
I didn't intend at all to belittle other fan edits. I can't comment on yours at all not having seen it, but I have been impressed with other edit and preservation projects.
Notwithstanding the hype around Adywan and the much anticipated ESB:Revisited that is approaching the level of Duke Nukem Forever, I have found his edits to be the most, well, thorough that I've come across.
1. Ian McDiarmid plays the Emperor in the 2004 DVD, 2006 DVD and 2011 Blu-Ray releases of ESB. The "original" emperor in ESB (as seen on the "GOUT" 2006 DVD and older VHS editions) is a woman with monkey eyes superimposed, voiced by New Zealand actor Clive Revill.
2. Hayden Christensen replaces Sebastian Shaw as Anakin's force ghost in ROTJ in the 2004 DVD, 2006 DVD and 2011 Blu-Ray.
The GOUT DVDs were realeased in 2006 along with the re-released Special Edition DVDs. These were transfers from a laserdisc master and, while having very original content, were of very poor quality.
This is great news for preserving an important part of cinematic history that its creator wants to bury.
If you're like me and prefer to watch the Special Editions, consider Adywan's ANH:Revisited, a fan edit that is truly what the special editions should have been. He's been working on ESB for the past 7 years, mostly due to a meticulous attention to detail but plans to Revisit ROTJ as well. He's presently re-shooting the Han in Carbonate model to fix a costume continuity error.
The list of changes to ANH is shamelessly pasted below:
1 - Star Wars Logo: originally it receded way too quickly so this has been slowed down to match the speed in the rest of the saga. 2 - The crawl appears slightly earlier now, as it did pre ANH, so it appears at the correct music cue that Williamsâ(TM) intended, and how I remember it. 3 - As the camera pans down to Tatooine you now see the 3 moons instead of just 2 4 - Tatooine now rotates slightly as the ships fly overhead 5 - Re-coloured all lasers 6 - Removed the horrible blue hazing as the stardestroyers engine come into view 7 - Changed the explosion as the Tantive IV is hit to remove a lot of the smoke. 8 - Added a jerk to the motion of the Tantive IV as it is hit 9 - Speeded up the star field in that shot so the Tantive IV seems to be moving as fast as it did in previous shots. 10 - Colour correction of the whole film to remove the blue tint. The Tantive IVâ(TM)s walls are now white. 11 - Re-coloured R2â(TM)s dome lights throughout the movie so they match closer to the rest of the saga. The front light now blinks from red to blue. 12 - Re-edited the Tantive IV corridor battle to fix continuity issues where troopers die more than once. 13- Added blaster flashes to all blasters that have them missing as they fire. 14 - Added blast flashes to the troopers where they are hit 15 - Corrected issues where the blasters flash as if they were fired on set but no laser bolts were present. Added the lasers to fix this throughout. 16 - Fixed the jump cut where 3PO & R2 cross the corridor on the Tantive IV & the doorway explodes. 17 - When Vader enters the Tantive IV a Stormtrooper lets go of the head of a dead trooper but that you can see that the actor slowly lowers his head. This has been fixed and the troopers head now drops at speed more like a dead body. 18 - Added blinking lights to Vaderâ(TM)s chest plate 19 - Vaderâ(TM)s eyes re-coloured to remove the red tint. 20 - When 3PO is looking for R2 a trooper falls to the floor behind him as if he has been shot but there is no laser fire. Added some lasers & a flash as the trooper is hit. 21 - Smoothed / fixed the jump cut as R2 extends his third leg and heads for 3PO & the one where he leaves 3PO 22 - Fixed the error in the scene where Vader is strangling Antilles the trooper in the background changes position in one shot. Originally his legs are closed and his blaster is in a totally different position. 23 - Fixed an FX issue when Leia is hit by the stun blaster the glow effect is missing on part of her dress. 24 - In the scene where R2 presses the button to open the pod door you now see his arm retract 25 - Re-coloured the interior of the escape pod to blue due to continuity issues in this scene. 26 - As the escape pod blasts off it now begins to rotate as it does in the rest of the shots 27 - When the imperial commander says âoehold your fireâ the trajectory of the escape pod has been changed so it is heading downwards and away from the ship instead or just heading straight which caused a continuity error in the next shot as we see the underbelly of the stardestroyer , which means it was heading downwards. 28 - Changed the stars & stardestroyer view from inside the pod so the ship & stars now recede at different rates 29 - You now see the escape pod enter the atmosphere of Tatooine. 30 - Every FX shot has been either touched up or redone in some form or another, but too many t
Does this mean there is finally a print of Star Wars that can be submitted to the National Film Registry, only 27 years after a copy was requested on its induction?
1. Laser beams diverge with distance from the aperture, so the cross-section of the beam will be quite wide by the time it hits the aircraft. This makes aiming much easier. It will reduce the intensity at any given point but that doesn't matter as much as you might think (see below). 2. Laser pointers in the >200mW range are now easily available. Exposure to 50mW for longer than a few milliseconds is enough to cause permanent blindness. 3. Pilots eyes are dark-adjusted to see what's outside, as you will well know being a former pilot yourself. Any bright light source, especially green, will be enough to over-stimulate the retina's rod cells and cause temporary blindness. Imagine a camera flash in your face while driving at night. 4. A troublemaker does not have to aim the laser directly into a pilots eyes, just anywhere on the cockpit window surface. Dirt and microscopic abrasions on the glass will ensure enough scattering to light up the whole panel like a disco floor tile.
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Okay, everyone, say it with me now:
WhooooOOOooooosh
In other words, they patched it once they were caught.
1. I have a widescreen monitor so Tree Style Tab does a much better job of hierarchically grouping tabs than the half-arsed Firefox Tab Grouping effort. Most other people also have a widescreen monitor.
2. Some people do use Firefox Hello. Now that Microsoft Corporation have predictably deprecated the Linux Skype client, it's not as viable as it once was. Besides, much better commercial alternatives exist such as Zoom.
3. I fully agree with you about Pocket.
That's great that Caldera, later rebranded as SCO, is dead. Now what about the actual perpetrators of that Linux debacle, Darl McBride and Chris Sonntag?
Simple. Microsoft Corporation holds the keys to your Secure Boot chain of trust. Or did you manage to get someone else to sign your bootloader?
PS/2 events generate hardware interrupts, meaning:
1. Your input device will likely be more responsive.
2. Your computer is more likely to power on properly with a keypress.
USB by design does not make use of hardware interrupts.
I'll just leave this here.
*sigh*
reverse racism == racism
reverse sexism == sexism
How does it feel to be just as bigoted as the people you so despise?
Name one legitimate use case for remote start on an electric car.
But look at this important photo of something in my hand. I even drew a red circle around it to show you how important it is.
5. They waste real walltime, when trying to view YouTube videos for example and those horrible inline non-skippable ads appear. Time is money and all that.
They seem to be playing a leapfrog game with AdBlock Plus, as every few weeks the video ads come back for a while before ABP gets an update.
Good to meet you, Darth Editous.
I didn't intend at all to belittle other fan edits. I can't comment on yours at all not having seen it, but I have been impressed with other edit and preservation projects.
Notwithstanding the hype around Adywan and the much anticipated ESB:Revisited that is approaching the level of Duke Nukem Forever, I have found his edits to be the most, well, thorough that I've come across.
This.
We should have a name for these imposter products cashing in on the geek kudos and general goodwill associated with the name "hoverboard".
Hoverfraud comes to mind. Any other suggestions?
What they really meant to say is,
"There isn't a single hoverboard".
The closest thing I've seen is the Lexus maglev board+track pair, but that's just a gimmick.
1. Ian McDiarmid plays the Emperor in the 2004 DVD, 2006 DVD and 2011 Blu-Ray releases of ESB. The "original" emperor in ESB (as seen on the "GOUT" 2006 DVD and older VHS editions) is a woman with monkey eyes superimposed, voiced by New Zealand actor Clive Revill.
2. Hayden Christensen replaces Sebastian Shaw as Anakin's force ghost in ROTJ in the 2004 DVD, 2006 DVD and 2011 Blu-Ray.
The GOUT DVDs were realeased in 2006 along with the re-released Special Edition DVDs. These were transfers from a laserdisc master and, while having very original content, were of very poor quality.
Of course that should be Han in Carbonite. I'll turn in my geek card now.
Incidentally, have Slashdots new overlords starting fixing SlashCode already? I haven't seen a "Slow Down Cowboy" message today so far...
The text Episode IV A NEW HOPE was added in 1980 when Episode V THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK was released.
This is great news for preserving an important part of cinematic history that its creator wants to bury.
If you're like me and prefer to watch the Special Editions, consider Adywan's ANH:Revisited, a fan edit that is truly what the special editions should have been. He's been working on ESB for the past 7 years, mostly due to a meticulous attention to detail but plans to Revisit ROTJ as well. He's presently re-shooting the Han in Carbonate model to fix a costume continuity error.
The list of changes to ANH is shamelessly pasted below:
1 - Star Wars Logo: originally it receded way too quickly so this has been slowed down to match the speed in the rest of the saga.
2 - The crawl appears slightly earlier now, as it did pre ANH, so it appears at the correct music cue that Williamsâ(TM) intended, and how I remember it.
3 - As the camera pans down to Tatooine you now see the 3 moons instead of just 2
4 - Tatooine now rotates slightly as the ships fly overhead
5 - Re-coloured all lasers
6 - Removed the horrible blue hazing as the stardestroyers engine come into view
7 - Changed the explosion as the Tantive IV is hit to remove a lot of the smoke.
8 - Added a jerk to the motion of the Tantive IV as it is hit
9 - Speeded up the star field in that shot so the Tantive IV seems to be moving as fast as it did in previous shots.
10 - Colour correction of the whole film to remove the blue tint. The Tantive IVâ(TM)s walls are now white.
11 - Re-coloured R2â(TM)s dome lights throughout the movie so they match closer to the rest of the saga. The front light now blinks from red to blue.
12 - Re-edited the Tantive IV corridor battle to fix continuity issues where troopers die more than once.
13- Added blaster flashes to all blasters that have them missing as they fire.
14 - Added blast flashes to the troopers where they are hit
15 - Corrected issues where the blasters flash as if they were fired on set but no laser bolts were present. Added the lasers to fix this throughout.
16 - Fixed the jump cut where 3PO & R2 cross the corridor on the Tantive IV & the doorway explodes.
17 - When Vader enters the Tantive IV a Stormtrooper lets go of the head of a dead trooper but that you can see that the actor slowly lowers his head. This has been fixed and the troopers head now drops at speed more like a dead body.
18 - Added blinking lights to Vaderâ(TM)s chest plate
19 - Vaderâ(TM)s eyes re-coloured to remove the red tint.
20 - When 3PO is looking for R2 a trooper falls to the floor behind him as if he has been shot but there is no laser fire. Added some lasers & a flash as the trooper is hit.
21 - Smoothed / fixed the jump cut as R2 extends his third leg and heads for 3PO & the one where he leaves 3PO
22 - Fixed the error in the scene where Vader is strangling Antilles the trooper in the background changes position in one shot. Originally his legs are closed and his blaster is in a totally different position.
23 - Fixed an FX issue when Leia is hit by the stun blaster the glow effect is missing on part of her dress.
24 - In the scene where R2 presses the button to open the pod door you now see his arm retract
25 - Re-coloured the interior of the escape pod to blue due to continuity issues in this scene.
26 - As the escape pod blasts off it now begins to rotate as it does in the rest of the shots
27 - When the imperial commander says âoehold your fireâ the trajectory of the escape pod has been changed so it is heading downwards and away from the ship instead or just heading straight which caused a continuity error in the next shot as we see the underbelly of the stardestroyer , which means it was heading downwards.
28 - Changed the stars & stardestroyer view from inside the pod so the ship & stars now recede at different rates
29 - You now see the escape pod enter the atmosphere of Tatooine.
30 - Every FX shot has been either touched up or redone in some form or another, but too many t
Does this mean there is finally a print of Star Wars that can be submitted to the National Film Registry, only 27 years after a copy was requested on its induction?
Don't forget to prefix that with a:
ionice -c 3
or you'll kill your performance.
1. Laser beams diverge with distance from the aperture, so the cross-section of the beam will be quite wide by the time it hits the aircraft. This makes aiming much easier. It will reduce the intensity at any given point but that doesn't matter as much as you might think (see below).
2. Laser pointers in the >200mW range are now easily available. Exposure to 50mW for longer than a few milliseconds is enough to cause permanent blindness.
3. Pilots eyes are dark-adjusted to see what's outside, as you will well know being a former pilot yourself. Any bright light source, especially green, will be enough to over-stimulate the retina's rod cells and cause temporary blindness. Imagine a camera flash in your face while driving at night.
4. A troublemaker does not have to aim the laser directly into a pilots eyes, just anywhere on the cockpit window surface. Dirt and microscopic abrasions on the glass will ensure enough scattering to light up the whole panel like a disco floor tile.
I have been impressed with the strong community surrounding R, and the excellent third party libraries that are available in the CRAN.
What is your view on the various third party GUIs that exist for R, such as RStudio, Tinn-R and RExcel? Do you use or recommend any of them?
There is no reason to think that other "smart" TVs don't do exactly the same.
This is part of companies pushing the IdiOT first as a premium option, now as standard in the mistaken belief that people actually want that crap.
Why is this poorly-researched inflammatory crap on Slashdot again?
Is someone looking to siphon yet more funding away from gender-neutral coding projects and into more "X for women" programmes?
I haven't found a better way to persistently run remote graphical programs than with X11 via xpra.
What do you suggest instead? VNC? RDP?