There are a ton of movies there but there is exactly one movie worth seeing there, Harry Potter. The rest is populated mostly with chinese films and very old first films.
Premier and Cinelerra have horrible interfaces and limited features compared to Vegas. All Premier has going for it is plug in availability. All Cinelerra has going for it is the fact that it runs on Linux.
One of the coolest features is real time previewing of effects which is limited only by system performance. All this for 1/3 the price of Premier.
Vegas's minimum requirements are much less too. It ran well on my PII 384meg running Win98, renders at about 1/3 times real time (4 minute clip renders in 12 minutes). It screams on my new Athlon 1900 1 gig running XP, renders at about 4 times real time (4 minute clip renders in 1 minute).
Disney abondoned in thoughts of running a monorail between it's property and the Orlando airport when they realized it would be way to slow.
They supported the maglev high speed train project that was to run between the airport and EPCOT (with connecting service to Disney hotels via bus and monorail) right up until the point that a stop at Universal/I-drive was also added to the plans. Disney got real uncooperative at that point. Their goal is to keep visitors (and their $$$) on Disney property.
the illiterate and/or those in the 3rd world don't have $214 for a computer nor do they care about them. They just care about feeding their families. This is moronic.
Who really cares? I just dont get all this hype about movie trailers. They are often misleading and dont really give you an acurate feeling for what the movie will be like. It's hard to do that in 30 seconds even with finished clips.
Instituting a program of code reviews (best if done for everything including minor bug fixes, at least for major functionality additions) will catch a lot of stuff up front.
But nothing gives a bigger bang for the buck that developing/purchasing an automated test facility that can run test suites that you develop. Still, those tests will only be as good as your test suites so use a code coverage tool from time to time to make sure you are doing thorough testing.
I agree. The Computer Museum at Moffit Feild is incredible. Tours are by appt only and are well worth the effort. Several Crays, an Enigma, portions of an Apollo guidance computer, Altairs, Apples, tons of PCs, bunches of mainframes, a Hollerith tabulating machine, and the largest collection of adding machines anywhere.
Also the "information age" exhibit at the Smithsoneon is a good one as well. It used to be in the basement of the American History museum and included part of an Eniac, a Hollerith, and quite a few other historical machines.
Why would theaters want to spend the money to go to a digital distribution system? The only thing that is going to cause them to do it is if most of their competition is doing it (see "seating, stadium")
It's very very expensive and the time to return on the investment isn't clear at all.
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Jeff Bezos built the business he wanted to build, not the one Mike Daisey wanted. If Mike Daisey wants a different kind of business, he should build it himself.
It's easy to bitch, not so easy to build a business.
Considering the number of unemployeed sysadmins out there now with degrees and a lot more experience than you, I wouldn't even consider it.
College will be give you 4 years to let the job market come back to life.
What does it really matter if LOTR won or was nominatied for a dozen oscars or zero? Does this affect your enjoyment of the movie or the story any more or less?
The quality of the resulting movie has zero affect on how non-scifi/fantasy fans view this class of story. They just see it as a good movie.
flexRightsA music company can "give" a customer an entire CD of a chart- topping artist for a week. After that week, the digital encryption technology "locks" the music, leaving the consumer with the choice of going online to pay and "unlock" the music, or purchasing the rigid CD from the store. flexRights can also be used with Video and software content.
Uh, and this differs how from standard CDs?
Before anyone calls this "cool", lets look at it a little deeper. Why was this technology created? CDs really dont present a storage problem so thats not it. There isn't any additional capacity so thats not it. They are cheeper and faster to produce but I've not heard too many people whining about the price of blank CDs.
They can be sent as junk mail. Bingo, thats it. If these things take off, AOL could have more bandwidth in the postal service with all these little floppy 650 Meg gems floating around the mail system than their own network.
We shouldn't spend so much energy vilifying Microsoft and more energy understanding the new economy. One where startups with the next new hot idea WANT to be aquired by one of the big boys, maybe even microsoft.
Dont pine for the little guys with the killer app who get eaten up by the big boys, it's probably what they wanted all along
All CS majors at my university worked on a Mac II's running A/UX. We also worked under MacOS (version 6.something at the time). Later classes worked with Amigas, the NT, then PCs running both NT and FreeBSD then PCs running Win2K and various flavors of Linux.
I've not used A/UX since I graduated and moved on from MacOS a few years later.
What did this teach me and all those in the program since then? Use the right OS for the job. Maybe it's commercial maybe not, maybe it's made by Microsoft, maybe not.
If designers fawn over a website, it probably sucks. Sure it's pretty but where the hell do you click to go past the flaming logo on the tunnel page?
Once you decide on a design, make yourself some templates to use for additional pages within the site. Consistency is key.
Think more like google.com and less like foxsports.com
Is it even possible anymore to see something on Slashdot involving Microsoft, even indirectly like this one, without a dig at Microsoft? It really hurts the submitters credibility.
Many of the Linux propagandists on/. remind of people I've worked with who use a single programing language (such a C++) for absolutely everything they do. OS's are no different, none is right for every job.
dialtone is a shared resource just like DSL and Cable. If everyone in my neighborhood picked up the phone at once, they wouldn't get dialtone.
But your local phone company allows you to make just as many local phone calls as you like and never says another word about it. Why? Phone service is a lot more mature that internet service. They are able to build up their infrastructure with a good level of confidence of what the actually use will be. Not true of internet service, may never be true.
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and stop beating the open source drum. I dont think there is anyone here left who needs to be convinced.
There are a ton of movies there but there is exactly one movie worth seeing there, Harry Potter. The rest is populated mostly with chinese films and very old first films.
Please tell me more about a sametime transport for jabberd, I've been looking for such an animal for a while. URL?
I'm really surprised IBM didn't push that gawd awful Sametime garbage.
doesn't sound like it. Since TotalRecorder acts as a psuedo sound driver, this (like most) copy protection scheme wont prevent recording.
Premier and Cinelerra have horrible interfaces and limited features compared to Vegas. All Premier has going for it is plug in availability. All Cinelerra has going for it is the fact that it runs on Linux. One of the coolest features is real time previewing of effects which is limited only by system performance. All this for 1/3 the price of Premier. Vegas's minimum requirements are much less too. It ran well on my PII 384meg running Win98, renders at about 1/3 times real time (4 minute clip renders in 12 minutes). It screams on my new Athlon 1900 1 gig running XP, renders at about 4 times real time (4 minute clip renders in 1 minute).
Disney abondoned in thoughts of running a monorail between it's property and the Orlando airport when they realized it would be way to slow. They supported the maglev high speed train project that was to run between the airport and EPCOT (with connecting service to Disney hotels via bus and monorail) right up until the point that a stop at Universal/I-drive was also added to the plans. Disney got real uncooperative at that point. Their goal is to keep visitors (and their $$$) on Disney property.
It's going to take a lot to find something dumber and a bigger waste of time than this today.
the illiterate and/or those in the 3rd world don't have $214 for a computer nor do they care about them. They just care about feeding their families. This is moronic.
While it's certainly a shorter trip than this guy but it's not around the world either (and a lot less expensive).
Who really cares? I just dont get all this hype about movie trailers. They are often misleading and dont really give you an acurate feeling for what the movie will be like. It's hard to do that in 30 seconds even with finished clips.
Instituting a program of code reviews (best if done for everything including minor bug fixes, at least for major functionality additions) will catch a lot of stuff up front. But nothing gives a bigger bang for the buck that developing/purchasing an automated test facility that can run test suites that you develop. Still, those tests will only be as good as your test suites so use a code coverage tool from time to time to make sure you are doing thorough testing.
I agree. The Computer Museum at Moffit Feild is incredible. Tours are by appt only and are well worth the effort. Several Crays, an Enigma, portions of an Apollo guidance computer, Altairs, Apples, tons of PCs, bunches of mainframes, a Hollerith tabulating machine, and the largest collection of adding machines anywhere.
Also the "information age" exhibit at the Smithsoneon is a good one as well. It used to be in the basement of the American History museum and included part of an Eniac, a Hollerith, and quite a few other historical machines.
Why would theaters want to spend the money to go to a digital distribution system? The only thing that is going to cause them to do it is if most of their competition is doing it (see "seating, stadium") It's very very expensive and the time to return on the investment isn't clear at all.
Jeff Bezos built the business he wanted to build, not the one Mike Daisey wanted. If Mike Daisey wants a different kind of business, he should build it himself.
It's easy to bitch, not so easy to build a business.
Considering the number of unemployeed sysadmins out there now with degrees and a lot more experience than you, I wouldn't even consider it. College will be give you 4 years to let the job market come back to life.
Linux is a marvelous OS but it doesn't need to run on EVERYTHING.
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What does it really matter if LOTR won or was nominatied for a dozen oscars or zero? Does this affect your enjoyment of the movie or the story any more or less? The quality of the resulting movie has zero affect on how non-scifi/fantasy fans view this class of story. They just see it as a good movie.
Uh, and this differs how from standard CDs? Before anyone calls this "cool", lets look at it a little deeper. Why was this technology created? CDs really dont present a storage problem so thats not it. There isn't any additional capacity so thats not it. They are cheeper and faster to produce but I've not heard too many people whining about the price of blank CDs.
They can be sent as junk mail. Bingo, thats it. If these things take off, AOL could have more bandwidth in the postal service with all these little floppy 650 Meg gems floating around the mail system than their own network.
We shouldn't spend so much energy vilifying Microsoft and more energy understanding the new economy. One where startups with the next new hot idea WANT to be aquired by one of the big boys, maybe even microsoft. Dont pine for the little guys with the killer app who get eaten up by the big boys, it's probably what they wanted all along
All CS majors at my university worked on a Mac II's running A/UX. We also worked under MacOS (version 6.something at the time). Later classes worked with Amigas, the NT, then PCs running both NT and FreeBSD then PCs running Win2K and various flavors of Linux.
I've not used A/UX since I graduated and moved on from MacOS a few years later.
What did this teach me and all those in the program since then? Use the right OS for the job. Maybe it's commercial maybe not, maybe it's made by Microsoft, maybe not.
If designers fawn over a website, it probably sucks. Sure it's pretty but where the hell do you click to go past the flaming logo on the tunnel page? Once you decide on a design, make yourself some templates to use for additional pages within the site. Consistency is key. Think more like google.com and less like foxsports.com
Is it even possible anymore to see something on Slashdot involving Microsoft, even indirectly like this one, without a dig at Microsoft? It really hurts the submitters credibility.
/. remind of people I've worked with who use a single programing language (such a C++) for absolutely everything they do. OS's are no different, none is right for every job.
Many of the Linux propagandists on
These are things you learn with experience.
dialtone is a shared resource just like DSL and Cable. If everyone in my neighborhood picked up the phone at once, they wouldn't get dialtone.
But your local phone company allows you to make just as many local phone calls as you like and never says another word about it. Why? Phone service is a lot more mature that internet service. They are able to build up their infrastructure with a good level of confidence of what the actually use will be. Not true of internet service, may never be true.