Sorry but that's a theoretical value. The original negative may have 4000 lines but for editing and replication the film is transfered several times film to film.
What you get in the end is usually not better than HDTV at 1080 lines. The most important exceptions which come to mind are IMAX and 70mm-films, which use larger frames.
To be honest I'm not impressed by Instant Effects' OfficeFX. I believe that presentations moving all the time distract a lot from the content of the presentation
What I would be more interested in is to know with which tools a professional presentation is built with. I guess everyone has had the experience that even when you know powerpoint in and out there is a huge difference between a presentation you can build yourself and some presentations you can see which have been professionally prepared:
The differences I can see:
Charts: What tools are there to make charts/graphs which look better than what excel can do?
How do you draw a schema of your server-farm or your database structure which renders nicely into 3D? I know my way around visio and powerpoint - but it always looks so -- basic.
Transitions: Are there any transitions you can buy without fancy movements but which look like video-transitions?
And let's be clear on another thing. Windows doesn't easily break on its own due to "wear and tear" like a car does (not since ME anyway). When Windows breaks, it's generally because of the actions of someone like this worm creator.
No it's not. Worm creators just find holes microsoft has not yet fixed although they have been there since the software was released.
To put that in the context of your car analogy, it is the same as somebody pouring sugar into the gas tank. That's called vandalism, which (now that I think about it) pretty accurately describes what worm/virus writers do to other people's computers.
Well, imagine a car with 3500 holes where everybody passing by could easily throw things into your gas tank. And every time you complain about it, they close the one hole which was used this time instead of closing them all or - as might be expected - produce a car where the gas tank is properly secured.
I would only blame Microsoft a little. Afterall, there were patches for the vulnerabilities these worms exploited long before they were released into the wild. If anyone shares blame with the worms' author, it's the lazy/incompetant sysadmins who didn't properly secure their systems.
I hope you are aware, that microsoft is mass-marketing their OS to consumers, not only to companies with IT-departments. In a country, where you can sue a company for not advising you not to dry your dog in the microwave, there should me quite some responsibility.
If you tell people that your OS is fit for consumers, there should be no need for a sysadmin or even knowing about virii. If you buy a car, nobody expects you to apply patches to the brakes every other week to keep them working.
Easy one: the teenager. If not for the fact of the teenager lighting that firecracker, the bridge wouldn't have collapsed.
Not as easy as you might think. IANAL but I do have a law degree.
The teenager's action is "conditio sine qua non" - without him, the bridge would still be standing. At the same time the bridge would still be standing if it had been built properly.
This is a question of guilt:
Could the teenager foresee the results of his action?
Was his action fit for bringing down a bridge?
In both cases I would tend to answer no.
The author of this computer virus/worm is certainly guilty to some extend - he did damage on purpose. But at the same time the dimension of the damage is not his fault alone. In real life nobody would let the bridge-builder off the hook. Why is nobody asking if microsoft built the OS as could be expected?
This guy wrote the worms. He is directly responsible for 100% of the damage they caused.
Just compare it to this:
One teenager puts a firecracker on a bridge. As a result, not only does the bridge disintegrate - it starts a chain reaction which destroys 70% of the bridges in the country.
Now tell me: Who is responsible? The teenager who did something potentially dangerous or the people who built bridges which could be brought down by a teenager with a firecracker?
At the moment I'm more worried about ignorant judges who accept DNA-samples too easily. When working with very smale samples, the DNA might get mixed up with somebody else's. Leaving some personal belongings on the scene of crime has been used as evidence for as long as criminal courts have existed. But now it might be possible, that the evidence has been left years before the crime happened. In the end you might be convicted because you visited the scene of the crime and touched some odd place (where nobody put his fingers after you).
Each SCO-post is followed by numerous comments, how bad this development is for linux. I'm not so sure.
To be honest, I expected something like this for a long time. When I first read about linux (I had been using SunOs/Solaris a long time before) and noticed the similiarities to unix (in functionality) I expected the copyright-holder of Unix to do something about it. And at that time this would have been a really bad thing, as it could have killed of linux at an early stage.
The situation now is a lot better: Linux is a strong player on the OS market, many companies (even IBM) are depending in one way or another on linux. It is not easy to kill linux now.
SCO as the current copyright-holder is nearly as good as it gets for our side: The company is acting desperately, attacking the big players (IBM) instead of the weak points.
In the end SCO will fail and when they do, the possibly dangerous copyright-issue unix vs. linux will be resolved.
one of these days people will start recording music they hear on the radio on so called "tape recorders" which enables them to listen to the music again and again without paying for it.
The industry is doomed...
One of the main advantages game-developers see in developing for consoles instead of PCs is that there are no different configurations, no different hardware-components to program for. This reduces the time needed for testing a lot: if the game runs on one playstation - it will run on all playstations.
By changing the configuration of the X-Box Microsoft looses this advantage:
Now developers will have to test their games on X-Box 1.0, X-Box 1.0a, X-Box 1.1, etc.
Oh, and these aren't mutants. The DNA probably isn't being modified at all. If it were, they would be mutants, kinda. Chances are that not all of their DNA would be mutated, like not in every cell and definately not mutated the same in every cell. If they could reproduce and pass on sperm with mutated DNA then yes, you would have mutant offspring. But they're infertile so that isn't going to be happening either.
Another one who read "Safe Radioactivity for dummies". The problem with radiation is that we can't tell for sure what will happen. So statistics tell us, that most flies will be infertile. Ok for me.
But a percentage of the flies will not be infertile. Radiation increases the probability of mutation - we just don't know what might happen.
In general it's a bad idea(TM) to expose living animals/plants/humans to radiation.
Well, Intel's marketing campaign claims, that more Mhz=more speed=faster applications. That's not true either. Have a look at Tom's Hardware Guide where AMD's 1500+ and faster are blowing Intels P4 2Ghz out of the water.
If this is the only way to convince potential customers, that Mhz isn't everything (and you simply cannot "explain" it to them because they won't understand), AMD's pseudo Mhz numbers seem okay to me.
The real stunt the software industry pulled of is that everyone believes that it is impossible to design bugfree and secure software.
Just have a look at a valid software license.
No construction company could claim in front of a court that it is not possible to build a bugfree bridge and so that they are not responsible for it's collapse.
Programming software is not more complicated than building a car or a bridge. Nobody would accept a car with as many bugs and security problems as there are in computer software.
Now imagine a construction company which would demand to gag all security experts who found a security/stability problem in a bridge they build.
You can use transactions in a fast and efficient way in mysql if you need them (www.innodb.com) - or you can choose not to use transactions with the myisam-tables and get the performance. What else can you ask for?
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Sorry but that's a theoretical value. The original negative may have 4000 lines but for editing and replication the film is transfered several times film to film.
What you get in the end is usually not better than HDTV at 1080 lines. The most important exceptions which come to mind are IMAX and 70mm-films, which use larger frames.
What I would be more interested in is to know with which tools a professional presentation is built with. I guess everyone has had the experience that even when you know powerpoint in and out there is a huge difference between a presentation you can build yourself and some presentations you can see which have been professionally prepared:
The differences I can see:
Charts: What tools are there to make charts/graphs which look better than what excel can do?
How do you draw a schema of your server-farm or your database structure which renders nicely into 3D? I know my way around visio and powerpoint - but it always looks so -- basic.
Transitions: Are there any transitions you can buy without fancy movements but which look like video-transitions?
No it's not. Worm creators just find holes microsoft has not yet fixed although they have been there since the software was released.
To put that in the context of your car analogy, it is the same as somebody pouring sugar into the gas tank. That's called vandalism, which (now that I think about it) pretty accurately describes what worm/virus writers do to other people's computers.
Well, imagine a car with 3500 holes where everybody passing by could easily throw things into your gas tank. And every time you complain about it, they close the one hole which was used this time instead of closing them all or - as might be expected - produce a car where the gas tank is properly secured.
I hope you are aware, that microsoft is mass-marketing their OS to consumers, not only to companies with IT-departments. In a country, where you can sue a company for not advising you not to dry your dog in the microwave, there should me quite some responsibility.
If you tell people that your OS is fit for consumers, there should be no need for a sysadmin or even knowing about virii. If you buy a car, nobody expects you to apply patches to the brakes every other week to keep them working.
Not as easy as you might think. IANAL but I do have a law degree.
The teenager's action is "conditio sine qua non" - without him, the bridge would still be standing. At the same time the bridge would still be standing if it had been built properly.
This is a question of guilt: Could the teenager foresee the results of his action? Was his action fit for bringing down a bridge? In both cases I would tend to answer no. The author of this computer virus/worm is certainly guilty to some extend - he did damage on purpose. But at the same time the dimension of the damage is not his fault alone. In real life nobody would let the bridge-builder off the hook. Why is nobody asking if microsoft built the OS as could be expected?
Just compare it to this: One teenager puts a firecracker on a bridge. As a result, not only does the bridge disintegrate - it starts a chain reaction which destroys 70% of the bridges in the country. Now tell me: Who is responsible? The teenager who did something potentially dangerous or the people who built bridges which could be brought down by a teenager with a firecracker?
At the moment I'm more worried about ignorant judges who accept DNA-samples too easily.
When working with very smale samples, the DNA might get mixed up with somebody else's.
Leaving some personal belongings on the scene of crime has been used as evidence for as long as criminal courts have existed. But now it might be possible, that the evidence has been left years before the crime happened.
In the end you might be convicted because you visited the scene of the crime and touched some odd place (where nobody put his fingers after you).
To be honest, I expected something like this for a long time. When I first read about linux (I had been using SunOs/Solaris a long time before) and noticed the similiarities to unix (in functionality) I expected the copyright-holder of Unix to do something about it. And at that time this would have been a really bad thing, as it could have killed of linux at an early stage.
The situation now is a lot better: Linux is a strong player on the OS market, many companies (even IBM) are depending in one way or another on linux. It is not easy to kill linux now.
SCO as the current copyright-holder is nearly as good as it gets for our side: The company is acting desperately, attacking the big players (IBM) instead of the weak points. In the end SCO will fail and when they do, the possibly dangerous copyright-issue unix vs. linux will be resolved.
one of these days people will start recording music they hear on the radio on so called "tape recorders" which enables them to listen to the music again and again without paying for it. The industry is doomed...
Exactly my point. Perhaps you should read my comment again.
By changing the configuration of the X-Box Microsoft looses this advantage: Now developers will have to test their games on X-Box 1.0, X-Box 1.0a, X-Box 1.1, etc.
That's what it looks like in my inbox.
MySQL includes the fabulous InnoDB which offers foreign keys, great performance and row-level locking.
I like this line best:
"Mr Blunkett's son Hugh, who works in computers, is understood to have briefed his father on privacy fears associated with the original proposals. "
Noteworthy that a geek should teach a politician about privacy - an integral part of modern democracy.
Another one who read "Safe Radioactivity for dummies". The problem with radiation is that we can't tell for sure what will happen. So statistics tell us, that most flies will be infertile. Ok for me.
But a percentage of the flies will not be infertile. Radiation increases the probability of mutation - we just don't know what might happen.
In general it's a bad idea(TM) to expose living animals/plants/humans to radiation.
Nothing's wrong with the patent
At least not for several years until the PNG-format is used all over the internet and apple can make a fortune by taking it out of the drawer.
...if they go on releasing trailers at this rate, we'll be able to put the whole film together by january
If this is the only way to convince potential customers, that Mhz isn't everything (and you simply cannot "explain" it to them because they won't understand), AMD's pseudo Mhz numbers seem okay to me.
Just have a look at a valid software license.
No construction company could claim in front of a court that it is not possible to build a bugfree bridge and so that they are not responsible for it's collapse.
Programming software is not more complicated than building a car or a bridge. Nobody would accept a car with as many bugs and security problems as there are in computer software.
Now imagine a construction company which would demand to gag all security experts who found a security/stability problem in a bridge they build.
Censorship?
have you had a look at the innodb-backend in mysql?
>no subselects
will be in 4.x afaik
>no foreign keys
partially implemented for the innodb-backend.
Please have a look at the product before posting FUD.
You can use transactions in a fast and efficient way in mysql if you need them (www.innodb.com) - or you can choose not to use transactions with the myisam-tables and get the performance. What else can you ask for?