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Michael apparently didn't pay a whole lot of attention to the movie. The "aliens" he mentions were actually robots! I'm not sure how he missed it, but they even refer to themselves as such in the movie.
As an append, the movie should be watched as a >robot's< fairy tale. It makes much more sense and is thoroughly enjoyable in that context.
DTS has done this theatrically for some time
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This is old stuff theatrically. One of the many things that makes Digital Theatre Systems (DTS) the premier theatrical digital sound system is that it can be used to control atmospheric effects such as lighting, fog machines, etc. Did anyone get to see the Jurassic Park II trailer with light effects? Very cool.
The system can also be used to provide synchronized subtitles and, with the simple swap of a CD, foreign language versions of the same physical print.
Why would anyone even care about this until it gets down to the 3-4k range?
As it is, you can get a Sony 24" 16x10 (FW900) for under $2000 (US) now. I know, I'm sitting front of one writing this and it works perfectly at 1920x1200 under both X and on my Macintosh G4 cube (the monitor has a source switch on the front panel).
DVD is also something that irks me in its complete waste of plastic and space. They could easily have gone with jewel cases but opted instead for the rediculously oversized packaing we see today. Note that the vast majority of DVD's don't include ANYTHING inside the case other than a simple list of chapters.
Has anybody here actually seen a digital theatrical presentation. Underwhelming is putting it nicely. The current state of the art would be fine for most home theatres (we're talking home theatres in the Konka-vision realm, not Home Theatres in the Runco realm.)
Two siginificant problems plague theatrical digital projection:
The light valves used in the most common projector are not dense enough. When the image is decompressed (even 1.85:1 digital shows must pass through an anamorphic lens assembly) the vertical spacing of the pixel elements becomes exagerated and very visible at all but the smallest screen sizes.
The projector that will most likely be fielded (using TI's DLP projection technology) uses a color wheel in front of the light valve panel. Because of this, you see a significant amount of color smearing on anything the involves horizontal movement.
The unfortunate thing is that the US is the land of the lowest common denominator and this technology will roll before it's ready.
Thankfully, the startup cost is monstrous and this will prevent a wholesale move to digital projection.
Video production, not "film"
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I believe this was produced entirely in the video domain, so there is no way this can be called a "film".
I guess for the part of the population that are not ambu.latory, this might make some type of sense, but I would think DVD or tape would be a better answer.
Our site defaults to English as the encoding, but we give users the option of selecting a local language version. The i18n support is pretty basic, being mostly limited to navigation and a few relatively static pages.
I basically set a cookie that contains a variable indicating the desired language (default is EN if no cookie). My PHP3 scripts look for files similar to the following index_$lang.php3 where $lang is a two-digit language indicator. If the deisred language page is found, it is displayed. If not, the english version is shown.
For menus, I abstracted the localized portion and substituted variables for all of the strings. The PHP scripts then look for a menu_$lang file to include.
Also, I use the ISO entity descriptions for all of the accented characters so I don't have to worry (as much) about fonts on the client.
Hmmm, that's strange. If Wine-based products are fully native according to your post, why does Paradox under WPO2000 insist on trying to create databases on "D:\". I don't know about you, but I don't have a directory structure under Linux that includes D:\.
The Wave is based on a true incident that occured in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969.
The powerful forces of group pressure that pervaded many historic movements such as Nazism are recreated in the classroom when history teacher Burt Ross introduces a "new" system to his students. And before long "The Wave," with its rules of "strength through discipline, community, and action, " sweeps from the classroom through the entire school. And as most of the students join the movement, Laurie Saunders and David Collins recognize the frightening momentum of "The Wave" and realize they must stop it before it's too late.
My take is that anything that uses Wine is bad for Unix, simply for the fact that it makes sure no vendor will ever actually develope real native applications for Unix.
I've been through this before with OS/2. Vendors simply use one or more libraries to be able to run their Windows product under OS/2. The problem was, these programs are >>>Windows Really, the only thing Wine-based products guarantee is that we'll never see commercial native office applications designed from the ground up for the Unix world.
Btw., has anybody noticed that Paradox in WPO2000 somehow thinks there is a "D:\" somewhere?
Then why no growth at all in 1999? NT has grown in percentage of market share in (I believe) every year that IDC has been tracking this information. Why no growth this year? What happened to its sales? Are you saying that they didn't go into the Linux share?
I don't think you got my original point.
As for Linux causing problems in the Unix world, yes I agree to an extent. There will be some consolidation of Unix sales into the Linux realm. But these migrations most likely would have gone to NT. Again, a problem for Microsoft.
One of the interesting data points provided by IDC showed no (that's zero) growth in NT's market share in 1999. I would attribute that in part to Linux cannibalizing NT's market.
The most disappointing part of WP 8 for Linux is that it doesn't include the SGML support that the Windows version has. Hopefully, this new beta will have this support.
These are being manufactured for non-laptop use. A friend of mine works for the division of IBM that produces these and he thought (as I do) that anyone who would think these could be usable in a laptop forgot to wear their tin-foil hat.
I own over 1000 laserdiscs and have purchased around 40 DVD's. Of the laserdiscs, I've had to replace 4 (one was actually broken in shipping).
Of the DVD's, I've had to have seven replaced for various and sundry problems (can anyone say "The Black Hole"?) and three were never acceptable from an artifacting standpoint (take a look at "The Best Years of Our Lives".) Don't try to say that I don't know what I'm talking about. I managed a movie theatre for many years and have projected many of the movies I own and have attempted to buy on DVD. I know what they look like. In several cases, I also own the LD version of the titles for which I could not get an acceptable version on DVD.
I'll say again, the potential for problems in DVD is significantly higher than LD.
I will also admit that I'm very picky. Things that drive me to distraction (artifacting and edge enhancement) don't bother many of my friends. But, they are coming from VHS and DVD is obviously better in that scenario.
While I own a DVD player, I'm not particularly impressed. The pointless extras are bad enough, but the high incidence of digital artifacting and general software problems are really irritating.
With LD, I never had to watch the disc as soon as I got it. With DVD, I have to watch the whole damn thing immediately to see if it has to be returned.
I've had to return a much larger percentage of DVD's than I ever had to with LD.
Oh well, maybe they'll get it right (and stop remixing old soundtracks and stop digitally enhancing black and white movies) sometime in the next 5-10 years.
Like others (or maybe not), I've used a number of GUI's over the years. Of everything I've used, IBM's Workplace Shell was the most intuitive and productive. What we really need right now is something similar to IBM's CUA guidelines to define user interaction across applications.
We run a test lab in which we need to frequently rebuild machines with the exact same configuration.
I've always meant to look at the kickstart stuff but just never had the time.
This is the perfect tool for me. The only drawback for me is that we generally use a customized RedHat 6.0 CD that contains some additional packages we use internally.
If they could come up with a mechanism to allow me to specify additional packages then I'm all set.
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Sorry to say, but piracy has been around for thousands of years. The whole Napster thing didn't "innovate" the concept of theft.
As an append, the movie should be watched as a >robot's< fairy tale. It makes much more sense and is thoroughly enjoyable in that context.
The system can also be used to provide synchronized subtitles and, with the simple swap of a CD, foreign language versions of the same physical print.
You can find more info at the DTS Cinema site.
As it is, you can get a Sony 24" 16x10 (FW900) for under $2000 (US) now. I know, I'm sitting front of one writing this and it works perfectly at 1920x1200 under both X and on my Macintosh G4 cube (the monitor has a source switch on the front panel).
For the Windows users at work, roaming was the only reason they used Netscape over IE.
Check out Buzilla entry 17048 for info. Doesn't look good.
Hmmm, I think the SpringWalker looks like more fun (and safer).
The MCI part of the name was dropped around the time when WorldCom started the new Generation D campaign.
DVD is also something that irks me in its complete waste of plastic and space. They could easily have gone with jewel cases but opted instead for the rediculously oversized packaing we see today. Note that the vast majority of DVD's don't include ANYTHING inside the case other than a simple list of chapters.
Two siginificant problems plague theatrical digital projection:
- The light valves used in the most common projector are not dense enough. When the image is decompressed (even 1.85:1 digital shows must pass through an anamorphic lens assembly) the vertical spacing of the pixel elements becomes exagerated and very visible at all but the smallest screen sizes.
- The projector that will most likely be fielded (using TI's DLP projection technology) uses a color wheel in front of the light valve panel. Because of this, you see a significant amount of color smearing on anything the involves horizontal movement.
The unfortunate thing is that the US is the land of the lowest common denominator and this technology will roll before it's ready.Thankfully, the startup cost is monstrous and this will prevent a wholesale move to digital projection.
I believe this was produced entirely in the video domain, so there is no way this can be called a "film".
I guess for the part of the population that are not ambu.latory, this might make some type of sense, but I would think DVD or tape would be a better answer.
I basically set a cookie that contains a variable indicating the desired language (default is EN if no cookie). My PHP3 scripts look for files similar to the following index_$lang.php3 where $lang is a two-digit language indicator. If the deisred language page is found, it is displayed. If not, the english version is shown.
For menus, I abstracted the localized portion and substituted variables for all of the strings. The PHP scripts then look for a menu_$lang file to include.
Also, I use the ISO entity descriptions for all of the accented characters so I don't have to worry (as much) about fonts on the client.
Hmmm, that's strange. If Wine-based products are fully native according to your post, why does Paradox under WPO2000 insist on trying to create databases on "D:\". I don't know about you, but I don't have a directory structure under Linux that includes D:\.
The Wave is based on a true incident that occured in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969.
The powerful forces of group pressure that pervaded many historic movements such as Nazism are recreated in the classroom when history teacher Burt Ross introduces a "new" system to his students. And before long "The Wave," with its rules of "strength through discipline, community, and action, " sweeps from the classroom through the entire school. And as most of the students join the movement, Laurie Saunders and David Collins recognize the frightening momentum of "The Wave" and realize they must stop it before it's too late.
My take is that anything that uses Wine is bad for Unix, simply for the fact that it makes sure no vendor will ever actually develope real native applications for Unix.
Btw., has anybody noticed that Paradox in WPO2000 somehow thinks there is a "D:\" somewhere?
I don't think you got my original point.
As for Linux causing problems in the Unix world, yes I agree to an extent. There will be some consolidation of Unix sales into the Linux realm. But these migrations most likely would have gone to NT. Again, a problem for Microsoft.
One of the interesting data points provided by IDC showed no (that's zero) growth in NT's market share in 1999. I would attribute that in part to Linux cannibalizing NT's market.
The most disappointing part of WP 8 for Linux is that it doesn't include the SGML support that the Windows version has. Hopefully, this new beta will have this support.
These are being manufactured for non-laptop use. A friend of mine works for the division of IBM that produces these and he thought (as I do) that anyone who would think these could be usable in a laptop forgot to wear their tin-foil hat.
Of the DVD's, I've had to have seven replaced for various and sundry problems (can anyone say "The Black Hole"?) and three were never acceptable from an artifacting standpoint (take a look at "The Best Years of Our Lives".) Don't try to say that I don't know what I'm talking about. I managed a movie theatre for many years and have projected many of the movies I own and have attempted to buy on DVD. I know what they look like. In several cases, I also own the LD version of the titles for which I could not get an acceptable version on DVD.
I'll say again, the potential for problems in DVD is significantly higher than LD.
I will also admit that I'm very picky. Things that drive me to distraction (artifacting and edge enhancement) don't bother many of my friends. But, they are coming from VHS and DVD is obviously better in that scenario.
With LD, I never had to watch the disc as soon as I got it. With DVD, I have to watch the whole damn thing immediately to see if it has to be returned.
I've had to return a much larger percentage of DVD's than I ever had to with LD.
Oh well, maybe they'll get it right (and stop remixing old soundtracks and stop digitally enhancing black and white movies) sometime in the next 5-10 years.
Like others (or maybe not), I've used a number of GUI's over the years. Of everything I've used, IBM's Workplace Shell was the most intuitive and productive. What we really need right now is something similar to IBM's CUA guidelines to define user interaction across applications.
Note that this is the same company who still handles payroll via paper and Federal Express.
We run a test lab in which we need to frequently rebuild machines with the exact same configuration.
I've always meant to look at the kickstart stuff but just never had the time.
This is the perfect tool for me. The only drawback for me is that we generally use a customized RedHat 6.0 CD that contains some additional packages we use internally.
If they could come up with a mechanism to allow me to specify additional packages then I'm all set.