Oh, and about knocking the unit on the floor - go to staples and pick up some 3M Heavy Duty double sided tape (the thick foam type), and tape your cradle to your desk. This way no matter how much clutter you're plowing around, you avoid sending your PDA over the edge (also works great for mounting wireless mice transmitters to the bottom of your desk).
Get screen overlays (they make the stylus glide), use a bic pen as styli (to avoid losing those expensive styli), enter what you can via PC, don't press down when you write (just glide), and get a nice thick neoprene case.
My black Handspring Visor Deluxe has survived 2 years of college abuse.
I don't think Lucas used digital because it was any "better" in terms of initial image quality. Considering the resolution of modern film stock and that Lucas would only be doing 2 DA/AD conversions when all is said and done, it just doesn't make sense.
What makes sense, however, is that an unedited 2h20m film takes a lot of time to scan for ILM.
According to the various documentaries I've seen, virtually all of the Ep2 scenes have been played with by ILM. Assuming there are 3h20m of raw footage, that's 288,000 frames to scan in.
By using digital, Lucas is not only saving time in skipping that step, but limiting it to 1 or 0 DA/AD conversions. Thus less analog generations are used, and production time (& $$$) is reduced.
Find a quirky sidekick, preferably one that shouts out random non-obscenities such as "Narf!" and "Zoink!"
Craft ingenious plan of global domination, preferably one that will create enough dialog so that when you have the key secret agent in your grasps right before everything goes FUBAR, you can explain it all and end it with a hearty, satisfying "MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"
Hire loyal henchmen and/or build them if the hired ones decide to unionize.
Make allies of space aliens, they're not all that different from the French.
Execute ingenious plan of global domination.
Capture secret agent(s) planning to thwart your plans. Terminate them immediately; DO NOT explain the full details of your ingenious plan of global domination, even if you've written a speech that ends with a hearty, satisfying "MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"
Once global domination is achieved, sub-scientifically document procedure and post on web. Send link to Slashdot & Wired.
Independence = Freedom = Power = Money
And while on that subject... Money = Time = sqrt(Evil)
Girls = Time x Money = Money^2
Girls = (sqrt(Evil))^2
Girls = Evil
"Shines in lab settings, too "The Apple Cinema HD Display is just the ticket for 3D modeling, and for graphics-intensive visualization tasks on the outer reaches of science and engineering. And the Apple Cinema HD Display is a great research partner in yet another sense as well: it emits near-zero electromagnetic output, minimizing the kind of interference with sensitive scientific equipment that can skew readings or results."
Guess that makes it one sexy, big-ass, hi-res, expensive DARK monitor.
This test image was displayed in the same video mode as before (VESA 640 x 480@85Hz).
and that the tests were performed on a Dell D1025HE 17" monitor.
I'd be interested in seeing the results from the same experiment, except with a framed Despair, Inc. poster hanging on an old-skool-Mac beige or old-skool-iMac blue wall, with funky Star Trek red alert lighting (or disco lights too), and two 17" monitors at 1600 x 1200 side by side, with a third 15" montior running some spiffy Winamp visualization at 1024 x 768 to the left
ome, and a funky Sharper Image thing glowing on the desk.
Or you can just do the experiment at 1280 x 1024.
Turbyne
"Guys cry over cars; men cry over boats, but real men cry over guns." - unknown
Well, I don't see many phones in the US NEED color displays, or an actual productive commercial use for a 640x480 digital camera on a cellphone as opposed to a separate megapixel unit. (On a technicality note, if you're referring to the Samsung SCH-V200, Samsung is a Korean company, not a Japanese one.) Although I agree that they have some cool toys in Japan, that is exactly what they are: toys.
Also, in response to the comment
As the USA and UK are generally heralded as technological equals to Japan, this is pretty lame.
Here's a quick list technology the US developed:
F-15 Eagle, [I belive] the first fighter jet with a thrust to weight ratio greater than 1
F-16 Falcon/Viper, exported globally from Israel to Japan
F-117 Nighthawk & F-22 Raptor (Both with stealth, the second with Supercruise)
The Dodge Viper GTS, Chevorlet Corvette C5R, & Ford GT40
Computer processor (notable: ZiLog Z80, Mot 68K, Intel 80486)
PCs
Palm Pilot/PocketPC/Apple Newton
Onstar, DSS, DirectTV,
The orignal idea of the Cellphone
etc.
I'm not trying to say that the US is technologically better than Japan. I'm trying to show that different countries have different strengths in different areas of technology.
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Oh, and about knocking the unit on the floor - go to staples and pick up some 3M Heavy Duty double sided tape (the thick foam type), and tape your cradle to your desk. This way no matter how much clutter you're plowing around, you avoid sending your PDA over the edge (also works great for mounting wireless mice transmitters to the bottom of your desk).
Get screen overlays (they make the stylus glide), use a bic pen as styli (to avoid losing those expensive styli), enter what you can via PC, don't press down when you write (just glide), and get a nice thick neoprene case.
My black Handspring Visor Deluxe has survived 2 years of college abuse.
I don't think Lucas used digital because it was any "better" in terms of initial image quality.
Considering the resolution of modern film stock and that Lucas would only be doing 2 DA/AD conversions when all is said and done, it just doesn't make sense.
What makes sense, however, is that an unedited 2h20m film takes a lot of time to scan for ILM.
According to the various documentaries I've seen, virtually all of the Ep2 scenes have been played with by ILM. Assuming there are 3h20m of raw footage, that's 288,000 frames to scan in.
By using digital, Lucas is not only saving time in skipping that step, but limiting it to 1 or 0 DA/AD conversions. Thus less analog generations are used, and production time (& $$$) is reduced.
Independence = Freedom = Power = Money
And while on that subject...
Money = Time = sqrt(Evil)
Girls = Time x Money = Money^2
Girls = (sqrt(Evil))^2
Girls = Evil
From http://www.apple.com/displays/acd23/
"Shines in lab settings, too
"The Apple Cinema HD Display is just the ticket for 3D modeling, and for graphics-intensive visualization tasks on the outer reaches of science and engineering. And the Apple Cinema HD Display is a great research partner in yet another sense as well: it emits near-zero electromagnetic output, minimizing the kind of interference with sensitive scientific equipment that can skew readings or results."
Guess that makes it one sexy, big-ass, hi-res, expensive DARK monitor.
I'd be interested in seeing the results from the same experiment, except with a framed Despair, Inc. poster hanging on an old-skool-Mac beige or old-skool-iMac blue wall, with funky Star Trek red alert lighting (or disco lights too), and two 17" monitors at 1600 x 1200 side by side, with a third 15" montior running some spiffy Winamp visualization at 1024 x 768 to the left ome, and a funky Sharper Image thing glowing on the desk.
Or you can just do the experiment at 1280 x 1024.
Sorry about the bad grammar, I just had lunch and now I'm getting an MSG buzz..
As the USA and UK are generally heralded as technological equals to Japan, this is pretty lame.
Here's a quick list technology the US developed:
I'm not trying to say that the US is technologically better than Japan. I'm trying to show that different countries have different strengths in different areas of technology.