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"Sarcasm aside, Episodes I and II are dumbed-down versions of Star Wars."
Maybe it's just me, and maybe it's just because I've rewatched it recently. I wouldn't exactly call SW:ANH good or smart writing. It was a fun movie, with bad acting, Sir. Alec Guinness notwithstanding (actually, everyone but Han, Obi Wan and Tarkin were annoying this time around,) a pretty cheesy storyline, held together by three things (for me) : amazing special effects, an outstanding soundtrack and memories of when I saw it at the drive in when I was 5.
Come to think of it, the end has always bothered me : a small fleet of rebel starfighters attack a battle station the size of a moon, that housed "legions of Imperial troops and fightercraft" (starwars.com), yet, the Imperials only launch at best an equal number of fighters to repel the attack?! They were there to eliminate the Rebel threat, but they leave the vast majority of their fighters in the hangar??! Vader says (paraphrased) "Several of the fighters have broken attack formation, follow me." he brings TWO pilots with him!! This is supposed to be a fully operational battlestation ; did they forget the fighters and pilots somewhere?! Actually, if they intended to end the Rebel threat forever, why isn't the majority of the Imperal FLEET there? Two movies later, it took the entire fleet to (almost) repel the Rebel attack!
I'd hate to admit it, but I had the same "What did I see in this movie when I was kid" feeling that I had when I rewatched Krull. It was fun, too, but lacked substance. It had acting on par with SW:ANH but the soundtrack was great and the effects were very well done.
Empire Strikes Back was another beast however : that will always be Star Wars to me.
It's too late for that. The only reason there is widespread usage of WMA is because Windows Media Player was/is bundled. That's why the bundled player is bad. The codec would never have seen use otherwise.
Hate to break it to you, but Gene Roddenberry began work on the new Star Trek in 1975 (Two years before Star Wars had any sway)... Originaly for TV, it evolved into a Motion Picture later on. Not to mention the cartoon between 1973 and 1975.
Star Trek was HUGE in the 70s, moreso than when it was in original runs.
Methinks that maybe you weren't born when Star Wars or Star Trek made their original theater runs:)
In a nutshell, DNG proposes to do what TIFF did with image files, eliminate the need for proprietary file formats. That's the end of the similarities though.
Current RAW files are proprietary, Canon stores the data differently that Nikon for example. What they store is the same : raw CCD data, more importantly pre-processed CCD data. Bayer Interpolation and in camera processing have NOT taken place when the file is stored. Think of a RAW file as a negative, even before it's been developed.
Contrast this with TIFF (when I say TIFF i don't mean what it is capable of, but how it's used right now). TIFFs will have at least seen Bayer Interpolation and in camera processing (contrast, sharpness, white balance etc.) before storage. TIFF is a result of RAW data manipulation. In some ways, it's the negative after it's been developed, and in others, it's the pre-print image being tweaked.
Where DNG hopes to fit in is to create a unified RAW format. Hope it works out.
No, I don't think it's your sexual affinity, I think that it's the fact that you are a total bigot. Parent post didn't even hint at gay, rather (s)he mentioned location and lifestyle, yet you're up in arms. Spend less time looking for ways to take offence to what people have to say.
You assume parent poster isn't gay, you assume that parent is male and that (s)he doesn't participate in anal sex. And you got all of that from a rather insightful post from the parent. Hope you make yourself sick, you certainly make me feel that way. Because yes, you are way prejudiced, and fucking paranoid to boot.
Don't even think that because you're straight and don't take it in the ass that you're immune.
You realise where you're posting - a giant blog populated by a like-minded group of individuals who are generealy stereotyped as unwashed, Star Trek convention attending virgins who live in their basement decorated with Farscape posters? What an idiotic thing to say to an audience that is probably most sensitive to any group that is that has been the target of stereotypes and misconceptions.
Star Trek II was the first CGI scene (the genesis project filmette). Young Sherlock Holmes was the first to have cgi in a live action shot (the stained glass window knight)
Tron was released three years before Young Sherlock holmes, depending on what you pictured as a live action shot, Tron has YSH beat.
You definitly have a very well expressed, though utterly offtopic opinion:)
The courtrooms use the latest advanced technology to facilitate the presentation of both testimony and evidence to the court
You do understand that these video montiors are in the court room, along with the evidence, accused, jury and judge? That they are there to help review evidence, or a court document without having to pass it or have it showcased?
It's not about taking Judge Judy to the next level - a new reality TV series. It's not about telecommuting juries. It has nothing to do with facing your accused - it has to do with speeding up court processes by making information more accessible within the courtroom.
So don't fret, the court is still the same gestalt of smells and sights and sounds, just that now, the testimony may be easier to hear, and the evidence more accesible. How on earth is that bad?
Once upon a time, a certain vendor recommended monthly reboots of their server which collected call data from one of their products. This may have changed with newer releases. The server ran Solaris.
Of course that's not to say it was a Solaris problem. Point is, by UNIX systems parent might have meant systems with UNIX as an OS, but running other crappy code on it?
I think that the recommendation was more to cover their posteriors : If for some reason the software failed, and the customer didn't do the monthly reboots, how's fault is it?! Of course, our server ran problem free with over 2 years of uptime before a drive failure ruined that.
I see your point, except that taux de panne translates to failure rate, not bug(disclaimer, quebec french, not France french!). Thus, the average failure rate requiring a reboot was measured around 8% per session. Example, IE may have crashed 100 times during a session, but only 8 led to a reboot.
"why would they measure that "per session"?"
I'd equate that to saying someting like "You have a 2% chance of a having fatal car accident during a road trip." This does not tell you the odds of any accident, just the really bad ones.
Firstly, hate to break it to you, but "Windows fails 8% of the time" != "8% of windows failures require a reboot" was exactly my point. Sorry if the subtlety was lost on you.
Secondly, no where in the FA do they specify the percentage of windows failures, in fact - apart from the breakdown by OS version, the only thing they do mention with regards to windows failures is roughy translated "the average failure rate which required a reboot is measured at around 8% per session" ("le taux de panne moyen nécessitant un redémarrage du système est mesuré autour de 8% par session.")
So danila, I really hope you didn't base your comments on a google translation. Because yes, I did RTFA, and yes, French was my native language.
"I suspect the charitable donations from every Linux distro CEO combined would fall well short of this."
Ohhhh, big sacrifice. The sum of Bill's donations is probaly far far less that the intrest he'd accumulate leaving his fortunes in a bank account. My hero!
Had it occured to you that said CEOs don't make a fraction of a money that Bill has in the bank? I'd wager the Linux distro CEOs donate a far larger percentage of their money to charity than Bill does.
I for one, donate a much, MUCH larger percentage of my earnings each year to charity, on top of participating in charity events to raise money. It makes an impact on my lifestyle, I have to do without many things because i've chosen to support charities. On top of that, all the money I have is made through an honest day's work ; I haven't screwed taxpayers, or businesses, or customers to get it.
At what point are you willing to overlook all of the bad that was done, just because some good came out of it in the end? I suppose you also support animal testing because it makes cosmetics safe for human use?
P.S. Bill was a cheap ass charity wise before he married Belinda. She deserves the credit, not Bill.
Hospitals run Windows, Pharmacists run Windows... I'd hate to not get medicine in a timely fashion because of a computer outage - simply because my Pharmacy wasn't one of Microsoft's preferred customers and failed to install a critical update as a result.
But since you're looking for an example, I believe the power outage last year was due in part to software failure. While the software itself did not cost any lives, the resultant loss of power did.
You may have made a valid and intelligent point, but many here will overlook it simply because of your lazy spelling and near total lack of proper punctuation.
Consider spending the extra few seconds to spell out words... it's worth it in the long run. You'll increase your audience and credibility.
P.S. Loki catered to the 'massive' linux gamer's market... turns out not to be so massive as you might think.
Must be from the same R&D lab that brought us their new Walkman that somehow stores 13,000 songs on a 20GB drive when an iPod can only fit 5,000 on the same.
Claiming that the iPod can fit 5,000 songs is 20GB is equally misleading. The 20GB iPod can store rougly 20GB of data. Depending on how much compression you use, you can get much more, or much less than 5,000 files on an iPod.
ATRAC LP4 can probably fit around 13,000 songs in that much space. Sounds like crap but it will fit. Likewise, I could only get ~2500 or less songs on a 20GB iPod with the level of compression I use.
When you go to your department store and you buy 10 Cognac glasses and two weeks later you break two of them, the store doesn't give you two backup copies
He doesn't sell congnac glasses, he doesn't even sell cognac! He sells the right to drink a particular cognac.
So I am bound to ask Jack : If I have pruchased the right to drink a particular cognac from you, does it still need to be in the glass you sold it to me in to exercise that right? Can I not pour some of the congac in another glass in case I break the original one. I have, afteral, purchased the extra glass.
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Maybe it's just me, and maybe it's just because I've rewatched it recently. I wouldn't exactly call SW:ANH good or smart writing. It was a fun movie, with bad acting, Sir. Alec Guinness notwithstanding (actually, everyone but Han, Obi Wan and Tarkin were annoying this time around,) a pretty cheesy storyline, held together by three things (for me) : amazing special effects, an outstanding soundtrack and memories of when I saw it at the drive in when I was 5.
Come to think of it, the end has always bothered me : a small fleet of rebel starfighters attack a battle station the size of a moon, that housed "legions of Imperial troops and fightercraft" (starwars.com), yet, the Imperials only launch at best an equal number of fighters to repel the attack?! They were there to eliminate the Rebel threat, but they leave the vast majority of their fighters in the hangar??! Vader says (paraphrased) "Several of the fighters have broken attack formation, follow me." he brings TWO pilots with him!! This is supposed to be a fully operational battlestation ; did they forget the fighters and pilots somewhere?! Actually, if they intended to end the Rebel threat forever, why isn't the majority of the Imperal FLEET there? Two movies later, it took the entire fleet to (almost) repel the Rebel attack!
I'd hate to admit it, but I had the same "What did I see in this movie when I was kid" feeling that I had when I rewatched Krull. It was fun, too, but lacked substance. It had acting on par with SW:ANH but the soundtrack was great and the effects were very well done.
Empire Strikes Back was another beast however : that will always be Star Wars to me.
It's too late for that. The only reason there is widespread usage of WMA is because Windows Media Player was/is bundled. That's why the bundled player is bad. The codec would never have seen use otherwise.
Hate to break it to you, but Gene Roddenberry began work on the new Star Trek in 1975 (Two years before Star Wars had any sway)... Originaly for TV, it evolved into a Motion Picture later on. Not to mention the cartoon between 1973 and 1975.
:)
Star Trek was HUGE in the 70s, moreso than when it was in original runs.
Methinks that maybe you weren't born when Star Wars or Star Trek made their original theater runs
Sure thing (Since i don't suspect their web server will be revived anytime soon, you can use it on other sites for now)
Ideally you're right. Unfortunately, most large companies act as though the shareholders are the most important.
In a nutshell, DNG proposes to do what TIFF did with image files, eliminate the need for proprietary file formats. That's the end of the similarities though.
Current RAW files are proprietary, Canon stores the data differently that Nikon for example. What they store is the same : raw CCD data, more importantly pre-processed CCD data. Bayer Interpolation and in camera processing have NOT taken place when the file is stored. Think of a RAW file as a negative, even before it's been developed.
Contrast this with TIFF (when I say TIFF i don't mean what it is capable of, but how it's used right now). TIFFs will have at least seen Bayer Interpolation and in camera processing (contrast, sharpness, white balance etc.) before storage. TIFF is a result of RAW data manipulation. In some ways, it's the negative after it's been developed, and in others, it's the pre-print image being tweaked.
Where DNG hopes to fit in is to create a unified RAW format. Hope it works out.
No, I don't think it's your sexual affinity, I think that it's the fact that you are a total bigot. Parent post didn't even hint at gay, rather (s)he mentioned location and lifestyle, yet you're up in arms. Spend less time looking for ways to take offence to what people have to say.
You assume parent poster isn't gay, you assume that parent is male and that (s)he doesn't participate in anal sex. And you got all of that from a rather insightful post from the parent. Hope you make yourself sick, you certainly make me feel that way. Because yes, you are way prejudiced, and fucking paranoid to boot.
Don't even think that because you're straight and don't take it in the ass that you're immune.You realise where you're posting - a giant blog populated by a like-minded group of individuals who are generealy stereotyped as unwashed, Star Trek convention attending virgins who live in their basement decorated with Farscape posters? What an idiotic thing to say to an audience that is probably most sensitive to any group that is that has been the target of stereotypes and misconceptions.
You'd be smart to apologise to parent poster.
I think you got what you asked for.... But fancy what happens when you search for "computer store spadina" in Tornoto, Ontario :
And the list goes on....
Moral of the story : It's still a search engine, never hurts to refine your search
Tron was released three years before Young Sherlock holmes, depending on what you pictured as a live action shot, Tron has YSH beat.
You definitly have a very well expressed, though utterly offtopic opinion :)
The courtrooms use the latest advanced technology to facilitate the presentation of both testimony and evidence to the court
You do understand that these video montiors are in the court room, along with the evidence, accused, jury and judge? That they are there to help review evidence, or a court document without having to pass it or have it showcased?
It's not about taking Judge Judy to the next level - a new reality TV series. It's not about telecommuting juries. It has nothing to do with facing your accused - it has to do with speeding up court processes by making information more accessible within the courtroom.
So don't fret, the court is still the same gestalt of smells and sights and sounds, just that now, the testimony may be easier to hear, and the evidence more accesible. How on earth is that bad?
Once upon a time, a certain vendor recommended monthly reboots of their server which collected call data from one of their products. This may have changed with newer releases. The server ran Solaris.
Of course that's not to say it was a Solaris problem. Point is, by UNIX systems parent might have meant systems with UNIX as an OS, but running other crappy code on it?
I think that the recommendation was more to cover their posteriors : If for some reason the software failed, and the customer didn't do the monthly reboots, how's fault is it?! Of course, our server ran problem free with over 2 years of uptime before a drive failure ruined that.
I half expected this wordcount thing to, well, count real English words. OMG ranks at 43712.
:/
P.S. WTF Did not rank
1/3 of the movie is hardly the entire movie, which is what Sky Captain is claiming.
I see your point, except that taux de panne translates to failure rate, not bug(disclaimer, quebec french, not France french!). Thus, the average failure rate requiring a reboot was measured around 8% per session. Example, IE may have crashed 100 times during a session, but only 8 led to a reboot.
"why would they measure that "per session"?"
I'd equate that to saying someting like "You have a 2% chance of a having fatal car accident during a road trip." This does not tell you the odds of any accident, just the really bad ones.
I'll see your bullshit, and raise you an RTFA.
Firstly, hate to break it to you, but "Windows fails 8% of the time" != "8% of windows failures require a reboot" was exactly my point. Sorry if the subtlety was lost on you.
Secondly, no where in the FA do they specify the percentage of windows failures, in fact - apart from the breakdown by OS version, the only thing they do mention with regards to windows failures is roughy translated "the average failure rate which required a reboot is measured at around 8% per session" ("le taux de panne moyen nécessitant un redémarrage du système est mesuré autour de 8% par session.")
So danila, I really hope you didn't base your comments on a google translation. Because yes, I did RTFA, and yes, French was my native language.
"Windows Fails 8% of the Time"
No. 8% of Windows failures require a reboot. Big difference.
You should have. They mention at the bottom of the article one of the best practice recommendations is to adopt the use of open source systems.
FYI the article does say that professionals prefer Windows 2000 over XP 83% of the time. Or something like that.
Ohhhh, big sacrifice. The sum of Bill's donations is probaly far far less that the intrest he'd accumulate leaving his fortunes in a bank account. My hero!
Had it occured to you that said CEOs don't make a fraction of a money that Bill has in the bank? I'd wager the Linux distro CEOs donate a far larger percentage of their money to charity than Bill does.
I for one, donate a much, MUCH larger percentage of my earnings each year to charity, on top of participating in charity events to raise money. It makes an impact on my lifestyle, I have to do without many things because i've chosen to support charities. On top of that, all the money I have is made through an honest day's work ; I haven't screwed taxpayers, or businesses, or customers to get it.
At what point are you willing to overlook all of the bad that was done, just because some good came out of it in the end? I suppose you also support animal testing because it makes cosmetics safe for human use?
P.S. Bill was a cheap ass charity wise before he married Belinda. She deserves the credit, not Bill.
Hospitals run Windows, Pharmacists run Windows... I'd hate to not get medicine in a timely fashion because of a computer outage - simply because my Pharmacy wasn't one of Microsoft's preferred customers and failed to install a critical update as a result.
But since you're looking for an example, I believe the power outage last year was due in part to software failure. While the software itself did not cost any lives, the resultant loss of power did.
The big question is : How long until P'eer returns to Earth having amassed all of the knowledge of the Universe?
You may have made a valid and intelligent point, but many here will overlook it simply because of your lazy spelling and near total lack of proper punctuation.
Consider spending the extra few seconds to spell out words... it's worth it in the long run. You'll increase your audience and credibility.
P.S. Loki catered to the 'massive' linux gamer's market... turns out not to be so massive as you might think.
Silly buggers. They would have made alot more money patenting filenames for file identification!
Must be from the same R&D lab that brought us their new Walkman that somehow stores 13,000 songs on a 20GB drive when an iPod can only fit 5,000 on the same.
Claiming that the iPod can fit 5,000 songs is 20GB is equally misleading. The 20GB iPod can store rougly 20GB of data. Depending on how much compression you use, you can get much more, or much less than 5,000 files on an iPod.
ATRAC LP4 can probably fit around 13,000 songs in that much space. Sounds like crap but it will fit. Likewise, I could only get ~2500 or less songs on a 20GB iPod with the level of compression I use.
90%?? Your point is well taken, but unless XP SP2 also installs on 2000, ME, 98, 95 and under Wine, you've overestimated it's impact by a longshot.
He doesn't sell congnac glasses, he doesn't even sell cognac! He sells the right to drink a particular cognac.
So I am bound to ask Jack : If I have pruchased the right to drink a particular cognac from you, does it still need to be in the glass you sold it to me in to exercise that right? Can I not pour some of the congac in another glass in case I break the original one. I have, afteral, purchased the extra glass.