First of all, I have a hunch that you are a troll. This is evidenced by your screenname made up of random characters, and the fact that you have only posted one comment as a/. member.
Secondly, digital remastering can not lose the detail caused by a pan and scan. Let me give you a runthrough:
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pardon all the o's in my ascii art.../. doesnt handle nonbreaking spaces. actually, pardon my ascii art too, but it proves my point, so i like it.
That explination of a 3:2 pulldown is not appropriate for IMAX.
A 3:2 pulldown converts 24fps into 60 interlaced fields. With interlacing, the motion is kind of 'blurred' together, so the lower framerate is not a real problem. Film is not interlaced, so a 3:2 pulldown would not help the IMAX Experience[tm]. Either they will have to dupe frames, or maybe do some interpolation, but a 3:2 pulldown won't work.
If your ISP provides its users with a default homepage, try adding links to cached EXEs of the updates (aka the EXEs designed for corporate users) to that page. It's convenient, probably faster, et cetera.
This is a stupid idea to begin with (I don't mind when things like this are patented.)
You are already putting yourself at risk by submitting form data (usernames, passwords, et cetera) to a site. There is a slight chance the site will be hacked. Now imagine that you are visiting thousands of sites, with Alexa automatically throwing in your username/password/CC number without regard for the possibility of the site being hacked. I know that there is an option for notifying the user, but most people are lazy/ignorant and will turn the notification off.
Won't large fonts work? These instructions are for PalmOS 4, not sure if they are exactly the same as in PalmOS 5, but in most apps that use multiple-line textboxes, you can write "/" in the grafitti area (starting in the lowerleft corner of the/), write a grafitti "F", and select a bigger font.
If you've got a Creative NOMAD, Notmad Jukebox can serve your tunes from it over the web (Winamp streaming format!!!), and it even acts as a SQL database.
Just hope the client doesn't take the red pill. I'd think a virtual machine would be more vulnerable, as there is potential to trick it to run code "outside the box".
I've always wondered...are liscenses copyrightable or anything like that? Seems that almost all books nowadays, for example, have the same copyright notice on the first leftfacing page. Who wrote it, and are they getting paid? I've even heard about some shareware programs that basically have the entire Microsoft Windows or Office liscense agreement in the disclaimer screens of their intallers. I just find the concept of people illegally copying liscenses hilarious.
They're just changing the world differently now, by their absense.
SonicBlue invented many nifty products, including, obviously, the MP3 player (invented under its former name, Diamond), the audio set top box (they made the chipset in DELL's box), and many other innovations. They'll be missed.
Going along with this, for numbers in the "Hexithousands" (i made that up), use "scientific hexitation" (e.g. cee eff nine times eff to the sixty-fourth power)
There's another convenience: family. My family would kill me if I tried to watch Airplane! on the big screen (they absolutely HATE the movie), but I can watch it from a handy dandy DivX file. Thank god.
You can find stamped VCDs at AllVCD.com...almost all of them are imports, but they are suprisingly cheaper than VHS releases, plus tend to be released earlier. Best of all, they have the STAR WARS trilogy (who says you can't get it in digital format?).
With all these Divx players coming out, I hope that there will still be a market for OGG/Theora (which, if you aren't already in the loop, is essentially VP3 video plus Vorbis audio in a new file format that is MUCH more flexible than AVI) when it's released.
Actually, Divx;) is the name of the hacked MPEG4 codec (versions 3.x and below). Divx is the name of the rental system and the legal (versions 4.x and above) version of the codec, which isn't just a hack of Microsoft's MPEG4.
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Secondly, digital remastering can not lose the detail caused by a pan and scan. Let me give you a runthrough:
pardon all the o's in my ascii art.../. doesnt handle nonbreaking spaces. actually, pardon my ascii art too, but it proves my point, so i like it.A 3:2 pulldown converts 24fps into 60 interlaced fields. With interlacing, the motion is kind of 'blurred' together, so the lower framerate is not a real problem. Film is not interlaced, so a 3:2 pulldown would not help the IMAX Experience[tm]. Either they will have to dupe frames, or maybe do some interpolation, but a 3:2 pulldown won't work.
If your ISP provides its users with a default homepage, try adding links to cached EXEs of the updates (aka the EXEs designed for corporate users) to that page. It's convenient, probably faster, et cetera.
Interesting AND educational? Now let's try to stay away from those oxymorons...
You are already putting yourself at risk by submitting form data (usernames, passwords, et cetera) to a site. There is a slight chance the site will be hacked. Now imagine that you are visiting thousands of sites, with Alexa automatically throwing in your username/password/CC number without regard for the possibility of the site being hacked. I know that there is an option for notifying the user, but most people are lazy/ignorant and will turn the notification off.
Won't large fonts work? These instructions are for PalmOS 4, not sure if they are exactly the same as in PalmOS 5, but in most apps that use multiple-line textboxes, you can write "/" in the grafitti area (starting in the lowerleft corner of the /), write a grafitti "F", and select a bigger font.
WinGroove - it might not seem like much, but it is a kickass software synth.
If you've got a Creative NOMAD, Notmad Jukebox can serve your tunes from it over the web (Winamp streaming format!!!), and it even acts as a SQL database.
If they want to beat Google as a fast, lightweight, and powerful search tool, they probably should kill those Flash banner ads...
Just hope the client doesn't take the red pill. I'd think a virtual machine would be more vulnerable, as there is potential to trick it to run code "outside the box".
Rutroo...doesn't the On2 VP3 codec use DCT compression, too? (see its faq) This could doom OGG Theora...until 2004, at least
I've always wondered...are liscenses copyrightable or anything like that? Seems that almost all books nowadays, for example, have the same copyright notice on the first leftfacing page. Who wrote it, and are they getting paid? I've even heard about some shareware programs that basically have the entire Microsoft Windows or Office liscense agreement in the disclaimer screens of their intallers. I just find the concept of people illegally copying liscenses hilarious.
They're just changing the world differently now, by their absense.
SonicBlue invented many nifty products, including, obviously, the MP3 player (invented under its former name, Diamond), the audio set top box (they made the chipset in DELL's box), and many other innovations. They'll be missed.
Well, if it represented a color (#c0f090), I'd call it light green.
* correction: actually, that would be to the hexihundreds...whatever
Going along with this, for numbers in the "Hexithousands" (i made that up), use "scientific hexitation" (e.g. cee eff nine times eff to the sixty-fourth power)
Won't just "Cee Eff Nine" work?
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Actually, I just use VP3. MPEG4 patents suck!
There's another convenience: family. My family would kill me if I tried to watch Airplane! on the big screen (they absolutely HATE the movie), but I can watch it from a handy dandy DivX file. Thank god.
You can find stamped VCDs at AllVCD.com...almost all of them are imports, but they are suprisingly cheaper than VHS releases, plus tend to be released earlier. Best of all, they have the STAR WARS trilogy (who says you can't get it in digital format?).
With all these Divx players coming out, I hope that there will still be a market for OGG/Theora (which, if you aren't already in the loop, is essentially VP3 video plus Vorbis audio in a new file format that is MUCH more flexible than AVI) when it's released.
(Just a little clarification/correction)
It's trivial...the LZW patent expired a couple months ago ;-)