Actually, digital shots are still uncommon, Attack of the Clones being the first to be the first live feature film ever to be entirely shot digitally (I said live, which means without counting 3D animation movies, which obviously are all 100% digital as well).
AoTC was not shot digitally. It was shot on 35mm film, as were all the other Star Wars films, and just about any other film you can think of. Digitial still has a ways to go before it catched up with film. It's getting getter - I've seen some stuff shot on hi def which looks okay - but it ain't there yet.
Also, the american forces are a bit naïve. On another excercise, navy SEALs were to rescue 2 prisoners from a building on the top of a hill. They left a bunch of equipment behind, as the excercise did not allow for CS gas to be used. The Norwegians responded by having only a couple of gunmen in the building, while digging the others into the ground at the foot of the hill. As the SEALs passed the soldiers by 50 meters, the ones in the building pounded the SEALs with CS, and the dig-in soldiers ran up and shot the confused SEALs in the back. The SEALs complained that they iddin't excpect CS to be use and had no ABC equipment with them. Their colonel apparently gave them a chewing out, becaus they were so incredibly naïve to think that every force in the world would obey the rules...
Good.
Assuming this story is true - which I have no way of knowing - then this is exactly what you want to happen in excercises. You want your soldiers to screw up there so they learn their lessons and don't screw up when it counts. In training excercises between U.S. forces the OPFOR almost always wins.
I'm with you. I ain't paying $10.25 to be bored off my ass for three hours. I'll wait until it's one HBO so I can switch to Futurama when episode three gets boring.
I saw the new version of THX 1138 on a digital projector, and it looked like shit - pixellation everywhere, banding in the highlights and shadows, etc. Now, maybe spending my days in Photoshop has made me hyperaware of digital image quailty, but I can't stand digital projectors and I can tell the difference between digital and film in a heartbeat. Film looks much, much better.
I've spent a lot of time on the Apple forums (I own a new iBook) and the reaction I've seen to the new iMac has been pretty "eh".
There's only one thing Apple fanatics love more than opening the box of their newest Powermac - bitching about how Apple fucked up with every new product. These are the same people who complained that the iPod was ugly and would fail. It's enough to make me avoid Apple forums for a week after a new product announcement.
Uhh...? Is this to imply that InDesign ISN'T stellar? Every Quark and PageMaker layout artist I know who has tried InDesign CS has moved to it with a glad heart. It's a great program.
I haven't found this to be true. InDesign has some nice features Quark doesn't, but it has no killer feature and provides no compelling reason to switch, especially for an organization which has a lot of time and money invested in Quark and Quark-specific workflows.
My opinion is that Adobe thought there was enough ill will against Quark in the industry to create a wave of switching from Quark without offering a competitive product. InDesign 1 was okay, 2 was better, and CD seems to finally be where ID1 should have been at the start. But, unfortunately for Adobe, it will take more. Combine that with the general level of frustration I hear from the latest botched Illustrator upgrade and Adobe's plans haven't panned out.
I don't know how things will pan out in the ID vs. Quark battle, but it's not going to be a quick kill for anyone.
Farscape was one of the few sci fi series in which character development was given precedence over technobabble and stale sci fi conventions. I'm looking forward to the miniseries.
I do know that. Our healthcare system is seriously fucked, but in a different way than the old Soviet system. We do not lack for either resources, doctors or equipment. What we do lack for is a sane system and a way to ensure that good care is available to all.
Actually, beginning in the late 60s, the Soviet Union suffered from a healthcare crisis: declining care, increasing infant mortality, rampant alcoholism, poor standards of sanitation and public hygeine, etc. The life expectancy of a Soviet male in the mid 1980s was six year less than in the 1960s, and the infant mortality rate was three times that of the U.S.
Absolute, complete pile of shit. Beyond melodrama and fell right off teh rating scale: grade Z would've been an improvement. The screenwriter, actors and director should be taken out into an empty field and beaten with bricks.
Schumacher dominates a sport with incredibly intense competition
But that's part of my point: the level of competition in F1 is at an all time low. Ecclestone's remaking of the series into a TV-friendly spectacle has meant that the same three teams dominate the sport year-in and year-out. Compare this to the '80s, when there were five or six drivers who could win the championship at any given time (and when drivers actually passed for the lead) and it's a sad sight. Schumi is definitely a great driver, but he has benefitted from driving in a low time in F1 history. Had Senna not been killed we would be saying, "Schumacher who?"
A TV show here in the UK once analysed Michael Schumacher to learn what makes him the greatest racing driver in the world.
Whoa - stop the hype. There are five or six WRC drivers who could drive circles around Schumacher. The WRC guys will always win in sheer driving skill, cause it takes a enormous level of finesse to drive a 400 hp car down a logging road at 160 km/h.
Schumacher has benefitted immensely from being on the best team of the era in a time when competition in F1 is at an all time low. He has also benefitted greatly from all of the semi-auto shifting and traction control crap in the cars now. In his Bennetton days, before all that, he was infamous for blowing engines with botched downshifts - when the car isn't good, he isn't good. Compare to Senna or Prost, who could (and did) win in less than stellar cars.
In your comment, you dimiss the importance of continuity but then object to the use of technobabble and pseudoscience. If continuity is not that important, why should science be? Isn't that just another constraint they shouldn't have to accept?
Because the backbone of every piece of good fiction is character development. Science and continuity are nice, but they don't make up for having people in the show we care about.
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AoTC was not shot digitally. It was shot on 35mm film, as were all the other Star Wars films, and just about any other film you can think of. Digitial still has a ways to go before it catched up with film. It's getting getter - I've seen some stuff shot on hi def which looks okay - but it ain't there yet.
Sayeth Neal: Like all tricks for dividing people into two groups, this is simplistic, and needs to be taken with a grain of salt.
Sayeth me: Reading comprehension is important.
I wouldn't be worried about the commander. I'd be worried about the new asshole the chiefs would rip me.
Good.
Assuming this story is true - which I have no way of knowing - then this is exactly what you want to happen in excercises. You want your soldiers to screw up there so they learn their lessons and don't screw up when it counts. In training excercises between U.S. forces the OPFOR almost always wins.
I'm with you. I ain't paying $10.25 to be bored off my ass for three hours. I'll wait until it's one HBO so I can switch to Futurama when episode three gets boring.
I saw the new version of THX 1138 on a digital projector, and it looked like shit - pixellation everywhere, banding in the highlights and shadows, etc. Now, maybe spending my days in Photoshop has made me hyperaware of digital image quailty, but I can't stand digital projectors and I can tell the difference between digital and film in a heartbeat. Film looks much, much better.
Learn something new every day!
There's only one thing Apple fanatics love more than opening the box of their newest Powermac - bitching about how Apple fucked up with every new product. These are the same people who complained that the iPod was ugly and would fail. It's enough to make me avoid Apple forums for a week after a new product announcement.
Safari is based on KHTML, so I don't think it would show up as Netscape 7.
I haven't found this to be true. InDesign has some nice features Quark doesn't, but it has no killer feature and provides no compelling reason to switch, especially for an organization which has a lot of time and money invested in Quark and Quark-specific workflows.
My opinion is that Adobe thought there was enough ill will against Quark in the industry to create a wave of switching from Quark without offering a competitive product. InDesign 1 was okay, 2 was better, and CD seems to finally be where ID1 should have been at the start. But, unfortunately for Adobe, it will take more. Combine that with the general level of frustration I hear from the latest botched Illustrator upgrade and Adobe's plans haven't panned out.
I don't know how things will pan out in the ID vs. Quark battle, but it's not going to be a quick kill for anyone.
Funny, I'm working all day with multipe 500+ meg Photoshop files and I find 2 BG of RAM to be a minimum, unless you want to swap out.
Not in my experience.
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Farscape was one of the few sci fi series in which character development was given precedence over technobabble and stale sci fi conventions. I'm looking forward to the miniseries.
I do know that. Our healthcare system is seriously fucked, but in a different way than the old Soviet system. We do not lack for either resources, doctors or equipment. What we do lack for is a sane system and a way to ensure that good care is available to all.
Actually, beginning in the late 60s, the Soviet Union suffered from a healthcare crisis: declining care, increasing infant mortality, rampant alcoholism, poor standards of sanitation and public hygeine, etc. The life expectancy of a Soviet male in the mid 1980s was six year less than in the 1960s, and the infant mortality rate was three times that of the U.S.
Absolute, complete pile of shit. Beyond melodrama and fell right off teh rating scale: grade Z would've been an improvement. The screenwriter, actors and director should be taken out into an empty field and beaten with bricks.
Damn. That was geeky even for Slashdot.
Return On Investment.
What ROI means.
Whoa - stop the hype. There are five or six WRC drivers who could drive circles around Schumacher. The WRC guys will always win in sheer driving skill, cause it takes a enormous level of finesse to drive a 400 hp car down a logging road at 160 km/h.
Schumacher has benefitted immensely from being on the best team of the era in a time when competition in F1 is at an all time low. He has also benefitted greatly from all of the semi-auto shifting and traction control crap in the cars now. In his Bennetton days, before all that, he was infamous for blowing engines with botched downshifts - when the car isn't good, he isn't good. Compare to Senna or Prost, who could (and did) win in less than stellar cars.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/06/3/l_0 63_01.html
Crap! What a time not to be able to think of a Natalie Portman joke!
That's a lot of DNA which will never get passed on.
Because the backbone of every piece of good fiction is character development. Science and continuity are nice, but they don't make up for having people in the show we care about.