I thought what they had done was to scan from the original film at full width and high resolution. It's then your choice if you want to crop off the top and bottom to give a widescreen view, or for example crop the left and right sides to give a special portrait view.
I haven't used Blu-ray but you're implying it's not quite as super high resolution as one would like, so there isn't enough headroom to stretch by 25% without losing quality. There is a world of difference between high quality and low quality scaling algorithms, however; a 1.25 scaling might not look as bad as you imagine.
I guess that twenty years from now everyone will have to buy ST:TNG all over again remastered into 8000x6000 IMAX quality. Then, finally, your home player will be able to mess with the aspect ratio and still have comfortably enough pixels to not lose noticeable image quality.
The Windows graphical interface reached its peak of usability with Windows 95 / Windows NT 4.0. Since then it has been accumulating useless crap that you have to turn off to get a usable system. With each new Windows version you have to spend an additional 15 minutes configuring it to turn off the animations / animated puppies / 'intelligent' start menus / whatever. Windows 8 will have an option to switch to the normal interface, it will just cost you 15 additional minutes to find it in control panel.
If a leap year is a year that contains one extra day, then surely a leap day is a day that contains one extra second, as happens from time to time to adjust UTC for the earth's rotation. (The extra second is always added just before midnight.) But then, people call that a 'leap second', even though it is exactly the same length as any other second...
I was really hoping they would attempt to create a wide-screen version of the series by over-scaning the original film, cropping the top and bottom a tad, and stretching a tad to end up with 16:9.
Surely a decent player or TV will have an option to do that for you?
just how would you balance the attempt to limit damage by stupid endusers who will click on anything remotely interesting?
Provide a sane, one-click way to say "Run this app, but don't let it overwrite any of my stuff or access any of my files except those I explicitly drag onto it from the Finder". Technically not hard to do using a bit of sandboxing. The difficulties are in making a straightforward user interface to permit access to individual files (though if anyone can do it, Apple can) and dealing with legacy apps that expect unreasonable write permissions to all sorts of crufty places on the filesystem.
There's a missing step: nobody has reimplemented classic 16-bit WinDOS like Windows 3.0 which ran on top of MS-DOS. Going from FreeDOS to ReactOS you would have to jump straight from DOS to Windows NT without going through flaky 16/32 bit mixtures in the middle.
Check the article.
Current GMC customers will be able to use GMC for the duration of their contract
As with anything, you can expect to get what you pay for. Sign up for a five year contract, and you will get the service for five years.
I studied computing at Imperial College London and there was such a setup for lab exams. It would lock down the Linux machine so you couldn't communicate with the Internet or with other computers in the lab, but it would communicate with a central server so you could submit your work. You could contact the Department of Computing to ask if they still have this system and if they would share it.
As I understand it, you might not want to send the whole log activity across the network (imagine a mobile device, say) but you still want to get the security against tampering that this provides. So instead you just send a cryptographic hash of the whole journal once a day - or even print it out to a dot matrix printer as someone else suggested. You can then use that hash to check the whole journal hasn't been tampered with since the hash was generated.
Second, of course this does not provide security against someone nuking the whole log. But if you see the whole of/var/log is gone, that's already a pretty strong indication that something is wrong with your machine. The attack guarded against is someone breaking in and sneakily modifying past log entries to hide their traces.
Third, yes it would be harder to grep than a plain text file. Luckily, Unix also has the concept of pipes, so I guess it won't be any harder than 'journalcat | grep pattern' where journalcat is the tool that spools out the whole journal as text. That should be good enough.
Fourth, if your system is potentially compromised then of course you cannot trust that system to give you an honest answer about what the logs contain. That is equally true with plaintext syslog or any logging system restricted to the local machine. You can, however, take a copy of the whole log entry, put it on a clean machine and analyse it there. The advantage over syslog is that you can use the cryptographic hash (which you were taking a copy of every 24 hours, as above) to check that the journal is uncorrupted. If somebody has tried to mess with the log, they won't be able to do so without you noticing.
"The Journal" has other advantages over syslog, including some measure of checking who is logging what (so you can't start a random process and claim to be apache on port 80 for the purpose of log messages).
Was anyone *paying* Google to use Google Wave? If you had signed up to a five-year support contract you could be pretty sure they would keep it running. The moral of the story is not "you cannot trust anything online" but "you get what you pay for".
I imagined every RDRAM memory stick having a little antenna from which it would receive coded instructions from Rambus HQ to block Intel processors or any software Rambus didn't like.
So... how do these compare to the new Sandy Bridge chips Intel announced on the same day? There must be some overlap of the target market - whether to buy a quad-socket Intel server or dual-socket AMD one, for example.
That doesn't really explain why other panel makers aren't producing 1920x1200 panels. It's not as if there is a monopoly of one company a laptop maker can get screens from, or some special patent Apple holds that prevents others from making 1920x1200 but not smaller sizes. Regrettably, it appears panel and laptop makers have standardized on 16:9 or wider aspect ratios rather than 16:10, and they have done so by reducing the screen height.
A laptop that let you rotate the screen to view it horizontally would be awesome, but I don't see how that could be achieved mechanically.
People were keen to go to the Americas because they had heard about fountains of youth, hoards of gold and jewels, crowds of beautiful pale-skinned women bathing naked in deep blue lakes, and plentiful food and drink -- some of these stories being partly true. Nobody is going to believe that about Mars.
Operating systems can return to the level of simplicity they had back when everything was uniformity slow.
When was that exactly? Only the very earliest, very simple computers didn't have at least two kinds of memory (working memory and storage). And they didn't have an operating system.
So they can at least extract the binaries off them and offer them for other people to install (breaching the GPL, but who's going to sue?). Getting the source would be even more interesting, of course.
I'm surprised the article talks about C# but not F#, which is an Ocaml-like strict functional language running on the.NET runtime. The F# compiler was made free software a year or so ago, I believe.
I just heard this sad news. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss it - even if you didn't understand the work, there's no denying its contributions to physics. Truly an American icon.
In fact, Jeremy Allison (the Samba maintainer) holds officially approved non-Microsoft-puppet status from the Boycott Novell crowd (http://techrights.org/2006/12/31/jeremy-allison-interview/).
AFS? As in Andrew File System? I didn't realize anyone used that in the real world still. I thought it had its own on-disk filesystem at the server end and other weird requirements. How do you set up AFS clients on Windows?
This isn't really anti-aliasing but more like the 'font smoothing' included with early Windows 95, which took the existing low-res image and smudged it a bit. It's debatable whether this technique makes the image more lifelike or text easier to read, but it is a good way to fake up a 'quality' look: at a first glance the smoothed display looks very similar to the high-quality anti-aliased image. Certainly for big, cartoonish images without sub-pixel-level detail the two produce similar results.
Perhaps the best comparison is the hqx series of image scaling algorithms which scale by a factor of 2 or 3 or 4 by guessing the intermediate pixels. You could see this technique as roughly equivalent to scaling up with h2x and then scaling back down again.
For a few dollars worth of custom hardware, your monitor could have a switch to turn on this smoothing effect for the whole display.
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I thought what they had done was to scan from the original film at full width and high resolution. It's then your choice if you want to crop off the top and bottom to give a widescreen view, or for example crop the left and right sides to give a special portrait view. I haven't used Blu-ray but you're implying it's not quite as super high resolution as one would like, so there isn't enough headroom to stretch by 25% without losing quality. There is a world of difference between high quality and low quality scaling algorithms, however; a 1.25 scaling might not look as bad as you imagine. I guess that twenty years from now everyone will have to buy ST:TNG all over again remastered into 8000x6000 IMAX quality. Then, finally, your home player will be able to mess with the aspect ratio and still have comfortably enough pixels to not lose noticeable image quality.
The Windows graphical interface reached its peak of usability with Windows 95 / Windows NT 4.0. Since then it has been accumulating useless crap that you have to turn off to get a usable system. With each new Windows version you have to spend an additional 15 minutes configuring it to turn off the animations / animated puppies / 'intelligent' start menus / whatever. Windows 8 will have an option to switch to the normal interface, it will just cost you 15 additional minutes to find it in control panel.
If a leap year is a year that contains one extra day, then surely a leap day is a day that contains one extra second, as happens from time to time to adjust UTC for the earth's rotation. (The extra second is always added just before midnight.) But then, people call that a 'leap second', even though it is exactly the same length as any other second...
Surely a decent player or TV will have an option to do that for you?
Provide a sane, one-click way to say "Run this app, but don't let it overwrite any of my stuff or access any of my files except those I explicitly drag onto it from the Finder". Technically not hard to do using a bit of sandboxing. The difficulties are in making a straightforward user interface to permit access to individual files (though if anyone can do it, Apple can) and dealing with legacy apps that expect unreasonable write permissions to all sorts of crufty places on the filesystem.
There's a missing step: nobody has reimplemented classic 16-bit WinDOS like Windows 3.0 which ran on top of MS-DOS. Going from FreeDOS to ReactOS you would have to jump straight from DOS to Windows NT without going through flaky 16/32 bit mixtures in the middle.
Check the article. Current GMC customers will be able to use GMC for the duration of their contract As with anything, you can expect to get what you pay for. Sign up for a five year contract, and you will get the service for five years.
"Customers"? WTF? Who pays money for Chrome?
I studied computing at Imperial College London and there was such a setup for lab exams. It would lock down the Linux machine so you couldn't communicate with the Internet or with other computers in the lab, but it would communicate with a central server so you could submit your work. You could contact the Department of Computing to ask if they still have this system and if they would share it.
As I understand it, you might not want to send the whole log activity across the network (imagine a mobile device, say) but you still want to get the security against tampering that this provides. So instead you just send a cryptographic hash of the whole journal once a day - or even print it out to a dot matrix printer as someone else suggested. You can then use that hash to check the whole journal hasn't been tampered with since the hash was generated. Second, of course this does not provide security against someone nuking the whole log. But if you see the whole of /var/log is gone, that's already a pretty strong indication that something is wrong with your machine. The attack guarded against is someone breaking in and sneakily modifying past log entries to hide their traces.
Third, yes it would be harder to grep than a plain text file. Luckily, Unix also has the concept of pipes, so I guess it won't be any harder than 'journalcat | grep pattern' where journalcat is the tool that spools out the whole journal as text. That should be good enough.
Fourth, if your system is potentially compromised then of course you cannot trust that system to give you an honest answer about what the logs contain. That is equally true with plaintext syslog or any logging system restricted to the local machine. You can, however, take a copy of the whole log entry, put it on a clean machine and analyse it there. The advantage over syslog is that you can use the cryptographic hash (which you were taking a copy of every 24 hours, as above) to check that the journal is uncorrupted. If somebody has tried to mess with the log, they won't be able to do so without you noticing.
"The Journal" has other advantages over syslog, including some measure of checking who is logging what (so you can't start a random process and claim to be apache on port 80 for the purpose of log messages).
Was anyone *paying* Google to use Google Wave? If you had signed up to a five-year support contract you could be pretty sure they would keep it running. The moral of the story is not "you cannot trust anything online" but "you get what you pay for".
I imagined every RDRAM memory stick having a little antenna from which it would receive coded instructions from Rambus HQ to block Intel processors or any software Rambus didn't like.
So... how do these compare to the new Sandy Bridge chips Intel announced on the same day? There must be some overlap of the target market - whether to buy a quad-socket Intel server or dual-socket AMD one, for example.
That doesn't really explain why other panel makers aren't producing 1920x1200 panels. It's not as if there is a monopoly of one company a laptop maker can get screens from, or some special patent Apple holds that prevents others from making 1920x1200 but not smaller sizes. Regrettably, it appears panel and laptop makers have standardized on 16:9 or wider aspect ratios rather than 16:10, and they have done so by reducing the screen height. A laptop that let you rotate the screen to view it horizontally would be awesome, but I don't see how that could be achieved mechanically.
People were keen to go to the Americas because they had heard about fountains of youth, hoards of gold and jewels, crowds of beautiful pale-skinned women bathing naked in deep blue lakes, and plentiful food and drink -- some of these stories being partly true. Nobody is going to believe that about Mars.
Since it's written in Java, they can just run it on the .NET virtual machine using IKVM.
When was that exactly? Only the very earliest, very simple computers didn't have at least two kinds of memory (working memory and storage). And they didn't have an operating system.
So they can at least extract the binaries off them and offer them for other people to install (breaching the GPL, but who's going to sue?). Getting the source would be even more interesting, of course.
I'm surprised the article talks about C# but not F#, which is an Ocaml-like strict functional language running on the .NET runtime. The F# compiler was made free software a year or so ago, I believe.
I just heard this sad news. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss it - even if you didn't understand the work, there's no denying its contributions to physics. Truly an American icon.
In fact, Jeremy Allison (the Samba maintainer) holds officially approved non-Microsoft-puppet status from the Boycott Novell crowd (http://techrights.org/2006/12/31/jeremy-allison-interview/).
AFS? As in Andrew File System? I didn't realize anyone used that in the real world still. I thought it had its own on-disk filesystem at the server end and other weird requirements. How do you set up AFS clients on Windows?
This isn't really anti-aliasing but more like the 'font smoothing' included with early Windows 95, which took the existing low-res image and smudged it a bit. It's debatable whether this technique makes the image more lifelike or text easier to read, but it is a good way to fake up a 'quality' look: at a first glance the smoothed display looks very similar to the high-quality anti-aliased image. Certainly for big, cartoonish images without sub-pixel-level detail the two produce similar results. Perhaps the best comparison is the hqx series of image scaling algorithms which scale by a factor of 2 or 3 or 4 by guessing the intermediate pixels. You could see this technique as roughly equivalent to scaling up with h2x and then scaling back down again. For a few dollars worth of custom hardware, your monitor could have a switch to turn on this smoothing effect for the whole display.
Of course not, they entered it into Wolfram Alpha which turned up that it had previously been used for The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth...
This is really cool. Now we just need to have web2js instead of web2c, and we can typeset documents with TeX in the browser.