John Hodgman was flat as the father. This was not a bad thing. There was not a range of emotion necessary for his part and it fit well for his sort of down persona. Then when he was the other father he sounded a bit creepy, again with a nice effect. The only sound that bothered me with regards to the other father was when it was obvious suddenly that he became the singer of TMBG. That broke the suspension of disbelief.
Dakota Fanning had a range of emotions to express and she did fine. I got a vibe that was refreshing. Most kids are played totally sweet or completely at the other end of the spectrum.
Yes I have seen City of God and that was a very fine movie. That movie had very better acting and much more fleshed-out characters in comparison to Slumdog.
It seemed pointed in such a way so that the western movie goer would think, "I'm glad I'm not in a backwards place like that." I would not like the rest of the world thinking my home was like that. Also except for four characters everyone was 100% stereotype, many of them not a good one. Finally it is western cinema at its core and takes none of the good qualities of Indian cinema, in fact it has a farce of a Bollywood dance number during the end credits that is completely out of place.
I see now your point. The thing is that I think that good actors are good, and that is just acting. When I watch a particularly good movie, I watch it a few times. Then I wait for the DVD and I watch the commentaries. In almost every case during the commentary there was something to the effect of, I needed to rerecord this dialogue, I am happy with how well it turned-out. If I had never heard the commentary, I would have never even noticed. In fact there are some cases where words were changed, and the effect was so good I did not notice during repeated viewings until I heard it in the commentary.
My family got political asylum in the United States because of what my father was involved in. Every letter sent to and from was opened and read. It was kind of cute in fact because they did nothing to hide the fact. Every envelope was slit along the top and then there was a piece of paper inserted with a note to the effect of, "due to an ongoing investigation..." We knew the government was about to collapse when the investigators began to steal the money we included. In the beginning they were incredibly professional and all the money made it through.
I disagree. Barring anything stupid like bad sync, dubbed does not rob anything. The sound mixers can do wonders, and they do. If a producer or director wants it to sound crappy to match the feel of other footage, they can add that right back in.
Thank you for those suggestions. Slumdog was a gangster movie with a love interest and a game show hook. It is by the numbers. If it had not been set in India everyone would have seen it for what it was. I was very disappointed to see it do so well. I saw it and Coraline on Saturday and Coraline was the much better movie, and Coraline had much potential that it did not take advantage of in the closing third. As I was watching Slumdog I could not stop thinking that this movie must be incredibly offensive to Indian people, and I don't know that much about India. I am glad I am not the only since everyone I have talked to seems very strongly opposed to me when I mention my point of view.
I keep a partition of 10.4 around solely so that my wife and oldest son can keep playing RCT3. I received a very similar "We are aware of the issues..." email from Aspyr and got tired of waiting.
Recently more of X11 got added into macports, but I prefer to keep an eye on http://xquartz.macosforge.org/ so I have added +system_x11 to the end of my variants.conf file.
It is not perfect yet in 1.7, but works quite well most of the time:
I wish more people would know about and use pkgsrc. This is the single reason that pkgsrc is better than all of the other alternatives, security/audit-packages:
"Also the Fermilab physicists think that if they can find the Higgs they could get more funding for continued operation of the Tevatron."
I don't think many have that point of view. They all know that once the LHC gets going well the tev will be shutdown. The neutrino experiments in particular always want more beam.
"You are just. plain. wrong. about this. The G5 was derived from POWER4."
I think we are agreeing. There was a span of years there before the 970 that Motorola was basically independently making new PPC chips tailored well for the embedded and VME market they were in. The match for a general purpose CPU for those was rather good (you think not as well as I). Then Motorola stopped caring and then Apple paid for a chip from IBM based on a much newer Power. So basically only in the beginning and toward the end was there any syncing needed with Power.
"it is losing market share even as I type this."
That is SO true. On Friday I was handed a VMIC x86 board to evaluate. Before we were all MVME (68K and PPC).
There is a bit of confusion in some posts here. Motorola made very good PPC chips. Then they decided to focus on cellphones and laid-off a bunch of people in the semiconductor groups. After that Motorola simply did not keep-up in the general purpose cpu race. Before that they had probably the largest chunk of the embedded and VME markets. It was important for them to have good CPUs there. Again once they stopped caring (and in some cases designed chips more for telphony and IO) the game was over.
IBM at that time was making G3 cores because they had need for a simple cheap PPC cpu for their low end boxes. Apple used those for a time. Then Apple paid IBM to make the G5. That did not end well simply because IBM had no need for a hacked cheapened Power so IBM did not expend much effort in improving the G5.
PPC followed it's own course and never had to wait for Power first.
You stated that "PowerPC was explicitly designed to make 68k emulation easier." I stated that PPC was largely like Power. Then I listed three ways that the Power-like-isms were utilized by the 68K emulator. Then I listed three things that could have been addressed to make 68K emulation better, faster, or easier if that was a design goal.
Please name one feature of PPC, not in Power, that was added to make the 68K emulator better, faster, or simpler to backup your original outlandish claim.
"it says that some instructions set the overflow bit differently on CF compared to 68K"
Oh man don't remind me of that. If I remember correctly MOV clears OF on 68K but leaves OF unchanged on CF. This single change led to a week of pain for me until I figured it out. stupid compiler
"PowerPC was explicitly designed to make 68k emulation easier."
That is false. PPC was largely designed to be compatible with IBM Power chips. There were three bits from that which just happened to make a 68K emulator more efficient. The PPC was big endian (well except for CHRP boards), there were lots of registers, and there were 8 fields in the CR (CR0-CR7). The emulator used a bit in CR5 (if I remember correctly) to signal that an interrupt occurred and there was a branch after that in case there was. The other bit that helped was that there was a cache, but on the 601 and some 603s it was too small. They would have made them larger if a faster 68K emulator was so important. And then there was one thing lacking in the PPC that made the 68K emulator hard, there was no 80-bit FP on the PPC, only 64-bit and 32-bit. As a final issue the MMU was different from the 68851 used on previous Macs.
It always bugs me when people call LCDs sample and hold. A decent LCD will have 4 DACs that it uses repeatedly in a round robin fashion to paint the columns. It's not like all the crystal in the panel instantly rotate and then freeze at 60 Hz. Then there is the concern that the voltage has to average to 0 over short periods of time with most panel technologies, that leads to interesting compromises with the crystals rotating rapidly +/- even with still images. The difference is the lack of the phosphors darkening that leads to the temporal smearing as your eye moves. I'm sure you know that, but it's just a nit of mine about calling LCDs sample and hold displays, more so because a sample and hold is a very particular thing in my line of work.
Here what happened is that I heard about the troubles of the early people either never getting their coupons or when they got them stores still did not have converter boxes yet. So I waited until I saw converter boxes on the shelves. When I did I applied. Then I waited for the coupon to arrive. It took a long time and during that time all the converter boxes around me were sold. No new shipments were coming in. Then my coupon arrived and still there were no converter boxes available. I tried Target, RS, Walmart, BB, CC, and Sears. All said that after an initial shipment or two no more had come in. Then CC got a shipment in and I went to buy two, but they changed their price to $90 from the $60 they had been two months earlier. This was a pure profit, high demand, low supply, dirty thing to do. After all people would have a $40 coupon, so why not raises prices, they could say it is $10 less than it was two months ago.
I decided to wait a bit more. Then right before my coupons expired Sears got another shipment in and I bought two there. I feel that I was very careful but that there were serious distribution problems (for the coupons and boxes themselves) early on that caused problems for people.
I think that what would have been better was a simple box on income taxes that would let you reduce your income taxes by $40 or $80 dollars. Then people could simply buy the boxes when ever they were available. Other people could use the coupon program.
Let's say Apple II and C64. In particular the floppy controller, which Woz was responsible for. The C64 drives were very slow and very expensive. They were connected via a serial bus and the drive itself had a cpu that you had to send a fast loader to if you wanted anything better than the glacial performance that the Commodore code would provide. This was the old way of doing things.
The floppy controller on the Apple II, well there really was none. There was a chip where GPIO pins were used for the IO and a countdown timer that was already there was reused. The drive itself was basically dumb, just some TTL stuff.
And the Apple drive was faster, much faster on typical C64, and still a smidge faster even if you had an Epyx Fast Loader cart in your C64.
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John Hodgman was flat as the father. This was not a bad thing. There was not a range of emotion necessary for his part and it fit well for his sort of down persona. Then when he was the other father he sounded a bit creepy, again with a nice effect. The only sound that bothered me with regards to the other father was when it was obvious suddenly that he became the singer of TMBG. That broke the suspension of disbelief.
Dakota Fanning had a range of emotions to express and she did fine. I got a vibe that was refreshing. Most kids are played totally sweet or completely at the other end of the spectrum.
Yes I have seen City of God and that was a very fine movie. That movie had very better acting and much more fleshed-out characters in comparison to Slumdog.
It seemed pointed in such a way so that the western movie goer would think, "I'm glad I'm not in a backwards place like that." I would not like the rest of the world thinking my home was like that. Also except for four characters everyone was 100% stereotype, many of them not a good one. Finally it is western cinema at its core and takes none of the good qualities of Indian cinema, in fact it has a farce of a Bollywood dance number during the end credits that is completely out of place.
I see now your point. The thing is that I think that good actors are good, and that is just acting. When I watch a particularly good movie, I watch it a few times. Then I wait for the DVD and I watch the commentaries. In almost every case during the commentary there was something to the effect of, I needed to rerecord this dialogue, I am happy with how well it turned-out. If I had never heard the commentary, I would have never even noticed. In fact there are some cases where words were changed, and the effect was so good I did not notice during repeated viewings until I heard it in the commentary.
My family got political asylum in the United States because of what my father was involved in. Every letter sent to and from was opened and read. It was kind of cute in fact because they did nothing to hide the fact. Every envelope was slit along the top and then there was a piece of paper inserted with a note to the effect of, "due to an ongoing investigation..." We knew the government was about to collapse when the investigators began to steal the money we included. In the beginning they were incredibly professional and all the money made it through.
I disagree. Barring anything stupid like bad sync, dubbed does not rob anything. The sound mixers can do wonders, and they do. If a producer or director wants it to sound crappy to match the feel of other footage, they can add that right back in.
Thank you for those suggestions. Slumdog was a gangster movie with a love interest and a game show hook. It is by the numbers. If it had not been set in India everyone would have seen it for what it was. I was very disappointed to see it do so well. I saw it and Coraline on Saturday and Coraline was the much better movie, and Coraline had much potential that it did not take advantage of in the closing third. As I was watching Slumdog I could not stop thinking that this movie must be incredibly offensive to Indian people, and I don't know that much about India. I am glad I am not the only since everyone I have talked to seems very strongly opposed to me when I mention my point of view.
I keep a partition of 10.4 around solely so that my wife and oldest son can keep playing RCT3. I received a very similar "We are aware of the issues..." email from Aspyr and got tired of waiting.
Recently more of X11 got added into macports, but I prefer to keep an eye on http://xquartz.macosforge.org/ so I have added +system_x11 to the end of my variants.conf file.
It is not perfect yet in 1.7, but works quite well most of the time:
http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2009-January/013494.html
I wish more people would know about and use pkgsrc. This is the single reason that pkgsrc is better than all of the other alternatives, security/audit-packages:
http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/using.html#vulnerabilities
This is so infuriating. I think it is time for me to sacrifice a USB cable so I can charge my wife's cell phone with the car charger. How many mOhms?
"Also the Fermilab physicists think that if they can find the Higgs they could get more funding for continued operation of the Tevatron."
I don't think many have that point of view. They all know that once the LHC gets going well the tev will be shutdown. The neutrino experiments in particular always want more beam.
Here is a nice graphic of what you described about the exclusions for a light-mass Higgs:
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/higgsexclusionplotfy08.jpg
This is from the Symmetry magazine blog:
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2009/02/16/hunt-for-the-higgs-kicking-into-high-gear/
There is a lot of talk about this recently because of the AAAS meeting in Chicago. Also here is another neat article (not related):
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2009/02/16/a-first-string-theory-predicts-an-experimental-result/
"You are just. plain. wrong. about this. The G5 was derived from POWER4."
I think we are agreeing. There was a span of years there before the 970 that Motorola was basically independently making new PPC chips tailored well for the embedded and VME market they were in. The match for a general purpose CPU for those was rather good (you think not as well as I). Then Motorola stopped caring and then Apple paid for a chip from IBM based on a much newer Power. So basically only in the beginning and toward the end was there any syncing needed with Power.
"it is losing market share even as I type this."
That is SO true. On Friday I was handed a VMIC x86 board to evaluate. Before we were all MVME (68K and PPC).
There is a bit of confusion in some posts here. Motorola made very good PPC chips. Then they decided to focus on cellphones and laid-off a bunch of people in the semiconductor groups. After that Motorola simply did not keep-up in the general purpose cpu race. Before that they had probably the largest chunk of the embedded and VME markets. It was important for them to have good CPUs there. Again once they stopped caring (and in some cases designed chips more for telphony and IO) the game was over.
IBM at that time was making G3 cores because they had need for a simple cheap PPC cpu for their low end boxes. Apple used those for a time. Then Apple paid IBM to make the G5. That did not end well simply because IBM had no need for a hacked cheapened Power so IBM did not expend much effort in improving the G5.
PPC followed it's own course and never had to wait for Power first.
You stated that "PowerPC was explicitly designed to make 68k emulation easier." I stated that PPC was largely like Power. Then I listed three ways that the Power-like-isms were utilized by the 68K emulator. Then I listed three things that could have been addressed to make 68K emulation better, faster, or easier if that was a design goal.
Please name one feature of PPC, not in Power, that was added to make the 68K emulator better, faster, or simpler to backup your original outlandish claim.
"it says that some instructions set the overflow bit differently on CF compared to 68K"
Oh man don't remind me of that. If I remember correctly MOV clears OF on 68K but leaves OF unchanged on CF. This single change led to a week of pain for me until I figured it out. stupid compiler
"PowerPC was explicitly designed to make 68k emulation easier."
That is false. PPC was largely designed to be compatible with IBM Power chips. There were three bits from that which just happened to make a 68K emulator more efficient. The PPC was big endian (well except for CHRP boards), there were lots of registers, and there were 8 fields in the CR (CR0-CR7). The emulator used a bit in CR5 (if I remember correctly) to signal that an interrupt occurred and there was a branch after that in case there was. The other bit that helped was that there was a cache, but on the 601 and some 603s it was too small. They would have made them larger if a faster 68K emulator was so important. And then there was one thing lacking in the PPC that made the 68K emulator hard, there was no 80-bit FP on the PPC, only 64-bit and 32-bit. As a final issue the MMU was different from the 68851 used on previous Macs.
You are confusing the i860 with the i960.
Good ones, but you forgot the biggie that I see people get tripped-up on the most, test.
Sometimes test -a mean test -e and sometimes it is meant to be used [ exp1 -a exp2 ]. Most often these days the confusion is on solaris using ucb.
So the moral is, never use -a, -o, or -e in tests.
(Yes there were ancient versions of test that did not have AND and OR, so you use && and || from the shell instead.)
It always bugs me when people call LCDs sample and hold. A decent LCD will have 4 DACs that it uses repeatedly in a round robin fashion to paint the columns. It's not like all the crystal in the panel instantly rotate and then freeze at 60 Hz. Then there is the concern that the voltage has to average to 0 over short periods of time with most panel technologies, that leads to interesting compromises with the crystals rotating rapidly +/- even with still images. The difference is the lack of the phosphors darkening that leads to the temporal smearing as your eye moves. I'm sure you know that, but it's just a nit of mine about calling LCDs sample and hold displays, more so because a sample and hold is a very particular thing in my line of work.
I dislike how firefox auto downloads the update. There must be a way to disable that. Often this happens while I am using a slow proxy.
Here what happened is that I heard about the troubles of the early people either never getting their coupons or when they got them stores still did not have converter boxes yet. So I waited until I saw converter boxes on the shelves. When I did I applied. Then I waited for the coupon to arrive. It took a long time and during that time all the converter boxes around me were sold. No new shipments were coming in. Then my coupon arrived and still there were no converter boxes available. I tried Target, RS, Walmart, BB, CC, and Sears. All said that after an initial shipment or two no more had come in. Then CC got a shipment in and I went to buy two, but they changed their price to $90 from the $60 they had been two months earlier. This was a pure profit, high demand, low supply, dirty thing to do. After all people would have a $40 coupon, so why not raises prices, they could say it is $10 less than it was two months ago.
I decided to wait a bit more. Then right before my coupons expired Sears got another shipment in and I bought two there. I feel that I was very careful but that there were serious distribution problems (for the coupons and boxes themselves) early on that caused problems for people.
I think that what would have been better was a simple box on income taxes that would let you reduce your income taxes by $40 or $80 dollars. Then people could simply buy the boxes when ever they were available. Other people could use the coupon program.
Let's say Apple II and C64. In particular the floppy controller, which Woz was responsible for. The C64 drives were very slow and very expensive. They were connected via a serial bus and the drive itself had a cpu that you had to send a fast loader to if you wanted anything better than the glacial performance that the Commodore code would provide. This was the old way of doing things.
The floppy controller on the Apple II, well there really was none. There was a chip where GPIO pins were used for the IO and a countdown timer that was already there was reused. The drive itself was basically dumb, just some TTL stuff.
And the Apple drive was faster, much faster on typical C64, and still a smidge faster even if you had an Epyx Fast Loader cart in your C64.