At last a movie studio tries to make a difference with Trailers. No Mr. Voice, no statements-intercut-with-titlecards.
I actually enjoyed the fact that for the first 40 seconds, a bit of a story is presented, and I was quite taken in by the abrupt change in the action. Bravo.
Of course, I still wished for trailers that don't give away anything and are an artform for themselves. How about creating a finished film that has a condensed 2-minute-beginning - and then one could just use this beginning as a trailer!
Can somebody explain in layman term how this works exactly?
Why does every radio emit a signal? Is it inefficiency? Is it really every radio or only old ones?
Is this signal broadcasted back through your antenna or is this just a faint signal inside your radio and they have really good receivers in their billboards?
Has anybody tried to create a radio that doesn't emit this signal?
Is this only something with FM radio, or also with AM?
Actually, the article contains a map. But you haven't read the article, don't you? In order to make the Information Superhighway better, you could start with... uhm... you?:-)
I think GSM cell towers can only manage about 50 concurrent calls before they are "filled up". On this premise, the legal way to jam phones would be to take 50 phones with you and let these phones call each other and presto: silence:-)
And if you're a geek toy fan, maybe some company will jump in an create a small gadget that does this very same thing?
The only way to change this would be to change the incentive system
IMHO, there is a possible new incentive system that would both preserve all the good points of open source and make more people happy than before. It goes like this:
Currently, the incentive to tackle a problem (feature, bug, whatever) is
You tackle the problem for yourself
You tackle the problem for the respect of other hackers and specialised people you talk with
Why doesn't anybody work on a problem that actual users have? Because
It takes a lot of time talking to each user
Most hackers don't take actual users serious, because they are not their peers. Hackers consider normal users "lower lifeforms", and therefore thanks and cheers from actual users mean nothing to them
Enter the Slashdot Wish and Thankyou system(tm):
There is a limited amount of karma points that can be given away by ordinary users to makers of cool features (like, to say "thanks"), or to yet unimplemented features as a "bounty". We know that everybody is crazy to get high karma (hey, it became such a rage that Slashdot finally capped karma and now shows word instead of numbers).
I'm willing to bet my own Karma that this system, implemented the right way, will be a major motivator in bringing Open Source for the masses forward.
Now if this message doesn't get modded up, I don't know what else will!:-)
I both agree and disagree at the same time with your statement: I too became accustomed to the way DVDs look like and don't feel like changing anything.
But then again, when I look some hi-resolution footage, I must admit that it looks absolutely gorgeous. If everything I would see had that much detail - man, that would be bliss!
I guess in the next 10 years, with TVs becoming cheaper and cheaper, we will see a push by the industry to have bigger monitors at home filling a bigger field of sight. Since most movies are already created for a bigger field of sight, they are just a natural fit for this new generation of TVs. And then we will, indeed, all buy our movies again: Not for the artifacts, but for the added detail.
A few more questions:
As I understand it, I have to use a new browser in order to use these URLs, right? Because mozilla says it already supports it. So I guess a hyperlinks can be in both forms: The encoded or the decoded version, right? Does this mean:
Unless I upgrade my mail client, I cannot send emails to these new domains?
A hyperlink can be encoded in two ways, and unless it's encoded in the long form, any not-yet-upgraded browser won't be able to follow links?
Since browsers need to be upgraded, doesn't this mean that many other apps need to be upgraded as well, like IM-clients, web-grabbers, filesharing apps and search-engine spiders?
Oh yeah, another question: Since domains normally have to have at least 3 chars (in Switzerland, at least), but since the domain o.ch will be encoded in quite a long fashion, will we be able to register o.ch? Would be cool, nice and short!
IDN as HREF is not supported but patch is available
<sarcasm mode=on>Woww, coool! So people can enter the domains, but when Google indexes the page and you'd like to visit the page through a search result, you're f*cked... And Mozilla is the only browser to advanced, right? And this starts next spring, everybody will buy these new domains, and then everybody will be dissappointed that it won't work in 95% of all circumstances, right? Wow, cool.<sarcasm mode=off>
A few questions, maybe somebody could help me here...
Since domains can have up to 63 chars, and the encoding takes away 5 chars plu 3 chars per umlaut, the longest domain name only consisting of umlauts is 19, right? And registrars will have the tedious task to explain to every customer that the length of their domain name is no longer fixed, right?
I have a basic understanding of entering a domain name and what happens after it. But will this work with every OS and browser out of the box?
Since there are two ways of writing those domain names, which layer should do the transcoding?
If it is the application layer, how are hyperlinks supposed to work with not-yet-upgraded browsers?
If it is the display layer (links are always used in their complicated form unless the end user sees them - I know this is no real network layer but bear with me), should we create hyperlinks to the complicated form?
So far, I've only heard marketing talk about "how cool this is", but is really ensure that absolutely nothing is broken? Because I've tried out Verisigns extended charset examples and not a single one of the provided links worked on my machine. Can anybody tell me if it worked for them? Thanks!
Does anybody know if this will just work "out of the box" with every computer that can produce umlauts?
I'm asking because today, I've tried out the Netsol way of doing umlauts and they don't work at all with my Mac OS X and Safari: None of the listed domains work. The page lists a "plugin" that every web user is supposed to install, but it's Win only (of course...) and it's quite silly to have a domain with umlauts if you have to tell all your customers "before visiting me, please install this plugin"...
Any idea if this new way work in all circumstances where the user has a international keyboard? Thanks!
Does anybody know if this will just work "out of the box" with every computer that can produce umlauts?
I'm asking because today, I've tried out the Netsol way of doing umlauts and they don't work at all with my Mac OS X and Safari: None of the listed domains work. The page lists a "plugin" that every web user is supposed to install, but it's Win only (of course...) and it's quite silly to have a domain with umlauts if you have to tell all your customers "before visiting me, please install this plugin"...
Any idea if this new way work in all circumstances where the user has a international keyboard? Thanks!
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Do you have any proof for this? From what I have found, the copyright owner can still stop you from releasing your poorman covers:
In order for a compulsory mechanical license to be valid, the copyright owner must have authorized the commercial release of the song, and the song must be non-dramatic. While the Copyright Act doesn't provide a specific definition for the term "non-dramatic song," most people think of it as a song that's not from a musical or an opera.
The compulsory mechanical license rate (also referred to as the statutory rate) is periodically modified. The current statutory rate is 7.55 per song, per record, distributed for recordings of up to five minutes. If the recording is more than five minutes, the rate is 1.45 per minute per record.
The next change is scheduled to become effective on January 1, 2002. As of that date, the statutory rate will increase to 8 for recordings up to 5 minutes, and 1.55 per minute for recordings over 5 minutes.
A compulsory mechanical license allows you to make another musical arrangement as necessary to conform the song to your style and interpretation. However, you cannot change the basic melody, the lyrics, or the fundamental character of the song without permission from the song's owner.
I, for one, predict that all these new minerals will be so heavy that the earth will no longer be stable to hold us and we... err... all fall down. Yep.
"We're aware of it and we're taking it seriously," Damian Stathonikos, spokesman for Nokia Mobile Phones, which is responsible for the N-Gage device, told Dow Jones Newswires.
Stathonikos said after a cursory look at the Web sites it wasn't clear that the claims being made about hackers cracking the protection was true. "Sometimes it's not 100% clear what they've done and if they've done what they say they have. The bark can be louder than the bite," he said.
By the way: To spare your visitors the additional click at google, add the "I'm feeling lucky"-part to the URL. Combined with "searching for a specific phrase", this has emerged to be the most reliable way to link to articles with no central hub for me.
Creating a folder in icon view lets you type in its name directly after the creation (good), while creating a folder in list view never lets you type in its name directly, you need to press enter first (I'm not kidding!). This is better than in 10.2, but still ridiculously bad.
In list view, a selected item shows up as a horizontal bar, but to move this item, you still need to start dragging where there is some text - not the whole bar will allow dragging
file dialog boxes: They have the same left pane the finder has, but one cannot add a folder to the left pane by drag&drop here. Inconsisten!
Finder: Maximize button now often toggles a window between 3 (three!) sizes (I haven't found out what is needed to start this behaviour), and often times, none of them fit the files "just right": They are all either too big or too small (I'm not joking!)
Finder: Spacing between files in icon view has increased even more compared to Jaguar. If you want your icons nices sorted, you need to manually "tidy up" every folder because the newly created files won't fit into the old grid
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At last a movie studio tries to make a difference with Trailers. No Mr. Voice, no statements-intercut-with-titlecards.
I actually enjoyed the fact that for the first 40 seconds, a bit of a story is presented, and I was quite taken in by the abrupt change in the action. Bravo.
Of course, I still wished for trailers that don't give away anything and are an artform for themselves. How about creating a finished film that has a condensed 2-minute-beginning - and then one could just use this beginning as a trailer!
- Why does every radio emit a signal? Is it inefficiency? Is it really every radio or only old ones?
- Is this signal broadcasted back through your antenna or is this just a faint signal inside your radio and they have really good receivers in their billboards?
- Has anybody tried to create a radio that doesn't emit this signal?
- Is this only something with FM radio, or also with AM?
Thanks for some clarifications.Actually, the article contains a map. But you haven't read the article, don't you? In order to make the Information Superhighway better, you could start with... uhm... you? :-)
Hmm... wouldn't it be much easier to compare the two renderers if the rendered the same picture, the same size, and with the same lighting?
Here's a nice table of noise levels. (And here's the query for it)
And if you're a geek toy fan, maybe some company will jump in an create a small gadget that does this very same thing?
Thanks!
Currently, the incentive to tackle a problem (feature, bug, whatever) is
- You tackle the problem for yourself
- You tackle the problem for the respect of other hackers and specialised people you talk with
Why doesn't anybody work on a problem that actual users have? Because- It takes a lot of time talking to each user
- Most hackers don't take actual users serious, because they are not their peers. Hackers consider normal users "lower lifeforms", and therefore thanks and cheers from actual users mean nothing to them
Enter the Slashdot Wish and Thankyou system(tm):There is a limited amount of karma points that can be given away by ordinary users to makers of cool features (like, to say "thanks"), or to yet unimplemented features as a "bounty". We know that everybody is crazy to get high karma (hey, it became such a rage that Slashdot finally capped karma and now shows word instead of numbers).
I'm willing to bet my own Karma that this system, implemented the right way, will be a major motivator in bringing Open Source for the masses forward.
Now if this message doesn't get modded up, I don't know what else will! :-)
I agree with your problem. For the time being, you can get rid of shopping entries almost completely by adding "-buy" at the end of your query.
You know, I always wondered: How much do you pay per year for the BBC?
Could you enlighted me? Thanks!
I both agree and disagree at the same time with your statement: I too became accustomed to the way DVDs look like and don't feel like changing anything.
But then again, when I look some hi-resolution footage, I must admit that it looks absolutely gorgeous. If everything I would see had that much detail - man, that would be bliss!
I guess in the next 10 years, with TVs becoming cheaper and cheaper, we will see a push by the industry to have bigger monitors at home filling a bigger field of sight. Since most movies are already created for a bigger field of sight, they are just a natural fit for this new generation of TVs. And then we will, indeed, all buy our movies again: Not for the artifacts, but for the added detail.
A few more questions:
As I understand it, I have to use a new browser in order to use these URLs, right? Because mozilla says it already supports it. So I guess a hyperlinks can be in both forms: The encoded or the decoded version, right? Does this mean:
Oh yeah, another question: Since domains normally have to have at least 3 chars (in Switzerland, at least), but since the domain o.ch will be encoded in quite a long fashion, will we be able to register o.ch? Would be cool, nice and short!
I'm asking because today, I've tried out the Netsol way of doing umlauts and they don't work at all with my Mac OS X and Safari: None of the listed domains work. The page lists a "plugin" that every web user is supposed to install, but it's Win only (of course...) and it's quite silly to have a domain with umlauts if you have to tell all your customers "before visiting me, please install this plugin"...
Any idea if this new way work in all circumstances where the user has a international keyboard? Thanks!
I'm asking because today, I've tried out the Netsol way of doing umlauts and they don't work at all with my Mac OS X and Safari: None of the listed domains work. The page lists a "plugin" that every web user is supposed to install, but it's Win only (of course...) and it's quite silly to have a domain with umlauts if you have to tell all your customers "before visiting me, please install this plugin"...
Any idea if this new way work in all circumstances where the user has a international keyboard? Thanks!
I, for one, predict that all these new minerals will be so heavy that the earth will no longer be stable to hold us and we... err... all fall down. Yep.
Shaw still applies with Saddam and Bush because "progress" doesn't have a positive connotation in this quote, but is more on a theoretical level.
The idea that progress implies positivity and changing the world for the better is your mere interpretation.
Hmm... does anybody know what happened to the supposed podkletnov gravity shielding effect?
"We're aware of it and we're taking it seriously," Damian Stathonikos, spokesman for Nokia Mobile Phones, which is responsible for the N-Gage device, told Dow Jones Newswires.
Stathonikos said after a cursory look at the Web sites it wasn't clear that the claims being made about hackers cracking the protection was true. "Sometimes it's not 100% clear what they've done and if they've done what they say they have. The bark can be louder than the bite," he said.
Complete article here.
By the way: To spare your visitors the additional click at google, add the "I'm feeling lucky"-part to the URL. Combined with "searching for a specific phrase", this has emerged to be the most reliable way to link to articles with no central hub for me.
Cheers!
You might take a look at Ipaya. They haven't started yet, but they look promising.