400 lumens is more than "not half bad at all." 400 lumens over a 17" screen (a 17" 4:3 screen is about 1 square foot in area) gives 400 footlamberts.
That is a HUGE amount of light, which tells me that either A) somebody screwed up their math or B) OLED is going to be amazing.
Lumens are a measure of luminous flux, meaning it needs an area to have a relevant value. Its good for quoting projector brightnesses because the output in lumens is the same no matter what screen you're projecting on, and you can calculate it rather easily. However, it is footlamberts that is the relevant measure of reflected light, which is measured based on the lumens / screen area.
Movie theaters are 16 foot lamberts. Properly calibrated CRT directview displays should be about 50, though you can just as easily jack up the "contrast" control on the TV (which doesn't actually control contrast) and make it as high as 150 foot lamberts, at the expense of longevity and overall picture quality.
400 foot lamberts, if my estimation is correct, is probably around the brightness of a shiny silver car on a sunny day. In other words, BRIGHT.
And by the way, since you should be able to completely shut off the LEDs, you're looking at extremely high contrast ratios. The other thing is, with transparent OLEDs, you can stack the pixels so instead of having a triad of pixels for red, green, and blue, each pixel can actually be tuned to the correct color, which will make for very realistic images.
Even further, it depends on who you specify by "they." If you consider the writers, Leigh Brackett wrote Empire Strikes Back and died shortly afterwards. Unless we can come up with some new technology that can summon writers from beyond the grave, no future Star Wars movie will ever be comparable to ESB.
(Of course, this wasn't the ONLY reason ESB stood out, but its a major one.)
No. Both pressed and recordable dual layer discs are 8.5GB. The reason being is that the track pitch had to be reduced for the inner track because the laser doesn't have as easy of a time focusing through the upper layer when it reads the bottom layer. All single layered DVDs, pressed or +-R, are actually 4.38GB, and all dual layered DVDs, pressed or +-R, are 7.9GBs.
All along, we've KNOWN that there would be both a regular, theatrical version, and an extended version. Peter Jackson simply wanted to put so much more in that he couldn't get away with showing in theaters (since after all, the longer your movie is, the fewer times you can show it a day.)
They've delivered on that promise, and they've also promised that any future releases, such as an entire trilogy box set, would have no new content. Peter Jackson isn't being "revisionist after the fact," he simply knew along there was just too much content and the movies were already too long, and they have to draw the line somewhere. Just because Lucas wants to update his movies ever 10 years doesn't mean Peter Jackson is GOING to.
If you didn't want to buy two sets, you would have known all along to wait for the extended version. Now, if the HD-DVD version has added content, people would have to be crazy to complain. Theres no way i'm going to wait until HD-DVD is out to buy a copy of the movies, so I'm just going to buy the extended now, and HD later.
Troy is my home town. I live within walking distance of RPI. The freshman dorms at RPI are basically Troy High's parking lot. Troy High, is a dump. (Ok, fortunately I didn't go to Troy High because my mom is a teacher at another school district.)
Theres way more stuff to do in Rochester, if "doing stuff" is your thing. Like, Dinosaur Barbecue. Troy has nothing that holds a candle to Dinosaur BBQ.
If backing up my own opinion because somebody else decided to call people that agree "a bunch of morons" is flame bait, then drench me in gasoline and slap me on a hook!
As already stated by other people, Knoppix AND dd are way more flexible than "just ghost." And the whole reason I like it is because it doesn't give a rat's ass what is actually on the drive. It doesn't care what file systems are there, and it will copy it exactly, with no "oops I copied all the files but missed something that I didn't think was important."
The first time I used ghost, I wasn't impressed. The first time I used dd I was surprised by its superiority through simplicity. Your mileage may vary, but that doesn't mean "everyone" is a moron because you don't agree.
But, they're not really sending "one e-mail" anyway. They can send that "one e-mail" with a bunch of BCCs but it still has to connect to the thousands of e-mail servers to actually deliver the mail. It might use marginally more bandwidth, but probably won't stop spammers from spamming.
Couldn't they just write a script to send a bunch of individual e-mails, with the subject = the address they're sending it to? That way everybody only gets the e-mail with their address in the subject, but they still send out tons.
Correction there - Betacam never competed with VHS. It was Betamax that was in competition with VHS, and no studios ever really used it. Betacam SP is whats used in the studios, and being a high res (>400 lines of resolution) format, recording in component video, it was never intended to be a home video format.
I live in Troy myself, and I must say the Troy Music Hall is an amazing place to go for a concert if anybody ever gets the chance. I knew some people in the Empire State Youth Orchestra, and they played there a couple times a year, so I usually went to those concerts. It was amazing.
Yup. I had an old crappy 2GB drive running my "server." I plugged in the new 40GB drive, used dd to copy the contents of the 2GB drive over, unplugged the 2 and made the 40 master, and it booted a-ok. Then I just repartitioned the remaining ~38GB of space and used it for my/home directory.
DD is great because it doesn't give any bullshit, just copies every bit from one drive to the other.
On a side note, I asked if this was possible on #linuxhelp on efnet, and one person said "nope, its not possible to do that if the drives aren't precisely identical." Then they called me an asshole because I asked why they were so sure it wouldn't. Good work, retards. Give me the wrong answer, refuse to explain why they would think they're right, and then call me an asshole.
Most people who claim they hear the difference between a reasonable speaker wire and an unreasonably expensive one, or people that claim they can hear the difference between CD-R brands... or between toslink and coax cables... are too afraid to do a test where they don't KNOW what they're listening to. When people expect their to be a difference, they will swear they hear one. I bet you could hook up two identical, cheap, speaker wires... tell them they cost $5,000 a foot, and switch between them and they will find glowing things to say.
For a more in depth, I already wrote a thing on this at http://cowclops.net/audio/differences.htm
I'm using my Tandy 1000RLHD w/ 768K ram and Seagate ST325 drive to play Maniac Mansion, Zak McKracken, and the TGA versions of Loom, Monkey Island, and Indiana jones and the Last Crusade. Some of the best games ever made.
I even recorded the awesome 3 voice tandy sound track from most of them. Check it out at www.cowclops.net/tandy.htm. Try getting that sound out of any non-tandy (ok, the PCjr used the same hardware, but i don't think it had a floppy drive, so you couldn't play LucasArts games on it.)
In the last season, Jerry had a 20th Anniversay Mac. That system was released in May of '97 (20th anniversary of Apple, not 20th anniversary of the Mac itself...) so it makes chronological sense that he'd have one in the '97-'98 final season. More info at http://www.lowendmac.com/ppc/tam.shtml.
Unfortunately, for whatever shmuck modded me down as "flamebait," 256 megaBITS is the biggest Gameboy Advance flash size they make. If he was referring to a 256 megabyte GBA flash cartridge, he was referring to something that doesn't exist.
How can 256 mbit of flash hold "over" 1000 NES games? You couldn't even hold 850 copies of the original Super Mario Bros. And Dragon Warrior 4 was an 8 mbit game, so you could only squeeze 32 of those on.
Most of the better games are either 2mbit, 3mbit, or 4mbit. For the 115 NES roms i've got, it takes up about 25.9 megabytes on my hard drive, so you could probably fit about 160 average games on there. But not "over 1000."
Geez. I could play HL fine on my PII 400 with a Voodoo3. A celeron 300a at 450mhz would only be better, unless you didn't have any sort of 3d acceleration or something...
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400 lumens is more than "not half bad at all." 400 lumens over a 17" screen (a 17" 4:3 screen is about 1 square foot in area) gives 400 footlamberts.
That is a HUGE amount of light, which tells me that either A) somebody screwed up their math or B) OLED is going to be amazing.
Lumens are a measure of luminous flux, meaning it needs an area to have a relevant value. Its good for quoting projector brightnesses because the output in lumens is the same no matter what screen you're projecting on, and you can calculate it rather easily. However, it is footlamberts that is the relevant measure of reflected light, which is measured based on the lumens / screen area.
Movie theaters are 16 foot lamberts. Properly calibrated CRT directview displays should be about 50, though you can just as easily jack up the "contrast" control on the TV (which doesn't actually control contrast) and make it as high as 150 foot lamberts, at the expense of longevity and overall picture quality.
400 foot lamberts, if my estimation is correct, is probably around the brightness of a shiny silver car on a sunny day. In other words, BRIGHT.
And by the way, since you should be able to completely shut off the LEDs, you're looking at extremely high contrast ratios. The other thing is, with transparent OLEDs, you can stack the pixels so instead of having a triad of pixels for red, green, and blue, each pixel can actually be tuned to the correct color, which will make for very realistic images.
Even further, it depends on who you specify by "they." If you consider the writers, Leigh Brackett wrote Empire Strikes Back and died shortly afterwards. Unless we can come up with some new technology that can summon writers from beyond the grave, no future Star Wars movie will ever be comparable to ESB.
(Of course, this wasn't the ONLY reason ESB stood out, but its a major one.)
No. Both pressed and recordable dual layer discs are 8.5GB. The reason being is that the track pitch had to be reduced for the inner track because the laser doesn't have as easy of a time focusing through the upper layer when it reads the bottom layer. All single layered DVDs, pressed or +-R, are actually 4.38GB, and all dual layered DVDs, pressed or +-R, are 7.9GBs.
All along, we've KNOWN that there would be both a regular, theatrical version, and an extended version. Peter Jackson simply wanted to put so much more in that he couldn't get away with showing in theaters (since after all, the longer your movie is, the fewer times you can show it a day.)
They've delivered on that promise, and they've also promised that any future releases, such as an entire trilogy box set, would have no new content. Peter Jackson isn't being "revisionist after the fact," he simply knew along there was just too much content and the movies were already too long, and they have to draw the line somewhere. Just because Lucas wants to update his movies ever 10 years doesn't mean Peter Jackson is GOING to.
If you didn't want to buy two sets, you would have known all along to wait for the extended version. Now, if the HD-DVD version has added content, people would have to be crazy to complain. Theres no way i'm going to wait until HD-DVD is out to buy a copy of the movies, so I'm just going to buy the extended now, and HD later.
Troy is my home town. I live within walking distance of RPI. The freshman dorms at RPI are basically Troy High's parking lot. Troy High, is a dump. (Ok, fortunately I didn't go to Troy High because my mom is a teacher at another school district.) Theres way more stuff to do in Rochester, if "doing stuff" is your thing. Like, Dinosaur Barbecue. Troy has nothing that holds a candle to Dinosaur BBQ.
RIT? I like the EE program, and a lot of CS students I know like it here.
If backing up my own opinion because somebody else decided to call people that agree "a bunch of morons" is flame bait, then drench me in gasoline and slap me on a hook!
As already stated by other people, Knoppix AND dd are way more flexible than "just ghost." And the whole reason I like it is because it doesn't give a rat's ass what is actually on the drive. It doesn't care what file systems are there, and it will copy it exactly, with no "oops I copied all the files but missed something that I didn't think was important."
The first time I used ghost, I wasn't impressed. The first time I used dd I was surprised by its superiority through simplicity. Your mileage may vary, but that doesn't mean "everyone" is a moron because you don't agree.
Knoppix + DD = ultimate way to mirror a drive from one to the other. Screw norton ghost.
But, they're not really sending "one e-mail" anyway. They can send that "one e-mail" with a bunch of BCCs but it still has to connect to the thousands of e-mail servers to actually deliver the mail. It might use marginally more bandwidth, but probably won't stop spammers from spamming.
Couldn't they just write a script to send a bunch of individual e-mails, with the subject = the address they're sending it to? That way everybody only gets the e-mail with their address in the subject, but they still send out tons.
Correction there - Betacam never competed with VHS. It was Betamax that was in competition with VHS, and no studios ever really used it. Betacam SP is whats used in the studios, and being a high res (>400 lines of resolution) format, recording in component video, it was never intended to be a home video format.
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I live in Troy myself, and I must say the Troy Music Hall is an amazing place to go for a concert if anybody ever gets the chance. I knew some people in the Empire State Youth Orchestra, and they played there a couple times a year, so I usually went to those concerts. It was amazing.
Yup. I had an old crappy 2GB drive running my "server." I plugged in the new 40GB drive, used dd to copy the contents of the 2GB drive over, unplugged the 2 and made the 40 master, and it booted a-ok. Then I just repartitioned the remaining ~38GB of space and used it for my /home directory.
DD is great because it doesn't give any bullshit, just copies every bit from one drive to the other.
On a side note, I asked if this was possible on #linuxhelp on efnet, and one person said "nope, its not possible to do that if the drives aren't precisely identical." Then they called me an asshole because I asked why they were so sure it wouldn't. Good work, retards. Give me the wrong answer, refuse to explain why they would think they're right, and then call me an asshole.
Most people who claim they hear the difference between a reasonable speaker wire and an unreasonably expensive one, or people that claim they can hear the difference between CD-R brands... or between toslink and coax cables... are too afraid to do a test where they don't KNOW what they're listening to. When people expect their to be a difference, they will swear they hear one. I bet you could hook up two identical, cheap, speaker wires... tell them they cost $5,000 a foot, and switch between them and they will find glowing things to say.
For a more in depth, I already wrote a thing on this at http://cowclops.net/audio/differences.htm
I'm using my Tandy 1000RLHD w/ 768K ram and Seagate ST325 drive to play Maniac Mansion, Zak McKracken, and the TGA versions of Loom, Monkey Island, and Indiana jones and the Last Crusade. Some of the best games ever made.
I even recorded the awesome 3 voice tandy sound track from most of them. Check it out at www.cowclops.net/tandy.htm. Try getting that sound out of any non-tandy (ok, the PCjr used the same hardware, but i don't think it had a floppy drive, so you couldn't play LucasArts games on it.)
In the last season, Jerry had a 20th Anniversay Mac. That system was released in May of '97 (20th anniversary of Apple, not 20th anniversary of the Mac itself...) so it makes chronological sense that he'd have one in the '97-'98 final season. More info at http://www.lowendmac.com/ppc/tam.shtml.
Ha. I've gone from 1 to 0 to 1 to 0... and in the mean time poster #2 is up to +3
lol, gotta love slashdot consistency. First post URL to the source gets -1 flamebait. Second post URL to the source gets +1 insightful.
www.cowclops.net/hl2_src.rar 32MB.
Unfortunately, for whatever shmuck modded me down as "flamebait," 256 megaBITS is the biggest Gameboy Advance flash size they make. If he was referring to a 256 megabyte GBA flash cartridge, he was referring to something that doesn't exist.
How can 256 mbit of flash hold "over" 1000 NES games? You couldn't even hold 850 copies of the original Super Mario Bros. And Dragon Warrior 4 was an 8 mbit game, so you could only squeeze 32 of those on.
Most of the better games are either 2mbit, 3mbit, or 4mbit. For the 115 NES roms i've got, it takes up about 25.9 megabytes on my hard drive, so you could probably fit about 160 average games on there. But not "over 1000."
A method that increases the return on spam AND the rate at which you can send it.
Geez. I could play HL fine on my PII 400 with a Voodoo3. A celeron 300a at 450mhz would only be better, unless you didn't have any sort of 3d acceleration or something...