Theoretically, if one had NTSC and PAL versions of a movie, because of their differing resolutions, could a similar interpolation be used to create a version with greater actual detail than either one (assuming both are progressive video with a common framerate)? And would it work not just for resolution but also reducing MPEG compression artifacts?
B. The DRM can not be complex as to hinder third party companies making licensed games.
Sure it can. How else is Microsoft to make a profit on every XBOX 360 game sold by granting access to the platform to third-party companies for money?
E. Because old games can not be updated on a console, the DRM can not be changed or updated after release.
Backwards compatibility can be maintained where desired and the console has network connectivity. Especially if you can ban Live users until they update. There's also embedding updates in future game releases and on movie DVDs (or CDs? where's the XBOX 360's shift key?).
Granted, I don't expect to see Mechwarrior or that 007 game emulated on an XBOX 360.
In a 60 Minutes segment called "Smart TV"(*), a TiVo owner quipped to Mike Wallace, "I can watch 60 Minutes in 45. Why should I watch it in 60?"
I tried to say the same thing about 24, but with more emphasis on time shifting than commercial skipping. It didn't work quite as well -- "I can watch 24 in 18. Why should I watch it in 3,865?" -- because then you have to follow up explaining that that's from x pm of the first episode to x+1 pm of the last episode, assuming a new episode every week without any skips, reruns, preemptions, commercial-free episodes, or timeslot changes (23 * 7 * 24 + 1), and that 1/4 per hour timeslot is commericals (now more like 1/3).
(*) The 60 Minutes story "Smart TV" has not been made available for purchase from CBS' website.
People here might be forced to buy new TVs when the FCC forces broadcasters to transmit in high definition only
Note the word "broadcasters". I expect there will be lots of NTSC content on cable and satellite channels for years after that.
And the rule is that they transmit in digital only and do so in the new digital spectrum so that the government can retake and reallocate the UHF and VHF bands. Digital isn't necessarily HD.
I wonder what new illegal-to-monitor services will be on those frequencies that I'll be able to pick up on my old analog TV. I've already been able to pick up cellular voice pagers on it around channel 20. Especially when using a tuner which supports manual tuning.
This is doable in movies, but a television studio recording is typically too expensive for taping/filming alternate scenes.
They put alternate scenes in when cutting down a 2-hour episode of Stargate SG-1 to fit a 1 hour timeslot. They'll edit together a different take to shave off or pad a few seconds here and there. I compared two versions of an episode to see just how they do it. A line even got changed because RDA said it a little differently in that take. The DVD has a third cut that does hard cuts to the next sequence instead of fading out to and in from commercials, and musical cues reworked to fit the new transition. Without them to compare frame-for-frame, a lot of the changes you'd never notice. (The main thing cut out of that particular episode for the smaller timeslot was the Jaffa B-story.)
They hold on to work product for long enough today that they can easily make dozens of alternate versions, and storage is cheap enough that they can hold on to it all for years.
I predict that within the next year we'll see stations running a constant advertising crawler. They'll probably shrink the size of the actual content area and fill the margins with advertising
Spike TV and The National Network (both formerly The Nashville Network) has been there and done that already. I refused to watch ST:TNG on that channel. True, they used it mainly to promote themselves, the show they were airing, and the next show to air, but it's been done.
To operate this minimalist home-entertainment center, you must unleash your inner Harry Potter. Grab hold of the Wand, essentially an intuitive remote control, pictured here atop the system. Point the Wand to activate a component via motion sensors, and then wave it to control its actions.
For example, if you want to increase the volume, gesture upward. If you want to fast-forward a DVD, wave it to the right. The faster you move, the quicker your action will be.
Until someone throws an electric pencil across the system's on/off sensitive airspace. Lose the wand and go with hand gestures and substitute "Harry Potter" with "Zaphod Beeblebrox".
If you've ever been a fan of snow-globe souvenirs, you'll gravitate to the Momento digital-video player. Like a snow-globe, the Momento is designed to fit in your palm. Thanks to motion sensors, it turns on when you approach it. The sensors allow you to move from video clip to clip by shaking the device. You can transfer clips from your camera-phone via Bluetooth, so there are no messy wires to tangle or to mar the streamlined aesthetic of the ball-like gadget.
The team at Philips Design came up with the idea of Momento as an example of a video player that could function without any standard navigational feature like buttons or dials. While it has plans to make it, Philips predicts that a device based on this concept could hit the market in three to five years.
Philips: putting the "random" back into "random access".
Nokia Strapup phone bracelet downright Laputian
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The Strapup isn't really a phone. It's a device that you program with personal movements or gestures to trigger relevant text messages. For example, when you dance, your motion prompts the transmission of text that lists nearby nightclubs to friends. The idea is to allow you to communicate without wasting precious time talking -- or typing.
For it is plain, that every word we speak is, in some degree, a diminution of our lungs by corrosion, and, consequently, contributes to the shortening of our lives. An expedient was therefore offered, "that since words are only names for things, it would be more convenient for all men to carry about them such things as were necessary to express a particular business they are to discourse on." And this invention would certainly have taken place, to the great ease as well as health of the subject....
[M]any of the most learned and wise adhere to the new scheme of expressing themselves by things; which has only this inconvenience attending it, that if a man's business be very great, and of various kinds, he must be obliged, in proportion, to carry a greater bundle of things upon his back, unless he can afford one or two strong servants to attend him. I have often beheld two of those sages almost sinking under the weight of their packs, like pedlars among us, who, when they met in the street, would lay down their loads, open their sacks, and hold conversation for an hour together; then put up their implements, help each other to resume their burdens, and take their leave.
But for short conversations, a man may carry implements in his pockets, and under his arms, enough to supply him; and in his house, he cannot be at a loss. Therefore the room where company meet who practise this art, is full of all things, ready at hand, requisite to furnish matter for this kind of artificial converse.
Another great advantage proposed by this invention was, that it would serve as a universal language, to be understood in all civilised nations, whose goods and utensils are generally of the same kind, or nearly resembling, so that their uses might easily be comprehended. And thus ambassadors would be qualified to treat with foreign princes, or ministers of state, to whose tongues they were utter strangers.
a used copy provides the same game experience as a new copy.
So long as the game does not modify its original media through the course of play. The game Wizardry came on magnetic media and required that media not to be write protected in order to play. Certain monsters once killed remained dead forever.
Games today could require the use of a propretarized USB thumb drive dongle, ostensibly for gamesaves but actually containing essential game data that is modified through play, making the game single-play only.
Sure, someone could hack the dongle, but used games stores won't traffic in forged dongles and won't buy games that have no resale value.
It's not Blak, it's Blk (Bl&abar;k or Blāk which neither seem to come out right on preview here (Latin small letter a with macron)). At least that's how they officially spell it (Tab is actually TaB). To me that means it should be pronounced "Blake". If it were another brand, I could enjoy the liberating taste of Blk 7-UP.
An aside, apparently the company feels Coca-Cola should not be split at the hyphen onto two lines, since they wrap it with <nobr></nobr>. Another example of our-trademarks-are-above-your-grammar-rules.
No, they haven't. Sony Music did. Sony, as a large corporation, has various divisions that don't communicate and operate very well together. The Playstation division is even further removed from the others.
Until those divisions become separate corporations that don't communicate, operate, or share profits at all, the whole must suffer.
As well as anything associated with BMG. And I'm not afraid of boycotting the individual artists (including concerts) that had this put on their CDs if they don't take action.
the issue at hand, which (as I understand the thrust of Entropius' argument -- again, Entropius, please correct me if I'm wrong) is this: "What is the reasonable response to someone downloading music to which I control the rights?"
Consider that he controlled the rights as far as making it available to be downloaded himself ("...and in fact saw... someone downloading a recording of said choir from me").
He's a party to the copying of his work. If he had an objection (which he also stated "Of course not") he would not have made it available for download.
The question is did he have the right to make it available for free download on behalf of the choir.
As Minna Kirai suggested, there are public domain songs to which your work could be similar, as well as to which any other work seeking tort against you could also be similar. Apply yerricde's combinatorics between public domain and copyrighted music.
In the opening for an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which is always the same parts of The Who's "Who Are You", one closed captioner decided the lyrics, "Come on, tell me who are you..." was actually, "The Bible tells me who are you...". It was only that one time. I think it was "Secrets and Flies" or one of the two-parter "A Bullet Runs Through It" episodes.
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Theoretically, if one had NTSC and PAL versions of a movie, because of their differing resolutions, could a similar interpolation be used to create a version with greater actual detail than either one (assuming both are progressive video with a common framerate)? And would it work not just for resolution but also reducing MPEG compression artifacts?
Wasn't it a Harry Potter DVD release (US & UK) that was notoriously unencumbered by Macrovision?
The best place to install a gravity generator is in the ceiling, though it may cause some lightheadedness.
B. The DRM can not be complex as to hinder third party companies making licensed games.
Sure it can. How else is Microsoft to make a profit on every XBOX 360 game sold by granting access to the platform to third-party companies for money?
E. Because old games can not be updated on a console, the DRM can not be changed or updated after release.
Backwards compatibility can be maintained where desired and the console has network connectivity. Especially if you can ban Live users until they update. There's also embedding updates in future game releases and on movie DVDs (or CDs? where's the XBOX 360's shift key?).
Granted, I don't expect to see Mechwarrior or that 007 game emulated on an XBOX 360.
In a 60 Minutes segment called "Smart TV"(*), a TiVo owner quipped to Mike Wallace, "I can watch 60 Minutes in 45. Why should I watch it in 60?"
I tried to say the same thing about 24, but with more emphasis on time shifting than commercial skipping. It didn't work quite as well -- "I can watch 24 in 18. Why should I watch it in 3,865?" -- because then you have to follow up explaining that that's from x pm of the first episode to x+1 pm of the last episode, assuming a new episode every week without any skips, reruns, preemptions, commercial-free episodes, or timeslot changes (23 * 7 * 24 + 1), and that 1/4 per hour timeslot is commericals (now more like 1/3).
(*) The 60 Minutes story "Smart TV" has not been made available for purchase from CBS' website.
People here might be forced to buy new TVs when the FCC forces broadcasters to transmit in high definition only
Note the word "broadcasters". I expect there will be lots of NTSC content on cable and satellite channels for years after that.
And the rule is that they transmit in digital only and do so in the new digital spectrum so that the government can retake and reallocate the UHF and VHF bands. Digital isn't necessarily HD.
I wonder what new illegal-to-monitor services will be on those frequencies that I'll be able to pick up on my old analog TV. I've already been able to pick up cellular voice pagers on it around channel 20. Especially when using a tuner which supports manual tuning.
This is doable in movies, but a television studio recording is typically too expensive for taping/filming alternate scenes.
They put alternate scenes in when cutting down a 2-hour episode of Stargate SG-1 to fit a 1 hour timeslot. They'll edit together a different take to shave off or pad a few seconds here and there. I compared two versions of an episode to see just how they do it. A line even got changed because RDA said it a little differently in that take. The DVD has a third cut that does hard cuts to the next sequence instead of fading out to and in from commercials, and musical cues reworked to fit the new transition. Without them to compare frame-for-frame, a lot of the changes you'd never notice. (The main thing cut out of that particular episode for the smaller timeslot was the Jaffa B-story.)
They hold on to work product for long enough today that they can easily make dozens of alternate versions, and storage is cheap enough that they can hold on to it all for years.
I predict that within the next year we'll see stations running a constant advertising crawler. They'll probably shrink the size of the actual content area and fill the margins with advertising
Spike TV and The National Network (both formerly The Nashville Network) has been there and done that already. I refused to watch ST:TNG on that channel. True, they used it mainly to promote themselves, the show they were airing, and the next show to air, but it's been done.
To operate this minimalist home-entertainment center, you must unleash your inner Harry Potter. Grab hold of the Wand, essentially an intuitive remote control, pictured here atop the system. Point the Wand to activate a component via motion sensors, and then wave it to control its actions.
For example, if you want to increase the volume, gesture upward. If you want to fast-forward a DVD, wave it to the right. The faster you move, the quicker your action will be.
Until someone throws an electric pencil across the system's on/off sensitive airspace. Lose the wand and go with hand gestures and substitute "Harry Potter" with "Zaphod Beeblebrox".
If you've ever been a fan of snow-globe souvenirs, you'll gravitate to the Momento digital-video player. Like a snow-globe, the Momento is designed to fit in your palm. Thanks to motion sensors, it turns on when you approach it. The sensors allow you to move from video clip to clip by shaking the device. You can transfer clips from your camera-phone via Bluetooth, so there are no messy wires to tangle or to mar the streamlined aesthetic of the ball-like gadget.
The team at Philips Design came up with the idea of Momento as an example of a video player that could function without any standard navigational feature like buttons or dials. While it has plans to make it, Philips predicts that a device based on this concept could hit the market in three to five years.
Philips: putting the "random" back into "random access".
-- Jonathan Swift, "Gulliver's Travels"
The earbuds fit snugly and the speakers hang around the neck.
It's a telephone headset: the speakers are in the earbuds, it is the microphone that hangs down.
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a used copy provides the same game experience as a new copy.
So long as the game does not modify its original media through the course of play. The game Wizardry came on magnetic media and required that media not to be write protected in order to play. Certain monsters once killed remained dead forever.
Games today could require the use of a propretarized USB thumb drive dongle, ostensibly for gamesaves but actually containing essential game data that is modified through play, making the game single-play only.
Sure, someone could hack the dongle, but used games stores won't traffic in forged dongles and won't buy games that have no resale value.
It's not Blak, it's Blk (Bl&abar;k or Blāk which neither seem to come out right on preview here (Latin small letter a with macron)). At least that's how they officially spell it (Tab is actually TaB). To me that means it should be pronounced "Blake". If it were another brand, I could enjoy the liberating taste of Blk 7-UP.
An aside, apparently the company feels Coca-Cola should not be split at the hyphen onto two lines, since they wrap it with <nobr></nobr>. Another example of our-trademarks-are-above-your-grammar-rules.
No, they haven't. Sony Music did. Sony, as a large corporation, has various divisions that don't communicate and operate very well together. The Playstation division is even further removed from the others.
Until those divisions become separate corporations that don't communicate, operate, or share profits at all, the whole must suffer.
As well as anything associated with BMG. And I'm not afraid of boycotting the individual artists (including concerts) that had this put on their CDs if they don't take action.
mouse wheel support?
Welcome to 1995.
Welcome? I'm still there!
I know one place where fixing current emacs bugs isn't a concern. The version supplied by IT at my workplace is over 10 years old.
CDs were able to do things that cassettes weren't.
You see? The seeds of obsolescence are already taking root. You're already referring to CDs in the past tense.
Going by my recent CD purchases, I don't need to check the list.
Assault with compressed air particles in the audible range?
the issue at hand, which (as I understand the thrust of Entropius' argument -- again, Entropius, please correct me if I'm wrong) is this: "What is the reasonable response to someone downloading music to which I control the rights?"
Consider that he controlled the rights as far as making it available to be downloaded himself ("...and in fact saw... someone downloading a recording of said choir from me").
He's a party to the copying of his work. If he had an objection (which he also stated "Of course not") he would not have made it available for download.
The question is did he have the right to make it available for free download on behalf of the choir.
As Minna Kirai suggested, there are public domain songs to which your work could be similar, as well as to which any other work seeking tort against you could also be similar. Apply yerricde's combinatorics between public domain and copyrighted music.
In the opening for an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which is always the same parts of The Who's "Who Are You", one closed captioner decided the lyrics, "Come on, tell me who are you..." was actually, "The Bible tells me who are you...". It was only that one time. I think it was "Secrets and Flies" or one of the two-parter "A Bullet Runs Through It" episodes.
Keep in mind that the US DOJ also thinks penalties shouldn't actually penalize when applied to (campaign contributing) corporations.