erm the choice of film depends on the DoP its his personal perefrence but since stock is so expensive it places like kodak who can put in the leverage on the movie company to get them a better deal. also many american studios or production companies are compelled to 'buy american'
lets look at kodak shall we? they were the ones who believed that digital photography would never take off and decided that 35mm film needed replacing witha more proprietary inferior and more expensive format the so-called APS.
as a result their influence on the world of consumer photography has declined and they are showing the worst financial results in the history of the company. and now they sue the people making moeny from their loss? sounds like a certain utah exec has been consulting for them on development/exit strategy.
kodak is really in your face. they dominate even where they shouldnt be [ie aps], pleaze dont be suckered by their advertising.
sure they made some great film stocks in the past for still and motion picture photography [and continue to supply them today although they are delcining industries] but if their financial standing is lessened from a genuine lack of vision [no pun intended] and they hope to recoup it by ridiculous patents and wasteful litigation then they deserve to fold. i will miss using some of those great films but hey, their competitors are cheaper and better in most cases.
mention postage stamp size perspectives and evey moron with a semi-opinion comes out to betray his own ignorance on any issue. your views on socialism are narrow. please don't mention anything to do with things you have never even attempted to google for let alone read about. your sentence "Everyone's equal in a socialism, so long as they're all equal with the lowest common denominator." that sentence does not make any sense. how can there be a lowest common denominator if everyone is equal as you state? an LCD [lowest common denominator] in the analogy of LCD implies spread spectrum of the thing you deem to exhibit such properties and therefore is not 'equal' at any point.
if you were indeed making a reference to how real world socialist systems have either failed their implementations or have been capitalist states with benign socialist feaatures such as sweden then you would only be a fool for condemning two separate things; one of which fails due to mans own capitalist tendencies and one of which succeeds in maintaining a lowest common denominator in standards of living for everyone DESPITE it existing inside of capitalism.
farsi has been supported since windows 98 as its own edition. nt4 had an arabic edition which you could patch. and windows 2000 sort of said it did but it didnt seem to work very well unless you installed office xp. windows xp and office xp combo was perfect as farsi seemed to run natively. only problem with xp was if the main input method was english and a user who used farsi was using the system when the screen lockout thing would kick in you would never ever be able to unlock it with the right passwd as you would need the right input method which isnt an option at the screen unlock!
as for linux or OSS linuxiran have live CD based knopper's distro called shabdiz(x) which has farsi kde and other tools. weird logo. i think the gnu free tools for windows and other bumper packs do get bought in iran.
mandrake comes out of the box with farsi support. never tried it as opportunity hasnt come up to foist linux on any iranians.
and most linux supports arabic anyway which therefore can be easily adapted. i think there are a few how-tos out there for any langugae regarding linux for native language users and second language learners.
erm and i was going to post "hey cool! so they managed to fix the disco strobe effect that was reported on street lamps supplied by bpl enabled grid sections!" now i realise they had bigger fish to fry! yeah but anyway they had streetlight flicker on and off in loose sequences in some streets when they trialed it in england according to some new scientist article i read or dreamed years ago
i think hackers was really a movie about teens and youth culture really.. not computers.. the tech fetish thing was a motif a gimmick and something to give it a plot. swordfish i wont comment on. but sneakers wasa good movie... even though it was tosh. structurally and cinematically all three movies had merit of some sort. but computer people moan about computing issues in movies like movies have to be important documentaries on the subject or weird infoomercials.. though with the amount of product placement in film these days one could be forgiven for thinking this. you dont hear theoretical physicists moaning about the back to the future series or geneticists moaning about jurassic park.
i think we should complain of the consistently bad quality of movie from hollywood that insults everybody's intelligence or the cod philosiphizing in the matrix and reveal it for the shoddyness it is.
if computing types want the IT equivalent of grisham or something then fine.. that is what books are for and i am sure they are out there.
ps did anyone ever read neuromancer and go "puhlease! jacks into your head!?"
or the matrix and scoff at that?
yeah well. this kid in america patented swinging sideways [on a swing] after his dad, a patent lawyer decided to show him "this is what daddy does at work". cool huh
The track you attempted to burn has been identified as pirated or indie music. Windows Media Player 11 has destroyed your CD-ROM and computer for your protection. Call 1-900-THE-RIAA to re-enable it."
after your computer has been frie by a cranked up cd rom laser cutting up ypour compuetr innards
yawn. you confuse me with someone who cares about self intereted losers who blame everyone else.. not even stopping at the usal "'foreigners' come to steal your jobs" line you usually spit out but foreigners who are still in their own country midning their own business!! i love the concept of america but its posts like yours that make me realise why people hate your soft arrogant protectionists asses. you're unemployed cause youre mediocre? good! you had it too goood too long . sorry the beast that fed you whilst you washed and scrubbed it left you in the cold but, hey! you should have seen it coming and done something else.
ps.. how can a computer programmer ever be working class?
really? don't you think all tyrannies have to start somewhere? and if they did, wouldn't it have been nice if there domination and growth had been checked by the vigliance of their own citizens beofre becoming a collective millstone around the neck of the free thinking people around thw world in a position to be able to be concerned about it? and what heppned when there isnt anyone left to fight the tyrannies? isnt america supposed to be the example to the rest of the world?
oh shut up. how come the comfortable whine so much? how could you begrudge the russians any kind of progress while they are the ones that go hungry and homeless and you sit back with your computers and comfort!?
hah! unfortunately i live in england and the local metropolitan Apple Store has 1 computer on display and is more like Apple Store Soviet Russia. youre more likely to see a catalogue than a real machine.
i agree with him though. pragmatism is less scary than insanlely zealous idealism and gets less people killed. by the way this comparison at its least suggests that most slashdotters some kind of idealist at some level. that *IS* scary.
but as a point... i think win XP default look and feel looks like MyFirst Operating System(TM) asmanufactired by Vtech or Texas instruments for those kiddie toy computers.
which might be a good thing as thats what they might have been trying to achieve for making users feel nice and comfortable.
but to me all it feels like you can do with it is browse the web and perhaps check some email.
and guess what? thats it. thats all you can do.
windows is just an OS. thats it. sth to fil the HD so you can use some of computer hardware. it just comes on a whole CD instead of maybe two or three floppies.
linux on the other hand is not just an OS...
its an OS and lots of cool programs either bundled or available to be downloaded in order to enable you to do what you wanted to with a computer. for an individual or a small business with v little budget doing whatever or a school in the third world wanting to be able to teach some basic WIMP/GUI IT skills this is a godsend.
though linux ahs beeen around for a while, ladies and gentlemen, we are only truly at the dawn of true non elitist computing where the proprietry giants will have to change to avoid extinction.
well thats quite plausible but the user is still the weakest link in any kind of system. i suppose its turned on it head in windows and the operating sys can be the weakest link and the right kind of user with the right kind of attitude is the strongest link.
i run two win2k boxes at home [cause i cant afford macs] and my non techie dad runs three on a home network he barely understands. no let me tell you. i have not had to ever lose any sleep over any kind of malware just cause me and even my dad follow a few basic rules because 'windows is insecure by design', regarding file sharing, email and attachments.
the snag to this is that a house guest once used my fathers computer for a a day and infected it with couple of viri etc just using MSN and web browsing. the jerk!
arent they all fabbed in one or two huge plants at certain grades for big companies to put their names to them? i think so. but when i mean two or three i mean a small handful really.
wait.. the guy who set up intel.......doesn't moores law smell like a snake oil scamola to keep mining the rich seam that is the non-risc single CPU architecture until they reach the physical limits and are forced to use one of the other things they have been researching.
which then, in turn is bolstered by a partnered software company to keep bringing out the next vital OS which only runs on the next generation hardware and is barely backwards compatible, if at all?
if that makes sense then it should be familiar..
but if that is at all true couldt they just have skipped to 4 gHz 4 years ago? would not that have bee nicer of them?
"but on the other hand there are zones where one knows one will lose their cell phone signal; the worst two zones are adjacent to the CIA's facility and the Pentagon, for example"
well to tell you the truth, all i wantis people to play bad not nice -- i want to see the airwaves cluttered with people ranting, raving, and riding roughshod over these so called 'official ' stations owned by awful record labels pushing awful music on us. hence i dont lsiten to the radio very often. i know here in the uk we have it alot bettre than the usa. but i would still rather listen to the playlist of slashdotter than endure mark and lard opr something. then agian.. the playlist of an iPod owning slashdotter doent bode well in my imagination. just kidding;`P
what if you could prove you had to be there as constitutional/human right?
let us look at religion. no really. sociologically it is an organised system of worship based on fundamental beliefs underpinned by individual faith. with these broad criteria we could assume eating at macdonalds or shopping at sears would be the expressive act of worship of a particular religion. like consumerism. or the cult of MAcD's.
the iconography of the various logos embellished for our easy identification of products and allegiance like the golden arches in macdonalds. you pay money to them so they keep going; like a donation. you convene there individually or with family and friends and feast together. incant the holy words such as Big Mac. and so forth. you praise ronald while decrying the sinful and deceitful nature of the hamburglar.
so your right to worship could be abused if you cannot convene at your appropriate place of worship.
the sony flashmob could've been seen as an artistic/religious display of worship in honour of sony and its supremacy in the consumer elctro/robotics field.
my point is [and i think i might have one somewhere.] on a pure, legal, constitional basis the rights of the owners are being abused by flashmobbing.
however... there are loopholes and people wondering what flashmobbers are trying to say should do well to think about what large multinational conglomerates' unbridled success/world domination says about western peoples. how we co opted their sparkling gleaming concepts in return for convenience due to our laziness at the expense of the small operator (whose business model may or may not have been outmoded). we betrayed ourselves. now many of us would like to make up for it.
yes, i show my hand freely. i am a woolly impractical anti-capitalist. but i can be pragmatic; when elections are manipulated and politicians are so conservative, the only thing they will stick their necks out on is making wars that only large corporations and financial institutions want (they could've acheived anything... but they gave us this. its not political suicide toeing the line... y'know?), it is imperative that we find as many practical ways of saying things we mean on large level that can compete with the obliteration of human expression by bland conformity enforced almost lethally, the mass flood of propaganda that many depend on as an information source and both the malignant indifference of the so-called 'private tyrannies' and the benign indifference of the disenfranchised individual.
if
it costs millions to get anyone elected anywhere in the west and the money comes form private minority interests and their policies are baseless lies, vague generalised pledges/promises [either way they are never kept]. it wuold follow that maybe democracy and free speech are underrated concepts even in the west. it is known and obvious that everyone needs them as guaranteed rights. but it is then seemingly unimportant that we dont really have them and freely acknowledged that it wont change and that this is as good as it gets.
we may have them one day but until then, we have things like being nuisances to people. for example. if one were so inclined, one could organise a 'meatspace DDoS' attack, like flashmobbing many branches/franchises of one particuar company across continents for a few hours. watch share prices fall. but that is naive and a more malevolent application of ones right to free expression that would hurt many than is the intention, surely, of most flashmobbers.
apologies for this post in advance but i have been paring it down trying to make it make sense.
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erm the choice of film depends on the DoP its his personal perefrence but since stock is so expensive it places like kodak who can put in the leverage on the movie company to get them a better deal. also many american studios or production companies are compelled to 'buy american'
lets look at kodak shall we?
they were the ones who believed that digital photography would never take off and decided that 35mm film needed replacing witha more proprietary inferior and more expensive format the so-called APS.
as a result their influence on the world of consumer photography has declined and they are showing the worst financial results in the history of the company. and now they sue the people making moeny from their loss? sounds like a certain utah exec has been consulting for them on development/exit strategy.
kodak is really in your face. they dominate even where they shouldnt be [ie aps], pleaze dont be suckered by their advertising.
sure they made some great film stocks in the past for still and motion picture photography [and continue to supply them today although they are delcining industries] but if their financial standing is lessened from a genuine lack of vision [no pun intended] and they hope to recoup it by ridiculous patents and wasteful litigation then they deserve to fold. i will miss using some of those great films but hey, their competitors are cheaper and better in most cases.
one theory to rule them all?
actually i thought maya was free to dload for home use at least under windows.
mention postage stamp size perspectives and evey moron with a semi-opinion comes out to betray his own ignorance on any issue.
your views on socialism are narrow. please don't mention anything to do with things you have never even attempted to google for let alone read about. your sentence "Everyone's equal in a socialism, so long as they're all equal with the lowest common denominator." that sentence does not make any sense. how can there be a lowest common denominator if everyone is equal as you state?
an LCD [lowest common denominator] in the analogy of LCD implies spread spectrum of the thing you deem to exhibit such properties and therefore is not 'equal' at any point.
if you were indeed making a reference to how real world socialist systems have either failed their implementations or have been capitalist states with benign socialist feaatures such as sweden then you would only be a fool for condemning two separate things; one of which fails due to mans own capitalist tendencies and one of which succeeds in maintaining a lowest common denominator in standards of living for everyone DESPITE it existing inside of capitalism.
thanks.
farsi has been supported since windows 98 as its own edition. nt4 had an arabic edition which you could patch.
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and windows 2000 sort of said it did but it didnt seem to work very well unless you installed office xp. windows xp and office xp combo was perfect as farsi seemed to run natively.
only problem with xp was if the main input method was english and a user who used farsi was using the system when the screen lockout thing would kick in you would never ever be able to unlock it with the right passwd as you would need the right input method which isnt an option at the screen unlock!
as for linux or OSS linuxiran have live CD based knopper's distro called shabdiz(x) which has farsi kde and other tools.
weird logo.
i think the gnu free tools for windows and other bumper packs do get bought in iran
mandrake comes out of the box with farsi support. never tried it as opportunity hasnt come up to foist linux on any iranians.
and most linux supports arabic anyway which therefore can be easily adapted. i think there are a few how-tos out there for any langugae regarding linux for native language users and second language learners.
erm and i was going to post "hey cool! so they managed to fix the disco strobe effect that was reported on street lamps supplied by bpl enabled grid sections!" now i realise they had bigger fish to fry!
yeah but anyway they had streetlight flicker on and off in loose sequences in some streets when they trialed it in england according to some new scientist article i read or dreamed years ago
audio dvd? its su[pposed to be better and the audio philes here in europe seem to love it.
i think hackers was really a movie about teens and youth culture really .. not computers.. the tech fetish thing was a motif a gimmick and something to give it a plot. swordfish i wont comment on. but sneakers wasa good movie... even though it was tosh. structurally and cinematically all three movies had merit of some sort. but computer people moan about computing issues in movies like movies have to be important documentaries on the subject or weird infoomercials.. though with the amount of product placement in film these days one could be forgiven for thinking this. you dont hear theoretical physicists moaning about the back to the future series or geneticists moaning about jurassic park.
i think we should complain of the consistently bad quality of movie from hollywood that insults everybody's intelligence or the cod philosiphizing in the matrix and reveal it for the shoddyness it is.
if computing types want the IT equivalent of grisham or something then fine.. that is what books are for and i am sure they are out there.
ps did anyone ever read neuromancer and go "puhlease! jacks into your head!?"
or the matrix and scoff at that?
yeah well. this kid in america patented swinging sideways [on a swing] after his dad, a patent lawyer decided to show him "this is what daddy does at work".
cool huh
it will probably read:-
The track you attempted to burn has been identified as pirated or indie music. Windows Media Player 11 has destroyed your CD-ROM and computer for your protection. Call 1-900-THE-RIAA to re-enable it."
after your computer has been frie by a cranked up cd rom laser cutting up ypour compuetr innards
ps the USA is one of the very few countries that wont outlaw the use of landmines
yawn. you confuse me with someone who cares about self intereted losers who blame everyone else.. not even stopping at the usal "'foreigners' come to steal your jobs" line you usually spit out but foreigners who are still in their own country midning their own business!! i love the concept of america but its posts like yours that make me realise why people hate your soft arrogant protectionists asses. you're unemployed cause youre mediocre? good! you had it too goood too long . sorry the beast that fed you whilst you washed and scrubbed it left you in the cold but, hey! you should have seen it coming and done something else. ps .. how can a computer programmer ever be working class?
really? don't you think all tyrannies have to start somewhere? and if they did, wouldn't it have been nice if there domination and growth had been checked by the vigliance of their own citizens beofre becoming a collective millstone around the neck of the free thinking people around thw world in a position to be able to be concerned about it? and what heppned when there isnt anyone left to fight the tyrannies? isnt america supposed to be the example to the rest of the world?
oh shut up. how come the comfortable whine so much? how could you begrudge the russians any kind of progress while they are the ones that go hungry and homeless and you sit back with your computers and comfort!?
yeah well see you all in guantanamo for the next international slashdot meetup! ; /
hah! unfortunately i live in england and the local metropolitan Apple Store has 1 computer on display and is more like Apple Store Soviet Russia. youre more likely to see a catalogue than a real machine.
i agree with him though. pragmatism is less scary than insanlely zealous idealism and gets less people killed. by the way this comparison at its least suggests that most slashdotters some kind of idealist at some level. that *IS* scary. but as a point... i think win XP default look and feel looks like MyFirst Operating System(TM) asmanufactired by Vtech or Texas instruments for those kiddie toy computers. which might be a good thing as thats what they might have been trying to achieve for making users feel nice and comfortable. but to me all it feels like you can do with it is browse the web and perhaps check some email. and guess what? thats it. thats all you can do. windows is just an OS. thats it. sth to fil the HD so you can use some of computer hardware. it just comes on a whole CD instead of maybe two or three floppies. linux on the other hand is not just an OS... its an OS and lots of cool programs either bundled or available to be downloaded in order to enable you to do what you wanted to with a computer. for an individual or a small business with v little budget doing whatever or a school in the third world wanting to be able to teach some basic WIMP/GUI IT skills this is a godsend. though linux ahs beeen around for a while, ladies and gentlemen, we are only truly at the dawn of true non elitist computing where the proprietry giants will have to change to avoid extinction.
well thats quite plausible but the user is still the weakest link in any kind of system. i suppose its turned on it head in windows and the operating sys can be the weakest link and the right kind of user with the right kind of attitude is the strongest link.
i run two win2k boxes at home [cause i cant afford macs] and my non techie dad runs three on a home network he barely understands. no let me tell you. i have not had to ever lose any sleep over any kind of malware just cause me and even my dad follow a few basic rules because 'windows is insecure by design', regarding file sharing, email and attachments.
the snag to this is that a house guest once used my fathers computer for a a day and infected it with couple of viri etc just using MSN and web browsing. the jerk!
arent they all fabbed in one or two huge plants at certain grades for big companies to put their names to them? i think so. but when i mean two or three i mean a small handful really.
wait.. the guy who set up intel.... ...doesn't moores law smell like a snake oil scamola to keep mining the rich seam that is the non-risc single CPU architecture until they reach the physical limits and are forced to use one of the other things they have been researching.
which then, in turn is bolstered by a partnered software company to keep bringing out the next vital OS which only runs on the next generation hardware and is barely backwards compatible, if at all?
if that makes sense then it should be familiar..
but if that is at all true couldt they just have skipped to 4 gHz 4 years ago? would not that have bee nicer of them?
"but on the other hand there are zones where one knows one will lose their cell phone signal; the worst two zones are adjacent to the CIA's facility and the Pentagon, for example"
yeah but can't you guess why that is?
well to tell you the truth, all i wantis people to play bad not nice -- i want to see the airwaves cluttered with people ranting, raving, and riding roughshod over these so called 'official ' stations owned by awful record labels pushing awful music on us. hence i dont lsiten to the radio very often. i know here in the uk we have it alot bettre than the usa. but i would still rather listen to the playlist of slashdotter than endure mark and lard opr something. then agian .. the playlist of an iPod owning slashdotter doent bode well in my imagination. just kidding ;`P
what if you could prove you had to be there as constitutional/human right? let us look at religion. no really. sociologically it is an organised system of worship based on fundamental beliefs underpinned by individual faith. with these broad criteria we could assume eating at macdonalds or shopping at sears would be the expressive act of worship of a particular religion. like consumerism. or the cult of MAcD's. the iconography of the various logos embellished for our easy identification of products and allegiance like the golden arches in macdonalds. you pay money to them so they keep going; like a donation. you convene there individually or with family and friends and feast together. incant the holy words such as Big Mac. and so forth. you praise ronald while decrying the sinful and deceitful nature of the hamburglar. so your right to worship could be abused if you cannot convene at your appropriate place of worship. the sony flashmob could've been seen as an artistic/religious display of worship in honour of sony and its supremacy in the consumer elctro/robotics field. my point is [and i think i might have one somewhere.] on a pure, legal, constitional basis the rights of the owners are being abused by flashmobbing. however... there are loopholes and people wondering what flashmobbers are trying to say should do well to think about what large multinational conglomerates' unbridled success/world domination says about western peoples. how we co opted their sparkling gleaming concepts in return for convenience due to our laziness at the expense of the small operator (whose business model may or may not have been outmoded). we betrayed ourselves. now many of us would like to make up for it. yes, i show my hand freely. i am a woolly impractical anti-capitalist. but i can be pragmatic; when elections are manipulated and politicians are so conservative, the only thing they will stick their necks out on is making wars that only large corporations and financial institutions want (they could've acheived anything... but they gave us this. its not political suicide toeing the line... y'know?), it is imperative that we find as many practical ways of saying things we mean on large level that can compete with the obliteration of human expression by bland conformity enforced almost lethally, the mass flood of propaganda that many depend on as an information source and both the malignant indifference of the so-called 'private tyrannies' and the benign indifference of the disenfranchised individual. if it costs millions to get anyone elected anywhere in the west and the money comes form private minority interests and their policies are baseless lies, vague generalised pledges/promises [either way they are never kept]. it wuold follow that maybe democracy and free speech are underrated concepts even in the west. it is known and obvious that everyone needs them as guaranteed rights. but it is then seemingly unimportant that we dont really have them and freely acknowledged that it wont change and that this is as good as it gets. we may have them one day but until then, we have things like being nuisances to people. for example. if one were so inclined, one could organise a 'meatspace DDoS' attack, like flashmobbing many branches/franchises of one particuar company across continents for a few hours. watch share prices fall. but that is naive and a more malevolent application of ones right to free expression that would hurt many than is the intention, surely, of most flashmobbers. apologies for this post in advance but i have been paring it down trying to make it make sense.
what about jayce and the wheel warriors?
i have a dim memory nmybe get the name wrong