Wrong. Sky captain and the world of tomorrow was the first movie shot entirely in bluescreen.
"Polar Express" is using basically the same technique used to animate Gollum in LotR, only they're using it for the entire movie.
Shouldn't the moderators read the articles before they mod informative?
Yet it wasn't just such cinematic sleights that initially drew Zemeckis into the unproven world of performance capture. Instead, it was a search for verisimilitude.
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Had he made the movie in live action, Zemeckis says, he would have had to "throw out all the glorious paintings." Close readers of the book may recognize that each and every book illustration is represented in the film.
Looks like he's using special effects for all the right reasons, at least. We'll just have to wait and see how the movie turns out:-)
(And for the vocabularily challenged: verisimilitude.
1. The quality of appearing to be true or real. See Synonyms at truth.
2. Something that has the appearance of being true or real.)
The rover team has been bandying about theories, but hasn't figured out the cause.
"One favorite is that a dust devil happened to pick the vehicle to go through and go over the surface of it and clean it off a little bit,'' Erickson said.
Dust Devil Cleaning Services, the last remains of the vast martian civilization;-)
As far as security goes, I would risk saying that is is much harder to dabble in fingerprinting than other forms of identity theft. If credit cards could be swiped and then authenticated with a fingerprint scan, I think we would have much less trouble with theft in that area as the technology to duplicate fingerprints doesn't seem to be widely available (how many people do you know who can do it?).
As fingerprinting becomes more widespread, the incentives for duplicating fingerprints grows.
At the moment there's very little demand for fingerprint duplication, but when demand rises, supply will follow very, very quickly, especially as the technology to do this is already known.
Smart guns conjure up a lot of fears from gun owners. There's a fear that "smart" technology might be required on new guns. There's a fear that they might be too expensive, or unreliable (batteries gone dead), or that it might be possible to disable them remotely with something like EMP. Don't laugh, it's already possible to stop many motor vehicles this way.
I can't really see the advantages here, if a gun is potentially unreliable, a holster using the same technology would be as prone to malfunction... And the people who fear these issues quickly proceed to the logical conclusion: Keep the gun out of the holster, or get an old-fashioned holster. Right back to square 1.
Article over 1 year old, merely restating what's been mentioned a million times before in this thread, that Diabold is owned by a republican, and this same republican has been donating to Bush. No fraud involved (However much I agree it's in bad taste)
Please at list read the links before you moderate them informative? +5 for this is a joke.
At a rally in Miami, Bush appealed to Cuban-Americans by describing his support for the ouster of Cuban leader Fidel Castro. "We will continue to press hard and ensure that the gift of freedom finally reaches the men and women of Cuba," Bush said as the crowd chanted, "Viva Bush." He added, "I strongly believe the people of Cuba should be free from the tyrant."
Source: http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nat ion/president/2004-11-01-bush-campaign_x.htm (Or google news it)
As the parent said, think before you vote.
Time to go vote yourself into another war, america?
I was merely wondering wether or not EPM will be offered as an international service, rather than merely national as the " Nationwide reach and trust " point in "Benefits of EPM" on your website seems to suggest.
If it is to be only national, this will obviously obstruct the adoption of EPM somewhat.
Also, if it is national only, is this due to laws against exporting strong encryption?
Yours truly,
My Name - Norway "
Reply:
"
The USPS EPM has legal standing in the United States. To your point, however, we can not state with any certainty how it will be viewed by other countries' legal systems. However (and this is a BIG however) many postal organizations around the world are also developing their own EPM - type systems. And our UN chartered global postal administration (Unviersal Postal Union, located in Berne) is in the middle of creating standards and getting each of the world's postal administrations to build EPM systems that adhere to a certain minimum set of criteria. And, as you know, postal organizations worldwide have agreements in place to help each other deliver mail without the process being cumbersome to the sender or recipient. So the UPU will also handle similar agreements behind the "Postal-offered EPMs" of the world.
The situation you are concerned about does exist today, but folks are working on making the EPM standards international and reciprocal. It will take a while (as all standards organizations do) but it will come together eventually.
That it's word only ATM (as far as I also can find out from the site) is irrelevant...
Well, nearly so. With the Java SDK any application from any OS appearently can easily be enhanced with their Electronic Postmark capabilities.
What I'm wondering about is the "Nationwide reach and trust" point they list in "Benefits of EPM".
Does the strong encryption make it illegal to use this for international communications?
That MS is actually improving security is good for all of us.
It's about time, and they still have a long way to go, but increasing security gives less room for E-mail viruses, worms and other network-hogging exploits.
Hmm... Any chance of a class-action suit from people who do NOT use Microsoft, addressing the way their lack of security has wrecked important services for non-MS users?
After all, those of us who don't use MS have never accepted their EULAs, but they've still wreaked havoc for our systems.
Could at least lead to an even further increased MS focus on security, which would help everyone...
Let me get this straight...
They need *proprietary* code from IBM in order to prove that Linux, an *open source* OS, the source widely downlodable... contains SCO proprietary code?
According to the graph on page 10 of the article, we should have material strong enough for the elevator before mid-2004.
This seems to conflict with the report being published march 2003, and the mention of 2 years in the article, though.
Does anyone know the CN state of current ribbons?
Let's see... There is translation software out there that has some basic understanding of grammar.
Should we add a grammar-filter to the list of things we look for it spam?
A large amount of incorrect grammar would increase the chances of the file being caught in the spam filter.
Of course, this would lock out most of AOL users from writing email... But is that really so bad?:P
Yes... What if it's *all* true, and Linux is utilizing MICROSOFT code?
People, this is the truth of the matter, SCO is a hidden subsidiary of microsoft.
It's all a ploy to utterly and finishingly demoralizing the Open Source community.
"We've been Microsoft users all this time..."
Unfortunately, however, this is a *serious* boost to the.wma format's commercial success.
The task of informing the public of the dangers of CRM becomes more important... The only way we can stop it is by making it unpopular, even hated, amongst enough people to make a serious dent in profits for CRM systems, thereby forcing their hand back into open systems.
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Wrong. Sky captain and the world of tomorrow was the first movie shot entirely in bluescreen.
"Polar Express" is using basically the same technique used to animate Gollum in LotR, only they're using it for the entire movie.
Shouldn't the moderators read the articles before they mod informative?
I think the parent poster is unaware that this is the technique they used to make Gollum come to life in LOTR.
I, for one, certainly didn't find him wooden, stiff or lacking emotion!
Looks like he's using special effects for all the right reasons, at least. We'll just have to wait and see how the movie turns out
(And for the vocabularily challenged: verisimilitude.
1. The quality of appearing to be true or real. See Synonyms at truth.
2. Something that has the appearance of being true or real.)
Dust Devil Cleaning Services, the last remains of the vast martian civilization
"Your gun has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down."
As fingerprinting becomes more widespread, the incentives for duplicating fingerprints grows.
At the moment there's very little demand for fingerprint duplication, but when demand rises, supply will follow very, very quickly, especially as the technology to do this is already known.
I can't really see the advantages here, if a gun is potentially unreliable, a holster using the same technology would be as prone to malfunction...
And the people who fear these issues quickly proceed to the logical conclusion: Keep the gun out of the holster, or get an old-fashioned holster.
Right back to square 1.
"But if we remove speculative emergency situations, the technology seems to be interesting."
And as we all know, guns are never used in emergencies...
It was down even when it showed up in the Mysterious Future, and yeah, I did mail the editor about it...
p ?liArticleID=134810&liArticleTypeID=1&liCategoryID =1&liChannelID=13&liFlavourID=1&sSearch=&nPage =1 is a brand new article about MS giving advance notice of security updates, I guess it's the same piece of news.
http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.as
Article over 1 year old, merely restating what's been mentioned a million times before in this thread, that Diabold is owned by a republican, and this same republican has been donating to Bush. No fraud involved (However much I agree it's in bad taste)
Please at list read the links before you moderate them informative? +5 for this is a joke.
There's also a ...slashdot editor with a great command of the english language... as well.
As the parent said, think before you vote.
Time to go vote yourself into another war, america?
See his posting history
'nuff said
As someone said on /. before, I don't remember who...
"Microsoft is not the Borg, the Borg have proper networking."
The mail I sent:
"Good day,
I was merely wondering wether or not EPM will be offered as an international service, rather than merely national as the " Nationwide reach and trust " point in "Benefits of EPM" on your website seems to suggest.
If it is to be only national, this will obviously obstruct the adoption of EPM somewhat.
Also, if it is national only, is this due to laws against exporting strong encryption?
Yours truly,
My Name - Norway "
Reply:
"
The USPS EPM has legal standing in the United States. To your point, however, we can not state with any certainty how it will be viewed by other countries' legal systems. However (and this is a BIG however) many postal organizations around the world are also developing their own EPM - type systems. And our UN chartered global postal administration (Unviersal Postal Union, located in Berne) is in the middle of creating standards and getting each of the world's postal administrations to build EPM systems that adhere to a certain minimum set of criteria. And, as you know, postal organizations worldwide have agreements in place to help each other deliver mail without the process being cumbersome to the sender or recipient. So the UPU will also handle similar agreements behind the "Postal-offered EPMs" of the world.
The situation you are concerned about does exist today, but folks are working on making the EPM standards international and reciprocal. It will take a while (as all standards organizations do) but it will come together eventually.
I hope my answer helps.
Leo Campbell
EPM Program Manager
"
"only a hash code of the file is logged as evidence of authenticity." -About EPM
Tampering by a macro or script would change the file, thereby making it incompatible with the hash, no?
That it's word only ATM (as far as I also can find out from the site) is irrelevant... Well, nearly so. With the Java SDK any application from any OS appearently can easily be enhanced with their Electronic Postmark capabilities.
What I'm wondering about is the "Nationwide reach and trust" point they list in "Benefits of EPM".
Does the strong encryption make it illegal to use this for international communications?
That MS is actually improving security is good for all of us.
It's about time, and they still have a long way to go, but increasing security gives less room for E-mail viruses, worms and other network-hogging exploits.
Hmm... Any chance of a class-action suit from people who do NOT use Microsoft, addressing the way their lack of security has wrecked important services for non-MS users?
After all, those of us who don't use MS have never accepted their EULAs, but they've still wreaked havoc for our systems.
Could at least lead to an even further increased MS focus on security, which would help everyone...
Let me get this straight...
They need *proprietary* code from IBM in order to prove that Linux, an *open source* OS, the source widely downlodable... contains SCO proprietary code?
According to the graph on page 10 of the article, we should have material strong enough for the elevator before mid-2004.
This seems to conflict with the report being published march 2003, and the mention of 2 years in the article, though.
Does anyone know the CN state of current ribbons?
Let's see... There is translation software out there that has some basic understanding of grammar. :P
Should we add a grammar-filter to the list of things we look for it spam?
A large amount of incorrect grammar would increase the chances of the file being caught in the spam filter.
Of course, this would lock out most of AOL users from writing email... But is that really so bad?
"...gibberish is rapidly becoming a common component of spam."
Hasn't spam always been gibberish?
Yes... What if it's *all* true, and Linux is utilizing MICROSOFT code?
People, this is the truth of the matter, SCO is a hidden subsidiary of microsoft.
It's all a ploy to utterly and finishingly demoralizing the Open Source community.
"We've been Microsoft users all this time..."
The Itunes service is mostly there to draw up iPod sales. AAC is probably for pride.
Unfortunately, however, this is a *serious* boost to the .wma format's commercial success.
The task of informing the public of the dangers of CRM becomes more important...
The only way we can stop it is by making it unpopular, even hated, amongst enough people to make a serious dent in profits for CRM systems, thereby forcing their hand back into open systems.