Someday, perhaps someone will write a mail client that disallows loading of remote images in emails unless specifically allowed. Perhaps they could call it "Thunderbird."
Most Hollywood movies using digital negatives are burned to film at 2k (~2000 x 1250, varying slightly based on aspect ratio). Postproduction people might use 4k or 6k frames while working with the footage, but that's downsampled on output most of the time. Note that this is not terribly different from the size of a 1080p24 HD frame.
Movies are also generally scanned, mastered, and encoded in 10-bit or 12-bit per channel log. 16 bpc really isn't necessary, as at the top of the brightness range there's not a lot of subtlety in the colors anyhow. Again, post-production people might work with 32-bpc float internally, but there's no reason to have that much color definition in the output.
Also, movies are shot at 24 fps, not 25 (which is the PAL framerate). I'll spot you the 120 minute assumption to keep my answer in the same order of magnitude as yours, but it really should be 90 minutes.
So for most movies, (assuming uncompressed 1.75:1 2k frames):
framedimensions = 2048 x 1170
framebytes = framedimensions x 4.5
moviebytes = framebytes x 24 x 60 x 120
"Gay-bashing religious zealot" is just their cover, vote-getter, and tool of obfuscation. "Enricher of the elites by any means, without limitation" is what it actually means.
If you study Arabic in Israeli high school (which is offered everywhere as an elective), when you are drafted you will likely end up in either the intelligence service or the more dangerous infantry assignments. That means there's something of an incentive not to learn (or admit to knowing) a lot of Arabic.
English is a required subject in Israeli schools from elementary on up. Other foreign languages are also offered as electives. So Arabic might be a third or fourth language for many.
Many Israelis come from families that were expelled from Yemen, Morocco, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and other countries who expropriated and expelled their Jewish populations in the 1950s. They could be expected to have learned at least some Arabic from the cradle, as it might have been Grandma or Grandpa's only spoken language.
Hebrew is a terrible language for swearing in, (it has only been evolving organically for 100 years or so after a long period as written-only language) so Israelis tend to swear in Arabic when they want to swear. This makes it a bit fucking difficult to have a goddamn polite conversation with some motherfucker who only speaks Arabic.
Wow, completely insane doesn't even begin to describe it. My favorite line:
"In addition, Reiser alleged that Sturgeon wrote into a contract that Reiser must participate in 'Death Yoga,' which he said has the purpose of 'slowing down one's heart to the point of death.'"
Well, filing fees are supposed to cover that to a degree, and it's very much a public good to make our judicial process accessible to anyone with a beef, no matter how unlikely.
That upward trend is heavily dependent on the location and timeslice. Europe didn't recover for 500 years after the fall of Rome. Cold comfort to someone stuck in the middle of it.
That's nice in the abstract, but do you want your grandchildren to live in comfort and prosperity, or in the ruins of modern civilization? Either one would count as survival. While humanity as a whole has survived quite well over the last few thousand years, we've got less than 200 years of industrial society under our belts, and less than 100 years of a global culture connected through communiations and transportation technology.
You don't need to look much further than Afghanistan or Somalia to see what happens when that slips away.
First, you must throw away every preconception of the subject (or art) you will work on (drawing, painting, game development, etc). In the case of game development you have to erase from your mind your mind things like "game genre" and "oriented to X type of people".
You skipped a step. You need to bone up on Craft. Picasso was classically trained, and his early work shows him to have developed an exceptional mastery of academic painting. It was only then that he could begin to adequately address the failure of representational painting in the age of photography. If you skip the step where you get really really good at working within the established traditions, you won't know which rules to break or how.
This was not necessarily as true for the earliest designers, as they were creating the tradition as they went, but still applied to some degree then (see: Spacewar and Pong, Relative popular success of), and most certainly does now.
This is why I go to slashdot. I don't comprehend a frigging word of the debate, but two people slapping each other with equations over the exact number of neutrinos from a North Korean nuclear test makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.
If I were Rupert Murdoch, you two would have an hour-long show on Fox News.
Easy, tiger. There's a lot more fact-finding to do before allegations of Microsoft backing the fiaSCO can stick. It may seem patently obvious to your average techie, but SCO went aheads with its claims on the grounds they were "perfectly obvious" as well.
IBM's lawyers have done stellar work so far, but their power is more comparable to continental subduction than nuclear weaponry: slower, but ultimately vastly more powerful. By 2010 or so, this case'll get really good, and both MS and IBM will still be around (although SCO will exist only as a head on a pike above the gates of Armonk.)
Besides the fact that the 9/11 conspiracy stuff is absurd on its face, the US response to 9/11 hasn't been organized or competent enough to make foreknowledge believable. If you read the article I linked about Airbus, the incident in question happened under Clinton. This is about preserving the constitution, not about which party is in power. Anyone in government with a "we have to destroy America in order to save it" attitude (e.g. Schumer and Hillary at their most pandering, and Lieberman pretty much all the time) gets my contempt.
This is how easy it is to get a FISA warrant. 16 rejections since 1979 on thousands and thousands of requests. Those 16 rejections are evidence both that it's very easy to get a warrant when you need it, and that there's some degree of oversight to the process. The FISA court can be trusted infinitely more than no oversight at all.
Intelligence agencies SHOULD have a lot of leeway when investigating something legitimate. If that leeway is allowed to extend to activities intended to benefit the party in power or the people at the top, though, we're in banana boat dictator territory (or Hoover's FBI territory if you prefer).
The administration hasn't proposed an alternative check on wiretapping, they want to do away with oversight entirely. Insisting on freedom from any and all oversight doesn't pass the sniff test.
As for allegations of spying for profit being ridiculous, the EU has already accused the CIA of providing intercepts to Boeing that helped them beat out Airbus for contracts. Now we get to do it at home, too.
Oh yeah? I read it was 99.99% in another post. Now I'm all confused.;-) Exactly what kind of evidence do you think is going to get you a FISA warrant??? Evidence that the person on the phone belongs to Al Qaeda? There's no law against belonging to Al Qaeda. Seriously, what sort of evidence are you suggesting that there should be before the court allows a military spy mission to proceed??? And what does that have to do with a warrant???
Add it up for yourself. To summarize, from 1979 to 1996, not a single application for a warrant was rejected, with requests per year rising steadily from ~200 to ~800 during that period. Then, in 1997, one application was rejected out of 749 submitted. 15 requests total have been rejected since, on a yearly volume of ~1000 to ~2000.
FISA was implemented in response to Nixon's abuses of our intelligence apparatus for political gain, culmninating in Watergate and his resignation. A history of the Nixon presidency, with a possible detour into the professional life of J. Edgar Hoover, is quite persuasive as to the wisdom of requiring warrants for domestic spying.
Not your cell phone conversations. The cell phone conversations of political opponents, pesky journalists, and possibly executives at corporations that compete with big campaign contributors. Find that farfetched? Prove it. Oh, wait... no oversight except the solemn word of a man who has not yet shown any qualms about lying.
It seems that the main Dr. in house always has a dying patient, with some never-before-seen-case or incurable disease, a few twists, and saves him in the end of the day, 99% of the time.
It's worse than that. The patient always crashes at:15,:30, and:45 in each episode, and may or may not crash a fourth time at the conclusion. You can set your watch by it.
They tried that. It nearly killed them. Not to mention that Microsoft's OEM contracts and ability to threaten to pull Office for Mac would squash a current attempt dead.
Apple appears to have a pretty good strategy at the moment of taking over all the fun things that talk to your computer one by one until Microsoft is completely surrounded.
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I think the GP is saying they wished the judge had dismissed as a matter of law, rather than on the merits.
Someday, perhaps someone will write a mail client that disallows loading of remote images in emails unless specifically allowed. Perhaps they could call it "Thunderbird."
Most Hollywood movies using digital negatives are burned to film at 2k (~2000 x 1250, varying slightly based on aspect ratio). Postproduction people might use 4k or 6k frames while working with the footage, but that's downsampled on output most of the time. Note that this is not terribly different from the size of a 1080p24 HD frame.
Movies are also generally scanned, mastered, and encoded in 10-bit or 12-bit per channel log. 16 bpc really isn't necessary, as at the top of the brightness range there's not a lot of subtlety in the colors anyhow. Again, post-production people might work with 32-bpc float internally, but there's no reason to have that much color definition in the output.
Also, movies are shot at 24 fps, not 25 (which is the PAL framerate). I'll spot you the 120 minute assumption to keep my answer in the same order of magnitude as yours, but it really should be 90 minutes.
So for most movies, (assuming uncompressed 1.75:1 2k frames):
framedimensions = 2048 x 1170
framebytes = framedimensions x 4.5
moviebytes = framebytes x 24 x 60 x 120
moviebytes / 10^12 ~= 1.8
"Gay-bashing religious zealot" is just their cover, vote-getter, and tool of obfuscation. "Enricher of the elites by any means, without limitation" is what it actually means.
If you study Arabic in Israeli high school (which is offered everywhere as an elective), when you are drafted you will likely end up in either the intelligence service or the more dangerous infantry assignments. That means there's something of an incentive not to learn (or admit to knowing) a lot of Arabic.
English is a required subject in Israeli schools from elementary on up. Other foreign languages are also offered as electives. So Arabic might be a third or fourth language for many.
Many Israelis come from families that were expelled from Yemen, Morocco, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and other countries who expropriated and expelled their Jewish populations in the 1950s. They could be expected to have learned at least some Arabic from the cradle, as it might have been Grandma or Grandpa's only spoken language.
Hebrew is a terrible language for swearing in, (it has only been evolving organically for 100 years or so after a long period as written-only language) so Israelis tend to swear in Arabic when they want to swear. This makes it a bit fucking difficult to have a goddamn polite conversation with some motherfucker who only speaks Arabic.
How much Spanish does the average American speak?
"In addition, Reiser alleged that Sturgeon wrote into a contract that Reiser must participate in 'Death Yoga,' which he said has the purpose of 'slowing down one's heart to the point of death.'"
Well, filing fees are supposed to cover that to a degree, and it's very much a public good to make our judicial process accessible to anyone with a beef, no matter how unlikely.
Tax dollars? Jack Thompson is a private asshat, not a public servant.
That upward trend is heavily dependent on the location and timeslice. Europe didn't recover for 500 years after the fall of Rome. Cold comfort to someone stuck in the middle of it.
You don't need to look much further than Afghanistan or Somalia to see what happens when that slips away.
Horrendously offensive content, but so brilliant in structure and execution that it informs many, many games that followed in many, many ways.
You skipped a step. You need to bone up on Craft. Picasso was classically trained, and his early work shows him to have developed an exceptional mastery of academic painting. It was only then that he could begin to adequately address the failure of representational painting in the age of photography. If you skip the step where you get really really good at working within the established traditions, you won't know which rules to break or how.
This was not necessarily as true for the earliest designers, as they were creating the tradition as they went, but still applied to some degree then (see: Spacewar and Pong, Relative popular success of), and most certainly does now.
If I were Rupert Murdoch, you two would have an hour-long show on Fox News.
IBM's lawyers have done stellar work so far, but their power is more comparable to continental subduction than nuclear weaponry: slower, but ultimately vastly more powerful. By 2010 or so, this case'll get really good, and both MS and IBM will still be around (although SCO will exist only as a head on a pike above the gates of Armonk.)
If you must buy mass-market American beer, get Yuengling.
Besides the fact that the 9/11 conspiracy stuff is absurd on its face, the US response to 9/11 hasn't been organized or competent enough to make foreknowledge believable. If you read the article I linked about Airbus, the incident in question happened under Clinton. This is about preserving the constitution, not about which party is in power. Anyone in government with a "we have to destroy America in order to save it" attitude (e.g. Schumer and Hillary at their most pandering, and Lieberman pretty much all the time) gets my contempt.
Intelligence agencies SHOULD have a lot of leeway when investigating something legitimate. If that leeway is allowed to extend to activities intended to benefit the party in power or the people at the top, though, we're in banana boat dictator territory (or Hoover's FBI territory if you prefer).
The administration hasn't proposed an alternative check on wiretapping, they want to do away with oversight entirely. Insisting on freedom from any and all oversight doesn't pass the sniff test.
As for allegations of spying for profit being ridiculous, the EU has already accused the CIA of providing intercepts to Boeing that helped them beat out Airbus for contracts. Now we get to do it at home, too.
Add it up for yourself. To summarize, from 1979 to 1996, not a single application for a warrant was rejected, with requests per year rising steadily from ~200 to ~800 during that period. Then, in 1997, one application was rejected out of 749 submitted. 15 requests total have been rejected since, on a yearly volume of ~1000 to ~2000.
FISA was implemented in response to Nixon's abuses of our intelligence apparatus for political gain, culmninating in Watergate and his resignation. A history of the Nixon presidency, with a possible detour into the professional life of J. Edgar Hoover, is quite persuasive as to the wisdom of requiring warrants for domestic spying.
Not your cell phone conversations. The cell phone conversations of political opponents, pesky journalists, and possibly executives at corporations that compete with big campaign contributors. Find that farfetched? Prove it. Oh, wait... no oversight except the solemn word of a man who has not yet shown any qualms about lying.
It's worse than that. The patient always crashes at :15, :30, and :45 in each episode, and may or may not crash a fourth time at the conclusion. You can set your watch by it.
Apple appears to have a pretty good strategy at the moment of taking over all the fun things that talk to your computer one by one until Microsoft is completely surrounded.
Throwing your timing belt.
A 60-watt nightlight? Maybe for a blind person. The old-style incandescent wasteful hot nightlight in my bathroom draws 4 watts.
All you're saying is that you don't live, work, or play in Iraq.