That's because it's the 640x480 TV image res-ed up. Also, when you're not actually playing the game, it's much harder to follow the motion and the lack of cues like motion blur and decent camera work become more apparent.
Um, once upon a time there were these things called "arcades." They were very very sunlight free, often filled with smoke, and, while crowded, had very little socializing going on. They were pretty cool.
Vegas was bought from Sonic Foundry. In my opinion, it's the best software NLE on the desktop, FCP included.
Combustion is the desktop offering from discreet, the folks who make the ultra-expensive Flame and Inferno compositing systems. Same mind-blowing color corrector. Node-based compositing without the price point of Fusion or Shake.
Cleaner is another discreet product (bought out from someone else), but the previous poster made an excellent case for some alternatives.
But has anyone invented a set of CCD pickups with a 40,000:1 contrast ratio? Thats what I'm waiting for...
Actually, yes. The poor man's way (for stills at least) is to take a number of shots with the camera a few stops apart to capture an extremely wide exposure latitude, and recombine them in HDRshop.
There are also a number of companies making HDRI backs for digital still cameras that automate some portion of this.
For motion, a beam splitter and a few calibrated and synced cameras could be rigged up in a similar way, although I've not heard of anyone actually doing this.
The idea isn't to actually produce end results beyond the exposure latitude of film, but rather to be able to color-correct more agressively without banding, clipping, or losing detail.
Besides, an HDR display is targeted mainly at compositors who actually want to see a film-like contrast range on screen so they know better what the end result will look like; much the way that film sound editors do the final mix in a theater-like room to get the best idea of how movie house acoustics will sound with their mix.
Point to a recent kids movie with better writing, then. Or better character animation. And it's the same movie.
Come on, the central conceit of Monsters (monster civilization powered off kids' screams; monsters scared to death of the kids; monster energy crisis because kids are getting harder to scare; multi-leveled examination of personal and societal anxiety ensues) is pretty incredible for a kiddie flick.
No, really. Then your expected perception of movement is in line with your percieved movement.
Once you pass a certain point on the learning curve (like you did while all doped up that weekend), no problem.
I'd guess the reason some games work for you and others don't has to do with field of view, height of the camera off the ground, or some other perceptual detail that doesn't fit in to your current mental model of what an FPS is supposed to feel like.
Indeed - although Endnote isn't helping matters either by making it HARDER to use other word processors in Endnote 7 as compared to 6.
Seriously, this is a big, big deal for academics, and Endnote is not exactly the cutting edge of technology. And yet there's shockingly little to be found of OSS programmers filling in that particular gap for OpenOffice.org (I'd love to be proven wrong on this BTW).
Republicans...favor less government not more. Unlike liberals.
You mean like no child left behind? The Patriot Act? The Department of Homeland Security? Amending the constitution to outlaw gay marriage? These are all fine examples of our republican overlords reducing the size of government.
I don't see how republicans reconcile Bush's actions with their own party's platform.
I remember punching holes in the walls of my dorm and stringing thin coax ethernet to the rooms on either side so the 3 of us could play Doom (well, really mostly Heretic) since the dorms weren't getting ethernet till next year.
Go to Corbis or any of the other stock sites and search for 'wedding.' You'll get a good number of hits. That's not to say that that's a bloody likely outcome, but it is possible.
More importantly, hiring anyone to produce anything is not a work-for-hire, unless:
You are paying them a salary, witholding taxes, and giving them a W-2 at tax time
OR
Your contract with them has the words "work-for-hire" on it.
Free public education? That's something that adults do for themselves.
So education never had any benefit for you? Perhaps that's why you found yourself in an employment situation where you worked forced overtime under threat of termination.
As for the other services, I agree completely that the government could be doing more vis a vis foster care, protective services, WIC, healthcare (although New York's Child Health Plus seems pretty good), but that's a matter of degree. The OP was talking about the subject as if kids are slaves to the government until they turn 18, and I think these are reasonable counterexamples.
And yes, trying children as adults is outrageous. Which is why a juvenile justice system was implemented in the first place. But that's more a consequence of the war on drugs/tough on crime nonsense that the right's been scaring everyone with for the last 30 years or so than something actually directed at kids.
The convenient part of this whole setup is, you still get the honor of paying taxes under 18, even without any representation in government or any rights.
You're overlooking free public education, a massive government-supported public health/immunization initiatave, child protective services and a foster care system should you need them, government oversight of employed minors to ensure safe working conditions, the entire transportation infrastructure (along with its regulatory arm) that you gain access to around age 16, and all the other stuff the government does for kids.
Yes, you can't vote. Yes, you can have certain of your rights waived by parents/schools. But "government oppression" is a wee bit heavy-handed.
In the business world, and a lot of artistic areas too, when you are hired to do a job you relinquish copyright almost every single time.
The Graphic Artists' Guild doesn't think so. As a full-time employee, yes, you actually ARE doing work for hire. As a contractor you aren't, as you pay higher taxes, pay your own insurance, have lower job security, etc. Now, for software, I can see work-for-hire as being more commonplace - you're unlikely to have written an entire program on your own. However, I don't see why an all-rights contract + NDA wouldn't cover the bases for the employer, while still allowing you to say you worked on X in order to entice customer Y. Not so with photography/illustration, which really is 1 person's output, and where your portfolio is what you live or die by.
..ask the photographer if you can buy the negatives instead. Don't even mention copyright. When you say "copyright," a professional photographer doesn't think of the uses you have in mind. Instead, they immediately think "publication/sell it as stock/other commercial use." In response, they will charge for the copyright as if they had lost out on an entire assignment.
Now, many wedding photographers make their real cash from the prints, and so will refuse to sell the negatives anyway (or only after a substantial period of time), but you have to ask in their language in order to get anywhere.
Additionally, if they are a pro that does journalism/advertising work as well as weddings, they're going to immediately wonder if you're trying to screw them. 99% of commercial clients who ask for all-rights contracts don't really need all the rights they ask for (a frank discussion of what the client actually wants to do will usually result in a more sane limited-rights contract being signed for less money), but requests like that can also be a red flag that the client doesn't really understand/care about copyright and is likely to play fast and loose with your images (omitting credit lines, retouching without offering first refusal, reselling the work as their own, never paying you, etc.)
Just so you know where I'm coming from, I'm a freelance illustrator who avoids all-rights/work-for-hire assignments whenever possible, and I bought the negatives from my wedding photographer last year.
Exactly. And after the community has been yelling "Patch your goddamn system as soon as you can!," giving non-techie users who actually listened a double-bind message about patches they already have is unacceptable.
This means Firefox has to get its patch system ducks in a row RIGHT NOW. On my machine, running firefox 0.9.1, I get the critical update popup telling me to download and install 0.9.1.
I have installed and uninstalled multiple times, and cleared every Mozilla reference I could find in the registry. No joy, just the little stop sign in the lower right corner.
And I'm a geek. I care enough to take time out of my day to try to fix it.
If they want to get that active maintenance to have any effect, live updates with no further action needed are the answer (and an ActiveX-based FireFox installer to get the converts in the first place!).
Lots of users don't even understand what a file system is, and think files have to be opened within the application they created them with ("Where's your document?" "In Word.") A recent phone conversation with my mother (who's been using email since the days of Bitnet and ! addresses, but never really payed attention to How Things Work since the advent of Win95) went:
"I downloaded that firefox thing, but it didn't change anything; do I have to do something else?"
"You have to install it - find the file you downloaded and run it."
The New Yorker article a while back about the russian smallpox program had quotes from western inspectors who were doing a site visit that described incidents where the russian weapons scientists hinted broadly (in a "don't go in that room" context) that their vaccines would be ineffective against the russian weaponized stuff.
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That's why the voting records go in a locked box. Never, never give a receipt to a voter recording their vote. Let them look at it and that's it.
That's because it's the 640x480 TV image res-ed up. Also, when you're not actually playing the game, it's much harder to follow the motion and the lack of cues like motion blur and decent camera work become more apparent.
Um, once upon a time there were these things called "arcades." They were very very sunlight free, often filled with smoke, and, while crowded, had very little socializing going on. They were pretty cool.
Combustion is the desktop offering from discreet, the folks who make the ultra-expensive Flame and Inferno compositing systems. Same mind-blowing color corrector. Node-based compositing without the price point of Fusion or Shake.
Cleaner is another discreet product (bought out from someone else), but the previous poster made an excellent case for some alternatives.
Nothing's forcing you not to use Vegas, Cleaner, and Combustion. All 3 blow the doors off the Adobe equivalent. Vote with your wallet.
Actually, yes. The poor man's way (for stills at least) is to take a number of shots with the camera a few stops apart to capture an extremely wide exposure latitude, and recombine them in HDRshop.
There are also a number of companies making HDRI backs for digital still cameras that automate some portion of this.
For motion, a beam splitter and a few calibrated and synced cameras could be rigged up in a similar way, although I've not heard of anyone actually doing this.
The idea isn't to actually produce end results beyond the exposure latitude of film, but rather to be able to color-correct more agressively without banding, clipping, or losing detail.
Besides, an HDR display is targeted mainly at compositors who actually want to see a film-like contrast range on screen so they know better what the end result will look like; much the way that film sound editors do the final mix in a theater-like room to get the best idea of how movie house acoustics will sound with their mix.
Come on, the central conceit of Monsters (monster civilization powered off kids' screams; monsters scared to death of the kids; monster energy crisis because kids are getting harder to scare; multi-leveled examination of personal and societal anxiety ensues) is pretty incredible for a kiddie flick.
No, really. Then your expected perception of movement is in line with your percieved movement.
Once you pass a certain point on the learning curve (like you did while all doped up that weekend), no problem.
I'd guess the reason some games work for you and others don't has to do with field of view, height of the camera off the ground, or some other perceptual detail that doesn't fit in to your current mental model of what an FPS is supposed to feel like.
Seriously, this is a big, big deal for academics, and Endnote is not exactly the cutting edge of technology. And yet there's shockingly little to be found of OSS programmers filling in that particular gap for OpenOffice.org (I'd love to be proven wrong on this BTW).
You mean like no child left behind? The Patriot Act? The Department of Homeland Security? Amending the constitution to outlaw gay marriage? These are all fine examples of our republican overlords reducing the size of government.
I don't see how republicans reconcile Bush's actions with their own party's platform.
Good luck carrying that ammo around.
ah... ipx.com we hardly knew ye...
More importantly, hiring anyone to produce anything is not a work-for-hire, unless:
You are paying them a salary, witholding taxes, and giving them a W-2 at tax time
OR
Your contract with them has the words "work-for-hire" on it.
This was all hashed out in '76 with the Playboy vs. Dumas case.
And no matter how loud you say it isn't, that's how it is.
So education never had any benefit for you? Perhaps that's why you found yourself in an employment situation where you worked forced overtime under threat of termination.
As for the other services, I agree completely that the government could be doing more vis a vis foster care, protective services, WIC, healthcare (although New York's Child Health Plus seems pretty good), but that's a matter of degree. The OP was talking about the subject as if kids are slaves to the government until they turn 18, and I think these are reasonable counterexamples.
And yes, trying children as adults is outrageous. Which is why a juvenile justice system was implemented in the first place. But that's more a consequence of the war on drugs/tough on crime nonsense that the right's been scaring everyone with for the last 30 years or so than something actually directed at kids.
Sorry, thought the OP was referring to SF, not robotics. You are correct.
You're overlooking free public education, a massive government-supported public health/immunization initiatave, child protective services and a foster care system should you need them, government oversight of employed minors to ensure safe working conditions, the entire transportation infrastructure (along with its regulatory arm) that you gain access to around age 16, and all the other stuff the government does for kids.
Yes, you can't vote. Yes, you can have certain of your rights waived by parents/schools. But "government oppression" is a wee bit heavy-handed.
Wasn't that Hugo Gernsback?
But that doesn't include load times, poking around your inventory, playtime repeated when you restore a saved game, etc.
The Graphic Artists' Guild doesn't think so. As a full-time employee, yes, you actually ARE doing work for hire. As a contractor you aren't, as you pay higher taxes, pay your own insurance, have lower job security, etc. Now, for software, I can see work-for-hire as being more commonplace - you're unlikely to have written an entire program on your own. However, I don't see why an all-rights contract + NDA wouldn't cover the bases for the employer, while still allowing you to say you worked on X in order to entice customer Y. Not so with photography/illustration, which really is 1 person's output, and where your portfolio is what you live or die by.
Now, many wedding photographers make their real cash from the prints, and so will refuse to sell the negatives anyway (or only after a substantial period of time), but you have to ask in their language in order to get anywhere.
Additionally, if they are a pro that does journalism/advertising work as well as weddings, they're going to immediately wonder if you're trying to screw them. 99% of commercial clients who ask for all-rights contracts don't really need all the rights they ask for (a frank discussion of what the client actually wants to do will usually result in a more sane limited-rights contract being signed for less money), but requests like that can also be a red flag that the client doesn't really understand/care about copyright and is likely to play fast and loose with your images (omitting credit lines, retouching without offering first refusal, reselling the work as their own, never paying you, etc.)
Just so you know where I'm coming from, I'm a freelance illustrator who avoids all-rights/work-for-hire assignments whenever possible, and I bought the negatives from my wedding photographer last year.
Not telegenic enough? On Jeopardy?! Good god, does he crack the lens?
No, it would be like the speaker of the house being president. The parliament passes laws in addition to appointing the executive.
Exactly. And after the community has been yelling "Patch your goddamn system as soon as you can!," giving non-techie users who actually listened a double-bind message about patches they already have is unacceptable.
This means Firefox has to get its patch system ducks in a row RIGHT NOW. On my machine, running firefox 0.9.1, I get the critical update popup telling me to download and install 0.9.1.
I have installed and uninstalled multiple times, and cleared every Mozilla reference I could find in the registry. No joy, just the little stop sign in the lower right corner.
And I'm a geek. I care enough to take time out of my day to try to fix it.
If they want to get that active maintenance to have any effect, live updates with no further action needed are the answer (and an ActiveX-based FireFox installer to get the converts in the first place!).
Lots of users don't even understand what a file system is, and think files have to be opened within the application they created them with ("Where's your document?" "In Word.") A recent phone conversation with my mother (who's been using email since the days of Bitnet and ! addresses, but never really payed attention to How Things Work since the advent of Win95) went:
"I downloaded that firefox thing, but it didn't change anything; do I have to do something else?"
"You have to install it - find the file you downloaded and run it."
"I don't know how to do that."
The New Yorker article a while back about the russian smallpox program had quotes from western inspectors who were doing a site visit that described incidents where the russian weapons scientists hinted broadly (in a "don't go in that room" context) that their vaccines would be ineffective against the russian weaponized stuff.