Scott didn't need to redo Alien or Thelma because they came out the way he intended. The battles he fought over even getting BR to the screen are well documented (I just finished reading Paul Sammon's exhaustive "Blade Runner: Future Noir" book).
I saw the Final Cut in a theater and despite having seen other cuts at least 20 times before, I was completely engrossed. Easily one of the greatest movies ever - in any genre.
I hope the cable cos do eat TiVo's lunch. As it stands, a TiVo is just a DVR "done right," according to people that own them. If regular DVRs become that good/decent/whatever, it will force TiVo to come up with something better. I owned a TiVo (direcTV version) for 4 years and I've been using the Comcast supplied Motorola DVR for a year now. The difference is night and day. Comcast is a clunky, unreliable POS and TiVo was a brilliantly designed totally reliable joy to use.
If the cable cos do "eat TiVo's lunch" I expect that just means we'll all be stuck using clunky unreliable POS's forever, since the cableco's will have no incentive to improve their product.
You missed the point - you're only talking about impressions and clicks AFTER the ad buy has been made. Obviously those are easily tracked. The point of "tools" like Alexa is to help the advertisers figure out which sites to buy from in the first place.
I've been a hiring manager for a while, and I've interviewed my fair share of fresh-out-of-school candidates. I never look at their grades. Sometimes people put graduated with honors, or dean's list, or cum laude on their resume, but it really doesn't factor into my decision making process at all. I've never been in the situation of having two people competing for the same spot and deciding it on grades. If I had to decide it would be based on experience or personality. The big thing they teach in hiring class is: can do, will do, will fit. "Can do" means can you do the job? Well, most people who aren't idiots and have at least a grounding in the basics can learn. "Will do" means are you going to be motivated? You can't teach motivation, so finding someone who likes the subject matter is crucial. Finally, there's "will fit" - will this person fit in with the corporate culture and the group? Ironically most people focus on "can do" in interview when it really is the least important. You can train people, but you can't teach motivation or compatibility!
Don't do the year over again. Get out there and start being a good economic booster:)
I thought that too, at first. I myself have sold articles and music to companies using exactly these sorts of contracts and they all pretty much say "we can reuse what we've bought for pretty much anything. take it or leave it."
However, if you read TFA, it says that the photographer actually re-acquired the copyright to his works after selling them to NG. So this is why there's a lawsuit. The photographer's position is "I own the copyright on these photos, you can't use them in something other than the original magazine." NG's position is "This is the same as the original magazine, it's just on a CDROM."
Interesting distinction.
Almost all new HDTV's being sold contain QAM tuners, which means they are effectively "cable ready". Just connect the cable right up to the TV and you will be able to tune any UNENCRYPTED digital channels. Of course if the channels you are interested in have encryption, you are out of luck - you will need the box from the cable company. Which channels are encrypted and which are in the clear varies from location to location. Generally the over the air broadcast channels are clear, but you really won't know until you try (or unless you have a neighbor who's already got a setup you can check.)
What does the dynamic range of the material have to do with the lossy encoding quality? The lossy encoder's psycho-acoustic model should perform equally well with wide dynamic range as with narrow or it isn't a very good algorithm.
Wow, you know they have this thing now called the internet where you can type in your credit card number and some guy in a uniform will bring the album you wanted RIGHT TO YOUR HOUSE?
Don't get me wrong, I love perl, but way back when I was making the decision to steer the company to mod_perl or mod_php, there was no choice. mod_perl was so clumsy and had so many limitations, it felt like what it was: an awkward attempt to shoehorn perl into an apache module. php may have its problems but at least it was designed from the beginning to be an apache module.
(I haven't used mod_perl in a long time so it may be the bees knees' now, but I'm sure a lot of folks were planning big sites around the same time I was and this may be part of the explanation as to how php achieved dominance.)
I work for a big web company (go ahead, guess which one). We use Smarty for several of our large sites. It is extremely convenient to not have production staff (who do stylesheets, graphics, etc) messing around with the actual site code. Overhead isn't really a big factor if you use an opcode cache. For 99% of the requests, Smarty serves a cached flat file anyway. It's very nice.
If you're looking for a QuickSilver-esque app for Windows, there's a good candidate called Colibri. I've been using it for months and I am totally addicted to it.
Small, fast, useful, free (beer). The developer is also very accessible via his forum.
http://colibri.leetspeak.org/
The iTunes application will not copy music off the iPod back to your computer, unless it is music purchased from iTMS. There are numerous 3rd party apps that will do it, however. I use Winamp on my PC.
Actually, I do think a "civil war" on a user's machine will be good, because it is more likely to motivate the user to figure out "why is my computer acting all weird?"
I've owned a few dozen drives and RMA'd maybe 3-4. All the replacements worked fine. Recently someone on a tech mailing list offered to give away a fairly new 200GB drive because it was broken and he didn't want to deal with RMA process. I took it and got myself a nice replacement drive for free.
"Either that or it looks to me like this is a mix of business people not understanding their market, customers, or technology and sloppy code work. I mean, what asshat would grab some open source code and not adhere to the license? It is either a tremendous faux pas on Sony's part, or there was some intentional act here to make this as reprehensible as possible."
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Ruby on Rails looks very interesting to me, yet I can't shake the nagging feeling that it isn't a good performer. Does anyone have any case studies? I'm in charge of sites with millions of visitors a day doing some pretty complex stuff. Optimization is our biggest challenge. I'd say we spend 90% of our time just trying to make things run faster.
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Scott didn't need to redo Alien or Thelma because they came out the way he intended. The battles he fought over even getting BR to the screen are well documented (I just finished reading Paul Sammon's exhaustive "Blade Runner: Future Noir" book). I saw the Final Cut in a theater and despite having seen other cuts at least 20 times before, I was completely engrossed. Easily one of the greatest movies ever - in any genre.
I've been using djbdns for years. It takes some getting used to if you're coming from BIND-land but it's worth making the effort.
You missed the point - you're only talking about impressions and clicks AFTER the ad buy has been made. Obviously those are easily tracked. The point of "tools" like Alexa is to help the advertisers figure out which sites to buy from in the first place.
I've been a hiring manager for a while, and I've interviewed my fair share of fresh-out-of-school candidates. I never look at their grades. Sometimes people put graduated with honors, or dean's list, or cum laude on their resume, but it really doesn't factor into my decision making process at all. I've never been in the situation of having two people competing for the same spot and deciding it on grades. If I had to decide it would be based on experience or personality. The big thing they teach in hiring class is: can do, will do, will fit. "Can do" means can you do the job? Well, most people who aren't idiots and have at least a grounding in the basics can learn. "Will do" means are you going to be motivated? You can't teach motivation, so finding someone who likes the subject matter is crucial. Finally, there's "will fit" - will this person fit in with the corporate culture and the group? Ironically most people focus on "can do" in interview when it really is the least important. You can train people, but you can't teach motivation or compatibility! Don't do the year over again. Get out there and start being a good economic booster :)
I thought that too, at first. I myself have sold articles and music to companies using exactly these sorts of contracts and they all pretty much say "we can reuse what we've bought for pretty much anything. take it or leave it." However, if you read TFA, it says that the photographer actually re-acquired the copyright to his works after selling them to NG. So this is why there's a lawsuit. The photographer's position is "I own the copyright on these photos, you can't use them in something other than the original magazine." NG's position is "This is the same as the original magazine, it's just on a CDROM." Interesting distinction.
I would guess it's more likely related to your video card than your monitor. I have a 1900x1200 monitor and Ubuntu detected it just fine.
The real value of Safari on Windows is not as a web browser, but as an IDE for the iPhone.
Almost all new HDTV's being sold contain QAM tuners, which means they are effectively "cable ready". Just connect the cable right up to the TV and you will be able to tune any UNENCRYPTED digital channels. Of course if the channels you are interested in have encryption, you are out of luck - you will need the box from the cable company. Which channels are encrypted and which are in the clear varies from location to location. Generally the over the air broadcast channels are clear, but you really won't know until you try (or unless you have a neighbor who's already got a setup you can check.)
What does the dynamic range of the material have to do with the lossy encoding quality? The lossy encoder's psycho-acoustic model should perform equally well with wide dynamic range as with narrow or it isn't a very good algorithm.
Wow, you know they have this thing now called the internet where you can type in your credit card number and some guy in a uniform will bring the album you wanted RIGHT TO YOUR HOUSE?
If you don't believe me, register a domain and make a copy of cnet.com.
Oh go on, my stock options could use a kick in the pants right about now.Don't get me wrong, I love perl, but way back when I was making the decision to steer the company to mod_perl or mod_php, there was no choice. mod_perl was so clumsy and had so many limitations, it felt like what it was: an awkward attempt to shoehorn perl into an apache module. php may have its problems but at least it was designed from the beginning to be an apache module. (I haven't used mod_perl in a long time so it may be the bees knees' now, but I'm sure a lot of folks were planning big sites around the same time I was and this may be part of the explanation as to how php achieved dominance.)
I work for a big web company (go ahead, guess which one). We use Smarty for several of our large sites. It is extremely convenient to not have production staff (who do stylesheets, graphics, etc) messing around with the actual site code. Overhead isn't really a big factor if you use an opcode cache. For 99% of the requests, Smarty serves a cached flat file anyway. It's very nice.
If you're looking for a QuickSilver-esque app for Windows, there's a good candidate called Colibri. I've been using it for months and I am totally addicted to it. Small, fast, useful, free (beer). The developer is also very accessible via his forum. http://colibri.leetspeak.org/
The iTunes application will not copy music off the iPod back to your computer, unless it is music purchased from iTMS. There are numerous 3rd party apps that will do it, however. I use Winamp on my PC.
Actually, I do think a "civil war" on a user's machine will be good, because it is more likely to motivate the user to figure out "why is my computer acting all weird?"
I've owned a few dozen drives and RMA'd maybe 3-4. All the replacements worked fine. Recently someone on a tech mailing list offered to give away a fairly new 200GB drive because it was broken and he didn't want to deal with RMA process. I took it and got myself a nice replacement drive for free.
"Either that or it looks to me like this is a mix of business people not understanding their market, customers, or technology and sloppy code work. I mean, what asshat would grab some open source code and not adhere to the license? It is either a tremendous faux pas on Sony's part, or there was some intentional act here to make this as reprehensible as possible." Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Five bucks? Where do you live? In San Francisco, even the matinees are $8.50.
Ruby on Rails looks very interesting to me, yet I can't shake the nagging feeling that it isn't a good performer. Does anyone have any case studies? I'm in charge of sites with millions of visitors a day doing some pretty complex stuff. Optimization is our biggest challenge. I'd say we spend 90% of our time just trying to make things run faster.
we've also got videogames.com (my personal favorite).
-jsd-
new director of technology for mp3.com