But in cases 1 and 3 they can claim that the damage was in the form of all the people Hogan distributed the movie to while downloading it off bittorrent. I think the only way to beat the MPAA in this one (and probably what he's going for) is that he didn't download it at all, and that the proof the MPAA has that he did isn't good enough. The fact that he owns the DVD is more of a way to say "why would I download it if I own it already?".
Most likely they will include a "look how easy it is to use the new office" video with each version of Office 12 like they did with Windows 95... or at least to OEMs, I remember we got them when we bought the OEM 5 packs of 95 and 98 back then.
We (family) used to run a net cafe that sold and fixed computers on the side, and I do remember that CD being rather nice introducing people to windows, it even created a kind of sandboxed desktop where the user could do whatever they wanted while it ran and then reverted it back to where it was before using it. We had people renting the computers just to use that CD back then...:)
No idea if they have done anything like that with office, though... I really stopped using office after college, and OO is enough for the very little word processing I do these days (mostle a letter here and there).
From what I've heard, the common way it to burn a CD with the iTunes songs, and then rip that CD back to MP3. I think there are even programs that allows you to do it without burning a CD, but not sure on that, since my MP3 player is just a cheap pen drive that plays MP3s...:)
To be fair, they found several flaws that were all fixed in the new version of the beta that was released in May. Their reasoning is that it's insecure becasue if they found the flaws, the new flaws will continue to be found (which isn't that unreasonable considering that there are still flaws being found for XP)
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Does it work for you with the tablet?. One of the things that got me back in photoshop last time I tried the gimp was that for some reason it doesn't work too well with my tablet, basically when I use it it draws a bit to the left of where the cursor actually is. Once I started to make the trace I had no problems by looking at where it was drawing instead of where the cursor was, but anytime I had to start a new trace it was mostly try and error. Granted, I don't have a wacom (couldn't find one here in Venezuela, got a Genius instead that's very basic but works for what I use it for, texture drawing for 3D models), not sure if that has something to do with it, but that and the lack of layer folders was what sent me back to photoshop.
The interface itself I didn't mind much, though I would have most likely started to hunt and add/change keyboard shortcuts to it if I had been using it longer (specially the Z for zoom that I'm more used to), but one thing that annoyed me of it was that there was no way (that I could find in the short time I used it) to get all the different GIMP windows to get focus at once, I had to keep hunting them back up one by one when I alt-tabbed to something else (which I'm constantly doing to see how the texture I'm drawing looks on the model in Maya). I do know it's a different way to do it than the "everything in one window" that photoshop does in windows, but it did annoy me. I use photoshop in mac that basically does it like gimp in windows (as do most mac apps), but it has the difference that if I click on the app icon in the dock, all the windows and toolbars of that specific app get focus.
Well, there's the 10 second club: ( http://www.10secondclub.net/ ), basically a monthly animation contest around a 10 second sound clip, meant to mimic actual production (where a character animator is given a single scene to animate). I do remember some blender users winning some of the rounds sometime ago. Haven't been following it much lately, but to give an idea of the quality of the competition, sometime ago I saw an ad looking for animators to work on Blue Sky (IIRC, it was about a year or more ago... Blue Sky are the guys behind the Ice Ages and Robots movies, BTW) and it said to look for the latest winners of the 10 second club to see the kind of quality of animation they wanted to see on demo reels.
The one thing I wonder about the spellchecker is wether it'll recognize which language you're using. For example, I use firefox in english, but I visit and write to both english and spanish forums and websites, and it would be annoying if I was writting in a forum in spanish and firefox would be underlining all words as errors.
IIRC Word does recognize it (or did it back when I use it.. lately I have openoffice at home and use word at work only to read stuff other people send me). Back then I had it set to spanish as the default language, but it I started to write in english it would first started to mark everything as an error, but a couple of words later it recognized them as english words and switched the spell checker to english, so I guess it wouldn't be too hard to implement something like that in FF.
Well, something like that happens in spanish too (we actually wook a whole trimonth in high school studying words that sounded the same but were written and/or meant different things).
One of the biggest examples was the words allá (there, over there), haya (a city's name or a kind of tree), aya (nanny), halla (can be translated as there is). I still remember the test where the teacher said the sentence "allá en la Haya se halla una aya sentada bajo la haya" (over there in the Haya there is a nanny sitting under the haya tree). And there are lots of words like that.
However, I do agree that if you know spanish it's easier to see a new spanish word written and pronounce it correctly than it is for an english speaker to see a new english word and pronounce it correctly (from what I've seen by talking to native english speakers, that is).
I don't think that would affect mac at all. It's natural that more "geeky" people tend to flock towards linux because it is a very geek friendly enviroment to be, where tweaking and hacking at it isn't not only not discouraged, but required. Mac on the other hand are more focused on the "take it out of the box, plug it in and it works" kind of people... and can't say I blame them, since they make a huge percentage of the computer users..:)
I have to agree with granparent here (though I'd probably add 6 too). Most of those apps are just plain aqua look, which is great when it comes to mantaining a standard look on all the apps of the computer, but I don't really see how they're any more or less beautiful than any other aqua app out there. Not trying to say they're bad or anything like that, I just don't see how they stand out as "most beautiful" at all. Maybe if the list was for the most practical UI's, or better OSX integrated UI's.
Which is why I usually when putting any animation I made online, I make sure it has my email slightly watermarked on it.
Most of the CG animation you see on the web is made by CG enthusiasts to be used on their portfolios/demo reels, and while I don't condone uploading someone else's work to sites like youtube without at the very least letting the owner know first, personally I wouldn't mind if any of mine ends up there since a possible future employer needing character animation might see it and like it, BUT I'd want to make sure that if they do, they have a way to contact me to begin with. I'd guess most people whose personal animation projects end up on youtube are in the same boat too.
As an off topic note, BTW... I find it kinda funny that when searching for "pixar" on youtube, you don't get anything actually made by pixar until the 7th or so entry..:)
The main difference between Pixar (from what I've read around) is that most companies get the famous actors first and build the characters around them (see Shark Tale), while Pixar seems to go the other way around, they set the character and personality first, and then they start looking for an actor whose voice would fit the character.
The reason they get a paycut (which they do from what I've heard in several interviews) is because there's much less for them to do. With a movie they have to get into costume and makeup, wait for the lighting/camera/everything else to get ready before they get filmed (and do it again for as many shots as needed), and spend months into it. The recording of an animated character is usually done in a couple of days, no makeup or costume needed or anything else at all than just standing in front of the mike and deliver the lines.
As an amateur character animator, one my favorite quote comes from an interview about Shrek (that I use as sig in other forums):
"If you put together all the work I did on "Shrek", I would say I have spent more time promoting it in the last three days than I did actually working on it... When you compare that to the amount of work that the animators and producers put into it, Im embarrassed to get all the attention and praise for it." - JOHN LITHGOW
I agree that feature count being overrated, but I don't think that Firefox is doing wrong trying to compete with IE in that front (as well as in others, of course). IMHO, firefox being a better and more secure browser is what has caused it to rise so much lately, not the freedom part.
Yes, I do believe freedom is important, and it is what allowed Firefox to be what it is today... but if that was the only selling point, I doubt many people (outside of the commonly called "zealots" circle) would have fully switched to it and it would have won the popularity percentage points you talk about. At least I do know that if IE and Firefox were in the same level and being "free" was the only advantage firefox had, I wouldn't have gone trough the trouble of switching (though I'm using more Opera than FF lately), and I'd bet I'm not alone.
I was thinking the same thing. I'm trying to find the actual text of the law on the spaniars news outlets but no luck so far. There are lots of talk about the blank media tax (but IIRC they were already talking about it when I went there on vacations about 2 years ago) but nothing on P2P. It also strikes me odd that the government would require ISPs to block all P2P traffic considering that the RTVE (the national radio/TV, kinda like the BBC but from Spain) is actually using P2P to transfer some of its content online (source: http://www.aristasweb.net/noticias.php?idn=4024&cl ase=100 , but it's in spanish).
Premiere Pro was XP only since it came out (2003). The official excuse from Adobe was that the new graphical system of XP allowed them to do preview most effects without having to render them, that back then was something only dedicated hardware based video editors could do, and that was one of the main selling points over previous premiere versions. Or at least that's what they said in the adobe forums anytime the question came out, wether it was true or not is left to the reader.
I would use a system like that (karma) but with a few modifications. For example, people could give you "griefer" tags, enough of them and then wanted signs with your face appear in towns of whatever race you grieved. At that point, if you near a town that "wants" you, the guards start to attack. Also, there could be a bounty hunting system where money is offered for griefers (the bounty hunters might not know your exact location, but hints like "he was last seen near XXX"). Another tweak would be that when you're tagged enough that you're now wanted, you're informed and can deny the charges. If you do, then maybe stop the tagging for a day or two and have a company paid GM review what was going on when the player was tagged as griefer and who tagged it, and if it was unfair send a warning to the ones that tagged it. If someone keeps tagging unfairly then punish it somehow (a 1 week ban or something).
It sounds to me like something like that might work, but then again, my only real experience with MMORPGs is to hear people talking about them, haven't really played one myself since I don't have a credit card and the laws in my country (Venezuela) basically forbid paying for anything abroad without one (and government permission, that is).
Or maybe it can be used like those trucks in V for Vendetta that just went around the streets with directional mics recording small snippets of audio to see what the people (in general) were talking about on the streets. A way to check what channels are being seen the most in different areas of the cities?. Not that I'd like to have it on my neighbourhood any better than on my room, though.
I have to agree there. I don't see PCs having as much of a pull on the HD-DVD Vs. Blue Ray war as consoles will (Xbox 360 Vs. PS3). In the movies section, anyone that will choose a format specifically to watch HD movies now won't want to see them on a relatively small 20" or less monitor, they'll want the whole home theater thing and will want to see them as big as they can. On the data side, I would definitively find an use for them (I work with video, which means VERY big files), but in the general audience most people I know are just now getting DVD drives for their computers, and most computers I see being sold come with a DVD/CD-RW drive, with a DVD-RW as an option, but one that few people take and even less use.
They will eventually be a big player in PCs, though, that I'm sure. I just don't see them being something important to the early adoption of either format.
Consider me one of those people. I did the test encoding the same song at 192 and 128 and made them play randomly, and I can barely tell the difference between them when listening at very high volume with good headphones... once it goes to the speakers (which aren't the best but are good enough for me) or the MP3 player (crappy, but again good enough for me), I can't really tell the difference at all... I still keep everything at 192, but don't see any use for me to go beyond that (of course, your mileage may vary)
Alone in the dark had 3D textured graphics in 1992. I bet there were several flight simulators from around that time that did them too, they were known for using the most cutting edge 3D at the time.
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But in cases 1 and 3 they can claim that the damage was in the form of all the people Hogan distributed the movie to while downloading it off bittorrent. I think the only way to beat the MPAA in this one (and probably what he's going for) is that he didn't download it at all, and that the proof the MPAA has that he did isn't good enough. The fact that he owns the DVD is more of a way to say "why would I download it if I own it already?".
That was original for the trailer and won't be part of the movie, so I guess they meant no CGI that will actually appear in the movie.
Most likely they will include a "look how easy it is to use the new office" video with each version of Office 12 like they did with Windows 95... or at least to OEMs, I remember we got them when we bought the OEM 5 packs of 95 and 98 back then.
:)
We (family) used to run a net cafe that sold and fixed computers on the side, and I do remember that CD being rather nice introducing people to windows, it even created a kind of sandboxed desktop where the user could do whatever they wanted while it ran and then reverted it back to where it was before using it. We had people renting the computers just to use that CD back then...
No idea if they have done anything like that with office, though... I really stopped using office after college, and OO is enough for the very little word processing I do these days (mostle a letter here and there).
From what I've heard, the common way it to burn a CD with the iTunes songs, and then rip that CD back to MP3. I think there are even programs that allows you to do it without burning a CD, but not sure on that, since my MP3 player is just a cheap pen drive that plays MP3s... :)
To be fair, they found several flaws that were all fixed in the new version of the beta that was released in May. Their reasoning is that it's insecure becasue if they found the flaws, the new flaws will continue to be found (which isn't that unreasonable considering that there are still flaws being found for XP)
Does it work for you with the tablet?. One of the things that got me back in photoshop last time I tried the gimp was that for some reason it doesn't work too well with my tablet, basically when I use it it draws a bit to the left of where the cursor actually is. Once I started to make the trace I had no problems by looking at where it was drawing instead of where the cursor was, but anytime I had to start a new trace it was mostly try and error. Granted, I don't have a wacom (couldn't find one here in Venezuela, got a Genius instead that's very basic but works for what I use it for, texture drawing for 3D models), not sure if that has something to do with it, but that and the lack of layer folders was what sent me back to photoshop.
The interface itself I didn't mind much, though I would have most likely started to hunt and add/change keyboard shortcuts to it if I had been using it longer (specially the Z for zoom that I'm more used to), but one thing that annoyed me of it was that there was no way (that I could find in the short time I used it) to get all the different GIMP windows to get focus at once, I had to keep hunting them back up one by one when I alt-tabbed to something else (which I'm constantly doing to see how the texture I'm drawing looks on the model in Maya). I do know it's a different way to do it than the "everything in one window" that photoshop does in windows, but it did annoy me. I use photoshop in mac that basically does it like gimp in windows (as do most mac apps), but it has the difference that if I click on the app icon in the dock, all the windows and toolbars of that specific app get focus.
Well, there's the 10 second club: ( http://www.10secondclub.net/ ), basically a monthly animation contest around a 10 second sound clip, meant to mimic actual production (where a character animator is given a single scene to animate). I do remember some blender users winning some of the rounds sometime ago. Haven't been following it much lately, but to give an idea of the quality of the competition, sometime ago I saw an ad looking for animators to work on Blue Sky (IIRC, it was about a year or more ago... Blue Sky are the guys behind the Ice Ages and Robots movies, BTW) and it said to look for the latest winners of the 10 second club to see the kind of quality of animation they wanted to see on demo reels.
The one thing I wonder about the spellchecker is wether it'll recognize which language you're using. For example, I use firefox in english, but I visit and write to both english and spanish forums and websites, and it would be annoying if I was writting in a forum in spanish and firefox would be underlining all words as errors.
IIRC Word does recognize it (or did it back when I use it.. lately I have openoffice at home and use word at work only to read stuff other people send me). Back then I had it set to spanish as the default language, but it I started to write in english it would first started to mark everything as an error, but a couple of words later it recognized them as english words and switched the spell checker to english, so I guess it wouldn't be too hard to implement something like that in FF.
Well, something like that happens in spanish too (we actually wook a whole trimonth in high school studying words that sounded the same but were written and/or meant different things).
One of the biggest examples was the words allá (there, over there), haya (a city's name or a kind of tree), aya (nanny), halla (can be translated as there is). I still remember the test where the teacher said the sentence "allá en la Haya se halla una aya sentada bajo la haya" (over there in the Haya there is a nanny sitting under the haya tree). And there are lots of words like that.
However, I do agree that if you know spanish it's easier to see a new spanish word written and pronounce it correctly than it is for an english speaker to see a new english word and pronounce it correctly (from what I've seen by talking to native english speakers, that is).
I don't think that would affect mac at all. It's natural that more "geeky" people tend to flock towards linux because it is a very geek friendly enviroment to be, where tweaking and hacking at it isn't not only not discouraged, but required. Mac on the other hand are more focused on the "take it out of the box, plug it in and it works" kind of people... and can't say I blame them, since they make a huge percentage of the computer users.. :)
I have to agree with granparent here (though I'd probably add 6 too). Most of those apps are just plain aqua look, which is great when it comes to mantaining a standard look on all the apps of the computer, but I don't really see how they're any more or less beautiful than any other aqua app out there. Not trying to say they're bad or anything like that, I just don't see how they stand out as "most beautiful" at all. Maybe if the list was for the most practical UI's, or better OSX integrated UI's.
Which is why I usually when putting any animation I made online, I make sure it has my email slightly watermarked on it.
:)
Most of the CG animation you see on the web is made by CG enthusiasts to be used on their portfolios/demo reels, and while I don't condone uploading someone else's work to sites like youtube without at the very least letting the owner know first, personally I wouldn't mind if any of mine ends up there since a possible future employer needing character animation might see it and like it, BUT I'd want to make sure that if they do, they have a way to contact me to begin with. I'd guess most people whose personal animation projects end up on youtube are in the same boat too.
As an off topic note, BTW... I find it kinda funny that when searching for "pixar" on youtube, you don't get anything actually made by pixar until the 7th or so entry..
The main difference between Pixar (from what I've read around) is that most companies get the famous actors first and build the characters around them (see Shark Tale), while Pixar seems to go the other way around, they set the character and personality first, and then they start looking for an actor whose voice would fit the character.
The reason they get a paycut (which they do from what I've heard in several interviews) is because there's much less for them to do. With a movie they have to get into costume and makeup, wait for the lighting/camera/everything else to get ready before they get filmed (and do it again for as many shots as needed), and spend months into it. The recording of an animated character is usually done in a couple of days, no makeup or costume needed or anything else at all than just standing in front of the mike and deliver the lines.
As an amateur character animator, one my favorite quote comes from an interview about Shrek (that I use as sig in other forums):
"If you put together all the work I did on "Shrek", I would say I have spent more time promoting it in the last three days than I did actually working on it... When you compare that to the amount of work that the animators and producers put into it, Im embarrassed to get all the attention and praise for it." - JOHN LITHGOW
I agree that feature count being overrated, but I don't think that Firefox is doing wrong trying to compete with IE in that front (as well as in others, of course). IMHO, firefox being a better and more secure browser is what has caused it to rise so much lately, not the freedom part.
Yes, I do believe freedom is important, and it is what allowed Firefox to be what it is today... but if that was the only selling point, I doubt many people (outside of the commonly called "zealots" circle) would have fully switched to it and it would have won the popularity percentage points you talk about. At least I do know that if IE and Firefox were in the same level and being "free" was the only advantage firefox had, I wouldn't have gone trough the trouble of switching (though I'm using more Opera than FF lately), and I'd bet I'm not alone.
I was thinking the same thing. I'm trying to find the actual text of the law on the spaniars news outlets but no luck so far. There are lots of talk about the blank media tax (but IIRC they were already talking about it when I went there on vacations about 2 years ago) but nothing on P2P. It also strikes me odd that the government would require ISPs to block all P2P traffic considering that the RTVE (the national radio/TV, kinda like the BBC but from Spain) is actually using P2P to transfer some of its content online (source: http://www.aristasweb.net/noticias.php?idn=4024&cl ase=100 , but it's in spanish).
Premiere Pro was XP only since it came out (2003). The official excuse from Adobe was that the new graphical system of XP allowed them to do preview most effects without having to render them, that back then was something only dedicated hardware based video editors could do, and that was one of the main selling points over previous premiere versions. Or at least that's what they said in the adobe forums anytime the question came out, wether it was true or not is left to the reader.
I would use a system like that (karma) but with a few modifications. For example, people could give you "griefer" tags, enough of them and then wanted signs with your face appear in towns of whatever race you grieved. At that point, if you near a town that "wants" you, the guards start to attack. Also, there could be a bounty hunting system where money is offered for griefers (the bounty hunters might not know your exact location, but hints like "he was last seen near XXX"). Another tweak would be that when you're tagged enough that you're now wanted, you're informed and can deny the charges. If you do, then maybe stop the tagging for a day or two and have a company paid GM review what was going on when the player was tagged as griefer and who tagged it, and if it was unfair send a warning to the ones that tagged it. If someone keeps tagging unfairly then punish it somehow (a 1 week ban or something).
It sounds to me like something like that might work, but then again, my only real experience with MMORPGs is to hear people talking about them, haven't really played one myself since I don't have a credit card and the laws in my country (Venezuela) basically forbid paying for anything abroad without one (and government permission, that is).
Here in Venezuela it also kept the english name (Ghost)... the one that was released as "Fantasma" was this one, though:
:)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079714/
I'd rather be attacked by one of those chrome balls than watching Ghost again, BTW..
Or maybe it can be used like those trucks in V for Vendetta that just went around the streets with directional mics recording small snippets of audio to see what the people (in general) were talking about on the streets. A way to check what channels are being seen the most in different areas of the cities?. Not that I'd like to have it on my neighbourhood any better than on my room, though.
Are you sure that was a meteoritt and not some frozen kenyan pee ?... :)
I have to agree there. I don't see PCs having as much of a pull on the HD-DVD Vs. Blue Ray war as consoles will (Xbox 360 Vs. PS3). In the movies section, anyone that will choose a format specifically to watch HD movies now won't want to see them on a relatively small 20" or less monitor, they'll want the whole home theater thing and will want to see them as big as they can. On the data side, I would definitively find an use for them (I work with video, which means VERY big files), but in the general audience most people I know are just now getting DVD drives for their computers, and most computers I see being sold come with a DVD/CD-RW drive, with a DVD-RW as an option, but one that few people take and even less use.
They will eventually be a big player in PCs, though, that I'm sure. I just don't see them being something important to the early adoption of either format.
Consider me one of those people. I did the test encoding the same song at 192 and 128 and made them play randomly, and I can barely tell the difference between them when listening at very high volume with good headphones... once it goes to the speakers (which aren't the best but are good enough for me) or the MP3 player (crappy, but again good enough for me), I can't really tell the difference at all... I still keep everything at 192, but don't see any use for me to go beyond that (of course, your mileage may vary)
Well, Strike Commander came out in 93, and that one definitively used texture maps.. :)
Alone in the dark had 3D textured graphics in 1992. I bet there were several flight simulators from around that time that did them too, they were known for using the most cutting edge 3D at the time.