I'd pay for keep cool underclothes, powered by some kind of kinetic energy (like walking)
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last time *I* went to the cinema 'proper' was for LOR pt1 as well. Which I walked out of after 1/2 hour. the print was scratched to buggery (white lines down the screen).
But the *neg* it was printed from as well was scratched to buggery as well (black lines down the screen).
i did go a year ago to see 'Lilya 4 Ever' at a 'directors chair' showing at Basildon UCI last year. there were 4 other people in the audience. Basildon is full of people who can't read and war shell suits so playing a subtitled film which didn't even contain special effects there was no good.
if they want getting onto 10 a ticket:
#1: get a good print #2: have some damn legroom. #3: stop annoying yapping chair kicking assholes from entering #4: don't sell stupid noisy food like crisps (chips for you US guys) and boiled sweets in noisy wrappers #5: have a decent sound system, not just one with an enormous sub woofer (hint... the rear speakers should be BEHIND the audience) #6: show some decent films #7: serve beer #8: have comfortable seats #9: clean the bogs at least once a month
hey I can achieve all 9 at home. I just rent DVDs from screenselect over the net. Now tell me again why I need to go to the cinema?
gahh brain error induced by a bottle and a half of Merlot and the last thing I did was look at martin freeman. You know who i meant anyway from the context:)
to be honest i'd just like them to extract some of the live acting from the bbc miniseries and build new sets/effects around that!
I know i've said this before
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but the reason a lot of films suck is the dialogue and characterisation doesn't work. You can't just swap people in and out of roles to fit an audience demographic *without rewriting all their lines and possibly changing everything*
Mos Def as Arthur Dent? where did that come from? Is he going to play it straight as the original character (i.e. not flash, just a jobbing journalist), or as I would imagine - he's going to be a little cool and swarve/charming? If so why would he be friends with Dent in the first place, they'd run in different social circles!
If you change almost all his lines to reflect his new character then everybody elses lines have to change to reflect their relationship with him. Maybe some things wouldn't happen.
Funnily enough MosDef was in The Italian Job another travesty of a remake of a great british film. And yesterday I read that the Coen Brothers and Tom Hanks have remade 'the ladykillers'. How anybody believe that could be bettered in its original form? Ok it's black & white but then so is Dr Strangelove which is still a total classic.
I must say I'm not looking forward to it, I'll wait to rent it on DVD if the reviews are generally favorable.
if you want to watch BBC archive material, you are going to need it.
Obviously the beeb are trying to drop real - bout time too, everytime I use it (only to listen to R4 over the net), i then have to hunt down and kill realevnt.exe and remove it from the startup.
Yep I'm pretty much PHP only at the moment, coming from a machine code/asm/Forth/C/C++/Java and C#.
PHP is ideally suited to web based solutions. I spent a year writing Java/Struts pages and it killed my love of writing software.
only 2 things i'd like php to do. get rid of the $ signs and having to do $this-> to call member functions on an object. that last one always tricks me out.
Although there is nothing inherantly wrong with making a new codec and replacing that RealPlayer crap that requires me to terminate a process and remove it from my startup every fecking time - as writing a codec mainly requires hiring some good mathemeticians.
I am worried that that we are funding this - in order to fund an immense data pipe so the rest of the world can take the programmes we have already paid for, whilst the current TV output from the BBC continues to suck as it doesnt have the money to experiment.
The BBC is supposed to be a public service broadcaster. To me this means filling in the gaps that commercial services don't provide. The amount of money that gets poured into the internet services at the moment (BBCi) is outrageous, the commercial services can't compete.
The Beeb is chasing ratings like it never has before. This means that if they strike on a successful formula they beat it to death. Or failing that they commision anything with a 'name' attached.
They pay lots of money out to Camelot (our lottery provider) for the prestige of broadcasting the national lottery. Even though the interest in the show falls as does the revenues from the lottery.
We get charged the same amount for BBC videos or DVDs as for other programmes even though we have bloody paid to make them and all they are doing is repackaging the stuff.
The *only* public service stuff left is Radio 4, some of Radio 3 and some of BBC 2.
We pay for a national network of local radio, which basically involves a bunch of gobshite 'DJs' around the country playing the same crap in highly expensive dedicated studios. This should be arranged like local TV, i.e. a main national programme running 85% of the time with local news and programmes added for the rest of the time. Why we need so many big studios around the UK is beyond me.
The BBC is also running a number of digital TV stations, BBC3 which is 'youf' oriented and BBC4 which is supposed to be intelligent. ok lets look at these.
BBC3 lacks viewers, because mainly it is total crap. Its shows generally suck. It contains feeble comedies which have been comissioned only because previously successfull artists are connected with the project. The transfer over to BBC2 at some point because they have no bloody money to make their own programmes because its being swallowed by this travesty of a channel. It also contains '60 second news' every hour. which is perhaps 30 seconds of news and 30 seconds of total waste of time 'celeb' news. Annoyingly they even do this in the middle of films (yes I want my viewing of Red October interrupted by a news report on posh/becks NOT). The films are only there to attact an audience that the home grown shows don't get.
BBC4 markets itself as an intelligent channel, kind of like Radio4. Yeah they wish. generally a bunch of self indulgent documentaries, weak films, and 'high art' concerts (which are more suited to bloody radio FFS).
Even BBC2 has gone down the drain. It doesn't take chances (the same chances that made some of the best TV shows in the last 20 years). Its flagship science programme 'Horizon' has abandoned being about explaining science and spends its 40 mins with great cinematography and a discussion of the personalities involved. The more 'public access' aspects have dissappeared.
even the news output is going downhill. the online news is looking more like a tabloid newspaper every day.
i could go on, but im a bit drunk (sorry for grammar/spelling). safe to say that i think its getting bad value for money.
#1: "what's this Ted? it looks like somekind of dinosaur bone" #2: "Throw it away Bill, its just another test from God of our faith" #3: "I've found some wood!!!!" #2: "Yes! it's all true! quick call bush and ask for more money. And tell him he can probably ask forgiveness for the middle east thing"
their goggles cant tell the difference between whats in an out of focus, what requires a scope lens and what doesnt, and what level of scratching on the film warrants it being removed from service.
i last went to the cinema and tried to watch lord of the rings #1. all the flaws above were in effect. I walked out after 45 mins, not been to a cinema since.
Cinemas suck, they are full of assholes. The 80s has a lot to answer for - i.e. videos. People watch films at home and can make as much fuss/noise/aggro as they like. Now films are back in fashion people act like it's their front room. When I know that my local cinema is selling *crisps* (thats 'chips' to you yanks) I know im never setting foot in there again.
is not shopping. i can shop with cash. I don't use loyalty cards because I cant be flipping arsed to carry around of bunch of card so that after I have spent like 500 quid i can get something I don't want for free.
what would worry me is:
#1 your credit card/driving license/whatever contains these so *they (companies/govt/loonies) can basically track you all over the place.
#2 if there is no way of deactivating them after you've left the store. once all our nice consumer goods have these in, the burglars can go shopping by just running around with a handheld rfid detector. (if they cant do it they - they will)
#3 reading some potential applications like having an rfid detector in your home then it communicating with some server somewhere. OK fine if you want to do it, but what if I don't want my details broadcast everywhere? hows it gonna know that who's stuff is whos? if the detector is on the partition wall how will it tell? they could potentially breach my privacy which should mean that they should be outlawed as I have no way of knowing if there are any there.
now some people may say that the last 2 are limited due to range, but - it will get better, like everything does.
Yeah its a damn miserable film but it would be ace to have Johnny as Dr Who. a Miserable Mysogenistic Mancunian wandering through the galaxy beating up his assistants and arguing with the natives...
David Thewlis, playing it in the style of 'Johnny' from Mike Leigh's 'Naked'.
Now *that* would be fun to watch:)
But Tom Baker was the best though. His autobiog is a fun read.
i'd go in draft or not. A nice accident with my car jack should sort it.
But the thing that I have often though about, if say it was boom time for contractors again and you got drafted onto poor pay, but had big mortgage and loans and stuff, what would happen then? does the govt pick up the bill?
but im too drunk, so i will just limit myself to a vent on The Sims...
It seems to me that the market for The Sims is the same market for the people who watch reality shows like Big Brother. i.e. people without lives of their own.
I've got a friend (female) who plays the sims and has virtual representations of everybody she knows. (which I find exceedingly creepy). But she is married to the most boring bloke in the world (0 friends, which is pretty exception for a guy who used to be a bar manager and plays in a weekend soccer team) and now hardly goes out (whereas she used to be a good laugh. usual story, hitting 30 picks first guy who doesnt jerk her about)
This is just the technological version of buying some small yappy dog then spoiling them like a child and dressing them up in stupid sailor outfits.
Whenever she starts talking about it (how amazingly x is getting friendly with y) I just want to shout 'what the **** has happened to you?'
oh well.. you might have guessed I have issues there:)
Yes DV is compressed, I'm just saying as another main use of video codecs, it should have tested alongside mpeg-2 as a source.
DV can be great as long as the scene isn't too complex. but then again, like mpeg-2 it is quite old now and with the computing power available to embedded systems at the moment a better method could be used.
Does it tell you which codec is best? Maybe but only for recompressing MPEG-2 footage.
They *should* have tested against DV output as the standard consumer format, and uncompressed video.
Plus looking at snapshots of compressed movies is of limited value, there is a big difference between what detail we can determine through a still image and a moving one. If you were to freeze a tv picture (or look at a captured frame) which includes something moving you would see a combing effect of the interlaced video. It doesn't look like that when you view it though.
with something that small the cable is going to outweigh the projector. you'd better be very careful how you set it up or your $5K projector could just go whizzing off the table if you've got some cable overhang.
or maybe there's going to be a nice big rubber sucker on the bottom?
ok, i used to work at MS in VC++ support many moons ago. You'd think the customers would at least have some clue, or the ability to work the documentation search engine. My shortest call was:
Visual C++ support, X speaking, how can I help? Err, yes, is there an API to get the current directory? Yes sir, it's called GetCurrentDirectory Oh thanks, bye
or the person who was so dumb that even after looking at samples, then us modifying the samples twice to make it more like they needed - still couldn't get it. We got so fed up with her calls and total lack of knowledge I told her to bring the PC in and I wrote the damn code for her (elapsed time: 20 mins).
Or the people who could phone up 80 times in 30 days (basically we wrote their whole project)
or the programmer who asked 'whats a swap file'.
Or the *professor* who swore blind there was a bug in the C++ compiler, as his overriden function in a derived class was not being called. Only for him to fax in his code and we immediately spotted that he had a spelling mistake in the function name.
Or the woman who whilst we were trying to get her to fix her problem by changing system settings was sighing a lot then said 'i dont know why I am doing this when are you coming out to fix it'.
Or the multi million pound project that was being developed on NT to be deployed on Win32s (a kind of crippled 32 bit mode you could run on Windows 3.1), only for them *not to test it on the target platform until a week before release*. (after much moaning on their part turned out to be bug in their code hitting a limit on win32s)
Or possibly worst of all, continually recieving stupid calls, only to find out that the caller was sat not 20 feet away from us, working on business apps as a developer for the local IT group
There's no point flaming me about any quality of support you've got from MS over the years, I was saying the same stuff from inside and believe me it irked me as much as you.
Not surprising. I don't know why these sorts of guys go to these things unless its some awful self esteem thing.
Mind you its just like local photography groups. nobody tells you anything and unless you have the 'right equipment' all your work is crap, no matter how good it is
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I'd pay for keep cool underclothes, powered by some kind of kinetic energy (like walking)
last time *I* went to the cinema 'proper' was for LOR pt1 as well. Which I walked out of after 1/2 hour. the print was scratched to buggery (white lines down the screen).
But the *neg* it was printed from as well was scratched to buggery as well (black lines down the screen).
i did go a year ago to see 'Lilya 4 Ever' at a 'directors chair' showing at Basildon UCI last year. there were 4 other people in the audience. Basildon is full of people who can't read and war shell suits so playing a subtitled film which didn't even contain special effects there was no good.
if they want getting onto 10 a ticket:
#1: get a good print
#2: have some damn legroom.
#3: stop annoying yapping chair kicking assholes from entering
#4: don't sell stupid noisy food like crisps (chips for you US guys) and boiled sweets in noisy wrappers
#5: have a decent sound system, not just one with an enormous sub woofer (hint... the rear speakers should be BEHIND the audience)
#6: show some decent films
#7: serve beer
#8: have comfortable seats
#9: clean the bogs at least once a month
hey I can achieve all 9 at home. I just rent DVDs from screenselect over the net. Now tell me again why I need to go to the cinema?
gahh brain error induced by a bottle and a half of Merlot and the last thing I did was look at martin freeman. You know who i meant anyway from the context :)
to be honest i'd just like them to extract some of the live acting from the bbc miniseries and build new sets/effects around that!
but the reason a lot of films suck is the dialogue and characterisation doesn't work. You can't just swap people in and out of roles to fit an audience demographic *without rewriting all their lines and possibly changing everything* Mos Def as Arthur Dent? where did that come from? Is he going to play it straight as the original character (i.e. not flash, just a jobbing journalist), or as I would imagine - he's going to be a little cool and swarve/charming? If so why would he be friends with Dent in the first place, they'd run in different social circles! If you change almost all his lines to reflect his new character then everybody elses lines have to change to reflect their relationship with him. Maybe some things wouldn't happen. Funnily enough MosDef was in The Italian Job another travesty of a remake of a great british film. And yesterday I read that the Coen Brothers and Tom Hanks have remade 'the ladykillers'. How anybody believe that could be bettered in its original form? Ok it's black & white but then so is Dr Strangelove which is still a total classic. I must say I'm not looking forward to it, I'll wait to rent it on DVD if the reviews are generally favorable.
if you want to watch BBC archive material, you are going to need it.
Obviously the beeb are trying to drop real - bout time too, everytime I use it (only to listen to R4 over the net), i then have to hunt down and kill realevnt.exe and remove it from the startup.
Yep I'm pretty much PHP only at the moment, coming from a machine code/asm/Forth/C/C++/Java and C#. PHP is ideally suited to web based solutions. I spent a year writing Java/Struts pages and it killed my love of writing software. only 2 things i'd like php to do. get rid of the $ signs and having to do $this-> to call member functions on an object. that last one always tricks me out.
Although there is nothing inherantly wrong with making a new codec and replacing that RealPlayer crap that requires me to terminate a process and remove it from my startup every fecking time - as writing a codec mainly requires hiring some good mathemeticians.
I am worried that that we are funding this - in order to fund an immense data pipe so the rest of the world can take the programmes we have already paid for, whilst the current TV output from the BBC continues to suck as it doesnt have the money to experiment.
The BBC is supposed to be a public service broadcaster. To me this means filling in the gaps that commercial services don't provide. The amount of money that gets poured into the internet services at the moment (BBCi) is outrageous, the commercial services can't compete.
The Beeb is chasing ratings like it never has before. This means that if they strike on a successful formula they beat it to death. Or failing that they commision anything with a 'name' attached.
They pay lots of money out to Camelot (our lottery provider) for the prestige of broadcasting the national lottery. Even though the interest in the show falls as does the revenues from the lottery.
We get charged the same amount for BBC videos or DVDs as for other programmes even though we have bloody paid to make them and all they are doing is repackaging the stuff.
The *only* public service stuff left is Radio 4, some of Radio 3 and some of BBC 2.
We pay for a national network of local radio, which basically involves a bunch of gobshite 'DJs' around the country playing the same crap in highly expensive dedicated studios. This should be arranged like local TV, i.e. a main national programme running 85% of the time with local news and programmes added for the rest of the time. Why we need so many big studios around the UK is beyond me.
The BBC is also running a number of digital TV stations, BBC3 which is 'youf' oriented and BBC4 which is supposed to be intelligent. ok lets look at these.
BBC3 lacks viewers, because mainly it is total crap. Its shows generally suck. It contains feeble comedies which have been comissioned only because previously successfull artists are connected with the project. The transfer over to BBC2 at some point because they have no bloody money to make their own programmes because its being swallowed by this travesty of a channel. It also contains '60 second news' every hour. which is perhaps 30 seconds of news and 30 seconds of total waste of time 'celeb' news. Annoyingly they even do this in the middle of films (yes I want my viewing of Red October interrupted by a news report on posh/becks NOT). The films are only there to attact an audience that the home grown shows don't get.
BBC4 markets itself as an intelligent channel, kind of like Radio4. Yeah they wish. generally a bunch of self indulgent documentaries, weak films, and 'high art' concerts (which are more suited to bloody radio FFS).
Even BBC2 has gone down the drain. It doesn't take chances (the same chances that made some of the best TV shows in the last 20 years). Its flagship science programme 'Horizon' has abandoned being about explaining science and spends its 40 mins with great cinematography and a discussion of the personalities involved. The more 'public access' aspects have dissappeared.
even the news output is going downhill. the online news is looking more like a tabloid newspaper every day.
i could go on, but im a bit drunk (sorry for grammar/spelling). safe to say that i think its getting bad value for money.
because they'd probably find dinosaur bones.
#1: "what's this Ted? it looks like somekind of dinosaur bone"
#2: "Throw it away Bill, its just another test from God of our faith"
#3: "I've found some wood!!!!"
#2: "Yes! it's all true! quick call bush and ask for more money. And tell him he can probably ask forgiveness for the middle east thing"
their goggles cant tell the difference between whats in an out of focus, what requires a scope lens and what doesnt, and what level of scratching on the film warrants it being removed from service.
i last went to the cinema and tried to watch lord of the rings #1. all the flaws above were in effect. I walked out after 45 mins, not been to a cinema since.
Cinemas suck, they are full of assholes. The 80s has a lot to answer for - i.e. videos. People watch films at home and can make as much fuss/noise/aggro as they like. Now films are back in fashion people act like it's their front room. When I know that my local cinema is selling *crisps* (thats 'chips' to you yanks) I know im never setting foot in there again.
proncounced Lin-Doe-S no W, yet same pronounciation!
is not shopping. i can shop with cash. I don't use loyalty cards because I cant be flipping arsed to carry around of bunch of card so that after I have spent like 500 quid i can get something I don't want for free.
what would worry me is:
#1 your credit card/driving license/whatever contains these so *they (companies/govt/loonies) can basically track you all over the place.
#2 if there is no way of deactivating them after you've left the store. once all our nice consumer goods have these in, the burglars can go shopping by just running around with a handheld rfid detector. (if they cant do it they - they will)
#3 reading some potential applications like having an rfid detector in your home then it communicating with some server somewhere. OK fine if you want to do it, but what if I don't want my details broadcast everywhere? hows it gonna know that who's stuff is whos? if the detector is on the partition wall how will it tell? they could potentially breach my privacy which should mean that they should be outlawed as I have no way of knowing if there are any there.
now some people may say that the last 2 are limited due to range, but - it will get better, like everything does.
to a case from a few years ago where a site was barred by a court from deeplinking to a news site?
the news site complained as they didnt go throught the front page and saw a bunch the ads there.
wish i could remember more but its past 9pm and the export is in full flow...
cool!
Yeah its a damn miserable film but it would be ace to have Johnny as Dr Who. a Miserable Mysogenistic Mancunian wandering through the galaxy beating up his assistants and arguing with the natives...
David Thewlis, playing it in the style of 'Johnny' from Mike Leigh's 'Naked'. Now *that* would be fun to watch :)
But Tom Baker was the best though. His autobiog is a fun read.
never work with friends/relatives etc.
when the poo hits the air distribution device it will always affect the relationship
100% fact
i'd go in draft or not. A nice accident with my car jack should sort it.
But the thing that I have often though about, if say it was boom time for contractors again and you got drafted onto poor pay, but had big mortgage and loans and stuff, what would happen then? does the govt pick up the bill?
but im too drunk, so i will just limit myself to a vent on The Sims...
:)
It seems to me that the market for The Sims is the same market for the people who watch reality shows like Big Brother. i.e. people without lives of their own.
I've got a friend (female) who plays the sims and has virtual representations of everybody she knows. (which I find exceedingly creepy). But she is married to the most boring bloke in the world (0 friends, which is pretty exception for a guy who used to be a bar manager and plays in a weekend soccer team) and now hardly goes out (whereas she used to be a good laugh. usual story, hitting 30 picks first guy who doesnt jerk her about)
This is just the technological version of buying some small yappy dog then spoiling them like a child and dressing them up in stupid sailor outfits.
Whenever she starts talking about it (how amazingly x is getting friendly with y) I just want to shout 'what the **** has happened to you?'
oh well.. you might have guessed I have issues there
ahh well you didn't expect me to read the whole thing did you, this is /. :)
a quick skim confirmed what i already knew about WMV9.
Yes DV is compressed, I'm just saying as another main use of video codecs, it should have tested alongside mpeg-2 as a source.
DV can be great as long as the scene isn't too complex. but then again, like mpeg-2 it is quite old now and with the computing power available to embedded systems at the moment a better method could be used.
Does it tell you which codec is best? Maybe but only for recompressing MPEG-2 footage. They *should* have tested against DV output as the standard consumer format, and uncompressed video. Plus looking at snapshots of compressed movies is of limited value, there is a big difference between what detail we can determine through a still image and a moving one. If you were to freeze a tv picture (or look at a captured frame) which includes something moving you would see a combing effect of the interlaced video. It doesn't look like that when you view it though.
Somebody needs to make the component prices cheaper compared to the replacement cost.
I mean if you want to upgrade gfx,cpu,ram & motherboard chances are it is almost at the same price of buying a complete replacement PC
with something that small the cable is going to outweigh the projector. you'd better be very careful how you set it up or your $5K projector could just go whizzing off the table if you've got some cable overhang.
or maybe there's going to be a nice big rubber sucker on the bottom?
ok, i used to work at MS in VC++ support many moons ago. You'd think the customers would at least have some clue, or the ability to work the documentation search engine. My shortest call was:
Visual C++ support, X speaking, how can I help?
Err, yes, is there an API to get the current directory?
Yes sir, it's called GetCurrentDirectory
Oh thanks, bye
or the person who was so dumb that even after looking at samples, then us modifying the samples twice to make it more like they needed - still couldn't get it. We got so fed up with her calls and total lack of knowledge I told her to bring the PC in and I wrote the damn code for her (elapsed time: 20 mins).
Or the people who could phone up 80 times in 30 days (basically we wrote their whole project)
or the programmer who asked 'whats a swap file'.
Or the *professor* who swore blind there was a bug in the C++ compiler, as his overriden function in a derived class was not being called. Only for him to fax in his code and we immediately spotted that he had a spelling mistake in the function name.
Or the woman who whilst we were trying to get her to fix her problem by changing system settings was sighing a lot then said 'i dont know why I am doing this when are you coming out to fix it'.
Or the multi million pound project that was being developed on NT to be deployed on Win32s (a kind of crippled 32 bit mode you could run on Windows 3.1), only for them *not to test it on the target platform until a week before release*. (after much moaning on their part turned out to be bug in their code hitting a limit on win32s)
Or possibly worst of all, continually recieving stupid calls, only to find out that the caller was sat not 20 feet away from us, working on business apps as a developer for the local IT group
There's no point flaming me about any quality of support you've got from MS over the years, I was saying the same stuff from inside and believe me it irked me as much as you.
Not surprising. I don't know why these sorts of guys go to these things unless its some awful self esteem thing.
Mind you its just like local photography groups. nobody tells you anything and unless you have the 'right equipment' all your work is crap, no matter how good it is