It's the fact that the media are not transmutable,contrary to the delusions of film producers.
You cannot take the experience of reading LOTR - or any literary work of art - film it, and market it as some kind of equivalent or transmutation - it's dishonest and, due to the confusion deliberately created by marketing under the same name, ruinous to the reputation and value of the original work.
Most people - the sheeple - understand the movie named "LOTR" as some kind of replacement or upgrade to the original literary experience. That's utter nonsense. Artistic principle is involved - and the fat, dumb, TV-addicted mass could care less. Try explaining to them that Tolkien's book was never escapism, now that 12 hours of ultra-escapist pap is being marketed under the same title.
However, I realise that the process of selling "rights" means that one is opting in for the process of artistic destruction... and Tolkien sold the "rights" lock stock and barrel way back when, so the owners are able to appropriate the name of his work for commercial purposes. But that doesn't make it any less of a fallacy that the movie "is" or "is related to in any way except by name" to the book.
The only guys who deserve to be, and will be, wiped out are M$ and their ilk. The battle is not OS X vs. Linux, it's "M$ versus people-who-want-stuff-that-works".
The rest of us, those who use and contribute to stuff-that-works, can happily coexist: My servers all run Linux, of course; but the boxes I use hands on every day run OS X, of course...
By being able to address a geometrically accurate pixel (as a CRT or analog LCD is unable to do), the individual stripes can be addressed. Without this ability, the colour fringes are ineffective in improving perceived spatial resolution, since there is no useful or predictable correlation between the computed image data and the Trinitron mask...
Trinitron monitors also do subpixel AA quite nicely
Sure, you can render text on CRT with colour fringes "as if" it were to be painted to a digital LCD's pixel geometry, but since the stripes aren't addressable it is impossible do any better than simple antialiasing.
When used with correct hardware, however, subpixel rendering does achieve higher perceived spatial resolution. This absolutely requires digital addressability.
you really have to get used to the blurry fonts. Especially with japanese Characters it can get super fuzzy
If you're using a digital LCD and 10.3, make sure you have Font smoothing style set to "Medium-best for flat panel" (Appearance preference). That enables sub-pixel rendering.
We're not talking about antialiasing, we're talking about subpixel rendering, which exploits the addressability of the RGB stripes in LCD pixels to improve perceived resolution. This technology cannot work with CRTs, it is only possible with digital LCDs. A good reason why you should never buy an LCD without DVI.
Most definitely not a M$-only thing: Apple's OS X has been doing it since the release of 10.3, and a side by side comparison between it and XP puts OS X's implementation well in front aesthetically (I'm a typographer).
The removable back was also useful for working outdoors. You could put a white reflective surface behind the screen and backlight with sunlight, making it usable no matter how bright it was.
I've been wondering for YEARS why nobody does this! Glad to hear somebody tried it. I have a hunch it will catch on again, once energy prices increase... ditto solar panels on laptops & mobile phones.
I really personally don't care what hardware platform Linus uses
It does make a difference. This will have a significant positive effect on the quality of the PPC kernel, I would have thought the reasons were obvious.
If Michael Schumacher bought and drove an Audi every day, not only would it serve as a bold endorsement for the brand (unlike most empty endorsements), but you can bet any customer feedback he might give them would be closely examined. Not the greatest analogy, but you can imagine that if something is not quite right with PPC64 kernel, it will be fixed pretty damn quick: because the top guy is motivated.
Remember when Linus took an Alpha home? Well guess what. Alpha was not only the first non-x86 port (afaik), it's always been one of the most solid. (I've used it for years. It rocks.)
And the best part is, it might make some of these whitebox ricers realise that the world is not an x86, and we've had 64-bit microprocessors for 14 years now, waiting for the Mom'n'Pop chipmakers to catch up.
How can you say this with a straight face: Just because one has security issues does not mean the other will too ?
Do you actually look forward to a keylogger on the ATM you use?
No, different (occasionally overlapping) design goals, tradeoffs, and different paths to achieve them. (Not to mention vastly different hardware and implementation languages.)
The Multics approach wouldn't have worked in all the environments UNIX thrives (look at NetBSD!)
It would be just as "accurate" to say that Plan 9 is a "slapdash clone" of UNIX.
Cute idea but seriously: I don't think there's any need to do what you suggest; IMHO all the useful information is at a higher level: basically colour.
(Taking this principle ad absurdum, sometimes all you need is a bad review. That can save a LOT of bandwidth:-) For instance, Douglas Sirk's Magnificent Obsession is probably the worst film I've ever seen. Leave it on Technicolour, please. Future generations, and their hard drives, will thank you.
But some form of identification, fake or not, gives authorities a place to start in an investigation, rather than nothing at all.
It does not give "a place to start" unless a copy of the ID in question is taken when presented. That hasn't happened at any airline gate I can remember.
Is possible to take a domestic air trip anonymously using just cash and a name? I've never tried. But surely even if you have to flash a passport or other ID at the gate, unless they copy it or write down or memorise some identifying detail in addition to the passenger name, it's no lead at all.
As usual, a quick cross-check would have revealed that this story has been subsequently qualified in the UK press as somewhat less of the sensation initially implied:
British Nuclear Fuels, which runs the Sellafield nuclear complex in Cumbria, claimed yesterday that no nuclear material had gone missing from the site... a spokesman for BNFL said similar discrepancies have been recorded in audits since 1977, and do not represent real losses of radioactive material... it is impossible to know precisely how much plutonium is at a nuclear site. Plutonium is created inside nuclear fuel rods while reactors are running, so scientists can only estimate how much plutonium is in them. Only when spent fuel rods are reprocessed, by dissolving them in acid to separate out the plutonium, uranium and other materials, can the true quantities be measured...
Yes, but if you inspect the logs of any public web server, you'd see that a lot of interesting stuff gets thrown at those two ports. a.k.a. exploits. And at time of writing, all those 'sploits are aimed at Windoze holes. Go figure.
I watched the wrong one - I just followed the link and somehow saw the stupid old trailer again.
Later, someone happened to link me to the Amazon trailer... and to my surprise it looks like a pretty fun film! I love Martin Freeman from The Office, he was my favourite character and is terrific to watch.
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You cannot take the experience of reading LOTR - or any literary work of art - film it, and market it as some kind of equivalent or transmutation - it's dishonest and, due to the confusion deliberately created by marketing under the same name, ruinous to the reputation and value of the original work.
Most people - the sheeple - understand the movie named "LOTR" as some kind of replacement or upgrade to the original literary experience. That's utter nonsense. Artistic principle is involved - and the fat, dumb, TV-addicted mass could care less. Try explaining to them that Tolkien's book was never escapism, now that 12 hours of ultra-escapist pap is being marketed under the same title.
However, I realise that the process of selling "rights" means that one is opting in for the process of artistic destruction... and Tolkien sold the "rights" lock stock and barrel way back when, so the owners are able to appropriate the name of his work for commercial purposes. But that doesn't make it any less of a fallacy that the movie "is" or "is related to in any way except by name" to the book.
...It took you 20 years to realise this???
Heat from the large data centre at ETH used to be piped and sold to nearby users. I think the practice has been discontinued but it was a neat idea.
The rest of us, those who use and contribute to stuff-that-works, can happily coexist: My servers all run Linux, of course; but the boxes I use hands on every day run OS X, of course...
By being able to address a geometrically accurate pixel (as a CRT or analog LCD is unable to do), the individual stripes can be addressed. Without this ability, the colour fringes are ineffective in improving perceived spatial resolution, since there is no useful or predictable correlation between the computed image data and the Trinitron mask...
Sure, you can render text on CRT with colour fringes "as if" it were to be painted to a digital LCD's pixel geometry, but since the stripes aren't addressable it is impossible do any better than simple antialiasing.
When used with correct hardware, however, subpixel rendering does achieve higher perceived spatial resolution. This absolutely requires digital addressability.
If you're using a digital LCD and 10.3, make sure you have Font smoothing style set to "Medium-best for flat panel" (Appearance preference). That enables sub-pixel rendering.
We're not talking about antialiasing, we're talking about subpixel rendering, which exploits the addressability of the RGB stripes in LCD pixels to improve perceived resolution. This technology cannot work with CRTs, it is only possible with digital LCDs. A good reason why you should never buy an LCD without DVI.
Most definitely not a M$-only thing: Apple's OS X has been doing it since the release of 10.3, and a side by side comparison between it and XP puts OS X's implementation well in front aesthetically (I'm a typographer).
Software keyloggers, such as can be routinely installed remotely into Windows, are a network security problem, in my book.
How can you say this with a straight face: Just because one has security issues does not mean the other will too ? Do you actually look forward to a keylogger on the ATM you use?
The Multics approach wouldn't have worked in all the environments UNIX thrives (look at NetBSD!) It would be just as "accurate" to say that Plan 9 is a "slapdash clone" of UNIX.
You have way too much time on your hands. :-)
Cute idea but seriously: I don't think there's any need to do what you suggest; IMHO all the useful information is at a higher level: basically colour.
(Taking this principle ad absurdum, sometimes all you need is a bad review. That can save a LOT of bandwidth :-) For instance, Douglas Sirk's Magnificent Obsession is probably the worst film I've ever seen. Leave it on Technicolour, please. Future generations, and their hard drives, will thank you.
It does not give "a place to start" unless a copy of the ID in question is taken when presented. That hasn't happened at any airline gate I can remember.
Is possible to take a domestic air trip anonymously using just cash and a name? I've never tried. But surely even if you have to flash a passport or other ID at the gate, unless they copy it or write down or memorise some identifying detail in addition to the passenger name, it's no lead at all.
We'll remember you. And thanks for everything.
...and occasionally storming out, yelling "This is an outrage! I didn't pay $25 to hear nothing!"
I'm gonna moderate you up for that!!! ... uh wait...D'oh!
Nobody ever seems to mention Orion Multisystems in this context, so I am going to. Visionary product.
Yes, but if you inspect the logs of any public web server, you'd see that a lot of interesting stuff gets thrown at those two ports. a.k.a. exploits. And at time of writing, all those 'sploits are aimed at Windoze holes. Go figure.
(I didn't RTFA either :)
I watched the wrong one - I just followed the link and somehow saw the stupid old trailer again.
Later, someone happened to link me to the Amazon trailer... and to my surprise it looks like a pretty fun film! I love Martin Freeman from The Office, he was my favourite character and is terrific to watch.