(perhaps this could already be done using the serial numbers of the DVD
Exactly. You've already got the most pervasive high-density non-volatile storage medium on earth mounted in your player; why IN THE HELL would you need an RFID tag when you've got pits, lands, and a laser?
This company is total snakeoil trying to sell something becuz it has a newfangle acronym. If someone wanted to monitor your viewing habits, they'd just have to sell you a web-enabled DVD player, not a web-enabled DVD player "Now with RFID Technology!" The DVD need not even have a serial number, the player could just hash the first minute of video and use that to identify the content with a central repository.
For reference, if the frame is exposed full-aperture, you get an image almost exactly one inch wide by 3/4" tall (Edison liked round numbers); a proper 35mm photo is 8 perfs wide, and a proper motion picture frame is four perfs wide/tall, exactly half the area. If you're capturing full-aperture, you might have some tiny reason to gripe, but modern formats are never exposed full-aperture, they almost always crop the north/south edges to get a wider image.
I have one of these, as a matter of fact, purchased from the BFI's Museum of the Moving Image. It is not a "master", as it is quite evidently a positive, and it's 70mm wide, and Star Wars IV was shot Panavision and VistaVision, which are 35mm formats. 70mm prints are blow-ups made for special venues, particularly because they had very good sound for the time.
The claim that he destroyed the originals in the process of creating the Special Editions is highly suspect, even if it is him saying it. The modern method for recutting/restoration is to ingest the print into a 4K telecine (that is, 4000 lines res) and work with the data files, and then burn it out to a print (4K exceeds film resolution handily.) However, this workflow was not very common at the time of the SE's, and it's possible he did the horrible thing of recutting the negative. When you cut negative, you have to scrape a frame of film on either side of the cut in order to get a hard splice (there are ways around this, but the 1-frame rule is a common method). So, if you cut the neg, you are destroying a frame of film every time you make a splice, thus your original cut is unrecoverable.
However, as other threads point out, there are interpositives, and these are generally what DVDs and stuff are mastered from, and these are never cut into for any reason. However, Lucas can always elect to destroy these if he retains physical possession of them -- I'm not sure if the distributor (Fox) vaults them indefinitely or not; even if they did, Emperor George and his estate for a very long time to come are the only ones that can authorize a re-release based on them.
Simple 'highlight current position to the end of the line' shortcuts vary from application to application
In just about every text entry box in Mac OS X, Apple-Shift-RightArrow will deliver the desired result; in carbon and cocoa the base TextView class has the same behavior, and everybody uses NSTextView unless they're using a decades-old or explicitly cross-platform UI codebase. I can think of a few programs that break this rule, but they're extremely rare -- however I am aware one particularly-popular productivity suite that does not conform to the selection keybindings, on account of legacy behavior and a cross-platform codebase.
Possible, but I don't think that particular chair-thrower takes Eric Schmidt very seriously. Remember, in that very same chair-throwing conversation, he called Eric Schmidt "a pussy."
Thanks for the links everybody, and the instant surmise of clear retardation; I guess it's much easier to paste a few hrefs into a box than to string a few sentences together expressing ones own understanding.
I agree with the sibling, thanks for the link. I have to backup a bunch of projects and this+DVDs looks much better than tar -M + DVDs, and lightyears better than Retrospect + DVDs (which, being a mac person, is everyone's first choice).
For a moment I was worried that I might be stuck a few years down the line and be with my archives but without a dar installation, but then I remembered "Oh yeah, it's GPL!" I'll just burn the src dir to the first DVD of each archive, and I'll never be wanting.
Are you aware, tho, do you know if it backs up HFS+ resource forks and ACLs, etc? That's kind of a need for me.
Sharpshooters targetting officers - um, that's military forces killing other military forces. That even meets Geneva rules (though those were way in the future).
The behavior of the patriots was thoroughly inconsistent with the established contemporary customs of war. And they generally didn't wear uniforms either, and they tended to hide their weapons and fighters amongst the civilian population.
Boston Tea Party - did they kill anyone? Were they intending to spread terror, or just make a big mess in protest? This was a lot closer to the Million Man March than terrorism.
The boston tea party destroyed commercial assets, in order to have a political effect, which by the present US government's definition, is in fact terrorism. Their intention is irrelevant; the act itself could be construed as subversive to the government, particularly since it stood to loose enormous tax revenue from the tea that was dumped.
If someone tried to start the Million Man (really 300,000 man) March today, they'd never get the permission to march that many observant Muslims in the capitol, and if they tried to do so without permit, they would certainly, under the current regime, be liable for arrest as a terrorist (as opposed to being arrested for merely being disorderly).
Mobs killing (suspected) loyalists (and vice versa) - This is a sizable fraction of the populace attacking a different, sizable fraction of the populace. Not a small group spreading terror by random death & destruction. I wouldn't call the race riots terrorism, and neither is this.
So sed -e 's/Sunni/Tory/' | sed -e 's/Iraq/Colonies/'. Maybe Iraq's off to a good start, after all.
Titanic, the most successful film in non-inflation-adjusted dollars (the most successful inflation-adjusted is still Gone With the Wind), has collected $1.8 billion since its original release in December, 1997.
Al you have to do is repeat that revenue 74 times, and you'll have enough cash to buy 51% of Microsoft. Oh but remember, Titanic was at the time the most expensive movie ever made (the present champion is Spiderman 3, and rising), costing well over $200 million and requiring the budgets of two studios to keep it funded to the end.
There is alot of money in the world, but in order the buy MS you have to trade your real dollars for imaginary dollars; you know, the dollars the stockholders believe they have on account of holding MSFT paper.
It seems like the only serious problem would be getting the 20GB TIFF (or 8 GBs of WAV files) over to the server instance in the first place.
Having to move all your data over to the server and back adds significant set-up overhead, particularly if you only need the monster for 2 hours at a time. When you need the numbers crunched on demand, you don't want to have to wait 6 hours while the data set squeezes its way to the bay area and back over routers.
I'm sure that there are applications for this, but quick-turnaround stuff is hamstrung by the I/O bottleneck known as the Internet.
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Yeah, so where was Microsoft's goal in that half of the game?
No disagreement, but I think Microsoft's real genius is in rationalizing their failures, if only to themselves.
Exactly. You've already got the most pervasive high-density non-volatile storage medium on earth mounted in your player; why IN THE HELL would you need an RFID tag when you've got pits, lands, and a laser?
This company is total snakeoil trying to sell something becuz it has a newfangle acronym. If someone wanted to monitor your viewing habits, they'd just have to sell you a web-enabled DVD player, not a web-enabled DVD player "Now with RFID Technology!" The DVD need not even have a serial number, the player could just hash the first minute of video and use that to identify the content with a central repository.
Oooh, I'm completely wrong. Sorry about that, everyone.
Mod Parent uninformed. h.264 and AAC are both publicly documented standards, and may be implemented royalty-free.
It might be an h.264 and AAC inside a WMV wrapper. WMV is not 'open', even if it is quite well reverse-engineered at this point.
For reference, if the frame is exposed full-aperture, you get an image almost exactly one inch wide by 3/4" tall (Edison liked round numbers); a proper 35mm photo is 8 perfs wide, and a proper motion picture frame is four perfs wide/tall, exactly half the area. If you're capturing full-aperture, you might have some tiny reason to gripe, but modern formats are never exposed full-aperture, they almost always crop the north/south edges to get a wider image.
I have one of these, as a matter of fact, purchased from the BFI's Museum of the Moving Image. It is not a "master", as it is quite evidently a positive, and it's 70mm wide, and Star Wars IV was shot Panavision and VistaVision, which are 35mm formats. 70mm prints are blow-ups made for special venues, particularly because they had very good sound for the time.
The claim that he destroyed the originals in the process of creating the Special Editions is highly suspect, even if it is him saying it. The modern method for recutting/restoration is to ingest the print into a 4K telecine (that is, 4000 lines res) and work with the data files, and then burn it out to a print (4K exceeds film resolution handily.) However, this workflow was not very common at the time of the SE's, and it's possible he did the horrible thing of recutting the negative. When you cut negative, you have to scrape a frame of film on either side of the cut in order to get a hard splice (there are ways around this, but the 1-frame rule is a common method). So, if you cut the neg, you are destroying a frame of film every time you make a splice, thus your original cut is unrecoverable.
However, as other threads point out, there are interpositives, and these are generally what DVDs and stuff are mastered from, and these are never cut into for any reason. However, Lucas can always elect to destroy these if he retains physical possession of them -- I'm not sure if the distributor (Fox) vaults them indefinitely or not; even if they did, Emperor George and his estate for a very long time to come are the only ones that can authorize a re-release based on them.
Probably not as much of a troll as you intended. But Kerry might appreciate the read more, now that Gore is all about public speaking and evangelism.
But, engarde, Rumsfeld clearly read this book: "Stuff Happens" etc.
Does this particular ATRACS-playing phone happen to come with a rootkit pre-installed? I would think that would save their customers some time.
I don't respond to ACs. Oh wait...
In just about every text entry box in Mac OS X, Apple-Shift-RightArrow will deliver the desired result; in carbon and cocoa the base TextView class has the same behavior, and everybody uses NSTextView unless they're using a decades-old or explicitly cross-platform UI codebase. I can think of a few programs that break this rule, but they're extremely rare -- however I am aware one particularly-popular productivity suite that does not conform to the selection keybindings, on account of legacy behavior and a cross-platform codebase.
Even I am a little shocked by how quickly this went to +5 Insightful. I thought +5 funny was possible, but gee.
Quickly becoming a meme:
Only a terrorist wouldn't use Windows.
Can't get enough of the wonderful DUF.
Possible, but I don't think that particular chair-thrower takes Eric Schmidt very seriously. Remember, in that very same chair-throwing conversation, he called Eric Schmidt "a pussy."
Please submit a link to a coral-cached picture of your difference engine :)
Answered my question. It does.
I guess I was just looking for personal opinions.
Thanks for the links everybody, and the instant surmise of clear retardation; I guess it's much easier to paste a few hrefs into a box than to string a few sentences together expressing ones own understanding.
\flameoff
I agree with the sibling, thanks for the link. I have to backup a bunch of projects and this+DVDs looks much better than tar -M + DVDs, and lightyears better than Retrospect + DVDs (which, being a mac person, is everyone's first choice).
For a moment I was worried that I might be stuck a few years down the line and be with my archives but without a dar installation, but then I remembered "Oh yeah, it's GPL!" I'll just burn the src dir to the first DVD of each archive, and I'll never be wanting.
Are you aware, tho, do you know if it backs up HFS+ resource forks and ACLs, etc? That's kind of a need for me.
Who is Old Man Murray? Please, I want a human answer, not Google.
You're right, Bush isn't Hitler. But he does bear a similarity to Franz von Papen, even if von Papen's career was more like Bush I's.
Free Hat! Free Hat! Free Hat! Free Hat!
(Please somebody get the reference)
The behavior of the patriots was thoroughly inconsistent with the established contemporary customs of war. And they generally didn't wear uniforms either, and they tended to hide their weapons and fighters amongst the civilian population.
The boston tea party destroyed commercial assets, in order to have a political effect, which by the present US government's definition, is in fact terrorism. Their intention is irrelevant; the act itself could be construed as subversive to the government, particularly since it stood to loose enormous tax revenue from the tea that was dumped.
If someone tried to start the Million Man (really 300,000 man) March today, they'd never get the permission to march that many observant Muslims in the capitol, and if they tried to do so without permit, they would certainly, under the current regime, be liable for arrest as a terrorist (as opposed to being arrested for merely being disorderly).
So sed -e 's/Sunni/Tory/' | sed -e 's/Iraq/Colonies/'. Maybe Iraq's off to a good start, after all.
Factoid:
Titanic, the most successful film in non-inflation-adjusted dollars (the most successful inflation-adjusted is still Gone With the Wind), has collected $1.8 billion since its original release in December, 1997.
Al you have to do is repeat that revenue 74 times, and you'll have enough cash to buy 51% of Microsoft. Oh but remember, Titanic was at the time the most expensive movie ever made (the present champion is Spiderman 3, and rising), costing well over $200 million and requiring the budgets of two studios to keep it funded to the end.
There is alot of money in the world, but in order the buy MS you have to trade your real dollars for imaginary dollars; you know, the dollars the stockholders believe they have on account of holding MSFT paper.
It seems like the only serious problem would be getting the 20GB TIFF (or 8 GBs of WAV files) over to the server instance in the first place.
Having to move all your data over to the server and back adds significant set-up overhead, particularly if you only need the monster for 2 hours at a time. When you need the numbers crunched on demand, you don't want to have to wait 6 hours while the data set squeezes its way to the bay area and back over routers.
I'm sure that there are applications for this, but quick-turnaround stuff is hamstrung by the I/O bottleneck known as the Internet.