Show me where a complete, working crack of Diablo 3 is. Oh wait there isn't one since so much of the code runs server side. What's out there is a buggy half playable mess with tons of missing content. When you run tons of code and serve content server side, you can't just crack it and call it a day. It's delusional to think pirates will win if the industry goes with these methods.
That's irrelevant. The CMOS sensor on the RED works the same way as a frame of film - it is activated and exposed to light in exactly the same way, for a fraction of a second depending on the desired shutter speed. The only difference is that the shutter is electronic (turning the sensor on and off) vs mechanical, and even new digital cameras like the Sony F65 have mechanical shutters exactly like film cameras.
"Answer #1: Any professional with any ambition at all. Collective bargaining agreements are a noose around the neck of anybody with the ambition to better themselves."
Bullshit. How do you figure? You are always free to negotiate yourself above and beyond what your union sets for everybody. I negotiate my salary myself on union jobs ALL THE TIME, and haven't worked for the union minimum in a long long time.
You can yell fire in a theatre, and there is nothing illegal about the speech itself. However, you would be charged with reckless endangerment, or if someone were trampled, manslaughter. Censoring the speech is bad because you cannot know the context before hand. All you can do is base law on actions, not words.
I routinely work 10-12 hour days in the film industry. You can absolutely get more done and better utilize your time on set, and only working 8 hours a day would seriously impact productions. 12 hours is standard. Of course, it pays extremely well so after many weeks of doing this I can take off a month or two. I would rather work 12 hours a day for 3 months then get 2 months off than work 5 days a week every week for 32 hours and basically only get weekends.
The difference is that if you are a player in say, the NFL, you will make a ton of money, and after 8-12 years retire and draw a pension from the NFL. Bench warmers make 150K+ a year, so if you're even halfway decent you will be making good money.
But in E-Sports, the 150K figure is for the very best. The very best are making less than a bench warmer in the NFL. Being the very best means practicing in your team house for 10-12 hours per day. Many top Starcraft players have needed surgery for RSI injuries.So even if you're the best in the world, you're going to get 10 years at best. You think 150K a year is a lot, but after your career is over what do you do? What skills do you have? All you can do is play a video game. You're hostage to it. Former top players have gone on to become coaches, and this is the only real progression left. If you are near the middle or bottom of the pack, your situation is even worse since you have less money.
This is not a long term career like traditional professional sports is.
That may be against the law. A better way is to put infrared lights around the plate. It in no way obscures the plate visually to the human eye, but cameras will see a big bright mess.
This is because a higher frame rate in games means it is more responsive, and since you are interacting with it, fast response time is necessary for lots of genres like FPS or fighting. You are not interacting with the film, so the frame rate is merely a stylistic choice. 24fps is not bad; it merely gives a certain look. 48 fps is also not bad; it just gives a different look.
The idea behind Cloud gaming is that you can have one device that can play games on many platforms and complexities. The whole point is to do the heavy rendering and calculations on the server and stream the result to the client, so that you don't have to keep upgrading when a new console comes out, or when a game's hardware requirements go up.
First, redo the Mac Pro. Make a chassis that works like a tower, but can have a rack drawer attached so it can be slammed into a standard enclosure. Offer not just 8Gbs FC cards, but NICs with enough packet offloading power so FCoE is workable.
All apple needs to do is include 2 thunderbolt ports, each on separate busses. Who needs FC when you have thunderbolt? Add USB 3 and new graphics cards; that's all I could ask for as a pro right now. There are so many thunderbolt video and audio devices coming out, it's sickening it's not on the mac pro yet.
You'll miss a lot by having inner light as your first episode. Part of the power is that Picard changes a bit; he goes from not liking kids to having them, from being single to having a wife, etc. You'll lose all that if you haven't familiarized yourself with the character by watching other episodes.
You can see non gimicky 3D right now: Prometheus. Say what you will about the film, the 3D is not a gimmick, and greatly enhances the experience. I felt like I was looking at real person when Charlie was looking in the mirror and saw the thing in his eye. Creepy as fuck. The cesarian was also creepy as fuck in 3D as well, not because of in your face effects, but because you really felt as if you were right there looking at real people. That's the future of 3D: subtle enhancement.
You joke, but being able to cheat was why I loved Diablo 2. It's so terrible and boring to level and grind for good gear, so to make it much more bearable I would use a trainer to give my character what they needed. This made the game much more interesting since I could skip all the grinding and just find out which types of characters would be fun to play, and which skills and skill combinations would be effective on Hell difficulty. I saw no reason to waste my time grinding, when that's not what I enjoyed. I wasn't harming anybody else, as this was all on open battle.net or Single Player.
This is also why I did not buy D3 - it's forcing me to grind for levels and gear, or worse, BUY gear. No thanks.
Life is only going to be able to exist on earth for another 800 millions years at most anyway. After that, it will be 1. too hot to support liquid water, and 2. have so little atmospheric CO2 that photosynthesis is not possible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_the_Earth
Utilizing 'loopholes' in the law is not evading taxes. You wouldn't pay full price when something is on sale, so why should someone have to pay more than the law allows? As long as you are within the letter of the law, there is no problem, and it's not unpatriotic. Renouncing your citizenship, and turning your back on the country that made your business possible, THAT is something else entirely, and is most definitely unpatriotic.
I doubt they will win. While the music industry is tanking, the movie business is still more profitable than ever. The reason:
1. You can't download the experience of going to a nice movie theatre (especially a REAL IMAX theatre).
2. FIlms make a great deal of their money off of television deals.
I'd take a look at Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog or Megaman comics. I'm 27 and read them, but they are definitely age appropriate for a 3 year old. Archie sells paperback compilations of the issues as well, which should be easier for your kid to read than actual comics that can rip.
It's not necessarily an improvement. Framerate has always been a stylistic choice. With the digital cinema cameras now, you can shoot 24p, 30p, 60p etc. One isn't 'better' than the other necessarily - it's all about how you want the motion in your work to look.
Digital cinema cameras shoot typically with the same shutter speed as a film camera - that is 1/48 sec for 24fps footage, in order to appear more like film. This is why all of the 4K cameras now look very close to film.
That doesn't change the fact, that when you shoot in 24fps, your shutter speed is 1/48 sec. If you were to shoot in 48fps, your shutter speed will be 1/96 sec. A faster shutter speed eliminates motion blur and creates a sharper image, and so merely dropping every other frame is going to result in different video. You'd have 24fps video shot with a 1/96 shutter, as opposed to 24fps video shot with a 1/48 shutter. To see the effect a higher shutter speed has, look at the opening of saving private ryan, or some of the fight scenes in gladiator. You can tell when the effect hits: everything will look very crisp and appear to strobe. This would be the opposite of what you want.
And your opinion can be safely ignored. Did you know that in conventional 24 fps film projectors, the shutter displays each frame twice? Do you know why? Because 24hz would produce flicker! Old films which ran at 16fps flickered, because when projected they were being displayed at 32hz. The concept of refresh rate certainly applies to even conventional cinema. You could construct a projector to display every frame 6 times, for 120hz (which is what those new Tvs do), or you could display each one once and have everybody's eyes explode.
Just because it is shot at 24fps, does not mean it has to be displayed at 24hz.
The MPAA is not going to become useless like the RIAA has, because you will still always need distribution to theatres. There's no difference between a CD you buy in a record store, versus one you download: it's still being played on your iPod or stereo. No film you buy is going to be shown in a theatre. People still like going out to the movies. As such, the MPAA is never going to disappear, since its member studios are one of the only ways to get wide theatrical distribution. Self distribution on any significant scale is just not possible, even with digital technology.
You do know this isn't law yet, right? And you also know that Obama has said he would veto it if it ever came to his desk right? The sky isn't falling dude.
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Show me where a complete, working crack of Diablo 3 is. Oh wait there isn't one since so much of the code runs server side. What's out there is a buggy half playable mess with tons of missing content. When you run tons of code and serve content server side, you can't just crack it and call it a day. It's delusional to think pirates will win if the industry goes with these methods.
That's irrelevant. The CMOS sensor on the RED works the same way as a frame of film - it is activated and exposed to light in exactly the same way, for a fraction of a second depending on the desired shutter speed. The only difference is that the shutter is electronic (turning the sensor on and off) vs mechanical, and even new digital cameras like the Sony F65 have mechanical shutters exactly like film cameras.
It's not racism, just an observation that parents usually teach children values similar to their own.
"Answer #1: Any professional with any ambition at all. Collective bargaining agreements are a noose around the neck of anybody with the ambition to better themselves."
Bullshit. How do you figure? You are always free to negotiate yourself above and beyond what your union sets for everybody. I negotiate my salary myself on union jobs ALL THE TIME, and haven't worked for the union minimum in a long long time.
You can yell fire in a theatre, and there is nothing illegal about the speech itself. However, you would be charged with reckless endangerment, or if someone were trampled, manslaughter. Censoring the speech is bad because you cannot know the context before hand. All you can do is base law on actions, not words.
I routinely work 10-12 hour days in the film industry. You can absolutely get more done and better utilize your time on set, and only working 8 hours a day would seriously impact productions. 12 hours is standard. Of course, it pays extremely well so after many weeks of doing this I can take off a month or two. I would rather work 12 hours a day for 3 months then get 2 months off than work 5 days a week every week for 32 hours and basically only get weekends.
The difference is that if you are a player in say, the NFL, you will make a ton of money, and after 8-12 years retire and draw a pension from the NFL. Bench warmers make 150K+ a year, so if you're even halfway decent you will be making good money.
But in E-Sports, the 150K figure is for the very best. The very best are making less than a bench warmer in the NFL. Being the very best means practicing in your team house for 10-12 hours per day. Many top Starcraft players have needed surgery for RSI injuries.So even if you're the best in the world, you're going to get 10 years at best. You think 150K a year is a lot, but after your career is over what do you do? What skills do you have? All you can do is play a video game. You're hostage to it. Former top players have gone on to become coaches, and this is the only real progression left. If you are near the middle or bottom of the pack, your situation is even worse since you have less money.
This is not a long term career like traditional professional sports is.
That may be against the law. A better way is to put infrared lights around the plate. It in no way obscures the plate visually to the human eye, but cameras will see a big bright mess.
This is because a higher frame rate in games means it is more responsive, and since you are interacting with it, fast response time is necessary for lots of genres like FPS or fighting. You are not interacting with the film, so the frame rate is merely a stylistic choice. 24fps is not bad; it merely gives a certain look. 48 fps is also not bad; it just gives a different look.
The idea behind Cloud gaming is that you can have one device that can play games on many platforms and complexities. The whole point is to do the heavy rendering and calculations on the server and stream the result to the client, so that you don't have to keep upgrading when a new console comes out, or when a game's hardware requirements go up.
First, redo the Mac Pro. Make a chassis that works like a tower, but can have a rack drawer attached so it can be slammed into a standard enclosure. Offer not just 8Gbs FC cards, but NICs with enough packet offloading power so FCoE is workable.
All apple needs to do is include 2 thunderbolt ports, each on separate busses. Who needs FC when you have thunderbolt? Add USB 3 and new graphics cards; that's all I could ask for as a pro right now. There are so many thunderbolt video and audio devices coming out, it's sickening it's not on the mac pro yet.
You'll miss a lot by having inner light as your first episode. Part of the power is that Picard changes a bit; he goes from not liking kids to having them, from being single to having a wife, etc. You'll lose all that if you haven't familiarized yourself with the character by watching other episodes.
You can see non gimicky 3D right now: Prometheus. Say what you will about the film, the 3D is not a gimmick, and greatly enhances the experience. I felt like I was looking at real person when Charlie was looking in the mirror and saw the thing in his eye. Creepy as fuck. The cesarian was also creepy as fuck in 3D as well, not because of in your face effects, but because you really felt as if you were right there looking at real people. That's the future of 3D: subtle enhancement.
You joke, but being able to cheat was why I loved Diablo 2. It's so terrible and boring to level and grind for good gear, so to make it much more bearable I would use a trainer to give my character what they needed. This made the game much more interesting since I could skip all the grinding and just find out which types of characters would be fun to play, and which skills and skill combinations would be effective on Hell difficulty. I saw no reason to waste my time grinding, when that's not what I enjoyed. I wasn't harming anybody else, as this was all on open battle.net or Single Player.
This is also why I did not buy D3 - it's forcing me to grind for levels and gear, or worse, BUY gear. No thanks.
Life is only going to be able to exist on earth for another 800 millions years at most anyway. After that, it will be 1. too hot to support liquid water, and 2. have so little atmospheric CO2 that photosynthesis is not possible. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_the_Earth
Utilizing 'loopholes' in the law is not evading taxes. You wouldn't pay full price when something is on sale, so why should someone have to pay more than the law allows? As long as you are within the letter of the law, there is no problem, and it's not unpatriotic. Renouncing your citizenship, and turning your back on the country that made your business possible, THAT is something else entirely, and is most definitely unpatriotic.
I doubt they will win. While the music industry is tanking, the movie business is still more profitable than ever. The reason: 1. You can't download the experience of going to a nice movie theatre (especially a REAL IMAX theatre). 2. FIlms make a great deal of their money off of television deals.
I'd take a look at Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog or Megaman comics. I'm 27 and read them, but they are definitely age appropriate for a 3 year old. Archie sells paperback compilations of the issues as well, which should be easier for your kid to read than actual comics that can rip.
It's not necessarily an improvement. Framerate has always been a stylistic choice. With the digital cinema cameras now, you can shoot 24p, 30p, 60p etc. One isn't 'better' than the other necessarily - it's all about how you want the motion in your work to look.
You know you can turn off that interpolation right? Most TVs come with them on by default. Turn it off, and 24p content will look more 'normal' again.
Digital cinema cameras shoot typically with the same shutter speed as a film camera - that is 1/48 sec for 24fps footage, in order to appear more like film. This is why all of the 4K cameras now look very close to film.
That doesn't change the fact, that when you shoot in 24fps, your shutter speed is 1/48 sec. If you were to shoot in 48fps, your shutter speed will be 1/96 sec. A faster shutter speed eliminates motion blur and creates a sharper image, and so merely dropping every other frame is going to result in different video. You'd have 24fps video shot with a 1/96 shutter, as opposed to 24fps video shot with a 1/48 shutter. To see the effect a higher shutter speed has, look at the opening of saving private ryan, or some of the fight scenes in gladiator. You can tell when the effect hits: everything will look very crisp and appear to strobe. This would be the opposite of what you want.
And your opinion can be safely ignored. Did you know that in conventional 24 fps film projectors, the shutter displays each frame twice? Do you know why? Because 24hz would produce flicker! Old films which ran at 16fps flickered, because when projected they were being displayed at 32hz. The concept of refresh rate certainly applies to even conventional cinema. You could construct a projector to display every frame 6 times, for 120hz (which is what those new Tvs do), or you could display each one once and have everybody's eyes explode.
Just because it is shot at 24fps, does not mean it has to be displayed at 24hz.
The MPAA is not going to become useless like the RIAA has, because you will still always need distribution to theatres. There's no difference between a CD you buy in a record store, versus one you download: it's still being played on your iPod or stereo. No film you buy is going to be shown in a theatre. People still like going out to the movies. As such, the MPAA is never going to disappear, since its member studios are one of the only ways to get wide theatrical distribution. Self distribution on any significant scale is just not possible, even with digital technology.
You do know this isn't law yet, right? And you also know that Obama has said he would veto it if it ever came to his desk right? The sky isn't falling dude.