There is good news, though. The original Charade has lapsed into the public domain, which means I can run it three nights a week on public access TV while the remake is playing in theaters. Bwahahahaha!
Horrible travisty to remake such a great picture that so few have the opportunity to see. They should restore the original and release *it* to theaters. That being said, at least Clooney is a decent actor, unlike Mark Wahlberg who got tapped to fill the shoes of Carey Grant in the remake of Charade. I would also like to take this opportunity to recommend that folks go out and get the DVD of the original Norwegian version of Insomnia, instead of seeing the remake. Damn remakes.
Yet we never see a case where an SHC event is accompanied by mysterious dammage to nearby buildings. Hmm... I think I'll still go with the "wicking" explanation.
The current Megatron also has a "giant hand" mode, which I'm told is just the right size to hold G1 Megatron. The new Megatron in the upcoming line of toys will be a tank. As for Grimlock, the name for the current character in the original Japanese version of the current show is "Build Hurricane" and was not intended by Takara to be related to everyone's favorite Diaclone T-Rex in any way. Hasbro chose to use the name Grimlock as either a way to hold onto the "Grimlock" trademark or as an attempted nod to older fans, depending on who you ask. Overall, the design of the Autobot construction team is quite G1-ish, and should appeal to fans of the older style. The Decepticon combiner is a simple repaint of the G1 Combaticons, but with all die cast parts replaced with plastic of course. Finally, the Autobot trains are really nifty, I think they offer the best comprimise between poseability and G1 style "blocky" design.
Disbar any lawyers involved in bringing frivolous libel/defamation suits. Now, in this particular case, we don't have all of the facts, so it is hard to tell if it really is frivolous, or even if the guy is being truthful about not getting the letter. But the court system should have the tools necessary to make a determination of frivolity, and then punish the lawyers involved.
You'd be hard pressed to buy a TV in England which isn't capable of displaying anamorphic pictures. Its a constant source of puzzlement to me why US consumer electronics are so obviously behind in some areas but not others...
There are sets available in the US that have that feature... Sony Wegas for example, most of Sony's current models have a 16:9 mode available in the user menu. Not sure about other manufacturers, but I do know that many many sets have this feature hidden in the service menu.
Important feature #3: On 4:3 sets, make sure that the set actually displays 720 or 1080 lines of resolution on letterboxed material, instead of downsampling to the area between the black bands. This feature goes by various names, and works by cutting the amplitude of the vertical drive to get the letterbox aspect ratio instead of downsampling. Of course, the shadow mask will be the limiting factor in actual resolution.
Regular old analog NTSC sets can have a similar feature as well, renehollan gave a technical description of what many folks call "anamorphic squeeze mode" which is supported by many sets. In layman's terms, a 4:3 set that can do an "anamorphic squeeze" is capable of drawing all of the scanlines slightly more close together, so as to "squeeze" the video signal from 4:3 to 16:9. This is particularly usefull for those DVDs which are "optimized for 16:9 TVs", or even the few odd Laserdiscs which were made for 16:9 TVs. For those of us who don't have the money to spend on progressive scan HDTV sets just yet, the ~$500 Sony Wegas have this feature, and DVDs look just great on them. Also, the apeture grille ("Trinitron") tube of the Sony sets have unbroken vertical stripes of phospher, so there is no shadow mask to limit actual vertical resolution.
Sony advertises its Playstation 2 as a CD/DVD player, and owns some of the studios that may be releasing the copy protected CDs. In fact, there has already been the whole flap over the Michael Jackson single that they released with the copy protection. (acording to the article)
IANAL, but wouldn't that open them up to some sort of legal action, since they also sell some of the devices that get broken by this?
Universal won't be copy protecting all of their CD's.
What part of "Universal Music is the most aggressive in its anti-piracy efforts, saying that all of its CDs will be copy-protected by mid-2002." do you not understand?
That is a dirrect quote from the article that you claimed to have read.
If you wanted a command line for a pre OS X Mac, you should have grabbed MPW. It provided a UNIX-y...
I use MPW to invoke DASM to assemble my Atari 2600 projects... it actually strikes me as more "VMS-y" then "UNIX-y", since it has that move the curser to where the command is writen and press enter (not return) kind of thing going. Of course, that could be because the only VMS app I ever had to use (on UVMVM, which I think UVM still uses) was a horrible calendar program called... shoot, I can't remember the name. It was horrible, though. Anyway, MPW isn't that horrible, but the mechanics of the user interface reminds me of that VMS program for some reason. Oh, and Mac mice have several buttons, it's just that all but one of them are actually on the keyboard.
OBiPod:
For those complaining about the price, I'm pretty sure that I read somewhere that the bare hard drive used in the iPod would cost about $400 by itself (retail). It may not be big (in GB), but it is small (physically).
FWIW, my take is that if court-authorized spyware warrants get the FBI to relax their anti-encryption stance, they're probably a good thing.
Instead, they will take an anti-common sense stance, wherein they will seek to ban educating people that they shouldn't go off an run every executable that they receive in email.
In a final achievement they managed to make a webpage that simply loads one picture, that only works in internet explorer. iCab and Netscape just show a blank page. This is quite a metaphor for their past performance.
they're probably not adding ogg support yet because it is not officialy finished, like mp3 is. they don't want people complaining to them if there are incompatibilities between ogg files and the ogg decoder and they end up sounding bad or not playing
Well, that's sort of the point. That's why I'm suggesting that that functionality be hacked into the thing!
iPod supports most of the popular audio formats, including MP3 (from 32 Kbps to 320 Kbps), MP3 Variable Bit Rate (VBR), AIFF, and WAV. Upgradable firmware enables support for future audio formats.
I think the first iPod hacking effort should be to program in OGG support... I wouldn't hold my breath for Apple to provide that.
Okay.. so this is slightly off topic. (I think Cartoon Network is doing the right thing in remaining sensitive to current events. Would you rather have them not give a damn about what's going on in the world and play it anyway because they paid for the rights of it? Would you rather CNN et al played commercials every 15 minutes on Tuesday? At least this shows the mega-corporations aren't thinking ONLY about profit any more.)
Bah! Humans are a violent species, as the violent response by the USA to the terrorist attack will prove. Sex and violence have been an integral part of our entertainment since before Homer.
Basically, Hollywood stands a good chance of coming out as a better group because of this. In the last 10 years, as the cultural decadence and decline of America took hold, Hollywood has been pandering to America's baser instincts at the expense of good old-fashioned American story-telling.
What, you mean like _Birth of a Nation_?
Moveis have gotten more and more bland, formulaic, and irrelevent to the modern world in the past decade than ever before.
No, they have not, you silly little reactionary. You are simply filtering the bad movies from yesteryear out of your memory.
Hopefully America will keep the unifying and sobered spirit it has re-discovered in the aftermath for some time to come. Parents having honest discussions with their children about issues of morality, crime rates in NY at their lowest levels in the history of the city (common enemy), young people not blindly assuming the world owes them something, but being cognisant of their own morality.
Crime rates in NYC (and the nation as a whole) have been on their way down for quite some time.
Hell, if the last traces of the ugly racism popping up against Arab-American can be eradicated.... America stands a great chance to come out of this a more responsible, more caring, more serious, more compassionate, more focused, more dedicated, and more selfless nation.
Fallwell has found it easier to assign blame to gays, lesbians, bisexuals, pagans, and the ACLU.
The point? Hopefully Hollywood will follow and put out entertainment that's more meaningful than another episode of Friends, a pointless prurient movie about sex and violence, or another dumb series about beautiful young 20-somethings whining about nothing.
So you are saying they should replace _Friends_ with _Leave it to Beaver_? Meaningless entertainment is not a recent development, nor has it recently increased in magnitude. Tex Avery's work is pretty cool, but hardly more meaningfull then Cowboy Bebop.
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"file sharing has been systematically scapegoated and demonized. the idea that anyone can sample a few tracks for free and avoid buying a horrible cd is anathema to these idiots. i predict in the near future right wingers will use copyright hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus..."
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Gah! Leave Charade alone you bastards!
There is good news, though. The original Charade has lapsed into the public domain, which means I can run it three nights a week on public access TV while the remake is playing in theaters. Bwahahahaha!
Horrible travisty to remake such a great picture that so few have the opportunity to see. They should restore the original and release *it* to theaters. That being said, at least Clooney is a decent actor, unlike Mark Wahlberg who got tapped to fill the shoes of Carey Grant in the remake of Charade. I would also like to take this opportunity to recommend that folks go out and get the DVD of the original Norwegian version of Insomnia, instead of seeing the remake. Damn remakes.
The New York Times != The New Yorker
Yet we never see a case where an SHC event is accompanied by mysterious dammage to nearby buildings. Hmm... I think I'll still go with the "wicking" explanation.
The current Megatron also has a "giant hand" mode, which I'm told is just the right size to hold G1 Megatron. The new Megatron in the upcoming line of toys will be a tank. As for Grimlock, the name for the current character in the original Japanese version of the current show is "Build Hurricane" and was not intended by Takara to be related to everyone's favorite Diaclone T-Rex in any way. Hasbro chose to use the name Grimlock as either a way to hold onto the "Grimlock" trademark or as an attempted nod to older fans, depending on who you ask. Overall, the design of the Autobot construction team is quite G1-ish, and should appeal to fans of the older style. The Decepticon combiner is a simple repaint of the G1 Combaticons, but with all die cast parts replaced with plastic of course. Finally, the Autobot trains are really nifty, I think they offer the best comprimise between poseability and G1 style "blocky" design.
Disbar any lawyers involved in bringing frivolous libel/defamation suits. Now, in this particular case, we don't have all of the facts, so it is hard to tell if it really is frivolous, or even if the guy is being truthful about not getting the letter. But the court system should have the tools necessary to make a determination of frivolity, and then punish the lawyers involved.
That would actually be cool!
You'd be hard pressed to buy a TV in England which isn't capable of displaying anamorphic pictures. Its a constant source of puzzlement to me why US consumer electronics are so obviously behind in some areas but not others...
There are sets available in the US that have that feature... Sony Wegas for example, most of Sony's current models have a 16:9 mode available in the user menu. Not sure about other manufacturers, but I do know that many many sets have this feature hidden in the service menu.
Important feature #3: On 4:3 sets, make sure that the set actually displays 720 or 1080 lines of resolution on letterboxed material, instead of downsampling to the area between the black bands. This feature goes by various names, and works by cutting the amplitude of the vertical drive to get the letterbox aspect ratio instead of downsampling. Of course, the shadow mask will be the limiting factor in actual resolution.
Regular old analog NTSC sets can have a similar feature as well, renehollan gave a technical description of what many folks call "anamorphic squeeze mode" which is supported by many sets. In layman's terms, a 4:3 set that can do an "anamorphic squeeze" is capable of drawing all of the scanlines slightly more close together, so as to "squeeze" the video signal from 4:3 to 16:9. This is particularly usefull for those DVDs which are "optimized for 16:9 TVs", or even the few odd Laserdiscs which were made for 16:9 TVs. For those of us who don't have the money to spend on progressive scan HDTV sets just yet, the ~$500 Sony Wegas have this feature, and DVDs look just great on them. Also, the apeture grille ("Trinitron") tube of the Sony sets have unbroken vertical stripes of phospher, so there is no shadow mask to limit actual vertical resolution.
Sony advertises its Playstation 2 as a CD/DVD player, and owns some of the studios that may be releasing the copy protected CDs. In fact, there has already been the whole flap over the Michael Jackson single that they released with the copy protection. (acording to the article)
IANAL, but wouldn't that open them up to some sort of legal action, since they also sell some of the devices that get broken by this?
from the link: "Universal Music is the most aggressive in its anti-piracy efforts, saying that all of its CDs will be copy-protected by mid-2002."
Universal won't be copy protecting all of their CD's.
What part of "Universal Music is the most aggressive in its anti-piracy efforts, saying that all of its CDs will be copy-protected by mid-2002." do you not understand?
That is a dirrect quote from the article that you claimed to have read.
The only pr0n (why not just spell it as porn?) they have on there is erotic literature.
And in alt.ascii-art.
Now I can browse all of my anti-Mac rantings from the comfort of my Powerbook G4.
If you wanted a command line for a pre OS X Mac, you should have grabbed MPW. It provided a UNIX-y...
I use MPW to invoke DASM to assemble my Atari 2600 projects... it actually strikes me as more "VMS-y" then "UNIX-y", since it has that move the curser to where the command is writen and press enter (not return) kind of thing going. Of course, that could be because the only VMS app I ever had to use (on UVMVM, which I think UVM still uses) was a horrible calendar program called... shoot, I can't remember the name. It was horrible, though. Anyway, MPW isn't that horrible, but the mechanics of the user interface reminds me of that VMS program for some reason. Oh, and Mac mice have several buttons, it's just that all but one of them are actually on the keyboard.
OBiPod:
For those complaining about the price, I'm pretty sure that I read somewhere that the bare hard drive used in the iPod would cost about $400 by itself (retail). It may not be big (in GB), but it is small (physically).
FWIW, my take is that if court-authorized spyware warrants get the FBI to relax their anti-encryption stance, they're probably a good thing.
Instead, they will take an anti-common sense stance, wherein they will seek to ban educating people that they shouldn't go off an run every executable that they receive in email.
In a final achievement they managed to make a webpage that simply loads one picture, that only works in internet explorer. iCab and Netscape just show a blank page. This is quite a metaphor for their past performance.
Okay, American, French, Italian, and... Asian. Three countries and an entire freakin' continent.
Well, actually, "America" is two entire freakin' continents...
yes, after tricking Johnny into appointing himself as news director, making him an "employee" of WNYX.
they're probably not adding ogg support yet because it is not officialy finished, like mp3 is. they don't want people complaining to them if there are incompatibilities between ogg files and the ogg decoder and they end up sounding bad or not playing
Well, that's sort of the point. That's why I'm suggesting that that functionality be hacked into the thing!
iPod supports most of the popular audio formats, including MP3 (from 32 Kbps to 320 Kbps), MP3 Variable Bit Rate (VBR), AIFF, and WAV. Upgradable firmware enables support for future audio formats.
I think the first iPod hacking effort should be to program in OGG support... I wouldn't hold my breath for Apple to provide that.
Not in quantity, it doesn't. Toshiba will happily sell you or I one for $400, but Apple's cost on them, in quantity, is much, much lower than that.
Guess what: The iPod is a retail product! I mean, Apple is not a co-op buyers club for hard drives, or anything.
Okay.. so this is slightly off topic. (I think Cartoon Network is doing the right thing in remaining sensitive to current events. Would you rather have them not give a damn about what's going on in the world and play it anyway because they paid for the rights of it? Would you rather CNN et al played commercials every 15 minutes on Tuesday? At least this shows the mega-corporations aren't thinking ONLY about profit any more.)
Bah! Humans are a violent species, as the violent response by the USA to the terrorist attack will prove. Sex and violence have been an integral part of our entertainment since before Homer.
Basically, Hollywood stands a good chance of coming out as a better group because of this. In the last 10 years, as the cultural decadence and decline of America took hold, Hollywood has been pandering to America's baser instincts at the expense of good old-fashioned American story-telling.
What, you mean like _Birth of a Nation_?
Moveis have gotten more and more bland, formulaic, and irrelevent to the modern world in the past decade than ever before.
No, they have not, you silly little reactionary. You are simply filtering the bad movies from yesteryear out of your memory.
Hopefully America will keep the unifying and sobered spirit it has re-discovered in the aftermath for some time to come. Parents having honest discussions with their children about issues of morality, crime rates in NY at their lowest levels in the history of the city (common enemy), young people not blindly assuming the world owes them something, but being cognisant of their own morality.
Crime rates in NYC (and the nation as a whole) have been on their way down for quite some time.
Hell, if the last traces of the ugly racism popping up against Arab-American can be eradicated.... America stands a great chance to come out of this a more responsible, more caring, more serious, more compassionate, more focused, more dedicated, and more selfless nation.
Fallwell has found it easier to assign blame to gays, lesbians, bisexuals, pagans, and the ACLU.
The point? Hopefully Hollywood will follow and put out entertainment that's more meaningful than another episode of Friends, a pointless prurient movie about sex and violence, or another dumb series about beautiful young 20-somethings whining about nothing.
So you are saying they should replace _Friends_ with _Leave it to Beaver_? Meaningless entertainment is not a recent development, nor has it recently increased in magnitude. Tex Avery's work is pretty cool, but hardly more meaningfull then Cowboy Bebop.
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well, drug hysteria was the original context of the quote... see "drugstore cowboy".
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"file sharing has been systematically scapegoated and demonized. the idea that anyone can sample a few tracks for free and avoid buying a horrible cd is anathema to these idiots. i predict in the near future right wingers will use copyright hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus..."
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