They try to somewhat mitigate this by asking you for a secret word when you sign-up. They include this word in each alert's subject line, so if you get a mail from them not including the word (such as, for example, the mail thanking you for signing up;-) then you know it's a fake.
They didn't actually mean for anyone to keep their photos on it, they just thought album art would be cool and then had to figure out some more reasons for putting a color screen in.
It's interesting to see laid out like this, thanks.
I hadn't thought they'd fade out the mono screens so fast... Perhaps mono screens are getting harder to come by as all the PDAs and phones seem to have them these days.
No, it's you and Trip who aren't getting the point.
Firstly, by your logic, since CD's are designed to carry Audio content, therefore I only need a CD drive in my PC to install audio applications, such as itunes.
But never mind that, what you interpret him as meaning is that you only need HD-DVD for software if that software is trying to product output at HD-TV resolutions, because in order for software to put such an insane ammount of information on screen you'll need gigs and gigs of textures and data.
Setting aside for the moment any consideration of how this software will get gigs of textures on screen fast enough, what resolution do you think HD-TV is? A million by 2 million? A jazillion squared?
HD-TV is 1280x720.
So god knows how I played Unreal Tournament at that res back in 2003, since I'm pretty sure I didn't have a Blu-Ray drive installed at the time...
Back on-topic, it is of course reasonable to be sceptical until more info is available, perhaps even more so when it's something this important. Batteries are the main hold-outs still resisting Moore's law, and as such any advances are very important.
Yes, the weight is conspicuously absent in the entire article. Troops currently carry too much weight; how much ammuniton of food should they leave behind so they can carry this?
Who was it who said that a standard test for these systems would be to make the General who comissioned them run 5 miles wearing it?
Well, I began to suspect something when you said that anal probing just wasn't enough for you any more, and that perhaps some sort of snazzy uniform would help.
I must say, that the single most brilliant thing the BBC does at the moment, in my opinion, is that most of their radio programs can be listened to over the net for a week after they air.
This allows me to hear all the stuff I love without having to be near a radio at the exact time every week.
Oh, sorry, I thought from what he said in the interview that he meant that the solid diamond backspace keys they use on their word processors meant they couldn't even do script revisions before the rendering statrts.
Of course they revised and polished the script before rendering started, that's the entire point of my comment!
In a CGI film there is a moment where you must finish the script, whereas in a "ordinary" film the temptation is to change the script during and even after principle photography and all the way into the editing room and even on the basis of the preview results.
Because there are a limited number of hardware combinations you will find in a Mac, compared to a PC, which means that you have less work to do with the drivers.
I, for example, have recently bought Dell Lattitude D400s, D600s, D505s, and D800s, and they all have different video chipsets that work differently with external projectors. This is with machines from one vendor of the same vintage in the conservative business line!
I'd say he pretty much abolished the office of Lord Chancellor on a whim. If it had been carefully planned then someone would have noticed that doing so has such far reaching constitutional implications that he had to undo the abolition!
The Lords are ultimately powerless to stop something if the Prime Minister wants it. Hunting ban comes in at midnight tonight, for example.
The Commons aren't that big a deal to Tony either. Important matters are frequently announced in press conferences and not in the House.
Come to think of it, he's usually not that worried about what the Cabinet think either...
... is that, while it has probably been bastardized a bit, I am intending to go see it.
This is praise indeed, because there are an enormous lot of films about that recycle stuff I am very fond of, and few of them have been able to persuade me that I should see them.
Both versions of the Punisher fail to grasp the basic concept that Frank is a soldier. I expect this sort of sloppy behaviour in a Dolph movie, but John, what were you thinking?
I went to see Ep I, and it is only watchable because there is 5 minutes in it where you see a Sith/Jedi who isn't old/disabled/old and disabled.
Electra is clearly a steaming pile of crap.
Constantine is apparently so bad that Neo's acting is one of it's few redeeming features (?!?!?)
LoEG has had Tom Sayer forced up it's arse in order to make USAians go see it.
FF doesn't do Ben with CGI.
In the Avengers, in the scene introducing Steed, when the orignal theme played, all I could think of was how incredibly cool Patrick MacNee is. Luckily I was quicky distracted by how fucking ridiculous that bowler hat looked. Also: Uma, my dear, you are very very hot indeed, but nobody in the world is as hot as Diana Rigg was in the 60s. I mean, I must (reluctantly) admit that I think that Cher is not a bad singer, but when she did a Roy Orbison cover it was just embarassing. Know your limits!
Thunderbirds did the ships OK, maybe I should watch it and put a bag over my head during the character bits.
I am thankful that I have bought every Flaming Carrot comic I have ever seen, and so was absolved from having to see Mysterymen because I've already paid my dues to Bob Burden.
The Magic Roundabout will be cited in my defence when I am charged with burning my local cinema down.
Seems bizzare to me, I reluctantly admit that Simon Jones is probably now too old for hollywood to cast as Mr. Dent, but surely they could have gotten the sublime Mr. Moore to do Marvin again....
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They try to somewhat mitigate this by asking you for a secret word when you sign-up. They include this word in each alert's subject line, so if you get a mail from them not including the word (such as, for example, the mail thanking you for signing up ;-) then you know it's a fake.
They didn't actually mean for anyone to keep their photos on it, they just thought album art would be cool and then had to figure out some more reasons for putting a color screen in.
It's interesting to see laid out like this, thanks.
I hadn't thought they'd fade out the mono screens so fast... Perhaps mono screens are getting harder to come by as all the PDAs and phones seem to have them these days.
No, it's you and Trip who aren't getting the point.
Firstly, by your logic, since CD's are designed to carry Audio content, therefore I only need a CD drive in my PC to install audio applications, such as itunes.
But never mind that, what you interpret him as meaning is that you only need HD-DVD for software if that software is trying to product output at HD-TV resolutions, because in order for software to put such an insane ammount of information on screen you'll need gigs and gigs of textures and data.
Setting aside for the moment any consideration of how this software will get gigs of textures on screen fast enough, what resolution do you think HD-TV is? A million by 2 million? A jazillion squared?
HD-TV is 1280x720.
So god knows how I played Unreal Tournament at that res back in 2003, since I'm pretty sure I didn't have a Blu-Ray drive installed at the time...
Never mind charging faster, giving them a longer life is what appeals to me. My ipod's battery is getting old...
A real editor? You're new here, aren't you?
(Sorry folks, I can never resist this one!)
Back on-topic, it is of course reasonable to be sceptical until more info is available, perhaps even more so when it's something this important. Batteries are the main hold-outs still resisting Moore's law, and as such any advances are very important.
10 minutes before the cron job that uploads your data to FTP, 10 minutes before the cron job that tars it all to tape, what's the difference?
Yes, the weight is conspicuously absent in the entire article. Troops currently carry too much weight; how much ammuniton of food should they leave behind so they can carry this?
Who was it who said that a standard test for these systems would be to make the General who comissioned them run 5 miles wearing it?
Ha ha! It's worked as well! +4 insightful already...
No need to worry, we won't see it, since the sun exploded 2 minutes ago and it hasn't reached us yet...
There's no answer to that...
Well, I began to suspect something when you said that anal probing just wasn't enough for you any more, and that perhaps some sort of snazzy uniform would help.
I must say, that the single most brilliant thing the BBC does at the moment, in my opinion, is that most of their radio programs can be listened to over the net for a week after they air.
This allows me to hear all the stuff I love without having to be near a radio at the exact time every week.
If they extend it to TV... fabulous.
Ah, so that's why they built a nuclear waste reprocessing plant there...
That "London --" bit at the beginning means that the reporter is speaking from London. It's a standard journalistic practice.
Hmmm.... I'm trying to think if there's anyone whose Mangars Mind Blades I would want to fuck with...
Oh, sorry, I thought from what he said in the interview that he meant that the solid diamond backspace keys they use on their word processors meant they couldn't even do script revisions before the rendering statrts.
Of course they revised and polished the script before rendering started, that's the entire point of my comment!
In a CGI film there is a moment where you must finish the script, whereas in a "ordinary" film the temptation is to change the script during and even after principle photography and all the way into the editing room and even on the basis of the preview results.
c.f. one of my favorite lines in Monty Python, when a psychologist is being interviewed about crime:
"Who amongst us can say, hand or heart, that at one time or another they haven't burned down some great public building? I know I have."
Because there are a limited number of hardware combinations you will find in a Mac, compared to a PC, which means that you have less work to do with the drivers.
I, for example, have recently bought Dell Lattitude D400s, D600s, D505s, and D800s, and they all have different video chipsets that work differently with external projectors. This is with machines from one vendor of the same vintage in the conservative business line!
Mugabe has done this, hasn't he? Required all journalists to be licensed and then he is able to shut anyone he wants up by pulling their license.
Woo, think of the battery life you'd get on a phone that size...
I'd say he pretty much abolished the office of Lord Chancellor on a whim. If it had been carefully planned then someone would have noticed that doing so has such far reaching constitutional implications that he had to undo the abolition!
The Lords are ultimately powerless to stop something if the Prime Minister wants it. Hunting ban comes in at midnight tonight, for example.
The Commons aren't that big a deal to Tony either. Important matters are frequently announced in press conferences and not in the House.
Come to think of it, he's usually not that worried about what the Cabinet think either...
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20030615-12
... is that, while it has probably been bastardized a bit, I am intending to go see it.
This is praise indeed, because there are an enormous lot of films about that recycle stuff I am very fond of, and few of them have been able to persuade me that I should see them.
Both versions of the Punisher fail to grasp the basic concept that Frank is a soldier. I expect this sort of sloppy behaviour in a Dolph movie, but John, what were you thinking?
I went to see Ep I, and it is only watchable because there is 5 minutes in it where you see a Sith/Jedi who isn't old/disabled/old and disabled.
Electra is clearly a steaming pile of crap.
Constantine is apparently so bad that Neo's acting is one of it's few redeeming features (?!?!?)
LoEG has had Tom Sayer forced up it's arse in order to make USAians go see it.
FF doesn't do Ben with CGI.
In the Avengers, in the scene introducing Steed, when the orignal theme played, all I could think of was how incredibly cool Patrick MacNee is. Luckily I was quicky distracted by how fucking ridiculous that bowler hat looked. Also: Uma, my dear, you are very very hot indeed, but nobody in the world is as hot as Diana Rigg was in the 60s. I mean, I must (reluctantly) admit that I think that Cher is not a bad singer, but when she did a Roy Orbison cover it was just embarassing. Know your limits!
Thunderbirds did the ships OK, maybe I should watch it and put a bag over my head during the character bits.
I am thankful that I have bought every Flaming Carrot comic I have ever seen, and so was absolved from having to see Mysterymen because I've already paid my dues to Bob Burden.
The Magic Roundabout will be cited in my defence when I am charged with burning my local cinema down.
I all of this, I can only give praise to one:
Hellboy was quite good.
Seems bizzare to me, I reluctantly admit that Simon Jones is probably now too old for hollywood to cast as Mr. Dent, but surely they could have gotten the sublime Mr. Moore to do Marvin again....