Okay, so maybe we'll get 1000 planes worth of false positives.
This does not mean that those people don't fly, nor does it mean that they'll get a finger up their rectum either. Their bag would be sent through an X-Ray machine with a higher level of detail, or be opened and examined in detail, or whatever it takes to check them out a bit more thoroughly.
If something's found after that level of security check, then by all mean let the probing begin, but don't assume that every person with teeny traces like this won't be getting on a plane.
I agree- a detailed spec. at the start of a project will almost immediately be made redundant by a small problem or change that is required for technical, legal or usability reasons. It is much better to create a general spec, then gradually refine any specifiactions as the project takes shape so that management stay informed and worker bees like me know what direction they're working in.
A plan is a list of things that will never happen.
I've been considering something like this as well- I'm irish so the only time that outside temperatures are higher than inside temperatures are on warm days from June-August. Also, with a system like you propose, the actual fan could be placed outside and that would in itself eliminate noise.
My biggest worry would be fine drops of water or fog in the air rather than humidity- you don't need to worry about cooler-than-indoors air shedding moisture on warm computer parts. As for fine drops of water, a U-bend in the air intake would get rid of any serious ones I think. It's something I'd try if i had a number of machines- one fan outside feeding cool air to a long pipe like a small air conditioning duct, & then into the back of each machine via a shorter pipe. Maybe that's excessive but then so is installing a Zalman reserator:o)
Oops yea true, though give it a year or three and I'm sure that we'll see higher spec machines around, it's going to be that long before we see anything like what I've described anyway. Prolly shoulda said mac mini type device:o)
Maybe we'll see a dedicated set top box of some sort with a usable interface and network capabilities.
"what's actually wrong with one world-wide release date?"
It costs a heck of a lot of cash to print enough reels to cover all courtries at once, and also it gives the studios a chance to have the actors do interviews in several areas of the globe just as the film comes out locally.
Rottentomatoes are advertising movies on DVD that are just in the middle of their cinema run here, at the minute region free discs might spoil things for theaters in certain parts of the world.
What should help things is if we see widespread digital projection (here in Ireland plans are afoot to equip every cinema in the country with digital projectors. Irish people have among the highest cinema attendance rates in europe, despite the abundance of home theater systems in homes)
If distributing a film worldwide is just a case of relaying it via a satellite system or virtual private network over the net (hey there's an opening for google into another industry!!) then releasing at the same time worldwide becomes more faesible. All we have to do now is clone the actors so they can be at 5 premiers at once (^^)
Abso-friggin loutely! If anyone can break the movie download deadlock it has to be Steve Jobs. The mac mini is a perfect HD video platform, and my personal conspiracy theory WRT the motorolla buy-in is that Apple licenced out the iTunes software to Motorolla & gave them a Steve Jobs product launch in return for Motorolla's networking & wireless expertise (which some may dispute, but hey).
If Appple do launch a movie download service (maybe a HD one in light of recent HD DVD standards wrangling) then high download speeds will make the service even more attractive to potential users. If wiMax internet services take off (whose speed should be in excess of 10-20mbps?- someone help me out here!) then movie downloads will be the killer app for bandwidth like that.
Okay my theory may be a little ropey, but its one explanation for how Steve allowed apple to invest publicity in such a sucky little product. The ROXOR got all the press that the (doubly cool) iPod nano got. The little sh1t:)
Um, I'm really not sure, I've never tried the HTML writing features in indesign, I sort of assumed them to be a bit ropey, they probably whup word's into oblivion.
Unless you mean the question retorically, in which case my response is to cower in the corner:0/
Anyway, the point of indesign is DTP. It'd be nice to see an office app that is as flexible and precise as indesign. As a DTP app the interface is, of course, too large for the average office plebe, but for its size its relatively easy to use.
The answer to the studio's problems is already within their grasp. They should produce good quality movies that people don't have to pay the earth to see, and respect their customer base as their most precious asset, not a faceless mass to be cajoled into theaters and punished for trying to take something which they couldn't really afford.
Why don't you spend 30 on another DVD drive to play your region 1 discs on- the regions are controlled by the hardware, so all you have to do is fit another cheap drive and set it to region 1.
Exactly dude, I mean, if he's going to start bashing John Lasseter, is there anyone out there who he thinks *is* talented. Its like you say- who but JL is getting any kind of creativity through the hollywood machine without being strangled?
*concludes that Lasseter is some kind of Jedi dude & has been using the Force Mind Trick to get his way. 'You will leave my scene alone....."I will leave your scene alone"'
Yeah, but who wants to play Mortal Kombat & clones forever?
90% of current games suck balls & lack imagination. If a 'different' controller means we never see a mortal kombat game again, it's not much of a price to pay for decent innovation.
Pffft! Realnetworks- reliable, interactive multimedia? Hardly. I don't see google delivering much in the way of complex interaction, sound, video, vector animation out of thin air either.
In flash, macromedia and now adobe are honing a tightly constructed, easily scriptable multimedia and data delivery platform for the web that is efficient & universal and is installed on an extremely high proportion of the machines on the net. No other platform is as universal, and the web is a much richer place for it.
are you stupid or something? Flash is the only reliable way of delivering multimedia content via the web. You're obviously some kind of coding hermit who only wishes to diget information in text form.
christ, have you even the faintest clue how people create textures for games. Texture resolution has very little to do with the amount of storage available and much more to do with the amount of video memory and processing power available.
Oh, yea! Remote shooting via a wireless LAN would be a pretty good idea actually.... although depositing a camera in the ladies' changing room adds new possibilities...
Another technology, another nefarious use:oD
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Okay, so maybe we'll get 1000 planes worth of false positives.
This does not mean that those people don't fly, nor does it mean that they'll get a finger up their rectum either. Their bag would be sent through an X-Ray machine with a higher level of detail, or be opened and examined in detail, or whatever it takes to check them out a bit more thoroughly.
If something's found after that level of security check, then by all mean let the probing begin, but don't assume that every person with teeny traces like this won't be getting on a plane.
Of course, planting one of these in The Oval Office would produce perfectly intelligable speechy for someone standing outside. We live in hope.
I agree- a detailed spec. at the start of a project will almost immediately be made redundant by a small problem or change that is required for technical, legal or usability reasons. It is much better to create a general spec, then gradually refine any specifiactions as the project takes shape so that management stay informed and worker bees like me know what direction they're working in.
A plan is a list of things that will never happen.
I've been considering something like this as well- I'm irish so the only time that outside temperatures are higher than inside temperatures are on warm days from June-August. Also, with a system like you propose, the actual fan could be placed outside and that would in itself eliminate noise.
:o)
My biggest worry would be fine drops of water or fog in the air rather than humidity- you don't need to worry about cooler-than-indoors air shedding moisture on warm computer parts. As for fine drops of water, a U-bend in the air intake would get rid of any serious ones I think. It's something I'd try if i had a number of machines- one fan outside feeding cool air to a long pipe like a small air conditioning duct, & then into the back of each machine via a shorter pipe. Maybe that's excessive but then so is installing a Zalman reserator
Mad Penguins, Armed Dolphins.
May I be the first to welcome our animal overlords.
Oops yea true, though give it a year or three and I'm sure that we'll see higher spec machines around, it's going to be that long before we see anything like what I've described anyway. Prolly shoulda said mac mini type device :o)
Maybe we'll see a dedicated set top box of some sort with a usable interface and network capabilities.
oops, it it too late to include a tag? guess so ;o)
"what's actually wrong with one world-wide release date?" It costs a heck of a lot of cash to print enough reels to cover all courtries at once, and also it gives the studios a chance to have the actors do interviews in several areas of the globe just as the film comes out locally.
Rottentomatoes are advertising movies on DVD that are just in the middle of their cinema run here, at the minute region free discs might spoil things for theaters in certain parts of the world.
What should help things is if we see widespread digital projection (here in Ireland plans are afoot to equip every cinema in the country with digital projectors. Irish people have among the highest cinema attendance rates in europe, despite the abundance of home theater systems in homes)
If distributing a film worldwide is just a case of relaying it via a satellite system or virtual private network over the net (hey there's an opening for google into another industry!!) then releasing at the same time worldwide becomes more faesible. All we have to do now is clone the actors so they can be at 5 premiers at once (^^)
Abso-friggin loutely! If anyone can break the movie download deadlock it has to be Steve Jobs. The mac mini is a perfect HD video platform, and my personal conspiracy theory WRT the motorolla buy-in is that Apple licenced out the iTunes software to Motorolla & gave them a Steve Jobs product launch in return for Motorolla's networking & wireless expertise (which some may dispute, but hey).
:)
If Appple do launch a movie download service (maybe a HD one in light of recent HD DVD standards wrangling) then high download speeds will make the service even more attractive to potential users.
If wiMax internet services take off (whose speed should be in excess of 10-20mbps?- someone help me out here!) then movie downloads will be the killer app for bandwidth like that.
Okay my theory may be a little ropey, but its one explanation for how Steve allowed apple to invest publicity in such a sucky little product. The ROXOR got all the press that the (doubly cool) iPod nano got. The little sh1t
but only if it comes in white....
Um, I'm really not sure, I've never tried the HTML writing features in indesign, I sort of assumed them to be a bit ropey, they probably whup word's into oblivion.
:0/
Anyway, the point of indesign is DTP. It'd be nice to see an office app that is as flexible and precise as indesign. As a DTP app the interface is, of course, too large for the average office plebe, but for its size its relatively easy to use.
Unless you mean the question retorically, in which case my response is to cower in the corner
You mean...... Adobe InDesign? Long live Adobe & the PDF format.
The answer to the studio's problems is already within their grasp. They should produce good quality movies that people don't have to pay the earth to see, and respect their customer base as their most precious asset, not a faceless mass to be cajoled into theaters and punished for trying to take something which they couldn't really afford.
Why don't you spend 30 on another DVD drive to play your region 1 discs on- the regions are controlled by the hardware, so all you have to do is fit another cheap drive and set it to region 1.
Just as long as Simon Cowell doesn't make the judging panel (^^)
Exactly dude, I mean, if he's going to start bashing John Lasseter, is there anyone out there who he thinks *is* talented. Its like you say- who but JL is getting any kind of creativity through the hollywood machine without being strangled?
*concludes that Lasseter is some kind of Jedi dude & has been using the Force Mind Trick to get his way. 'You will leave my scene alone....."I will leave your scene alone"'
Man, you just sent a shiver down my spine with the mention of Trignometric identities. The pain, the pain!
/seeks professional help
Or some Wario World, Pikimin, Animal crossing?
Yeah, but who wants to play Mortal Kombat & clones forever? 90% of current games suck balls & lack imagination. If a 'different' controller means we never see a mortal kombat game again, it's not much of a price to pay for decent innovation.
What laid off people from europe?
Pffft! Realnetworks- reliable, interactive multimedia? Hardly. I don't see google delivering much in the way of complex interaction, sound, video, vector animation out of thin air either. In flash, macromedia and now adobe are honing a tightly constructed, easily scriptable multimedia and data delivery platform for the web that is efficient & universal and is installed on an extremely high proportion of the machines on the net. No other platform is as universal, and the web is a much richer place for it.
are you stupid or something? Flash is the only reliable way of delivering multimedia content via the web. You're obviously some kind of coding hermit who only wishes to diget information in text form.
but does it require the use of a catalytic converter to run properly, or are unconverted cats okay? *hides
christ, have you even the faintest clue how people create textures for games. Texture resolution has very little to do with the amount of storage available and much more to do with the amount of video memory and processing power available.
Oh, yea! Remote shooting via a wireless LAN would be a pretty good idea actually.... although depositing a camera in the ladies' changing room adds new possibilities... Another technology, another nefarious use :oD