What got a grin out of me was "the brave pilots and operators of the U.S. drone program".
The drone pilot sitting in his comfy air-conditioned office stateside is in no mare danger than I am at my desk at work. Brave? Hell, the mechanics on the flight line are in more danger. The only brave ones are the pilots of manned combat aircraft.
Notice he repeatedly says "format" and never "fdisk". Reformatting a drive won't remove a boot sector virus (fdisk/mbr will, as will running fdisk for a full low-level format) However, you bit the troll. The original was spam, but the trolls have found biters to be easy prey for it. Maybe you should think about joining Biters Anonymous?
For crying out loud... they're only going to set standards and regulate launches from the US. They don't claim to attempt to regulate Russian or Chinese launches. It's no different between normal aircraft, which are under US jurisdiction when they're over US territory. I would imaging if Russia had private space companies, it would regulate them as well.
"Trojan" is short for "trojan horse" and hasn't used wooden horses for that trick since the ancient Greeks.
The Sony XCP rootkit was indeed a trojan, and wasn't a virus. You had to insert the music CD and run the programs. My daughter infected my computer with it, she wouldn't have run the program if she had the slightest inkling that a big, respected company like Sony would deliberately sabotage their paying customers' equipment.
The only real virus I ever got was way back in the early nineties when I took some work home on a floppy, the PC I was using had been infected by a co-worker with the boot sector virus Michelangelo.
Back when they were actually using film, what allowed wide-screen in the first place was rotating the film 90 degrees as it passed through the camera... each frame could have an essentially arbitrary aspect ratio either way by increasing or decreasing the amount of film that was exposed with each frame, and by having it go sideways through the camera instead of vertically allowed it to have a wider aspect ratio like we see today.
That was on the camera end, not the projector end. I worked at a drive-in theater in the last '60s when I was a teenager, and the projectionists were always happy to show off their toys. The only difference between cenamascope and the normal widescreen was they changed lenses before showing it. The film still went through the projectors vertically.
What I was referring to was when they changed from 3x4 to widescreen, back before I was born iinm.
LOL, tell that to the CEO of Sago mines. Despite failing to follow mine safety laws that resulted in the death of two dozen men, the CEO got out with a golden parachute.
CEOs only go to prison if they defraud other rich bastards, like Ken Lay or Bernie Madoff. They can rob and kill and maim as many peasants as they wish with impunity, just so long as another rich man doesn't lose a few pennies.
You are assuming that Moore's law will keep applying in future, which I understand is unlikely
Ten years ago I would have agreed with you, as they were getting close to the physical limits, but they found new ways of getting around those limits. I have no reason to believe they won't find ways around whatever limits they're coming across now.
You're referring to cinemascope, and those were indeed "squashed" (I worked at a drive in theater as a teenager, they changed lenses for a cinemascope movie). I was speaking of the change between old films from the '30s like Casablanca or Wizard of Oz that had an aspect ratio the same as 35 mm still cameras.
I stopped buying new cars in 1984 when my then-wife, Evil-X, talked me into buying a new Rabbit "because a new car is reliable" and two weeks after buying it, it stranded us 80 miles from home with a crapped out alternator. IMO buying a new car is stupid, unless you just want to show off how rich/in debt you are.
I paid 10K for my car, five years ago. It was more like $30-35K new.
The best place to find T-shirts is at yard sales. I've had a Cardinals Nike sirt for five years I paid seventy five cents for!
It's not security at all, it's convenience. I stopped buying those old "candy bar" phones because you either had to unlock it with a key combination before you could answer it, or risk butt-dialing 911 while you're buying weed. But now the flip phones I like are going out of style, everybody and his dog wants a phone that won't fold and won't fit in a pocket. For an Android/iPhone this would be great... if I could find one I could comfortably fit in my pocket.
With a flip phone, pull it out and open it (quick thumb motion) and say "hello?" With a modern iPhone/Android you have to fiddle with it to unlock it. This just removes the "fiddling with it" part, like the flip phone's cover did; pull it out and answer.
Motion blur is an effect of the low framerate. If you shot at 24 fps with a shutter speed of 1/5000ths of a second (stop action in still photography), it would look jittery. The motion blur (essentially using a shutter speed of almost the frame rate) removes the jitters. With a doubled frame rate you need only half the motion blur for it to look realistic.
Sounds like a much happier time, too. When & why did we lose out on that?
Ronald and Nancy Reagan and their war on pot that they called the "war on drugs" (but pot was targeted, the supply dried up and the prices rose and a lot of folks started snorting cocaine instead). That, and AIDS. After antibiotics and before AIDS there were no fatal STDs. Hippies switching from pot to coke made them stop being hippies and start being evil yuppies. Nowadays the folks who look like hippies usually aren't, they're usually homeless crackheads; selfish and sociopathic, cocaine will do that to a person..
But not many of us had computers then, the Altair wasn't out intil 1974, the Commodore Pet was sometime toward the end of the '70s. In the seventies, computer gaming meant playing Space Invaders and Pac Man at the arcade. Or maybe pong on the TV.
The downside of the seventies was inflation coupled with a bad recession. It would have been great if it weren't for the Arab oil embargo of 1974, which (coupled with paying for the Vietnam War) sucked everybody's wallets dry.
What about Apple's iOS? Does it get malware? I don't recall reading reports about iOS viruses.
You have CPU in your user name and you don't know that a trojan is not a virus? Get everybody now using Windows to switch to Ubuntu and you'll see a lot of Ubuntu trojans, but still no Ubuntu viruses. I'm not sure even Windows even gets viruses any more; your OS has to be pretty dammned crappy for a virus to work.
You have to be tricked into installing a trojan. You don't have to be tricked to be infected with a virus.
Each time I read a story like this, I can't help but wonder why anyone who doesn't give a fuck even reads slashdot, let alone clicks on the story.
Today's building-sized supercomputer is tomorrow's smart phone. You'll have one of these babies on your desk in less than twenty years. Reason enough to gove a fuck?
And slashdot??? Huh? When slashdot was new, almost everyone on the internet was a nerd. Now we're vastly outnumbered by normals. Five years ago, let alone ten, you seldom saw a/. thread with 500 comments, now it's common.
Besides, no innovation? Actually I could have done without a lot of slashdot's innovations.
Can you point me to a better site for discussing nerdy topics?
Speaking of Classic 2D, I wonder if they will just drop half the frames to get to 24
Why would they want to do that? Except maybe for when it hits TV with its 30 fps frame rate.
Our brains expect blurring with 24 frames/sec
Actually, your eyes blur fast motion but your brain keeps you from noticing it. Lessening the artificial blurring will make the video far more realistic, 2D or 3D. Doubling the frame rate will make your 2D movie much sharper. Plus, it will remove the "wheels going backward" in some scenes (but not all).
An ethernet port? My notebook has one, but I've never used it. The wifi works perfectly well (hard to imagine that my little Cisco router is better than your employer's), and if I want to be chained to a wall or use an optical drive, I'll use the desktop computer. I have to agree with the USB ports, though -- the more, the better. Macbook's two ports aren't enough by a long shot.
I love this. They charge a premium for 3D that half of everybody hates. Now they'd like to charge another premium for 3D that will suck a bit less.
It doesn't have to be 3D for 48 fps to look better than 24 fps. Likewise, a 70 mm film size doesn't have to be 3D to look better than a 35 mm film. I saw the original Tron in 70 mm when I worked at Disney (and a week before anybody else, too!) and it was amazing how much more clear it was than the 35 mm films I'd seen previously. Likewise, doubling the frame rate is going to make action scenes far less blurry.
They've been stuck with 24 fps because all that film isn't cheap, and 24 fps was about as slow as can be acceptable. With digital, I don't see how doubling the frame rate is going to cost the theaters much at all. Certainly not as much as when they went to widescreen format (which actually saved the movie producers money, because you could get more frames per meter of film, while the theater owners had to buy new lenses, which ARE expensive), or as much as 3D. If the theater is using digital projectors, the cost is likely the cost of a video card, if that.
Even in theaters still using film (are there any?) all it would take would be doubling the reel speed and shutter speed, nothing else would have to be changed. I don't see this changing ticket prices, but I can see them using it as an excuse to raise ticket prices.
I rather imagine I could hand out my IP to everyone on the internet, and that noone would be able to "just hack me"
Wow, your setup must be pretty weak if a musician can hack you!
BTW, I discovered to my horror and embarrassment that I'm probably the one behind this often repeated mistake, when I was looking at some stuff I wrote over ten years ago; amazing what one single typo from on person can snowball into. So I apologize to the entire internet; my bad. Damned weak spacebars they makethese days...
A woosh to you, sir. I get $10 computers all the time, in fact people usually give them away as they're too underpowered to run a modern OS; I use them for spare parts. I just "fixed" an old ThinkPad that had been given to a Felbers bartender by removing the admin password, drank for free all day when I brought it back.
You're likely to get a far better used computer for $40 than a new $40 computer. I seriously doubt one of these $40 computers will run Win7 or Ubuntu 11. That was the joke you missed.
Your comment is insightful, but reminds me of an old joke.
A guy walks into a bar with a box, which when opened was shown to contain a very tiny man playing a very tiny piano. The bartender says "that's pretty cool, how did you get that?"
"Well," says the patron, "I was walking down the beach and found a bottle, and when I opened it a genie came out and said in appreciation for freeing him, he would grant me a wish. So I wished for a twelve inch penis and got this guy.
Slashdot posts a story about the horrors of the holocaust, and lemur3 says
Whats with the blatently biased summary ? [sic] is [sic] slashdot even gonna pretend that they can talk about stuff like this without such stuff ? [sic] Whether youre [sic] a person who 'supports' one side or the other on this or not.. I'd imagine that this is a thing that belongs in some kind of 'opinion' section.
Yes, very exagerated, but you get the point. FunnyJunk is clearly the bad guy here, I don't see how anyone could come to any other opinion. Since you seem to think there are two sides to every story, how about giving us the other side instead of just bashing slashdot?
Slashdot Mirror
Or as Scotty said, "the more you overengineer the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain."
What got a grin out of me was "the brave pilots and operators of the U.S. drone program".
The drone pilot sitting in his comfy air-conditioned office stateside is in no mare danger than I am at my desk at work. Brave? Hell, the mechanics on the flight line are in more danger. The only brave ones are the pilots of manned combat aircraft.
Brave? What a joke!
lot is the expensive part!
That depends on where you're builing. In the middle of a big city, yes. In the middle of Nowhere, Illinois, no.
Notice he repeatedly says "format" and never "fdisk". Reformatting a drive won't remove a boot sector virus (fdisk/mbr will, as will running fdisk for a full low-level format) However, you bit the troll. The original was spam, but the trolls have found biters to be easy prey for it. Maybe you should think about joining Biters Anonymous?
For crying out loud... they're only going to set standards and regulate launches from the US. They don't claim to attempt to regulate Russian or Chinese launches. It's no different between normal aircraft, which are under US jurisdiction when they're over US territory. I would imaging if Russia had private space companies, it would regulate them as well.
"Trojan" is short for "trojan horse" and hasn't used wooden horses for that trick since the ancient Greeks.
The Sony XCP rootkit was indeed a trojan, and wasn't a virus. You had to insert the music CD and run the programs. My daughter infected my computer with it, she wouldn't have run the program if she had the slightest inkling that a big, respected company like Sony would deliberately sabotage their paying customers' equipment.
The only real virus I ever got was way back in the early nineties when I took some work home on a floppy, the PC I was using had been infected by a co-worker with the boot sector virus Michelangelo.
Back when they were actually using film, what allowed wide-screen in the first place was rotating the film 90 degrees as it passed through the camera... each frame could have an essentially arbitrary aspect ratio either way by increasing or decreasing the amount of film that was exposed with each frame, and by having it go sideways through the camera instead of vertically allowed it to have a wider aspect ratio like we see today.
That was on the camera end, not the projector end. I worked at a drive-in theater in the last '60s when I was a teenager, and the projectionists were always happy to show off their toys. The only difference between cenamascope and the normal widescreen was they changed lenses before showing it. The film still went through the projectors vertically.
What I was referring to was when they changed from 3x4 to widescreen, back before I was born iinm.
The law could dissolve them and arrest their CEO.
LOL, tell that to the CEO of Sago mines. Despite failing to follow mine safety laws that resulted in the death of two dozen men, the CEO got out with a golden parachute.
CEOs only go to prison if they defraud other rich bastards, like Ken Lay or Bernie Madoff. They can rob and kill and maim as many peasants as they wish with impunity, just so long as another rich man doesn't lose a few pennies.
You are assuming that Moore's law will keep applying in future, which I understand is unlikely
Ten years ago I would have agreed with you, as they were getting close to the physical limits, but they found new ways of getting around those limits. I have no reason to believe they won't find ways around whatever limits they're coming across now.
You're referring to cinemascope, and those were indeed "squashed" (I worked at a drive in theater as a teenager, they changed lenses for a cinemascope movie). I was speaking of the change between old films from the '30s like Casablanca or Wizard of Oz that had an aspect ratio the same as 35 mm still cameras.
I stopped buying new cars in 1984 when my then-wife, Evil-X, talked me into buying a new Rabbit "because a new car is reliable" and two weeks after buying it, it stranded us 80 miles from home with a crapped out alternator. IMO buying a new car is stupid, unless you just want to show off how rich/in debt you are.
I paid 10K for my car, five years ago. It was more like $30-35K new.
The best place to find T-shirts is at yard sales. I've had a Cardinals Nike sirt for five years I paid seventy five cents for!
It's not security at all, it's convenience. I stopped buying those old "candy bar" phones because you either had to unlock it with a key combination before you could answer it, or risk butt-dialing 911 while you're buying weed. But now the flip phones I like are going out of style, everybody and his dog wants a phone that won't fold and won't fit in a pocket. For an Android/iPhone this would be great... if I could find one I could comfortably fit in my pocket.
With a flip phone, pull it out and open it (quick thumb motion) and say "hello?" With a modern iPhone/Android you have to fiddle with it to unlock it. This just removes the "fiddling with it" part, like the flip phone's cover did; pull it out and answer.
Motion blur is an effect of the low framerate. If you shot at 24 fps with a shutter speed of 1/5000ths of a second (stop action in still photography), it would look jittery. The motion blur (essentially using a shutter speed of almost the frame rate) removes the jitters. With a doubled frame rate you need only half the motion blur for it to look realistic.
Sounds like a much happier time, too. When & why did we lose out on that?
Ronald and Nancy Reagan and their war on pot that they called the "war on drugs" (but pot was targeted, the supply dried up and the prices rose and a lot of folks started snorting cocaine instead). That, and AIDS. After antibiotics and before AIDS there were no fatal STDs. Hippies switching from pot to coke made them stop being hippies and start being evil yuppies. Nowadays the folks who look like hippies usually aren't, they're usually homeless crackheads; selfish and sociopathic, cocaine will do that to a person..
But not many of us had computers then, the Altair wasn't out intil 1974, the Commodore Pet was sometime toward the end of the '70s. In the seventies, computer gaming meant playing Space Invaders and Pac Man at the arcade. Or maybe pong on the TV.
The downside of the seventies was inflation coupled with a bad recession. It would have been great if it weren't for the Arab oil embargo of 1974, which (coupled with paying for the Vietnam War) sucked everybody's wallets dry.
Who's Govt work for
Um, I think the Who's government is in Britain, not Canada.
What about Apple's iOS? Does it get malware? I don't recall reading reports about iOS viruses.
You have CPU in your user name and you don't know that a trojan is not a virus? Get everybody now using Windows to switch to Ubuntu and you'll see a lot of Ubuntu trojans, but still no Ubuntu viruses. I'm not sure even Windows even gets viruses any more; your OS has to be pretty dammned crappy for a virus to work.
You have to be tricked into installing a trojan. You don't have to be tricked to be infected with a virus.
Each time I read a story like this, I can't help but wonder why anyone who doesn't give a fuck even reads slashdot, let alone clicks on the story.
Today's building-sized supercomputer is tomorrow's smart phone. You'll have one of these babies on your desk in less than twenty years. Reason enough to gove a fuck?
And slashdot??? Huh? When slashdot was new, almost everyone on the internet was a nerd. Now we're vastly outnumbered by normals. Five years ago, let alone ten, you seldom saw a /. thread with 500 comments, now it's common.
Besides, no innovation? Actually I could have done without a lot of slashdot's innovations.
Can you point me to a better site for discussing nerdy topics?
Speaking of Classic 2D, I wonder if they will just drop half the frames to get to 24
Why would they want to do that? Except maybe for when it hits TV with its 30 fps frame rate.
Our brains expect blurring with 24 frames/sec
Actually, your eyes blur fast motion but your brain keeps you from noticing it. Lessening the artificial blurring will make the video far more realistic, 2D or 3D. Doubling the frame rate will make your 2D movie much sharper. Plus, it will remove the "wheels going backward" in some scenes (but not all).
An ethernet port? My notebook has one, but I've never used it. The wifi works perfectly well (hard to imagine that my little Cisco router is better than your employer's), and if I want to be chained to a wall or use an optical drive, I'll use the desktop computer. I have to agree with the USB ports, though -- the more, the better. Macbook's two ports aren't enough by a long shot.
I love this. They charge a premium for 3D that half of everybody hates. Now they'd like to charge another premium for 3D that will suck a bit less.
It doesn't have to be 3D for 48 fps to look better than 24 fps. Likewise, a 70 mm film size doesn't have to be 3D to look better than a 35 mm film. I saw the original Tron in 70 mm when I worked at Disney (and a week before anybody else, too!) and it was amazing how much more clear it was than the 35 mm films I'd seen previously. Likewise, doubling the frame rate is going to make action scenes far less blurry.
They've been stuck with 24 fps because all that film isn't cheap, and 24 fps was about as slow as can be acceptable. With digital, I don't see how doubling the frame rate is going to cost the theaters much at all. Certainly not as much as when they went to widescreen format (which actually saved the movie producers money, because you could get more frames per meter of film, while the theater owners had to buy new lenses, which ARE expensive), or as much as 3D. If the theater is using digital projectors, the cost is likely the cost of a video card, if that.
Even in theaters still using film (are there any?) all it would take would be doubling the reel speed and shutter speed, nothing else would have to be changed. I don't see this changing ticket prices, but I can see them using it as an excuse to raise ticket prices.
I rather imagine I could hand out my IP to everyone on the internet, and that noone would be able to "just hack me"
Wow, your setup must be pretty weak if a musician can hack you!
BTW, I discovered to my horror and embarrassment that I'm probably the one behind this often repeated mistake, when I was looking at some stuff I wrote over ten years ago; amazing what one single typo from on person can snowball into. So I apologize to the entire internet; my bad. Damned weak spacebars they makethese days...
A woosh to you, sir. I get $10 computers all the time, in fact people usually give them away as they're too underpowered to run a modern OS; I use them for spare parts. I just "fixed" an old ThinkPad that had been given to a Felbers bartender by removing the admin password, drank for free all day when I brought it back.
You're likely to get a far better used computer for $40 than a new $40 computer. I seriously doubt one of these $40 computers will run Win7 or Ubuntu 11. That was the joke you missed.
Your comment is insightful, but reminds me of an old joke.
A guy walks into a bar with a box, which when opened was shown to contain a very tiny man playing a very tiny piano. The bartender says "that's pretty cool, how did you get that?"
"Well," says the patron, "I was walking down the beach and found a bottle, and when I opened it a genie came out and said in appreciation for freeing him, he would grant me a wish. So I wished for a twelve inch penis and got this guy.
Now to Godwin the thread...
Slashdot posts a story about the horrors of the holocaust, and lemur3 says
Whats with the blatently biased summary ? [sic] is [sic] slashdot even gonna pretend that they can talk about stuff like this without such stuff ? [sic] Whether youre [sic] a person who 'supports' one side or the other on this or not.. I'd imagine that this is a thing that belongs in some kind of 'opinion' section.
Yes, very exagerated, but you get the point. FunnyJunk is clearly the bad guy here, I don't see how anyone could come to any other opinion. Since you seem to think there are two sides to every story, how about giving us the other side instead of just bashing slashdot?