I recommend Red Dwarf, Ifninity Welcomes Careful Drivers. It's funny. Its sci-fi elements are plausible and not too out there to understand. The characters are distinct and interesting (your son may even find it insightful in a helpful way.) . Really the only real downside is it might be slightly adult for him. It may be better for him if he's closer to 12.
My wife banned anything with 'Star' in the title after I made the mistake of taking her to see Episode II. I was able to get her to enjoy sci-fi by handing her that book.
What really frosts me about this is a few years ago, back when Vista was still "Longhorn", Microsoft was talking about how great their new GPU accelerated desktop was going to be. I remember reading about how Microsoft was working with an LCD manufacturer (Viewsonic...? I'm sorry I don't remember.) to make a display over 5,000 pixels wide and that Windows was going to properly support that. I even remember commenting on Slashdot about how cool that'd be. But... it never happened. Lame.
Do you reaaaaaaaaaaally need a metaphor for comparing something that happens less than once a year to something happening 3-4x a week? I'd like to think you're a little branier than you're letting on.
Oh I got it. I was just feeling sympathetic to my fellow Slashdot brethren who have girlfriends/wives who like to share details on that topic and offered a distraction.
Then again, Apple does stay on bleeding edge technology.
Bleeding edge? Pfftbt. Apple has just taken stuff that already exists, made it smaller, made the features the predecessor advertised actually work with a shiny UI that people can immediately understand and use, addressed real concerns like battery life, and created the template for all their competitors to attempt to imitate.
The ipod wasn't anything new either, it was entering a market with many competitors and had less features than most of their competitors.
Not true on both counts. The competitors to the iPod were either not as pocket friendly or didn't have near the storage. Then iTunes came along and the rest is history. Apple led the parade, Zune followed behind and kept stepping in horse shit.
Err.. wait is that 'one and the same'? Can we get a nazi over here to correct me? That's one of the French benefits of Slashdot, there's always someone around to help me nip these problems in the butt!
Streaming works 99.9% of the time but you're totally screwed on that 0.1%.
Not having an internet connection, 3G or otherwise, is still extremely possible even in 2012. It depends where you live, wired vs wireless, etc.
But even if you do have a connection, lag could overcome your streaming buffer and stop your music. Or your monthly data quota could kick in.
So, I mean no disrespect when I say that streaming is for idiots.
Heh. So people are idiots because 0.1% of the time it may not be available? In my local storage days I've had more outages than that just from having a dead iPod battery.
The massive Slashdot Brainstorm on why streaming is bad isn't being terribly fruitful today.
I have. Why do you think I brought up the TV example? If an existing fully color-graded and post processed movie looks like a daytime soap opera when upconverting the frame rate, then what is Jackson going to do to improve it?
Much as I hate to defend Jackson, it's likely that the footage he was showing was production footage that hadn't been cleaned up or color corrected yet (i.e., glorified dailies). That's probably why it looked so bad, not because of the 48 fps.
Having worked on content at various frame rates I'm not inclined to agree. Sitcoms are typically done at 60fps, where dramas are 30 or 24. Remember That 70's Show? It was a 60fps comedy. I saw a special for that show once where they recapped a good portion of the series, and they got to the bit where Donna and Eric broke up. Instead of playing it back at 60fps, they dropped it down to 30, and it went from feeling comedic to feeling like a drama.
I cannot tell you the psychology behind this, but there is definitely a link between frame rate and 'epic'.
You'll get half the length of the motion blur. Unless they re-add it in post (there is some software out there that does that....) there's no way they can cut that in half and not at least introduce some strobing.
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If enough people got on-board, tweeting about it might help. Time Warner pays attention to it and, frankly, they do NOT want to be a trend.
Start with Star Trek IV, it's very accessible.
I recommend Red Dwarf, Ifninity Welcomes Careful Drivers. It's funny. Its sci-fi elements are plausible and not too out there to understand. The characters are distinct and interesting (your son may even find it insightful in a helpful way.) . Really the only real downside is it might be slightly adult for him. It may be better for him if he's closer to 12.
My wife banned anything with 'Star' in the title after I made the mistake of taking her to see Episode II. I was able to get her to enjoy sci-fi by handing her that book.
What really frosts me about this is a few years ago, back when Vista was still "Longhorn", Microsoft was talking about how great their new GPU accelerated desktop was going to be. I remember reading about how Microsoft was working with an LCD manufacturer (Viewsonic...? I'm sorry I don't remember.) to make a display over 5,000 pixels wide and that Windows was going to properly support that. I even remember commenting on Slashdot about how cool that'd be. But... it never happened. Lame.
No, it isn't.
Do you reaaaaaaaaaaally need a metaphor for comparing something that happens less than once a year to something happening 3-4x a week? I'd like to think you're a little branier than you're letting on.
Ah, caught your mistake I see. Coulda been a lil classier about it.
Where did you think the 6" number came from?
1. Where did I say this?
2. Be honest.. did this topic come at a bad time for you?
Oh I got it. I was just feeling sympathetic to my fellow Slashdot brethren who have girlfriends/wives who like to share details on that topic and offered a distraction.
Then again, Apple does stay on bleeding edge technology.
Bleeding edge? Pfftbt. Apple has just taken stuff that already exists, made it smaller, made the features the predecessor advertised actually work with a shiny UI that people can immediately understand and use, addressed real concerns like battery life, and created the template for all their competitors to attempt to imitate.
Okie doke, I got the framerate wrong. They did show the scene in a lower frame rate, though.
What's rent like over there?
The ipod wasn't anything new either, it was entering a market with many competitors and had less features than most of their competitors.
Not true on both counts. The competitors to the iPod were either not as pocket friendly or didn't have near the storage. Then iTunes came along and the rest is history. Apple led the parade, Zune followed behind and kept stepping in horse shit.
Err.. wait is that 'one and the same'? Can we get a nazi over here to correct me? That's one of the French benefits of Slashdot, there's always someone around to help me nip these problems in the butt!
Well, they already used Internet Explorer for their Internet browser and Explorer for their file browser. That never gets confusing, let me tell you.
It made more sense back in 98 when they were pretty much one in the same.
Streaming works 99.9% of the time but you're totally screwed on that 0.1%.
Not having an internet connection, 3G or otherwise, is still extremely possible even in 2012. It depends where you live, wired vs wireless, etc.
But even if you do have a connection, lag could overcome your streaming buffer and stop your music. Or your monthly data quota could kick in.
So, I mean no disrespect when I say that streaming is for idiots.
Heh. So people are idiots because 0.1% of the time it may not be available? In my local storage days I've had more outages than that just from having a dead iPod battery.
The massive Slashdot Brainstorm on why streaming is bad isn't being terribly fruitful today.
Sorry to reply to my own post, but in looking the answer up to my question I did find an interesting link.
It may strain your definition of PDA a bit, but the history of these machines is neat.
Oh yeah? I'd like to learn more about this. What were some of the model numbers of Toshiba, Canon, and Sharp PDAs that predate 1983?
So you're able to turn a knob an exaggerate the motion blur to longer than the distance covered between two frames?
Heh, yeah, cos BSOD's on 95 were always described as being 'every now and again'.
Heh. Me = Pity("Foo");
cool more game for Linux! it seems that some companies in the game industry take notice of Linux and it's market
Was that an accidental typo or very clever satire?
Why don't you do the same thing?
I have. Why do you think I brought up the TV example? If an existing fully color-graded and post processed movie looks like a daytime soap opera when upconverting the frame rate, then what is Jackson going to do to improve it?
Much as I hate to defend Jackson, it's likely that the footage he was showing was production footage that hadn't been cleaned up or color corrected yet (i.e., glorified dailies). That's probably why it looked so bad, not because of the 48 fps.
Having worked on content at various frame rates I'm not inclined to agree. Sitcoms are typically done at 60fps, where dramas are 30 or 24. Remember That 70's Show? It was a 60fps comedy. I saw a special for that show once where they recapped a good portion of the series, and they got to the bit where Donna and Eric broke up. Instead of playing it back at 60fps, they dropped it down to 30, and it went from feeling comedic to feeling like a drama.
I cannot tell you the psychology behind this, but there is definitely a link between frame rate and 'epic'.
You'll get half the length of the motion blur. Unless they re-add it in post (there is some software out there that does that....) there's no way they can cut that in half and not at least introduce some strobing.