There are two points here that make me think that it's never going to happen.
1) Scarcity drives up value. If it starts to become hard to get IPv4 addresses, then this is just the excuse that an ISP would want to start -charging- for public addresses. Want a real IP address? Oh, that will require a business account and an extra $100 a month please.
2) It's in their interest to make your internet the least useful possible. That private IP address making it imposable to do anything other the email and web browsing? Great! Just more bandwidth they can oversell.
3) Because of 1&2 companies that have become little more then hallow husks (AIM?) or bought out by holdings firms that no longer have any use for those swaths of IPv4 addresses that they have been assigned suddenly have a new 'profit center'. Selling off chunks to other companies for a profit.
It's very cool stuff and amazing work. Though, until I install twenty IR cameras around my room and send the information back to the controlling computer, I think I am safe for now.
It already mentions that the plane runs on fuel cells, so I would imagine there is some sort of electrolysis going on so that it store it's energy as oxygen and hydrogen already.
Of course, it wouldn't be anything near the kind of efficiency.
It also allows digital capture of content protected media possible with with low cost hardware. Maybe this will also slow the elimination of transport mediums (like analog) that don't allow DRM since it now could be sort of moot.
Also, for instance, if your cable company decides to lock down all it's analog outputs and drag it's feet on cablecards, you could still use your DVR of choice.
Peak oil means exactly that, when we are at the -peak- of how much oil we can produce planet wide. It has nothing to do with when the last drop of oil has been pulled out of the ground. "When petroleum based products become more scarce" is exactly what peak oil is.
When you make your film around your budget, sure you can make it cheap.. and sometimes even the film that the producers wanted to make. Usually though, you end up with something like those made for SyFy movies.
Personally I'd rather have film makers make what they think is going to be GOOD. And that is not always cheap.
Hey, if you think that you can consistently make great movies comparable to even the mid-rate movies out today for $15k, please, get off Slashdot and go do it, I'll gladly give you my $10.
Why is this insightful? You have clearly never worked on or tried to make a film. Besides the fact that this is not a movie that rely on big names or mega effects beyond what helped to further the story. $15M is cheap for a movie that will meet what modern audiences expect for production values. Every minute of a film is hours of production time. When you consider how many people go into a shoot, the cost of decent cinema quality equipment, travel and shipping costs, costume (you still have to buy it), location scouting and logistics, insurance, etc etc.
I'm not trying to defend the actions of this producer, I think this is all very unfortunate, but you are really foolish if you think that every movie can be made for a few thousand dollars.
Well, you have to admire that the biggest online advertising corporation on the internet didn't pull out the ad blocking feature on it's own brand of webkit browser. Yes, Google is a corporation like any other, but at least they have a little respect for not pissing it's costumers off. I think a lot of companies in the same position would have made it so their browser ADDED ads.
From what I recall it runs around $22k (list). It's a very nice, compact box, but it is not as cheap as using consumer set-top boxes with a decent quality modulator like from http://www.blondertongue.com/ and it sounds like the GP is looking for something on a budget. Also as far as I know that box only works for clear to air channels, which unfortunately may not work with anything other then local stations on many cable providers.
I've never had one, but being a trumpet player I can tell you you could indeed play a tune on a Vuvuzela. Early trumpets didn't have valves at all, they were quite long (an octave lower) so that it could be played in it's upper register. In those upper registers many notes will resonate in the horn without needing to change it's length with the valves. We still see this in the bugle.
I never understood that comic. You couldn't get that high of resolution content outside of owning a 35mm print until we had high definition distribution mechanisms like blu-ray. Why shouldn't that be exciting?
Large displays used to be many times the overall size and cost, why shouldn't that be impressive?
I own a Dell U2711 but we still watch movies around the house on my roommate's Epson 8500UB. Resolution isn't the only factor in what makes a good watching experience.
More importantly, to make yellow you have to emit Red and Green light. Well the problem is, that the Green component is futher into the blue cone then yellow would be.
To put it another way, yellow coming from a red and green source is causing more response from the blue retna then a true yellow wavelength would, making the color look more 'washed out'.
RGB us a good way to fool the eye, but if you are thinking you are seeing all the colors that the eye is capable of perceiving, you would be wrong. This is why companies like Pantone exist. It is simply impossible to replicate every color with any kind of three or four color process, either additive or subtractive. Yet we can still perceive the difference in those colors.
It's worse then that even, they can't even decide what they mean. I've seen WXGA mean 1366x768, 1280x768, 1280x800, and 1280x720. I have even seen a projector that had a resolution that was a 17:10 aspect ratio. It probably wouldn't even bother me that much, except that many times, the only thing listed in the spec sheet is "WXGA" with no actual resolution listed.
I like the freedom of MythTV, I've been running it for about 4 years now, but it can often be tricky to get working if there is a problem. Particularly if there is a MySQL problem when I don't have a great deal of expertize in database administration. I'd like to take advantage of the new cable-card hardware coming out for high definition too.
Right now it pretty much seems either windows media center or giving in and getting a TiVO, but I'm curious about some of the other things out there like Sage TV. Sadly, not everything is available online right now without having to go to bit-torrent, especially high-def content.
Exactly. It is a cause for concern but all is not lost.
Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miramax sometime. There was some tension between the studio and Disney for the decades that they produced films like Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill or Dogma. In the end, though, they green lit them. Even after The Weisnteins left, there are some great, adult movies that have come from the studio.
Because Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Fahrenheit 9/11 and Doubt were completely free of violence and any sort of controversy under the Disney heal. Clearly as Disney-fied as Hanna Montana and Witch Mountain.
Of my 8 or so high school friends who I still keep in contact with who graduated between about 10 to 12 years ago: six of us went to school and got our degrees, one went into the airforce, one became a mechanic. Guess which two own their own their own home while which 6 are still puttering around still trying to figure out what they want to do or trying to finish school.
Sure, had some of them really gone after it and known just what they wanted to do in school they could have been making more than any of us, but the point is that there seems to be this myth out there that a degree automatically == a great job with great money. While maybe 10 more years from now some of them are going to be making more money then our mechanic friend, I don't think that any of us have or will have more job security or more job satisfaction then he has.
That ignores the life of the car though. That 20 year old geo metro goes down to someone replacing their 40 year old gas guzzler. It might not be in the US, but a running car usually goes somewhere and gets used. So the hybrid argument aside, yes, going from 30 mpg to 40mpg and throwing the old car into a local lake is a pretty stupid idea. But getting that new 40mpg car and getting the old one to some highschool kid or family in Mexico who now isn't going to keep some old clunker on the road, then things start to look a little different.
How hard would it have been to rotate the screen shots 90 degrees? Why in the heck have they posted photos that are sidways from the direction it's played? Was the author really just that lazy?
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There are two points here that make me think that it's never going to happen.
1) Scarcity drives up value. If it starts to become hard to get IPv4 addresses, then this is just the excuse that an ISP would want to start -charging- for public addresses. Want a real IP address? Oh, that will require a business account and an extra $100 a month please.
2) It's in their interest to make your internet the least useful possible. That private IP address making it imposable to do anything other the email and web browsing? Great! Just more bandwidth they can oversell.
3) Because of 1&2 companies that have become little more then hallow husks (AIM?) or bought out by holdings firms that no longer have any use for those swaths of IPv4 addresses that they have been assigned suddenly have a new 'profit center'. Selling off chunks to other companies for a profit.
IPv6 is never going to happen.
It's very cool stuff and amazing work. Though, until I install twenty IR cameras around my room and send the information back to the controlling computer, I think I am safe for now.
It already mentions that the plane runs on fuel cells, so I would imagine there is some sort of electrolysis going on so that it store it's energy as oxygen and hydrogen already.
Of course, it wouldn't be anything near the kind of efficiency.
It also allows digital capture of content protected media possible with with low cost hardware. Maybe this will also slow the elimination of transport mediums (like analog) that don't allow DRM since it now could be sort of moot.
Also, for instance, if your cable company decides to lock down all it's analog outputs and drag it's feet on cablecards, you could still use your DVR of choice.
Peak oil means exactly that, when we are at the -peak- of how much oil we can produce planet wide. It has nothing to do with when the last drop of oil has been pulled out of the ground. "When petroleum based products become more scarce" is exactly what peak oil is.
I think it was bloom in the higher exposure version.
When you make your film around your budget, sure you can make it cheap.. and sometimes even the film that the producers wanted to make. Usually though, you end up with something like those made for SyFy movies.
Personally I'd rather have film makers make what they think is going to be GOOD. And that is not always cheap.
Hey, if you think that you can consistently make great movies comparable to even the mid-rate movies out today for $15k, please, get off Slashdot and go do it, I'll gladly give you my $10.
Why is this insightful? You have clearly never worked on or tried to make a film. Besides the fact that this is not a movie that rely on big names or mega effects beyond what helped to further the story. $15M is cheap for a movie that will meet what modern audiences expect for production values. Every minute of a film is hours of production time. When you consider how many people go into a shoot, the cost of decent cinema quality equipment, travel and shipping costs, costume (you still have to buy it), location scouting and logistics, insurance, etc etc.
I'm not trying to defend the actions of this producer, I think this is all very unfortunate, but you are really foolish if you think that every movie can be made for a few thousand dollars.
Well, you have to admire that the biggest online advertising corporation on the internet didn't pull out the ad blocking feature on it's own brand of webkit browser. Yes, Google is a corporation like any other, but at least they have a little respect for not pissing it's costumers off. I think a lot of companies in the same position would have made it so their browser ADDED ads.
"IMAX Digital" uses two 2k Christie cinema projectors. Real IMAX would of course blow away 2k and frankly probably 4k as well.
From what I recall it runs around $22k (list). It's a very nice, compact box, but it is not as cheap as using consumer set-top boxes with a decent quality modulator like from http://www.blondertongue.com/ and it sounds like the GP is looking for something on a budget. Also as far as I know that box only works for clear to air channels, which unfortunately may not work with anything other then local stations on many cable providers.
I've never had one, but being a trumpet player I can tell you you could indeed play a tune on a Vuvuzela. Early trumpets didn't have valves at all, they were quite long (an octave lower) so that it could be played in it's upper register. In those upper registers many notes will resonate in the horn without needing to change it's length with the valves. We still see this in the bugle.
A simple youtube search turns up this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gjjLhQTufg&feature=related
I never understood that comic. You couldn't get that high of resolution content outside of owning a 35mm print until we had high definition distribution mechanisms like blu-ray. Why shouldn't that be exciting?
Large displays used to be many times the overall size and cost, why shouldn't that be impressive?
I own a Dell U2711 but we still watch movies around the house on my roommate's Epson 8500UB. Resolution isn't the only factor in what makes a good watching experience.
More importantly, to make yellow you have to emit Red and Green light. Well the problem is, that the Green component is futher into the blue cone then yellow would be.
To put it another way, yellow coming from a red and green source is causing more response from the blue retna then a true yellow wavelength would, making the color look more 'washed out'.
RGB us a good way to fool the eye, but if you are thinking you are seeing all the colors that the eye is capable of perceiving, you would be wrong. This is why companies like Pantone exist. It is simply impossible to replicate every color with any kind of three or four color process, either additive or subtractive. Yet we can still perceive the difference in those colors.
Seriously, will this .99 and .95 thing ever die? Does anybody really look at a price-tag that says $4.99 and not just think in their head "$5"?
It's worse then that even, they can't even decide what they mean. I've seen WXGA mean 1366x768, 1280x768, 1280x800, and 1280x720. I have even seen a projector that had a resolution that was a 17:10 aspect ratio. It probably wouldn't even bother me that much, except that many times, the only thing listed in the spec sheet is "WXGA" with no actual resolution listed.
Maybe that's why his plan increases NASA's budget over the next 5 years?
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/space/02/01/nasa.budget.moon/?hpt=T1
I have a G1 and indeed, I have the same trouble. I tend to lock it into Edge mode most of the time.
I like the freedom of MythTV, I've been running it for about 4 years now, but it can often be tricky to get working if there is a problem. Particularly if there is a MySQL problem when I don't have a great deal of expertize in database administration. I'd like to take advantage of the new cable-card hardware coming out for high definition too.
Right now it pretty much seems either windows media center or giving in and getting a TiVO, but I'm curious about some of the other things out there like Sage TV. Sadly, not everything is available online right now without having to go to bit-torrent, especially high-def content.
I'm not a big fan of them dropping the DVI-I port, but it's not a $60 change:
http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=104&cp_id=10428
Exactly. It is a cause for concern but all is not lost.
Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miramax sometime. There was some tension between the studio and Disney for the decades that they produced films like Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill or Dogma. In the end, though, they green lit them. Even after The Weisnteins left, there are some great, adult movies that have come from the studio.
Because Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Fahrenheit 9/11 and Doubt were completely free of violence and any sort of controversy under the Disney heal. Clearly as Disney-fied as Hanna Montana and Witch Mountain.
Of my 8 or so high school friends who I still keep in contact with who graduated between about 10 to 12 years ago: six of us went to school and got our degrees, one went into the airforce, one became a mechanic. Guess which two own their own their own home while which 6 are still puttering around still trying to figure out what they want to do or trying to finish school.
Sure, had some of them really gone after it and known just what they wanted to do in school they could have been making more than any of us, but the point is that there seems to be this myth out there that a degree automatically == a great job with great money. While maybe 10 more years from now some of them are going to be making more money then our mechanic friend, I don't think that any of us have or will have more job security or more job satisfaction then he has.
That ignores the life of the car though. That 20 year old geo metro goes down to someone replacing their 40 year old gas guzzler. It might not be in the US, but a running car usually goes somewhere and gets used. So the hybrid argument aside, yes, going from 30 mpg to 40mpg and throwing the old car into a local lake is a pretty stupid idea. But getting that new 40mpg car and getting the old one to some highschool kid or family in Mexico who now isn't going to keep some old clunker on the road, then things start to look a little different.
How hard would it have been to rotate the screen shots 90 degrees? Why in the heck have they posted photos that are sidways from the direction it's played? Was the author really just that lazy?