I did really enjoy the Movie, but the quality of the IMAX picture, really showed up the source was digital, from the opening sequence, whenever the motion is slow,you can clearly make out jagginess in straight lines. I'm not sure if digital images have been transfered to IMAX before, but the lesson here is they definitely need to be higher resolution.
On a style side, I would have also liked to have seen, a section of animation in the PIXAR style, the sequences though good, were all in the same style of the original Fantasia.
I found the whole interview disappointing, I was hoping that paxman would explore more about the motivation behind microsoft development and not spent almost all the time talking about how much money bill gates has. Paxman normally strikes me as someone who does a lot of research before an interview into the subject, there were as I remember only about two questions about technical subjects and both were put extremely badly. If this was as the BBC billed it a clash of the Titans, Bill came off on top, especially when paxman came to asking Bill Gates what his favourite Bill Gates joke was.
Example: UK. Owning guns is pretty illegal, with some exceptions. Many cities have surveilance cameras capable of viewing large areas. This isn't the case in the US. Perhaps it's because shooting these cameras is a pastime. Or perhaps it's because a citizenry with guns is more likely to be more vocal and active in pushing for personal freedoms, with less fear of governmental or police relatiation, and in addition, less likely to accept such 1984-ish measures. And corrupt governments and police forces may think twice before enacting draconian measures under the premise of fighting crime.
What utter rubbish, As a UK citizen, I find that the idea that Britian is a police state offensive, cameras are deployed in public areas at the request of bodies that are actually voted for by the majority of the local poeple, unlike the US where the extremely low turn-out at election-time means that the government does not represent most poeples views.
The UK is not a police state, a camera in a public place is just a logical extention of having a policeman patrolling a public place, which I presume they do in the states?
Its the US that has a problem with Guns not the UK
Its also in the US that Darwinism, a theory so universily accepted can be rejected in favour of teaching children fairy tales as truth.
This has been said many times already.. but it deserves extra emphasis, I was involved with a relatively small company (400-500) poeple, the plan was to migrate the mail system from a solaris box to NT and Exchange, The onsite NT engineer (It was a computer company.) was initially tasked with after 6 months, he still couldn't get it to work properly, so we got in a contractor who had been involved with Exchange installations before, he then helped to set everything up, from 1 solaris box we went to 5 NT boxes, everything seemed to be working, they were shipped to the separate locations and the system and turned on, within a day they started failing over.. we could not diagnose the problem and so put the solaris box back into service, where it has remained since.
>Also, just who has the resources to test large >production systems (4+ CPUs) on an OS >under test? Corporates, that's who. And they'll >contribute their code to Open Source, > right? Because...?
What about hardware manufacturers they routinely test and assemble systems and can afford to try running new OSes on them.. the benefit to them is being able to offer their customers a better system
I agree.. as far as I'm aware there is no open source package that compares to any of the commercial office packages, so making as many available as possible, especially the brand leader (MS Office) for linux will be a good thing.
Eventually I have no doubt that the open-source world, will come up with a better 'Office' like its has come up with a better kernel, a recently a better 'GUI' with KDE or Gnome. It just takes a little longer when you don't cut corners on quality as commercial products do.
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I did really enjoy the Movie, but the quality of the IMAX picture, really showed up the source was digital, from the opening sequence, whenever the motion is slow ,you can clearly make out jagginess in straight lines. I'm not sure if digital images have been transfered to IMAX before, but the lesson here is they definitely need to be higher resolution.
On a style side, I would have also liked to have seen, a section of animation in the PIXAR style, the sequences though good, were all in the same style of the original Fantasia.
I found the whole interview disappointing, I was hoping that paxman would explore more about the motivation behind microsoft development and not spent almost all the time talking about how much money bill gates has.
Paxman normally strikes me as someone who does a lot of research before an interview into the subject, there were as I remember only about two questions about technical subjects and both were put extremely badly.
If this was as the BBC billed it a clash of the Titans, Bill came off on top, especially when paxman came to asking Bill Gates what his favourite Bill Gates joke was.
Example: UK. Owning guns is pretty illegal, with some exceptions. Many cities have surveilance cameras capable of viewing large areas. This isn't the case in the US. Perhaps it's because shooting these cameras is a pastime. Or perhaps it's because a citizenry with guns is more likely to be more vocal and active in pushing for personal freedoms, with less fear of governmental or police relatiation, and in addition, less likely to accept such 1984-ish measures. And corrupt governments and police forces
may think twice before enacting draconian measures under the premise of fighting crime.
What utter rubbish, As a UK citizen, I find that the idea that Britian is a police state offensive, cameras are deployed in public areas at the request of bodies that are actually voted for by the majority of the local poeple, unlike the US where the extremely low turn-out at election-time
means that the government does not represent most poeples views.
The UK is not a police state, a camera in a public place is just a logical extention of having a policeman patrolling a public place, which I presume they do in the states?
Its the US that has a problem with Guns not the UK
Its also in the US that Darwinism, a theory so
universily accepted can be rejected in favour of teaching children fairy tales as truth.
This has been said many times already.. but it
deserves extra emphasis, I was involved with a relatively small company (400-500) poeple, the plan was to migrate the mail system from a solaris box to NT and Exchange, The onsite NT engineer (It was a computer company.) was initially tasked with
after 6 months, he still couldn't get it to work
properly, so we got in a contractor who had been involved with Exchange installations before, he
then helped to set everything up, from 1 solaris box we went to 5 NT boxes, everything seemed to be working, they were shipped to the separate locations and the system and turned on, within a day they started failing over.. we could not diagnose the problem and so put the solaris box
back into service, where it has remained since.
>Also, just who has the resources to test large
>production systems (4+ CPUs) on an OS
>under test? Corporates, that's who. And they'll >contribute their code to Open Source,
> right? Because...?
What about hardware manufacturers they routinely
test and assemble systems and can afford to try
running new OSes on them.. the benefit to them is
being able to offer their customers a better
system
I agree.. as far as I'm aware there is no open source package that compares to any of the commercial office packages, so making as many available as possible, especially the brand leader (MS Office) for linux will be a good thing.
Eventually I have no doubt that the open-source world, will come up with a better 'Office' like its has come up with a better kernel, a recently a better 'GUI' with KDE or Gnome. It just takes a little longer when you don't cut corners on quality as commercial products do.