It's particularly obvious when you get an American show shown on one of the Terrestrial channels in the UK (where you cannot have more than 7min/hour advertising) or on the BBC, where you don't get any commercials. It always seemed to be most obvious in Babylon 5 - they'd have some tense moment in the plot come up (spaceship charging up weapons...) and then fade to black, fade up to black and essentially re-play the last bit of footage before continuing. It makes sense if you've got a commercial in there but is quite odd if you haven't. Luckily not all shows are quite as blantant with it...
The thing is, in the post production industry you're likely to end up using several packages. If you've been using one whose skills can easily be transferred to another package, it'll put you in a more hireable position.
... But even so - I've rcently had to start using Linux at work, and to be honest, I get crashes all the time. Now, it's not normally the OS itself, and perhaps I've just been unlucky but all the programs I've used a lot in the last couple of weeks haven't been that stable - mozilla, konqueror, codewarrior, kdevelop, kylix... jedit's been fine though!
Seriously - are there any IDEs in Linux that even approach Visual Studio?
Because the so-called 'Editors' don't actually do any editing. All they do is pick stories.
What slashdot need is a couple of real editors who regard quality stories, lack of duplication etc as their top priority, and let CmdrTaco, Michael, Timothy et al can get back to what they're good at - the technical side of running/.
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Maya is definitely easier to use than Blender. At least with Maya, previous experience with other GUI applications will help you, whereas with Blender it's almost like learning a whole new GUI system.
If you use your card through paypal or a similar service, you can only get a refund from you bank if the payment service does not pay the seller the money, as that is all that they promise to do. You'll get no refund from your bank if the seller does not send the merchandise.
Scart is a large (25-pin?) connector that provides component as well as composite lines. However, if you get a crap cable you may only have composite in it.
Adding to the confusion, the UK Xbox actually comes with a SCART connector, but it's actually just a plug that adapts the composite leads. £10 will buy you a nice gold-plated SCART cable (with RGB), though.
Some other options are to downgrade to Windows 98, get a free operating system such as Linux
I think they meant:
Some other options are to:
o downgrade to Windows 98 o get a free operating system such as Linux
Having said that - superiority is in the eye of the beholder. Seeing as many of the W2K users didn't even set an admin password, I suspect W2K is going to be a better OS in their eyes than Linux, just from a usability point of view.
It is odd that they've banned 2000. NT4 I can understand, as there will never be any more fixes for it, but with 2000 you've got the automatic update feature, and I've have thought that XP and 2000 would share many of the same vulnerabilities. On a similar note a badly maintained Linux box could also pose a security risk, but with less computers on the campus running it, perhaps it would be less likely to reach the critical mass required to cause a lot of problems.
To be honest, I think their problem is that they've got a lot of people running their own machines on their subnet and most of these people will not be very concerned with security - it's always going to be an accident waiting to happen. I would have thought they'd be better off altering their network topology to ensure that the student's computers were sectioned off from the rest of the Uni, perhaps grouping them so that the damage couldn't spread too far. If they're not doing that already, of course.
I really hope their top-end ones have 320x320 screens rather then the old Palm 160x160. I'm tempted to upgrade from my old Palm V soon, but I don't think I could go with a 160x160 one when there's those Sony Clies with their gorgeous 320x320 screens...
Identical twins are also likely to have had extremely similar upbringings, and therefore are likely to have similar attitudes towards food and come from the same socioeconomic background. I'm sure that your weight is affected by your genes, but to pretend that that's all there is too it is fooling yourself. Yes, your genes will have an impact on your weight, but so will the food you eat and the excercise you take - otherwise it wouldn't be possible to change your weight by changing your lifestyle.
I hope they put in a SCART cable at the back in any European versions they do. I'd hate to be stuck with just composite video when I could have crystal clear RGB...
Maybe I misunderstand you, but how can you possibly have 0.5mm height text on a current monitor - it wouldn't even be possible on a 200dpi device!
On a 200dpi device - pixels/mm = 200dpi / 24.5 = 7.87
7.87 pixels/mm - I would say that you really need 5 pixels to have legible text, plus a gap line between the next line of text. So on a 200dpi device, the best you're going to get is text.75mm high.
To get 0.5mm text, you'd need at least 300pixels/inch, bare minimum. For nice 8x8 character sets you'd need 400pixels/inch.
Actually, I suspect that most 1000dpi printers cannot draw 500 lines to an inch, due to the fact that a dot from a 1000dpi printer is likely to be a fair bit larger than 1/1000th of an inch wide. What a 1000dpi printer *can* do is position the centre of its dots to within 1/1000th of an inch.
I reckon the smallest that most printers can print dots is about 1/10mm, or about 1/250th of an inch. Therefore a 1000dpi printer is going to be able to do about 125 lines/inch. However I would imagine that the printer is better at doing shallow slopes and curves without aliasing, as it has better positional accuracy.
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It's particularly obvious when you get an American show shown on one of the Terrestrial channels in the UK (where you cannot have more than 7min/hour advertising) or on the BBC, where you don't get any commercials. It always seemed to be most obvious in Babylon 5 - they'd have some tense moment in the plot come up (spaceship charging up weapons...) and then fade to black, fade up to black and essentially re-play the last bit of footage before continuing. It makes sense if you've got a commercial in there but is quite odd if you haven't. Luckily not all shows are quite as blantant with it...
The thing is, in the post production industry you're likely to end up using several packages. If you've been using one whose skills can easily be transferred to another package, it'll put you in a more hireable position.
Not that you'll get them running on a P166...
... But even so - I've rcently had to start using Linux at work, and to be honest, I get crashes all the time. Now, it's not normally the OS itself, and perhaps I've just been unlucky but all the programs I've used a lot in the last couple of weeks haven't been that stable - mozilla, konqueror, codewarrior, kdevelop, kylix... jedit's been fine though!
Seriously - are there any IDEs in Linux that even approach Visual Studio?
Because the so-called 'Editors' don't actually do any editing. All they do is pick stories.
/.
What slashdot need is a couple of real editors who regard quality stories, lack of duplication etc as their top priority, and let CmdrTaco, Michael, Timothy et al can get back to what they're good at - the technical side of running
Maya is definitely easier to use than Blender. At least with Maya, previous experience with other GUI applications will help you, whereas with Blender it's almost like learning a whole new GUI system.
You 'loose' the hounds, whereas you 'lose' money.
This has been your Slashdot spelling informational video. Goodbye!
If you use your card through paypal or a similar service, you can only get a refund from you bank if the payment service does not pay the seller the money, as that is all that they promise to do. You'll get no refund from your bank if the seller does not send the merchandise.
... There's no way in hell you'll ever complete the project.
Scart is a large (25-pin?) connector that provides component as well as composite lines. However, if you get a crap cable you may only have composite in it.
Adding to the confusion, the UK Xbox actually comes with a SCART connector, but it's actually just a plug that adapts the composite leads. £10 will buy you a nice gold-plated SCART cable (with RGB), though.
I suggest you buy a 5 dollar dictionary and learn how to spell 'dollar'...
I think you'll find that it's 'dog eat dog'...
Some other options are to downgrade to Windows 98, get a free operating system such as Linux
I think they meant:
Some other options are to:
o downgrade to Windows 98
o get a free operating system such as Linux
Having said that - superiority is in the eye of the beholder. Seeing as many of the W2K users didn't even set an admin password, I suspect W2K is going to be a better OS in their eyes than Linux, just from a usability point of view.
It is odd that they've banned 2000. NT4 I can understand, as there will never be any more fixes for it, but with 2000 you've got the automatic update feature, and I've have thought that XP and 2000 would share many of the same vulnerabilities. On a similar note a badly maintained Linux box could also pose a security risk, but with less computers on the campus running it, perhaps it would be less likely to reach the critical mass required to cause a lot of problems.
To be honest, I think their problem is that they've got a lot of people running their own machines on their subnet and most of these people will not be very concerned with security - it's always going to be an accident waiting to happen. I would have thought they'd be better off altering their network topology to ensure that the student's computers were sectioned off from the rest of the Uni, perhaps grouping them so that the damage couldn't spread too far. If they're not doing that already, of course.
Couldn't get it to work :-P
I really hope their top-end ones have 320x320 screens rather then the old Palm 160x160. I'm tempted to upgrade from my old Palm V soon, but I don't think I could go with a 160x160 one when there's those Sony Clies with their gorgeous 320x320 screens...
We're talking second-hand PII450, aren't we?
Identical twins are also likely to have had extremely similar upbringings, and therefore are likely to have similar attitudes towards food and come from the same socioeconomic background. I'm sure that your weight is affected by your genes, but to pretend that that's all there is too it is fooling yourself. Yes, your genes will have an impact on your weight, but so will the food you eat and the excercise you take - otherwise it wouldn't be possible to change your weight by changing your lifestyle.
Come back and give us a report in two years time... ;-)
I've always said that if I had that kinda cash I'd set up a Jet Pack Research Laboratory.
And I would, too.
Where on earth can you get them that cheap?
Jeez - here in the UK they cost £229 (~$350) surely they're not a third of the price in the US?
Whoops - I missed the S-Video out on the first look..
Well, that'd be better than nothing I suppose.
I hope they put in a SCART cable at the back in any European versions they do. I'd hate to be stuck with just composite video when I could have crystal clear RGB...
Maybe I misunderstand you, but how can you possibly have 0.5mm height text on a current monitor - it wouldn't even be possible on a 200dpi device!
.75mm high.
On a 200dpi device - pixels/mm = 200dpi / 24.5 = 7.87
7.87 pixels/mm - I would say that you really need 5 pixels to have legible text, plus a gap line between the next line of text. So on a 200dpi device, the best you're going to get is text
To get 0.5mm text, you'd need at least 300pixels/inch, bare minimum. For nice 8x8 character sets you'd need 400pixels/inch.
Actually, I suspect that most 1000dpi printers cannot draw 500 lines to an inch, due to the fact that a dot from a 1000dpi printer is likely to be a fair bit larger than 1/1000th of an inch wide. What a 1000dpi printer *can* do is position the centre of its dots to within 1/1000th of an inch.
I reckon the smallest that most printers can print dots is about 1/10mm, or about 1/250th of an inch. Therefore a 1000dpi printer is going to be able to do about 125 lines/inch. However I would imagine that the printer is better at doing shallow slopes and curves without aliasing, as it has better positional accuracy.