"The patent goes on to suggest that devices could monitor factors like ambient light, as well as the position of the user's eyes, to generate dynamic shadows on their screens. Those shadows could be used to either make the entire display more clear, or even to spotlight what the users is looking at or add perspective to images. The patent also makes it clear that this could be implemented on desktop and laptop displays, too."
That's one hell of a TV, man. I though the Aquos just changed a light behind the frame based on the image on-screen.
The burden of knowledge is indeed a heavy one.
Solution.
Pretty much, yeah.
Universal RAW is kind of an oxymoron. It is a hassle, but RAW is the way it is for a reason. A better solution would be a new image format that retains RAW's data and quality, which your camera can auto-convert to.
Saying you want universal RAW is kind of like saying you want a universal form of Assembly language. It just doesn't work that way.
Fans? Since when have fans meant anything? It's the Nielsen families they're watching. One idiot counts for more than 4,000 viewers. People who watch on Hulu don't count. At all. iTunes doesn't TECHNICALLY count, although its huge sales on the iTunes Store supposedly kept it on the air.
TV executives are largely stuck in the stone age.
Leonard = E. Honda? Or maybe Fat Neil?
Pierce could also make a good Sagat.
They'll finish the season, but they haven't announced a new one. :(
Ha! Blanka totally got Chang'd. Perfect.
Aaaand now I've got Kilik's theme from SC stuck in my head. Thanks.
You know what really galls me about that comment? Not the animals thing, which surely could have been taken out of context, but that he claims he manages them all and it gives him a headache. This is something I really dislike about upper-management types. They act as if they stay up nights and work through every weekend managing every facet of every aspect of their company, as if any company that operated that way could actually function properly! They delegate all the little stuff down the chain. He doesn't manage one million employees. He manages a (relative) handfull, who manages another handful, and so on down the chain.
It isn't just disrespectful. It's delusional.
That's a piss-poor excuse that totally misses the point. There has been criticism of he re-editing of the films since the first rerelease in 1998, and yet he continued to chop them up. Instead of listening to his customers, he did whatever he wanted, and now he's got to live with the fact that he alienated his audience. He could have rested on his laurels and rereleased the original trilogy every few years in a new format, but instead he chose to keep hacking up a beloved franchise to the point that it was comedic.
As for the prequels, whatever. It's what happens when creatives lose their humility. See also: Smashing Pumpkins.
One of my favorite lines from Community is "You're the AT&T of people," and that really says it all.
UltraViolet sucks. It's funny, because Steve Jobs called Blu-Ray a bag of hurt thanks to its DRM. But all the wacky restrictions and loopholes it takes to stream a movie via Flixter -- Flixter, of all apps -- is truly a sight to behold.
To say nothing of the fact that I like having digital movies downloaded to my media server to avoid wasting bandwidth if I re-watch a movie/TV show. I think UV has some sort of provision for downloading movies. But it's just too much work. There are easier ways to get my DVD collection onto a Drobo.
It's amazing how many people simply cannot fathom the concept of being wrong. Ever. Honestly, I don't know how the human race made it this far.
It's funny. I was looking to buy a BD or DVD burner for my MacBook Air. Not that I burn much -- I'd use it more for making images of software discs at work -- but having the option would be nice.
I've been holding off for about six months, waiting for a good deal on a nice slim drive. I might as well just wait for this one.
As we've seen time and time again, CEOs will never pass on an opportunity to cut off their nose to spite their face.
I won't make excuses for pirates, but I do know people who, if they don't see it on Netflix Instant, go to the Pirate Bay instead.
Personally? I only buy a movie if I KNOW I'm going to watch it more than once. So, if I happen to see a movie in the theatre, and really like it, I'll buy it. Otherwise, all this delay does is push back my possible purchase by two months. So good on you, WB. You've definitely proved you don'have the market figured out.
Two months isn't long enough for adoption of this new OS to spread. I'd wager that at least 50% of the Android phones out there can't even run ICS. Not by model, mind you, but actual physical handsets out there. Just as the original iPhone can't run iOS 5, older Android phones won't be able to run ICS. Add to this the fact that developers have only had ICS in their hands for a few months, and this chart comes as no surprise. Not even Cyanogen mod is final yet.
I think the author of this article is expecting adoption along the lines of a new desktop OS or iOS release, but that isn't a reasonable expectation in this situation. Now, Google probably should have given phone manufacturers access to ICS earlier, or built Honeycomb with phones in mind just a little, so that developers could have a bit of a leg-up on how ICS would work. It is similar to what Apple and Microsoft do with their OS updates; they allow devs early access to squash bugs and help them prepare their software for major changes to the OS. Google isn't doing this.
If, in six months, ICS still isn't showing up on phones, then we'll have a problem. But it's higher system requirements are going to draw a very bold line between the haves and have-nots, there is no doubt about that.
Like the author, I was into anime in the 90's. Indeed, into the mid-aughts, I enjoyed both professional releases and fansubs. Most professional releases were older, particularly shows on Cartoon Network or shows that were available as box sets. Most fansubs I watched were newer; the early days of Naruto and Eden of the East, for example.
Back then, the issues facing anime distribution in the US were twofold; one, it was slow. Second, it was expensive. Anime on DVD was often two to three times as expensive as a disc of a Hollywood movie.
Also, there's the reason I lost interest in most anime: it feels like it has become formulaic and predictable. It would be unfair to characterize the entire product as such, and I know there are exceptions. Furthermore, the scene tends to carter largely to two or three very rigid audiences, none of which I am a member (anymore).
Of course, there's also the fact that most of the older anime that I would have readily bought on Blu-Ray never made it to that new format. I'd love to have more of Satoshi Kon's work on Blu-Ray.
tl;dr version: Sad, but not entirely surprising. I hope the situation improves, but it may not be likely.
Yeah. And adding a leap week on random years is so much better.
