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by jfb 11y ago
You'd like to think so, but for the most part, the digitization and prep work is done by post houses or specialist digital distribution services, and the intermediates, which cost money to preserve, are almost always discarded.
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by jfb 11y ago
The NYT seems to be the perfect machine for exposing the uttermost eyerollingist of douchebags.
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by jfb 11y ago
There's no question that ffmpeg set itself a very difficult problem, and largely succeeds. But it does so in a way that is brittle and (whether purposefully or simply out of lack of knowledge) learnt nothing from e.g. QuickTime or Dire
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by jfb 11y ago
Yeah, both. In fairness, the last time I tried using the API was before the libav split, and I have no doubt that the situation has improved; the command line, while almost ludicrously powerful, retains a lot of terrible habits -- silent de
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by jfb 11y ago
There is a lot of very useful functionality in ffmpeg/libav. That doesn't make using it pleasurable.
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by jfb 11y ago
That doesn't make either one good.
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by jfb 11y ago
It's unfortunately not that simple. Nobody uses DVD as a mezzanine format, partly because 4:2:0 MPEG-2 at DVD data rates is unsuitable for further manipulation, and partly because the DVD rights holders may not hold the rights to repub
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by jfb 11y ago
There's the obvious reason -- that digitization is expensive, relatively speaking -- but even more so, the rights to a lot of those older movies are not well defined. Many of those older movies are under contracts that have no provisio
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by jfb 11y ago
Sure. I'm a fan of esoteric hardware and software and no big believer in the market success equalling virtue religious ideology, but I'm also not the one invested in the importance of how well this memory stick performs overclocke
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by jfb 11y ago
John McPhee is a National treasure.
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by jfb 11y ago
Then let them die.
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by jfb 11y ago
That was my point. If all you do is read what passes for news on gamer sites, you might think that the discrete GPU overclocking market was important.
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by jfb 11y ago
We do SP GPU development requiring big memories and Titan X features heavily in nVidia's marketing towards us. Tesla is nowhere to be found.
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by jfb 11y ago
Well right, but compared to the number of units bought by IT departments, the "enthusiast" market is nothing but decimal dust.
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by jfb 11y ago
As opposed to all that sterling, highly-secure software built by REAL MEN with COMPUTER DEGREES, right?
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by jfb 11y ago
It's easy to get lost in the noise of the "enthusiast" webring with their semiliterate "benchmarks" and overly paginated "reviews". They punch well above their actual purchasing weight and thus think they&
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by jfb 11y ago
Or clang, OpenCV, boost, ocaml, &c. All of which build and run natively, and are no less well packaged and accessible on OS X than they are from any Linux distro, short of nixos.
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by jfb 11y ago
Sharpers and snake oil salesmen peddling nonsenseware to terrified publishers who watched their entire business model crumble to sand in the face of craigslist.
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by jfb 11y ago
Also, how is OS X not transparent in its workings? Underdocumented, yes. But Linux's man pages aren't exactly a model of consistency and clarity, either.
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by jfb 11y ago
System doesn't conform to my biases, waaaaa, film at 11.
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by jfb 11y ago
A database built by people who are careless with my data is not a database worth paying attention to, even when particular problems are remedied.
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by jfb 11y ago
I wish that the iPod were ever available in those storage capacities, but 160GB was as large as they got. Of course, thanks to this [1] fellow, the sky's the limit.. [1] http://www.tarkan.info
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by jfb 11y ago
I think it is entirely reasonable to treat fingerprinting as ipso facto user hostile; that it is critical to the continued success of certain business models is reason enough to force abandonment of those models. If we decide that prevent
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by jfb 11y ago
Yeah, that too. Not having to hunt around for a browser tab is really nice.
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by jfb 11y ago
I use the Fluid SSB [1] for the latter. It sandboxes websites that I need to use but are not willing to allow access to my primary browser history/cookie store. It's a little clunky, but it gets the job mostly done. [1] http:&#x2
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by jfb 11y ago
In what way is this a choice between "technically superior" and "nice animations"? The reasons that Firefox, for example, is terrible on OS X is not to do with the quality of the animations (although they are awful) bu
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by jfb 11y ago
Web UIs are great for developers, much, much less so for people who don't have an ideological axe to grind or a limited development budget.
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by jfb 11y ago
Now I just need nvcc to ditch linux entirely. Sadly, that's not going to be forthcoming in this or any other universe.
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by jfb 11y ago
I'm sorry you felt that the responses were hostile, that certainly wasn't my intent. Mood is awfully tough to get right on a bulletin board. Speaking only for myself, I feel that words are very powerful, and that it's importa
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by jfb 11y ago
No, nothing at all is native. That it's rendered in GL doesn't make it native. It uses a cross-platform events layer, which is by definition non-native.

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