But this is a pretty convincing reason to go for a good television and HD-DVD. Basically, it’s the comparison of HD-DVD source images to DVD source images, using Fellowship of the Ring as the comparison material.
I still don’t think it’s worth it, but if you’re curious about the difference between the two, this is a good way of making those numbers into something palpable you can mouseover.
They are making “Flatland” the movie.
The movie!
I’m still trying to figure out how I’m going to watch the damn thing, considering a two dimensional universe is going to be hell on our three dimensional eyes. Of course, they could just cheat and do the top down thing, which is the traditional representation.
On the other hand, the movie deals is a narrative which explores a two dimensional universe.
I’m sure that’s going to be popular with an American audience.
So after playing with an installation of Dapper Drake Kubuntu on a spare machine at work, and using Edgy Eft Ubuntu here at home, I’m getting a feel for KDE and Gnome.
So far, I like KDE’s “look” but I’m sick and tired of everything starting with a “K.” That’s not really necessary. I was unsure about the iFuture in OS X. At least Mail is still Mail.
What happens if we stop calling the internet the internet?
What then Mr. Jobs?
Gnome, on the other hand, is a little more down to earth, although I haven’t really started configuring either to my personal tastes.
Once I start to dig down a little deeper, I’m sure that I’ll learn to appreciate and hate features of both.
Well, as the entire internet attempted to purchase an Xbox 360 for $100, amazon.com drops off the face of the internet as the collective frantic click refreshes act like a Distributed Denial of Service attack.
Gotta love the fact that they just made $100,000 in less than thirty seconds with one thousand units available at that price. Kinda scary when you think about it.
Update: I’m not convinced that this deal ever existed, in both a philosophical and quantum mechanics sense. It’s like Schrodinger’s cat, except it would be described in the following manner:
On the internet, there is a deal for an Xbox 360 for $100. This deal is only available at a certain hour on a certain day. You go to the page and refresh it at the appointed time. At that moment, you are locked in the quantum state wherein the deal exists and does not exist simultaneously.
Alternately:
I never observed a page that showed me its availability at that price, so, outside of my frame of reference, the $100 Xbox 360 never existed.
So, as something fun to do, I’ve installed Ubuntu Linux onto my old Dell desktop that I had laying around the house. So far, I’m digging it and it’s taken the place of my defunct gaming rig.
Pretty snappy performance on a 1Ghz Pentium with 512MB of RAM.
Hell. I may put make an attempt to install it on the PowerBook if this experiment turns out well.