Tag Archives: Technology

unfortunate ironies in monopolistic practices…

By duran | Published: March 30, 2009

When you hear via twitter how workers at an unnamed large corporation in my home town are bitching about their office network being slow…
And you remember how this unnamed large corproate entity was part of the resistance to Philadelphia having their own public wireless network…
To think, if your network went down in your office, you [...]

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For years I’ve talked about this

By duran | Published: March 11, 2009

… and now they’re finally doing it.

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“The future is in beta”

By duran | Published: October 2, 2008

I don’t know who said that. Part of me wants to say William Gibson. But I’m not sure.
This evening I’m headed up to NYC to visit my brother for a few days. I decided to take Bolt Bus. They say it has wifi, and the price is very good.
So what the [...]

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Amazing technical write up on how The Dark Knight was filmed and worked on in Post.

By duran | Published: July 27, 2008

Studio Daily Article on The Dark Knight Production Process.
In short, IMAX breaks the technology that is at hand for most movie production studios, even the big ones. Well worth the read.
To support the IMAX scenes, the studios could not work in full IMAX resolution, which is theoretically 18K; instead, the target resolution was approximately [...]

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