HDNet is showing U2's Vertigo tour live from Chicago this week.
First, I was at this concert and attended all but 2 shows while they were in town that week. The best was the last show, no cameras, the band was very relaxed and really rocked. We were on the floor, center, about 15 'people rows' back. Wow.
Anyway, this presentation truly kicks the DVD's ass in terms of video clarity. The DVD's video was OK, but the audio (DTS 5.1) was incredible. Here, it was opposite, the video was crystal clear and the audio (DD 2.0) was OK.
I still don't like Hamlish Hamilton as a concert video director. Too many quick, cut shots, forced out of focus shots, etc. You might need that for other bands, but U2 doesn't require those tricks. Just show them how they are.
Once this comes out on Blur-ay or HD-DVD, it's an instant purchase...
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Saw this posting on Slashdot this morning regarding a new attribute to the anchor (<A>) tag called "ping". It will allow web sites to easily track what links you're clicking on. It's being implemented in the alpha release of the next version of Firefox (1.6).
I've been meaning to blog about a new web platform feature that we've added to trunk builds of Firefox. It is now possible to define a ping attribute on anchor and area tags. When a user follows a link via one of these tags, the browser will send notification pings to the specified URLs after following the link.I'm sure this may raise some eye-brows among privacy conscious folks, but please know that this change is being considered with the utmost regard for user privacy. The point of this feature is to enable link tracking mechanisms commonly employed on the web to get out of the critical path and thereby reduce the time required for users to see the page they clicked on. Many websites will employ redirects to have all link clicks on their site first go back to them so they can know what you are doing and then redirect your browser to the site you thought you were going to. The net result is that you end up waiting for the redirect to occur before your browser even begins to load the site that you want to go to. This can have a significant impact on page load performance.
Websites even employ "onmousedown" event handlers that change the href attribute at the very last second before a click occurs. This makes it so that hovering over the link displays the location that you want to go to, but it still ends up taking you someplace else.
This change is being considered in large part because some very popular websites have asked for a solution to this problem. The feature itself was designed and specified by the WhatWG.
Some say this is good because it will allow the user to have control to allow/deny the pinging ability.
We'll have to wait and see how this is implemented.
The day Apple announces they're offering Intel-based PCs and laptops, the stock closes at $80.86.
If you're a geek, that's freeky. The 8086 was an early CPU from Intel which is where the term x86 comes from.