"We decided to start a project called Ground Truth, and this was really to build our own maps from scratch. We would start with licensed data and we would find whatever we could where we could get full rights to the data and improve it from there."...
"The firm sent cars fitted with special nine-lens cameras along roads recording panoramic photos as they went.
But Google's computers also analyse the images to identify street signs, speed limits, addresses, business names, rights of way at road junctions and other information. Human operators then check over each area to correct mistakes before the data is incorporated into the maps."
"rectangle with rounded corner" was made up by Samsung and the press never bothered to read the patents in the case. Pure spin and hyperbole on Samsungs part and due to lazy journalism it stuck.
UK Broadband have been here operating in Birmingham for well over a year now and have been testing LTE Advanced.
Is EE using LTE or are they deploying LTE Advanced? A conference I attended a year ago O2 and Three were going to roll out LTE-A, they weren't too worried about the late spectrum auction as LTE-A was still in the lab at the time.
this is about live TV. Live TV is a different. The infrastructure relies on point-to-point circuit switching. One video signal is sent down one coax cable. 8 cameras is 8 coax cables, now have 1km of cable that's 8km just for the live camera feeds to the OB truck. 100GbE means one cable. 8km of coax or fibreoptic isn't cheap, and usually requires a truck and a team of sparks to transport all these cables.
Back to caferace's conversation. It is a bottleneck indeed for content that is not live. Digitising rushes to intermediate codecs takes time, tape is usually played back at normal speed or double speed, output via HD-SDI from the deck and the workstation that transcodes on the fly in realtime. Tapeless workflows speeds the process up as you can import faster that 1-2x but still takes time to transcode. However, having this slow down is not a problem, the rushes have to be logged, while they are converting this logging process can be done manually.
Cinematic filming have the workflow sorted to some extent. High end cameras shoot direct to an intermediate codec, a DIT works on set and logs as the footage is shot, and sound and continuity departments can log electronically to the same system now too. The problem at the moment is it is not one system but many have to come down to one. I work in the sound department in film as an assistant. One of my responsibilities is keeping time-code correct on set, I have to go round each department times a day* and "jam" each system, recorder, slate, camera etc so they are correctly in time so when all the data is put together by the DIT. One day they will get unified
Logging while shooting cannot be done for news or reality TV as everything happens too quick.
* Three times a day because Sony can't make a $100,000 camera that doesn't have an internal clock that doesn't drift by +/- 2-3 frames a day.
I work in film, we usually scan 35mm 3 perf at 8k and 2 perf at 6k. Output after offline edit is usually 4k or 2k. Punters are going to be flogged re-released videos that cost the studios nothing. 1080p is more than enough for most people, unless you are going to have to have a screen large than 100 inches from 10 feet away, most people have a 32 inch TV at 15-20 feet.
TV does not work in 1080p anyway, still stuck at 1080i. Only your high-end dramas are captured with 1080p, 2k, 4k if digital (Sony F35, F65, Arri D21, Red if you don't mind downtime) or on 35mm (I haven't worked with 35mm in drama for over 5 years now).
But let's take the Galaxy Tab or the Galaxy S. The dock connector, the charger, the packaging, the silver rim around the edges of the Galaxy S. They are all almost identical to what Apple made.
But the approach to the implementation of sensing these gestures/actions is different. In short, Microsoft used infrared cameras, Apple uses a capacitive touchscreen.
Apple were known to be designing multi-touch for over a decade. They eventually bought FingerWorks too, along with the patent portfolio which includes the technology used to make capacitive touchscreens that is used in all multi-touch devices.
My questions is, will Everything Everywhere be rolling out LTE, or will it be LTE Advanced which Three, O2 and UK Broadband are planning to roll out when they get spectrum?
Operators were fine with the delay to getting the spectrum released as they were waiting for LTE-A to be completed. Guess you can compare LTE and LTE-A to ADSL with POTS compared to FTTP with IP phones.
NBC does NOT produce the TdF coverage, it is producted by the French, and NBC is one of many many broadcasters present there who add a bit of their own flavour to that coverage and use it. NBC has a couple of roving reporters doing non-live content, and one or two live cameras at the finish on a good day.
The olympics is the same, the event is primarily produced by a host broadcaster, and the public broadcasters take that production, add their own flavour, and broadcast that.
If I'm correct the host broadcaster tasked by OBS for the road races was a Dutch broadcaster.
OBS was a right shambles from what I have heard from my peers who work in the broadcast industry. Danny Boyle was not allowed to use skilled crew or use shots he want for the opening ceremony and had to use sports camera operators, which ended up delaying the rehearsals. British crew walked out on a few occasions because OBS were incompetent. Crews and production were working to rule because they found junior crews were working unpaid by the OBS.
I think the BBC only did the rowing events, anyone know what else they produced for OBS?
The BBC with use of Sky and other production companies to provide extra resources were willing to produce all the events but OBS didn't want that. It ended up with very few British crew being used. Also, it wouldn't have been possible resource wise for the BBC because Panasonic were sponsors for the Olympics, all cameras, infrastructure, editing suits, monitors, recorders etc had to be Panasonic equipment. All broadcasters that covered the events had to buy in to Panasonic.
They also used LiveU units. They were pretty much a total failure, delay of over 8 seconds, poor quality and no QoS so when they went through crowds and everyone started uploading photos to facebook and twiter they lost connection (same problem as the GPS units on the bikes).
iPhone wasn't a new design. I have had PDAs that are similar design from the late 90's early 00's. Screen, small bezel, a home button that sends you back to a screen with apps listed in a grid with icons with square rounded corners.
The only real inventive thing that Apple bought to devices was a very good capacitive touch screen. Everyone else was using mushy resistive plastic screens.
Good question. Most devices I use have either 4 or 7 SIM cards. The tagging is privatised to G4S so it is whatever is the cheapest solution, so no redundancy may be one of the reasons to why they only used one network.
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ZenBook is your nearest competitor to the MacBook Air. It's worth going for the Air for its trackpad, ZenBook's is frustratingly inferior.
MacBook Pro (and retina version) and the Mac Pro are competitive for the money too. iMacs are a steal, especially with their IPS screens.
Or people holding off for Windows 8? Or are general consumers are aware that 8 is coming soon?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19536269
"We decided to start a project called Ground Truth, and this was really to build our own maps from scratch. We would start with licensed data and we would find whatever we could where we could get full rights to the data and improve it from there." ...
"The firm sent cars fitted with special nine-lens cameras along roads recording panoramic photos as they went.
But Google's computers also analyse the images to identify street signs, speed limits, addresses, business names, rights of way at road junctions and other information. Human operators then check over each area to correct mistakes before the data is incorporated into the maps."
Founding fathers? Which religion is this?
The Razr was notorious for falling apart and the outside screen cracking. I lost count how many keyboards fell out of friend's phones.
I find that video highly offensive, because of its poor production value and acting.
"rectangle with rounded corner" was made up by Samsung and the press never bothered to read the patents in the case. Pure spin and hyperbole on Samsungs part and due to lazy journalism it stuck.
UK Broadband have been here operating in Birmingham for well over a year now and have been testing LTE Advanced.
Is EE using LTE or are they deploying LTE Advanced? A conference I attended a year ago O2 and Three were going to roll out LTE-A, they weren't too worried about the late spectrum auction as LTE-A was still in the lab at the time.
We, as in UK, Europe and the rest of the world have. It is just the USA that is different.
this is about live TV. Live TV is a different. The infrastructure relies on point-to-point circuit switching. One video signal is sent down one coax cable. 8 cameras is 8 coax cables, now have 1km of cable that's 8km just for the live camera feeds to the OB truck. 100GbE means one cable. 8km of coax or fibreoptic isn't cheap, and usually requires a truck and a team of sparks to transport all these cables.
Back to caferace's conversation. It is a bottleneck indeed for content that is not live. Digitising rushes to intermediate codecs takes time, tape is usually played back at normal speed or double speed, output via HD-SDI from the deck and the workstation that transcodes on the fly in realtime. Tapeless workflows speeds the process up as you can import faster that 1-2x but still takes time to transcode. However, having this slow down is not a problem, the rushes have to be logged, while they are converting this logging process can be done manually.
Cinematic filming have the workflow sorted to some extent. High end cameras shoot direct to an intermediate codec, a DIT works on set and logs as the footage is shot, and sound and continuity departments can log electronically to the same system now too. The problem at the moment is it is not one system but many have to come down to one. I work in the sound department in film as an assistant. One of my responsibilities is keeping time-code correct on set, I have to go round each department times a day* and "jam" each system, recorder, slate, camera etc so they are correctly in time so when all the data is put together by the DIT. One day they will get unified
Logging while shooting cannot be done for news or reality TV as everything happens too quick.
* Three times a day because Sony can't make a $100,000 camera that doesn't have an internal clock that doesn't drift by +/- 2-3 frames a day.
I work in film, we usually scan 35mm 3 perf at 8k and 2 perf at 6k. Output after offline edit is usually 4k or 2k. Punters are going to be flogged re-released videos that cost the studios nothing. 1080p is more than enough for most people, unless you are going to have to have a screen large than 100 inches from 10 feet away, most people have a 32 inch TV at 15-20 feet.
TV does not work in 1080p anyway, still stuck at 1080i. Only your high-end dramas are captured with 1080p, 2k, 4k if digital (Sony F35, F65, Arri D21, Red if you don't mind downtime) or on 35mm (I haven't worked with 35mm in drama for over 5 years now).
But let's take the Galaxy Tab or the Galaxy S. The dock connector, the charger, the packaging, the silver rim around the edges of the Galaxy S. They are all almost identical to what Apple made.
Samsung Galaxy charger cable.
Samsung packaging.
But the approach to the implementation of sensing these gestures/actions is different. In short, Microsoft used infrared cameras, Apple uses a capacitive touchscreen.
Apple were known to be designing multi-touch for over a decade. They eventually bought FingerWorks too, along with the patent portfolio which includes the technology used to make capacitive touchscreens that is used in all multi-touch devices.
Apple have had either 1440x900 or 1680x1050 for their 15 inch line.
My questions is, will Everything Everywhere be rolling out LTE, or will it be LTE Advanced which Three, O2 and UK Broadband are planning to roll out when they get spectrum?
Operators were fine with the delay to getting the spectrum released as they were waiting for LTE-A to be completed. Guess you can compare LTE and LTE-A to ADSL with POTS compared to FTTP with IP phones.
NBC does NOT produce the TdF coverage, it is producted by the French, and NBC is one of many many
broadcasters present there who add a bit of their own flavour to that coverage and use it. NBC has a couple
of roving reporters doing non-live content, and one or two live cameras at the finish on a good day.
The olympics is the same, the event is primarily produced by a host broadcaster, and the public broadcasters
take that production, add their own flavour, and broadcast that.
If I'm correct the host broadcaster tasked by OBS for the road races was a Dutch broadcaster.
OBS was a right shambles from what I have heard from my peers who work in the broadcast industry. Danny Boyle was not allowed to use skilled crew or use shots he want for the opening ceremony and had to use sports camera operators, which ended up delaying the rehearsals. British crew walked out on a few occasions because OBS were incompetent. Crews and production were working to rule because they found junior crews were working unpaid by the OBS.
I think the BBC only did the rowing events, anyone know what else they produced for OBS?
The BBC with use of Sky and other production companies to provide extra resources were willing to produce all the events but OBS didn't want that. It ended up with very few British crew being used. Also, it wouldn't have been possible resource wise for the BBC because Panasonic were sponsors for the Olympics, all cameras, infrastructure, editing suits, monitors, recorders etc had to be Panasonic equipment. All broadcasters that covered the events had to buy in to Panasonic.
They also used LiveU units. They were pretty much a total failure, delay of over 8 seconds, poor quality and no QoS so when they went through crowds and everyone started uploading photos to facebook and twiter they lost connection (same problem as the GPS units on the bikes).
I ordered two on two separate orders, one took two and the other three days.
Not sure why it is taking you so long. I ordered two from element14, took two days and three days respectively.
BBC also transmitted in 3D.
Most of the 30%? Who do you bank with?
Most will charge a couple of cent on a $1 transaction.
Innovated, not invented.
iPhone wasn't a new design. I have had PDAs that are similar design from the late 90's early 00's. Screen, small bezel, a home button that sends you back to a screen with apps listed in a grid with icons with square rounded corners.
The only real inventive thing that Apple bought to devices was a very good capacitive touch screen. Everyone else was using mushy resistive plastic screens.
Good question. Most devices I use have either 4 or 7 SIM cards. The tagging is privatised to G4S so it is whatever is the cheapest solution, so no redundancy may be one of the reasons to why they only used one network.
This one looks more fun to watch: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00vrkv9
So the USA is a communist run country? I though Obama was a Marxist last time I watched Fox News *tongue in cheeck*.