The battery for the Canon SD1100 is pretty good, it can go for about 1200 no-flash shots with the display turned off, (and thats with the cheap dealextreme knock-off batteries) but the highest rate i can get for timelapse is about 1 shot every 4 seconds-and thats without a break to transmit the image to a computer. The Canon point and shoots I've worked with all have an option for an external power supply, but its a hard to find proprietary adaptor that is way too expensive (can cost about as much as the camera itself) The cover for the battery compartment should have a tiny hole with a cover (a door-within-a-door) The power adaptor is shaped like a battery which goes into the camera, and the wire goes through that little hole in the battery cover, and into the wall.
That would be a fine solution (about $500 for camera, plug, and wireless SD card) for high quality (well beyond 1080p) stop-motion or timelapse footage, but I don't know if CHDK +Eye-Fi cards would work with continuous streaming video. At the highest quality, your 2 GB card only holds 17 minutes of 640X480 30p video. You MIGHT be able to write a script to record video in 5 minute chunks, send, erase, record, etc. I'm not sure. I've only worked with BASIC scripts, more might be possible scripting in Lua. that might be better than timelapse, but it would still be intermittent video with long breaks between each scene.
How could this be used for cars, unless everyone drives around with their headlights off at night? Besides the headlights, the heat from the cars' engines would also produce a very bright result in IR, no?
OLEDs, like all display technologies, have a limited range from brightest light to darkest dark. It wont simply "amplify all light by 100X" - it can't. at some point, highlights will get clipped. It's just like lens flare on a camera. Looking at a picture of the sun won't blind you, even though the real thing will. Oncoming headlights might wash out the screen temporarily, but real headlights can do that, too.
I suspect the Pope is only bashing the internet because he watched Thunderf00t's video "The Internet: Where religion goes to die", realized he had an excellent point, and decided that the only way to avoid having people jump ship on his ancient superstition was to ban the free-flow of information and ideas.
Religion depends on converting young minds to replace old dieing old ones Kids spend more time online than adults Online sources have been far harsher critics of the sex abuse scandals than broadcast media, and religious mythology get consistently pwned and rated down on online forums. Obviously, the only way for the church to continue to exist in our modern era is to stop children from going online.
Capitalism and Democracy (direct or representative) go hand-in-hand, and it's very difficult to separate the two. How can you have true political freedom if you don't have economic freedom too?
while democracy might require capitalism, capitalism does not require democracy.
Lastly -- what app doesn't work with MJPEG.AVI files???? That's like the absolute baseline most commonly, easily-supported format.
Sony Vegas 7a does not have mjpeg out of the box. The audio track opens, but no video (I will be upgrading to 9 pending the completion of one more video job. I only invest into this hobby what I make from it)
I eventually got it to work thanks to ffdshow, but it was a year before I stumbled upon that solution.
I think I understand the purpose of container formats now. To use a non-car analogy: it's like having multiple separate channels coming at you simultaneously. if one is not recognized by the system, that one channel can be ignored while the others will continue to work.
I'm not an expert in video or audio production, I just dabble in it as a hobby. but one thing I often wonder is, what is the point of these container formats?
I've got a miniDV camera, and a canon point and shoot that thanks to chdk can record good-enough video. Both give me ".AVI" files, even though one is miniDV, while the other is Mjpeg. Mjpeg files don't work in my editor, while miniDV does. but I didn't know this at first, all I knew was that I have a bunch of.AVI files sitting in my hard drive, some work, some don't. I dont care about file extensions, I care about having files that work. I care about codecs. If they were named "filename.minidv" and "filename.mjpg" that information would be useful to me. What good is a container format when only half of the files within that container will play on my system? I'm not trying to knock the idea of container formats, if they exist, their must be some beneficial reason for them. Could someone please enlighten me on what that reason is?
If an artist is dead or retired, shouldn't their work be released into the public domain
Hmm, I want to use this song, but the licence is really expensive. But, if the artist was to be the victim of some sort of unfortunate accident...yay public domain!
It'll totally be worth it if it gets rid of the Nickleback derivatives.
Since all Nickleback songs sound the same, does Nickleback count as a Nickleback derivative that will also have to be gotten rid of? That would be something all music fans can hope for.
Oh, and as a Canadian, I'd like to apologize to the rest of the world for Nickleback. We're not happy about them either. Sorry.
What does the article talk about hangover-free drinking, then show a picture of soju? Soju is not alcohol; it is punishment in a bottle.
What will all this free oxygen do to people who consume the alcohol? Could it have some sort of side effect on the stomach/intestinal track? bleach your teeth?
that being said, i think it probably needs a good overhaul (organic growth over 20 years can't be pretty to maintain)
you think 20 years is bad? You've got a few billion years of very organic growth in your own codebase, and it practically maintains itself, no overhauls required.
One thing I should have clarified earlier, but it slipped my mind until now:
In the art world, they differentiate between 'modern' is the colloquial sense, and "Modern" as a distinct movement from 1910's to 1960's by capitalizing the "M"
'modern' is synonymous with 'contemporary' 'Modern' is the historical art movement Postmodern is the movement following the Modern era.
Their are similar confusions in books that use "Contemporary" in the title. I've seen books published in the 1960's calling themselves "Contemporary Art" NO! do not usurp another word! The modern/Modern thing is enough!
Take a look at Gimp 2.2; it's - I believe - the last version with the "old" UI, which was very intuitive and convenient to use. They only screwed it up in the newer versions due to reasons completely unknown to me.
I have found the complete opposite. the old gimp UI was impossible to navigate. It's like blender, where everything about the UI is just wrong, anyone with even the slightest bit of experience on similar software simplt cannot use it. 3 horizontal windows? whats going on? I've been using various graphic programs for 15 years now, never needing a manual for any of them, until running into gimp, the 1st program I souldn't solve intuitively, through trial and error.
The new interface has the toolbar that is common to every other graphics program in existence, so it doesn't require a series of tutorials just to know where to get started. The newer gimp UI is a significant improvement. I was able to go straight from photoshop to gimp without needed a help file (which is a good thing, since Ubuntu doesn't seem to include the gimp help files) The only major problems left with gimps AI are dealing with layers; pasting is especially cumbersome.
this is Slashdot: News for Nerds, not ArtDot: News for Artists and Art Connoisseurs.
To me, and 99% of English speakers, "modern" means "relating to the present day", not something in the first half of the 20th century.
1. most artists ARE nerds. most nerds are picky about terms being used accurately. The topic of this entire thread relates to art.
2. mod*ern –adjective 1. of or pertaining to present and recent time; not ancient or remote: modern city life. 2. characteristic of present and recent time; contemporary; not antiquated or obsolete: modern viewpoints. 3. of or pertaining to the historical period following the Middle Ages: modern European history. 4. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of contemporary styles of art, literature, music, etc., that reject traditionally accepted or sanctioned forms and emphasize individual experimentation and sensibility. 5. (initial capital letter) new (def. 12). 6. Typography. noting or descriptive of a font of numerals in which the body aligns on the baseline, as 1234567890. Compare old style (def. 3). –noun 7. a person of modern times. 8. a person whose views and tastes are modern. 9. Printing. a type style differentiated from old style by heavy vertical strokes and straight serifs.
of those 9 definitions for modern, 4 define things other than 'the last 50 years' se/modern
while you are absolutely right about all of this, there are always exceptions, typing out the full history of art from 1910-1990 for a Slashdot post would have wandered into -1 offtopic or -1 redundant territory, so I kept it as short as possible.
You appear to not understand that you've walked into my "Live Art" exhibit which can only be appreciated by those within it. "Dicks and your mom", a minor part of the exhibit, encompasses the oedipal desire inherent in males. The "Call me at 555-5555 for a good time" portion speaks of the hidden desire for pleasure which exists in the male psyche.
My exhibit, "Masculinity" encompasses all those themes and more, speaking largely of the sexual frustrations, desire for intimacy, and lack of release that all men feel. The bathroom is used because it's a place where men can feel comfortable and able to release their frustrations, if only for a moment.
Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to get to work on "Femininity". No, no, I won't enjoy it. After all this is *art* good sir.
You could not possibly be more wrong. What you are describing is postmodern art, the antithesis of modern art.
Modern art sought to find universal ideals in form and materials. Eg. Paint is colour on a flat surface, so a modernist painting should emphasize colour and flatness. A painting of landscape, or portrait, etc. is trying to be something other than paint on a surface, modernism saw that as false. Truth to materials was a primary concern.
Abandoning all concern for a skillful execution of final object, and spouting pretentious bullshit descriptions about context and how an object relates to an audience is the domain of postmodernism. another big part of postmodernism was to attempt to just make people think modernism was wrong about everything.
The icing on the wrongness-cake is your final sentence, where you talk about not enjoying it, since it is art. Postmodernism is the first time in art history where humour and a cheeky wit have been acceptable. postmodern artists sometimes do just do it for the lulz.
Sadly I think this is going to lead to games which are free to play, but contain targeted in-game advertising down the road. I don't want to see how badly that warps the game designs we see as a result.
another option could be to follow the 'sudden attack' method of payment. sudden attack is a Korean FPS which is free to play. Weapons, costume sand power-ups are available through an in-game store. You can either earn points in-game, or pay cash, and exchange those for certain items. This way, people with no money and lots of time can enjoy the game, they aren't completely locked out, but players who don't have hours and hours of free time to rack up points can just pay to get the goods. I think this, combined with advertising is likely to be the future of gaming.
well, since companies are mostly made up of greedy ass holes, the future of gaming will probably be pay to buy the game, then pay to play the game online, then pay for the items to use in-game, AND have levels full of ads and product placements.
Ok, I understand this is Slashdot, and all, but this comment is just so pathetic. For me, this comment is a perfect example of the power of marketing and how even supposedly "tech savvy and thus obviously intelligent" people fall for the lamest marketing.
I don't "pay attention to the twitter feed" because I quickly realized it is the ultimate rumor mill, NOTHING more.
Twitter is only gossip if you subscribe to gossip.
Like just about every tool there is, it can be used for good, or bad. There are things that twitter is very good at. Think of the internet. just because stupid people found out about it and produced a lot of crap doesn't mean the internet as a whole is a bad thing. Grocery store pulp fiction novels don't turn all the great literature of the past into schlock. Twitter is the same.
You do know that slashdot posts it's headlines to Twitter, right? And they link to the discussion. Multiple other sites work this way, too.
Twitter can be used as a sort of meta-aggregate. I can subscribe to the EFF, slashdot, techdirt, boing boing, michael geist, etc. and get all the headlines on one page, rather than navigating through several different websites. when something sounds interesting, I click it and go straight to the article. It is a time saver. And it let's un-tech-savvy people update their website from my cellphone.
I tried to mod you insightful, then the mouse wheel slipped and i accidentally clicked 'redundant' instead. sorry.
CYA. Cover your ass. Just about every industry is like a big pot of boiling soup: the crud rises to the top. "I'm wrong, your fired" Document everything, and back it up. make sure you talk to several different managers about the issue. hopefully, at least one will listen/do something. If not, at least when a problem does come up, they can't say they weren't warned.
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The battery for the Canon SD1100 is pretty good, it can go for about 1200 no-flash shots with the display turned off, (and thats with the cheap dealextreme knock-off batteries) but the highest rate i can get for timelapse is about 1 shot every 4 seconds-and thats without a break to transmit the image to a computer.
The Canon point and shoots I've worked with all have an option for an external power supply, but its a hard to find proprietary adaptor that is way too expensive (can cost about as much as the camera itself)
The cover for the battery compartment should have a tiny hole with a cover (a door-within-a-door) The power adaptor is shaped like a battery which goes into the camera, and the wire goes through that little hole in the battery cover, and into the wall.
That would be a fine solution (about $500 for camera, plug, and wireless SD card) for high quality (well beyond 1080p) stop-motion or timelapse footage, but I don't know if CHDK +Eye-Fi cards would work with continuous streaming video. At the highest quality, your 2 GB card only holds 17 minutes of 640X480 30p video.
You MIGHT be able to write a script to record video in 5 minute chunks, send, erase, record, etc. I'm not sure. I've only worked with BASIC scripts, more might be possible scripting in Lua. that might be better than timelapse, but it would still be intermittent video with long breaks between each scene.
Seems like this could be an effective plug for the analogue hole.
Cautious optimism should be shown. Sounds like something that could come back to haunt users.
How could this be used for cars, unless everyone drives around with their headlights off at night? Besides the headlights, the heat from the cars' engines would also produce a very bright result in IR, no?
OLEDs, like all display technologies, have a limited range from brightest light to darkest dark. It wont simply "amplify all light by 100X" - it can't. at some point, highlights will get clipped. It's just like lens flare on a camera. Looking at a picture of the sun won't blind you, even though the real thing will.
Oncoming headlights might wash out the screen temporarily, but real headlights can do that, too.
I suspect the Pope is only bashing the internet because he watched Thunderf00t's video "The Internet: Where religion goes to die", realized he had an excellent point, and decided that the only way to avoid having people jump ship on his ancient superstition was to ban the free-flow of information and ideas.
Religion depends on converting young minds to replace old dieing old ones
Kids spend more time online than adults
Online sources have been far harsher critics of the sex abuse scandals than broadcast media, and religious mythology get consistently pwned and rated down on online forums.
Obviously, the only way for the church to continue to exist in our modern era is to stop children from going online.
Capitalism and Democracy (direct or representative) go hand-in-hand, and it's very difficult to separate the two. How can you have true political freedom if you don't have economic freedom too?
while democracy might require capitalism, capitalism does not require democracy.
eg. China
but will these malware authors be able to cause as much harm to your computer as windows does?
Lastly -- what app doesn't work with MJPEG .AVI files???? That's like the absolute baseline most commonly, easily-supported format.
Sony Vegas 7a does not have mjpeg out of the box. The audio track opens, but no video (I will be upgrading to 9 pending the completion of one more video job. I only invest into this hobby what I make from it)
I eventually got it to work thanks to ffdshow, but it was a year before I stumbled upon that solution.
I think I understand the purpose of container formats now.
To use a non-car analogy: it's like having multiple separate channels coming at you simultaneously. if one is not recognized by the system, that one channel can be ignored while the others will continue to work.
I'm not an expert in video or audio production, I just dabble in it as a hobby. but one thing I often wonder is, what is the point of these container formats?
I've got a miniDV camera, and a canon point and shoot that thanks to chdk can record good-enough video. Both give me ".AVI" files, even though one is miniDV, while the other is Mjpeg. Mjpeg files don't work in my editor, while miniDV does. but I didn't know this at first, all I knew was that I have a bunch of .AVI files sitting in my hard drive, some work, some don't. I dont care about file extensions, I care about having files that work. I care about codecs. If they were named "filename.minidv" and "filename.mjpg" that information would be useful to me. What good is a container format when only half of the files within that container will play on my system?
I'm not trying to knock the idea of container formats, if they exist, their must be some beneficial reason for them. Could someone please enlighten me on what that reason is?
If an artist is dead or retired, shouldn't their work be released into the public domain
Hmm, I want to use this song, but the licence is really expensive. But, if the artist was to be the victim of some sort of unfortunate accident...yay public domain!
It'll totally be worth it if it gets rid of the Nickleback derivatives.
Since all Nickleback songs sound the same, does Nickleback count as a Nickleback derivative that will also have to be gotten rid of? That would be something all music fans can hope for.
Oh, and as a Canadian, I'd like to apologize to the rest of the world for Nickleback. We're not happy about them either. Sorry.
What does the article talk about hangover-free drinking, then show a picture of soju? Soju is not alcohol; it is punishment in a bottle.
What will all this free oxygen do to people who consume the alcohol? Could it have some sort of side effect on the stomach/intestinal track? bleach your teeth?
that being said, i think it probably needs a good overhaul (organic growth over 20 years can't be pretty to maintain)
you think 20 years is bad? You've got a few billion years of very organic growth in your own codebase, and it practically maintains itself, no overhauls required.
...but it sucks rocks trying to run OpenOffice.
A computer can play Crysis with the highest possible settings flawlessly, and still suck rocks trying to run OpenOffice.
all good points.
One thing I should have clarified earlier, but it slipped my mind until now:
In the art world, they differentiate between 'modern' is the colloquial sense, and "Modern" as a distinct movement from 1910's to 1960's by capitalizing the "M"
'modern' is synonymous with 'contemporary'
'Modern' is the historical art movement
Postmodern is the movement following the Modern era.
Their are similar confusions in books that use "Contemporary" in the title. I've seen books published in the 1960's calling themselves "Contemporary Art"
NO! do not usurp another word! The modern/Modern thing is enough!
Take a look at Gimp 2.2; it's - I believe - the last version with the "old" UI, which was very intuitive and convenient to use. They only screwed it up in the newer versions due to reasons completely unknown to me.
I have found the complete opposite. the old gimp UI was impossible to navigate. It's like blender, where everything about the UI is just wrong, anyone with even the slightest bit of experience on similar software simplt cannot use it.
3 horizontal windows? whats going on? I've been using various graphic programs for 15 years now, never needing a manual for any of them, until running into gimp, the 1st program I souldn't solve intuitively, through trial and error.
The new interface has the toolbar that is common to every other graphics program in existence, so it doesn't require a series of tutorials just to know where to get started. The newer gimp UI is a significant improvement. I was able to go straight from photoshop to gimp without needed a help file (which is a good thing, since Ubuntu doesn't seem to include the gimp help files) The only major problems left with gimps AI are dealing with layers; pasting is especially cumbersome.
the url to the dictionary displayed correctly in the preview, but changed in the final version. weird.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/modern
this is Slashdot: News for Nerds, not ArtDot: News for Artists and Art Connoisseurs.
To me, and 99% of English speakers, "modern" means "relating to the present day", not something in the first half of the 20th century.
1. most artists ARE nerds. most nerds are picky about terms being used accurately. The topic of this entire thread relates to art.
2. mod*ern
–adjective
1. of or pertaining to present and recent time; not ancient or remote: modern city life.
2. characteristic of present and recent time; contemporary; not antiquated or obsolete: modern viewpoints.
3. of or pertaining to the historical period following the Middle Ages: modern European history.
4. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of contemporary styles of art, literature, music, etc., that reject traditionally accepted or sanctioned forms and emphasize individual experimentation and sensibility.
5. (initial capital letter) new (def. 12).
6. Typography. noting or descriptive of a font of numerals in which the body aligns on the baseline, as 1234567890. Compare old style (def. 3).
–noun
7. a person of modern times.
8. a person whose views and tastes are modern.
9. Printing. a type style differentiated from old style by heavy vertical strokes and straight serifs.
of those 9 definitions for modern, 4 define things other than 'the last 50 years'
se/modern
while you are absolutely right about all of this, there are always exceptions, typing out the full history of art from 1910-1990 for a Slashdot post would have wandered into -1 offtopic or -1 redundant territory, so I kept it as short as possible.
Nonono, it is modern art.
You appear to not understand that you've walked into my "Live Art" exhibit which can only be appreciated by those within it. "Dicks and your mom", a minor part of the exhibit, encompasses the oedipal desire inherent in males. The "Call me at 555-5555 for a good time" portion speaks of the hidden desire for pleasure which exists in the male psyche.
My exhibit, "Masculinity" encompasses all those themes and more, speaking largely of the sexual frustrations, desire for intimacy, and lack of release that all men feel. The bathroom is used because it's a place where men can feel comfortable and able to release their frustrations, if only for a moment.
Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to get to work on "Femininity". No, no, I won't enjoy it. After all this is *art* good sir.
You could not possibly be more wrong. What you are describing is postmodern art, the antithesis of modern art.
Modern art sought to find universal ideals in form and materials. Eg. Paint is colour on a flat surface, so a modernist painting should emphasize colour and flatness. A painting of landscape, or portrait, etc. is trying to be something other than paint on a surface, modernism saw that as false. Truth to materials was a primary concern.
Abandoning all concern for a skillful execution of final object, and spouting pretentious bullshit descriptions about context and how an object relates to an audience is the domain of postmodernism. another big part of postmodernism was to attempt to just make people think modernism was wrong about everything.
The icing on the wrongness-cake is your final sentence, where you talk about not enjoying it, since it is art. Postmodernism is the first time in art history where humour and a cheeky wit have been acceptable. postmodern artists sometimes do just do it for the lulz.
If you follow my sig, it would be something like this:
RANDOMIZE TIMER
copyrightsanity% = INT(RND * 255) + 1
IF copyrightsanity% = 0 THEN copyrightissane = 1: ELSE wereallfucked$ = "very yes"
"Hopefully, at the very least, the fact that parliament has realised this fact will mean that copyright laws will get a little more sane"
mod summary +1 funny
Exactly. That's why they give you *gasp* a pen and paper!
and how the hell am I supposed to type with a pen and paper?
Sadly I think this is going to lead to games which are free to play, but contain targeted in-game advertising down the road. I don't want to see how badly that warps the game designs we see as a result.
another option could be to follow the 'sudden attack' method of payment. sudden attack is a Korean FPS which is free to play. Weapons, costume sand power-ups are available through an in-game store. You can either earn points in-game, or pay cash, and exchange those for certain items.
This way, people with no money and lots of time can enjoy the game, they aren't completely locked out, but players who don't have hours and hours of free time to rack up points can just pay to get the goods.
I think this, combined with advertising is likely to be the future of gaming.
well, since companies are mostly made up of greedy ass holes, the future of gaming will probably be pay to buy the game, then pay to play the game online, then pay for the items to use in-game, AND have levels full of ads and product placements.
Ok, I understand this is Slashdot, and all, but this comment is just so pathetic. For me, this comment is a perfect example of the power of marketing and how even supposedly "tech savvy and thus obviously intelligent" people fall for the lamest marketing.
I don't "pay attention to the twitter feed" because I quickly realized it is the ultimate rumor mill, NOTHING more.
Twitter is only gossip if you subscribe to gossip.
Like just about every tool there is, it can be used for good, or bad. There are things that twitter is very good at. Think of the internet. just because stupid people found out about it and produced a lot of crap doesn't mean the internet as a whole is a bad thing. Grocery store pulp fiction novels don't turn all the great literature of the past into schlock. Twitter is the same.
You do know that slashdot posts it's headlines to Twitter, right? And they link to the discussion. Multiple other sites work this way, too.
Twitter can be used as a sort of meta-aggregate. I can subscribe to the EFF, slashdot, techdirt, boing boing, michael geist, etc. and get all the headlines on one page, rather than navigating through several different websites. when something sounds interesting, I click it and go straight to the article. It is a time saver.
And it let's un-tech-savvy people update their website from my cellphone.
I tried to mod you insightful, then the mouse wheel slipped and i accidentally clicked 'redundant' instead. sorry.
CYA.
Cover your ass.
Just about every industry is like a big pot of boiling soup: the crud rises to the top. "I'm wrong, your fired"
Document everything, and back it up. make sure you talk to several different managers about the issue. hopefully, at least one will listen/do something. If not, at least when a problem does come up, they can't say they weren't warned.
Hey look...now I'm the redundant one...