EPIC is pretty cool and can shoot huge resolutions for a pretty small camera. The real cost is time and logistics. Real helicopters are fairly "crashy" and sensitive, smaller remote copters even more so. I've been on sets with remote copters that crashed twice and once where they scrapped the flight after several hours. Adding the word "copter" to any production day adds at least 6 hours. Regardless of rental price that time is very costly.
There have been remote coptercams for for at least 20 years. But a camera that can record 2k images with nice fast lenses is still around 10lbs bare minimum.
A copter that can carry that with any stability is still kinda big and very loud. There have been some advances in drone tech but nothing that makes a real dent in noise, safety, logistics or cost. It's still a toy pulled out only when really necessary.
This company has amazing kits. You can build working machine tools if youre so inclined. Also hobbyengineering.com has some cool stuff thats much less spendy.
There is at least one other company selling NonMac hardware with OSX. This machine is nothing like what Pystar sells and prolly has a price tag much higher than a MacPro. Personally I wants one.
100-500 sounds like a lot to me, and I'm wondering how close is that to the sensitivity of the human eye's cones and rods? And are we talking about full spectrum sensors or a narrow band?
Getting anywhere close to the power of the eye would have a profound effect on the photographic world and doubly so for motion photography.
Yeah this is no good. And its a real shame that it comes from the "good" browser. I'd expect this from safari or IE. All we need is the information about the cert. Let the user decide if he/she is ok with using the site.
I dont think on a technical it's so hard to build for multiple distros. You can pretty easily search for where things are and should go.
I'm amazed how often 'alien' works to install rpm's or whatever on deb systems. Its just all the possibilities for libs to use in an app and all the versions of each. If you standarize too much, then whats the point of distros anyway?
But LSB will make it easier for projects/companies decide to port or build for linux. To give them warm fuzzy manual and shrink the learning curve, on paper.
Whatever if it is good it'll be good, if it sux no one will follow it.
go darwin go!
If it's available, a cell based service might be the best solution. The pricing has come down quite a bit and while the speeds aren't great it doesn't take much to beat dialup. You can even get a router with a pcmcia slot and share the connection with multiple machines or even neighbors and split the cost. Good luck.
I work on commercials all the time and most of that time is spent watching the client argue with the agency, who argues with director who argues with everyone else, about every ridiculous detail. Either they will fail to ever get a script together or they will make a show that is so incoherent it will look like a clips show with no theme.
They will try but i dont think we'll see anything that anyone will want to watch.
compressed air is a swell way to store energy but this is not a new way to get mechanical energy out of available resources. The result would be "air stations" with air compressors running constantly. Without a better way to generate usable power the air car just moves the source of pollution. not to mention the bang factor.
Give us(the end-users) the ability to choose our OS! like the PC market. Which apparently has far fewer options than a cell phone(um sarcasm).
These people have no clue at all.
-out
Beyond the up's and down's of the OLPC/Bitfrost approach. It seems very valid to suggest that it is time to look at the lower level of how system security is handled.
The rate that new networking systems are developed and distributed is alarmingly high and seemingly well past, or at least just in front of, our ability to secure these systems.
OS level security that accounts for the fact that the OS is connected to a virtually uncountable number of other(friendly or unfriendly) systems seems perfectly logical if not down right critical to the health and safety of what has quickly become a monstrously huge, and shared, system of computers and data.
I don't think the OLPC/Bitfrost system makes much sense for all of us, but t looks like a very solid way for a user who's needs aren't much past the capabilities of a smartphone or PDA (as nearly as i can tell thats just about all the OLPC really is, with a bigger screen).
I hope to see some other reworks of the main security model more tailored to the current, and supposed future, reality of where our systems are.
What if the OS consisted of Virtual systems, one that is local and one that is networked? The networked VirtualOS is jailed and unaware of any other OS's that are not likewize networked, and a LocalOS that is aware only of itself and the networked VirtualOS that it hosts. "Local" could access neteworked data by proxy, but the networked VirtualOS could never explicitly modify the LocalOS.
Does that make any kind of sense?
As a long time gentoo user i have to agree with this post. Harmful might not be the word, but i'll accept dicey. I've found no other distro that can replace gentoo for me on the desktop. But can be a bit high maintenance for simple server use. I should mention that i used gentoo to build my firewall and then hand removed portage. Of course then you have to do updates by hand. I'm going to start moving my fileserver over to Solaris and ZFS(which is insanely cool).::open on up::
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EPIC is pretty cool and can shoot huge resolutions for a pretty small camera. The real cost is time and logistics. Real helicopters are fairly "crashy" and sensitive, smaller remote copters even more so. I've been on sets with remote copters that crashed twice and once where they scrapped the flight after several hours. Adding the word "copter" to any production day adds at least 6 hours. Regardless of rental price that time is very costly.
There have been remote coptercams for for at least 20 years. But a camera that can record 2k images with nice fast lenses is still around 10lbs bare minimum. A copter that can carry that with any stability is still kinda big and very loud. There have been some advances in drone tech but nothing that makes a real dent in noise, safety, logistics or cost. It's still a toy pulled out only when really necessary.
This company has amazing kits. You can build working machine tools if youre so inclined. Also hobbyengineering.com has some cool stuff thats much less spendy.
There is at least one other company selling NonMac hardware with OSX. This machine is nothing like what Pystar sells and prolly has a price tag much higher than a MacPro. Personally I wants one.
100-500 sounds like a lot to me, and I'm wondering how close is that to the sensitivity of the human eye's cones and rods? And are we talking about full spectrum sensors or a narrow band? Getting anywhere close to the power of the eye would have a profound effect on the photographic world and doubly so for motion photography.
AGENT: Sir we will need your password please.
ME: Ok its "iamdoinganillegalsearch"
Yeah this is no good. And its a real shame that it comes from the "good" browser. I'd expect this from safari or IE. All we need is the information about the cert. Let the user decide if he/she is ok with using the site.
I dont think on a technical it's so hard to build for multiple distros. You can pretty easily search for where things are and should go. I'm amazed how often 'alien' works to install rpm's or whatever on deb systems. Its just all the possibilities for libs to use in an app and all the versions of each. If you standarize too much, then whats the point of distros anyway? But LSB will make it easier for projects/companies decide to port or build for linux. To give them warm fuzzy manual and shrink the learning curve, on paper. Whatever if it is good it'll be good, if it sux no one will follow it. go darwin go!
If it's available, a cell based service might be the best solution. The pricing has come down quite a bit and while the speeds aren't great it doesn't take much to beat dialup. You can even get a router with a pcmcia slot and share the connection with multiple machines or even neighbors and split the cost. Good luck.
I work on commercials all the time and most of that time is spent watching the client argue with the agency, who argues with director who argues with everyone else, about every ridiculous detail. Either they will fail to ever get a script together or they will make a show that is so incoherent it will look like a clips show with no theme. They will try but i dont think we'll see anything that anyone will want to watch.
compressed air is a swell way to store energy but this is not a new way to get mechanical energy out of available resources. The result would be "air stations" with air compressors running constantly. Without a better way to generate usable power the air car just moves the source of pollution. not to mention the bang factor.
Give us(the end-users) the ability to choose our OS! like the PC market. Which apparently has far fewer options than a cell phone(um sarcasm). These people have no clue at all. -out
Beyond the up's and down's of the OLPC/Bitfrost approach. It seems very valid to suggest that it is time to look at the lower level of how system security is handled.
The rate that new networking systems are developed and distributed is alarmingly high and seemingly well past, or at least just in front of, our ability to secure these systems.
OS level security that accounts for the fact that the OS is connected to a virtually uncountable number of other(friendly or unfriendly) systems seems perfectly logical if not down right critical to the health and safety of what has quickly become a monstrously huge, and shared, system of computers and data.
I don't think the OLPC/Bitfrost system makes much sense for all of us, but t looks like a very solid way for a user who's needs aren't much past the capabilities of a smartphone or PDA (as nearly as i can tell thats just about all the OLPC really is, with a bigger screen).
I hope to see some other reworks of the main security model more tailored to the current, and supposed future, reality of where our systems are.
What if the OS consisted of Virtual systems, one that is local and one that is networked? The networked VirtualOS is jailed and unaware of any other OS's that are not likewize networked, and a LocalOS that is aware only of itself and the networked VirtualOS that it hosts. "Local" could access neteworked data by proxy, but the networked VirtualOS could never explicitly modify the LocalOS.
Does that make any kind of sense?
Yeah so there's my bit.
any thoughts ?
As a long time gentoo user i have to agree with this post. Harmful might not be the word, but i'll accept dicey. ::open on up::
I've found no other distro that can replace gentoo for me on the desktop.
But can be a bit high maintenance for simple server use.
I should mention that i used gentoo to build my firewall and then hand removed portage. Of course then you have to do updates by hand.
I'm going to start moving my fileserver over to Solaris and ZFS(which is insanely cool).