It's not complete bollocks. Example - family of 4 (3 adults, 1 child), 4 weeks in Italy + UK. Return flights Australia -Singapore - London in premium economy on tier 1 airlines. I'm not sitting in coach for 8+13 hours, and I'm not flying in jets with dubious maintenance records. Return flights London - Florence, 3 bedroom self-catering house for a couple of days, hotels + dining out in Florence, museums, galleries, etc. 1 week in UK Holiday park, 1 week in rented canal boat, partly self-catered, partly eating at pubs, 2 weeks' car rental + fuel, B&B accomodation. AUD$44K. Yes forty-four thousand, of which the airfares were AUD$13K. Welcome to Australia.
That works out to AUD$2750 per head, per week. None of the accomodation was above a 3-star level, and none of the food came from "fancy" restaurants.
That's my point. Why go through the whole stream>audio>speakers>microphone>stream process when you could feed the stream straight to the server doing the comparison?
Your {device} loads a data stream that when decoded and sent through whatever audio hardware/software combination, thence to the speaker/s, makes noise - spoken word, music, whatever.
Then the device's microphone "listens" to this audio, re-converts it to a digital stream that then gets sent off to a company who presumably run it past a big database of recorded music, to match it up, and report back to you that the audio is named "Purple Rain" recorded by the artist formerly blah blah blah.
Doesn't anyone look at tags anymore? You know, the metadata? Or didn't anyone think to um, bypass the whole conversion to actual sound waves and back to digital stream.
My CEO once asked me why he wasn't a QSECOFR. I told him politely but bluntly that it wasn't a recommended practice for people who didn't know what they were doing to have such a level of access, that I had done the IBM courses on managing an AS400, and he hadn't.
He was a bit taken aback, but my boss backed me up.
Unfortunately at the next job the Analyst and the Programmer were QSECOFRs, and I couldn't convince my boss that was a bad thing.
Shouldn't be necessary - the nicest feature I've seen in prosumer/low-end professional cameras are dual/quad (or more) slots for cards (compact flash or P2). Card #1 fills up, recording switches to card #2, you extract card #1, dump the contents, and put it back in the camera. You can keep recording until your external storage fills up - laptop, desktop, external HDD, whatever.
Or upgrade it. Add memory, or (highly relevant here) the newest video adapter that can process a lot of that graphics-heavy load.
The thing about the MBP is - that's as good as it's ever to going to get. You need more performance? Upgrade the entire thing, or wait until Apple releases a higher-spec model. Video standards are still growing - resolution/pixel density, codecs, etc. The hardware/software combinations that can deal with today's workloads are obsolete as soon as RED/Canon/Panasonic release a new line of cameras.
Perhaps a comparison of Premiere Pro on the MPB and a similarly-priced Windows computer would be meaningful.
I make things very clear to my customers (mostly domestic, some small business) - I recommend *against* W10, and *for* W7, or, if they insist, W8.1. If they choose W10, their support costs (i.e. my hourly rate) will be higher. I've only had one person request W10 after those discussions, and they were OK with the conditions.
Microsoft have stopped supplying W7 to OEMs, so if you want a new laptop with W7, it'll be whatever your supplier has in stock. Otherwise, make sure you've got a W7 Pro DVD, then buy a machine with W10 Pro, and downgrade.
Words != understanding, although it should improve things a little. I find it difficult to cope with some accents (e.g. Filipino, Indian/Pakistani), so I prefer to use live chat rather than telephone.
I doubt that any actor, on their agent's advice, would sign such a contract. It would mean income from one and only one project. IOW, the agent would miss out on future income as well as the actor. Besides, studios depend on the name to promote subsequent projects, so which actors of talent (or at least bankability) are going to sign away future income?
There might be a transition period where the A and B-listers who have sufficient clout will refuse to sign such contracts, so the studios will entice lesser-knowns into it, but then all the actors will realise that they'll never have a career that makes them any money, and they'll refuse to sign, as well.
What am I saying? 98% of actors never have a career that makes them any money. Still, not many would willingly give up a career's worth of income.
Studios *may* get to the point where a character is completely synthetic, i.e. completely digitally generated, but those characters can't walk the red carpet, can't interact with fans, etc, although I suppose they can't get involved in scandals, either - mind you, we have a great capacity to forgive our "stars" all but the most heinous crimes and misbehaviour. Look at Robert Downey jr, Carrie Fisher, and others. Drugs, alcohol, rock bottom, and then, to their credit, a return to popularity.
This will lead to a new class of audio/video recording devices that will claim to be tamper-proof - probably by calculating a hash at the time of recording, so video/audio from devices that don't do this will be treated as second-class or unreliable from the court's viewpoint.
Yes, there's all sorts of subversion possible, but at least encoding a verifiable date & time code into the hash makes recordings harder to forge.
Contracts are about to get a bit more specific - you can always use a different actor in a sequel, but big names (e.g. Mark Hamill) aren't going to sign contracts allowing a production studio to continue to use their voice over someone else's face.
Also, what's to stop the actor from publically stating that he or she didn't record the audio for this particular project.
There's always contracts, I suppose, but any decent agent will include clauses prohibiting the production company from creating an entirely "synthetic" performance - small alterations would be OK, it'll save a lot of money having to do pickups.
I'd be interested to see the various data for micro-inverter efficiency vs. single large inverter. My own single large inverter is rated at ~91% at peak - the efficiency gets worse at lower loads. Unless you have very high quality, high efficiency micro inverters, you're going to accumulate a lot of energy loss.
Also, what are the figures for Tesla-type batteries vs. other types? Lead-acid cells are typically calculated at ~90% when new, i.e. you have to put back more than you take out, so you multiply your daily usage by 1.1 to calculate how much needs to be put back in - then you have to consider the inverter efficiency as well.
You must have made a deal with the devil. My mac customers had to switch back to ethernet cables because their wi-fi was SLOW (connecting to an Airport time capsule, not the ADSL router), they sometimes forget their shared printers, and experience other problems familiar to Windows users.
I tell anyone who asks that Apple computers have issues less frequently than Windows, but cost more (complexity, parts, time) to fix.
It's not the hardware, or the OS, or the software, it's the whole package, and how much it costs you over its life.
Rendering, intermediates, etc all need bucketloads of *local* storage, i.e. you don't want to render on anything that has an IO bottleneck. Is thunderbolt really as fast as the internal bus?
External is great for video storage and backups, but unless Apple is going to give you the option of multiple/large scale internal SSDs, video processing is going to be very slow compared to Wintel machines.
It's almost like - a service that offers a mix of originals and re-runs, some that appeals to you and some that appeals to me, at a reasonable price, that isn't tied into internet or other subscriptions, is actually successful - who'da thunk it?
I thought of a plot line a while ago, when the sequel was announced, that Hauer could be involved as the now-aged human that the Roy Batty model was based on. That would give the scriptwriter/s free reign to make his character whatever they wanted - he wouldn't have to be "Roy Batty". I don't recall anything from the first movie that said Tyrell didn't use real humans as development models for the replicants.
Wouldn't it make sense to start with the DNA of a human, and modify it, rather than try to build a replicant "from the ground up"?
Thank you for injecting (ha ha) some insight. Governments, however benign and well-intentioned, can't be trusted to look after *our* interests. They can only be trusted to look after *their* interests.
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It's not complete bollocks. Example - family of 4 (3 adults, 1 child), 4 weeks in Italy + UK. Return flights Australia -Singapore - London in premium economy on tier 1 airlines. I'm not sitting in coach for 8+13 hours, and I'm not flying in jets with dubious maintenance records. Return flights London - Florence, 3 bedroom self-catering house for a couple of days, hotels + dining out in Florence, museums, galleries, etc. 1 week in UK Holiday park, 1 week in rented canal boat, partly self-catered, partly eating at pubs, 2 weeks' car rental + fuel, B&B accomodation. AUD$44K. Yes forty-four thousand, of which the airfares were AUD$13K. Welcome to Australia.
That works out to AUD$2750 per head, per week. None of the accomodation was above a 3-star level, and none of the food came from "fancy" restaurants.
That's my point. Why go through the whole stream>audio>speakers>microphone>stream process when you could feed the stream straight to the server doing the comparison?
Your {device} loads a data stream that when decoded and sent through whatever audio hardware/software combination, thence to the speaker/s, makes noise - spoken word, music, whatever.
Then the device's microphone "listens" to this audio, re-converts it to a digital stream that then gets sent off to a company who presumably run it past a big database of recorded music, to match it up, and report back to you that the audio is named "Purple Rain" recorded by the artist formerly blah blah blah.
Doesn't anyone look at tags anymore? You know, the metadata? Or didn't anyone think to um, bypass the whole conversion to actual sound waves and back to digital stream.
My CEO once asked me why he wasn't a QSECOFR. I told him politely but bluntly that it wasn't a recommended practice for people who didn't know what they were doing to have such a level of access, that I had done the IBM courses on managing an AS400, and he hadn't.
He was a bit taken aback, but my boss backed me up.
Unfortunately at the next job the Analyst and the Programmer were QSECOFRs, and I couldn't convince my boss that was a bad thing.
I've just spent 40 minutes watching shuttle and apollo launch footage. Got to stop followng launch video links.
Shouldn't be necessary - the nicest feature I've seen in prosumer/low-end professional cameras are dual/quad (or more) slots for cards (compact flash or P2). Card #1 fills up, recording switches to card #2, you extract card #1, dump the contents, and put it back in the camera. You can keep recording until your external storage fills up - laptop, desktop, external HDD, whatever.
Or upgrade it. Add memory, or (highly relevant here) the newest video adapter that can process a lot of that graphics-heavy load.
The thing about the MBP is - that's as good as it's ever to going to get. You need more performance? Upgrade the entire thing, or wait until Apple releases a higher-spec model. Video standards are still growing - resolution/pixel density, codecs, etc. The hardware/software combinations that can deal with today's workloads are obsolete as soon as RED/Canon/Panasonic release a new line of cameras.
Perhaps a comparison of Premiere Pro on the MPB and a similarly-priced Windows computer would be meaningful.
I make things very clear to my customers (mostly domestic, some small business) - I recommend *against* W10, and *for* W7, or, if they insist, W8.1. If they choose W10, their support costs (i.e. my hourly rate) will be higher. I've only had one person request W10 after those discussions, and they were OK with the conditions.
Microsoft have stopped supplying W7 to OEMs, so if you want a new laptop with W7, it'll be whatever your supplier has in stock. Otherwise, make sure you've got a W7 Pro DVD, then buy a machine with W10 Pro, and downgrade.
Has anyone tried a Scheduled task running "shutdown -a" (abort a scheduled shutdown) every 30 seconds?
Words != understanding, although it should improve things a little. I find it difficult to cope with some accents (e.g. Filipino, Indian/Pakistani), so I prefer to use live chat rather than telephone.
I doubt that any actor, on their agent's advice, would sign such a contract. It would mean income from one and only one project. IOW, the agent would miss out on future income as well as the actor. Besides, studios depend on the name to promote subsequent projects, so which actors of talent (or at least bankability) are going to sign away future income?
There might be a transition period where the A and B-listers who have sufficient clout will refuse to sign such contracts, so the studios will entice lesser-knowns into it, but then all the actors will realise that they'll never have a career that makes them any money, and they'll refuse to sign, as well.
What am I saying? 98% of actors never have a career that makes them any money. Still, not many would willingly give up a career's worth of income.
Studios *may* get to the point where a character is completely synthetic, i.e. completely digitally generated, but those characters can't walk the red carpet, can't interact with fans, etc, although I suppose they can't get involved in scandals, either - mind you, we have a great capacity to forgive our "stars" all but the most heinous crimes and misbehaviour. Look at Robert Downey jr, Carrie Fisher, and others. Drugs, alcohol, rock bottom, and then, to their credit, a return to popularity.
This will lead to a new class of audio/video recording devices that will claim to be tamper-proof - probably by calculating a hash at the time of recording, so video/audio from devices that don't do this will be treated as second-class or unreliable from the court's viewpoint.
Yes, there's all sorts of subversion possible, but at least encoding a verifiable date & time code into the hash makes recordings harder to forge.
"My name is Werner Brandis. My voice is my passport. Verify me."
Contracts are about to get a bit more specific - you can always use a different actor in a sequel, but big names (e.g. Mark Hamill) aren't going to sign contracts allowing a production studio to continue to use their voice over someone else's face.
Also, what's to stop the actor from publically stating that he or she didn't record the audio for this particular project.
There's always contracts, I suppose, but any decent agent will include clauses prohibiting the production company from creating an entirely "synthetic" performance - small alterations would be OK, it'll save a lot of money having to do pickups.
I imagine Bad Lip Reading will have fun with it.
This sounds shopped. I can tell by the {samples/notes/octaves/pitch/frequency/timbre/vibrato}
I'd be interested to see the various data for micro-inverter efficiency vs. single large inverter. My own single large inverter is rated at ~91% at peak - the efficiency gets worse at lower loads. Unless you have very high quality, high efficiency micro inverters, you're going to accumulate a lot of energy loss.
Also, what are the figures for Tesla-type batteries vs. other types? Lead-acid cells are typically calculated at ~90% when new, i.e. you have to put back more than you take out, so you multiply your daily usage by 1.1 to calculate how much needs to be put back in - then you have to consider the inverter efficiency as well.
You must have made a deal with the devil. My mac customers had to switch back to ethernet cables because their wi-fi was SLOW (connecting to an Airport time capsule, not the ADSL router), they sometimes forget their shared printers, and experience other problems familiar to Windows users.
I tell anyone who asks that Apple computers have issues less frequently than Windows, but cost more (complexity, parts, time) to fix.
It's not the hardware, or the OS, or the software, it's the whole package, and how much it costs you over its life.
Rendering, intermediates, etc all need bucketloads of *local* storage, i.e. you don't want to render on anything that has an IO bottleneck. Is thunderbolt really as fast as the internal bus?
External is great for video storage and backups, but unless Apple is going to give you the option of multiple/large scale internal SSDs, video processing is going to be very slow compared to Wintel machines.
It's almost like - a service that offers a mix of originals and re-runs, some that appeals to you and some that appeals to me, at a reasonable price, that isn't tied into internet or other subscriptions, is actually successful - who'da thunk it?
Well, how else?
They should have tiled the shuttle in 3310s.
I thought of a plot line a while ago, when the sequel was announced, that Hauer could be involved as the now-aged human that the Roy Batty model was based on. That would give the scriptwriter/s free reign to make his character whatever they wanted - he wouldn't have to be "Roy Batty". I don't recall anything from the first movie that said Tyrell didn't use real humans as development models for the replicants.
Wouldn't it make sense to start with the DNA of a human, and modify it, rather than try to build a replicant "from the ground up"?
Exactly. Imagine the collective *gasp* if the machines were running Win 10!
Thank you for injecting (ha ha) some insight. Governments, however benign and well-intentioned, can't be trusted to look after *our* interests. They can only be trusted to look after *their* interests.