There's more to graphics processing than games, you know....
I'll wait to see if Adobe certifies this card for Premiere Pro/After Effects. The difference between software rendering (i.e. not having a decent/certified GPU) and hardware rendering (a certified card with CUDA, memory and bandwidth) means that a card like this could pay for itself in a short period - maybe two or three projects.
The Princess Bride - imagine RoUS in 3D, a blast of hot air while moving through the forest, some kind of muscle relaxant to empathise with Westley as he recovers, aerosolised alcohol so we can be drunk with Inigo, hydrogen cyanide gas to spend our last moments with Vizzini, the list goes on......
What's misleading about it? No-one knows how long a PV panel made with organic molecule technology will last, so how could I mislead anyone, especially when my point was couched as a query - "what's the expected lifespan....."
Conventional doped silicon PV has a warranty of ~20 years for ~80% of rated output - such as the ones on my roof. That is a reasonable comparison to make - even if "organic" PV doesn't last as long as current technology - say one-quarter of the time - if it costs a similar amount in proportion, then it's a fair comparison . BTW I've been off-grid for almost 20 years and I support any efforts to improve decentralised domestic energy generation. Make yourself a nice green tea and have a good lie down before you attack, next time.
I'd be more worried about how long they last. What's the expected lifespan of organic molecules exposed to high levels of UV & heat for the majority of days over a 10 or 20-year period? Although if it's cheap enough, I guess you just strip and re-coat every 3-5 years.
No - you produce a digital intermediate from your analog negative, edit the digital intermediate - cuts, transitions, etc, then hand that edited intermediate over to a film-cutter to assemble the analog master from the original negative, using the digital intermediate as a template.
It's much more complex than that, of course - but it's possible. Now as to why? Tonal range of 35mm film as mentioned above, probably. He'll need a good budget.
It seems that Bitcoin is being treated more like, and reacting more like a company or commodity stock. It's constantly being valued against the USD (which is convenient but not useful in terms of what a Bitcoin can actually do for you), and it's reacting to market pressures, e.g. value dropping on panic selling. In other words, traders see it as just another thing to be manipulated for their own gain. I was considering cranking up a mining client on one of my spare machines, souped up with a decent GPU, but now I couldn't be bothered.
Best option from my point of view is to not let them use it at all - car or computer, but we'll stick with computer for now. Lots of options - 1. XP virtual machine under host Win 7. Advantage: familiar interface, no compromise to the host if the guest does something silly. Disadvantage: time spent wiping and starting from scratch. 2. LiveCD. Advantage: no compromise to the host, etc. Disadvantage: unfamiliar interface (although this alone might discourage them from even asking in the future). 3. Mandatory local policy to lock down access for the "guest" account. Advantage: very granular, no compromise to host IF it's accurately configured. Disadvantage: time and effort to configure and maintain. 4. Dedicated Linux box. similar advantages and disadvantages. 5 (bonus applicable to all options) Use OpenDNS and other tools on any platform to restrict access.
Yes, black is not a colour, it's a complete lack of brightness, but you started talking about CMYK colour space, and now we're talking about cameras, which use RGB, and black has an RGB value of zero, zero, zero. It's still treated as a colour for all intents and purposes - saying "black is not a colour" is pointless in this context, as it has to be treated as a colour all the way through the process to the end viewer. It's not a passive "lack of brightness", it's taken into account in lots of ways when passed from one stage to another, e.g. during compression, also at broadcast stage, and so on.
I've got a standard reply to people who ask whether I believe that our use of fossil fuels is causing climate change, and whether pollution taxes or carbon prices are the answer.
"It doesn't matter so much - fossil fuels ARE a finite resource, and it makes sense to develop sensible alternatives while oil is still cheap, e.g. we can afford to build PV panel factories with cheap energy (electricity, transportation), and transport the PV panels to our homes with cheap fuel. Once the oil becomes expensive, "the market" will become very selective about what the oil gets used for.
I've been working my way through www.livecdlist.com and it's a good way to try out various flavours. Debian & Mint are my favourites for getting work done, Ubuntu Studio is what I use for playing around. I've got old laptops running various distros inside VirtualBox under XP (yes, you might say I've got it around the wrong way, but these are also laptops I loan out to customers when their own equipment goes down, and they need the familiar logo), and apart from the speed of running under XP on older hardware, they're quite OK for day-to-day work.
Okey doke - I have a mobile phone (a Nokia 3315 - it meets my needs and I want to see how long it will last), my wife and son have facebook accounts and mobile phones, but/., tech research and video editing/production take up enough of my time, I can't afford to spend hours, even minutes of a day on facebook, twitter, or even linkedin - and I really don't give a toss about people who do - I don't care one way or the other until it starts to affect me. We have a 55" LCD TV and a foxtel subscription, but the few watchable channels aren't worth the money, so I won't renew it. We have a collection of DVDs, and some decent catch-up/streaming services (e.g. www.abc.net.au/iview), so that'll serve my entertainment needs.
You're right - using a sarcasm tag would have been much quicker.
That's true - it just bugs me to hear people wanking on about how their phone has an 8MP camera, as if that's all that counts. I'd rather have a 4MP sensor with a decent lens than ANY phone camera.
Well, the credits of Barry Lyndon include a special thanks to Zeiss for the lenses.
Just goes to show, it's all in the glass - you can have as many megapixels as you want in the sensor, but if your lens isn't up to it, you're throwing away the potential of all those pixels.
It's not that black and white. Each installation needs its own specification. You go for a mix of technology. It's not JUST wind - you can put in some PV panels, and a wind turbine, maybe even a water turbine, maybe a fuel cell. Some places have good wind, many don't. Most places in tropical/temperate zones have reasonable or good solar resources, and some don't. Some places have permanent running water, most don't. And you don't design an off-grid system without a backup generator - yes, they use fossil fuel, but my experience is that it's still cheaper to have all that - in my case, solar PV, batteries, and backup generator - than it is to connect to the mains. At last quote in 2009, it was going to cost ~AUD$30,000 to connect me to the mains - 600 metres up the road. PLUS tree-clearing costs to put the poles in. It's financially feasible for me to have such a system, and you shouldn't say it's not for other people until you've conducted an energy audit for the consumer, and quoted on a suitable system.
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There's more to graphics processing than games, you know....
I'll wait to see if Adobe certifies this card for Premiere Pro/After Effects. The difference between software rendering (i.e. not having a decent/certified GPU) and hardware rendering (a certified card with CUDA, memory and bandwidth) means that a card like this could pay for itself in a short period - maybe two or three projects.
The Princess Bride - imagine RoUS in 3D, a blast of hot air while moving through the forest, some kind of muscle relaxant to empathise with Westley as he recovers, aerosolised alcohol so we can be drunk with Inigo, hydrogen cyanide gas to spend our last moments with Vizzini, the list goes on......
What's misleading about it? No-one knows how long a PV panel made with organic molecule technology will last, so how could I mislead anyone, especially when my point was couched as a query - "what's the expected lifespan....."
Conventional doped silicon PV has a warranty of ~20 years for ~80% of rated output - such as the ones on my roof. That is a reasonable comparison to make - even if "organic" PV doesn't last as long as current technology - say one-quarter of the time - if it costs a similar amount in proportion, then it's a fair comparison . BTW I've been off-grid for almost 20 years and I support any efforts to improve decentralised domestic energy generation. Make yourself a nice green tea and have a good lie down before you attack, next time.
I'd be more worried about how long they last. What's the expected lifespan of organic molecules exposed to high levels of UV & heat for the majority of days over a 10 or 20-year period? Although if it's cheap enough, I guess you just strip and re-coat every 3-5 years.
Is it really worth the fuss to pirate/crack, when you can get the entire Adobe Suite on education/academic pricing for less than AUD$500?
I've saved more than $500 in delayed deadlines just by having access to the support community.
No - you produce a digital intermediate from your analog negative, edit the digital intermediate - cuts, transitions, etc, then hand that edited intermediate over to a film-cutter to assemble the analog master from the original negative, using the digital intermediate as a template.
It's much more complex than that, of course - but it's possible. Now as to why? Tonal range of 35mm film as mentioned above, probably. He'll need a good budget.
It seems that Bitcoin is being treated more like, and reacting more like a company or commodity stock. It's constantly being valued against the USD (which is convenient but not useful in terms of what a Bitcoin can actually do for you), and it's reacting to market pressures, e.g. value dropping on panic selling. In other words, traders see it as just another thing to be manipulated for their own gain. I was considering cranking up a mining client on one of my spare machines, souped up with a decent GPU, but now I couldn't be bothered.
All of it.
Best option from my point of view is to not let them use it at all - car or computer, but we'll stick with computer for now. Lots of options - 1. XP virtual machine under host Win 7. Advantage: familiar interface, no compromise to the host if the guest does something silly. Disadvantage: time spent wiping and starting from scratch. 2. LiveCD. Advantage: no compromise to the host, etc. Disadvantage: unfamiliar interface (although this alone might discourage them from even asking in the future). 3. Mandatory local policy to lock down access for the "guest" account. Advantage: very granular, no compromise to host IF it's accurately configured. Disadvantage: time and effort to configure and maintain. 4. Dedicated Linux box. similar advantages and disadvantages. 5 (bonus applicable to all options) Use OpenDNS and other tools on any platform to restrict access.
You can implement and edit "Local Computer Policy" but not on the "Home Premium" version - you need Pro or Ultimate.
Indeed - someone who can't recognise ROT-13 at a glance probably needs to expand their education a bit.
BIT, geddit? I'm such a funny fellow.....
Yes, black is not a colour, it's a complete lack of brightness, but you started talking about CMYK colour space, and now we're talking about cameras, which use RGB, and black has an RGB value of zero, zero, zero. It's still treated as a colour for all intents and purposes - saying "black is not a colour" is pointless in this context, as it has to be treated as a colour all the way through the process to the end viewer. It's not a passive "lack of brightness", it's taken into account in lots of ways when passed from one stage to another, e.g. during compression, also at broadcast stage, and so on.
But it must be treated as a colour, for computational purposes - it's represented by values at one extreme, as is white at the other extreme.
In other words, your statement is irrelevant to this discussion.
I've got a standard reply to people who ask whether I believe that our use of fossil fuels is causing climate change, and whether pollution taxes or carbon prices are the answer.
"It doesn't matter so much - fossil fuels ARE a finite resource, and it makes sense to develop sensible alternatives while oil is still cheap, e.g. we can afford to build PV panel factories with cheap energy (electricity, transportation), and transport the PV panels to our homes with cheap fuel. Once the oil becomes expensive, "the market" will become very selective about what the oil gets used for.
I've been working my way through www.livecdlist.com and it's a good way to try out various flavours. Debian & Mint are my favourites for getting work done, Ubuntu Studio is what I use for playing around. I've got old laptops running various distros inside VirtualBox under XP (yes, you might say I've got it around the wrong way, but these are also laptops I loan out to customers when their own equipment goes down, and they need the familiar logo), and apart from the speed of running under XP on older hardware, they're quite OK for day-to-day work.
http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/ in action.
Sausage? SAUSAGE?!?!?!?!
Okey doke - I have a mobile phone (a Nokia 3315 - it meets my needs and I want to see how long it will last), my wife and son have facebook accounts and mobile phones, but /., tech research and video editing/production take up enough of my time, I can't afford to spend hours, even minutes of a day on facebook, twitter, or even linkedin - and I really don't give a toss about people who do - I don't care one way or the other until it starts to affect me. We have a 55" LCD TV and a foxtel subscription, but the few watchable channels aren't worth the money, so I won't renew it. We have a collection of DVDs, and some decent catch-up/streaming services (e.g. www.abc.net.au/iview), so that'll serve my entertainment needs.
You're right - using a sarcasm tag would have been much quicker.
IT WAS A JOKE!
Perhaps we really do need some markup tags for jokes, sarcasm, irony, and for you, sir, condescension.
Perhaps I should have used better language, or a smiley face.
I WAS JOKING! Sheesh.
Wouldn't the "highest intelligence indicator" be applied to those who don't "do" facebook, twitter, etc?
Or did I just miss something flying over my head?
That's true - it just bugs me to hear people wanking on about how their phone has an 8MP camera, as if that's all that counts. I'd rather have a 4MP sensor with a decent lens than ANY phone camera.
Well, the credits of Barry Lyndon include a special thanks to Zeiss for the lenses.
Just goes to show, it's all in the glass - you can have as many megapixels as you want in the sensor, but if your lens isn't up to it, you're throwing away the potential of all those pixels.
I dream of the day we can have an x86 version of OS/400 (or whatever they call it these days).
It's not that black and white. Each installation needs its own specification. You go for a mix of technology. It's not JUST wind - you can put in some PV panels, and a wind turbine, maybe even a water turbine, maybe a fuel cell. Some places have good wind, many don't. Most places in tropical/temperate zones have reasonable or good solar resources, and some don't. Some places have permanent running water, most don't. And you don't design an off-grid system without a backup generator - yes, they use fossil fuel, but my experience is that it's still cheaper to have all that - in my case, solar PV, batteries, and backup generator - than it is to connect to the mains. At last quote in 2009, it was going to cost ~AUD$30,000 to connect me to the mains - 600 metres up the road. PLUS tree-clearing costs to put the poles in. It's financially feasible for me to have such a system, and you shouldn't say it's not for other people until you've conducted an energy audit for the consumer, and quoted on a suitable system.