affordable, advanced handheld mobile communications devices coupled with social networking websites.
The number of times I've left a bar full of ignorant arseholes who seem more interested in their fucking facebook accounts than actual, flesh interaction with real people...
yes, driving or cycling with earphones or buds is completely illegal in the UK. Even Bluetooth headsets. If I'm a passenger in a car, I'm in the front passenger seat with the map/GPS. My driver has ONE JOB, and that's to make sure I get where I'm going in one piece. I'll do what I can to help him, and if that means I read the map, then I read the damn map.
I don't drive, I ride a bike, but one thing I do do if I'm heading into unfamiliar territory is to program the GPS *before* I set off and leave it on, high on the handlebar so the map is in view but not distracting. The volume is up as well so I get audio directions if I'm on a busy road so I don't have to look at the unit. I can pay full attention to other traffic. As for my phone: it's in my pocket, on silent. If it's urgent, they'll call back and keep trying until I'm in a position to answer (at a rest stop or at my destination).
I only use Virtualdub for a frameserver for batch downsampling for mobile devices now, never really used the editing facility in it (though I have used the capture which is pretty good). It takes care of that niggling problem of mobile device converters that can't handle 720p source (such as Atrix 4g (Motorola) and Aura QHD (Android/HTC Sensation) to name two that don't!)
Away from Linux (yes, I know!), I've just done a quick-n-dirty edit on two video clips and 15 photos, three separate soundtracks and various transitions in Nero 11. Yes, it was a royal pain in the arse to get the thing to keep the transitions (that was really the only thing that bothered me about the project), but eventually I ended up with a 720p stream (which is the same as the raw video format and some serious pulldown on the images, which are 14MP raw with minor cropping). I had to split the audio and video on the five minute video segment, which was fine as I had to boost the audio some, filter some mains hum (who knows where that came from, the camera was running on battery), and there were various cues to work with to synchronise them after trimming (being able to see the vicar's lips move and synch them with consonant markers in the waveform is a handy thing - just having the edited audio still open in Audacity, on a separate screen, is a great thing to be able to do). Did I really have to split a/v? Probably not, but it's an old habit from my VT days that I'm not about to break.
Trimming the video was fairly simple: import 720p, cutting tool, export result. Nero again. Wasn't too bothered about the audio at that point, as I was going back to that with AoA Audio Extractor (which pulls wav audio from the stream) and Audacity on audio from the original raw file.
If you can't edit raw video without pulling down (save that for finalising!), then you need a more powerful computer. 6GB RAM and a dual core was fine for the entire edit and almost-realtime finalising of this project which ran to 8 minutes. AFAIK most editors can use raw video.
I use Backstreet. OK it's £13 after the 30-day trial, but it's bloody handy to have a full relinking of crawled content so you can pretty much pull a website, import it into a VM, and do what you want to do there. Me? I PDF what I download using Acrobat X batch conversion then run the fulltext indexing engine. Considering it's all running on a VM it ain't half fast, even if it is currently holding an index of 6 million pages.
Oh yeah, and it runs on Linux via WinE. Not that I run it on Linux, I run it native in Win7 64-bit.
my point is (and I apologise if I didn't make it obvious) that this isn't news. IA has archived the internet, and done a fairly decent job of it. The BL is off on a "Me Too!" campaign and the BBC are all over it like it's a first.
um... the Atlas and the Titan were ICBM launch platforms. NASA discovered a secondary use as Mercury and Gemini launchers.
In fact, the whole entire space program is an incidental to ballistic missile technology developed by Nazi Germany, for weapons of mass destruction, during the Second World War.
"Kim..." "WHAT?" "Eat your Snickers." "WHY!?" "'Cos you turn into a right megalomaniac when you're hungry."::CHOMP!:: "...Better?" "Oppa Gangnam Syle!"
erm... Trinity was the only static test before Hiroshima and Nagasaki (both retard drops from planes), since then the US has conducted **thousands** of test detonations from altitude, at ground level/on towers, submarine and subterranean.
Hirohito had actually tried to surrender BEFORE HIROSHIMA. Little Boy and Fat Man were exercises in State-sanctioned mass murder, not ending a war - it had ALREADY ENDED.
I don't think anyone really knows, there were massive lithium deposits found around 1998-2000 though... you know, that stuff used in laptop batteries and NUCLEAR TRIGGERS.
You missed the Falklands War, didn't you? I lived through it. Mrs. Thatcher said "Send the whole bloody fleet down there!" and it was done. Argentina got their arses well and truly handed to them, which they have not forgotten - they deployed the Hand of God at the 1986 World Cup and deprived Britain of her rightful place as soccer champions. The only reason they haven't made good on their threats to retake the Falklands *now* is because they remember what happened *then*.
Oh, by the way: Argentina's current leader is a woman.
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affordable, advanced handheld mobile communications devices coupled with social networking websites.
The number of times I've left a bar full of ignorant arseholes who seem more interested in their fucking facebook accounts than actual, flesh interaction with real people...
yes, driving or cycling with earphones or buds is completely illegal in the UK. Even Bluetooth headsets. If I'm a passenger in a car, I'm in the front passenger seat with the map/GPS. My driver has ONE JOB, and that's to make sure I get where I'm going in one piece. I'll do what I can to help him, and if that means I read the map, then I read the damn map.
I don't drive, I ride a bike, but one thing I do do if I'm heading into unfamiliar territory is to program the GPS *before* I set off and leave it on, high on the handlebar so the map is in view but not distracting. The volume is up as well so I get audio directions if I'm on a busy road so I don't have to look at the unit. I can pay full attention to other traffic. As for my phone: it's in my pocket, on silent. If it's urgent, they'll call back and keep trying until I'm in a position to answer (at a rest stop or at my destination).
Why don't GPS units or GPS-equipped phones have projector heads for windshield HUDs?
I only use Virtualdub for a frameserver for batch downsampling for mobile devices now, never really used the editing facility in it (though I have used the capture which is pretty good). It takes care of that niggling problem of mobile device converters that can't handle 720p source (such as Atrix 4g (Motorola) and Aura QHD (Android/HTC Sensation) to name two that don't!)
Away from Linux (yes, I know!), I've just done a quick-n-dirty edit on two video clips and 15 photos, three separate soundtracks and various transitions in Nero 11. Yes, it was a royal pain in the arse to get the thing to keep the transitions (that was really the only thing that bothered me about the project), but eventually I ended up with a 720p stream (which is the same as the raw video format and some serious pulldown on the images, which are 14MP raw with minor cropping). I had to split the audio and video on the five minute video segment, which was fine as I had to boost the audio some, filter some mains hum (who knows where that came from, the camera was running on battery), and there were various cues to work with to synchronise them after trimming (being able to see the vicar's lips move and synch them with consonant markers in the waveform is a handy thing - just having the edited audio still open in Audacity, on a separate screen, is a great thing to be able to do). Did I really have to split a/v? Probably not, but it's an old habit from my VT days that I'm not about to break.
Trimming the video was fairly simple: import 720p, cutting tool, export result. Nero again. Wasn't too bothered about the audio at that point, as I was going back to that with AoA Audio Extractor (which pulls wav audio from the stream) and Audacity on audio from the original raw file.
If you can't edit raw video without pulling down (save that for finalising!), then you need a more powerful computer. 6GB RAM and a dual core was fine for the entire edit and almost-realtime finalising of this project which ran to 8 minutes. AFAIK most editors can use raw video.
streaming it in about ten minutes... Windows Time...
Or, "Sometime before the Universe dies a heat death, thank you!"
*that's* where I've seen it before! RISC OS 3 had it!
Incidentally, it is also an option on RISC OS Open for the Raspberry Pi :)
I still have a copy of SuSE Pro 7 somewhere, that has a fuzzy time clock on KDE.
I use Backstreet. OK it's £13 after the 30-day trial, but it's bloody handy to have a full relinking of crawled content so you can pretty much pull a website, import it into a VM, and do what you want to do there. Me? I PDF what I download using Acrobat X batch conversion then run the fulltext indexing engine. Considering it's all running on a VM it ain't half fast, even if it is currently holding an index of 6 million pages.
Oh yeah, and it runs on Linux via WinE. Not that I run it on Linux, I run it native in Win7 64-bit.
I use YYYY/MM/DD. By extension, HH:MM:SS. Logical.
my point is (and I apologise if I didn't make it obvious) that this isn't news. IA has archived the internet, and done a fairly decent job of it. The BL is off on a "Me Too!" campaign and the BBC are all over it like it's a first.
um... the Atlas and the Titan were ICBM launch platforms. NASA discovered a secondary use as Mercury and Gemini launchers.
In fact, the whole entire space program is an incidental to ballistic missile technology developed by Nazi Germany, for weapons of mass destruction, during the Second World War.
"Kim..." ::CHOMP!::
"WHAT?"
"Eat your Snickers."
"WHY!?"
"'Cos you turn into a right megalomaniac when you're hungry."
"...Better?"
"Oppa Gangnam Syle!"
...typically British utter redundancy.
oh, how about a TRUCK?
How about a nice game of chess?
erm... Trinity was the only static test before Hiroshima and Nagasaki (both retard drops from planes), since then the US has conducted **thousands** of test detonations from altitude, at ground level/on towers, submarine and subterranean.
Hirohito had actually tried to surrender BEFORE HIROSHIMA. Little Boy and Fat Man were exercises in State-sanctioned mass murder, not ending a war - it had ALREADY ENDED.
I don't think anyone really knows, there were massive lithium deposits found around 1998-2000 though... you know, that stuff used in laptop batteries and NUCLEAR TRIGGERS.
Entering "starving children in the usa" yields 2.3 million hits.
I don't think it's empty rhetoric.
There were WMDs, Rumsfeld had the receipts.
What was sadly lacking, however, was the means to properly store them, and when it came time, to properly deploy them.
So what the post-invasion inspectors found was a bunch of corroded and EMPTY barrels.
You missed the Falklands War, didn't you? I lived through it. Mrs. Thatcher said "Send the whole bloody fleet down there!" and it was done. Argentina got their arses well and truly handed to them, which they have not forgotten - they deployed the Hand of God at the 1986 World Cup and deprived Britain of her rightful place as soccer champions. The only reason they haven't made good on their threats to retake the Falklands *now* is because they remember what happened *then*.
Oh, by the way: Argentina's current leader is a woman.
um... he did, he bats for the other team?
heh... HSBC made their inroads on the Opium Highway.