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  1. Re:Here's another WTF on SSD Prices Continue 3-Year Plunge · · Score: 1

    Yeah - dropped = subtraction in my experience.

  2. Re:Kinda tiny on SSD Prices Continue 3-Year Plunge · · Score: 1

    That's why I don't own a laptop. Wait for the hybrids. I won't give up my desktop because it's just too cheap upgrade. And because I like that one of my screens doesn't have a foldout keyboard attached to it.

  3. Re:Can't wait on SSD Prices Continue 3-Year Plunge · · Score: 2

    They are supported natively. Use mklink from the command prompt. It's built in on at least Windows 7+.

  4. Re:Here's another WTF on SSD Prices Continue 3-Year Plunge · · Score: 1

    Language changes over time, often for the sake of shorthand. "To be" is often left off and simply implied in a lot of regional dialects now, especially combined with "needs."

  5. Re:WTF?!?!?! on SSD Prices Continue 3-Year Plunge · · Score: 1

    That might partly be because they don't already have an OEM agreement. For Samsung and Toshiba, it's just adding product lines to an existing HDD relationship.

  6. Re:Can't wait on SSD Prices Continue 3-Year Plunge · · Score: 2

    I keep reposting the same advice, but look into NTFS junction points. It's much safer than trying to pick a random folder to install to. They work like Symlinks on Unix-like systems.

  7. Re:Can't wait on SSD Prices Continue 3-Year Plunge · · Score: 1

    NTFS Junction Points. Learn to love them when you have an SSD.

  8. Re:Here's another WTF on SSD Prices Continue 3-Year Plunge · · Score: 4, Funny

    Assuming it's proper English to someone, I'd assume the logic goes like this.

    The price was $12, now it's $3. The price dropped by 300%. That is, 300% of the final price has been subtracted from the first price. It's complete nonsense, and completely backwards really.

  9. Re:Kinda tiny on SSD Prices Continue 3-Year Plunge · · Score: 1

    Those programs might be huge, but a lot of the large resource files can be symlinked (Unix) or junctioned (NTFS) off to another drive. Final Cut Studio would have taken dozens of GB on my computer if I hadn't done that.

  10. Re:Jay Gould on Single Microbe May Have Triggered the "Great Dying" · · Score: 1

    Common worldwide convention has The United States of America as the only current user of "United States" with the exception of maybe Mexico:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_(disambiguation)

    Sometimes people in The U.S.A. don't like to say American, because they think it's arrogant. I mean, one entire hemisphere is labeled America, between North and South.

  11. Re:Kinda tiny on SSD Prices Continue 3-Year Plunge · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Put your OS on it, and application binaries. You can have a second drive for everything else.

  12. Re:prices have dropped 300%.... on SSD Prices Continue 3-Year Plunge · · Score: 2

    Yeah. I wish that abuse of English would die a painful, horrible death. It might mean something to someone, but it doesn't mean anything to someone who thrives on math or logic.

  13. Re:Here's another WTF on SSD Prices Continue 3-Year Plunge · · Score: 1

    Yes, this is one phrase that people use that might mean something to a particular group of people, but sounds absolutely stupid to anyone else. I do not subscribe to that form of English.

  14. Re:Eheh and his mother was sane? on Adam Lanza Destroyed His Computer Before Rampage · · Score: 1

    Her major malfunction was being paranoid about expecting a full economic collapse, and stockpiling supplies - including the means to defend them.

  15. Re:Why physically damage the drive? on Adam Lanza Destroyed His Computer Before Rampage · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not that it matters. Modern hard drives are unrecoverable after one pass.

  16. Re:Why physically damage the drive? on Adam Lanza Destroyed His Computer Before Rampage · · Score: 1

    Oh yes, because his dead body has so much use for a working hard drive.

  17. Re:Everyone should be happy about this. on Why The Hobbit's 48fps Is a Good Thing · · Score: 1

    RealD uses polarized lenses and there's no perceptible ghosting of images at all. The movie was plenty bright, but brighter projectors are on the way.

  18. Re:Awkward... on Why The Hobbit's 48fps Is a Good Thing · · Score: 1

    Yes, the Radagast sled scenes were the worst. I don't think it was the 48fps, just bad compositing and motion blur mismatch.

  19. Re:Unfortunately, it's in 3D on Why The Hobbit's 48fps Is a Good Thing · · Score: 1

    When I say "get" 2 pairs of 3D glasses, have a couple friends bring back their 3D glasses instead of recycling them when they go to see it. It's also a great way to get extra pairs of glasses for a home 3D TV.

  20. Re:Unfortunately, it's in 3D on Why The Hobbit's 48fps Is a Good Thing · · Score: 1

    Make yourself a pair of "2D" glasses. Get 2 pairs of 3D glasses, and stick 2 left lenses in one, and 2 right lenses in the other. Don't flip the lens to make it fit better, or the polarization will be off. You'd still be paying the HFR 3D upcharge.

    You can also order 2D glasses online.

    Of course, 48fps was also done to try to reduce the headaches people were getting with 3D at 24fps.

  21. Re:Some people want to see ass on Why The Hobbit's 48fps Is a Good Thing · · Score: 1

    Right - given the amount of effort Pixar put in on the 3D re-release of Finding Nemo (e.g., resurrecting dead software), computing power didn't even factor into it.

  22. Re:Rather than shooting with more FPS on Why The Hobbit's 48fps Is a Good Thing · · Score: 1

    You would need something other than 3:2 pulldown for 48->60. 2:1:1:1 pull down or something like that.

  23. Re:Why? on Why The Hobbit's 48fps Is a Good Thing · · Score: 1

    720p60 is only possible on cable or satellite. It's certainly not possible on ATSC OTA. 720p on OTA is only 30 frames per second (or 29.97, don't remember). There isn't enough bandwidth for 720p60 over the air. So sports are usually broadcast OTA in 1080i for better motion.

    I wouldn't worry whether you're getting 1080i or 720p. Most providers are still overcompressing HD video so much it doesn't matter anyway.

  24. Re:Why? on Why The Hobbit's 48fps Is a Good Thing · · Score: 2

    The framerate (1/24 of a second) determines how much judder you get. The shutter speed determines the motion blur.

    The Hobbit does not use interpolation. It is shot at 48fps. Interpolation is used by 120Hz TV's to guess the intermediate frames and is a worthless technology in my mind. I only want to see the original framerate, whatever that may be, and of course motion blur is removed on the interpolated TV's, against the director's wishes.

    It doesn't do any analysis. The sensor is always on. There are two "bins" that get the data. Every 1/24 of a second, the 24fps frame is shot, and every 1/48 of a second the 48fps frames are shot.

    The RED Epic camera does NOT have a physical shutter:

    Unlike most HD video cameras, the Red Epic does not generate a video stream in-camera which represents its final product. Its real time monitoring outputs do not reflect the resolution and dynamic range captured in the raw files it records. The camera's live outputs are intended to be used for on-set monitoring, similarly to the way a video tap is often used with film-based acquisition.
    The shutter speed can be set to any value that would correspond to a shutter angle of 1 to 359 in a film camera without creating the artifacts that a mechanical shutter creates in such a camera. Rolling shutter artifacts haven been reduced significantly by the faster readout of the sensor compared to the Red One.

    Framerate on the Epic can be brought down to 1 fps to shoot time lapse footage with a user-definable shutter speed.
    The camera is based around a modular design concept. It has many mounting points for accessories like recording devices, viewfinders, etc. that can be mounted to the camera, rather than being integral parts of the body. Several cages, plates, and rail systems are available that provide protection or extra mounting points.

  25. Re:Why? on Why The Hobbit's 48fps Is a Good Thing · · Score: 1

    from the film. You can only get ghost images with a slow fade, slow refresh (phosphor) screen. You can't get any additional motion beyond your fps.