Well, considering that a datacine scanning at 2k lines of resolution has to employ a degraining algorithm to keep the result from looking like crap, I honestly don't think it's going to be much of an issue. The 4k scan WB is doing should preserve more than enough of the information you're talking about.
I think paralelizing would be impractical, since the Spirit 4k, which AFAIK is the only datacine capable of 4k lines of resolution, has a base price of $1.2M.
Even if you have the money, though, availability might be an issue. I don't know how many of these are out there, but IIRC there are maybe 200 of the older Spirit 2ks in the world, and the 4k hasn't been on the market very long (less than a year I think).
The good news is that it'll do 4k res scans at 7fps, so it's a bit faster than the above estimate. Of course, they probably have to do the strips seperately, so you can effectively divide that by 3.
It's time consuming for the professional, too. The Spirit 4k, which is what they have to be using, scans at 4k lines of resolution at about 7fps. It'll do 2k lines at around 30fps.
It doesn't seem like it would be that difficult to set up something with a stepper motor or two that would similarly automate the process for the home user.
The device to do this is called a telecine, and the technology is as old as television (how do you think they did it before video tape?) Newer ones that convert straight to digital are called datacines.
Until recently I worked for Technicolor (actually Thomson Broadcast & Media Solutions, which operates under the brand names Technicolor and Grass Valley) and actually helped service the machine that's being used to do this, the Spirit 4k datacine (minor suport role, it wasn't my primary product).
You could have your films scanned on one of these if you wanted to, though it would cost you a bit. IIRC the base model is about $1.2M, and there are maybe 100-250 of them in the world (I never had a need to look at sales data, that's just what I heard, and that number includes the older 2k line model.) They are mostly privately owned, though, and can be hired by anyone who wants to pay the price.
I wouldn't recommend it though. See, when the 2k model was first seeing action in the real world there were some complaints of occasional odd visual distortions. Analysis revealed that it was actually because at that resolution the scanner was starting to pick up the grain of the film. Obviously, that sort of thing can be delt with in post-processing, so it's not like it's totally pointless to go to those resolutions. I do think it would be a bit too much for 8mm, though.
Yes, that makes it all clear. You have fallen into the trap of armchair intellectuals everywhere. You're so busy whining about how difficult it is to effect change that you've never bothered to actually try it, and thus you've never discovered the simple truth that if you had instead started doing back when you started whining, you'd most likely already be done, and moved on to some other cause.
You are your own gatekeeper. The only thing keeping you out of the law is you, repeatedly telling yourself you aren't allowed to enter.
If you think any of Kafka's stories reflect the real world, you're not only a fool, you're a defeatist.
May be it is because Microsoft donates money and its software to the schools at subsidized prices that not many students learn about Linux?"
Well, I learned "computers" on Apple IIe and Commodore PET, and I (and everyone I know) have managed to figure out Windows just fine, and those of us with a reason to have not had much trouble gaining an equivalent knowledge of Linux, or MacOS either.
This has always seemed like kind of a dead horse to me.
Heh, maybe India needs some sort of H1-B program...
Maybe in a small town where the cops just sit around all day waiting for something to happen. In any metropolitn area, though, the cops have the built in excuse that they just don't have enough manpower to enforce all the laws all the time. They have to catch what they can.
It depends on the offense, too. If the whole freeway is moving along at 15mph over the speed limit, and you're the one the pick to make an example of, too bad for you.
I see people with stuff hanging all the time, mainly parking permits and air "fresheners", but sometimes other stuff.
There's plenty of other stuff though, even stuff that's "stock" from the manufacturer, like tinted front windows.
My personal favorite (that's been used on me) was that the ball hitch on my back bumper was obscuring my license plate. Of course, we both knew the real reason was that I was driving through marijuana country during harvest season in a "growers truck" (mid-80s mini-truck, white, beige, or yellow, somewhat beat up). For the record, my purpose for being there had nothing to do with drugs.
They haven't changed the law, and you might want to find out what, exactly this guy supposedly "won", because they most certainly can still arrest you for refusing to show them ID.
My suspicion is that the ruling said something to the effect that they have to have some reasonable cause to ask you for it. I'd also guess it was based on a complaint of racial profiling, which is reasonable if he was walking, not so reasonable for someone who's driving (try determining the race of the person in front of you while you're driving down the freeway sometime).
No, I can't point you to the law right now. I'll try and remember to ask tomorrow.
I hardly see how that's applicable, unless it's meant as a cop-out. Maybe you don't like it, but not enough to do something about it?
It certainly isn't the case that "the State has provided no way", and neither was it the case for Thoreau. The Constitution does provide a mechanism by which it can be ammended.
If the officer really doesn't have a reason, he's an idiot. But, it's real easy for him to come up with a reason if he has to. For example, in CA, it's illegal to have anything hanging from your rear-view mirror. How many people do you know who _aren't_ in violation of that one?
I still want to know why we weren't in Iraq around 1993
I believe that's explained in Bush I's recent official biography. I haven't read it, that's just what I've heard. IIRC the reason was that we would have ended up in exactly the situation we're in now.
If you're riding in a car and a cop pulls it over, they have no right at all to demand ID, any more than if you were just walking down the street.
Don't bet on that.
In California anyone over 18 is required to have ID on their person, and produce it at the request of a police officer. If you refuse you can, and probably will, be arrested. Whether you're driving, or just walking down the street, doesn't matter.
The fact is they can walk up to you anywhere, with or without a car and demand ID. If you refuse, you can go to jail. Period.
Yup. But, that's the law, and you can look it up and verify it for yourself. And, if you don't like it, you can write up an innitiative that repeals it and start gathering signatures.
What i said was that MS is not obligated to support WINE, I didn't say a thing about them intentionally breaking things in their products.
Well, that's exactly what they are doing.
MS is under a legal obligation not to tie Office to Windows. If they take action to prevent non-Windows users from updating their copy of Office, they are going against that obligation.
For any other company I would agree with you, but Microsoft, because they have been declared a monopoly, has to play by different rules.
Maybe you should learn a little something about how Wine works before you start leveling baseless accusations. Unless, perhaps, you like looking like an idiot?
Yeah, Wine can use DLLs from an existing Windows installation. As long as that copy of Windows is legit, the owner is perfectly free to do that (it's called "First Sale", look it up). If the copy of Windows isn't legit, well, it was pirated already, and that has fuck-all to do with Wine, especially since it's been years since Wine has actually needed to have any part of a real Windows installation available in order to function.
Yeah, I know that. That doesn't mean every distro uses it, and I'm pretty sure Mandrake is one that doesn't.
Connectiva was a UnitedLinux partner, and UnitedLinux was based on Suse, which in many ways means it was based on Yast. My question was if Connectiva also used Yast in their "regular" distro, and if, now that SCO has pretty much killed UL, their still using Yast at all. If they do, then my follow-up would be: what is Mandrake going to do?
Yast kicks ass, and it's what makes Suse the best distro of all, IMNSHO. People keep talking about how Linux needs to standardize, and Yast would be a great admin tool to pick for the job.
What makes you think MS is _required_ to give you any updates whatsoever for any of their products?...If they aren't required to support Windows 95, how are they required to support the latest MS Office under WINE?...Furthermore, that box for MS Office that you bought says explicticly on it that it requires windows,
Since you seem to have missed the news:
MICROSOFT WINDOWS HAS BEEN LEGALLY DECLARED A MONOPOLY
This means that it is ILLEGAL for them block use of their other products, such as Office, on other platforms. It is an anti-trust violation. All your other handwaving about Win95 and 486s is completely irrelevant.
If there are problems with WINE itself, they are the ones you should be registering your complaints with.
The problem isn't with Wine. The problem is being caused by Microsoft, and since THEY are the ones who are blocking updates to their products for certain customers, THEY are the ones who need to recieve the complaints.
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Well, considering that a datacine scanning at 2k lines of resolution has to employ a degraining algorithm to keep the result from looking like crap, I honestly don't think it's going to be much of an issue. The 4k scan WB is doing should preserve more than enough of the information you're talking about.
According to Thomson there are 11 Spirit 4ks, and Warner Bros. has 2 of them.
I think paralelizing would be impractical, since the Spirit 4k, which AFAIK is the only datacine capable of 4k lines of resolution, has a base price of $1.2M.
Even if you have the money, though, availability might be an issue. I don't know how many of these are out there, but IIRC there are maybe 200 of the older Spirit 2ks in the world, and the 4k hasn't been on the market very long (less than a year I think).
The good news is that it'll do 4k res scans at 7fps, so it's a bit faster than the above estimate. Of course, they probably have to do the strips seperately, so you can effectively divide that by 3.
It's time consuming for the professional, too. The Spirit 4k, which is what they have to be using, scans at 4k lines of resolution at about 7fps. It'll do 2k lines at around 30fps.
It doesn't seem like it would be that difficult to set up something with a stepper motor or two that would similarly automate the process for the home user.
The device to do this is called a telecine, and the technology is as old as television (how do you think they did it before video tape?) Newer ones that convert straight to digital are called datacines.
Until recently I worked for Technicolor (actually Thomson Broadcast & Media Solutions, which operates under the brand names Technicolor and Grass Valley) and actually helped service the machine that's being used to do this, the Spirit 4k datacine (minor suport role, it wasn't my primary product).
You could have your films scanned on one of these if you wanted to, though it would cost you a bit. IIRC the base model is about $1.2M, and there are maybe 100-250 of them in the world (I never had a need to look at sales data, that's just what I heard, and that number includes the older 2k line model.) They are mostly privately owned, though, and can be hired by anyone who wants to pay the price.
I wouldn't recommend it though. See, when the 2k model was first seeing action in the real world there were some complaints of occasional odd visual distortions. Analysis revealed that it was actually because at that resolution the scanner was starting to pick up the grain of the film. Obviously, that sort of thing can be delt with in post-processing, so it's not like it's totally pointless to go to those resolutions. I do think it would be a bit too much for 8mm, though.
Yes, that makes it all clear. You have fallen into the trap of armchair intellectuals everywhere. You're so busy whining about how difficult it is to effect change that you've never bothered to actually try it, and thus you've never discovered the simple truth that if you had instead started doing back when you started whining, you'd most likely already be done, and moved on to some other cause.
You are your own gatekeeper. The only thing keeping you out of the law is you, repeatedly telling yourself you aren't allowed to enter.
If you think any of Kafka's stories reflect the real world, you're not only a fool, you're a defeatist.
May be it is because Microsoft donates money and its software to the schools at subsidized prices that not many students learn about Linux?"
Well, I learned "computers" on Apple IIe and Commodore PET, and I (and everyone I know) have managed to figure out Windows just fine, and those of us with a reason to have not had much trouble gaining an equivalent knowledge of Linux, or MacOS either.
This has always seemed like kind of a dead horse to me.
Heh, maybe India needs some sort of H1-B program...
Maybe in a small town where the cops just sit around all day waiting for something to happen. In any metropolitn area, though, the cops have the built in excuse that they just don't have enough manpower to enforce all the laws all the time. They have to catch what they can.
It depends on the offense, too. If the whole freeway is moving along at 15mph over the speed limit, and you're the one the pick to make an example of, too bad for you.
I see people with stuff hanging all the time, mainly parking permits and air "fresheners", but sometimes other stuff.
There's plenty of other stuff though, even stuff that's "stock" from the manufacturer, like tinted front windows.
My personal favorite (that's been used on me) was that the ball hitch on my back bumper was obscuring my license plate. Of course, we both knew the real reason was that I was driving through marijuana country during harvest season in a "growers truck" (mid-80s mini-truck, white, beige, or yellow, somewhat beat up). For the record, my purpose for being there had nothing to do with drugs.
They haven't changed the law, and you might want to find out what, exactly this guy supposedly "won", because they most certainly can still arrest you for refusing to show them ID.
My suspicion is that the ruling said something to the effect that they have to have some reasonable cause to ask you for it. I'd also guess it was based on a complaint of racial profiling, which is reasonable if he was walking, not so reasonable for someone who's driving (try determining the race of the person in front of you while you're driving down the freeway sometime).
No, I can't point you to the law right now. I'll try and remember to ask tomorrow.
I hardly see how that's applicable, unless it's meant as a cop-out. Maybe you don't like it, but not enough to do something about it?
It certainly isn't the case that "the State has provided no way", and neither was it the case for Thoreau. The Constitution does provide a mechanism by which it can be ammended.
Ah.
Perhaps I should RTFA.
If the officer really doesn't have a reason, he's an idiot. But, it's real easy for him to come up with a reason if he has to. For example, in CA, it's illegal to have anything hanging from your rear-view mirror. How many people do you know who _aren't_ in violation of that one?
I still want to know why we weren't in Iraq around 1993
I believe that's explained in Bush I's recent official biography. I haven't read it, that's just what I've heard. IIRC the reason was that we would have ended up in exactly the situation we're in now.
I agree, this super-secret-rule is annoying, but is anyone really worried about what it really protects?
Irrelevant. If it's allowed to stand it sets a precedent, which is the beginning of a slippery slope.
"Secret Laws" go against everything America is supposed to stand for.
If you're riding in a car and a cop pulls it over, they have no right at all to demand ID, any more than if you were just walking down the street.
Don't bet on that.
In California anyone over 18 is required to have ID on their person, and produce it at the request of a police officer. If you refuse you can, and probably will, be arrested. Whether you're driving, or just walking down the street, doesn't matter.
IANAL, but my wife is a CHP Officer.
No way. This is my country, and I'm not giving it up.
The fact is they can walk up to you anywhere, with or without a car and demand ID. If you refuse, you can go to jail. Period.
Yup. But, that's the law, and you can look it up and verify it for yourself. And, if you don't like it, you can write up an innitiative that repeals it and start gathering signatures.
I'm wondering why he doesn't sue? A secret law would seem to be in violation of a few parts of the Constitution.
They've at least proven competent enough to pass a driving test. It might not be much, but it's better than nothing.
It is _not_ WINE, it is ... WINE
Uh-huh.
What i said was that MS is not obligated to support WINE, I didn't say a thing about them intentionally breaking things in their products.
Well, that's exactly what they are doing.
MS is under a legal obligation not to tie Office to Windows. If they take action to prevent non-Windows users from updating their copy of Office, they are going against that obligation.
For any other company I would agree with you, but Microsoft, because they have been declared a monopoly, has to play by different rules.
Oh? Then explain how this is not tying Office to Windows.
As for reading, how about the Sherman Act, followed by the MS anti-trust settlement.
Maybe you should learn a little something about how Wine works before you start leveling baseless accusations. Unless, perhaps, you like looking like an idiot?
Yeah, Wine can use DLLs from an existing Windows installation. As long as that copy of Windows is legit, the owner is perfectly free to do that (it's called "First Sale", look it up). If the copy of Windows isn't legit, well, it was pirated already, and that has fuck-all to do with Wine, especially since it's been years since Wine has actually needed to have any part of a real Windows installation available in order to function.
Yeah, I know that. That doesn't mean every distro uses it, and I'm pretty sure Mandrake is one that doesn't.
Connectiva was a UnitedLinux partner, and UnitedLinux was based on Suse, which in many ways means it was based on Yast. My question was if Connectiva also used Yast in their "regular" distro, and if, now that SCO has pretty much killed UL, their still using Yast at all. If they do, then my follow-up would be: what is Mandrake going to do?
Yast kicks ass, and it's what makes Suse the best distro of all, IMNSHO. People keep talking about how Linux needs to standardize, and Yast would be a great admin tool to pick for the job.
What makes you think MS is _required_ to give you any updates whatsoever for any of their products?...If they aren't required to support Windows 95, how are they required to support the latest MS Office under WINE?...Furthermore, that box for MS Office that you bought says explicticly on it that it requires windows,
Since you seem to have missed the news:
MICROSOFT WINDOWS HAS BEEN LEGALLY DECLARED A MONOPOLY
This means that it is ILLEGAL for them block use of their other products, such as Office, on other platforms. It is an anti-trust violation. All your other handwaving about Win95 and 486s is completely irrelevant.
If there are problems with WINE itself, they are the ones you should be registering your complaints with.
The problem isn't with Wine. The problem is being caused by Microsoft, and since THEY are the ones who are blocking updates to their products for certain customers, THEY are the ones who need to recieve the complaints.
Oh, and Crossover Office IS Wine.