My final concern: how will my word processor know the difference between an abbr. and the end of a sentence (so it can stretch the sentence for me)? I don't use a capital letter for certain technical words (even when they start a sentence), making it both harder to programmatically detect a new sentence and more important to do so. What does the Slashdot community think?"
Learn how to type. You sound like a teenager who uses acronymns in their English paper, and when they get an F on it, just complain "Well, the word processor didn't correct it for me".
As far as using one space or two, I have seen a few word processors that won't let you do two. I have seen some that, if you have a period followed by a space and a capital letter, it will add an extra space. Truthfully, I don't think it really matters. Just learn how to type, and quit expecting the word processor to fix everything for you.
The poster, however, did state he was looking to enter Mobile arena.
COBOL is not as big as people may think. It may vary by geogrphical location, but COBOL jobs in my geographical area are practicatlly non-existant. 12 years ago, you may have gotten a job fixing Y2K bugs, but, and this is just me speculating, if a company is still using COBOL, its because their stuff has worked for 30+ years, and probably have no need for a maintainer.
To directly address the poster's question, I suggest starting with reaquainting yourself with Pascal. Once you do that, you will notice that C is EXACTLY THE SAME THING with different syntax. Start with basic stuff, Hello World, some basic text input, some simple logic statements, until you get the hang of the new syntax. Then break into, oh gosh, what are they called, modules? That doesn't sound right. I can see the code in my mind, but its been 12 years since I have dealt with C, and forgot the term.
After that, start playing with Object Oriented portions of C. I imagine at a leasurely pace, you can be here in a week or two (maybe three if you are lazy). You can learn a LOT here. Then you can start playing with C++ and C#.
Do you know Basic at all? If so, I HIGHLY recommend Visual Basic as a good start for GUI programming. It will teach you the basics of programming for a GUI enviornment without having to worry about the language.
Once you get those two things down, you can then start getting into other stuff, GUI in C, and stuff. With your experience, you should be making simple GUI interfaces in C in probably 2-5 weeks, depending on how motivated you are.
After you get object-oriented stuff in C down, THEN start looking at Java and other languages. I almost dare to say that Java is practically a derivative of C, but might get yelled at. You can deffinately see that Java is inspired by C. You will then notice that other languages such as Python get their insperation from C and Java.
In a nutshell, refamilerize yourself with Pascal first, and use that as your springboard into other languages. Make sure you remember how to do object-oriented programing before diving into Java, Python and other languages, otherwise you will frustrate yourself to no end trying to refreash your mind while at the same time trying to learn a language. Start familer, jumpstart your brain, then launch into other areas.
After you have tackled the languages themselves, you then may want to look at tackling OpenGL.
Completely agree. I lost the one I loved too two years ago. Got the living will and all that laid out as well, as well as putting a disc of videos and pictures and final wishes on a disc that is in my BFFs locked box in case something should happen to me. I am an organ donor and tissue donor. Yes, i WANT to be with her, and actually death thrills me. Doesn't mean I am ready to kill myself. Don't mistake "loosing the will to live" with "suicidal". They are not the same.
Well, I watched it without audio, but here is what I saw. Motorcycalist is being stupid. Cop pulls him over. Here is my problem - unmarked police car, plainclothesman officer, does not identify himself, just pulls out a gun, guy jumps off his motorcycle. Looks like a carjacking to me. Gee, I wonder why MD didn't want this video getting around.
I am pretty sure that, unless you live down the street from me, or there is some weird law I don't know about, your tax dollars are not funding schools in my area, they are funding schools in your area. As for the "tax breaks" you refer to, they are no different than that which is offered to any other non-profit charity. Last I checked, the government still gets a big chunk of my paycheck.
So, your tax dollars are not funding religion, and we still pay taxes. So please, tell me how this is affecting you?
Actually, we do have classes on mythology and dead gods. And yes, Scientology should be included, although they may have issues with us teaching their views for free
No, no its not - the EARTH and the SOL system is only 6,000 years old. Did you ever actually read the Bible?
First this: God created the Heavens and Earth—all you see, all you don't see. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God's Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss.
3-5 God spoke: "Light!"
And light appeared.
God saw that light was good
and separated light from dark.
God named the light Day,
he named the dark Night.
It was evening, it was morning—
Day One.
6-8 God spoke: "Sky! In the middle of the waters;
separate water from water!"
God made sky.
He separated the water under sky
from the water above sky.
And there it was:
he named sky the Heavens;
It was evening, it was morning—
Day Two.
9-10 God spoke: "Separate!
Water-beneath-Heaven, gather into one place;
Land, appear!"
And there it was.
God named the land Earth.
He named the pooled water Ocean.
God saw that it was good.
That's from The Message translation, I used it for readability purposes. Anyways, it (the Bible) never says God created the Universe in one day (read other translations if you wish). In fact, it says that on day 1, he created the Sun, and on Day 3 he created the Earth. What a concept, the sun is older than the Earth, and the Universe is older than the Sun. Funny that science doesn't teach us anything like that (oh, wait, it does).
If you continue reading, the first things to appear on earth are plants, followed by creatures in the water, followed by land animals, followed by man. Too bad science doesn't teach us anytihng like that. Oh wait, it does, its called Evolution.:-)
So, either the writter of Genesis knew some 3500 years ago a few things about science, or had some help writing it by something or someone outside of this world.
This may sound weird coming from someone who believes in Creationism, but I agree. Creationism is not a science but a belief, and should not be taught in Science Class.
Teaching it in school, though, is a whole different issue, which is what I am for. My local district teaches religous courses as electives, and covers religions other than just Christianity. Its basically the best way that I know of to please everyone, Evolution is taught in science, Creationism is taught in religion, and offering the religion class says, "We understand that there are different viewpoints, and we are presenting them, in their proper light".
In summery, offer religion based classes to students, but don't mistake beliefs as science. Shoot, you can go as far as to require religion based classes IF you cover different religions, and call it diversity sensitivity training (some people on Slashdot could probably benefit from diversity training). Then let kids make up their own minds. Teachers should not pressure a kid at any time by saying the other one is wrong, or by presenting their personal views.
So keep creationism out of science, but do offer religious beliefs as a class outside of science.
In forty years, those slides will still be sitting in a box and will be viewable. However, it's not like you can put a DVD/CD in your attic and let it sit there, forgotten, for 40years.
I'm sorry, but this just seems to me to be the old analogue versus digital flame all over again. The problem with this argument is that you are assuming that all storage conditions are failsafe.
I live in an area with high humidity. Most of my prints I have felt over the years have been stored with great care. I am finding humidity has crept into many of my prints and pictures are sticking together. Luckily for these, I still have negatives.
Digital pictures that I took ten years ago still look like they did the day I shot them. I have archived to DVDs and storage media, as well as having them present online. While writable discs do deteriorate, I reburn every few years.
A worse case scenario happened to my aunt. Her daughter passed away a little over two years ago. Afterwards, she went through pictures, and when she went to store them, they were at the top of the box, along with the negatives, because they were the last ones they looked at. It turns out that the storage facility she used had a leak. While they paid her for damages, most of the pictures are waterdamaged now. the prints and the negatives. I have taken great time trying to scan these and photoshop where I can, with some of the results coming out very well, but many are beyond recovering, especially as many pictures were taken in the late 80s and early 90s, where girls wore colored print blouses and such.
The worst thing about these prints is most people did nto even know they existed. Now that they are scanned and restored, they are on facebook and Walmart and Walgreens, multiple people have been able to get prints and store them to their computer, and so forth. Multiple people can now enjoy these photos, and if something happens to mine, I know there are backups out there now.
Many photos taken before, oh, around 1985, tend to have really bad color fade - especially prints made at KMart. Most can be restored to a point, but most, the color is so far faded, you just can't do anything with.
AT&T in my area is the old Cingular which is the old Southwestern Bell. I also live in Texas, which means lots of rural areas. Outside of the major cities, I do seem to get on older Edge networks, and in some cases, some stuff that predate Edge (I get voice only calls), but 3G service is expanding in many of the areas I travel to. I now have 3G coverage along pretty much all of 377 and 281 and 67. Metro doesn't cover most of that area at all, Verizon is spotty, Sprint, ha, HORRIBLE coverage. T-Mobile seems to be the second best in this area, but AT&T is king. There are places I get signal and even data (maybe not the fastest) where other's don't get signal AT ALL.
I have also had very good luck traveling with it. In the mountains around Tucson, coverage is spoty because of geographic barriers, but, I have e-mailed pictures from the top of mountains there. All the other networks did not even have coverage (should point out my signal was low, but I do seem to consistantly get a signal, no one else does).
AT&T is also the company that comes in and installs repeaters in office buildings, hospitals, airports, etc in the area.
This doesn't mean that AT&T is perfect. There are areas in this metropolitan area that, while AT&T provides coverage, there just doesn't seem to be enough bandwidth for the amount of people on the network. Luckily, I haven't gotten a "The network is jammed" message in years, but data speeds are incredibly slow. AT&T is adding capacity though. You can see it, just not quite as fast as we would like.
Mod parent up, I was going to suggest this if noone else did. It has a full blown version (free), as well as one specifically tweaked for mobil devices (also free). Use h264, and I recommend one encode per device. I am not sure about the android, but the iPhone is REALLY picky over the resolution of its videos.
Also, if you have some Adobe Suites laying around, Adobe Media Encoder is SWEET, especially if you have CS5. I know it has presets for iPhone, and CS5 will hopefully have presets for Android as well
This is where I show my complete lack of understanding on this subject. They are lifting the antenna 5 milimeters? Who are they hiring to work on this, Smurfs and Fraggles? I don't see how raising an antenna by 5mm is going to give a human any significantly larger area to work with.
Why would satellite be last resort? Just have some sort of gyro or something to make sure the dish stays pointed at the satellite - you should get halfway decent speeds, and have access from just about anywhere in the world. And at a halfway decent price - if you can convince HughesNet to install on a boat.
Well, you would technically be in international waters, so you are not under anyone's jurisdiction. I've often wondered what I could get away with if I had a small deserted island somewhere
Didn't realize there was something other than DCT available. Have to look into this, although, as all my source material is using some DCT compression, I doubt I will see much benefit
Shoot, iTunes isn't my favorite store. I was a Napster user, and now a Rhapsody user, because they have an iPhone app. $15 a month all you can listen to sounds like a fair deal to me. Yet in the past four months, I have spent about $200 (not including apps) on iTunes? Why? Cause its so easy to tag a song with Shazam and buy the song straight from iTunes. If Rhapsody would just introduce song tagging, ability to store the downloads on the device, and the ability to have more than, what's the limit, 800 songs in your library, I would never buy another song from iTunes.
Other music lovers get on me becuase they say that the sound quality on iTunes is not up to par with CD quality. I listen to music in three ways 1) iPhone with my headphones, 2) in my car on my factory insalled speakers, and 3) and this is rare, at home, on my sound system. As the ways I normally listen to music is through less than ideal speaker conditions, the sound quality on iTunes and Rhapsody is fine for me.
There are only two reasons I ever buy CDs - I will buy them directly from the artists (mainly independant), or I I can't find them on iTunes (mainly international artists - don't know why iTunes restricts music searches by country - if you have a direct link to the artist, you can still download them in the US). A few of my friends in the music business say that they get about the same amount of money from me getting their songs on Rhapsody through a subscription as they get if I buy the album from Amazon or a store - it averages out to about 20 cents or so per album sold. If you buy the CD straight from them, they make about $5-$10 per CD. That is the independant artist. I have one friend who is signed, and they make far less than that, but sell way more.
http://www.tsl-game.com/ (This actually did recieve a takedown notice, two weeks before they were supposed to go live, but they worked things out with the copyright holders)
Back to the original article, VP8 does have a point - I have noticed myself when I have to recompress material (for whatever reason) in the same format, I get faster speed and less artifacts introduced than I do when I convert to another format. This is nothing new - been dealing with this since I started messing with video 14 years ago.
And, duh, if the video is uncompressed, it is always going to yeild faster processing times and less artifacts than something converted from another format.
To comment on the parent, assuming that content will usually already have been compressed in H.264 is short sited - still plenty of people compressing in WMV, Indeo, MJPEG, and other implementations of MPEG4 that are NOT H.264.
I think the parent should have said "The source content is usually already in some comrpession format" rather than saying its h.264. In fact, I haven't seen in years something that doesn't default to some compression format. Even HDV encodes in MPEG-2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDV#Video_and_audio_coding
My last couple of analogue video capture cards default to MJPEG. My last card that even offered uncompressed video was an All In Wonder.
The only way you are going to get uncompressed video this day and age, that I know of, is to use a film scanner, or to output your video project uncompressed. Which really is still probably going to have been compressed at some point - where did the source video come from?
The going saying in video editing used to be (dont know if it still is) to not compress your video at all until you are ready to export it to your final format. Avoiding compression at some point in the chain is almost impossible. What needs to be done is try to recompress as few times as possible, try not to change formats, to use the best encoder possible for your situation, and to use the highest bitrate you are able to spare.
What's funny is most people can't tell the difference, other than placebo. In fact, probably the measuable difference (that is, measured with meters and whatnot) is probably negligable as well.
I can't tell the difference. In fact, I use the $1.00 toslink and HDMI cables off of Amazon. I tried a set of THX certified Monster, and truthfully, I have mroe problems with it than the cheap $1.00 cables (i think the plug is not properly connected to the wires - have to jiggle it sometimes or I loss my signals. At least I did until I replaced it with a $1.00 cable).
I'm going to jump in on this. One of the problems I have with SVideo is that the comb filter is done at the device level, not at the TV level. With my laserdisc player, I actually was using the old RCA video jacks (now coax because my cable broke in the jack and I don't have the knowhow to fix it) over the SVHS because my 2 year old LCD has a better comb filter than the 20 year old Laserdisc player, resulting in a higher quality image (really necessary when dealing with a 30 year old analogue technology).
SVideo was the best video delivery method like 10-20 years ago, and I used it extensively in college. AFAIK, it was the only delivery method, until component came out, that allowed for Luminance to be transmitted with the picture. I am also not positive, but think it was the first consumer media that also transmited timecode information, but I could be talking totally out of my butt on this one.
The only thing I have still hooked up via SVideo is my SVHS VCR, as the other outputs on it seem to be prone to interferance from something (not an issue on the laserdisc). I also took my ps2 on the other tv back to SVideo, as my only component on that TV is now being used by my Wii.
Eh, just move to the contenent. In fact, I heard that in most trades in Germany, you have to apprentence for a while while in High School. Always wondered if that included prostitution.:-/ More out of couriosity, not because I was looking at hiring an apprentance hooker.
How can you classify them as idiots? If you repeal the laws of Thermodynamics, all sorts of useful breakthroughs can happen. They should repeal the laws of Physics while they are at it.
If you had of even read the blip, if you repeal the third law of thermodynamics, "it would be possible to build machines that would last forever and provide an endless source of cheap energy. thus solving both potential crises in energy supply as well as solving the greenhouse gas problem in one step"
That's rated "Score 5: Insightful" Rather than "Score 5: Funny"? Sounds like young boys aren't the only ones confused, unless they are on Slashdot rating comments today.
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My final concern: how will my word processor know the difference between an abbr. and the end of a sentence (so it can stretch the sentence for me)? I don't use a capital letter for certain technical words (even when they start a sentence), making it both harder to programmatically detect a new sentence and more important to do so. What does the Slashdot community think?"
Learn how to type. You sound like a teenager who uses acronymns in their English paper, and when they get an F on it, just complain "Well, the word processor didn't correct it for me".
As far as using one space or two, I have seen a few word processors that won't let you do two. I have seen some that, if you have a period followed by a space and a capital letter, it will add an extra space. Truthfully, I don't think it really matters. Just learn how to type, and quit expecting the word processor to fix everything for you.
The poster, however, did state he was looking to enter Mobile arena.
COBOL is not as big as people may think. It may vary by geogrphical location, but COBOL jobs in my geographical area are practicatlly non-existant. 12 years ago, you may have gotten a job fixing Y2K bugs, but, and this is just me speculating, if a company is still using COBOL, its because their stuff has worked for 30+ years, and probably have no need for a maintainer.
To directly address the poster's question, I suggest starting with reaquainting yourself with Pascal. Once you do that, you will notice that C is EXACTLY THE SAME THING with different syntax. Start with basic stuff, Hello World, some basic text input, some simple logic statements, until you get the hang of the new syntax. Then break into, oh gosh, what are they called, modules? That doesn't sound right. I can see the code in my mind, but its been 12 years since I have dealt with C, and forgot the term.
After that, start playing with Object Oriented portions of C. I imagine at a leasurely pace, you can be here in a week or two (maybe three if you are lazy). You can learn a LOT here. Then you can start playing with C++ and C#.
Do you know Basic at all? If so, I HIGHLY recommend Visual Basic as a good start for GUI programming. It will teach you the basics of programming for a GUI enviornment without having to worry about the language.
Once you get those two things down, you can then start getting into other stuff, GUI in C, and stuff. With your experience, you should be making simple GUI interfaces in C in probably 2-5 weeks, depending on how motivated you are.
After you get object-oriented stuff in C down, THEN start looking at Java and other languages. I almost dare to say that Java is practically a derivative of C, but might get yelled at. You can deffinately see that Java is inspired by C. You will then notice that other languages such as Python get their insperation from C and Java.
In a nutshell, refamilerize yourself with Pascal first, and use that as your springboard into other languages. Make sure you remember how to do object-oriented programing before diving into Java, Python and other languages, otherwise you will frustrate yourself to no end trying to refreash your mind while at the same time trying to learn a language. Start familer, jumpstart your brain, then launch into other areas.
After you have tackled the languages themselves, you then may want to look at tackling OpenGL.
Completely agree. I lost the one I loved too two years ago. Got the living will and all that laid out as well, as well as putting a disc of videos and pictures and final wishes on a disc that is in my BFFs locked box in case something should happen to me. I am an organ donor and tissue donor. Yes, i WANT to be with her, and actually death thrills me. Doesn't mean I am ready to kill myself. Don't mistake "loosing the will to live" with "suicidal". They are not the same.
Well, I watched it without audio, but here is what I saw. Motorcycalist is being stupid. Cop pulls him over. Here is my problem - unmarked police car, plainclothesman officer, does not identify himself, just pulls out a gun, guy jumps off his motorcycle. Looks like a carjacking to me. Gee, I wonder why MD didn't want this video getting around.
I am pretty sure that, unless you live down the street from me, or there is some weird law I don't know about, your tax dollars are not funding schools in my area, they are funding schools in your area. As for the "tax breaks" you refer to, they are no different than that which is offered to any other non-profit charity. Last I checked, the government still gets a big chunk of my paycheck.
So, your tax dollars are not funding religion, and we still pay taxes. So please, tell me how this is affecting you?
Actually, we do have classes on mythology and dead gods. And yes, Scientology should be included, although they may have issues with us teaching their views for free
No, no its not - the EARTH and the SOL system is only 6,000 years old. Did you ever actually read the Bible?
First this: God created the Heavens and Earth—all you see, all you don't see. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God's Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss.
3-5 God spoke: "Light!"
And light appeared.
God saw that light was good
and separated light from dark.
God named the light Day,
he named the dark Night.
It was evening, it was morning—
Day One.
6-8 God spoke: "Sky! In the middle of the waters;
separate water from water!"
God made sky.
He separated the water under sky
from the water above sky.
And there it was:
he named sky the Heavens;
It was evening, it was morning—
Day Two.
9-10 God spoke: "Separate!
Water-beneath-Heaven, gather into one place;
Land, appear!"
And there it was.
God named the land Earth.
He named the pooled water Ocean.
God saw that it was good.
That's from The Message translation, I used it for readability purposes. Anyways, it (the Bible) never says God created the Universe in one day (read other translations if you wish). In fact, it says that on day 1, he created the Sun, and on Day 3 he created the Earth. What a concept, the sun is older than the Earth, and the Universe is older than the Sun. Funny that science doesn't teach us anything like that (oh, wait, it does).
If you continue reading, the first things to appear on earth are plants, followed by creatures in the water, followed by land animals, followed by man. Too bad science doesn't teach us anytihng like that. Oh wait, it does, its called Evolution. :-)
So, either the writter of Genesis knew some 3500 years ago a few things about science, or had some help writing it by something or someone outside of this world.
This may sound weird coming from someone who believes in Creationism, but I agree. Creationism is not a science but a belief, and should not be taught in Science Class.
Teaching it in school, though, is a whole different issue, which is what I am for. My local district teaches religous courses as electives, and covers religions other than just Christianity. Its basically the best way that I know of to please everyone, Evolution is taught in science, Creationism is taught in religion, and offering the religion class says, "We understand that there are different viewpoints, and we are presenting them, in their proper light".
In summery, offer religion based classes to students, but don't mistake beliefs as science. Shoot, you can go as far as to require religion based classes IF you cover different religions, and call it diversity sensitivity training (some people on Slashdot could probably benefit from diversity training). Then let kids make up their own minds. Teachers should not pressure a kid at any time by saying the other one is wrong, or by presenting their personal views.
So keep creationism out of science, but do offer religious beliefs as a class outside of science.
In forty years, those slides will still be sitting in a box and will be viewable. However, it's not like you can put a DVD/CD in your attic and let it sit there, forgotten, for 40years.
I'm sorry, but this just seems to me to be the old analogue versus digital flame all over again. The problem with this argument is that you are assuming that all storage conditions are failsafe.
I live in an area with high humidity. Most of my prints I have felt over the years have been stored with great care. I am finding humidity has crept into many of my prints and pictures are sticking together. Luckily for these, I still have negatives.
Digital pictures that I took ten years ago still look like they did the day I shot them. I have archived to DVDs and storage media, as well as having them present online. While writable discs do deteriorate, I reburn every few years.
A worse case scenario happened to my aunt. Her daughter passed away a little over two years ago. Afterwards, she went through pictures, and when she went to store them, they were at the top of the box, along with the negatives, because they were the last ones they looked at. It turns out that the storage facility she used had a leak. While they paid her for damages, most of the pictures are waterdamaged now. the prints and the negatives. I have taken great time trying to scan these and photoshop where I can, with some of the results coming out very well, but many are beyond recovering, especially as many pictures were taken in the late 80s and early 90s, where girls wore colored print blouses and such.
The worst thing about these prints is most people did nto even know they existed. Now that they are scanned and restored, they are on facebook and Walmart and Walgreens, multiple people have been able to get prints and store them to their computer, and so forth. Multiple people can now enjoy these photos, and if something happens to mine, I know there are backups out there now.
Many photos taken before, oh, around 1985, tend to have really bad color fade - especially prints made at KMart. Most can be restored to a point, but most, the color is so far faded, you just can't do anything with.
AT&T in my area is the old Cingular which is the old Southwestern Bell. I also live in Texas, which means lots of rural areas. Outside of the major cities, I do seem to get on older Edge networks, and in some cases, some stuff that predate Edge (I get voice only calls), but 3G service is expanding in many of the areas I travel to. I now have 3G coverage along pretty much all of 377 and 281 and 67. Metro doesn't cover most of that area at all, Verizon is spotty, Sprint, ha, HORRIBLE coverage. T-Mobile seems to be the second best in this area, but AT&T is king. There are places I get signal and even data (maybe not the fastest) where other's don't get signal AT ALL.
I have also had very good luck traveling with it. In the mountains around Tucson, coverage is spoty because of geographic barriers, but, I have e-mailed pictures from the top of mountains there. All the other networks did not even have coverage (should point out my signal was low, but I do seem to consistantly get a signal, no one else does).
AT&T is also the company that comes in and installs repeaters in office buildings, hospitals, airports, etc in the area.
This doesn't mean that AT&T is perfect. There are areas in this metropolitan area that, while AT&T provides coverage, there just doesn't seem to be enough bandwidth for the amount of people on the network. Luckily, I haven't gotten a "The network is jammed" message in years, but data speeds are incredibly slow. AT&T is adding capacity though. You can see it, just not quite as fast as we would like.
Mod parent up, I was going to suggest this if noone else did. It has a full blown version (free), as well as one specifically tweaked for mobil devices (also free). Use h264, and I recommend one encode per device. I am not sure about the android, but the iPhone is REALLY picky over the resolution of its videos.
Also, if you have some Adobe Suites laying around, Adobe Media Encoder is SWEET, especially if you have CS5. I know it has presets for iPhone, and CS5 will hopefully have presets for Android as well
This is where I show my complete lack of understanding on this subject. They are lifting the antenna 5 milimeters? Who are they hiring to work on this, Smurfs and Fraggles? I don't see how raising an antenna by 5mm is going to give a human any significantly larger area to work with.
Why would satellite be last resort? Just have some sort of gyro or something to make sure the dish stays pointed at the satellite - you should get halfway decent speeds, and have access from just about anywhere in the world. And at a halfway decent price - if you can convince HughesNet to install on a boat.
Well, you would technically be in international waters, so you are not under anyone's jurisdiction. I've often wondered what I could get away with if I had a small deserted island somewhere
Didn't realize there was something other than DCT available. Have to look into this, although, as all my source material is using some DCT compression, I doubt I will see much benefit
Shoot, iTunes isn't my favorite store. I was a Napster user, and now a Rhapsody user, because they have an iPhone app. $15 a month all you can listen to sounds like a fair deal to me. Yet in the past four months, I have spent about $200 (not including apps) on iTunes? Why? Cause its so easy to tag a song with Shazam and buy the song straight from iTunes. If Rhapsody would just introduce song tagging, ability to store the downloads on the device, and the ability to have more than, what's the limit, 800 songs in your library, I would never buy another song from iTunes.
Other music lovers get on me becuase they say that the sound quality on iTunes is not up to par with CD quality. I listen to music in three ways 1) iPhone with my headphones, 2) in my car on my factory insalled speakers, and 3) and this is rare, at home, on my sound system. As the ways I normally listen to music is through less than ideal speaker conditions, the sound quality on iTunes and Rhapsody is fine for me.
There are only two reasons I ever buy CDs - I will buy them directly from the artists (mainly independant), or I I can't find them on iTunes (mainly international artists - don't know why iTunes restricts music searches by country - if you have a direct link to the artist, you can still download them in the US). A few of my friends in the music business say that they get about the same amount of money from me getting their songs on Rhapsody through a subscription as they get if I buy the album from Amazon or a store - it averages out to about 20 cents or so per album sold. If you buy the CD straight from them, they make about $5-$10 per CD. That is the independant artist. I have one friend who is signed, and they make far less than that, but sell way more.
Game remakes by fans are fairly common, and few (that I know of) have recieved takedown notices.
http://www.agdinteractive.com/
http://www.tsl-game.com/ (This actually did recieve a takedown notice, two weeks before they were supposed to go live, but they worked things out with the copyright holders)
http://www.infamous-adventures.com/home/
http://www.freewebs.com/skimbleshanks/
These are just a few Sierra game remakes.
This should be modded up to Score:5 informative, and an update made to the Slashdot post stating this. I wish I had mod points right now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dish_Network#Broadcast_technology
Back to the original article, VP8 does have a point - I have noticed myself when I have to recompress material (for whatever reason) in the same format, I get faster speed and less artifacts introduced than I do when I convert to another format. This is nothing new - been dealing with this since I started messing with video 14 years ago.
And, duh, if the video is uncompressed, it is always going to yeild faster processing times and less artifacts than something converted from another format.
To comment on the parent, assuming that content will usually already have been compressed in H.264 is short sited - still plenty of people compressing in WMV, Indeo, MJPEG, and other implementations of MPEG4 that are NOT H.264.
I think the parent should have said "The source content is usually already in some comrpession format" rather than saying its h.264. In fact, I haven't seen in years something that doesn't default to some compression format. Even HDV encodes in MPEG-2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDV#Video_and_audio_coding
My last couple of analogue video capture cards default to MJPEG. My last card that even offered uncompressed video was an All In Wonder.
The only way you are going to get uncompressed video this day and age, that I know of, is to use a film scanner, or to output your video project uncompressed. Which really is still probably going to have been compressed at some point - where did the source video come from?
The going saying in video editing used to be (dont know if it still is) to not compress your video at all until you are ready to export it to your final format. Avoiding compression at some point in the chain is almost impossible. What needs to be done is try to recompress as few times as possible, try not to change formats, to use the best encoder possible for your situation, and to use the highest bitrate you are able to spare.
What's funny is most people can't tell the difference, other than placebo. In fact, probably the measuable difference (that is, measured with meters and whatnot) is probably negligable as well.
I can't tell the difference. In fact, I use the $1.00 toslink and HDMI cables off of Amazon. I tried a set of THX certified Monster, and truthfully, I have mroe problems with it than the cheap $1.00 cables (i think the plug is not properly connected to the wires - have to jiggle it sometimes or I loss my signals. At least I did until I replaced it with a $1.00 cable).
I'm going to jump in on this. One of the problems I have with SVideo is that the comb filter is done at the device level, not at the TV level. With my laserdisc player, I actually was using the old RCA video jacks (now coax because my cable broke in the jack and I don't have the knowhow to fix it) over the SVHS because my 2 year old LCD has a better comb filter than the 20 year old Laserdisc player, resulting in a higher quality image (really necessary when dealing with a 30 year old analogue technology).
SVideo was the best video delivery method like 10-20 years ago, and I used it extensively in college. AFAIK, it was the only delivery method, until component came out, that allowed for Luminance to be transmitted with the picture. I am also not positive, but think it was the first consumer media that also transmited timecode information, but I could be talking totally out of my butt on this one.
The only thing I have still hooked up via SVideo is my SVHS VCR, as the other outputs on it seem to be prone to interferance from something (not an issue on the laserdisc). I also took my ps2 on the other tv back to SVideo, as my only component on that TV is now being used by my Wii.
Eh, just move to the contenent. In fact, I heard that in most trades in Germany, you have to apprentence for a while while in High School. Always wondered if that included prostitution. :-/ More out of couriosity, not because I was looking at hiring an apprentance hooker.
Gotta love copyright infringement:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWHXxmUgMGw
How can you classify them as idiots? If you repeal the laws of Thermodynamics, all sorts of useful breakthroughs can happen. They should repeal the laws of Physics while they are at it.
If you had of even read the blip, if you repeal the third law of thermodynamics, "it would be possible to build machines that would last forever and provide an endless source of cheap energy. thus solving both potential crises in energy supply as well as solving the greenhouse gas problem in one step"
Sounds pretty insightful to me. :-)
That's rated "Score 5: Insightful" Rather than "Score 5: Funny"? Sounds like young boys aren't the only ones confused, unless they are on Slashdot rating comments today.