PVR useage is significantly different from what I do as that requires an actualy TV tuner or at least control over a cablebox. However, a K6-2 300 if equipped with Firewire and a DV bridge should be able to handle the recording. The biggest benefit of using a DV bridge over a typical capture card is that you don't have the same problem with maintaining audio sync over long captures.
If you add firewire and use an external capture device (like a DV camera or DV bridge) you can do quite a bit with an older processor. However, any video editing you attempt will be slow and painful. If I use my XP 2000+ to edit things go fast enough to not make it bothersome, but rendering can still take awhile. I've also used my wife's dual G4 and while it isn't any faster, the OS and software is so much better to work with, you wouldn't believe it.
Personally, I'd prefer Linux to finish polishing the end user experience for Office and Desktop Publishing software (because that's what I use most) before getting into the video editing relm.
Actually, the defendant never argued against those charges. In fact, it was made very clear by his attorney that his client had the drugs in his possesion, where he bought them, and how he intended to use them. There were actually three charges we were asked to consider, only one of which was argued by the defense (successfully I might add).
Generally, you're probably right. Yes, this is purely ancedotal, but I checked around with younger friends and my wife's cousin about procescution in the area. They all agreed that if you got caught in our county, you'd get procescuted heavily. Now, if you roll down three miles into Detroit, you don't have nearly as much to worry about (again, ancedotal evidence).
I was on the jury for a kid that got caught with four grams (he had just smoked the fifth) and the procescutor wanted jail time. Some counties in the US are a lot harder on drug use than others.
Where do you buy your building supplies, for flips sake, Dr. Evil?
I don't know where you get your building supplies, but the stuff my contractor showed up with had a long list of US patent numbers for additives that improved the strength, reduced the set time, and cut down on the dust. Anything else those chemicals might do is beyond me, but I can tell you there is more in there than lime, silica, and sand.
What phone line? Seriously, that is my problem with Tivo and its ilk. Ethernet runs through my house, but POTS is simply unavailable. Many of my single friends are in a similar situation. Cell phones and cable modems, but no phone line to speak of.
You're absolutely correct, in my opinion. In the same way moveable print radically changed mass communication and then followed by broadcast mediums, point-to-point communications caused a massive up heave in interpersonal communication which was altered again by person-to-person communication. That's what we're really talking about here, isn't it? For those of us old enough to remember the last time a socialist ran for the presidency of the United States, getting a hold of someone used to mean calling them at work, then trying them at home, and possibly calling the club/bar/gym to see where they were. Today, you call the person regardless of where they are. That also means that you never get the brief contact with another person at the same location because thats not the way it works.
Sure it tells you something. When it works for root and not a regular user, you know you buggered the permissions.
I carry around all sorts of hacks and backdoors for the software project I work on. Toggle the hidden switch and bingo! You get access to parts of the code that require a different license. Helps me to debug things (extra state analysis routines) and I don't have to get the customer a temporary license.
Yeah.. market droids rarely get the facts right. If you look at the Maine Learning Technology Iniative Manual you'll note the computers have been leased through June 2006. Unless, of course, the Maine Department of Education is wrong about their contract. If that was your point, maybe you should find a url to the contract.
First off, 1/2 of the price of a CD doesn't go to the retailer. Typcially you're looking at closer to 10%-20% depending on the distributor.
Second, when I own an MP3 I can do anything I want with it, copy it for a friend, burn a CD-R, etc. This is what you get from services like Press Play and Slam Jamz (to which I subscribe) when you pay for a track.
I consider the "more" you get by buying a CD to be a waste that I don't want to deal with. Sorry you do.
Sure, you don't get the liner notes or the case. You know those things that people with 400+ cd's throw away to make room for more stuff.
You're also making an assumption that it's cheaper for the record company to distribute the songs over the net. The cost per song of delivering music to the record store is pretty low. You know the old saying about a station wagon and back up tapes? Try changing it to a semi-truck and CDs.
$1 a song? So long as I can burn it onto a CD myself, why not? Same download cost as PressPlay, but without the membership fee.
You may want to lecture them then. DV (which uses the same codecs and technology as MiniDV, just a different physical form factor) is the standard for news footage, documentary work, and indie work.
Oh, you'll also want to let the journals know they shouldn't be making claims about the use of DV as a long term storage for high quality masters. I mean, they'll be so embarassed when they realize their mistake, but relieved that you set them straight.
The expected shelf life of a DV or MiniDV tape is at least a decade. Consumers don't buy most of the DV tapes, they keep reusing one or two and outputting the results to VHS. Thus, they need tapes that will last lots of use. Professionals buy most of the tapes (use once, store away) and expect to use the tape as a high quality master for years (decades?) to come. Because of this, and the trade practice of 'outing' inferior tape makers, you don't have to worry as much about your DV tape quality.
The difference is how long the medium will last. If a CD-R degrades after two years it is considered acceptable. Professionals in the video industry expect this stuff to remain perfect for the next 10 years at a minimum. If you need your back-ups to last 6 months until you do your next round of backing up, then CD-Rs are perfect. If you want to back up a system and your data retention policy says you need full archives for the last 7 years to be sure you can comply with an IRS audit, tape is the way to go.
Why would anyone expect that a company would spend all the time and resources to discover a new cure, only to release it to the public? If they weren't going to try and make money from the effort, they would probably never have attempted it in the first place.
I have no idea how you can relate technology maturity to faster and cheaper testing. Paint is probably the most mature technology I have ever worked with personally and the testing requirements were insanely expensive. I'm not talking about consumer house paint, mind you, but automovtive paint. The time spent testing and developing new tests and testing methodology was insane. Back when they finally developed a method to use lasers to determine application quality (at a huge R&D expense) did it shorten the time it took to inspect a car? Yup, but guess what? Now *every* car gets inspected so the time spent testing is actually greater.
You don't even want to get me started on car tires.
The problem with "mature" technology from a QA standpoint, is that your customer begins to expect the product to be perfect everytime. Remember Micropolis SCSI drives? Everyone remembers them because they were so crappy, but the equally crappy BigFoot drives have mostly been forgotten because no one expected much from an IDE drive at the time.
How many vehicles are good to drive in a blizzard? Bicycles, motorcycles, and automobiles with low ground clearance all suck when it gets deep and slippery. For those people that don't drive cars (two wheels are plenty for me) winter in general sucks, but you find ways to make it work.
Back in the late 80's the radio station I listened to used to always give directions to Troy as "take I-75 to exit 69, Big Beaver Road". I think I giggled the first 50 times I heard it.
Of course, we also knew to take I-69 to Ball State.
I have two computers setup for everyday useage. One has a P-III 733 and the other an AMD XP 2000+. It is very hard to tell the difference between the two if you only perform word processing and send e-mail. My estimate is that 90% of people who use computers never devel into CPU intensive tasks.
The difference between your old 386 and my "old" P-III is that back in 1989 running a spell checker counted as CPU intensive (yes, you remember watching as the words checked counter rolled up) and today you need a visually stunning FPS to see the difference.
Look at it this way. Intel's fastest processor is something like 3.06 GHz. AMD's fastest is, what, 2.1 GHz (sure they call is 3000+, but that's just marketing). Fastest PowerPC is 1.42 GHz.
So who's falling behind whom? Intel CPU is 50% faster than that AMD, except the AMD is actually about the same performance. PowerPC isn't half the speed of the Intel, but it runs fast enough that 90% of users would never know it was "slow". Add on the fact that if you want Mac OS you only have one choice (and if you have only spent a few minutes with it at a store, you don't know how beautiful it really is).
Hmmmm.... maybe CPUs really aren't as important as they used to be.
This is getting way off topic, but I have to bite. Using your definition, how can a t-shirt with a logo not be spam? I didn't ask to see it, and yet, I'm being subjected to the message when you were the shirt.
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PVR useage is significantly different from what I do as that requires an actualy TV tuner or at least control over a cablebox. However, a K6-2 300 if equipped with Firewire and a DV bridge should be able to handle the recording. The biggest benefit of using a DV bridge over a typical capture card is that you don't have the same problem with maintaining audio sync over long captures.
If you add firewire and use an external capture device (like a DV camera or DV bridge) you can do quite a bit with an older processor. However, any video editing you attempt will be slow and painful. If I use my XP 2000+ to edit things go fast enough to not make it bothersome, but rendering can still take awhile. I've also used my wife's dual G4 and while it isn't any faster, the OS and software is so much better to work with, you wouldn't believe it.
Personally, I'd prefer Linux to finish polishing the end user experience for Office and Desktop Publishing software (because that's what I use most) before getting into the video editing relm.
Actually, the defendant never argued against those charges. In fact, it was made very clear by his attorney that his client had the drugs in his possesion, where he bought them, and how he intended to use them. There were actually three charges we were asked to consider, only one of which was argued by the defense (successfully I might add).
Generally, you're probably right. Yes, this is purely ancedotal, but I checked around with younger friends and my wife's cousin about procescution in the area. They all agreed that if you got caught in our county, you'd get procescuted heavily. Now, if you roll down three miles into Detroit, you don't have nearly as much to worry about (again, ancedotal evidence).
I was on the jury for a kid that got caught with four grams (he had just smoked the fifth) and the procescutor wanted jail time. Some counties in the US are a lot harder on drug use than others.
Follow the chain of discussion.
Post A: Purchased mortar has nasty stuff in it.
Post B: Where do you buy this nasty mortar? Mortar is safe.
Post C: Modern mortar has many chemical additives.
Post D: (Your post) You can make your own mortar!
Hmmm.... how does your post follow the chain of discussion? Perhaps it is just a wild rant?
Really, like, erm, lime, silica and sand?
Where do you buy your building supplies, for flips sake, Dr. Evil?
I don't know where you get your building supplies, but the stuff my contractor showed up with had a long list of US patent numbers for additives that improved the strength, reduced the set time, and cut down on the dust. Anything else those chemicals might do is beyond me, but I can tell you there is more in there than lime, silica, and sand.
What phone line? Seriously, that is my problem with Tivo and its ilk. Ethernet runs through my house, but POTS is simply unavailable. Many of my single friends are in a similar situation. Cell phones and cable modems, but no phone line to speak of.
You're absolutely correct, in my opinion. In the same way moveable print radically changed mass communication and then followed by broadcast mediums, point-to-point communications caused a massive up heave in interpersonal communication which was altered again by person-to-person communication. That's what we're really talking about here, isn't it? For those of us old enough to remember the last time a socialist ran for the presidency of the United States, getting a hold of someone used to mean calling them at work, then trying them at home, and possibly calling the club/bar/gym to see where they were. Today, you call the person regardless of where they are. That also means that you never get the brief contact with another person at the same location because thats not the way it works.
Just a few thoughts.
Sure it tells you something. When it works for root and not a regular user, you know you buggered the permissions.
I carry around all sorts of hacks and backdoors for the software project I work on. Toggle the hidden switch and bingo! You get access to parts of the code that require a different license. Helps me to debug things (extra state analysis routines) and I don't have to get the customer a temporary license.
Yeah.. market droids rarely get the facts right. If you look at the Maine Learning Technology Iniative Manual you'll note the computers have been leased through June 2006. Unless, of course, the Maine Department of Education is wrong about their contract. If that was your point, maybe you should find a url to the contract.
You'll have to forgive me if I take the article over your word.
The computers are leased, not owned, so their is no upgrade. They'll simply lease better machines in a few years when they turn these back in.
That's a pretty weak troll.
First off, 1/2 of the price of a CD doesn't go to the retailer. Typcially you're looking at closer to 10%-20% depending on the distributor.
Second, when I own an MP3 I can do anything I want with it, copy it for a friend, burn a CD-R, etc. This is what you get from services like Press Play and Slam Jamz (to which I subscribe) when you pay for a track.
I consider the "more" you get by buying a CD to be a waste that I don't want to deal with. Sorry you do.
Sure, you don't get the liner notes or the case. You know those things that people with 400+ cd's throw away to make room for more stuff.
You're also making an assumption that it's cheaper for the record company to distribute the songs over the net. The cost per song of delivering music to the record store is pretty low. You know the old saying about a station wagon and back up tapes? Try changing it to a semi-truck and CDs.
$1 a song? So long as I can burn it onto a CD myself, why not? Same download cost as PressPlay, but without the membership fee.
You may want to lecture them then. DV (which uses the same codecs and technology as MiniDV, just a different physical form factor) is the standard for news footage, documentary work, and indie work.
Oh, you'll also want to let the journals know they shouldn't be making claims about the use of DV as a long term storage for high quality masters. I mean, they'll be so embarassed when they realize their mistake, but relieved that you set them straight.
The expected shelf life of a DV or MiniDV tape is at least a decade. Consumers don't buy most of the DV tapes, they keep reusing one or two and outputting the results to VHS. Thus, they need tapes that will last lots of use. Professionals buy most of the tapes (use once, store away) and expect to use the tape as a high quality master for years (decades?) to come. Because of this, and the trade practice of 'outing' inferior tape makers, you don't have to worry as much about your DV tape quality.
The difference is how long the medium will last. If a CD-R degrades after two years it is considered acceptable. Professionals in the video industry expect this stuff to remain perfect for the next 10 years at a minimum. If you need your back-ups to last 6 months until you do your next round of backing up, then CD-Rs are perfect. If you want to back up a system and your data retention policy says you need full archives for the last 7 years to be sure you can comply with an IRS audit, tape is the way to go.
Why would anyone expect that a company would spend all the time and resources to discover a new cure, only to release it to the public? If they weren't going to try and make money from the effort, they would probably never have attempted it in the first place.
To quote Cartman, "Damn hippies."
I have no idea how you can relate technology maturity to faster and cheaper testing. Paint is probably the most mature technology I have ever worked with personally and the testing requirements were insanely expensive. I'm not talking about consumer house paint, mind you, but automovtive paint. The time spent testing and developing new tests and testing methodology was insane. Back when they finally developed a method to use lasers to determine application quality (at a huge R&D expense) did it shorten the time it took to inspect a car? Yup, but guess what? Now *every* car gets inspected so the time spent testing is actually greater.
You don't even want to get me started on car tires.
The problem with "mature" technology from a QA standpoint, is that your customer begins to expect the product to be perfect everytime. Remember Micropolis SCSI drives? Everyone remembers them because they were so crappy, but the equally crappy BigFoot drives have mostly been forgotten because no one expected much from an IDE drive at the time.
How many vehicles are good to drive in a blizzard? Bicycles, motorcycles, and automobiles with low ground clearance all suck when it gets deep and slippery. For those people that don't drive cars (two wheels are plenty for me) winter in general sucks, but you find ways to make it work.
Of course, we also knew to take I-69 to Ball State.
The difference between your old 386 and my "old" P-III is that back in 1989 running a spell checker counted as CPU intensive (yes, you remember watching as the words checked counter rolled up) and today you need a visually stunning FPS to see the difference.
So who's falling behind whom? Intel CPU is 50% faster than that AMD, except the AMD is actually about the same performance. PowerPC isn't half the speed of the Intel, but it runs fast enough that 90% of users would never know it was "slow". Add on the fact that if you want Mac OS you only have one choice (and if you have only spent a few minutes with it at a store, you don't know how beautiful it really is).
Hmmmm.... maybe CPUs really aren't as important as they used to be.
This is getting way off topic, but I have to bite. Using your definition, how can a t-shirt with a logo not be spam? I didn't ask to see it, and yet, I'm being subjected to the message when you were the shirt.