iTunes has a line in it's version of id3 tags for "groups" so a song can be in multiple groups. That way you can make playlists of both New Wave/Rock and New Wave/80's Pop.
Don't have an iPod, but I'm betting you'll have to or at least want to construct the playlists on your PC and transfer it over.
Assuming you already have a fan blowing on it, find someone or a computer store with spare old pentium/athlon heatsinks. Get thermal adhesive and glue one or several to the HD.
I moved my floppy drive up to a 5.25" bay and left the hole it came from open. That way the top of a hard drive had air blowing over it. Newer cases have been putting the HD's on the bottom, right behind a fan. Dunno what you've got, but I'm sure you can rig something up.
The rich need the poor and middle class to work in the factories and businesses that overpay the managers and owners. In a totally poor-get-fucked system, the rich steal from those people. So inbetween is a balance point. The rich steal from the poor, and the poor steal back by having luxury taxes and higher rates for the upper income brackets.
Presuming that overall, higher intelligence helps people succeed and thus not be poor, I would say that area does not have the same mental capacity relative to some areas of the USA. If musculature is inheritable, say from professional athlete parents, how about intelligence from nobel prize winners?
Wrong. Most of the democracies in the world use Proportional representation, which creates many parties. People vote for a party, and the percentage of the vote determines how many seats are given to them. If the USA had this, the Libertarians and Greens would actually have seats in the House of Representatives. The Senatators though could still directly represent individual states.
Don't believe it. Humans throughout history have agreed that random murder for no reason is not acceptable. We have also agreed that inflicting pain and suffering is generally a bad thing. Now we have a starting point for good and bad. Cultures may have reasons for who they hurt or kill, but we know that fundamentally, hurting and killing is bad. Therefore we are in a position to judge the punishment to the crime.
When you scan that high and view them at 100% magnification, not zoomed out to see the whole thing, do you see many grains that are 2, 3, or 4 pixels big instead of 1?
I'm pretty sure the Origin specifically does take existing lenses. Dunno about the data format. It's also claimed to have an additional f-stop of dynamic range over the Sony.
The Metreon digital theater was about the same size as their IMAX screen, which I saw Matrix Reloaded on. I sat a third of the way back. Every square pixel was extremely clear to me. On a 50 foot wide screen, maybe I wouldn't be able to tell anymore.
If you saw a 4K print, wouldn't the jitter blur the detail? Or was this on 70mm?
Do you have an opinion on whether 30p will always look like video? As opposed to the production values and cinematography that determine it? I despise the blur and loss of detail when 24p movies pan or action flies past. Heck, I'd be pleased if Maxivision48's system was used but still run at 24fps. Considering the head only costs $10,000 per screen, the system uses 25% less film, and the image has 30% more detail since there's not matted out analog track.
If the industry doesn't move past 2K, oh well. I'll just stop seeing movies in the theater and watch them with a blu-ray player outputting 1080 24p to my own 1080 projector. 10 movies times $10 = half the cost of a projector bulb. If they'd move on to 4K and thus 4 times the resolution of HDTV I'll still have a worthy technical reason to go to theaters.
Thanks, that was very informative. What do you think about Dalsa's 4K Origin camera? I wrote an entry about it a week ago. Is there information in the industry about when Texas Instuments or JVC will release a 4K DLP? Will moviemaking really start switching over to digital at that point? I saw Episode 1 with DLP at the Sony Metreon and of course loved that there was no jitter or grain, but the resolution was a letdown.
It's a friggin huge monitor at a friggin high resolution. Just because you and I can read the small print at the bottom of a newspaper advertisement doesn't mean it would be comfortable to read the articles printed at that small a font.
Is the source 16 or 24 bit color? I can't remember where, but occasionally I've seen color banding on DVD's and all the time in MPEG-4. In both it's always when the scene is dark. The gradiations of dim walls or sky clearly alternate having tints of red, yellow/green, and blue/gray. How much of that is a too-low bitrate or 16-bit color limitations?
I've noticed artifacting and some rare color-banding in satellite TV, are the transmissions in 16-bit MPEG-2 instead of 24-bit?
Do you know about digital cameras? I'm really disappointed when I see today's $400 models with "patches" of redish, greenish, and blue-grayish "ISO" noise just because the shot wasn't taken in bright sun. JPEG artifacting, even at 3MB per 5 megapixel image, annoys me too. I look in for detail of a shot, and am rewarded with a grainy square. Seems like JPEG exacerbates the ISO noise. I haven't bought a digicam yet, still researching, but I'm leaning towards only those that offer TIFF or RAW for the above reasons. My impressions from using Photoshop is that letting it compress TIFF's into JPEGs will produce a much better looking image in the same filesize than if the camera itself does it in a hurry.
Bring your own beverage in this. If you have to wait on the runway for a while and need to relieve yourself, drink what your brought, unscrew the cap, and make absolutely sure what you're about to do will go in the bag and nowhere else.
You're certainly right that the codec matters. The content of course matters since less camera movement and lots of black takes less space to preserve image quality. To generalize, I would recommend closer to.25 when using Divx and closer to.2 with xvid. I'm rather stunned by the new Nero codec and had no idea it could be such an improvement. Personally I perceive scenic content, like a beach or view from a building, looks better when there's less artifacting and blocking, even though it sacrifices resolution. On people's faces like in a close up, there's no point in upping resolution if the beard, eyelashes, or skin creases are going to be blurry and blocky. Sorry, I'm probably being redundant to you.
The spin I've heard is a 20GB HD-DVD with Windows Media 9 will compare well and hold similar lengths of HD content to a 30GB blu-ray DVD with MPEG-2. I'll buy that until I can see for myself.
I'm hopeful, but not counting on the next gen DVD to offer HD and higher bits per pixel. I've seen enough artifacting in DVDs like Finding Nemo to know there's room for improvement. I also think it's worth noting that HD movie cameras have no jitter and grain. This means that the clearer picture will compress better. It also means that compression artifacts will show up clearly in the nice clear picture. Though as you said, at a higher res, an 8x8 block is smaller and harder to notice.
There's a sweet spot for how much data to give per pixel to get a detailed, large resolution picture. For a clean source it's between.2 and.25 bits per pixel. Any fewer and too much detail is lost in large blurry blocks. Any more and while the image looks very nice, it would look better at a higher res for more noticeable detail even though artifacts increase in less noticeable places.
Googling for "What is AVC?" bring up this. I'm confused as to if they're saying AVC will be stardard in HD-DVD? Is WM9 an AVC? If not, will both be options for HD-DVD content providers? I ask because in the shootout WM9 didn't look very good. Relatively it blurs more of the scene than xvid.
On the current gamepads both the d-pad and analog stick aren't in the most ergonomic position. One is too too high up. The other is too low and to the right of where my thumb naturally rests. With only an analog stick, the placement can be optimal again.
Now if they would just shape the pad more ergonomically. Hold your hands and arms like they're holding a gamepad. The back of your hand and forearm ought to be a straight line because bending the wrist is terrible ergonomics. The current batch of gamepads all make my wrist and hands bend upwards, which leads to discomfort after an hour.
I read the fucking article, and YOU'RE WRONG. Start from this benchmark and keep going. Doom3 800x600 no AA got 34 and 21.5fps with the new cards. That's barely playable and unplayable at 1024. Farcry 800x600 gets 36.3 and 27.1. In just six months the newest games will only be playable at 640x480.
Games like Farcry do max out the CPU. on a 2200+ it won't matter if the vid card is a 9800 Pro or an x700. Use a 3200+ and suddenly that x700 will literally double the fps.
Really? Name a similar product that matches the iPod in smallness, easy to use UI, and physical construction quality? Now name a similar product that isn't as good as the iPod on those qualities, but whose other attributes like battery life make it overall just as good if not better.
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iTunes has a line in it's version of id3 tags for "groups" so a song can be in multiple groups. That way you can make playlists of both New Wave/Rock and New Wave/80's Pop.
Don't have an iPod, but I'm betting you'll have to or at least want to construct the playlists on your PC and transfer it over.
Assuming you already have a fan blowing on it, find someone or a computer store with spare old pentium/athlon heatsinks. Get thermal adhesive and glue one or several to the HD.
I moved my floppy drive up to a 5.25" bay and left the hole it came from open. That way the top of a hard drive had air blowing over it. Newer cases have been putting the HD's on the bottom, right behind a fan. Dunno what you've got, but I'm sure you can rig something up.
As long as China builds all those coal power plants producing five times as much pollution as the Kyoto treaty will reduce.
It's what we make of it. The Constitution doesn't say we can't have some socialism to help the poor and thus help the state.
The rich need the poor and middle class to work in the factories and businesses that overpay the managers and owners. In a totally poor-get-fucked system, the rich steal from those people. So inbetween is a balance point. The rich steal from the poor, and the poor steal back by having luxury taxes and higher rates for the upper income brackets.
Presuming that overall, higher intelligence helps people succeed and thus not be poor, I would say that area does not have the same mental capacity relative to some areas of the USA. If musculature is inheritable, say from professional athlete parents, how about intelligence from nobel prize winners?
Wrong. Most of the democracies in the world use Proportional representation, which creates many parties. People vote for a party, and the percentage of the vote determines how many seats are given to them. If the USA had this, the Libertarians and Greens would actually have seats in the House of Representatives. The Senatators though could still directly represent individual states.
Don't believe it. Humans throughout history have agreed that random murder for no reason is not acceptable. We have also agreed that inflicting pain and suffering is generally a bad thing. Now we have a starting point for good and bad. Cultures may have reasons for who they hurt or kill, but we know that fundamentally, hurting and killing is bad. Therefore we are in a position to judge the punishment to the crime.
So 2 channels + faster RAM + 1MB = ~10%
That explains why AMD does it to get a 2.2GHz performing like it was a 2.5
When you scan that high and view them at 100% magnification, not zoomed out to see the whole thing, do you see many grains that are 2, 3, or 4 pixels big instead of 1?
I'm pretty sure the Origin specifically does take existing lenses. Dunno about the data format. It's also claimed to have an additional f-stop of dynamic range over the Sony.
The Metreon digital theater was about the same size as their IMAX screen, which I saw Matrix Reloaded on. I sat a third of the way back. Every square pixel was extremely clear to me. On a 50 foot wide screen, maybe I wouldn't be able to tell anymore.
If you saw a 4K print, wouldn't the jitter blur the detail? Or was this on 70mm?
Do you have an opinion on whether 30p will always look like video? As opposed to the production values and cinematography that determine it? I despise the blur and loss of detail when 24p movies pan or action flies past. Heck, I'd be pleased if Maxivision48's system was used but still run at 24fps. Considering the head only costs $10,000 per screen, the system uses 25% less film, and the image has 30% more detail since there's not matted out analog track.
If the industry doesn't move past 2K, oh well. I'll just stop seeing movies in the theater and watch them with a blu-ray player outputting 1080 24p to my own 1080 projector. 10 movies times $10 = half the cost of a projector bulb. If they'd move on to 4K and thus 4 times the resolution of HDTV I'll still have a worthy technical reason to go to theaters.
Thanks, that was very informative. What do you think about Dalsa's 4K Origin camera? I wrote an entry about it a week ago. Is there information in the industry about when Texas Instuments or JVC will release a 4K DLP? Will moviemaking really start switching over to digital at that point? I saw Episode 1 with DLP at the Sony Metreon and of course loved that there was no jitter or grain, but the resolution was a letdown.
It's a friggin huge monitor at a friggin high resolution. Just because you and I can read the small print at the bottom of a newspaper advertisement doesn't mean it would be comfortable to read the articles printed at that small a font.
Is the source 16 or 24 bit color? I can't remember where, but occasionally I've seen color banding on DVD's and all the time in MPEG-4. In both it's always when the scene is dark. The gradiations of dim walls or sky clearly alternate having tints of red, yellow/green, and blue/gray. How much of that is a too-low bitrate or 16-bit color limitations?
I've noticed artifacting and some rare color-banding in satellite TV, are the transmissions in 16-bit MPEG-2 instead of 24-bit?
Do you know about digital cameras? I'm really disappointed when I see today's $400 models with "patches" of redish, greenish, and blue-grayish "ISO" noise just because the shot wasn't taken in bright sun. JPEG artifacting, even at 3MB per 5 megapixel image, annoys me too. I look in for detail of a shot, and am rewarded with a grainy square. Seems like JPEG exacerbates the ISO noise. I haven't bought a digicam yet, still researching, but I'm leaning towards only those that offer TIFF or RAW for the above reasons. My impressions from using Photoshop is that letting it compress TIFF's into JPEGs will produce a much better looking image in the same filesize than if the camera itself does it in a hurry.
What have you done so you can read 10 or 12pt fonts?
Bring your own beverage in this. If you have to wait on the runway for a while and need to relieve yourself, drink what your brought, unscrew the cap, and make absolutely sure what you're about to do will go in the bag and nowhere else.
You're certainly right that the codec matters. The content of course matters since less camera movement and lots of black takes less space to preserve image quality. To generalize, I would recommend closer to .25 when using Divx and closer to .2 with xvid. I'm rather stunned by the new Nero codec and had no idea it could be such an improvement. Personally I perceive scenic content, like a beach or view from a building, looks better when there's less artifacting and blocking, even though it sacrifices resolution. On people's faces like in a close up, there's no point in upping resolution if the beard, eyelashes, or skin creases are going to be blurry and blocky. Sorry, I'm probably being redundant to you.
The spin I've heard is a 20GB HD-DVD with Windows Media 9 will compare well and hold similar lengths of HD content to a 30GB blu-ray DVD with MPEG-2. I'll buy that until I can see for myself.
I'm hopeful, but not counting on the next gen DVD to offer HD and higher bits per pixel. I've seen enough artifacting in DVDs like Finding Nemo to know there's room for improvement. I also think it's worth noting that HD movie cameras have no jitter and grain. This means that the clearer picture will compress better. It also means that compression artifacts will show up clearly in the nice clear picture. Though as you said, at a higher res, an 8x8 block is smaller and harder to notice.
There's a sweet spot for how much data to give per pixel to get a detailed, large resolution picture. For a clean source it's between .2 and .25 bits per pixel. Any fewer and too much detail is lost in large blurry blocks. Any more and while the image looks very nice, it would look better at a higher res for more noticeable detail even though artifacts increase in less noticeable places.
Googling for "What is AVC?" bring up this. I'm confused as to if they're saying AVC will be stardard in HD-DVD? Is WM9 an AVC? If not, will both be options for HD-DVD content providers? I ask because in the shootout WM9 didn't look very good. Relatively it blurs more of the scene than xvid.
On the current gamepads both the d-pad and analog stick aren't in the most ergonomic position. One is too too high up. The other is too low and to the right of where my thumb naturally rests. With only an analog stick, the placement can be optimal again.
Now if they would just shape the pad more ergonomically. Hold your hands and arms like they're holding a gamepad. The back of your hand and forearm ought to be a straight line because bending the wrist is terrible ergonomics. The current batch of gamepads all make my wrist and hands bend upwards, which leads to discomfort after an hour.
We won't see the likes of post #11111111 until the number doubles. Congrats.
I read the fucking article, and YOU'RE WRONG. Start from this benchmark and keep going. Doom3 800x600 no AA got 34 and 21.5fps with the new cards. That's barely playable and unplayable at 1024. Farcry 800x600 gets 36.3 and 27.1. In just six months the newest games will only be playable at 640x480.
Games like Farcry do max out the CPU. on a 2200+ it won't matter if the vid card is a 9800 Pro or an x700. Use a 3200+ and suddenly that x700 will literally double the fps.
Really? Name a similar product that matches the iPod in smallness, easy to use UI, and physical construction quality? Now name a similar product that isn't as good as the iPod on those qualities, but whose other attributes like battery life make it overall just as good if not better.