True. But everything else on the Internet is virtual too. But the money I made using PayPal when selling my products is real. I've had maybe 500 transactions via Paypal and they have not lost or stolen my money, ever. When I was starting out, PayPal allowed me to accept payments by credit card without having to spend $20+ a month on a merchant account. The PayPal fees were a little higher than CC merchant fees, but not having a monthly fee, and having built-in shipping services paid for itself. That way, I could print USPS First Class or UPS labels within PayPal without having to pay $16/mo to Pitney Bowes, Stamps.com or Endicia to do the same thing.
Frankly, I think the reports of PayPal ripping people off are blown out of proportion. I don't personally know of anyone that's had any problems with their account and I'm fairly happy with their system.
I don't understand what is new about this program, I used a PayPal virtual card very early this year. At least it was something like a one-use number for merchants that don't directly accept PayPal.
iTunes may be the largest player in the paid download media department, but that shouldn't stop others from making their offerings. Given that iTunes purchases don't directly play on most phones, PDAs and such, the market should be wide open. eMusic and Magnatune do offer legal sales of non-encrypted tracks.
The guy on the Digital Production Buzz radio show said that his DVDs had survived over five years being improperly stored in hot and humid warehouse, without glitch.
I don't use optical media for backups. I just keep them on-line on my main storage, plus an off-line external hard drive and a RAID-5 that's a ways away. I figure that I have to lose a minimum of four drives in order to lose any data, and I think that would take a pretty major catastrophe that I might not survive in order to lose data.
I thought DVCPRO HD can be (and is) put on a miniDV tape by someone, but maybe Panny doesn't offer that feature. You only get 15 minutes out of the tape with that format, but that's definitely more you get out of P2. What P2 does though is allow much faster retrieval.
I do agree that miniDV has some legs in it, it's a mature format that is fairly well established where there is a veritable ecosystem of products and experience around it. HDV extends that. I didn't suggest that it's going away next year, but maybe five to ten years is a reasonable time frame. I do expect a competitive memory or drive system before then though. Four gigs for a hundred dollars is commercially possible right now, just by looking at the USB stick market.
Last I heard (IIRC, NPR's Science Friday), there are more "enhancement" pills and the like being researched than there are medicines being researched that the developing world needs, such as anti-malaria pills. Developing and testing those medicines cost money, and the only way to cost-justify developing medicines is to develop medicines for people that can pay for it.
I personally haven't had a problem with the internal mic recording the camera's noise, the problem with the internal mic is that they simply don't sound very good and and the internal mics are nearly omnidirectional. Often, the mic doesn't even fully point in the direction of the shot, so if it's not omnidirectional, you are recording better audio away from the shot.
iLink would work fine for the external Firewire boxes with DV and HDV camcorders because they use that connector. Firestore and other makers have external recording boxes. Unfortunately, the SR1 does not have iLink/Firewire, all transfers are over USB2 unless you go extreme and capture video using an HDMI card.
I'm slightly ahead of you on that. While I haven't actually tried to do that mod yet, I have opened the camcorder and it does appear to be relatively easy task for a mod, but I have not actually done it yet. It is not that hard to take apart or reassemble, you just have to keep track of what screw goes where though it's easy to figure out if you put the wrong screw in the wrong place.
I was thinking of just nixing or disconnecting the internal mic in favor of a standard miniplug because the internal mic is pretty close to worthless. I hope to make a kit or service.
I happen to make and sell camcorder adapters of various kinds, so that's one reason I've been in there. My business's site is linked from my personal site that you can click above my post text.
1.8" hard drives are so expensive that I don't think there is a point in making them like field-swappable modules, I think they'd charge $400 for an 80GB module and be about the size of an iPod for best durability. In comparison, $2 DV tapes make a nice archive format in themselves. I know tapes are going away but they still hold their own in my opinion, I haven't had a problem with them.
JVC makes 720p HDV camcorders. They are not hard drive based, but if you are recording straight to a notebook computer, then you wouldn't need to use tapes.
A larger drive would just extend the record time, assuming that it can be done. The problem is that page is at best just exposing the drive, no attempt was made to upgrade the drive, so there's no way to know that it would be accepted without hacking the firmware.
That camcorder is a little ahead of the curve, editing the file format that it records is a pain, you'll need to transcode it.
I've never seen circumstances where context switches significantly harms performace. Besides, if there was, there would be a need for an automatic way to lock a process to a core so it doesn't get spread about, because that's worse than a context switch because context switches don't necessarily mean a full cache flush. Shuffling processes between cores basically often means a full flush because a process can be assigned to a core that it has not run on, meaning always having to re-load your data and instructions into L2/L3 every time it is given a time slice.
I don't know too much about the guts of Linux or BSD, but Windows has a way to assign process affinity but you have to manually set it after launch, and OS X has no means to assign process affinity at all. That said, the only time I've needed to assign it is for one old program that doesn't handle multiple processors at all.
Staying Free is a guaranteed way to lose? Tell me more, you seem to have invented a fascinating new branch of logic, cos it seems to me that if you are forced to use non-Free software (or hardware), you have already lost.
I think you have that logic because you have a particular ideology. Personally, I am not forced to use free or non-free, I use what works best. If it's good software, I shouldn't have to tinker with it either way. Generally, the more general-purpose the task, the free version runs better, but if you get off the beaten path just slightly, often the commercial version runs better.
For a given value of "works", where 'works' is defined as meeting requirements. My first requirement as a software user is that doesn't steal my freedoms to share, copy, study, modify, redistribute (etc) it. If I can't do that with it, it's not working.
Most people do not have those requirements. What about other people, who don't want software projects stealing their time because they are coded by unpaid people that don't understand the industry? Or programmed by people that don't have a good grasp of what a good user interface should be like? I see too much free software that simply doesn't work as well as a commercial equivalent.
There's also the matter of time. I know I can make free software to do what I need, but time is money. If I'm not getting paid to do what is essentially work, I'd rather relax and do non-work. If it's volunteer work, then I'd rather use the time to work with people and not sit behind a computer screen.
Try an old copy of StarOffice. The switch to glibc caused a lot of headaches for that and even the open source developers, new distributions didn't run older software.
The point was that you had to have an operating system that was compatible with software that people already used. It would help if Crossover Office was better.
I'll third the claim that ESR is not a leader. He's more of a pundit. He has very little open source software to his credit, and the people that tried to use it say it's bad. I think that's more software than Robert X. Cringely has to his credit, but at least Cringely is a little amusing and a little bit educational, I can't say that ESR is either.
I do think that he may have said what needed to be said. That doesn't make him a leader though.
It's a long time since I've researched it, but the stuff I found was mostly damning of the National Education Association, the teacher's union. It takes an incredibly serious f*#kup to get fired, and the education requirements have been lowered considerably from standards in the past.
The sites you linked have the feel of a conspiracy theorist type site. A lot of the arguments on the gatto site appear to be of the handwaving type, I think trying to convince me to buy their book. That's a real smooth one, especially considering the content of the site, I think it qualifies as irony or conniving.
There is already sufficient suspicion that cellular transmissions aren't good for you.
I'd aggree if you said sufficient hysteria, but I don't think anyone has shown that it causes any real injury. There was a major Dutch (IIRC anyway) study released last month that found no such injury.
That's generally a sign that the device was poorly designed and should be fixed. It's been a long time since I've seen a handheld device that requires more power to charge than can be supplied by a USB port. The ones that required supplementary power were designed for USB 1.1. USB 2.0 ports can carry a lot more power.
Of course. I think the attention should be given to diversification of energy sources, so this is good. Every bit of diversification helps reduce the instability in the energy markets.
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True. But everything else on the Internet is virtual too. But the money I made using PayPal when selling my products is real. I've had maybe 500 transactions via Paypal and they have not lost or stolen my money, ever. When I was starting out, PayPal allowed me to accept payments by credit card without having to spend $20+ a month on a merchant account. The PayPal fees were a little higher than CC merchant fees, but not having a monthly fee, and having built-in shipping services paid for itself. That way, I could print USPS First Class or UPS labels within PayPal without having to pay $16/mo to Pitney Bowes, Stamps.com or Endicia to do the same thing.
Frankly, I think the reports of PayPal ripping people off are blown out of proportion. I don't personally know of anyone that's had any problems with their account and I'm fairly happy with their system.
I don't understand what is new about this program, I used a PayPal virtual card very early this year. At least it was something like a one-use number for merchants that don't directly accept PayPal.
I really don't know anybody that this has happened to. I've had several hundred transactions, I think 300+ unique buyers and never had a problem.
iTunes may be the largest player in the paid download media department, but that shouldn't stop others from making their offerings. Given that iTunes purchases don't directly play on most phones, PDAs and such, the market should be wide open. eMusic and Magnatune do offer legal sales of non-encrypted tracks.
It's not just to Taiwan. The article does link to stories that say that service to other parts of SE Asia is diminished or cut off.
The guy on the Digital Production Buzz radio show said that his DVDs had survived over five years being improperly stored in hot and humid warehouse, without glitch.
I don't use optical media for backups. I just keep them on-line on my main storage, plus an off-line external hard drive and a RAID-5 that's a ways away. I figure that I have to lose a minimum of four drives in order to lose any data, and I think that would take a pretty major catastrophe that I might not survive in order to lose data.
I thought DVCPRO HD can be (and is) put on a miniDV tape by someone, but maybe Panny doesn't offer that feature. You only get 15 minutes out of the tape with that format, but that's definitely more you get out of P2. What P2 does though is allow much faster retrieval.
I do agree that miniDV has some legs in it, it's a mature format that is fairly well established where there is a veritable ecosystem of products and experience around it. HDV extends that. I didn't suggest that it's going away next year, but maybe five to ten years is a reasonable time frame. I do expect a competitive memory or drive system before then though. Four gigs for a hundred dollars is commercially possible right now, just by looking at the USB stick market.
Last I heard (IIRC, NPR's Science Friday), there are more "enhancement" pills and the like being researched than there are medicines being researched that the developing world needs, such as anti-malaria pills. Developing and testing those medicines cost money, and the only way to cost-justify developing medicines is to develop medicines for people that can pay for it.
I personally haven't had a problem with the internal mic recording the camera's noise, the problem with the internal mic is that they simply don't sound very good and and the internal mics are nearly omnidirectional. Often, the mic doesn't even fully point in the direction of the shot, so if it's not omnidirectional, you are recording better audio away from the shot.
iLink would work fine for the external Firewire boxes with DV and HDV camcorders because they use that connector. Firestore and other makers have external recording boxes. Unfortunately, the SR1 does not have iLink/Firewire, all transfers are over USB2 unless you go extreme and capture video using an HDMI card.
There aren't any 1.8" SATA drives that I've heard. This camera uses the 1.8" size.
I'm slightly ahead of you on that. While I haven't actually tried to do that mod yet, I have opened the camcorder and it does appear to be relatively easy task for a mod, but I have not actually done it yet. It is not that hard to take apart or reassemble, you just have to keep track of what screw goes where though it's easy to figure out if you put the wrong screw in the wrong place.
I was thinking of just nixing or disconnecting the internal mic in favor of a standard miniplug because the internal mic is pretty close to worthless. I hope to make a kit or service.
I happen to make and sell camcorder adapters of various kinds, so that's one reason I've been in there. My business's site is linked from my personal site that you can click above my post text.
1.8" hard drives are so expensive that I don't think there is a point in making them like field-swappable modules, I think they'd charge $400 for an 80GB module and be about the size of an iPod for best durability. In comparison, $2 DV tapes make a nice archive format in themselves. I know tapes are going away but they still hold their own in my opinion, I haven't had a problem with them.
JVC makes 720p HDV camcorders. They are not hard drive based, but if you are recording straight to a notebook computer, then you wouldn't need to use tapes.
A larger drive would just extend the record time, assuming that it can be done. The problem is that page is at best just exposing the drive, no attempt was made to upgrade the drive, so there's no way to know that it would be accepted without hacking the firmware.
That camcorder is a little ahead of the curve, editing the file format that it records is a pain, you'll need to transcode it.
I've never seen circumstances where context switches significantly harms performace. Besides, if there was, there would be a need for an automatic way to lock a process to a core so it doesn't get spread about, because that's worse than a context switch because context switches don't necessarily mean a full cache flush. Shuffling processes between cores basically often means a full flush because a process can be assigned to a core that it has not run on, meaning always having to re-load your data and instructions into L2/L3 every time it is given a time slice.
I don't know too much about the guts of Linux or BSD, but Windows has a way to assign process affinity but you have to manually set it after launch, and OS X has no means to assign process affinity at all. That said, the only time I've needed to assign it is for one old program that doesn't handle multiple processors at all.
I would have a problem with waving around my arm full time on the job. I suppose that would make it a good excuse to avoid work at home.
Staying Free is a guaranteed way to lose? Tell me more, you seem to have invented a fascinating new branch of logic, cos it seems to me that if you are forced to use non-Free software (or hardware), you have already lost.
I think you have that logic because you have a particular ideology. Personally, I am not forced to use free or non-free, I use what works best. If it's good software, I shouldn't have to tinker with it either way. Generally, the more general-purpose the task, the free version runs better, but if you get off the beaten path just slightly, often the commercial version runs better.
For a given value of "works", where 'works' is defined as meeting requirements. My first requirement as a software user is that doesn't steal my freedoms to share, copy, study, modify, redistribute (etc) it. If I can't do that with it, it's not working.
Most people do not have those requirements. What about other people, who don't want software projects stealing their time because they are coded by unpaid people that don't understand the industry? Or programmed by people that don't have a good grasp of what a good user interface should be like? I see too much free software that simply doesn't work as well as a commercial equivalent.
There's also the matter of time. I know I can make free software to do what I need, but time is money. If I'm not getting paid to do what is essentially work, I'd rather relax and do non-work. If it's volunteer work, then I'd rather use the time to work with people and not sit behind a computer screen.
Try an old copy of StarOffice. The switch to glibc caused a lot of headaches for that and even the open source developers, new distributions didn't run older software.
The point was that you had to have an operating system that was compatible with software that people already used. It would help if Crossover Office was better.
I'll third the claim that ESR is not a leader. He's more of a pundit. He has very little open source software to his credit, and the people that tried to use it say it's bad. I think that's more software than Robert X. Cringely has to his credit, but at least Cringely is a little amusing and a little bit educational, I can't say that ESR is either.
I do think that he may have said what needed to be said. That doesn't make him a leader though.
It's a long time since I've researched it, but the stuff I found was mostly damning of the National Education Association, the teacher's union. It takes an incredibly serious f*#kup to get fired, and the education requirements have been lowered considerably from standards in the past.
The sites you linked have the feel of a conspiracy theorist type site. A lot of the arguments on the gatto site appear to be of the handwaving type, I think trying to convince me to buy their book. That's a real smooth one, especially considering the content of the site, I think it qualifies as irony or conniving.
There is already sufficient suspicion that cellular transmissions aren't good for you.
I'd aggree if you said sufficient hysteria, but I don't think anyone has shown that it causes any real injury. There was a major Dutch (IIRC anyway) study released last month that found no such injury.
That's generally a sign that the device was poorly designed and should be fixed. It's been a long time since I've seen a handheld device that requires more power to charge than can be supplied by a USB port. The ones that required supplementary power were designed for USB 1.1. USB 2.0 ports can carry a lot more power.
Of course. I think the attention should be given to diversification of energy sources, so this is good. Every bit of diversification helps reduce the instability in the energy markets.
I don't think anyone has suggested it for notebook or typical desktop computers. I would imagine that HFS+ will scale well for a long time.
I think ZFS is probably for their servers and workstations, especially when you connect to stuff like the Xserve RAID.