Re:What is the point of scanning at such a high re
on
600 PowerMacs Make One DVD
·
· Score: 2, Informative
Film grain represents the physical resolution of the film
One thing to keep in mind is that there are varying sizes of film grain, and having multiple grain sizes is a good thing, larger grains are good for low light image capture, smaller grains are good for capturing detail. Thus, one would want to make sure that the scanning resolution is higher than the finest grain in the image.
Also, there are good filter available in much more sophisticated means than simple blurring. If you ever get a chance to see the last two Matrix movies in IMAX, or any other film not shot on IMAX systems transferred to IMAX. Their system is IMO fantastic, had they just been 35mm projections or direct unprocessed transfers, it would have looked horrible.
One thing I heard was that AVID needed some sort of an improvement or customization of the Apple platform to continue it. Apple turned them down but IBM accepted them.
I think it was the need for multiple PCI busses, as at least AVID Mojo requires a "segmented PCI bus" in order to work at full capacity. Most Xeon-based machines sold for the last five years have had two PCI busses. I don't know if the PCI-X slots on the G5 now would have addressed this need had they done it back then, because I think each PCI-X slot in that machine is its own bus.
Re:This is not just for laughs
on
SimChurch
·
· Score: 4, Insightful
A rural area too small of a population for a church is likely going to be a rural area without any sort of broadband.
I'll grant that it might help the sick, I can't say it would do much for the handicapped since I'd think most churches have a few people dedicated to bringing them in.
I think the "new" part is making the system operate wireless. I'm not altogether sure what that means in terms of usefulness although pre-certified radio equipment may be of use to system designers so they don't have to go through as rigorous of a testing process to assure FCC compliance.
One issue may be that the affordable wireless bandwidths are pretty saturated.
While they did get a peak of about $23 a share a couple times, their stock was hovering at $2 a share between Feb 2002 and Feb 2003, so it is still 4x what it was before they started this litigation crap.
At least before Feb 2002, it slid from around $100 to $2 over the period of a year and a half.
I doubt a la carte plans will destroy package programming. The key is, choice.
C-Band providers offer it both ways. Getting a package gets more channels for the money, but not everyone wants the number of channels, they just want specific channels.
The only issue for me is the cost of the c-band dish, I've been looking for a second hand one. For other people, the issue is zoning or those damn housing associations that prohibit anything they legally can, the only thing stopping some of them from banning the small dishes is the FCC.
I will buy into programming that gets me the six or so channels that I want for $15 a month. I wouldn't mind buying into a few of the little independent channels either.
The entire fan in a computer need not be magnetic, only the tiny motor part in the middle. All motors need a magnet or create a magnetic field to operate.
Also, hard drives use motors too (meaning magnetic fields), and you don't see them wiping themselves magnetically, usually they die of mechanical problems.
Despite all this attention about wireless, one still has to have at least one wire: a power cord for recharging. Some manufacturers were smart enough to make the same wire carry data and recharge power, so that seems to negate the need for wireless.
Hopefully manufacturers learn from wireless "b" and bluetooth that communications be properly encrypted.
Can a persons property be compelled to testify against him?
Uh, That is called evidence. I can't say much for Canada either, but in the US, such evidence can be legally aquired by either reasonable cause or a search warrant. I think the auto being in an auto accident alone establishes reasonable cause and such can be searched. Nothing special here. Now, if the person had a laptop computer, I don't think they'd be allowed to sieze the laptop or search its contents unless it had something to do with the crash, or a warrant served.
I still code with a limitation of 8k instruction words for the PIC microcontrollers. Some of them only have 512 bytes code space, which was no problem as I made one program for a useful product in about 30 instructions.
Supposedly many of the commonly used drive access modes have been disabled because Apple DIDN'T want people canabalizing them for cheap Compact Flash microdrives.
They should have looked at the original Game Boy. It had a latch on the power switch that required it to be shut off before removing the game.
This whole exercise makes me wonder exactly how their marketing group was stacking their test focus groups, and of their research of their competition.
I would call it a case where Group A disparages Group B because Group A privately sees Group B as a true threat / competitor.
Having seen a small cluster in operation, the Cray officer does have some good points. It still boils down to whether their improvements are worth the extra cost.
It isn't the phone or technology itself, but the people that use it.
Although I hear it is changing for the worse, generally people in Asian cultures are more considerate and try not to be obnoxious. I imagine the volume of a cell conversation is much more moderated in Asia. They probably generally are a lot more considerate of when they have their ringer on.
And they probably don't try to make or answer calls while operating heavy machinery like automobiles or trucks.
There was someone near me that got killed because one driver lost track of the road to answer a phone, and cars ahead of that person made a sudden stop.
You also can not use standard heatsinks because they will not fit in a 1U case
Who said that 1U was required? There are taller ATX-based cases that use standard motherboards and add-in cards.
I've seen ATX rackmount cases that go for $250, I think one with redundant power supplies is a little more. The case looked pretty decent, it definitely wasn't crappy like most / all sub $100 PC cases I've seen.
Having to replace any signal bulb once is one time too many, I think.
Yeah, spending $1 and five minutes every five years is such a chore vs. spending $100 and an hour converting over for a car that might only last 15 years.
Shuttles may be quieter than rackmount systems, but the few Shuttle branded cases I've seen are louder than any of my PCs. Sure, they use heat pipes, but the fans attached at the other end of the heat pipe makes quite a racket, and the fan in the power supply is a tiny high RPM one, meaning a high pitch whine.
Slashdot Mirror
Film grain represents the physical resolution of the film
One thing to keep in mind is that there are varying sizes of film grain, and having multiple grain sizes is a good thing, larger grains are good for low light image capture, smaller grains are good for capturing detail. Thus, one would want to make sure that the scanning resolution is higher than the finest grain in the image.
Also, there are good filter available in much more sophisticated means than simple blurring. If you ever get a chance to see the last two Matrix movies in IMAX, or any other film not shot on IMAX systems transferred to IMAX. Their system is IMO fantastic, had they just been 35mm projections or direct unprocessed transfers, it would have looked horrible.
One thing I heard was that AVID needed some sort of an improvement or customization of the Apple platform to continue it. Apple turned them down but IBM accepted them.
I think it was the need for multiple PCI busses, as at least AVID Mojo requires a "segmented PCI bus" in order to work at full capacity. Most Xeon-based machines sold for the last five years have had two PCI busses. I don't know if the PCI-X slots on the G5 now would have addressed this need had they done it back then, because I think each PCI-X slot in that machine is its own bus.
A rural area too small of a population for a church is likely going to be a rural area without any sort of broadband.
I'll grant that it might help the sick, I can't say it would do much for the handicapped since I'd think most churches have a few people dedicated to bringing them in.
A company usually nearly-depletes its cash reserve before going IPO
Is there a particular strategic reason for this?
What do you mean? It put Ogdenville, North Haverbrook, and Brockway on the map! ODU needs to be put on the map!
I think the "new" part is making the system operate wireless. I'm not altogether sure what that means in terms of usefulness although pre-certified radio equipment may be of use to system designers so they don't have to go through as rigorous of a testing process to assure FCC compliance.
One issue may be that the affordable wireless bandwidths are pretty saturated.
While they did get a peak of about $23 a share a couple times, their stock was hovering at $2 a share between Feb 2002 and Feb 2003, so it is still 4x what it was before they started this litigation crap.
At least before Feb 2002, it slid from around $100 to $2 over the period of a year and a half.
The first rule of the internet is like the first rule of the Westerns: download first and ask questions later.
That seems odd as one of wireless' claimed good points is that it had a much lower cost of setup than wiring.
Drives can be put into quiet mode that emits less than 30dB in free air. In a good enclosure, you can get a lot less.
I doubt a la carte plans will destroy package programming. The key is, choice.
C-Band providers offer it both ways. Getting a package gets more channels for the money, but not everyone wants the number of channels, they just want specific channels.
The only issue for me is the cost of the c-band dish, I've been looking for a second hand one. For other people, the issue is zoning or those damn housing associations that prohibit anything they legally can, the only thing stopping some of them from banning the small dishes is the FCC.
I will buy into programming that gets me the six or so channels that I want for $15 a month. I wouldn't mind buying into a few of the little independent channels either.
The entire fan in a computer need not be magnetic, only the tiny motor part in the middle. All motors need a magnet or create a magnetic field to operate.
Also, hard drives use motors too (meaning magnetic fields), and you don't see them wiping themselves magnetically, usually they die of mechanical problems.
it's about not having any wires.
Despite all this attention about wireless, one still has to have at least one wire: a power cord for recharging. Some manufacturers were smart enough to make the same wire carry data and recharge power, so that seems to negate the need for wireless.
Hopefully manufacturers learn from wireless "b" and bluetooth that communications be properly encrypted.
Can a persons property be compelled to testify against him?
Uh, That is called evidence. I can't say much for Canada either, but in the US, such evidence can be legally aquired by either reasonable cause or a search warrant. I think the auto being in an auto accident alone establishes reasonable cause and such can be searched. Nothing special here. Now, if the person had a laptop computer, I don't think they'd be allowed to sieze the laptop or search its contents unless it had something to do with the crash, or a warrant served.
USB cameras simply don't have the throughput to push television-quality video
Apple's camera isn't TV quality either. TV quality video requires at minimum a three-chip camera, and they don't sell for less than $1500.
8kbits huh? 1024 bytes isn't much to work with.
I still code with a limitation of 8k instruction words for the PIC microcontrollers. Some of them only have 512 bytes code space, which was no problem as I made one program for a useful product in about 30 instructions.
Two people have had some issues with the nVidia IDE drivers, at least one person fixed it by using a generic IDE driver.
Supposedly many of the commonly used drive access modes have been disabled because Apple DIDN'T want people canabalizing them for cheap Compact Flash microdrives.
They should have looked at the original Game Boy. It had a latch on the power switch that required it to be shut off before removing the game.
This whole exercise makes me wonder exactly how their marketing group was stacking their test focus groups, and of their research of their competition.
I would call it a case where Group A disparages Group B because Group A privately sees Group B as a true threat / competitor.
Having seen a small cluster in operation, the Cray officer does have some good points. It still boils down to whether their improvements are worth the extra cost.
It isn't the phone or technology itself, but the people that use it.
Although I hear it is changing for the worse, generally people in Asian cultures are more considerate and try not to be obnoxious. I imagine the volume of a cell conversation is much more moderated in Asia. They probably generally are a lot more considerate of when they have their ringer on.
And they probably don't try to make or answer calls while operating heavy machinery like automobiles or trucks.
There was someone near me that got killed because one driver lost track of the road to answer a phone, and cars ahead of that person made a sudden stop.
You also can not use standard heatsinks because they will not fit in a 1U case
Who said that 1U was required? There are taller ATX-based cases that use standard motherboards and add-in cards.
I've seen ATX rackmount cases that go for $250, I think one with redundant power supplies is a little more. The case looked pretty decent, it definitely wasn't crappy like most / all sub $100 PC cases I've seen.
Having to replace any signal bulb once is one time too many, I think.
Yeah, spending $1 and five minutes every five years is such a chore vs. spending $100 and an hour converting over for a car that might only last 15 years.
Shuttles may be quieter than rackmount systems, but the few Shuttle branded cases I've seen are louder than any of my PCs. Sure, they use heat pipes, but the fans attached at the other end of the heat pipe makes quite a racket, and the fan in the power supply is a tiny high RPM one, meaning a high pitch whine.
The problem is that when a car goes over the peak of a hill, even cars with factory HID lights will beam straight into human eyes.