True... but then fill a bus with people and suddenly the mpg per person goes through the roof for the bus. You could get 300mpg per person from a bus. Good luck getting that with a moped.
Last time I was in Delhi I saw 5 people on a moped. At 70mpg that's 350miles-per-person-gallon:p
Excuse the language but my sincerest fuck you, being a muslim i find this highly offensive. I know all about freedom of speech and how this is one bad apple, nonetheless too many idiots are seeing this as another freedom of speech thing. I don't stand for violence and loss of life, idiots in middle east are just that. So are idiots in america viewing this as a freedom of speech issue. Let's all be insensitive about each others culture, I'm sure we will have a better society.
Next time I will make sure I scream Allah hoakbar at ground zero and support the mosque being built there. What the hell, might as well stick a banner saying "victory" over the mosque.
Well fuck you. I find your comment highly offensive
they patent a sensor that responds to a whack? Fine. They patent the idea of whacking the phone? Not fine. Patents are supposed to cover IMPLEMENTATIONS, not ideas.
I've silenced a phone before by whacking it.
The novel part is having it carry on working after the whack.
Blackmagic stuff is nice and cheap, but you wouldn't use it in a proper studio.:) So go up an order of magnitude in cost when dealing with reliable equipment.
Strange, cause we road cast to millions with various bits of blackmagic kit.
How many viewers do you need for a "proper studio"?
The remastered version certainly is better quality, but I'll wait for the limited edition director's cut of Episode I: Giant Nuclear-Powered Laser Robot Invades Mars. It's supposed to be a rock-solid performance with plenty of driving action scenes.
They are much worse than a static object (like a conventional power station, or a radio mast) because they are moving, and the human eye/brain is very sensitive to movement because we are natural hunters.
Not sure what wind farms you've seen, but round here the majority are turned off because there's not enough wind, or there's too much wind.
Still, all of that stuff is really expensive, and the cabling required to connect every video source and every video sink to the switch is complex, expensive and just plain huge. Packet switching will make it much, much better -- when the networks can handle the data volume.
Well huge is right, but blackmagic do a 72 in 144 out 1080i matrix for $15k.
Now if you're going for the 1000+ sources/destinations, then yet, that's still big bucks.
Dominant reason is latency. Throwing around compressed video forces latency of at least 1 frame, in an industry where latency is measured in fractions of a scan line (single horizontal line in a frame)
You'd think, but BBC R&D were claiming their DiracPro boxes introduced a latency measured in lines (like 30). I never measured it myself, and they seem to have moved to Stagebox now, with AVC-i100 as the intermediate.
Why do people in this industry need 6 simultaneous unbuffered streams? TFS said that cost isn't really an issue, so a 4-port link aggregation of 10Gbps ought to be widely deployed by now if three of these streams were good enough. There are switches ($$$) that can handle that kind of backplane traffic.
For the last 15 years, our central video matrix had 1512 inputs. That was SD, but for 1080i 4:2:2 that would be 1.25 Tbit. 2.5Tbit for 1080p.
As for back plane switches, I believe a 10 year old cisco 6500 with SFM module will run with a 256gbit on the backplane.
Who? Where? Not much use unless you tell us examples.
The BBC for one.
Only p25, which doesn't count (and looks shit, bloody "film effect" idiots). 720p50 would have been a much nicer transmission standard than 1080i, but more pixels always win, in TV and in still cameras.
Replacement tech rarely catches up. 1080p signal? Please, that is so last year. 4k is the new norm.
For long form, but not for live, the glue is only just coming into realistic territory.
This year's the first year at IBC that I've really noticed 4K. NHK are still plugging their UHDTV stuff, which looked very impressive with the footage from the olympics, however I was more impressed with the 120Hz demo.
In other news, we've finally got the money to upgrade one of our overseas offices, which actually preses, from an analog matrix to a digital one. Another overseas office still has a 4:3 studio camera (with a signal chain that goes RGB>PAL>SDI>PAL>SDI>Compressed>SDI>HDSDI before pres)
Since it is such a part of the history of/. I propose that we use the ASCII version of Goatse.
The logo is a picture, so why stick to the ASCII version? Just use the current slashdot logo, but instead of the letter o, have you-know-what. At that small size, it wouldn't even be obscene...
They even hinted at such idea, see very last item of "brainstorm" list:
Slashdot Mirror
How can you not love this guy?
He's great at publicity. Let's talk Mars when he's got people doing regular low-orbit flights.
I would happily throw 90% of the human race under a bus for a working warp drive.
That would have to be a big bus
True... but then fill a bus with people and suddenly the mpg per person goes through the roof for the bus. You could get 300mpg per person from a bus. Good luck getting that with a moped.
Last time I was in Delhi I saw 5 people on a moped. At 70mpg that's 350miles-per-person-gallon :p
Folks above a certain title or pay grade don't have to bother with this sh*t, though shareholders should ask for it to be instituted company wide.
They might be surprised where the real bang for their buck comes from.
Yet folks below that pay grade go home at 5pm and have nothing else to do.
Excuse the language but my sincerest fuck you, being a muslim i find this highly offensive. I know all about freedom of speech and how this is one bad apple, nonetheless too many idiots are seeing this as another freedom of speech thing. I don't stand for violence and loss of life, idiots in middle east are just that. So are idiots in america viewing this as a freedom of speech issue. Let's all be insensitive about each others culture, I'm sure we will have a better society.
Next time I will make sure I scream Allah hoakbar at ground zero and support the mosque being built there. What the hell, might as well stick a banner saying "victory" over the mosque.
Well fuck you. I find your comment highly offensive
my windows 5 phone just has a easy to find physical button that requires nothing more than a press of the thumb
Same with my iphone and ring finger.
they patent a sensor that responds to a whack? Fine.
They patent the idea of whacking the phone? Not fine. Patents are supposed to cover IMPLEMENTATIONS, not ideas.
I've silenced a phone before by whacking it.
The novel part is having it carry on working after the whack.
goes only to show how broken the Patent system is.
I find giving things a whack often fixes them
Wrong question. What you really meant to ask:
And the answer is: networking. It's free or cheap, but it's time-consuming and time-delayed.
I suggest looking at 100gbit. That networking should be fast enough for the next 10 years.
Blackmagic stuff is nice and cheap, but you wouldn't use it in a proper studio. :) So go up an order of magnitude in cost when dealing with reliable equipment.
Strange, cause we road cast to millions with various bits of blackmagic kit.
How many viewers do you need for a "proper studio"?
The remastered version certainly is better quality, but I'll wait for the limited edition director's cut of Episode I: Giant Nuclear-Powered Laser Robot Invades Mars. It's supposed to be a rock-solid performance with plenty of driving action scenes.
Remember, Curiosity shot first.
Woot first post.
It really wasn't. Perhaps you were posting from Mars?
They are much worse than a static object (like a conventional power station, or a radio mast) because they are moving, and the human eye/brain is very sensitive to movement because we are natural hunters.
Not sure what wind farms you've seen, but round here the majority are turned off because there's not enough wind, or there's too much wind.
When you put a rover on Mars, you can pick whatever units you want.
That worked out so well for the Mars Climate Orbiter
I'd disagree on the latter. Which came first, Debian Potatoe or Debian Sarge?
Sid
How about OSX Dangerous Pussy?
OSX Pussy Riot
Because it should only tax items to which value was added.
You mean like a Value Added Tax? We have that in the UK, doesn't stop people bleeting on how regressive it is.
We even have exemptions on essentials like food, and "good" things like books. I can't remember the last time I paid any substantial amount of VAT.
People that buy a new £50k Ferrari every year pay £8,000 a year in VAT on that alone.
Except once knowledge of the accurate model is wide spread it will change the outcome events, in sort of a societal uncertainty principle.
Only if you can do anything about it.
What can you do about global warming and peak oil, at least in the short term?
Buy oil futures, sun tan lotion, and a boat?
Move to Denver?
Difficult to tell, certainly over 400 though.
Still, all of that stuff is really expensive, and the cabling required to connect every video source and every video sink to the switch is complex, expensive and just plain huge. Packet switching will make it much, much better -- when the networks can handle the data volume.
Well huge is right, but blackmagic do a 72 in 144 out 1080i matrix for $15k.
Now if you're going for the 1000+ sources/destinations, then yet, that's still big bucks.
A summary of reasons (From the fine article):
You'd think, but BBC R&D were claiming their DiracPro boxes introduced a latency measured in lines (like 30). I never measured it myself, and they seem to have moved to Stagebox now, with AVC-i100 as the intermediate.
You could push 6 of those streams over 100GbE.
Why do people in this industry need 6 simultaneous unbuffered streams? TFS said that cost isn't really an issue, so a 4-port link aggregation of 10Gbps ought to be widely deployed by now if three of these streams were good enough. There are switches ($$$) that can handle that kind of backplane traffic.
For the last 15 years, our central video matrix had 1512 inputs. That was SD, but for 1080i 4:2:2 that would be 1.25 Tbit. 2.5Tbit for 1080p.
As for back plane switches, I believe a 10 year old cisco 6500 with SFM module will run with a 256gbit on the backplane.
Who? Where? Not much use unless you tell us examples.
The BBC for one.
Only p25, which doesn't count (and looks shit, bloody "film effect" idiots). 720p50 would have been a much nicer transmission standard than 1080i, but more pixels always win, in TV and in still cameras.
Replacement tech rarely catches up. 1080p signal? Please, that is so last year. 4k is the new norm.
For long form, but not for live, the glue is only just coming into realistic territory.
This year's the first year at IBC that I've really noticed 4K. NHK are still plugging their UHDTV stuff, which looked very impressive with the footage from the olympics, however I was more impressed with the 120Hz demo.
In other news, we've finally got the money to upgrade one of our overseas offices, which actually preses, from an analog matrix to a digital one. Another overseas office still has a 4:3 studio camera (with a signal chain that goes RGB>PAL>SDI>PAL>SDI>Compressed>SDI>HDSDI before pres)
Since it is such a part of the history of /. I propose that we use the ASCII version of Goatse.
The logo is a picture, so why stick to the ASCII version? Just use the current slashdot logo, but instead of the letter o, have you-know-what. At that small size, it wouldn't even be obscene...
They even hinted at such idea, see very last item of "brainstorm" list:
Hey, if it's good enough for the olympics