this is about live TV. Live TV is a different. The infrastructure relies on point-to-point circuit switching. One video signal is sent down one coax cable. 8 cameras is 8 coax cables, now have 1km of cable that's 8km just for the live camera feeds to the OB truck.
You run co-ax over a mile?
8 cameras is 8 cores of a single fibre cable.
One of my responsibilities is keeping time-code correct on set, I have to go round each department times a day* and "jam" each system, recorder, slate, camera etc so they are correctly in time so when all the data is put together by the DIT.
I guess you don't distribute B&B + VITC then?
Logging while shooting cannot be done for news or reality TV as everything happens too quick.
It certainly can, we do it all the time on important feeds using our own system wrapped around a Quantel sQ system. EVS are particularly good at the interface for logging things like sports matches too. It's essential to log feeds that come in in realtime, otherwise you may as well throw them away.
Now getting editors to log rushes in overseas offices, where there's no librarian, and always a pressing need to move onto the next story, there's the challenge.
Really? I had no idea. I just had a brain MRI and a full spine MRI for ~US$130 and US$495. Then surgery on my back to insert titanium in four places. Four nights in the hospital. Total bill: US$13,130 + the MRIs. I knew it was a lot less than the US, but I didn't realize just how much. (high quality care as well.)
In the UK we complain that you'd have to pay $20 for car parking for the 5 days.
I can't honestly say I've endorsed a whole heck of a lot of ideas from Estonia, but this is a great idea. I only wish I could travel back in time and encourage my teachers to teach me and my piers programming at age 6. Then I'd probably be able to figure out this compiler error I'm getting right now.
Would that be a compiler error on your time machine?
I played HL for the first time a few years ago; years after I'd played HL2. The game had tons of content, ingenious puzzles to solve, and maybe the best final boss I've ever fought in a FPS. Even with the low-end graphics, I still found this one to be a blast to play. Don't let the age of the game detract you from revisiting it.
I stopped playing games when I went to uni, shortly after HL came out. In my mind it's a modern game, and it's things like Quake and doom that are old.
My wife is a teacher. Do you know what teachers do during "Teacher Work Days"?
I didn't imply they weren't working, or anything like that. I simply said that those days when students are absent should be made up with further attendance days.
But the OP said they weren't working, instead they were in meetings all day.
lol yea sure he would have, the same douche that would flip bits in an os installer so you had to buy a new computer if you wanted to run the newest SUB VERSION of the same os you already had would have let you keep your i-tunes collection and forgo all those extra sales.
Listen Americans, "911" is the AMERICAN emergency number. The rest of the world doesn't use it. In Japan, its "119", as TFA says. In Australia it's "000". In the UK it's "999". If you really think Americans are too dumb to understand that, just write "emergency number" instead of confusing everyone by trying to "translate" a number.
112 is the closest thing to an international standard.
If you'd ever flown you'd know that they ask you to stow all personal effects - books, bags, coats.
I've flown 50 flights this year. The floor area in some classes and at exit rows needs to be kept clear, but this doesn't mean you must put your book away. The rest of the plane, no problem.
Electronic devices are banned, mainly because of old rules, and that there is evidence they interfere with the plane. The last thing you want is a cell phone dit-dit-dit in the pilot's ear while 180 phones connect to the local tower just as the airport tells the plane to "Go Around". It does happen, but 90% of those cell phones are turned off on a flight, so the chances are lower.
The case against Kindles etc in flight mode is a lot more shaky, however even non-transmitting devices can theoretically interfere.
This is why on aircraft that are licensed to allow cell phone use carry their own femtocell style access points. There aren't many airlines/aircraft that are licensed, but the trials have been in place for some time.
The main problem with cell phones on planes is a customer problem: the cost. They charge at international roaming rates, so it's not worth it unless you're making money off the call.
Most of us travelling on business have no problem paying $2-3 a minute for international calls. I ran up a $160 data bill this month. It's peanuts compared to the cost of sending me somewhere on a plane. Hell a flak jacket alone costs $100 to rent.
Leaving aside for a second whether or not cellular communications or wifi signals are actually BAD for a flight, it's fairly easy to see the difference between your ereader and a book. I've never seen a book with a 3G or a WiFi card. Can you imagine the bedlam it would created if the flight attendants had to memorize or verify the communication status of all the current ereaders out there? Simpler to just require them all to be off.
Or much more likely, it will stay on, not in flight mode, in someone's bag. Along with their cellphone.
When he calls it a modest proposal, does he realize he is copying another title, which essentially indicates he is being completely sarcastic, and not serious at all in what he proposes?
Any sources for that claim? That would be worse than storming an embassy. Diplomatic bags often contain very sensitive communication. One time pads, encryption devices are all send using diplomatic bags. It would be unimaginable to claim that the host nation can violate diplomatic bags (unless they are certain that the bag violates the conventions governing diplomatic bags, and by opening it they can prove it).
Even if they don't open it, can they subject it to safety tests (a lethal xray dose for example, or a vacuum test)?
I wonder how long the people of London would stand for it if 50 small trucks a day started pulling into the embassy garage, then pulling out again and heading for Europe. What kind of police presence would it take to search every one of them on a daily basis?
Maybe once in a while, just for a laugh, have somebody approximating Assange's physical appearance hop in for a ride around the city.
Embassy garage? This isn't some enormous castle, it's a ground floor flat.
The land I was born in, the land that I grew up in, the land that I live in and the land that I love......with some of the worst (or best, depending on your definition of the word) politicians I've ever seen. You have to understand - they don't use those iPads for anything other than browsing porn ( http://www.komputerswiat.pl/media/2012/187/2456339/porno-tablety-sejm-1.jpg ) or funnyjunk-like equivalents.
That's Facebook isn't it?
On the whole I agree with your sentiments about politics. Ultimately everything we read is PR, there's hardly any news any more, and even the excellent journalists I work with are limited to 30 second sound bites outside closed offices. You get occasional great reports - mostly in papers, but sometimes on the bbc.
You get great live coverage on tv too, skys coverage of te fall of tripoli was a masterpiece.
But the bulk of news is generated by pr companies, and until the public realise that and actively fight against it, politics is doomed.
I was staying in Marriott and they have a small in room safe. Its the kind with a digital keypad where you select your own code. I put stuff in there while we went to the pool.
When we got back I guess one of the kids was playing with it and it stopped responding because they pressed too many buttons. So I looked it up online. All I had to do was press "lock" twice to enter supervisor mode then 999999 and it opened the safe bypassing my code.
So don't use those safes for anything real valuable. Next time I have to play around with supervisor mode to see if I can change that password.
If I'm staying in a dodgy city for a period of time, I spread the risk. £100 and passport copy in the safe, normal wallet and passport on me, and I always keep a credit card in my dirty laundry in the suitcase just in case.
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this is about live TV. Live TV is a different. The infrastructure relies on point-to-point circuit switching. One video signal is sent down one coax cable. 8 cameras is 8 coax cables, now have 1km of cable that's 8km just for the live camera feeds to the OB truck.
You run co-ax over a mile?
8 cameras is 8 cores of a single fibre cable.
One of my responsibilities is keeping time-code correct on set, I have to go round each department times a day* and "jam" each system, recorder, slate, camera etc so they are correctly in time so when all the data is put together by the DIT.
I guess you don't distribute B&B + VITC then?
Logging while shooting cannot be done for news or reality TV as everything happens too quick.
It certainly can, we do it all the time on important feeds using our own system wrapped around a Quantel sQ system. EVS are particularly good at the interface for logging things like sports matches too. It's essential to log feeds that come in in realtime, otherwise you may as well throw them away.
Now getting editors to log rushes in overseas offices, where there's no librarian, and always a pressing need to move onto the next story, there's the challenge.
Really? I had no idea. I just had a brain MRI and a full spine MRI for ~US$130 and US$495. Then surgery on my back to insert titanium in four places. Four nights in the hospital. Total bill: US$13,130 + the MRIs. I knew it was a lot less than the US, but I didn't realize just how much. (high quality care as well.)
In the UK we complain that you'd have to pay $20 for car parking for the 5 days.
I can't honestly say I've endorsed a whole heck of a lot of ideas from Estonia, but this is a great idea. I only wish I could travel back in time and encourage my teachers to teach me and my piers programming at age 6. Then I'd probably be able to figure out this compiler error I'm getting right now.
Would that be a compiler error on your time machine?
I played HL for the first time a few years ago; years after I'd played HL2. The game had tons of content, ingenious puzzles to solve, and maybe the best final boss I've ever fought in a FPS. Even with the low-end graphics, I still found this one to be a blast to play. Don't let the age of the game detract you from revisiting it.
I stopped playing games when I went to uni, shortly after HL came out. In my mind it's a modern game, and it's things like Quake and doom that are old.
My wife is a teacher. Do you know what teachers do during "Teacher Work Days"?
I didn't imply they weren't working, or anything like that. I simply said that those days when students are absent should be made up with further attendance days.
But the OP said they weren't working, instead they were in meetings all day.
lol yea sure he would have, the same douche that would flip bits in an os installer so you had to buy a new computer if you wanted to run the newest SUB VERSION of the same os you already had would have let you keep your i-tunes collection and forgo all those extra sales.
It's your own fault for not moving to git.
I've had no need for it. Who does?
Lights out management of servers?
Rock Star Developers, seriously? None of them are that good.
Agreed. Rock Stars suck as developers. And most of them suck at rock, as well.
There's not great at astronomy either.
~ sudo $ apt-get remove completely-unnecessary-application
Care to offer a real example?
A good start would be not offering to arrest and deport people who broke no law in your country.
So if I (an Australian) shoot someone in Canada, then flee across the border to the U.S., I'm safe?
Listen Americans, "911" is the AMERICAN emergency number. The rest of the world doesn't use it. In Japan, its "119", as TFA says. In Australia it's "000". In the UK it's "999". If you really think Americans are too dumb to understand that, just write "emergency number" instead of confusing everyone by trying to "translate" a number.
112 is the closest thing to an international standard.
That, and if you don't teach people about them they won't know which icon to click to save their work.
People used to save their documents on floppys. In those enlightened days the average joe knew the difference between files and programs.
Nowadays many people save things "into word", and have no concept of a file.
Are there still people today that use floppies? :)
Yes, we have various old bits of equipment which use floppys to store settings etc. Astons and vision mixers come to mind.
There is no citation for common sense.
If you'd ever flown you'd know that they ask you to stow all personal effects - books, bags, coats.
I've flown 50 flights this year. The floor area in some classes and at exit rows needs to be kept clear, but this doesn't mean you must put your book away. The rest of the plane, no problem.
Electronic devices are banned, mainly because of old rules, and that there is evidence they interfere with the plane. The last thing you want is a cell phone dit-dit-dit in the pilot's ear while 180 phones connect to the local tower just as the airport tells the plane to "Go Around". It does happen, but 90% of those cell phones are turned off on a flight, so the chances are lower.
The case against Kindles etc in flight mode is a lot more shaky, however even non-transmitting devices can theoretically interfere.
This is why on aircraft that are licensed to allow cell phone use carry their own femtocell style access points. There aren't many airlines/aircraft that are licensed, but the trials have been in place for some time.
The main problem with cell phones on planes is a customer problem: the cost. They charge at international roaming rates, so it's not worth it unless you're making money off the call.
Most of us travelling on business have no problem paying $2-3 a minute for international calls. I ran up a $160 data bill this month. It's peanuts compared to the cost of sending me somewhere on a plane. Hell a flak jacket alone costs $100 to rent.
Leaving aside for a second whether or not cellular communications or wifi signals are actually BAD for a flight, it's fairly easy to see the difference between your ereader and a book. I've never seen a book with a 3G or a WiFi card. Can you imagine the bedlam it would created if the flight attendants had to memorize or verify the communication status of all the current ereaders out there? Simpler to just require them all to be off.
Or much more likely, it will stay on, not in flight mode, in someone's bag. Along with their cellphone.
That's right. Piracy off the coast of Somalia is plain wrong.
What about piracy in the Caribbean? Capitan Jack doesn't seem that bad
When he calls it a modest proposal, does he realize he is copying another title, which essentially indicates he is being completely sarcastic, and not serious at all in what he proposes?
Swift was being sarcastic?
Any sources for that claim? That would be worse than storming an embassy. Diplomatic bags often contain very sensitive communication. One time pads, encryption devices are all send using diplomatic bags. It would be unimaginable to claim that the host nation can violate diplomatic bags (unless they are certain that the bag violates the conventions governing diplomatic bags, and by opening it they can prove it).
Even if they don't open it, can they subject it to safety tests (a lethal xray dose for example, or a vacuum test)?
I wonder how long the people of London would stand for it if 50 small trucks a day started pulling into the embassy garage, then pulling out again and heading for Europe. What kind of police presence would it take to search every one of them on a daily basis?
Maybe once in a while, just for a laugh, have somebody approximating Assange's physical appearance hop in for a ride around the city.
Embassy garage? This isn't some enormous castle, it's a ground floor flat.
The land I was born in, the land that I grew up in, the land that I live in and the land that I love... ...with some of the worst (or best, depending on your definition of the word) politicians I've ever seen. You have to understand - they don't use those iPads for anything other than browsing porn ( http://www.komputerswiat.pl/media/2012/187/2456339/porno-tablety-sejm-1.jpg ) or funnyjunk-like equivalents.
That's Facebook isn't it?
On the whole I agree with your sentiments about politics. Ultimately everything we read is PR, there's hardly any news any more, and even the excellent journalists I work with are limited to 30 second sound bites outside closed offices. You get occasional great reports - mostly in papers, but sometimes on the bbc.
You get great live coverage on tv too, skys coverage of te fall of tripoli was a masterpiece.
But the bulk of news is generated by pr companies, and until the public realise that and actively fight against it, politics is doomed.
Glass sided office buildings kill untold numbers of birds. Walk around any of them you will find the small birds that smashed into them.
I never said I was pro-environment. I am pro my environment. Since I do not live in a desert, pave it with solar cells.
How well do solar panels cope with high desert winds?
Office buildings in fact provide habitat for raptors...
Fortunately my office runs unix, and is near a girls school, so we should be safe.
I was staying in Marriott and they have a small in room safe. Its the kind with a digital keypad where you select your own code. I put stuff in there while we went to the pool.
When we got back I guess one of the kids was playing with it and it stopped responding because they pressed too many buttons. So I looked it up online. All I had to do was press "lock" twice to enter supervisor mode then 999999 and it opened the safe bypassing my code.
So don't use those safes for anything real valuable. Next time I have to play around with supervisor mode to see if I can change that password.
If I'm staying in a dodgy city for a period of time, I spread the risk. £100 and passport copy in the safe, normal wallet and passport on me, and I always keep a credit card in my dirty laundry in the suitcase just in case.
Well, insofar, it's not one that I have in my toolbox. That's how obscure and uncommonly used they are.
It's also not one that I couldn't buy at the local hardware shop, if I'd need one.
Yet the standard screwdriver set I keep in one of our overseas offices cost under USD10 and contains 4 different sizes