I find it more problematic that they have support micro 4:3 lenses and no support for PL mount. The lack of support for electronic lenses is really not that big a deal. The target users for these cameras don't expect or want auto aperture or autofocus. Admittedly this is a little annoying for Canon EF lenses, but anyone that gets this and is going to use non-cine lenses will probably just pick up a bunch of older full manual Nikon primes.
>And I mentions conservation. These plants supplied one millions homes in a state of 38 million. That is 2% reduction in capacity. The big thing we need to realize is >that energy is neither free nor infinate. We can go and buy a 60" TV that us going to use almost 400KWh in a year, or one that uses under 200. We can browse on >our 120 watt computer, or on our 5W tablet. We can turn on the lights in the middle of the day, or not. How much would we need to do to save 2% of the electricity? >Who much would be need to do to save 10%?
I believe you have accidentally conflated two different statistics here, the plant generates enough power for about 1 million average California homes, and the entire population of California is roughly 38 million poeple, not homes. Looking here: http://www.eia.gov/nuclear/state/California/ it appears that California's two nuclear plants produce roughly 16% of the base production, split basically evenly between the plants. Not 100% sure about this because the summer capacity column is somewhat confusing. I'm inferring that the nukes run pretty much full steam and they make up with largely natural gas.
I was at GDC last week and while I was in the ( eternally disgusting ) bathroom washing my hands a Googler wearing Google Glass walked in to use the urinal. The urge to say 'Ok glass, take a picture' was hard to resist.
When you are talking about switching between "like" platforms, for example Windows Standalone -vs- OSX Standalone -vs- Soon-to-be-Linux standalone the changes can be very minimal or almost nothing. My experience with the Windows/OSX standalone builds is that you can sometimes deploy with zero changes. The most common issues that seem to crop up are related to custom shaders.
I maintain a bunch of games and demos that we use as examples for our networking middleware, and they basically never need platform customizations for Windows/OSX. The Linux client isn't available yet but I would assume that it would be quite similar.
"Total nonsense. Almost every game these days is written in C++ and while they all vary in the amount of applied OOP and generic meta programming"
I think this is a rather dubious assertion unless you further qualify this by saying "console games" or possibly 'box retail games". Even with that caveat, it might be hard to argue, since the majority of the code for these games might be in a high level language backed by a core that might be c/c++.
I would also argue that the component/data driven design of many games and game engines primary goal is flexibility and extensibility, with a huge side benefit being the possible memory and performance benefits. I concede that my opinion there is highly subjective:)
I would just point out for the record that Kansas City, KS and Kansas City, MO are not rural. While it is true that rural Kansas schools are facing serious problems as a result of depopulation, nobody is lining up to send their children to school in KCK or KCMO.
I'm not entirely sure this deserves a response, but you might want to double check your assumptions about the demographics of Kansas City, KS. I admit this is an assumption on my part, but you might be surprised to know that Kansas City is largely in Missouri. KCK is by comparison very small, but I admit for this topic either might technically be correct since Google has deemed it fit to fiber them both up.
The AVM program has little or nothing to do with drones or robotics, I believe this is just some creative reporting done by the author. The "Manufacturing Experimentation and Outreach" part of the program is really just about getting manufacturing technology ( rapid prototyping hardware, cad software, etc ) into the hands of kids and getting them interested and excited about science, math, and engineering.
My understanding of the 'wanting unlimited rights" is that all the designs will be 'open source' and available to everyone. If you look at the Vehicleforge portion of the AVM proposal, I think you would see that what they are proposing is very similar to a traditional 'software forge" (sourceforge, github) but applied to design of physical systems.
I was really excited about this when I saw it earlier this week. In fact I thought it was so cool I attempted to buy one. The company appears to be selling them on Amazon, but won't ship them to the USA.... so, has anyone actually purchased one?
I believe the required disc for PS3 and now Wii is meant to get around the exclusive Xbox360 / Netflix streaming deal that exists currently. My understanding is that when the exclusive deal is over, the Netflix Player could move over to a normal installable program.
tuition prices are so high because kids keep getting approved for loans.
No, they're high because so many kids are trying to get into schools. Supply and demand.
Student loans are enabling/helping it, but it isn't the root cause.
Many undergrad classes are actually wildly profitable for traditional universities. It is apparently acceptable that many of the basic prerequisite courses are huge cattle calls with tons of students, and the universities still charge the same price per credit hour as much smaller and relatively more expensive classes.
The demand for students is actually heating up as many decide they would rather take these crappy classes online or at community colleges:)
I agree fully that you can pretty much get the job done on just about any platform hardware/software combo. I disagree about the latency issue to some extent. As far as I know, most of the solutions involve some sort of low latency mode or monitoring without effects, where with an HD system, there is generally no issue, and the latency is normally measured in samples, not ms. I don't base this on any recent personal experience however. Mostly just anecdotal evidence, as it always seems to be one of the most common issues I see discussed in forums. Actually, I am participating in the RPM Challenge http://www.rpmchallenge.com/, and I saw a thread discussing Audacity and the first issue that popped up was latency.
For a lot of home recordists, I don't think it is that big a deal. It is my impression that a lot more people are making electronic-ish (hop hop, techno, trance, ambient, whatever) at home than recording multiple acoustic musicians simultaneously. At least that is my impression. Other packages (Logic, GarageBand, not so much Nuendo) really seem to be geared more toward songwriting and composition, where something like ProTools is more focused on mixing and post production. I think many people would find Pro Tools confusing because it presumes you have a good deal of understanding of analog mixing.
That being said, after recording for a week and a half solid, the biggest sonic improvement I have made recently was a new microphone and preamp. Truly worlds of difference there. The thing I would recommend to anyone who records themselves and finds it awkward and difficult is the TranzPort http://www.frontierdesign.com/Products/TranzPort. That thing works with just about any software out there, and trust me, it is absolutely awesome.
I think the most significant advantage of HD systems these days is expandability, low-or-no-latency, and delay compensation. PowerCore is similar in terms of offloading processing, but is not really the same experience as an HD system. That said, I know there are quite a few HD users that also have a PowerCore because of some PowerCore-specific plugins that people like. They do suffer from having added latency as a result.
Supposedly Nuendo has delay compensation as well, but I have various reports on how effective it can be.
Full disclosure: I have an HD3 system, and I like it. I hate to say it but it "just works", which I actually appreciate in the context in which I use it.
For the record, your choice of interface is only restricted on the LE systems. When you move to HD, you do have a small, but high quality set of choices. I don't see the LE situation as any different than the OSX / Mac situation. Their motivation is probably the same as well.
I couldn't find a binary installer for NTFS-3G, so I whipped one up and made it available here. You need to install MacFUSE first. I will see if I can make a UB version this evening and test it on my G5. Enjoy, and let me know if there are any problems. It is tested (lightly) on a MacBook and MacBook Pro
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I suppose this depends on what you consider "embedded" and what you consider "real". I do development on an Intel xscale processor which is basically an arm9 on crack. It runs 2.6 kernel linux that is sucked right of kernel.org. Admittedly there are some patches that are added, but they mostly deal with hardware. This device is "embedded" to the degree that an iPhone is. It runs the linux kernel, I have a console with bash, it was built with gcc, runs gcc. Sounds like "real" linux to me!
"The fact that 80% of the carrier market requires you to use it makes it popular with cell phone developers. If there was an actual choice, you'd see more applications written in C++."
I am not aware of many developers clamoring for more BREW phones to develop on. I realize that this partly a result of most BREW carriers being nanny-content-gatekeeper-bastards. I'm not totally convinced developers want to develop C++ apps for phones. This just means even more phone specific optimizations than you already have to do for Java apps.
I live in a suburb of Kansas City, and my phone has been ringing off the hook with campaign ads for about a month. About two weeks ago, for a period of a couple days, I was receiving 8-10 hangup calls a day from the same wierd number. Some of the calls would come every 10-15 minutes at dinner time. Eventually I got fed up with them and answered, and the information was about a Republican state representative. I was pretty annoyed at this point, so I looked up his number and called him. He called me back a couple hours later, and I talked to him about it at length. He said at the time that he had received numerous complaints about this, and that he personally believed his competitor was doing this to annoy voters. He asked me if I had any details, so I offered him photographs of all my caller ID information. This was also suspicious as the caller id info was coming up as 816-000-0000 (816 is a local area code). This was what initially made me think that something shifty was going on. He gave me his cell phone number and his personal email, and I sent him this info a few hours later.
I have no way of knowing if this was a campaign launched by his competition, or just a very tenacious and super-annoying get out the vote campaign gone amok. I have no real reason to believe this guy was lying to me, but no proof that his story was true.
If you have to deal with mailing lists or bulk email or lots of users you already know this is true. I create special sendmail queues just to handle Yahoo's lousy SMTP servers. With a decent provider (like *gasp*, AOL) you can open up a connection and cram in just about any amount of email. With Yahoo the conversation is usually like this. .... Connecting to mx3.mail.yahoo.com. via esmtp...
(send one or two emails)
451 mta152.mail.re4.yahoo.com Resources temporarily unavailable. Please try again later [#4.16.5].
(hang until TCP timeout)
"Sorry, I should have stated my source, the CIA: France, USA."
Yes, I figured the CIA factbook was the source, and I looked there myself. I also found it curious that the CIA statistics for literacy in the U.S. were apparently different than U.N. statistics. I believe the reason for the discrepancy has something to do with the CIA's method of defining literacy. I would also note that the CIA figures for literacy in France are from 1980. I discounted these figures because in favor of the U.N. statisics because it is probably fair to say that the CIA could be perceived to be a more biased source than the U.N.
I think after reading the U.N. statistcs it would be hard to conclude there is any meaningful difference in education levels in the U.S. and France, and if there were they would skew to the favor of the U.S. anyway. The argument is fairly moot.
"Yes, I know you didn't state that you are from the USA, but experience tells me only one country produces idiots like you in mass quantities. The rest have idiots too, but there's less of them, and they say where they are from."
Anonymous Coward? Heh.
And "tigeba" isn't anonymous? "
The idiots hiding behind anonymity was your argument, not mine. I would probably have to argue that in the context of Slashdot, a long established user account does not constitute anonymity. Is CmdrTaco anonymous?
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I find it more problematic that they have support micro 4:3 lenses and no support for PL mount. The lack of support for electronic lenses is really not that big a deal. The target users for these cameras don't expect or want auto aperture or autofocus. Admittedly this is a little annoying for Canon EF lenses, but anyone that gets this and is going to use non-cine lenses will probably just pick up a bunch of older full manual Nikon primes.
>And I mentions conservation. These plants supplied one millions homes in a state of 38 million. That is 2% reduction in capacity. The big thing we need to realize is >that energy is neither free nor infinate. We can go and buy a 60" TV that us going to use almost 400KWh in a year, or one that uses under 200. We can browse on >our 120 watt computer, or on our 5W tablet. We can turn on the lights in the middle of the day, or not. How much would we need to do to save 2% of the electricity? >Who much would be need to do to save 10%?
I believe you have accidentally conflated two different statistics here, the plant generates enough power for about 1 million average California homes, and the entire population of California is roughly 38 million poeple, not homes. Looking here: http://www.eia.gov/nuclear/state/California/ it appears that California's two nuclear plants produce roughly 16% of the base production, split basically evenly between the plants. Not 100% sure about this because the summer capacity column is somewhat confusing. I'm inferring that the nukes run pretty much full steam and they make up with largely natural gas.
I was at GDC last week and while I was in the ( eternally disgusting ) bathroom washing my hands a Googler wearing Google Glass walked in to use the urinal. The urge to say 'Ok glass, take a picture' was hard to resist.
When you are talking about switching between "like" platforms, for example Windows Standalone -vs- OSX Standalone -vs- Soon-to-be-Linux standalone the changes can be very minimal or almost nothing. My experience with the Windows/OSX standalone builds is that you can sometimes deploy with zero changes. The most common issues that seem to crop up are related to custom shaders.
I maintain a bunch of games and demos that we use as examples for our networking middleware, and they basically never need platform customizations for Windows/OSX. The Linux client isn't available yet but I would assume that it would be quite similar.
"Total nonsense. Almost every game these days is written in C++ and while they all vary in the amount of applied OOP and generic meta programming"
I think this is a rather dubious assertion unless you further qualify this by saying "console games" or possibly 'box retail games". Even with that caveat, it might be hard to argue, since the majority of the code for these games might be in a high level language backed by a core that might be c/c++.
I would also argue that the component/data driven design of many games and game engines primary goal is flexibility and extensibility, with a huge side benefit being the possible memory and performance benefits. I concede that my opinion there is highly subjective :)
I would just point out for the record that Kansas City, KS and Kansas City, MO are not rural. While it is true that rural Kansas schools are facing serious problems as a result of depopulation, nobody is lining up to send their children to school in KCK or KCMO.
I'm not entirely sure this deserves a response, but you might want to double check your assumptions about the demographics of Kansas City, KS. I admit this is an assumption on my part, but you might be surprised to know that Kansas City is largely in Missouri. KCK is by comparison very small, but I admit for this topic either might technically be correct since Google has deemed it fit to fiber them both up.
The AVM program has little or nothing to do with drones or robotics, I believe this is just some creative reporting done by the author. The "Manufacturing Experimentation and Outreach" part of the program is really just about getting manufacturing technology ( rapid prototyping hardware, cad software, etc ) into the hands of kids and getting them interested and excited about science, math, and engineering.
My understanding of the 'wanting unlimited rights" is that all the designs will be 'open source' and available to everyone. If you look at the Vehicleforge portion of the AVM proposal, I think you would see that what they are proposing is very similar to a traditional 'software forge" (sourceforge, github) but applied to design of physical systems.
I was really excited about this when I saw it earlier this week. In fact I thought it was so cool I attempted to buy one. The company appears to be selling them on Amazon, but won't ship them to the USA.... so, has anyone actually purchased one?
I believe the required disc for PS3 and now Wii is meant to get around the exclusive Xbox360 / Netflix streaming deal that exists currently. My understanding is that when the exclusive deal is over, the Netflix Player could move over to a normal installable program.
tuition prices are so high because kids keep getting approved for loans.
No, they're high because so many kids are trying to get into schools. Supply and demand.
Student loans are enabling/helping it, but it isn't the root cause.
Many undergrad classes are actually wildly profitable for traditional universities. It is apparently acceptable that many of the basic prerequisite courses are huge cattle calls with tons of students, and the universities still charge the same price per credit hour as much smaller and relatively more expensive classes.
The demand for students is actually heating up as many decide they would rather take these crappy classes online or at community colleges :)
There is always Linux Genuine Advantage http://www.linuxgenuineadvantage.org/ to keep it safe from piracy.
Maybe there is hope for someday getting my printer to work in OSX!
Mac Pro's don't have PCI, you would have to get a G5.
I can clearly see the banding in the left square on my MacBook Pro and on my terrible 19" analog LCD at work.
I agree fully that you can pretty much get the job done on just about any platform hardware/software combo. I disagree about the latency issue to some extent. As far as I know, most of the solutions involve some sort of low latency mode or monitoring without effects, where with an HD system, there is generally no issue, and the latency is normally measured in samples, not ms. I don't base this on any recent personal experience however. Mostly just anecdotal evidence, as it always seems to be one of the most common issues I see discussed in forums. Actually, I am participating in the RPM Challenge http://www.rpmchallenge.com/, and I saw a thread discussing Audacity and the first issue that popped up was latency.
For a lot of home recordists, I don't think it is that big a deal. It is my impression that a lot more people are making electronic-ish (hop hop, techno, trance, ambient, whatever) at home than recording multiple acoustic musicians simultaneously. At least that is my impression. Other packages (Logic, GarageBand, not so much Nuendo) really seem to be geared more toward songwriting and composition, where something like ProTools is more focused on mixing and post production. I think many people would find Pro Tools confusing because it presumes you have a good deal of understanding of analog mixing.
That being said, after recording for a week and a half solid, the biggest sonic improvement I have made recently was a new microphone and preamp. Truly worlds of difference there. The thing I would recommend to anyone who records themselves and finds it awkward and difficult is the TranzPort http://www.frontierdesign.com/Products/TranzPort. That thing works with just about any software out there, and trust me, it is absolutely awesome.
I think the most significant advantage of HD systems these days is expandability, low-or-no-latency, and delay compensation. PowerCore is similar in terms of offloading processing, but is not really the same experience as an HD system. That said, I know there are quite a few HD users that also have a PowerCore because of some PowerCore-specific plugins that people like. They do suffer from having added latency as a result.
Supposedly Nuendo has delay compensation as well, but I have various reports on how effective it can be.
Full disclosure: I have an HD3 system, and I like it. I hate to say it but it "just works", which I actually appreciate in the context in which I use it.
For the record, your choice of interface is only restricted on the LE systems. When you move to HD, you do have a small, but high quality set of choices. I don't see the LE situation as any different than the OSX / Mac situation. Their motivation is probably the same as well.
I couldn't find a binary installer for NTFS-3G, so I whipped one up and made it available here. You need to install MacFUSE first. I will see if I can make a UB version this evening and test it on my G5. Enjoy, and let me know if there are any problems. It is tested (lightly) on a MacBook and MacBook Pro
I suppose this depends on what you consider "embedded" and what you consider "real". I do development on an Intel xscale processor which is basically an arm9 on crack. It runs 2.6 kernel linux that is sucked right of kernel.org. Admittedly there are some patches that are added, but they mostly deal with hardware. This device is "embedded" to the degree that an iPhone is. It runs the linux kernel, I have a console with bash, it was built with gcc, runs gcc. Sounds like "real" linux to me!
"The fact that 80% of the carrier market requires you to use it makes it popular with cell phone developers. If there was an actual choice, you'd see more applications written in C++."
I am not aware of many developers clamoring for more BREW phones to develop on. I realize that this partly a result of most BREW carriers being nanny-content-gatekeeper-bastards. I'm not totally convinced developers want to develop C++ apps for phones. This just means even more phone specific optimizations than you already have to do for Java apps.
I live in a suburb of Kansas City, and my phone has been ringing off the hook with campaign ads for about a month. About two weeks ago, for a period of a couple days, I was receiving 8-10 hangup calls a day from the same wierd number. Some of the calls would come every 10-15 minutes at dinner time. Eventually I got fed up with them and answered, and the information was about a Republican state representative. I was pretty annoyed at this point, so I looked up his number and called him. He called me back a couple hours later, and I talked to him about it at length. He said at the time that he had received numerous complaints about this, and that he personally believed his competitor was doing this to annoy voters. He asked me if I had any details, so I offered him photographs of all my caller ID information. This was also suspicious as the caller id info was coming up as 816-000-0000 (816 is a local area code). This was what initially made me think that something shifty was going on. He gave me his cell phone number and his personal email, and I sent him this info a few hours later.
I have no way of knowing if this was a campaign launched by his competition, or just a very tenacious and super-annoying get out the vote campaign gone amok. I have no real reason to believe this guy was lying to me, but no proof that his story was true.
If you have to deal with mailing lists or bulk email or lots of users you already know this is true. I create special sendmail queues just to handle Yahoo's lousy SMTP servers. With a decent provider (like *gasp*, AOL) you can open up a connection and cram in just about any amount of email. With Yahoo the conversation is usually like this.
.... Connecting to mx3.mail.yahoo.com. via esmtp...
(send one or two emails)
451 mta152.mail.re4.yahoo.com Resources temporarily unavailable. Please try again later [#4.16.5].
(hang until TCP timeout)
I can't believe I used to wait for 5+ minutes while Attack of the blue meanies loaded in off TAPE!
"Sorry, I should have stated my source, the CIA: France, USA."
Yes, I figured the CIA factbook was the source, and I looked there myself. I also found it curious that the CIA statistics for literacy in the U.S. were apparently different than U.N. statistics. I believe the reason for the discrepancy has something to do with the CIA's method of defining literacy. I would also note that the CIA figures for literacy in France are from 1980. I discounted these figures because in favor of the U.N. statisics because it is probably fair to say that the CIA could be perceived to be a more biased source than the U.N.
I think after reading the U.N. statistcs it would be hard to conclude there is any meaningful difference in education levels in the U.S. and France, and if there were they would skew to the favor of the U.S. anyway. The argument is fairly moot.
"Yes, I know you didn't state that you are from the USA, but experience tells me only one country produces idiots like you in mass quantities. The rest have idiots too, but there's less of them, and they say where they are from."
Anonymous Coward? Heh.
And "tigeba" isn't anonymous? "
The idiots hiding behind anonymity was your argument, not mine. I would probably have to argue that in the context of Slashdot, a long established user account does not constitute anonymity. Is CmdrTaco anonymous?