Your original DV tapes are, of course, your best backups and writing your intermediate cuts back out to DV preserve a lot. DV tapes are cheap. I use Final Cut Pro and save all the project files. These are relatively small and along with your original field masters can reconstruct your project. Sound masters can be saved in the same way.
I backup all my photography - about 300 GB/year at this point - to hard drives that are in trays for a FireWire enclosure. So far this works very well. Film, of course, is its own backup but for digital it helps to have two copies on different media.
The problem with tape as a backup media for photography is the difficulty in access. Mostly you want to be able to use a resource tool such as Extensis Portfolio to catalog your work and then point the way to where the image(s) you want are stored. On tape it can be a timely matter in finding it. On HD or DVD it's a few minutes max.
Does this mean that Star Trek has a belief system based on its reality? If so there are some very troubled people out there. Although I think I knew that after attending an SF Convention in Portland a decade ago and riding up in an elevator where an entire family, dressed as Klingons, entered the elevator and the mom then ripped the 8 or 10 year old for improperly addressing some pseudo-Klingon in an inappropriate manner - as if it were all real.
If science fiction and geekdom is now into belief-systems then I'm agog.
It would be neat to see some well grounded SF set in the near future based on real science. I think Kim Stanley Robinson's "Forty Signs of Rain" might qualify.
But this "manifesto" disqualifies such works as "Solaris" and "Left Hand of Darkness". Star Trek, or Star Wars, shouldn't even be mentioned in the same sentence and I feel badly about using the same paragraph.
The deep technologies inside Mac OS X that are very important to Apple involve the use of the PowerPC vector instruction set which are quite powerful. These, coupled with the use of a graphics card's memory and processor, give substantial power to the Mac's professional editing suites.
There appears to be a mis-match between what the Intel processors and the PowerPC offer in this area - which means a LOT of re-engineering so there is not a performance hit when Apple can't afford one.
Plus, unless there's an Intel Mac out like, tomorrow, won't Apple find itself selling "dead end" hardware? It's the ultimate Osborne situation - don't by a Mac now because the ENTIRE architecture is about to change and you'll be left with an orphan.
And, of course, the whole issue of support for two separate OS versions - an Intel and a PowerPC.
I guess the guys getting the Big Bucks will have answers for these but to me these seem like daunting issues.
Now if they started selling a $300 Mac mini tomorrow running the Intel chip set. Well, that would get some attention.
I note that Apple is already down 4% or so on reports of unexpectedly high iPod inventory. Or something else is up.
Given that we haven't seen an iTunes phone because the phone companies want a nibble of the profits, are you willing to give over control of a phone's contents to them?
Unless that model changes there's no way I would move to a phone that gives control the the cellular service provider. I'd rather have a couple of different devices that are MINE than one that is mostly THEIRS.
Actually you can own a diesel in California but you can't buy a new one. The issues relate to particulates and a reblending of diesel fuels to the standards being used in Europe. When that happens, I suppose, you'll be able to buy one of the new diesel cars again in California. Of course in this neck of the woods diesel is about the price of mid-grade.
As Apple has demonstrated, and Microsoft sometime or otherwill, moving the GUI rendering into the graphics card is an on-going process. So it's no surprise to see card vendors introducing products which they can dangle in front of the vendors and hope to have included in the build of a new system.
Graphics cards aren't JUST designed for games...although it's hard to believe from what you read here.
Of course we have games to thank for great graphics cards which have allowed for the GUI to move onto the cards.
I think the the photonics masts for the VIRGINIA that replace periscopes run Red Hat Linux on Apple server hardware. At least the prototype software I saw seemed to indicate this.
... an opinion. A work stands by itself, on in the company of other co-joined works. The rest is what YOU bring to it, and how you choose to share what you experienced with others. Then the work grows in complexity.
In general authors add very little to this mix. You can hear what they understand and what they intended. But their intent has little to do with what your own mind does with the material.
This is part of the great strength of art: your own experience informs the work.
It's good for high school students to learn this essential fact.
This sounds like a nifty product. Since it was written for NeXT I wonder if the sources are still around and usefully compilable for OS X.
Which brings up the suite of office software that was developed for NeXT and which is owned by Sun but which will never see the light of day. IT should port quite easily.
I love how hardly anyone every uses a mouse for anything. Wanna zoom in on a part of an image - a couple of key taps and presto you're there.
In fact searching for anything takes a couple of keyboard taps and then some zippy sound effects and PRESTO you get your answer spewing out of a printer. What a deal!
It's hard to understand any more what Pixar gets from the Disney connection. Pixar has the talent, the storys, the technology. Disney has . . . name branding?
Indeed, as others have mentioned, Pixar loses more if Disney makes a crappy movie (likely) because people will think it's Pixar's product.
This is your CAR you're playing music in. Are you SURE you can hear the difference while motoring down the interstate or backed up in the noise of the city?
But this is why we have rooftops. For singe family dwellings it makes sense to put solar arrays on the roof (esp in the southwest or California where there's a lot of sunlight.) If you have 800 st feet of room space then it's likely that you could produce about 7400 KW from a 50% efficient solar collector. And THAT isn't anything to be sneezed at.
You can easily generate the house's sustained loads (refrigeration, a/c, minimal lighting) and still have energy to make hydrogen either for your car or to use at night in a fuel cell.
This has to be a major "win" in terms of energy conservation.
For those living away from civilization it gives them a better quality of life.
Nazi Germany did a lot of weapons research. While the Germany of pre-WW I definately was into its arms, it wasn't at the same scale as the Nazi effort. And there is the idea that these scientists were brought together in a research project that is quite similiar to, say, the German rocket programs.
But the culture of Germany was a totally different one from the Nazi regime and wasn't likely to have fielded an effort described in the terms that were used - which were the terms applied to some of the awful Nazi experiments conducted during WW II.
That's what I was refering to. Not to an explicit mention of Nazi Germany.
...like mentioning World War One in 1939. And strobe flash photography.
I enjoyed the look and feel of the film, and Paltrow (a lot), and the luscious close-ups, but the story was just LAME. The film treated pre-WWI Germany as if it were Nazi Germany -- totally different kettles of fish.
On the other hand the last two words of the movie were hilarious.
This assertion is almost certainly untrue in the United States, even today. Please give a reference for this statement.
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That, of course, isn't the point. The point being that if a program can provide the smarts to create the file, or check the file, for security then it might be a more secure way to do things. It's a dealing with complexity issue.
So why not do things differently?
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Gee - you get this massive file to edit to get Apache up and running which is fine for some of geeky land (like the slash-dot crowd) but it creates a hurdle for your basic person who wants to have a running web site.
So why not create a smart program to generate the config file either as a script or as a GUI application that will have enough smarts to get your normal site up and running but with the possible security holes turned OFF and massive warnings written into the file so that when someone goes to edit it they have some clue provided.
Same for PHP.
Oh sure - it's soooo kewl to just edit the text file - and for the clued-in that's great. But something which can make a new safe file for you, AND check an existing file - seems like that's just smart.
Otherwise it's safety through obscurity - or insecurity through obscurity and neither of those make sense.
Ummm....how many desktop users REALLY add PCI cards to their machines? If they need to then there is the tower design. For a vast majority of users the box has everything they need and it's space efficient.
Geeky folks like to pull stuff out and play with it but most people just want a computer that WORKS and does its job over the course of its life. They don't need to change graphics cards, modems, and if they need a disk drive they can plug in FireWire or USB2.
I'd like you to support this assertion. I'm assuming you've taught under these conditions? What IS the maximum number of students you've met on a weekly basis. Could you have told if they had submitted purchased term papers? What action would you have taken if they had?
It's a great rant, but like so many it's totally unsupported with anything related to fact.
I would encourage you, however, to make a better case which I would read with interest.
Asimov didn't design the three laws of robotics as gospel for real robots. He designed them so he could write stories about humans in which robots played an interesting part. He has said this himself quite a bit toward the end of his career.
Just the concept of "human" lead to a great Campbell essay in Analog asking "What do you mean: Human"? And that was in the mid-60s,
It's too bad the film had to chuck the essence of Asimov's imagined world for the simplistic drivel they created.
But action sells tickets to teens who otherwise won't bother with something where you might actually have to think and feel. For me "A. I." was a very fine film that works much better than almost any other S.F. film I've seen, and I've seen a lot even if it did need to have a machine longing to be human.
i'd love to see Benford's "Galactic Center" novels formed into a movie - just for the millieue.
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Your original DV tapes are, of course, your best backups and writing your intermediate cuts back out to DV preserve a lot. DV tapes are cheap. I use Final Cut Pro and save all the project files. These are relatively small and along with your original field masters can reconstruct your project. Sound masters can be saved in the same way.
I backup all my photography - about 300 GB/year at this point - to hard drives that are in trays for a FireWire enclosure. So far this works very well. Film, of course, is its own backup but for digital it helps to have two copies on different media.
The problem with tape as a backup media for photography is the difficulty in access. Mostly you want to be able to use a resource tool such as Extensis Portfolio to catalog your work and then point the way to where the image(s) you want are stored. On tape it can be a timely matter in finding it. On HD or DVD it's a few minutes max.
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Does this mean that Star Trek has a belief system based on its reality? If so there are some very troubled people out there. Although I think I knew that after attending an SF Convention in Portland a decade ago and riding up in an elevator where an entire family, dressed as Klingons, entered the elevator and the mom then ripped the 8 or 10 year old for improperly addressing some pseudo-Klingon in an inappropriate manner - as if it were all real.
If science fiction and geekdom is now into belief-systems then I'm agog.
It would be neat to see some well grounded SF set in the near future based on real science. I think Kim Stanley Robinson's "Forty Signs of Rain" might qualify.
But this "manifesto" disqualifies such works as "Solaris" and "Left Hand of Darkness". Star Trek, or Star Wars, shouldn't even be mentioned in the same sentence and I feel badly about using the same paragraph.
The deep technologies inside Mac OS X that are very important to Apple involve the use of the PowerPC vector instruction set which are quite powerful. These, coupled with the use of a graphics card's memory and processor, give substantial power to the Mac's professional editing suites.
There appears to be a mis-match between what the Intel processors and the PowerPC offer in this area - which means a LOT of re-engineering so there is not a performance hit when Apple can't afford one.
Plus, unless there's an Intel Mac out like, tomorrow, won't Apple find itself selling "dead end" hardware? It's the ultimate Osborne situation - don't by a Mac now because the ENTIRE architecture is about to change and you'll be left with an orphan.
And, of course, the whole issue of support for two separate OS versions - an Intel and a PowerPC.
I guess the guys getting the Big Bucks will have answers for these but to me these seem like daunting issues.
Now if they started selling a $300 Mac mini tomorrow running the Intel chip set. Well, that would get some attention.
I note that Apple is already down 4% or so on reports of unexpectedly high iPod inventory. Or something else is up.
Given that we haven't seen an iTunes phone because the phone companies want a nibble of the profits, are you willing to give over control of a phone's contents to them?
Unless that model changes there's no way I would move to a phone that gives control the the cellular service provider. I'd rather have a couple of different devices that are MINE than one that is mostly THEIRS.
Actually you can own a diesel in California but you can't buy a new one. The issues relate to particulates and a reblending of diesel fuels to the standards being used in Europe. When that happens, I suppose, you'll be able to buy one of the new diesel cars again in California. Of course in this neck of the woods diesel is about the price of mid-grade.
As Apple has demonstrated, and Microsoft sometime or otherwill, moving the GUI rendering into the graphics card is an on-going process. So it's no surprise to see card vendors introducing products which they can dangle in front of the vendors and hope to have included in the build of a new system.
Graphics cards aren't JUST designed for games...although it's hard to believe from what you read here.
Of course we have games to thank for great graphics cards which have allowed for the GUI to move onto the cards.
I think the the photonics masts for the VIRGINIA that replace periscopes run Red Hat Linux on Apple server hardware. At least the prototype software I saw seemed to indicate this.
The pirates who build false lighthouses to lure ships onto a lea shore!
Piracy is never far away!
What?
The PDP-11 is an architectural parent of the 68000 in many ways but geesh. At least TRY.
... an opinion. A work stands by itself, on in the company of other co-joined works. The rest is what YOU bring to it, and how you choose to share what you experienced with others. Then the work grows in complexity.
In general authors add very little to this mix. You can hear what they understand and what they intended. But their intent has little to do with what your own mind does with the material.
This is part of the great strength of art: your own experience informs the work.
It's good for high school students to learn this essential fact.
This sounds like a nifty product. Since it was written for NeXT I wonder if the sources are still around and usefully compilable for OS X.
Which brings up the suite of office software that was developed for NeXT and which is owned by Sun but which will never see the light of day. IT should port quite easily.
Sigh.
I love how hardly anyone every uses a mouse for anything. Wanna zoom in on a part of an image - a couple of key taps and presto you're there.
In fact searching for anything takes a couple of keyboard taps and then some zippy sound effects and PRESTO you get your answer spewing out of a printer. What a deal!
My sig infringes on the sig patent...darn.
It's hard to understand any more what Pixar gets from the Disney connection. Pixar has the talent, the storys, the technology. Disney has . . . name branding?
Indeed, as others have mentioned, Pixar loses more if Disney makes a crappy movie (likely) because people will think it's Pixar's product.
This is your CAR you're playing music in. Are you SURE you can hear the difference while motoring down the interstate or backed up in the noise of the city?
But this is why we have rooftops. For singe family dwellings it makes sense to put solar arrays on the roof (esp in the southwest or California where there's a lot of sunlight.) If you have 800 st feet of room space then it's likely that you could produce about 7400 KW from a 50% efficient solar collector. And THAT isn't anything to be sneezed at.
.
You can easily generate the house's sustained loads (refrigeration, a/c, minimal lighting) and still have energy to make hydrogen either for your car or to use at night in a fuel cell
This has to be a major "win" in terms of energy conservation.
For those living away from civilization it gives them a better quality of life.
Nazi Germany did a lot of weapons research. While the Germany of pre-WW I definately was into its arms, it wasn't at the same scale as the Nazi effort. And there is the idea that these scientists were brought together in a research project that is quite similiar to, say, the German rocket programs.
But the culture of Germany was a totally different one from the Nazi regime and wasn't likely to have fielded an effort described in the terms that were used - which were the terms applied to some of the awful Nazi experiments conducted during WW II.
That's what I was refering to. Not to an explicit mention of Nazi Germany.
...like mentioning World War One in 1939. And strobe flash photography.
I enjoyed the look and feel of the film, and Paltrow (a lot), and the luscious close-ups, but the story was just LAME. The film treated pre-WWI Germany as if it were Nazi Germany -- totally different kettles of fish.
On the other hand the last two words of the movie were hilarious.
Noooooo......it's Space Opera rendered in all its visual glory related to Lensmen, the Culture, and other tales of super science.
Definately NOT fantasy.
This assertion is almost certainly untrue in the United States, even today. Please give a reference for this statement.
That, of course, isn't the point. The point being that if a program can provide the smarts to create the file, or check the file, for security then it might be a more secure way to do things. It's a dealing with complexity issue.
Gee - you get this massive file to edit to get Apache up and running which is fine for some of geeky land (like the slash-dot crowd) but it creates a hurdle for your basic person who wants to have a running web site.
So why not create a smart program to generate the config file either as a script or as a GUI application that will have enough smarts to get your normal site up and running but with the possible security holes turned OFF and massive warnings written into the file so that when someone goes to edit it they have some clue provided.
Same for PHP.
Oh sure - it's soooo kewl to just edit the text file - and for the clued-in that's great. But something which can make a new safe file for you, AND check an existing file - seems like that's just smart.
Otherwise it's safety through obscurity - or insecurity through obscurity and neither of those make sense.
Ummm....how many desktop users REALLY add PCI cards to their machines? If they need to then there is the tower design. For a vast majority of users the box has everything they need and it's space efficient.
Geeky folks like to pull stuff out and play with it but most people just want a computer that WORKS and does its job over the course of its life. They don't need to change graphics cards, modems, and if they need a disk drive they can plug in FireWire or USB2.
Explain to my why this is bad now...
I'd like you to support this assertion. I'm assuming you've taught under these conditions? What IS the maximum number of students you've met on a weekly basis. Could you have told if they had submitted purchased term papers? What action would you have taken if they had?
It's a great rant, but like so many it's totally unsupported with anything related to fact.
I would encourage you, however, to make a better case which I would read with interest.
Asimov didn't design the three laws of robotics as gospel for real robots. He designed them so he could write stories about humans in which robots played an interesting part. He has said this himself quite a bit toward the end of his career.
Just the concept of "human" lead to a great Campbell essay in Analog asking "What do you mean: Human"? And that was in the mid-60s,
It's too bad the film had to chuck the essence of Asimov's imagined world for the simplistic drivel they created.
But action sells tickets to teens who otherwise won't bother with something where you might actually have to think and feel. For me "A. I." was a very fine film that works much better than almost any other S.F. film I've seen, and I've seen a lot even if it did need to have a machine longing to be human.
i'd love to see Benford's "Galactic Center" novels formed into a movie - just for the millieue.
Looks awfully like a late-generation Apple Newton doesn't it? Just a bit of spiffy-up.
Is this thing real?