Well, be that as is may (I don't have a lawyer around to ask if you're right or not), just try to get on a NYC bus with a $50 bill. Back in the days when a token only cost a buck I was refused entry even with a dollar bill because the machine won't take it (it only took tokens and change).
Of course now they don't take money at all, so you'll have to get all upset at the Metrocard machine if it refuses to give you change for a 50.
Strange, I've never seen that behavior before. I HAVE seen the inability on some Windows laptops to play a DVD on both the internal and external screen simultaneously (even though the screens were otherwise mirrored), but I was able (through a completely un-intuitive interface in some control-panel or other) to switch WHICH screen had the video and which had the empty black frame.
I used to subscribe to this mode of thinking, but I'm not so sure anymore. Just looking at the 20th century, how many revolutions were fomented by essentially unarmed people (or at least people without legal arms). It seems to me that if a government has lost a certain amount of legitimacy and enough of the population has made the decision to rebel, it doesn't much matter if the people have guns or not. If the people aren't willing to rebel, it also doesn't make much difference.
I could be wrong and I haven't fully convinced myself of this, but that's the way I'm drifting.
I know you're being sarcastic, but this actually is what I want in a monitor. All the current drivers for LCD's have DAC's w/ only 8bpc, which makes them pretty much unsuitable for doing critical color-correction work.
As for frame rate, I'm happy with 24 - though response time of the screen is a serious issue with LCDs -- not so much for my professional work, but as a comsumer the lag really bothers me.
As for content -- I agree, but I think that discussion is orthoganal to this one.
In the US, at least since Johnson there has been an absolute measure of poverty in the US based on the cost of living (and size of family). According to the current measurement, the poverty rate in the US is somewhere between 12% and 13%. This absolute measurement actually translates to only 29% or so of the median income, so if we were to use the "half the average income" measurement, the rate would be considerably higher than 13%.
Also, with income of less than $20,000 for a family of 4, I think you've underestimated the effects a bit. Granted, it generally doesn't mean starvation - certainly it's much much better than north korea. But I wouldn't say that it would be considered luxurious living by the majority of the world either. I know a lot of people that have come here from very poor circumstances, mostly in central america. The ones that are not doing well here actually have a much poorer quality of life than they did back home, even if their income is higher.
Union Bosses who want to be the main 'big guys' and maintain their industry-wide labor cartel.
Never mind that the members of the "labor cartel" are the actual consumers buying products. What happens to our society when everyone gets paid Wal-Mart level wages and receives Wal-Mart level benefits? Who's going to be buying iPods and DVDs then?
I've only played with it a bit, but it seems like it could be an ideal learning environment -- the kind of thing that feels like you're playing but are actually learning something.
* Too small and painful. I have pretty small hands, but the MM is still too short. My hand was falling off the back and causing me to adopt an awkward position.
I actually like a small mouse - the key is not to rest your whole hand on it - just your fingers. This cuts down on arm and wrist strain (IMO)
* You can't press left and right buttons at the same time! Absolutely useless for gaming, although admittedly you don't need to do this anywhere else (that I'm aware of).
Agreed. Plus I find that I keep right clicking by accident for some reason - not sure why because if I try to consciously reproduce this it always seems to work normally.
* Squeeze click is too sensitive. I'm a light touch but I kept triggering it. I ended up removing the functionality of that 'button' to stop it annoying me.
Also agreed -- I hit the squeeze-click all the time if I try to reposition the mouse on my (little) mouse pad.
* Cable is ridiculously short. Fine with a Mac keyboard, but no good without an extension cable in most other configurations.
It's actually been OK for me -- I keep it plugged into my keyboard. Anyway, this issue obviously goes away in the bluetooth version.
* Mouse wheel. The middle wheel is very cool. It's great to be able to scroll in full 2D. And, um.. that's it.
I'm confused -- what don't you like? XServe RAID or XSAN? Certainly as a RAID XServe RAID is at least superior to a software RAID. Certainly Apple's SAN software is, um, well, immature, but there's no law that says you have to use it -- there's plenty of better SAN solutions out there.
Although I hated the puck mouse on my Strawberry iMac at first, I've since grown to love it. The key was discovering the proper way to hold it. Once I started resting the heel of my hand on the desk and just moving the mouse with my fingers it actually was much more comfortable for me than a regular mouse. The other mouse I like now is a tiny wireless one that came for free from somewhere - I use it the same way - moving fingers only.
Whether the industry has such equipment yet I wouldn't know, only that I see no theoretical reason this shouldn't be doable, even trivial.
You are overestimating the simplicity of this kind of operation. There is equipment that does frame-rate conversion, even in real-time (for HD, though not film resolutions). It works reasonably well about 75% of the time. With a lot of manual work, you can get software solutions to work pretty well in most of the other cases. It's not perfect, however, and it's expensive in the best of cases. It's really a tricky thing to do -- much more than the frame blending you mentioned. Plus, there is a whole political element: you are taking decisions that legitimately lie within the domain of the Director of Photography (this is what I do) and giving them to the post guys. This will be fought.
I'm a filmmaker, and I can't say that I look forward to shooting at 60P. Actually you can already (most economically at 720, but if you're willing to spend the $ and put up with a 2-piece camera system you can at 1080), but for dramatic films higher frame rates are only used for slow motion.
There have been film-based higher frame-rate systems in the past as well, but they never caught on. The problem, as I see it, is that frame rates above about 40fps or so look TOO real. Sets, even well built ones, look like sets -- your brain isn't as easily fooled at 60fps. Even acting tends to look worse -- it's strange, but all the visual cues that are used to convey action and emotion work differently. I suspect that it's possible to develop new film making techniques that would work for high frame rate cinema, but I doubt that it will become universal any time soon. Perhaps eventually when the current generation with its conditioned responses to 24fps drama passes on...
Where I definitely DO see 60fps HD fitting in beautifully is for "experience" kind of things -- rides and simulations and such. It really gives that "looking through a window" feeling that can become really transparent in that situation.
Exactly. Once you've shipped something to Nigeria, it's pretty much gone (unless you're lucky enough to be able to recall it while it's still in the posession of FedEx).
Just for the record, there is a risk of selling overseas, especially if payment is received via credit card. The card may be stolen, and in this case the seller (assuming the seller has the merchant account) is responsible. This can get you into trouble with you credit card processor as well -- they don't like to see charge-backs on your account. This happened to my company when they started selling online (not on ebay) -- charges came from Nigeria on stolen credit cards. We never shipped the product, but just by charging back the credit cards, our processor ended up keeping $70,000 in escrow that we had to fight for over a year to get back. Now we don't accept international orders online.
Most of these youth's, while poorly integrated into French society, are second generation French citizens, who speak French as their first (and largely only) language.
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Well, be that as is may (I don't have a lawyer around to ask if you're right or not), just try to get on a NYC bus with a $50 bill. Back in the days when a token only cost a buck I was refused entry even with a dollar bill because the machine won't take it (it only took tokens and change).
Of course now they don't take money at all, so you'll have to get all upset at the Metrocard machine if it refuses to give you change for a 50.
Strange, I've never seen that behavior before. I HAVE seen the inability on some Windows laptops to play a DVD on both the internal and external screen simultaneously (even though the screens were otherwise mirrored), but I was able (through a completely un-intuitive interface in some control-panel or other) to switch WHICH screen had the video and which had the empty black frame.
I used to subscribe to this mode of thinking, but I'm not so sure anymore. Just looking at the 20th century, how many revolutions were fomented by essentially unarmed people (or at least people without legal arms). It seems to me that if a government has lost a certain amount of legitimacy and enough of the population has made the decision to rebel, it doesn't much matter if the people have guns or not. If the people aren't willing to rebel, it also doesn't make much difference.
I could be wrong and I haven't fully convinced myself of this, but that's the way I'm drifting.
I know you're being sarcastic, but this actually is what I want in a monitor. All the current drivers for LCD's have DAC's w/ only 8bpc, which makes them pretty much unsuitable for doing critical color-correction work.
As for frame rate, I'm happy with 24 - though response time of the screen is a serious issue with LCDs -- not so much for my professional work, but as a comsumer the lag really bothers me.
As for content -- I agree, but I think that discussion is orthoganal to this one.
In the US, at least since Johnson there has been an absolute measure of poverty in the US based on the cost of living (and size of family). According to the current measurement, the poverty rate in the US is somewhere between 12% and 13%. This absolute measurement actually translates to only 29% or so of the median income, so if we were to use the "half the average income" measurement, the rate would be considerably higher than 13%.
Also, with income of less than $20,000 for a family of 4, I think you've underestimated the effects a bit. Granted, it generally doesn't mean starvation - certainly it's much much better than north korea. But I wouldn't say that it would be considered luxurious living by the majority of the world either. I know a lot of people that have come here from very poor circumstances, mostly in central america. The ones that are not doing well here actually have a much poorer quality of life than they did back home, even if their income is higher.
Never mind that the members of the "labor cartel" are the actual consumers buying products. What happens to our society when everyone gets paid Wal-Mart level wages and receives Wal-Mart level benefits? Who's going to be buying iPods and DVDs then?
Now maybe I've found the way!
I've only played with it a bit, but it seems like it could be an ideal learning environment -- the kind of thing that feels like you're playing but are actually learning something.
So they'll finally have an entry-level priced system, then?
Tell that to Singapore.
I actually like a small mouse - the key is not to rest your whole hand on it - just your fingers. This cuts down on arm and wrist strain (IMO)
Agreed. Plus I find that I keep right clicking by accident for some reason - not sure why because if I try to consciously reproduce this it always seems to work normally.
Also agreed -- I hit the squeeze-click all the time if I try to reposition the mouse on my (little) mouse pad.
It's actually been OK for me -- I keep it plugged into my keyboard. Anyway, this issue obviously goes away in the bluetooth version.
Yeah, the wheel is quite good.
No, but sticking your laptop in the sand might protect you from this remote exploit.
Uh... you know that's a several-year-old fake, right?
I'm confused -- what don't you like? XServe RAID or XSAN? Certainly as a RAID XServe RAID is at least superior to a software RAID. Certainly Apple's SAN software is, um, well, immature, but there's no law that says you have to use it -- there's plenty of better SAN solutions out there.
So the Cray X1 runs Windows now? Look at the reflection on the second (or is it the third?) cabinet from the left.
Although I hated the puck mouse on my Strawberry iMac at first, I've since grown to love it. The key was discovering the proper way to hold it. Once I started resting the heel of my hand on the desk and just moving the mouse with my fingers it actually was much more comfortable for me than a regular mouse. The other mouse I like now is a tiny wireless one that came for free from somewhere - I use it the same way - moving fingers only.
There was a group that was told that someone was praying for them. They actually did worse than everyone else. So much for desireable effects.
Heh, I read the first line as "I need to put some photos of our website for folks to look at."
Was particularly funny when I got to this line: "Can't you just put up a web page with the photos on there?"
You are overestimating the simplicity of this kind of operation. There is equipment that does frame-rate conversion, even in real-time (for HD, though not film resolutions). It works reasonably well about 75% of the time. With a lot of manual work, you can get software solutions to work pretty well in most of the other cases. It's not perfect, however, and it's expensive in the best of cases. It's really a tricky thing to do -- much more than the frame blending you mentioned. Plus, there is a whole political element: you are taking decisions that legitimately lie within the domain of the Director of Photography (this is what I do) and giving them to the post guys. This will be fought.
I'm a filmmaker, and I can't say that I look forward to shooting at 60P. Actually you can already (most economically at 720, but if you're willing to spend the $ and put up with a 2-piece camera system you can at 1080), but for dramatic films higher frame rates are only used for slow motion.
There have been film-based higher frame-rate systems in the past as well, but they never caught on. The problem, as I see it, is that frame rates above about 40fps or so look TOO real. Sets, even well built ones, look like sets -- your brain isn't as easily fooled at 60fps. Even acting tends to look worse -- it's strange, but all the visual cues that are used to convey action and emotion work differently. I suspect that it's possible to develop new film making techniques that would work for high frame rate cinema, but I doubt that it will become universal any time soon. Perhaps eventually when the current generation with its conditioned responses to 24fps drama passes on...
Where I definitely DO see 60fps HD fitting in beautifully is for "experience" kind of things -- rides and simulations and such. It really gives that "looking through a window" feeling that can become really transparent in that situation.
Exactly. Once you've shipped something to Nigeria, it's pretty much gone (unless you're lucky enough to be able to recall it while it's still in the posession of FedEx).
Just for the record, there is a risk of selling overseas, especially if payment is received via credit card. The card may be stolen, and in this case the seller (assuming the seller has the merchant account) is responsible. This can get you into trouble with you credit card processor as well -- they don't like to see charge-backs on your account. This happened to my company when they started selling online (not on ebay) -- charges came from Nigeria on stolen credit cards. We never shipped the product, but just by charging back the credit cards, our processor ended up keeping $70,000 in escrow that we had to fight for over a year to get back. Now we don't accept international orders online.
Most of these youth's, while poorly integrated into French society, are second generation French citizens, who speak French as their first (and largely only) language.
what's going to your (computer) monitor is RGB not some form of YUV.
prefixing the body with what? Don't leave us hanging?
(Yes, I know what you mean, but it took me a minute...)