Well yeah, and maybe I'm just being really really pedantic, but in my book compositing isn't editing. And as far as real time effects go that are actually used commonly in editing, more and more that's not even being done by the main processor anyway but by dedicated video hardware (I'm going to get to play soon with a Kona HD system -- 2 channels of uncompressed HD, real time effects in a 1-up rack, mmmmm.... *slobber*)
This was a (poorly executed) benchmark of graphics and effects software, not editing. Really, processor speed has little effect on editing efficiency. I know plenty of people editing features on old Media Composers running on 9500's and such. They don't care so much about processing speed -- you don't do much rendering when you're editing medium or long-form projects. What you care about is the quality of the software.
On the low end, there's nothing on the PC even remotely like Final Cut Pro, which is why the Mac pretty much owns the low end editing market. The high end is mostly still owned (though not as throughoughly as before) by Avid, which is cross-platform. Of course Final Cut is rapidly moving into the high end as well.
But don't people have the right to irrational decisions? In fact we have laws that protect people's right to irrationality (freedom of religion...). If I make the decision that I don't want to eat GM food because it will have some sort of negative spiritual consequences, don't I have just as much right to do that as Muslims have not to eat pork or Hindus not to eat beef?
What's the big rush with getting these products to market anyway? It's not like we have any sort of food shortage or something. It seems that it's purely about protecting profits of large agricultural corporations. I don't understand why we seem to be making the decision as a society that corporate profits are more important than people's right to know what they are eating.
I think it's because it's closer to how we talk. We say "November 11th, 2002" not "2002, November 11th" or typically "11th of November, 2002" (unlike those pesky Brits.)
But of course you'd have to give up your high New York salary as well! (Unless you don't mind a long commute. Then of course you'll also blow half the savings on tolls. I have the worst of all worlds -- I live in Brooklyn and work in Staten Island which means I pay $6 a day in tolls [discounted from $7] and still have NYC pricing on everything.)
The other factor, however, is property taxes. We have VERY low property taxes here, so even though I could have gotten I house for half as much in New Jersey, the difference in taxes would have meant I'd have the same monthly expenses without building as much equity. Of course that doesn't apply if you're renting. But you do get to say you live in the city.
Well, here in New York $1,200 is pretty darn cheap for a one bedroom apt. I live in Brooklyn and own/live in a two-family house. I rent a two bedroom apartment for $1700, and that is below market rates. (Of course, we're used to paying more for parking here than most people pay for their apartments).
HDCam and Panasonic's DVCPro HD formats are compressed using compression very similar to DV compression. Apple and Panasonic have announced that they are collaborating to produce a standard to move DVCPro HD signals through Firewire, which means that soon (probably some time next year -- I'd guess early summer) you'll be able edit HD (of the Panasonic variety, at least) the same way you do your miniDV -- get the data directly off tape through firewire, no decompress/recompress required. For cuts-only editing this is really ideal. For anything where a lot of rerendering is required (like color correction and compositing) it's still better to go uncompressed. Of course you'll need to spend an extra 20 to 30 G's to do it...
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A government that can't tariff, regulate, control or tax is not a government. In fact, it isn't anything, since without revenues it can't exist. Anyway, there's nothing about capitalism that precludes taxes, tariffs, etc. As long as you have private ownership of capital and a relatively free market, it's capitalism. (Note: a free market doesn't preclude taxes, some regulation or tariff's either.)
Location has a pretty big effect as well. My nephew died of AIDS last year at the age of 25. He was probably infected for several years without knowing. He only found out when his one-year-old son died, in fact. Unfortunately where he lives (El Salvador) there is (virtually) no treatment (or education) available. If he had been born in the States or Europe, he would undoubtably be alive today.
Someone mentioned IMX. In addition, HDCAM uses the same transport and tape format as well.
It's interesting how Sony has kept the same basic mechanics in use for so many years through so many formats. I guess it saves them a ton of time and money on R&D, and they're pretty reliable now, but it's also kind of outdated in a lot of ways as well. Everything's a compromise.
IBM is already on the second generation of 64 bit PowerPCs (POWER4). They can run either 32 or 64 bit code. Basically, PowerPC already made the transition that x86 is just beginning now.
One of his more outrageous shakedowns was when he was suing adoption agencies that did not offer abortion services in order to pander to pro-choice voters. Why would an adoption agency want to kill babies?
That would be pretty outrageous if it weren't a complete and utter fabrication. What actually happened was that he sued several "crisis pregnancy centers" for deceptive advertising. They had ads that implied that they performed pregnancy tests and abortions, when if fact they are essentially in the business of persuading women not to have abortions. Under a consent decree they agreed to change their advertising. They didn't have to pay fines, and they certainly were never forced to provide abortion services.
2: The idea is to deter future instances.
3: If they violated current anti-fraud law, why not go after them using the existing statute(s)?
4. No, but he might get something. If not from the company itself, maybe from the officers of the company personally. Also, see 2.
5. Obviously this only applies to victims in the state of New York.
Interesting. Apparently I'm one of the only people not overly impressed with DLP projection. Perhaps one reason is that I work for a company that sells the things so I've become intimately familiar with their flaws. Basically, they're still too low-res (not even full 1080P res), and they flicker unevenly. If you sit too close to the screen you can see the individual pixels, and if you look closely you can see a little black spot at the center of each one where where the tiny mirror pivots.
There's already higher-res versions in the works as well as a couple of competing technologies which is on of the myriad of reasons why no one actually wants to spend the ~$100,000 for one of these things now.
OK, this is getting kind of pedantic now, but whether or not his poetry is still viewable or who it is that is doing the censoring it irrelevant. I hate it when people quote dictionary definitions at me, but since this is really an argument about the meaning of a word I think it's appropriate:
tr.v.censored,censoring,censors To examine and expurgate.
(That's from the American Heritage Dictionary. The definition from Webster's Collegiate Dictionary is: to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable).
Censorship is defined as:
1. The act, process, or practice of censoring.
Note that the entity performing the censorship is not relevant to the definition, nor is the potential use of force. Now, censorship by a private entity may not be as objectionable as censorship by a government entity, but it's still censorship.
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Well yeah, and maybe I'm just being really really pedantic, but in my book compositing isn't editing. And as far as real time effects go that are actually used commonly in editing, more and more that's not even being done by the main processor anyway but by dedicated video hardware (I'm going to get to play soon with a Kona HD system -- 2 channels of uncompressed HD, real time effects in a 1-up rack, mmmmm.... *slobber*)
This was a (poorly executed) benchmark of graphics and effects software, not editing. Really, processor speed has little effect on editing efficiency. I know plenty of people editing features on old Media Composers running on 9500's and such. They don't care so much about processing speed -- you don't do much rendering when you're editing medium or long-form projects. What you care about is the quality of the software.
On the low end, there's nothing on the PC even remotely like Final Cut Pro, which is why the Mac pretty much owns the low end editing market. The high end is mostly still owned (though not as throughoughly as before) by Avid, which is cross-platform. Of course Final Cut is rapidly moving into the high end as well.
Of course he didn't read it -- you expect him to shell out $79 to read a fscking article?
But don't people have the right to irrational decisions? In fact we have laws that protect people's right to irrationality (freedom of religion...). If I make the decision that I don't want to eat GM food because it will have some sort of negative spiritual consequences, don't I have just as much right to do that as Muslims have not to eat pork or Hindus not to eat beef?
What's the big rush with getting these products to market anyway? It's not like we have any sort of food shortage or something. It seems that it's purely about protecting profits of large agricultural corporations. I don't understand why we seem to be making the decision as a society that corporate profits are more important than people's right to know what they are eating.
I think it's because it's closer to how we talk. We say "November 11th, 2002" not "2002, November 11th" or typically "11th of November, 2002" (unlike those pesky Brits.)
But of course you'd have to give up your high New York salary as well! (Unless you don't mind a long commute. Then of course you'll also blow half the savings on tolls. I have the worst of all worlds -- I live in Brooklyn and work in Staten Island which means I pay $6 a day in tolls [discounted from $7] and still have NYC pricing on everything.)
The other factor, however, is property taxes. We have VERY low property taxes here, so even though I could have gotten I house for half as much in New Jersey, the difference in taxes would have meant I'd have the same monthly expenses without building as much equity. Of course that doesn't apply if you're renting. But you do get to say you live in the city.
Well, here in New York $1,200 is pretty darn cheap for a one bedroom apt. I live in Brooklyn and own/live in a two-family house. I rent a two bedroom apartment for $1700, and that is below market rates. (Of course, we're used to paying more for parking here than most people pay for their apartments).
you misspelled piece.
Undefined?
Wait five years then get it cheap on E-Bay! (I just got a Newton Messagepad 2100 for $72 that's become my new favorite toy.)
HDCam and Panasonic's DVCPro HD formats are compressed using compression very similar to DV compression. Apple and Panasonic have announced that they are collaborating to produce a standard to move DVCPro HD signals through Firewire, which means that soon (probably some time next year -- I'd guess early summer) you'll be able edit HD (of the Panasonic variety, at least) the same way you do your miniDV -- get the data directly off tape through firewire, no decompress/recompress required. For cuts-only editing this is really ideal. For anything where a lot of rerendering is required (like color correction and compositing) it's still better to go uncompressed. Of course you'll need to spend an extra 20 to 30 G's to do it...
A government that can't tariff, regulate, control or tax is not a government. In fact, it isn't anything, since without revenues it can't exist. Anyway, there's nothing about capitalism that precludes taxes, tariffs, etc. As long as you have private ownership of capital and a relatively free market, it's capitalism. (Note: a free market doesn't preclude taxes, some regulation or tariff's either.)
Location has a pretty big effect as well. My nephew died of AIDS last year at the age of 25. He was probably infected for several years without knowing. He only found out when his one-year-old son died, in fact. Unfortunately where he lives (El Salvador) there is (virtually) no treatment (or education) available. If he had been born in the States or Europe, he would undoubtably be alive today.
Someone mentioned IMX. In addition, HDCAM uses the same transport and tape format as well.
It's interesting how Sony has kept the same basic mechanics in use for so many years through so many formats. I guess it saves them a ton of time and money on R&D, and they're pretty reliable now, but it's also kind of outdated in a lot of ways as well. Everything's a compromise.
IBM is already on the second generation of 64 bit PowerPCs (POWER4). They can run either 32 or 64 bit code. Basically, PowerPC already made the transition that x86 is just beginning now.
I think the email said that there was an open proxy at his ip address (which I guess there was).
Shouldn't it be:
One nation over Satan?
OK, well at any rate the case had nothing to do with forcing adoption agencies to perform abortions or some nonsense like that.
That would be pretty outrageous if it weren't a complete and utter fabrication. What actually happened was that he sued several "crisis pregnancy centers" for deceptive advertising. They had ads that implied that they performed pregnancy tests and abortions, when if fact they are essentially in the business of persuading women not to have abortions. Under a consent decree they agreed to change their advertising. They didn't have to pay fines, and they certainly were never forced to provide abortion services.
2:
The idea is to deter future instances.
3:
If they violated current anti-fraud law, why not go after them using the existing statute(s)?
4.
No, but he might get something. If not from the company itself, maybe from the officers of the company personally. Also, see 2.
5.
Obviously this only applies to victims in the state of New York.
Um, a little humor impaired?
funny, I read it as the past-participle of "tank" as in tanked!
Interesting. Apparently I'm one of the only people not overly impressed with DLP projection. Perhaps one reason is that I work for a company that sells the things so I've become intimately familiar with their flaws. Basically, they're still too low-res (not even full 1080P res), and they flicker unevenly. If you sit too close to the screen you can see the individual pixels, and if you look closely you can see a little black spot at the center of each one where where the tiny mirror pivots.
There's already higher-res versions in the works as well as a couple of competing technologies which is on of the myriad of reasons why no one actually wants to spend the ~$100,000 for one of these things now.
The hard part is when they revoke the old ones though...
Yeah, Mexico!
OK, this is getting kind of pedantic now, but whether or not his poetry is still viewable or who it is that is doing the censoring it irrelevant. I hate it when people quote dictionary definitions at me, but since this is really an argument about the meaning of a word I think it's appropriate:
tr.v. censored, censoring, censors To examine and expurgate.
(That's from the American Heritage Dictionary. The definition from Webster's Collegiate Dictionary is: to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable).
Censorship is defined as:
1. The act, process, or practice of censoring.
Note that the entity performing the censorship is not relevant to the definition, nor is the potential use of force. Now, censorship by a private entity may not be as objectionable as censorship by a government entity, but it's still censorship.
This concludes my participation in this thread.