I work at a small office and we recently moved into a new office. All the phones throughout the building are all VoIP based. Except for rare packet scheduling issues, the quality is indistiquishable from a regular phone system at a portion of the cost.
Just more proof that the media company model is not working. Some of the best films I've seen have budgets under 5 million, many under 1 million. Watch the film Primer, that was made on a $7,000 budget by someone who previously had no experience in film making.
Talking about music. While an idie artist can put thier music out for free and make money off of touring and contract work, record labels on the other hand only own the recording. For them, giving away free music is giving away thier product.
There are already several javascript libraries that make ajax development easier such as Sarissa. Sarissa makes it possible to use XMLhttpRequest in IE and makes avialable certain IE only parsing functions in other browsers.
I've tried working with some others with varried success.
NTSC its about 648x486 (not sure about the exact numbers) with a pixel apect ratio of.9. Modifiying that to a pixel aspect ratio of 1.0 makes the resoultion 720x486.
Now TV signals are also interlaced. Depending what the source footage was, the feilds may be slightly off from one another. In a digital progressive format, this looks ugly. So most people do a proportional scale to 320x240 for tv content.
Pretty much all of their applications have some scripting interface or another. Most of them support javascript (on mac apple script is supported as well) inside or through a COM hook outside the application. (If your really want a challange, script Photoshop with php using the PHP COM extension).
I dont know how much its used. I havent really seen it used regularly anywhere. Some companies might use it internally.
Skype is already a brand with some power. They were not the first to offer voice as part of an IM client (Yahoo IM had voice capabilites long before, but used a server based connection model). They just decided to focus on it. So now Skype is known for computer to computer voice communications.
But in compositing, especially those using shake. Macs are definetly well used.
An average film is made with the help of several visual effects studios. Only the final result matters, so what a studio does to get there doesnt. Since each studio has thier own production process, it will get made on Mac, Linux and Windows machines.
Only getting 4 jobs a year? Hasnt it occured to you will that there might be reasons for that? Or did you sleep through economics 101.
Its simply supply and demand. There is way to much supply but the rate charged for the service limits the demand.
This is union protectionism. The union wont adapt to market forces so instead they want to extrot more money for the companies that can still afford them.
Unions are good up to a point. That point doesnt include bullying non-union voice actors into a union or extorting thier clients because they dont want to accept market forces.
Its unlikely that an outsourced PSP will be diffrent than the one manufactured by Sony. The only diffrence is that it will be made in a factory not directly under control of Sony.
Manufacturers do this all the time, If they are not able to make a part or product, they send the specifications to someone who can. Unless they expect to be needing that part for a long time, its cheaper than ramping up production to make it themselves.
I had tried to open a fairly complex excel spreadsheet in open office. Though it opened just fine, some of the macros and formula built into the sheet stopped working. It is possible I may have been able to rewrite all the formulas, but I didnt have the time.
The disconnect comes with the unintentional branding that P2P is all about trading copyrighted work. But then its easier to blame P2P rather than the individuals participating in piracy.
The processor by itself is nowhere close to being able to encode an HD stream in real time. In pretty much all general usage process cant. You should be able to find dedicated encoding hardware that can give you realtime performance.
HD cameras have just entered the prosumer market. They wont be as small as some consumer cameras. But generally, video quailty is much better.
Even if you compress the hell out of the video, it will still be fairly high data rate. You should be able to make it work over a lan or something like internet2. But i doubt your will get acceptable performace over regular internet connections.
I second that. I rarely have blue screens if ever unless there is a problem with drivers or hardware.
I used an A8N-SLI motherboard and was getting a blue screen with, but I traced the problem to a bios update that conflicted with one of my hard drives. The orginial bios (1001) is fine and runs stable.
Outside of that issue, which was not the fualt of windows, I've hardly ever had a blue screen of death on XP or 2k for that matter.
Taxes like these are such a bad idea. Even if they come with the benifit of avoiding avoiding copyright infringment.
The tax by itself assumes guild of copyright infringment for anyone who owns and mp3 player. Not to mention the fact that one could be using an Ipod as a removable hard drive.
Even if this was a situation like canada. The ones who would really loose out are the small indie labels and self signed artists. Like they would get any of the money out of the deal.
A lot of the comments on the blog, complained that the study was unethical because the participants didnt know they were part of the study.
My two reasons why I think it couldnt have been done any other way.
1. This study focuses on deception and how people react when they are decived.
2. Telling the participants they were a part of a study or asking them to be part of it, would effect the behavior of the participants and therefore changing the study results.
As long as the information was not used in any illegal way. Then I don't find a problem with how this expirement was conducted. Yes it sucks to get phished, but its better to be fished by these guys than the hundreds of other phishers who are out there to turn phising into finacial gain.
If the both patents are enforced, neither will make anything. Just loose money to the lawyers. I'm curious, is the bar association one of the groups lobbying for patents?
I work with Dreamweaver all the time, and you can produce compliant code with it. But it requires awareness of the user of those standards and practices. More often the not, the users approch to designing a web page is very non standard.
The higher level Macs already have two processors. Thats basically what dual core is, but on one chip. Would it make anything faster? that all depends how well the code is written. Not all tasks are easly make paralel. But the benifit i see is being able to run background process on one chip while leaving the other free for processor intensive tasks.
Its making me download the page and view it locally. The headers look messed up, might be due to a poorly written script thats sending out incorrect headers.
Content-Type: text/html ; charset=ISO-8859-1
That line, although valid, though not be two lines. The line break is throwing Firefox off.
I generally dont have a problem with steam though I am concerned of such an event.
If that were to happen, I do beilive at least morally it would be right to bypass the copy protection to continue using the game. Legally it may fall under one of these exceptions from the DMCA: http://www.ipjustice.org/102803.shtml
I dont mind the online activation, though i belive it wont really stop many from pirating. Those who were going to pirate, are still going to do it anyway. Nothing is unbreakable.
I wouldnt say socialization does not exist in the game. The only reason i joined was because i had friends who also play, and well its rather fun to cooperate with and compete against them.
If I didnt have friends in the game, I would not last very long. I do agree, the machanics are too much like diablo 2 and after beating that once I lost intrest.
But i do think there needs to be more reason to group. There are raids, but those are generally only avialable to high level players.
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I work at a small office and we recently moved into a new office. All the phones throughout the building are all VoIP based. Except for rare packet scheduling issues, the quality is indistiquishable from a regular phone system at a portion of the cost.
Just more proof that the media company model is not working. Some of the best films I've seen have budgets under 5 million, many under 1 million. Watch the film Primer, that was made on a $7,000 budget by someone who previously had no experience in film making.
Talking about music. While an idie artist can put thier music out for free and make money off of touring and contract work, record labels on the other hand only own the recording. For them, giving away free music is giving away thier product.
There are already several javascript libraries that make ajax development easier such as Sarissa. Sarissa makes it possible to use XMLhttpRequest in IE and makes avialable certain IE only parsing functions in other browsers.
I've tried working with some others with varried success.
I would go with 9 as well.
Though i do wish they would bump up thier upload cap abit and make static IPs an option on residental accounts.
NTSC its about 648x486 (not sure about the exact numbers) with a pixel apect ratio of .9. Modifiying that to a pixel aspect ratio of 1.0 makes the resoultion 720x486.
Now TV signals are also interlaced. Depending what the source footage was, the feilds may be slightly off from one another. In a digital progressive format, this looks ugly. So most people do a proportional scale to 320x240 for tv content.
Pretty much all of their applications have some scripting interface or another. Most of them support javascript (on mac apple script is supported as well) inside or through a COM hook outside the application. (If your really want a challange, script Photoshop with php using the PHP COM extension).
I dont know how much its used. I havent really seen it used regularly anywhere. Some companies might use it internally.
Skype is already a brand with some power. They were not the first to offer voice as part of an IM client (Yahoo IM had voice capabilites long before, but used a server based connection model). They just decided to focus on it. So now Skype is known for computer to computer voice communications.
I beileve there is a component that will allow you to access perl modules in .NET.
So, if it connects just fine, there is no need to rewrite it.
But in compositing, especially those using shake. Macs are definetly well used.
An average film is made with the help of several visual effects studios. Only the final result matters, so what a studio does to get there doesnt. Since each studio has thier own production process, it will get made on Mac, Linux and Windows machines.
Only getting 4 jobs a year? Hasnt it occured to you will that there might be reasons for that? Or did you sleep through economics 101.
Its simply supply and demand. There is way to much supply but the rate charged for the service limits the demand.
This is union protectionism. The union wont adapt to market forces so instead they want to extrot more money for the companies that can still afford them.
Unions are good up to a point. That point doesnt include bullying non-union voice actors into a union or extorting thier clients because they dont want to accept market forces.
Its unlikely that an outsourced PSP will be diffrent than the one manufactured by Sony. The only diffrence is that it will be made in a factory not directly under control of Sony.
Manufacturers do this all the time, If they are not able to make a part or product, they send the specifications to someone who can. Unless they expect to be needing that part for a long time, its cheaper than ramping up production to make it themselves.
I had tried to open a fairly complex excel spreadsheet in open office. Though it opened just fine, some of the macros and formula built into the sheet stopped working. It is possible I may have been able to rewrite all the formulas, but I didnt have the time.
Add NPR to the list. Though its on a show by show basis. On the Media and Talk of the Nation are both podcasted.
The disconnect comes with the unintentional branding that P2P is all about trading copyrighted work. But then its easier to blame P2P rather than the individuals participating in piracy.
The processor by itself is nowhere close to being able to encode an HD stream in real time. In pretty much all general usage process cant. You should be able to find dedicated encoding hardware that can give you realtime performance.
HD cameras have just entered the prosumer market. They wont be as small as some consumer cameras. But generally, video quailty is much better.
Even if you compress the hell out of the video, it will still be fairly high data rate. You should be able to make it work over a lan or something like internet2. But i doubt your will get acceptable performace over regular internet connections.
I second that. I rarely have blue screens if ever unless there is a problem with drivers or hardware.
I used an A8N-SLI motherboard and was getting a blue screen with, but I traced the problem to a bios update that conflicted with one of my hard drives. The orginial bios (1001) is fine and runs stable.
Outside of that issue, which was not the fualt of windows, I've hardly ever had a blue screen of death on XP or 2k for that matter.
Taxes like these are such a bad idea. Even if they come with the benifit of avoiding avoiding copyright infringment.
The tax by itself assumes guild of copyright infringment for anyone who owns and mp3 player. Not to mention the fact that one could be using an Ipod as a removable hard drive.
Even if this was a situation like canada. The ones who would really loose out are the small indie labels and self signed artists. Like they would get any of the money out of the deal.
A lot of the comments on the blog, complained that the study was unethical because the participants didnt know they were part of the study.
My two reasons why I think it couldnt have been done any other way.
1. This study focuses on deception and how people react when they are decived.
2. Telling the participants they were a part of a study or asking them to be part of it, would effect the behavior of the participants and therefore changing the study results.
As long as the information was not used in any illegal way. Then I don't find a problem with how this expirement was conducted. Yes it sucks to get phished, but its better to be fished by these guys than the hundreds of other phishers who are out there to turn phising into finacial gain.
Mutually Assured Destruction.
If the both patents are enforced, neither will make anything. Just loose money to the lawyers. I'm curious, is the bar association one of the groups lobbying for patents?
I work with Dreamweaver all the time, and you can produce compliant code with it. But it requires awareness of the user of those standards and practices. More often the not, the users approch to designing a web page is very non standard.
Is it the softwares fault? Not really.
The higher level Macs already have two processors. Thats basically what dual core is, but on one chip. Would it make anything faster? that all depends how well the code is written. Not all tasks are easly make paralel. But the benifit i see is being able to run background process on one chip while leaving the other free for processor intensive tasks.
Its making me download the page and view it locally. The headers look messed up, might be due to a poorly written script thats sending out incorrect headers.
Content-Type: text/html
; charset=ISO-8859-1
That line, although valid, though not be two lines. The line break is throwing Firefox off.
I generally dont have a problem with steam though I am concerned of such an event.
If that were to happen, I do beilive at least morally it would be right to bypass the copy protection to continue using the game. Legally it may fall under one of these exceptions from the DMCA: http://www.ipjustice.org/102803.shtml
I dont mind the online activation, though i belive it wont really stop many from pirating. Those who were going to pirate, are still going to do it anyway. Nothing is unbreakable.
For Matrix Online to start including ads. Take a look at this screenshot.
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http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/matrixonline/scree
Its ad for the recent film The Jacket, which unsuprisingly was released by a company owned by Time Warner.
I wouldnt say socialization does not exist in the game. The only reason i joined was because i had friends who also play, and well its rather fun to cooperate with and compete against them.
If I didnt have friends in the game, I would not last very long. I do agree, the machanics are too much like diablo 2 and after beating that once I lost intrest.
But i do think there needs to be more reason to group. There are raids, but those are generally only avialable to high level players.