There's a lot of energy involved in getting clean water to your dishwasher and heating up the water and then disposing and cleaning of the dirty water after it's done.
Often so called green solutions just end up shifting the energy use rather then reducing it
3g video calling has been around for years, even in the tech backwater of New Zealand. It works well and although not super high res, you can really see what's happening on the other end.
Maybe it's like PXT/MMS messages that never took off in the US and took ages to get on the iphone.
This is great, a similar thing happened with Open EXR which is an image file format for high end film production. ILM open sourced it and it was quickly picked up by other studios, which lead to the software companies implementing it.
It seems like it's a good route for the VFX companies to take. Open source tools that are useful, then they get implemented in the main software packages which reduces your costs of maintaining plugins and a lot of custom code.
But instead of data loss that you get when a hard drive looses a sector, the the ssd sector just becomes read only when it fails. Your data is still there and can be mapped somewhere else by the firmware.
I'd much rather trust my data to a drive that will gradually start shrinking after a few years then one that totally fails.
the bandwidth to Amazon would kill you. It's not uncommon for one frame to pull in gigabytes of textures and geometry needed for the render. Rendering CG is very disk, memory and CPU intensive.
That's actually a problem with sequels. One people have one buzz lightyear or woody toy, it's very unlikely they'll buy another one when a new film comes out.
The cost in designing and tooling up for the merchandising is tiny compared to the income from it.
It means that breaking down the frames into segments for rendering or any other processing gets really easy. Need to render faster and have lots of space on the renderwall? cut it into 512 or 256 pixel slices and go from there.
Unlike HDTV the frames in film land are measured horizontally across the frame. So 8k means that the frames are 8000 pixels (or close to) wide. This is done as films are worked on in many different aspect ratios, so the vertical number changes a lot.
Most films for standard cinema are 2048 pixels wide, sometimes 1920 if they are shot on HD
That's heaps of notice. I was put on a plane from New Zealand to San Fran with 6 hours notice for a business trip last year, then my travel plans changed as I was in the air, and twice while I was there.
Come to New Zealand and buy them here. many shops still had them on the shelves at the end of launch day. Doing some christmas shopping today at the mall, from what I saw 3 shops had them in stock and one was sold out.
The ps3 isn't out here yet tho, that will be well into next year I gather
KnoppMyth is great, I'm fairly newbian to linux and I managed to get it set up and cranking over the weekend. Hardware auto detection and all the hard stuff worked out for you
He was saying the Compact Flash interface is the slow part. Pro SLR cameras are now coming with SD and CF slots now because SD flash cards are one of the fastest interfaces around at the moment (memory stick pro is also very fast) CF just can't cut the mustard anymore.
Note that they use the same memory chips inside the cards, just as SCSI and IDE hard drives are often the same inside but having a good interface can make all the difference.
There is a reason the solid state video cameras use SD cards over CF, and its not just for the size difference.
How about a system that is totally transparent for users?
Monitor the MAC addresses that are connecting to the network and then ban them for 5 hours after they have been connected for an hour. You could even modify the max connection time for different times of the day or give the staff controll of it if the cafe unexpectidly fills up.
transparent to the users and the good customers won't even know there is access controll at all
The reason for keeping the whole room cool is buffer.
In your scenerio if one aircon system fails then that rack will start overheating straight away. if you have a room full of cold air already you have a few extra minutes before you have to think about shutting down a rack or two or turning up the aircon on the remaining units.
In New Zealand it is the same, except the Sony players have the best multi region support. The super cheep ones here have an extra menu where you have to change the region, but the Sony one I have plays them all, including the RCE disks without any issues
which is why in the colour sensitive parts of the effects industry, the monitors are caliberated weekly. No natural light is allowed in the room to throw off what the comper or lighter is seeing on their screen
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There's a lot of energy involved in getting clean water to your dishwasher and heating up the water and then disposing and cleaning of the dirty water after it's done.
Often so called green solutions just end up shifting the energy use rather then reducing it
3g video calling has been around for years, even in the tech backwater of New Zealand. It works well and although not super high res, you can really see what's happening on the other end.
Maybe it's like PXT/MMS messages that never took off in the US and took ages to get on the iphone.
This is great, a similar thing happened with Open EXR which is an image file format for high end film production. ILM open sourced it and it was quickly picked up by other studios, which lead to the software companies implementing it.
It seems like it's a good route for the VFX companies to take. Open source tools that are useful, then they get implemented in the main software packages which reduces your costs of maintaining plugins and a lot of custom code.
But instead of data loss that you get when a hard drive looses a sector, the the ssd sector just becomes read only when it fails. Your data is still there and can be mapped somewhere else by the firmware.
I'd much rather trust my data to a drive that will gradually start shrinking after a few years then one that totally fails.
the bandwidth to Amazon would kill you. It's not uncommon for one frame to pull in gigabytes of textures and geometry needed for the render. Rendering CG is very disk, memory and CPU intensive.
That's actually a problem with sequels. One people have one buzz lightyear or woody toy, it's very unlikely they'll buy another one when a new film comes out.
The cost in designing and tooling up for the merchandising is tiny compared to the income from it.
As a New Zealander I was able to work it out from the context of the first sentence. Pretty simple really
Ratchet and Clank (there's also a downloadable followup)
Gta4 can be creative.
and some great cheap downloadables
Pixeljunk Monsters
Pixeljunk Eden.
Riff everyday shooter
echochrome
I'm not a fps or a driving game guy but there is plenty to keep me entertained on the ps3
It means that breaking down the frames into segments for rendering or any other processing gets really easy. Need to render faster and have lots of space on the renderwall? cut it into 512 or 256 pixel slices and go from there.
8k is the measurement of the frame size.
Unlike HDTV the frames in film land are measured horizontally across the frame. So 8k means that the frames are 8000 pixels (or close to) wide. This is done as films are worked on in many different aspect ratios, so the vertical number changes a lot.
Most films for standard cinema are 2048 pixels wide, sometimes 1920 if they are shot on HD
Commercial h.264 equipment DOES exist. Even Myth Tv has patches to support it.
In New Zealand the broadcasters are launching this month, our HD Digital Terrestrial Transmission http://freeviewnz.tv/index.php?section_id=15 Called Freeview HD.
The Video feeds are 720p or 1080i h.264 over DVB-t. Yes it's late to the game but it's late with the latest technology.
I have a "killall" program on my linux box. Looks to be a standard GNU one.
"killall firefox.bin" works perfectly.
That's heaps of notice. I was put on a plane from New Zealand to San Fran with 6 hours notice for a business trip last year, then my travel plans changed as I was in the air, and twice while I was there.
This kind of proposal scares the crap out of me.
The Maori in New Zealand tried to claim airspace and even up where the satelites fly!
http://twm.co.nz/maorispace.htm
"The group apparently told MPs that their air space extended even further - to the outer limits of the universe."
If you're going to be mad you might as well go the whole hog.
Come to New Zealand and buy them here. many shops still had them on the shelves at the end of launch day. Doing some christmas shopping today at the mall, from what I saw 3 shops had them in stock and one was sold out.
The ps3 isn't out here yet tho, that will be well into next year I gather
the sonyericsson m600 is a nice symbian phone with a stylus and no camera. take a look.
Yes.
http://mysettopbox.tv/
KnoppMyth is great, I'm fairly newbian to linux and I managed to get it set up and cranking over the weekend. Hardware auto detection and all the hard stuff worked out for you
He was saying the Compact Flash interface is the slow part. Pro SLR cameras are now coming with SD and CF slots now because SD flash cards are one of the fastest interfaces around at the moment (memory stick pro is also very fast) CF just can't cut the mustard anymore.
Note that they use the same memory chips inside the cards, just as SCSI and IDE hard drives are often the same inside but having a good interface can make all the difference.
There is a reason the solid state video cameras use SD cards over CF, and its not just for the size difference.
How about a system that is totally transparent for users?
Monitor the MAC addresses that are connecting to the network and then ban them for 5 hours after they have been connected for an hour. You could even modify the max connection time for different times of the day or give the staff controll of it if the cafe unexpectidly fills up.
transparent to the users and the good customers won't even know there is access controll at all
The slimline ps2 has an ethernet port right on the back of it, 'out of the box' as you say
The reason for keeping the whole room cool is buffer.
In your scenerio if one aircon system fails then that rack will start overheating straight away. if you have a room full of cold air already you have a few extra minutes before you have to think about shutting down a rack or two or turning up the aircon on the remaining units.
just because you asked.... In New Zealand a full price, new release dvd is NZ$40 (US$28)_
The shops usually have huge displays of discount dvd's, still recent releases or blockbusters, for NZ$25 (US$17)
And the real cheep movies from the 80's or anything staring Sandra Bullock sell here for NZ$10 (US$7)
my name is ogle!
GO ME!
In New Zealand it is the same, except the Sony players have the best multi region support. The super cheep ones here have an extra menu where you have to change the region, but the Sony one I have plays them all, including the RCE disks without any issues
which is why in the colour sensitive parts of the effects industry, the monitors are caliberated weekly. No natural light is allowed in the room to throw off what the comper or lighter is seeing on their screen