Peter: As we all know, Christmas is that mystical time of year when the ghost of Jesus rises from the grave to feast on the flesh of the living! So we all sing Christmas Carols to lull him back to sleep. Bob: Outrageous, How dare he say such blasphemy. I've got to do something. Man #1: Bob, there's nothing you can do. Bob: Well, I guess I'll just have to develop a sense of humor.
Albertsons has them already. You pick up a scanner when you walk in the door, it has a holder on your cart, scan each item and is supposed to speed up your shopping trip.
Now there's a task for those geeks that are always trying to get the linux kernel to compile on a toaster. See how many emulators in an emulator you can run before you crash, or have generally unusable performance.
Sort of on topic... when I went overseas a few years ago, I took everything out of my wallet and photocopied it, front and back. I keep a copy at home now so if my wallet ever gets lost or stolen, it's amazingly easy to figure out what I lost and I have the phone numbers and account numbers without having to shuffle though old bills.
I was thinking along the same lines. "Extreme journalism" perhaps? Use a script to upload to a FTP site for immediate use by an agency. It would be quite the reversal to snap a picture and have it immediately available on CNN with a story to follow shortly.
At last, the new Return of the King special, extended, directors, enhanced, platinum widescreen, anamorphic, boxed set, collectors edition (second release) will be available with 500 hours of never before seen footage! And still span 2 discs!
See this article for more information on how and what was used to do the remastering.
Article follows: John Lowry: Restoring Films to the Galaxy September 16, 2004
On September 21, when Star Wars fans insert A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi on DVD for the first time, they are going to see picture quality no Star Wars audience has ever seen... including those at the first screening of the first day back in May 1977. The growing popularity of films from all eras on DVD format has helped to illuminate a growing problem with some of the movie industry's greatest treasures -- they exist only on physical film stock, and that film stock is fragile and deteriorating rapidly.
When Lucasfilm began to prepare the trilogy for a digital release, they called upon John Lowry and Lowry Digital Images to step in to save the day. In the past four years, Lowry Digital has been hired to use their patented custom software processes to digitally clean and restore hundreds of films, including high-profile efforts on Snow White, Citizen Kane and last year's acclaimed Indiana Jones Trilogy DVD set.
At the Lowry Digital Images facility, over 600 Macintosh dual-processor G5 computers utilizing over 2400 gigabytes of RAM and 478 terabytes (over 478 million megabytes) of hard drive space processed each of the classic Star Wars films for over 30 break-neck days to create the stunning new versions fans will see in the Star Wars Trilogy DVD set.
"There are three key contributing factors to the degradation of film," Lowry explains. "Dirt, time and chemical damage due to conventional restoration processes."
When creating a duplicate of a scratched original, a wet-gate printer is commonly used. The master copy passes through a special fluid which temporarily fills any scratches or holes in the original. According to Lowry, this process is physically harsh and actually adds more grain and softens the images. Proper storage of the fragile film is also an industry issue. "Storage problems in the past have led to flicker, color damage and color flicker," says Lowry.
But the greatest challenge on the Star Wars trilogy was dirt damage. The more a film is used, the more dirt it accumulates. The unexpected success of A New Hope took a particular toll because each copy of the film ended up being played far more often than is usual, to the point where even Fox Studio's master originals began to wear out keeping up with demand.
"We have never seen anything quite this bad from a dirt perspective," says Lowry. "At some point the dirt becomes part of the picture and very, very hard to get rid of."
Over the years, Lowry Digital's computer algorithms have evolved from automating the removal of hundreds of pieces of dirt in a scene, to handling the 100,000 pieces of dirt in the Indiana Jones trilogy, to taking on the Star Wars trilogy which required automated and manual removal of up to a million pieces of dirt in scenes like R2-D2 and C-3PO's arrival on Tatooine in A New Hope.
The Star Wars restoration process began with a 10-bit RGB high-definition scan of the original negatives. This data was then used by a team at Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic to work with George Lucas to do some significant color correction to the movies. This color-timed data was then transferred to Lowry Digital hard drives, to begin the massive clean-up effort.
Most effects in the original trilogy were achieved, at least in part, with the aid of optical printing -- a process in which one piece of film is passed through a printer multiple times, once for each effects element. With each optical effect layer, grain can be introduced and some of the original clarity reduced. "Every time there was a lightsaber in frame, it was exceedingly grainy due to opticals," Lowry recalls.
"Sometimes the scratches were very bad," says Lowry, "at one point in Return of the Jedi there was a literally
So the local MySQL db isn't running. This doesn't, IMO, indicate any lack of ability for the product to cluster, replicate or even function as a commercial DB.
It sounds more like unixtips.org doesn't have HA. Don't blame the product for being poorly implemented.:)
So far, a great discussion about debt collection but what about the "other" recorded calls people get. My home number gets 3-4 spam calls a day, with at least one being an autorecording (typically offering me satellite service that I already have...).
I was just dealing with this yesterday from a cold call to my cell phone (first one). It was a recording and I was unable to take notes about the number and name of whom to call.
According to the link above to the TCPA, it says:
A prohibition against the use of artificial or prerecorded voice messages to call a residence except in cases of emergency or if the caller has received prior express consent. (Such calls to businesses are not prohibited.)
Thus, these calls are illegal?
What if the former owner of the number gave their "permission"?
No, there is no internal validation in MySQL that a write on one server doesn't conflict with another on a second (or third) master database.
You can configure such a setup, but the results would be more prone to error the higher your modify queries get.
You can still branch out replication (A -> B -> C), but all writes still need to go to the master. The two popular designs are A -> n or, if trying to decrease the load on A, you do A -> B -> n (where n is any number of slaves). You introduce 2 SPOF with the later, which is why I would recommend against it.
Imagine a scenerio with 5 masters, all taking writes. The overhead of checking 4 other machines for each write would most likely negate any distribution of load benefits you get (and would probably degrade performance).
I don't think there can be any doubt about MySQL's place. Slashdog uses it.
LVS + MySQL works really well. We've got grouped clusters of databases that we can allocate more/less resources to as needed. Reporting cluster for the slower queries, faster cluster for the real-time queries and a few specific application clusters.
Replication keeps them in sync but there isn't a good HA solution available for the master database yet. Perhaps in MySQL 5.0. In the meantime, use DRBD + heartbeat for near HA.
Slashdot Mirror
No, yank the space from the 2004 part and it sends you to a sign-in page. It may work after that, but I don't use AOL...
There's only clips of the trailer from Access Hollywood there. There isn't a full trailer.
While I recognize the humor of the original post... tt's not the lack of good games:
Railroad Tycoon 3
Civ 3
Simcity 4
The Sims
Medal of Honor
Jedi Academy
Ghost Recon
Rainbow Six: Athena Sword
Splinter Cell
Halo
Neverwinter Nights
It's the speed at which they are released.
For Mac? Take your pick:
Minesweeper
Solitaire
Peter: As we all know, Christmas is that mystical time of year when the ghost of Jesus rises from the grave to feast on the flesh of the living! So we all sing Christmas Carols to lull him back to sleep.
Bob: Outrageous, How dare he say such blasphemy. I've got to do something.
Man #1: Bob, there's nothing you can do.
Bob: Well, I guess I'll just have to develop a sense of humor.
Albertsons has them already. You pick up a scanner when you walk in the door, it has a holder on your cart, scan each item and is supposed to speed up your shopping trip.
2 points for "untipoverable"
It's fun to say.
Now there's a task for those geeks that are always trying to get the linux kernel to compile on a toaster. See how many emulators in an emulator you can run before you crash, or have generally unusable performance.
or is it the fire from under my desk?
Two keys?
Sort of on topic... when I went overseas a few years ago, I took everything out of my wallet and photocopied it, front and back. I keep a copy at home now so if my wallet ever gets lost or stolen, it's amazingly easy to figure out what I lost and I have the phone numbers and account numbers without having to shuffle though old bills.
I was thinking along the same lines. "Extreme journalism" perhaps? Use a script to upload to a FTP site for immediate use by an agency. It would be quite the reversal to snap a picture and have it immediately available on CNN with a story to follow shortly.
At last, the new Return of the King special, extended, directors, enhanced, platinum widescreen, anamorphic, boxed set, collectors edition (second release) will be available with 500 hours of never before seen footage! And still span 2 discs!
See this article for more information on how and what was used to do the remastering.
Article follows:
John Lowry: Restoring Films to the Galaxy
September 16, 2004
On September 21, when Star Wars fans insert A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi on DVD for the first time, they are going to see picture quality no Star Wars audience has ever seen... including those at the first screening of the first day back in May 1977.
The growing popularity of films from all eras on DVD format has helped to illuminate a growing problem with some of the movie industry's greatest treasures -- they exist only on physical film stock, and that film stock is fragile and deteriorating rapidly.
When Lucasfilm began to prepare the trilogy for a digital release, they called upon John Lowry and Lowry Digital Images to step in to save the day. In the past four years, Lowry Digital has been hired to use their patented custom software processes to digitally clean and restore hundreds of films, including high-profile efforts on Snow White, Citizen Kane and last year's acclaimed Indiana Jones Trilogy DVD set.
At the Lowry Digital Images facility, over 600 Macintosh dual-processor G5 computers utilizing over 2400 gigabytes of RAM and 478 terabytes (over 478 million megabytes) of hard drive space processed each of the classic Star Wars films for over 30 break-neck days to create the stunning new versions fans will see in the Star Wars Trilogy DVD set.
"There are three key contributing factors to the degradation of film," Lowry explains. "Dirt, time and chemical damage due to conventional restoration processes."
When creating a duplicate of a scratched original, a wet-gate printer is commonly used. The master copy passes through a special fluid which temporarily fills any scratches or holes in the original. According to Lowry, this process is physically harsh and actually adds more grain and softens the images. Proper storage of the fragile film is also an industry issue. "Storage problems in the past have led to flicker, color damage and color flicker," says Lowry.
But the greatest challenge on the Star Wars trilogy was dirt damage. The more a film is used, the more dirt it accumulates. The unexpected success of A New Hope took a particular toll because each copy of the film ended up being played far more often than is usual, to the point where even Fox Studio's master originals began to wear out keeping up with demand.
"We have never seen anything quite this bad from a dirt perspective," says Lowry. "At some point the dirt becomes part of the picture and very, very hard to get rid of."
Over the years, Lowry Digital's computer algorithms have evolved from automating the removal of hundreds of pieces of dirt in a scene, to handling the 100,000 pieces of dirt in the Indiana Jones trilogy, to taking on the Star Wars trilogy which required automated and manual removal of up to a million pieces of dirt in scenes like R2-D2 and C-3PO's arrival on Tatooine in A New Hope.
The Star Wars restoration process began with a 10-bit RGB high-definition scan of the original negatives. This data was then used by a team at Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic to work with George Lucas to do some significant color correction to the movies. This color-timed data was then transferred to Lowry Digital hard drives, to begin the massive clean-up effort.
Most effects in the original trilogy were achieved, at least in part, with the aid of optical printing -- a process in which one piece of film is passed through a printer multiple times, once for each effects element. With each optical effect layer, grain can be introduced and some of the original clarity reduced. "Every time there was a lightsaber in frame, it was exceedingly grainy due to opticals," Lowry recalls.
"Sometimes the scratches were very bad," says Lowry, "at one point in Return of the Jedi there was a literally
I've had a look around the shop... and we're right out of webservers.
I've got an Amiga...
Ack, you missed the directors cut. Just after he whispers to the girl, space monkeys start attacking!
(Bows to Eddie)
Heh... he said helmet.
$1: "Red Shirt Guy"
Strange though, they only seem to make it through the first 10 minutes of the museum.
Would you believe... no?
If you're going to fail at something, at least do it successfully.
So the local MySQL db isn't running. This doesn't, IMO, indicate any lack of ability for the product to cluster, replicate or even function as a commercial DB.
:)
It sounds more like unixtips.org doesn't have HA. Don't blame the product for being poorly implemented.
So far, a great discussion about debt collection but what about the "other" recorded calls people get. My home number gets 3-4 spam calls a day, with at least one being an autorecording (typically offering me satellite service that I already have...).
I was just dealing with this yesterday from a cold call to my cell phone (first one). It was a recording and I was unable to take notes about the number and name of whom to call.
According to the link above to the TCPA, it says:
A prohibition against the use of artificial or prerecorded voice messages to call a residence except in cases of emergency or if the caller has received prior express consent. (Such calls to businesses are not prohibited.)
Thus, these calls are illegal?
What if the former owner of the number gave their "permission"?
No, there is no internal validation in MySQL that a write on one server doesn't conflict with another on a second (or third) master database.
You can configure such a setup, but the results would be more prone to error the higher your modify queries get.
You can still branch out replication (A -> B -> C), but all writes still need to go to the master. The two popular designs are A -> n or, if trying to decrease the load on A, you do A -> B -> n (where n is any number of slaves). You introduce 2 SPOF with the later, which is why I would recommend against it.
Imagine a scenerio with 5 masters, all taking writes. The overhead of checking 4 other machines for each write would most likely negate any distribution of load benefits you get (and would probably degrade performance).
I don't think there can be any doubt about MySQL's place. Slashdog uses it.
Bah, DNS isn't load balancing.
LVS + MySQL works really well. We've got grouped clusters of databases that we can allocate more/less resources to as needed. Reporting cluster for the slower queries, faster cluster for the real-time queries and a few specific application clusters.
Replication keeps them in sync but there isn't a good HA solution available for the master database yet. Perhaps in MySQL 5.0. In the meantime, use DRBD + heartbeat for near HA.
and I got all excited thinking you were quoting Ash.