Executable offensives include: political dissent, terrorism, drug dealing, child pornography, being of the wrong religous groups, the usual laundry list.
Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard.
The real issue is that once upon a time people in Somali could make a living fishing off their shores. Boats passing through the Suez canal dump their waste in international waters, which is roughly defined as "not the red sea or the mediterranean", which the end result of most of the ships dumping their pollutants into the Somali waters. The country has complained to the UN, who won't do anything about the issue unless oil rights are transferred from the Chinese to America as protection money. This has little chance of happening, and so when the people in the middle eventually take up arms against the international ships dumping in their waters they are labeled pirates and shot out of the water to satisfy the moralistic urges of people who like simple good versus bad qualifiers.
Well, the red beats this thing handily and it can be had for under twenty grand.
The thing is that when you do video you don't get the full sensor. These cameras->video tricks do a sort of reverse interleaving. The chips themselves don't run more than 10fps. So the camera uses line 1 for frame 1, line 2 for frame 2, line 3 for frame 3, line 1 for frame 4, and so on. The practical upshot is that the 5k sensor gets knocked down to a thousand lines of resolution rather quickly. But then, because you're literally moving boundaries each frame, these weird aliasing artifacts appear. The quickest way to see them on the 5D is to take the camera and pan it right/left quickly, you'll see the image going all wavy. Some of the effect is the rolling shutter but it exposes the how the software is actually making the image.
So, you can't move the camera unless you're very very careful. You might as well shoot slates and sync audio in post as deal with the onboard stuff. The camera can't record longer than five minute takes because of a provision under Japanese export law that would make it officially a video camera. None of these problems are insurmountable but they're certainly there.
That being said, I have a friend who's planning on shooting a feature this fall on one of these things. I think he's crazy, but it's the crazy people who change the world.:P
Along this line, does anybody know of a better way to get iPhone-compatible h264 streams than the Apple Quicktime plugin? I'd like to up the bit rate/quality of my movies but I have yet to find a solution that works.
And, to continue the same argument, there's plenty of movies you can download legally via torrents. For example, my own. So to say that this ipso facto abetting piracy is a mistake. My prediction: this decision gets quietly reversed. Now, if only we could get an Azureus version of this app...
It's probably true, though. I get a lot more European hits than American ones on my miro feed. But the area that surprised me is Africa, I've been getting maybe a tenth of of my hits off the continent. Maybe it's a sign of quality. More likely they like the price.;-)
And for the billions of years since, we haven't managed to do it again. Maybe the simplest version of Hubble is that things don't work as well as they once did...
A) You go to the store, you buy a cd, you come home, you put it into your computer, click import in iTunes, you listen to it on your iPod. Legal. B) You go to the store, you buy a dvd, you come home, you put it into your computer, click import in iTunes, you watch it on your Apple TV. Illegal.
Should Real win this case the next day there will be a hundred companies looking to license the technology. That scares a number of people.
If these experiments work, they will provide a technical solution to the CO2 problem. The end result would be that the tax stream from carbon sequestration would short-circuit the governmental entities currently vying for control of climate. Since, however, said entities cannot nominally be opposed to a solution to the problem, they instead will look a reason to reject the entire approach out of hand. And that is what is being pushed here.
JC here, just caught my first one of spring a few days ago. He was in the laundry pile, found him when I put a shirt on and something was crawling on my back. I agree, not as dangerous as everybody wants to make them out to be. Like the way many people are afraid of snakes.
I installed this last week, got it working. It's still very early beta, managed to crash my machine half a dozen times before deciding to wait a little. Remember to do zpool exports before you eject external hard drives. But yes, very promising technology. OS X has gone from having a wonky 1/0 implementation to having one of the better software raid systems available. Back to scoping out four and eight drive usb sata enclosures and cheap 500gb hard drives.;-)
Your math is correct, but they're not really taking pictures of distant planets so much as observing the stars they're going about and watching for a wobble. From that with a bunch of math they can reverse estimate the size of the planet and its period, and in turn hopefully watch for changes as the planet passes in front of the star to guesstimate its characteristics. Two years till Kepler!
A) As the number of platters goes up, so to the chance of failure. IBM had a bad shipment of five platter drives that after the inevitable lawsuits was one of the factors in them deciding to sell their hard drive division. B) The money in hard drives is mostly on the low end. The purpose of making three and four platter monster drives is that you can then ship a single or dual-platter small drive cheaper than the competition.
So yes, it's technically possible, but having the biggest hard drive is more for press-release spin than anything else, much like the latest and greatest graphic card that comes out every few months.
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In the last year the UCT algorithm has really come of its own. It's a monte-carlo variant with weighting for winning lines. On 9x9 boards the programs play at the dan level. 19x19 requires roughly 32x the computing resources for the same level of performance: current machines simply can't handle the load. But MC scales nicely with additional computing power. 32x is only 5 doublings by Moore's law: it's not unreasonable to think that within a decade computers will be giving the masters a run for their money.
I've heard good things about version five of Digital Fusion. Sorry, don't know about Toxik either. Autodesk's entry into the vfx industry is interesting...they've bought a lot of good stuff, but I'm not so sure that sticking them all together is going to work quite so smoothly as they would hope. That's my theory that that's where Apple is ultimately aimed with all this, a shake/discreet/ae + san fcp-integrated beast. They've got the people, and if they're not working on shake (or motion) then here's hoping they're trying to make our lives easier.
Don't get me wrong, you can do proxies in nuke. But the workflow is based around just throwing the data at the program and letting the hardware cope. It is a simplification that pays off as hardware gets faster and by reducing the overall complexity of project management. Doing 2k streams a decade ago was beyond the reach of all but the fastest machines. Now the hardware to do multiple ones at once is under the five figure mark.
They have Gavin and most of the original combustion team. To believe that all those guys can do in the years they've been at apple is what we've seen seems pretty pessimistic.
Nuke has much, much better 2d/3d integration, which is the primary use of modern compositing programs. Shake's historical strength has been the ability to work with proxy/low-res files to set up compositing work and then to do the final render with high-res output. Nuke is designed around the attitude of working always in full-res, and then to just throw more hardware at it. Cheaper hardware has made this approach the simpler/better of the two. It's hard to directly point to a single feature being ahead. In the years since Apple bought shake, they've added a handful of new features, factored the menubar code, and fixed some bugs, all within the usual Apple culture of secrecy. Meanwhile, the nuke people have been actively courting the vfx industry, adding features, cleaning up interfaces and irritations.
But who knows. Apple certainly has a few aces up their sleeve, such as iShake.
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Because this is China.
Executable offensives include: political dissent, terrorism, drug dealing, child pornography, being of the wrong religous groups, the usual laundry list.
Where it gets exciting is when they send doctors to determine your blood type to decide if you've committed an executable offense.
Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard.
The real issue is that once upon a time people in Somali could make a living fishing off their shores. Boats passing through the Suez canal dump their waste in international waters, which is roughly defined as "not the red sea or the mediterranean", which the end result of most of the ships dumping their pollutants into the Somali waters. The country has complained to the UN, who won't do anything about the issue unless oil rights are transferred from the Chinese to America as protection money. This has little chance of happening, and so when the people in the middle eventually take up arms against the international ships dumping in their waters they are labeled pirates and shot out of the water to satisfy the moralistic urges of people who like simple good versus bad qualifiers.
Well, the red beats this thing handily and it can be had for under twenty grand.
The thing is that when you do video you don't get the full sensor. These cameras->video tricks do a sort of reverse interleaving. The chips themselves don't run more than 10fps. So the camera uses line 1 for frame 1, line 2 for frame 2, line 3 for frame 3, line 1 for frame 4, and so on. The practical upshot is that the 5k sensor gets knocked down to a thousand lines of resolution rather quickly. But then, because you're literally moving boundaries each frame, these weird aliasing artifacts appear. The quickest way to see them on the 5D is to take the camera and pan it right/left quickly, you'll see the image going all wavy. Some of the effect is the rolling shutter but it exposes the how the software is actually making the image.
So, you can't move the camera unless you're very very careful. You might as well shoot slates and sync audio in post as deal with the onboard stuff. The camera can't record longer than five minute takes because of a provision under Japanese export law that would make it officially a video camera. None of these problems are insurmountable but they're certainly there.
That being said, I have a friend who's planning on shooting a feature this fall on one of these things. I think he's crazy, but it's the crazy people who change the world. :P
Along this line, does anybody know of a better way to get iPhone-compatible h264 streams than the Apple Quicktime plugin? I'd like to up the bit rate/quality of my movies but I have yet to find a solution that works.
And, to continue the same argument, there's plenty of movies you can download legally via torrents. For example, my own. So to say that this ipso facto abetting piracy is a mistake. My prediction: this decision gets quietly reversed. Now, if only we could get an Azureus version of this app...
It's probably true, though. I get a lot more European hits than American ones on my miro feed. But the area that surprised me is Africa, I've been getting maybe a tenth of of my hits off the continent. Maybe it's a sign of quality. More likely they like the price. ;-)
And for the billions of years since, we haven't managed to do it again. Maybe the simplest version of Hubble is that things don't work as well as they once did...
They don't want to allow a precedent. Compare:
A) You go to the store, you buy a cd, you come home, you put it into your computer, click import in iTunes, you listen to it on your iPod. Legal.
B) You go to the store, you buy a dvd, you come home, you put it into your computer, click import in iTunes, you watch it on your Apple TV. Illegal.
Should Real win this case the next day there will be a hundred companies looking to license the technology. That scares a number of people.
If you want to be popular, make yourself notable AND easy to get.
I concur. Now, onwards to shameless self promotion! Or rather, I don't know if I'm notable, but "easy to get" seems accurate. :P
You can download my first feature off of LegalTorrents: Seven Dead Men.
Hope you enjoy.
If these experiments work, they will provide a technical solution to the CO2 problem. The end result would be that the tax stream from carbon sequestration would short-circuit the governmental entities currently vying for control of climate. Since, however, said entities cannot nominally be opposed to a solution to the problem, they instead will look a reason to reject the entire approach out of hand. And that is what is being pushed here.
JC here, just caught my first one of spring a few days ago. He was in the laundry pile, found him when I put a shirt on and something was crawling on my back. I agree, not as dangerous as everybody wants to make them out to be. Like the way many people are afraid of snakes.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050522045225980
Which then generates a nifty lock button in Mail.app. Good luck finding somebody else to send messages to, though.
A good question, they write/use their own browser, Amaya, which is slow but compliant.
I installed this last week, got it working. It's still very early beta, managed to crash my machine half a dozen times before deciding to wait a little. Remember to do zpool exports before you eject external hard drives. But yes, very promising technology. OS X has gone from having a wonky 1/0 implementation to having one of the better software raid systems available. Back to scoping out four and eight drive usb sata enclosures and cheap 500gb hard drives. ;-)
Your math is correct, but they're not really taking pictures of distant planets so much as observing the stars they're going about and watching for a wobble. From that with a bunch of math they can reverse estimate the size of the planet and its period, and in turn hopefully watch for changes as the planet passes in front of the star to guesstimate its characteristics. Two years till Kepler!
A) As the number of platters goes up, so to the chance of failure. IBM had a bad shipment of five platter drives that after the inevitable lawsuits was one of the factors in them deciding to sell their hard drive division.
B) The money in hard drives is mostly on the low end. The purpose of making three and four platter monster drives is that you can then ship a single or dual-platter small drive cheaper than the competition.
So yes, it's technically possible, but having the biggest hard drive is more for press-release spin than anything else, much like the latest and greatest graphic card that comes out every few months.
In the last year the UCT algorithm has really come of its own. It's a monte-carlo variant with weighting for winning lines. On 9x9 boards the programs play at the dan level. 19x19 requires roughly 32x the computing resources for the same level of performance: current machines simply can't handle the load. But MC scales nicely with additional computing power. 32x is only 5 doublings by Moore's law: it's not unreasonable to think that within a decade computers will be giving the masters a run for their money.
what's your email? the tranq account doesn't work.
a) 2.h er
b) http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=hdmi%20switc
I've heard good things about version five of Digital Fusion. Sorry, don't know about Toxik either. Autodesk's entry into the vfx industry is interesting...they've bought a lot of good stuff, but I'm not so sure that sticking them all together is going to work quite so smoothly as they would hope. That's my theory that that's where Apple is ultimately aimed with all this, a shake/discreet/ae + san fcp-integrated beast. They've got the people, and if they're not working on shake (or motion) then here's hoping they're trying to make our lives easier.
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Don't get me wrong, you can do proxies in nuke. But the workflow is based around just throwing the data at the program and letting the hardware cope. It is a simplification that pays off as hardware gets faster and by reducing the overall complexity of project management. Doing 2k streams a decade ago was beyond the reach of all but the fastest machines. Now the hardware to do multiple ones at once is under the five figure mark.
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Curses, highend2d has led me astray again. ;-)
They have Gavin and most of the original combustion team. To believe that all those guys can do in the years they've been at apple is what we've seen seems pretty pessimistic.
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Read between the lines. Here's the next generation, iShake.
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Nuke has much, much better 2d/3d integration, which is the primary use of modern compositing programs. Shake's historical strength has been the ability to work with proxy/low-res files to set up compositing work and then to do the final render with high-res output. Nuke is designed around the attitude of working always in full-res, and then to just throw more hardware at it. Cheaper hardware has made this approach the simpler/better of the two. It's hard to directly point to a single feature being ahead. In the years since Apple bought shake, they've added a handful of new features, factored the menubar code, and fixed some bugs, all within the usual Apple culture of secrecy. Meanwhile, the nuke people have been actively courting the vfx industry, adding features, cleaning up interfaces and irritations.
But who knows. Apple certainly has a few aces up their sleeve, such as iShake.
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