There's some very intresting rumors regarding HD + XRaid and XServes for network rendering floating about. Apple's hopefully going to go after the mid-range Avid market.
Cows (like many other animals) were domesticated because they don't need to eat great food. All you need is a field of weeds and they will find what's edible.
You can feed chickens raw sewage. Likewise, one can raise cows in land that would be otherwise unsuitable for crops.
Well, I think you're the future of the industry. Companies will rely more and more on a few engineers who are responsible for managing people in other countries. It's not so much that the good people will be cut as the bad ones sacked.
I'll give you all the power in the world you want. It just has to come from this little ball of gas in the sky.
Animals are one of the simplest ways to turn the energy of the sun into food. You're wanting to give up thousands of years of work on the part of your ancestors to make your 'moral' choice.
Go for it, if you want. Just don't expect the rest of us to follow.
A rancher is generally somebody who can afford to lease/own thousands of acres of land to run cattle. This sort of lends itself to rich/politically connected men. Ranchers generally don't manage their lands by themselves.
A farmer (from where I'm from) owns his land and stock and is (hopefully) beholden to nobody. What he puts his place he gets to take back out. What he doesn't put in...
1) Bush continues buildup. 2) Bush does quick + fairly clean war. A few Americans die. Iraq is offically 'cleaned up'. 3) Bush rises in polls. The (US, short-term) economy recovers on the positive effects of the war. (Long term world economy predictions are nebulous.) 4) Bush is voted to another term. 5) Midway through next term, Bush proposes war against another country. 6) World condems attack. World pressures said country into capitulation. 7) Bush goes with world opinion and is praised for peaceful solution to problem. 8) Bush exists office, hailed as great leader in both times of war and peace. 9) Everybody else is pissed.
This allows the fusion of various networks of information.
It's one thing for government agents to have to go through various levels of protocol to get access to all your records. It's another thing for them to have a central database of everywhere you've been and gone.
We've created a system of laws where almost everyone can be procecuted for something. Now, we're creating networks of data that allow much easier manipulation.
Piss off a higher-up?
Database notes: Subject has been to Amsterdam.
Action: Attach a +20% possibility of being able to bust 'citizen' for drug use.
I know, you've never done anything illegal in your life and have nothing to hide. Tell yourself that when they come for you.
If you make inflamatory comments (read: North Korea) and suddenly these planes are flying overhead, it makes attemping an armegeddon solution much more tenuous. Now, you have to begin your preemptive attack with another attack on a plane. The element of complete surpise is gone.
Sure, you can push the button. But now, there's a chance that this will do nothing other than assuring your instant demise.
In other words, even if you're willing to commit suicide to kill your enemy, there's a chance that even that won't work.
Think of it as sitting down to play russian roulette with someone and they insist on adding more bullets to the gun.
Do you want to go first?
The more dangerous we make war for those who would want to wage it, the more of a chance we have of fear of war convincing people to pursue peaceful solutions.
If you're one a million, there's a thousand people just like you in China.
Even though massive portions of the Chinese population are poor farmers, the contingent that has adopted the Internet is (as a result of being a smaller portion of a larger population) far beyond their US counterparts.
The Internet allows for capitalism on global scale to be much easier. Up until now, the US has maintained the lead by appropriating the smartest people from other countries (H1-B's, etc.).
However, we're about to see the trailing edge of this trend, where the smart kids stay at home. Already, one of the top 4 software development groups is based in India.
To all you genius programmers: you're good. But are you good enough to outhack half a dozen Chinese guys working for half your salary?
I predict that within 10 years, half the US programming market will have gone to these overseas firms.
Bleh on Sony for exploiting a name and confusing the public to push their own propriatary technology.
Ahh well, it's here now. If you're wanting to create video disks, go with DVD-R. If you're wanting to back things up, do some comparision shopping between +/-R. Which is a better choice depends on your platform/needs.
If his numbers are right, then he's not even hitting the full uncompressed rate, which would be around 110GB/hour.
That being said, it's rare the casual situation where you need to work much higher than DV res. Unless he's doing broadcast, I'd suggest cutting the data rate a little. At the very least, learn about off/on-lineing projects.
Onwards to the next step: recognition of the fact that there are no such thing as 'right' or 'wrong', merely localized expressions of power to back a particular ideology. These are merely terms used to confuse the issues or galvanize support.
Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, Greens, Big Business, Academia, etc...all politics is just one group attempting to gain the upper hand so it can knock the others down.
Welcome to the trenches of the culture wars.
There are no winners, only casualties. I hope Jon is not amongst them.
The $50 you spend in the store doesn't translate to another $50 in the pockets of the company. I'd be surprised if they were getting more than 25% ($12) a copy. That puts the numbers more in the range of $100 million gross in three months.
Unfortunately, these numbers are the same for the movie business. That $10 you spent for a ticket at the theatre is maybe $2.50 to the producers of the film. However, there are far more revenue streams for movies. Foreign + video/dvd alone triple revenues, without even beginning on PPV or licensing to the networks. Add in merchandising and the other major revenue streams and it starts to add up.
So, there's still a bit more money to made in the movie industry. However, games have been coming on strong, I'll grant you that. I think they will be a much more accepted form of culture (prehaps even considered art by the general populace) in ten years.
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...for once a security problem that isn't really Microsoft's fault...
Taco: Hell just called. They want you turn back on the heat.
Final Cut Pro 4 will come out next month.
There's some very intresting rumors regarding HD + XRaid and XServes for network rendering floating about. Apple's hopefully going to go after the mid-range Avid market.
Cows (like many other animals) were domesticated because they don't need to eat great food. All you need is a field of weeds and they will find what's edible.
You can feed chickens raw sewage. Likewise, one can raise cows in land that would be otherwise unsuitable for crops.
Coincidentally, this is what my family does.
My family runs beef cattle.
Well, I think you're the future of the industry. Companies will rely more and more on a few engineers who are responsible for managing people in other countries. It's not so much that the good people will be cut as the bad ones sacked.
-Brett
Raising crops is far more difficult than cows.
I'll give you all the power in the world you want. It just has to come from this little ball of gas in the sky.
Animals are one of the simplest ways to turn the energy of the sun into food. You're wanting to give up thousands of years of work on the part of your ancestors to make your 'moral' choice.
Go for it, if you want. Just don't expect the rest of us to follow.
I'm from half-way between.
A rancher is generally somebody who can afford to lease/own thousands of acres of land to run cattle. This sort of lends itself to rich/politically connected men. Ranchers generally don't manage their lands by themselves.
A farmer (from where I'm from) owns his land and stock and is (hopefully) beholden to nobody. What he puts his place he gets to take back out. What he doesn't put in...
-Brett
My cynical predictions:
1) Bush continues buildup.
2) Bush does quick + fairly clean war. A few Americans die. Iraq is offically 'cleaned up'.
3) Bush rises in polls. The (US, short-term) economy recovers on the positive effects of the war. (Long term world economy predictions are nebulous.)
4) Bush is voted to another term.
5) Midway through next term, Bush proposes war against another country.
6) World condems attack. World pressures said country into capitulation.
7) Bush goes with world opinion and is praised for peaceful solution to problem.
8) Bush exists office, hailed as great leader in both times of war and peace.
9) Everybody else is pissed.
-Brett
Here is a project I would love to support.
Massive amounts of numbers to be crunched, tons of routes to be discovered, and all by lowly computers with nothing better to do.
Proving that some ungodly number of ProcHours can figure out a RC-72 bit key is meaningless to me.
This is the sort of science humanity is interested in. Onward to Mars!
-Brett
This allows the fusion of various networks of information.
It's one thing for government agents to have to go through various levels of protocol to get access to all your records. It's another thing for them to have a central database of everywhere you've been and gone.
We've created a system of laws where almost everyone can be procecuted for something. Now, we're creating networks of data that allow much easier manipulation.
Piss off a higher-up?
Database notes: Subject has been to Amsterdam.
Action: Attach a +20% possibility of being able to bust 'citizen' for drug use.
I know, you've never done anything illegal in your life and have nothing to hide. Tell yourself that when they come for you.
-Brett
The government's going to replace travelocity.com!
My travel worries are over!
Seriously, this stuff scares the crap out of me.
How long until you need to sign up for the Federal Identify Network to get a credit card? A drivers license? A job?
-Brett
That's the whole point, though.
If you make inflamatory comments (read: North Korea) and suddenly these planes are flying overhead, it makes attemping an armegeddon solution much more tenuous. Now, you have to begin your preemptive attack with another attack on a plane. The element of complete surpise is gone.
Sure, you can push the button. But now, there's a chance that this will do nothing other than assuring your instant demise.
In other words, even if you're willing to commit suicide to kill your enemy, there's a chance that even that won't work.
Think of it as sitting down to play russian roulette with someone and they insist on adding more bullets to the gun.
Do you want to go first?
The more dangerous we make war for those who would want to wage it, the more of a chance we have of fear of war convincing people to pursue peaceful solutions.
-Brett
I loaned my little old Pismo to a friend for a month while I went on a trip.
;-)
He's a hard-core programmer who has been with Windows since the beginning.
He's started browing store.apple.com a lot more as of late.
-Brett
If you're one a million, there's a thousand people just like you in China.
Even though massive portions of the Chinese population are poor farmers, the contingent that has adopted the Internet is (as a result of being a smaller portion of a larger population) far beyond their US counterparts.
The Internet allows for capitalism on global scale to be much easier. Up until now, the US has maintained the lead by appropriating the smartest people from other countries (H1-B's, etc.).
However, we're about to see the trailing edge of this trend, where the smart kids stay at home. Already, one of the top 4 software development groups is based in India.
To all you genius programmers: you're good. But are you good enough to outhack half a dozen Chinese guys working for half your salary?
I predict that within 10 years, half the US programming market will have gone to these overseas firms.
Anybody have any current data on this trend?
-Brett
It seems like the Aussies have taken a page or two from the US's "Big Book O' Terrorism" manual.
.au geeks that have lived in the US and would care to compare/contrast the two in terms of rights, both real and perceived?
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That's probabally for the best. It's just as important to learn how to interact with people without a laptop as it is to learn how to use one.
/., so I don't know if it did any good. ;-)
I deliberately left my computer home the first year of college so that I wouldn't withdraw myself to my room.
Of course, now I have no roommate and I'm posting this on
-Brett
There is. It's called DVD-R.
Bleh on Sony for exploiting a name and confusing the public to push their own propriatary technology.
Ahh well, it's here now. If you're wanting to create video disks, go with DVD-R. If you're wanting to back things up, do some comparision shopping between +/-R. Which is a better choice depends on your platform/needs.
-Brett
Will this or MPEG-4 compression become the standard for HD-DVD?
They both exist. The patents are higher on MPEG-4, but it has more backers.
Anybody out there heard any spicy rumors?
-Brett
Uncompressed D1 hits 30MB/sec, (1.8GB/min).
If his numbers are right, then he's not even hitting the full uncompressed rate, which would be around 110GB/hour.
That being said, it's rare the casual situation where you need to work much higher than DV res. Unless he's doing broadcast, I'd suggest cutting the data rate a little. At the very least, learn about off/on-lineing projects.
-Brett
Onwards to the next step: recognition of the fact that there are no such thing as 'right' or 'wrong', merely localized expressions of power to back a particular ideology. These are merely terms used to confuse the issues or galvanize support.
Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, Greens, Big Business, Academia, etc...all politics is just one group attempting to gain the upper hand so it can knock the others down.
Welcome to the trenches of the culture wars.
There are no winners, only casualties. I hope Jon is not amongst them.
-Brett
Well, I'm a bad programmer with good hygiene.
Management, here I come!
-Brett
The $50 you spend in the store doesn't translate to another $50 in the pockets of the company. I'd be surprised if they were getting more than 25% ($12) a copy. That puts the numbers more in the range of $100 million gross in three months.
Unfortunately, these numbers are the same for the movie business. That $10 you spent for a ticket at the theatre is maybe $2.50 to the producers of the film. However, there are far more revenue streams for movies. Foreign + video/dvd alone triple revenues, without even beginning on PPV or licensing to the networks. Add in merchandising and the other major revenue streams and it starts to add up.
So, there's still a bit more money to made in the movie industry. However, games have been coming on strong, I'll grant you that. I think they will be a much more accepted form of culture (prehaps even considered art by the general populace) in ten years.
-Brett
Arrgh, Indonesia b33s a hard place.
But iffen youzen a talkin aboot s0ftw4r3 p1r4cy, then y0u b33s a scurvy d0g whoze a gonna b3 4ced t0 w4lk d3 pl4nk!
Aargh! (Different spelling, totally different pronunciation/meaning, for the record.)
Did anybody else ever play Syndicate?
God that game rocked.
-Brett