The Human Genome Project was going to take the combined resources of a large number of research institutions around the world, several hundred million dollars, and 10-15 years to sequence the human genome.
A lone American startup, Celera, took 2-3 years to single-handedly complete the project.
Is it possible that governmental projects are not the end-all of research?
I really don't have a problem with regulating violent games- its when the government tries to outlaw them that I have a problem.
An interesting point, Taco, especially when you consider the United States, Japan, and Germany are the only three countries in the world that do not have government-run censorship of movies.
The American film classification system is a rarity in the modern world. Films are classified by choice. The director makes cuts which are eventually given approval. There may be critics of said system, and tempers may flare, but when you consider the alternative in countries such as India or China, in which nothing of interest makes it through the system, it has its merits.
Governmental censorship sucks. Well-minded people are generally just as dangerous a force for quelching art as are dictators.
However, it's very common in the rest of the world. Fight it every chance you get. You don't know what you stand to lose until its gone.
/me gets out a zip gun and starts mowing down pedestrians...
The medival feudalism arguement attempts to compare a 95% agrarian society in which people have to work 12+ hours a day in order to simply eat with our modern society in which perhaps the work of 2-5% of the populace is sufficent to fill a supermarket.
I don't buy it.
-Brett
I've often wondered about using a tech like this..
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For editing films. For documentaries in particular, this would be a godsend. Imagine if, in addition to video/audio tracks, you had a simple 'text' track with which you could easily assemble your cuts.
If nothing else, putting the computer to work on the 'condense 100 hours of footage into pieces of paper' stage would be a nice step.
If it prevented just one assitant editor from going insane, it'd be worth it. Do it for the children.
Yeah, it does cut down on the unsolicted stuff, but the fire department/policeman's ball/political groups are not considered to be telemarketers. Yet.
My grandma gets harassed daily by various organizations (give a single dollar to enviromentalism, you'll be hounded into the grave). I'm gonna persuade her to sign up, eventually.
Final Cut Pro doesn't seem to run very well on that Athlon.;-)
I'm not going to go out on a limb and claim Macs blow PC's out of the water in terms of preformance, but AE's not very well optimized for OSX. The "gap" this guy is trying to prove is about as inane as Steve's "G4's are up to (X amount) times as fast" speeches.
The G4's are pretty decent machines. At the end of the day, they're a powerful tool to get the job done. Of course, no PC troll is going to admit that.
DVD-R for "authoring" does exist. Theoretically, one can create a glass master directly from a DVD-R Authoring disk.
However, in practice, all the major houses just dump the data to a machine and create the master from that.
As a result, it doesn't matter what format the disks come in (Generic DVD-R, special brand, some DLT format or even FTP/hard drive).
However, I just burn generic copies of my disk, by hand. I've never messed with getting a large run done, which generally requires 500-1000 copies to be made. Which that much capital outlay, you worry about such things a little more.
There is this concept that if we look at a homeless man and a billionare, the latter somehow obtained his riches by stealing from the former.
I think this theory is intellecutally bankrupt, but that's me.
If you look at the amount of money actually given to politicans, it's scarily low. What's shocking is not whether they will sleep with you for money...it's how low their prices are.
The american political system is dominated by two groups: a small minority who know how to push buttons to get their agendas pushed forward, and the great unwashed masses who would rather sit about and complain about the system.
If you want change, then you must join the former rather than sitting about navelgazing and blaming the problems of society upon whichever group you're not a part of (rich, poor, white, black, hispanic, drug users, terrorists, aliens from outer space).
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If you don't own the copyright, it's technically illegal. However, no semi-intelligent band's going to come after a fan who's swapping their stuff.
I do the same thing with my shorts...download away! Just don't try to resell them.
-Brett
Loosely related, but my dad's RV-7 is almost done.
Gots to love the chain to the truck and the gas can kept in place by blocks. It's all in the details.
-Brett
All true. However, I think it's in our best interests to promote this anyway.
"All Hail Microsoft, winner of the Open Source Excellence Award!"
"You guys are into open-source?"
"Um...not exac..."
"All Hail Microsoft, winner of the Open Source Excellence Award!"
"Three cheers for Open Source!"
Due to the seperation of church and state.
Steve cannot be both God and President without violating some part of the constitution.
Of course, given recent events, that 'problem' can probably be remiedied.
Wow. I didn't think it was possible, but I just slashdotted myself.
My day can get no better.
Try this link.
-Brett
Flame.
You can check out some of my other raw crap here.
-Brett
The Human Genome Project was going to take the combined resources of a large number of research institutions around the world, several hundred million dollars, and 10-15 years to sequence the human genome.
A lone American startup, Celera, took 2-3 years to single-handedly complete the project.
Is it possible that governmental projects are not the end-all of research?
...we had a "Windows" too, but it was horrible and weak...
/me finds bottle of Prestige...
You were mixing it correctly. If it weren't for the millions of people who don't know you can order anything else, nobody'd buy it.
(cue XP drink who claims they've fixed the formula)
I know, it's a cheap shot...isn't that what we're about?
I really don't have a problem with regulating violent games- its when the government tries to outlaw them that I have a problem.
/me gets out a zip gun and starts mowing down pedestrians...
An interesting point, Taco, especially when you consider the United States, Japan, and Germany are the only three countries in the world that do not have government-run censorship of movies.
The American film classification system is a rarity in the modern world. Films are classified by choice. The director makes cuts which are eventually given approval. There may be critics of said system, and tempers may flare, but when you consider the alternative in countries such as India or China, in which nothing of interest makes it through the system, it has its merits.
Governmental censorship sucks. Well-minded people are generally just as dangerous a force for quelching art as are dictators.
However, it's very common in the rest of the world. Fight it every chance you get. You don't know what you stand to lose until its gone.
-Brett
The medival feudalism arguement attempts to compare a 95% agrarian society in which people have to work 12+ hours a day in order to simply eat with our modern society in which perhaps the work of 2-5% of the populace is sufficent to fill a supermarket.
I don't buy it.
-Brett
For editing films. For documentaries in particular, this would be a godsend. Imagine if, in addition to video/audio tracks, you had a simple 'text' track with which you could easily assemble your cuts.
If nothing else, putting the computer to work on the 'condense 100 hours of footage into pieces of paper' stage would be a nice step.
If it prevented just one assitant editor from going insane, it'd be worth it. Do it for the children.
-Brett
Missouri in the house!
Yeah, it does cut down on the unsolicted stuff, but the fire department/policeman's ball/political groups are not considered to be telemarketers. Yet.
My grandma gets harassed daily by various organizations (give a single dollar to enviromentalism, you'll be hounded into the grave). I'm gonna persuade her to sign up, eventually.
If you're from MO, sign up. It's pretty nice.
-Brett
Final Cut Pro doesn't seem to run very well on that Athlon. ;-)
:-P
I'm not going to go out on a limb and claim Macs blow PC's out of the water in terms of preformance, but AE's not very well optimized for OSX. The "gap" this guy is trying to prove is about as inane as Steve's "G4's are up to (X amount) times as fast" speeches.
The G4's are pretty decent machines. At the end of the day, they're a powerful tool to get the job done. Of course, no PC troll is going to admit that.
Besides, shake is better.
-Brett
Hah.
The game industry, in total sales, made more money than the US domestic box office.
You're forgetting some minor areas: World Box office, Video/DVD sales, PPV, cable, and Network TV.
These easily total to around $30-40 billion, without even beginning to touch merchandising or other revenue streams.
Games have come a long way, but Hollywood's still way out in front.
-Brett
eh? what's a MacBeard? open source mac coders?
A Mac-using chick from Berkeley who doesn't believe in shaving down Cupertino way?
-Brett
Here is the best place to buy memory for the mac.
The're really easy to upgrade. Get a 512MB chip ($75), throw it in there, and never look back.
-Brett
DVD-R for "authoring" does exist. Theoretically, one can create a glass master directly from a DVD-R Authoring disk.
However, in practice, all the major houses just dump the data to a machine and create the master from that.
As a result, it doesn't matter what format the disks come in (Generic DVD-R, special brand, some DLT format or even FTP/hard drive).
However, I just burn generic copies of my disk, by hand. I've never messed with getting a large run done, which generally requires 500-1000 copies to be made. Which that much capital outlay, you worry about such things a little more.
-Brett
For data, perhaps.
:-P
I'm a filmmaker. 2 years ago, video was the best format availible to me. Now, I distribute on DVD.
Until a technology comes along that replaces DVD (and HD-DVD tech will hopefully be backwards compatible), I'm in business.
So there.
-Brett
H0re of them all?
/. his server, here's a mirror.
Actually, I've never done this. But on the (off) chance you guys
http://www-scf.usc.edu/~skoonce/ogg_mirror/
There is this concept that if we look at a homeless man and a billionare, the latter somehow obtained his riches by stealing from the former.
I think this theory is intellecutally bankrupt, but that's me.
If you look at the amount of money actually given to politicans, it's scarily low. What's shocking is not whether they will sleep with you for money...it's how low their prices are.
The american political system is dominated by two groups: a small minority who know how to push buttons to get their agendas pushed forward, and the great unwashed masses who would rather sit about and complain about the system.
If you want change, then you must join the former rather than sitting about navelgazing and blaming the problems of society upon whichever group you're not a part of (rich, poor, white, black, hispanic, drug users, terrorists, aliens from outer space).
Oh, that's nothing.
Lawyers have been doing this for years.
-Brett
we would have run out of oil and would be overpopulated (aren't we?) by now without the warning voices back in the 1970s.
You're claiming your theory is correct because it didn't come to pass?
I've heard of making the data fit the theory, but you're pushing the limits.
-Brett
Phoenix is built on top of the nightly mozilla trunk.
= 78104
In other words, features that make it into mozilla will, by extension, make it into Phoenix.
So, go vote for this little gem:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id
Thanks.
-Brett
12 months?
e /d vd_rippers/dvd_extractor.cfm
How about today.
http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_softwar
The name of the proggy's DVDExtractor, if you want to google it.
Put in a DVD.
Hit "create image".
Put blank DVD-R disk in superdrive.
Hit burn image in toast.
It can't copy DVD's over 4.5GB, but that's not a problem with the program, just current DVD-R technology.
-Brett
It's sorta OT, but here's a great link for DYI steadycams/dollies/whatnot. I'm pretty sure the /. crowd will appreciate what these people are up to.
http://homebuiltstabilizers.com/
-Brett