There's a pref in iTunes that copies all mp3's you try to play to your local hard drive. Just turn it off and add the mp3's to your library. iTunes will play them fine off the server.
The reality of the matter is that IDE gets the new tech first. Advances in SCSI tech are largely limited to decreasing platter size to increase RPM to produce those low-latency beasts that are important in server farms.
Currently, it's IDE/ATA drives that receive the new tech you read about in the papers: pixie dust, etc.
The signifigantly larger market of ATA equipment ensures that this trend will only continue.
On another note, where's the 80GB * 4 platter drive? I want my 320GB, dammnit!
If you've got the ram, it'll run 'okay'. (That's a deliberately subjective word.)
It's a largely a matter of your workflow between the two OS's: scrolling/windows are slower, true, but having all the stability and SMP makes me much more efficient. (OSX: Set qt file to encoding, surf the web. OS9: Set file to encoding, go to sleep.)
My advice? Borrow a 10.2 cd from a friend here in a week and try it out. If you can't handle surfing with mozilla on your machine, you'll probabally go bonkers over time.
Of course, when we finally upgrade our hardware (I would, but my damn pismo just keeps on going and going) all these speed issues will be a thing of the past.;-)
Most Avid work is cutting video, i.e. you're cutting a low-res video copy of the film. You then take that video and go back to rematch the original film work to the cuts made with the video. This process is called negative cutting.
I'm assuming what you're referering to is special effects work and whatnot. This is generally done at 2k res, or 4k if it's appropriate (read: the producers are loaded).
2k = 2048 * something, depending on the format. 4k = you're a/. nerd, figure those 2^something's out!
The music's hidden in an invisible folder on iPod. Easiest way I've found to deal with the mess is drop into the terminal, navigate to that directory (/iPod_Control/Music) and then drop a good old cp -r F* (there's 20 F* folders in the directory).
Dump this to your HD, and you've got a pretty fast backup of your iPod.
Alternatively, there's apps that'll let you just copy only the mp3's your want. Go check out google for CopyPod.
-asparagui
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Dah.
I just realized you meant inward. I belive the current research is to throw said object toward the Sun using gravity slingshots + some sort of rocket, then to use solar sails to slow things down and push you back out to your destination once you pass it up.
Solar sails are kinda more cool than useful, though. If we ever need to move tons of unmanned crap from earth to mars, they'll be useful, but for most missions an ion drive is better.
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Interstellar tacking?
Actually, since the mass/velocities that can be moved by solar "sails" aren't that much, I believe they generally drag along a chem/ion motor of some type for both small/precise manuvering and as an emergency feature.
Sort of like having a motor in a canoe, just in case you drop the paddles overboard/don't want to row like mad to make it to the shore.
I think you guys are going to be pleasantly surprised. The CGI is about the only fault I could find with the movie. It explores morals in a much more interesting way than any comic book movie I can remember, except perhaps Batman.
I really liked it. I may not be a die-hard Spidey fan, but I thought the film was intelligent and well done.
So, before everybody and their brother starts talking about how the NSA can already break this, remember that you can, quite easily, build a 'uncrackable' cypher.
And it'll never be breakable, provided you take some sort of security measures. But if you're paranoid, you already do most of those.
Sorry, this is just a preemptive strike against 'the government can monitor my thoughts" crowd.
The problem with this is that 9 out of 10 drugs never make any money.
I don't know. There may be problems with the current system, but the results are impressive. There's a reason that America leads the way in drug innovation, and I'm pretty sure it has something to do with those evils of capitalism.
The Human Genome project, a multinational behemoth, was expected to take 15-25 years and cost serveral billion dollars.
A single American company (Celera) did it in year and half for a few hundred million.
Well, for starters, the movie age limit is a self-imposed restriction by the film companies/movie theatres themselves.
Used to be, local censorship boards would cut objectionable material out of the films before they would be allowed in theatres. Producers, understandably, didn't like this, so they inforced their own ratings system to keep the boards out.
So, this is different than movie theatres. However, the sale/rental of porn is limited by laws to adults. In that way, this is similar.
I've got no problem with research projects that use distributed computing. I myself run d.net and have thrown cycles to Seti@home and Genome@home. It's a great way to pick up free cpu cycles cheaply, if you've got the time.
However, there's half a dozen companies now that think they're going to make money off people using these programs for large projects.
The reality of the matter is, if d.net had to support itself financially, it'd get rid of it the internet users and stick to in-house boxes.
I'm not dissing distributed computing: it has its benefits. But it will probabally always be limited to research/educational projects.
My point is that if I'm a CGI guy who needs cpu cycles today, it's cheaper to buy them myself then to farm them out to a third party. So long as Moore's law holds up, this will remain true. There's a study on this I can't find right now.
Is that for most intents and purposes, processor cycles are free.
If a company/organization has an *actual* need for processor cycles (say genome research), it's cheaper to buy 1000 boxes and admin the stuff in-house. Even when ignoring issues such as sending valuable company data to thousands of internet users, most applications that require large compuation also require large amounts of bandwidth, generally provided over a LAN.
This is why you'll never get to render a frame for Toy Story 5: Pixar will need to send you 5GB of data just to get back a 2k image.
Once you consider the costs of admining a network, writing/distributing your code, against having a tangible financial benefit from the results, few companies will have a reason to turn to outsiders for a few minutes on their machines.
You're ignoring the 'nut,' or the sum the theatre ganks out of the money pot before doing the splits (sometimes after, depending). This is about 2-5k/screen/week, depending upon the theatre/film/etc.
In the end, it works out that the movie theatre ends up with about half of the money you paid for the ticket. Not a bad profit margin.
This is an incredibly clever decision, akin the famous afformentioned Supreme court decision.
R vrs. W split the abortion camps. By supporting abortion in the first trimester of preganacy, but not in the third, the Court split what was then a black and white issue into a variety of splinter camps. (Is it illlegal 100 days in? 150?)
Similiarly, this decision will give pause to either group...no longer will people be forced to take the dissenting sides. Instead, Bush's middle ground holds a tempting arena for anybody sitting on the fence: suddenly, the two former either/or camps are exteremists and Bush the moderate.
I know one of the sysadmins here _think large private university in los angeles_ and he told me the other day they needed to install monitoring software on the Macs.
I politely asked him for more info: he told me that by requiring students to log into accounts to use the pc's, they already know everything we do on those machines: they were simply trying to spread their coverage to another os.
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There's a pref in iTunes that copies all mp3's you try to play to your local hard drive. Just turn it off and add the mp3's to your library. iTunes will play them fine off the server.
-asparagus
The reality of the matter is that IDE gets the new tech first. Advances in SCSI tech are largely limited to decreasing platter size to increase RPM to produce those low-latency beasts that are important in server farms.
Currently, it's IDE/ATA drives that receive the new tech you read about in the papers: pixie dust, etc.
The signifigantly larger market of ATA equipment ensures that this trend will only continue.
On another note, where's the 80GB * 4 platter drive? I want my 320GB, dammnit!
A 40GB/platter drive (4 platters = 160GB) has a density of 80 gigabits/inch.
So, @ 50 terabits/inch, you could have ~25TB/platter hard drives, or about 100TB in the same form factor as the current maxtors.
G'damn.
-asparagus
If you've got the ram, it'll run 'okay'. (That's a deliberately subjective word.)
;-)
It's a largely a matter of your workflow between the two OS's: scrolling/windows are slower, true, but having all the stability and SMP makes me much more efficient. (OSX: Set qt file to encoding, surf the web. OS9: Set file to encoding, go to sleep.)
My advice? Borrow a 10.2 cd from a friend here in a week and try it out. If you can't handle surfing with mozilla on your machine, you'll probabally go bonkers over time.
Of course, when we finally upgrade our hardware (I would, but my damn pismo just keeps on going and going) all these speed issues will be a thing of the past.
-asparagus
Any one of half a dozen rezes.
/. nerd, figure those 2^something's out!
Most Avid work is cutting video, i.e. you're cutting a low-res video copy of the film. You then take that video and go back to rematch the original film work to the cuts made with the video. This process is called negative cutting.
I'm assuming what you're referering to is special effects work and whatnot. This is generally done at 2k res, or 4k if it's appropriate (read: the producers are loaded).
2k = 2048 * something, depending on the format.
4k = you're a
-asparagui
So you saw XXX this weekend too?
-asparagui
The music's hidden in an invisible folder on iPod. Easiest way I've found to deal with the mess is drop into the terminal, navigate to that directory (/iPod_Control/Music) and then drop a good old cp -r F* (there's 20 F* folders in the directory).
Dump this to your HD, and you've got a pretty fast backup of your iPod.
Alternatively, there's apps that'll let you just copy only the mp3's your want. Go check out google for CopyPod.
-asparagui
Dah.
I just realized you meant inward. I belive the current research is to throw said object toward the Sun using gravity slingshots + some sort of rocket, then to use solar sails to slow things down and push you back out to your destination once you pass it up.
Solar sails are kinda more cool than useful, though. If we ever need to move tons of unmanned crap from earth to mars, they'll be useful, but for most missions an ion drive is better.
-asparagus
Interstellar tacking?
Actually, since the mass/velocities that can be moved by solar "sails" aren't that much, I believe they generally drag along a chem/ion motor of some type for both small/precise manuvering and as an emergency feature.
Sort of like having a motor in a canoe, just in case you drop the paddles overboard/don't want to row like mad to make it to the shore.
-asparagus
A good libertarian would tell you that getting his wife to the hospital is his responsibility, not the governments.
Likewise for the fire arguement.
-asparagus
I think you guys are going to be pleasantly surprised. The CGI is about the only fault I could find with the movie. It explores morals in a much more interesting way than any comic book movie I can remember, except perhaps Batman.
I really liked it. I may not be a die-hard Spidey fan, but I thought the film was intelligent and well done.
My $.02.
...and has so for the past 2000 years.
It's called a one-time pad.
So, before everybody and their brother starts talking about how the NSA can already break this, remember that you can, quite easily, build a 'uncrackable' cypher.
And it'll never be breakable, provided you take some sort of security measures. But if you're paranoid, you already do most of those.
Sorry, this is just a preemptive strike against 'the government can monitor my thoughts" crowd.
Back to your normal high S/N ratio.
The problem with this is that 9 out of 10 drugs never make any money.
I don't know. There may be problems with the current system, but the results are impressive. There's a reason that America leads the way in drug innovation, and I'm pretty sure it has something to do with those evils of capitalism.
The Human Genome project, a multinational behemoth, was expected to take 15-25 years and cost serveral billion dollars.
A single American company (Celera) did it in year and half for a few hundred million.
-Brett
Well, for starters, the movie age limit is a self-imposed restriction by the film companies/movie theatres themselves.
Used to be, local censorship boards would cut objectionable material out of the films before they would be allowed in theatres. Producers, understandably, didn't like this, so they inforced their own ratings system to keep the boards out.
So, this is different than movie theatres. However, the sale/rental of porn is limited by laws to adults. In that way, this is similar.
-Brett
Damn straight.
Disney may want all my money, but I have the feeling they'll try to show me a good time rather than simply bopping me over the head for it.
-asparagus
I've got no problem with research projects that use distributed computing. I myself run d.net and have thrown cycles to Seti@home and Genome@home. It's a great way to pick up free cpu cycles cheaply, if you've got the time.
However, there's half a dozen companies now that think they're going to make money off people using these programs for large projects.
The reality of the matter is, if d.net had to support itself financially, it'd get rid of it the internet users and stick to in-house boxes.
I'm not dissing distributed computing: it has its benefits. But it will probabally always be limited to research/educational projects.
My point is that if I'm a CGI guy who needs cpu cycles today, it's cheaper to buy them myself then to farm them out to a third party. So long as Moore's law holds up, this will remain true. There's a study on this I can't find right now.
Yes, but neither Seti@home nor d.net are making any money. They're largely research projects.
The companies looking to get into this are hoping to make money. I'm saying that's a bad business plan.
And yes, Pixar already passes about that much data. Large scenes/complicated renders can even go higher per-frame.
Is that for most intents and purposes, processor cycles are free.
If a company/organization has an *actual* need for processor cycles (say genome research), it's cheaper to buy 1000 boxes and admin the stuff in-house. Even when ignoring issues such as sending valuable company data to thousands of internet users, most applications that require large compuation also require large amounts of bandwidth, generally provided over a LAN.
This is why you'll never get to render a frame for Toy Story 5: Pixar will need to send you 5GB of data just to get back a 2k image.
Once you consider the costs of admining a network, writing/distributing your code, against having a tangible financial benefit from the results, few companies will have a reason to turn to outsiders for a few minutes on their machines.
I don't know music numbers. But I know film ones. I'm willing to guess they're similar.
50% -> movie theatre
25% -> exibitor (sony)
25% -> producers/makers of film
the producers/filmaker split is generally something on the order of 50% -> make movie, 25% -> actors/director/other splits, and 25% is profit.
Or, in other words, about 6% of your $10 movie ticket is profits for the guys who made the film. The lion's share is to the middlemen.
I'm willing to be there's similar numbers in the music industry.
But, if a divx movie is only 600MB, rather than 6GB, then we get to drop everything by a factor of 10.
8.4% of US bandwidth is movies?
Seems plausible.
You're ignoring the 'nut,' or the sum the theatre ganks out of the money pot before doing the splits (sometimes after, depending). This is about 2-5k/screen/week, depending upon the theatre/film/etc.
In the end, it works out that the movie theatre ends up with about half of the money you paid for the ticket. Not a bad profit margin.
This is an incredibly clever decision, akin the famous afformentioned Supreme court decision.
R vrs. W split the abortion camps. By supporting abortion in the first trimester of preganacy, but not in the third, the Court split what was then a black and white issue into a variety of splinter camps. (Is it illlegal 100 days in? 150?)
Similiarly, this decision will give pause to either group...no longer will people be forced to take the dissenting sides. Instead, Bush's middle ground holds a tempting arena for anybody sitting on the fence: suddenly, the two former either/or camps are exteremists and Bush the moderate.
Not so dumb, eh?
The DVR-A03 is currently $650 or so, $775 in a firewire config.
And DVD-R disks are $8.
gotta love www.pricewatch.com
I know one of the sysadmins here _think large private university in los angeles_ and he told me the other day they needed to install monitoring software on the Macs.
I politely asked him for more info: he told me that by requiring students to log into accounts to use the pc's, they already know everything we do on those machines: they were simply trying to spread their coverage to another os.
Sigh.
You don't build a house starting with a large block of concrete - you use bricks.
Without being too impolite, you do build a house starting with a large slab of concrete. You put bricks on top of that.