my bad, it was stupid O'Clock when I was reading this. There's a link to a chain transfer service somewhere around, I had a look at that earlier, they charge something like $20 per tape-hour and upload to SD-DVD - citing the "What the hell is the point of transferring lower-than-broadcast-in-any-light to HD?" justification for doing so.
To the AC who tried to poo-poo my earlier suggestion of capturing in SD because WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT OF CAPTURING IN HD?, THIS IS WHY NOT.
I'm not sure who makes them, but they do look like a lot of fun for the dextrously inclined (I prefer Basic-compatible LEGO and traditional steel Meccano), and the end result is usually something that walks, beeps, rolls and/or shoots soft projectiles.
it kicks the snot out of the loadtime for the rest of the page as it seems to want to buffer the entire fucking stream first, I tend to go find myself another source. If slashdot ever decided to pull this shit, I'd go find a privately hosted nerd site. Or build my own. With blackjack and hookers.
you're talking telecine which captures at ~600dpi for 8mm, ~3K-5K for 35mm and 70mm *film*, this is transfer from *tape* which unlike film has hard specified limits.
VHS at source is 576x320 (PAL I specification). Analogue broadcast limit is 768x576 (again, PAL I). MiniDV is 720x480 which is plenty for a VHS rip, in fact you'd be introducing noise as the system interpolates pixels. My experienced advice: use the napkin max for VHS, which is as mentioned 576x320 at 25fps or 480x320/30 (NTSC) through component, or 352x288 (either system) through composite. As you're digital from that point on, the only thing that's going to degrade image quality is transitioning and complex CGFX.
Short of it is, you are not going to get HDDVD quality (720p) output from a domestic VHS rip even if you use the most expensive gear you can get your hands on linked with solid gold and oxygen free cables. In fact, the best quality VHS rip you're going to get is doable with a Pentium III laptop and a KWorld composite dongle.
I'll bite: my personal space in this context is in a state of violation when $dickhead's head is in my lap. This is why I don't fly commercial. Hell, I don't roll coach if I can help it, they've got even less room - 39 people squashed into a forty one foot tube. I think that's about 30 inches between seat backs, taking off the space at the front, the drivers pod and the shithouse. When I travel, I have leg room to sprawl, head room to stretch without pissing anyone else off, or I don't travel. On a train, that's a table seat in first or standard class, or a cabin on an overnight. Comfort first, there's no fucking excuse for sacrificing ergonomics to shave a few bucks, if you can afford to travel you can afford to do it safely.
It's doable, and it doesn't break the bank doing it.
carried on as normal, since such a vector would result in the asteroid passing through our wake. The ones you want to worry about are the ones that intersect at a point in the future, our orbital path where we're going to be at the same time as that intersection occurs.
How about what VAT was originally intended for - to replace tax on income with tax on expenditure? Only, someone forgot to repeal income tax. Double whammy.
Tax on expenditure is fair because it does not discriminate. A flat 20% on everything *at the point of sale* would pay for ALL public services with no need for any other levies. Period.
Speaking as a nerd with similar social issues to Sheldon (and I can well sympathise with him in this respect): escapism is the sanctity of the genius from the humdrum and the mass stupidity that threatens to slow progress even further, to the point where it starts going backward again, history is rewritten again and we wake up one morning to "Ow! My Balls!" and Gatorade on tap.
Yes, folks, it is my contention that the movie Idiocracy isn't a cautionary tale or merely a black comedy, it's dire warning of where we are headed if we don't die in nuclear fire.
you're absolutely right, give the contract to one of Germany's most established data management houses (IBM or Siemens. In case you missed it, they did the counting in the death camps during WWII).
ooh, almost funny:) A virgin sample of lava, as described in the same documentary, is one which has not been contaminated by contact with terrestrial regolith. It is thought to contain if not predominantly then exclusively, the same chemical composition as Earth during its Hadean Phase (when the crust was still molten).
National Geographic, "Man Vs. Volcano", part of the Explorer series which aired in 2010. A team of explorers descended three steppes into the mouth of Nyiragongo and took a virgin sample from the world's largest lava lake. When you've seen that show... this is kinda tame.
great idea, unfortunately GCMS requires intimate proximity of sample to sensor to function. The laser is just there to vapourise the sample so the sensor can actually read it.
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my bad, it was stupid O'Clock when I was reading this. There's a link to a chain transfer service somewhere around, I had a look at that earlier, they charge something like $20 per tape-hour and upload to SD-DVD - citing the "What the hell is the point of transferring lower-than-broadcast-in-any-light to HD?" justification for doing so.
To the AC who tried to poo-poo my earlier suggestion of capturing in SD because WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT OF CAPTURING IN HD?, THIS IS WHY NOT.
I'm not sure who makes them, but they do look like a lot of fun for the dextrously inclined (I prefer Basic-compatible LEGO and traditional steel Meccano), and the end result is usually something that walks, beeps, rolls and/or shoots soft projectiles.
it kicks the snot out of the loadtime for the rest of the page as it seems to want to buffer the entire fucking stream first, I tend to go find myself another source. If slashdot ever decided to pull this shit, I'd go find a privately hosted nerd site. Or build my own. With blackjack and hookers.
you're talking telecine which captures at ~600dpi for 8mm, ~3K-5K for 35mm and 70mm *film*, this is transfer from *tape* which unlike film has hard specified limits.
VHS at source is 576x320 (PAL I specification). Analogue broadcast limit is 768x576 (again, PAL I). MiniDV is 720x480 which is plenty for a VHS rip, in fact you'd be introducing noise as the system interpolates pixels. My experienced advice: use the napkin max for VHS, which is as mentioned 576x320 at 25fps or 480x320/30 (NTSC) through component, or 352x288 (either system) through composite. As you're digital from that point on, the only thing that's going to degrade image quality is transitioning and complex CGFX.
Short of it is, you are not going to get HDDVD quality (720p) output from a domestic VHS rip even if you use the most expensive gear you can get your hands on linked with solid gold and oxygen free cables. In fact, the best quality VHS rip you're going to get is doable with a Pentium III laptop and a KWorld composite dongle.
::spudhead:: GPP said San Francisco, not North Haverbrook. :D
I'll bite: my personal space in this context is in a state of violation when $dickhead's head is in my lap. This is why I don't fly commercial. Hell, I don't roll coach if I can help it, they've got even less room - 39 people squashed into a forty one foot tube. I think that's about 30 inches between seat backs, taking off the space at the front, the drivers pod and the shithouse. When I travel, I have leg room to sprawl, head room to stretch without pissing anyone else off, or I don't travel. On a train, that's a table seat in first or standard class, or a cabin on an overnight. Comfort first, there's no fucking excuse for sacrificing ergonomics to shave a few bucks, if you can afford to travel you can afford to do it safely.
It's doable, and it doesn't break the bank doing it.
and this is what happens. Survival 101: you do not violate my personal space. EVER.
carried on as normal, since such a vector would result in the asteroid passing through our wake. The ones you want to worry about are the ones that intersect at a point in the future, our orbital path where we're going to be at the same time as that intersection occurs.
"...causing about ten Dollars worth of damage."
How about what VAT was originally intended for - to replace tax on income with tax on expenditure? Only, someone forgot to repeal income tax. Double whammy.
Tax on expenditure is fair because it does not discriminate. A flat 20% on everything *at the point of sale* would pay for ALL public services with no need for any other levies. Period.
let me guess: a BIOS flash that disabled the red LED switch?
I've reliably triggered an invalid page BSoD in Windows 7 by running a 32-bit process in more than 4GB of memory space.
Kerbal Space Program for the win.
uh... begpardon?
because Fox are making a fucking fortune in syndication?
Do you, or are you aware of any writers who, take any plot, line or "science" ideas from Slashdot for TBBT?
Speaking as a nerd with similar social issues to Sheldon (and I can well sympathise with him in this respect): escapism is the sanctity of the genius from the humdrum and the mass stupidity that threatens to slow progress even further, to the point where it starts going backward again, history is rewritten again and we wake up one morning to "Ow! My Balls!" and Gatorade on tap.
Yes, folks, it is my contention that the movie Idiocracy isn't a cautionary tale or merely a black comedy, it's dire warning of where we are headed if we don't die in nuclear fire.
or more likely, "*would like* some Sheldon in you."
</blatant_gay_joke>
They're the ones who you can hear laughing over everyone else - first to start, last to finish.
you're absolutely right, give the contract to one of Germany's most established data management houses (IBM or Siemens. In case you missed it, they did the counting in the death camps during WWII).
This! Oh, $Deity, this!
*Won't somebody please think of the rocks!?
ooh, almost funny :) A virgin sample of lava, as described in the same documentary, is one which has not been contaminated by contact with terrestrial regolith. It is thought to contain if not predominantly then exclusively, the same chemical composition as Earth during its Hadean Phase (when the crust was still molten).
National Geographic, "Man Vs. Volcano", part of the Explorer series which aired in 2010. A team of explorers descended three steppes into the mouth of Nyiragongo and took a virgin sample from the world's largest lava lake. When you've seen that show... this is kinda tame.
great idea, unfortunately GCMS requires intimate proximity of sample to sensor to function. The laser is just there to vapourise the sample so the sensor can actually read it.
yep. We'll send up the world's best drilling team.