Actually the Real3D DLP projector are already running at 144fps for 72fps for each eye. Unfortunately if you want to get rid of motion issues you need a source with more than 24 fps. This is what had been done by Showscan: the result was amazing. As capturing motion at more than 24 fps is resource consuming and will probably introduce issues to downgrade to consumer mediums I doubt there will be any change in this direction before long.
So by removing it from public sources, are they thereby impacting at least some people's ability to get salt (IE those that do not eat much at home) and hence endangering them?
Simple. You'll get a prescription from your doctor and you'll get it at your local drugstore. Of course it'll costs 10000 times the current price but nothing is too good to help your fellow citizens health (and the pharmacetic company).
Good think to do however when the PC World did not accept to repair the laptop it would have been a good idea to get the manager explaination in writting. Nothing fancy, just plain facts: computer has screen cracks but cannot be repaired as the operating system has been changed. Be prepared to say in the store a little bit more than you expected however.
At any rate I really recommend to remove the hard drive as I just had my Nokia E65 repaired for a microphone problem and the #@$* did erase the whole phone memory. So it may not be unexpected to have the original OS reinstalled even during the fix for a mechanical problem.
Well you're partly right however this is only a consequence on the press release. I'm sorry but 320x200 on a 5 inch screen is really far from "paper-like" viewing. Laser printing got a par with classical printing when it reached 600dpi. So I doubt you can get "paper-like" without at least 300dpi and a really high contrast.
Also interesting for the thin, flexible and "no need to maintain power" part, the displayed prototype on have 80dpi resolution and AFAIK a really poor constrast. So I don't want to bash new technology but the step need to go from the prototype to actual paper-like display if really beyond engineering issues.
i think there's a decent-size market of businessmen [...]
When the Concorde returned to commercial service after the crash many customers find out they can live without it. Knowing that the oil price is likely to keep rising in the forthcoming years will there really be enough customers ready to pay, I doubt it.
According to the article the XRays are weak enough no to penetrate the skin (that's probably the system flaw). Anyway this looks like a simplification meant to prevent people from being afraid of the health implication of the process. I'm pretty sure that the XRays will penetrate the very superficial layers of the skin before being absorbed or reflected. The XRays amount will be probably harmless if you fly once a year to see your grand parents but what will be the effect on frequent flyers passing through the process several time a week?
Actually, no it wouldn't work. Not for a well-designed system anyways. As long as the initial download of the app occurs via an SSL connection, you can send as many public keys with the app as you choose.
To be secure this requires the server to provide a certificate signed by a trusted third party (like Versign et al as you said). However setting this kind of protocol in a P2P system will requires every potential user to get a certificate from a truted authority. That's compilcated for the average Joe User and expensive. Setting up a free certification authority won't help as this authority will probably not be able to check the requester identity's before issuing a certificate.
Even worse, setting up this system will make things easier for ??AAs. The certificates will probably carry identify information (for instance Thawte free certificate are based on verified email address), so ZZAA will just have to hook a computer to a P2P network, try to download the lastest hype movie/tune/whatever and will get a nice list of potential victims.
If you're not a pro graphic designer, you only need the features in Photoshop Elements--and that's $99, so you can afford it.
Which, unfortunately is false. I'm not a pro graphic designer and I scan my own slides to print them on a decent printer and when I have to deal with a badly over/underexposed slide, I need 48bits image which Photoshop Elements does not provide (at least version 2.0).
I do understand that Canon may not have any OSS drivers under Linux but you should probably had a look before and see that Epson & HP do really have a better support under Linux.I own a Stylus photo pro 2100 (2200 in US) and it really rocks with the dev version of GimpPrint. In some points (CD printing for instance), the OSS driver is waaaaay better that the Windows version supplied by Epson.
One big difference between an elevator and a car is that the first one runs in a private space while the second one runs in a public space. So an elevator has no need to aquire information on the surrounding environment and has few decision to make. On the other hand, a car has to be aware of the environment and has many decision to make (change lane, stop if a child or an elephant is crossing, etc.). Look at last Darpa's challenge: the qualification results were so pathetic that Darpa eventually allow every vehicule to run the actual race and in that race no vehicule run more the 7 miles. Furthermore, the environment was far more easy that a highway/city during peak hours.
Is this a free-to-all? Or just free-to-camera-developers so we can force user to use photoshop or license from Adobe?
Looking at Adobe's history on postscript & pdf format I guess we should reasonably expect this new format's spec to be free (as beer) and usable by everyone
FLAC would be nice (and easy to add, since decoding it is all cheap integer ops), but the bitrate of the files is so high that the device would need to keep its hard drive spinning the whole time in order to play them
On my Rio Karma, playing flac makes the hd spin about 5 seconds every minute. However it is probably a lot more than when playing a 64kpbs vorbis.
You're right but that's not really my point. Both digital and film are plagued by the preservation of the physical support: you outline pretty well the problem with film and/. readers have probably heard of glue problem in double layer DVDs, fading dyes on DVD-R, etc.
But if you are lucky enough to find a film in pretty good shape you could always learn something by simply looking at the backlit frames while you'll have to build a player to know the slightest thing about the digital media.
Secondly I'm pretty sure DVD media degrades from bacteria slower than film degrades from sitting around in cans.
Well I guess you are talking about real DVD not DVD-R which seems to degrage themselves faster than bacterias can do. However in the digital archival process saving the media is only one part of the problem and you also have to deal with: being able to do something with the media. If you find a 100 years old film sitting in an attic you'll be able to watch it pretty easily while I doubt you'll be able to do anything beside a decorative object of a 8" floppy disk, a 2" video tape or a vintage computer tape reel. So how will it be for a DVD 50 years from now?
Another interesting point of the interview is the constreversy about the fidelity of the digitized version. Even Lowry admit that he could do a better restoration of Citizen Kane now that he has done a few years ago. Now if the digitized master has to become the "original" how could new improvments in film restoration technology applied again?
I'd say the one with the laserdisc as the one who said the line may be under a contract or whatever preventing him from telling the truth: have you ever noticed how many "wonderful" directors have been working with "incredible" actresses/actors according to the DVD bonuses, no conflict, no hard work, only fun. Come on, a movie is a project involving tight delays, big budgets, etc. it cannot be Disneyland as the DVD bonuses are trying to tell. So I'm pretty sure that the actors' contract include a part preventing them from telling certain things.
Beside this line have been said in 1977, about 30 years ago.
At first is seems fair to say that the Flash device will replace the hard drives the same way the LCD is starting to take over CRT displays. However there were many issues with the CRT such as space needed on a desk or the weight of large units (I used to work in simulation center for flight control and we need a hydraulic device to move the 2Kx2K CRT displays). Those limitations where really plaguing many users for a long time and and dispite the manufacturers attempts where not corrected.
On the HD side I don't see any problem that will lead a significant amount of users to go for the flash technology: hd are less noisy than there used to be, they tend to be more and more able to sustain shocks, are inexpensive and keep increasing capacity every year.
As someone said, the flash devices are a lot more cheaper than there used to be meanwhile, the same thing was happening to hard drives. So if both media continue to get cheaper in the same proportions there won't be any impact for the users.
The main difference between movie and the wedding photograph is that the wedding photograph have to reflect reality while the movie does not. For instance a scene is supposed to happen early in the morning but you were not able to shot it before 11 so you'll have to create a fake white balance. Also when a scene is made of several shots it's usual that these shots came from different takes. So when putting everything together you'll have to be sure that everything match, hence more color correction.
I think that recording the sound on the original camera negative will be a lose of flexibility as you will no longer be able to check the sound recording immediatly after the take but have to wait to the dailies on the next day.
Beside you cannot record the sound "in sync" with the images (the lens, masks, etc, leave you no space to put a device to record sound) so you'll have an offset between the image and the corresponding sound (in analog audio prints the sound for a specific frame is recorded 27 frames before) so when editing the film you'll certainly experiment a lot of pain trying to remove or add the same time slice for both image and sound.
Another dimension I hope projects like this expand into is capturing a much higher dynamic range of the color information stored on the film.
Since the scan is on the untimed camera negative rather than a timed print there is little chance that it uses a 24 or 32 bits depth. "Talking" of untimed negative the article completetly forget to mention that the raw scan will be pretty unwatchable and need a lengthy color timing process. There is a bonus in the Seven 2 DVDs edition showing how the scanned camera negative had been (re)timed for the DVD. In few words, it's long and need a highly qualified technician to do the work.
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Actually the Real3D DLP projector are already running at 144fps for 72fps for each eye. Unfortunately if you want to get rid of motion issues you need a source with more than 24 fps. This is what had been done by Showscan: the result was amazing. As capturing motion at more than 24 fps is resource consuming and will probably introduce issues to downgrade to consumer mediums I doubt there will be any change in this direction before long.
So by removing it from public sources, are they thereby impacting at least some people's ability to get salt (IE those that do not eat much at home) and hence endangering them?
Simple. You'll get a prescription from your doctor and you'll get it at your local drugstore. Of course it'll costs 10000 times the current price but nothing is too good to help your fellow citizens health (and the pharmacetic company).
Good think to do however when the PC World did not accept to repair the laptop it would have been a good idea to get the manager explaination in writting. Nothing fancy, just plain facts: computer has screen cracks but cannot be repaired as the operating system has been changed. Be prepared to say in the store a little bit more than you expected however.
At any rate I really recommend to remove the hard drive as I just had my Nokia E65 repaired for a microphone problem and the #@$* did erase the whole phone memory. So it may not be unexpected to have the original OS reinstalled even during the fix for a mechanical problem.
Well you're partly right however this is only a consequence on the press release. I'm sorry but 320x200 on a 5 inch screen is really far from "paper-like" viewing. Laser printing got a par with classical printing when it reached 600dpi. So I doubt you can get "paper-like" without at least 300dpi and a really high contrast.
Also interesting for the thin, flexible and "no need to maintain power" part, the displayed prototype on have 80dpi resolution and AFAIK a really poor constrast. So I don't want to bash new technology but the step need to go from the prototype to actual paper-like display if really beyond engineering issues.
Now the next step. As the super market can track your habits through your credit cards can get a prefilled cart just by walkin in the store.
i think there's a decent-size market of businessmen [...]
When the Concorde returned to commercial service after the crash many customers find out they can live without it. Knowing that the oil price is likely to keep rising in the forthcoming years will there really be enough customers ready to pay, I doubt it.
According to the article the XRays are weak enough no to penetrate the skin (that's probably the system flaw). Anyway this looks like a simplification meant to prevent people from being afraid of the health implication of the process. I'm pretty sure that the XRays will penetrate the very superficial layers of the skin before being absorbed or reflected. The XRays amount will be probably harmless if you fly once a year to see your grand parents but what will be the effect on frequent flyers passing through the process several time a week?
Actually, no it wouldn't work. Not for a well-designed system anyways. As long as the initial download of the app occurs via an SSL connection, you can send as many public keys with the app as you choose.
To be secure this requires the server to provide a certificate signed by a trusted third party (like Versign et al as you said). However setting this kind of protocol in a P2P system will requires every potential user to get a certificate from a truted authority. That's compilcated for the average Joe User and expensive. Setting up a free certification authority won't help as this authority will probably not be able to check the requester identity's before issuing a certificate.
Even worse, setting up this system will make things easier for ??AAs. The certificates will probably carry identify information (for instance Thawte free certificate are based on verified email address), so ZZAA will just have to hook a computer to a P2P network, try to download the lastest hype movie/tune/whatever and will get a nice list of potential victims.
If you're not a pro graphic designer, you only need the features in Photoshop Elements--and that's $99, so you can afford it.
Which, unfortunately is false. I'm not a pro graphic designer and I scan my own slides to print them on a decent printer and when I have to deal with a badly over/underexposed slide, I need 48bits image which Photoshop Elements does not provide (at least version 2.0).
Don't forget that Napster going out of business or not, this is probably an offense under the DMCA.
I do understand that Canon may not have any OSS drivers under Linux but you should probably had a look before and see that Epson & HP do really have a better support under Linux.I own a Stylus photo pro 2100 (2200 in US) and it really rocks with the dev version of GimpPrint. In some points (CD printing for instance), the OSS driver is waaaaay better that the Windows version supplied by Epson.
One big difference between an elevator and a car is that the first one runs in a private space while the second one runs in a public space. So an elevator has no need to aquire information on the surrounding environment and has few decision to make. On the other hand, a car has to be aware of the environment and has many decision to make (change lane, stop if a child or an elephant is crossing, etc.). Look at last Darpa's challenge: the qualification results were so pathetic that Darpa eventually allow every vehicule to run the actual race and in that race no vehicule run more the 7 miles. Furthermore, the environment was far more easy that a highway/city during peak hours.
Is this a free-to-all? Or just free-to-camera-developers so we can force user to use photoshop or license from Adobe?
Looking at Adobe's history on postscript & pdf format I guess we should reasonably expect this new format's spec to be free (as beer) and usable by everyone
FLAC would be nice (and easy to add, since decoding it is all cheap integer ops), but the bitrate of the files is so high that the device would need to keep its hard drive spinning the whole time in order to play them
On my Rio Karma, playing flac makes the hd spin about 5 seconds every minute. However it is probably a lot more than when playing a 64kpbs vorbis.
You're right but that's not really my point. Both digital and film are plagued by the preservation of the physical support: you outline pretty well the problem with film and /. readers have probably heard of glue problem in double layer DVDs, fading dyes on DVD-R, etc.
But if you are lucky enough to find a film in pretty good shape you could always learn something by simply looking at the backlit frames while you'll have to build a player to know the slightest thing about the digital media.
Secondly I'm pretty sure DVD media degrades from bacteria slower than film degrades from sitting around in cans.
Well I guess you are talking about real DVD not DVD-R which seems to degrage themselves faster than bacterias can do. However in the digital archival process saving the media is only one part of the problem and you also have to deal with: being able to do something with the media. If you find a 100 years old film sitting in an attic you'll be able to watch it pretty easily while I doubt you'll be able to do anything beside a decorative object of a 8" floppy disk, a 2" video tape or a vintage computer tape reel. So how will it be for a DVD 50 years from now?
Another interesting point of the interview is the constreversy about the fidelity of the digitized version. Even Lowry admit that he could do a better restoration of Citizen Kane now that he has done a few years ago. Now if the digitized master has to become the "original" how could new improvments in film restoration technology applied again?
I'd say the one with the laserdisc as the one who said the line may be under a contract or whatever preventing him from telling the truth: have you ever noticed how many "wonderful" directors have been working with "incredible" actresses/actors according to the DVD bonuses, no conflict, no hard work, only fun. Come on, a movie is a project involving tight delays, big budgets, etc. it cannot be Disneyland as the DVD bonuses are trying to tell. So I'm pretty sure that the actors' contract include a part preventing them from telling certain things.
Beside this line have been said in 1977, about 30 years ago.
At first is seems fair to say that the Flash device will replace the hard drives the same way the LCD is starting to take over CRT displays. However there were many issues with the CRT such as space needed on a desk or the weight of large units (I used to work in simulation center for flight control and we need a hydraulic device to move the 2Kx2K CRT displays). Those limitations where really plaguing many users for a long time and and dispite the manufacturers attempts where not corrected.
On the HD side I don't see any problem that will lead a significant amount of users to go for the flash technology: hd are less noisy than there used to be, they tend to be more and more able to sustain shocks, are inexpensive and keep increasing capacity every year.
As someone said, the flash devices are a lot more cheaper than there used to be meanwhile, the same thing was happening to hard drives. So if both media continue to get cheaper in the same proportions there won't be any impact for the users.
I'm not inside the place but I doubt that Windows it managed as a sensitive gouvernment software at Microsoft.
The camera has some intersting features for film flatness but this is really the only innovation.
Well not quite actually since Imax is using something similar to ensure film flatness on Imax projector and I guess cameras.
The main difference between movie and the wedding photograph is that the wedding photograph have to reflect reality while the movie does not. For instance a scene is supposed to happen early in the morning but you were not able to shot it before 11 so you'll have to create a fake white balance. Also when a scene is made of several shots it's usual that these shots came from different takes. So when putting everything together you'll have to be sure that everything match, hence more color correction.
I think that recording the sound on the original camera negative will be a lose of flexibility as you will no longer be able to check the sound recording immediatly after the take but have to wait to the dailies on the next day.
Beside you cannot record the sound "in sync" with the images (the lens, masks, etc, leave you no space to put a device to record sound) so you'll have an offset between the image and the corresponding sound (in analog audio prints the sound for a specific frame is recorded 27 frames before) so when editing the film you'll certainly experiment a lot of pain trying to remove or add the same time slice for both image and sound.
The sound have been on print since the late 1920s with the exception of some format like Cinerama or more recently LC-Concept of DTS.
Anyway we are talking of scanning camera negative and the sound had never been on the camera negative.
Another dimension I hope projects like this expand into is capturing a much higher dynamic range of the color information stored on the film.
Since the scan is on the untimed camera negative rather than a timed print there is little chance that it uses a 24 or 32 bits depth. "Talking" of untimed negative the article completetly forget to mention that the raw scan will be pretty unwatchable and need a lengthy color timing process. There is a bonus in the Seven 2 DVDs edition showing how the scanned camera negative had been (re)timed for the DVD. In few words, it's long and need a highly qualified technician to do the work.