This is an inaccurate description of interlaced video.
Television is an interlaced system, each fram is made up of two fields. Essentially when displaying a frame the tv first draws all the odd lines, then draws all the even lines.
The reason for this is to create the effect of a higher frame rate. There are effectively 60 frames per second of interlaced NTSC video (or 50 of PAL). Each of these fields (upper or lower) contains half of the lines of image.
While interlaced video provides from spatial resolution, by sampling the whole CCD per frame, it looses temporial resolution by having effectively half the frame rate.
Camera wise, as a professional television editor, I would recommend a Panasonic AG-DVX100 (research progressive scan before making a decision) or the Sony PD170. The VX2100 is not much cheaper than the PD170, but lacks some of the features (esspecially audio wise) that the PD170 offers.
As a random plug, check out the 48 Hour Film I directed about a month ago:
The Sceptre Of MacGuffin
The point with PHP is that it was designed, from the ground up, for web programming. It is optimised for this and the vast majority of the tools within it (with the obvious exceptions of the Ncurses functions and PHP-GTK) are designed with this in mind.
I personally don't think PHPs adoption as an all around scripting language is a good thing as it will result in PHP becoming less focused on web applications and more of a general scripting language.
We don't need every programming language to do everything. I know it is simple for people as they only need to stay current with one language, but I think that various languages have their strengths and they should not be diluted by being applied to every possible application.
Of course, that is just my opinion, and people are more than welcome to make PHP shell scripts, or GTK apps for that mattter.
It was an abstract calculation, involving the fact that the item (in this case, a 625MB data archive) moved a certain distance (12,272KM) in a specific period of time (13 seconds).
Assuming the speed was linear, then in an hour it would have moved 3,398,400 Kilometers.
FCP is very heavily in use already, especially in TV News environments and for the creation of TVCs.
A friend of mine is a professional online editor, he has been editing television on Avid MediaComposer and Xpress for at least three years now, but has recently picked up a job at a company doing high-end TVC work with FCP. They made the switch big time, retired their old Avid MC to the sidelines as an offline suite and do all their final edits with FCP, After Effects and Combustion.
It's also making it's way into a number of the local TV production houses as they start to look at doing more editing in-house rather than paying $300/hr for an Avid online suite.
Personally, I much prefer editing on FCP to Avid now, the interface is a little more natural and it just seems to flow better.
Not really, although there are heaps of editing sites (think EditDot) - I am currently editing a 90-minute DV feature film for a festival on my G3-400 with Final Cut Pro 2.0 and I chose that over the other options available to be (being Adobe Premiere on a Mac or PC, Avid Media Composer on a custom-made IBM IntelliStation or Avid DVExpress on a high-end AMD system).
Final Cut Pro is amazing when you consider it comes from a company who have never really ventured into this sort of product previously.
Actually, by dialling the number you are performing the work. That is a deffinate infrigement.
Also, the fact that the timings are different when you actually dial it won't help you either. Recording artists have sucessfully attacked people using the same sequences of notes (which is silly because it is fairly finite).
A while ago I was talking to the regional manager of Adobe in my country, I was frank about my usage of pirated software - I pointed out that I had pirate Photoshop 3, learned to use it, become a designer and demanded my employer purchase 4.0, 5.0, and 5.5 - From one lost sale Adobe gained three legitimate ones.
He told me that the company was aware of this, and generally didn't take a hard line against home users, but at the same time they clearly couldn't be seen to promote that either, or no one would buy everything.
If there was not pirated software, it is nice to think that perhaps Windows would cost 1/2 as much, however it probably wouldn't. It is a circular arguement, the software companies claim prices are high because of piracy, pirates claim they do it because prices are two high.
"When one seeks answers when none exist, it's understandable to extend blame," [school district Superintendent John] Fitzsimons said.
Turn the situation around however and it is music, movies, computer games and a lack of interest in sports that is at fault for anything a dejected teen does.
I have a script I have been running for over a year, that fetches a remote pages, MD5s it, compares the MD5 to the last one, if it's different it save the page and updates the stored MD5, otherwise it drops the page.
Is this prior art? I was developing a small script or two to do this with arbitary pages, do I have to stop now?
Clearly people aren't being teased for being depressed per se, but depression manifests itself physically. Depressed people are often more withdrawn (which makes them stand out for not being 'involved'), and more importantly are sensative to teasing and bullying. They respond.
If you have ever bullied or been bullied, you know that it's all done for the response, if someone seems not to hear the bullying or doesn't react, the bully loses interest, they aren't a good target anymore. Someone who is depressive or has low self-esteem reacts in the 'best' way possible, they are visibly affected by what they are subjected to, in fact with any luck they cry, that is paydirt! Then it becomes a recurring cycle. The more they react, the more they are bullied. The more they are bullied, they more depressed they become.
Kids suffering from depression are really hard to deal with - think about it, up until 5 or 6 you were a carefree kid, you played in the dirt and did what you wanted.
Then comes school, it's a fairly hard transition, but early schooling isn't too hard, the little groups haven't formed yet, and it's still kinda fun.
You're about eight now, it's getting more difficult, school isn't fun anymore, it's work, and there is presure to conform -- to be cool.
Now, hear is where it happens, at about 10, you are either 'in' or you aren't. If you are not, it's probably because (at least for the people on/.) you are a geek.
Depending on your environment it heads in one of two ways...
1) You don't take it to heart, you find your own friends, with similar interests and the rest of them can be damned.
2) You start to feel ashamed of being different, you become sensitive to the opinions of others in this matter, you try to fit in, but get knocked back all the way.
If you take the second path it is a lot harder to stay strong and maintain your will. If you look up to others, who in turn ridicule you, you're going to be shattered.
I have been through this, I started on the second path, but realised soon enough that it was simply making me unhappy. I had enough self-confidence to follow my own desires, be damned what anyone else thinks.
In New Zealand, where I live, guns are more tightly controlled, hand guns are nearly impossible to get and assult weapons are all but illegal. We don't have school shootings.
We do however have the second highest teenage suicide rate in the world.
School for me was hell, at least once I discovered there was more to life that sports. I stopped fitting in to the cool group and was immediately at the bottom of the food chain.
I count myself incredible lucky to be very strong willed and have good self-esteem, because otherwise I would have been destroyed by school.
The claim in the email that 8000 'Jedis' would make it an official religion is not true. The census does not determine that sort of thing.
Also, based on my conversations with people at the Department os Statistics, they will not break down the indiviual write-ins for "Other" they will just be accounted for as "Other".
I have played with LaTeX and would agree it is very powerful... However if you believe the 'future technologists' we are all heading toward XML anyhow.
As we all know we don't always end up with the best standard, and it's very hard to introduce new standards (Beta vs. VHS?). LaTeX has a lot going for it, but HTML has the biggest thing of all - Billions of webpages already out there.
Given the trouble browser makers seem to have with meeting the current standards I am not sure I would like to see them tackle two standards.
And besides, I already know HTML inside out, I don't want to have to learn another markup:)
The Southern Cross Cable also connects New Zealand to the US (and Australia). It is a great relief, when our existing connections were high latency and not always the most reliable.
Actually this is more of an NZ thing than an Australian thing, the majority of the Southern Cross company is owned by NZ Telecom... But the Aussies are taking credit, just like they did for Crowded House and Russell Crowe... Bastards!
The R in a circle represents a registered tradmark, protecting the product (in this case "1-Click") and the marks (logo and devices etc). In has nothing what-so-ever to do with a patent. It does however mean if some does a similar thing they will have to come with the a name that is not 'confusingly similar'.
I searched on the IBM patent search and found no relevant patent from apple.
According to the specs it supports IDE (one chain or two, depending on the model) so you could put drives in it, but if you aren't into the drive thing... The DiskOnChip also goes up to 144MB which is enough to at least get BSD and BeOS going, and a careful install of Windows and some basic apps should fit too...
The history of the New Zealand Police when it come to technology is not great. They have engaged in a few misdirected efforts to police the net in the past with little success. While I support the idea that police should be able to obtain warrants for e-mail the same as they do with phones, this article concerns me a little as it seems the same protections won't be applied to this.
It is indeed a Cobalt Qube... I was recently at a trade show where both devices were on display at different booths. There is no visible difference (aside from colour). The Gateway one was retailing for quite a lot more however. Basic details about the Qube are here and the details about the Gateway Micro Server can be found here.
Me being the dumb-ass I am didn't read the article properly before posting -- In this case it seem the Australian government is trying to extend it's domain name control out of the.au gTLD - OF course an easy way to avoid that one would think is to register them through an off-shore holding company of something, where the Australian courts have no control.
Having dealt a bit with domain registration in Australia, this is hardly surprising to me. They are a little up-tight it would seem, at least compared to.com and.nz - There are many restrictions on who can have what domains in Australia, most notably the requirement that the applicant have an ACN (Australian Company Number) or ABRN (Australian Business Registration Number, I think) and that the name must be directly related to the company (i.e. the company's name or an accronym of it). Also, each commercial entity can have only one domain name, so much for covering misspellings etc... Also, you can't have a domain name that is the same as (or derived from) an Australian place name (this includes suburbs etc). Oh yes, and generic terms, which is, I assume, the rule that is responsible for there being no 'internet.com.au'...
Although the first-come-first-served basis employed in many other places is somewhat open to abuse, it also seems to beter serve it's market.
Basically, I consider myself a Geek. Nerd has always seemed more the socially inept version of a geek. You know, the stereo-typical brill-creamed hair, pocket protector, nasal voise and plastic-framed glasses held together with a band-aid. The geek has the technical know-how, but the sort who has some sort dress sense, and likes to go out occasionally (and doesn't get kicked out of the parties). Watch 'Revenge of the Nerds'.
There are also sub-species of geek and nerd. I am a Computer and Video geek.
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This is an inaccurate description of interlaced video.
Television is an interlaced system, each fram is made up of two fields. Essentially when displaying a frame the tv first draws all the odd lines, then draws all the even lines.
The reason for this is to create the effect of a higher frame rate. There are effectively 60 frames per second of interlaced NTSC video (or 50 of PAL). Each of these fields (upper or lower) contains half of the lines of image.
While interlaced video provides from spatial resolution, by sampling the whole CCD per frame, it looses temporial resolution by having effectively half the frame rate.
Camera wise, as a professional television editor, I would recommend a Panasonic AG-DVX100 (research progressive scan before making a decision) or the Sony PD170. The VX2100 is not much cheaper than the PD170, but lacks some of the features (esspecially audio wise) that the PD170 offers.
As a random plug, check out the 48 Hour Film I directed about a month ago: The Sceptre Of MacGuffin
The point with PHP is that it was designed, from the ground up, for web programming. It is optimised for this and the vast majority of the tools within it (with the obvious exceptions of the Ncurses functions and PHP-GTK) are designed with this in mind.
I personally don't think PHPs adoption as an all around scripting language is a good thing as it will result in PHP becoming less focused on web applications and more of a general scripting language.
We don't need every programming language to do everything. I know it is simple for people as they only need to stay current with one language, but I think that various languages have their strengths and they should not be diluted by being applied to every possible application.
Of course, that is just my opinion, and people are more than welcome to make PHP shell scripts, or GTK apps for that mattter.
It was an abstract calculation, involving the fact that the item (in this case, a 625MB data archive) moved a certain distance (12,272KM) in a specific period of time (13 seconds).
Assuming the speed was linear, then in an hour it would have moved 3,398,400 Kilometers.
((60/13)*60)*12272
Well, that would be my inability to chose when to devide and when to multiply.
It's closer to 2.01M MPH I guess...
If I am not mistaken (and I could be, I suck at maths).
It traveled at about 3,345,350 KM/H, or about 5,352,560 MPH...
FCP is very heavily in use already, especially in TV News environments and for the creation of TVCs.
A friend of mine is a professional online editor, he has been editing television on Avid MediaComposer and Xpress for at least three years now, but has recently picked up a job at a company doing high-end TVC work with FCP. They made the switch big time, retired their old Avid MC to the sidelines as an offline suite and do all their final edits with FCP, After Effects and Combustion.
It's also making it's way into a number of the local TV production houses as they start to look at doing more editing in-house rather than paying $300/hr for an Avid online suite.
Personally, I much prefer editing on FCP to Avid now, the interface is a little more natural and it just seems to flow better.
Not really, although there are heaps of editing sites (think EditDot) - I am currently editing a 90-minute DV feature film for a festival on my G3-400 with Final Cut Pro 2.0 and I chose that over the other options available to be (being Adobe Premiere on a Mac or PC, Avid Media Composer on a custom-made IBM IntelliStation or Avid DVExpress on a high-end AMD system).
Final Cut Pro is amazing when you consider it comes from a company who have never really ventured into this sort of product previously.
Actually, by dialling the number you are performing the work. That is a deffinate infrigement.
Also, the fact that the timings are different when you actually dial it won't help you either. Recording artists have sucessfully attacked people using the same sequences of notes (which is silly because it is fairly finite).
http://dylan.wibble.net/unclesam.jpg
A while ago I was talking to the regional manager of Adobe in my country, I was frank about my usage of pirated software - I pointed out that I had pirate Photoshop 3, learned to use it, become a designer and demanded my employer purchase 4.0, 5.0, and 5.5 - From one lost sale Adobe gained three legitimate ones.
He told me that the company was aware of this, and generally didn't take a hard line against home users, but at the same time they clearly couldn't be seen to promote that either, or no one would buy everything.
If there was not pirated software, it is nice to think that perhaps Windows would cost 1/2 as much, however it probably wouldn't. It is a circular arguement, the software companies claim prices are high because of piracy, pirates claim they do it because prices are two high.
"When one seeks answers when none exist, it's understandable to extend blame," [school district Superintendent John] Fitzsimons said.
Turn the situation around however and it is music, movies, computer games and a lack of interest in sports that is at fault for anything a dejected teen does.
I have a script I have been running for over a year, that fetches a remote pages, MD5s it, compares the MD5 to the last one, if it's different it save the page and updates the stored MD5, otherwise it drops the page.
Is this prior art? I was developing a small script or two to do this with arbitary pages, do I have to stop now?
Clearly people aren't being teased for being depressed per se, but depression manifests itself physically. Depressed people are often more withdrawn (which makes them stand out for not being 'involved'), and more importantly are sensative to teasing and bullying. They respond.
/.) you are a geek.
If you have ever bullied or been bullied, you know that it's all done for the response, if someone seems not to hear the bullying or doesn't react, the bully loses interest, they aren't a good target anymore. Someone who is depressive or has low self-esteem reacts in the 'best' way possible, they are visibly affected by what they are subjected to, in fact with any luck they cry, that is paydirt! Then it becomes a recurring cycle. The more they react, the more they are bullied. The more they are bullied, they more depressed they become.
Kids suffering from depression are really hard to deal with - think about it, up until 5 or 6 you were a carefree kid, you played in the dirt and did what you wanted.
Then comes school, it's a fairly hard transition, but early schooling isn't too hard, the little groups haven't formed yet, and it's still kinda fun.
You're about eight now, it's getting more difficult, school isn't fun anymore, it's work, and there is presure to conform -- to be cool.
Now, hear is where it happens, at about 10, you are either 'in' or you aren't. If you are not, it's probably because (at least for the people on
Depending on your environment it heads in one of two ways...
1) You don't take it to heart, you find your own friends, with similar interests and the rest of them can be damned.
2) You start to feel ashamed of being different, you become sensitive to the opinions of others in this matter, you try to fit in, but get knocked back all the way.
If you take the second path it is a lot harder to stay strong and maintain your will. If you look up to others, who in turn ridicule you, you're going to be shattered.
I have been through this, I started on the second path, but realised soon enough that it was simply making me unhappy. I had enough self-confidence to follow my own desires, be damned what anyone else thinks.
In New Zealand, where I live, guns are more tightly controlled, hand guns are nearly impossible to get and assult weapons are all but illegal. We don't have school shootings.
We do however have the second highest teenage suicide rate in the world.
School for me was hell, at least once I discovered there was more to life that sports. I stopped fitting in to the cool group and was immediately at the bottom of the food chain.
I count myself incredible lucky to be very strong willed and have good self-esteem, because otherwise I would have been destroyed by school.
The claim in the email that 8000 'Jedis' would make it an official religion is not true. The census does not determine that sort of thing. Also, based on my conversations with people at the Department os Statistics, they will not break down the indiviual write-ins for "Other" they will just be accounted for as "Other".
I have played with LaTeX and would agree it is very powerful... However if you believe the 'future technologists' we are all heading toward XML anyhow.
:)
As we all know we don't always end up with the best standard, and it's very hard to introduce new standards (Beta vs. VHS?). LaTeX has a lot going for it, but HTML has the biggest thing of all - Billions of webpages already out there.
Given the trouble browser makers seem to have with meeting the current standards I am not sure I would like to see them tackle two standards.
And besides, I already know HTML inside out, I don't want to have to learn another markup
(If I typed faster, this would be a first post)
The Southern Cross Cable also connects New Zealand to the US (and Australia). It is a great relief, when our existing connections were high latency and not always the most reliable.
Actually this is more of an NZ thing than an Australian thing, the majority of the Southern Cross company is owned by NZ Telecom... But the Aussies are taking credit, just like they did for Crowded House and Russell Crowe... Bastards!
I am a computer geek and a graphic designer (I am also a marketer, boy does that cause some internal conflict).
Why don't people seek my advice?
The R in a circle represents a registered tradmark, protecting the product (in this case "1-Click") and the marks (logo and devices etc). In has nothing what-so-ever to do with a patent. It does however mean if some does a similar thing they will have to come with the a name that is not 'confusingly similar'.
I searched on the IBM patent search and found no relevant patent from apple.
According to the specs it supports IDE (one chain or two, depending on the model) so you could put drives in it, but if you aren't into the drive thing... The DiskOnChip also goes up to 144MB which is enough to at least get BSD and BeOS going, and a careful install of Windows and some basic apps should fit too...
The history of the New Zealand Police when it come to technology is not great. They have engaged in a few misdirected efforts to police the net in the past with little success. While I support the idea that police should be able to obtain warrants for e-mail the same as they do with phones, this article concerns me a little as it seems the same protections won't be applied to this.
It is indeed a Cobalt Qube... I was recently at a trade show where both devices were on display at different booths. There is no visible difference (aside from colour). The Gateway one was retailing for quite a lot more however. Basic details about the Qube are here and the details about the Gateway Micro Server can be found here.
Me being the dumb-ass I am didn't read the article properly before posting -- In this case it seem the Australian government is trying to extend it's domain name control out of the .au gTLD - OF course an easy way to avoid that one would think is to register them through an off-shore holding company of something, where the Australian courts have no control.
Anyway...
Having dealt a bit with domain registration in Australia, this is hardly surprising to me. They are a little up-tight it would seem, at least compared to .com and .nz - There are many restrictions on who can have what domains in Australia, most notably the requirement that the applicant have an ACN (Australian Company Number) or ABRN (Australian Business Registration Number, I think) and that the name must be directly related to the company (i.e. the company's name or an accronym of it). Also, each commercial entity can have only one domain name, so much for covering misspellings etc... Also, you can't have a domain name that is the same as (or derived from) an Australian place name (this includes suburbs etc). Oh yes, and generic terms, which is, I assume, the rule that is responsible for there being no 'internet.com.au'...
Although the first-come-first-served basis employed in many other places is somewhat open to abuse, it also seems to beter serve it's market.
See INA's policy here
Over-all, Australia has some very limiting Internet policies.
MP3 is MPEG2 Layer 3 Audio. MPEG2 is a video format (used for digital broadcasting, like cable and satellite).
:)
Although only Layer 2 is supported nativly by most commercial MPEG decoders (set-top boxes and the like).
MPEG == Motion Picture Engineers Group
That is all
Basically, I consider myself a Geek. Nerd has always seemed more the socially inept version of a geek. You know, the stereo-typical brill-creamed hair, pocket protector, nasal voise and plastic-framed glasses held together with a band-aid. The geek has the technical know-how, but the sort who has some sort dress sense, and likes to go out occasionally (and doesn't get kicked out of the parties). Watch 'Revenge of the Nerds'.
There are also sub-species of geek and nerd.
I am a Computer and Video geek.
By the way - I got Obi-Wan Kenobi.