I'll agree, I bought an HP 5MP back when it was new, I don't think I've ever replaced the toner cart. Man they had high capacity carts in those days. But AFAIK the M models are primarily for macs, they have Appletalk added, but still have a parallel port. I added an HP DirectJet ethernet adapter, it can do LPR printing or any other Ethernet protocol you like. I've used it on various Linux and Mac systems for more than a decade, it's a great printer. And you can't beat real PostScript. The new HPs all use fake cloned PostScript.
Yeah, what a great idea. Make sure you take video of the kite flyer on the ground, so we have a visual record of what happens when the kite string and wires comes in contact with power lines.
I asked my accountant about this, he said that the statute of limitations on unpaid taxes is 7 years, so you aren't legally required to keep your personal spending records (checks and paid bills) more than 7 years. So ditch those 25 years of cancelled checks, unless you think you might want to refile an amended 1979 tax form (as if that would do anything for you). Of course, if the IRS or state says you have taxes still due from beyond 7 years ago, you better keep all those records. But in that case, you've got much bigger problems than records storage.
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Your understanding of Japanese history is rather weak. Japan has always had waves of influence from outside the country, resulting in rapid integration of social influences. Like for example, the influence of Buddhism from Korea in the 6th century, the influence of Kanji from China about that same time, the influence of foreign traders from Russia and the Netherlands in the 15th century, etc. Japan's history's most significant characteristic is its ability to rapidly adapt foreign technologies and culture towards its own purposes.
You should read the question. He primarily wants pass-through video, not recording. He just wants to watch what's on his game box or TV tuner through his computer monitor. That requires 0GB per hour. The capture option is just a bonus.
No, you're not wrong, but you didn't bother to read back in the thread, or else you would know that I mistyped and meant the ADVC-100 (note HUNDRED) not the ADVC-1000. The ADVC100 only cost me $299 when it was brand new and not discounted yet. You can get a TV tuner for about $5, look for the brand name "generic cheapshit garage sale VCR."
Anyway, I got to thinking more about the original question. Some digital camcorders have NTSC or SVideo inputs, and can transcode regular video and output it as DV through their FireWire ports. Most of the really miniature models don't have this feature because there's no room for the plugs in such a small unit. But I know this feature was available in the Sony TRV900, but that model's discontinued. The DV transcode feature is probably in similar new models, it might even be in this guy's camcorder, but he didn't say which one he had so I can't tell. He might already have everything he needs.
Why does it need to be a card? I use the Canopus ADVC-1000 external FireWire DV converter for video captures, it will work on anything with a FW port. There are quite a few TV Tuner external boxes, but most of them are based on USB, which doesn't have sufficient bandwidth to do DV, so most of them use proprietary codecs with much lower bandwidth use (and lower quality). If you just want to make VCDs, they're probably fine, but all the USB tuners are of insufficient quality to do DVD quality storage. Of course, most of what you grab off the air or cable/DirecTV isn't DVD quality either, it's already been compressed more than the ~6:1 that DV uses.
MacOS X has a summarization feature implemented in the Services menu. I decided to summarize the CNet article just to see what I got, and because I like the idea of summarizing an article about summarizing.
In the famous sketch from the TV show "Monty Python's Flying Circus," the actor John Cleese had many ways of saying a parrot was dead, among them, "This parrot is no more," "He's expired and gone to meet his maker," and "His metabolic processes are now history."
...The program gathers text from online news services on specific subjects, learns the characteristic patterns of sentences in these groupings and then uses those patterns to create new sentences that give equivalent information in different words.
The researchers, Regina Barzilay, an assistant professor in the department of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Lillian Lee, an associate professor of computer science at Cornell University, said that while the program would not yield paraphrases as zany as those in the Monty Python sketch, it is fairly adept at rewording the flat cadences of news service prose.
Why would anyone WANT to listen to radio? I don't care if it's AM, FM, Sat, whatever, it's 100% stuff that someone ELSE wants you to listen to. You already have better musical taste than any corporate radio playlist. Get a CD burner and make your own car tunes CDs.
Oh ferchrissake, not the old "Apple is a monopoly too" red herring. Spare me.
You forget that QuickTime is crossplatform, MS was judged to have taken illegal action to block its adoption on the WINDOWS platform. Apparently you don't realize that QuickTime also uses OPEN STANDARDS like MP4. Don't like a proprietary format? Don't use it, use an open codec.
This case is already decided, back in the DoJ antitrust suit. The judge ruled that MS took illegal predatory actions against Apple and Real. Ashcroft bent over backwards to let MS off the hook, but he couldn't stop other defendants from filing their own antitrust actions. So now that's what they're doing. The eventual winner will be Apple. MS and Real will battle it out, leaving a big hole for QuickTime to drive right through.
Qmaster is relatively new, so it's not like it has a lengthy history in the market with lots of high-profile customers, except maybe Pixar. If you can find a copy of Shake (it's floating around out there) the Qmaster docs are all in there, including detailed render farm configs, IIRC there's even some discussion of Maya in the Shake docs, but I can't check now because I haven't reinstalled Shake since I upgraded to Panther last week. Qmaster manages remote systems through Rendezvous(ZeroConf) and AFAIK it can manage Linux ZeroConf boxes too. Qmaster also handles Final Cut Pro/Compressor rendering, which is way useful. I installed Qm on a couple of OS X boxes in my office, did a couple of lameoid tests, and I was astonished how easy it was to manage multiple CPUs. But then, I'd just read a Maya book describing a hideous custom written web-based PHP render management app and after that, EVERYTHING seems simple. Anyway, phone up Apple, they'd fall all over themselves to show you what they've got. I met a couple of their pro digital production reps, they know their shit.
ROTFL!!! You translated a picture book about beer! I bet that was a whole lot of work.
Face it, you're an old Japan burnout that sneers at everyone who arrived in Japan one day after you and calls them "fresh off the boat." You've "gone native" and try to out-Japanese the Japanese, declaring yourself an authority over the judgement of native Japanese PhD linguists I cited. I've seen a hundred old burnouts like you. I used to pity them, now I just avoid them.
Maya render farms are notoriously hard to manage on Intel/AMD/windoze/linux hardware. You should check out Apple's XServes and their new QMaster software, it can manage huge render queues for Maya and Shake. Nobody uses just Maya on a render farm, you need compositing software too, like Shake. You can't beat Qmastered Xserves for a render farm. And Shake comes with unlimited licenses for OS X (but not for linux). The cost savings in licenses alone will astonish you. Even their XServe RAID products are less costly than other competitive RAIDs of similar spec. And I can report from personal experience that Maya rendering speed on dualG4s is top rate. We should see dualG5 Xserves in January, nothing will come close to that config in speed.
oops, I got that backwards, dammit. She made us scratch out the archaic "jisho" and replace it with "jiten."
Dammit, now you've even got me doing it wrong. I always say it takes hours of listening to native speakers to undo the damage from one minute of listening to bad Japanese students. Go peddle your incorrect usage elsewhere, I have more important things to do than repair the damage you're doing.
I suggest you take this up with my language instructor. She's from Hokkaido and has a PhD in linguistics. She made us scratch out every incidence of "jiten" in our textbooks and replace it with "jisho," explaining it was archaic usage. I'll take her word over yours.
ha.. you will find that native Japanese speakers are extremely hesitant to correct your spoken errors, even if you ask them to. They won't do it even if you DEMAND it. It's frustrating sometimes, but it's one of those cultural things. BTW, I used to use my Zaurus when chatting with exchange students, every single one of them had electronic dicts with keyboards (cheap Seikos usually) and once they saw the Zaurus, they all said they wanted one.
Osakaben uses a lot of archaic forms, but I notice you said "denshi" not "denki." I assure you that tokyoben (the national standard) is denshijiten, and that's the word used in the manuals of both my Zaurus and Wordtank (it's even written on the boxes). Some daijiten still call themselves jisho but that is a deliberate attempt to sound archaic and thus sound like an old authority. Sure you start learning stroke order around 2nd year, but I'm talking about an INFALLIBLE, unerring, ingrained ability to reproduce even the most complex kanji on sight. I'm not talking about the ability to copy 3 or 4 stroke kanji, I'm talking about the really complex ones with 12 strokes or more. Yes, that skill takes a while to develop.
The zaurus is better for advanced students just because of the handwriting input of kanji, it is much faster to use than a keyboard, IF you're capable of using it accurately and can write kanji well. The kanji dict allows you to search by inputting radicals and components, it's pretty amazing. Yes, once you locate one kanji or word, you can hypertext to other dicts or entries with just a couple clicks. It also has furigana only in the kokugojiten (gives definitions in Japanese). Since there are no furigana in the other dicts, that could be frustrating for beginners, but advanced students should probably be relying on the kokugojiten just for the extra practice. Also the Zaurus only has Japanese menus, it's above the heads of most beginners, but won't cause problems for advanced students. Plus, of course, you get PDA functions (which I never use) but if you want it, there it is.
I do this all the time on my MacOS X systems, with Apple Remote Desktop. It has the ability to wake or sleep CPUs by remote control over the LAN. Right now I'm in bed using my laptop, I left my main CPU in my office downstairs doing a download, I checked its progress remotely just like VNC works, it just finished a few minutes ago, so I issued a remote sleep command. If I want to remotely wake it and start some other task I can do that too. ARD is built in to every Panther system, but the ARD Client software must be purchased separately. But you get what you pay for. ARD is killer software.
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I'll agree, I bought an HP 5MP back when it was new, I don't think I've ever replaced the toner cart. Man they had high capacity carts in those days. But AFAIK the M models are primarily for macs, they have Appletalk added, but still have a parallel port. I added an HP DirectJet ethernet adapter, it can do LPR printing or any other Ethernet protocol you like. I've used it on various Linux and Mac systems for more than a decade, it's a great printer. And you can't beat real PostScript. The new HPs all use fake cloned PostScript.
Even wireless is overkill. Most digital cameras have autotimers, just set it to take a pic every 60 seconds.
Ok, everyone say it together now, "Doh!"
Yeah, what a great idea. Make sure you take video of the kite flyer on the ground, so we have a visual record of what happens when the kite string and wires comes in contact with power lines.
I asked my accountant about this, he said that the statute of limitations on unpaid taxes is 7 years, so you aren't legally required to keep your personal spending records (checks and paid bills) more than 7 years. So ditch those 25 years of cancelled checks, unless you think you might want to refile an amended 1979 tax form (as if that would do anything for you). Of course, if the IRS or state says you have taxes still due from beyond 7 years ago, you better keep all those records. But in that case, you've got much bigger problems than records storage.
Your understanding of Japanese history is rather weak. Japan has always had waves of influence from outside the country, resulting in rapid integration of social influences. Like for example, the influence of Buddhism from Korea in the 6th century, the influence of Kanji from China about that same time, the influence of foreign traders from Russia and the Netherlands in the 15th century, etc. Japan's history's most significant characteristic is its ability to rapidly adapt foreign technologies and culture towards its own purposes.
You should read the question. He primarily wants pass-through video, not recording. He just wants to watch what's on his game box or TV tuner through his computer monitor. That requires 0GB per hour. The capture option is just a bonus.
No, you're not wrong, but you didn't bother to read back in the thread, or else you would know that I mistyped and meant the ADVC-100 (note HUNDRED) not the ADVC-1000. The ADVC100 only cost me $299 when it was brand new and not discounted yet. You can get a TV tuner for about $5, look for the brand name "generic cheapshit garage sale VCR."
Anyway, I got to thinking more about the original question. Some digital camcorders have NTSC or SVideo inputs, and can transcode regular video and output it as DV through their FireWire ports. Most of the really miniature models don't have this feature because there's no room for the plugs in such a small unit. But I know this feature was available in the Sony TRV900, but that model's discontinued. The DV transcode feature is probably in similar new models, it might even be in this guy's camcorder, but he didn't say which one he had so I can't tell. He might already have everything he needs.
Oops, you're correct, I have the ADVC-100, not the 1000. I didn't even know there was such a device as the 1000.
Why does it need to be a card? I use the Canopus ADVC-1000 external FireWire DV converter for video captures, it will work on anything with a FW port.
There are quite a few TV Tuner external boxes, but most of them are based on USB, which doesn't have sufficient bandwidth to do DV, so most of them use proprietary codecs with much lower bandwidth use (and lower quality). If you just want to make VCDs, they're probably fine, but all the USB tuners are of insufficient quality to do DVD quality storage. Of course, most of what you grab off the air or cable/DirecTV isn't DVD quality either, it's already been compressed more than the ~6:1 that DV uses.
I cut it down to only 3 paragraphs, the shortest version that contained the lead paragraph. The longer summaries did contain that content.
The wires ARE "the works."
Anyway, this isn't just China's problem. Alex Kerr's quite interesting book "Lost Japan" discusses the blight of utility poles and wiring.
Why would anyone WANT to listen to radio? I don't care if it's AM, FM, Sat, whatever, it's 100% stuff that someone ELSE wants you to listen to. You already have better musical taste than any corporate radio playlist. Get a CD burner and make your own car tunes CDs.
Oh ferchrissake, not the old "Apple is a monopoly too" red herring. Spare me.
You forget that QuickTime is crossplatform, MS was judged to have taken illegal action to block its adoption on the WINDOWS platform.
Apparently you don't realize that QuickTime also uses OPEN STANDARDS like MP4. Don't like a proprietary format? Don't use it, use an open codec.
This case is already decided, back in the DoJ antitrust suit. The judge ruled that MS took illegal predatory actions against Apple and Real. Ashcroft bent over backwards to let MS off the hook, but he couldn't stop other defendants from filing their own antitrust actions. So now that's what they're doing.
The eventual winner will be Apple. MS and Real will battle it out, leaving a big hole for QuickTime to drive right through.
Qmaster is relatively new, so it's not like it has a lengthy history in the market with lots of high-profile customers, except maybe Pixar. If you can find a copy of Shake (it's floating around out there) the Qmaster docs are all in there, including detailed render farm configs, IIRC there's even some discussion of Maya in the Shake docs, but I can't check now because I haven't reinstalled Shake since I upgraded to Panther last week.
Qmaster manages remote systems through Rendezvous(ZeroConf) and AFAIK it can manage Linux ZeroConf boxes too. Qmaster also handles Final Cut Pro/Compressor rendering, which is way useful. I installed Qm on a couple of OS X boxes in my office, did a couple of lameoid tests, and I was astonished how easy it was to manage multiple CPUs. But then, I'd just read a Maya book describing a hideous custom written web-based PHP render management app and after that, EVERYTHING seems simple.
Anyway, phone up Apple, they'd fall all over themselves to show you what they've got. I met a couple of their pro digital production reps, they know their shit.
ROTFL!!! You translated a picture book about beer! I bet that was a whole lot of work.
Face it, you're an old Japan burnout that sneers at everyone who arrived in Japan one day after you and calls them "fresh off the boat." You've "gone native" and try to out-Japanese the Japanese, declaring yourself an authority over the judgement of native Japanese PhD linguists I cited. I've seen a hundred old burnouts like you. I used to pity them, now I just avoid them.
Maya render farms are notoriously hard to manage on Intel/AMD/windoze/linux hardware. You should check out Apple's XServes and their new QMaster software, it can manage huge render queues for Maya and Shake. Nobody uses just Maya on a render farm, you need compositing software too, like Shake. You can't beat Qmastered Xserves for a render farm. And Shake comes with unlimited licenses for OS X (but not for linux). The cost savings in licenses alone will astonish you. Even their XServe RAID products are less costly than other competitive RAIDs of similar spec.
And I can report from personal experience that Maya rendering speed on dualG4s is top rate. We should see dualG5 Xserves in January, nothing will come close to that config in speed.
Yep, I have a Japanese linguistics degree, lived and worked in Japan, blah blah blah. Let me know which jiten you worked on so I can avoid it.
oops, I got that backwards, dammit. She made us scratch out the archaic "jisho" and replace it with "jiten."
Dammit, now you've even got me doing it wrong. I always say it takes hours of listening to native speakers to undo the damage from one minute of listening to bad Japanese students. Go peddle your incorrect usage elsewhere, I have more important things to do than repair the damage you're doing.
I suggest you take this up with my language instructor. She's from Hokkaido and has a PhD in linguistics. She made us scratch out every incidence of "jiten" in our textbooks and replace it with "jisho," explaining it was archaic usage. I'll take her word over yours.
ha.. you will find that native Japanese speakers are extremely hesitant to correct your spoken errors, even if you ask them to. They won't do it even if you DEMAND it. It's frustrating sometimes, but it's one of those cultural things.
BTW, I used to use my Zaurus when chatting with exchange students, every single one of them had electronic dicts with keyboards (cheap Seikos usually) and once they saw the Zaurus, they all said they wanted one.
Osakaben uses a lot of archaic forms, but I notice you said "denshi" not "denki." I assure you that tokyoben (the national standard) is denshijiten, and that's the word used in the manuals of both my Zaurus and Wordtank (it's even written on the boxes). Some daijiten still call themselves jisho but that is a deliberate attempt to sound archaic and thus sound like an old authority.
Sure you start learning stroke order around 2nd year, but I'm talking about an INFALLIBLE, unerring, ingrained ability to reproduce even the most complex kanji on sight. I'm not talking about the ability to copy 3 or 4 stroke kanji, I'm talking about the really complex ones with 12 strokes or more. Yes, that skill takes a while to develop.
The zaurus is better for advanced students just because of the handwriting input of kanji, it is much faster to use than a keyboard, IF you're capable of using it accurately and can write kanji well. The kanji dict allows you to search by inputting radicals and components, it's pretty amazing. Yes, once you locate one kanji or word, you can hypertext to other dicts or entries with just a couple clicks.
It also has furigana only in the kokugojiten (gives definitions in Japanese). Since there are no furigana in the other dicts, that could be frustrating for beginners, but advanced students should probably be relying on the kokugojiten just for the extra practice. Also the Zaurus only has Japanese menus, it's above the heads of most beginners, but won't cause problems for advanced students. Plus, of course, you get PDA functions (which I never use) but if you want it, there it is.
I do this all the time on my MacOS X systems, with Apple Remote Desktop. It has the ability to wake or sleep CPUs by remote control over the LAN. Right now I'm in bed using my laptop, I left my main CPU in my office downstairs doing a download, I checked its progress remotely just like VNC works, it just finished a few minutes ago, so I issued a remote sleep command. If I want to remotely wake it and start some other task I can do that too. ARD is built in to every Panther system, but the ARD Client software must be purchased separately. But you get what you pay for. ARD is killer software.