Having been involved in the development of just such a system (I won't name names, but you've probably got plenty of their products in your home and work environment already) I can give you one extremely important piece of advice:
Forget all these "get yourself a bunch of webcams and X amount of diskspace".
No uncertified homebrew system will EVER produce footage that's admissable in court. Period.
Contact your local police department for a list of their approved equipment and vendors. The kind of solutions you're looking for do exist out of the box - the one I worked on had all the features you mention plus plenty of others - and you'll be able to use the footage in a "1st Evidence" capacity. Also consult with an attorney experienced in the field.
This is one time when you need to know the legal requirements as well as the technical ones, and as has been said many times before, Slashdot is a really bad place to go for legal advice.;)
Did anyone else see "Walking with Dinosaurs" in the UK when it was on TV? They mentioned all this - their brontosaurs and other long-necked beasts generally walked in a flat stretched-out posture, and they discussed some of the reasons why this was believed correct. They also made reference to the tree-grazers in Jurassic Park.
The whole series is currently available in the UK on DVD, don't know about anywhere else though. I highly recommend it.
Just a note - there is no hand-drawn footage in Blue Sub #6. It's all CG, but some is done cel-style over the top of the 3D backdrops/foregrounds/models etc.
Anyone read Ian Bank's "The Business"? Corporation buys island, declares independence, seeks a seat on the UN council... There are certainly similarities.
I'm not an authority on the subject by any means, but looking at some of the other anime feature films recently released on Japanese DVD, there seems to be an increasing trend towards the Japanese studios including an English language subtitle track on the domestic Japanese DVDs.
Given Ghibli's god-like reputation for quality and attention-to-detail, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the Japanese region 2 DVD of Mononoke does include an English subtitle track to go with the Japanese dialogue.
I already own the Japanese LaserDisc of Mononoke (a fantastic pressing, for those that are interested...), but if the Jap DVD has an "official" Ghibli subtitle track, then it will certainly be joining my collection rather than any inferior dubbed-only US one.
I also would not be surprised to learn that the Japanese edition of Mononoke contains a significantly expanded set of extra features over and above those available on the US one - it would be completely in keeping with Ghibli's track record, and would also account for the extra time they are taking in production.
There are rumblings that Ghibli are preparing a large DVD boxed-set of their back catalog containing the majority of their films, both Miyazaki-sensei related and otherwise. Hopefully they'll decide to put English subtitles on all those too, if they decide to go ahead with it.
There certainly are a lot of games companies here in Guildford, but there's also a fair bit of tech research and other IT work going on.
The Surrey Research Park, near the Royal Surrey County Hospital and associated with Surrey University has plenty of tech-based companies including Red Hat UK (where I work), Mitsubishi Electric Visual Information Laboratory, the aforementioned Lionhead Studios, BOC, etc etc etc.
Also, the University itself has a rather good reputation in technology and the sciences, and has just opened a big new Biology and Nursing block, so there's plenty going down in this here town...
People have been asking about the possibilities of SETI@home style distributed data analysis, and other ways that the public can get involved in cutting-edge astronomy.
As I'm sure you're aware, some of the larger earth-bound telescopes have schemes whereby amateur astronomers can submit observation requests to be performed in idle periods and then collect the resulting images, all via the web. Some telescopes also have a data-link so that members of the public can "look through the eyepiece" at observations either in-progress or that have recently been completed.
I was wondering whether you have any plans to make the resources of this new telescope available on the internet in this fashion, or perhaps some other novel uses of the modern vogue for internet connectivity in astronomy?
I worked for a while developing multi-threaded applications, both for SMP platforms and distributed environments. Apart from the aforementioned open-source and stability issues, I also found particular benefit in Linux's excellent process-control abilities.
While it's true that, for example, NT has the "Task Manager" with some degree of process killing/control ability, I found even simple tools like "ps aux", kill and top to be quite invaluable.
The ability to easily get a down-and-dirty view of low-level system activity saved me considerable frustration on more than one occasion, and several other members of the dev team migrated away from our original MS development environment for the same reason.
Just my two [insert low denomination currency unit here].
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Having been involved in the development of just such a system (I won't name names, but you've probably got plenty of their products in your home and work environment already) I can give you one extremely important piece of advice:
;)
Forget all these "get yourself a bunch of webcams and X amount of diskspace".
No uncertified homebrew system will EVER produce footage that's admissable in court. Period.
Contact your local police department for a list of their approved equipment and vendors. The kind of solutions you're looking for do exist out of the box - the one I worked on had all the features you mention plus plenty of others - and you'll be able to use the footage in a "1st Evidence" capacity. Also consult with an attorney experienced in the field.
This is one time when you need to know the legal requirements as well as the technical ones, and as has been said many times before, Slashdot is a really bad place to go for legal advice.
Did anyone else see "Walking with Dinosaurs" in the UK when it was on TV? They mentioned all this - their brontosaurs and other long-necked beasts generally walked in a flat stretched-out posture, and they discussed some of the reasons why this was believed correct. They also made reference to the tree-grazers in Jurassic Park.
The whole series is currently available in the UK on DVD, don't know about anywhere else though. I highly recommend it.
Just a note - there is no hand-drawn footage in Blue Sub #6. It's all CG, but some is done cel-style over the top of the 3D backdrops/foregrounds/models etc.
Anyone read Ian Bank's "The Business"? Corporation buys island, declares independence, seeks a seat on the UN council... There are certainly similarities.
I'm not an authority on the subject by any means, but looking at some of the other anime feature films recently released on Japanese DVD, there seems to be an increasing trend towards the Japanese studios including an English language subtitle track on the domestic Japanese DVDs.
Given Ghibli's god-like reputation for quality and attention-to-detail, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the Japanese region 2 DVD of Mononoke does include an English subtitle track to go with the Japanese dialogue.
I already own the Japanese LaserDisc of Mononoke (a fantastic pressing, for those that are interested...), but if the Jap DVD has an "official" Ghibli subtitle track, then it will certainly be joining my collection rather than any inferior dubbed-only US one.
I also would not be surprised to learn that the Japanese edition of Mononoke contains a significantly expanded set of extra features over and above those available on the US one - it would be completely in keeping with Ghibli's track record, and would also account for the extra time they are taking in production.
There are rumblings that Ghibli are preparing a large DVD boxed-set of their back catalog containing the majority of their films, both Miyazaki-sensei related and otherwise. Hopefully they'll decide to put English subtitles on all those too, if they decide to go ahead with it.
There certainly are a lot of games companies here in Guildford, but there's also a fair bit of tech research and other IT work going on.
The Surrey Research Park, near the Royal Surrey County Hospital and associated with Surrey University has plenty of tech-based companies including Red Hat UK (where I work), Mitsubishi Electric Visual Information Laboratory, the aforementioned Lionhead Studios, BOC, etc etc etc.
Also, the University itself has a rather good reputation in technology and the sciences, and has just opened a big new Biology and Nursing block, so there's plenty going down in this here town...
Hi,
People have been asking about the possibilities of SETI@home style distributed data analysis, and other ways that the public can get involved in cutting-edge astronomy.
As I'm sure you're aware, some of the larger earth-bound telescopes have schemes whereby amateur astronomers can submit observation requests to be performed in idle periods and then collect the resulting images, all via the web. Some telescopes also have a data-link so that members of the public can "look through the eyepiece" at observations either in-progress or that have recently been completed.
I was wondering whether you have any plans to make the resources of this new telescope available on the internet in this fashion, or perhaps some other novel uses of the modern vogue for internet connectivity in astronomy?
There are some useful articles about getting started with development under Linux, as well as useful downloads, at:
http://www.redhat.com/devnet/
I worked for a while developing multi-threaded applications, both for SMP platforms and distributed environments. Apart from the aforementioned open-source and stability issues, I also found particular benefit in Linux's excellent process-control abilities.
While it's true that, for example, NT has the "Task Manager" with some degree of process killing/control ability, I found even simple tools like "ps aux", kill and top to be quite invaluable.
The ability to easily get a down-and-dirty view of low-level system activity saved me considerable frustration on more than one occasion, and several other members of the dev team migrated away from our original MS development environment for the same reason.
Just my two [insert low denomination currency unit here].