Any recommendations for IP (ethernet) phones to use with Asterisk? We've got Lucent/Avaya fones with power over ethernet (convenient) but the PBX backend is a proprietary piece of shite.
Why does everything come down to a matter of force when dealing with Americans? "Two words. Nuclear Fuckin' weapons..." The fallacy in this thinking is that you seem to believe it's a zero-sum game. It's not: especially when you have farmers plowing their crops back into the fields to increase their moetary yield.
OK, you seem to have missed my point, not surprising for a pinko. Let's walk back the cat here: You believe in distributing my stuff to poor people. I refuse to cooperate. How do you get me to distribute my stuff according to your whims? Then you become leader of the Government. How do you get me to distribute my stuff according to your whims? Pass laws? So you institutionalize theft of private property. Theft is still theft, regardless of who does it, so I resist. How do you get me to distribute my stuff according to your 'laws'? You call the cops. They don't carry flowers.
You're right, it is a self selecting demogarphic. Frightened people flee, and you still seem to be afraid of enough things to need to keep your guns around. Let's face it - you aren't going to face a military threat (you do have the most effective army), and your personal weapons aren't really going to help you against a terror attack. So tell me again, what are you afraid of? An Afghani coming over to steal your stuff?
Nice ad hominem slam of American immigrants there, fucko. Black 47? Pogroms? Dipshit. But I will continue anyway. Americans need weapons not to defend themselves from Afghan fuckwits, they need them to defend themselves against pinkos and BigGov types who would institutionalize redistibution (theft).
The rest if the world hates you like a poor innercity person hates the landlord.
And with just as much effect. Sure, they can burn Watts to the ground, but look at what good it does? And landlords have recourse to better guns, so it's just impotent rage. Neener neener neener.
You invest nothing in the third world but expect no jealousy?
Who gives a damn about jealousy? I'm jealous of Bill Gates' billions. He has no obligation to share them with _me_..
Thank God America got the Puritans and Australia got the convicts....
No wonder you're so enamored of institutionalized property crime.
Given that Jim Wales, the Wikipedia's millionaire founder, is a big Ayn Rand fan, has anyone detected a distinct pro-libertarian, anti-communist or anti-gov't spin to many Wikipedia articles?
Whether there is or isn't is immaterial IMHO. The software is free. If you don't like the spin, edit the page, and be as prepared to defend your contribution as anyone else. Otherwise, take that free software and build your own.
However, I would definitely support adding features that would permit users to 'colorize' based on your (and/or the community's) trust of submitters, voting on partiality, etc...
You will never remove bias, but as long as there's a healthy mechanism for exposing and mitigating that bias through legitimate criticism I think you'll find that open content will actually end up _better_ than closed-source 'impartial' (read: written by pinko academics) reference material.
... I presume cool hacks like building wireless mesh networks hoisted on kites would be covered.. Even if the AP equipment is on the ground for power, you could run conductive wire along kitestring as an antenna or as a connection to an antenna on the kite. If it's good enough for the French during WWI it should be good enough for us;)
Also, how about building Wifi access points into sculptures, picture frames, etc?
Additionally, any hacking into proprietary car systems (CD changer emulation, VAG-COM, etc) to build extensibility into them would be useful. If anyone can point me to the specs on the Traffic Pro CD changer interface I'd be grateful;)
We may not "owe" them anything, but being human beings, people *deserve* to have basic needs met. To deny those who live in poverty while living in luxury seems terribly hypocritical of our "humanitarian" Western society.
People _deserve_ nothing. Sorry, it's Nature's way. If you wish to give them something, that's your prerogative, freedom permits you the freedom to give. However, if you use your guns to take from me in order to satisfy your urge to gain pleasure by giving, then you're stealing from me and I'll use my guns to protect myself.
Seriously, the main thing that guaranteed the well-being of many of us was a spin of the cosmic roulette wheel: we were born in countries with economies that allow us to provide for ourselves. Hundreds of millions of people don't have that luxury.
Ummm.. No.
There is no 'randomness' involved here: millions of people _died_ to create and maintain the freedoms Americans enjoy. The structures are deliberate, as proved by the failure of societies that don't have them. There is no relativism here: Western culture is superior, QED. And 'random birth' is bullshit quite frankly: my families fled oppression, social theft, and/or poverty in order to come to the USA and seek their fortunes freely. That's a self-selecting demographic, and that demographic is what makes America better.
And honestly, in response to those who may complain about the United States' current economy, I don't mean to undercut those who are actually suffering, but ask yourself this: Are you going to bed hungry tonight? Are you going to *a* bed? In a mostly dry and comfortable place? You have it better off than many.:o(
Thanks to the sacrifice of those rough men standing ready to do violence on my behalf, throughout the centuries of American freedom. Again, this is deliberate. We have (and continue to) shed blood to defeat tyrants, thieves and totalitarians.
Any other race, religion or culture can do the same. All they have to do is: * respect each other's rights, including those of religion, speech, and property * have a free and independent press * have an open, multiparty democratic system with an ironclad separation of religion and state
Hell, the US can continue with a coopted political and media class, thanks to all the guns in private ownership and the cravenness of local politicians.
P.S. So what are we going to do about it?
Smash all non-democratic nations and force them to be democratic or nuke the shit out of them. Who needs six billion people anyway? New Hampshire has it right: Live Free or Die.
Interesting: 'shrinkwrap' software is becoming a commodity, while 'custom' (integration, customer/vertical-specific software) software will remain high-margin. Services (or at least a large and profitable part of 'services') is just another name for custom software, which requires smart, creative people and provides higher margins than commodityware.
I don't think IBM will get out of the overall 'software' business anytime soon, though they will probably get out of the commodity software business soon, while continuing to contribute to the open commodity codebase. Who knows? Sponsor an army of Indian codemonkeys to improve the commodity base and let American coders (who are nearby and can do f2f/onsite more efficiently) handle the high-margin stuff...
Perhaps they had to rewrite an LVM from scratch in order to opensource it?
do they package binary-only drivers, ala Gentoo?
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... One of the nicest things about Gentoo compared to other distros is that they're not zealots regarding non-GPL stuff like nvidia-kernel.. It reduces my agita by a mild but discernible amount, and for that I am happy.
The tech is there, it's just not braindead simple for windows morons...
Why go thru all this rigmarole, except to make sheds of cash for someone else?
TBird, Mozilla mail, Kmail and many other mail clients have PGP built-in and pretty easy to use.
Even without signing, building a secure MX infrastructure (in which only trusted MX hosts with keys can MX, and where privs can be revoked by a third party (such as a nation's postal authority and/or SSL cert authorities) for abuse) would give 'real' mail admins an incentive for securing users.. Hell, use a DNSSEC KEY record for the MX box...
If you're interested in lofting stuff on kites, keep in mind that the original double french military was used for surveillance and is still being used as antennae...
I presume it has something to do with charging for access to premium content, such as CNN, MLB, ESPN, etc. So you're in cooptition with AOL, VIACOM, etc. Once they figure out how to hook their streaming servers into LDAP (Darwin/QTSS) or Active Directory (whatever M$ junk there is) for authentication and access control, where are you when the contracts run out?
It also has something to do with both client software and server infraware. So you're competing with Apple (which owns the decade(s) old standard Quicktime) and Microsoft (which owns the desktop).
Your server software is crap compared to Apache + Darwin/QTSS in terms of scalability and security infrastructure (authentication and access control in RealServer is a nightmare). As much as I hate M$ software in general, they at least integrate their streaming junk AFAICR.
Your free client software is impossible to track down on your website, and the quality compared to MPEG4/3GPP? Questionable.
There's an awful lot of rocks and hard places you're caught between. How do you anticipate not being crushed?
I think you mean OS-X doesn't support the JVC! What is it with you Mac folks that tries to spin everything wrong?
Hehehe, pretty funny.
Seriously though, if it isn't supported in Final Cut Pro, it's useless. And no, third-party payware doesn't count. Apple 0wnz prosumer digital video. Fact.
The main problem with the JVC is manual controls, but the Sony doesn't even have XLR inputs for your mics. I'm sure Sony will do a pro version for a few dollars more and that will be much more worth seeing.
Good point: do either of these cams support timecodes?
How much $$$? I'm sorry, Costco has spoiled me, I want >50" 1080p for less than $4000...
You can't really say 1080i = 540p.
Close enough for mouthbreathers;)
Seriously, if you get your hands on a 1080p (like a 23-24" WUXGA screen) display and preprocess 1080i, it should be OK... A good line processor should be able to buffer enough to compensate for jitter, and that kind of thing is getting built into PC vidcards nowadays...
It's generally agreed that 720p is best for fast-moving sports, and 1080i for slow shots, documentaries, 35mm film transfers, etc.
EXACTLY. It really depends on what you watch. For DVD upconverters, 1080i is fine...
It is really surprising that we have interlaced standards in the HDTV specs.
Given the cost of driving 1080p at the time the specs were finalized, is it really?
The problem with interlacing is that it introduces or exacerbates certain visual artifacts. This is one of the reasons some of the networks are sticking with 720p for their HDTV broadcasts.
It really depends on the content IMHO. Sports events no doubt require progressive shooting since they're fast-moving. However, higher resolution in slower 'drama/sitcom/talk show' formats makes sense even with interlacing IMHO. At 60fps, deinterlacing for digital progressive displays should work reasonably well, though the only display I have that can do 1080p is at work and I upconvert all my crap from 480i;)
Think about how HD is used now: the main driver? Upconverted DVDs. Joe Early-adopter isn't gonna be able to afford 1080p large-screen projection even if he can find it. The users of this camera are no doubt going to plug it into Final Cut Pro or one of its competitors (consumer video software only supports standard DV), and will have a whole array of processing tools to improve the camera's results. Worst case they can deinterlace it and downscale to 720p, given they probably can't view 1080p anywhere outside of a computer screen (and a large one at that)... Also consider that in 720p you're losing, what, (1920-1280=640) vertical resolution lines?
Whether this interlaced standard is a carryover from the consumer electronics folks or not, I would stick with 720p until something nicer comes out. Be interesting to know the history here. Computer LCD makers are well settled on progressive displays at this point.
Deinterlacing, post-processing, etc. Until we start seeing 3-chip 16x9 projectors capable of 1080p for less than $7k, I think this is not such a concern.
Is 1080p in the standard? I didn't think it was....
Cost. Look at the bandwidth requirements of 1080p, 'til recently satisfying that on a consumer screen was pretty much more than anyone was willing to pay, given the dearth of HD programming. The cost balance was forged at the beginning of ATSC deliberations.
Hell, try driving UT2004 at 1920x1080 on your widescreen computer monitor with less than a Geforce FX5900!
I submit that if you use a progressive computer monitor and deinterlace 1080i it'll look OK, but I also submit that very few people here have a home theater that has a 1080p monitor. If you're very lucky you have 720p and can convert cleanly (or run a nice line processor).
Hell, I still have an analog TV, and won't consider digital until I move since I don't have enough room for a 60" screen yet!
IIRC the bandwidth for this cam is 25Mbps, well below 1394's peak of 400..
I suppose it's limited to the speed of the tape reader...
Still, considering how long transitions, wipes, and other effects will take to render even on a 2xCPU G5, importing speeds will be the least of your worries;)
(BTW, AFAICR the standard digital cinema projection size is 1280x1024.. This cam will beat that, and with post processing the results should look pretty damn good.. Hopefully prosumer 3D modeling pkgs will keep up too!)
Actually, given the benefits of progressive scan, I'm surprised there isn't more equipment in 1080p...especially since the quality difference is apparent.
Find me a RPTV for less than $15k that supports 1080p.
I'd be particularly wary of buying any NTSC/PAL camcorders with the new HD standards that are going to be set in the next few years. I'm hoping that by the time I have kids, there'll be more choices on the market with this kind of recording quality.
Two words: Post Processing.
By the time you pull in 1080i@60fps, and load it into your computer, and 'flatten' it it'll look fine;)
I beleive the JVC GR-HD1US has been avialble for more than a year now, and at a slightly lower price than the Sony. Sony seems to have been spending a lot of (well considered) money on the PlayStation 2&3 platform and ignoring the "consumer electronics" feild for a while now. They just aren't up to snuff compared to Panasonic, JVC, Zenith and the other giants.
The JVC:
doesn't support 1080i (argue as you may the merits of 720p vs 1080i, the generally accepted wisdom is that progressive is better for shooting sports events and interlaced higher res is better for drama)
doesn't support OS X
doesn't have a Zeiss lens
has only 1 CCD
has a 4x3 CCD, not 16x9
The JVC doesn't compare. And this from someone who actively avoids Sony stuff unless it's the best in class (as the 200 DVD changer was in its time).
Honestly - someone should take something like SDL and start building a suite of commercial games for all the major platforms.
If anyone could do it, I'm sure Aspyr could, if the market were large enough.. If the linux desktop market approaches OS X's, we should hope to start getting games ported only a year or so behind schedule..
Argh! Don't say things like that - someone will throw down a shell script which WILL do it (probably in one line) combining find, file, grep, perl/python and some other crap. Which, while it may work for some, entirely misses the real point, is that there's no *easy* way to do this.
Easy or not, it's the performance that counts. Try doing something like this with traditional 'find' traversing the file tree. FOREVER.
The thing is, having multiple indexes and stuff flabs out the storage requirement: hierarchical DBs are more space-efficient.
WHO CARES ABOUT SPACE EFFICIENCY ANYMORE?
At this point, unless you're designing smartphones, PDAs or other embedded-style applications, you can blissfully ignore any storage efficiency requirement for the sake of better speed, robustness, stability, functionality, etc.
However, if you're passionate about being good, you're welcome to go make some biodiesel yourself. It ain't hard to make a five gallon batch - the info is out there.
My landlord would _love_ seeing a 55 gallon drum in the backyard and a milk carton with lye nearby..;)
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Any recommendations for IP (ethernet) phones to use with Asterisk? We've got Lucent/Avaya fones with power over ethernet (convenient) but the PBX backend is a proprietary piece of shite.
Also, is LDAP supported in Asterisk?
Why does everything come down to a matter of force when dealing with Americans? "Two words. Nuclear Fuckin' weapons..." The fallacy in this thinking is that you seem to believe it's a zero-sum game. It's not: especially when you have farmers plowing their crops back into the fields to increase their moetary yield.
OK, you seem to have missed my point, not surprising for a pinko. Let's walk back the cat here: You believe in distributing my stuff to poor people. I refuse to cooperate. How do you get me to distribute my stuff according to your whims? Then you become leader of the Government. How do you get me to distribute my stuff according to your whims? Pass laws? So you institutionalize theft of private property. Theft is still theft, regardless of who does it, so I resist. How do you get me to distribute my stuff according to your 'laws'? You call the cops. They don't carry flowers.
You're right, it is a self selecting demogarphic. Frightened people flee, and you still seem to be afraid of enough things to need to keep your guns around. Let's face it - you aren't going to face a military threat (you do have the most effective army), and your personal weapons aren't really going to help you against a terror attack. So tell me again, what are you afraid of? An Afghani coming over to steal your stuff?
Nice ad hominem slam of American immigrants there, fucko. Black 47? Pogroms? Dipshit. But I will continue anyway. Americans need weapons not to defend themselves from Afghan fuckwits, they need them to defend themselves against pinkos and BigGov types who would institutionalize redistibution (theft).
The rest if the world hates you like a poor innercity person hates the landlord.
And with just as much effect. Sure, they can burn Watts to the ground, but look at what good it does? And landlords have recourse to better guns, so it's just impotent rage. Neener neener neener.
You invest nothing in the third world but expect no jealousy?
Who gives a damn about jealousy? I'm jealous of Bill Gates' billions. He has no obligation to share them with _me_..
Thank God America got the Puritans and Australia got the convicts....
No wonder you're so enamored of institutionalized property crime.
Fuckin pinko.
Given that Jim Wales, the Wikipedia's millionaire founder, is a big Ayn Rand fan, has anyone detected a distinct pro-libertarian, anti-communist or anti-gov't spin to many Wikipedia articles?
Whether there is or isn't is immaterial IMHO. The software is free. If you don't like the spin, edit the page, and be as prepared to defend your contribution as anyone else. Otherwise, take that free software and build your own.
However, I would definitely support adding features that would permit users to 'colorize' based on your (and/or the community's) trust of submitters, voting on partiality, etc...
You will never remove bias, but as long as there's a healthy mechanism for exposing and mitigating that bias through legitimate criticism I think you'll find that open content will actually end up _better_ than closed-source 'impartial' (read: written by pinko academics) reference material.
... I presume cool hacks like building wireless mesh networks hoisted on kites would be covered.. Even if the AP equipment is on the ground for power, you could run conductive wire along kitestring as an antenna or as a connection to an antenna on the kite. If it's good enough for the French during WWI it should be good enough for us ;)
;)
Also, how about building Wifi access points into sculptures, picture frames, etc?
Additionally, any hacking into proprietary car systems (CD changer emulation, VAG-COM, etc) to build extensibility into them would be useful. If anyone can point me to the specs on the Traffic Pro CD changer interface I'd be grateful
And of course,
ROBOTS! ROBOTS! ROBOTS!
We may not "owe" them anything, but being human beings, people *deserve* to have basic needs met. To deny those who live in poverty while living in luxury seems terribly hypocritical of our "humanitarian" Western society.
:o(
People _deserve_ nothing. Sorry, it's Nature's way. If you wish to give them something, that's your prerogative, freedom permits you the freedom to give. However, if you use your guns to take from me in order to satisfy your urge to gain pleasure by giving, then you're stealing from me and I'll use my guns to protect myself.
Seriously, the main thing that guaranteed the well-being of many of us was a spin of the cosmic roulette wheel: we were born in countries with economies that allow us to provide for ourselves. Hundreds of millions of people don't have that luxury.
Ummm.. No.
There is no 'randomness' involved here: millions of people _died_ to create and maintain the freedoms Americans enjoy. The structures are deliberate, as proved by the failure of societies that don't have them. There is no relativism here: Western culture is superior, QED. And 'random birth' is bullshit quite frankly: my families fled oppression, social theft, and/or poverty in order to come to the USA and seek their fortunes freely. That's a self-selecting demographic, and that demographic is what makes America better.
And honestly, in response to those who may complain about the United States' current economy, I don't mean to undercut those who are actually suffering, but ask yourself this: Are you going to bed hungry tonight? Are you going to *a* bed? In a mostly dry and comfortable place? You have it better off than many.
Thanks to the sacrifice of those rough men standing ready to do violence on my behalf, throughout the centuries of American freedom. Again, this is deliberate. We have (and continue to) shed blood to defeat tyrants, thieves and totalitarians.
Any other race, religion or culture can do the same. All they have to do is:
* respect each other's rights, including those of religion, speech, and property
* have a free and independent press
* have an open, multiparty democratic system with an ironclad separation of religion and state
Hell, the US can continue with a coopted political and media class, thanks to all the guns in private ownership and the cravenness of local politicians.
P.S. So what are we going to do about it?
Smash all non-democratic nations and force them to be democratic or nuke the shit out of them. Who needs six billion people anyway? New Hampshire has it right: Live Free or Die.
* I'll Be in a Meeting
And of course for you Linux phans...
* It Beats Microsoft
Software is an overhead for IBM.
;)
Interesting: 'shrinkwrap' software is becoming a commodity, while 'custom' (integration, customer/vertical-specific software) software will remain high-margin. Services (or at least a large and profitable part of 'services') is just another name for custom software, which requires smart, creative people and provides higher margins than commodityware.
I don't think IBM will get out of the overall 'software' business anytime soon, though they will probably get out of the commodity software business soon, while continuing to contribute to the open commodity codebase. Who knows? Sponsor an army of Indian codemonkeys to improve the commodity base and let American coders (who are nearby and can do f2f/onsite more efficiently) handle the high-margin stuff...
(restating the obvious of course
... it took them long enough.
Perhaps they had to rewrite an LVM from scratch in order to opensource it?
... One of the nicest things about Gentoo compared to other distros is that they're not zealots regarding non-GPL stuff like nvidia-kernel.. It reduces my agita by a mild but discernible amount, and for that I am happy.
The tech is there, it's just not braindead simple for windows morons...
Why go thru all this rigmarole, except to make sheds of cash for someone else?
TBird, Mozilla mail, Kmail and many other mail clients have PGP built-in and pretty easy to use.
Even without signing, building a secure MX infrastructure (in which only trusted MX hosts with keys can MX, and where privs can be revoked by a third party (such as a nation's postal authority and/or SSL cert authorities) for abuse) would give 'real' mail admins an incentive for securing users.. Hell, use a DNSSEC KEY record for the MX box...
Seriously though, not advertising your network plus encryption? They'd have to do a physical look around to find your equipment to enforce this..
Maybe UTD will be the first l33t access point modding community?
Putting APs behind posters, built into sculptures, etc...
Considering APs are essentially static fixtures, why not make them art?
If you're interested in lofting stuff on kites, keep in mind that the original double french military was used for surveillance and is still being used as antennae...
I'm not trying to be facetious.
I presume it has something to do with charging for access to premium content, such as CNN, MLB, ESPN, etc. So you're in cooptition with AOL, VIACOM, etc. Once they figure out how to hook their streaming servers into LDAP (Darwin/QTSS) or Active Directory (whatever M$ junk there is) for authentication and access control, where are you when the contracts run out?
It also has something to do with both client software and server infraware. So you're competing with Apple (which owns the decade(s) old standard Quicktime) and Microsoft (which owns the desktop).
Your server software is crap compared to Apache + Darwin/QTSS in terms of scalability and security infrastructure (authentication and access control in RealServer is a nightmare). As much as I hate M$ software in general, they at least integrate their streaming junk AFAICR.
Your free client software is impossible to track down on your website, and the quality compared to MPEG4/3GPP? Questionable.
There's an awful lot of rocks and hard places you're caught between. How do you anticipate not being crushed?
I think you mean OS-X doesn't support the JVC! What is it with you Mac folks that tries to spin everything wrong?
Hehehe, pretty funny.
Seriously though, if it isn't supported in Final Cut Pro, it's useless. And no, third-party payware doesn't count. Apple 0wnz prosumer digital video. Fact.
The main problem with the JVC is manual controls, but the Sony doesn't even have XLR inputs for your mics. I'm sure Sony will do a pro version for a few dollars more and that will be much more worth seeing.
Good point: do either of these cams support timecodes?
Some 1080p displays are starting to come out.
;)
How much $$$? I'm sorry, Costco has spoiled me, I want >50" 1080p for less than $4000...
You can't really say 1080i = 540p.
Close enough for mouthbreathers
Seriously, if you get your hands on a 1080p (like a 23-24" WUXGA screen) display and preprocess 1080i, it should be OK... A good line processor should be able to buffer enough to compensate for jitter, and that kind of thing is getting built into PC vidcards nowadays...
It's generally agreed that 720p is best for fast-moving sports, and 1080i for slow shots, documentaries, 35mm film transfers, etc.
EXACTLY. It really depends on what you watch. For DVD upconverters, 1080i is fine...
It is really surprising that we have interlaced standards in the HDTV specs.
;)
Given the cost of driving 1080p at the time the specs were finalized, is it really?
The problem with interlacing is that it introduces or exacerbates certain visual artifacts. This is one of the reasons some of the networks are sticking with 720p for their HDTV broadcasts.
It really depends on the content IMHO. Sports events no doubt require progressive shooting since they're fast-moving. However, higher resolution in slower 'drama/sitcom/talk show' formats makes sense even with interlacing IMHO. At 60fps, deinterlacing for digital progressive displays should work reasonably well, though the only display I have that can do 1080p is at work and I upconvert all my crap from 480i
Think about how HD is used now: the main driver? Upconverted DVDs. Joe Early-adopter isn't gonna be able to afford 1080p large-screen projection even if he can find it. The users of this camera are no doubt going to plug it into Final Cut Pro or one of its competitors (consumer video software only supports standard DV), and will have a whole array of processing tools to improve the camera's results. Worst case they can deinterlace it and downscale to 720p, given they probably can't view 1080p anywhere outside of a computer screen (and a large one at that)... Also consider that in 720p you're losing, what, (1920-1280=640) vertical resolution lines?
Whether this interlaced standard is a carryover from the consumer electronics folks or not, I would stick with 720p until something nicer comes out. Be interesting to know the history here. Computer LCD makers are well settled on progressive displays at this point.
Deinterlacing, post-processing, etc. Until we start seeing 3-chip 16x9 projectors capable of 1080p for less than $7k, I think this is not such a concern.
Is 1080p in the standard? I didn't think it was....
You know, I don't think it is either, OTTOMH.
Am I missing something?
Cost. Look at the bandwidth requirements of 1080p, 'til recently satisfying that on a consumer screen was pretty much more than anyone was willing to pay, given the dearth of HD programming. The cost balance was forged at the beginning of ATSC deliberations.
Hell, try driving UT2004 at 1920x1080 on your widescreen computer monitor with less than a Geforce FX5900!
I submit that if you use a progressive computer monitor and deinterlace 1080i it'll look OK, but I also submit that very few people here have a home theater that has a 1080p monitor. If you're very lucky you have 720p and can convert cleanly (or run a nice line processor).
Hell, I still have an analog TV, and won't consider digital until I move since I don't have enough room for a 60" screen yet!
IIRC the bandwidth for this cam is 25Mbps, well below 1394's peak of 400..
;)
I suppose it's limited to the speed of the tape reader...
Still, considering how long transitions, wipes, and other effects will take to render even on a 2xCPU G5, importing speeds will be the least of your worries
(BTW, AFAICR the standard digital cinema projection size is 1280x1024.. This cam will beat that, and with post processing the results should look pretty damn good.. Hopefully prosumer 3D modeling pkgs will keep up too!)
Actually, given the benefits of progressive scan, I'm surprised there isn't more equipment in 1080p...especially since the quality difference is apparent.
;)
Find me a RPTV for less than $15k that supports 1080p.
I'd be particularly wary of buying any NTSC/PAL camcorders with the new HD standards that are going to be set in the next few years. I'm hoping that by the time I have kids, there'll be more choices on the market with this kind of recording quality.
Two words: Post Processing.
By the time you pull in 1080i@60fps, and load it into your computer, and 'flatten' it it'll look fine
The JVC:
doesn't support 1080i (argue as you may the merits of 720p vs 1080i, the generally accepted wisdom is that progressive is better for shooting sports events and interlaced higher res is better for drama)
doesn't support OS X
doesn't have a Zeiss lens
has only 1 CCD
has a 4x3 CCD, not 16x9
The JVC doesn't compare. And this from someone who actively avoids Sony stuff unless it's the best in class (as the 200 DVD changer was in its time).
Honestly - someone should take something like SDL and start building a suite of commercial games for all the major platforms.
If anyone could do it, I'm sure Aspyr could, if the market were large enough.. If the linux desktop market approaches OS X's, we should hope to start getting games ported only a year or so behind schedule..
In the meantime, I'm good with UT2004...
Not really, but somewhat...
Argh! Don't say things like that - someone will throw down a shell script which WILL do it (probably in one line) combining find, file, grep, perl/python and some other crap. Which, while it may work for some, entirely misses the real point, is that there's no *easy* way to do this.
Easy or not, it's the performance that counts. Try doing something like this with traditional 'find' traversing the file tree. FOREVER.
The thing is, having multiple indexes and stuff flabs out the storage requirement: hierarchical DBs are more space-efficient.
WHO CARES ABOUT SPACE EFFICIENCY ANYMORE?
At this point, unless you're designing smartphones, PDAs or other embedded-style applications, you can blissfully ignore any storage efficiency requirement for the sake of better speed, robustness, stability, functionality, etc.
However, if you're passionate about being good, you're welcome to go make some biodiesel yourself. It ain't hard to make a five gallon batch - the info is out there.
;)
My landlord would _love_ seeing a 55 gallon drum in the backyard and a milk carton with lye nearby..