Yes, video will take up a lot of space by nature. But my point is that the end files that are produced by someone like Weta will be no bigger than any other video footage, dispite the huge amount of power needed to generate them compared to the normal footage in a movie.
450MB for 30 seconds isn't very much when you consider how much time and power it takes to produce those 720 images.
In other words, of the many calculations done in rendering (including ray-tracing, AI, etc.) very little those calculations will end up directly producing the final product, which in this case, is nothing but a simple image.
Not per machine. Of course, it depends entirely on what kind of work is being done. A lot of these systems that require a huge amount of processing power don't produce a huge amount of data as the end result. This is esspecialy true when doing special effects for a film. The end result is just images/frames of a movie.
Who would be happy about this? Google started an email service, which they are kind enough to let people use for free (since they know most people will never use 1000MBs). I doubt any "cool", "hip", or "free" originization would be OK about having their system abused either. Besides, it's in their terms of use. You can't arrgue with that. A Gmail account is not a right you know, so please stop all this evil-company BS because the pre-IPO Google would never have allowed this anyway. Hell, RMS would hardly tolerate this kind of crap.
Well, in the case of the iMac, it would be pretty hard to place anything on top of it. Unless you're refering to placing vents on the top of a standard PC style box, to which I think the original poster was also implying that PC makers should also be making more PCs in a similar form-factor as the iMac, aswell as better cooling.
Place a curtain divider between your bed and your computer area. Place it on a rail like a shower curtain so you can open/close it. The ladies will love it to.
I think you're missing the point of the system. It's not to allow you to haul heavy loads while still absorbing small bumps, it to stop the car rolling while still absorbing small bumps. This means the car has much better handling. It's a performance and safty feature.
Wrong. It blocks some IR. It certinaly doesn't block the IR nearer the red spectrum (rather than heat). If it did, I wouldn't be able to take IR photos with my camera.
The real problem is that it's irrational anti-American sentiment. They don't dislike America for any specific reason; they dislike America because disliking America is what they do.
Strongly dissagree there. The reason our current government is "anti-American" (it isn't really) is because of issues like Iraq, envronmental issues, human rights etc.
Unfortuantly copyright law etc. isn't one of the reasons. But there deffinitly are good reasons.
Our current prime minister was a protester of the Vietnam war. I think that says alot.
As an owner of a Treo 600. I'd have to dissagree. All that would be needed to turn the Treo into an MP3 player is a HD, and a bigger battery. I give it 3 years.
There is nothing inheritly wrong with convergence devices. Unless it isn't done properly, of course.
A combined device offers other advantages aswell. For instance, you may not hear your cellphone if you have headphones on. And to answer a call, you have to pause, take your headphones off, and answer the phone. In a combined device, it could bleep while you're listening to music (and not annoy others with a ringtone), and at the press of a button, the music would pause and you take the call. Hang-up, and the music resumes.
Turbines are generally happiest when running at a constant speed.
We're not talking abouta gas turbines or something here. There is nothing inherit about a spinning propeller than means it's best run at a constant rpm, that purely depends on the application it was designed for.
What the hell has that to do with anything? The idea here is that the vehical can use both road and rail. Not that it has more than one carrage. Infact, the vehical only has one. Did you even read the artical?
Either your browser doesn't support XHTML and CSS, or you're not doing it properly. But since you don't give any real examples, it's pretty hard to know which.
Apparently, Slashdot editors think that HTML is too complex for their feeble little minds. Perl, RegEx? No problems. HTML? No way. Leave that to the real experts.
Never mind the fact that XHTML is acctually easier to use than HTML because the rules are stricter and clearer.
The Treo 600. Phone-like form. Looks good. Better phone capabilities than most phones. QWERTY keyboard, and runs PalmOS.
And the best think is it feels like a phone and a PDA at the same time. Not a PDA with Sidetalkin', or a phone with comprimised PDA capabilities.
A little more expensive and fragile than a 6600 though.
You know you've won an argument when the other person has to resort to spelling and grammar errors. Some people would call that immature; like a grade schooler.
Perhaps I should have made it clearer that I was playing the devil's advocate. I was explain why some people think that emails addresses don't have to letter-for-letter exact. I never said it was a bad system or that it should be different.
BTW. Unlike phone numbers, I think you will find that most postal systems still quite error tollerant. If I sent something Calafornea, USA, it would still probably get there.
As for getting facts straight. Ever found it hard to read someone else's writting? Encountered a typo? Missheard someone? Not sure how to spell a name you've heard? There are many reasons for not getting the right info. Has nothing to do with stupidity or laziness.
A phone number is not really like a mail address. The problem is in the name: E-mail address. This believes some people to think that it acts in a similar way to a normal to a postal address.
A phone number is different because people know that phone numbers are usually a certain length. As you know, even phone numbers can be formatted differently and still have the same effect: 321 9786543, 321 978-6543, 321 978 6543, 321 9786 543, (321) 978-6543, (321) 9786543, 3219786543. Give that to a human to read, and they are smart enough to figure it out. Most software should be smart enough to figure it out. I know my cellphone treats +64211234567 the same as 021 123-4567.
The wrong zip or post code? Of course not. But what has that got to do with my point? Or could it be that you have missed it?
BTW. I playing the devil's advocate here. I'm not suggesting e-mail addresses should be vauge like postal addresses, but that to many people, they have a logical reason be believe to the contrary.
If I send a letter to you, and it's addressed like this (pretending that the following is your address):
Joe Sixpack
Street, City etc...
You'd expect to get it.
If I sent a letter, but with the name in any of these variations:
JoeSixpack
J Sixpack
Joe T Sixpack
You'd still expect to get it, right?
Now do you understand why people are telling you it's spelt correctly, when infact there's an extra space in there?
Perhaps it's the original designers of the email systems we use, who's intelligence has been overestimated. Because they made addresses far to easy to get wrong.
Now, as a web designer. I understand why these things are that way. But many--including intelligent--people don't understand these little technicalites. Because the expectations of other things in life has taught them differently.
Well, a Mac being more expensive means that the user is more likely to have a higher income. A higher income usually means more highly educated or intelligent.
I would have thought this was obvious. But then again, I do own an iBook;)
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450MB for 30 seconds isn't very much when you consider how much time and power it takes to produce those 720 images.
In other words, of the many calculations done in rendering (including ray-tracing, AI, etc.) very little those calculations will end up directly producing the final product, which in this case, is nothing but a simple image.
Not per machine. Of course, it depends entirely on what kind of work is being done. A lot of these systems that require a huge amount of processing power don't produce a huge amount of data as the end result. This is esspecialy true when doing special effects for a film. The end result is just images/frames of a movie.
Who would be happy about this? Google started an email service, which they are kind enough to let people use for free (since they know most people will never use 1000MBs). I doubt any "cool", "hip", or "free" originization would be OK about having their system abused either. Besides, it's in their terms of use. You can't arrgue with that. A Gmail account is not a right you know, so please stop all this evil-company BS because the pre-IPO Google would never have allowed this anyway. Hell, RMS would hardly tolerate this kind of crap.
Well, in the case of the iMac, it would be pretty hard to place anything on top of it. Unless you're refering to placing vents on the top of a standard PC style box, to which I think the original poster was also implying that PC makers should also be making more PCs in a similar form-factor as the iMac, aswell as better cooling.
Place a curtain divider between your bed and your computer area. Place it on a rail like a shower curtain so you can open/close it. The ladies will love it to.
I think you're missing the point of the system. It's not to allow you to haul heavy loads while still absorbing small bumps, it to stop the car rolling while still absorbing small bumps. This means the car has much better handling. It's a performance and safty feature.
Wrong. It blocks some IR. It certinaly doesn't block the IR nearer the red spectrum (rather than heat). If it did, I wouldn't be able to take IR photos with my camera.
Strongly dissagree there. The reason our current government is "anti-American" (it isn't really) is because of issues like Iraq, envronmental issues, human rights etc.
Unfortuantly copyright law etc. isn't one of the reasons. But there deffinitly are good reasons.
Our current prime minister was a protester of the Vietnam war. I think that says alot.
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There is nothing inheritly wrong with convergence devices. Unless it isn't done properly, of course.
A combined device offers other advantages aswell. For instance, you may not hear your cellphone if you have headphones on. And to answer a call, you have to pause, take your headphones off, and answer the phone. In a combined device, it could bleep while you're listening to music (and not annoy others with a ringtone), and at the press of a button, the music would pause and you take the call. Hang-up, and the music resumes.
We're not talking abouta gas turbines or something here. There is nothing inherit about a spinning propeller than means it's best run at a constant rpm, that purely depends on the application it was designed for.
Is this a new section? Or have I just never been here before?
Ah, well, better than the games section I spose.
But hey, that what happens when you sell-out to a bigger, foreign company.
Sure the Nokia probably won't win many usability prizes. But what about the iPod?
Who said it would be open to the public? Or even seperate companies? What is to stop railroad companies from using this kind of vehical?
What the hell has that to do with anything? The idea here is that the vehical can use both road and rail. Not that it has more than one carrage. Infact, the vehical only has one. Did you even read the artical?
Either your browser doesn't support XHTML and CSS, or you're not doing it properly. But since you don't give any real examples, it's pretty hard to know which.
Never mind the fact that XHTML is acctually easier to use than HTML because the rules are stricter and clearer.
The Treo is well designed.
BTW, comparing a new price to a 2nd hand price is unfair.
The Treo 600. Phone-like form. Looks good. Better phone capabilities than most phones. QWERTY keyboard, and runs PalmOS.
And the best think is it feels like a phone and a PDA at the same time. Not a PDA with Sidetalkin', or a phone with comprimised PDA capabilities.
A little more expensive and fragile than a 6600 though.
You know you've won an argument when the other person has to resort to spelling and grammar errors. Some people would call that immature; like a grade schooler.
BTW. Unlike phone numbers, I think you will find that most postal systems still quite error tollerant. If I sent something Calafornea, USA, it would still probably get there.
As for getting facts straight. Ever found it hard to read someone else's writting? Encountered a typo? Missheard someone? Not sure how to spell a name you've heard? There are many reasons for not getting the right info. Has nothing to do with stupidity or laziness.
A phone number is different because people know that phone numbers are usually a certain length. As you know, even phone numbers can be formatted differently and still have the same effect: 321 9786543, 321 978-6543, 321 978 6543, 321 9786 543, (321) 978-6543, (321) 9786543, 3219786543. Give that to a human to read, and they are smart enough to figure it out. Most software should be smart enough to figure it out. I know my cellphone treats +64211234567 the same as 021 123-4567.
The wrong zip or post code? Of course not. But what has that got to do with my point? Or could it be that you have missed it?
BTW. I playing the devil's advocate here. I'm not suggesting e-mail addresses should be vauge like postal addresses, but that to many people, they have a logical reason be believe to the contrary.
Joe Sixpack
Street, City etc...
You'd expect to get it.
If I sent a letter, but with the name in any of these variations:
JoeSixpack
J Sixpack
Joe T Sixpack
You'd still expect to get it, right?
Now do you understand why people are telling you it's spelt correctly, when infact there's an extra space in there?
Perhaps it's the original designers of the email systems we use, who's intelligence has been overestimated. Because they made addresses far to easy to get wrong.
Now, as a web designer. I understand why these things are that way. But many--including intelligent--people don't understand these little technicalites. Because the expectations of other things in life has taught them differently.
I would have thought this was obvious. But then again, I do own an iBook ;)