Think of it as an exercise for your neck. Hell, you could put those dots on a different part of your body every time you surf and then write a book on how to lose wight and build musle while you surf the net.:P
but yah, it seem pointless, when they develop a why to do this by tracking my eyes then I'll be interested. Unless you could translate those movements for video game, a kind of poormans VR.
I tried to vote early and often, but the survey looks like it will be conducted by phone and not the web. The survey link simply gives you a form to fill out you name, title, address, ect... And that's it, no other questions. So expect a call from marketing in the morning.
What if you live in a state like Oregon that ha no sales tax? How do those people share the load. For your plan to work there would have to be a national sales tax insituted and I doubt that would ever happen.
Your thinking 7 years of edited video, and compressed at that. If he's doing video editing he'll have alot more with very light to no compression. I've seen people who are doing a 30min spot and will have 30+ hours of tape to edit down. If you figure that half to two thirds of that raw footage won't ever be digitized, that's still 10 to 15 hours of tape for only a thrity minute final product. I bet he could fill up 120tb in only a few monts at that rate.
It depends, some buildings are copyrighted and you do have to pay to use their likeness (the Empire State Building for example). You probably have to show reason for such distinction though, it would probably be hard to take someone to court if no one knew what your building was when you held up a photo (say you owned a generic two story brick something or another). Next time you go to the video store look at the cover of 'Babe, Pig in the City', the film makers went to great lenght to make an image of a city that look alot like NY, but contains no discernable landmarks.
I know the guy who was the production manager for most of the NY production crew, he had told me (after I asked what kind of a pain in the ass shooting in TS is) that most of the TS stuff was shot on a set in LA. Most of what wasn't on the set was done digitally. So if the TS that we see in the movie isn't the real TS, then what claim do advertisers have to claims of authenticity?
And don't forget the recent studies that show that in 100% of armed convience store robberies, the criminal gained access via the sidewalk. Think of the danger that sidewalks pose to home land security.
Just to point out an example of FC being a serious program, that movie Waking Life did all of the post production on desktop Macs, and all the editing was done on one Mac using FCP2
It does seem to be getting a little greedy out there in DVD market land. My personal biggest gripe is with the Superbit editions. They're pretty much worthless and they charge you more for them. The extra resolution that you get on them is more than a normal tv, so no added benefit there, and still not close to the res of HDTV. They do look a little better on a computer screen, but not $10 worth. I'd like to see 'budget' versions that just have the movie like the VHS copies do, I almost never look at the extra stuff and I'm certainly not going to sit through a whole movie listening to an alternate track where the director bables on about how the cater was late that day.
That's so true. People get roped into demanding the biggest thing out there with no real need (think SUV's). Most average computer users (ie, prob no one who reads/.) would probably be just as happy with a two or three year old computer as they are with the latest and greatest. I still have an old p166 beating around that my girlfriend uses to check email, surf the web, a MS Word, and you know what, it does all of those things great. Can it do video or work on a 1gb Photoshop file, no, but it doesn't need to. That's why I bought a G4. That 4 year old p166 does all the stuff that it needs to do, and that's all the stuff that alot of people need a computer to do.
Businesses don't look to the long run because of a change that happen to the corperate world in the late 70's and early 80's. That change was the concept of 'shareholder value'. Buisnesses used to build their strategies and plans based on providing and acctual service or product, but today (and this ran rampent during the 90's dotcom explosion) they focus on producing money for their stock holders rather that products for a community. When your entire buisness plan is 'how do we make the most money the quickest, all else be damned?' it makes trying to convince your stockholders that doing anything which will pay off in five or ten years (rather than five or ten months) is a good thing. If the choices are a quick buck now, or a solid buisness latter, the quick buck will always win because it increases shareholder value.
Everytime I've gotten this email and fantasize, "If this were real, I could $xxxxxxx out of this." It never once occured to me to use my personal bank or account or that anyone would be stupid enough to do that. My line of thought was always along the lines of "if your going to be involved in money laundering, you need to protect your self from the IRS." So my thoughts always circulated around not getting caught for tax fraud. It had never crossed my mind that someone would be stupid enough use any thing that could be so closely tied to themselves.
Certainly you could do this, you could even do it with a much lower quaility rca plug from any cheap ass CD player (of course the quality wouldn't be as good). But then it comes down to speed. You'd have to record all the tracks seperatly, in real time, and then encode them. This method wouldn't be so bad if you only did an album every once in awhile. However if your some one like me who's decided to rip all of my CD's and turn an old PC into a glorified jukebox, doing it in real time just isn't an option.
True, it does not say NRA4EVER, but they did do an eppisode (the one where Krusty losses everything to the IRS) where Bart an Krusty are sitting on the curb when a bus drives by. If you slow down the bus, it say's something along the lines of, "Right now you could be watching 'Mad About You' on NBC"
I belive that all the oprating file and what not on the iPod are in the firmware, so formating it won't get rid of any mpeg reading software. It might make it unable to recognize any data on the drive though, effectivly doing the same thing.
I'd rather they left Nighline on the air and CBS just replace Letterman with Space Ghost. That way I can still get a good news program and Space Ghost. Besides Letterman hasn't been funny in almost ten years. While I'm at it, Conan should be moved into an 11:30 time slot.
They've been around for at least 3 years (maybe 4), if they haven't been smaked with a cease and desist yet I doubt it will come. Besides this isn't he first major press they've gotten, I've seen them mentioned in vairous fan mags.
I personally only rip cd's that I've swiped from a street vendor selling bootleged copies. That way the theft is three-fold even before I upload all the lastes hot cuts and cool jams from the latest Backstreet Boys got Speared by N'Sync CD to the internet.
It seems to me that whole problem is prerecorded music. If we didn't have any CD's to copy we couldn't copy them, so why doesn't RIAA just stop selling CD's, tape's, records, et-all.
out side of animated 'shows' I've never been impressed with flash as a design tool or web site enhancement. Generaly the signal to noise ratio is crap, it takes to long to down load, even when on T1 at times. The temptaion for adding nedless crap and 'design' is too great. It often becomes about what the site designer can do not what the contents are. Genreral rule of thumb is to avoid a site if it comes up as all flash unless I know that before hand, such as the latest epp of Zombie College.
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Think of it as an exercise for your neck. Hell, you could put those dots on a different part of your body every time you surf and then write a book on how to lose wight and build musle while you surf the net. :P
but yah, it seem pointless, when they develop a why to do this by tracking my eyes then I'll be interested. Unless you could translate those movements for video game, a kind of poormans VR.
I tried to vote early and often, but the survey looks like it will be conducted by phone and not the web. The survey link simply gives you a form to fill out you name, title, address, ect... And that's it, no other questions. So expect a call from marketing in the morning.
What if you live in a state like Oregon that ha no sales tax? How do those people share the load. For your plan to work there would have to be a national sales tax insituted and I doubt that would ever happen.
It would be fun to make some sort of launcher (like those disk guns we all had as kids) and hold contests to see who could shoot them the furthest.
Your thinking 7 years of edited video, and compressed at that. If he's doing video editing he'll have alot more with very light to no compression. I've seen people who are doing a 30min spot and will have 30+ hours of tape to edit down. If you figure that half to two thirds of that raw footage won't ever be digitized, that's still 10 to 15 hours of tape for only a thrity minute final product. I bet he could fill up 120tb in only a few monts at that rate.
It depends, some buildings are copyrighted and you do have to pay to use their likeness (the Empire State Building for example). You probably have to show reason for such distinction though, it would probably be hard to take someone to court if no one knew what your building was when you held up a photo (say you owned a generic two story brick something or another). Next time you go to the video store look at the cover of 'Babe, Pig in the City', the film makers went to great lenght to make an image of a city that look alot like NY, but contains no discernable landmarks.
I know the guy who was the production manager for most of the NY production crew, he had told me (after I asked what kind of a pain in the ass shooting in TS is) that most of the TS stuff was shot on a set in LA. Most of what wasn't on the set was done digitally. So if the TS that we see in the movie isn't the real TS, then what claim do advertisers have to claims of authenticity?
but is Microstuff's ever going to bring about some sort of Mac compatability for pocket PC's?
And don't forget the recent studies that show that in 100% of armed convience store robberies, the criminal gained access via the sidewalk. Think of the danger that sidewalks pose to home land security.
Just to point out an example of FC being a serious program, that movie Waking Life did all of the post production on desktop Macs, and all the editing was done on one Mac using FCP2
It does seem to be getting a little greedy out there in DVD market land. My personal biggest gripe is with the Superbit editions. They're pretty much worthless and they charge you more for them. The extra resolution that you get on them is more than a normal tv, so no added benefit there, and still not close to the res of HDTV. They do look a little better on a computer screen, but not $10 worth. I'd like to see 'budget' versions that just have the movie like the VHS copies do, I almost never look at the extra stuff and I'm certainly not going to sit through a whole movie listening to an alternate track where the director bables on about how the cater was late that day.
That's so true. People get roped into demanding the biggest thing out there with no real need (think SUV's). Most average computer users (ie, prob no one who reads /.) would probably be just as happy with a two or three year old computer as they are with the latest and greatest. I still have an old p166 beating around that my girlfriend uses to check email, surf the web, a MS Word, and you know what, it does all of those things great. Can it do video or work on a 1gb Photoshop file, no, but it doesn't need to. That's why I bought a G4. That 4 year old p166 does all the stuff that it needs to do, and that's all the stuff that alot of people need a computer to do.
But I though Microsoft had always been open source.
Businesses don't look to the long run because of a change that happen to the corperate world in the late 70's and early 80's. That change was the concept of 'shareholder value'. Buisnesses used to build their strategies and plans based on providing and acctual service or product, but today (and this ran rampent during the 90's dotcom explosion) they focus on producing money for their stock holders rather that products for a community. When your entire buisness plan is 'how do we make the most money the quickest, all else be damned?' it makes trying to convince your stockholders that doing anything which will pay off in five or ten years (rather than five or ten months) is a good thing. If the choices are a quick buck now, or a solid buisness latter, the quick buck will always win because it increases shareholder value.
Everytime I've gotten this email and fantasize, "If this were real, I could $xxxxxxx out of this." It never once occured to me to use my personal bank or account or that anyone would be stupid enough to do that. My line of thought was always along the lines of "if your going to be involved in money laundering, you need to protect your self from the IRS." So my thoughts always circulated around not getting caught for tax fraud. It had never crossed my mind that someone would be stupid enough use any thing that could be so closely tied to themselves.
Certainly you could do this, you could even do it with a much lower quaility rca plug from any cheap ass CD player (of course the quality wouldn't be as good). But then it comes down to speed. You'd have to record all the tracks seperatly, in real time, and then encode them. This method wouldn't be so bad if you only did an album every once in awhile. However if your some one like me who's decided to rip all of my CD's and turn an old PC into a glorified jukebox, doing it in real time just isn't an option.
True, it does not say NRA4EVER, but they did do an eppisode (the one where Krusty losses everything to the IRS) where Bart an Krusty are sitting on the curb when a bus drives by. If you slow down the bus, it say's something along the lines of, "Right now you could be watching 'Mad About You' on NBC"
The MP3's on an iPod are stored in a hidden file, just tell your system to show all files, including the hidden ones, and they will show up.
I belive that all the oprating file and what not on the iPod are in the firmware, so formating it won't get rid of any mpeg reading software. It might make it unable to recognize any data on the drive though, effectivly doing the same thing.
but then I'd have to live iin the midwest
I'd rather they left Nighline on the air and CBS just replace Letterman with Space Ghost. That way I can still get a good news program and Space Ghost. Besides Letterman hasn't been funny in almost ten years. While I'm at it, Conan should be moved into an 11:30 time slot.
They've been around for at least 3 years (maybe 4), if they haven't been smaked with a cease and desist yet I doubt it will come. Besides this isn't he first major press they've gotten, I've seen them mentioned in vairous fan mags.
untill some fills a tub with this stuff and rents it out at an hourly rate hotel?
It seems to me that whole problem is prerecorded music. If we didn't have any CD's to copy we couldn't copy them, so why doesn't RIAA just stop selling CD's, tape's, records, et-all.
out side of animated 'shows' I've never been impressed with flash as a design tool or web site enhancement. Generaly the signal to noise ratio is crap, it takes to long to down load, even when on T1 at times. The temptaion for adding nedless crap and 'design' is too great. It often becomes about what the site designer can do not what the contents are. Genreral rule of thumb is to avoid a site if it comes up as all flash unless I know that before hand, such as the latest epp of Zombie College.