I don't mean to be troll, but I haven't seen my cell phone bill decrease any time lately. In fact, I'm paying more now for additional lines, and getting less.
I used to get them for $15 plus get 100 extra minutes per line, now its $20 and I don't, plus my mobile-to-mobile has gone from unlimite to 1000.
I'm a college student living in New York state, but I'm from Massachusetts. My friends and family back is MA can call me in NY as a local call because that's where my cell phone number is based in my hometown.
Granted it'd be nice for everyone to be able to call me as a local call, but cell phones have to join the land lines somewhere, and if the call doesn't originate nearby, thats long distance. Granted we could redesign the cell networks for multiple entry points, but who thinks they will invest to benefit consumers?
Bandwidth isn't exactly cheap. By making people who want it in the first week pay, they are probably just breaking even over the long haul of downloads.
Red Hat makes its money through support, box sets (really support), and possibly training. Nobody really makes money off of download. Bandwidth isn't that cheap.
... during a town meeting. He was a very smooth talker, along with Lt. Governor Kerry Healey, but the way he wants to reduce the state defecit is by cutting local aid. That's the primary mechanism in his plans.
True, he made many suggestions, like reducing the number of state owned SUVs in favor of Civic Hybrids, but he drives a state SUV himself. Also, I never saw anything come of many of his "common sense" initives to reduce state spending.
So, while I would love to see Linux replace '95 for the DOR, I wouldn't assocaite it with Romney's desire to reduce spending. Don't get me wrong, he's a good governor, but I still wouldn't coalate the two.
I used to work at an electronics retail store. We didn't sell much software, but we did a bit. As it was explained to me, the "no-return" policy was supported by both the manufacture and the retailer. The manufacture won't take it back for a return, and the store can't resell a non-shrink-wrapped POS (Piece of Software).
Many jobs require some type of background check and for good reason. This fall I worked officating middle school flag footbal for the local Rec Dept of the city. Because I would be working with children (I'm a high school student myself) and an employee of the city, I had to go through a CORY Check (criminal record, etc.).
Admittedly, a CORY is a far cry from a credit check, but you wan't the job don't you? I know this isn't what America supposedly stands for, but if you decline its presumed you have something to hide. So, if you want the IT job (I would) just sign the paper and move on.
Is it just me or has this not been around long enough for there to be any meaningful safety studies? I for one don't want to eat something until its been tested.
Verizon is already offering something similiar called "Express Network" that is available on the new expensive 3G phones. For something like a hundred bucks a month they will give you unlimited access as speeds that can max out at close to ISDN.
Sprint is rolling out a similiar service too.
Funny thing is that those technologies aren't catching very much. 3G isn't as big as everyone thought. And as much as I'd like to have 144 on my laptop, I'd need a laptop first, or maybe more than 44k at home. So, my question is, what makes this new in different in a way that will make it catch on?
This is particularly true in Verizon's case. However, they have implemented an innovative load-balancing system: when they think you have been on long enough, your call will be dropped to give someone else a chance.
Verizon isn't the only provided that drops long calls, its the defacto way to let someone new on when the tower is full.
Now, I wouldn't think Verizon would be as bad off as Cingular. Verizon is CDMA based (Code-Division) as opposed to TDMA (Time-Division) that Cingular is based on. You'd think CDMA would have an advantage. Pictures aren't on the site aparently, but they explain the differences well here, or just do some Googling.
To tangent off this slightly... My brother just got a VoiceStream phone from work. He works in the city and we live in the 'burbs. There's apparently only one tower in the area. If you leave the phone by the window, it will go up and down in signal strength from full to 1 bar (of four) in the course of about ten minutes. As far as we can reason, its because someone is making a call.
The best way to get MPEG-4 video with high quality and a low bit rate is to you two-pass encoding. Its very hard to do two-passes in real-time, seeing as you have to finish all of pass one before pass two begings.
Let's not forget where MPEG-4 got popularised: the Divx that was sold as rental replacement. The whole idea was to fit an entire movie in studio quality video on what was effectively a souped up CD. That was done in a process that was anything but realtime.
And you're absolutely right. Its not feasible at this time to encode 4 MPEG-4 streams at once given present technology in real-time. As per MPEG-2 being massive, that all depends on your perspective. To me it saves space compared to DV.
A dual 500 machine is more valuable as a PVR than a single 1.6 gig machine. Ideally you'd want 1 processor for playback and one to handle the other stuff (compression, etc...)
That depends on whether you have a kernel that can handle two CPU hogging procs at once. I'd go for a 1.6 on Linux over twin 500s in Windows any day of the week.
Don't forget that your typical TV crops about 20% of the image and ignores half frame. There's a reason why bugs are positioned at the top of the "lower third" of the frame.
Well, a lot of motherboards come with onboard RAID now, in addition to the regular ATA, so you could fit 8 IDE devices on one board.
That being said, you'd probably want to add a RAID Controller anyways. From my experience, they perform better than onboard chips which are usually stripped down. Either way though, you definately want to RAID the drives in at least RAID 0 if not RAID 5. Not only do you get a larger logical drive out of it, but the performance boost can help as well.
And, yes, as others have said, it varies VERY much by how much quality you want. Native DV (the defacto for "online" video editing) uses 40/3 GB/hr. That's roughly 30 Mbit/s based on my quick calculations. MPEG I/II/IV all offer various bitrates at various qualities. But, what you save at the harddrive you lose at the CPU there.
Something to remember is that many people are using theoretical maximum bandwidths when calculating the number of streams. When I run no-load write tests on my Video RAID, I usually only get 50-60 Mb/s. Granted the drives need some defragging and there are background processes running, but that's the real world.
We just got a Canopus DVStorm2 (roughly a $1200 real time editing card) at the station. It will allow you to simultaneous capture 3 streams into DV. I haven't tested it yet, but I'd assume I'd want to set each stream to its own drive to maximize performance. Probably could get away with two to a drive without headaches. I really wouldn't want to try all three without fear of losing a frame over an hour. Point is, be reasonable with your expectations from an IDE drive.
Motion detects motion by comparing a fresh grabbed image with a reference image. If there is no motion and no noise new_image-ref_image should be zero. If there has been a change in the picture the result will be different. To prevent noise to be seen as motion the change has to have a certain level and there have to be a certain amount of changes before a motion is declared.
The reference frame itself is recursifly updated with the new picture, so after it has been updated with pictureN it will consist out of: 1/2*pictureN + 1/4*pictureN-1 + 1/8*pictureN-2 and so on.
That's great for a stationary camera, but for anything with a jumpcuts (scene changes, commericials, etc), it obviously fails. So security cameras thats great. Don't use it for PVRs, but security cameras go for it.
... I work in public access television. I can see several uses for a cheap way to log multiple programs at once.
Non-Linear Editing
If you want to edit video on a computer, you need to "digitize" or "capture" it to the computer. Hook up multiple VTRs and capture multiple tapes at once. There are systems that exist to do this, but they are high dollar. This might not be cheep, but I'm sure there would be some free clock cycles to use.
Record Multiple Live Programs
Say you do a political talk show. You want to do all the research you can. The major networks all have good political shows on Sunday morning. With this you could record them all and watch them later. Yes you could just use VCRs, but that applys to ALL PVR applications.
Log Programming on Multiple Stations
Many public access stations are actually multiple channels. PEG (Public, Educational, and Government) is the standard for Local Access pretty much. You could record the station live from the past so many days and stream it online to catch recent programming.
Archiving
Say you have a large tape archive (the station I work at has beein archiving for under a month and has over 300 tapes) and want to store in a digital media. You could use the captured video either to make DVDs or store in low-res on a server for preview. With IDE RAIDs becoming less and less expensive, a terrabyte fileserver is now an option in the four figures.
And thats just what I can think of off the top of my head...
Anyone else want an RF Remote on such an animal? This is probably a seperate project, but how hard is it to get a remote to go "play" in whatever software you've selected?
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... that you climb a rock, you put Linux on the XBox.
It's there and you can prove to yourself you can do it.
Now where can I get a DeCSS RPM for X-Box Linux????
I don't mean to be troll, but I haven't seen my cell phone bill decrease any time lately. In fact, I'm paying more now for additional lines, and getting less.
I used to get them for $15 plus get 100 extra minutes per line, now its $20 and I don't, plus my mobile-to-mobile has gone from unlimite to 1000.
I'm a college student living in New York state, but I'm from Massachusetts. My friends and family back is MA can call me in NY as a local call because that's where my cell phone number is based in my hometown.
Granted it'd be nice for everyone to be able to call me as a local call, but cell phones have to join the land lines somewhere, and if the call doesn't originate nearby, thats long distance. Granted we could redesign the cell networks for multiple entry points, but who thinks they will invest to benefit consumers?
Bandwidth isn't exactly cheap. By making people who want it in the first week pay, they are probably just breaking even over the long haul of downloads.
Red Hat makes its money through support, box sets (really support), and possibly training. Nobody really makes money off of download. Bandwidth isn't that cheap.
I don't think you will ever have a DE that doesn't have some room for improvement. Its nice to see a comparison like this though.
... during a town meeting. He was a very smooth talker, along with Lt. Governor Kerry Healey, but the way he wants to reduce the state defecit is by cutting local aid. That's the primary mechanism in his plans.
True, he made many suggestions, like reducing the number of state owned SUVs in favor of Civic Hybrids, but he drives a state SUV himself. Also, I never saw anything come of many of his "common sense" initives to reduce state spending.
So, while I would love to see Linux replace '95 for the DOR, I wouldn't assocaite it with Romney's desire to reduce spending. Don't get me wrong, he's a good governor, but I still wouldn't coalate the two.
Up until yesterday I hadn't reached age majority. IANAL, but doesn't that void any contract I signed?
If anyone is a lawyer, what is the ramification of a minor "agreeing" to a EULA? I would think it would void the agreement, like any other contract.
I used to work at an electronics retail store. We didn't sell much software, but we did a bit. As it was explained to me, the "no-return" policy was supported by both the manufacture and the retailer. The manufacture won't take it back for a return, and the store can't resell a non-shrink-wrapped POS (Piece of Software).
Many jobs require some type of background check and for good reason. This fall I worked officating middle school flag footbal for the local Rec Dept of the city. Because I would be working with children (I'm a high school student myself) and an employee of the city, I had to go through a CORY Check (criminal record, etc.).
Admittedly, a CORY is a far cry from a credit check, but you wan't the job don't you? I know this isn't what America supposedly stands for, but if you decline its presumed you have something to hide. So, if you want the IT job (I would) just sign the paper and move on.
Is it just me or has this not been around long enough for there to be any meaningful safety studies? I for one don't want to eat something until its been tested.
Because everybody want's a secure computing platform, right?
I mean, who wouldn't want a computer that has all its data secure, is immune to hackers, and runs only Microsoft products?
Verizon is already offering something similiar called "Express Network" that is available on the new expensive 3G phones. For something like a hundred bucks a month they will give you unlimited access as speeds that can max out at close to ISDN.
Sprint is rolling out a similiar service too.
Funny thing is that those technologies aren't catching very much. 3G isn't as big as everyone thought. And as much as I'd like to have 144 on my laptop, I'd need a laptop first, or maybe more than 44k at home. So, my question is, what makes this new in different in a way that will make it catch on?
This is particularly true in Verizon's case. However, they have implemented an innovative load-balancing system: when they think you have been on long enough, your call will be dropped to give someone else a chance.
Verizon isn't the only provided that drops long calls, its the defacto way to let someone new on when the tower is full.
Now, I wouldn't think Verizon would be as bad off as Cingular. Verizon is CDMA based (Code-Division) as opposed to TDMA (Time-Division) that Cingular is based on. You'd think CDMA would have an advantage. Pictures aren't on the site aparently, but they explain the differences well here, or just do some Googling.
To tangent off this slightly... My brother just got a VoiceStream phone from work. He works in the city and we live in the 'burbs. There's apparently only one tower in the area. If you leave the phone by the window, it will go up and down in signal strength from full to 1 bar (of four) in the course of about ten minutes. As far as we can reason, its because someone is making a call.
The best way to get MPEG-4 video with high quality and a low bit rate is to you two-pass encoding. Its very hard to do two-passes in real-time, seeing as you have to finish all of pass one before pass two begings.
Let's not forget where MPEG-4 got popularised: the Divx that was sold as rental replacement. The whole idea was to fit an entire movie in studio quality video on what was effectively a souped up CD. That was done in a process that was anything but realtime.
And you're absolutely right. Its not feasible at this time to encode 4 MPEG-4 streams at once given present technology in real-time. As per MPEG-2 being massive, that all depends on your perspective. To me it saves space compared to DV.
Don't forget that your typical TV crops about 20% of the image and ignores half frame. There's a reason why bugs are positioned at the top of the "lower third" of the frame.
Well, a lot of motherboards come with onboard RAID now, in addition to the regular ATA, so you could fit 8 IDE devices on one board.
That being said, you'd probably want to add a RAID Controller anyways. From my experience, they perform better than onboard chips which are usually stripped down. Either way though, you definately want to RAID the drives in at least RAID 0 if not RAID 5. Not only do you get a larger logical drive out of it, but the performance boost can help as well.
And, yes, as others have said, it varies VERY much by how much quality you want. Native DV (the defacto for "online" video editing) uses 40/3 GB/hr. That's roughly 30 Mbit/s based on my quick calculations. MPEG I/II/IV all offer various bitrates at various qualities. But, what you save at the harddrive you lose at the CPU there.
Something to remember is that many people are using theoretical maximum bandwidths when calculating the number of streams. When I run no-load write tests on my Video RAID, I usually only get 50-60 Mb/s. Granted the drives need some defragging and there are background processes running, but that's the real world.
We just got a Canopus DVStorm2 (roughly a $1200 real time editing card) at the station. It will allow you to simultaneous capture 3 streams into DV. I haven't tested it yet, but I'd assume I'd want to set each stream to its own drive to maximize performance. Probably could get away with two to a drive without headaches. I really wouldn't want to try all three without fear of losing a frame over an hour. Point is, be reasonable with your expectations from an IDE drive.
I have to say though, isn't this really just an extremely striped down variant of MPEG style compression, or at least a similiar idea to Motion Compensation?
If you want to edit video on a computer, you need to "digitize" or "capture" it to the computer. Hook up multiple VTRs and capture multiple tapes at once. There are systems that exist to do this, but they are high dollar. This might not be cheep, but I'm sure there would be some free clock cycles to use.
Say you do a political talk show. You want to do all the research you can. The major networks all have good political shows on Sunday morning. With this you could record them all and watch them later. Yes you could just use VCRs, but that applys to ALL PVR applications.
Many public access stations are actually multiple channels. PEG (Public, Educational, and Government) is the standard for Local Access pretty much. You could record the station live from the past so many days and stream it online to catch recent programming.
Say you have a large tape archive (the station I work at has beein archiving for under a month and has over 300 tapes) and want to store in a digital media. You could use the captured video either to make DVDs or store in low-res on a server for preview. With IDE RAIDs becoming less and less expensive, a terrabyte fileserver is now an option in the four figures.
And thats just what I can think of off the top of my head...
Only when an office suite is a programming language too!
performance and stability might be the major considerations
Then what does MS make?
Anyone else want an RF Remote on such an animal? This is probably a seperate project, but how hard is it to get a remote to go "play" in whatever software you've selected?
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Does anyone else recall the notes attached to polls about not complaining about poll options?
Anyways, what does Batch do that Shell Scripting (also not included) doesn't again?
the sales of bathroom stalls for use in men's rooms is up 69.6%
Quote: they're going to think about migrating to PocketPC devices, as well.
Show me the $100 PocketPC that holds all the apps and data I could want and runs its OS smoothly and I'll buy one right now.