I spent eight years in a very small cabinet specializing in investors relations and general multimedia and print production.
The best part was the last years where we cutted down to 4 employees counting the boss's wife helping us with the e-mails. This is the kind of job where you can leave for pretty any good reason (going to the bank while open, repair car, good party, you get the picture).
But in return, when we are in big production, I can work over 110 hours a week to produce an event alone. (dealing with the client, shooting and editing video, producing printed material, coordinating technical equipment, producing the webcast, consulting with vice-presidents about words to use, changing thext in presentation 5 minutes before we are live, billing him, you get the picture) One person could do all the job very efficiently. I have no need to tell people what I want, I just do it.
So the big pictures boils down to this : with great power comes great responsibility.
NB.: This compagny just closed due to lack of clients, but his is due to specific economic situation in Quebec (We were working a LOT with the wood and paper companies. Our dollar going up means less export, and with the problem canada had with the US special taxe not helping...) We were the cheaper best quality event producing home in Montreal. We even won a gol prize with one of our video (http://www.global-maximage.com/global2/). The video is on the first page but it's in french.
Apple is designing it's new ultrathin tablets with multiple arm processors (4 to 8 processors... multicore ?).
I don't know the specs for ARM processors tought. It may enable extra long battery life devices.
And since we are here, a partership with Nintendo for a commom reference platform would be very nice! Imagine if you could play GB/NES/SNES/N64 games on your iPod and Gamecube, Revolution titles on your Next gen PowerMac and eventually PowerBooks.
An option kit with controllers, a game and little extra hardware from nintendo to make profit.
It would solve the lack of games availability.
But a much sompler solution would be a dual proc G6/cell with proper Nvidia card with playstation 1,2,3 compatilibity and controllers would be nicer tough.
First, I must admin that I listened the movie from the comfirt of my home, with the convenience of two timecodes blocking the image.
After viewing the movie with my friend, we agreed that while the acting was not very good, the movie delivered what we expected.
And I completely agree that Lucas completely butched the first three ones by giving Anaking about 3 days to become evil. But I think Lucas's bankers think otherwise...
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I, personnaly, am a college drop out.
As soon as I droped, I was graphic designer for the Annual Shareholders Meeting. It was the first year the cabinet that hired me got it, after almost 8 years of dinners...
We did their meeting 3 or 4 years in a row.
In 5 years, I did more than 15 corporate events, had 3 months in the press industry, a month in photo development, a year investing in a sound studio, being kinda ripped off but learned a lot...
Before I decided to drop, I asked some teachers about that. One resumed very well the situation : "If you don't want to teach, you don't need the degree.".
Now, i'm in a creative sector, not like engineering, and i'm kinda talented, don't try this at home. Our schools, even if underressourced, is still a source of knowledge.
Maybe I was just lucky, who knows?
If I had money, I would fund you, no more war 3...
If I would be rich enough, I would bill everyone a good will bill, that everybody would be shure to follow. So Peace would become more thgan an idea, but idea it is.... and it should stay in our ear, so live with it people...
It is not a matter of how much quantity we keep pushing stuff in the air, it's a matter of how much in how many time.
The ecosystem is capable of dealing with pollution up to a certain point. Massively depleting our fossil fuel is not a solution. Plus, from what are you going to make your plastic after that.
These greenies kept their mouth shut to not insult you, or maybe they detected that you woud'nt understand the issues.
As a young one man web shop entrepreneur,
I must say that computer classes teached limited stuff (at least in the 90's).
I remember a computer class where I learned logo. Yes, logo. How depressing... Anyway, I ask the teacher how to integrate sound with my "game". He told me it was impossible. Ten seconsd after I typed something like sound 5000 500...
We all learned something in this class this day, sound was banned by the teacher who was a real douche. The best material we got was a videotape from the 70's for god sake, showing us pre 80-86 low rank yields being trashed away (computers are complicated...). For months we mainly trained typing on brand new machines... with learning dos a command an hour.
I wrote my name on a computer before I draw!
And yes, everybody else was completely lost, except for some jerks playing wolfenstein.
Ha 1994 !
I am working in multimedia production, including video. For lossless video compression (yuy, yuv or rgb) you can use HUFFYUV. The original site have vanished but some goggling will lend you to this.
I used it for lossless outputs, lossless hi-res projections etc... stable and all, it think it's free software.
I am working in multimedia production, including video. For lossless video compression (yuy, yuv or rgb) you can use HUFFYUV. The original site have vanished but some goggling will lend you to this.
I used it for lossless outputs, lossless hi-res projections etc... stable and all, it think it's free software.
You are not the only one who belive in "manual" coding. In fact it happens to ma that I work faster and ways of magnitude better in hard coding than in nightmareweaver. Those people are not webmasters.
If the solution you chose require workers to change their habits, you will be confronted to the resistance of change.
SOLUTION
Share a folder (ex.: backup) on each workstation and tell your staff to move their data into this directory so you can script a network backup that start automatically at 5 pm...
Why try to change the people way of working?
You will only find the resistance to change and
will make things run less smoothly.
Solution:
Users should only care about puting all their files into a local directory (shared as backup) and launch a script that copy all the files in local directory and synchronise to a removable HD for offsite backup.
Is this making sense for you?
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If the industry survive, they made too much money.... If they dont, they didn't asdapted well, their problem.... Me happy!
I spent eight years in a very small cabinet specializing in investors relations and general multimedia and print production.
The best part was the last years where we cutted down to 4 employees counting the boss's wife helping us with the e-mails. This is the kind of job where you can leave for pretty any good reason (going to the bank while open, repair car, good party, you get the picture).
But in return, when we are in big production, I can work over 110 hours a week to produce an event alone. (dealing with the client, shooting and editing video, producing printed material, coordinating technical equipment, producing the webcast, consulting with vice-presidents about words to use, changing thext in presentation 5 minutes before we are live, billing him, you get the picture) One person could do all the job very efficiently. I have no need to tell people what I want, I just do it.
So the big pictures boils down to this : with great power comes great responsibility.
NB.: This compagny just closed due to lack of clients, but his is due to specific economic situation in Quebec (We were working a LOT with the wood and paper companies. Our dollar going up means less export, and with the problem canada had with the US special taxe not helping...) We were the cheaper best quality event producing home in Montreal. We even won a gol prize with one of our video (http://www.global-maximage.com/global2/). The video is on the first page but it's in french.
Hope this has been helpful.
Reporters use Sony PD-170 (if SD is enough) in a rugged roadcase.
Usually the problems occurs in transport, not usage and manipulation. So a rugged roadcase would protect the equipement, even of fragile.
Apple is designing it's new ultrathin tablets with multiple arm processors (4 to 8 processors... multicore ?).
I don't know the specs for ARM processors tought. It may enable extra long battery life devices.
And since we are here, a partership with Nintendo for a commom reference platform would be very nice! Imagine if you could play GB/NES/SNES/N64 games on your iPod and Gamecube, Revolution titles on your Next gen PowerMac and eventually PowerBooks.
An option kit with controllers, a game and little extra hardware from nintendo to make profit.
It would solve the lack of games availability.
But a much sompler solution would be a dual proc G6/cell with proper Nvidia card with playstation 1,2,3 compatilibity and controllers would be nicer tough.
First, I must admin that I listened the movie from the comfirt of my home, with the convenience of two timecodes blocking the image.
After viewing the movie with my friend, we agreed that while the acting was not very good, the movie delivered what we expected.
And I completely agree that Lucas completely butched the first three ones by giving Anaking about 3 days to become evil. But I think Lucas's bankers think otherwise...
Gargouille
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Visit H.O.T. Team, the weekly web comic
www.hot-team.org - Version originale française
www.hot-team.org?en - English version
I know I will get modded redundant but this trick really works !
It proves one point, the government consider the rights of corporations to make money for money sake is more important than people in general.
I am disgusted from this society.
I, personnaly, am a college drop out. As soon as I droped, I was graphic designer for the Annual Shareholders Meeting. It was the first year the cabinet that hired me got it, after almost 8 years of dinners... We did their meeting 3 or 4 years in a row. In 5 years, I did more than 15 corporate events, had 3 months in the press industry, a month in photo development, a year investing in a sound studio, being kinda ripped off but learned a lot... Before I decided to drop, I asked some teachers about that. One resumed very well the situation : "If you don't want to teach, you don't need the degree.". Now, i'm in a creative sector, not like engineering, and i'm kinda talented, don't try this at home. Our schools, even if underressourced, is still a source of knowledge. Maybe I was just lucky, who knows?
Isn't there prior art exist ?
That's what I want to ear... you people get on and move on. Get togheter for god sake...
If I had money, I would fund you, no more war 3...
If I would be rich enough, I would bill everyone a good will bill, that everybody would be shure to follow. So Peace would become more thgan an idea, but idea it is.... and it should stay in our ear, so live with it people...
Take a look there, hot swap PCI exists, but it's not as cheap as "open your case". Maybe apple should consider for his server and pro line-up...
http://www.trioniq.com/
You obviously never readed about environnement.
It is not a matter of how much quantity we keep pushing stuff in the air, it's a matter of how much in how many time.
The ecosystem is capable of dealing with pollution up to a certain point. Massively depleting our fossil fuel is not a solution. Plus, from what are you going to make your plastic after that.
These greenies kept their mouth shut to not insult you, or maybe they detected that you woud'nt understand the issues.
This is like O'Reilly telling people to shut off instead of using... ... appropriate words.
As a young one man web shop entrepreneur, I must say that computer classes teached limited stuff (at least in the 90's). I remember a computer class where I learned logo. Yes, logo. How depressing... Anyway, I ask the teacher how to integrate sound with my "game". He told me it was impossible. Ten seconsd after I typed something like sound 5000 500... We all learned something in this class this day, sound was banned by the teacher who was a real douche. The best material we got was a videotape from the 70's for god sake, showing us pre 80-86 low rank yields being trashed away (computers are complicated...). For months we mainly trained typing on brand new machines... with learning dos a command an hour. I wrote my name on a computer before I draw! And yes, everybody else was completely lost, except for some jerks playing wolfenstein. Ha 1994 !
I have worked on several corp. events, and we used to pass time with pinball on big screen when everything is installed.
I am working in multimedia production, including video. For lossless video compression (yuy, yuv or rgb) you can use HUFFYUV. The original site have vanished but some goggling will lend you to this.
I used it for lossless outputs, lossless hi-res projections etc... stable and all, it think it's free software.
I am working in multimedia production, including video. For lossless video compression (yuy, yuv or rgb) you can use HUFFYUV. The original site have vanished but some goggling will lend you to this.
I used it for lossless outputs, lossless hi-res projections etc... stable and all, it think it's free software.
You are not the only one who belive in "manual" coding. In fact it happens to ma that I work faster and ways of magnitude better in hard coding than in nightmareweaver. Those people are not webmasters.
You can export the frames of the 2 seconds (between two cuts)
Then reimport the edited frames and replace only the required edited sequence
only need couple of megabytes !!!
Video production can be cheap on megabytes if you know what you do !
If the solution you chose require workers to change their habits, you will be confronted to the resistance of change.
SOLUTION
Share a folder (ex.: backup) on each workstation and tell your staff to move their data into this directory so you can script a network backup that start automatically at 5 pm...
Is it making sense for your situation ?
Why try to change the people way of working? You will only find the resistance to change and will make things run less smoothly. Solution: Users should only care about puting all their files into a local directory (shared as backup) and launch a script that copy all the files in local directory and synchronise to a removable HD for offsite backup. Is this making sense for you?