I work in video production for Time Warner Media Sales, which is part of Time Warner Cable... This rumor has been floating around our hallways for years. We all lament the AOL merger, not for their lack of profitability or sheer lameness, but because their corporate culture was sooooo different than ours. For example, AOL doesn't do their own video production, so their IT policies are way out of whack with running a production company... Plus, due to the questionable accounting practices at AOL before the merger, the corporation's main focus seems to be compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. That's fine, but let the bean-counters deal with that. I can't speak for the rest of the company, but I think breaking up into those divisions would be good for us. We stayed profitable throughout the last few years, despite any trouble that AOL and the others were going through. Anyway, the traditional end of the year story on the impending breakup of TW is not anything new.
If the camera and subject are stationary, you can combine a frame with the next one... or just deinterlace it in Photoshop. If either are moving, it becomes much more difficult. Even a slow-moving subject is moving too fast for a 60th of a second, which is essentially what one field of one frame of video is. The circumstances of each scene will dictate what technique works best. If the Wachowski brothers (?) installed the security system, sure, you could have complete 3d rotation of a subject. The simple fact is that most places don't use high end cameras. They tend to use package deals with 4 (at most) cameras feeding into a recorder. Many of those recorders are VHS decks or digital recorders that compress the hell out of the signal. Many of the VHS tapes are used over and over and over. Factor in camera placement, lighting, and any efforts to conceal one's identity... It's a hell of a lot harder to do than CSI makes it look. That's coming from 20 years of computer graphics experience, and 13 years of digital video editing experience.
I work in video production, and I've actually assisted the cops in trying to get usable information off of security tapes. Even DV at 720x486 is pretty worthless when you blow it up. If the information isn't there, the information isn't there. I like CSI and its ilk, but that always drives me crazy... The same way Hackers drives all of you CS guys crazy. There's some "enhancement" that you can do, but you are limited by the number of pixels in the original.
I run it, as well as Illustrator, on a 1.4 (?) Ghz iBook all the time. It runs just fine. Yes, my Dual 2Ghz G5 runs it faster, but it's still very usable. The only real downside is the lack of screen real estate.
Initially, the products available through Glide's E-commerce system will include music, ring tones, chocolate, photo prints, and personalized products.
Chocolate? How does chocolate fit in with any of the other services they're talking about?
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Not that I've ever met him personally, but "fat, old, and nice" sounds an awful lot like Santa Claus... or at least Captain Kangaroo.
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I do a lot of editing, mostly for commercials, and one of the most common statements made is "Oh well, he can just fix it in post"... The real problem is that you would have to edit it in pretty much real time, which gets tedious real fast. I also run cameras for some locally produced shows, one of which is a bowling (don't laugh) show. It really depends on what your time is worth. The investment in multiple cameras, a decent switcher, and lots of hard drive space will pay off if you do a lot of that kind of work. For bowling, we run three cameras... One static, one on the lanes/pins, and one set up out by the pins that gets the players. Two people run cameras, one person edits on the fly... It's a lot of effort for something as boring to watch as bowling, but once we're done, we're done.
This 360 degree thing might be cool to play with, but for sports in particular, it doesn't seem that useful to me. There's a lot of ground to cover for soccer, so you would need MASSIVE resolution to do pan and scan in post.
Let's see... I put $20 in my tank today, at $2.65 a gallon... That will last me until about Friday... So, if prices keep going the way they're going, I'd break even by the end of October.
As someone who makes a living making art, and helps others do the same, allow me to say... go fuck yourself. As for contributing something, I'm pretty sure that the dozens of small businesses that trust me to create their corporate identities and market presence feel like I'm "contributing something". Making a product out of next to nothing that helps somebody else get their products to market, as well as provide income for their employeees, isn't exactly curing cancer, but it's absolutely contributing. It's my profession and my source of income... and it is most definitely a "real" job. If you're speaking about overpaid popstars in particular, you need to be more specific before saying that "Artists should have real jobs...".
So, if a riot is about to cause property damage to my business, I can "protest" that damage by having a "physical presence" outside with a baseball bat?
The funniest "riot" I ever saw was in Bronxville, NY when the LA riots broke out. Bobby Seale had just done a speaking gig at Sarah Lawrence College, on a book tour for a cookbook. After the Q&A failed to get him to really talk about the Black Panthers, the news about the verdict/riot in LA reached people in the auditorium. The resulting "mob" of protesters that went "storming" through the streets of Bronxville was the most laughable bunch of retards I have ever seen. Out of maybe 100 people, I would bet that two came from "working class" families. The rest were soft, stupid, spoiled little rich kids. I laughed my ass off when one of these trustfundifarians snapped the antenna off of a car... and the owner came walking out of the store it was in front of and beat the piss out of him.
If you think a protet has to turn violent to get people's attention, you should not be at all upset when another group arrives to "protest" by smashing out the windows on your cars and throwing rocks at you.
The local paper doesn't have archives online, but it was in the Jamestown Post Journal, and on Cable 8 News, when it happened. It was just a few years ago.
The future of cars according to Gates will involve high-definition screens, speech recognition technology, cameras, digital calendars and navigation equipment with directions and road conditions."
I can see it now... Microsoft will also open a chain of gas stations. The speech recognition gear will hear you say "Hmmm, need to get gas soon..." and suddenly, your car will veer of the road into the nearest default gas station. Sure, you'll try like hell to change your preferences, but it will always default to Microsoft Fuel 1.0 when you aren't looking. Then of course there's the really obnoxious pop ups that ask you "Do you really want to turn here?"... And, don't forget the trojans... Your free screensaver will cause your car to be hijacked and you'll end up parked in front of some sketchy strip mall with stores like "P3NIS 3NLARG3M3NT WRRLD" "HOT 18 YEAR OLDS & DONKEYS 'R' US"...
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I work in video production for Time Warner Media Sales, which is part of Time Warner Cable... This rumor has been floating around our hallways for years. We all lament the AOL merger, not for their lack of profitability or sheer lameness, but because their corporate culture was sooooo different than ours. For example, AOL doesn't do their own video production, so their IT policies are way out of whack with running a production company... Plus, due to the questionable accounting practices at AOL before the merger, the corporation's main focus seems to be compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. That's fine, but let the bean-counters deal with that. I can't speak for the rest of the company, but I think breaking up into those divisions would be good for us. We stayed profitable throughout the last few years, despite any trouble that AOL and the others were going through. Anyway, the traditional end of the year story on the impending breakup of TW is not anything new.
If the camera and subject are stationary, you can combine a frame with the next one... or just deinterlace it in Photoshop. If either are moving, it becomes much more difficult. Even a slow-moving subject is moving too fast for a 60th of a second, which is essentially what one field of one frame of video is. The circumstances of each scene will dictate what technique works best. If the Wachowski brothers (?) installed the security system, sure, you could have complete 3d rotation of a subject. The simple fact is that most places don't use high end cameras. They tend to use package deals with 4 (at most) cameras feeding into a recorder. Many of those recorders are VHS decks or digital recorders that compress the hell out of the signal. Many of the VHS tapes are used over and over and over. Factor in camera placement, lighting, and any efforts to conceal one's identity... It's a hell of a lot harder to do than CSI makes it look. That's coming from 20 years of computer graphics experience, and 13 years of digital video editing experience.
I work in video production, and I've actually assisted the cops in trying to get usable information off of security tapes. Even DV at 720x486 is pretty worthless when you blow it up. If the information isn't there, the information isn't there. I like CSI and its ilk, but that always drives me crazy... The same way Hackers drives all of you CS guys crazy. There's some "enhancement" that you can do, but you are limited by the number of pixels in the original.
I run it, as well as Illustrator, on a 1.4 (?) Ghz iBook all the time. It runs just fine. Yes, my Dual 2Ghz G5 runs it faster, but it's still very usable. The only real downside is the lack of screen real estate.
Amen.
Then that would be the dreaded Yellow Note?
Not that I've ever met him personally, but "fat, old, and nice" sounds an awful lot like Santa Claus... or at least Captain Kangaroo.
Must be he's got the cruise control set on his Winnebago...
This 360 degree thing might be cool to play with, but for sports in particular, it doesn't seem that useful to me. There's a lot of ground to cover for soccer, so you would need MASSIVE resolution to do pan and scan in post.
Now if we (Time Warner) could just cancel the merger...
It looks like they also designed a web server that can "morph" into a molten slag heap...
Nobody plans on fucking a crocodile, but drink enough beer, and you just never know. Try to avoid the blowjob if possible.
Let's see... I put $20 in my tank today, at $2.65 a gallon... That will last me until about Friday... So, if prices keep going the way they're going, I'd break even by the end of October.
As someone who makes a living making art, and helps others do the same, allow me to say... go fuck yourself. As for contributing something, I'm pretty sure that the dozens of small businesses that trust me to create their corporate identities and market presence feel like I'm "contributing something". Making a product out of next to nothing that helps somebody else get their products to market, as well as provide income for their employeees, isn't exactly curing cancer, but it's absolutely contributing. It's my profession and my source of income... and it is most definitely a "real" job. If you're speaking about overpaid popstars in particular, you need to be more specific before saying that "Artists should have real jobs...".
Ironically, I actually do work in marketing... Not for Apple, but for a very large Death Star-like company.
11 Buttons? Are you sure it's not just a really shitty keyboard?
The funniest "riot" I ever saw was in Bronxville, NY when the LA riots broke out. Bobby Seale had just done a speaking gig at Sarah Lawrence College, on a book tour for a cookbook. After the Q&A failed to get him to really talk about the Black Panthers, the news about the verdict/riot in LA reached people in the auditorium. The resulting "mob" of protesters that went "storming" through the streets of Bronxville was the most laughable bunch of retards I have ever seen. Out of maybe 100 people, I would bet that two came from "working class" families. The rest were soft, stupid, spoiled little rich kids. I laughed my ass off when one of these trustfundifarians snapped the antenna off of a car... and the owner came walking out of the store it was in front of and beat the piss out of him.
If you think a protet has to turn violent to get people's attention, you should not be at all upset when another group arrives to "protest" by smashing out the windows on your cars and throwing rocks at you.
The local paper doesn't have archives online, but it was in the Jamestown Post Journal, and on Cable 8 News, when it happened. It was just a few years ago.
Not true. I live about 20 minutes from "Amish country". A few years ago, a very large crystal meth operation was busted... it was run by the Amish.
I just wanted to add a comment to get the total up to 666... seems fitting.
I don't know... The 80 year old man that lived next to me as a child used to call me "Tiger"... That was 1974. You'll be hearing from my lawyers.
If it is indeed a REAL ID, I'll make my escape while my info is buffering... buffering... buffering... timeout error.
I can see it now... Microsoft will also open a chain of gas stations. The speech recognition gear will hear you say "Hmmm, need to get gas soon..." and suddenly, your car will veer of the road into the nearest default gas station. Sure, you'll try like hell to change your preferences, but it will always default to Microsoft Fuel 1.0 when you aren't looking. Then of course there's the really obnoxious pop ups that ask you "Do you really want to turn here?"... And, don't forget the trojans... Your free screensaver will cause your car to be hijacked and you'll end up parked in front of some sketchy strip mall with stores like "P3NIS 3NLARG3M3NT WRRLD" "HOT 18 YEAR OLDS & DONKEYS 'R' US"...
This is going to be great!