He did demand that NASA throw all its financial resources into some pie-in-the-sky moon base and manned Mars mission and then summarily cut their budget for everything else, so, yes, George W. Bush is very much to blame for this particular decision.
Is this the same "risk study" that they failed to do when they arbitrarily decided to destroy the Hubble telescope rather than repair their most successful scientific mission to date?
Just wondering, because I read that since Congress actually called them out on it, they're trying to retroactively produce their risk analysis to justify the decision, and this is the kind of bullshit that sounds an awful lot like their same old "we're too scared to do anything anymore" attitude.
You would have to replace my eyes and my visual cortex with substantial upgrades for me to be able to perceive down to the crystal level.
I'm not talking about the current theatrical experience, I'm talking about uses that have yet to be invented or even conceived yet, though I suspect the extra information would be most useful for restoration algorithms, as having more original data to work with tends to always improve performance from what I've seen.
You paid $50,000 for your home stereo didn't you?
Certainly not. I don't even own a stereo, I just use a modest pair of headphones plugged directly into my motherboard's soundcard. I'm not talking about an end-user experience here, I'm talking about preserving a work with the most original information possible so future generations may study it in ways we do not currently understand.
Crystal resolution is neither good nor bad. It simply is, as in it's your original material you have to work with, since you can't go back and reshoot the scenes of the movie with the original actors (who have either aged considerably or died). High fidelity reproduction down to the crystal level is important because we may discover new ways to use that information in the future to enhance perception of the material, but if the original film is destroyed and the digital copy leaves out these details, you're out of luck.
That's quite a cool idea. Sort of reminds me of Richard Feynman's essay There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom, where he discusses a hypothetical limit on data storage using the arrangement of individual atoms in various crystalline structures. If we can get all the information about the film down to the molecular scale (which is rapidly becoming feasable with the advance of digital storage technology) we would finally be able to make a perfect analogue reproduction instead of the (reasonable, for today's technology) approximations offered by current optical scanning technology.
I'd be quite interested to hear about what kind of noise removal algorithms they use to remove all the dirt spots from the high-res film scans. From what I know of the film industry, most effects houses still use someone (or several someones) at a Linux workstation using Cinepaint (nee Film Gimp) to manually paint over suspension wires for films like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Have they found some way to automate this, or can they not yet trust the algorithms enough yet that they still have to manually go over each frame and correct the dirt spots based on previous and future frames?
Maybe in an academic, theoretical sense it's the "proper" place for optimization, but as far as I can tell, the lack of good compilers is one of the major misfeatures that ended up stalling adoption until better, more compatible architectures like x86-64 came out.
Bloated in what sense? It's not like Firefox doesn't gobble up memory like there's no tomorrow. Did you mean bloated as in "has more features at absolutely no memory penalty and at a performance gain"?
Here I was, all set to read an interesting article about technical solutions to the problem of heat transfer on microelectronic chips, and instead all I get is a bunch of fluffy gibberish that looks like it was written by a sophomore communications major in college.
What the hard drive advocates here seem to be forgetting is that it is far preferable to be able to seperate your storage medium from the mechanism that plays it back. If your tape drive breaks for whatever reason, you buy another tape drive and continue storing/retrieving data as before. If your hard drive's electronics fail, the head starts sticking or any number of other things that can happen to this startlingly complex array of precisely manufactured components when left in cold storage for a long time, you've just lost not only your I/O mechanism but also the data contained with it, unless you want to go through some exhorbitantly expensive data recovery process (to whose prices I'm sure the IT professionals here can attest.).
Not that tapes are necessarily the answer, but it is a better idea to get seperation between storage medium and I/O mechanisms.
I wouldn't bother with ArsTechnica. For the definitive guide to capturing analog video and digitally archiving it, you would want to read this guide on Doom9. Plus, they have many other video-related guides on that site and a forum that is second to none in terms of the sheer amount of expertise exhibited by the users there.
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A Subaru out-accelerate a Ferrari? Sorry, not any US-sold model of Subaru. Not even an STi - they're much too heavy. Have you ever seen a power:weight comparison of the two? A Ferrari F430 is lighter, more powerful (by 190 hp), orders of magnitude cooler and accelerates from 0 to 60 in four seconds flat. It has better brakes, better handling, better drivetrain, better... everything.
I have no idea what model of Honda you could be referring to, but it sure as hell isn't an NSX or any other Honda sold in America.
I mean, I understand that everyone and their brother has been eagerly awaiting the release of this game and all, but isn't Bungie going just a bit overboard in threatening to ban from the game anyone who even talks about it? I have an X-Box, what are they going to do, ban me from posting when they see this post? I see a whole lot of Slashdotters getting their rights taken away all because they say something trivial about the game, like how Master Chief dies in Halo 2. Vile.
On the other hand, I do hope they catch the real perpetrators, as they are obviously stealing software and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law possible. Nabbing a CD off an assembly line is no better than downloading the game off the internet, it's stealing plain and simple.
We have tourists for the beaches. Never have I seen someone walking down the street carrying a laptop or whatever wishing they could get online. This is an asinine idea.
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Just wondering, because I read that since Congress actually called them out on it, they're trying to retroactively produce their risk analysis to justify the decision, and this is the kind of bullshit that sounds an awful lot like their same old "we're too scared to do anything anymore" attitude.
I'm not talking about the current theatrical experience, I'm talking about uses that have yet to be invented or even conceived yet, though I suspect the extra information would be most useful for restoration algorithms, as having more original data to work with tends to always improve performance from what I've seen.
You paid $50,000 for your home stereo didn't you?
Certainly not. I don't even own a stereo, I just use a modest pair of headphones plugged directly into my motherboard's soundcard. I'm not talking about an end-user experience here, I'm talking about preserving a work with the most original information possible so future generations may study it in ways we do not currently understand.
Crystal resolution is neither good nor bad. It simply is, as in it's your original material you have to work with, since you can't go back and reshoot the scenes of the movie with the original actors (who have either aged considerably or died). High fidelity reproduction down to the crystal level is important because we may discover new ways to use that information in the future to enhance perception of the material, but if the original film is destroyed and the digital copy leaves out these details, you're out of luck.
(BTW, the Feynman essay can be found in the excellent collection of essays entitled The Pleasure of Finding Things Out .)
Have they found some way to automate this, or can they not yet trust the algorithms enough yet that they still have to manually go over each frame and correct the dirt spots based on previous and future frames?
I think you totally made this shit up. Too many components of your story make absolutely no sense.
Maybe in an academic, theoretical sense it's the "proper" place for optimization, but as far as I can tell, the lack of good compilers is one of the major misfeatures that ended up stalling adoption until better, more compatible architectures like x86-64 came out.
What? IBM already uses POWER in it's high-end server products. What do you think they develop it for, anyway?
There is no mass component in pressure. It is force over area - no mass involved.
Bloated in what sense? It's not like Firefox doesn't gobble up memory like there's no tomorrow. Did you mean bloated as in "has more features at absolutely no memory penalty and at a performance gain"?
Color this mechanical engineer disappointed.
Not that tapes are necessarily the answer, but it is a better idea to get seperation between storage medium and I/O mechanisms.
I wouldn't bother with ArsTechnica. For the definitive guide to capturing analog video and digitally archiving it, you would want to read this guide on Doom9. Plus, they have many other video-related guides on that site and a forum that is second to none in terms of the sheer amount of expertise exhibited by the users there.
I have no idea what model of Honda you could be referring to, but it sure as hell isn't an NSX or any other Honda sold in America.
On the other hand, I do hope they catch the real perpetrators, as they are obviously stealing software and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law possible. Nabbing a CD off an assembly line is no better than downloading the game off the internet, it's stealing plain and simple.
I don't really think any more needs to be said.
We have tourists for the beaches. Never have I seen someone walking down the street carrying a laptop or whatever wishing they could get online. This is an asinine idea.
The trick, I assume, would be to train them to not eat you alive when they and their hoardes of friends find you.
But can you tell me when that converges?
Hey genius, you can do all that with MPEG-compressed video. You're an idiot.
Looks like somebody's just discovered the terrible secret of space!
What does this counter-example teach you?
At least with the examples you mentioned, you don't really know ahead of time that they will be winning for the rest of the year.
If it's anything like my university, I'd just smile, nod and then promptly continue to violate whatever stupid rule was just passed.