Stuff shot analog on IMAX (on film), never processed, no effects whatsoever, and then projected, is high resolution - about 6K - so higher than 4K, but not by much.
However, special effects on IMAX are typically processed at 4K resolution (scan the film to digital, do the effect, print back to film). So any effects are at 4K, same as we're talking about here. (If you pay close attention you can see the resolution drop at the beginning of an effect).
There is an IMAX digital format - digital storage, digital projection - but that is only 2K resolution, so no better than HDTV.
Talking about IMAX - with Kodak now bankrupt, basing your technology on film stock only available from Kodak seems a bit short sighted... no wonder companies like NHK are stepping in to fill the void.
This has been done, in small volume, for years. They've been editing movies in 4K resolution for a very long time now - 10+ years.
The disk bandwidth is simple - just many drives striped across many controllers. You need many drives to store the file sizes we're talking about anyway. Rotating magnetic drives are used - they're still cheaper when you're talking 100 TB or more, and they were all that was available until recently.
And, the cheapest way to send large amounts of data is to just FedEx your drive array. Most editing of a film is done in one location, so there's not much need - but if you have different post houses working on the same film, it's done.
So all we're talking about is taking what is already being done at a professional level, and make it smaller/cheaper/simpler for the consumer.
I had to sign that I would be willing to take a loyalty oath as condition of employment (didn't have to actually take an oath, though).
Loyalty to what? (Not trying to be snarky, genuinely curious).
If it is to the USA.... what about professors from other countries? Aren't they the kind of lecturers who are in demand - but they couldn't logically swear loyalty to a country they aren't a citizen of?
they seized ExxonMobil assets and kicked them out, making their refineries state-controlled, which is really wonderful.
FTFY. Keeping a Venezuelan resource in the country, providing a benefit for Venezuelans rather than some mega-rich foreign corporation, is not a bad thing.
Amateur radio licencees can use much higher power on some 802.11b/g frequencies (1500 watts, versus 1 watt), and so can use amplifiers that are illegal for the general public. However, it doesn't solve the problem at all - you need bidirectional communications for things to work. Boosting the AP transmit power doesn't make it receive any better. Adding a receiver preamplifier helps some, but since they boost the noise as well as the signal, they aren't as useful as you'd think.
If you need to boost a signal in one direction only (for instance, a single-floor dwelling with the AP at one end), antennas are a good solution. Otherwise, more than one AP is the best answer.
I guess this applies to *new* books as well: Amazon buys a book from the publisher. You buy it from Amazon. Isn't that the second sale? Why is Amazon allowed to resell what they buy, but you are not??
Why do I need a law about cookies when I can very easily manage who I allow to put cookies on my machine?
Pray tell, how do you "easily manage" this?
The problem is, most web sites these days need cookies just to function. Web browers generally have a "allow cookies, but erase them all on exit" setting, which allows you to browse the web, but not get tracked(*). However, I see no easy way of setting things up to allow some sites to place permanent cookies, and all others to have them erased on exit.
(*) - of course, cookies are only one of the ways web sites can track you....
If a 600 watt PSU - an average size - is 80% efficient, then it is wasting 120 watts, or about two standard incandescent light bulbs. Not a major factor.
Canada is a large country, with varying utility costs - but in Quebec, electricity is extremely inexpensive. Massive projects like James Bay generate so much power that the excess is sold at a nice profit to various New England states.
Actually, URL shortening services are worse - the malware could be inserted by the shortening service itself. Two points of attack, instead of just one.
It constantly amuses me how many newspapers have articles and editorials saying how evil the Libyan government is - and then they use the bit.ly service to link to other material.
and 4) if you can't scan the QR code when you see it, you have a reasonable chance of remembering a decent URL; you have zero chance of remembering a QR code.
Right, and when the plane is taking off... most of the time over/nearly over a city... there aren't FAR more transmitters on towers in the vicinity with FAR higher power.
Transmitters not close to each other aren't much of an issue. Transmitters on the same tower *are* an issue - but they are heavily checked for IM products, both by the radio engineers who design/install the transmitters, and by the FCC monitoring bureau. There is usually lots of very expensive (and very large) equipment to prevent such interference - such as cavity resonators - that are not practical to add to a consumer product.
Really? There are some engineers that would tend to disagree with you. Thats the beauty of the digital age. Our radios aren't passive, they are active now. They can filter AND reject on their own AND cope with the problem. Extreme cases may lead to loss of signal, but they certainly can reject bad signals and validate the integrity of the signal. Hell, even GPS signals can be validated and ARE in military receivers.
Digital can actually make things worse. Static and distortion on an analog voice channel doesn't usually make the channel unusable - humans can understand speech that is very garbled. However, knock out one single bit on most digital channels, and the entire message is invalid. That's the problem with digital broadcast television - people living on the fringe used to be able to watch a snowy TV picture. Now they just get digital blocks and screeching audio.
I always assumed it was because takeoff and landing are done at the lowest altitiudes, and have a higher risk of an emergency happening.
Also, at low altitudes, there is very little margin of error. Even a small air pocket can cause a plane to drop 100 feet - not an issue at 30,000 feet, but very very bad when flying at 50 feet.
Why can I read a paper book, but not a Kindle?
Last time I checked, a paper book does not have two radio transmitters inside.
One single device won't. That's why one passenger ignoring the instructions may happen a lot, but isn't a real issue.
The problem is having several radio devices in close proximity transmitting at the same time, because of intermodulation. Two transmitters can produce interference at a third frequency - one that neither device is designed to transmit on. The more devices you have - and the more frequencies involved - the more likely such interference is, which increases the chance that some spurious product lands directly on a frequency critical to the aircraft.
Any commercial radio will reject other frequencies quite well; *no* radio can reject interference on a frequency it is trying to receive.
The sort of USB->SATA chipsets used in USB CD-ROMs, which are universally cheap devices nowadays, will likely not pass data through faithfully enough to be useful for accurate CD ripping.
So, you're saying that a SATA CD drive is not bit-accurate? Then how come I can boot and run a live-CD linux distro from one??
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Don't Catholics serve wine to teenagers at Communion?
Stuff shot analog on IMAX (on film), never processed, no effects whatsoever, and then projected, is high resolution - about 6K - so higher than 4K, but not by much.
However, special effects on IMAX are typically processed at 4K resolution (scan the film to digital, do the effect, print back to film). So any effects are at 4K, same as we're talking about here. (If you pay close attention you can see the resolution drop at the beginning of an effect).
There is an IMAX digital format - digital storage, digital projection - but that is only 2K resolution, so no better than HDTV.
Talking about IMAX - with Kodak now bankrupt, basing your technology on film stock only available from Kodak seems a bit short sighted... no wonder companies like NHK are stepping in to fill the void.
This has been done, in small volume, for years. They've been editing movies in 4K resolution for a very long time now - 10+ years.
The disk bandwidth is simple - just many drives striped across many controllers. You need many drives to store the file sizes we're talking about anyway. Rotating magnetic drives are used - they're still cheaper when you're talking 100 TB or more, and they were all that was available until recently.
And, the cheapest way to send large amounts of data is to just FedEx your drive array. Most editing of a film is done in one location, so there's not much need - but if you have different post houses working on the same film, it's done.
So all we're talking about is taking what is already being done at a professional level, and make it smaller/cheaper/simpler for the consumer.
If your company still has a budget for face-to-face meetings, it is in the minority. Most avoid the entire issue by only allowing teleconferencing.
For customer visits, of course, you have zero choice of the destination country, and you can't exactly decline.
I had to sign that I would be willing to take a loyalty oath as condition of employment (didn't have to actually take an oath, though).
Loyalty to what? (Not trying to be snarky, genuinely curious).
If it is to the USA.... what about professors from other countries? Aren't they the kind of lecturers who are in demand - but they couldn't logically swear loyalty to a country they aren't a citizen of?
they seized ExxonMobil assets and kicked them out, making their refineries state-controlled, which is really wonderful.
FTFY. Keeping a Venezuelan resource in the country, providing a benefit for Venezuelans rather than some mega-rich foreign corporation, is not a bad thing.
Market capitalization of Exxon: $396 billion USD.
Venezuelan GDP: $316 billion USD (2011).
Amateur radio licencees can use much higher power on some 802.11b/g frequencies (1500 watts, versus 1 watt), and so can use amplifiers that are illegal for the general public. However, it doesn't solve the problem at all - you need bidirectional communications for things to work. Boosting the AP transmit power doesn't make it receive any better. Adding a receiver preamplifier helps some, but since they boost the noise as well as the signal, they aren't as useful as you'd think.
If you need to boost a signal in one direction only (for instance, a single-floor dwelling with the AP at one end), antennas are a good solution. Otherwise, more than one AP is the best answer.
I guess this applies to *new* books as well: Amazon buys a book from the publisher. You buy it from Amazon. Isn't that the second sale? Why is Amazon allowed to resell what they buy, but you are not??
The filing fees to create a company are probably a lot more than $3.
Once again, western countries are playing catch-up to China.
37 comments and no Homer Simpson reference? Slashot is slipping.
If the aim is to stop registered sex offenders from messaging, why block them from gaming completely? Just block their ability to message.
Why do I need a law about cookies when I can very easily manage who I allow to put cookies on my machine?
Pray tell, how do you "easily manage" this?
The problem is, most web sites these days need cookies just to function. Web browers generally have a "allow cookies, but erase them all on exit" setting, which allows you to browse the web, but not get tracked(*). However, I see no easy way of setting things up to allow some sites to place permanent cookies, and all others to have them erased on exit.
(*) - of course, cookies are only one of the ways web sites can track you....
Physics is a pure science. Driving is an applied science. Schools teach one or the other; few people are good at both.
Having a doctorate degree in one field - say medicine - doesn't make you smart at another - such as math, or physics.
So you think the article is about small electronic light bulbs???
And you call *us* dumwads...
If a 600 watt PSU - an average size - is 80% efficient, then it is wasting 120 watts, or about two standard incandescent light bulbs. Not a major factor.
Canada is a large country, with varying utility costs - but in Quebec, electricity is extremely inexpensive. Massive projects like James Bay generate so much power that the excess is sold at a nice profit to various New England states.
What is this "CRT" of which you speak? Where would I find one, outside of a museum?
Actually, URL shortening services are worse - the malware could be inserted by the shortening service itself. Two points of attack, instead of just one.
It constantly amuses me how many newspapers have articles and editorials saying how evil the Libyan government is - and then they use the bit.ly service to link to other material.
and 4) if you can't scan the QR code when you see it, you have a reasonable chance of remembering a decent URL; you have zero chance of remembering a QR code.
Right, and when the plane is taking off ... most of the time over/nearly over a city ... there aren't FAR more transmitters on towers in the vicinity with FAR higher power.
Transmitters not close to each other aren't much of an issue. Transmitters on the same tower *are* an issue - but they are heavily checked for IM products, both by the radio engineers who design/install the transmitters, and by the FCC monitoring bureau. There is usually lots of very expensive (and very large) equipment to prevent such interference - such as cavity resonators - that are not practical to add to a consumer product.
Really? There are some engineers that would tend to disagree with you. Thats the beauty of the digital age. Our radios aren't passive, they are active now. They can filter AND reject on their own AND cope with the problem. Extreme cases may lead to loss of signal, but they certainly can reject bad signals and validate the integrity of the signal. Hell, even GPS signals can be validated and ARE in military receivers.
Digital can actually make things worse. Static and distortion on an analog voice channel doesn't usually make the channel unusable - humans can understand speech that is very garbled. However, knock out one single bit on most digital channels, and the entire message is invalid. That's the problem with digital broadcast television - people living on the fringe used to be able to watch a snowy TV picture. Now they just get digital blocks and screeching audio.
I always assumed it was because takeoff and landing are done at the lowest altitiudes, and have a higher risk of an emergency happening.
Also, at low altitudes, there is very little margin of error. Even a small air pocket can cause a plane to drop 100 feet - not an issue at 30,000 feet, but very very bad when flying at 50 feet.
Why can I read a paper book, but not a Kindle?
Last time I checked, a paper book does not have two radio transmitters inside.
One single device won't. That's why one passenger ignoring the instructions may happen a lot, but isn't a real issue.
The problem is having several radio devices in close proximity transmitting at the same time, because of intermodulation. Two transmitters can produce interference at a third frequency - one that neither device is designed to transmit on. The more devices you have - and the more frequencies involved - the more likely such interference is, which increases the chance that some spurious product lands directly on a frequency critical to the aircraft.
Any commercial radio will reject other frequencies quite well; *no* radio can reject interference on a frequency it is trying to receive.
Where you can get modded up to +5, funny for posting the same jokes that have been posted over and over again before.
Maybe he caught some weird South American flu while he was there. Then we could make jokes about McAfee catching a virus.
The sort of USB->SATA chipsets used in USB CD-ROMs, which are universally cheap devices nowadays, will likely not pass data through faithfully enough to be useful for accurate CD ripping.
So, you're saying that a SATA CD drive is not bit-accurate? Then how come I can boot and run a live-CD linux distro from one??