I switched hands too (from right to left) and that worked like a charm till I got pain in my left arm. Because the problem never went away in my right arm, despite exclusively using my left, I had no arms left. I sought professional help (which I strongly recommend to the poster's client) and they showed me why switch is a BAD idea. Because your primary arm is dominant its muscles also tense up when using your other arm thus it is never truly relieved. So you are not only causing a new problem in your second arm but also supporting your existing problemen in your primary arm (or shoulder-side or wrist). I was told this and then hooked up to a muscle-tension meter so I could verify this for myself.
I have had great help from a specialized practice. It consisted of a multi-disciplinary approach including: psychologist, physiotherapist and mensendieck. My problems have not disappeared but I have learned technics to managed them.
Seriously: Don't switch! Get professional help!
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I think Slashdot needs to first get rid its anti-Microsoft bias if it wants to be relevant in the digital age. That would be the first thing that needs to be changed.
In this age of tech blogs that can monitor Slashdot's biases, people will realize how much of an agenda they have.
These are my experiences with UMD from a producer's perspective. I author DVDs for a living.
When UMD arrived we decided it would be a great product to offer to our clients. Some where genuinely interested. So we did some asking around because details were sketchy. What appeared was that the authoring tools that were developed by Sony where only being licsenced to 'selected parties' ie a really small group of only the largest companies. In Europe that would be one or two companies per country. These comapnies had to pay hefty license fees for development-tools were still at a pre-beta stage. Large portions of the interactivity had to be hand-coded and there was - for a long time - not a proper simulation-tool so the work could not be debugged or checked properly. The video on UMD is actually full-frame NTSC (720x480, 29.97fps) so the encoding to MPEG4/H.264 is very intense. Obviously this resolution is overkill for the screen of a PSP, and playback requires extra processing power (and thus battery time) to down-sample the video. Once the licensed authoring-houses had their master they had to rent a secure line to upload the disc-images to Sony. Sony also does all the disc manufacturing and believe me: it not cheap (or fast). The conclusion is: buggy and expensive authoring tools, expensive mastering, expensive manufacturing while also being extremely slow. We sub-contracted a company to author a UMD-title for one of our clients and we handled the affairs with Sony. The end-result for our client were UMD nearly ten times as expensive as a DVD, in roughly four months instead of one month for DVD and an extremely lack-luster market. That was their last time.
From the consumer's perspective: you can also download the movie on a P2P network or encode it yourself from your legally purchased DVD, load a couple of movies on your memory-stick and get much better playing-time. Tough choice.
A Dutch saying goes "van rukken wordt je doof" which translates "wanking makes you deaf".
Now how is he going to prove to the judge that he isn't a wanker?
I did this too till my left wrist also became unusable. Then I sought therapy - which I should have done sooner. Then I learnt that why switching was a bad idea: you mouse with your right arm because you are right-handed. When you mouse with your left arm your dominant side - ie right - will mirror the movements thus maintaining your problems right will making new problems left. I've been hooked up to a muscle (voltage-)meter and saw it for myself. I recommend you seek therapy, I found it extremely useful. But YMMV.
I've given crash-Mac-courses to converted family & friends and I found that the concept "when you enter your password an installer wants to change the system so beware" was an easy one to understand and remember.
I've had RSI and had therapy. It hasn't gone but is very much controllable. My experience (YMMV):
-the problem is in the shoulder and neck, not in the wrists
-regular exercise/sports help
-I you don't work out find stretchs that help you to relax you neck and shoulders
-if you experience any kind of sensation stop straight away and relax your shoulders and arms
-if you experience any kind of sensation don't finish what you are doing first
-to relax shoulders and arms let them dangle along your body
-when you know you're going to be busy plan breaks in advance
IAADA (I am a DVD author person) (or what ever I'm called) and agree that badly designed menus are a disgrace. I also know that potential clients of ours sometimes choose to 'let some one else author the dvd' because they are just not willing to pay the price for a proper design that a professional business as ours asks.
But standardizing widgets is just plain stupid; it's like standardising book covers. What I would personally like to see is a more coherent view on the look-feel of a product and that all design related to the disk is done by one person ie. the inlay, the disc-print and the menus.
The key to art and thus the main tool of every artist is selection. The affordability of digital media and ease of use mean much more material is being shot and the selection point has only been moved down the line from production to post-production. Be more strick for yourself: don't shoot everything and don't have the illusion that you to keep everything (unless you are an historian).
Also: DV footage is already on a tape. It almost seems to me that poster is digitizing media files to computer and then seeking a new way to get it on backup media. Why not backup your original recordings, work with reel name/timecodes and make meticulous backups of your projects only?
And: learn to finish a project. Accept it is over. Keep the end product (prints, dvds) and maybe the project file for reference and accept you have no longer a need for the rest. If it work, you've done the job, the client has paid the bill then it's finished.
Where I worked we had seven Canon XM1s (or GL1 in the US) that were lent out to art students. Believe me: most students were not tech-savvy any even had trouble getting a tape in and out of these things. All the Canons survived, up to this day, being lent out nearly 24/7, except the one time when a student tried to film will standing on the back of a bike... They have 3 CCDs, a great lens and an excellent built-in mic for general filming. Unfortunately the XM1 was discontinued and replaced by the XM2 which was of a significant lesser build quality.
Am I the only one that remembers watching MTV for the videoclips and the great (video-artsy-)idents? That channel cost me so much sleep when I was young (and they were still young too I guess).
This is the second time this week Tulip is in the headlines, making money from old patents. Apparently they reached a settlement with Dell for $50 million last week over a motherboard technology they claim.
True, Adobe had the leed and lost it. They could have done what Apple did for FCP which was mainly two-fold:
Look at competing products and use that and improve on that;
Keep innovating, never assume that your product is finished.
And it's not only FCP that overtoke Premiere; also Avid did what was needed: release a 'cheap' version of their product. So Premiere was knocked out from both sides.
I'm suprised they haven't given up on Premiere totally.
"...Mr. Turkewitz, argue that, if anything, American laws are still too lax and that the European laws are totally inadequate.... But, he added, 9 out of 10 sound recordings lose money."
Always the same lame BS. If it is so unprofitable to release music then why don't they go sell cigarettes in 3rd world countries?
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Any cinema of repute would refuse to show material sourced from a VHS.
A friend of mine recently dish-washed the white keys of his iMac G4 keyboard. They are now clean but also very yellow! So watch out for discolouring.
I buy my music on vinyl. I love it. And every album is unique. A CD can be copied; a perfect copy. Try that with vinyl :)
I switched hands too (from right to left) and that worked like a charm till I got pain in my left arm. Because the problem never went away in my right arm, despite exclusively using my left, I had no arms left. I sought professional help (which I strongly recommend to the poster's client) and they showed me why switch is a BAD idea. Because your primary arm is dominant its muscles also tense up when using your other arm thus it is never truly relieved. So you are not only causing a new problem in your second arm but also supporting your existing problemen in your primary arm (or shoulder-side or wrist). I was told this and then hooked up to a muscle-tension meter so I could verify this for myself.
I have had great help from a specialized practice. It consisted of a multi-disciplinary approach including: psychologist, physiotherapist and mensendieck. My problems have not disappeared but I have learned technics to managed them.
Seriously: Don't switch! Get professional help!
I think Slashdot needs to first get rid its anti-Microsoft bias if it wants to be relevant in the digital age. That would be the first thing that needs to be changed. In this age of tech blogs that can monitor Slashdot's biases, people will realize how much of an agenda they have.
I *Click* *Click* *Click* with my one-button mouse and nothing happens.
I am missing something as Mac user, what is this spyware you talk about?
These are my experiences with UMD from a producer's perspective. I author DVDs for a living.
When UMD arrived we decided it would be a great product to offer to our clients. Some where genuinely interested. So we did some asking around because details were sketchy. What appeared was that the authoring tools that were developed by Sony where only being licsenced to 'selected parties' ie a really small group of only the largest companies. In Europe that would be one or two companies per country. These comapnies had to pay hefty license fees for development-tools were still at a pre-beta stage. Large portions of the interactivity had to be hand-coded and there was - for a long time - not a proper simulation-tool so the work could not be debugged or checked properly. The video on UMD is actually full-frame NTSC (720x480, 29.97fps) so the encoding to MPEG4/H.264 is very intense. Obviously this resolution is overkill for the screen of a PSP, and playback requires extra processing power (and thus battery time) to down-sample the video. Once the licensed authoring-houses had their master they had to rent a secure line to upload the disc-images to Sony. Sony also does all the disc manufacturing and believe me: it not cheap (or fast). The conclusion is: buggy and expensive authoring tools, expensive mastering, expensive manufacturing while also being extremely slow. We sub-contracted a company to author a UMD-title for one of our clients and we handled the affairs with Sony. The end-result for our client were UMD nearly ten times as expensive as a DVD, in roughly four months instead of one month for DVD and an extremely lack-luster market. That was their last time.
From the consumer's perspective: you can also download the movie on a P2P network or encode it yourself from your legally purchased DVD, load a couple of movies on your memory-stick and get much better playing-time. Tough choice.
A Dutch saying goes "van rukken wordt je doof" which translates "wanking makes you deaf". Now how is he going to prove to the judge that he isn't a wanker?
I've given crash-Mac-courses to converted family & friends and I found that the concept "when you enter your password an installer wants to change the system so beware" was an easy one to understand and remember.
I've had RSI and had therapy. It hasn't gone but is very much controllable. My experience (YMMV):
-the problem is in the shoulder and neck, not in the wrists
-regular exercise/sports help
-I you don't work out find stretchs that help you to relax you neck and shoulders
-if you experience any kind of sensation stop straight away and relax your shoulders and arms
-if you experience any kind of sensation don't finish what you are doing first
-to relax shoulders and arms let them dangle along your body
-when you know you're going to be busy plan breaks in advance
According to me, while you can let people buy MS software or computers, they won't have the expertise to use it.
IAADA (I am a DVD author person) (or what ever I'm called) and agree that badly designed menus are a disgrace. I also know that potential clients of ours sometimes choose to 'let some one else author the dvd' because they are just not willing to pay the price for a proper design that a professional business as ours asks.
But standardizing widgets is just plain stupid; it's like standardising book covers. What I would personally like to see is a more coherent view on the look-feel of a product and that all design related to the disk is done by one person ie. the inlay, the disc-print and the menus.
Yeah!!! I'm gonna ride this train straight after I get that amp that goes up to 11!
The key to art and thus the main tool of every artist is selection. The affordability of digital media and ease of use mean much more material is being shot and the selection point has only been moved down the line from production to post-production. Be more strick for yourself: don't shoot everything and don't have the illusion that you to keep everything (unless you are an historian).
Also: DV footage is already on a tape. It almost seems to me that poster is digitizing media files to computer and then seeking a new way to get it on backup media. Why not backup your original recordings, work with reel name/timecodes and make meticulous backups of your projects only?
And: learn to finish a project. Accept it is over. Keep the end product (prints, dvds) and maybe the project file for reference and accept you have no longer a need for the rest. If it work, you've done the job, the client has paid the bill then it's finished.
Where I worked we had seven Canon XM1s (or GL1 in the US) that were lent out to art students. Believe me: most students were not tech-savvy any even had trouble getting a tape in and out of these things. All the Canons survived, up to this day, being lent out nearly 24/7, except the one time when a student tried to film will standing on the back of a bike... They have 3 CCDs, a great lens and an excellent built-in mic for general filming. Unfortunately the XM1 was discontinued and replaced by the XM2 which was of a significant lesser build quality.
Apparently the download size can vary: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=257 99.
Having multiple macs, I guess this means I can't reuse the package. Darn.
... too little too late. I switch my whole family and all my friends to mozilla varients. I can't be bothered to switch them back:-)
Am I the only one that remembers watching MTV for the videoclips and the great (video-artsy-)idents?
That channel cost me so much sleep when I was young (and they were still young too I guess).
This should have been the: Why-Didn't-I-Think-Of-That-Dept. Doh!
This is the second time this week Tulip is in the headlines, making money from old patents. Apparently they reached a settlement with Dell for $50 million last week over a motherboard technology they claim.
Oh well, if you can't innovate...
True, Adobe had the leed and lost it. They could have done what Apple did for FCP which was mainly two-fold:
And it's not only FCP that overtoke Premiere; also Avid did what was needed: release a 'cheap' version of their product. So Premiere was knocked out from both sides.
I'm suprised they haven't given up on Premiere totally.
From the Yahoo article:
Always the same lame BS. If it is so unprofitable to release music then why don't they go sell cigarettes in 3rd world countries?
Please stop whining and act professional.