How long until we see something similar with audio?
"Users without an appropriately DRM-equipped soundcard will hear down-sampled audio played back through the Windows PC Speaker driver"
I agree - $1K will get you (from a well known warehouse store) a brand new fantastic DLP projector that is great for movies and gaming. They even throw in a 72" 16:9 screen as well.
I just hope that they will do a good job erasing the previous owner's video from the memory card. Otherwise, if this gets hacked, your 'special moments' may have more viewers than you intended!
In the US, Public Access stations, for a number of years, have been giving people a voice within their own neighborhoods.
Taking this model to the Internet, using technologies such as that mentioned in the article, will definitely enable much broader distribution channels (but not necessarily larger audiences).
Now, of course, technology is just part of the solution. The real meat is in the content (same applies to podcasting, of course).
One final thought - how long before we see Nielsen ratings for online programming? (as well as Arbitron ratings for podcasts?)
Semantic-driven search engines have awesome potential. However, it does place a lot of demand on the content provider to provide metadata-rich content - or to be able to provide intelligent mining tools to create metadata from existing sites.
I've been following (from a distance) the progress of this documentary, and look forward to seeing the final product. 5 1/2 hours is a lot, but at least you get the chance to pick and choose what you want to see. I believe the guy had an unbelievable amount of source material - to trim it down to a just an 80 minute DVD would have been a waste.
Time to reminisce: I grew up on a diet of BBSes - my first venture online was to a system run by BT (well, the Post Office back then) called Prestel (Micronet 800 or Viewfax 258 anyone?). I had a V23 modem - a full 1200bps downstream and 75bps upstream. Yes, 75bps. About a character per second. Type too fast, and you had to wait for it to catch up with you. Went through a slew of different modems (Hayes, Supra etc), and different BBSes, though I never ran my own. And it was through a BBS that I had my first taste of the Internet... many years ago. There was a whole generation of people (albeit on a much smaller scale than the Internet) addicted to being online - seeing the sign-on for WildCat! scrolling across you screen was like a good fix:)
Oh, for the curious amongst you, the subject of this comment is the FidoNet address my old local BBS...
Check out nntp//rss - it's a Java-based bridge that enables you to read your favorite RSS feeds within your existing NNTP newsreader (e.g. Mozilla/Netscape, tin, nn).
How sustainable is the 'trust' between the developer and the client?
As sustainable as what was stated in the contractual relationship between the development company and the client. Backdoors, exploits etc, should not be allowed unless explicitly requested by the client. These 'Backdoors' - however innocent - could be the cause of a financially burdensome exploit at a later date, which I'm sure the client would not appreciate.
This area of functionality is definitely something which should be highlighted as part of the Master Service Agreement or within the Statement of Work. Within your own development team, your team members should understand the implications of introducing such code into clients' projects.
[Disclaimer: I am not an attorney. For legal advice, consult one!]
If you're using MP3 for a video project - and you're bringing into the timeline of a Premiere / Final Cut Pro / other NLE project - you'd be best to uncompress it back into into a native WAV/AIFF.
I've certainly heard Premiere 6.0 crack and pop sometimes when playing back mp3s on the timeline, especially if you have limited machine resources. Also, watch out for the sample rate - as the audio track on DVDs runs at 48KHz, you may want to do convert your audio to this rate in a tool like Sound Forge (or one of the open source equivalents), rather than leaving it to your NLE package.
This is a good point - there are a number of royalty free music libraries available, however there is an initial licensing cost for the library.
Just do a search for 'royalty free music' on Google, and you'll see some vendors on the right hand side. The quality does vary a lot, but, if this is an ongoing project, it may be worth investing in a decent sized library (they vary from 1 CD to 20+ CDs), it should fulfil your current and future requirements.
Now, as you're doing this for your school, maybe it's worth getting the music department involved, and getting some home-grown content.
Good point - any restrictions on using power strips / outlet splitters? I'm sure most people would be using the power outlet for their laptop - as long as power strips are permitted, they could use it to power both their laptop and their router.
Assuming the airplane's service is wireless, then get a laptop with two card slots or one card slot and built-in wireless support. Put one of them in the mode to talk to the plane, and the other one in ad-hoc mode to talk to your friends.
Which raises the question - what's the take on wireless network cards on airplanes? I think it would fall in the same controlled area as any other type of radio transmitting device. Has anyone been asked to remove their wireless card during the flight?
Inflight internet access, especially at a flat rates, makes me wonder about the potential for using VoIP. If the latency introduced by the satellite connection doesn't completely negate its use, using VoIP software on a laptop connected to the airplane's Internet connection would offer considerably cheaper inflight calls.
Secondly, how long until we see groups of people smuggling on battery powered Linksys (et al) routers. $30 split a few ways is always cheaper...
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How long until we see something similar with audio? "Users without an appropriately DRM-equipped soundcard will hear down-sampled audio played back through the Windows PC Speaker driver"
I agree - $1K will get you (from a well known warehouse store) a brand new fantastic DLP projector that is great for movies and gaming. They even throw in a 72" 16:9 screen as well.
Coming to a nail salon near you soon... :)
Something like Bloglines? (now owned by AskJeeves)
I just hope that they will do a good job erasing the previous owner's video from the memory card. Otherwise, if this gets hacked, your 'special moments' may have more viewers than you intended!
Taking this model to the Internet, using technologies such as that mentioned in the article, will definitely enable much broader distribution channels (but not necessarily larger audiences).
Now, of course, technology is just part of the solution. The real meat is in the content (same applies to podcasting, of course).
One final thought - how long before we see Nielsen ratings for online programming? (as well as Arbitron ratings for podcasts?)
Semantic-driven search engines have awesome potential. However, it does place a lot of demand on the content provider to provide metadata-rich content - or to be able to provide intelligent mining tools to create metadata from existing sites.
This is definitely one to watch...
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Or you could just order using PayPal...
I've been following (from a distance) the progress of this documentary, and look forward to seeing the final product. 5 1/2 hours is a lot, but at least you get the chance to pick and choose what you want to see. I believe the guy had an unbelievable amount of source material - to trim it down to a just an 80 minute DVD would have been a waste.
:)
Time to reminisce: I grew up on a diet of BBSes - my first venture online was to a system run by BT (well, the Post Office back then) called Prestel (Micronet 800 or Viewfax 258 anyone?). I had a V23 modem - a full 1200bps downstream and 75bps upstream. Yes, 75bps. About a character per second. Type too fast, and you had to wait for it to catch up with you. Went through a slew of different modems (Hayes, Supra etc), and different BBSes, though I never ran my own. And it was through a BBS that I had my first taste of the Internet... many years ago. There was a whole generation of people (albeit on a much smaller scale than the Internet) addicted to being online - seeing the sign-on for WildCat! scrolling across you screen was like a good fix
Oh, for the curious amongst you, the subject of this comment is the FidoNet address my old local BBS...
Write-Cache Enabled?
Best enjoyed with the finest wines available to humanity... or maybe a Camberwell carrot.
A classic movie - check out the Criterion Edition DVD if you haven't seen it before. They did a pretty good transfer.
As sustainable as what was stated in the contractual relationship between the development company and the client. Backdoors, exploits etc, should not be allowed unless explicitly requested by the client. These 'Backdoors' - however innocent - could be the cause of a financially burdensome exploit at a later date, which I'm sure the client would not appreciate.
This area of functionality is definitely something which should be highlighted as part of the Master Service Agreement or within the Statement of Work. Within your own development team, your team members should understand the implications of introducing such code into clients' projects.
[Disclaimer: I am not an attorney. For legal advice, consult one!]
I've certainly heard Premiere 6.0 crack and pop sometimes when playing back mp3s on the timeline, especially if you have limited machine resources. Also, watch out for the sample rate - as the audio track on DVDs runs at 48KHz, you may want to do convert your audio to this rate in a tool like Sound Forge (or one of the open source equivalents), rather than leaving it to your NLE package.
Just do a search for 'royalty free music' on Google, and you'll see some vendors on the right hand side. The quality does vary a lot, but, if this is an ongoing project, it may be worth investing in a decent sized library (they vary from 1 CD to 20+ CDs), it should fulfil your current and future requirements.
Now, as you're doing this for your school, maybe it's worth getting the music department involved, and getting some home-grown content.
Good point - any restrictions on using power strips / outlet splitters? I'm sure most people would be using the power outlet for their laptop - as long as power strips are permitted, they could use it to power both their laptop and their router.
Which raises the question - what's the take on wireless network cards on airplanes? I think it would fall in the same controlled area as any other type of radio transmitting device. Has anyone been asked to remove their wireless card during the flight?
Experience inflight life with Yngwie.....
Inflight internet access, especially at a flat rates, makes me wonder about the potential for using VoIP. If the latency introduced by the satellite connection doesn't completely negate its use, using VoIP software on a laptop connected to the airplane's Internet connection would offer considerably cheaper inflight calls.
Secondly, how long until we see groups of people smuggling on battery powered Linksys (et al) routers. $30 split a few ways is always cheaper...