forgive the apparent flamebait post, but isn't this just a tripod on wheels with a weight attached? I looked at the pictures, I read the instructions, and it still just looks like a tripod on wheels to me.
someone want to explain how this isn't a tripod on wheels with a weight attached?
but how much continuous video does it take? Usually these cameras have flash memory where video is stored while recording, then you stop recording and the video's moved from flash to the SD card. The SiPix has 8megs of flash memory, which holds 60 seconds of 320x240 @ 15fps (the other resolutions are worthless so I'm not mentioning them). After it's done recording I'm sure you have to stop recording, and the movie's moved from the 8megs to the SD card.
The Canon A60 has a huge amount of flash memory, so it records 3 minutes of continuous video before it has to stop and save the video to the CF card. Copying to CF is incredibly fast too, less than a second, so it must be caching it to the card or something, but that allows you to just start taking video again with that small ~1 second pause.
CNET really hated the SiPix DV100. They said the audio sucks, which explains why most the sample videos on firebox have music over the sound. I really feel sorry for the guy that took the Car ballet video, looks like he was on vacation when he took that, bet he was pretty upset when he got home and saw that horrible video quality and sound.
And don't tell me the videos had to be compressed for easy download, they're sample videos, they should be the best possibly quality to sell the product.
"What I am looking for is: DVD quality, 720x480p (preferably with 16:9 widescreen capability), and 30 fps and 60 fps modes."
Then you're looking for this. 702x480 30fps 6mbps (that's high quality) MPEG2. Fills 512megs in 10 minutes. Not quite 720x480, and sorry no 60fps (why 60fps?? that'd take a crap load of space), but it's darn near close.
"Cameras are getting smaller and smaller anyways. I don't know what advantage having it on your keychain does for any kind of voyeurism."
A) it's smaller and easier to conceal than standard small cameras
B) doesn't look like a camera so it's less obvious you're recording
C) sometimes you're in situations where you didn't plan on something happening so you didn't bring your trusty camera, like the girl dancing on the bar during happy hour (usually that's unexpected, although I know some bars...)
this would be great in strip clubs where you're not allowed to bring cameras in.... wonder how it handles in low light? Please include "nightshot", the world needs more Paris Hilton type videos;)
pfffft... my canon A60 is smaller than that thing (A60's 101.0 x 64.0 x 31.5mm vs SiPix's 100 x 74 x 36mm) plus it takes 180 seconds (3 min) of continuous 320x240 15fps video and it takes excellent 2mp pics with a 3x optical zoom (vs no optical zoom on the SiPix), storing them on dirt cheap CF cards and 4 AA batteries allow lots of videos! Best part: the price. $65 after mail in rebate! Or you can just buy them for $165 at any walmart.
$91 for that "SiPix Pocket DV Camcorder" is a waste of money.... oh did you say you bought one?
The A70 is the same size but takes 3mp and 640x480 video, although it's considerably more expensive.
and how much will this BS that no one really wants gonna run taxpayers? Here's a suggestion: take down the light and put up a stop sign!.
Even local residents want a stop sign:
"Many neighbors are so peeved with the popularity of the road that they didn't want a traffic signal at all at Montevino because it would allow traffic to flow better than the stop sign it replaced. At least the stop signs made speeding impossible and persuaded some commuters to steer clear, neighbors said. "
So why is the damn government doing exactly what the local residents do not want?? They already have a electronic sign that tells your speed, and maybe I'm the only one but when I see those signs I usually slow down, so why blow bucks on special lights hooked to laptops and video cameras?
It's only illegal if you're caught. I'm told Convergys found excuses to fire each of the people within one week of the first union recruiting. I assume employees could have probably fought the firing but remember these people made less than 20 grand year and lawyers are uber expensive, especially when you're fighting a large company like Convergys.
Actually it was in St. Louis. I've done online searches and haven't found any information posted online about it (I thought that was strange too) but since I worked there you find out a little more than what's posted online.
I was told by a member of management about the incident when I started questioning why we were shown those anti-union videos.
on the site linked to in the article they claim "A typical computer processor and monitor contain five to eight pounds of lead..."
Now I've never cracked open a monitor so I don't know if they really contain 8 lbs of lead, but where is all this lead in a PC? The entire motherboard can't weigh more than a pound or two so that's not it. The case? No, that's sheet metal. Is it in the hard drive? Average mid-tower PC probably doesn't weigh much more than 8 lbs total so I can't imagine where all this lead is at.
Also monitors are rarely thrown out. I've gone through about half a dozen PCs but kept the same monitor. They're just too freaking useful, even old 14" monitors are great for a second PC and still easily sell on eBay. Are these broken monitors people are tossing out?
They tried to unionize at Convergys SBC DSL tech support and management fired 78 people and shifted calls to another call center while they hired new people. New employees are now showed a anti-union video made by Convergys the very first day of training and paid $9.25/hr with nickel raises every 6 months.
"Maybe it's just the way I charge them, but I get 3-4 hours at a time, not the 80 that the article states."
re-read the article:
"It takes only about 30 seconds to recharge the battery enough to allow 80 hours of continuous operation of an MD player."
So that 80 hours means nothing in real world use, they just threw that in there to sound cool. They could have equally said "200 hours running a LED pen light" to sound more impressive, but they probably used MD players because:
a) they're fairly common and joe-schmuck is familiar with MD players (because they're sold at Walmart)
b) MD players already have a incredibly long battery life, 42-56 hours
it's not a giant subwoofer, it's a giant enclosure
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From the article: "Royal Device has on its own developped and built the biggest subwoofer of the world... SUBWOOFER horns are built underneath the floor in a cavity of 1 meter deep. Each horn is driven by 8 x 18" (47 cm) woofers. "
18"? That's a pretty common size, nothing special there.
Only thing this guy did different was dig a pit and put them in there, making a giant enclosure for the subwoofers.
What he has is the largest enclosure, and I'm not even sure if that's right because there are many theaters and amphitheaters designed from the ground up to amplify and direct the sound of bass frequencies which is really all that his enclosure does.
They guy also claims to have the "the biggest AUDIO ROOM for private music listening of the world", but at 6.95 x 8.70 meters (22.8 x 28.5 feet, ~650 sq ft) I have my doubts about that claim too, especially since it has a lcd projector in there so it would have to compete with all those privately owned theaters. I've read that Bill Gate's house has a 1,500 sq ft theater, triple the size of this guy's "the biggest AUDIO ROOM for private music listening of the world".
it plays SOUND? .... wow, what's next?
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"The Linux on iPod Project has just crossed a milestone. Currently their firmware works on all ipod models other then the new mini. Sound plays and for many people it has more features then the original iPod firmware!"
don't even read this, just mod me flamebait, but isn't playing sound (perferably music) the entire purpose of a mp3 player? What exactly did the Linux on iPod do before? Display a cute penguin and nothing else? Forgive me if I don't consider playing sound a milestone.
"Under your scenario, picture an employee with an axe to grind who decides to start padding his hours to start collecting some ill-gotten overtime. "
Very simple: pay him the overtime and then fire his a$$. If he's taking serious overtime (several hours a day) then you (or another manager) should notice it in a few days, if it's only a few minutes then it might go unnoticed until the next paycheck, but either way you'll catch him.
And while I agree my scenario isn't perfect the alternative, which is allowing employers to rip-off employees, is far worse.
In our economy it's far easier for employers to find new employees than for employees to find new jobs, so I seriously doubt there's a large number of people out there willing to risk losing their job and going weeks or months unemployeed for just a few hours of time-and-a-half.
"Let's see, steal $15 million over a period of time, get caught, have to give $1.5 million back. Ouch! That really hurt!"
did they really take 15 million, or are you just making up that number?
But that's my point exactly. Take whatever amount they stole and multiply it by 10,000 to make an example of the company and discourage others from skimming pay because not every company will be caught and brought to court so the amount has to be ridiculously high to keep them from continuing the behavior.
Ford played the numbers in the 70s, deciding it was cheaper to leave a $11 part off the Pinto and instead allowed 3 teenage girls to burn to death, and it was revealed in court documents that Ford decided a human life was only worth $200,000 each so a jury awarded 128 million to the families, a incredibly huge verdict in the 70s.
Hope juries send another message to the companies who think they can rip off the lower class.
If a manager refuses to shave time, then fire him and find someone who will.
which is why I'm glad there was a $1.5 million settlement against Taco Bell last year. What if the jury only awarded what was taken? Then companies would just keep doing it and consider the lawsuits just part of doing business.
Instead they should make every lawsuit worth at least 10,000 times more than the money taken. That should make other companies think twice about stealing from employees.
This story is a great example of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.
"It would seem to me to be much better to charge a large (but feasible) hourly rate for being late (like, say $1,000 / hour). "
Sure, $1,000/hr is feasible for someone that only makes $1,000 per month after taxes, which is about right if they are making $8/hr.
No, what's reasonable is $100 for the first minute and $2 for every minute after that. If they're 30 minutes late that's $160, which is lots of money (but not unreasonable) for a daycare considering they probably get less than $5/hr for child care. And if they're paying any more than $5/hr for child care then why work? Why make $8/hr and pay $7/hr in child care? By the time taxes are taken out you're paying more for child care then you're taking home.
Oh, and if a daycare did charge $1,000/hr as a late fee the daycare would probably never see them again, and good luck taking it to court because no small claims court would grant the daycare $1,000/hr since it's completely unreasonable.
Kid: How long do we have?
Professor: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Kid: What you say!!
Professor: You are on the way to destruction.
Professor: Ha Ha Ha Ha....
Kid: Take off every 'Zig'!!
Kid: You know what you doing.
Kid: Move 'Zig'.
Kid: For great justice.
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LOL I was making it out to be more than it really is. Can't wait to see what he plans on selling these things for...
someone want to explain how this isn't a tripod on wheels with a weight attached?
The Canon A60 has a huge amount of flash memory, so it records 3 minutes of continuous video before it has to stop and save the video to the CF card. Copying to CF is incredibly fast too, less than a second, so it must be caching it to the card or something, but that allows you to just start taking video again with that small ~1 second pause.
CNET really hated the SiPix DV100. They said the audio sucks, which explains why most the sample videos on firebox have music over the sound. I really feel sorry for the guy that took the Car ballet video, looks like he was on vacation when he took that, bet he was pretty upset when he got home and saw that horrible video quality and sound.
And don't tell me the videos had to be compressed for easy download, they're sample videos, they should be the best possibly quality to sell the product.
Then you're looking for this. 702x480 30fps 6mbps (that's high quality) MPEG2. Fills 512megs in 10 minutes. Not quite 720x480, and sorry no 60fps (why 60fps?? that'd take a crap load of space), but it's darn near close.
too bad it uses SD, if it was compactflash II compatible they'd have a real winner on their hands, with 2gig CFII selling for only $150 while 1gig SD is over double that.
A) it's smaller and easier to conceal than standard small cameras
B) doesn't look like a camera so it's less obvious you're recording
C) sometimes you're in situations where you didn't plan on something happening so you didn't bring your trusty camera, like the girl dancing on the bar during happy hour (usually that's unexpected, although I know some bars...)
this would be great in strip clubs where you're not allowed to bring cameras in.... wonder how it handles in low light? Please include "nightshot", the world needs more Paris Hilton type videos ;)
$91 for that "SiPix Pocket DV Camcorder" is a waste of money.... oh did you say you bought one?
The A70 is the same size but takes 3mp and 640x480 video, although it's considerably more expensive.
Even local residents want a stop sign:
"Many neighbors are so peeved with the popularity of the road that they didn't want a traffic signal at all at Montevino because it would allow traffic to flow better than the stop sign it replaced. At least the stop signs made speeding impossible and persuaded some commuters to steer clear, neighbors said. "
So why is the damn government doing exactly what the local residents do not want?? They already have a electronic sign that tells your speed, and maybe I'm the only one but when I see those signs I usually slow down, so why blow bucks on special lights hooked to laptops and video cameras?
wood also absorbs sound more than sheet metal so the cases should will be quieter
It's only illegal if you're caught. I'm told Convergys found excuses to fire each of the people within one week of the first union recruiting. I assume employees could have probably fought the firing but remember these people made less than 20 grand year and lawyers are uber expensive, especially when you're fighting a large company like Convergys.
I was told by a member of management about the incident when I started questioning why we were shown those anti-union videos.
Now I've never cracked open a monitor so I don't know if they really contain 8 lbs of lead, but where is all this lead in a PC? The entire motherboard can't weigh more than a pound or two so that's not it. The case? No, that's sheet metal. Is it in the hard drive? Average mid-tower PC probably doesn't weigh much more than 8 lbs total so I can't imagine where all this lead is at.
Also monitors are rarely thrown out. I've gone through about half a dozen PCs but kept the same monitor. They're just too freaking useful, even old 14" monitors are great for a second PC and still easily sell on eBay. Are these broken monitors people are tossing out?
They tried to unionize at Convergys SBC DSL tech support and management fired 78 people and shifted calls to another call center while they hired new people. New employees are now showed a anti-union video made by Convergys the very first day of training and paid $9.25/hr with nickel raises every 6 months.
re-read the article:
"It takes only about 30 seconds to recharge the battery enough to allow 80 hours of continuous operation of an MD player."
So that 80 hours means nothing in real world use, they just threw that in there to sound cool. They could have equally said "200 hours running a LED pen light" to sound more impressive, but they probably used MD players because:
a) they're fairly common and joe-schmuck is familiar with MD players (because they're sold at Walmart)
b) MD players already have a incredibly long battery life, 42-56 hours
"Royal Device has on its own developped and built the biggest subwoofer of the world... SUBWOOFER horns are built underneath the floor in a cavity of 1 meter deep. Each horn is driven by 8 x 18" (47 cm) woofers. "
18"? That's a pretty common size, nothing special there.
Only thing this guy did different was dig a pit and put them in there, making a giant enclosure for the subwoofers.
A subwoofer is defined as a "A subwoofer is a loudspeaker device which reproduces sub-bass frequencies below about 80-100 Hertz" and a loudspeaker is defined as a "a fibrous semi-rigid cone and attached to the apex of the cone is a coil of fine wire (usually copper), called the voice coil or moving coil." So according to the definition of "subwoofer" all he has is 18" subs, not the "biggest subwoofer of the world" by far.
What he has is the largest enclosure, and I'm not even sure if that's right because there are many theaters and amphitheaters designed from the ground up to amplify and direct the sound of bass frequencies which is really all that his enclosure does.
They guy also claims to have the "the biggest AUDIO ROOM for private music listening of the world", but at 6.95 x 8.70 meters (22.8 x 28.5 feet, ~650 sq ft) I have my doubts about that claim too, especially since it has a lcd projector in there so it would have to compete with all those privately owned theaters. I've read that Bill Gate's house has a 1,500 sq ft theater, triple the size of this guy's "the biggest AUDIO ROOM for private music listening of the world".
don't even read this, just mod me flamebait, but isn't playing sound (perferably music) the entire purpose of a mp3 player? What exactly did the Linux on iPod do before? Display a cute penguin and nothing else? Forgive me if I don't consider playing sound a milestone.
"slight left at the 2 ton granite rock..."
Very simple: pay him the overtime and then fire his a$$. If he's taking serious overtime (several hours a day) then you (or another manager) should notice it in a few days, if it's only a few minutes then it might go unnoticed until the next paycheck, but either way you'll catch him.
And while I agree my scenario isn't perfect the alternative, which is allowing employers to rip-off employees, is far worse.
In our economy it's far easier for employers to find new employees than for employees to find new jobs, so I seriously doubt there's a large number of people out there willing to risk losing their job and going weeks or months unemployeed for just a few hours of time-and-a-half.
Don't know if UMD will be very popular outside of Sony products, just look at the Memory Stick, MiniDisc or Digital 8 tapes.
Blu-Ray is pretty new, don't think I'd worry about it yet.
did they really take 15 million, or are you just making up that number?
But that's my point exactly. Take whatever amount they stole and multiply it by 10,000 to make an example of the company and discourage others from skimming pay because not every company will be caught and brought to court so the amount has to be ridiculously high to keep them from continuing the behavior.
Ford played the numbers in the 70s, deciding it was cheaper to leave a $11 part off the Pinto and instead allowed 3 teenage girls to burn to death, and it was revealed in court documents that Ford decided a human life was only worth $200,000 each so a jury awarded 128 million to the families, a incredibly huge verdict in the 70s.
Hope juries send another message to the companies who think they can rip off the lower class.
which is why I'm glad there was a $1.5 million settlement against Taco Bell last year. What if the jury only awarded what was taken? Then companies would just keep doing it and consider the lawsuits just part of doing business.
Instead they should make every lawsuit worth at least 10,000 times more than the money taken. That should make other companies think twice about stealing from employees.
This story is a great example of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.
Sure, $1,000/hr is feasible for someone that only makes $1,000 per month after taxes, which is about right if they are making $8/hr.
No, what's reasonable is $100 for the first minute and $2 for every minute after that. If they're 30 minutes late that's $160, which is lots of money (but not unreasonable) for a daycare considering they probably get less than $5/hr for child care. And if they're paying any more than $5/hr for child care then why work? Why make $8/hr and pay $7/hr in child care? By the time taxes are taken out you're paying more for child care then you're taking home.
Oh, and if a daycare did charge $1,000/hr as a late fee the daycare would probably never see them again, and good luck taking it to court because no small claims court would grant the daycare $1,000/hr since it's completely unreasonable.
Kid: How long do we have? ....
Professor: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Kid: What you say!!
Professor: You are on the way to destruction.
Professor: Ha Ha Ha Ha
Kid: Take off every 'Zig'!!
Kid: You know what you doing.
Kid: Move 'Zig'.
Kid: For great justice.
See? The future's fine, we have Zig.
and does the insurance only cover up to $100? Because my satelite costs a little more...
Good luck finding my kiddy p0rn now! -- Michael Jackson
thought we already had a "device" for our left-hands...