If you already have windows, and are familiar with Adobe products, Premiere is the way to go. If you know Photoshop, you'll have little trouble figuring out Premiere. Having used both Final Cut and Premiere, I prefer Premiere, Apple is just trying too hard to make their computers 'friendly', and it gets on my nerves, because while Final Cut, in their minds, may be laid out well enough for a 4 year old to use, nothing is where I've come to expect things to be.
Linux doesn't do things for no reason. If something changed, it's because YOU changed it, not because Windows suddenly decided that, on this hour's autodetection, it would corrupt your IDE drivers.
This is no joke, even in XP. I run DeepFreeze on a computer where I work. (If you're not familiar with DF, it is essentially a lock on the HD that prevents people from changing anything. You can reformat the harddrive, but when you reboot, everything will be back to the way it was, it's great.)
Anyhoo, last Wednesday, I reboot the computer, and all of the sudden, Windows has decided that I have attached new hardware, except that it is redetecting and demanding drivers for an external device that's been attached for months. Rebooting it again didn't solve the problem. I had to 'thaw' the system and reinstall the device before the computer started working again.
I still don't understand how it happened.
They must get a lot better coverage than mine. It always craps out inside my house, any store, and downtown with buildings higher than 5 stories.
Seriously. If you're "tracking" someone, they can fall off the map for quite a while before they show up again, and for very legitimate reasons. I don't see how this is reliable enough to trust.
This is the problem with GPS. It isn't perfect. I'm amazed that the prosecution was able to get GPS evidence admitted in the Scott Peterson trial, considering that some of the GPS records showed Peterson traveling (if I remember correctly), in excess of 1300 mph.
GPS, due to it's goofy cell phone triangulation, enters dead zones along with cell phones, and is not always correct. If you were forced to wear these bracelets, there is great potential for you to have to prove that you weren't somewhere the GPS says you were, even if it's due to an error in the GPS signal.
If you own a large ranch, you would have your ranch vechicle(s), meaning they would never go on a government road.
You've at least got to go fill up every once and a while, and this is exactly the problem inherent in these systems. Its the same thing for someone who goes off-roading a lot. They aren't on government maintained roads at all.... for that matter, they aren't even on roads.
Apple wants to go through the very expensive legal process just to find a mole? Did no one at Apple go to high school? There's a far easier way:
Release incorrect information to several different people, and figure out which of that information goes to press. If it worked for High School Cheerleaders, it can work for a computer company. Oh wait.... I'm starting to see why it... doh!
If we can build safe, pebble-bed nuclear reactors, GREAT! However, before we start up construction, the same problem that plagues conventional reactors exists; what are we going to do with the waste?
Even if Yucca Mountain (or some other ground storage facility) happens, it's years and years away, and it seems foolish to continue to generate nuclear waste with no place to put it.
This technology would be a field day for law enforcement. Any and all crimes that happen in that area where they find a fingerprint but it's not in their database... the first thing they'll do is call up Safeway.
A 16-year-old student has been charged with a misdemeanor for rigging a keystroke-recording device onto a teacher's computer.
While what this kid did was stupid, the fact remains that he is, a kid. Based on the tone of the article, it seems that he is being charged as an adult. You may argue that he had full comprehension of his actions when he did it, but, if you want to charge him as an adult, then we should afford him all of the benefits of adulthood, including voting, but I digress.
I was a total ass and thought I could get away with a lot when I was still in high school. I know that I was wrong, but it's not something I realized at the time. Think what would have happened to you if you were a) caught, and b) charged as an adult for the goofy things you did when you were in high school.
I can only hope that NASA is allowed to make the final decision on this spacecraft, and is not forced to make concessions to every government department under the sun like happened with the shuttle.
My analog+digital capture board is an older Pinnacle product. I still have Premiere drivers for my board, although they only work up to version 6.0. You might try Scenealyzer... it's not a free application, but it will allow you to capture video without using Pinnacle's half-assed implementation of Macintosh 'easyness.'
My dad didn't get a touch tone phone until... oh I want to say 93 or 94. The reason was kinda dumb. The line to our house simply couldn't do touch tone. I don't know why. (I was just a kid!) But we had to have our line 'upgraded' to support it. I'm kind of curious if others can't do touch tone for similar reasons.
When my Grandmother moved out of Philadelphia in 1997, she had two phones in her house, a Cordless touch tone phone, and an actual Black, Bell Labs rotary phone that was still hard wired into the wall.
Her cordless phone was set to pulse dial, because even in 1997, Bell of Pennsylvania was trying to rip people off by having a monthly service fee for people who wanted touch tone dialing.
I am building a new AMD64/939 box and would like to build into the system: capabilities to capture video from analog and digital sources; edit; add text and overlays; and maybe do the occasional DVE.
I currently have an analog+digital capture board, and am in the market for a new capture board. I still need to capture analog, but I will simply be purchasing a firewire card.
Analog capture boards are overpriced, and you can acheive the same results with a digital video camera and a firewire (or usb) card.
It's called Analog Passthrough, and most digital video cameras made today support it. Basically, you plug your VCR into the IN jacks on your video camera (with sony's, that analog dongle cable goes both ways), and then you plug your firewire cable into your camera at one end, and the other into your computer.
Make sure there isn't a tape in your camcorder, or this wont work. When you play your VHS tape, it should simply pass through your digital video camera (make sure the camera is on), and into the computer through the firewire cable. I captured 4 hours worth of material in this method two weeks ago, and it works great.
Some additional information.
Justice Kennedy was sitting on the 9th Circuit appeals court in 1983-84, when this case was originally heard at the federal level. The 9th Circuit voted against Sony, although I have been unable to find how individual Judges voted in the case.
While the original Betamax case was over 20 years ago now, there are three current justices on the Supreme Court who presided over the original case.
O'Connor and Stevens voted in favor of Sony
and Rehnquist voted against.
the operating system is very close to a final release.
While a new Amiga OS is just as intriguing to me as the next guy, this operating system has been vaporware for quite some time now, and I question when it will actually arrive.
This Amiga OS began winning Wired's Vaporware award back in 1999.
Just curious what the Slashdot crowd thinks are the worst bugs ever to creep into a standard?
Having survived the great Revision '4.0' Browser wars, I have to say the worst 'bugs' ever were the proprietary extensions that crepts into Netscape and IE. It made it so difficult to design any sort of advanced page without all sorts of duplicate (albeight slightly different) code to satisfy both browsers.
Way back in the day when Leo and Patrick hosted the ScreenSavers -- I got actual advice I could use with the occasional game-oriented segments.
Back during the day when TSS would dedicate an entire hour (or 90 minutes.... back in the really old days) to motherboards and ram, or to obscure photoshop tips.
I can only hope that Ziff Davis, or some other company comes up with a new TechTV like network... that will hopefully lure back some of TechTV's old talent.
I knew that the G4 didn't care about TechTV the moment Leo announced his resignation. And it doesn't surprise me (or anyone else, it seems), that they're dropping the TechTV monkier.
Each time I read a story on the search for ET, I become a little more disappointed. With the vast expanses of space out there, it seems surprising that we haven't found a signal, even if by accident. Perhaps I've seen one too many bad scifi movies, but where in the heck are the aliens.
A bigger question: why are all of the other solar systems so darned far away?
That's not a low. There's no reason for legislation, or for having the ESRB and the retailers act as surrogate parents.
The last time I went to walmart, I bought a video game that was rated M (One of those repacked Midway arcade series things... god knows why it was rated M, the whole screen consists of about 200 pixels.) Anyway, the Wal-Mart cashier carded me. I gave him a funny look and he said he had to make sure I was at least 18. Apparently Wal-Mart has decided that they are going to act as a surrogate parent to video game buyers.
Gates: Longhorn 'bug free and on time'
Markets go mad for tech IPOs
Spam drops back below 50 per cent mark
Indian firm opens Middlesbrough call centre
ID cards: Government offers to waive charges...
UK police 'well resourced' in fight on cyber-crime
Brit: I really did win £10m on Dutch email lotto
Mobile giants: 3G spend worth every penny
No oddball lots on eBay this week
Sun revenues soar: Wall Street baffled
CIO now stands for 'Cherished', 'Important' and 'Odds-on for CEO'
Symantec: 'No more acquisitions'
I don't see it on the list.... so does this mean that Duke Nukem Forever will see the light of day this year?
The obnoxious thing about turning off active X in IE is that EVERY DAMN time a page loads with even the tiniest active X control... IE pops up a warning box telling you about all the things you're missing.
One of the most important things, don't put all your eggs in one basket. Get some big, long, industrial grade orange extension cords and run them from places as far apart as humanly possible. You want to make sure that you don't have 15 computers running on one circuit.
Secondly, I echo the previous comment about good ventilation. Leaving a door open with a box fan in it should be enough. Even if it's 10 degrees out, your room will heat up rather quickly.
Third: Headphones. Beat people that do not have headphones (if you don't, your guests surely will.)
Extrapolating from the last few decades' enormous growth in computer processing speed, and projecting advances in chip and transistor technology, he estimated recently that by 2019, a $1,000 personal computer "will match the processing power of the human brain--about 20 million billion calculations per second." Soon after that point, claims Kurzweil, "The machines will convince us that they are conscious, that they have their own agenda worthy of our respect. They will embody human qualities and will claim to be human. And we'll believe them."
While I support Moore's law, John Dvorak's most recent PC Magazine column sums it up best, "The genuninely interactive computer that communicates like a Star Trek computer seems more distant today than it did in 1980."
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If you already have windows, and are familiar with Adobe products, Premiere is the way to go. If you know Photoshop, you'll have little trouble figuring out Premiere. Having used both Final Cut and Premiere, I prefer Premiere, Apple is just trying too hard to make their computers 'friendly', and it gets on my nerves, because while Final Cut, in their minds, may be laid out well enough for a 4 year old to use, nothing is where I've come to expect things to be.
Linux doesn't do things for no reason. If something changed, it's because YOU changed it, not because Windows suddenly decided that, on this hour's autodetection, it would corrupt your IDE drivers.
This is no joke, even in XP. I run DeepFreeze on a computer where I work. (If you're not familiar with DF, it is essentially a lock on the HD that prevents people from changing anything. You can reformat the harddrive, but when you reboot, everything will be back to the way it was, it's great.)
Anyhoo, last Wednesday, I reboot the computer, and all of the sudden, Windows has decided that I have attached new hardware, except that it is redetecting and demanding drivers for an external device that's been attached for months. Rebooting it again didn't solve the problem. I had to 'thaw' the system and reinstall the device before the computer started working again.
I still don't understand how it happened.
They must get a lot better coverage than mine. It always craps out inside my house, any store, and downtown with buildings higher than 5 stories.
Seriously. If you're "tracking" someone, they can fall off the map for quite a while before they show up again, and for very legitimate reasons. I don't see how this is reliable enough to trust.
This is the problem with GPS. It isn't perfect. I'm amazed that the prosecution was able to get GPS evidence admitted in the Scott Peterson trial, considering that some of the GPS records showed Peterson traveling (if I remember correctly), in excess of 1300 mph.
GPS, due to it's goofy cell phone triangulation, enters dead zones along with cell phones, and is not always correct. If you were forced to wear these bracelets, there is great potential for you to have to prove that you weren't somewhere the GPS says you were, even if it's due to an error in the GPS signal.
If you own a large ranch, you would have your ranch vechicle(s), meaning they would never go on a government road.
You've at least got to go fill up every once and a while, and this is exactly the problem inherent in these systems. Its the same thing for someone who goes off-roading a lot. They aren't on government maintained roads at all.... for that matter, they aren't even on roads.
Apple wants to go through the very expensive legal process just to find a mole? Did no one at Apple go to high school? There's a far easier way:
Release incorrect information to several different people, and figure out which of that information goes to press. If it worked for High School Cheerleaders, it can work for a computer company. Oh wait.... I'm starting to see why it... doh!
If we can build safe, pebble-bed nuclear reactors, GREAT! However, before we start up construction, the same problem that plagues conventional reactors exists; what are we going to do with the waste?
Even if Yucca Mountain (or some other ground storage facility) happens, it's years and years away, and it seems foolish to continue to generate nuclear waste with no place to put it.
This technology would be a field day for law enforcement. Any and all crimes that happen in that area where they find a fingerprint but it's not in their database... the first thing they'll do is call up Safeway.
A 16-year-old student has been charged with a misdemeanor for rigging a keystroke-recording device onto a teacher's computer.
While what this kid did was stupid, the fact remains that he is, a kid. Based on the tone of the article, it seems that he is being charged as an adult. You may argue that he had full comprehension of his actions when he did it, but, if you want to charge him as an adult, then we should afford him all of the benefits of adulthood, including voting, but I digress.
I was a total ass and thought I could get away with a lot when I was still in high school. I know that I was wrong, but it's not something I realized at the time. Think what would have happened to you if you were a) caught, and b) charged as an adult for the goofy things you did when you were in high school.
I can only hope that NASA is allowed to make the final decision on this spacecraft, and is not forced to make concessions to every government department under the sun like happened with the shuttle.
My analog+digital capture board is an older Pinnacle product. I still have Premiere drivers for my board, although they only work up to version 6.0. You might try Scenealyzer... it's not a free application, but it will allow you to capture video without using Pinnacle's half-assed implementation of Macintosh 'easyness.'
My dad didn't get a touch tone phone until... oh I want to say 93 or 94. The reason was kinda dumb. The line to our house simply couldn't do touch tone. I don't know why. (I was just a kid!) But we had to have our line 'upgraded' to support it. I'm kind of curious if others can't do touch tone for similar reasons.
When my Grandmother moved out of Philadelphia in 1997, she had two phones in her house, a Cordless touch tone phone, and an actual Black, Bell Labs rotary phone that was still hard wired into the wall.
Her cordless phone was set to pulse dial, because even in 1997, Bell of Pennsylvania was trying to rip people off by having a monthly service fee for people who wanted touch tone dialing.
I am building a new AMD64/939 box and would like to build into the system: capabilities to capture video from analog and digital sources; edit; add text and overlays; and maybe do the occasional DVE.
I currently have an analog+digital capture board, and am in the market for a new capture board. I still need to capture analog, but I will simply be purchasing a firewire card.
Analog capture boards are overpriced, and you can acheive the same results with a digital video camera and a firewire (or usb) card.
It's called Analog Passthrough, and most digital video cameras made today support it. Basically, you plug your VCR into the IN jacks on your video camera (with sony's, that analog dongle cable goes both ways), and then you plug your firewire cable into your camera at one end, and the other into your computer.
Make sure there isn't a tape in your camcorder, or this wont work. When you play your VHS tape, it should simply pass through your digital video camera (make sure the camera is on), and into the computer through the firewire cable. I captured 4 hours worth of material in this method two weeks ago, and it works great.
Some additional information.
Justice Kennedy was sitting on the 9th Circuit appeals court in 1983-84, when this case was originally heard at the federal level. The 9th Circuit voted against Sony, although I have been unable to find how individual Judges voted in the case.
While the original Betamax case was over 20 years ago now, there are three current justices on the Supreme Court who presided over the original case.
O'Connor and Stevens voted in favor of Sony
and Rehnquist voted against.
Source
It will be interesting to see how this case turns out.
I'll just have to make sure that I keep a Scooty Puff Junior handy should the universe ever start to collapse.
the operating system is very close to a final release.
While a new Amiga OS is just as intriguing to me as the next guy, this operating system has been vaporware for quite some time now, and I question when it will actually arrive.
This Amiga OS began winning Wired's Vaporware award back in 1999.
Just curious what the Slashdot crowd thinks are the worst bugs ever to creep into a standard?
Having survived the great Revision '4.0' Browser wars, I have to say the worst 'bugs' ever were the proprietary extensions that crepts into Netscape and IE. It made it so difficult to design any sort of advanced page without all sorts of duplicate (albeight slightly different) code to satisfy both browsers.
Way back in the day when Leo and Patrick hosted the ScreenSavers -- I got actual advice I could use with the occasional game-oriented segments.
Back during the day when TSS would dedicate an entire hour (or 90 minutes.... back in the really old days) to motherboards and ram, or to obscure photoshop tips.
I can only hope that Ziff Davis, or some other company comes up with a new TechTV like network... that will hopefully lure back some of TechTV's old talent.
I knew that the G4 didn't care about TechTV the moment Leo announced his resignation. And it doesn't surprise me (or anyone else, it seems), that they're dropping the TechTV monkier.
Each time I read a story on the search for ET, I become a little more disappointed. With the vast expanses of space out there, it seems surprising that we haven't found a signal, even if by accident. Perhaps I've seen one too many bad scifi movies, but where in the heck are the aliens.
A bigger question: why are all of the other solar systems so darned far away?
That's not a low. There's no reason for legislation, or for having the ESRB and the retailers act as surrogate parents.
The last time I went to walmart, I bought a video game that was rated M (One of those repacked Midway arcade series things... god knows why it was rated M, the whole screen consists of about 200 pixels.) Anyway, the Wal-Mart cashier carded me. I gave him a funny look and he said he had to make sure I was at least 18. Apparently Wal-Mart has decided that they are going to act as a surrogate parent to video game buyers.
Gates: Longhorn 'bug free and on time'
Markets go mad for tech IPOs
Spam drops back below 50 per cent mark
Indian firm opens Middlesbrough call centre
ID cards: Government offers to waive charges...
UK police 'well resourced' in fight on cyber-crime
Brit: I really did win £10m on Dutch email lotto
Mobile giants: 3G spend worth every penny
No oddball lots on eBay this week
Sun revenues soar: Wall Street baffled
CIO now stands for 'Cherished', 'Important' and 'Odds-on for CEO'
Symantec: 'No more acquisitions'
I don't see it on the list.... so does this mean that Duke Nukem Forever will see the light of day this year?
The obnoxious thing about turning off active X in IE is that EVERY DAMN time a page loads with even the tiniest active X control... IE pops up a warning box telling you about all the things you're missing.
One of the most important things, don't put all your eggs in one basket. Get some big, long, industrial grade orange extension cords and run them from places as far apart as humanly possible. You want to make sure that you don't have 15 computers running on one circuit.
Secondly, I echo the previous comment about good ventilation. Leaving a door open with a box fan in it should be enough. Even if it's 10 degrees out, your room will heat up rather quickly.
Third: Headphones. Beat people that do not have headphones (if you don't, your guests surely will.)
Extrapolating from the last few decades' enormous growth in computer processing speed, and projecting advances in chip and transistor technology, he estimated recently that by 2019, a $1,000 personal computer "will match the processing power of the human brain--about 20 million billion calculations per second." Soon after that point, claims Kurzweil, "The machines will convince us that they are conscious, that they have their own agenda worthy of our respect. They will embody human qualities and will claim to be human. And we'll believe them."
While I support Moore's law, John Dvorak's most recent PC Magazine column sums it up best, "The genuninely interactive computer that communicates like a Star Trek computer seems more distant today than it did in 1980."
GIMP 2.2.0 has just been officially released
Anybody have a link to a torrent?
Oh.... wait