quote found here: University of Wollongong In 1997, Gistics, Inc. published the following*: Macintosh users: spend 38 fewer hours per year 'Futzing" with files save US $4,950 annually on support and training use more tools (14.3 versus 8.3) Save US $2,211 in three-year cost of ownership Earn US $5.01 more per hour Earn US $12.22 more revenue per hour of labor Create US $14,550 more profits per year per person Earn 32 percent more net profit per project and Achieve platform payback in 7.2 months (versus 13.9)
*Page 56 Vaughan, T. 1998. Multimedia, Making it Work, Osborne McGraw Hill, Berkeley
have been running old unix systems from the 80's around here - South Florida - since the 80's!
How come everything in this thread is modded either insightful or troll no matter how innocuous?
In order to demonstrate the point for the shallow reading moderator, the point is specifically that the medical people are not what you could call virgin unix users.
whatever you use three to five years from now, it won't be one of the standard definition interlaced analog formats like PAL or NTSC or SECAM. It will probably be one of the 18 digital broadcast formats proposed over the last few years. Actually it will probably be a switchable 1080i for high definition digital video that uses MPEG4 instead of the DV codec. You will be happy although it will not edit nicely but you won't care. BTW, editing is not artsy-fartsy. It should be invisible. What you have seen is something *else*. I can't help having high standards, so sue me. For the time being - My advice is that you look at the camera from the front and get the one with the biggest optics. All of the microphones that come on the cameras suck big time, most of the controls on cheap cameras like you want will be the same. The light gathering ability is key to getting a decent picture in low light. I'm guessing that you are not big on light wrangling. Get a nice little short shotgun microphone to put on top. This is 50% of what you recognize as a good picture. Everybody will compliment you on your camera ability when they can hear the child's first words rather than the grownup's wretched cooing and noises from behind the camera from an open pattern microphone. If anybody mods this down, I will give you a lecture on CCDs, light, and filters. Oh, I forgot, get a circular polarizer instead of a UV filter to protect the lens. When you are outside, you will need both the neutral density filter and the polarizer. The camera you buy really doesn't matter as long as you buy one from a real camera company. Sony, Panasonic, JVC, Canon, Ikegami. Find someone with the Prosumer B&H catalog. take a look at this: DCR-PC105 Mini DV Camcorder with Additional Accessory Kit - includes: Battery Pack, UV Filter, Tripod with Bag, 4 Year Extended Warranty, Wide Angle Lens, Soft Carry Case and Lens Cleaning Kit B&H# SODCRPC105K at 899.95 The wide angle lens is great in the living room during holidays. You are going to spend the money anyway. The camcorder should be between 4 and 5 hundred for your pusposes.
Here is the short shotgun you need it is REALLY cheap Azden Price: $ 54.95 ECZ-990 - Super-Cardioid Shotgun Condenser Camera Mountable Microphone MFR# ECZ990 B&H# AZECZ990
If you choose to take any of this advice - this is my open source licensing agreement ---- promise that you will white balance on a white card - not a piece of copy paper or a shirt. Coated white stock works welll and is cheap.
I haven't heard any of my machines for months since I haven't had to reboot. 1TiBook, 1 G5, 7 Dual G4s and a pant load of those snowball-looking ones.
It's so nice to take your notebook out at a meeting, flip it open and look around, waiting patiently while everybody else gets ready to work. It's not like they couldn't have done it themselves. Maybe they *like* to listen to their machines make noises or something.
Training people who are naive into a cult-like corporate culture that normals in the industry run from. Not that they are training you to be incompetent. Just sort of odd.
We love you. We care for you. What? You want extra pickles? You have to understand that we do this to enhance your experience here at ****. It is for your benefit alone. You obviously have a problem and I feel sorry for you. If you would just have the part of your brain that involves empathy for humans removed, you would be MUCH happier!
If your network is mixed like ours with static and dynamic ips and a MS DNS server:-( , it isn't plug and play. We had to upgrade all of the 10.2 clients to 10.3 to get it so users could authenticate. Was it kerberos? I don't know. What I hated about the configuration was the dc=booger dc=froogle dc=et cetera to get the client to bind to the server. You would think that somebody would write a parser to handle it. Also the user lists don't update immediately and you have the feeling that the machine didn't take the user entries although when you test it, it works. OOH and another thing, does anybody know how to get it to mount the RAID if it has to restart?
was the high magnetics record field at 25 gauss. It too was posted twice, strangely enough. It is right there next door somewhere in the picture I guess though I have never seen it from that perspective. It would be more instructive to zoom in on teaching assistant housing which is also nearby. Seeing the native PHD candidates in their hovels, cooking over the glowing coals of rejected research papers . . . .
Scala Try distributed publication. Try optimized fonts for interlaced display. Try scripting language. Try timecode support. Try external device I/O. Try smooth scrolling for both horizontal and vertical. Try built-in dithering with killer implementation for Floyd-Steinberg dithering that can take a 24 bit photo down to 128 colors and still look good.
The common carrier sword cuts both ways. The law also limits liability of a common carrier. If the cable company gets into VOIP, they will have unlimited liability if they drop a 911 call and somebody dies. They probably fought for years to stay away from the responsibilities, but they will scream for protection soon.
It also means they will have to invest in updating their rotting infrastructure. Also, those little booster boxes will have to have batteries for backup.
I have always disliked VOIP for that reason. I used for three years from 1999. I found that it hindered the small noises you get from people that signal things like emotion. That would be due to filtering and smaple rate limit I suppose. ??
It is possible that being able to hear yourself is linked to speech patterns. I understand that stuttering may be related to this in some strange way.
If the infrastructure is good, then you can do it. I had a five line office and would NEVER subject my customers to even good VOIP quality. To me a high committment to customers means they should feel that they are sitting next to you. So it would have to be rally rally superb. Like up around 41mhz. Well, maybe not that good, but you get the picture.
Everybody has to ride their (telco) depreciating capital assets to get from here to there. VOIP uses the same infrastructure unless new infrastructure has *magically* appeared.;-) harmless jest, OK?
The Cable infrastructure is not maintained at the same level of the phone company. That's why people complain a lot.
The end of the timetable for broadcasters to convert to digital has come. Virtually everybody is on the air now. The reach is better although the tower has to be high. Stations with owners who have brains have been putting in new or extending them for several years. The bandwidth the government has GIVEN the industry is enough for one HD or two standard definition (D1 or whatever) streams of data. Thus double the number of choices. They have a huge issue to deal with. They are at the end of a financial situation like the one faced by the newspapers in the 80's. The possibility exists for the local broadcsters to make the cable operators take their turn at teh bottom of the heap. Support from a telco could make a critical difference in a number one (NY, LA, Chicago, Miami) through five market.
If a baby bell gets together with local broadcast stations to distribute free over-air digital tuners, cable operators will lose their core business. They reached max penetration several years ago and have been casting about for revenue sources. One thing they tried was an alliance with broadcasters for central services. It was damaged by nonlinear insertion and cheap storage availability.
Take the number of stations within sixty miles of you and double it. That's the approximate number of sources of free programming. The advertising revenue will come back into the community too. You can subscribe to specialized stuff on broadband. Wrestling, Celebrity sports, E!, all the shit you so desperately need.
I had a graphics tablet on an Amiga (custom written driver) - in 32 lovely colors. I now have a pathetic giant touch screen - which I hate - for demonstration purposes. Yes, I have tried the inkwell, but nothing I have found seems to be good for anything but jotting down the odd note.
My point, thanks for following along, is one made at Siggraph many times. What we have in terms of display technology is in need of a real change. Not just the odd incremental hop - which is what tablet computing is.
Haven't any of you guys known people who had lawyers who told them they could get away with doing something stupid? The corporation will absorb the consequences, he and his lawyers will sleaze off somewhere. Probably move to Boca Raton. So what the hell is so new?
I agree with the guys who said that this discussion is dead.
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quote found here:
University of Wollongong
In 1997, Gistics, Inc. published the following*:
Macintosh users:
spend 38 fewer hours per year 'Futzing" with files
save US $4,950 annually on support and training
use more tools (14.3 versus 8.3)
Save US $2,211 in three-year cost of ownership
Earn US $5.01 more per hour
Earn US $12.22 more revenue per hour of labor
Create US $14,550 more profits per year per person
Earn 32 percent more net profit per project and
Achieve platform payback in 7.2 months (versus 13.9)
*Page 56 Vaughan, T. 1998. Multimedia, Making it Work, Osborne McGraw Hill, Berkeley
have been running old unix systems from the 80's around here - South Florida - since the 80's!
How come everything in this thread is modded either insightful or troll no matter how innocuous?
In order to demonstrate the point for the shallow reading moderator, the point is specifically that the medical people are not what you could call virgin unix users.
is so badly written that it does not warrant a response. Perhaps the reason it irritates people is because of this.
I sync my Visor using the Sync utility in OS X. Is Cobalt something special and different? Maybe I am just a caveman or something.
whatever you use three to five years from now, it won't be one of the standard definition interlaced analog formats like PAL or NTSC or SECAM. It will probably be one of the 18 digital broadcast formats proposed over the last few years. Actually it will probably be a switchable 1080i for high definition digital video that uses MPEG4 instead of the DV codec. You will be happy although it will not edit nicely but you won't care. BTW, editing is not artsy-fartsy. It should be invisible. What you have seen is something *else*. I can't help having high standards, so sue me.
For the time being -
My advice is that you look at the camera from the front and get the one with the biggest optics. All of the microphones that come on the cameras suck big time, most of the controls on cheap cameras like you want will be the same. The light gathering ability is key to getting a decent picture in low light. I'm guessing that you are not big on light wrangling. Get a nice little short shotgun microphone to put on top. This is 50% of what you recognize as a good picture. Everybody will compliment you on your camera ability when they can hear the child's first words rather than the grownup's wretched cooing and noises from behind the camera from an open pattern microphone. If anybody mods this down, I will give you a lecture on CCDs, light, and filters. Oh, I forgot, get a circular polarizer instead of a UV filter to protect the lens. When you are outside, you will need both the neutral density filter and the polarizer. The camera you buy really doesn't matter as long as you buy one from a real camera company. Sony, Panasonic, JVC, Canon, Ikegami. Find someone with the Prosumer B&H catalog.
take a look at this:
DCR-PC105 Mini DV Camcorder with Additional Accessory Kit - includes: Battery Pack, UV Filter, Tripod with Bag, 4 Year Extended Warranty, Wide Angle Lens, Soft Carry Case and Lens Cleaning Kit
B&H# SODCRPC105K at 899.95
The wide angle lens is great in the living room during holidays. You are going to spend the money anyway. The camcorder should be between 4 and 5 hundred for your pusposes.
Here is the short shotgun you need it is REALLY cheap
Azden Price: $ 54.95
ECZ-990 - Super-Cardioid Shotgun Condenser Camera Mountable Microphone MFR# ECZ990 B&H# AZECZ990
If you choose to take any of this advice - this is my open source licensing agreement ---- promise that you will white balance on a white card - not a piece of copy paper or a shirt. Coated white stock works welll and is cheap.
I haven't heard any of my machines for months since I haven't had to reboot. 1TiBook, 1 G5, 7 Dual G4s and a pant load of those snowball-looking ones.
It's so nice to take your notebook out at a meeting, flip it open and look around, waiting patiently while everybody else gets ready to work. It's not like they couldn't have done it themselves. Maybe they *like* to listen to their machines make noises or something.
Sorry, I just have issues with the leadership.
Maybe it indicates a lack of WAPs.
buy one at B&H
they have quite a nice selection of S-VHS decks that are still used by lots os schools for serving up the daily dose of propaganda
Don't forget what happened to the guys at Texaco.
If your network is mixed like ours with static and dynamic ips and a MS DNS server :-( , it isn't plug and play. We had to upgrade all of the 10.2 clients to 10.3 to get it so users could authenticate. Was it kerberos? I don't know. What I hated about the configuration was the dc=booger dc=froogle dc=et cetera to get the client to bind to the server. You would think that somebody would write a parser to handle it. Also the user lists don't update immediately and you have the feeling that the machine didn't take the user entries although when you test it, it works. OOH and another thing, does anybody know how to get it to mount the RAID if it has to restart?
was the high magnetics record field at 25 gauss. It too was posted twice, strangely enough. It is right there next door somewhere in the picture I guess though I have never seen it from that perspective. It would be more instructive to zoom in on teaching assistant housing which is also nearby. Seeing the native PHD candidates in their hovels, cooking over the glowing coals of rejected research papers . . . .
Scala
Try distributed publication. Try optimized fonts for interlaced display. Try scripting language. Try timecode support. Try external device I/O. Try smooth scrolling for both horizontal and vertical. Try built-in dithering with killer implementation for Floyd-Steinberg dithering that can take a 24 bit photo down to 128 colors and still look good.
The common carrier sword cuts both ways. The law also limits liability of a common carrier. If the cable company gets into VOIP, they will have unlimited liability if they drop a 911 call and somebody dies. They probably fought for years to stay away from the responsibilities, but they will scream for protection soon.
It also means they will have to invest in updating their rotting infrastructure. Also, those little booster boxes will have to have batteries for backup.
I have always disliked VOIP for that reason. I used for three years from 1999. I found that it hindered the small noises you get from people that signal things like emotion. That would be due to filtering and smaple rate limit I suppose. ??
It is possible that being able to hear yourself is linked to speech patterns. I understand that stuttering may be related to this in some strange way.
If the infrastructure is good, then you can do it. I had a five line office and would NEVER subject my customers to even good VOIP quality. To me a high committment to customers means they should feel that they are sitting next to you. So it would have to be rally rally superb. Like up around 41mhz. Well, maybe not that good, but you get the picture.
people had the same attitude about IBM?
;-) harmless jest, OK?
Everybody has to ride their (telco) depreciating capital assets to get from here to there. VOIP uses the same infrastructure unless new infrastructure has *magically* appeared.
The Cable infrastructure is not maintained at the same level of the phone company. That's why people complain a lot.
The end of the timetable for broadcasters to convert to digital has come. Virtually everybody is on the air now. The reach is better although the tower has to be high. Stations with owners who have brains have been putting in new or extending them for several years. The bandwidth the government has GIVEN the industry is enough for one HD or two standard definition (D1 or whatever) streams of data. Thus double the number of choices. They have a huge issue to deal with. They are at the end of a financial situation like the one faced by the newspapers in the 80's. The possibility exists for the local broadcsters to make the cable operators take their turn at teh bottom of the heap. Support from a telco could make a critical difference in a number one (NY, LA, Chicago, Miami) through five market.
Customers who are already used to sending them money every month.
to use a spoof - otherwise it gets rejected. So how do you harvest them? That would involve some less than legal activities. Kudos for trying though.
If a baby bell gets together with local broadcast stations to distribute free over-air digital tuners, cable operators will lose their core business. They reached max penetration several years ago and have been casting about for revenue sources. One thing they tried was an alliance with broadcasters for central services. It was damaged by nonlinear insertion and cheap storage availability.
Take the number of stations within sixty miles of you and double it. That's the approximate number of sources of free programming. The advertising revenue will come back into the community too. You can subscribe to specialized stuff on broadband. Wrestling, Celebrity sports, E!, all the shit you so desperately need.
those ASSHOLES have been getting the off topic crap?
I had a graphics tablet on an Amiga (custom written driver) - in 32 lovely colors. I now have a pathetic giant touch screen - which I hate - for demonstration purposes. Yes, I have tried the inkwell, but nothing I have found seems to be good for anything but jotting down the odd note.
My point, thanks for following along, is one made at Siggraph many times. What we have in terms of display technology is in need of a real change. Not just the odd incremental hop - which is what tablet computing is.
Haven't any of you guys known people who had lawyers who told them they could get away with doing something stupid? The corporation will absorb the consequences, he and his lawyers will sleaze off somewhere. Probably move to Boca Raton. So what the hell is so new?
I agree with the guys who said that this discussion is dead.