I have to echo your sentiments. However, it is quite expensive. I ordered the current Final Cut Studio ($1299) and a Mac Pro to run it on ($2999 w/2GB RAM (recommended by the software) and 500 GB drive (you'll need the space)).
A refurb G5 can be less expensive, but doesn't have as many internal drive bays. Unless you're going to build an external RAID, I recommend lots of internal drive storage. In my experience, consumer-level single-PATA-drive Firewire 400 enclosures don't use all the available bandwidth of the bus nor support the maximum access speed supported by the drive.
While a B&W G3 upgraded with a G4 can run a patched version of the software, encoding times are excessive. Expect a two-pass high quality encode of a 2-hour movie to take two days, uninterrupted.
And check your files before you burn. I've seen reproducible problems with export encoding the wrong audio for the video when exporting multiple sequences from the same project. Test burns on DVD-RW or +RW media are recommended as well.
And there are still players out there that will refuse to play burned DVDs. I can't seem to make my Sony 400-disc changer accept them on -R media.
And you end up with a mouse with at least 23 buttons (from photos and description) and the possibly ability to pick it up and use it for voice recognition: "Hello, Computer."
Apply the other mod used with a real mouse and turn it into a color hand scanner (after applying a corrective lens cover to fix the close-focus problem). And use it as your modem for connectivity on the road (one of the reasons why your phone would be nearby).
Con: mouse abuse breaks an expensive phone and service contract.
Lastly, they suggest that Steve Jobs held back on showing more Leopard features so people would not get too excited and stop buying in 2006. 'If you get too excited about what is supposed to be an incredibly amazing product you simply won't buy a new Apple this year.'
I purchased a Mac Pro. I thought about waiting for Leopard. But then I realized that I still won't be getting rid of my G4 Cube or my Blue & White G3 w/550 MHz G4 upgrade, and I'll be buying a multi-seat license for them just like I did for Tiger. (Buying one 5-seat license is cheaper than buying two single-seat licenses.) By getting a Tiger pre-installed system, I'll be getting an Intel build of Tiger that I didn't have already, and I'll be wasting one less seat when I buy Leopard later. Thus buying now makes more sense to me than waiting, even if all the new features of Leopard were disclosed.
But then maybe I'm special as I have two old machines to upgrade in addition to the new one. If I had only one old machine capable of running Leopard, I could save the expense of the multi-seat package until the next upgrade after Leopard.
The only ways I could lose out is if Leopard is released for Intel only or otherwise not released in a universal package.
If you think you can compress a 100M sample of Wikipedia better than paq8f
Anyone can write a program that can compress that sample down to zero bytes. The simplest such implementation of the program will be slightly bigger than the sample however and could only be used to decompress that sample.
Down to one byte, it could work with up to 256 different samples, but only those, and would still be slightly bigger than the sum of those 256 samples.
(Basically, given a byte, regurgitate the whole text which was precompiled into the program.)
A condition of the contest should be that the combination of the program and compressed data should be smaller than both the uncompressed data and the combination of paq8f and the compressed data.
Dare I recoin a phrase: Any sufficiently advanced compression algorithm is indistinguishable from a filing system.
What it sounds like to me is that they plan on distributing discs with CSS keys already burned on them instead of the discs that exist now having the CSS ring zeroed out.
Which will require special software that knows what the pre-burnt key is so as to properly encrypt the data for burning on these new blanks, or otherwise be able to read the pre-burnt key off the disk, derive the appropriate companion key, and encrypt using that.
The CSS won't be a deterrent to copying (other than wasting a disk for the first encrypted burn), but it will afford it the protection of the DMCA or local equivalent legislation.
Third parties have two choices: continue to petition Microsoft to create an approved kernel-hooking interface so products like theirs can work, or use "black hat" techniques to bypass the restrictions.
"We had to hack the system in order to protect it"?
Maybe whether an object is considered a planet should not only consider its size but also its average distance from its star using something like a bell curve.
Ah, but then each object in the Oort cloud could possibly be considered a planet too. Damn.
Apparently NASA uses stack computers in some of their probes.
Is that supposed to be a ringing endorsement? I thought NASA was using components the rest of the world treated as obsolete due their proven durability and reliability in the radiation of space.
They claim that all but "a fraction of a percent" of those 60 million people who've been denied access to Microsoft updates and downloads are guilty, guilty, guilty.
A fraction of a percent (i.e. < 1%) of 60 million are legitimate? That would be anything under 600,000 people.
So, better that a thousand pirated copies run free than six hundred thousand legitimate copies be denied a security update?
You know, it's kinda-sorta fun to google up where they get the anti-hash text from.
Question is, can Google handle the traffic of everyone's spam filters searching for spam anti-hash text automatically with every e-mail received that uses a new text it hasn't seen before?
Functionality is the most importent feature for any application but visual impression helps a log way in the success of any advertising campaign.
I corrected your posting.
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And on my old Mac (a B&W G3 w/550 MHz G4 running Tiger) I have to hold down the mouse button as a dead man's switch to get a non-zero framerate out of it. Apparently it can field that event faster than it can not-field all possible events, giving more time to the video.
So we have to tell the ESRB about the content that we removed from a game, that has no way for the player to access, that can only be available by a hacker who then unlocked the data by reverse engineering the game?
More than that, you need to report that, since you offer topless male skins with hairless chests in your game, some gamer may use and editor that reclassifies them as applicable female character models, producing naked breasts!
"the efficacy of a universal ratings system for visual content, including films, broadcast and cable TV, and video and computer games"
"Including", huh? I wonder what other visual content they want to put under their universal ratings that they didn't explicitly list?
I can imagine there are some in the government who'd like to regulate what styles of clothing can be worn in public or rating books for their content and themes.
I have two copies of the novelization of the movie "WarGames". One of them, apparently from the Science Fiction Book Club (I bought it used), is edited to remove drug references and make the characters of David Lightman and Jennifer Mack get better grades in school, despite still needing to change their Biology grades. It however leaves in a scene of David reading a shoplifted book. A book by the same author of course, so they couldn't excise the author's own product placement!
Of course, it goes without saying they want web content rated for content too. That should neatly take out these social sites like MySpace where people try to exercise their freedom to assemble or try to exercise more than their alloted quota of free speech.
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I have to echo your sentiments. However, it is quite expensive. I ordered the current Final Cut Studio ($1299) and a Mac Pro to run it on ($2999 w/2GB RAM (recommended by the software) and 500 GB drive (you'll need the space)).
A refurb G5 can be less expensive, but doesn't have as many internal drive bays. Unless you're going to build an external RAID, I recommend lots of internal drive storage. In my experience, consumer-level single-PATA-drive Firewire 400 enclosures don't use all the available bandwidth of the bus nor support the maximum access speed supported by the drive.
While a B&W G3 upgraded with a G4 can run a patched version of the software, encoding times are excessive. Expect a two-pass high quality encode of a 2-hour movie to take two days, uninterrupted.
And check your files before you burn. I've seen reproducible problems with export encoding the wrong audio for the video when exporting multiple sequences from the same project. Test burns on DVD-RW or +RW media are recommended as well.
And there are still players out there that will refuse to play burned DVDs. I can't seem to make my Sony 400-disc changer accept them on -R media.
Crime fighter, fire fighter, freedom fighter....
And whoosh goes the joke.
And you end up with a mouse with at least 23 buttons (from photos and description) and the possibly ability to pick it up and use it for voice recognition: "Hello, Computer."
Apply the other mod used with a real mouse and turn it into a color hand scanner (after applying a corrective lens cover to fix the close-focus problem). And use it as your modem for connectivity on the road (one of the reasons why your phone would be nearby).
Con: mouse abuse breaks an expensive phone and service contract.
Lastly, they suggest that Steve Jobs held back on showing more Leopard features so people would not get too excited and stop buying in 2006. 'If you get too excited about what is supposed to be an incredibly amazing product you simply won't buy a new Apple this year.'
I purchased a Mac Pro. I thought about waiting for Leopard. But then I realized that I still won't be getting rid of my G4 Cube or my Blue & White G3 w/550 MHz G4 upgrade, and I'll be buying a multi-seat license for them just like I did for Tiger. (Buying one 5-seat license is cheaper than buying two single-seat licenses.) By getting a Tiger pre-installed system, I'll be getting an Intel build of Tiger that I didn't have already, and I'll be wasting one less seat when I buy Leopard later. Thus buying now makes more sense to me than waiting, even if all the new features of Leopard were disclosed.
But then maybe I'm special as I have two old machines to upgrade in addition to the new one. If I had only one old machine capable of running Leopard, I could save the expense of the multi-seat package until the next upgrade after Leopard.
The only ways I could lose out is if Leopard is released for Intel only or otherwise not released in a universal package.
A larger LCD would eat more battery. Adding pixels doesn't do squat.
But it means they have room to put more bars on the battery meter! That's gotta mean longer life, right? Right?
If you think you can compress a 100M sample of Wikipedia better than paq8f
Anyone can write a program that can compress that sample down to zero bytes. The simplest such implementation of the program will be slightly bigger than the sample however and could only be used to decompress that sample.
Down to one byte, it could work with up to 256 different samples, but only those, and would still be slightly bigger than the sum of those 256 samples.
(Basically, given a byte, regurgitate the whole text which was precompiled into the program.)
A condition of the contest should be that the combination of the program and compressed data should be smaller than both the uncompressed data and the combination of paq8f and the compressed data.
Dare I recoin a phrase: Any sufficiently advanced compression algorithm is indistinguishable from a filing system.
More people buying the 360+subscription to live.
Since when did a 360+subscription become one of the essentials of life along with air, food, and water?
It is called a value added service. Makes the product that much more attractive.
Sounds like an addictive substance to me if you become biologically dependent upon it. That's a bit too attractive.
The citizenry applying Occam's Razor is what the government calls Plausable Deniability.
Followed by another ticket for using your cell phone in a moving car in certain states, natch.
What it sounds like to me is that they plan on distributing discs with CSS keys already burned on them instead of the discs that exist now having the CSS ring zeroed out.
Which will require special software that knows what the pre-burnt key is so as to properly encrypt the data for burning on these new blanks, or otherwise be able to read the pre-burnt key off the disk, derive the appropriate companion key, and encrypt using that.
The CSS won't be a deterrent to copying (other than wasting a disk for the first encrypted burn), but it will afford it the protection of the DMCA or local equivalent legislation.
Maybe whether an object is considered a planet should not only consider its size but also its average distance from its star using something like a bell curve.
Ah, but then each object in the Oort cloud could possibly be considered a planet too. Damn.
Apparently NASA uses stack computers in some of their probes.
Is that supposed to be a ringing endorsement? I thought NASA was using components the rest of the world treated as obsolete due their proven durability and reliability in the radiation of space.
North Dakota doesn't have much though
Except a desire to drop the "North" from its name as it suggests to people that it is cold there, so instead let it be Colbert.
They claim that all but "a fraction of a percent" of those 60 million people who've been denied access to Microsoft updates and downloads are guilty, guilty, guilty.
A fraction of a percent (i.e. < 1%) of 60 million are legitimate? That would be anything under 600,000 people.
So, better that a thousand pirated copies run free than six hundred thousand legitimate copies be denied a security update?
You know, it's kinda-sorta fun to google up where they get the anti-hash text from.
Question is, can Google handle the traffic of everyone's spam filters searching for spam anti-hash text automatically with every e-mail received that uses a new text it hasn't seen before?
Would this be considered a Slashbackslash or Backslashback?
Functionality is the most importent feature for any application but visual impression helps a log way in the success of any advertising campaign.
I corrected your posting.
And on my old Mac (a B&W G3 w/550 MHz G4 running Tiger) I have to hold down the mouse button as a dead man's switch to get a non-zero framerate out of it. Apparently it can field that event faster than it can not-field all possible events, giving more time to the video.
Yes, I am about to buy a new machine.
You still don't know who that person is, so why does it matter.
Ever done a vanity search?
So we have to tell the ESRB about the content that we removed from a game, that has no way for the player to access, that can only be available by a hacker who then unlocked the data by reverse engineering the game?
More than that, you need to report that, since you offer topless male skins with hairless chests in your game, some gamer may use and editor that reclassifies them as applicable female character models, producing naked breasts!
"the efficacy of a universal ratings system for visual content, including films, broadcast and cable TV, and video and computer games"
"Including", huh? I wonder what other visual content they want to put under their universal ratings that they didn't explicitly list?
I can imagine there are some in the government who'd like to regulate what styles of clothing can be worn in public or rating books for their content and themes.
I have two copies of the novelization of the movie "WarGames". One of them, apparently from the Science Fiction Book Club (I bought it used), is edited to remove drug references and make the characters of David Lightman and Jennifer Mack get better grades in school, despite still needing to change their Biology grades. It however leaves in a scene of David reading a shoplifted book. A book by the same author of course, so they couldn't excise the author's own product placement!
Of course, it goes without saying they want web content rated for content too. That should neatly take out these social sites like MySpace where people try to exercise their freedom to assemble or try to exercise more than their alloted quota of free speech.
the intent was to semi-quote the parent
There ought to be a glyph for that.