Re:Social hack - use "bullfight" for "speed trap".
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Is Your GPS Naive?
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So if the speed limit is set artificially low, you deserve a speeding ticket even if you're travelling at a safe and reasonable speed for the conditions. Got it.
People speed because most speed limits are set artifically low to bring in speeding ticket revenue. It's not as bad as 30mph on a freeway, but it's bad enough that travelling the speed limit can be inconvenient.
The weird thing is that they must have a whole staff of highly qualified computer geeks who do their effects who could tell them this was bullshit.
If said geeks were right in the room with the script writer I would agree with you, but they don't come in until after the show's already been shot.
Movies will probably be shot at 24 fps for ages to come, but broadcast television won't. FOX, ABC, ESPN, and many others are broadcasting at 60 fps in 720 lines. There's not enough bandwidth to produce a good-looking 1080 line picture at 60 fps, but when that limitation goes away I think we'll see all the major broadcasters moving up to it.
Also, game consoles can output 60 fps progressive content.
There's just something about adventure games that make me want to see them in 2D... Especially a cartoon like Sam and Max. I just don't think the 3D look works for them. I think they should have stuck a bit closer to the original Sam and Max game's look only with updates like a higher resolution and antialiased sprite edges.
Home studios are already well within the capabilities of many artists
Unfortunately, the people running those home studios are far from within the capabilities of a professional tracking, mixing or mastering engineer. I've heard albums produced on professional equipment that sounded like shit because the people running the equipment weren't up to par.
So we should listen to the opinions about family welfare from someone who endorses polygamy?
Re:More useless IPv6 calculations
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The Next Net
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I'm rather interested in the notion of every neuron in a neural net getting its own IP address.
The human brain has 100 billion neurons in it. Now the most population dense country in the United States has 17,685 people per square kilometer. Earth has 510,067,420 km^2 of surface area, and since in a moment I'm going to assume we have interplanetary travel and the ability to individually address neurons that we can use all of it to capacity. This results in a planet with a population of 9,020,542,322,700. That's 9 trillion people. With a t.
It would take 3.77230498x10^14 such planets to fill the entire IPv6 address space.
Furthermore, such a planet filled to capacity with every individual neuron individually addressable would only effectively use 44 bits of address space. 43 bits if a couple of people were willing to NAT their brains. </smirk>
Haha. Well, if you're both on the same cell provider that gives you free in-network calls... Or if you start the call out of range of each other and approach each other during the call.
Re:More useless IPv6 calculations
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Well, if you consider the vast amount of empty space between the galaxies, unless we fill up every single nook and cranny of the universe, it should be fine.
More useless IPv6 calculations
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The Next Net
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According to my calculations, IPv6 allows us:
Over 300 million IP addresses per cubic millimeter of the Earth.
One IP address for every 5 cubic meters of the entire solar system within the sphere defined by the aphelion of the orbit of Pluto.
180,000 IP addresses per cubic light year for the estimated size of the entire universe.
The station I work at does. You callin' me a liar?
Like a another poster, you might be confusing public access with public television. Different things, public television is publicly funded and they leave programming up to the professionals. This is where you watch Sesame Street and Nova. Public access is where you get to see such gems as The Psycholuna Network and Wayne's World. Yes, I know Wayne's World is fictional.
Most public access in the US is pretty bad. You're talking about asking people who don't do video for a living being asked to make a television show. While the facility will teach you how to run the equipment, actually making good television is another thing altogether. Either you have it or you don't, and most people who have it are doing it for a living already.
The only thing really worthwhile is sports coverage, if you're interested in high school sports for some reason. Even then, production values aren't anywhere close to what you'll see on broadcast TV. Where painting a computer-generated line on a football field in real time is fairly commonplace in broadcast TV, public access thinks it's pretty cool just to be able to get remaining yardage into a graphic on every play. I apologize for my ameri-centricism here, if you don't follow our football.
There is a show called "Nate on Drums" which started on public access and was actually so good it was put on broadcast television. But that sort of thing is rare.
PBS != Public access. PBS is publicly funded television. Public access is publicly *created* television, as in, any member of the community can go in, learn how to use the equipment, and make their own television program.
How many places can you think of where you can check out a broadcast video camera, use a fully equipped and lit television studio, or edit on an Avid, along with being trained in the operation of each for free? Television is much more than how you receive it, there's an entire process behind it. This operation in Austria is not just about doing television over the internet, it's about empowering the community to create mass media, which public access is already doing in the United States.
No, CD quality is 44.1 khz 16 bit stereo. Nothing less. Perceptual transparency is another matter, and the --preset standard option in the LAME MP3 encoder has been shown to be perceptually transparent for the vast majority of people. It averages about 192 kbps.
You have absolutely nothing to worry about. You own the copyright on your own film, and therefore have the exclusive right to say how it may be distributed. The MPAA has zero right to tell you how you may distribute your own film.
The scientist in the article wants more scientists to start cracking open their own T-rex bones to see if they have soft tissue inside as well. I'm wondering, isn't there a way to tell what's inside *apart* from cracking open precious bones? Ultrasound, or an MRI, maybe?
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So if the speed limit is set artificially low, you deserve a speeding ticket even if you're travelling at a safe and reasonable speed for the conditions. Got it. People speed because most speed limits are set artifically low to bring in speeding ticket revenue. It's not as bad as 30mph on a freeway, but it's bad enough that travelling the speed limit can be inconvenient.
Shouldn't they worry about fixing the functionality they already (are supposed to) have instead of trying to add new functionality?
My camera lets you choose whether to shoot RAW or JPG. If you don't want to post process, shoot JPG, if you do, shoot RAW.
The weird thing is that they must have a whole staff of highly qualified computer geeks who do their effects who could tell them this was bullshit. If said geeks were right in the room with the script writer I would agree with you, but they don't come in until after the show's already been shot.
Movies will probably be shot at 24 fps for ages to come, but broadcast television won't. FOX, ABC, ESPN, and many others are broadcasting at 60 fps in 720 lines. There's not enough bandwidth to produce a good-looking 1080 line picture at 60 fps, but when that limitation goes away I think we'll see all the major broadcasters moving up to it. Also, game consoles can output 60 fps progressive content.
There's just something about adventure games that make me want to see them in 2D... Especially a cartoon like Sam and Max. I just don't think the 3D look works for them. I think they should have stuck a bit closer to the original Sam and Max game's look only with updates like a higher resolution and antialiased sprite edges.
Home studios are already well within the capabilities of many artists
Unfortunately, the people running those home studios are far from within the capabilities of a professional tracking, mixing or mastering engineer. I've heard albums produced on professional equipment that sounded like shit because the people running the equipment weren't up to par.
Sports on UPN? Does your local affiliate cover a lot of local stuff or something?
So we should listen to the opinions about family welfare from someone who endorses polygamy?
I'm rather interested in the notion of every neuron in a neural net getting its own IP address.
The human brain has 100 billion neurons in it. Now the most population dense country in the United States has 17,685 people per square kilometer. Earth has 510,067,420 km^2 of surface area, and since in a moment I'm going to assume we have interplanetary travel and the ability to individually address neurons that we can use all of it to capacity. This results in a planet with a population of 9,020,542,322,700. That's 9 trillion people. With a t.
It would take 3.77230498x10^14 such planets to fill the entire IPv6 address space.
Furthermore, such a planet filled to capacity with every individual neuron individually addressable would only effectively use 44 bits of address space. 43 bits if a couple of people were willing to NAT their brains. </smirk>
Haha. Well, if you're both on the same cell provider that gives you free in-network calls... Or if you start the call out of range of each other and approach each other during the call.
Well, if you consider the vast amount of empty space between the galaxies, unless we fill up every single nook and cranny of the universe, it should be fine.
According to my calculations, IPv6 allows us:
Over 300 million IP addresses per cubic millimeter of the Earth.
One IP address for every 5 cubic meters of the entire solar system within the sphere defined by the aphelion of the orbit of Pluto.
180,000 IP addresses per cubic light year for the estimated size of the entire universe.
Yup, I think we have enough.
Try calling someone who's right next to you. The lag between when they speak and when you hear it is about half a second.
The station I work at does. You callin' me a liar?
Like a another poster, you might be confusing public access with public television. Different things, public television is publicly funded and they leave programming up to the professionals. This is where you watch Sesame Street and Nova. Public access is where you get to see such gems as The Psycholuna Network and Wayne's World. Yes, I know Wayne's World is fictional.
Most public access in the US is pretty bad. You're talking about asking people who don't do video for a living being asked to make a television show. While the facility will teach you how to run the equipment, actually making good television is another thing altogether. Either you have it or you don't, and most people who have it are doing it for a living already.
The only thing really worthwhile is sports coverage, if you're interested in high school sports for some reason. Even then, production values aren't anywhere close to what you'll see on broadcast TV. Where painting a computer-generated line on a football field in real time is fairly commonplace in broadcast TV, public access thinks it's pretty cool just to be able to get remaining yardage into a graphic on every play. I apologize for my ameri-centricism here, if you don't follow our football.
There is a show called "Nate on Drums" which started on public access and was actually so good it was put on broadcast television. But that sort of thing is rare.
Pretty much nobody, though the coverage of high school sports is a pretty good draw for parents and athletes.
I didn't say that what they're doing in Austria is a bad thing, I'm just saying that it's not unique. We're already doing it in the States.
PBS != Public access. PBS is publicly funded television. Public access is publicly *created* television, as in, any member of the community can go in, learn how to use the equipment, and make their own television program.
How many places can you think of where you can check out a broadcast video camera, use a fully equipped and lit television studio, or edit on an Avid, along with being trained in the operation of each for free? Television is much more than how you receive it, there's an entire process behind it. This operation in Austria is not just about doing television over the internet, it's about empowering the community to create mass media, which public access is already doing in the United States.
It's called public access television in the US, only we don't put it on the internet.
No, CD quality is 44.1 khz 16 bit stereo. Nothing less. Perceptual transparency is another matter, and the --preset standard option in the LAME MP3 encoder has been shown to be perceptually transparent for the vast majority of people. It averages about 192 kbps.
You have absolutely nothing to worry about. You own the copyright on your own film, and therefore have the exclusive right to say how it may be distributed. The MPAA has zero right to tell you how you may distribute your own film.
Hmm, so will putty splash if the atmospheric pressure is high enough?
The scientist in the article wants more scientists to start cracking open their own T-rex bones to see if they have soft tissue inside as well. I'm wondering, isn't there a way to tell what's inside *apart* from cracking open precious bones? Ultrasound, or an MRI, maybe?