For Canadians, I've found Future Photo is great -- you can't walk into a Future Shop with a memory card but you can pick up your prints from your local store when they are ready. CDN$0.39/print. (They are on sale for CDN$0.29/print).
1. The hard drive is only 4200 RPM. Not really fast enough for video capture/editing. Maybe doable if the camera has MPEG-2 compression on-board, or something, but it is cutting it close.
2. You can carry as many tapes as you want with you. If you need more storage, you stick in another tape. The same can't be said for hard drive based cameras.
and finally (you'll think I am mad for saying this)..
3. Editing is EASIER with a tape-based system. Sure, you can't do some advanced things (such as chopping out a segment, rearraging clips, etc.), but the sort of interface needed to do these complex tasks would be very difficult and out of place on a camcorder. With a tape based system, you just rewind and hit 'REC' again to record over something. More complex editing can be done by dubbing (which is extremely straightforward itself), or on a computer.
.. encoding and decoding to/from MPEG-2 would cause a massive amount of latency.
You've over-engineered the problem, I am afraid.
Most things on a computer display do not move. As I type this now, the only thing moving is inside the Post Comment box.
By only sending the changes to a display, far greater bandwidth savings can be had.
On Windows, Remote Desktop, or on Linux, Nomachine NX, will do perfectly fine over a 10mbit connection. Actually, they will do perfectly fine over much less.
This will of course not work very well for gaming, but there is essentially no solution that would work for gaming, since there can not be any latency at all between keypresses/mouseclicks and the corresponding action happening.
(BTW, DVD is actually [352|704|720] x vres where vres is 480 for NTSC, 576 for PAL.)
I know you are joking, of course, but I think it is important to point out for the less informed that the CRTC has approved Fox News. However, the deal with Global (Fox's Canadian Bitch) fell through.
Something about amplifiers (it isn't clear from your post what way you are using one, so for the sake of others):
They do not improve a bad signal.
The signal must be amplified at a point where the signal is still strong.
If, for example, you have a situation like I do and your signal goes through 75 feet of crappy cable from your basement to your second floor putting an amplifer at the source (basement) will bring the signal level up to a point where it will survive the trip upstairs intact.
Sticking an amplifier right before the input into the card will do nothing (well, not true: it will boost the signal level, however at that point there is nothing but noise to boost).
Take the information on this page with a large does of salt (Gibson Research likes shovelling shit), but my understanding is this this:
You are right; reads happen at the sector level. However, they are normally discarded in the case of a bad read (and a read is re-attempted). Spinrite claims to access the hardware at a lower level so that it stores in memory the result of the defective read. When this is done repeatedly, theory has it that hopefully it will get a perfect read at least once, or, if that is not the case, get enough reads to guess at whether each bit in the sector is a 0 or 1 based on statistics.
Actually, I've found that the newspaper provides a reasonable view of things like technical subjects; though there may be an occasional mistake, it is not unexpected when the writer is not intimately familiar with the subject matter.
The real problem I think is television news; perhaps this is the effect of condensing a story down to a 30 second sound byte?
If you can read the disk at all, Spinrite may help you. It can recover data from any disk accessable to DOS, which includes Zip Disks (with the Iomega DOS driver), depending on the type of your Zip drive (I'm not so sure about USB drives, though there are some USB drivers for DOS).
Despite the bullshit on the Gibson Research website, it essentially repeatedly reads bad data and uses some statistical analysis to determine whether each bit was more likely 1 or 0, depending on which came back most often.
This page has some more information on Spinrite and Zip Disks.
If you can't read the disk at all, I think you are screwed. Sorry.
Made almost exclusively with a method called performance capture, which drops digitized human actors into a computer-animated world. The technique has been used in some video games and, to a limited extent, in earlier movies.
Eh? Is this different from motion capture? (I.e. when they stick little tracking dots all over someone and have them act.. this process was used to generate Gollum)
I was under the impression that motion capture was very widely used to create realistic 3d characters..
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For Canadians, I've found Future Photo is great -- you can't walk into a Future Shop with a memory card but you can pick up your prints from your local store when they are ready. CDN$0.39/print. (They are on sale for CDN$0.29/print).
Great quality.
(I am not affiliated with Future Photo.)
1. The hard drive is only 4200 RPM. Not really fast enough for video capture/editing. Maybe doable if the camera has MPEG-2 compression on-board, or something, but it is cutting it close.
2. You can carry as many tapes as you want with you. If you need more storage, you stick in another tape. The same can't be said for hard drive based cameras.
and finally (you'll think I am mad for saying this)..
3. Editing is EASIER with a tape-based system. Sure, you can't do some advanced things (such as chopping out a segment, rearraging clips, etc.), but the sort of interface needed to do these complex tasks would be very difficult and out of place on a camcorder. With a tape based system, you just rewind and hit 'REC' again to record over something. More complex editing can be done by dubbing (which is extremely straightforward itself), or on a computer.
Has everyone forgotten that Sun produces their own Linux distribution, Java Desktop System?
It seems rather clear to me that he is referring to the Linux distribution created by Red Hat.
I don't have any exact numbers, but the latency on a Hauppage PVR-250 tuner is ~2 seconds.
You've over-engineered the problem, I am afraid. Most things on a computer display do not move. As I type this now, the only thing moving is inside the Post Comment box. By only sending the changes to a display, far greater bandwidth savings can be had.
On Windows, Remote Desktop, or on Linux, Nomachine NX, will do perfectly fine over a 10mbit connection. Actually, they will do perfectly fine over much less.
This will of course not work very well for gaming, but there is essentially no solution that would work for gaming, since there can not be any latency at all between keypresses/mouseclicks and the corresponding action happening.
(BTW, DVD is actually [352|704|720] x vres where vres is 480 for NTSC, 576 for PAL.)
The metaphor is broken. It makes no sense. How do you control sampling/bit rate? How do you know which rate will be used?
Why are there a number of subdirectories that magically appear on the CD? They don't really exist.. it is confusing and it is a bad idea.
AIM example:
I know you are joking, of course, but I think it is important to point out for the less informed that the CRTC has approved Fox News. However, the deal with Global (Fox's Canadian Bitch) fell through.
Hence, the [programming/television programs] [is/are] broadcast on satellite.
I don't think the term is used that way much, though.
Unfortunately, VHS's equivilent digital resolution is somewhere around 320x480, so no matter how it is done it will be illegible.
For those of us who can't read the code: how does this new feature work? How is it able to completely function behind a firewall?
So, what is the problem here?
The only thing I can see is that if you are responsible for an accident, this will prove it.
Big Brother can't go seeing where you've been to..
They do not improve a bad signal.
The signal must be amplified at a point where the signal is still strong.
If, for example, you have a situation like I do and your signal goes through 75 feet of crappy cable from your basement to your second floor putting an amplifer at the source (basement) will bring the signal level up to a point where it will survive the trip upstairs intact.
Sticking an amplifier right before the input into the card will do nothing (well, not true: it will boost the signal level, however at that point there is nothing but noise to boost).
The same thing has been tried here in Ontario (Look TV) and has been at least moderately sucessful..
Of course it helps to be able to beam transmissions off of the CN Tower..
You are right; reads happen at the sector level. However, they are normally discarded in the case of a bad read (and a read is re-attempted). Spinrite claims to access the hardware at a lower level so that it stores in memory the result of the defective read. When this is done repeatedly, theory has it that hopefully it will get a perfect read at least once, or, if that is not the case, get enough reads to guess at whether each bit in the sector is a 0 or 1 based on statistics.
No crap! The lights flicker repeatedly in my house when my LJ4si is on.
Spinrite 6.0 can do any filesystem.
Doesn't going Mach 10 cause you to turn into a lizard, abduct your captain and mate with her?
The real problem I think is television news; perhaps this is the effect of condensing a story down to a 30 second sound byte?
Well, the information might be useful to someone at least.
Despite the bullshit on the Gibson Research website, it essentially repeatedly reads bad data and uses some statistical analysis to determine whether each bit was more likely 1 or 0, depending on which came back most often.
This page has some more information on Spinrite and Zip Disks.
If you can't read the disk at all, I think you are screwed. Sorry.
It sounds more complicated than it is. But the answer is no, you don't need a server running.
I was under the impression that motion capture was very widely used to create realistic 3d characters..
Actually, come to think of it, they could make the internet better: by firewalling AOL users from it.
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