AKA meditation? A lot of people tend to dismiss meditation as a sort of a new-agey or spiritual mumbo jumbo that doesn't help anything. I remember talking about it to a boss of mine, and he said his mantra was "Owa tagoo siam." I told him he was clever, but that mantra wasn't good for much more than a chuckle. Try that one, though; repeat it a few times and you'll see the light.
Seriously, though, mindfulness is a way to get in touch with your body and understand how much of what is going on in your mind is noise and chatter, and how much of it is just natural ebb and flow of emotions that we tend to justify as rational reactions to our surroundings. How many times have you had a co-worker come in spoiling for a fight, and found that, no matter what you do, they'll find something to pick apart. The noise of you clicking your pen isn't what they're mad at; they're just mad and you're giving them a justification to aim it at you.
Meditation is like martial arts for the brain. If done right, it allows you to focus more when you need to, and even more importantly, it trains you to understand what is real and what are distractions, so that at any time, you can make a good decision as to what actually needs your focus.
I had a conversation with a friend about this who didn't get it until I put it this way. He'd just recently started dating this amazing woman, and I asked him, how often do you find yourself not getting your work done because you're thinking about last night or your next date with her. His smiling response: a lot! Then I asked him, how often do you find that, when you're with her, you're distracted because you didn't finish what you needed to at work? His response, less smiling: a lot.
We're not machines, and some multitasking is necessary, and some distractions are welcome, unavoidable or both. But there are certainly ways that we can improve our lives by learning what are useful distractions and what are not, and mindfulness is a tool which can help with that.
Gee, I hope she's not on the same road with me. I like to have news radio turned on, my iPod plugged into one ear with music, my cell-phone plugged in the other, and a good book in the steering wheel. I usually do OK until my blackberry starts buzzing and I need to write an email.
I think I get what you're saying. To apply your logic to your last point, one could say, "Splitting hairs while posting on slashdot is not multitasking; it's two parts of a common task.":)
There's some good advice in there, but a couple of major flaws. The data on the MiniDV tape is indeed digital, so it sounds like you mean to say that they should not encode/compress it, but rather store it in the highest possible quality for archival purposes. If that's what you meant, I'm with you. However, all tapes (including MiniDV) that were not designed and built with archiving in mind are fragile. Error correction helps with things like print-through, drop-out and stretching, but eventually, you'll get ugly blips if you rely on your tapes.
Additionally, tapes are slow to search through. Your comments about a database to track where the clips are is great, but he uses hard drives, he can scrub through a 30-minute segment in seconds, rather than minutes, and he never needs to rewind.
If I were a betting man, I'd say that tapes--even for the initial capture process--are going to go the way of the dodo. Hard drives--or better yet, flash drives--are inevitably going to be central to all serious (and some playful) media capture tools.
Give him a break. I'm sure he interacts plenty, but insists on only using the highest quality PRO-HD camera. That 100 GB is only nine minutes of video!
Man, those were the days. Yours must have been an Amiga 1000. I got mine a bit later--an A500--that I eventually maxed out with 1MB internally, and another 2MB with an external memory module.
I used to do 3D animations, and I would set up the parameters for each frame, then run multiple instances of the rendering program to run overnight. One at a time, I'd get a frame about every two hours; four at a time, I'd fire it all off before going to sleep, and I'd have four frames waiting for me in the morning!
I'm glad to hear that I'm wrong; my experience with WM is limited and not all that pleasant, and I have never personally heard anyone gush over the interface of any WM device. Your point is well taken, though, and that openness is certainly enough of a difference to weigh the balance towards WM for some people.
Of course, for a lot of people, the interface, web 2.0, and "filtered" applications are going to be enough. With the right application--some sort of a scripting sandbox, maybe--it's possible that there may be a way to do some pretty powerful on-phone apps without resorting to jailbreak.
You know, that's the third post I've made this week that someone has responded with the "I just threw up a little." Is this a meme, or do I just have some magical skill?
The other posts were on other sites, which makes it even more intriguing.
Interesting to note that "Goople" is just "Google" with the second 'g' turned around and straightened up. I'm not sure Apple would approve of that joint name. Maybe AppGoo?
And in the mobile phone market, it seems like Google and Apple (Goople?) are playing nice with each other, which will allow iPhone to rule the high end and Android to dominate the middle-to-low-end phone market. I don't know anyone who loves Windows Mobile, but a lot of people are pretty excited about their iPhones and/or the promise of Android.
Just downloaded the latest build for MacOS X, and thought I'd try the Acid3 test to see whether there was tangible speed improvement, and I can't load the darn URL. I guess I wasn't the only one who thought of this...
Jeeze, I wouldn't mind if Microsoft picked up on one of these as well. Imagine if IE actually used the same standards as the browsers us open sourcies like to use.
Sigh; if you're right, a little part of me died, right there. Maybe we should invent a new group noun, you know, like a pride of lions, a coven of witches, a worry of mothers, etc... I'm thinking a cacophony of media. Or a flood. A monopoly of media? There's got to be a good word in there somewhere.
...but the plural of "medium" is "media", not "mediums". I think the latter *might* be acceptable in some circles, if you are talking about a group of people who channel the spirits of the dead, but even then. It wouldn't be a big deal, except you'd think that the press person--assuming they were quoted correctly in TFA--for a MEDIA company would know that.
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AKA meditation? A lot of people tend to dismiss meditation as a sort of a new-agey or spiritual mumbo jumbo that doesn't help anything. I remember talking about it to a boss of mine, and he said his mantra was "Owa tagoo siam." I told him he was clever, but that mantra wasn't good for much more than a chuckle. Try that one, though; repeat it a few times and you'll see the light.
Seriously, though, mindfulness is a way to get in touch with your body and understand how much of what is going on in your mind is noise and chatter, and how much of it is just natural ebb and flow of emotions that we tend to justify as rational reactions to our surroundings. How many times have you had a co-worker come in spoiling for a fight, and found that, no matter what you do, they'll find something to pick apart. The noise of you clicking your pen isn't what they're mad at; they're just mad and you're giving them a justification to aim it at you.
Meditation is like martial arts for the brain. If done right, it allows you to focus more when you need to, and even more importantly, it trains you to understand what is real and what are distractions, so that at any time, you can make a good decision as to what actually needs your focus.
I had a conversation with a friend about this who didn't get it until I put it this way. He'd just recently started dating this amazing woman, and I asked him, how often do you find yourself not getting your work done because you're thinking about last night or your next date with her. His smiling response: a lot! Then I asked him, how often do you find that, when you're with her, you're distracted because you didn't finish what you needed to at work? His response, less smiling: a lot.
We're not machines, and some multitasking is necessary, and some distractions are welcome, unavoidable or both. But there are certainly ways that we can improve our lives by learning what are useful distractions and what are not, and mindfulness is a tool which can help with that.
Yeah, but can you imagine the complaints from people if all that came over the intercom was whale songs? Or worse, George Winston?
Gee, I hope she's not on the same road with me. I like to have news radio turned on, my iPod plugged into one ear with music, my cell-phone plugged in the other, and a good book in the steering wheel. I usually do OK until my blackberry starts buzzing and I need to write an email.
I think I get what you're saying. To apply your logic to your last point, one could say, "Splitting hairs while posting on slashdot is not multitasking; it's two parts of a common task." :)
Your sig brings back some great memories, by the way. Be excellent to each other... and PARTY ON!!!
No, I think the parent was indicating that people would follow up as if moths shared a particular feature with the *ahem* human male anatomy.
There's some good advice in there, but a couple of major flaws. The data on the MiniDV tape is indeed digital, so it sounds like you mean to say that they should not encode/compress it, but rather store it in the highest possible quality for archival purposes. If that's what you meant, I'm with you. However, all tapes (including MiniDV) that were not designed and built with archiving in mind are fragile. Error correction helps with things like print-through, drop-out and stretching, but eventually, you'll get ugly blips if you rely on your tapes.
Additionally, tapes are slow to search through. Your comments about a database to track where the clips are is great, but he uses hard drives, he can scrub through a 30-minute segment in seconds, rather than minutes, and he never needs to rewind.
If I were a betting man, I'd say that tapes--even for the initial capture process--are going to go the way of the dodo. Hard drives--or better yet, flash drives--are inevitably going to be central to all serious (and some playful) media capture tools.
I'm guessing if there's 100 hours over a full year, there's probably been at least a little editing done.
"[blah blah blah] you insensitive clod!" just never stops being funny!
Or maybe it never started...
Give him a break. I'm sure he interacts plenty, but insists on only using the highest quality PRO-HD camera. That 100 GB is only nine minutes of video!
Heh. "What happens on the Internet stays on the Internet!" Vegas my ass!
Man, those were the days. Yours must have been an Amiga 1000. I got mine a bit later--an A500--that I eventually maxed out with 1MB internally, and another 2MB with an external memory module.
I used to do 3D animations, and I would set up the parameters for each frame, then run multiple instances of the rendering program to run overnight. One at a time, I'd get a frame about every two hours; four at a time, I'd fire it all off before going to sleep, and I'd have four frames waiting for me in the morning!
Did you not follow the Trailblazers' season last year?
no, no, no... Yahgle!
I'm glad to hear that I'm wrong; my experience with WM is limited and not all that pleasant, and I have never personally heard anyone gush over the interface of any WM device. Your point is well taken, though, and that openness is certainly enough of a difference to weigh the balance towards WM for some people.
Of course, for a lot of people, the interface, web 2.0, and "filtered" applications are going to be enough. With the right application--some sort of a scripting sandbox, maybe--it's possible that there may be a way to do some pretty powerful on-phone apps without resorting to jailbreak.
You know, that's the third post I've made this week that someone has responded with the "I just threw up a little." Is this a meme, or do I just have some magical skill?
The other posts were on other sites, which makes it even more intriguing.
Interesting to note that "Goople" is just "Google" with the second 'g' turned around and straightened up. I'm not sure Apple would approve of that joint name. Maybe AppGoo?
I heard that Exchange support is coming next week...
And in the mobile phone market, it seems like Google and Apple (Goople?) are playing nice with each other, which will allow iPhone to rule the high end and Android to dominate the middle-to-low-end phone market. I don't know anyone who loves Windows Mobile, but a lot of people are pretty excited about their iPhones and/or the promise of Android.
Ah, I misunderstood that thing about the favicon.
I can get there now, too. Maybe it was slashdotted, maybe something else was wrong.
It get 100, but certainly not under 33ms, and there's no custom favicon. So I guess there's still some work to be done...
Just downloaded the latest build for MacOS X, and thought I'd try the Acid3 test to see whether there was tangible speed improvement, and I can't load the darn URL. I guess I wasn't the only one who thought of this...
Jeeze, I wouldn't mind if Microsoft picked up on one of these as well. Imagine if IE actually used the same standards as the browsers us open sourcies like to use.
That's awesome.
Sigh; if you're right, a little part of me died, right there. Maybe we should invent a new group noun, you know, like a pride of lions, a coven of witches, a worry of mothers, etc... I'm thinking a cacophony of media. Or a flood. A monopoly of media? There's got to be a good word in there somewhere.
...but the plural of "medium" is "media", not "mediums". I think the latter *might* be acceptable in some circles, if you are talking about a group of people who channel the spirits of the dead, but even then. It wouldn't be a big deal, except you'd think that the press person--assuming they were quoted correctly in TFA--for a MEDIA company would know that.