Even though the house may be self-sufficient in the net balance of things, it's still using the grid as a "virtual battery" to accomodate periods without sunlight.
AFAIK, this is normal for this kind of setup. ie. solar power -> battery banks -> Inverter. The sun dosen't shine all the time:(
Welding ally takes experience (and a TIG welder). Any monkey can get a MIG and weld body panels together, grind them down, fill with bodyfiller and get someone to spray it.
Ally is more difficult because it melts at a lower temp than mild steel so if you use the usual methods it will just blow a hole in the ally. It can also make the weld more brittle if done incorrectly. However, it can still be done - it just takes practice.
My motorbike, although relatively new (2001), still has carbs. It's hella easy to work on and Im confident to do any/all work myself, including bottom end work when it finally gives way in a few years.
My car, (1992 bmw), Im scared of doing anything more than relatively basic maintainence. (coil packs, oil chage, etc.). You need a handheld device to just get the error codes out of the computer.
On modern films, multiple audio tracks/formats are directly encoded onto the print, on both sides of the frame, around the perforations and extending right to the edge of the film. ie. pretty much all the usable space. This way you can get stereo, dolby digital, dts, etc. all on one print (and incidently, the dolby digital part of each frame has a tiny dolby logo in the middle). The audio is read something like 60 frames before the video is projected and is then delayed.
On the older films they are talking about however, the audio is probably recorded on a seperate Nagra tape or similar. You would read and encode the audio as a seperate step in this case.
This system has been used for telecine/non-linear editing for a few years now afaik.
You digitise your originals, then "offline" edit with your scaled down versions on a PC/mac. Once you have everything editied to your liking, you get back on the big, expensive "online" system and it can build your film - even going to the point of writing out your 35mm print.
The news here I guess is that they are using this technology to archive old films. I still don't see where the 600 macs fit in however.
Im pretty sure the limiting factor of that time period would be the recording devices themselves (old microphones, Nagra reel-to-reel recorders) rather than the technology used to digitise & archive the sound.
all us geekies would carry around in our Crown Royal bags attached to our belts even in nongaming situations as if they were bags of magic.
Man, thats impressive.. I never had the dice (or the balls) to do that. Respect!
I had a d100 and a d30 - never seen a d50. Well, I should have had a d100 & d30. I bought them off a 'friend' who sold them onto me before he saw them. Well, upon recieving said dice, he liked them too much so he kept them & didnt tell me for years. I cant remember if he gave me my money back - but knowing him, probably not.
AFAIK, Clerks cost $27,500. Don't know if thats for a single 16mm print, or just the production costs - but it sure as hell doesn't include a 35mm print or distribution.
I built one for my XL-1. I got semi-reasonable results, but I found that after less than 5min, I had to put everything down because my arm/shoulder was tired.
As other people have mentioned, the pros use a vest to hold a 30kg 35mm camera. Lots of practice is needed and good stedicam operators will never be out of a job in hollywood.
I think a MUCH better idea is building your own track/dolly system for around $60. Sure it takes longer to setup, but the shots will be far superior than anything short of a pro stedicam rig.
I had the same experience. When I went to New York last year, I laughed when late night TV showed an advertisement for a video tape/dvd that you could buy of amateurs performing pro wrestling moves on each other (one guy was ramming another guys head into a car). Then immediately following this advertisement, there was one for 'girls gone wild', and they had to pixelate the nipples! and forget showing any bush...
You will have problems if you have been scuba diving before free diving. You will still have nitrogen bubbles in your system and when you freedive, they will get worse. You can get bent this way and people have died from doing this.
I've also heard the story of the freediver who took a lungful of air from a scuba diver at depth. The freediver didn't know about scuba, so he didn't exhale as he ascended. Ended up with a burst lung.
Yes you can - it's called Nitrox. The problem is that under pressure, o2 becomes toxic. You can breathe 100% o2, but only at 6m (18ft). As the %age of o2 drops, you can safely breathe it deeper, but you need to replace the o2 with something.
Different gasses have been trested & tried, but the general consensus is replacing nitrogen with helium. You then get either a 3-gas blend (o2-he-n2) called trimix or a 2 gas blend called heliox (o2-he). You still have the problem of nitrogen/helium loading, but helium being a lighter gas means that it enters & exists different 'compartments' in the body more quickly. It also has less of a narcotic effect at depth.
So why not simply replace nitrogen with helium all the time? You can, but it costs a bundle. For truely deep dives (100m/330ft+) your bottom mix must be hypoxic - ie. o2 less than about 18%. If you breathed it at the surface you would pass out. You then need a 'travel mix' to get you down to 10m(33ft) or so so you can then switch to your bottom gas.
As fas as the guys in the commercial (deep-deep) suits, they can use a combination of 1-atm suits (big, thick, heavy suits that need a crane), which need no decompression. Most often, they use saturation diving techniques, where a team live for 7-10 days at a time in a pressurised bubble which gets lowered to the sea floor every day. They then walk along the floor with surface-supplied gas to do their job. At the end of each day, the bubble is hoisted up to the deck of the ship (still pressurised). There is an airlock so people can pass items to the divers. These guys work at depths up to 2,500 feet I believe.
Well, the consensus seems to be that the movie will suck. The thing most people forget however (or maybe don't even know) is that a regular producer has almost no creative control over the finished product (thats the directors job). A producer will get funding and organise shit. It sounds like he's optioning the rights so he can make some cash rather than make a movie.
From the looks of the photos, that bike will suck. The most telling is the frame shot. Firstly, tubular frame. They made bikes like that in the 80's. When you went around a corner, the bike would wobble because it wasn't stiff enough. Secondly, it looks like it has a single front fork - but that *has* to be parallax error from the photo because I cant imagine how that would work (it would have to look like a monoshock and it look like a REALLY raked single fork). Also, the forks aren't directly connected to the clipons - this thing would handle like a pig. Thirdly, the ground clearance looks worse than a harley - and thats saying something. Basically, the thing looks larger than a goldwing and has a smaller engine. Its going to be expensive and handle like crap.
Compared to the lifestyle of the guy in India who has a wife & 3 children.
He also has no luxury car, in fact he doesn't even own a car. His house is 800 square feet and he shares it with his 3 brothers and their families. He doesn't own a computer at home and has to walk to work.
If you are American (or European or Canadian or Australian, etc), there is a 99.99999% chance you are living in luxury compared to the rest of the world.
One of my friends works installing floating timber floors. Him & his business partner both love drinking coffee. They don't use sugar or milk since it takes time to put in, stir, etc. They also have to carry it around.
He tells me that between them, they finish a 150g bottle of instant coffee per day (~8 hrs). This dosen't include the cups he drinks before or after work.
I work as a performance tester. If I encounter a person from "the business" or a project manager who has never encountered performance testing before, They will *always* overestimate how many users the system will support.
"Oh yeah, the supplier said it would support 2,500 users, easy. We've made some changes, but we have a userbase of 2,000 so test it to that."
Fair, enough.. I can only do what Im told, right? So I spend weeks writing scripts and running tests and at the end of it have to break it to them gently that their $3m system can only support 100 concurrent users at their specified response times (if they specify anything *at all*).
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Im going to have to watch back to the future again as I don't remember the car being that ... sucky.
Yeah, they all got in 1 hour early at 10:00am ...
AFAIK, this is normal for this kind of setup. ie. solar power -> battery banks -> Inverter. The sun dosen't shine all the time
I use the Gator! eWallet (tm)! it remembers all my passwords for me!!!!!!!111111
Ally is more difficult because it melts at a lower temp than mild steel so if you use the usual methods it will just blow a hole in the ally. It can also make the weld more brittle if done incorrectly. However, it can still be done - it just takes practice.
My car, (1992 bmw), Im scared of doing anything more than relatively basic maintainence. (coil packs, oil chage, etc.). You need a handheld device to just get the error codes out of the computer.
Actually, thats the size of a 35mm still photograph. A movie print is half-height (12mm)
On the older films they are talking about however, the audio is probably recorded on a seperate Nagra tape or similar. You would read and encode the audio as a seperate step in this case.
You digitise your originals, then "offline" edit with your scaled down versions on a PC/mac. Once you have everything editied to your liking, you get back on the big, expensive "online" system and it can build your film - even going to the point of writing out your 35mm print.
The news here I guess is that they are using this technology to archive old films. I still don't see where the 600 macs fit in however.
Im pretty sure the limiting factor of that time period would be the recording devices themselves (old microphones, Nagra reel-to-reel recorders) rather than the technology used to digitise & archive the sound.
It's not homemade, but this looks fucking *awesome*
Keep your John Deere..
and Ill keep my Lamborghini
Man, thats impressive.. I never had the dice (or the balls) to do that. Respect!
I had a d100 and a d30 - never seen a d50. Well, I should have had a d100 & d30. I bought them off a 'friend' who sold them onto me before he saw them. Well, upon recieving said dice, he liked them too much so he kept them & didnt tell me for years. I cant remember if he gave me my money back - but knowing him, probably not.
AFAIK, Clerks cost $27,500. Don't know if thats for a single 16mm print, or just the production costs - but it sure as hell doesn't include a 35mm print or distribution.
I built one for my XL-1. I got semi-reasonable results, but I found that after less than 5min, I had to put everything down because my arm/shoulder was tired. As other people have mentioned, the pros use a vest to hold a 30kg 35mm camera. Lots of practice is needed and good stedicam operators will never be out of a job in hollywood.
I think a MUCH better idea is building your own track/dolly system for around $60. Sure it takes longer to setup, but the shots will be far superior than anything short of a pro stedicam rig.
I had the same experience. When I went to New York last year, I laughed when late night TV showed an advertisement for a video tape/dvd that you could buy of amateurs performing pro wrestling moves on each other (one guy was ramming another guys head into a car). Then immediately following this advertisement, there was one for 'girls gone wild', and they had to pixelate the nipples! and forget showing any bush...
I've also heard the story of the freediver who took a lungful of air from a scuba diver at depth. The freediver didn't know about scuba, so he didn't exhale as he ascended. Ended up with a burst lung.
Different gasses have been trested & tried, but the general consensus is replacing nitrogen with helium. You then get either a 3-gas blend (o2-he-n2) called trimix or a 2 gas blend called heliox (o2-he). You still have the problem of nitrogen/helium loading, but helium being a lighter gas means that it enters & exists different 'compartments' in the body more quickly. It also has less of a narcotic effect at depth.
So why not simply replace nitrogen with helium all the time? You can, but it costs a bundle. For truely deep dives (100m/330ft+) your bottom mix must be hypoxic - ie. o2 less than about 18%. If you breathed it at the surface you would pass out. You then need a 'travel mix' to get you down to 10m(33ft) or so so you can then switch to your bottom gas.
As fas as the guys in the commercial (deep-deep) suits, they can use a combination of 1-atm suits (big, thick, heavy suits that need a crane), which need no decompression. Most often, they use saturation diving techniques, where a team live for 7-10 days at a time in a pressurised bubble which gets lowered to the sea floor every day. They then walk along the floor with surface-supplied gas to do their job. At the end of each day, the bubble is hoisted up to the deck of the ship (still pressurised). There is an airlock so people can pass items to the divers. These guys work at depths up to 2,500 feet I believe.
Well, the consensus seems to be that the movie will suck. The thing most people forget however (or maybe don't even know) is that a regular producer has almost no creative control over the finished product (thats the directors job). A producer will get funding and organise shit. It sounds like he's optioning the rights so he can make some cash rather than make a movie.
Powerful? You and I must have ridden a different harley. That twist grip on the right handlebar isn't a throttle my friend... it's a volume control.
From the looks of the photos, that bike will suck. The most telling is the frame shot. Firstly, tubular frame. They made bikes like that in the 80's. When you went around a corner, the bike would wobble because it wasn't stiff enough.
Secondly, it looks like it has a single front fork - but that *has* to be parallax error from the photo because I cant imagine how that would work (it would have to look like a monoshock and it look like a REALLY raked single fork). Also, the forks aren't directly connected to the clipons - this thing would handle like a pig.
Thirdly, the ground clearance looks worse than a harley - and thats saying something.
Basically, the thing looks larger than a goldwing and has a smaller engine. Its going to be expensive and handle like crap.
Compared to the lifestyle of the guy in India who has a wife & 3 children.
He also has no luxury car, in fact he doesn't even own a car. His house is 800 square feet and he shares it with his 3 brothers and their families. He doesn't own a computer at home and has to walk to work.
If you are American (or European or Canadian or Australian, etc), there is a 99.99999% chance you are living in luxury compared to the rest of the world.
One of my friends works installing floating timber floors. Him & his business partner both love drinking coffee. They don't use sugar or milk since it takes time to put in, stir, etc. They also have to carry it around.
He tells me that between them, they finish a 150g bottle of instant coffee per day (~8 hrs). This dosen't include the cups he drinks before or after work.
100 cups? I reckon this guy could do it easy.
I work as a performance tester. If I encounter a person from "the business" or a project manager who has never encountered performance testing before, They will *always* overestimate how many users the system will support.
"Oh yeah, the supplier said it would support 2,500 users, easy. We've made some changes, but we have a userbase of 2,000 so test it to that."
Fair, enough.. I can only do what Im told, right? So I spend weeks writing scripts and running tests and at the end of it have to break it to them gently that their $3m system can only support 100 concurrent users at their specified response times (if they specify anything *at all*).
yeah, except it looks like it only lists MS OS's....