No,no - that was the old scheme. Thanks to DVD John (from Norway), they have now found a way to remove the DRM on the power in real time, so instead of going through the HQ of StatoilHydro (a Norwegian company) it may flow directly to the Norwegian power grid from the west coast of Norway, where the wind mills are located.
- jeps (Oh - I'm from Norway, in case you wondered:)
And one thing is HD-DVD/BlueRay - where you have the bandwidth. But what many don't realize, is that the bitrate most TV channels will use for their HD-broadcast is so low that your most crappy standard definition DVD will look razor sharp in comparison.
Here is paper from a demonstration done by EBU at IBC last year, where they showed 1080p, 1080i and 720p compressed with AVC at different bitrates (from 16 down to 8Mbit/s) next to each other.
The bottom line: 720p looks remarkably better than both 1080p/i at the bitrates the broadcasters are believed to use on their content.
As long as you don't fly alone, the fuel efficiency of larger airplanes is actually better than your average car on flights with normal load. At least on paper.
No-no, you didn't get it: He is probably wrong about it actually solving any problem (see other comments), and as a joke I just didn't find it funny - it was to bloody obvious (*).
If human kind just dies from this planet - it is probably the best thing that'll ever happen to it (that is until the roaches start to throw a-bombs against each other). Still it's a pitty the people going first are the ones that probably deserves it the least.
(*)I love smart jokes and have absolutely no problem with jokes about topics like this, 9/11 (you did enjoy the jokes about 9/11 when they came around, right?), the tsunami or any other disaster I may or may not have witnessed, and in fact I think it may act as an important way of coping with incomprehensible issues for a lot of people. But a +5 Funny for his comment is in my opinion simply overrated. -- Jeps
What Firewire is primarily used for in terms of video is uncompressed, full-res professional stuff.
No - it's not. It's mainly used for DV25/DVCPro25. That is standard definition (720x576 for PAL and 720x480 for NTSC) video compressed with one of many DV codecs down to 25Mb/s. And DV (or the "pro" version DVCAM) was for a long time considered only a consumer format, hardly suited for professional use.
Uncompressed video is usually at least 250Mb/s (720*576 (resolution) * 25 (frames pr second (PAL)) * 8 (bit) * 3 (colors)).
If you read the book Contact by Carl Sagan (yes, its better than the movie), you'll get an more beautiful (and fictional) idea of what is hidden in Pi: a bitmap of a circle. Here is a short description/spoiler.
Maybe you're thinking of the fact that the MS-DOS's Print String function use the dollar sign as a string terminator? Here's a lengthy but interesting discussion in comp.os.cpm about this and other historical "facts" about the origins of *DOS. A Bit of CP/M History
I'm sorry - before I posted I didn't find any more detailed info. But I saw this on a TV documentary. If I remember correctly it was a Swedish research project, and they were able to reveal a camouflaged truck in the woods by opening the shutter just when the light passed the truck. It lit up against the pitch black fore- and background. They also mapped the area and were able to discover hidden objects by rotating the image. Yes - of course it was a military founded project.
(After some searching i found a link to the description of a cource in 3D Laser Imaging Systems(in english) - held by the Swedish army.:) There they refer to it as "Gated viewing". Happy hunting. )
Actually, there exists several different solutions to this. One of them is the HDTV Axi-Vision Camera - doing real time depth capture with 2.4mm depth resolution - in 702p HD (1280x720 - not 1920x1080). Look at the links at the bottom of the page for video.
I've seen something similar to this being done before by sending out very short but wide-angle pulses from a laser. By capturing an image with a high speed camera, only a thin slice (in the z-axis) of your scene will be illuminated at any time. By adjusting the timing between the pulse and the shutter, you will be able to control how far away the laser blink gets, and thus you will be able to create a continuous depth-map of the scene.
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- jeps (Oh - I'm from Norway, in case you wondered :)
Here is paper from a demonstration done by EBU at IBC last year, where they showed 1080p, 1080i and 720p compressed with AVC at different bitrates (from 16 down to 8Mbit/s) next to each other.
The bottom line: 720p looks remarkably better than both 1080p/i at the bitrates the broadcasters are believed to use on their content.
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If human kind just dies from this planet - it is probably the best thing that'll ever happen to it (that is until the roaches start to throw a-bombs against each other). Still it's a pitty the people going first are the ones that probably deserves it the least.
(*)I love smart jokes and have absolutely no problem with jokes about topics like this, 9/11 (you did enjoy the jokes about 9/11 when they came around, right?), the tsunami or any other disaster I may or may not have witnessed, and in fact I think it may act as an important way of coping with incomprehensible issues for a lot of people. But a +5 Funny for his comment is in my opinion simply overrated.
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Uncompressed video is usually at least 250Mb/s (720*576 (resolution) * 25 (frames pr second (PAL)) * 8 (bit) * 3 (colors)).
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(After some searching i found a link to the description of a cource in 3D Laser Imaging Systems(in english) - held by the Swedish army. :) There they refer to it as "Gated viewing". Happy hunting. )
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I've seen something similar to this being done before by sending out very short but wide-angle pulses from a laser. By capturing an image with a high speed camera, only a thin slice (in the z-axis) of your scene will be illuminated at any time. By adjusting the timing between the pulse and the shutter, you will be able to control how far away the laser blink gets, and thus you will be able to create a continuous depth-map of the scene.
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Nah - more like "W...e...g...e...t...s...i...g...n...a...l........ .A...l...l...y...o...u...r...b..." ... etc, etc.
USA: $862 billion (1995 est.) 'Nuff said.