My Prius was the same way, and when I got my Nissan LEAF I was concerned that there was no slot in the dashboard to insert the key in the event of the fob battery running out. There is a metal key in the fob but only to open the doors. For the LEAF the procedure is to hold the key over the power button on the dashboard for 3 seconds then push the power button, so there must be some sort of NFC style chip in there as well.
I could imagine that illegal interference could mess that up and the car companies would generally not design a failsafe around an use case that is unlawful and reasonably well controlled, whereas a dead battery is not illegal.
I'm going to start off with the full disclosure. I am currently editor of a 3D film, and have previously worked on both motion capture and stereoscopic live-action 3D films. Also, I firmly believe post-conversion is terrible and is the number one thing the industry is doing to harm the advancement of 3D. Both live action 3D films I've been involved with have been shot completely stereoscopically in true 3D.
I don't believe that directors are particularly wise to resist the move to 3D. There are a lot of benefits to shooting in 3D and to embrace the technology will allow filmmakers to be at the forefront and to dictate the advancements in the technologies - rather than having the producers dictate the advancement of the technology.
It's just like the move from black & white to colour, from mono to stereo to surround, etc. 3D is going to consume a large portion of the market share in the coming years. Also, working with 3D isn't really that much trouble. You have to be smarter with your metadata and think a bit more about what you're doing ahead of time, but that holds true with any profession as technology becomes more complicated and more capable.
People will expect more out of your product. Most people now expect cars to have airbags, ABS, air conditioning, and power locks and windows. As technology advances, people will expect new filmmaking technologies like 3D to come "standard". Will it increase the cost of films? Sure. Will ticket prices rise? Definitely. Do cars cost more now than they did 15 years ago? Absolutely. Has the experience of driving improved? I would argue that it has.
Should these asinine ideas come closer to fruition I would urge the union of which I am a member: IATSE Local 700 Motion Picture Editors Guild to go on strike and encourage other IATSE unions to do the same. The ideas being proposed can and will harm our industry and our livelihood by creating distrust and distaste of the media in the general public. It is unacceptable to treat our customers as criminals.
If entertainment industry workers took a stand for the country as a whole then public opinion would be on our side. The producers would have to take us seriously.
I'm really excited about this move. The first editing system I ever experienced when I was young was a Lightworks/Heavyworks system. My dad (a film editor, now director) loves the Lightworks systems due to their natural and intuitive control systems. I still have an old Lightwave controller sitting around that I've thought about hacking to work with the Avid.
Currently we work on Avid Media Composer, since it remains the only true pro-level editing software. Final Cut has it's pros but, at least to me, it's more for video editing (by which I mean not sourcing or finishing to film) and smaller projects (promos, commercials, shorts). If you want to cut a feature film - you use Avid. I have arguments with co-workers about FCP versus Avid but we usually arrive at the agreement that Avid is simply the standard to which all other systems are currently judged.
With the open sourcing of Lightworks I can only hope that the best of modern systems like Avid and FCP can be integrated with the very intuitive Lightworks way of working. At the very least, I hope it scares Avid and Apple at least enough to make them fix some of the problems that currently exist with their systems.
More competition is always better for the end user.
I do, actually. I own one. It's still no pure EV due to it's extremely limited electric range and very high dependence on the gasoline motor. If I could get my hands on a RAV4-EV, GM EV1, Honda EVPlus, or Hyundai Santa Fe-EV I would gladly trade in my Prius in a heart beat. I'm looking forward to the upcoming EV wars between Tesla, GM, Toyota, Mitsubishi, and Smart. If Toyota wants to do battle they'll need to give us a Prius that relies more on electricity similar to the Chevy Volt. The technology exists today to give us 200 miles of pure electric driving in the current Prius shape due to it's light weight and aerodynamics. Mitsubishi is already testing a full electric prototype called the i-MiEV and Smart has many Smart-EVs in testing with corporate fleets in London. There may be no government requirements for these things but people are beginning to vote with their dollars and whoever can provide a cheap, long range, mass produced electric car first is going to be very well off financially.
Toyota's engineering is very good. Meet the 78MPH-top-speed, 120-miles-per-charge 1997-2003 Toyota RAV4 EV: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_RAV4_EV. I was passed by one this morning on the freeway, I felt so inferior in my comparatively gas guzzling Prius.
The batteries don't have a long way to go, they've just been forced out of the picture.
What use would the state of Kansas have for 1600 CDs, many of which are duplicates? The only logical thing would be to put them in libraries and allow the citizens to borrow them so they can rip them onto their hard drives and share them as MP3s. When will the RIAA learn to be responsible and not only help out their customers but also themselves. I can buy DVDs and many computer or video game titles for less money than a new CD. Not that I would be particularly compelled to buy the latest CD anyways, there has been nothing but junk for the past few years when it comes to music.
I got about 6 hours out of my iBook G3 500MHz once with an average of about 5 hours. My Toshiba P15-S479 (a ginormous 15" Media Center Edition laptop with a full blown Pentium 4 and all the extras) can get around 2-2.5 hours when I'm watching tv shows or dvds off the hard drive. If you want the ultimate in portability, durability, and battery life I would definitely not hesitate to recommend an iBook.
Having owned a Nokia 3390, Motorola V66, and Samsung E105 and X105 within the past two years the Motorola was by far the best. The Nokia was terribly annoying, kept freezing and crashing, and was so poorly made it practically fell apart. The Samsungs are both just really, really frustrating to use. They're slow and the cutsey wutsey menus drive me nuts. I do, however, love the Motorola V66 and intend to use it until the day it dies. Then I'll replace it with another Motorola.
Apple has a pretty good reputation of making a solid, easy-to-use, pretty looking product that works exactly like it should when you need it to. Out of all the cell phone manufacturers I'd say Motorola most closely fits this description.
Is there an IE theme available for Mozilla or better yet Firefox? This would make it a lot easier for people like my grandmother who had to re-learn what all the buttons did when i sent her to Firefox. Also, the default 0.8 buttons are too small for her to see clearly. The new 0.9 buttons are great but 0.9 has a lot of problems right now.
Anyways, my point still stands - someone should make an IE theme for Firefox if one doesn't currently exist.
They should take a hint from the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle. We went on opening day last week (by fluke actually) and it was actually fairly interesting. Quite a bit of money was put into it but they made it good enough for my mom to be able to tolerate it - she actually even found some of the things interesting.
The Australian Computer Museum needs to be able to educate the non geeks on why exactly what they have is important and why average joe should care.
First, thanks for the link to their get the facts - I had them send me the evaluation kit just so they could pay for it. Plus I get that warm fuzzy feeling when I get mail.
Second, I definitely agree with you, that they've backed themselves into a hole in more than one way. They've decided to change the entire architecture of the system, removing HDDs, going for a different chipset etc. It will be next to impossible for them to get the licenses and then make the thing emulate in time for release.
Third, backwards compatibility was a huge advantage for the PS2 when it came to the market. It meant that people could buy their console and go home and play some excellent games from the PS1 instead of being forced to suffer through some of those horrendous launch titles. Having the backwards compatibility simply adds more value to the purchase.
Looks like Microsoft made some bad decisions here. Surprise, surprise!
I beg to differ, 10.1 didn't allow a lot of things 10.2 did, such as DVD playback which is a pretty big thing in my eyes. It made it so if you shelled out the extra cash for a combo drive iBook you would have to boot to OS9 if you wanted to watch a movie on the plane. Very inconvenient. 10.2 also added a number of other features that 10.1 didn't have. 10.1 was essentially a polished and more stable version of 10.0. 10.2 brought the OSX product up to a point where it could stand on its own and be more comparable to Windows XP. It also brought much better Windows networking tools and plenty of extra apps that 10.1 lacked.
And the only major improvements in 10.3 were iChat AV, FileVault, Expose, and a prettier GUI. All of which, except for Expose, you could get as add-ons for 10.2 (iChat AV is available for $30, FileVault equivalents can be found from third parties, and a prettier GUI that is fully customizable can be found from third parties).
The "evil empire" Microsoft has kept hotmail running for free for ages. Yahoo, I'm sure it's some sort of evil empire, has kept their free mail running for ages too. I could also list many other sites that give out free email addresses such as myownemail.com. I doubt Google would go and charge for gmail, although they might turn that 1gb file storage way down you'll probably still have your gmail address if you want it - just with more like 50mb space or what have you.
I definitely agree, HDTV in a projector really matters. We have a Runco three gun HDTV projector and it's great. My only compaint is that sometimes you see some distortion when there are white images or red images such as text that are on black or dark backgrounds. I believe this is fairly common with most projectors though. Shop around, take some DVD of animated shows to test - something like Futurama or Family Guy that has really good sharp colour. Live action doesn't show off any flaws in a projector.
I did get some sound but it was incredibly staticy, it was so bad that I could barely here any music. I was at the Santa Monica Apple Store about a week ago and two of their minis had locked up.
I was in the Apple Store at The Grove a few weeks ago and I tried out a mini and it sounded just terrible with so much static. I'm guessing that's what happened to it. Looks pretty bad on them to have a broken demo heheh.
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My Prius was the same way, and when I got my Nissan LEAF I was concerned that there was no slot in the dashboard to insert the key in the event of the fob battery running out. There is a metal key in the fob but only to open the doors. For the LEAF the procedure is to hold the key over the power button on the dashboard for 3 seconds then push the power button, so there must be some sort of NFC style chip in there as well. I could imagine that illegal interference could mess that up and the car companies would generally not design a failsafe around an use case that is unlawful and reasonably well controlled, whereas a dead battery is not illegal.
I'm going to start off with the full disclosure. I am currently editor of a 3D film, and have previously worked on both motion capture and stereoscopic live-action 3D films. Also, I firmly believe post-conversion is terrible and is the number one thing the industry is doing to harm the advancement of 3D. Both live action 3D films I've been involved with have been shot completely stereoscopically in true 3D.
I don't believe that directors are particularly wise to resist the move to 3D. There are a lot of benefits to shooting in 3D and to embrace the technology will allow filmmakers to be at the forefront and to dictate the advancements in the technologies - rather than having the producers dictate the advancement of the technology.
It's just like the move from black & white to colour, from mono to stereo to surround, etc. 3D is going to consume a large portion of the market share in the coming years. Also, working with 3D isn't really that much trouble. You have to be smarter with your metadata and think a bit more about what you're doing ahead of time, but that holds true with any profession as technology becomes more complicated and more capable.
People will expect more out of your product. Most people now expect cars to have airbags, ABS, air conditioning, and power locks and windows. As technology advances, people will expect new filmmaking technologies like 3D to come "standard". Will it increase the cost of films? Sure. Will ticket prices rise? Definitely. Do cars cost more now than they did 15 years ago? Absolutely. Has the experience of driving improved? I would argue that it has.
Should these asinine ideas come closer to fruition I would urge the union of which I am a member: IATSE Local 700 Motion Picture Editors Guild to go on strike and encourage other IATSE unions to do the same. The ideas being proposed can and will harm our industry and our livelihood by creating distrust and distaste of the media in the general public. It is unacceptable to treat our customers as criminals.
If entertainment industry workers took a stand for the country as a whole then public opinion would be on our side. The producers would have to take us seriously.
I'm really excited about this move. The first editing system I ever experienced when I was young was a Lightworks/Heavyworks system. My dad (a film editor, now director) loves the Lightworks systems due to their natural and intuitive control systems. I still have an old Lightwave controller sitting around that I've thought about hacking to work with the Avid.
Currently we work on Avid Media Composer, since it remains the only true pro-level editing software. Final Cut has it's pros but, at least to me, it's more for video editing (by which I mean not sourcing or finishing to film) and smaller projects (promos, commercials, shorts). If you want to cut a feature film - you use Avid. I have arguments with co-workers about FCP versus Avid but we usually arrive at the agreement that Avid is simply the standard to which all other systems are currently judged.
With the open sourcing of Lightworks I can only hope that the best of modern systems like Avid and FCP can be integrated with the very intuitive Lightworks way of working. At the very least, I hope it scares Avid and Apple at least enough to make them fix some of the problems that currently exist with their systems. More competition is always better for the end user.
I do, actually. I own one. It's still no pure EV due to it's extremely limited electric range and very high dependence on the gasoline motor. If I could get my hands on a RAV4-EV, GM EV1, Honda EVPlus, or Hyundai Santa Fe-EV I would gladly trade in my Prius in a heart beat. I'm looking forward to the upcoming EV wars between Tesla, GM, Toyota, Mitsubishi, and Smart. If Toyota wants to do battle they'll need to give us a Prius that relies more on electricity similar to the Chevy Volt. The technology exists today to give us 200 miles of pure electric driving in the current Prius shape due to it's light weight and aerodynamics. Mitsubishi is already testing a full electric prototype called the i-MiEV and Smart has many Smart-EVs in testing with corporate fleets in London. There may be no government requirements for these things but people are beginning to vote with their dollars and whoever can provide a cheap, long range, mass produced electric car first is going to be very well off financially.
Toyota's engineering is very good. Meet the 78MPH-top-speed, 120-miles-per-charge 1997-2003 Toyota RAV4 EV: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_RAV4_EV. I was passed by one this morning on the freeway, I felt so inferior in my comparatively gas guzzling Prius.
The batteries don't have a long way to go, they've just been forced out of the picture.
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DialupAP: That's what I call mine. No security whatsoever and I've been hacker-free since 2002!
What use would the state of Kansas have for 1600 CDs, many of which are duplicates? The only logical thing would be to put them in libraries and allow the citizens to borrow them so they can rip them onto their hard drives and share them as MP3s. When will the RIAA learn to be responsible and not only help out their customers but also themselves. I can buy DVDs and many computer or video game titles for less money than a new CD. Not that I would be particularly compelled to buy the latest CD anyways, there has been nothing but junk for the past few years when it comes to music.
I got about 6 hours out of my iBook G3 500MHz once with an average of about 5 hours. My Toshiba P15-S479 (a ginormous 15" Media Center Edition laptop with a full blown Pentium 4 and all the extras) can get around 2-2.5 hours when I'm watching tv shows or dvds off the hard drive. If you want the ultimate in portability, durability, and battery life I would definitely not hesitate to recommend an iBook.
Apple has a pretty good reputation of making a solid, easy-to-use, pretty looking product that works exactly like it should when you need it to. Out of all the cell phone manufacturers I'd say Motorola most closely fits this description.
Anyways, my point still stands - someone should make an IE theme for Firefox if one doesn't currently exist.
Sorry about that, the official Science Fiction Museum website is: http://www.sfhomeworld.org/
The Australian Computer Museum needs to be able to educate the non geeks on why exactly what they have is important and why average joe should care.
Second, I definitely agree with you, that they've backed themselves into a hole in more than one way. They've decided to change the entire architecture of the system, removing HDDs, going for a different chipset etc. It will be next to impossible for them to get the licenses and then make the thing emulate in time for release.
Third, backwards compatibility was a huge advantage for the PS2 when it came to the market. It meant that people could buy their console and go home and play some excellent games from the PS1 instead of being forced to suffer through some of those horrendous launch titles. Having the backwards compatibility simply adds more value to the purchase.
Looks like Microsoft made some bad decisions here. Surprise, surprise!
I agree. I hope they rot in hell like the slimy weaselly scum bags they are.
Oops, I got confused there, my iBook came with 10.0 not 10.1, hence the DVD comment. Sorry about that!
And the only major improvements in 10.3 were iChat AV, FileVault, Expose, and a prettier GUI. All of which, except for Expose, you could get as add-ons for 10.2 (iChat AV is available for $30, FileVault equivalents can be found from third parties, and a prettier GUI that is fully customizable can be found from third parties).
Peter: What're you watching?
Jason: "Query eye for the database guy."
Peter: "Well you've got to hand it to TechTV for trying."
What I feel towards my Windows box is something other than loyalty....
The "evil empire" Microsoft has kept hotmail running for free for ages. Yahoo, I'm sure it's some sort of evil empire, has kept their free mail running for ages too. I could also list many other sites that give out free email addresses such as myownemail.com. I doubt Google would go and charge for gmail, although they might turn that 1gb file storage way down you'll probably still have your gmail address if you want it - just with more like 50mb space or what have you.
I definitely agree, HDTV in a projector really matters. We have a Runco three gun HDTV projector and it's great. My only compaint is that sometimes you see some distortion when there are white images or red images such as text that are on black or dark backgrounds. I believe this is fairly common with most projectors though. Shop around, take some DVD of animated shows to test - something like Futurama or Family Guy that has really good sharp colour. Live action doesn't show off any flaws in a projector.
the first spam was a guy who spammed on arpanet for high end computer systems. Am I crazy?
I did get some sound but it was incredibly staticy, it was so bad that I could barely here any music. I was at the Santa Monica Apple Store about a week ago and two of their minis had locked up.
I was in the Apple Store at The Grove a few weeks ago and I tried out a mini and it sounded just terrible with so much static. I'm guessing that's what happened to it. Looks pretty bad on them to have a broken demo heheh.