after much time spent on tech support hold. it is adobes fault not apples, don't know about the full 8gb, but there is no hurdle in OSX to cross to reach the 4gb limit.
"I will pass that on to the devlopment team notes" says the supposed high level adobe support, it will be labled as a "feature request"
bah
My average file size has grown to 1.2 gigs, even if i get the full four gigs i have in my box now i will still not have enough ram to work a file in memory
(photoshop works best with 4x file size in RAM available)
My only beef with LOR effects was the places where it was so plainly obvious you were looking a miniature set. Like Isengard being washed away. Some of the scenes completely failed, slow motion water or not, to look remotely anything other than little models. I'm surprised by this as in other places the miniature effects were outstanding.
I do photo retouching, not video effects, but...
I noticed the miniature issue you did, as well as the black gates in the Two Towers. And in both cases, it is an issue of scale. At the Gates, when swinging open, the dirt just looks "wrong" and in the Dam bursting, the water is too damn big.
I have spent many hours in the past retouching models to get the scale correct across all elements, reducing the size of water droplets, or making snow and dirt not look so big and grainey.
Considering how long it would take me to retouch one frame of the dam breaking to look correct for all the sprays and drops in the air, it does not surprise me that they did not bother. At a certain point you need to just let it go and hope for the suspension of disbelief.
But Peter Jackson did not use computers for sets. So far that is just Lucas' folks running around in video games.
Jackson created large scale models as well as full size set pieces for his actors to interact in, then combined them using computers. Which is why they look more real.
Bank of America gives you online banking with your checking account, and the nicest feature is that you can pay any source. This is because they are sending checks, not making electronic payments in your name.
This has allowed me to go completely online (at least on my end, they are still analog banking) for my banking, this includes checks to my land lord, as well as my father.
Although, I still get all my bills mailed to me, but that is solely for the reminder factor, with out that stack of mail, how would i know when to pay?
I keep seeing many people saying "I hope this will be in the Extended Edition". However, Peter Jackson has already said that he did not even film it in it's entirety, only a bit for the dream sequence shown in Fellowship.
So, no, no scouring in the Extended, however, Christopher Lee's last moments as Sauromon will be added back in to it.
This info taken from many interview, feel free to search around, i am currently to lazy to provide links
If you are that hypothetical small company, you go to your local discount computer store and buy a >$800 PC running XP and with office pre-installed. Then you save it back yourself, that way you don't look shabby, and you don't have to upgrade your entire office.
Just two days ago I threw my 68i against a wall...3 times until it REALLY shattered.
That phone, combined with AT&T's GSM service was so aggravating, I came very close many times to throwing it out the window without the replacement.
It's Garbage.
Also, more on topic...
Be sure to check user reviews of the GSM cell service in your area, as my complaint was probably 75% with AT&T's GSM, more so than the phone.
The ballot was pretty simple: you connected two parts of an arrow together that pointed at your choice of candidate
This is the same system we have in San Francisco. We have many other problems with our voting, but confusing ballots, not in the least.
Also, not sure about the mentioned ones, the type is really quite large, the ballot it's self is close to 11x17 (inches). Even in our recent Governor's race, no name was too small to read, or figure out which arrow to black out.
I am sure the US will jump on what ever "International Agreement" they come up with, just like we did with the Kyoto Agreement on Global Warming, oh and also how we listened to the UN on that little shindig in the middle east...and a whole bunch us and other countries have ignored.
Whatever, the UN is relatively toothless when it comes to any sort of enforcement...especially if it is for something like this, or even minor little things like human rights violations.
It's not a cheap solution, but it was the best for my luddite girlfriend who loves tivo...
Pioneers DVD-R/TiVo combo.
she has gone nuts with the recording of movies, tv shows, etc.
It sort of reminds me of the napster heydey (shhh don't tell MPAA) our movie collection has grown by over 100 in less than a month.
although, i must say, many of these movies have not been released on dvd, or, we would not buy anyways, but it is nice to own some cheese-tastic movies (who's going to BUY Commando?, but at the same time it is enjoyable to watch once in a blue moon)
none of this one to one crap of stand alone dvdr's, and it is kind of neat to see the TiVo interface on a dvd.
The downside?
$899 price tag.
Although in all fairness, 80gig tivo and a DVD-R seperate is over that.
When we got a new phone system here at work my boss attached his $40 portable mp3/cd player (AIWA) as a "temprary measure". It has been running non-stop for close to two years now.
Considering I went through 3 or 4 of these before getting an iPod, I am consistantly impressed with the little thing.
I recently had to deal with AT&T customer service to switch WITHIN their own service.
I had switched to their GSM service, and discovered that it got worse with time, not better. So i wanted to switch back to TDMA (SF Bay Area). It took me a full month of calls to customer service, and finally threatening to cut off my service (this was before number portability) before they would help me properly.
Apparently the big stumbling block was that they had "recently upgraded their computers and they keep crashing. So I am sorry, we can not pull up your account."
The only advice I can give you, is if the person you first get a hold of is not helpful, don't throw a fit, either ask to be switched to someone else (doubtful) or hang up and call back. The 6th person i finally talked to was the one who helped me. And that system down exuse turned out to be some what bull$hit. As she managed to switch me over without once accessing my GSM account.
I wish i could remember her name as she is the first customer service person from AT&T that was really helpful.
Which is really depressing considering the only concession I was asking for was to pay the upgrade price for a new phone, and not the full price.
Even then the only thing she could do was to give me a credit on my bill in the amount of the price difference.
So by all means complain, often and firmly, but don't expect results for a few calls. It helps apparently if you get them to log your call in your account...if their computers are working.
I actually did not expect it either, and to be honest I have not read a valid explanation for why this is so.
The numbers quoted are from a class I went to that was based on digital scanning and reproduction of film, the context for the numbers was brought up for film recorders.
The person giving the class was explaining that there was no need to work a digital file (for out put on a film recorder) whose final size was one of the aforementioned sizes at any higher resolution as the film its self would not be able to hold any higher at it's specific size on out put. The question about scanning was then put out to which the response was basicly the same.
I will say that from personal experience, there is almost no benefit from scanning an image at any higher resolution than mentioned. (Res 40 for an 8x10 (40pixels per mm)) and bringing that down correspondingly for size). We have scanned images at higher resoltuoins and actually seen worse results than when we scan at the base resolution and size up.
The rule of thumb mentioned however does not seem to carry over well to negative film, mostly due to the fact that the negatives seem to have a higher amount of grain, and beyond certain resoltuions you are simply getting more detail on film grain. Which of course means more of a pain in the ass for the retouching.
But now that you bring it up I am off to google to see what else I can find out.
A good rule of thumb for the resoltuion which film can hold. Anything more and you are having the computer figure it out mathmatically.
35mm = 2540-2032 pixels per inch
2 1/4" trans= 2032-1778 pixels per inch
4x5 trans=1778-1524 pixels per inch
8x10 trans=1270-1016 pixels per inch
Rotating passwords...heh
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I have two banking sites that make me rotate passwords on some random pattern I can not figure out (time? number of entries to site? don't care enough to really figure it out).
So, whenever I am faced with the now dreaded "Please type a new password" prompt, I transpose two letters in my current password, then after entering the site, go back and change my password back.
A pain in the ass, and just gets me annoyed with my bank, I don't feel anymore secure with a new password than the old. So why change it? And for that matter, if they are forcing me to change my password, why let me change it back immediately?
NASA's Earth Observatory site allows you to sign up to download via FTP a true color image of the earth taken from a mosaic of satelite images, it is billed as 1km resoltuoion.
I signed up and downloaded the files (300 MB each, as TIF with LZW Compression, Eastern and Western Hemisphere). I stitched the two together (photoshop 8 only) and created a file that had pixel dimensions of 43,200 x 21,600 (2.6 GB uncompressed). And each pixel is equivalent to about 1/2 mile. Not enough for any true detail at high magnification, but fun to scroll around on.
This translates to a file 12' by 6' at 300 dpi, overkill to say the least. But we printed it out at 4' by 8' here at work and used it as decoration for a blank wall. An incredibly impressive piece of art.
The computer monitored instrumentation, and only showed what was out of spec, and alerted you when that happened. HOTAS meant doing everything from the two controls, stick and throttle.
So you mean kind of like my PS2 controller, where I have one hand on the buttons and one hand on the controller, and when my little guy gets hit, a little thing flashes up on screen and let's me know?
Dropped, crashed, knocked over, once i even tried to ride away from the curb with a lock around the disc rotor.
If you ride daily, you are going to crash
it may be cliche, but it does not change the fact that other cars don't see you, the road is slippery, or maybe you just screw up.
luckily most "crashes" only cause damage to the bike, not to the person, dropping your bike at 25mph doesn't actually hurt much if you are wearing the right gear.
i live in a house that was built in the early 40's, and have been recently running into both outlet and good power issues.
Our Living room has two seperate power outlets. This is used to run the following:
3 Lamps
TV
Receiver
Pre-Amp
Record Player
Cd Player
Sub Woofer
VCR
DVD
Tivo
Sattleite box
PlayStation
and the girfriend INSISTS on x-mas lights...year round.
We haven't put up the tree yet either.
The problem I have seen is that since the power system in the house is so old, I am having to make either or choices in my usage. Want to listen to music and play the PlayStation? No Problem, but, someone walks in the room and turns on a lamp, and you can actually see every thing flicker. At this point I am terrified that the electronics industry is going to come up with the next device I must have, and I am going to have to give something up.
Also, the problem carries through to the rest of the house. I am constanly having to check to see what the GF is doing before I go in the basement and use any power tools (different circuit)
After talking to an electrician friend, my only solution apparently is to re-wire over half the house with a more robust system.
Can't afford that.
But, on the plus side, it does mean that we are getting better and not leaving un-necessary things on.
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FWIW: 35mm film has a possible resoltuion of apriximately 80-100 pixels per milimeter, or 2000-2500 pixels per inch.
so technically, you have 3.25x HD available in a piece of film...
now then, pulling out the calculator at a conservative 2000ppi...
one frame = 412k (using jpeg, close enough)
24x412=9.89 mb per second
moving up, 593 mb per minute
2 hour movie...71.208 gb
we could probably cut that number by a third for better compression (47.709 gb)
so, basicly, we have a ways to go to match film resoltion at home, but, i guess these new formats are a little less than halfway there.
"I will pass that on to the devlopment team notes" says the supposed high level adobe support, it will be labled as a "feature request"
bah
My average file size has grown to 1.2 gigs, even if i get the full four gigs i have in my box now i will still not have enough ram to work a file in memory
(photoshop works best with 4x file size in RAM available)
I do photo retouching, not video effects, but...
I noticed the miniature issue you did, as well as the black gates in the Two Towers. And in both cases, it is an issue of scale. At the Gates, when swinging open, the dirt just looks "wrong" and in the Dam bursting, the water is too damn big.
I have spent many hours in the past retouching models to get the scale correct across all elements, reducing the size of water droplets, or making snow and dirt not look so big and grainey.
Considering how long it would take me to retouch one frame of the dam breaking to look correct for all the sprays and drops in the air, it does not surprise me that they did not bother. At a certain point you need to just let it go and hope for the suspension of disbelief.
Jackson created large scale models as well as full size set pieces for his actors to interact in, then combined them using computers. Which is why they look more real.
2,147.60/12=178.97
A veritable bargain AND as an added bonus, the song does not drive me nuts!
rum-pa-pa-pum!
This has allowed me to go completely online (at least on my end, they are still analog banking) for my banking, this includes checks to my land lord, as well as my father.
Although, I still get all my bills mailed to me, but that is solely for the reminder factor, with out that stack of mail, how would i know when to pay?
So, no, no scouring in the Extended, however, Christopher Lee's last moments as Sauromon will be added back in to it.
This info taken from many interview, feel free to search around, i am currently to lazy to provide links
If you are that hypothetical small company, you go to your local discount computer store and buy a >$800 PC running XP and with office pre-installed. Then you save it back yourself, that way you don't look shabby, and you don't have to upgrade your entire office.
That phone, combined with AT&T's GSM service was so aggravating, I came very close many times to throwing it out the window without the replacement.
It's Garbage.
Also, more on topic...
Be sure to check user reviews of the GSM cell service in your area, as my complaint was probably 75% with AT&T's GSM, more so than the phone.
You can also check out the bluetooth website or, more specifically, the list of bluetooth phone products they say 59 available, but many seem to be for outside the US.
This is the same system we have in San Francisco. We have many other problems with our voting, but confusing ballots, not in the least.
Also, not sure about the mentioned ones, the type is really quite large, the ballot it's self is close to 11x17 (inches). Even in our recent Governor's race, no name was too small to read, or figure out which arrow to black out.
Whatever, the UN is relatively toothless when it comes to any sort of enforcement...especially if it is for something like this, or even minor little things like human rights violations.
Pioneers DVD-R/TiVo combo.
she has gone nuts with the recording of movies, tv shows, etc.
It sort of reminds me of the napster heydey (shhh don't tell MPAA) our movie collection has grown by over 100 in less than a month.
although, i must say, many of these movies have not been released on dvd, or, we would not buy anyways, but it is nice to own some cheese-tastic movies (who's going to BUY Commando?, but at the same time it is enjoyable to watch once in a blue moon)
none of this one to one crap of stand alone dvdr's, and it is kind of neat to see the TiVo interface on a dvd.
The downside?
$899 price tag.
Although in all fairness, 80gig tivo and a DVD-R seperate is over that.
Perhaps a toroid? or some other more esoteric geometrical shape that can at least imply an infinite loop.
Their picture makes it look like there is a "center" (although I guess a case could be made for their computer creating the image as the center)
Considering I went through 3 or 4 of these before getting an iPod, I am consistantly impressed with the little thing.
I had switched to their GSM service, and discovered that it got worse with time, not better. So i wanted to switch back to TDMA (SF Bay Area). It took me a full month of calls to customer service, and finally threatening to cut off my service (this was before number portability) before they would help me properly.
Apparently the big stumbling block was that they had "recently upgraded their computers and they keep crashing. So I am sorry, we can not pull up your account."
The only advice I can give you, is if the person you first get a hold of is not helpful, don't throw a fit, either ask to be switched to someone else (doubtful) or hang up and call back. The 6th person i finally talked to was the one who helped me. And that system down exuse turned out to be some what bull$hit. As she managed to switch me over without once accessing my GSM account.
I wish i could remember her name as she is the first customer service person from AT&T that was really helpful.
Which is really depressing considering the only concession I was asking for was to pay the upgrade price for a new phone, and not the full price.
Even then the only thing she could do was to give me a credit on my bill in the amount of the price difference.
So by all means complain, often and firmly, but don't expect results for a few calls. It helps apparently if you get them to log your call in your account...if their computers are working.
The numbers quoted are from a class I went to that was based on digital scanning and reproduction of film, the context for the numbers was brought up for film recorders. The person giving the class was explaining that there was no need to work a digital file (for out put on a film recorder) whose final size was one of the aforementioned sizes at any higher resolution as the film its self would not be able to hold any higher at it's specific size on out put. The question about scanning was then put out to which the response was basicly the same.
I will say that from personal experience, there is almost no benefit from scanning an image at any higher resolution than mentioned. (Res 40 for an 8x10 (40pixels per mm)) and bringing that down correspondingly for size). We have scanned images at higher resoltuoins and actually seen worse results than when we scan at the base resolution and size up.
The rule of thumb mentioned however does not seem to carry over well to negative film, mostly due to the fact that the negatives seem to have a higher amount of grain, and beyond certain resoltuions you are simply getting more detail on film grain. Which of course means more of a pain in the ass for the retouching.
But now that you bring it up I am off to google to see what else I can find out.
35mm = 2540-2032 pixels per inch
2 1/4" trans= 2032-1778 pixels per inch
4x5 trans=1778-1524 pixels per inch
8x10 trans=1270-1016 pixels per inch
So, whenever I am faced with the now dreaded "Please type a new password" prompt, I transpose two letters in my current password, then after entering the site, go back and change my password back.
A pain in the ass, and just gets me annoyed with my bank, I don't feel anymore secure with a new password than the old. So why change it? And for that matter, if they are forcing me to change my password, why let me change it back immediately?
Sorry, forgot one website:b le/
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMar
I signed up and downloaded the files (300 MB each, as TIF with LZW Compression, Eastern and Western Hemisphere). I stitched the two together (photoshop 8 only) and created a file that had pixel dimensions of 43,200 x 21,600 (2.6 GB uncompressed). And each pixel is equivalent to about 1/2 mile. Not enough for any true detail at high magnification, but fun to scroll around on.
This translates to a file 12' by 6' at 300 dpi, overkill to say the least. But we printed it out at 4' by 8' here at work and used it as decoration for a blank wall. An incredibly impressive piece of art.
A small (600x600 pixel) cut of California at 100 percent
So you mean kind of like my PS2 controller, where I have one hand on the buttons and one hand on the controller, and when my little guy gets hit, a little thing flashes up on screen and let's me know?
If you ride daily, you are going to crash
it may be cliche, but it does not change the fact that other cars don't see you, the road is slippery, or maybe you just screw up.
luckily most "crashes" only cause damage to the bike, not to the person, dropping your bike at 25mph doesn't actually hurt much if you are wearing the right gear.
I have owned many motorcycles more than 360 lbs. and lifted them no problem, and i am not a large guy.
it is all about where the balance point is.
Our Living room has two seperate power outlets. This is used to run the following:
3 Lamps
TV
Receiver
Pre-Amp
Record Player
Cd Player
Sub Woofer
VCR
DVD
Tivo
Sattleite box
PlayStation
and the girfriend INSISTS on x-mas lights...year round.
We haven't put up the tree yet either.
The problem I have seen is that since the power system in the house is so old, I am having to make either or choices in my usage. Want to listen to music and play the PlayStation? No Problem, but, someone walks in the room and turns on a lamp, and you can actually see every thing flicker. At this point I am terrified that the electronics industry is going to come up with the next device I must have, and I am going to have to give something up.
Also, the problem carries through to the rest of the house. I am constanly having to check to see what the GF is doing before I go in the basement and use any power tools (different circuit)
After talking to an electrician friend, my only solution apparently is to re-wire over half the house with a more robust system.
Can't afford that.
But, on the plus side, it does mean that we are getting better and not leaving un-necessary things on.
I know it's not free, but they make it pretty brainless for anyone to set up a site.