1 hour of HD at 10gigs is highly compressed HD.
The prosumer, highly anticipated Panasonic HD camcorder records 1080i at the rate of 100mbit/second. This works directly with Final Cut Pro on a Mac G5. (12.5MB/second)
If I'm not mistaken, uncompressed 4:2:2 HD is about 180MB/sec.
If you want to go real crazy, you use one of the newer Arri Cam D20s or Thomson GV Viper camera. They record 4:4:4 RAW mode "aka FilmStream" (so you don't loose anything in the HD video space conversion.) You can't even record to tape directly, you have to use a big ass disk array. (The Viper was used to record about 60% of "Collateral"). This creates a datastream of about 3gigabit/second.
So yes, hard drive space will be used and quickly when it comes to HD
We make extensive use of CSS to style our site so that we don't have to use images, is there a reason that loband is not rendering style sheets.
While I get that images often add very little to a site relative to weight, CSS provides a lot of bang for the weight. I estimate that if loband rendered our CSS, our site would look 95% the same. The only images we use are for our logo.
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I've always been concerned with archiving and until just a few weeks ago shot everything on 35mm negative.
With the purchase of a digital camera I found that I can take the memory chip to Costco and for $0.19 per print create 4x6 prints on photo paper (developed and printed like normal 35mm prints). I did it as a test and found that the photos (snapshots) were by and large comprable to the 35mm point and shoot I had been using. (haven't made anything larger than 4x6 yet)
While actual photo prints don't last forever, they do last substantially longer than anything I've ever seen come out of a printer. The cost and time (costco is 1 hour @ $0.19 per print) is substantially less than photopaper, ink, printer, and printing time. (They made 50 Thanksgiving prints in one hour).
Doesn't solve the long term problem of storing and archiving the 'digital negative', but seems like a really great option for snapshots and the like.
Last I checked, 32bit color was actually 24 bits of color and 8 bits of alpha channel, thus shouldn't it be 1024 x 768 x 24bit???? (since we presumable won't need alpha channel to view our images) --
And because it is only $10,000 per 'conviction', this is the reason large store like WalMart and fast food chains continue to do it.
I've been following this story for a while, and it seems safe to say that this practice is instiutionalized as WalMart at well as a few others despite claims from head office PR flaks.
Assuming that they only shave "30" minutes (i.e. the lunch break) per day, that everybody makes minimum wage and that it is affect only 50% of their "associates", reported at 1.3 million employees by Walmart.com site = $2,510,625 per day in savings to Walmart versus a $10,000 fine if and when caught.
This law is almost the definition of toothless.
Maybe if it were 1 year mandatory federal sentence for first violation, and more for senior managment who conspire to force store level manager to commit the illegal act in the first place, it would come to a halt. But $10k plus only the 'possibility' of imprisonment isn't going to stop anybody.
Really now, has anybody you've known read this thing in the last 20 years. The Guiness record book is an anachronism from some other era and I believe totally irrelevant from a cultural view point.
It was cool when I was a kid in the 70s/80s, but after the internet became the "Compendium of Wierd Knowledge" it seems to lost any meaning. I dout there are many 9-13 year old kids who currently think it's cool when something makes it into the book. ---
Poor Documentation is a continual frustration. While I don't consider myself a newbie nor a sysadmin god, I must say that if the documentation was even "decent" most products would fair a lot better.
For example, it seems like 8 out of 10 programs on sourceforge have 'no documentation' and rely the user bringing what to the lay public would seem like "expert knowledge" to grok not only installation, but even how the features work.
Commercial products seem just as poorly documented. Having had to deal with end users for our relatively simple business, I've come to the conclusion the you have to treat every program and option that they interface with as if it where a "Name_of_Program for Dummies" book. We have to build on-line tutorials just for using FTP clients because the documentation that comes with them is so horrible as to be useless.
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Same can be said for any business, VoIP or not. 95% of all customers use Windows.
We use Mac OS X in house, Linux servers (hosted), and 1 lonely PC to run quickbooks.
Also, for extra frustration, realize that 50-60% of that 95% are also on AOL...;)
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1 hour of HD at 10gigs is highly compressed HD. The prosumer, highly anticipated Panasonic HD camcorder records 1080i at the rate of 100mbit/second. This works directly with Final Cut Pro on a Mac G5. (12.5MB/second) If I'm not mistaken, uncompressed 4:2:2 HD is about 180MB/sec. If you want to go real crazy, you use one of the newer Arri Cam D20s or Thomson GV Viper camera. They record 4:4:4 RAW mode "aka FilmStream" (so you don't loose anything in the HD video space conversion.) You can't even record to tape directly, you have to use a big ass disk array. (The Viper was used to record about 60% of "Collateral"). This creates a datastream of about 3gigabit/second. So yes, hard drive space will be used and quickly when it comes to HD
We make extensive use of CSS to style our site so that we don't have to use images, is there a reason that loband is not rendering style sheets. While I get that images often add very little to a site relative to weight, CSS provides a lot of bang for the weight. I estimate that if loband rendered our CSS, our site would look 95% the same. The only images we use are for our logo. ???
Most photographic art patrons will not by prints that are not 'archival'.
With the purchase of a digital camera I found that I can take the memory chip to Costco and for $0.19 per print create 4x6 prints on photo paper (developed and printed like normal 35mm prints). I did it as a test and found that the photos (snapshots) were by and large comprable to the 35mm point and shoot I had been using. (haven't made anything larger than 4x6 yet)
While actual photo prints don't last forever, they do last substantially longer than anything I've ever seen come out of a printer. The cost and time (costco is 1 hour @ $0.19 per print) is substantially less than photopaper, ink, printer, and printing time. (They made 50 Thanksgiving prints in one hour).
Doesn't solve the long term problem of storing and archiving the 'digital negative', but seems like a really great option for snapshots and the like.
Last I checked, 32bit color was actually 24 bits of color and 8 bits of alpha channel, thus shouldn't it be 1024 x 768 x 24bit???? (since we presumable won't need alpha channel to view our images)
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I've been following this story for a while, and it seems safe to say that this practice is instiutionalized as WalMart at well as a few others despite claims from head office PR flaks.
Assuming that they only shave "30" minutes (i.e. the lunch break) per day, that everybody makes minimum wage and that it is affect only 50% of their "associates", reported at 1.3 million employees by Walmart.com site = $2,510,625 per day in savings to Walmart versus a $10,000 fine if and when caught.
This law is almost the definition of toothless.
Maybe if it were 1 year mandatory federal sentence for first violation, and more for senior managment who conspire to force store level manager to commit the illegal act in the first place, it would come to a halt. But $10k plus only the 'possibility' of imprisonment isn't going to stop anybody.
It was cool when I was a kid in the 70s/80s, but after the internet became the "Compendium of Wierd Knowledge" it seems to lost any meaning. I dout there are many 9-13 year old kids who currently think it's cool when something makes it into the book.
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For example, it seems like 8 out of 10 programs on sourceforge have 'no documentation' and rely the user bringing what to the lay public would seem like "expert knowledge" to grok not only installation, but even how the features work.
Commercial products seem just as poorly documented. Having had to deal with end users for our relatively simple business, I've come to the conclusion the you have to treat every program and option that they interface with as if it where a "Name_of_Program for Dummies" book. We have to build on-line tutorials just for using FTP clients because the documentation that comes with them is so horrible as to be useless. --
Same can be said for any business, VoIP or not. 95% of all customers use Windows. We use Mac OS X in house, Linux servers (hosted), and 1 lonely PC to run quickbooks. Also, for extra frustration, realize that 50-60% of that 95% are also on AOL... ;)