More important, though - check out the financials.
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Betacam SP has been overtaken left and right by other formats, from D1 to digital Betacam developments
Depends on your definition of overtaken. In terms of new equipment sales, sure. But there are a lot Beta SP decks still in use in production. It's why there was demand for the DVW-A500 version of the Sony DVW-500.
Large and small networks and production companies had huge stocks of Beta Cam equipment. And they're still working it to death.
I'd love it too. But you see, the Olympics want broadcast, over-the-air exposure. Nevermind that ESPN and ESPN2 are both available in roughly 90 million households in the US.
But I could definately ESPN Classic, perhaps even ESPNU (lots of college athletes in the games). Perhaps the biggest improvement for olympic coverage would be using ESPN Deportes (not that I speak spanish, but I think it would be a great move).
Don't forget regular highlights/updates on ESPN News
Not to mention, you'd get three HD channels available for use, too - ABCHD, ESPNHD, ESPN2HD.
Not likely anytime soon (well, obviously, with the NBC contract...)
Also Interesting to consider how much NBC paid for the Torino games (613 million) vs NFL deals.. 1.1 Billion/year for ESPN's MNF. NBC, 600 million a year. Fox: 712.5 million a year. CBS: 622.5 million a year.
As a matter of fact, I do. Once you get into an operator net, the environment is well managed, routers are inside secure exchanges, fibers cannot be tapped and this usually terminates in a hosting provider server room. The only way to peep is to physically splice the fiber. Plus, operators and hosting providers are the most clued up on security issues, since they have been handling these since the creation of time. Luckily, we do not live in America where the feds tap everybody's wired.
As has been mentioned elsewhere; this is a bad idea, because you could be "persuaded" to share your receipt number with someone else, who could use it to verify you voted a certain way.
Guy sets up booth taking receipts that prove a vote for candidate A, you get $10.
Or more insidious, your boss tells you you need to vote for candidate A. In order to obtain your next paycheck, you must show your receipt that you voted for candidate A.
Once you leave the polling place, you should not be able to verify your vote to yourself or anyone else.
(Now, if you took that receipt and dropped it in the ballot box on the way out of the polling place, that's another story)
Be careful with bestbuy's online prepurchase, pick-up-in-store service.
I once did it for some small thing, they handed to me in a sealed bag, with the receipt, I didn't realize unitl I got home it was a slightly different product than what I ordered.
Found out it happened to a friend, too, at another store - ordered 512 MB of RAM, got 128. They don't seem to have very good checks on the "pickers"
This is going to be the big thing; My Comcast-provided on-demand programming is wonderful - for SD content. I've only had a problem with it once (movie broke up and stopped). DVDs aren't immune from issues either.
But once we start talking HD in some sort of volume, HD-on-demand is probably not going to scale very quickly. Having an early collection of HD discs will convince me to resubscribe to NetFlix (assuming I get an HD DVD player)
Of course I know the inherent RAID-0 unsecurity (if 1 disk crashes, bye bye), but anyway, it is the same as if your only disk crashes, and he is really delighted with the speed of his new system.
While that does make sense, as you increase the number of disks, the expected time before first failure skyrockets.
For example, with one system I use, the MTBF on an individual drive is nearly 150 years. But in an array of 15 disks, it's within a year or so (I forget) that we expect our first failure.
You're sort of doubling your chances of a disk dying by using RAID-0. Probably still more than acceptable, and of course hopefully he's backing up his important files (project files, at least, the media can be re-imported - it's backed up the original recording media). But it's not quite the same as having only one disk.
My main peeve is that if you edit an attachment inside an e-mail you can't save it back into the e-mail! eg: here's a typical scenario...
My theory is that if I edit an attachment someone sends me, I should not be able to save it *in* the email they sent. The email they sent should have the attachment they sent, as they sent it. (unless I'm missing something here)...
As soon as I read this, I had the following thought...
One interesting statistic would be the number of searches for which Google had over 1,000 results, compared to the number of searches for which Yahoo had more than 1,000 results.
If Yahoo caused 80% of the "over-popular result" discards, well, I'd say that would be highly relevant.
But then I read footnote [3]:
[3] In a small number of cases, one search engine (almost always Google) will return results over 1,000 while the other search engine will not. Although we discard this data, we recognize that the data is meaningful and we hope to refine our code to take this into account. However, since the frequency this occurs is small (and almost always favoring Google) we do not feel it changes our findings.
I'd still like the statistics, but this resolves one of my concerns with the methodology.
This combination of factors, added to the simple fact that for the first time people actually looked "at" their windshields instead of "through" them, caused the hubbub. No vandals. No atomic fallout. No sand-fleas. No cosmic rays. No electronic oscillations. Just a bunch of window dings that were there from the start.
But be careful - most cheap/consumer DV/MiniDV decks use the same transport mechanism as found in consumer/prosumer cameras and fail quickly. You want a real VTR....
another thing that could be done is that while ppl are waiting at the station the platform could have a scale under it. Based upon the weight, the number of ppl waiting for the train at that particular station could be estimated, and using this value traffic decisions such as "have next train stop at station" or "just pass this station by - not enough ppl" could be made by a centralized system such as the one in the article
I'm sure the people already on the train, wanting to get off at the station that only has a few people waiting would love this one. (Yes, you could have a "request stop" button.. but you know that that's going to end up being pushed for each stop...)
Also a scale is a bit overkill. Just a set of photocells or overhead traffic counters is sure to be enough...
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More important, though - check out the financials. That's a pretty small bit of federal funds.
Depends on your definition of overtaken. In terms of new equipment sales, sure. But there are a lot Beta SP decks still in use in production. It's why there was demand for the DVW-A500 version of the Sony DVW-500.
Large and small networks and production companies had huge stocks of Beta Cam equipment. And they're still working it to death.
I'd love it too. But you see, the Olympics want broadcast, over-the-air exposure. Nevermind that ESPN and ESPN2 are both available in roughly 90 million households in the US.
But I could definately ESPN Classic, perhaps even ESPNU (lots of college athletes in the games). Perhaps the biggest improvement for olympic coverage would be using ESPN Deportes (not that I speak spanish, but I think it would be a great move).
Don't forget regular highlights/updates on ESPN News
Not to mention, you'd get three HD channels available for use, too - ABCHD, ESPNHD, ESPN2HD.
Not likely anytime soon (well, obviously, with the NBC contract...)
Also Interesting to consider how much NBC paid for the Torino games (613 million) vs NFL deals.. 1.1 Billion/year for ESPN's MNF. NBC, 600 million a year. Fox: 712.5 million a year. CBS: 622.5 million a year.
Find what point on your list they skip to and put the movies you really want there..?
RSA does offer the RSA SecurID Token for BlackBerry Handhelds - multiple tokens from one device may be possible..
If the plaintiff knew that the coffee being served was too hot, I'd say the lawsuit had no merits. Try defendant.
As has been mentioned elsewhere; this is a bad idea, because you could be "persuaded" to share your receipt number with someone else, who could use it to verify you voted a certain way.
Guy sets up booth taking receipts that prove a vote for candidate A, you get $10.
Or more insidious, your boss tells you you need to vote for candidate A. In order to obtain your next paycheck, you must show your receipt that you voted for candidate A.
Once you leave the polling place, you should not be able to verify your vote to yourself or anyone else.
(Now, if you took that receipt and dropped it in the ballot box on the way out of the polling place, that's another story)
Be careful with bestbuy's online prepurchase, pick-up-in-store service.
I once did it for some small thing, they handed to me in a sealed bag, with the receipt, I didn't realize unitl I got home it was a slightly different product than what I ordered.
Found out it happened to a friend, too, at another store - ordered 512 MB of RAM, got 128. They don't seem to have very good checks on the "pickers"
A 35 minute film broken up into 6 minute segments? Interesting.
But once we start talking HD in some sort of volume, HD-on-demand is probably not going to scale very quickly. Having an early collection of HD discs will convince me to resubscribe to NetFlix (assuming I get an HD DVD player)
CLR[and now]S is great even if the implementation is available in a class library: it really can help you pick the best algorithm for a given task.
For example, with one system I use, the MTBF on an individual drive is nearly 150 years. But in an array of 15 disks, it's within a year or so (I forget) that we expect our first failure.
You're sort of doubling your chances of a disk dying by using RAID-0. Probably still more than acceptable, and of course hopefully he's backing up his important files (project files, at least, the media can be re-imported - it's backed up the original recording media). But it's not quite the same as having only one disk.
Another request for comment on a mac version (hopefully -with- the network/multiplayer code.. )
There are at least a couple streaming video solutions out there:
ESPN Gameplan
MLB.tv
Probably not exactly what you're looking for, though...
Yeah, but be careful - in Vegas the odds always favor the house... :)
What I was thinking was: don't record on your cheap camcorder, record on the high quality deck in the first place...
But be careful - most cheap/consumer DV/MiniDV decks use the same transport mechanism as found in consumer/prosumer cameras and fail quickly. You want a real VTR....
I'm sure the people already on the train, wanting to get off at the station that only has a few people waiting would love this one. (Yes, you could have a "request stop" button.. but you know that that's going to end up being pushed for each stop...)
Also a scale is a bit overkill. Just a set of photocells or overhead traffic counters is sure to be enough...
Well, I'm not sure if it actually stops suicides or just moves them....