I can't speak directly to their machines, but I worked in a similar CD/DVD plant nearby to the one that closed, and our injection molding machines took a bit over 4 seconds per disc for CD's (a bit longer for DVD's).
It's interesting that you bring up CD-R's as an alternative to replicated disc's. The company I used to work for had started to do that for smaller runs (under 300 discs). Anything more then 500 discs or so, and it becomes uneconomical. You have to realize that it's not just the time it takes, but the cost per unit. An injection molded CD takes maybe few cents worth of plastic and aluminum. What's the cheapest you can get a CD-R for, even in bulk? I'm guessing more then $.05. Add to that the fact that the error rate for burning CD-R's is much higher, and it's just not worth it.
Not that I disagree with the fact that copywrite and software patent law is being abused, but the examples you gave don't do much to prove that point.
Hellfire was an expansion that was licensed by Blizzard to a third party to produce. It wasn't a 'hack' or an unauthorized modification at all.
Same goes for Counter Strike... it was made within the authorized modification framework for Half Life. A similar comparison would be Aeon of Strife for the original Star Craft, or DoTA for Warcraft III. Both were modifications made through the avenues provided by the developer.
These same modification avenues are still available for Starcraft II. It ships with a map editor, and there is even distribution for custom maps built into Battle.net.
I don't know that I agree with what Blizzard is doing, but they are certainly not trying to do what you seem to be accusing them of.
What does that translate to in terms of halftone printing? There's a world of difference between 90000 dye-sublimation continuous tones per square inch, and 90000 little squares that can be exactly black, cyan, magenta, or yellow. That's one reason why a "300dpi" magazine like Playboy still looks richer and better than the 1200dpi output of a color laser printer...
If you're actually interested:
"300dpi" is something of an oversimplification. Images are sent down at 300dpi. The printing plates are usually imaged by laser at 2400dpi, but each halftone cell takes up more then one "dot". Print resolution is measured in "lines per inch", and ranges from ~85 lpi for newsprint to over 200 lpi for higher end printing. I'd guess that playboy prints much closer to the 200lpi end of the spectrum.
A "1200" dpi inkjet (usually more like 1440dpi) will be able to print 1440 dots per inch, but multiple dots are needed to make each halftone cell. In effect, even the best consumer level inkjets are half the resolution of an offset press.
As for laser printers, if you look at the industrial level digital presses (many of which are really glorified laser printers), they produce print that is much closer to the level of an offset press, but then again they can cost well into the six figures, so I guess you get what you pay for.
Disable file shares on workstations. Use a file server.
This.
I work for a fairly large design/print company, and all design files and resources are kept on a SAN. With gigabit ethernet, access time, even for large files is hardly noticeable. It also makes backing much, much easier.
I'm actually kind of shocked that you don't have a file server already... I don't think I've dealt with a printer or design shop in the last five years that didn't have some kind of centralized storage.
I don't know about video, but there are plenty of version control systems for graphic design and publishing. Adobe, Quark, and a few other large vendors all have their own systems that will let you "check out" documents, pages in documents, or sections of a page.
This way it looks like if you want NYT available to you in all formats you would need to fork over ($10-$30)+Free+$14.95+(whatever they charge for paper)= [lots of money]
If you're already a print subscriber, you get the Times Reader ($14.95 a month) free, as part of your subscription. I'm not sure if that carries over to their Kindle edition, or if it would carry over to the iPad edition.
The NSA can not only file for patents, they can do so secretly.
From wikipedia:
The NSA has the ability to file for a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office under gag order. Unlike normal patents, these are not revealed to the public and do not expire. However, if the Patent Office receives an application for an identical patent from a third party, they will reveal the NSA's patent and officially grant it to the NSA for the full term on that date.
As has been pointed out above, Microsoft does, in fact, make an OS that must be installed on Microsoft hardware, namely their XBox OS. Sony and Nintendo do the same thing, so do most (if not all) cell phone and smartphone manufacturers.
Apple created their OS, can can license it however they choose. What give you, or any consumer, the right to unilaterally disregard the licensing agreement for OSX? If Apple is creating a good product, but are selling it with a over-restrictive license, that looses them sales, then that is certainly bad business practice, but there is nothing illegal, or immoral about it, and nothing gives you the right to decide that you don't like how Apple is selling their product, and do whatever you please with their work.
And as for Psystar not modifying the OS at all, I was under the impression that, at least initially, they did need to modify the OS, and that they still take and modify the various updates and patches to work on non-Apple hardware. In fact, i'm pretty sure that one of the central thrusts of Apple's case is the modified security and other patches that Psystar provides.
Oh ultrasonic waves, is there anything people won't claim you can do? Had this device come out 5 or 10 years ago, it would have been exactly the same except the "ultrasonic waves" would have been replaced by magnets, because that was the in thing at the time. Colliding alcohol molecules? What in the world are they talking about?
If this thing actually works as advertised I'll eat my hat.
Yes, but at least you'll have a good bottle of wine to go with it...
In a recent interview on NPR, it was claimed that 10%-15% of the price of oil is speculation, so even if the speculation bubble burst today, oil would still be well over $100 a barrel, and going up.
The fact is that the demand for oil is growing consistently, while the supply is, at best remaining static.
Disaster Workers aren't the only people who feel the need to comunicate at a disaster site. As I'm sure will be brought up numerous times, during 9/11, in NYC and DC, it was almost impossible to make cell calls to check if loved ones were alright.
In addition, they mention uses like large concerts, ect. Verizon isn't claiming that this will save lives, it will just make it easier to use your cellphone when it might be very necissary to you.
Yes, and every time a TV Comercial comes up, I should be obligated to watch it, not flip away. And TIVO will be the end of the television industry, because noone watches ads anymore.
Or you could be wrong...
Actualy, if you read the suprime court decision, they state the police can only request your name if you are already legaly stopped. That is to say, they need resonable cause to stop you in the first place. The court also indicated that if you felt that giving your name would incrimitate you, you would not have to give it.
As for the Boston bag search, it's Ironic that the city that most hated the British colonial repression is now at the forfront of undoing our civil rights. I susspect, however, that if a case ever goes to the Supreme Court, it will be overturned on 4th Amendment basis.
The exact same thing could be said about spoken/written language. The nuance of spoken language is at least as important as the content of what's being said.
Lets look at your two points, sheet music and midi.
Sheet music (the written form of music) is unreadable by most people, at least in the way that we would read a book. If you consider music as a language, then most people who read sheet music must translate as they read. Sheet music is also informationaly dense. In adition to multiple notes played overlaping eachother, it contains information about tempo, volume, ect. It's the diffrence between reading a play and seeing it proformed. While both have meaning, seeing the play is more enjoyable because it has the nuance inherent too it, not noted in the stage directions.
As for midi, try being moved by a synthisized speech of any good written work. You get just as much feeling out of an answering machine message as you do a computer reading Hamlet.
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The actual Google Crisis site is:
http://google.org/crisismap/2012-tropical-system-isaac
I can't speak directly to their machines, but I worked in a similar CD/DVD plant nearby to the one that closed, and our injection molding machines took a bit over 4 seconds per disc for CD's (a bit longer for DVD's).
It's interesting that you bring up CD-R's as an alternative to replicated disc's. The company I used to work for had started to do that for smaller runs (under 300 discs). Anything more then 500 discs or so, and it becomes uneconomical. You have to realize that it's not just the time it takes, but the cost per unit. An injection molded CD takes maybe few cents worth of plastic and aluminum. What's the cheapest you can get a CD-R for, even in bulk? I'm guessing more then $.05. Add to that the fact that the error rate for burning CD-R's is much higher, and it's just not worth it.
Not that I disagree with the fact that copywrite and software patent law is being abused, but the examples you gave don't do much to prove that point.
Hellfire was an expansion that was licensed by Blizzard to a third party to produce. It wasn't a 'hack' or an unauthorized modification at all.
Same goes for Counter Strike... it was made within the authorized modification framework for Half Life. A similar comparison would be Aeon of Strife for the original Star Craft, or DoTA for Warcraft III. Both were modifications made through the avenues provided by the developer.
These same modification avenues are still available for Starcraft II. It ships with a map editor, and there is even distribution for custom maps built into Battle.net.
I don't know that I agree with what Blizzard is doing, but they are certainly not trying to do what you seem to be accusing them of.
What does that translate to in terms of halftone printing? There's a world of difference between 90000 dye-sublimation continuous tones per square inch, and 90000 little squares that can be exactly black, cyan, magenta, or yellow. That's one reason why a "300dpi" magazine like Playboy still looks richer and better than the 1200dpi output of a color laser printer...
If you're actually interested:
"300dpi" is something of an oversimplification. Images are sent down at 300dpi. The printing plates are usually imaged by laser at 2400dpi, but each halftone cell takes up more then one "dot". Print resolution is measured in "lines per inch", and ranges from ~85 lpi for newsprint to over 200 lpi for higher end printing. I'd guess that playboy prints much closer to the 200lpi end of the spectrum.
A "1200" dpi inkjet (usually more like 1440dpi) will be able to print 1440 dots per inch, but multiple dots are needed to make each halftone cell. In effect, even the best consumer level inkjets are half the resolution of an offset press.
As for laser printers, if you look at the industrial level digital presses (many of which are really glorified laser printers), they produce print that is much closer to the level of an offset press, but then again they can cost well into the six figures, so I guess you get what you pay for.
Disable file shares on workstations. Use a file server.
This.
I work for a fairly large design/print company, and all design files and resources are kept on a SAN. With gigabit ethernet, access time, even for large files is hardly noticeable. It also makes backing much, much easier.
I'm actually kind of shocked that you don't have a file server already... I don't think I've dealt with a printer or design shop in the last five years that didn't have some kind of centralized storage.
I don't know about video, but there are plenty of version control systems for graphic design and publishing. Adobe, Quark, and a few other large vendors all have their own systems that will let you "check out" documents, pages in documents, or sections of a page.
This way it looks like if you want NYT available to you in all formats you would need to fork over ($10-$30)+Free+$14.95+(whatever they charge for paper)= [lots of money]
If you're already a print subscriber, you get the Times Reader ($14.95 a month) free, as part of your subscription. I'm not sure if that carries over to their Kindle edition, or if it would carry over to the iPad edition.
Federal aid per $1.00 of tax collected (2005)
New York State - $0.79
Texas - $0.94
Pennsylvania - $1.07
Minnesota - $0.72
It's obvious that suction wouldn't work in space, but why would magnetic stickers fail?
You're trying to stick to plastic?
They do, in fact, use umbilical cords, and cord blood to harvest stem cells, for what it's worth.
The NSA can not only file for patents, they can do so secretly.
From wikipedia:
The NSA has the ability to file for a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office under gag order. Unlike normal patents, these are not revealed to the public and do not expire. However, if the Patent Office receives an application for an identical patent from a third party, they will reveal the NSA's patent and officially grant it to the NSA for the full term on that date.
As has been pointed out above, Microsoft does, in fact, make an OS that must be installed on Microsoft hardware, namely their XBox OS. Sony and Nintendo do the same thing, so do most (if not all) cell phone and smartphone manufacturers.
Apple created their OS, can can license it however they choose. What give you, or any consumer, the right to unilaterally disregard the licensing agreement for OSX? If Apple is creating a good product, but are selling it with a over-restrictive license, that looses them sales, then that is certainly bad business practice, but there is nothing illegal, or immoral about it, and nothing gives you the right to decide that you don't like how Apple is selling their product, and do whatever you please with their work.
And as for Psystar not modifying the OS at all, I was under the impression that, at least initially, they did need to modify the OS, and that they still take and modify the various updates and patches to work on non-Apple hardware. In fact, i'm pretty sure that one of the central thrusts of Apple's case is the modified security and other patches that Psystar provides.
Oh ultrasonic waves, is there anything people won't claim you can do? Had this device come out 5 or 10 years ago, it would have been exactly the same except the "ultrasonic waves" would have been replaced by magnets, because that was the in thing at the time. Colliding alcohol molecules? What in the world are they talking about? If this thing actually works as advertised I'll eat my hat.
Yes, but at least you'll have a good bottle of wine to go with it...
I wish I had mod points left. This is the crux of the argument.
Your car analogy is a bit off. This is like a third party garage taking BMW parts, putting them into a Yugo body, and selling it as a 'BMW clone'.
An 'Install Firefox' button?
In a recent interview on NPR, it was claimed that 10%-15% of the price of oil is speculation, so even if the speculation bubble burst today, oil would still be well over $100 a barrel, and going up. The fact is that the demand for oil is growing consistently, while the supply is, at best remaining static.
Going by that, entering 'B' would bring up Brittney Spears, while in reality, it brings up Best Buy...
Am I the only one who saw the headline and thought the Human Genome was slashdoted?
last week when it was a reply to the orginal story.
In Soviet Russia, we.. um.. think this is a damn good idea.
In addition, they mention uses like large concerts, ect. Verizon isn't claiming that this will save lives, it will just make it easier to use your cellphone when it might be very necissary to you.
Yes, and every time a TV Comercial comes up, I should be obligated to watch it, not flip away. And TIVO will be the end of the television industry, because noone watches ads anymore. Or you could be wrong...
As for the Boston bag search, it's Ironic that the city that most hated the British colonial repression is now at the forfront of undoing our civil rights. I susspect, however, that if a case ever goes to the Supreme Court, it will be overturned on 4th Amendment basis.
The exact same thing could be said about spoken/written language. The nuance of spoken language is at least as important as the content of what's being said. Lets look at your two points, sheet music and midi. Sheet music (the written form of music) is unreadable by most people, at least in the way that we would read a book. If you consider music as a language, then most people who read sheet music must translate as they read. Sheet music is also informationaly dense. In adition to multiple notes played overlaping eachother, it contains information about tempo, volume, ect. It's the diffrence between reading a play and seeing it proformed. While both have meaning, seeing the play is more enjoyable because it has the nuance inherent too it, not noted in the stage directions. As for midi, try being moved by a synthisized speech of any good written work. You get just as much feeling out of an answering machine message as you do a computer reading Hamlet.