No living room is large enough to warant such a setup. In movie theatre the 13 channels aren't discrete by the way, for movie theatres using such a setup. They are just used to spread the sound evenly in the room not to drive audio channels.
Plus most people don't know how to place 2 speaker adequately, imagine 14. Speaker placement is the single most important thing to think about and because most people don't have room built for sound or don't have speaker stands or the money to buy some most people place their speaker where they can not where they should, I seen dumb rich people buy surround setup and place the 5 speaker in front because they had nothing to put them on in the back...
More shocking is the geek who swear he knows sound but buy a crazy good stereo system place one speaker toward his kitchen and the other one toward his living room, to "fill the house"... how pathetic can you be, this guy never heard of stereo imaging or that stereo was actually built to create a third dimension (believe it or not), he thinks stereo means more volume or something like that.
So even though I am sure most people here would place their speaker correctly if given appropriate instructions, I do also believe people here aren't normal, so;))
Most people, no, lemme rephrase that, nobody needs 13.1 channel of audio in its living room... and gosh just think of the phase cancellation and standing waves that would occur...
Actually the term eye-candy is a way of implying that the feature is unescessary or even useless but fun. On the contrary, Exposé in osX isn't eye-candy, it's well designed and beautifull to watch but its very usefull, very very, I need my window to slide and minimize in real-time if I am to spot the one I'm seeking amidst all the other, I want the movie to continue playing, I'm just not that use to see it and a single frame doesn't convey the info of a moving picture when watching a movie, therefore if I'm to switch amongst a few running media I need the feature. the minimize effect (Genie) is also very usefull, you just can't miss where your window went and so on...
Even stuff like pleasing colors and throbbing buttons are usefull, surrounded by a blue line just doesn't get your attention as much as a pulsing button.
What I mean is that even if it's not necessary for the software to perform its function it's necessary for the human to perform the software functions, or at least, it helps.
Eye-candy is a bad name, feedback-based interface is more appropriate. Sry for the bad english feedback-based might not be beautifull but you get the idea of what it meant, one day my english will be refined enough to actually give it a nice name:))
Man what a racist pig you are but nevertheless, I was born in Canada, like over 4 generations before me, I am french speaking (a province in Canada called Quebec is actually french speaking, ignorant) and I am white.
Freedom shouldn't mean irresponsible. If you have a law against porn for example, wouldn't it be logical to actually have a system in place that prevent the creation or distribution of porn in your country? What americans are saying is: no, they prefer having laws and no good system to enforced them. Sometimes I wonder if americans vote law for the sole purpose of breaking them, they have lost o rule but appart from privacy invading institutions they have no system to enforce them, you can't read child porn but we won't try to filter any info comming in, so in effect you can read child porn, for a long time before maybe somebody catch you, and even then a good lawyer (means you are rich) can probably get you out of it.
Same goes here in Canada, we are free for real but we have no system to prevent crimes, we have systems to punish crimes, a lot, but to prevent it no. Of course we do what we call prevention, americans too have this way of seeing thing. Prevention basically mean you spend a shitload of money in focus group and conventions to come up with a lame poster design on which its written some catchy phrase about not speeding in car. It would be a thousand times more efficient and responsible to actually lock cars at the maximum speed permitted and let the driver unlock it for short burst of speed like when you need to pass someone. Race track could be built with the possibility of unlocking the speed limit when on the track, letting racers-at-heart actually race and push their machines. This would solve a lot of problems and actually saves lives, it would be consequent of the law system in place and would actually be responsible. But we prefer to just vote laws and spend money, they actually want people to speed because:
1-our car making friend asked our leaders to, because they sell speed even if you can't use it
Sadly nowadays even pro gear is feeble, very high quality but absolutely not sturdy except when it's made for field operation (think Nagra). Even the Lexicon 960 which is a follow-up to the well known, sturdy, beast machine that was the 480 doesn't feel as though as the it's older brother but it sure does sound a world better (sampling reverb still reach me deep down inside and gives me goosse bumps it's so intelligent and it works so well without cutting on creativity --using weird impulses--). I guess they figured out 3 things:
1-with the advent of the home studio they sell more to gear fetichists than professionnals. Hence the gear is optimized to be replaceable not serviceable. 2-professionnals take care of their equipement and all that sturdiness actually never paid off, especially when u consider that all that gear made in the 50s to last for a life has now been mostly replaced by digital equipement or recent analog gear, so it was useless to built it that solid in the first place. Even then, a Studer recorder, or Otari recorder depending on your religion, needed a LOT of maintenance, they weren't as solid as they look, the case was though but the internals required constant calibration and maintenance, each recording session was preceded by the calibration of the 3 amps and bias circuitry of each of the 24 heads, I know I did it and this was taking time, at best you could hope to do it under 30min, I did 20min once... 3-It is now less expensive to replace the gear than to pay an engineer day in day out to maintain it in most cases.
So that means that all the important parts are still built in the old pro way, mixers (consolle), patchbay, patch field, pre amps, EQs, microphone and so on, all the rest, keyboards, effects processors and so on, they're made in cheap plastic casing, just go see that 960 I was refering to, you'll be amazed...
Even then, I'd feel bad not to point out the SSL line of consolle mixers, they are the reference in term of consolle, they surpassed the Neves of this world. Neve, now talk about solid, the old school way of doing things, the SSL has plastic covers (not case, cover), cheap plastic potentiometer, little and feeble that you will replace during their lifetime, many times. Those consolles are, by reputation, the best thing money can buy nowadays in terms of audio mixers and it is not made to be sturdy. Don't get me wrong it is sturdy, it is serviceable, a lot, but nowhere near what a Neve was, hell, Studio Champagne in Terrebone near Montreal has an old Neve, 3 channels, huge EQ dial that would make you drool, it still works very well, needs maintenance but still works very very well, sounds awesome, it still works, the thing was built by Rupert the man himself, it still works awesome, but it's a piece of gear from the past, nowadays polymer rules. Don't like the SSL example, then check the Sony Oxford, the Yamaha O2r96, the... nowhere near as though as the old school gear.
3 chips is hardly irrelevant, and has EVERYTHING to do with greater quality image. For one, more/larger chips = more light. As someone that does live events, you should be acutely aware of this fact. A single-chip image falls apart in low light. And while the 1CCD cams are doing very well nowadays in the color realm, the color reproduction of a 3CCD camera is almost always better. Again, since you are dishing out so-called professional advice, you should know this. It's not a personal attack, I'm just stating my opinion.
I'll bite:
I know what 3CCD does and I know why it's better but all that is just theory, it is interesting, explains why the image is better, but it's irrelevant to the task at hand. When you prepare a show you don't ponder how many CCDs there are in the camera, you don't tell yourself I need a show with 3CCD cameras in it, you however ask yourself if your camera has component or composite connectivity, if it can be controled by a CCU, does it have a tally light, a return feed, you make sure it needs a blackburst or not cause it will change the gear it attaches to and the way the show is run, or the scene recorded and to some extent the electrical requirements, 3CCD doesn't change squat about your setup, it only explains why the image is so rich, period, this is why I didn't remembered well because I don't have to, at all.
I admit that for the typical consummer yes it might be expensive but he isn't the typical consummer he needed something above what he already have. Anyways at this point its subjective but keep in mind I'm an AV professionnal not a professionnal salesman so I don't know every product in this category far from it, and it's not necessary to my job like you seem to imply, I make my research when I need it, twice a year, I keep informed year long and have paid formations but research on gear, twice a year, when we buy some new, and even then, I simply gave him an advice based on my experience, which I clearly stated at the begginning of my first post.
1-The DVX is a consummer grade camera, not a professionnal one. 2-In my field camera can reach way more than that, hence the low price point I implied, he did ask for a rugged camera he probably doesnt expect to do it at 1000$ (I hope for him) 3-the fact that the cam is 3CCD is mostly irrelevant, I use them and install them for live event, as long as there is a beautifull picture on the screen those details don't matter, they are good for the salesman, repair guy and marketing, the end result counts, not the process. I work with many camera model, I tend to mix feature between them when going by memory, when i have it in my hand i know what it does and how to install it, calibrate it and make it work. 4-I never implied I was the real deal, it was meant as a sarcasm... and wasn't describing me but the people who speak like professionnals but aren't, this is how they view themselves, or some other impressionnable people view them, the cheesiness of the term "real deal" reflected that... but I actually believe you understood that, you just felt like retaliating to a post that reached you, that's all you found, watch a bit less CNN and Fox news, your debate skillz (-look a sarcasm-) are weak.
Sry I don't agree, we have been professionnally using consummer pieces of equipment for several years without any defects. We don't buy pro CD players for example, they sound a whole lot better but are proportionnally weak in term of sturdiness. Actually when you think audio and video, the general rule of thumb is pro=quality and consummer=sturdy. Of course there are exceptions that will cost you a lot but they honestly aren't worth it, I'll explain:
1-Studios don't need sturdy 2-Live don't need pristine, just very good (the subtle differences brought by the quality of the pieces of equipement isn't perceived because the screen might be old so it reflect unevenly, the speakers might be impossible to rig where you want them so the placement, which is critical, will cancel the better stereo image and frequency response and so on...) 3-Only recording for movies or TV or a videoclip will require both sturdy and quality because it is used in the field but edited in the studio, so you need studio deffinition and field studiness. 4-CD players are NEVER used in such way, hence the expensive pro model you saw was just a lure for overrich dumb buyers, real pro don't use them. 5-oh yeah most important, years of experience told me that if it's written Pro somewhere on the piece of equipement or in the name of the product, it's not.
Of course we are talking video cam here not CD players but the same logic applies, he isn't shooting for holywood and he wants sturdy, consummer is the grade of choice, this is what he should get.
PS: for all those wondering what studio quality really means when you hear pro talking about it, it's simple: it means the material contain more information than you will find in the delivery format; video is uncompressed, audio isn't mixed down and full range, bit rate and sample frequencies are higher, and so on... in short the studio material is optimised to be edited, the delivery material is optimised to be played back.
No offense meant to anyone, it's just that Slashdot is the worst place I've been for audio visual advices. Don't get me wrong, I'm not the only professionnal here but we are few and our words often get lost in the sea of audio and video wannabees that speaks well and hence look like the real deal.
I've heard some of the worst misconception about audio and video on these forum spoken as if they were the mother of all truth and moderated +5 something because of it.
Anyways, In my experience the Panasonic AG-DVX100AP is a very good camera for the price and it's very sturdy, we are using it for coorporate events and music shows where we need to do a lot of travelling shots or if we need to move a lot between shots since it's light, hold pretty well and has a very good picture, the quality is surprising, then again it's a 3CCD camera if I remember well so it does help. As for extra sturdiness use a road case with internal padding, you know those case that are reinforced with metal, are usually black and are kept close with those cool twist-latches, they are expensive but they are also worth it.
how many people out there have a positive view on life because they believe in Star Trek in the same way that other faithful do
Too many if you ask me, this is a tv show not a religion and anyone worshiping it as a religion deserve the sarcasm. But to directly answer your question: probably as much as people thinking coke better their life or that extasy and raving is good for the body and expand the mind, this is the same rationnal, if a tv show make you feel liberated you have a problem, admit it, consult, go home.
Yeah I know, all of a sudden Canada seems like a hot place... oh wait that's global warming, my bad.
Roger Herbert a reference as a movie critic!!??
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Common, don't tell me anyone here actually give credits to what he says. This guy must be the biggest Hollywood whore out there, you can read two-thumbs up on every single blockbuster or blockbuster wannabe movie released each and every year as long as its from Hollywood. I use this two thumbs up quote to actually separate what is tempting from what I'm sure I'll never see, if I see two thumbs up on a movie poster I know that:
1-Lotsa budget on the movie 2-Big names, awfull movie 3-He just made a few bucks
He was making a reference to the old tv serie. In one episode, while climbing the ladder off an hellicopter a shark jumps out of the water and grab Batman by the leg, Batman turns (or look up) to robin and ask him to grab the Bat Shark Repelant off of his belt and hand it to him, Robin executes himself and one aerosol spray later the shark is gone.
This very moment shows that about anything can be found on Batmans belt, anything that will get him out of trouble after the commercial break or at the beginning of the second part of a two part episode.
Contrary to what state the article the belt has about no fix equipement appart from the gun that fire something that let him climb -- nowadays they say magnetic, old times was a boomerang or grapling hook... how a magnetic thingy can attach to the stones of a building beats me but hey it's Batman, and How Stuff Works...
And don't download them, you can find them on torrentspy and torrentreactor, the problem is that the >900MB one is a goatse.cx picture weighting 1GB once uncompressed and the other one, >600MB, is stuck at 13% for everyone, plus 600MB for MacOsX is dreaming wide awake, Tiger weights alot so don't expect it to be that small even compressed.
What I mean is that all those article you read about osX being pirated are wishfull thinking, which is then used as a fun opportunity for malware writers.
If you want to create a buzz about osX on x86 this is the worst way, wait till you have actually found a working copy, personnaly found it, not being told about it and then talk about it. Right now those stories are pissing people off because all they get is a wide opened ass or an interminable wait... and I really don't understand how can this help Apple sell more MacOsX or create a buzz before releasing it. If you want this type of marketing to work don't spoil it before it happens because once the good copy is out there people will be very hesitant to get it... and the marketing tactic will fail, and we don't want that:)
I can't tell for maintenance but setting up Linux will take you as much time as setting up Windows and maintaining it for a whole year. I mean that installing Linux is most often very easy, or at least somewhat easy, that is if you read the instructions in case you are a newbie but once you actually get to your desktop the real set up actually begins and it is a long one, just finding your vid card in Mandrake for example is a serious pain, it shows you every possible video card maker and each of their product released since the 80s and you gotta guess which one to use. Of course its easy, you reboot in Windows and it tells you what you have in the device manager, then back to Linux to tell it and so on, I use Windows to configure Linux because Windows get stuff Linux don't and all of this switching takes a long time cause you always forget something when taking notes. Configuring Knoppix so that it looks and behave as you want is a real pain you gotta configure burn and reboot if it doesn't work as you wished or you forgot something its a reconfigure reburn and reboot and so on...
I believe in this case the initial set up time far outweight the maintenance time expecialy for a newbie, the type that buys 300$ box to email and chat...
No thats not what I said or implied, at all, I just meant that: The virus will be easier to port on the Mac because the processor is now the same than with most Windows machine. If it's true that less virus on the mac is due to less mac in the world then you can expect more virii on the mac because more people will have access to the os, no need to have a PPC machine. Once published on Intel the amount of hacker who will work their magic to crack the open firmware will be quite high, soon enough about any PC will be able to run osX, in the end, porting virii to mac will mean switching os and adapting the code to the os, a big job, possibly huge one but still easier to do than porting it to another os on another CPU architechture...
Of the year, hell, of my computing life. There is no other way to say it, fuck Apple, they just suck. I have bought a PC after being nearly convinced they were as good as macs nowadays and I was painfully brought back to reality when realizing they aren't, at all. But now... man, this just power suck big time, virus will never have been easier to port, so does worm, spyware et al., I'm not saying it will be easy but it will be easier that's for sure.
Plus on the power side, whatever crap ass Job wanna make you swallow, a few years of working with both PPC and x86 thaught me something undeniable, the type of work I do is done way faster on PPC (pro audio and broadcast video), period.
This sux, this sux even more for my friend who just bouhgt a dual 2.7GHz G5 with 6.5GB of ram who is SWEARING he'll never ever get fucked like that again, imagine how this guy is pissed, just imagine, he just got fucked of over 3500$CAN on a platform that is being dismissed by the company who sold it to him not even 2 month ago.
Apple is a fucking stupid company who has one goal in mind that their entire history cannot deny: pissing their customers off.
Somebody must really be affraid of what I say cause I went in my personnal page today and a guy (or girl) actually took the time to use its mod points to systematicaly rate my posts overrated, thank you for proving me right:) by using such lame technique to hinder the value of my speech.
When you simulate stuff as complex as our universe with the precision of such a project, if only one theory is wrong, one small theory, the entire set of conclusions will have to be revised or worse, tossed aside.
I'll criticize the entire article after reading it, but rigt after the first page I can tell this is a crap test badly done, here's why:
They say Macs are bought by creative profesisonnal so they will test open source solution such as MySQL and Apache!!!???
Since when those are the tools of creative pros?
They compare Xeons and Opterons to the G5, it should be Athlon64 and P4 against the G5, lets compare what target the same type of user base, else why not simply make a test that pit the G5 against a cray machine or Blue Gene?... I mean I know the Xeon isn't that powerfull and I don't have the test result but the base config is flawed in terms of comparison. Even if it wouldn't I mean Apache... common, at least pit the Gimp against the Gimp if you wanna look like you don't give the test gift-wrapped to Linux and x86, even then it would be flawed comparison since Gimp doesnt get the same amount of devellopement on G5 than on x86... and people say Photoshop benchmarking is flawed... geez at least the app truly IS optimized for both patforms...
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No living room is large enough to warant such a setup. In movie theatre the 13 channels aren't discrete by the way, for movie theatres using such a setup. They are just used to spread the sound evenly in the room not to drive audio channels.
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Plus most people don't know how to place 2 speaker adequately, imagine 14. Speaker placement is the single most important thing to think about and because most people don't have room built for sound or don't have speaker stands or the money to buy some most people place their speaker where they can not where they should, I seen dumb rich people buy surround setup and place the 5 speaker in front because they had nothing to put them on in the back...
More shocking is the geek who swear he knows sound but buy a crazy good stereo system place one speaker toward his kitchen and the other one toward his living room, to "fill the house"... how pathetic can you be, this guy never heard of stereo imaging or that stereo was actually built to create a third dimension (believe it or not), he thinks stereo means more volume or something like that.
So even though I am sure most people here would place their speaker correctly if given appropriate instructions, I do also believe people here aren't normal, so
Most people, no, lemme rephrase that, nobody needs 13.1 channel of audio in its living room... and gosh just think of the phase cancellation and standing waves that would occur...
Actually the term eye-candy is a way of implying that the feature is unescessary or even useless but fun. On the contrary, Exposé in osX isn't eye-candy, it's well designed and beautifull to watch but its very usefull, very very, I need my window to slide and minimize in real-time if I am to spot the one I'm seeking amidst all the other, I want the movie to continue playing, I'm just not that use to see it and a single frame doesn't convey the info of a moving picture when watching a movie, therefore if I'm to switch amongst a few running media I need the feature. the minimize effect (Genie) is also very usefull, you just can't miss where your window went and so on...
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Even stuff like pleasing colors and throbbing buttons are usefull, surrounded by a blue line just doesn't get your attention as much as a pulsing button.
What I mean is that even if it's not necessary for the software to perform its function it's necessary for the human to perform the software functions, or at least, it helps.
Eye-candy is a bad name, feedback-based interface is more appropriate. Sry for the bad english feedback-based might not be beautifull but you get the idea of what it meant, one day my english will be refined enough to actually give it a nice name
Man what a racist pig you are but nevertheless, I was born in Canada, like over 4 generations before me, I am french speaking (a province in Canada called Quebec is actually french speaking, ignorant) and I am white.
Same goes here in Canada, we are free for real but we have no system to prevent crimes, we have systems to punish crimes, a lot, but to prevent it no. Of course we do what we call prevention, americans too have this way of seeing thing. Prevention basically mean you spend a shitload of money in focus group and conventions to come up with a lame poster design on which its written some catchy phrase about not speeding in car. It would be a thousand times more efficient and responsible to actually lock cars at the maximum speed permitted and let the driver unlock it for short burst of speed like when you need to pass someone. Race track could be built with the possibility of unlocking the speed limit when on the track, letting racers-at-heart actually race and push their machines. This would solve a lot of problems and actually saves lives, it would be consequent of the law system in place and would actually be responsible. But we prefer to just vote laws and spend money, they actually want people to speed because:
1-our car making friend asked our leaders to, because they sell speed even if you can't use it
2-we are giving tickets to speeders...
So you mean invading the US, right?
Amen to that!
Sadly nowadays even pro gear is feeble, very high quality but absolutely not sturdy except when it's made for field operation (think Nagra). Even the Lexicon 960 which is a follow-up to the well known, sturdy, beast machine that was the 480 doesn't feel as though as the it's older brother but it sure does sound a world better (sampling reverb still reach me deep down inside and gives me goosse bumps it's so intelligent and it works so well without cutting on creativity --using weird impulses--). I guess they figured out 3 things:
1-with the advent of the home studio they sell more to gear fetichists than professionnals. Hence the gear is optimized to be replaceable not serviceable.
2-professionnals take care of their equipement and all that sturdiness actually never paid off, especially when u consider that all that gear made in the 50s to last for a life has now been mostly replaced by digital equipement or recent analog gear, so it was useless to built it that solid in the first place. Even then, a Studer recorder, or Otari recorder depending on your religion, needed a LOT of maintenance, they weren't as solid as they look, the case was though but the internals required constant calibration and maintenance, each recording session was preceded by the calibration of the 3 amps and bias circuitry of each of the 24 heads, I know I did it and this was taking time, at best you could hope to do it under 30min, I did 20min once...
3-It is now less expensive to replace the gear than to pay an engineer day in day out to maintain it in most cases.
So that means that all the important parts are still built in the old pro way, mixers (consolle), patchbay, patch field, pre amps, EQs, microphone and so on, all the rest, keyboards, effects processors and so on, they're made in cheap plastic casing, just go see that 960 I was refering to, you'll be amazed...
Even then, I'd feel bad not to point out the SSL line of consolle mixers, they are the reference in term of consolle, they surpassed the Neves of this world. Neve, now talk about solid, the old school way of doing things, the SSL has plastic covers (not case, cover), cheap plastic potentiometer, little and feeble that you will replace during their lifetime, many times. Those consolles are, by reputation, the best thing money can buy nowadays in terms of audio mixers and it is not made to be sturdy. Don't get me wrong it is sturdy, it is serviceable, a lot, but nowhere near what a Neve was, hell, Studio Champagne in Terrebone near Montreal has an old Neve, 3 channels, huge EQ dial that would make you drool, it still works very well, needs maintenance but still works very very well, sounds awesome, it still works, the thing was built by Rupert the man himself, it still works awesome, but it's a piece of gear from the past, nowadays polymer rules. Don't like the SSL example, then check the Sony Oxford, the Yamaha O2r96, the... nowhere near as though as the old school gear.
So you don't recruit in the US right? *duck*
I work in studio and live event, that is my job...
obviously contrary to you, go back to gear fetischism it suits you better...
3 chips is hardly irrelevant, and has EVERYTHING to do with greater quality image.
For one, more/larger chips = more light. As someone that does live events, you should be acutely aware of this fact. A single-chip image falls apart in low light. And while the 1CCD cams are doing very well nowadays in the color realm, the color reproduction of a 3CCD camera is almost always better. Again, since you are dishing out so-called professional advice, you should know this. It's not a personal attack, I'm just stating my opinion.
I'll bite:
I know what 3CCD does and I know why it's better but all that is just theory, it is interesting, explains why the image is better, but it's irrelevant to the task at hand. When you prepare a show you don't ponder how many CCDs there are in the camera, you don't tell yourself I need a show with 3CCD cameras in it, you however ask yourself if your camera has component or composite connectivity, if it can be controled by a CCU, does it have a tally light, a return feed, you make sure it needs a blackburst or not cause it will change the gear it attaches to and the way the show is run, or the scene recorded and to some extent the electrical requirements, 3CCD doesn't change squat about your setup, it only explains why the image is so rich, period, this is why I didn't remembered well because I don't have to, at all.
I admit that for the typical consummer yes it might be expensive but he isn't the typical consummer he needed something above what he already have. Anyways at this point its subjective but keep in mind I'm an AV professionnal not a professionnal salesman so I don't know every product in this category far from it, and it's not necessary to my job like you seem to imply, I make my research when I need it, twice a year, I keep informed year long and have paid formations but research on gear, twice a year, when we buy some new, and even then, I simply gave him an advice based on my experience, which I clearly stated at the begginning of my first post.
1-The DVX is a consummer grade camera, not a professionnal one.
2-In my field camera can reach way more than that, hence the low price point I implied, he did ask for a rugged camera he probably doesnt expect to do it at 1000$ (I hope for him)
3-the fact that the cam is 3CCD is mostly irrelevant, I use them and install them for live event, as long as there is a beautifull picture on the screen those details don't matter, they are good for the salesman, repair guy and marketing, the end result counts, not the process. I work with many camera model, I tend to mix feature between them when going by memory, when i have it in my hand i know what it does and how to install it, calibrate it and make it work.
4-I never implied I was the real deal, it was meant as a sarcasm... and wasn't describing me but the people who speak like professionnals but aren't, this is how they view themselves, or some other impressionnable people view them, the cheesiness of the term "real deal" reflected that... but I actually believe you understood that, you just felt like retaliating to a post that reached you, that's all you found, watch a bit less CNN and Fox news, your debate skillz (-look a sarcasm-) are weak.
Sry I don't agree, we have been professionnally using consummer pieces of equipment for several years without any defects. We don't buy pro CD players for example, they sound a whole lot better but are proportionnally weak in term of sturdiness. Actually when you think audio and video, the general rule of thumb is pro=quality and consummer=sturdy. Of course there are exceptions that will cost you a lot but they honestly aren't worth it, I'll explain:
1-Studios don't need sturdy
2-Live don't need pristine, just very good (the subtle differences brought by the quality of the pieces of equipement isn't perceived because the screen might be old so it reflect unevenly, the speakers might be impossible to rig where you want them so the placement, which is critical, will cancel the better stereo image and frequency response and so on...)
3-Only recording for movies or TV or a videoclip will require both sturdy and quality because it is used in the field but edited in the studio, so you need studio deffinition and field studiness.
4-CD players are NEVER used in such way, hence the expensive pro model you saw was just a lure for overrich dumb buyers, real pro don't use them.
5-oh yeah most important, years of experience told me that if it's written Pro somewhere on the piece of equipement or in the name of the product, it's not.
Of course we are talking video cam here not CD players but the same logic applies, he isn't shooting for holywood and he wants sturdy, consummer is the grade of choice, this is what he should get.
PS: for all those wondering what studio quality really means when you hear pro talking about it, it's simple: it means the material contain more information than you will find in the delivery format; video is uncompressed, audio isn't mixed down and full range, bit rate and sample frequencies are higher, and so on... in short the studio material is optimised to be edited, the delivery material is optimised to be played back.
No offense meant to anyone, it's just that Slashdot is the worst place I've been for audio visual advices. Don't get me wrong, I'm not the only professionnal here but we are few and our words often get lost in the sea of audio and video wannabees that speaks well and hence look like the real deal.
I've heard some of the worst misconception about audio and video on these forum spoken as if they were the mother of all truth and moderated +5 something because of it.
Anyways, In my experience the Panasonic AG-DVX100AP is a very good camera for the price and it's very sturdy, we are using it for coorporate events and music shows where we need to do a lot of travelling shots or if we need to move a lot between shots since it's light, hold pretty well and has a very good picture, the quality is surprising, then again it's a 3CCD camera if I remember well so it does help. As for extra sturdiness use a road case with internal padding, you know those case that are reinforced with metal, are usually black and are kept close with those cool twist-latches, they are expensive but they are also worth it.
how many people out there have a positive view on life because they believe in Star Trek in the same way that other faithful do
Too many if you ask me, this is a tv show not a religion and anyone worshiping it as a religion deserve the sarcasm. But to directly answer your question: probably as much as people thinking coke better their life or that extasy and raving is good for the body and expand the mind, this is the same rationnal, if a tv show make you feel liberated you have a problem, admit it, consult, go home.
Just choose a free server with no wait time if there are still some availlable...
The site was Slashdotted so I thought a fast link might be of circumstances...
Yeah I know, all of a sudden Canada seems like a hot place... oh wait that's global warming, my bad.
Common, don't tell me anyone here actually give credits to what he says. This guy must be the biggest Hollywood whore out there, you can read two-thumbs up on every single blockbuster or blockbuster wannabe movie released each and every year as long as its from Hollywood. I use this two thumbs up quote to actually separate what is tempting from what I'm sure I'll never see, if I see two thumbs up on a movie poster I know that:
1-Lotsa budget on the movie
2-Big names, awfull movie
3-He just made a few bucks
This very moment shows that about anything can be found on Batmans belt, anything that will get him out of trouble after the commercial break or at the beginning of the second part of a two part episode.
Contrary to what state the article the belt has about no fix equipement appart from the gun that fire something that let him climb -- nowadays they say magnetic, old times was a boomerang or grapling hook... how a magnetic thingy can attach to the stones of a building beats me but hey it's Batman, and How Stuff Works...
And don't download them, you can find them on torrentspy and torrentreactor, the problem is that the >900MB one is a goatse.cx picture weighting 1GB once uncompressed and the other one, >600MB, is stuck at 13% for everyone, plus 600MB for MacOsX is dreaming wide awake, Tiger weights alot so don't expect it to be that small even compressed.
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What I mean is that all those article you read about osX being pirated are wishfull thinking, which is then used as a fun opportunity for malware writers.
If you want to create a buzz about osX on x86 this is the worst way, wait till you have actually found a working copy, personnaly found it, not being told about it and then talk about it. Right now those stories are pissing people off because all they get is a wide opened ass or an interminable wait... and I really don't understand how can this help Apple sell more MacOsX or create a buzz before releasing it. If you want this type of marketing to work don't spoil it before it happens because once the good copy is out there people will be very hesitant to get it... and the marketing tactic will fail, and we don't want that
I can't tell for maintenance but setting up Linux will take you as much time as setting up Windows and maintaining it for a whole year. I mean that installing Linux is most often very easy, or at least somewhat easy, that is if you read the instructions in case you are a newbie but once you actually get to your desktop the real set up actually begins and it is a long one, just finding your vid card in Mandrake for example is a serious pain, it shows you every possible video card maker and each of their product released since the 80s and you gotta guess which one to use. Of course its easy, you reboot in Windows and it tells you what you have in the device manager, then back to Linux to tell it and so on, I use Windows to configure Linux because Windows get stuff Linux don't and all of this switching takes a long time cause you always forget something when taking notes. Configuring Knoppix so that it looks and behave as you want is a real pain you gotta configure burn and reboot if it doesn't work as you wished or you forgot something its a reconfigure reburn and reboot and so on...
I believe in this case the initial set up time far outweight the maintenance time expecialy for a newbie, the type that buys 300$ box to email and chat...
No thats not what I said or implied, at all, I just meant that:
The virus will be easier to port on the Mac because the processor is now the same than with most Windows machine. If it's true that less virus on the mac is due to less mac in the world then you can expect more virii on the mac because more people will have access to the os, no need to have a PPC machine. Once published on Intel the amount of hacker who will work their magic to crack the open firmware will be quite high, soon enough about any PC will be able to run osX, in the end, porting virii to mac will mean switching os and adapting the code to the os, a big job, possibly huge one but still easier to do than porting it to another os on another CPU architechture...
Of the year, hell, of my computing life. There is no other way to say it, fuck Apple, they just suck. I have bought a PC after being nearly convinced they were as good as macs nowadays and I was painfully brought back to reality when realizing they aren't, at all. But now... man, this just power suck big time, virus will never have been easier to port, so does worm, spyware et al., I'm not saying it will be easy but it will be easier that's for sure.
Plus on the power side, whatever crap ass Job wanna make you swallow, a few years of working with both PPC and x86 thaught me something undeniable, the type of work I do is done way faster on PPC (pro audio and broadcast video), period.
This sux, this sux even more for my friend who just bouhgt a dual 2.7GHz G5 with 6.5GB of ram who is SWEARING he'll never ever get fucked like that again, imagine how this guy is pissed, just imagine, he just got fucked of over 3500$CAN on a platform that is being dismissed by the company who sold it to him not even 2 month ago.
Apple is a fucking stupid company who has one goal in mind that their entire history cannot deny: pissing their customers off.
Somebody must really be affraid of what I say cause I went in my personnal page today and a guy (or girl) actually took the time to use its mod points to systematicaly rate my posts overrated, thank you for proving me right :) by using such lame technique to hinder the value of my speech.
When you simulate stuff as complex as our universe with the precision of such a project, if only one theory is wrong, one small theory, the entire set of conclusions will have to be revised or worse, tossed aside.
isn't it sad that racist, homophobic and sexist comment systematicaly get rated funny on Slashdot?..
I'll criticize the entire article after reading it, but rigt after the first page I can tell this is a crap test badly done, here's why:
They say Macs are bought by creative profesisonnal so they will test open source solution such as MySQL and Apache!!!???
Since when those are the tools of creative pros?
They compare Xeons and Opterons to the G5, it should be Athlon64 and P4 against the G5, lets compare what target the same type of user base, else why not simply make a test that pit the G5 against a cray machine or Blue Gene?... I mean I know the Xeon isn't that powerfull and I don't have the test result but the base config is flawed in terms of comparison. Even if it wouldn't I mean Apache... common, at least pit the Gimp against the Gimp if you wanna look like you don't give the test gift-wrapped to Linux and x86, even then it would be flawed comparison since Gimp doesnt get the same amount of devellopement on G5 than on x86... and people say Photoshop benchmarking is flawed... geez at least the app truly IS optimized for both patforms...
Anyway on to the reading of the second page...