As someone who works in the realm of digital cinema, I can state unequivocally that "we" (those of us working within the context of d-cinema) definitely do. In fact, I was in LA last week to preview a prototype uncompressedHD recorder that used e-sata based storage expansion. But back to the raw numbers-- even if you're just using e-sata as an archiving interface (which it would be very convenient for), you'll need to move your footage to the devices in as close to realtime as possible. A 2k frame (2048x1556) will run 12MB (approx).. x24 (frames per sec).. 288MB/second bandwidth needed for uncompressed 2k. So yes, we do need faster than USB2.
Does the average user need this? No. But, if the hardware of a blazingly fast interface could manage to be affordable (and thus suitable to become ubiquitous, unlike previous expensive interfaces.. fiber, etc), it would work just as well for the person backing up photos of their cats as the person moving uncompressed scans of 35mm motion picture film.
What the hell HD content have *you* been watching? First of all, it's *35MM* not "30" millimeter. Secondly, the majority of widescreen broadcast content on HD channels, is HD resolution (or better) originated. Channels like HDHBO also broadcast a lot of DV originated HBO series.. but i would say around 75%+ of feature films they broadcast in widescreen format are *NOT* sampled from a SD source. Digibeta telecined material looks very good upsampled to HD, but you would have to be insane to confuse it with true 1k or 2k material.
DVD resolution (for all intents and purposes) is actually equivalent to broadcast television, not higher. It is simply a better sampling rate that what you get from your cable provider or sattelite network.
Lastly, you are correct when you say this is the first HD sourced blockbuster movie published on "disc," but it's actually NOT the first publically sold blockbuster HD movie. You're forgetting DVHS..
"(June 3, 2002) - DreamWorks SKG, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Studios and Artisan Entertainment announced today the first wave of feature films releasing on the new high-definition D-VHS platform, featuring JVC's D-Theater copy protection system. DreamWorks' The Peacemaker, Fox's X-Men, Universal's U-571 and Artisan's Terminator 2: Judgment Day will be the first four D-Theater films available to consumers nationwide on June 10, and will retail for $35.00-$45.00. This marks the first time in entertainment history that Hi-Definition movies will be available in a pre-recorded format."
google "ranks" on a 0-10 scale. you have a 0. anything under 4 is not a "good ranking". whatever searches you're getting good search placement on (which is different thank pagerank.. PR is only one of a few factor in a search) must not be highly contested searchs heh.
If a politically powerful, fanatical anti-drug campaigner who constantly lobbied for pot-smokers to be thrown in jail for years and fined huge sums of money were caught smoking pot, I would not be surprised to see large numbers of people demanding that he be thrown in jail and fined millions
Hmm.. sounds a LOT like Rush Limbaugh, doesn't it?
"What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use, too many whites are getting away with drug sales, too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too." - Rush Limbaugh
"Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be
convicted and they ought to be sent up." - Rush Limbaugh
from here: CNN reported that the conservative radio commentator's name had come up during "an investigation of a black market drug ring in South Florida," where Limbaugh has a home. A former housekeeper told the Enquirer she had sold him tens of thousands of hydrocodone and oxycodone pills during a four-year period.
Two years later, i'm still waiting for the millions of voices to clammoring for his imprisonment. Okay, yes, some stuff is happening, but not much.. and in the end, he'll get a no-jail probationary plea, write a book, and make millions more.
Go ahead and mod me offtopic, but my main point was.. bullshit hipocrisy like this transpires everyday. Did Sony's firm steal code, and then Sony distribute it in violation of laws? YES. Will Sony get in any real Signifigant trouble? NO. God, I hope i'm to be proved wrong.
honestly, the lack of resolution is one of the few things that i think will coax the [entertainment] industry into licensing it's content. i'm a filmmaker, and we are currently negotiating a distribution deal for our latest film. we were approached by a large company (as recognizable as, say, "disney") and one of this company's pitches was an online distribution model (video ringtones, ipod style downloads, etc). my business partner had a lot of hesitance about selling our film online in an ipod-style format at such a large discount, especially when it might be easily pirated. then i told him it was 320x240.. which was mostly greeted by silence on the other end of the line. then i explained that 320x240 is "webcam" quality, and he was all for the idea. zero real cost to us, lots of potential profit. when you look at the fact that the final retailer (i.e. Best Buy, etc) actually gets the largest slice of the sale price, there isn't actually that much difference in my profitshare of a $2 download online, and a $19.99 DVD, assuming the online download has fewer "middle-men" taking percentage points. and, with the online download being "inferior" to our DVD product, it won't hurt DVD sales with buyers that actually care about content.. hell, some buyers may buy both (look at guys like George Lucas.. the friggin' master of getting nerds to buy the same 3 movies several times over in different 'box set' form).
so, if you WANT to actually see good content available at a reasonable price online.. don't push for VGA+ resolution so quickly haha. let the mainstream content start appearing, and then let the indie producers eventually start offering a VGA+ resolution option, and ultimately the mainstream content will follow suit. expecting mainstream studios to immediately offer up DVD quality downloads of their movies at a reasonable price without some VERY strict piracy safegaurds in place.. is unreasonable, imo. no way the bean-counters will do it, heh.
my $.02*
*disclaimer: i didn't proof read.. i hope this was semi-coherent.
you raise an interesting idea here. The recently released itunes capable ROKR has already flopped supposedly... but, as someone who loves both his Treo600's.. I would really love to have a Treo950 (or whatever), with an "OSX-ish" appleOS, and itunes functionality from SD/CF/whatever. Given the size of the Nano, it wouldn't be hard to imagine Apple building a complete 3G phone with all the bells and whistles of a nano and PDA. Not that I think the windowsmobile version won't be nice, i am sure it will, but Apple seems to really have their shit together when it comes to portable digital devices nowadays, with respect to both functionality, and aesthetics. I would be a lot quicker to buy (to replace my 600's) an "iTREO" than I would a winTREO.
Unless you have been going to some very "out-of-the-norm" cinema, DVD cannot compare to what you'll see on the 'big screen.' Now, i'm not going to say that sitting on your couch in your underwear isn't more comfy than sitting in a folding chair with gum stuck to it and one of the armrests missing, but at least from a technical standpoint, the bigscreen still trumps the dvdplayer.
Simply put, when film is scanned for digital manipulation (color correction, digital effects, etc), it's scanned at either "2k" or "4k" depending on what will be done with it. 4k is 4096px wide, and 2k is 2048 px wide. Current estimates put the theoretical [effective] maximum width of 35mm scanning between 6k and 8k. For the sake of argument, let's just assume 4k is the max. Current estimates put the theater release-prints somehwere between 1k and 1.5k, which is an abomination really, if you consider that is around 25% of the original "inherent" film resolution; but nontheless it's still considerably better than DVD (which is equiv to ".6k"). Now, if you're fortunate enough to be watching HD content at home, then you're watching the equivalent of 1.3k*, which is prettymuch onpar with what you'll get in a theater, but not better. And, since you said, "it's not like I spent thousands and thousands on it," one might assume you're just watching DVD's on a standard definition tvset, which i promise you, will be far inferior to your local theater.
(Disclaimer: a 720p frame is equiv to 1.3k, a 1080i frame is equiv to 2k; however 1080i is interlaced, and thus displayed in half fields, so each half-frame displayed is actually equiv to 1k. Even if you still want to pretend that 1080i frames are "2k," which they aren't (unless you're adding both halfframes together in some sort of weirdo math), you still have to watch an interlaced source, which is inferior to progressive film source a la your local theater.)
June 15th of 2004, specs approved. (article here) Yet the various players are still squabbling over blue-ray vs. whatever the fuck I couldn't care less about.
That said, you are not alone. I rarely buy DVD's.. instead, i spend the money i would put into DVD purchase, into my digital cable bill. HD-DVD + HD(HBO/STARZ/CINEMAX/INHD/ETC) ensures I get to see at least 6-10 contemporary films a month in HD. Best ancillary benifit of this situation, is that I get to see a lot of random films I wouldn't have bought in HD-DVD format.. such as The Princess Bride, which I hadn't seen in 10+ yrs, and (as a filmmaker) now I discovered all sorts of very interesting cinematic details that were lost on me the first time around (not to mention I originally saw it on VHS --ack!).
As an aside, one of the interesting things for me to see, is how terrible the scans of some of the newer films are, as well as how awesome the scans of some random 80's films are.
part of the reason it pales in comparison to most other packages, is (last time i checked).. cinelerra wasn't for profit;)..hard to compete in development when your competition make money handoverfist vending their products.
that said, the high cpu/ram requirements are for realtime 2k, if i recall.. not realtime 480i. you can get by with much less if you're just doing DV. those requirements are onpar with almost any OS doing realtime 2k unless the suite comes with custom hardware tuned specifically for the app.
the price on Shake for linux ($4999) is a direct representation of the budgets of the people who want to use Shake for linux, i think. if you're on a tight budget, you're using a G4 or ibook or whatever and shakeOSX.. if you have crazy cash for a renderfarm etc.. shakelinux. I know it sucks, but that's life.
as far as NLE in linux for $499 or less, have you checked out MainConcept's mainactor5 for linux ($199?)? I haven't used it, but it might be promising for your needs.
I cannot say either way if this is accurate, but the few people i know who "nerd out" constantly over the newest and greatest pda/phone stuff.. all agree the various spyshots of the new treo running Win are authentic.
I have seen a few of these shots, and they look authentic to me, but since i'm not the ub-erphone-nerd (just a casual Treo600 user;) I can't say with certainty.
Engaget (linked from TFA) has another FA that says it's real tho.. here.
I didnt bother to read all of your comment. I stopped right around the point i noticed that your mathskills are worse than mine.. and that's saying a lot, haha. Basic math lesson below..
24(hrs/day) x 7 (days/week) x 52 (weeks/yr) = 8736 HOURS IN A YEAR.
"99.9% uptime equates to about 526 minutes, or 87.6 hours you _could_ be down each year"
8736 / 100 = 87.36. Therefore, 1% downtime (99.0% uptime) is 87hrs lost per year! 0.1% downtime (MUCH DIFFERENT THAN 1.0%!) is 1/10th of that number.. 8.7hrs/year.. roughly 43/minutes per month. You got tripped up because you multiplied 8700 by.01.. which [in this case] is the mathematical equivalent of "1 percent".. NOT the remainder of "99.9 subtracted from 100" (which is what you THOUGHT you were multiplying it by).
I hate to sound so derisive.. but seriously, you start off saying you've built enterprise-class systems.. yet you don't know something as fundamental as how much uptime "3 nines" equates to? I can understand crappy math skills (i have them too), but I can't understand not knowing something so fundamental by heart. I play with cameras for a living, so maybe i've misjudged the amount of off-the-cuff knowledge an admin/architect of a 250k acct email system must have regarding uptime.. but WOW haha.
I've said it before in relation to pretty much this exact topic (Which is funny, cause i dont know jack about anime).. but piracy can be a plenty effective method of advertising.
Think about Photoshop.. Windows.. the list can get pretty big if you want.. tons of hugely successful market standards have become standards because of their widespread piracy. Look at bumfights.. thanks to the sensationalism of their topic, and the widespready piracy, Indecline probably made 10x as much money as they would have if no one had pirated their video.
Piracy is free advertising.. and in an era where maybe...1% of consumers actually know how to download a torrent or queue in an IRC channel, the grassroots effectiveness of piracy from an advertising standpoint will, in many cases, far outweigh the protential fiscal harm.
And, i'm not a total idiot when it comes to this matter.. i'm a filmmaker for a living, my income is (in part) directly tied to people going to Best Buy and buying my videos.
..although i dunno how long my server will withstand the slashdotting haha. if anyone wants to mirror this and reply that's fine by me (as soon as my server passes the 9mb/ps range, i'm gonna kill the image)
the album on the left had about 50 pics in them. yahoo was yanking them right when it loaded for me (i managed to see all the thumbs but no larger pics). judging from the thumbs though, i dont think most people would WANT to see the larger pics.
forgive my ignorance about fansubbind/anime/etc.. my questions are those of a complete layman (but a layman who works in the entertainment/film industry).
most of these are JP-only cartoons that are dubbed/titled in english (presumably for american or EU audiences on the net).. i fail to see how this really affects the target demographic that the cartoons were released for. I'm not saying it's 100% okay to take someone else's work and give it away for free (modified or not).. as it isn't yours.. but certainly there are shades of gray in every avenue.. and i have to imagine that giving away a retitled work to an audience that would have never had a chance to see it anyway (as it plays on tv in another country), when the original work probably played for free in japan anyway (on tv) seems a little more "gray" than it does "black."
we release commercial products, and certainly i dont want anyone to give them away for free, but if i found out someone had DIVX ripped my latest DVD release and subtitled it in japanese, it wouldnt exactly break my heart. in fact, i'd probably be excited, because if we had any sort of widespread downloading success in japan, those people [who dubbed my videos] would actually just be growing a potential market for me.. whereby someday we could release a native japanese version and sell 10x as many units because we are now that much more of a household name in japan.
not saying you're wrong, just saying it's not as cut and dried as you imagine it to be (imo).
you're correct in that the turning wheel is what steers the bike, but, like i said, at anything above say 40mph (this figure is approximate), rider leaning alone (no actual physical input to the handlebars) will have little to no effect. The faster the bike goes, the more it wants to stay upright due to these same gyroscopic forces.. and at 60 or 70mph, a 400lb bike is virtually unaffected by a shift in weight of 160 or 200lbs (i.e. the rider). At 10mph it's a different story.. but for this same reason, countersteering doesnt affect the bike much at 10mph either.
My original statement (which got modded down, great haha) to you was that at any signifigant speed, rider lean alone will not affect the bike. I know this to be a fact, as I make my living riding motorcycles and i've had occasion to try this out at various speeds before. One could prove this with math, using the weight of the bike, weight of the rider, and various equations to determine the speed at which the rider's weight no longer has a signifigant affect on the center of gravity.. but i'm terrible at math, so i'll leave that to someone else;)
i'm a bit unclear what you're getting at, because you keep saying bicycle and bike, yet you link to an article about motorcycle stability.
to my knowledge, one does not countersteer a bicycle, at least not below speeds of say 60mph.
motorcycle countersteering works at moderate (and faster) speeds because of the countersteering on the CLIPONS (handlebars), not because of the rider leaning, or center of gravity of the rider. that isnt to say at lower speeds that rider lean cannot influence the lean angle of the motorcycle.. however, at anything about 40mph or so, rider lean is essentially worthless to affect the lean angle of the vehicle. Keith code has proven this by welding the steering to a fixed straight position on one of his track bikes and inviting disbelievers to ride it on a track in a straight line at speed, lean as hard as they can, and the bike continues to go straight. I'm sure leaning on bicycles works much better, as they are slower and lighter, but leaning on motorcycles at any sufficient speed, is more an excercise in effective rider positioning than it is shifting the CG of the bike, and in fact it wasnt untill the last half of the 20th century that racers even leaned off the bike into turns.
x-caiver.. thanks for your indepth reply. to expand a little bit more on what you covered:
I never posted a question to any support group.. i did however google somewhat extensively and found that I was not alone. Issue #1 with windows update was the "admin" privs issues. After I tried a dozen different sneaky methods to get into windowsupdate (different user profiles, different windowsupdate urls, whatever) and failed, I started manually using one of my 32bit boxen (win2k) to download patches that said they were WinXP64 beta specific.. i dont have any of the patches handy at the moment, but i googled really quickly and they were all similar to this one..
..in that they specified WinXP64 bit as the operating system; i was careful not to attempt to install 2003 server 64 stuff. nontheless, despite being labelled on windows update as for the operating system, they always produced an error on install.. perhaps they were mislabelled or I am unclear as to the official name of the OS I was running.
The issues I experienced with outlook and notepad and windows media were all very severe. I do video production for a living, and my goal was to use the dual opteron running XP64 as my primary editing/effects box.. somewhat difficult if i can't preview/proof assets in WMP. Windows media player would NEVER play any files, nor would notepad ever open (would crash on opening), nor would outlook express open (same deal as notepad). I could live with driver issues, afterall i can't expect ever single manufacturer to immediately support my desired OS.. but i couldnt deal with simple things like notepad and oe not working, I use notepad too often to write code, and wmp too often to proof video.
Also, to elaborate, I installed the OS at least 2 seperate times; once from a torrent file, and then a 2nd time after my beta CD arrived from MSFT. If you'll link me to the support group, i'm willing to do a 3rd install on a spare drive and try to address some of the issues (assuming they replicate themselves).. perhaps a bad piece of hardware was causing the issues, although I can't imagine what it would be, as i'm running the exact same hardware on this box now with an SP4'd win2k build and it's smooooove as butter, although it's annoying that my compositing work is done using only 1 of the processors, in 32 bit mode:(:(:(...guess I could always lease a Quantel EQ;)..seriously though, I really do have future hopes for XP64.. I'm at the point where either windows and 3rd party compositing/effects/nle software need to work together to effectively support multiple procs + 64bit, or I'll have to make the jump to linux apps fairly soon.. we're about switch to HD over SD (standard definition) content, which will increase render times almost exponentially for any effects or finishing work I do.. and I can't quite afford that Quantel box yet (although i got to play with an EQ @ NAB in '04 and it was fast as hell);)
you talk about "middle mouse button".. does your box even recognize more than 2 button mice? more than 3? seriously, the overall lack of drivers and peripheral support, combined with some pretty major bugs (multiple installs of mine failed to run notepad, outlook express, windows media player, windowsupdate, etc).
I dont generally feed trolls, i'm more posting this as a commentary to anyone who is considered building a 64bit windows box.. perhaps you would like to read about my experiences with WinXP64 beta.
from what i found at the USPTO search.. there is no trademark on katie.com. Katie needs to TM her domain (prior art back to 1996, remember), and then she will be the one with all the power. Of course, IANAL so what she really needs to do is consult a lawyer who knows about trademark law and this kind of stuff.
I'm personally willing to donate money to help her (this kind of crap angers me soooo much) and I would encourage other/.'ers to reply saying they will as well. Yesterday her friend replied here saying he would post a paypal "donate to" link on her site if there was enough interest.. even $2 or $5 from a small percentage of the/.'ers who seem to care about this issue would be enough to turn the tide for her, i'd imagine. A lawyer is a wonderful thing (you should see all the traffic citations that don't appear on my record;)
i'm seeing an increase in the number of legit software dist's available via BT, etc. i mean, why does mozilla need to make the 1.7 RC available on BT?? Especially a lot of releases that already have mirrors on half a dozen servers internationally.
seriously, not flamebaiting you. but how is giving a fake name nowadays to get on a plane an okay thing to do? yes, you said MANY years ago. and now you dont travel on planes. presumably because "big brother" is so intrusively watching you by wanting to know your real name and verify it against a picture ID, and even.. *GASP* perform a mildly invasive check to make sure you're not carrying explosives or weapons. What an evil empire we live in.
So, i guess my question is: if we live in this "evil empire".. if you were president and had all the magical power to rewrite the rules, what SHOULD the government do, instead of verifying the identities of people who fly, and looking for possible suspicious patterns in their bevahior to find more terrorists among us. I dont much like them being invasive either, but if they dont take some drastic measures, there are certainly more terrorists, currently walking among innocent civilians, who will kill and injure many more of the people around them. If the government just turns a blind eye to "respect" your privacy, you may very well die the next time some fundamentalist blows something up. So, what's the solution?
I'm not particularly on either side, i just think this is a very complex problem (balancing privacy with the possibility of more deaths in the future) that just can't be dismissed by saying our government is evil and intrusive and up to all sorts of macabre tasks.
I like your concept (or rather, the explanation). However.. i fail to see how this is profitable for blockbuster.
In example 1, blockbuster paid $10 for each DVD, and rents it a few hundred times (or thousand?) in it's lifespan, at $2-4/per time.
In example 2, blockbuster paid ??? for said DVD, and rents it ONCE for $2-4/per time. Perhaps renting it for less than exmample 1, so as to make this option more appealing. If blockbuster is to make a profit, they will need to purchase this DVD (because it can be rented only once) for LESS than the rental fee, versus example one where they can purchase it for 5x the rental fee (due to re-renting it many times).
Let's assume (pulling out of my ass) that the DVD can be manufactured for $.25.. to make a profit on this, the DVD manuf. will want to sell it for at least $1 to blockbuster. Now, if blockbuster was going to have rented to "forever" lasting DVD 200 times, they will now need to purchase at least 100-150 copies of disposable ones to rent one-time each.. at $1/copy that would be $150, versus the $10 they could have spent to purchase the single DVD and rent that 200 times.
I'm not an economics guy, so i know my math probably has a million flaws and loopholes, but really, i dont see how this benifits anyone but the manufacturer of these products.. who will ultimately have to coerce businesses into this scheme (by substantially raising the prices on regular dvd media so that blockbuster has some incentive to buy the disposable crap).. and thus the consumer is forced into the scheme too, as prices at best buy and target go up as well. And this will do little to prevent piracy, as anyone with DVDCOPYX will just burn their copies right away and post them on their favorite p2p rather than waiting a few days or weeks like normally.
and to those who say the "average joe" doesnt have any clue about dvd copying.. you'd be suprised, half of my girlfriend's family makes "backup" copies of blockbuster movies, and none of them are technically adept. I expect a LOT of blockbuster rentals are being used for backup copies (which, again, this media afaik doesnt even change that factor..)
Lastly, i dont know the legality of making "backup copies" of DVD's you own.. but whatr is to stop BLOCKBUSTER from buying 20 of these destructo-DVD's and then making permanent backup copies of them (assuming of course, this practice is legal, which again IANAL but i hear a lot of the pirater type people using that as their thinly veiled excuse)
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this is the sort of explanation up with which i will not put.
(don't blame me, blame Churchill)
do we really need anything that goes faster?
As someone who works in the realm of digital cinema, I can state unequivocally that "we" (those of us working within the context of d-cinema) definitely do. In fact, I was in LA last week to preview a prototype uncompressedHD recorder that used e-sata based storage expansion. But back to the raw numbers-- even if you're just using e-sata as an archiving interface (which it would be very convenient for), you'll need to move your footage to the devices in as close to realtime as possible. A 2k frame (2048x1556) will run 12MB (approx).. x24 (frames per sec).. 288MB/second bandwidth needed for uncompressed 2k. So yes, we do need faster than USB2.
Does the average user need this? No. But, if the hardware of a blazingly fast interface could manage to be affordable (and thus suitable to become ubiquitous, unlike previous expensive interfaces.. fiber, etc), it would work just as well for the person backing up photos of their cats as the person moving uncompressed scans of 35mm motion picture film.
i don't have any kleenex, but i'd be happy to rollerblade to the store and get you an aspirin.
What the hell HD content have *you* been watching? First of all, it's *35MM* not "30" millimeter. Secondly, the majority of widescreen broadcast content on HD channels, is HD resolution (or better) originated. Channels like HDHBO also broadcast a lot of DV originated HBO series.. but i would say around 75%+ of feature films they broadcast in widescreen format are *NOT* sampled from a SD source. Digibeta telecined material looks very good upsampled to HD, but you would have to be insane to confuse it with true 1k or 2k material.
DVD resolution (for all intents and purposes) is actually equivalent to broadcast television, not higher. It is simply a better sampling rate that what you get from your cable provider or sattelite network.
Lastly, you are correct when you say this is the first HD sourced blockbuster movie published on "disc," but it's actually NOT the first publically sold blockbuster HD movie. You're forgetting DVHS..
"(June 3, 2002) - DreamWorks SKG, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Studios and Artisan Entertainment announced today the first wave of feature films releasing on the new high-definition D-VHS platform, featuring JVC's D-Theater copy protection system. DreamWorks' The Peacemaker, Fox's X-Men, Universal's U-571 and Artisan's Terminator 2: Judgment Day will be the first four D-Theater films available to consumers nationwide on June 10, and will retail for $35.00-$45.00. This marks the first time in entertainment history that Hi-Definition movies will be available in a pre-recorded format."
google "ranks" on a 0-10 scale. you have a 0. anything under 4 is not a "good ranking". whatever searches you're getting good search placement on (which is different thank pagerank.. PR is only one of a few factor in a search) must not be highly contested searchs heh.
If a politically powerful, fanatical anti-drug campaigner who constantly lobbied for pot-smokers to be thrown in jail for years and fined huge sums of money were caught smoking pot, I would not be surprised to see large numbers of people demanding that he be thrown in jail and fined millions
Hmm.. sounds a LOT like Rush Limbaugh, doesn't it?
"What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use, too many whites are getting away with drug sales, too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too." - Rush Limbaugh
"Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up." - Rush Limbaugh
from here: CNN reported that the conservative radio commentator's name had come up during "an investigation of a black market drug ring in South Florida," where Limbaugh has a home. A former housekeeper told the Enquirer she had sold him tens of thousands of hydrocodone and oxycodone pills during a four-year period.
Two years later, i'm still waiting for the millions of voices to clammoring for his imprisonment. Okay, yes, some stuff is happening, but not much.. and in the end, he'll get a no-jail probationary plea, write a book, and make millions more.
Go ahead and mod me offtopic, but my main point was.. bullshit hipocrisy like this transpires everyday. Did Sony's firm steal code, and then Sony distribute it in violation of laws? YES. Will Sony get in any real Signifigant trouble? NO. God, I hope i'm to be proved wrong.
honestly, the lack of resolution is one of the few things that i think will coax the [entertainment] industry into licensing it's content. i'm a filmmaker, and we are currently negotiating a distribution deal for our latest film. we were approached by a large company (as recognizable as, say, "disney") and one of this company's pitches was an online distribution model (video ringtones, ipod style downloads, etc). my business partner had a lot of hesitance about selling our film online in an ipod-style format at such a large discount, especially when it might be easily pirated. then i told him it was 320x240 .. which was mostly greeted by silence on the other end of the line. then i explained that 320x240 is "webcam" quality, and he was all for the idea. zero real cost to us, lots of potential profit. when you look at the fact that the final retailer (i.e. Best Buy, etc) actually gets the largest slice of the sale price, there isn't actually that much difference in my profitshare of a $2 download online, and a $19.99 DVD, assuming the online download has fewer "middle-men" taking percentage points. and, with the online download being "inferior" to our DVD product, it won't hurt DVD sales with buyers that actually care about content.. hell, some buyers may buy both (look at guys like George Lucas.. the friggin' master of getting nerds to buy the same 3 movies several times over in different 'box set' form).
so, if you WANT to actually see good content available at a reasonable price online.. don't push for VGA+ resolution so quickly haha. let the mainstream content start appearing, and then let the indie producers eventually start offering a VGA+ resolution option, and ultimately the mainstream content will follow suit. expecting mainstream studios to immediately offer up DVD quality downloads of their movies at a reasonable price without some VERY strict piracy safegaurds in place.. is unreasonable, imo. no way the bean-counters will do it, heh.
my $.02*
*disclaimer: i didn't proof read.. i hope this was semi-coherent.
the majority of indian film production takes place in bombay, i believe.
hence, bollywood.
you raise an interesting idea here. The recently released itunes capable ROKR has already flopped supposedly... but, as someone who loves both his Treo600's.. I would really love to have a Treo950 (or whatever), with an "OSX-ish" appleOS, and itunes functionality from SD/CF/whatever. Given the size of the Nano, it wouldn't be hard to imagine Apple building a complete 3G phone with all the bells and whistles of a nano and PDA. Not that I think the windowsmobile version won't be nice, i am sure it will, but Apple seems to really have their shit together when it comes to portable digital devices nowadays, with respect to both functionality, and aesthetics. I would be a lot quicker to buy (to replace my 600's) an "iTREO" than I would a winTREO.
Apple.. are you listening?
Unless you have been going to some very "out-of-the-norm" cinema, DVD cannot compare to what you'll see on the 'big screen.' Now, i'm not going to say that sitting on your couch in your underwear isn't more comfy than sitting in a folding chair with gum stuck to it and one of the armrests missing, but at least from a technical standpoint, the bigscreen still trumps the dvdplayer.
Simply put, when film is scanned for digital manipulation (color correction, digital effects, etc), it's scanned at either "2k" or "4k" depending on what will be done with it. 4k is 4096px wide, and 2k is 2048 px wide. Current estimates put the theoretical [effective] maximum width of 35mm scanning between 6k and 8k. For the sake of argument, let's just assume 4k is the max. Current estimates put the theater release-prints somehwere between 1k and 1.5k, which is an abomination really, if you consider that is around 25% of the original "inherent" film resolution; but nontheless it's still considerably better than DVD (which is equiv to ".6k"). Now, if you're fortunate enough to be watching HD content at home, then you're watching the equivalent of 1.3k*, which is prettymuch onpar with what you'll get in a theater, but not better. And, since you said, "it's not like I spent thousands and thousands on it," one might assume you're just watching DVD's on a standard definition tvset, which i promise you, will be far inferior to your local theater.
(Disclaimer: a 720p frame is equiv to 1.3k, a 1080i frame is equiv to 2k; however 1080i is interlaced, and thus displayed in half fields, so each half-frame displayed is actually equiv to 1k. Even if you still want to pretend that 1080i frames are "2k," which they aren't (unless you're adding both halfframes together in some sort of weirdo math), you still have to watch an interlaced source, which is inferior to progressive film source a la your local theater.)
June 15th of 2004, specs approved. (article here) Yet the various players are still squabbling over blue-ray vs. whatever the fuck I couldn't care less about.
That said, you are not alone. I rarely buy DVD's.. instead, i spend the money i would put into DVD purchase, into my digital cable bill. HD-DVD + HD(HBO/STARZ/CINEMAX/INHD/ETC) ensures I get to see at least 6-10 contemporary films a month in HD. Best ancillary benifit of this situation, is that I get to see a lot of random films I wouldn't have bought in HD-DVD format.. such as The Princess Bride, which I hadn't seen in 10+ yrs, and (as a filmmaker) now I discovered all sorts of very interesting cinematic details that were lost on me the first time around (not to mention I originally saw it on VHS --ack!).
As an aside, one of the interesting things for me to see, is how terrible the scans of some of the newer films are, as well as how awesome the scans of some random 80's films are.
part of the reason it pales in comparison to most other packages, is (last time i checked).. cinelerra wasn't for profit ;) ..hard to compete in development when your competition make money handoverfist vending their products.
that said, the high cpu/ram requirements are for realtime 2k, if i recall.. not realtime 480i. you can get by with much less if you're just doing DV. those requirements are onpar with almost any OS doing realtime 2k unless the suite comes with custom hardware tuned specifically for the app.
the price on Shake for linux ($4999) is a direct representation of the budgets of the people who want to use Shake for linux, i think. if you're on a tight budget, you're using a G4 or ibook or whatever and shakeOSX.. if you have crazy cash for a renderfarm etc.. shakelinux. I know it sucks, but that's life.
as far as NLE in linux for $499 or less, have you checked out MainConcept's mainactor5 for linux ($199?)? I haven't used it, but it might be promising for your needs.
I cannot say either way if this is accurate, but the few people i know who "nerd out" constantly over the newest and greatest pda/phone stuff.. all agree the various spyshots of the new treo running Win are authentic.
;) I can't say with certainty.
I have seen a few of these shots, and they look authentic to me, but since i'm not the ub-erphone-nerd (just a casual Treo600 user
Engaget (linked from TFA) has another FA that says it's real tho.. here.
I didnt bother to read all of your comment. I stopped right around the point i noticed that your mathskills are worse than mine.. and that's saying a lot, haha. Basic math lesson below..
.01.. which [in this case] is the mathematical equivalent of "1 percent" .. NOT the remainder of "99.9 subtracted from 100" (which is what you THOUGHT you were multiplying it by).
24(hrs/day) x 7 (days/week) x 52 (weeks/yr) = 8736 HOURS IN A YEAR.
"99.9% uptime equates to about 526 minutes, or 87.6 hours you _could_ be down each year"
8736 / 100 = 87.36. Therefore, 1% downtime (99.0% uptime) is 87hrs lost per year! 0.1% downtime (MUCH DIFFERENT THAN 1.0%!) is 1/10th of that number.. 8.7hrs/year.. roughly 43/minutes per month. You got tripped up because you multiplied 8700 by
I hate to sound so derisive.. but seriously, you start off saying you've built enterprise-class systems.. yet you don't know something as fundamental as how much uptime "3 nines" equates to? I can understand crappy math skills (i have them too), but I can't understand not knowing something so fundamental by heart. I play with cameras for a living, so maybe i've misjudged the amount of off-the-cuff knowledge an admin/architect of a 250k acct email system must have regarding uptime.. but WOW haha.
I've said it before in relation to pretty much this exact topic (Which is funny, cause i dont know jack about anime).. but piracy can be a plenty effective method of advertising.
.1% of consumers actually know how to download a torrent or queue in an IRC channel, the grassroots effectiveness of piracy from an advertising standpoint will, in many cases, far outweigh the protential fiscal harm.
Think about Photoshop.. Windows.. the list can get pretty big if you want.. tons of hugely successful market standards have become standards because of their widespread piracy. Look at bumfights.. thanks to the sensationalism of their topic, and the widespready piracy, Indecline probably made 10x as much money as they would have if no one had pirated their video.
Piracy is free advertising.. and in an era where maybe..
And, i'm not a total idiot when it comes to this matter.. i'm a filmmaker for a living, my income is (in part) directly tied to people going to Best Buy and buying my videos.
..although i dunno how long my server will withstand the slashdotting haha. if anyone wants to mirror this and reply that's fine by me (as soon as my server passes the 9mb/ps range, i'm gonna kill the image)
the album on the left had about 50 pics in them. yahoo was yanking them right when it loaded for me (i managed to see all the thumbs but no larger pics). judging from the thumbs though, i dont think most people would WANT to see the larger pics.
LINK NOT WORKSAFE: web albums
forgive my ignorance about fansubbind/anime/etc.. my questions are those of a complete layman (but a layman who works in the entertainment/film industry).
most of these are JP-only cartoons that are dubbed/titled in english (presumably for american or EU audiences on the net).. i fail to see how this really affects the target demographic that the cartoons were released for. I'm not saying it's 100% okay to take someone else's work and give it away for free (modified or not).. as it isn't yours.. but certainly there are shades of gray in every avenue.. and i have to imagine that giving away a retitled work to an audience that would have never had a chance to see it anyway (as it plays on tv in another country), when the original work probably played for free in japan anyway (on tv) seems a little more "gray" than it does "black."
we release commercial products, and certainly i dont want anyone to give them away for free, but if i found out someone had DIVX ripped my latest DVD release and subtitled it in japanese, it wouldnt exactly break my heart. in fact, i'd probably be excited, because if we had any sort of widespread downloading success in japan, those people [who dubbed my videos] would actually just be growing a potential market for me.. whereby someday we could release a native japanese version and sell 10x as many units because we are now that much more of a household name in japan.
not saying you're wrong, just saying it's not as cut and dried as you imagine it to be (imo).
you're correct in that the turning wheel is what steers the bike, but, like i said, at anything above say 40mph (this figure is approximate), rider leaning alone (no actual physical input to the handlebars) will have little to no effect. The faster the bike goes, the more it wants to stay upright due to these same gyroscopic forces.. and at 60 or 70mph, a 400lb bike is virtually unaffected by a shift in weight of 160 or 200lbs (i.e. the rider). At 10mph it's a different story.. but for this same reason, countersteering doesnt affect the bike much at 10mph either.
;)
My original statement (which got modded down, great haha) to you was that at any signifigant speed, rider lean alone will not affect the bike. I know this to be a fact, as I make my living riding motorcycles and i've had occasion to try this out at various speeds before. One could prove this with math, using the weight of the bike, weight of the rider, and various equations to determine the speed at which the rider's weight no longer has a signifigant affect on the center of gravity.. but i'm terrible at math, so i'll leave that to someone else
i'm a bit unclear what you're getting at, because you keep saying bicycle and bike, yet you link to an article about motorcycle stability.
to my knowledge, one does not countersteer a bicycle, at least not below speeds of say 60mph.
motorcycle countersteering works at moderate (and faster) speeds because of the countersteering on the CLIPONS (handlebars), not because of the rider leaning, or center of gravity of the rider. that isnt to say at lower speeds that rider lean cannot influence the lean angle of the motorcycle.. however, at anything about 40mph or so, rider lean is essentially worthless to affect the lean angle of the vehicle. Keith code has proven this by welding the steering to a fixed straight position on one of his track bikes and inviting disbelievers to ride it on a track in a straight line at speed, lean as hard as they can, and the bike continues to go straight. I'm sure leaning on bicycles works much better, as they are slower and lighter, but leaning on motorcycles at any sufficient speed, is more an excercise in effective rider positioning than it is shifting the CG of the bike, and in fact it wasnt untill the last half of the 20th century that racers even leaned off the bike into turns.
x-caiver.. thanks for your indepth reply. to expand a little bit more on what you covered:
..in that they specified WinXP64 bit as the operating system; i was careful not to attempt to install 2003 server 64 stuff. nontheless, despite being labelled on windows update as for the operating system, they always produced an error on install.. perhaps they were mislabelled or I am unclear as to the official name of the OS I was running.
:( :( :( ...guess I could always lease a Quantel EQ ;) ..seriously though, I really do have future hopes for XP64.. I'm at the point where either windows and 3rd party compositing/effects/nle software need to work together to effectively support multiple procs + 64bit, or I'll have to make the jump to linux apps fairly soon.. we're about switch to HD over SD (standard definition) content, which will increase render times almost exponentially for any effects or finishing work I do.. and I can't quite afford that Quantel box yet (although i got to play with an EQ @ NAB in '04 and it was fast as hell) ;)
I never posted a question to any support group.. i did however google somewhat extensively and found that I was not alone. Issue #1 with windows update was the "admin" privs issues. After I tried a dozen different sneaky methods to get into windowsupdate (different user profiles, different windowsupdate urls, whatever) and failed, I started manually using one of my 32bit boxen (win2k) to download patches that said they were WinXP64 beta specific.. i dont have any of the patches handy at the moment, but i googled really quickly and they were all similar to this one..
64bit patch
The issues I experienced with outlook and notepad and windows media were all very severe. I do video production for a living, and my goal was to use the dual opteron running XP64 as my primary editing/effects box.. somewhat difficult if i can't preview/proof assets in WMP. Windows media player would NEVER play any files, nor would notepad ever open (would crash on opening), nor would outlook express open (same deal as notepad). I could live with driver issues, afterall i can't expect ever single manufacturer to immediately support my desired OS.. but i couldnt deal with simple things like notepad and oe not working, I use notepad too often to write code, and wmp too often to proof video.
Also, to elaborate, I installed the OS at least 2 seperate times; once from a torrent file, and then a 2nd time after my beta CD arrived from MSFT. If you'll link me to the support group, i'm willing to do a 3rd install on a spare drive and try to address some of the issues (assuming they replicate themselves).. perhaps a bad piece of hardware was causing the issues, although I can't imagine what it would be, as i'm running the exact same hardware on this box now with an SP4'd win2k build and it's smooooove as butter, although it's annoying that my compositing work is done using only 1 of the processors, in 32 bit mode
you talk about "middle mouse button" .. does your box even recognize more than 2 button mice? more than 3? seriously, the overall lack of drivers and peripheral support, combined with some pretty major bugs (multiple installs of mine failed to run notepad, outlook express, windows media player, windowsupdate, etc).
I dont generally feed trolls, i'm more posting this as a commentary to anyone who is considered building a 64bit windows box.. perhaps you would like to read about my experiences with WinXP64 beta.
from what i found at the USPTO search.. there is no trademark on katie.com. Katie needs to TM her domain (prior art back to 1996, remember), and then she will be the one with all the power. Of course, IANAL so what she really needs to do is consult a lawyer who knows about trademark law and this kind of stuff.
/.'ers to reply saying they will as well. Yesterday her friend replied here saying he would post a paypal "donate to" link on her site if there was enough interest.. even $2 or $5 from a small percentage of the /.'ers who seem to care about this issue would be enough to turn the tide for her, i'd imagine. A lawyer is a wonderful thing (you should see all the traffic citations that don't appear on my record ;)
I'm personally willing to donate money to help her (this kind of crap angers me soooo much) and I would encourage other
i'm seeing an increase in the number of legit software dist's available via BT, etc. i mean, why does mozilla need to make the 1.7 RC available on BT?? Especially a lot of releases that already have mirrors on half a dozen servers internationally.
seriously, not flamebaiting you. but how is giving a fake name nowadays to get on a plane an okay thing to do? yes, you said MANY years ago. and now you dont travel on planes. presumably because "big brother" is so intrusively watching you by wanting to know your real name and verify it against a picture ID, and even.. *GASP* perform a mildly invasive check to make sure you're not carrying explosives or weapons. What an evil empire we live in.
So, i guess my question is: if we live in this "evil empire".. if you were president and had all the magical power to rewrite the rules, what SHOULD the government do, instead of verifying the identities of people who fly, and looking for possible suspicious patterns in their bevahior to find more terrorists among us. I dont much like them being invasive either, but if they dont take some drastic measures, there are certainly more terrorists, currently walking among innocent civilians, who will kill and injure many more of the people around them. If the government just turns a blind eye to "respect" your privacy, you may very well die the next time some fundamentalist blows something up. So, what's the solution?
I'm not particularly on either side, i just think this is a very complex problem (balancing privacy with the possibility of more deaths in the future) that just can't be dismissed by saying our government is evil and intrusive and up to all sorts of macabre tasks.
I like your concept (or rather, the explanation). However.. i fail to see how this is profitable for blockbuster.
In example 1, blockbuster paid $10 for each DVD, and rents it a few hundred times (or thousand?) in it's lifespan, at $2-4/per time.
In example 2, blockbuster paid ??? for said DVD, and rents it ONCE for $2-4/per time. Perhaps renting it for less than exmample 1, so as to make this option more appealing. If blockbuster is to make a profit, they will need to purchase this DVD (because it can be rented only once) for LESS than the rental fee, versus example one where they can purchase it for 5x the rental fee (due to re-renting it many times).
Let's assume (pulling out of my ass) that the DVD can be manufactured for $.25.. to make a profit on this, the DVD manuf. will want to sell it for at least $1 to blockbuster. Now, if blockbuster was going to have rented to "forever" lasting DVD 200 times, they will now need to purchase at least 100-150 copies of disposable ones to rent one-time each.. at $1/copy that would be $150, versus the $10 they could have spent to purchase the single DVD and rent that 200 times.
I'm not an economics guy, so i know my math probably has a million flaws and loopholes, but really, i dont see how this benifits anyone but the manufacturer of these products.. who will ultimately have to coerce businesses into this scheme (by substantially raising the prices on regular dvd media so that blockbuster has some incentive to buy the disposable crap).. and thus the consumer is forced into the scheme too, as prices at best buy and target go up as well. And this will do little to prevent piracy, as anyone with DVDCOPYX will just burn their copies right away and post them on their favorite p2p rather than waiting a few days or weeks like normally.
and to those who say the "average joe" doesnt have any clue about dvd copying.. you'd be suprised, half of my girlfriend's family makes "backup" copies of blockbuster movies, and none of them are technically adept. I expect a LOT of blockbuster rentals are being used for backup copies (which, again, this media afaik doesnt even change that factor..)
Lastly, i dont know the legality of making "backup copies" of DVD's you own.. but whatr is to stop BLOCKBUSTER from buying 20 of these destructo-DVD's and then making permanent backup copies of them (assuming of course, this practice is legal, which again IANAL but i hear a lot of the pirater type people using that as their thinly veiled excuse)