What is a "K" in this context? I dont know. But here is a clue from comments to the original article:
Celboy, good question. Barbara went back to Paul Franklin at Double Negative and asked him to run us through the exact numbers. Turns out the 5.6K files took up a little less space than he had remembered. Here are his notes:
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5.6K: 5616x4096;
A full 5.6K was actually about 100 meg for the exr and 122 meg for the
cineon/dpx;
8K: 8192x6144;
approximately 150 meg for the exr and 200 for the cineon/dpx;
exr files are run length encoded whereas cineon/dpx is not, so as well as
being more efficient they also vary in size depending on how much detail
(difference between pixels) there is on a frame to frame basis;
My mistake on the downrez figure for the 8K to 5.6
Looks like the K indicates number of lines per frame.
They use a formual to determine number of pixels per line *4:3 ratio or something like that.
"And THIS is the symptom of an uber-asshole... he would rather spend his time blathering his pissy opinions "
I hear you. But is this YOUR pissy opinion?
Used to be, in the good ol days of IT, or Data Processing as we used to call it, that the programmer was king. The programmer basically decreed what could and could not be done with the computer system. He was the analyst, programmer, tester, implementer, and documentation writer. And maybe trained users too.
Fast foreward to today
Management has placed so many controls on the development process. Fer example, we need to get Business owner's approval for starting work, testing, and then before move to production. We are monitored constantly. We fill out Remedy tickets for each stage of development. We can not do "systems" stuff, like even compile our own programs. Really. Every compile, move, and test is monitored and recorded.
Yep, management has certainly stepped in and taken control back.
I've forgotten what the original article was...wait a minute... oh yeh.
Anyway, I am thinking that the Frisco situation could not happen here. I am not afraid. But I really miss those days when I really had control of the development.
...the two best physics professors I've [had] lacked a penis.
You only "lack a penis" if you have had one, and say, it was cut off. Let's put it this way. Assuming you are male, try to grog this; girls don't lack a penis the same way you don't lack a vagina.
In my last gig at CMS (Medicare) I learned the following: 90% of all LIFETIME medical costs are spent in the LAST SIX MONTHS of life.
It does not matter how long one lives.
It does not depend on height, weight, smoking habits, snack habits, or exercise habits.
The insurance companies know this, and thus there is no extra premium for fat people. Smokers are charged more because they do get sicker. In the last six months. Fat people do not get any sicker than thin people, in the last six months. Just the last six months for fat people happen a bit sooner.
What about programmable EEPROM technology from, say, the 80's? For you youngins, this was a way of burning code into read-only memory. There are also programmable processors, where the connections between gates can be permantently burned and thus programmed. Bottom line, there are many old ways of permenently programming processors. What is so new now?
I think that after the Big Bang, all the anti-matter went the other way. The other way in time. To see the anti-matter universe, you would have to travel back in time to the Big Bang, and then keep going past the BB even earlier. Then you would be in the anti-matter universe, but of course, going the wrong way. In other words, the anti-matter universe is sorta like driving in England. Everybody is going the wrong way, and on the wrong side.
My wife has a habit of asking me "what is the matter?" I found that answering her "Energy" is highly satisfying.
I think that after the Big Bang, all the anti-matter went the other way. The other way in time. To see the anti-matter universe, you would have to travel back in time to the Big Bang, and then keep going past the BB even earlier. Then you would be in the anti-matter universe, but of course, going the wrong way.
In other words, the anti-matter universe is sorta like driving in England. Everybody is going the wrong way, and on the wrong side.
My wife has a habit of asking me "what is the matter?" I found that answering her "Energy" is highly satisfying.
"...there are no touch/pain receptors within the brain itself - people have brain surgery done while awake so the doctors can keep them talking and know they aren't accidentally removing something important...."
And when the doctors actually do remove something important, then what? They put it back, maybe?
Every good electronic engineer knows that the best transfer of energy takes place when the impedence of the output device is equal to the impedence of the input device. In our case (cell phone transmitters) the output device is an antenna.
Therefore in a well designed cell phone, for every watt transmitted, at least one watt of heat energy is disapated in the device. That means (to all you slashdotters) that if you talk long enough, your cell phone will warm up. Also, body heat is transfered thru your hot little hands to the cell phone.
That is why the cell phone heats up. Not RF. Not Radio Frequencie energy. It is really Direct Current energy that heats a cell phone.
Great. Company comes out with new and improved processor. Moore's law marches on.
Actually, I think that there are too many processors and cpu's. Too much internal memory. I yearn for the 8086 chip still. Or an IBM 360 mainframe. Now that was computing.
That I actually buy a laptop computer. This is coming from a guy that is very technical, and can tell you how to design a processor chip, code my own device drivers, etc. As a techie, still, I am one of the last adpopters of "new" tech (laptops?). I just got a CD burner. Ha.
I know that/.ers are mostly early adopters... or are they?
Are you an EARLY adopter of new hardware/software? Do you have an iPod, iPhone, Wii, etc. - or are you still reading this on your Windows 98 machine?
I save my work often, say every 60 seconds (never know when the damn thing will freeze up or the power will go out). So, I use the alt-f-s combo. This is much faster than the work to reach for the mouse, drag it up to File, click, roll it down to Save and click. Try it yourself.
Also, the mouse has this funny little wobble. Has anyone else noticed it? You start moving the mouse twards a button. Mouse moves way past it. You move the mouse back. It goes past the button the other way. Since I am trying to work fast, the mouse wobbles. This slows down the work. Keys don't wobble. I always want to move the mouse fast, and this is too fast.
I noticed that some people move the mouse sooooo agonizingly slooooow. The good part of that is that they don't miss the button.
...and a man-made brain... so what good is a person you can manufacture? Will we enslave it?
Just had to reply to this.
1. 2010 - using ten of the fastest supercomputers, a human brain is emulated.
2. 2020 - High end laptop computers now run as HB's (human brains). Robots can now get around on their own. Cars drive themselves. Truck drivers are out of work.
3. 2030 - All physical labor is now done by robots, including robot manufacturing. Robots build robots build robots, rinse, repeat.
The limiting factor after all this is ENERGY. You will need energy to do all this building, and so on.
<shouting>THIS WILL RADICALLY CHANGE THE WORLD. </shouting>
sig: Hello, World. (kinda takes on a different meaning now?)
Yes, and i think that 1972 was the last time that i played a video game. And smoked my last cigarette. Still drink, though.
Is it just me, or does anyone else think that arcade games are a BIG waste of time. I would rather be PROGRAMMING a game than playing one. Same thing for lotto/kino video games. If I wanted to watch random numbers pop up on a screen, I would write a short script myself. I would rather think than mindlessly shoot 'em up. Is this a troll? Then mod me down.
well, actually, in those days, television was not as easy as you think. If you were in town, you had to adjust your rabbit ears (!) each time you changed the channel. If you were out of town, you had to mount a roof antenna, and feed the wire to the set. then aim the antenna. You could hire someone to do this, but most people did it themselves. Also, the sets were rather unreliable, using vaacume tubes. (vaccume?) Ours went down almost as often as I now get the blue screen of death on my pc.
Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens argued that: 'To user the desktop metaphor is dead.
I love it (ironic) when some CIO or other bigwig perports to talk for me. Actually, not only is the desktop still not "dead", but on my desktop is a Mainframe running COBOL/CICS/DB2. Still not dead. Not by a long shot.
the way fingerprints are encoded in the law enforcement databases. Basically, you and every one who has ten fingerprints (or less) already "owns" a 128 bit integer.
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Looks like the K indicates number of lines per frame. They use a formual to determine number of pixels per line *4:3 ratio or something like that.
wtf? The parent should be modded troll.
"And THIS is the symptom of an uber-asshole ... he would rather spend his time blathering his pissy opinions "
I hear you. But is this YOUR pissy opinion?
Fast foreward to today
Management has placed so many controls on the development process. Fer example, we need to get Business owner's approval for starting work, testing, and then before move to production. We are monitored constantly. We fill out Remedy tickets for each stage of development. We can not do "systems" stuff, like even compile our own programs. Really. Every compile, move, and test is monitored and recorded.
Yep, management has certainly stepped in and taken control back.
I've forgotten what the original article was...wait a minute... oh yeh.
Anyway, I am thinking that the Frisco situation could not happen here. I am not afraid. But I really miss those days when I really had control of the development.
Statistics are in. Only 0.1 percent of men feel bad about their genitalia. Moron. Do some research.
You only "lack a penis" if you have had one, and say, it was cut off. Let's put it this way. Assuming you are male, try to grog this; girls don't lack a penis the same way you don't lack a vagina.
In my last gig at CMS (Medicare) I learned the following: 90% of all LIFETIME medical costs are spent in the LAST SIX MONTHS of life.
It does not matter how long one lives.
It does not depend on height, weight, smoking habits, snack habits, or exercise habits.
The insurance companies know this, and thus there is no extra premium for fat people. Smokers are charged more because they do get sicker. In the last six months. Fat people do not get any sicker than thin people, in the last six months. Just the last six months for fat people happen a bit sooner.
My dad has some now that are over 50 yo. Thank you. "Hello, world."
So when are we going to get an HTML compiler, so men and women are stopped from stealing my beautiful web page code?
"Hello, World"
I think that after the Big Bang, all the anti-matter went the other way. The other way in time. To see the anti-matter universe, you would have to travel back in time to the Big Bang, and then keep going past the BB even earlier. Then you would be in the anti-matter universe, but of course, going the wrong way. In other words, the anti-matter universe is sorta like driving in England. Everybody is going the wrong way, and on the wrong side. My wife has a habit of asking me "what is the matter?" I found that answering her "Energy" is highly satisfying.
My wife has a habit of asking me "what is the matter?" I found that answering her "Energy" is highly satisfying.
And when the doctors actually do remove something important, then what? They put it back, maybe?
sig: "Hello, world"
This is my "Hello World" sig. "Hello, World".
Actually, I think that there are too many processors and cpu's. Too much internal memory. I yearn for the 8086 chip still. Or an IBM 360 mainframe. Now that was computing.
mod pareent dooown - nooot fuuuuny.
This is coming from a guy that is very technical, and can tell you how to design a processor chip, code my own device drivers, etc. As a techie, still, I am one of the last adpopters of "new" tech (laptops?). I just got a CD burner. Ha.
I know that /.ers are mostly early adopters... or are they?
Are you an EARLY adopter of new hardware/software? Do you have an iPod, iPhone, Wii, etc. - or are you still reading this on your Windows 98 machine?
Hello, world.
efficiency, and a lot simpler. And probably faster.
Also, the mouse has this funny little wobble. Has anyone else noticed it? You start moving the mouse twards a button. Mouse moves way past it. You move the mouse back. It goes past the button the other way. Since I am trying to work fast, the mouse wobbles. This slows down the work. Keys don't wobble. I always want to move the mouse fast, and this is too fast.
I noticed that some people move the mouse sooooo agonizingly slooooow. The good part of that is that they don't miss the button.
My first sig: "Hello, World"
Just had to reply to this.
1. 2010 - using ten of the fastest supercomputers, a human brain is emulated.
2. 2020 - High end laptop computers now run as HB's (human brains). Robots can now get around on their own. Cars drive themselves. Truck drivers are out of work.
3. 2030 - All physical labor is now done by robots, including robot manufacturing. Robots build robots build robots, rinse, repeat.
The limiting factor after all this is ENERGY. You will need energy to do all this building, and so on.
<shouting>THIS WILL RADICALLY CHANGE THE WORLD. </shouting>
sig: Hello, World. (kinda takes on a different meaning now?)
Is it just me, or does anyone else think that arcade games are a BIG waste of time. I would rather be PROGRAMMING a game than playing one. Same thing for lotto/kino video games. If I wanted to watch random numbers pop up on a screen, I would write a short script myself. I would rather think than mindlessly shoot 'em up. Is this a troll? Then mod me down.
Hello, world.
Hello, world.
seems like you found yourself a bad job, not a bad career. Look around for something new, but stick to your field. >
>
Hello, world.
I love it (ironic) when some CIO or other bigwig perports to talk for me. Actually, not only is the desktop still not "dead", but on my desktop is a Mainframe running COBOL/CICS/DB2. Still not dead. Not by a long shot.
Hello, world.
"Hello, world". "Hello, Jerry"