What the fsck is wrong with the people who pass the laws controlling the USPTO? Used to be you could patent "stuff" like a mousetrap or a combine-harvester. Works of art, like statues and mathematics textbooks were subject to copyright. If you had a daydream or a notion in your head, then you kept it inside your head, until such time as you could produce a real object to patent or copyright. The fact that you write down your daydream on a piece of paper in fine legalese doesn't give it any more substance than a perpetual motion machine.
A patent was supposed to give an inventor some protection from others ripping off his better mousetrap, but there's no obligation on him to patent it, and he's then subject to doing better in the market. At the same time, once he gets his better mousetrap to market there's no way in sanity that somebody else can patent it: that's called prior art.
What may (or may not) have happened here is that Apple got to market while Creative were still daydreaming. Getting the moustrap to market is the substance, the rest is just lawyers' lunches. It hurts me tho' that Apple's prices appear to include insurance against those restaurant tabs...
where new != better;-)
With an unsupervised approach it may well (de)construct the rules of grammar, but with the best thesaurus will it ever know the diference between green/sour/shut : eyes/apples/doors ?
I'm sorry to say she sounds like a Windows weenie...
Another nice thing about OpenOffice is that it is actually a complete office suite. You're not just getting a word processor. OpenOffice includes a its own equivalents to Powerpoint and Excel in 1.1.4. In the 2.0 Beta, OpenOffice has added a program to compete with Access called Base as well as a few others like Math which allows you to write out mathematical equations in a word processor-like environment and Draw which is a drawing program. I've personally never used these new programs seriously, but from the looks of it they could all be useful except for Draw. I haven't yet been able to discern what exactly you're supposed to be able to do with it that warrants its existence.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Apologies if anyone thinks that blasphemous, but I've seen too many folks who think MS Word is a page-layout, html-authoring, painting, does-all program. The reviewer is wandering perilously close to the same territory: I've personally never used these new programs seriously. New? Draw has been in OOo since 1.0.?
Disclaimer: I'm a Mac weenie, brought up on MS Works 1.0, Claris Works, MacDraw, et al, and I can't live without a vector graphics app on my desktop. Sure there are better apps than those, but they work and demonstrate the point. Why even MS Word 5.0 for Mac inroduced a "Picture" module with rudimentary vector graphics. So I'm delighted with OOo, even if the intermodule integration takes a bit of time to get your head around.
If you've only had 256 color bitmaps all your life, I've got news: the SVG spec is over 20 years old, and OOo brings you a little taste of how easy real drawing can be.
- an x86-iso that's what. Huh? I thought this was source-forge warrantied open-what-have-you. Where's the source I can compile on my Amiga, Acorn, Macintosh, Sparc, etc?
Alright, I'll just crawl back to my downtrodden minority...
Sorry, OSX doesn't count. Yup. I'm running it right here, and I've had boxen running bare Darwin, and there's a heap of OSS to and fro with OSX. But 1) there's the upfront cost, not free as in beer, and 2) there's a swag of proprietary closed source binaries in OSX that your EULA says: don't touch.
artificially inflated prices Mac OS X v10.4 = $129.00 (at Apple)
Don't forget MacOS Server $999, and don't even think about the 10 user licence - 'cos 10 simultaneous connections for AppleFileShare users means three users, yeah each one has a home dir, an authentication logon connection, and a managed Preferences logon. MS ain't got a monopoly on ripoffs...
It's not the environmental impact my friends, it's the damage to our language: I'm listening/watching right now NASATV for the shuttle return, and I swear to God the voice over droid just said
The crew are approaching the point of seat insertion prior to liquid reloading
Now I know there's no down in space, no matter they can see the planet out any window, and I know there are problems sipping from a glass in zero gravity, but didn't he really mean
One complete take has nothing to do with the quality of the actual movie or the quality of the recording.
In fact, it has nothing to do with the discussion at all.
Well, yes it does. No pause, no stop, no changing tape, all of which was pissing off the OP. And portable, no cables or dolly rails. OK it could have been radioed to an out of shot equipment rack. I've investigated that for my needs, but I think Sokurov's budget was better than mine...
Unless you have years of experience with the subjects, and/or have the director standing beside you, you cannot predict when there will be sufficient pause in the action, a) to start from Stop, several seconds longer than from Pause, or b) change a tape - this can take up to 2 minutes with some cameras, 'specially when you are forced by the design to unscrew it from the tripod to get at the tape aperture.
So, take 2 cameras, each on its own tripod or bracket mount, and annoy the shit out of all the people standing/sitting around you;-)
Unfortunately this, and the Sony DVD camera (just play the disc back on a DVD player) have realtime hardware compression in the camera, so the only way to get the raw video (I hope) is to take the f/w output while shooting. Raw dv PAL or NTSC from a typical mini-dv cam is ~13GB per hour. For HD and pro cameras it goes up, as high as ~100GB per hour. No, the compressed material from the HDD and DVD cameras is not good enough for subsequent editing.
As others have posted these don't go together. I have this problem too, needing to video up to 2 hours of illustrated lectures, where there is no predictable midpoint to change tapes. How fast can you change the tape in a typical mini-dv? Under 90 seconds?
I'm currently using an iBook with external f/w drive, with the power supplies and cables fit in an old VHS camera carry case. On MacOS 10.3 and iMovie you could run the f/w straight into iMovie with no tape in the camera. The upgrade to 10.4 and iMovieHD 5.02 broke this, it needs a tape in the camera now, carefully nursing thru pauses. Apple claim it should still work, but it broke for other ppl too, and I may be forced to upgrade my camera:-(
Some better quality turntables include a strobe lamp, or are used under 50/60hz fluorescent lamps and have strobe stripes on the side. When they're turning at correct speed they appear to be not turning at all...
But seriously, when 85%+ of your audience uses a particular browser, doesn't it make sense to design pages with it in mind?
No. I'm on an Amaya list, and it's pathetic to watch the wimpering about W3C compliant stuff that won't work for IE. Come to think of it SVG wasn't invented in Redmond either, so don't expect Inkscape files to be readable by anything else on a windoze box.
Never mind Aqua, X11's OK for starters,.... if it starts. I just d/l'ed, unpacked, pushed the go button, saw X11 start, thought "uhuh..." then nada, zilch, rien de tout. Que? An Inkscape menu that offered choice to Hide Inkscape, Hide Others, Quit. Preference files had installed in expected places. Went back to inkscape.org in case I'd missed something. Then twenty-whole-five-minutes of browsing later a new inkscape document window springs from heaven. There's more to this than meets the eye, Gunga Din...
Yawn...... Macintosh QuickDraw, & vector PICT format, ridiculed in 1984 for being too geeky, PostScript(TM) too with a programming language thrown in for free. Photoshop, Gimp, and all the other bitmap programs are good for making each pixel perfect, and humungous output files. SVG is in theory device independent. If your device can't scale vectors that's not Inkscape's (et al's) fault.
... most users will not notice or care about whether their Macintosh has an Intel or a PPC inside of it. They just want their computers to work as seamlessly as they have before and help them manage their lives and be more productive. Users will not have to be making any tough decisions as both platforms will be supported for years and years to come.
...most users..., yeah right. In spite of my nick I'm actually a support person in a largish mixed platform institution where I have persuaded my superiors that they will have a happier tech if we minimise the number of different type boxen and the OSen running in them. We do go forward alright, at a steady pace, measured by annual budgets and academic years. Maybe I swallowed my own FUD or I'm just getting lazy in my old age, but this is another Apple "upgrade" we'll have to carefully nurse thru...
has MIPS or anybody still got in stock? or could ramp up production? Nowhere near enough for Chinese demand that's for sure. Just imagine the hissing and roaring if the Chinese bought from a European supplier. Watch MIPS quietly pass a few of these oriental devices thru their labs to verify quality, then future buyers get referred to MIPS "Western Pacific Agents"
Surprising in view of the pleas in TFA for funding, and acknowledgements of where some came from, that nobody here sees a link between this and the true cost of software
Don't worry sonny. you're allowed to display your ignorance on/.
OS-X has indeed got a mach kernel, and the Darwin engine is the purest mongrel BSD, lots from Free- & -4.4Lite, and even some Apple wrote themselves. It's a free download from Apple, check it out and save yourself some blisters...
I don't think there's a great problem with global warming per se, the big game now is finger pointing. Major industry is reluctant to accept the contribution of greenhouse gases, so it funds studies by astrophysicists to prove the sun is at fault. Here's the abstract referred above for those too lazy to click thru:
Spatially resolved global reconstructions of annual surface temperature patterns over the past six centuries are based on the multivariate calibration of widely distributed high-resolution proxy climate indicators. Time-dependent correlations of the reconstructions with time-series records representing changes in greenhouse-gas concentrations, solar irradiance, and volcanic aerosols suggest that each of these factors has contributed to the climate variability of the past 400 years, with greenhouse gases emerging as the dominant forcing during the twentieth century. Northern Hemisphere mean annual temperatures for three of the past eight years are warmer than any other year since (at least) AD 1400.
Short of forkin' out $30, anyone seen the full text of how these guys apportion responsibility among their chosen three bad guys??
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What the fsck is wrong with the people who pass the laws controlling the USPTO? Used to be you could patent "stuff" like a mousetrap or a combine-harvester. Works of art, like statues and mathematics textbooks were subject to copyright. If you had a daydream or a notion in your head, then you kept it inside your head, until such time as you could produce a real object to patent or copyright. The fact that you write down your daydream on a piece of paper in fine legalese doesn't give it any more substance than a perpetual motion machine.
A patent was supposed to give an inventor some protection from others ripping off his better mousetrap, but there's no obligation on him to patent it, and he's then subject to doing better in the market. At the same time, once he gets his better mousetrap to market there's no way in sanity that somebody else can patent it: that's called prior art.
What may (or may not) have happened here is that Apple got to market while Creative were still daydreaming. Getting the moustrap to market is the substance, the rest is just lawyers' lunches. It hurts me tho' that Apple's prices appear to include insurance against those restaurant tabs...
where new != better ;-)
With an unsupervised approach it may well (de)construct the rules of grammar, but with the best thesaurus will it ever know the diference between green/sour/shut : eyes/apples/doors ?
Apologies if anyone thinks that blasphemous, but I've seen too many folks who think MS Word is a page-layout, html-authoring, painting, does-all program. The reviewer is wandering perilously close to the same territory: I've personally never used these new programs seriously. New? Draw has been in OOo since 1.0.?
Disclaimer: I'm a Mac weenie, brought up on MS Works 1.0, Claris Works, MacDraw, et al, and I can't live without a vector graphics app on my desktop. Sure there are better apps than those, but they work and demonstrate the point. Why even MS Word 5.0 for Mac inroduced a "Picture" module with rudimentary vector graphics. So I'm delighted with OOo, even if the intermodule integration takes a bit of time to get your head around.
If you've only had 256 color bitmaps all your life, I've got news: the SVG spec is over 20 years old, and OOo brings you a little taste of how easy real drawing can be.
will the singularity due in 2012 nullify this bet?
- an x86-iso that's what. Huh? I thought this was source-forge warrantied open-what-have-you. Where's the source I can compile on my Amiga, Acorn, Macintosh, Sparc, etc?
Alright, I'll just crawl back to my downtrodden minority...
Sorry, OSX doesn't count. Yup. I'm running it right here, and I've had boxen running bare Darwin, and there's a heap of OSS to and fro with OSX. But 1) there's the upfront cost, not free as in beer, and 2) there's a swag of proprietary closed source binaries in OSX that your EULA says: don't touch.
Why? /usr/share/dict/web2 | grep *xen
[-macinstein-:~] p% more
betwixen
boxen
flaxen
mixen
oxen
rexen
vixen
waxen
tuxen - OMG there's more than one of them???
One complete take has nothing to do with the quality of the actual movie or the quality of the recording.
In fact, it has nothing to do with the discussion at all.
Well, yes it does. No pause, no stop, no changing tape, all of which was pissing off the OP. And portable, no cables or dolly rails. OK it could have been radioed to an out of shot equipment rack. I've investigated that for my needs, but I think Sokurov's budget was better than mine...
QuickTimePro v.7 only $29.99 - hey Steve, that must be worth a free iPod
Why not stop recording?
;-)
Unless you have years of experience with the subjects, and/or have the director standing beside you, you cannot predict when there will be sufficient pause in the action, a) to start from Stop, several seconds longer than from Pause, or b) change a tape - this can take up to 2 minutes with some cameras, 'specially when you are forced by the design to unscrew it from the tripod to get at the tape aperture.
So, take 2 cameras, each on its own tripod or bracket mount, and annoy the shit out of all the people standing/sitting around you
Unfortunately this, and the Sony DVD camera (just play the disc back on a DVD player) have realtime hardware compression in the camera, so the only way to get the raw video (I hope) is to take the f/w output while shooting. Raw dv PAL or NTSC from a typical mini-dv cam is ~13GB per hour. For HD and pro cameras it goes up, as high as ~100GB per hour. No, the compressed material from the HDD and DVD cameras is not good enough for subsequent editing.
As others have posted these don't go together. I have this problem too, needing to video up to 2 hours of illustrated lectures, where there is no predictable midpoint to change tapes. How fast can you change the tape in a typical mini-dv? Under 90 seconds?
:-(
I'm currently using an iBook with external f/w drive, with the power supplies and cables fit in an old VHS camera carry case. On MacOS 10.3 and iMovie you could run the f/w straight into iMovie with no tape in the camera. The upgrade to 10.4 and iMovieHD 5.02 broke this, it needs a tape in the camera now, carefully nursing thru pauses. Apple claim it should still work, but it broke for other ppl too, and I may be forced to upgrade my camera
Some better quality turntables include a strobe lamp, or are used under 50/60hz fluorescent lamps and have strobe stripes on the side. When they're turning at correct speed they appear to be not turning at all...
Someday I'll ge tired of saying "if you RTFA"...
/.ed before I can get a sniff....
I'd love to RTFA, damn things, this one included, are usually well & truly
But seriously, when 85%+ of your audience uses a particular browser, doesn't it make sense to design pages with it in mind?
No. I'm on an Amaya list, and it's pathetic to watch the wimpering about W3C compliant stuff that won't work for IE. Come to think of it SVG wasn't invented in Redmond either, so don't expect Inkscape files to be readable by anything else on a windoze box.
Ahh, if only my morning paper could condense the day's stories into one succinct paragraph like that. Sure beats shuffling broadsheet on the Metro...
Never mind Aqua, X11's OK for starters, .... if it starts. I just d/l'ed, unpacked, pushed the go button, saw X11 start, thought "uhuh..." then nada, zilch, rien de tout. Que? An Inkscape menu that offered choice to Hide Inkscape, Hide Others, Quit. Preference files had installed in expected places. Went back to inkscape.org in case I'd missed something. Then twenty-whole-five-minutes of browsing later a new inkscape document window springs from heaven. There's more to this than meets the eye, Gunga Din...
Yawn...... Macintosh QuickDraw, & vector PICT format, ridiculed in 1984 for being too geeky, PostScript(TM) too with a programming language thrown in for free. Photoshop, Gimp, and all the other bitmap programs are good for making each pixel perfect, and humungous output files. SVG is in theory device independent. If your device can't scale vectors that's not Inkscape's (et al's) fault.
has MIPS or anybody still got in stock? or could ramp up production? Nowhere near enough for Chinese demand that's for sure. Just imagine the hissing and roaring if the Chinese bought from a European supplier. Watch MIPS quietly pass a few of these oriental devices thru their labs to verify quality, then future buyers get referred to MIPS "Western Pacific Agents"
Surprising in view of the pleas in TFA for funding, and acknowledgements of where some came from, that nobody here sees a link between this and the true cost of software
Don't worry sonny. you're allowed to display your ignorance on /.
OS-X has indeed got a mach kernel, and the Darwin engine is the purest mongrel BSD, lots from Free- & -4.4Lite, and even some Apple wrote themselves. It's a free download from Apple, check it out and save yourself some blisters...
Short of forkin' out $30, anyone seen the full text of how these guys apportion responsibility among their chosen three bad guys??