Let's say your script to advance a frame, save a screenshot to a folder takes 3 seconds.
For a 90 minute film, at approximately 30 frames every second of movie, for 5400 seconds (162000 frames). One minute and a half for every second of screen time.
135 hours or 5.6 days to copy a movie that way.
Any one want to do a calculation for the amount of disk space you would need just to save the screen caps without all that mpeg compression reducing the redundancy?
When I first got broadband via cable at the turn of the century, I was a Neilsen family, one of the wired ones, as opposed to the type that fill out diaries ala Arbitron). New cable boxes and modems required Neilsen to come in and disconnect/reconnect their tuner spying hardware, into cable box, VCR, and TV
This was in the days before DVRs, and I had a tuner card for my brand new g4 (the power PC processor Mac) , that I was planning to use to watch TV, perhaps digitize it, on my mac, and they saw it there, near the interconnection of cable modem and all, and, by god, they nearly peed their pants in excitement... they wanted to wire that up as well, by jingo!
I staved them off, saying the card and external tuner didn't work, and I only used it for frame grabs from video for web pages, and they backed off.
BTW, Neilsen's biggest problem those days was spoofing... people would call all the time pretending to be Neilsen (sort of the same marketing idea as people pretending to be the Yellow Pages). And sometimes Neilsen would call me, because I really didn't watch TV as much as keep it on one channel all the time as an ambient newsource, so they wondered if their connection was broken, or if I died, or whatever. I usually told the real Neilsen about the fake Neilsen that would call up and ask questions they wouldn't have to, had they known the nature of the hardwired connection.
So if you have Tech TV in your market, you may be able to thank/blame me. This was before they were bought out by G4 (the cable channel) by the way
The kernel was more open to OSS tweakers when it was not so common knowledge that Macs would eventually run on Intel. It became closed, apparently, after the switchover.
How does this make business sense?
During the development of OS X, Darwin helped portage of code written to various *nix flavors, to one compatible to be run within OS X. Including truly cross platform stuff that worked on different CPUs. And Old Next wares, etcetera. It increased the possible market for the open source geek, and development flourished. Do you think there would have been nearly as many Cocoa apps if not for the encouragement of this community? The old school PPC developers would have stuck with their legacy C and Carbon code, because, why bother?
Now that the kernel is apparently closed (and may have even forked a bit, perhaps dropping some Mach here or there), it may be, now that it is public that intel had to be used as a platform because of supply and other issues, it is more important to keep the kernel stable and closed during the transition, or less prevalent to sabotage from competition. Once the entire mac line is refreshed and another cat is let out of the OS bag, and Boot Camp may become virtualized, the kernel might reopen as a playground.
But all I know about kernels deals with fried chicken anyway.
I really can't stand registering at every cockamamie web site left and right, just to see the info, or interact with the info
Every time you use a password, or have to remember a password, you are giving someone the enticement of a lock to break, and one more burden for yourself. One day, you are going to use some easy to remember toss off of a password with someplace that has some real info and financial stake tied into it.
Of course, the registration keeps away the riff raff that would NOT register, and abuse the site that way. And unfortunately, if it comes back to burn anybody, it doesn't come back to burn the web site that needlessly asked for too much info in the first place- it burns the users of that site.
Well, maybe a bit of bad publicity might be spread for the site, but really like that actually hurts.
...claiming they did not have permission to watch you committing the crime yesterday,with thinking you have shredded all the evidence.
A sues B for copying. B says we were here first, check the public record. A sues to keep public record from being checked, claiming they hold copyright on that public record.
If anything is going to really push SVG, it is Adobe buying Macromedia, although it being adopted in to the XML RSS world in a face of crap Flash interfaces doesn;t hurt.
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Let's say your script to advance a frame, save a screenshot to a folder takes 3 seconds. For a 90 minute film, at approximately 30 frames every second of movie, for 5400 seconds (162000 frames). One minute and a half for every second of screen time. 135 hours or 5.6 days to copy a movie that way. Any one want to do a calculation for the amount of disk space you would need just to save the screen caps without all that mpeg compression reducing the redundancy?
When I first got broadband via cable at the turn of the century, I was a Neilsen family, one of the wired ones, as opposed to the type that fill out diaries ala Arbitron). New cable boxes and modems required Neilsen to come in and disconnect/reconnect their tuner spying hardware, into cable box, VCR, and TV This was in the days before DVRs, and I had a tuner card for my brand new g4 (the power PC processor Mac) , that I was planning to use to watch TV, perhaps digitize it, on my mac, and they saw it there, near the interconnection of cable modem and all, and, by god, they nearly peed their pants in excitement... they wanted to wire that up as well, by jingo! I staved them off, saying the card and external tuner didn't work, and I only used it for frame grabs from video for web pages, and they backed off. BTW, Neilsen's biggest problem those days was spoofing... people would call all the time pretending to be Neilsen (sort of the same marketing idea as people pretending to be the Yellow Pages). And sometimes Neilsen would call me, because I really didn't watch TV as much as keep it on one channel all the time as an ambient newsource, so they wondered if their connection was broken, or if I died, or whatever. I usually told the real Neilsen about the fake Neilsen that would call up and ask questions they wouldn't have to, had they known the nature of the hardwired connection. So if you have Tech TV in your market, you may be able to thank/blame me. This was before they were bought out by G4 (the cable channel) by the way
The kernel was more open to OSS tweakers when it was not so common knowledge that Macs would eventually run on Intel. It became closed, apparently, after the switchover. How does this make business sense? During the development of OS X, Darwin helped portage of code written to various *nix flavors, to one compatible to be run within OS X. Including truly cross platform stuff that worked on different CPUs. And Old Next wares, etcetera. It increased the possible market for the open source geek, and development flourished. Do you think there would have been nearly as many Cocoa apps if not for the encouragement of this community? The old school PPC developers would have stuck with their legacy C and Carbon code, because, why bother? Now that the kernel is apparently closed (and may have even forked a bit, perhaps dropping some Mach here or there), it may be, now that it is public that intel had to be used as a platform because of supply and other issues, it is more important to keep the kernel stable and closed during the transition, or less prevalent to sabotage from competition. Once the entire mac line is refreshed and another cat is let out of the OS bag, and Boot Camp may become virtualized, the kernel might reopen as a playground. But all I know about kernels deals with fried chicken anyway.
I really can't stand registering at every cockamamie web site left and right, just to see the info, or interact with the info Every time you use a password, or have to remember a password, you are giving someone the enticement of a lock to break, and one more burden for yourself. One day, you are going to use some easy to remember toss off of a password with someplace that has some real info and financial stake tied into it. Of course, the registration keeps away the riff raff that would NOT register, and abuse the site that way. And unfortunately, if it comes back to burn anybody, it doesn't come back to burn the web site that needlessly asked for too much info in the first place- it burns the users of that site. Well, maybe a bit of bad publicity might be spread for the site, but really like that actually hurts.
...claiming they did not have permission to watch you committing the crime yesterday,with thinking you have shredded all the evidence. A sues B for copying. B says we were here first, check the public record. A sues to keep public record from being checked, claiming they hold copyright on that public record.
If anything is going to really push SVG, it is Adobe buying Macromedia, although it being adopted in to the XML RSS world in a face of crap Flash interfaces doesn;t hurt.