one rule of thumb we were told in both my finance and economics units:
as soon as "experts", particularly media experts, start saying "no bubble" you can be pretty damn sure there is a bubble
despite living in a major city, in a suburb popular with young educated professionals, all we have access to in much of the area is 4G, which tends to be a washout at peak times (a youtube video at low quality is a "go away and read a book" while it caches is par for the course at 6am-7am and 6pm through to 10pm weekdays).
Given I can drive down to my local bricks and mortar store, buy a 1080 def blueray (for pocket change) drive home AND watch half the movie before a download of a 420 def movie has cached enough to not splutter, jerk and pause regularly (and that's on the services that allow significant caching) I think I'll be waiting a long, long time for broadband upgrade (or moving to some other geographical location) before streaming movies becomes my service of choice (and don't even get me started on regional licensing where the low level of any quality content (talking artistic quality not def this time) makes the locally available subscription models a bad joke.
which I upgrade by taking the back off and putting a new photo in it....
back on topic.. maybe something to experiment is CF to SD adapter and see if you can push new images on the fly to a eye fi card?
The plural of penny is pennies. Penny's refers to something belonging to a girl called Penny.
NZ switched to decimal currency in 1967 ("the 10th of July - next year")
After that date the most common use of that coin was to improve the electrical connection in torches that used D size batteries.
which only goes to show you how much we post pounds and pennys... I mean pennies... antipodeans know about these penny things - I was born 1967 so have no real/practical experience with the old money.
+1
I've set this up for both my sisters on their media centres because they were just so sick and tired of kids DVD's they bought for their children having 5 minutes or even more of unskippable advertisements for toys they don't want their kids to have (because they already have lockers full of crap they don't play with) and shows they do not want them to watch
at least with DVD's - one reason I now buy blurays as much as possible is not just the higher quality (and many are not even that) is that they don't, yet, have this (and, ironically, they are often cheaper than the DVD version).
And if I have to buy a DVD it gets ripped, sans warnings and menu, and put on my media server.
seriously I'll admit to torrenting a fair number of shows (all ones that aren't shown locally) but I have 3 whole shelfs on a bookcase full of legit DVD's and BluRays two deep two high (300+ at last count (that and a couple of thousand CD's accumulated over 20 years) and will pre order shows I know I like from viewing the torrents so odds on bet I'm one of their best customers....
and I hate that these people treat me as their enemy - every time I'm forced to sit through these stupid "you wouldn't steal a car why steal this movie" shite on a DVD I've just coughed up real cash for another straw is added to the camels back that will eventually say "fsck you twunts"
Not surprise, indeed kind of surprised it's 1: not already the case, 2: it would raise any interest external to the enterprise concerned, In fact in house restaurants or cafes (or for the down market canteens) are pretty much De jure for most of the large research organisations I've worked for.
Actually one good thing about them is it encourages conversation between areas that would normally not have communications beyond hierarchical memo passing and divisional manager meetings so, for a not entirely hypothetical example - people from the material sciences area end up talking over lunch to people from the electronic engineering area and people from the remote sensing area and so a project is born to build more resistant tidal sensors that don't need to be replaced every 3 or 4 months.
yeh been there done that a couple of years ago (though my preferred liquid painkiller is a good rum or a premium Irish or Bourbon ) . Fortunately this was "only just" a broken tooth that needed extraction.
and damn slashdot for not allowing you to edit your own posts (though I understand the reason)
The reference is incorrect. He did not have involvement with the produced Dune films. Credit where it's due, he did a lot of great stuff. Just not Dune.
he did work for _A_ Dune film. Sadly just not one that ever got shot.
Ever since the late 70's when I first saw a copy of "Metal Hurlant" SciFi comic book art has been one of my passions and the name "Moebious" was one of the first I learnt and whose fabulously expressive work I obsessed over. The incredible number of artists he inspired across the world is amazing, from comic/manga artists like Shir Masamune to film makers such as Ridley Scott to authors such as William Gibson. Some years ago I looked across my book cases, upper shelves crammed with works of modern science fiction spanning various genres, lower shelves stacked with western and asian comic art books, and even a couple of shelves of DVDs and I realised a great many of these works are either directly, or with only one degree of separation, influenced by Moebious's work.
if I'm going out to take pictures its mostly film.
Apart from snapshots with the Digital p&s I use digital for a few things though, street parades, marches, demonstration that sort of thing where I'm in a fast moving/changing group of people the DSLR and a fast lens and a big CF seems more suitable, Fireworks I find a less hit and miss and less prone to lab development issues (though I sometimes do my own C41 colour film processing)
Not sure why I've gone back to film particularly as I quite professional photography in the early 90's out of frustration with the processing side, I guess I just like it, the whole process from loading the camera to hanging up the final print (though I do often scan and inkjet print images captured on film or go the other way and use a digital negative to print something from one of my digital cameras on to Silver Gelatine paper).
recreation time after work... apparently, that's how it's pitched to us... funny I could see that working in Sydney, but not summer , rather for winter, as they live on the east side of their time time zone and they walk out of work in to the pitch black of night during standard time winter, but, Perth folk have, being on the west side of their time zone, a good hour of daylight to commute home in but in summer? meh I don't really get it
Our work clocks and many computers failed to remember that the western third of the country voted daylight saving/summer time down in to the trash heap of history and promptly told us we all were an hour late turning up for work this morning.... my guess is it will take them... 4 months maybe?... to fix the clocks and the messed up online calendars.
I'm pretty sure if you check that's the diesel VW Polo model were as the Mazda has a petrol engine.
Sadly even though here in Australia diesel cars are selling great guns and in Europe they already dominate most market segments for some reason north Americans don't like diesel cars.
That said this sort of economy is not surprising, my daewoo matiz (sparks or something like that in the US) gets around 4.5 liters per 100 klm (a shade under 60Mpg) using rather primitive engine tech, compare that to the full size 4WD that at 18 liters per 100klm's gets taken out so rarely now that we have to wipe the cobwebs off it (true story).
given the Daewoo range is no longer sold in my market and the local GM company (Holden) reneged on a commitment to sell it under their badge, my next car was going to be a diesel VW polo but if this Mazda 2 is released in Australia in 2011 or 2012 I'll give it serious consideration.
You wouldn't even need to be at a event like comic con - finding a thousand people in greater Tokyo area a minor affair - it's 0.0028% of the population and is like the queue for one train at one platform at one station one day of a normal working week... given that hard core fans will attend multiple gigs (or the whole tour) you could say that the number of unique attendants at each show of a tour would be, say, only 75% now your only talking 750 people. I've played gigs to bigger crowd on the small stage at a festival in Australia to punters who, perhaps, maybe, only 10% of had even heard of us let alone heard our music before but only came out of curiosity (and a crowd of 1000 people there worked out to being about 0.0588% of Brisbane's population) .
Lets see Miku give a concert to 25,000+ people on main stage on the final night of Fuji Rock and THEN I'll say yeh we have a real.. um unreal... Rei Toei... (actually I'd want to see that, that would be a significant event in the history of music)... until then ? meh? it's fun it's cute but it's no threat to anything but a few peoples egos.
my personal take on the whole thing is that it, (the Vocaloid program) is just another instrument, I've tried it, I've seen/heard some interesting stuff on the net but really it's just another part of one stream of musics evolvution... Peter Gabrial, Laurie Anderson et. al. all did a sort of vocal sampling thing to death with the, rather more difficult in comparison, fairlight in the late 80's and "fake" popstars are older than The Archies...
using incandescent globes for heating is not _that_ uncommon in tropical areas...
eh? you might say... WTF? even....
well simple, you put a low wattage (20-40) in your linen cupboard to keep humidity from condensing in what would normally be a cooler part of the house and it helps stop mould and mildew forming.
it would be insane to have space heating in a house like my ex's in Broome Australia that normally sees a minimum temperature of, say, 15c at the coldest and averages around 30c and with almost constat high humidity...
In this case it is light that is the waste product.
when the paywall sites go t*ts up?
ah well I guess he can consign himself to the fact that he will gain a certain level of long fame as we stop saying "buggy whip manufacturers" as a generic term for obsolete industries and start using "Murdoch's News Empire" .
lets call them "programmer guys" (or girls) or something like that just so that we desktop & server support people can get on with the job of trying to support/jury rig solutions/bug find etc their dodgy software so the users can... well... like use it, all with out about having to be lumped in to the same basket as the bug, glitch & BSoD makers.
ditto on this... a random smattering of words combos only half of which would be counted as valid by my spellchecker. Also I would have thought a scrum was the last thing you needed in a work environment..... I mean I could live with the title "Loosehead prop" I could see my boss being happy with being called a "tighthead prop" but I can't see anyone in my current environment putting their hand up to have "hooker" as their job title.
To call it a "slide" is to call a Argentinasaurus a dinosaur... yeh it is but far from your average.
Think of one of those "Wet and Wild" water park slides that were all the rage in the 80's and early 90's, now take away the water.
Well I think with Rob and his crew doing things we can assume that the initial calibration was done in a suitable studio environment. How ever there's simply no way that a photographer can ensure that s/he can always, or even most often do the review/select/basic edit on the road in optimal conditions.... recently, doing a motorcycle tour shoot, we had every day and every night reviewing under different light... on the road the best we could do was short list images for further consideration back in the studio... oh yeh, hoods for laptops are mostly nothing more than a royal pain in the arse to use on the road.
Slashdot Mirror
one rule of thumb we were told in both my finance and economics units:
as soon as "experts", particularly media experts, start saying "no bubble" you can be pretty damn sure there is a bubble
despite living in a major city, in a suburb popular with young educated professionals, all we have access to in much of the area is 4G, which tends to be a washout at peak times (a youtube video at low quality is a "go away and read a book" while it caches is par for the course at 6am-7am and 6pm through to 10pm weekdays).
Given I can drive down to my local bricks and mortar store, buy a 1080 def blueray (for pocket change) drive home AND watch half the movie before a download of a 420 def movie has cached enough to not splutter, jerk and pause regularly (and that's on the services that allow significant caching) I think I'll be waiting a long, long time for broadband upgrade (or moving to some other geographical location) before streaming movies becomes my service of choice (and don't even get me started on regional licensing where the low level of any quality content (talking artistic quality not def this time) makes the locally available subscription models a bad joke.
which I upgrade by taking the back off and putting a new photo in it.... .. maybe something to experiment is CF to SD adapter and see if you can push new images on the fly to a eye fi card?
back on topic
The plural of penny is pennies. Penny's refers to something belonging to a girl called Penny.
NZ switched to decimal currency in 1967 ("the 10th of July - next year") After that date the most common use of that coin was to improve the electrical connection in torches that used D size batteries.
which only goes to show you how much we post pounds and pennys... I mean pennies... antipodeans know about these penny things - I was born 1967 so have no real/practical experience with the old money.
I've heard of that...
... for mycleanPC... malware - they do realise their wasting their spambots posting that crud on slashdot no?
that people want to to watch it, let alone record it is beyond me.
(also two spam posts above me
+1 I've set this up for both my sisters on their media centres because they were just so sick and tired of kids DVD's they bought for their children having 5 minutes or even more of unskippable advertisements for toys they don't want their kids to have (because they already have lockers full of crap they don't play with) and shows they do not want them to watch
at least with DVD's - one reason I now buy blurays as much as possible is not just the higher quality (and many are not even that) is that they don't, yet, have this (and, ironically, they are often cheaper than the DVD version).
And if I have to buy a DVD it gets ripped, sans warnings and menu, and put on my media server.
seriously I'll admit to torrenting a fair number of shows (all ones that aren't shown locally) but I have 3 whole shelfs on a bookcase full of legit DVD's and BluRays two deep two high (300+ at last count (that and a couple of thousand CD's accumulated over 20 years) and will pre order shows I know I like from viewing the torrents so odds on bet I'm one of their best customers....
and I hate that these people treat me as their enemy - every time I'm forced to sit through these stupid "you wouldn't steal a car why steal this movie" shite on a DVD I've just coughed up real cash for another straw is added to the camels back that will eventually say "fsck you twunts"
Not surprise, indeed kind of surprised it's 1: not already the case, 2: it would raise any interest external to the enterprise concerned, In fact in house restaurants or cafes (or for the down market canteens) are pretty much De jure for most of the large research organisations I've worked for. Actually one good thing about them is it encourages conversation between areas that would normally not have communications beyond hierarchical memo passing and divisional manager meetings so, for a not entirely hypothetical example - people from the material sciences area end up talking over lunch to people from the electronic engineering area and people from the remote sensing area and so a project is born to build more resistant tidal sensors that don't need to be replaced every 3 or 4 months.
yeh been there done that a couple of years ago (though my preferred liquid painkiller is a good rum or a premium Irish or Bourbon ) . Fortunately this was "only just" a broken tooth that needed extraction.
and damn slashdot for not allowing you to edit your own posts (though I understand the reason)
Nephew?
"Feyd" by name "Fey" by nature (in a sort of Black Widow/Prey Mantis way)
The reference is incorrect. He did not have involvement with the produced Dune films. Credit where it's due, he did a lot of great stuff. Just not Dune.
he did work for _A_ Dune film. Sadly just not one that ever got shot.
the drawing referred to above is this one:
http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/ourdailyred.cgi?f=2008-11-17-190227-01378882
Ever since the late 70's when I first saw a copy of "Metal Hurlant" SciFi comic book art has been one of my passions and the name "Moebious" was one of the first I learnt and whose fabulously expressive work I obsessed over. The incredible number of artists he inspired across the world is amazing, from comic/manga artists like Shir Masamune to film makers such as Ridley Scott to authors such as William Gibson. Some years ago I looked across my book cases, upper shelves crammed with works of modern science fiction spanning various genres, lower shelves stacked with western and asian comic art books, and even a couple of shelves of DVDs and I realised a great many of these works are either directly, or with only one degree of separation, influenced by Moebious's work.
by last week you mean just over 26 hours ago (or at least the earliest news release that I read)
if I'm going out to take pictures its mostly film.
Apart from snapshots with the Digital p&s I use digital for a few things though, street parades, marches, demonstration that sort of thing where I'm in a fast moving/changing group of people the DSLR and a fast lens and a big CF seems more suitable, Fireworks I find a less hit and miss and less prone to lab development issues (though I sometimes do my own C41 colour film processing)
Not sure why I've gone back to film particularly as I quite professional photography in the early 90's out of frustration with the processing side, I guess I just like it, the whole process from loading the camera to hanging up the final print (though I do often scan and inkjet print images captured on film or go the other way and use a digital negative to print something from one of my digital cameras on to Silver Gelatine paper).
recreation time after work... apparently, that's how it's pitched to us... funny I could see that working in Sydney, but not summer , rather for winter, as they live on the east side of their time time zone and they walk out of work in to the pitch black of night during standard time winter, but, Perth folk have, being on the west side of their time zone, a good hour of daylight to commute home in but in summer? meh I don't really get it
Our work clocks and many computers failed to remember that the western third of the country voted daylight saving/summer time down in to the trash heap of history and promptly told us we all were an hour late turning up for work this morning.... my guess is it will take them ... 4 months maybe?... to fix the clocks and the messed up online calendars.
I'm pretty sure if you check that's the diesel VW Polo model were as the Mazda has a petrol engine. Sadly even though here in Australia diesel cars are selling great guns and in Europe they already dominate most market segments for some reason north Americans don't like diesel cars. That said this sort of economy is not surprising, my daewoo matiz (sparks or something like that in the US) gets around 4.5 liters per 100 klm (a shade under 60Mpg) using rather primitive engine tech, compare that to the full size 4WD that at 18 liters per 100klm's gets taken out so rarely now that we have to wipe the cobwebs off it (true story). given the Daewoo range is no longer sold in my market and the local GM company (Holden) reneged on a commitment to sell it under their badge, my next car was going to be a diesel VW polo but if this Mazda 2 is released in Australia in 2011 or 2012 I'll give it serious consideration.
You wouldn't even need to be at a event like comic con - finding a thousand people in greater Tokyo area a minor affair - it's 0.0028% of the population and is like the queue for one train at one platform at one station one day of a normal working week... given that hard core fans will attend multiple gigs (or the whole tour) you could say that the number of unique attendants at each show of a tour would be, say, only 75% now your only talking 750 people. I've played gigs to bigger crowd on the small stage at a festival in Australia to punters who, perhaps, maybe, only 10% of had even heard of us let alone heard our music before but only came out of curiosity (and a crowd of 1000 people there worked out to being about 0.0588% of Brisbane's population) . Lets see Miku give a concert to 25,000+ people on main stage on the final night of Fuji Rock and THEN I'll say yeh we have a real .. um unreal... Rei Toei... (actually I'd want to see that, that would be a significant event in the history of music)... until then ? meh? it's fun it's cute but it's no threat to anything but a few peoples egos.
my personal take on the whole thing is that it, (the Vocaloid program) is just another instrument, I've tried it, I've seen/heard some interesting stuff on the net but really it's just another part of one stream of musics evolvution... Peter Gabrial, Laurie Anderson et. al. all did a sort of vocal sampling thing to death with the, rather more difficult in comparison, fairlight in the late 80's and "fake" popstars are older than The Archies...
using incandescent globes for heating is not _that_ uncommon in tropical areas... eh? you might say... WTF? even.... well simple, you put a low wattage (20-40) in your linen cupboard to keep humidity from condensing in what would normally be a cooler part of the house and it helps stop mould and mildew forming. it would be insane to have space heating in a house like my ex's in Broome Australia that normally sees a minimum temperature of, say, 15c at the coldest and averages around 30c and with almost constat high humidity... In this case it is light that is the waste product.
when the paywall sites go t*ts up? ah well I guess he can consign himself to the fact that he will gain a certain level of long fame as we stop saying "buggy whip manufacturers" as a generic term for obsolete industries and start using "Murdoch's News Empire" .
lets call them "programmer guys" (or girls) or something like that just so that we desktop & server support people can get on with the job of trying to support/jury rig solutions/bug find etc their dodgy software so the users can... well... like use it, all with out about having to be lumped in to the same basket as the bug, glitch & BSoD makers.
so... basically he's found an old BonePhone and plugged it in to a PS3? right? wow, everything old really is new again...
ditto on this... a random smattering of words combos only half of which would be counted as valid by my spellchecker. Also I would have thought a scrum was the last thing you needed in a work environment.. ... I mean I could live with the title "Loosehead prop" I could see my boss being happy with being called a "tighthead prop" but I can't see anyone in my current environment putting their hand up to have "hooker" as their job title.
To call it a "slide" is to call a Argentinasaurus a dinosaur... yeh it is but far from your average. Think of one of those "Wet and Wild" water park slides that were all the rage in the 80's and early 90's, now take away the water.
Well I think with Rob and his crew doing things we can assume that the initial calibration was done in a suitable studio environment. How ever there's simply no way that a photographer can ensure that s/he can always, or even most often do the review/select/basic edit on the road in optimal conditions.... recently, doing a motorcycle tour shoot, we had every day and every night reviewing under different light... on the road the best we could do was short list images for further consideration back in the studio... oh yeh, hoods for laptops are mostly nothing more than a royal pain in the arse to use on the road.