I'm sorry, but downloading a geolocation database and using it to filter requests is not a lot of work.
Do you find it simple enough to volunteer to help him?
As anyone who invests an expanding amount of time and energy into a volunteer project knows, every new demand, criticism, or blossomed expectation is another grain of sand in your shoe. If you aren't ever given the time to wash the shoe out, eventually, it wears away your foot.
This guy is clearly taken on more work for this than he is actually able to provide, and the peanut gallery demands wont elicit anything more than a foul comment from him to you and reinforce the desire to wash his hands of the whole thing. What he needs is help, not snide comments about his capacity to do the job.
Here's your wikipedia. Thanks, submitter.
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..because that's exactly what happens. The Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 levied royalties on the sales of all digital recording devices and media, and Congress allocated a portion of the sales of audio cassette tapes to the RIAA back in the 80s. This is just the latest act in a long history of extortion.
Given the sound quality of that montage, it would appear that your 'home studio' is actually the voice mail on your cell phone.
But seriously. I just watched the documentary "My Date With Drew", and was treated to a nice little segment with an appearance by (I believe) voiceover artist George Del Hoyo. We get to see his home studio: a computer, a microphone, some preamps and compressors. What *is* your home studio like? Do you record at home often, or in roundtables with other actors? What microphone do you find suits your voice best? Do you have a favorite piece of recording equipment?
Wrong. RealMedia encoding allows for multiple targetted audiences/bitrates in the same file. Loading up the RTSP stream informs the streaming server what your "ideal" bitrate is, and the server delivers the appropriate content to you. That's it. There is no dynamic recompression, no dynamic lag compensation, nothing. In fact, the "ideal bitrate" that the streaming server 'determines' is actually just something the user sets in the client preferences.
Don't think of Real's streaming model as anything more than "crap".
You really don't even need that many format conversions. Frame capture cards exist for a reason, and there are DVI-native capturing solutions available such as the Unigraf UFG-03 and the Foresight Imaging AccuStream 170.
Relatedly, there's actually quite a market for VGA-level capture devices. Anystream and Sonic Foundry both market products that will capture video and VGA, and combine them into various "rich media" presentations. At work we use Anystream's Apreso system to combine video of professors with their live powerpoint doodlings, and present it as archived online lectures. I fully expect that as DVI becomes more common, DVI-capturing solutions will likewise become more common -- if for no other reason than to tap into the same market that exists for VGA capturing.
Any media entity can 'spin' news or quotes or intent, not just companies. Spin is what politics is all about. If you haven't ever seen it, check out Brian Springer's documentary "Spin" -- available online here, among other places.
I probably blew most of my sophomore and junior years of high school on Star Control II. Even now I'll play through the whole thing.
Maybe you know, maybe you don't: Fred Ford and Paul Reiche III released the source a few years back, and it's being updated for modern systems as a open source project. Since Accolade / Infogrames / Atari / whoever-buys-them-next owns the trademark to "Star Control", it is now called "The Ur-Quan Masters". The project just released version 0.5 at the beginning of February, which you can find it on their sourceforge site. The project incorporates both the DOS version and the 3DO version -- so you can choose your music, spoken voice vs text, etc. Very nicely done.
If Eliot Spitzer is expected to be running for Governor of NY in the next election cycle, can someone tell me how this isn't just a 'donation' to a good will publicity campaign on his part? MS is turning a positive outcome into crass lobbying money.
For that matter, I find it quite ironic that this whole issue revolves around the state of New York, which just busted Sony for payola. Why is it illegal to fork out money and gifts out to radio stations that lockstep to your wishes, but NOT illegal when you do the same thing in politics? Why isn't lobbying a public disclosure issue?
I'm curious why this particular "for remix" download is locked up behind a membership login. The previous download for "the hand that feeds" was up for anyone to grab. Did Interscope get the heebie jeebies? Maybe they've decided to leverage this as an opportunity for more demographic profiling.
It'd probably be bandwidth suicide, but has anyone mirrored the downloads yet?
what do you do if you've used some sort of optical scene detection software to split the original DV source into multiple files?
So make sure you're making EDLs from your scene detection software. I can't imagine what you'd be using for this other than your NLE -- Avid, Premiere and FCP can all auto-generate seperate clips straight from tape, typically at scene borders. If you're doing this by hand, just keep the timecode information. Write it down and save it with your project.
The video files that your NLE uses are exact duplicates of the data your camera writes to DV tape. Take a hint from that and just save your DV tapes. All modern NLEs work with EDLs (edit decision lists), so save your session files, overlays, transition parameters, etc to a CDR and push the lock-tab on your master tapes. Keep your tapes labelled and organized so you wont have a problem finding them again. It's trivial to recreate your project at that point, and it thankfully isn't MPEG-compressed on a video DVD.
Alternately, all modern NLEs have 'export to tape' functions. Just record your final product back out to your DV deck or DV camera and make a master archive on tape.
I, for one, appreciate your enthusiasm on this, but let's set some things straight.
First, Spotlight has only officially been released today. It's a brand new feature of the OS with it's own developer documentation. I'm sure the OOo folks will get to it eventually should there be a demand or an interest in doing so. It sure isn't in Apple's vested interest to make support for OD formats built in because they're invested in a relationship with Microsoft.
Second, mpeg 1 and 2 audio compression is not a free format. It most certainly isn't an open format or an open standard, and most certainly isn't free software. Thompson Consumer Electronics has invested some effort in claiming licensing fees for the distribution of mp3 encoders and decoders -- see here for some details. Apple hasn't invested in mp3 because they were forced to, but because that's where the market is. They haven't invested in Ogg Vorbis because there's a statistically insignificant demand for it.
These pepperballs were used in Miami last November at the FTAA Ministerial protests. Police fired a whole lot of these things at protestors from guns like these - not at all unlike a normal paintball gun. They apparently can only be shot a short distance, but police would fire a whole lot into the crowd at once. Wounds generally look like this or this - red welts with a small chemical burn surroundinng it, but it isn't any consolation for this guy who got one in the face.
Unfortunately, not even the Senate has the authority to negotiate policy on the FTAA. Why? Because on August 6th 2002 they gave up that right when president Bush signed into law 'Fast Track' trade promotion authority, granting the president the ability to negotiate trade treaties as he sees fit, independant of Congressional input. All Congress gets to do now is vote 'yes' or 'no' on the finalized text of agreements such as the FTAA.
The best action against this corporatization of national policy is to take to the streets. The FTAA's next Ministerial meeting is in Miami on November 20th and 21st. Get some friends in a car, drive there, and make your voice heard by the people making the decisions. Write articles. Put them in your local weeklies and on websites and in flyers and posters and handbills.
The FTAA isn't a national issue because there isn't enough public outcry. There isn't any public outcry because people don't know whats at stake. Educateyourself and others. Support Indymedia.
...Too bad Pro Tools isn't actually Apple software.
There are two things you seem to be forgetting, as well:
First, people buy Macs for Pro Tools because the Windows version is absolutely horrid, not because Pro Tools is wonderfully designed software. Yes, it is an industry standard, yes, it is horribly useful, and yes, you DO buy a whole computer system in order to work with it, but it's hardly the epitome of grace and elegance that you would make it out to be.
Second, note that it took Digidesign two years to announce Pro Tools 6 for OS X. Apple bought Emagic for the specific purpose of spurring Digidesign to announce an OS X native version of Pro Tools. Again, yes, Logic is a nice piece of software, but it was a strategic purchase as much as anything, and Logic has hardly even been under Apple's care long enough to be CALLED Apple software. I agree with the majority of your comments, but please, keep the fanboy subdued.
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Do you find it simple enough to volunteer to help him?
As anyone who invests an expanding amount of time and energy into a volunteer project knows, every new demand, criticism, or blossomed expectation is another grain of sand in your shoe. If you aren't ever given the time to wash the shoe out, eventually, it wears away your foot.
This guy is clearly taken on more work for this than he is actually able to provide, and the peanut gallery demands wont elicit anything more than a foul comment from him to you and reinforce the desire to wash his hands of the whole thing. What he needs is help, not snide comments about his capacity to do the job.
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..because that's exactly what happens. The Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 levied royalties on the sales of all digital recording devices and media, and Congress allocated a portion of the sales of audio cassette tapes to the RIAA back in the 80s. This is just the latest act in a long history of extortion.
Billy,
Given the sound quality of that montage, it would appear that your 'home studio' is actually the voice mail on your cell phone.
But seriously. I just watched the documentary "My Date With Drew", and was treated to a nice little segment with an appearance by (I believe) voiceover artist George Del Hoyo. We get to see his home studio: a computer, a microphone, some preamps and compressors. What *is* your home studio like? Do you record at home often, or in roundtables with other actors? What microphone do you find suits your voice best? Do you have a favorite piece of recording equipment?
Wrong. RealMedia encoding allows for multiple targetted audiences/bitrates in the same file. Loading up the RTSP stream informs the streaming server what your "ideal" bitrate is, and the server delivers the appropriate content to you. That's it. There is no dynamic recompression, no dynamic lag compensation, nothing. In fact, the "ideal bitrate" that the streaming server 'determines' is actually just something the user sets in the client preferences.
Don't think of Real's streaming model as anything more than "crap".
You really don't even need that many format conversions. Frame capture cards exist for a reason, and there are DVI-native capturing solutions available such as the Unigraf UFG-03 and the Foresight Imaging AccuStream 170.
Relatedly, there's actually quite a market for VGA-level capture devices. Anystream and Sonic Foundry both market products that will capture video and VGA, and combine them into various "rich media" presentations. At work we use Anystream's Apreso system to combine video of professors with their live powerpoint doodlings, and present it as archived online lectures. I fully expect that as DVI becomes more common, DVI-capturing solutions will likewise become more common -- if for no other reason than to tap into the same market that exists for VGA capturing.
Any media entity can 'spin' news or quotes or intent, not just companies. Spin is what politics is all about. If you haven't ever seen it, check out Brian Springer's documentary "Spin" -- available online here, among other places.
I probably blew most of my sophomore and junior years of high school on Star Control II. Even now I'll play through the whole thing.
Maybe you know, maybe you don't: Fred Ford and Paul Reiche III released the source a few years back, and it's being updated for modern systems as a open source project. Since Accolade / Infogrames / Atari / whoever-buys-them-next owns the trademark to "Star Control", it is now called "The Ur-Quan Masters". The project just released version 0.5 at the beginning of February, which you can find it on their sourceforge site. The project incorporates both the DOS version and the 3DO version -- so you can choose your music, spoken voice vs text, etc. Very nicely done.
If Eliot Spitzer is expected to be running for Governor of NY in the next election cycle, can someone tell me how this isn't just a 'donation' to a good will publicity campaign on his part? MS is turning a positive outcome into crass lobbying money.
For that matter, I find it quite ironic that this whole issue revolves around the state of New York, which just busted Sony for payola. Why is it illegal to fork out money and gifts out to radio stations that lockstep to your wishes, but NOT illegal when you do the same thing in politics? Why isn't lobbying a public disclosure issue?
We have the technology. The time is right. Children are our future. We WILL blow up the moon!
I'm curious why this particular "for remix" download is locked up behind a membership login. The previous download for "the hand that feeds" was up for anyone to grab. Did Interscope get the heebie jeebies? Maybe they've decided to leverage this as an opportunity for more demographic profiling.
It'd probably be bandwidth suicide, but has anyone mirrored the downloads yet?
what do you do if you've used some sort of optical scene detection software to split the original DV source into multiple files?
So make sure you're making EDLs from your scene detection software. I can't imagine what you'd be using for this other than your NLE -- Avid, Premiere and FCP can all auto-generate seperate clips straight from tape, typically at scene borders. If you're doing this by hand, just keep the timecode information. Write it down and save it with your project.
The video files that your NLE uses are exact duplicates of the data your camera writes to DV tape. Take a hint from that and just save your DV tapes. All modern NLEs work with EDLs (edit decision lists), so save your session files, overlays, transition parameters, etc to a CDR and push the lock-tab on your master tapes. Keep your tapes labelled and organized so you wont have a problem finding them again. It's trivial to recreate your project at that point, and it thankfully isn't MPEG-compressed on a video DVD.
Alternately, all modern NLEs have 'export to tape' functions. Just record your final product back out to your DV deck or DV camera and make a master archive on tape.
Are they asking for drunken serenades?
Because it sure seems like they are.
I, for one, appreciate your enthusiasm on this, but let's set some things straight.
First, Spotlight has only officially been released today. It's a brand new feature of the OS with it's own developer documentation. I'm sure the OOo folks will get to it eventually should there be a demand or an interest in doing so. It sure isn't in Apple's vested interest to make support for OD formats built in because they're invested in a relationship with Microsoft.
Second, mpeg 1 and 2 audio compression is not a free format. It most certainly isn't an open format or an open standard, and most certainly isn't free software. Thompson Consumer Electronics has invested some effort in claiming licensing fees for the distribution of mp3 encoders and decoders -- see here for some details. Apple hasn't invested in mp3 because they were forced to, but because that's where the market is. They haven't invested in Ogg Vorbis because there's a statistically insignificant demand for it.
These pepperballs were used in Miami last November at the FTAA Ministerial protests. Police fired a whole lot of these things at protestors from guns like these - not at all unlike a normal paintball gun. They apparently can only be shot a short distance, but police would fire a whole lot into the crowd at once. Wounds generally look like this or this - red welts with a small chemical burn surroundinng it, but it isn't any consolation for this guy who got one in the face.
Forget the whales, and bring back Power Man and Iron Fist!
Ask and ye shall receive.
Alternatively, you could just search IMDB for Avi Arad and find out what's on the list to be bastardized next.
Who would have known that people in New Caledonia loved David Cobb so much?
Amazingly, they don't. Why? Because some jackhole from the US just registered a vote as though he lived there. Hell, I did it twice.
Real useful, this site is.
... then maybe he should consider donating it to the town of Beslan. I'm sure they could use the help.
Holy jesus! Don't slashdot their webstream!
Holy bejeebus, dude.
How many times are you going to post the same link?
If I post the link myself will I get the same indie slash-cred that you got?
Maybe I'll just repeat this on ALL your threads. +8 here I come!
We can't stop here! This is bat country.
Unfortunately, not even the Senate has the authority to negotiate policy on the FTAA. Why? Because on August 6th 2002 they gave up that right when president Bush signed into law 'Fast Track' trade promotion authority, granting the president the ability to negotiate trade treaties as he sees fit, independant of Congressional input. All Congress gets to do now is vote 'yes' or 'no' on the finalized text of agreements such as the FTAA.
The best action against this corporatization of national policy is to take to the streets. The FTAA's next Ministerial meeting is in Miami on November 20th and 21st. Get some friends in a car, drive there, and make your voice heard by the people making the decisions. Write articles. Put them in your local weeklies and on websites and in flyers and posters and handbills.
The FTAA isn't a national issue because there isn't enough public outcry. There isn't any public outcry because people don't know whats at stake. Educate yourself and others. Support Indymedia.
...Too bad Pro Tools isn't actually Apple software.
There are two things you seem to be forgetting, as well:
First, people buy Macs for Pro Tools because the Windows version is absolutely horrid, not because Pro Tools is wonderfully designed software. Yes, it is an industry standard, yes, it is horribly useful, and yes, you DO buy a whole computer system in order to work with it, but it's hardly the epitome of grace and elegance that you would make it out to be.
Second, note that it took Digidesign two years to announce Pro Tools 6 for OS X. Apple bought Emagic for the specific purpose of spurring Digidesign to announce an OS X native version of Pro Tools. Again, yes, Logic is a nice piece of software, but it was a strategic purchase as much as anything, and Logic has hardly even been under Apple's care long enough to be CALLED Apple software.
I agree with the majority of your comments, but please, keep the fanboy subdued.