I used to use CC, mainly premier, as I did a sideline in video production.
2 years ago I did a concert, and I like to try and do a 12 hour turnaround, so finish at 8pm, and have the final thing uploading at 8am.
It was a simple 3 camera, 90 minute concert. BUT in the week or two since I'd last booted it up, they'd updated it, and changed ALL the titling sequences, to 'dynamic titles'.instead of making an overlay image (for, say, new songs) I had to create an animated title sequence, and de-animate it, and slide it in.
After an hour of that, I gave up, and spent 2 more hours installing my old copy of CS6.
i'm still using CS6, although now I'm looking into Davinci Resolve.
I found that in that month (jan 2016) I used about 1.2TB. Since then, we've gone more to hulu, bit more youtube. and my wife changed jobs to a system with a higher bandwdith usage. I would guess we're more towards 2TB/month now, and we're not even pushing it. Even though, charter has now upped the speed from 60/5 (which they upped from 30/5 the day we moved in, almost 5 years ago) to 120/12 about a year ago.
Right now it's 3 desktops, 2 laptops, 5 phones, 2 tablets, Xbone and a switch, plus a smartTV
don't forget, DDW has been caught making up stuff to sensationalise things, and getting caught out on their lack of knowledge.
just 5 years ago, they were trying REALLY HARD to push a fake story about Comcast screwing with TOR. http://ktetch.co.uk/2014/09/comcast-tor-and-deepdotweb-truth-edition/
the trusty H7 halogen headlight bulb is rated at 1450 lumens.
the D2S HID xenon bulb is rated at 3200 lumens.
So the H7 headlight is 115.3 candlepower while the xenon one is 254.5 candlepower.
So no worries on any of those fronts. 3770 lumems+ is a BRIGHT bulb, now there's some that will exceed it (you can find 12,000lum kits) but they're rare.
I actually have video (somewhere) of a kid who played fortnight, then instead of doing the emote, actually whipped out his sax and did the playing. (I should point out its because he was a band member in my son's band playing fortnight, and did it specifically to be funny.
But he even looks more like a fortnight character than pellegrino.
BTW, 'throw money into federal court holes' - great term.
I do recall getting pulled over once by a deputy out on the I20 corridor (actually right over I20). I have severe astigmatism, and other eye issues which means I suffer more from high level photosensitivity than most (basically, bright light affects me more, because of my glasses).
The problem was that due to living off a dirt road and it being winter the roads got muddy, and mud and dust had somewhat obscured my license plate. He pulled us over because he couldn't read it or see the tag sticker.
To be safe, we pulled over into a field entrance, with a heavily barred gate in front, and more than enough room for the two cars. He's not on the road, our car is pinned between his and a heavy obstruction, safe as can be. Except he's got everything cranked WAY up. IT was actually causing me nausea and head and eye pain, and I asked if he could reduce the front strobes, maybe use 'night mode' since it was... night (about 8pm). His response was that he had to have them light that, for 'officer safety'. His "safety" involved blinding me, and causing me to almost vomit, with no other benefit.
Self-inflicted injury and putting themselves at risk
One of the things I actually talked to Tim about at the start of the week is potentially another factor in increased deaths.
50 years ago, the cop car was a sedan, it may have had some red lights on it - lets take the cop cars in the original 'gone in 60 seconds' as a good representation and look at the cars. Specifically look at the lights. they were a few bulbs, slowly blinking on and off, not the brightest, and not irregular.
Look at a modern car, they've gone completely all over day-glow, and that works great for daytime. BUT at nigth, they've turned into rolling (or stationary) areas of invisibility. And not by not being seen, but because they've every single light going, and that blinds and dazzles motorists, destroys their ability to see anything, creating an area where an officer could be standing, and a drive can't tell.
Brilliantly bright lights area great for daylight, because they need to be bright to stand out. Strobes are also FAR safer in the day, because the [semi-]random strobes attract attention from the peripheral vision in the wider bright daylight.
At night though, the light itself is the attractor, with colour discernible at a great distance. Years ago (10+), when my wife worked evenings ata job a ways away, I'd sometimes chat to her on the phone as she drove home (speakerphone, safety first) and I'd have this crap LED flashlight (one of the early ones, not an eye-searer. you could use it to light your way when walking, not much more) and the road outside was straight for over a mile. she could see that light at over a mile, as I could see her headlights.
So you don't need ultra-bright lights, and you don't need them to strobe suddenly. it dazzles users, and can blind them. instead steady flashers (sometimes known as 'wig-wags' in some places) give the motion to alert, but don't 'sear the eyeball', and are a predictable motion that the eye/brain can adapt to.
So, it could well be the case that at night, 'less is more' when it comes to emergency lighting and safety, and that in lighting themselves up as much as possible to make themselves 'safe' and 'visible', they've gone too far, and increased their risk.
I aim to at least do some preliminary tests soon, if I can find some helpful members of the law enforcement community.
It's where the state's National Weather Service is, for instance.
It was also where one of the last two K-Marts in the state were (the other was Covington, the city where everything from the first season of the Dukes of Hazard and CannonBall Run 1 to the Rob Zombie Halloween and Vampire Diaries were filmed).
You know what else it has? A second road system for golf carts. And yes, the parking lots also have rows of golf cart spaces.
because PTC is a rich, and quite asshole-ish town. There's a Goodwill donation center, but no store (you have to go to Newnan for that) and they have that 'you can't have a chain store that looks like the chain store, it has to look like every other building locally' rule (like other rich asshole-ish towns do.
Also, until 5 years ago, when it was sued by the NAACP the county severely disenfranchised non-white candidates for the school and county boards.
Also, at 25 miles south of Atlanta, it's not really suburbs any more, there's quite a bit of countryside between. like 15 miles of it between PTC and the airport. and it's also not a fun commute in (I85 is hell, and GA74 is also a real pain - disclaimer, I live just off GA74 which for walking dead fans, is the Road to Woodbury)
I'm not sure who came up with this bright idea, but I've a feeling they had one too many drinks at a MPAA anti-piracy conference, and mis-remembered some stuff.
...like the Lenz case
...like 17 U.S. Code § 107 Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use
...like the statements they made are done under penalty of perjury
...like who the EFF are (Sidenote, Kit Walsh is an amazing person and top notch on these things, spoke at my conference series in 2015 on the DMCA)
...like, yes, the Streisand effect
...like how bad this works out for them in a PR sense
...like how the renewed interest in press freedoms over the past week, coupled with the new A11/13 (or whatever they renamed them) passed today, is going to make such actions seem REALLY REALLY bad and authoratarian, and
...just how it hasn't really worked out that well for Thomas Goolnik either.
I think right now, some lawyer at Starz is quickly trying to redo his resume, and calling around his old law school friends hoping for an opening.
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I used to use CC, mainly premier, as I did a sideline in video production.
2 years ago I did a concert, and I like to try and do a 12 hour turnaround, so finish at 8pm, and have the final thing uploading at 8am.
It was a simple 3 camera, 90 minute concert. BUT in the week or two since I'd last booted it up, they'd updated it, and changed ALL the titling sequences, to 'dynamic titles'.instead of making an overlay image (for, say, new songs) I had to create an animated title sequence, and de-animate it, and slide it in.
After an hour of that, I gave up, and spent 2 more hours installing my old copy of CS6.
i'm still using CS6, although now I'm looking into Davinci Resolve.
On the post: US Bandwidth Consumption Surges As Usage Caps Pose A Looming Threat
Re: It's a problem with refusing to revolt...
this is a point. Gives me a great idea for an article...
On the post: US Bandwidth Consumption Surges As Usage Caps Pose A Looming Threat
just over 400gb is cute.
just after the 2016 story about senators saying you only need 25mbit (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160122/05203433402/senators-whine-about-fccs-25-mbps-broadband- standard-insist-nobody-needs-that-much-bandwidth.shtml) I did a little audit.
I found that in that month (jan 2016) I used about 1.2TB. Since then, we've gone more to hulu, bit more youtube. and my wife changed jobs to a system with a higher bandwdith usage. I would guess we're more towards 2TB/month now, and we're not even pushing it. Even though, charter has now upped the speed from 60/5 (which they upped from 30/5 the day we moved in, almost 5 years ago) to 120/12 about a year ago.
Right now it's 3 desktops, 2 laptops, 5 phones, 2 tablets, Xbone and a switch, plus a smartTV
And we don't do any 4k stuff, only 1080.
On the post: FBI And Half The World Bust Operators Of A Site That Made The Dark Web Searchable
don't forget, DDW has been caught making up stuff to sensationalise things, and getting caught out on their lack of knowledge.
just 5 years ago, they were trying REALLY HARD to push a fake story about Comcast screwing with TOR.
http://ktetch.co.uk/2014/09/comcast-tor-and-deepdotweb-truth-edition/
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Sounds like they're just playing at being good bikers.
"A rebel without a ™"
And clearly they're telling the courts "yeah, whatcha got?"
On the post: Federal Judge Says Flashing Headlights To Warn Drivers Of Hidden Cops MIGHT Be Protected Speech
Re: Re: 347.07 Special restrictions on lamps and the use ther
yeah, we had some conversations on that in the 'war on police' piece a week or so ago. I'm looking to do a test on that sort of thing.
On the post: Federal Judge Says Flashing Headlights To Warn Drivers Of Hidden Cops MIGHT Be Protected Speech
Re: Re: 347.07
300 candlepower is a LOT.
the trusty H7 halogen headlight bulb is rated at 1450 lumens.
the D2S HID xenon bulb is rated at 3200 lumens.
So the H7 headlight is 115.3 candlepower while the xenon one is 254.5 candlepower.
So no worries on any of those fronts. 3770 lumems+ is a BRIGHT bulb, now there's some that will exceed it (you can find 12,000lum kits) but they're rare.
On the post: Unsurprisingly, Larry Klayman's Veiled Threats And Insulting Of Judges Isn't Helping Roy Moore's $95 Million Defamation Lawsuit
Re: Re: Re:
indeed, very special, as would be expected from a family tree that has no branches...
On the post: This Week In Techdirt History: April 28th - May 4th
Re: Film industry death?
yeah, I'm tempting to have a go at doing a 'ten years on' video.
I think the original video files linked above are still around somewhere.
wonder what they'd say.
On the post: This Week In Techdirt History: April 28th - May 4th
BBC video
if anyone wants to see the video of Rossy seguing from a 'lovable rum bunch' to 'organised crime' funders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jcxfociGpI
On the post: New York Saxophonist Latest To Sue Fortnite Developers For Supposedly Ripping Off His... 'Likeness'
I actually have video (somewhere) of a kid who played fortnight, then instead of doing the emote, actually whipped out his sax and did the playing. (I should point out its because he was a band member in my son's band playing fortnight, and did it specifically to be funny.
But he even looks more like a fortnight character than pellegrino.
BTW, 'throw money into federal court holes' - great term.
On the post: Both Sides Want The Supreme Court To Review Decision Denying Copyright In Georgia's Law. How About You?
Re: Why just legal practitioners
Fair enough then.
On the post: Both Sides Want The Supreme Court To Review Decision Denying Copyright In Georgia's Law. How About You?
What about those of us that are, for instance, journalists? Can we sign on?
I've done a fair bit of reporting and investigating that's needed the access to the OCGA, and not just CGA.
On the post: Study: The 'War On Cops' Is Pure Bullshit
Re: Strobe police lights
I do recall getting pulled over once by a deputy out on the I20 corridor (actually right over I20). I have severe astigmatism, and other eye issues which means I suffer more from high level photosensitivity than most (basically, bright light affects me more, because of my glasses).
The problem was that due to living off a dirt road and it being winter the roads got muddy, and mud and dust had somewhat obscured my license plate. He pulled us over because he couldn't read it or see the tag sticker.
To be safe, we pulled over into a field entrance, with a heavily barred gate in front, and more than enough room for the two cars. He's not on the road, our car is pinned between his and a heavy obstruction, safe as can be. Except he's got everything cranked WAY up. IT was actually causing me nausea and head and eye pain, and I asked if he could reduce the front strobes, maybe use 'night mode' since it was... night (about 8pm). His response was that he had to have them light that, for 'officer safety'. His "safety" involved blinding me, and causing me to almost vomit, with no other benefit.
On the post: Study: The 'War On Cops' Is Pure Bullshit
Self-inflicted injury and putting themselves at risk
One of the things I actually talked to Tim about at the start of the week is potentially another factor in increased deaths.
50 years ago, the cop car was a sedan, it may have had some red lights on it - lets take the cop cars in the original 'gone in 60 seconds' as a good representation and look at the cars. Specifically look at the lights. they were a few bulbs, slowly blinking on and off, not the brightest, and not irregular.
Look at a modern car, they've gone completely all over day-glow, and that works great for daytime. BUT at nigth, they've turned into rolling (or stationary) areas of invisibility. And not by not being seen, but because they've every single light going, and that blinds and dazzles motorists, destroys their ability to see anything, creating an area where an officer could be standing, and a drive can't tell.
Brilliantly bright lights area great for daylight, because they need to be bright to stand out. Strobes are also FAR safer in the day, because the [semi-]random strobes attract attention from the peripheral vision in the wider bright daylight.
At night though, the light itself is the attractor, with colour discernible at a great distance. Years ago (10+), when my wife worked evenings ata job a ways away, I'd sometimes chat to her on the phone as she drove home (speakerphone, safety first) and I'd have this crap LED flashlight (one of the early ones, not an eye-searer. you could use it to light your way when walking, not much more) and the road outside was straight for over a mile. she could see that light at over a mile, as I could see her headlights.
So you don't need ultra-bright lights, and you don't need them to strobe suddenly. it dazzles users, and can blind them. instead steady flashers (sometimes known as 'wig-wags' in some places) give the motion to alert, but don't 'sear the eyeball', and are a predictable motion that the eye/brain can adapt to.
So, it could well be the case that at night, 'less is more' when it comes to emergency lighting and safety, and that in lighting themselves up as much as possible to make themselves 'safe' and 'visible', they've gone too far, and increased their risk.
I aim to at least do some preliminary tests soon, if I can find some helpful members of the law enforcement community.
On the post: Peachtree City Wants To Use Taxpayer Money To Sue Critics Of City Government
Re: Re: Are you local
'quite' local, I'm in the South Metro area, which narrows it down some ...right? :-)
I do speak at things like Dragoncon's EFF track (since 2010) and work with EF Georgia at times.
On the post: Peachtree City Wants To Use Taxpayer Money To Sue Critics Of City Government
Re: Re:
I dunno, never seen it.
I do sometimes wonder if the doppler radar has fried the brains of those that live there
On the post: Peachtree City Wants To Use Taxpayer Money To Sue Critics Of City Government
Peachtree city is a WEIRD place.
It's where the state's National Weather Service is, for instance.
It was also where one of the last two K-Marts in the state were (the other was Covington, the city where everything from the first season of the Dukes of Hazard and CannonBall Run 1 to the Rob Zombie Halloween and Vampire Diaries were filmed).
You know what else it has? A second road system for golf carts. And yes, the parking lots also have rows of golf cart spaces.
because PTC is a rich, and quite asshole-ish town. There's a Goodwill donation center, but no store (you have to go to Newnan for that) and they have that 'you can't have a chain store that looks like the chain store, it has to look like every other building locally' rule (like other rich asshole-ish towns do.
Also, until 5 years ago, when it was sued by the NAACP the county severely disenfranchised non-white candidates for the school and county boards.
Also, at 25 miles south of Atlanta, it's not really suburbs any more, there's quite a bit of countryside between. like 15 miles of it between PTC and the airport. and it's also not a fun commute in (I85 is hell, and GA74 is also a real pain - disclaimer, I live just off GA74 which for walking dead fans, is the Road to Woodbury)
On the post: Starz Really, Really Doesn't Want You To Know That TorrentFreak Wrote About Leaked Shows, Or That Anyone Tweeted About It
Re: Re:
Correct, It's Dutch.
I'm the only member of the team in the US (Well, Jamie as well, but he works on the podcast)
On the post: Starz Really, Really Doesn't Want You To Know That TorrentFreak Wrote About Leaked Shows, Or That Anyone Tweeted About It
They've set themselves up for failure
I'm not sure who came up with this bright idea, but I've a feeling they had one too many drinks at a MPAA anti-piracy conference, and mis-remembered some stuff.
...like the Lenz case
...like 17 U.S. Code § 107 Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use
...like the statements they made are done under penalty of perjury
...like who the EFF are (Sidenote, Kit Walsh is an amazing person and top notch on these things, spoke at my conference series in 2015 on the DMCA)
...like, yes, the Streisand effect
...like how bad this works out for them in a PR sense
...like how the renewed interest in press freedoms over the past week, coupled with the new A11/13 (or whatever they renamed them) passed today, is going to make such actions seem REALLY REALLY bad and authoratarian, and
...just how it hasn't really worked out that well for Thomas Goolnik either.
I think right now, some lawyer at Starz is quickly trying to redo his resume, and calling around his old law school friends hoping for an opening.
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