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MBPB #75 Mr. Bill PiggyBack - These numbers were given out in the early 80's by Curly Rowe??? (I'm not sure if it was him, I'd have to dig out my card) Howard has me way beat on the CXM. I am CXM 505. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

If it's DV, yup. Excellent. Thank-you DSE. Murray

TIME article. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Thank-you DSE. I'll look for something cheap with Firewire to get the job done but have one question..... Will a camcorder that only records/plays back standard aspect ratio play back stuff that I recorded in wide aspect ratio on the HC42? I don't want to borrow from anybody because it might take me a long time...busy time of year, lots of tapes, etc, etc. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

That's excellent, I have an old Bondi Blue iMac that I could use for that....if one of our 3 overfed, overweight cats will fit in it. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Well, it shouldn't even be called iMovie as it has very little in common with its predecessor. It is pretty much a completely different program. I have used it only to import family video from the last 10 years. It stores all you video in one library....which you can have spread, as I do, over several different hard drives. The beauty of that is it is very easy to find clips from specific periods in time vs. the old way which stored video in separate projects. I really like this feature for our family stuff. I've never created more than a few second long "Project". There is no timeline as in previous versions. It is designed to allow you to hash together a video very quickly. It is focused on producing videos to be shared via internet/Youtube, etc. It no longer has a send to iDVD link. You have to render the video and then look for it from iDVD. It has a completely different end product in mind. Here is a guided tour page. I think if you watch the video you'll have a much better idea of how it has changed. Here is a "Getting Started" pdf from Apple's website. iMovie 6/HD is available for download somewhere on the Apple website. You don't have to give the old one up to use the new one. Hope this helps. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

I concur. That is an excellent book. I would also highly recommend Manchester's books on Winston Churchill. There were supposed to be three books but he never finished the last one before ill health prevented him from completing his trilogy. Unfortunately, the second book ends as England is left alone after the fall of France and Churchill becomes Prime Minister, taking over from Neville Chamberlain. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Even though I started this thread and kind of hate to revive it, this Daily Mash post titled "CONSUMERS VOW TO REMAIN OBLIVIOUS TO MUSIC COPYING LAWS" is too funny not to post. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

DSE - What about the porn industry? I know a lot of people felt that porn tipped the scales to VHS in the VHS/Beta times. Are they producing/selling stuff in HD yet? A buddy of mine told me that HD porn is so realistic you can actually see the emotional scars on the women -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Try getting a dog. I think they're cheaper than wives, and they never play with your camera stuff. But the kids are attached to her and I'd be a villain if I got rid of her. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

JP, That's tempting but I really like the idea of buying one of these new flash based HD machines and getting away from tape forever....after I capture everything to the computer. Hence the cheap DV idea. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

So, my wife lost our HC42 camcorder a couple of weeks ago and I am looking for a replacement...unfortunately I hadn't finished importing all of our old DV tapes onto the computer or I'd just buy a new HD camera of some description. The HC42 doesn't seem to be available anymore so I was checking the specs of different things out, trying to find something inexpensive that will do the job. The Canon has the true widescreen capture which I assume is the same as is on the Sony. Would both of these cameras be recording according to a standard so that if I play back the tapes made on my Sony they will play back on the Canon and import properly into iMovie? -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

It would also be great for those jumps that last less than 10 secs from exit to opening...a lot of BASE jumps would fall inside the 10 sec time frame. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Quaote from the Samsung link in DSE's post: "With the unique feature of high speed capture and super slow motion playback, the SC-HMX20C allows consumers to record fast motion at 300 frames per second for up to 10 seconds and then drastically slow down the playback of the recording." Now this would be interesting/useful to use analyzing openings. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Intel pulled out, the OLPC CTO quit, Negroponte is pissing all over Intel and now, The Economist just ripped the OLPC in this review. I don't think the OLPC has much of a future. Noble idea but I just don't see it working. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Intel just pulled out of the project according to this article on Yahoo. Fake Steve Jobs has been ripping the OLPC project for quite some time. See here. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

With regards to iMovie....you should have 2 versions of iMovie. The latest version is WAY different from the predecessors. iMovie 6 (HD) should also be in the Applications folder inside its own folder. If it isn't I believe you can download it from the Apple website. They are totally different animals. I think you would find the older iMovie more similar to what you were using in the PC world. The new iMovie is more oriented to generating videos to post on YouTube. I am using it to organize all my family video as it stores all you video in a large library (I have over 1 tb of external firewire drives hooked up). It is great to be able to find clips of the kids from 8 years ago so easily. I don't think it is as god at exporting to DVDs. I haven't seen much/any discussion of the latest iMovie on here but thought I would bring that to your attention. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

I sure wouldn't want to jump one of these with a camera. Pretty nasty looking snag potential in a lot of ways. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

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Bummer that Buffalo lost in the shootout as I felt they dominated the play from midway through the first. Pretty good game though even though the Sabres didn't win. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Me. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

I named Gimme Shelter earlier but really...everything on Beggar's Banquet, Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile is awesomely good. They put out some absolutely amazing albums in the space of 4-5 years...going back to their first albums up to Aftermath. On another tangent, I just finished reading Ron Wood's book, "Ronnie" and found it to be a very enjoyable read. I found it very amazing to learn that there was so much interplay amongst all the Stones, Who, Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Faces, Clapton, etc, etc. Woody has played with everybody! But, the Stones best was all done before him. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

From quickly scanning the brief it appears to me that the placing of the mp3 files into the kazaa shared folder is what is found to be actionable. I didn't see anything indicating that ripping the files to the hard drive was a problem.....until the files are made available for sharing I don't think there is a problem from my reading of the brief....which supports your earlier assertion, DSE. So, it appears to me that this was a case of incorrect reporting...something skydivers are, unfortunately, quite familiar with. But, I have to say that I think that most people find these judgments of, recently $222,000, $40,500 in this case and so on to be extremely heavy handed and certainly do not create any sympathy for the artists the RIAA represents. DSE, do you think more artists will take the Radiohead route and release their recordings directly to the public? Do you see similar approaches being used more and the record labels and RIAA becoming less important/influential? -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

After Beggar's Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street, one of my favourite Stones albums is Between the Buttons. It's full of great songs. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

DSE, The verbiage in the Post article contradicts what you have just stated (your statement is what I have always assumed to be true): "Now, in an unusual case in which an Arizona recipient of an RIAA letter has fought back in court rather than write a check to avoid hefty legal fees, the industry is taking its argument against music sharing one step further: In legal documents in its federal case against Jeffrey Howell, a Scottsdale, Ariz., man who kept a collection of about 2,000 music recordings on his personal computer, the industry maintains that it is illegal for someone who has legally purchased a CD to transfer that music into his computer. The industry's lawyer in the case, Ira Schwartz, argues in a brief filed earlier this month that the MP3 files Howell made on his computer from legally bought CDs are "unauthorized copies" of copyrighted recordings. "I couldn't believe it when I read that," says Ray Beckerman, a New York lawyer who represents six clients who have been sued by the RIAA. "The basic principle in the law is that you have to distribute actual physical copies to be guilty of violating copyright. But recently, the industry has been going around saying that even a personal copy on your computer is a violation." I truly hope that you are correct and that the RIAA is not going to try and proceed as the article indicates. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey