Trying to Understand Tapeless Workflow

I know a lot of editors talk about tapeless workflows and it seems that most of the tapeless workflows involve a camcorder or P2 card reader to get footage into your hard drive but I'm curious... what if an editor doesn't shoot footage or own a camera - what if they just want to be a freelance editor. How would they setup a tapeless workflow? Would the person giving them the work have to give them the camera to capture footage? Or would they have to give them the P2 card? or is there another type of workflow? Any insight on this is greatly appreciated. Thank you

Would the editor need to provide the Hard Drive for the camera person to back up everything on?
Nope. Camera person responsibility. Just like tape stock is their responsibility.
Also if an editor edits with tapeless material - would there be a reason to have a tape deck?
That's the big advantage...you don't. Only if you need to output to tape would you need one. But, if you aren't handed tape, why have a deck? Although many people archive to LTO or DLT data tape. VERY secure. used by banks.
Also what output is typical when you have a tapeless workflow?
Depends on your client. I work in broadcast TV, so it is HDCAM, HDCAM SR, Digibeta...or data file delivery. Some clients want BluRay, others just a web video. There is no such thing as TYPICAL, as there are literally DOZENS of delivery options for video. All based on what the clients wants and how they intend to view it.
Shane

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Trying to understand OIM - Please help

Hello All,
I am pretty new to OIM, just trying to understand how OIM works. For the past 4 years I was in Sun IdM and planning to switch over to OIM.
I read some documentation, I think OIM will perform basic provisioning and it contains out of box connectors to do basic provisoning. I have some questions can anybody please help
- Sun IdM uses Express language to develop custom workflows or forms, in OIM to develop workflows which language did you use, is it Java or any other language?
- If I want to provision users on AS/400, HP Open VMS or AIX systems, how can I do that I don't see any out of box connectors for these resources, so in order to integrate these resources do we need to write our own custom connectors?
- If the out of box connector does not support a specific function on a resource what are the options do we have? for example if the AD connector does not support to delete the exchange mailbox, how your going to perform this in OIM? Do we need to write a Java code for this?
- How much Java coding is necessary in OIM?
- Is OIM supports role based provisioning?
Please share any information.
Thanks in advance.

Sun IdM uses Express language to develop custom workflows or forms, in OIM to develop workflows which language did you use, is it Java or any other language?
- JAVA
If I want to provision users on AS/400, HP Open VMS or AIX systems, how can I do that I don't see any out of box connectors for these resources, so in order to integrate these resources do we need to write our own custom connectors?
- If OOTB connectors are not available then you'll have build you own connector as per Target Resource.
If the out of box connector does not support a specific function on a resource what are the options do we have?
- You'll have customize their connector as per your requirements or write your own
How much Java coding is necessary in OIM?
- We can't calculate how much java. It's totally depends on requirements how much code you'll ahve to write. But everything will be done using Java only.
- Is OIM supports role based provisioning?
Here Group represent Role. At a small scale it supports. But for large scale you'll have to use Oracle Role Manager as you do in Sun Role Manager.

Tapeless workflows and Sandy Bridge or other PC's: KISS or LOVE?

Tapeless workflows and Sandy Bridge or other PC's: KISS or LOVE?
Life used to be so simple when shooting video on a tape based camera. You shot your material, captured it for editing and stored your precious original footage on tape in a safe and dry place. Sure, it took time to capture, but the big advantage was that if you had a computer or drive failure, you would still have the original tape so everything could be recreated.
Now with tapeless workflows we have the significant advantage of much faster import of the original footage. Connect the flash card or disk drive to the computer over USB and copy the data to a HDD on the computer, ready for editing. The data on the flash card or disk drive can then be erased, so you can reuse it for more shots. But, like Johan Cruyff has said repeatedly, every advantage has its drawback. In this case it simply means that you no longer have the original material to fall back on, in case of computer or drive failures. That is a very unpleasant and insecure feeling.
The easy anwser to that problem is backups. Backup of the original media, backup of projects and backup of exports. This often means a bundle of externals for backup or NAS configurations. One thing is clear, it requires discipline to make regular backups and it costs time, as well as a number of disks. Four as a minimum: 1 for media, 1 for exports and at least 2 for projects. Note: This is excluding a backup drive for OS & programs.
There are different backup strategies in use. Some say backup daily and use one disk for monday, one for tuesday, and so on. Others say one disk for the first backup, the second for the second backup, then the first again for an incremental backup, etc. and once weekly a complete backup on a third disk. Whatever you choose, be aware that shelf live of a disk is far less than tape. There are horror stories everywhere about ball-bearings getting stuck after some time and without original tapes, you better be safe than sorry, so don't skimp on backups.
What is the relevancy of all this? I thought this was about Sandy Bridge and other PC's.
It is and let me try to explain.
Card based cameras are for the most part DSLR and AVCHD type cameras, and we all know how much muscle is required to edit that in a convenient way. Adobe suggests in the system requirements to use raid configurations for HD editing and practice has shown that raid arrays do give a significant performance boost and improve responsiveness, making for a nicer editing experience. The larger the project and the longer the time-line, the more a raid array will help maintain the responsiveness.
One thing you would not do is using a raid0 for projects, media and exports, even if you have backups. The simple reason is that the chance of disk failure multiplies by the number of disks in the raid0. Two disks double the chance of disk failure, three disks triple the chance, four disks quadruples the chance, etc.
Remember: Disaster always strikes when it is most inconvenient.
Imagine you have been working all day on a project, you decide to call it a day and to make your daily backup, but then the raid fails, before you made your backup. Gone is all of today's work. Then take into consideration the time and effort it takes to restore your backups to the state it was in yesterday. That does not make you happy.
Another thing to avoid is using a software or mobo based parity raid, for the simple reason that it is slooowww and puts a burden on the CPU, that you want to use for editing, not house keeping.
For temporary or easily recreated files, like the page-file, media cache, media cache database and preview files, it is very much advised to use a raid0. It makes everything a lot snappier and if disaster strikes, so what? These are easily recreated in a short time.
This was a general overview of what is required with tapeless workflows. Now let's get down to what this means in terms of system design.
Two approaches or train of thoughts
KISS: Keep it stupidly simple or LOVE: Laughing over video editing
The first one, the most economic one, is to use a system with 3 or 4 disks internally and 4 or more backup disks.
A typical disk setup can look like this:
This is a perfectly sensible approach if one does not have large or complex projects, long time-lines and is willing to take the risk of occasionally losing a whole days work, between backups. Many hobbyists and consumers fall in this category.
The KISS approach keeps it stupidly simple. The drawback is that there is no logical way to add more disks or storage. The discipline, diligence and effort required for regular backups make it far from a laughing matter. In fact it can quickly become a bore. Add to that the fact that the disk setup is simple but not very fast, so less suited for situations where lots of clips are involved, multi-cam is a regularly recurring situation or lots of video tracks are involved.
A number of video editors want more from their system than the occasional platonic KISS, they want to really LOVE their system, which lead to the other train of thought.
This is more costly than the KISS approach, but you all know a fiancée or wife is more costly and dear than the occasional kiss on the cheek by an old friend.
Let's start with a typical disk setup. It may look like this:
Two striking differences in comparison to the KISS approach:
1. Much easier disk organization and more disks and thus more space.
2. It requires a hardware raid controller, causing a higher investment cost. It is like an engagement ring. You don't get LOVE for free, one of the guiding principles of the oldest trade in the world.
These are easy statements to make, but what are the benefits or advantages, that you would fall in LOVE with such a system, and what are the drawbacks? Think back to Johan Cruyff's adage.
The only drawback is cost. The advantages are multiple, easier organization, more speed, more storage, snappier editing, no jerkiness, lesser requirements for regular backups and - this is the major benefit - hardly a chance of losing a day's work in case of a drive failure. Keep in mind that a parity raid keeps all your data intact in case of a drive failure, so lessens the need for up-to-date backups.
We all know, we get what we pay for: "If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. OTOH, if you pay money to monkeys, you get rich monkeys". But in this case you get what you pay for, a much better editing experience with a much easier workflow.
Using a parity raid (be it raid 3/5/6/30/50/60) you get security, ease of mind that you are protected against losing precious media, that you need not worry about the last time you made a backup, that the editing you did today may be lost and you save valuable time editing and a lot of aggravation because of a much more responsive system.
How does this all relate to Sandy Bridge and other PC's?
First of all, the price difference between a Sandy Bridge / P67 platform and an i7-950+ / X58 platform is very small. Of course the new architecture is slightly more expensive than the older one, but the differences are small, almost not worth talking about.
So what are the differences? Look below:
The first thing to keep in mind is that the Sandy Bridge is the successor of the i7-8xx CPU and as such it is much more evolutionary than revolutionary. The CPU power has increased significantly over the i7-8xx due to new architecture and a smaller production process (32 nm), but in essence all the capabilities have remained unchanged. Same memory, same PCI-e lanes, same version, same L3 cache and no support for dedicated raid controllers.
It is great that the processor performs much better than the older i7-8xx CPU's, almost achieving the level of the i7-9xx range of processors, but is still limited:
The Sandy Bridge is unsuitable for anything more than a KISS system.
Why? Because it lacks the required PCI-e lanes to accomodate more than a 16 x PCI-e nVidia card with CUDA support to enable hardware MPE acceleration and the integrated graphics are not supported by CS5.
You may wonder if that is a bad thing. The plain and simple anser is NO. It is a great processor, it delivers great value for money, is a solid performer, but it has its limitations. Intel had a reason to position this CPU as a mid-level CPU, because that is what it is, a mid-level performer in comparison to what is to come.
The term mid-level performer may seem strange when compared to the old generation of i7-9xx CPU's, because they perform almost equally well, but keep in mind that there is a generation difference between them.
So what about the i7-9xx and X58 platform?
It still is going strong. About the same performance as a Sandy Bridge, with only the much more expensive hexa-cores clearly in the lead, both performance and price wise. The quad cores deliver about the same value for money. The main difference however is the platform that allows a dedicated raid controller to be installed, thus making it the platform of choice for those who want to go from a passing KISS to true LOVE.
And what lies ahead?
Sandy Bridge E on the Waimea platform (X68). Now that is revolutionary. More than double almost everything a processor can offer: double the cores, double the PCI-e lanes, triple the memory, more than double the L3 cache, increase the PCI-e support from 2.0 to 3.0, etc...
This is why Intel calls this a high-end CPU / platform.
So what now?
If you prefer a KISS approach, choose either a Sandy Bridge/P67 or an i7-950+/X58 platform.
If you wonder whether in the future you may need multi-cam more frequently, edit more complex projects and longer timelines or even progress to RED, look at KISS/LOVE solutions, meaning the i7-950+/X58.
If you can't have downtime, time pressure is high, delivery dates to clients are critical or you edit highly complex projects, lots of multi-cam situations or lengthy time-lines, choose a LOVE solution, an i7-950+/X58 platform.
If you have the time to wait till Q4/2011, Sandy Bridge E/Waimea looks to be worth the wait.
Hope this gives you some more insight into recent and future developments and helps you make wise investment decisions.

I'm upgrading from an AMD 3800+, cutting with Vegas 7 Pro. Usually shoot DSLR or HDV, sometimes P2, EX or RED. I have ridiculously cheap access to Macs, FCP/FCS, all kinds of software.
I've been agonizing over this for the last month, was originally hoping the UD7 mobo was the solution, read the read about the NF200/PCIe issue a few days ago, http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/non-linear-editing-pc/489424-i7-980x-now-wait-sandybridge-2.ht ml- and still decided to go for a 2600k.
My preference is to treat my video footage the same way as my digital imagery: I make (at least) duplicate back ups of everything before reformatting the cards, never delete the back ups, and only worry about the day-to-day stuff at night. Unless I'm rendering or involved in other long processes, in which case I'll back up the work in process the next day. If I am under a really really tight deadline I might back up as I go.
Yes, a RAID might make it easier, but I'm paranoid enough to prefer a slower, safer backup. You can always duplicate, and usually improve upon, a days work, but you can never get back original footage you lost. I have only ever had one hard drive die on me (a few enclosures crapped out, though)- it took a couple of (mostly unattended) hours to rectify. As a matter of act, I've had far more loss/damage from tapes than from hard drives.
I ordered the UD7, 2 F4s and 4 F3Rs, understanding I will probably want to upgrade to SBE when it comes out, or maybe next year. The 2600k/mobo/RAM will likely hold its value better than a 950/X58, likely because of the marketplace as much as merit.
The UD7 / RAID card issue is in it's early days, there may be a solution/mitigation. Probably not. But if I really really need a RAID card, then I probably really really need a 980, NAS, etc etc.
But Harm still rocks!

UTL_HTTP.end_of_body Exception Error. Trying to Understand the Reason Why?

I have the following PLSQL Function that returns a End_of_body Error. This started when we migrated from 10g to 11g. It is simple enough to capture so the error does not stop the Function Flow, but the error causes the OCI driver in OBIEE to error, which prevents the use of OBIEE IBOT to execute. Trying to understand why this error is occurring..not sure if we have a permissions issue on the UTL_HTTP Package or what?
Anyone seen this problem in 11g? Suggests on resolving would be great. Thanks.
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Hi, thanks,
it is oracle10g,
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ORA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_HTTP", line 1349
then the line in my function ,
damorgan wrote:
But I do note that when I do this I always do a get_header_count and get_header before get_read.what get_read , u mean?
thanks for the link ,
appreciated

Batch Capture on Tapeless Workflow

It seems to me that this would already have been on the forums but despite some stringent searching I could not find it. Also couldn't find it in the FCP user manual.
I do corporate video editing on footage filmed on Canon XL2s. Great cameras - when they were released. I'm trying to convince my boss to upgrade to HD cameras, some HVXs or at least a pair of Canon 5Ds or 7Ds for which we could use our existing lenses.
One thing he brought up is batch capturing. Currently, we have a script supervisor who logs all shots, takes etc. on set, with timecode starts and ends. I can then import this into Final Cut Pro as a batch, which makes digitizing a footage a BREEZE.
On a tapeless workflow I would use the Log and Transfer window as opposed to Log and Capture, and as far as I know batch digitizing only works with Log and Capture. Then again, I've never been on a tapeless line. Does anyone have a concise explanation of how to do this? As far as I can tell, the manual only links batch capture to tape workflows, with the Log and Capture window. I really want to upgrade but my boss (and I) don't want to sacrifice the efficiency we currently have on our post production line.

To answer the simpler question, yes you can batch capture. In tapeless world it's called Log and Transfer. If you do not want to edit your clips before you bring them in (as Shane described), you simply select them all in your in box and send them to the que.
Recognize (depending on the camera) the clip names you will be dealing with will be simply a series of nonsensical numbers and letters. Adding some info in the logging portion is useful.
Also, build into your budget for redundant backup drives. If you go tapeless, you have no external backup (ie the tape) and you'll need a whole new strategy for that portion of your work.
Good luck.
x

Hello, World - trying to understand the steps

Hello, Experts!
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Hello, Experts!
I am pretty new to Flash Development, so I am trying to understand how to implement the following steps using Flash environment
http://pdfdevjunkie.host.adobe.com/00_helloWorld.shtml
Step 1: Create the top level object. Use a "Module" rather than an "Application" and implement the "acrobat.collection.INavigator" interface. The INavigator interface enables the initial hand shake with the Acrobat ActionScript API. Its only member is the set host function, which your application implements. During the initialize cycle, the Acrobat ActionScript API invokes your set host function. Your set host function then initializes itself, can add event listeners, and performs other setup tasks.Your code might look something like this.
<mx:Module xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" implements="acrobat.collection.INavigator" height="100%" width="100%" horizontalScrollPolicy="off" verticalScrollPolicy="off" >
Step 2: Create your user interface elements. In this example, I'm using a "DataGrid" which is overkill for a simple list but I'm going to expand on this example in the future. Also notice that I'm using "fileName" in the dataField. The "fileName" is a property of an item in the PDF Portfolio "items" collection. Later when we set the dataProvider of the DataGrid, the grid will fill with the fileNames of the files in the Portfolio.
<mx:DataGrid id="itemList" initialize="onInitialize()" width="350" rowCount="12"> <mx:columns> <mx:DataGridColumn dataField="fileName" headerText="Name"/> </mx:columns> </mx:DataGrid>
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Trying to understand Android OS updates delays

This is not another hate mail, it´s more about trying to understand the facts and motives regarding the OS updates (or lack of).
Hopefully this material will arrive at someone from Sony with enough power to do something about it.
Ever since I can remember, Sony has been THE brand for electronics. I can´t remember a TV or VCR in my house that it wasn´t Sony, and they lasted for LOTS of years.
When a couple years ago I finally had the money (and the need) for a Smartphone, i chose the X10 Mini, which is a great little phone from a great brand, but it´s stuck at Android 2.1... which makes it a crippled android nowadays...
It really bothered me the lack of OS updates, so I chose to buy a Galaxy Nexus, but it´s really expensive in my country. So my second option was a Galaxy Ace 2, but they haven´t arrived to my country yet, so I went with my third option: Xperia Sola, knowing beforehand that it´s a great phone, a great brand, but I might get slow OS updates.
I bought it about 10 days ago when I saw they were starting to roll out the updates.
10 days later I still don´t have my update. And not only that, but I don´t see much light at the end of the tunnel...
I found a thread with the SI numbers that were updated, and there were a bunch on Oct 1, another bunch on Oct 4, and one code on Oct 8, and no other update since...
I also read that those who did get the update, were having bugs with the OS, and also found threads from other Xperia models, whose updates began rolling 3 months ago, and there is still people who hasn´t gotten the update...
As a customer, and a owner/CEO of a small company, I have a really hard time understanding how a HUGE company like Sony can be making such mistakes...
I have been thinking objective reasons, and I can only think of one. I know it´s a wild guess, but I´m starting to think that our salvation might be the very thing that means our condemnation: CYANOGENMOD!!!
Think about it: Why would Sony spend more money hiring twice as much programmers, when they can make only one update per phone, and sit down and see how CM releases begin to appear, for all tastes and needs. And... IT´s FREE!!!
Also, if there is a software related problem (way more likely than a hardware problem), then the CM developers take the fall, instead of Sony. And I´m beginning to see custom OS installers that are more user friendly, so it might be something that they take in accout when neglecting OS updates.
If that´s the line Sony is following, it´s a very risky move and it won´t work. Sony Mobile will crash and burn, but it´s still a better business plan that "let´s get lazy and make ULTRA slow updates so we don´t spend a lot of money programming".
If you can´t afford more programmers, stop including so much bells and whistles and make your OS near vanilla. Include a couple of Xperia menus, a custom theme and voila!
The main reason I wanted the Galaxy Nexus is Vanilla OS, which means inmediate OS updates. Sony on the other hand, takes a year or two to release it after its launch. If they release it at all...
Another though... why not stop making that many different phones! Really! There are like 5 Xperia models i can´t tell one from the other... even with specs side by side!
You are trying to make too many phones and you are failing with all of them! (Software and software updates are also part of the phone, one of the most importants...)
I know hiring programmers is expensive, but you are sacrificing one of the most expensive values for a company EVER: Customer credibility! Which as you know better than me, takes years to create.
If Apple had problems with carriers and code aprooving and stuff, they might get away with it, becouse they alone have all the devices. If iOS 6 is delayed a few months, it´s delayed for everyone, and besides Apple fanboys rarely complain about Mac products, but Android is a more independent and educated market.
I´m not saying that Apple users are ignorant, not at all, but I´m pretty sure most iPhone owners don´t even know what processor or how much RAM their phone has. They just "swallow" the Apple Way of Life. (it´s a good phone becouse Apple says so).
The Android user on the other side, because of the fragmentation of the market, has many brands and models to choose from. An Android user about to buy a new phone will most likely go online looking for different models, specs, reviews in webs and forums...etc.
You can´t say "I don´t know how HTC and other companies get their updates so soon, but we take a lot more becouse Google and the Operators must aproove the code.", because there are many other brands that have exactly the same difficulties or more, since they are smaller, and we can SEE online that they are indeed delivering solid and relativly fast updates.
Did we miss something? Does HTC use Witchcraft to get their code aprooved?
My underlying point is this: You are getting lazy... VERY lazy with software programming for your phones, and WE KNOW IT!
It´s not the "difficulties" you claim, becouse every brand has those difficulties.
This isn´t 1999 you know. We are in the information age. If you lie to us and tell us that your phones have the latest OS, I can go online and see that you don´t (Hello!!!). If I see that the company lies to it´s customers, I will stop buying their products. If I´m so dissapointed with how Sony handles OS updates and their customers queries about it, then I want for the first time ever to sell my Cell Phone becouse I´m not happy with it, or the brand behind it.
We also live in the "Here and now" age. You can´t expect your customers to read about new Android releases on news and blogs, and wait YEARS with arms crossed waiting for their update... The world doesn´t work like that. Not anymore at least...
It´s not a matter of how many recources you have, it´s about how you use and balance them. GIVE MORE IMPORTANCE TO SOFTWARE UPDATES! IT´S WAY MORE IMPORTANT THAT YOU THINK! LISTEN TO YOUR CUSTOMERS!!!
You guys are Sony are smart and design great products, but you are not GOD! You are not our wife, no one has sworn alliagence to you.
If you stop giving us good products and start lying to us, we hate you and stop giving you our money. Simple as that.
My sola is beatiful, I love the design, the screen, the hardware... but it hasn´t been updated yet to 4.0, not to mention 4.1, which REALLY is the latest version... so stop advertising that your phones have the latest Android OS, unless you want angry customers switching to other companies, which you are getting.
I also read some stories that Androind 4.0 was announced for the Xperia PLAY, and then it was called off... Do you have any idea how pissed I would be and ripped off I would be if I bought my phone based in that information and then you say it won´t be available?
Well, actually right now my possition is worse, since you SAY you will update my phone, but you don´t say when, and I read online about people still not getting their updates months after the rollout started, so I´m in the limbo right now...
As a company, one of the worse things you can do is calling your customers stupid, and when I see the answers you give in this forum, then I feel insulted. I feel like they are talking to an idiot or ignorant person with the so called "diplomatic" answers, which are basicly empty excuses for not doing your job right.
You gave us the frikking CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays!!! Don´t tell us you can´t tweak an already built OS in a year!
I really hope you change their OS update policies really soon, before you lose the already small cellphone market share you have, or at least change your P.R. and C.M. policies towards a more open one.
We all are humans and make mistakes, but we customers really appreciate honesty and truth.
Have an open conversation with your customers! Don´t lie about your shortcomings! Accept then and ask the community to help you solve them, ask them what they biggest problems are, what features are most important to them, how often do they expect updates... LISTEN TO THEM!!
"Succes is a meneace. It tricks smart people into thinking they can´t lose."
Ps: Nothing personal with the mods from this forum, I´m not killing the messenger, I know that you can ONLY give the info you are allowed to give, and even if you wanted, you probably don´t know the answers yourself, since you work in the Communications department, not Developement or anything technical, and if you can't give any given info, then they probably won´t give it to you either... My message is to the company as a whole. I just hope you will be a good messenger and give this to whoever needs to read it.

My bad, it´s closer to 40 the number of phones released hehe
I know it´s all about money, and I know Sony is obligated to neglect users who haven´t given them money after an x ammount of time. However, it´s not a matter of making the phones obsolete earlier, so the users want to buy a new phone faster and therefore getting more money.
A person will buy a new phone when he/she has the money to do so and wants to do so.
It´s not a matter of WHEN. It´s a matter of WHAT.
The question is not "When will that user buy a new phone?", but rather "When that user buys a new phone, whenever that is, what phone will it be?"
I have a love/hate relationship with Apple. I would never use a iPhone. I would love having any Mac, if someone gives it to me, but I would never spend my harn earned dollars on such an overpriced piece of hardware over general principals.
However, i do recognice that Steve Jobs was a business genius. Weather you like or love his ideas and methods, he turned a garage project into the biggest company in the world, with a market value higher than Exxon with 1/3 of it´s assets.
Apple is a money making machine, and that is where the "hate" part of my relationship comes from.
However, it surprised me a lot to see that they released iOS 6 for the iPhone 3GS, released in 2008!
That get´s you thinking, that inside all that "SELL NOW" culture Apple is, they also support their older devices that people bought years ago but can't buy a new phone now. However, when they can do it, it will surely be another iPhone. Because they FEEL that the company listens and cares for them.
Also if you jump from iOS 6 on the 3 GS to a brand new iPhone 5, the transition will be virtually non-existant, except for Siri and a couple of features.
However jumping from Android 1.5 or 2.1 to Jelly Bean, might not be so easy on some users, making them more likely to give iPhone a shot.
Since they have to adapt to another phone anyway, they might as well try the apple...
And for old users, it gives people a sense of continuity and care about the user. Otherwise we feel like being kicked out of a restaurant right after we payed the bill.

Trying to understand, being prompted the file compression rules on saving, or not

Hello,
I'm trying to understand something, could I ask for your help, please ?
After working on a jpg file, when I want to save it, still as jpg, with my Photoshop CS5,
- sometimes photoshop will just save the picture, and it's done
- sometimes photoshop will show me the compression dialog, "JPEG Options", in which I can choose the compression ratio, the format options (baseline, baseline optimized, progressive), and have an estimation of the total file size
While not being prompted any dialog is simpler, and I'll then simply assume Photoshop decides to retain the current image's compression and format rules, I must say I like to be in control, and I'd like to know under what form the file is being saved without having to resort to the much more complex "Save For Web" menu.
Please, would you know WHAT "triggers" the appearance of the JPEG Options when we close/save a jpeg file, in photoshop ? What makes this menu not to appear, what makes it appear ?
If there are trivial file operations/changes/filters that necessarily trigger its appearance when we want to save, something like that ? I've tried a variety of these, but I still can't figure it out, sometimes it shows in the end, and sometimes it doesn't.
Thank you very much if you can help me
Kind regards,
Oliver

@ c.pfaffenbichler
These are images from various sources, not just one.
I'm deliberately excluding Save For Web, this completely re-processes everything.
My purpose, precisely, is to know when photoshop takes the decision to retain the image's "rules", and when photoshop decides to pose us the question, how do we want it saved.
Simply taking a jpeg image, doing stuff on it, and hitting control-w to close the window, and seeing if it will be an
- «OK, sure, do you want to save ? You clicked OK to confirm you wanted the changes saved ? Good, now it's closed» or a
- «please sir, how would you like your image saved, tell me the compression ratio and the format options, thank you»

I am trying to understand the licensing procedures for using tabKiller for 3.5.7 firefox. Who should I contact for this? I do not see any customer service phone number for Firefox

I am trying to understand the licensing procedures for using tabKiller for 3.5.7 firefox. Who should I contact for this? I do not have the customer service phone number for Firefox

Tab Killer is not created by Mozilla, it is created by a private individual who has made it available at no cost for other people to use.

[SOLVED] Trying to understand the "size on disk" concept

Hi all,
I was trying to understand the difference between "size" and "size on disk".
A google search gave plenty of results and I thought I got a clear idea about
it.. All data is stored in small chunks of a fixed size depending on the
filesystem and the last chunk is going to have some wasted space which
will *have* to be allocated.. Thus the extra space on disk.
However I'm still confused.. When I look at my home folder, the size on disk
is more than 320 GB, where as my partition is actually less than 80 GB, so
I guess I'm missing something.. Could somebody explain to me what does
320 GB of 'size on disk' means?
Thanks a lot in advance..
Last edited by geo909 (2011-12-15 23:17:25)

Hi all,
Thank you for your replies.. My file manager is indeed pcman fm and
indeed it seems to be an issue.. In b4data's link the last post reads:
B-Con wrote:
FWIW, I found the problem. (This bug is still persistent in v0.9.9.)
My (new) PCManFM bug report is here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.ph … tid=801864
I submitted a potential patch here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=de … tid=801866
Bottom line is that the file's block size and block count data from the file's inode wasn't being interpreted and used properly. The bug is in PCManFM, not any dependent libraries. Details are in the bug report.
Since PCManFM is highly used by the Arch community, I figured I should post an update here so that there's some record of it in our community. Hopefully this gets addressed by the developer(s) relatively soon. :-)
I guess that pretty much explains things.. And I think I did understand the 'size on disk' concept
anyway
Thanks again!
Last edited by geo909 (2011-12-15 23:17:10)

Trying to understand the sound system

Here's my problem. My mic didn't work (neither the front mic nor the line-in in the rear), so after some research and trial and error I found that if I do
modprobe soundcore
my mic works on both the jacks
But here's where my confusion lies. This is the output of lsmod |grep snd before probing explicitly for soundcore
[inxs ~ ]$ lsmod |grep snd
snd_hda_codec_analog 78696 1
snd_hda_intel 22122 1
snd_hda_codec 77927 2 snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 6325 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm_oss 38818 0
snd_pcm 73856 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 19416 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 7121 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_mixer_oss 15275 2 snd_pcm_oss
snd 57786 8 snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss
soundcore 6146 2 snd
[inxs ~ ]$
So as you can see, soundcore's already loaded, so why do I have to explicitly load it again to get the mic to work?
Once I add soundcore to my MODULES array and reboot, the lsmod output is also the same as above.
So my question is -- what does the explicit loading of soundcore do, that is not done by auto-loading of that module?

Oh... since your topic is Trying to understand the sound system, that puts you (and me) inside the whole world's population... chuckle. But I thought I'd pass along a document written by probably "The" main ALSA developer that I totally stumbled across just 3 days ago.
Go here:
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/docs/
and download the flavor of your choice of the "HD-Audio" document, or simply view it online. It documents the deepest dive into the current ALSA snd_hda_* layers and issues that I've found to date (but still leaves me wanting).
Why that document isn't plastered across the interwebs is beyond me. I only get 11 hits when I search for it... such are the secrets of the ALSA world I guess.
Last edited by pigiron (2011-08-26 18:26:48)

Trying to understand the MODEL clause

Hi All,
I'm finally biting the bullet and learning how to use the model clause, but I'm having a bit of trouble.
The following example data comes from a book "Advanced CQL Functions in Oracle 10g".
with sales1 as (select 'blueberries' product
                      ,'pensacola' location
                      ,9000 amount
                      ,2001 year
                  from dual
                union all
                select 'cotton', 'pensacola',16000,2001 from dual
                union all
                select 'lumber','pensacola',3500,2001 from dual
                union all
                select 'cotton','mobile',24000,2001 from dual
                union all
                select 'lumber', 'mobile',2800,2001 from dual
                union all
                select 'plastic','mobile',32000,2001 from dual
                union all
                select 'blueberries','pensacola',9000,2002 from dual
                union all
                select 'cotton', 'pensacola',16000,2002 from dual
                union all
                select 'lumber','pensacola',3500,2002 from dual
                union all
                select 'cotton','mobile',24000,2002 from dual
                union all
                select 'lumber', 'mobile',2800,2002 from dual
                union all
                select 'plastic','mobile',32000,2002 from dual
                union all
                select 'blueberries','pensacola',9000,2003 from dual
                union all
                select 'cotton', 'pensacola',16000,2003 from dual
                union all
                select 'lumber','pensacola',3500,2003 from dual
                union all
                select 'cotton','mobile',24000,2003 from dual
                union all
                select 'lumber', 'mobile',2800,2003 from dual
                union all
                select 'plastic','mobile',32000,2003 from dual
select location, product, year, s
from sales1
model
--return updated rows
partition by (product)
dimension by (location,year)
measures (amount s) ignore nav
(s['pensacola',2003] = sum(s)['pensacola',cv() > cv()-1])I would have expected the measures clause to return the sum of all amounts for pensacola where the year > 2003 - 1 = 2002. which would make the total for [blueberries,2003] = 1800, but instead it comes out as 27000, apparently summing all values for blueberries for that partition.... equivalent to sum(s)['pensacola',ANY].
how would I go about making s['pensacola',2003] = the sum of itself plus the previous row?
I realise I can do
s['pensacola',cv()]+s['pensacola',cv()-1]but I'm really trying to understand why what I have doesn't appear to work the way I expect.

Because
(s['pensacola',2003] = sum(s)['pensacola',cv() > cv()-1])
means
(s['pensacola',2003] = sum(s)['pensacola',cv(year) > cv(year)-1])
means
(s['pensacola',2003] = sum(s)['pensacola',2003 > 2003-1])
means
(s['pensacola',2003] = sum(s)['pensacola',2003 > 2002])
means
(s['pensacola',2003] = sum(s)['pensacola',year is any])
s['pensacola',cv()]+s['pensacola',cv()-1]
means
sum(s)['pensacola',year between cv()-1 and cv()]

Trying to Understand the PostSyncCleanup parameter

I've got a problem with running my application on the Australian version of Windows. We have a "test" application built around SQL Server Compact Merge Replication Library (thanks ErikEJ) and that works but our application doesn't.
One of the main differences with our application code is that we do not set the PostSyncCleanup value to anything and the library sets it to 2 per this link:
http blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlblog/archive/2009/04/15/sql-compact-performance-postsynccleanup-to-turn-off-updatestatistics-during-initial-download-of-sql-compact-replication.aspx (put the :// back to get the link)
I'm trying to understand the impact of making that our "production" configuration since we haven't been using it. The description looks harmless enough but I don't really understand what statistics I'm turning off and what the impact
would be and what even the default setting is. Anything that could enlighten me would be appreciated along with a guess as to why that might be causing a problem on the Australian version of Windows would be appreciated.

So we've been running with the default value (0) and have not really had any "problems". I haven't done any testing but I'm ok with faster, like everyone would be, but am also a bit risk averse so want to know what exactly I'm turning off.
I also saw this advice from Rob Tiffany:
Use the appropriate x64, x86 or ARM version of SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 to take advantage of the
PostSyncCleanup property of the SqlCeReplication object that can reduce the time it takes to perform an initial synchronization. Set the
PostSyncCleanup property equal to 3 where neither
UpdateStats nor CleanByRetention are performed.
Here: http robtiffany.com/microsoft-sql-server-compact-3-5-sp2-has-arrived/
So, is the best advice to use that parameter and set the value to 3 or 2
I don't really know what I'm losing to "not performing" UpdateStats or CleanByRetention and does making that change need I need to do something else on the server or client to "clear out" or "clean up" something that this is
doing.

Trying to understand the code???

Hi,
I am trying to understand the following bit of code, currently the code puts each catalogue into a different row of the table but i want each catalogue to be put in the next column
(so the catalogues appear across the page on the actual web page). The following code is for the page in question but im not sure how much is relevant so i will paste it all and highlight the section i think is relevant:
<html>
<%-- DECLARATIONS --%>
<%@ page import="se.ibs.ns.cf.*, se.ibs.ccf.*, se.ibs.bap.*, se.ibs.bap.util.*, se.ibs.bap.web.*, java.util.*, se.ibs.ns.icat.*, se.ibs.bap.asw.cf.*, java.lang.*" %>
<% ItemCatalogueBean bean = (ItemCatalogueBean)SessionHelper.getSessionObject("ItemCatalogueBean",session);
   String resourcePath = bean.getResourcePath(null);
   String title = "Product catalogue";
   String languageCode = bean.getLanguageCode();
%>
<%@ include file="FuncHead.jsp" %>
<BODY class="IBSBody" onLoad="loaded = true;">
<form method="POST" action=<%= bean.getEncodedServlet("se.ibs.ns.icat.ItemCatalogueSearchServlet", response) %> name="basicForm">
<%@ include file="FuncSubmitScript.jsp" %>
<%@ include file="FuncPageBegin.jsp" %>
<div align="center">
<table border="0" width="895">
    <tr>
      <td align="left" width="502">
<div align="left">
<table border="0" width="500">
    <tr>
      <td class="IBSPageTitleText" align="left" valign="top" width="238">
          <%@ include file="FuncPageTitle.jsp" %>
          <%@ include file="FuncPageTitleImage.jsp" %>
                <br>
       On this page you can see the product catalogues. Click on one of the
       links to go to the next level. Alternatively you can click the <b>Search
       catalogue</b> button to find the products of interest.</td>
           <td width="248" valign="bottom">
            <div align="left"><%@ include file="FuncShoppingCart.jsp" %></div>
           </td>
    </tr>
</table>
</div></td></tr></table></div>
<input type="submit" value="Search catalogue" name="ACTION_NONE" onClick="submitButtonOnce(this); return false">
<hr>
<%-- REPEAT CATALOGUES --%>
<div align="left">
<table border="0" width="100%">
<% Vector catalogues = bean.getItemCatalogues();
        int cataloguesSize = catalogues.size();
           for (int i = 0; i < cataloguesSize; i++){
                  BAPItemCatalogue cat = (BAPItemCatalogue) catalogues.elementAt(i); %>
          <%-- LINK AND MARK AS NEW --%>
              <tr>
                     <td width="23%"><a class="IBSMenuLink" href="link" onClick="javascript:invokeLink('<%= bean.getEncodedServlet("se.ibs.ns.icat.ItemCatalogueCategoryServlet", response) %>?CODE=<%= ToolBox.encodeURLParameter(cat.getCode())%>'); return false">
                          <%= cat.getDescription(languageCode) %></a>
                     </td>
                     <td width="40%" align="right">
                          <% if (cat.isNew()) {%>
                                 <img border=0 src="<%= resourcePath %>new.gif">
                          <% } %>
                    </td>
              </tr>
          <%-- CATALOGUES IMAGE AND INTERNET INFORMATION (text, multimedia objects,downloads, links...) --%>
              <tr>
                     <td width="23%" valign="top" align="left">
                          <% if (bean.isAdvanced(cat) && bean.hasMultimediaImage(cat)) { %>
                               <a href="link" onClick="javascript:invokeLink('<%= bean.getEncodedServlet("se.ibs.ns.icat.ItemCatalogueCategoryServlet", response) %>?CODE=<%= ToolBox.encodeURLParameter(cat.getCode())%>'); return false">
                               <img border="0" src="<%= bean.getMultimediaImage(cat) %>"></a>
                    <% } else {%>
                               <img border="0" src="<%= resourcePath %>Catalog.gif">
                          <% } %>
                     </td>
                     <td class="IBSTextNormal" width="40%" valign="top">
                          <%= bean.getWebText(cat) %>
                     </td>
              </tr>
              <tr>
                     <td width="23%">
                     </td>
                     <td width="40%">
                     <% Vector mmLinks = bean.getMultimediaLinks(cat);
                  int mmLinksSize = mmLinks.size();
                          for (int ml=0; ml<mmLinksSize; ml++){
                               BAPCodeAndDescription mmLink = (BAPCodeAndDescription)mmLinks.elementAt(ml); %>
                               <a class="IBSLink" href="<%= mmLink.getCode() %>" target="_blank"><%= mmLink.getDescription() %></a><br>
                     <% } %>
               <% Vector webLinks = bean.getWebLinks(cat);
                    int webLinksSize = webLinks.size();
                    for (int wl=0; wl<webLinksSize; wl++){
                               BAPCodeAndDescription webLink = (BAPCodeAndDescription)webLinks.elementAt(wl); %>
                               <a class="IBSLink" href="<%= webLink.getCode() %>" target="_blank"><%= webLink.getDescription() %></a><br>
                    <% } %>
                     </td>
              </tr>
          <%}%>
</table>
</div>
<%@ include file="FuncPageLinks.jsp" %>
<%@ include file="FuncPageEnd.jsp" %>
</form>
</body>
</html>i hope someone could help me to understand this,
thank you for your help

You've probably already seen these, but here are a couple of links that may help.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform//reference/actionscript/3/operators.html#array_a ccess
http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/Array.html
What's basically happening is that the "for" loop goes through each item in the array. Don't be confused by the fact that two of the items in the array are Strings and one is an Integer - variable i being a String has nothing to do with the data type of the elements in the array.
The following code:
private function createLabels():void
     var myArray:Array = ['one', 'two', 3];
     for(var i:String in myArray)
          trace("i = " + i);
          trace(myArray[i]);
gives the following results:
i = 0
one
i = 1
two
i = 2
3
From that we can see that the "for" loop is assigning the index number of each array element, not the actual array element ('one', 'two', or 3) to the variable i. So calling myArray[i] is the same as calling myArray[0] the first time through the loop. This type of "for" loop is just a shorter way of doing the following, which produces exactly the same results:
private function createLabels():void
     var myArray:Array = ['one', 'two', 3];
     for(var i:int = 0; n < myArray.length; i++)
          trace("i = " + i);
          trace(myArray[i]);
Hope that helps.
Cheers!

Trying to understand the basic concept of object oriented programming.

I am trying to understand the basic concept of object oriented programming.
Object - a region of storage that define is defined by both state/behavior.
( An object is the actual thing that behavior affects.)
State - Represented by a set of variables and the values they contain.
(Is the location or movement or action that is the goal that the behavior is trying to accomplish.)
Variables- (What does this mean?)
Value - (What does this mean?)
Behavior - Represented by a set of methods and the logic they implement.
( A set of methods that is built up to tell's the how object to change it's state. )
Methods - A procedure that is executed when an object receives a message.
( A very basic comand.For example the method tells the object to move up, another method tells the method to go left. Thus making the object move up/left that combination is the behavior.)
Class - A template from which the objects are created.
( I am very confused on what classes are.)
- The definitions of the words I obtained from the "Osborne Teach Yourself Java". The () statements are how I interperate the Mechanisms (I do not know if Thats what you call them.) interact with each other. I understand my interpretation may be horribly wrong. I will incredibly appreciate all the support I may get from you.
Thank you

Object oriented programming is a replacement for the older idea of procedural programming (you can research procedural programming in google). As I understand it, in procedural programming, you have a step by step set of function calls to accomplish some task. Each function receives a data structure, manipulates it, and passes it to the next function. The problem with this is that each function preforms some action for the overall task and can't easily be reused by some other task. Its also harder to read the flow of what is happening with raw data structures flying all over the place.
In object oriented programming, an object calls a function of another object and receives back, not a data structure, but another object. Objects contain a data structure that can only be accessed by its functions. An object is not so much a sub component of a bigger task, as it is a service that any other task can use for any purpose. Also, when you pass an object to the caller, the caller can ask questions about the data structure via its functions. The developer doesnt have to know what the previous function did to the data by reading up on any documentation, or having to reverse engineer the code.
I suggest the best way of learning this is to code something like a library object.
A library object contains a collection of book objects
A book object contains a collection of chapter objects
A chapter object contains a collection of paragraph objects
A paragraph object contains a collection of sentence objects
A sentence object contains a collection of word objects.
Add functions to each object to provide a service
Example: A library object should have a:
public void addBook(Book book)
public Book getBook(String title)
public boolean isBookInLibrary(String title)
The key is to add functions to provide a service to anyone who uses your object(s)
For example, what functions (service) should a paragraph object provide?
It shouldn't provide a function that tells how many words there are in a sentence. That function belongs to a sentence object.
Lets say you want to add a new chapter to a book. The task is easy to read
if you write your objects well:
Sentence sentence1=new Sentence("It was a dark and stormy night");
Sentence sentence2=new Sentence("Suddenly, a shot ran out");
Paragraph paragraph=new Paragraph();
paragraph.addSentence(sentence1);
paragraph.addSentence(sentence2);
Paragraphs paragraphs=new Paragraphs();
paragraphs.addParagraph(paragraph);
Library library= new Library();
library.getBook("My Novel").addChapter("Chapter 1",paragraphs).
Now, lets say you want to have a word count for the entire book.
The book should ask each chapter how many words it contains.
Each chapter should ask its paragraphs, each paragraph should ask
its sentences. The total of words should ripple up and be tallied at each
stage until it reaches the book. The book can then report the total.
Only the sentence object actually counts words. The other objects just tallies the counts.
Now, where would you assign a librarian? What object(s) and functions would you provide?
If written well, the project is easily extensible.

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