“What we have found, they are there, they’re in the building and not in their chairs. They are in the cafeteria, with counselors, in stairwells or a variety of places, some legitimately and some not. If they are on campus, we can legally count them present.”

Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/09/rfid-chip-student-monitoring/

The above Wired article mentions further details:

"Gonzalez said John Jay High has 200 surveillance cameras and Anson Jones Middle School, about 90.

'The kids,' he said, 'are used to being monitored.'”

Other articles mentioned the school's attempt to broker a deal with the girl and her family, including this one at OpposingViews.com:

"Civil liberties lawyers at the Rutherford Institute told Infowars.com that they are going to file a temporary restraining order petition to prevent the school from kicking Hernandez out.

In response to public outcry and pressure from rights groups, John Jay High School has offered to remove the battery and chip, but wouldn’t budge on the ID.

The offer would also require the Hernandez family to end their public criticism and agree to support the policy, something Andrea’s father Steve Hernandez finds unacceptable."

Source: Article by OpposingViews.com at http://www.opposingviews.com/i/technology/gadgets/student-andrea-hernandez-expelled-refusing-wear-location-tracking-rfid-badge*

The OpposingViews.com article also mentions that Hernandez opposes the program on grounds of both privacy and religion.

Here are some other links to coverage of the subject, both in the U.S. and the U.K.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20461752

http://now.msn.com/andrea-hernandez-suspended-for-refusing-to-wear-an-rfid-locator-tag-can-stay-at-school-until-court-hearing

http://www.zdnet.com/student-expelled-for-refusing-to-wear-rfid-tracking-chip-badge-7000007723/

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/texas-school-districts-rfid-tracking-of-students-goes-to-court/

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/13463095-student-tracker-project-in-texas-schools-leads-to-court-row

http://rt.com/usa/news/school-hernandez-rfid-student-449/

http://www.goddiscussion.com/104442/high-school-student-faces-expulsion-for-refusal-to-wear-device-she-believes-is-satanic/

Details mentioned in some of them include the plans in Texas to spread the mandatory RDIF program statewide.

I've done my best to provide ones from sites with various political leanings and editorial foci because:

• 1) I feel that it's helpful to read several articles on a subject to get a sense for what is actually going on.
• 2) I do not believe that this is an issue limited to either conservatives or liberals in the United States.

It is my personal opinion (though it is only my opinion and not a fact, and should be debated if disagreed with) that this program:

• 1) Should never have been implemented.
• 2) Does not serve the students or parents.
• 3) Will rarely benefit teachers.
• 4) May benefit school administrations financially.
• 5) Is disturbing in its approach to tracking U.S. citizens that have neither committed a crime nor found themselves the subject of a criminal investigation.
• 6) Violates the rights of the parents to grant or deny their consent to a controversial school measure.
• 7) Violates the spirit of the Constitution, whether or not it violates the exact wording of it (and may potentially violate both).

That's at least one part of my opinion. I hope you'll share this issue with others you know. If you disagree with me, I would still like to hear your thoughts. I hope that I can learn from seeing the issue through someone else's eyes.

After more than 50 years of miniaturization, the transistor could stop shrinking in just five years, this is the prediction of the 2015 International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors, which was officially released earlier this month.

After 2021 it will no longer be economically desirable for companies to continue to shrink the dimensions of transistors in microprocessors. Instead, chip manufacturers will turn to other means of boosting density, namely turning the transistor from a horizontal to a vertical geometry and building multiple layers of circuitry, one on top of another.

19 companies were developing and manufacturing logic chips with leading-edge transistors in 2001. Today, there are just four: Intel, TSMC, Samsung, and GlobalFoundries.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/transistors-will-stop-shrinking-in-2021-moores-law-roadmap-predicts

This guys did not tell you full truth. For all last manufacturer processes companies had marketing process values and real process values. In old good times each generation of process really meant proportional reduction of all elements, it is no longer the case. Especially with 14nm processes that are not really 14nm.

Optimistic statements with many 3D wafers and such are overly optimistic. Due to difficulties such process is very costly and available to top manufacturers only. All such processes are not usable in high speed and thermally intense areas due to cooling issues, this mean GPUs and CPUs. Now it is only some flash memory that is made using similar approach.

The kit is comprised of a QCS610 module with 4GB RAM and 16GB eMMC flash and carrier board designed by VVDN Technologies, as well as e-con Systems 4K camera module, and designed to run vision machine learning and deep learning models at the edge.

I know I haven't posted in forever, but after hearing this I had to post this.

It's a long podcast so the TL,DL is essentially for the last 40+ years, the US's military foreign policy, the US didn't just make the wrong decision at EVERY turn, it made the WORST wrong decision. From the break up of the USSR(George H. Bush tried to help them stay together, I shit you not) to Ukraine, every single government Republican and Democrat did the worst things possible and here we are.

God help us.

Short main posts are at http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/23745/coronavirus-proper-protection

I've created over 2000 tracks of original music and sounds that you are welcome to freely use in your projects. All I ask is to be attributed as indicated on my website:

https://soundimage.org/

I sincerely hope some of my efforts are helpful! :-)

Okay, for starters:

CP.2s are not real cinema lenses. They are still picture lenses that have been geared with a clickless aperture ring and high end follow focus gears. They don't actually project a cinema sized image circle onto the sensor.

Most DSLR shooters are unaware that every digital cinema camera has a sensor that is ROUGHLY the size of a Super 35mm piece of motion picture film. This is true for the RED, Alexa, F65, Phantom, Genesis, Viper, 7D, GH2, FS100, etc.... The only aberrations are the 5D, 1DX, and (edit) the D800 which have a sensor the size of a 35mm piece of still film.

Most of us use Still Picture lenses (Nikon, Canon, Zeiss, Voightlander, Nokton etc.) on our DSLRs, and as a result, the smaller sensor crops the still frame image circle projected onto it by a factor of anywhere between 1.5x to 2x. Except on the 5D, 1DX, D800 which have a "Full Frame" sensor that takes advantage of the full projection circle from these lenses.

BUT

Cinema Lenses - those big PL mount suckers (Your Cooke, Angenieux, Panavision, Arri, Eagle, Zeiss, etc...) project a smaller image circle which is the size of a Super 35mm piece of motion picture film. Which is why they can't be used with the 5D, and why Zeiss created the CP.2s for DSLR shooters, namely, 5D shooters, who wanted a lens that would project the same "Full Frame" image circle as the ZE and ZF series, but machined to be used with a professional follow focus geared for Cinema Lenses, and would have a manual, clickless aperture ring - just like the big boys.

SO

Using Still Lenses - To get the same framing, the 5D will have to be placed closer to the scene than all the other cameras. (Like almost twice as close)

But when dealing with Cinema lenses on a GH2 (not CP.2s for reasons discussed above), you will not get the same FOV as say a RED or Alexa, but it is nowhere near the drastic 2x crop factor that so many producers seem to think. It's closer to about a 1.25x crop. (So add 25% -- 50mm FOV becomes a 62.5mm FOV, a 14mm FOV becomes a 17.5mm FOV, 18mm FOV becomes a 22.5mm FOV, etc. -- To get this multiply the lens focal length by 1.25.)

Ain't camera technology fun???

Limited discussions are permitted but are removed with time, so only films remain.

Opposing topic - http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/10151/safe-list/p1

All three films can be expressed in this three words - triumph of meanness. People who deserve to die, who have no real value and no real attachment to audience. People who do all they can (and something outside their abilities) to die fast - somehow survive (mostly due to complete logical and technical idiocy of everything around them). And we are not only supposed to be on their side but even pay for watching this crap. It must be all in reverse, such films must be shown by force in special camps were new breed of hamsters will be created.

If some others know of such cases, please use this thread to cite examples.

4k is very processor intensive for timeline playback and most times needs to transcode to cineform codec for a sttuter free playback and transcoding takes time and disk space.

4k files are large and need lots of storage in sd cards and computer ssd/hdd.

It is difficult to do chroma key or multi layer in 4k because it needs a very powerfull computer and a dual 4k monitor setup.

With only one 4k monitor you can edit fullhd and see all the pixels and also the timeline in the same monitor.

1080p is more than enough to tell a story, tv broadcast and netflix are 1080p.

M43 and apsc cameras have great 1080p quality

There is no sensor crop in 1080p in cheap cameras, i do not like sensor crop

You can get 1080p 60p in cheap cameras, 4k 60p is expensive. For slow motion.

1080p files are small and can playback great and easy in timeline without transcoding or proxy

Using cineform codec you can work with multiple layers in timeline for complex compositions in 1080p in average computer.

Backup is less expensive with 1080p

File transfer, backup and upload is faster in 1080p

Noise reduction is faster, render is faster in 1080p

Average GPU works great with multiple 1080p layers

If you do a new video everyday or every week you need to work fast and every step is faster with 1080p files

When i see a movie, a series a soap opera, I perceived that 720p is pretty enough to my eyes in a 50 inch tv to get into the narrative story.

When the story is great and get your attention, resolution, compression artifacts, gradient banding, and noise are not disturbing, you just want too follow the story

When I see a narrative story I look to the talents face, and 1080p is pretty enough for this.

Great audio with perfect dialogs is much more important than image quality

You can get great 1080p image if you care about light composition objects clothes scenery.

4k is overkill for narrative, you just dont need it

Only few people will see your work in 4k online, between 5% and 15% of the audience.

4k is much more important for porn, not for narrative

4k can be the video ASMR and narrative is not ASMR

When you see a narrative video it is better to be a little bit distant from the screen to understand the story and 1080p is enough for average distance from the screen.

Narrative fiction use fast cuts and movements, there is no time to keep looking to each image

80% will see your work in smartphone, 10% in computer and 10% in tv set, and most tv sets and computers are not 4k.

If you work in low budget and in a "one people crew" 1080p will make things easy cheap and faster.

4k is not a standard, it is a plus, and a plus is optional and not necessary, the standard is 1080p.

Consider 4k for cuts only narrative without complex editing if you have beautiful actors/talents. Your rich sponsors will like it in big screens.

Outlook interface is loaded with buttons you probably aren't using, and it generally isn't as intuitive or fluid as the mobile and web versions. Thankfully, Microsoft knows this -- and it's planning a revamp that could give the email and calendar app a breath of fresh air. Microsoft recently previewed Outlook redesigns for Mac and Windows that are nearly as clean and intuitive as their mobile counterparts. You can still have a customizable "ribbon" at the top, but it's stripped down and less intimidating to newcomers. The navigation panel (on the left) also takes its cues from Outlook's mobile apps, making it much easier to switch folders or entire accounts.

I really think we need to do something to journalists who write all this, as well as ban any design and development rights for people who made it.

In the United States, Hollywood film production studios are at a standstill.

The coronavirus already has three new mutations that may be resistant to vaccines.

Will it be the end of dramatic art production?

Or what would be the solution to continue producing films, series and soap operas even if the vaccines are not fully effective?

So i've been reading about image sensors (much of it is way over my head) but I'm doing my best to learn and I'm curious about foveon x3 image sensors or at least the concept with regard to video. From what I've read (and much of that is written by foveon or sigma itself so it's hard to know for sure) this sensor or technology seems like it might provide some real benefits. They "say" that it records more color information than regular sensors that don't utilize their stacked pixel sensors as it captures light at different wavelenghts with the use of different layers of silicon within the sensor itself and thereby captures "full color" at each pixel location. This all sounds really good to me but I've looked and haven't really seen any extremely positive reviews of either the sensor or cameras using the sensors. My main question is whether this sensor or concept might make a ripple in video imaging technology or if there are limitations that keep this from being a serious option for sensors in video.

The UK will formally ask to join the likes of Australia, Canada, Japan and Singapore in becoming a member of a mammoth free-trade partnership under its post-Brexit plans.

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/brexit-uk-seeking-membership-trans-pacific-free-trade-partnership/?fbclid=IwAR3IqE25yLrwZV_I_9hS7ACUrH05W5xkAGouV8dlWvdjBuLox07p6XRw-kE

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