http://blog.daryll.net The world from the view of a post production startup Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:25:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Anwar Ghuloum is a Principal Engineer with Intel’s Microprocessor Technology Lab, and recently wrote a blog post titled Unwelcome Advice. He proposes that developers should start thinking now about using hundreds or thousands of cores.This has gotten some web coverage at places like slashdot. In the film industry we do have ... http://blog.daryll.net/archives/23 The onslaught of invitations for social networks is really starting to get to me. My friends have joined a variety of different trust, social, content sharing networks. They pick whatever ones they think work best for them. The problem is that I don't want to join all of them to ... http://blog.daryll.net/archives/22  I was having a conversation with a colleague today and we were frustrated by how long it seems to take to get anything done. In this particular case we're trying to schedule a meeting between a few people. We've both worked at large companies and small ones, but we realized ... http://blog.daryll.net/archives/21 This is the trailer for a reality program called Tiger Team which is going to be airing on CourtTV (which, by the way, will be renaming themselves TruTV in January). It's a reality show where they follow a company that does security penetration testing. You contract with them to break ... http://blog.daryll.net/archives/20 We got our groove on Saturday night at Harvelle's in Redondo Beach with grammy award winning blue artist John Lee Hooker Jr. This was the end of the promotional tour for his latest albumn, Cold as Ice. He puts on a great high energy show. He did a mix a ... http://blog.daryll.net/archives/19 I've been in the effects business for 15 years. Now I have a small business trying to use commodity parts to solve expensive film/HDTV production problems. Sometimes 25 years after the film was made. It's all about getting the shot done. Before the days of digital effects, they would ... http://blog.daryll.net/archives/18 I had a question on my last post about how things have been since I ditched the Fios HD DVR and switched to to the HD Tivo. I thought that was worth another post. At this point, I'm a couple weeks in with my switch to the HD Tivo. ... http://blog.daryll.net/archives/17 33.869807 -118.381656 Today is the day that I returned the FIOS DVRs and set up my HD Tivo. The continual problems I've had with the DVR and the realization that the cost was almost identical over three years pushed me over the edge. The single biggest issue was that the Fios DVR ... http://blog.daryll.net/archives/16 I had hoped to cover the workings of the Motorola 6416 HD DVR as my next installment, but since it has taken me a while to get back to it, Verizon has released the new interactive media guide. It appears that it replaced the software for not only ... http://blog.daryll.net/archives/14 In my opinion, the biggest difference that a DVR makes in your viewing habits is that it allows you to ignore when a particular show airs and instead just indicate the shows you want to watch. This is often called time-shifting in the industry, shifting the time that you watch ... http://blog.daryll.net/archives/13