Correct me if I'm wrong but without knowing the voltage isn't comparing amperage hours to one another useless?

5v * 1Ah = 5watt hours
12v * 1Ah = 12watt hours

Amp-hour isn't actually a unit of energy potential.

One AA battery has about 2.6ah * 1.5v = 3.9 watt/hr
One D Battery has about 18ah * 1.5v = 27 watt/hr

175 years = 1533000 hours * 7200 nanoampere seconds per hour = 11.06 ah. Which if it's .1 volt would be 1 watt/hr of capacity. Or if it was 10v it would be 100 watt hour. Makes a pretty big difference. And without knowing voltage we can't compare.

If we're talking about NLEs for VFX then the obvious choice would be Nuke Studio (http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/nuke/studio/) It's integrated with Nuke which is used everywhere and it's a multiplatform app which runs on Linux, OSX and Windows.

Davinci is also for Linux and it's got pretty decent editing capabilities now. And like Nuke Studio it also has lots of VFX friendly features like handles and solid EDL support.

Another obvious option are the Autodesk (Discreet) systems. Flame Premium 2013 supports Linux. For a while there Flame/Inferno were exclusively linux.

So there is plenty of VFX editing on Linux, it's just pricey for the most part and not at all open source.

Blender is not going to address the needs of a VFX facility. Having a python checkbox isn't enough to handle the sorts of scenes and needs of a feature film vfx shot in most situations. There is a reason CG supervisors still pick Max, Maya or Houdini over "free" software and that's the cost of productivity. $3,000 is a small price to pay compared to being even 10% more productive. The average VFX artist is paid at least $65,000. So if you need 10% more artists to do the same thing in the same amount of time then you're paying $6,500 per year in lost productivity. That's substantially more expensive than $1,000 per year for maintenance. Which isn't to say that there aren't good video editing applications for Linux. For VFX studio editing needs Nuke Studio is enough and it runs on Linux:

http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/pr...

In fact from a VFX facility's perspective it integrates better into a pipeline than any of the other commercial editing applications and it works well with Nuke which is the defacto standard for compositing.

Or this is the exact same policy they've had for what... nearly 20 years and they want to get people onto an OS which supports their new Universal Application runtime in order to encourage adoption and by extension Microsoft App Store revenue.

I did do it wrong, but I also spent a lot more than I anticipated after already paying. But it *does* create a bit of a loophole. 10% is a pretty good return. Especially since you can theoretically put it in the final quarter. So if you want to buy a big screen TV on Amazon for $3,000: overpay $2800 on your final quarter. File your taxes in February. Get your return entirely in Amazon gift certificates and you just got 10% off your TV.

I bought the Professional Turbo Tax on Amazon and it cost $64. And I get 10% extra on everything from my refund that I Put into Amazon Gift Certificates. So with TurboTax this year I could theoretically take my whole refund as Amazon Gift Certificates and pay off Turbotax a few times over. But I don't think I spend enough on Amazon even with my prolific Amazon Purchasing to justify taking all of it back in Gift Card Balance.

I'm a Global Entry card holder. There's almost no line at all for customs. If they're doing Quarantine and smuggling checks they can do it on the train en-route. It would be like gate-checking. Check in at the train station. Then have a white glove security service run your luggage through adequate screening and then take it directly from the train to the spacecraft.

This is a fair point. I just flew from my home town to my current city.

Time to drive to airport: 15 minutes
Time to wait in security/waiting area: 40 minutes
Time to taxi: 5 minutes
Flight time: 45 minutes
Taxi Time: 15 minutes
Time to get to Taxi stand: 10 minutes
Time for taxi to get downtown: 35 minutes.

Total time to/from runway: 1.75 hours.
Flight time: 45 minutes.

Then again LA to Sydney Australia is about a 15 hour flight. If this is the future and you had a maglev/hyperloop type transport you could get to a remote spaceport in under an hour completely isolated from an urban area. That would be about equal to traffic to/from the nearest small airfield for a private jet. Also it wouldn't have that much security since the only threat would be a bomb and they could pre-screen your luggage while in route to make things efficient. All in all with a good highspeed rail solution you could best a business jet easily. The fixed time tables are harder though. But with an 18 hour flight time to beat you would stay overnight in a hotel and be productive then leave the next day and still beat the flight in the morning.

A flight from New York to Singapore is usually around $1,300. A Suite Class ticket from New York to Singapore is $23,000.
https://medium.com/travel-adve...

People already pay 20x coach to fly comfortably for 18 hours. If you reduced the flight time to 2-3 hours and people didn't need a bed, shower and other amenities associated with a full day in the sky then you would be price competitive.

Here is another example. I rent a camera for $1,500+ for about 36 hours. If you hard a cargo flight that could do a point-to-point delivery from Indonesia to my door and it cost 1/10th of 10x the price of a ticket ($10,000) per 160lbs for a 16lb package then it would cost them $1,000 for shipping vs $1,500 for an extra day of rental. That would save them $500. You could even include a courier to the spaceport and back. I'm certain that there are items today that could use a sub-orbital delivery and save money at $100 per lb.

The Concord could have continued flying. Virgin Atlantic offered to operate the aircraft but British Airways didn't want someone else operating them if they didn't.

Phone calls period are barely used. People prefer asynchronous communication.

But video chat obviously has two big fans:
1) People showing someone something (real estate, christmas presents, things in a store, etc.)
2) Long distance romantic partners.

The advantages are pretty obvious for both use cases. :D

Nonsense, my dad couldn't fix our car or an appliance. He could build houses though.

If people were soooooo handy why were there so many appliance repair shops and car mechanics?

Game developers waste less processor power than just about any other developer I know of short of super-computer developers. When you have 16ms to render a frame and you have to recreate the entire universe in those 16ms you have to be extremely judicious in your use of cycles.

Torvalds is being completely ridiculous here. Avid used to be the domain of professional film editors but iMovie is incredibly popular. We even see cell phones these days sporting 4k cameras. My Lumia has a 41 megapixel sensor! I have a RED camera and it's "only" 18 megapixels. In fact the less professional you are the more processing power you need. Photoshop's paint brush can accomplish wonders in the hands of a professional touch-up artist. But Photoshop's Content-Aware-Fill is processor murder and designed specifically to intelligently replace a professional artist. Take something like 3D rendering. You could have someone hand paint every frame. It would without question require a professional artist. But if you want a pretty picture at the push of a button you want raytracing.

This is actually something that you see happening today in the high-end VFX market. It used to be that raytracing was too compute intensive for films. But for amateurs and non-artists ironically enough ray tracing was fine. The architect only needed to render 3 frames. Waiting a day was perfectly acceptable there wasn't another 100,000 frames that also needed to get rendered. In film there wasn't time for something like Global Illumination and the shortcuts caused unacceptable flickering. Now the film industry is starting to embrace advanced lighting like GI and they're getting all of the bounces and detail that used to take hundreds of lights to fake automatically. It's making artists more productive but it's coming at the cost of increased compute time. Again a professional lighter can as an artist fake global illumination. An amateur could simply position the sun, turn on GI and wait 18 hours.

The future will be an Automagical button that not only fixes your photo *cough* instagram *cough* but also performs even more advanced editing like "Remove the gray clouds and put in a photorealistic blue sky. Oh yeah, and also change the lighting of the photo to make it look sunny!" That's going to be far more CPU intensive than any photoshop filter currently in existence and it'll be targeted as much as your average cell phone user as a professional.