Posts by JP Hansen
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Here's my pick for next year's headliners; Crowded House
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So, how about that Vector Arena...
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Just took a look at the pdf on the Hawk Eye tech requirements. Thanks for the link Russell.
So it uses 6 cameras to track the ball and plot its estimated trajectory, fair enough, though I do wonder how accurate the plotted trajectory is if the ball has a lot of spin or swing, or if the ball bounces very close to the foot before striking the pads (given there wouldn't be much in the way of post-bounce data collected).
Still, great fun to watch.
So the real tournament is between us and England, with the hope that something miraculous happens in the finals against Aussie.
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^ Sorry - 2nd paragraph relates to McCullums dubious dismissal.
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The sad thing is that the radio commentary on Radio Sport is a direct from Australia too (the ABC?) and is just as infuriating to listen to. I couldn't believe what Greig & the others were saying about that Gilchrist "catch". Was at the in-laws, and I hope they were all out of earshot when I began swearing at the commentary team.
Still, that whole graphic thing showing if the ball would have hit the stumps is all abit of nonsense really, isn't it? Fun to look at, but that's about it. Unless there's a GPS in the ball, or it's being laser tracked somehow, there's no way someone estimating the height and position of release and the point of bounce, speed of the ball and the position on the pad where the thing hits can possibly create any sort of accurate representation of the ball's real trajectory.
I do like that heat-sensor though for caught-behind decisions. Is the 3rd umpire privvy to that piece of technology?
And why don't we have, at the very least, Smithy over there providing at least some balance (or Wads for Radio Sport). We'll send Waddle to the back blocks of Bangladesh, but not across to Hobart?
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Lest anyone think I'm plagiarising myself
All hail the new John Fogerty!
Happy New Year Russell.
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Instead of recoring an audio file as it plays (and hoping nothing else beeps), there's always burning to regular audio CD and then ripping that.
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Meant to add - I have no idea if that's possible with the DRM protected files from ITMS.
And thanks Matt - looking forward to the edit feature!
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I know with regular AAC / m4u files that I rip from CD, if I then change my importing preferences to MP3, I can select a track/playlist, and choose 'convert selection to MP3' (it's always 'convert selection to [your import preference])
It's a bit of a pain, but then go to Lastest Additions and make a new playlist of the just-converted files, and then transfer them to a data CD or whatever.
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Dang. Russell, can we get an edit function for these discussions please !