your radical "More Shelving" solution
I have this Rube Goldberg vision of New Shelf leads to Need Bigger Office For New Shelf leads to Need New Building For Bigger Office etc.
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Connie Neil - Dec 04, 2008 12:15:58 pm PST #8261 of 25501
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Ginger - Dec 04, 2008 12:25:35 pm PST #8262 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The last place I worked used mobile shelves similar to these [link] to store publications.
Sean K - Dec 04, 2008 12:54:32 pm PST #8263 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
An alternate suggestion to either a shelf or digitizing -- some of those CD binders, with the platic pocket pages. It's amazing how much less space CDs and DVDs take up when you remove the jewel case/video box from the equation.
NoiseDesign - Dec 04, 2008 12:56:20 pm PST #8264 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
radical "More Shelving" solution
I've seen the troll logic of big corporations. That bookshelf means more sitting space, which they will translate into a square footage cost, and then add in the cost of additional HVAC to cover the extra square footage. Also keep in mind that if Jessica gets a bookshelf then everyone above her on the org chart will be entitled to get one as well. So multiply the cost of the square footage by that number of people, and then the actual space that will take. You do realize they'll need a new bigger building to pull this off, and they haven't even moved into the next one yet.
Jessica - Dec 04, 2008 1:12:23 pm PST #8265 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Sean, that's what we've got now - 25 of 'em lined up on the windowsill in front of my desk. Not ideal storage by any means, but perfectly functional for how we use them.
And ND gets the insane troll logic
Ginger - Dec 04, 2008 1:18:19 pm PST #8266 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The insane troll logic sounded quite familiar to me. In more than one place I worked, we couldn't get more powerful computers for graphic artists because then everyone else would have to get them, even though everyone else was typing reports and running the occasional spreadsheet.
brenda m - Dec 04, 2008 1:21:05 pm PST #8267 of 25501
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Jess, I don't know what the explanation is, but getting shelves and bookshelves installed have been bar none the most complicated tasks my department has encountered. We've gotten approval to hire new staff with less red tape.
DCJensen - Dec 04, 2008 7:03:23 pm PST #8268 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
I wish I knew the exact codecs that people who *ahem* tv shows and other media do to compress an hour very clearly and smoothly into 350MB.
That and the tools to do the same to my parent's home movies on my Mac.
omnis_audis - Dec 04, 2008 8:43:57 pm PST #8269 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
The insane troll logic sounded quite familiar to me. In more than one place I worked, we couldn't get more powerful computers for graphic artists because then everyone else would have to get them, even though everyone else was typing reports and running the occasional spreadsheet.ND was witness to this at my old job. Here I was pushing the processor on my old iBook to the max, HD all but full, and slowing down tech rehearsals, while some office monkey who sits on the net and taps out word doc's all day get's a quad core computer with maxed memory and a DVD burner. I wasn't eligible for a new laptop, because I was the last to get in the first round, so I had to be the last to get in the 2nd round. Or some crazy bs.
Jessica - Dec 05, 2008 3:39:07 am PST #8270 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I wish I knew the exact codecs that people who *ahem* tv shows and other media do to compress an hour very clearly and smoothly into 350MB.
From what I recall, mostly Divx and Xvid.
New question - a client is requesting their digital masters in H.265. I can safely assume that's a typo, right? (My extremely cursory Google search indicates that H.265 hasn't been released yet. If that's wrong, does anyone have a link to where I can download it?)
[eta: I found this post from July suggesting a 2009 release date and nothing has jumped out to contradict it [link] ]