" You can get a Windows machine with the same hardware specs for half the price "
no you cant. Show me a build of the mac pro with Two of the equivalent video cards for HALF PRICE. Because if you do you will make a lot of people really happy.
That is talking about the OLD times when you could not get a laptop that could do field editing. Today you would be a fool to try and carry that with you for a field shot that needed editing, every crew I see uses laptops. I have not seen what the Verge article talks about in over 5 years now. You can carry your entire editing suite + storage + backup drives all in a backpack.
This is 2013 absolutely nobody drags a huge rack of gear on location anymore for field editing.
Absolutely correct. My laptop is faster than most people's gaming PC. Quad Core i7 at 3.6ghz and dual video cards (ATI+Intel) with dual hard drives (one is a 512 SSD) and 16 gig of ram. So unless you are doing something that needs more horsepower than that no need for a desktop.
I recently did build a desktop for one reason, a 6 camera live video switcher as I needed 3, 2 channel HDMI capture cards and the bandwidth needed to capture 1080p from all 6 at once and then render a video stream + GUI . basically built a poor mans tricaster. Sadly you can not do this on a laptop as I would have rather had the portability.
Which is taking a giant swipe at the "pro" packages out there that are slowly having their lunch eaten by Blender. Maya and the others are no longer the "standard" in hollywood and TV. I love that common people can buy a dirt cheap workstation like the MacPro and a dirt cheap $6000 camera+lenses and shoot/edit/produce a movie as good as hollywood could on a $5,000,000 budget.
Indie TV shows like Mars One, Shows like Breaking Bad were done on a small budget, etc...
This next year, short of good writing and good actors, a young adult can easily get enough gear and money together to make a movie that will rival even Michael Bay explosion fests.
Did not say it was illegal, in fact they can take EVERYTHING you have for any reason. Every single US citizen is a felon. In fact you probably committed at least 3 felonies just today.
And I am not saying he is innocent, He's a scumbag. but they can legally do anything they want to him. They can even torture him or imprison him forever without a trial if they wanted to. It's very easy to make the small step to "enemy combatant"
The Government can do what it pleases. The Law does not apply to the police, FBI, Feds, etc... He has ZERO chance of getting anything back.
I know people that had servers illegally seized in a data center raid, they were scooped up with everything else, they did not get anything back bot a box of parts that were not even theirs.
But this case is a random unknown stranger offers to make you keys for your house. And while they are at it, sets up a shop of stolen goods inside the front door. How do you know they did not make themselves an extra key?
There are very good mobile websites, the problem is 99% of them are an afterthought. Oh we designed out website, now make a very simple mobile one quickly.
jQuery (mobile) has some awesome features that make the mobile version of a website fantastic.
Sadly it takes a site designer with real skills to make a good site that looks good across platforms, and that means expensive. Most companies barely want to pay the minimum for their website let alone what it takes to get a competent company that can make a fantastic one that also looks and works great on a mobile device.
I know you are proud of the naked photos of yourself that you keep sending, but I am not into guys, you might find someone out there that likes overweight hairy people, you just need to look elsewhere.
Your laptop has a crap video processor. get one with a real Nvidia or ATI chipset that does video decoding and it will drop to 4%. Both my Macbook pro and my Dell gaming laptop that both have a real video chipset in them pretty much idle when playing a video from netflix or Hulu Plus.
They dont even need to do that. Ship a statically compiled binary. Yes it will make all the purists whine from here to hell and back but it will be an option. deliver it with no support at all and make people click through 3 times a "we will hang up on you if you call us about this." dialog box.
It is a no brainer to release something, and in fact it would be awesome as XBMC people could use it as a netflix plugin by just calling the app.
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Like all those idiot auto mechanics that buy Snap On tools instead of the exact same tool from harbor freight at 1/20th the price?
Those china made $0.50US screwdrivers are just as good as the $5.95 Snap on screwdrivers.
" You can get a Windows machine with the same hardware specs for half the price "
no you cant. Show me a build of the mac pro with Two of the equivalent video cards for HALF PRICE. Because if you do you will make a lot of people really happy.
Sadly racks never have a horizontal flat surface that these could sit on. Oh wait.....
That is talking about the OLD times when you could not get a laptop that could do field editing. Today you would be a fool to try and carry that with you for a field shot that needed editing, every crew I see uses laptops. I have not seen what the Verge article talks about in over 5 years now. You can carry your entire editing suite + storage + backup drives all in a backpack.
This is 2013 absolutely nobody drags a huge rack of gear on location anymore for field editing.
Absolutely correct. My laptop is faster than most people's gaming PC. Quad Core i7 at 3.6ghz and dual video cards (ATI+Intel) with dual hard drives (one is a 512 SSD) and 16 gig of ram. So unless you are doing something that needs more horsepower than that no need for a desktop.
I recently did build a desktop for one reason, a 6 camera live video switcher as I needed 3, 2 channel HDMI capture cards and the bandwidth needed to capture 1080p from all 6 at once and then render a video stream + GUI . basically built a poor mans tricaster. Sadly you can not do this on a laptop as I would have rather had the portability.
Show me a blade server with SLI video card capabilities.
Why are you trying to rackmount them? What person tries to use graphics workstations as servers?
Are you really that uninformed about it? The thing is silent compared to anything else out there with even 1/2 it's processing and video power.
Maya and Flame are not as well. So this gives Blender a HUGE advantage over those Multi thousand dollar packages.
Which is taking a giant swipe at the "pro" packages out there that are slowly having their lunch eaten by Blender. Maya and the others are no longer the "standard" in hollywood and TV. I love that common people can buy a dirt cheap workstation like the MacPro and a dirt cheap $6000 camera+lenses and shoot/edit/produce a movie as good as hollywood could on a $5,000,000 budget.
Indie TV shows like Mars One, Shows like Breaking Bad were done on a small budget, etc...
This next year, short of good writing and good actors, a young adult can easily get enough gear and money together to make a movie that will rival even Michael Bay explosion fests.
Did not say it was illegal, in fact they can take EVERYTHING you have for any reason. Every single US citizen is a felon. In fact you probably committed at least 3 felonies just today.
http://www.threefeloniesaday.com/Youtoo/tabid/86/Default.aspx
And I am not saying he is innocent, He's a scumbag. but they can legally do anything they want to him. They can even torture him or imprison him forever without a trial if they wanted to. It's very easy to make the small step to "enemy combatant"
True when you operate with the mode that everyone is a criminal, everything is legal.
It happened on the set they used to fake the moon landing then?
Where does the Feds stage their disregard for the law?
The Government can do what it pleases. The Law does not apply to the police, FBI, Feds, etc...
He has ZERO chance of getting anything back.
I know people that had servers illegally seized in a data center raid, they were scooped up with everything else, they did not get anything back bot a box of parts that were not even theirs.
Oh come on, you are not even trying anymore. At least put some effort into your stalking.
But this case is a random unknown stranger offers to make you keys for your house. And while they are at it, sets up a shop of stolen goods inside the front door.
How do you know they did not make themselves an extra key?
A jailbreak comes out from a unproven group, Only fools are installing this one.
There are very good mobile websites, the problem is 99% of them are an afterthought. Oh we designed out website, now make a very simple mobile one quickly.
jQuery (mobile) has some awesome features that make the mobile version of a website fantastic.
Sadly it takes a site designer with real skills to make a good site that looks good across platforms, and that means expensive. Most companies barely want to pay the minimum for their website let alone what it takes to get a competent company that can make a fantastic one that also looks and works great on a mobile device.
I know you are proud of the naked photos of yourself that you keep sending, but I am not into guys, you might find someone out there that likes overweight hairy people, you just need to look elsewhere.
People like being outraged when they are insulated from others. It's a typical, "Mee too ZOMG!" online reaction.
You are such a cute dork. I am truly flatter that you are so enamored with me.
how cute you try and act as if you are another preson... you are utterly adorable :-)
nobody asked them to release the source. just release the binary blob.
Your laptop has a crap video processor. get one with a real Nvidia or ATI chipset that does video decoding and it will drop to 4%. Both my Macbook pro and my Dell gaming laptop that both have a real video chipset in them pretty much idle when playing a video from netflix or Hulu Plus.
Intel chipsets are still complete garbage.
They dont even need to do that. Ship a statically compiled binary. Yes it will make all the purists whine from here to hell and back but it will be an option. deliver it with no support at all and make people click through 3 times a "we will hang up on you if you call us about this." dialog box.
It is a no brainer to release something, and in fact it would be awesome as XBMC people could use it as a netflix plugin by just calling the app.