Just like the way people use horsepower to describe how fast a car is even though you still need to see the torque curve, know the gross vehicle weight, and have an idea of how aerodynamic the body is. The largest variable between modern cars is their horsepower in the same way that the biggest variable in any generation of computers is their clock speed.
There's a lot of evil that has poured from Dearborn over the years. Henry Ford, Evil Dead series, Mayor Hubbard, Back Porch Video, and the list just goes on. That's why I escaped to Royal Oak. The only evil we grow is in the form of coporate coffee shops.
Add in Avid Xpress as the higher than FCP option without buying a whole video editing system and Avid's soon to be released "low-end" product.
I'm new to video editing and noone I talk to mentions Premiere. It's all Final Cut Pro this, and Avid Xpress that, and wait till you can afford a real Avid system.
$700 for something small and hard to replace? Like jewelry? Are diamonds a frivolous purchase to you?
Seriously, you're declaring the whole product idea bankrupt because it doesn't meet your personal cost/value equation. To me, the heat and noise generated by the latest generation of processors and video cards really make them too annoying to buy, even if they would double the performance of my computer. I place a much higher value on my environment than my computer's performance. You, apparently, place a higher value on cost of repair than size or portability. Neither judgement is right or wrong, simply personal choice. The good news is that we can make those choices individually rather than having a one-size fits all solution shoved down our throats. Compare that to, say, 15 years ago when pretty much any PC you bought was a beige desktop with little variation to distinguish office machines from home machines.
Any decent editor knows when and how to use frame rate to their advantage. The common opinion is that less motion blur gives a better "reality" look while traditional 24fps motion blur gives a feeling of "ethereality". Yes, these are actually the terms I've common heard.
The films SFW and 15 Minutes both made excellent use of both effects.
This is turning into a cell phone-esque pissing match of who's got the smallest. I want to hear from the guy running a 386 with 16MB RAM as his IMAP server.
Teaching "outside the book" is also par for course in most liberal arts programs. If it was all in the book, you might as well just have a reading assignment on day 1 and come back for the exams.
An MBA is extremely helpful if you want to be more than the bottom rung in many companies. If you want to control the direction of the software you are working on, you'll need a title higher than "Software Developer". "Project Manager" can code nearly as much, but goes to the meetings where direction is determined. Now that gig isn't for me, but I've seen more than a few developers go that route happily.
Masters or PhD in CS? Few developers I know have those kind of degrees. The guys with that kind of background tend to work as consultants or in acadameia.
I'm not sure how you equate priority queueing as being unfair. Since account age, but rather account activity is the key factor you really only "crap" over those who are saving the most money compared to traditional rental.
Personally, I average between 9 and 13 Netflix discs per month and have 300+ in my queue. I don't care which ones they send me so long as they keep coming.
1) Color. I look at lot of graphs and charts on my Palm and color makes a big difference.
2) Wireless access. Being able to retreive e-mail without going back to the desk is great.
3) Audio and video playback. I don't want a Palm to replace an iPod, but it is good for watching business announcements that are streamed.
If you do none of these things, fine, stick with the m100/m105. However, I think most handheld users will find at least one of the three compelling enough to get a new model.
Listening to the same album over and over isn't about being into or studying music, it's about a single work. I love Picasso's "The Bullfight", but I'd never use that as a basis for the statement "I'm really into art."
The companies that make that equipment are simply responding to their consumers' demands. Most people don't want to alter their music, just play it back the way the artist created it. Look at reviews of receivers with fancy DSPs for effects. Generally they get labled as useless. You and I want to create something new and we have the hardware and software to do it. My wife is more concerned with being able to listen to her old 45s without damaging them further and nothing else.
Business is business and music is music. If you expect an industry to care about anything other than profits, you need to check your rethink some details. Let artists worry about art and business men worry about making a buck. Its what each does best.
Pretty lame troll. In the middle of a discussion about MP3s it certain is fair to use purchases of prerecorded music as an indication of interest in music. Especially when we're in the middle of talking about how much disk space you need to store all the music you listen to.
Do you toss out your old music? I don't. There are still boxes of LPs that I haven't gotten around to encoding yet. Not to mention my father's record collection that I inherited which hasn't been touched yet.
Now, I know some people buy a single CD every month and consider themselves "into music". If that's your niche, I'd guess 20GB would be enough for you. Personally, I can't imagine compressing the last 50 years of music into only the best 1500 albums. I'm not sure if the last 10 years could be handled that way.
I'd say you probably don't. I'd guess you probably don't carry any form of electronic memory on a regular basis. Most people don't and that's cool. Some of us, though, move that much data between home and work now. I still used a Jazz drive until recently because having a single piece of media for moving >1GB of data was handy (plus the suckers could take a lot of abuse).
If I could have 1.5GB of memory in my digital camera for $100, it'd be a done deal. As is, CompactFlash memory is around $50 for 256MB so I'd have to buy six cards which will cost more and be a greater hassle. Even the MicroDrives are $200 for 1GB. I think 1GB is really close to the sweet spot for digital photos. Very few people will need any more than that on a vacation. MP3's on the other hand, I think 100GB is closer to what is right.
Actually, once you're on US soil (and Guantanamo is ours) you get all the same rights as a citizen unless the right is afforded only to citizens explicitly (like the right to vote).
I'll agree that not all those that write software are engineers, but by taking your examples I've come up with a list of requirements.
Must have a well defined problem
Must have a well defined toolset
Solutions must stand up to heavy testing
As an example, those developers that implemented the TCP/IP stacks for various operating systems would have 'engineered' a solution because the problem was well defined, the tools were pre-existing, and the solutions were well tested. Now designing TCP/IP may not have been engineering, but that's why you can't lump all software developers into one camp or another.
According to the numbers I've seen. There were approximately 45 million PCs in use in the United States in 1988. By 1992, that number had quadrupled. So while every man woman and child in the United States may not have been using a computer, there were 4 computers for every 5 people and a good number were using them.
They may have not been common in your area, but they were certainly becoming common nation wide, ancedotal evidence aside.
Uh... what? Do you honestly think the computer using world has changed that dramatically in the last 10 years? How many people had a computer on their desk in 1992? Everyone that I knew working in the auto industry from top executives down to peons in the supplier firms had a machine with Windows running. There are some smart people that work in the auto industry, but enough dumb ones to make it a pretty good reflection of the general populace.
Back in '82 I would have agreed with you, but by the early 1990s computers were everywhere and the public started buying them, even if they didn't know why yet.
Some how I think you're bringing up Nicky Hayden to the wrong crowd. BTW, I'm bettng the kid could beat you on an unmodified SV650 too.;)
As to your point, I think you're correct in that FSB speed, though a critical factor when all else is equal, too much is different between these platforms to use it seriously.
When I worked the PC support desk back in the late 90's, I never had a user give me lip. I think assuming that kind of behavior is normal or acceptable is half the problem.
The other half is that people tend to hire tech support based on technical knowledge without considering communication skills. During my relatively short tech support stint (5 years with different companies) I went to half a dozen communication classes. Validate, empathize, assert. Solves most problems and diffuses even the wrost attitude.
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Just like the way people use horsepower to describe how fast a car is even though you still need to see the torque curve, know the gross vehicle weight, and have an idea of how aerodynamic the body is. The largest variable between modern cars is their horsepower in the same way that the biggest variable in any generation of computers is their clock speed.
I really need to learn to proof read better.
There's a lot of evil that has poured from Dearborn over the years. Henry Ford, Evil Dead series, Mayor Hubbard, Back Porch Video, and the list just goes on. That's why I escaped to Royal Oak. The only evil we grow is in the form of coporate coffee shops.
Add in Avid Xpress as the higher than FCP option without buying a whole video editing system and Avid's soon to be released "low-end" product.
I'm new to video editing and noone I talk to mentions Premiere. It's all Final Cut Pro this, and Avid Xpress that, and wait till you can afford a real Avid system.
$700 for something small and hard to replace? Like jewelry? Are diamonds a frivolous purchase to you?
Seriously, you're declaring the whole product idea bankrupt because it doesn't meet your personal cost/value equation. To me, the heat and noise generated by the latest generation of processors and video cards really make them too annoying to buy, even if they would double the performance of my computer. I place a much higher value on my environment than my computer's performance. You, apparently, place a higher value on cost of repair than size or portability. Neither judgement is right or wrong, simply personal choice. The good news is that we can make those choices individually rather than having a one-size fits all solution shoved down our throats. Compare that to, say, 15 years ago when pretty much any PC you bought was a beige desktop with little variation to distinguish office machines from home machines.
Any decent editor knows when and how to use frame rate to their advantage. The common opinion is that less motion blur gives a better "reality" look while traditional 24fps motion blur gives a feeling of "ethereality". Yes, these are actually the terms I've common heard.
The films SFW and 15 Minutes both made excellent use of both effects.
This is turning into a cell phone-esque pissing match of who's got the smallest. I want to hear from the guy running a 386 with 16MB RAM as his IMAP server.
I'm so embarassed. I still have a P-133 running my home e-mail, web, DNS, and DHCP servers. How does it manage?
Sadly, no. I just read that many of the comments. Just call me a Slashdot junkie.
I'm smelling a trend. XD2 escaped me as well. Maybe CmdrTaco could weigh in. :)
Teaching "outside the book" is also par for course in most liberal arts programs. If it was all in the book, you might as well just have a reading assignment on day 1 and come back for the exams.
An MBA is extremely helpful if you want to be more than the bottom rung in many companies. If you want to control the direction of the software you are working on, you'll need a title higher than "Software Developer". "Project Manager" can code nearly as much, but goes to the meetings where direction is determined. Now that gig isn't for me, but I've seen more than a few developers go that route happily.
Masters or PhD in CS? Few developers I know have those kind of degrees. The guys with that kind of background tend to work as consultants or in acadameia.
I'm not sure how you equate priority queueing as being unfair. Since account age, but rather account activity is the key factor you really only "crap" over those who are saving the most money compared to traditional rental.
Personally, I average between 9 and 13 Netflix discs per month and have 300+ in my queue. I don't care which ones they send me so long as they keep coming.
1) Color. I look at lot of graphs and charts on my Palm and color makes a big difference.
2) Wireless access. Being able to retreive e-mail without going back to the desk is great.
3) Audio and video playback. I don't want a Palm to replace an iPod, but it is good for watching business announcements that are streamed.
If you do none of these things, fine, stick with the m100/m105. However, I think most handheld users will find at least one of the three compelling enough to get a new model.
Listening to the same album over and over isn't about being into or studying music, it's about a single work. I love Picasso's "The Bullfight", but I'd never use that as a basis for the statement "I'm really into art."
The companies that make that equipment are simply responding to their consumers' demands. Most people don't want to alter their music, just play it back the way the artist created it. Look at reviews of receivers with fancy DSPs for effects. Generally they get labled as useless. You and I want to create something new and we have the hardware and software to do it. My wife is more concerned with being able to listen to her old 45s without damaging them further and nothing else.
Business is business and music is music. If you expect an industry to care about anything other than profits, you need to check your rethink some details. Let artists worry about art and business men worry about making a buck. Its what each does best.
Pretty lame troll. In the middle of a discussion about MP3s it certain is fair to use purchases of prerecorded music as an indication of interest in music. Especially when we're in the middle of talking about how much disk space you need to store all the music you listen to.
Do you toss out your old music? I don't. There are still boxes of LPs that I haven't gotten around to encoding yet. Not to mention my father's record collection that I inherited which hasn't been touched yet.
Now, I know some people buy a single CD every month and consider themselves "into music". If that's your niche, I'd guess 20GB would be enough for you. Personally, I can't imagine compressing the last 50 years of music into only the best 1500 albums. I'm not sure if the last 10 years could be handled that way.
I'd say you probably don't. I'd guess you probably don't carry any form of electronic memory on a regular basis. Most people don't and that's cool. Some of us, though, move that much data between home and work now. I still used a Jazz drive until recently because having a single piece of media for moving >1GB of data was handy (plus the suckers could take a lot of abuse).
If I could have 1.5GB of memory in my digital camera for $100, it'd be a done deal. As is, CompactFlash memory is around $50 for 256MB so I'd have to buy six cards which will cost more and be a greater hassle. Even the MicroDrives are $200 for 1GB. I think 1GB is really close to the sweet spot for digital photos. Very few people will need any more than that on a vacation. MP3's on the other hand, I think 100GB is closer to what is right.
Actually, once you're on US soil (and Guantanamo is ours) you get all the same rights as a citizen unless the right is afforded only to citizens explicitly (like the right to vote).
As an example, those developers that implemented the TCP/IP stacks for various operating systems would have 'engineered' a solution because the problem was well defined, the tools were pre-existing, and the solutions were well tested. Now designing TCP/IP may not have been engineering, but that's why you can't lump all software developers into one camp or another.
According to the numbers I've seen. There were approximately 45 million PCs in use in the United States in 1988. By 1992, that number had quadrupled. So while every man woman and child in the United States may not have been using a computer, there were 4 computers for every 5 people and a good number were using them.
They may have not been common in your area, but they were certainly becoming common nation wide, ancedotal evidence aside.
Uh... what? Do you honestly think the computer using world has changed that dramatically in the last 10 years? How many people had a computer on their desk in 1992? Everyone that I knew working in the auto industry from top executives down to peons in the supplier firms had a machine with Windows running. There are some smart people that work in the auto industry, but enough dumb ones to make it a pretty good reflection of the general populace.
Back in '82 I would have agreed with you, but by the early 1990s computers were everywhere and the public started buying them, even if they didn't know why yet.
Some how I think you're bringing up Nicky Hayden to the wrong crowd. BTW, I'm bettng the kid could beat you on an unmodified SV650 too. ;)
As to your point, I think you're correct in that FSB speed, though a critical factor when all else is equal, too much is different between these platforms to use it seriously.
When I worked the PC support desk back in the late 90's, I never had a user give me lip. I think assuming that kind of behavior is normal or acceptable is half the problem.
The other half is that people tend to hire tech support based on technical knowledge without considering communication skills. During my relatively short tech support stint (5 years with different companies) I went to half a dozen communication classes. Validate, empathize, assert. Solves most problems and diffuses even the wrost attitude.