ALVY: (Looking at Rob who is wearing a foil covered suit and hood) Why are you wearing that? Worried about thought control from space aliens? ROB: (Pulling the hood over his head) Gamma rays, Alvy. Gamma rays. Wear this and you'll live forever.
Both 19" and 22" iMacs have been rumored. It's MacWorld time.
It's not the end of the iMac. Apple will be in business next month. They will still be selling one button mice. They will still be annoying Wintel gearheads.
Expect a phone call from the RIAA When you answer it, you get threatened with a DCMA lawsuit for infringing the intellectual property of a long dead classical composer.
NeXT Step 3.1 and on ran on Motorola 68k, Intel x86, Sun Ultra Sparc and HP PA RISC. Unreleased NeXT Steps also ran on DEC Alpha and Motorola 88k/98/PPC.
Big endian/little endian; it didn't matter. The development tools compiled all the supported versions. The resulting fat binaries ran on any NeXT Step on any supported platform.
NeXT solved the Intel compatibility problem by limiting supported Intel systems and cards. As a side note, NeXT developed an object code program to write drivers for NeXT Step.
Dear user:
Thanks for your email. I didn't open it because I was worried about viruses. Sometimes they get into my computer in a email like the one you sent to me.
I'm also a little worried about your computer. Some emails that you get could give your computer a virus. The emails that you have to worry about have something called an "attachment." Not all "attachments" are bad but you might have trouble with an "attachment" ending in.doc
There is a good way to keep this from happening. It's pretty easy to do and it won't damage anything.
This is what you do. There is a button to click in.. (insert a very simple description of how to change preferences here)..
You might tell other people who send you email with "attachments" ending in.doc about this too. I don't want you getting any viruses from the 'attachments" to the email that you get.
Thanks
I believe that an approach like this could result in a powerful user virus. This user virus could erase all the.doc in thousands of email accounts.
Remember users,.doc is a virus.
Advanced operating systems. Defining technology as a subset of an unresponsive monopoly OS is a waste of time.
Efficient programming tools. If four programmers could write a better Photoshop in two months and distribute it electronically, then things will change.
Human factors driven technology. People will buy more stuff that works easily and makes them happy.
At $10,000,000 per centiliter, I'd suspect that only airheaded supermodels and Donald Trump will be swigging it.
I'd also suspect that the ad campaign will feature Robin Leach taking a sip, making a face and saying: "Ummm, incredible. That's real brackish pond water. From Mars."
The Pentagon funds a lot of stupid research projects. This often happens at the end of a fiscal year when managers have to spend the rest of their allocated money or lose it. Sometimes, the resultant Really Stupid Project gets noticed and the manager gets to contemplate the peace and quiet of a remote Alaskan radar base. Sometimes, the Really Stupid Project is supposed to get noticed by the other guys. For instance, the Soviets stopped talking about Lunar military bases just about the time of this study. I'm sure it's a coincidence. During this period, my parents worked at the RAND Corporation, BTW. Something to do with Bombs.
Why would an advanced technology communicate at the speed of light? SETI searches are somewhat like looking for smoke signals while standing next to fiber optic central office.
I've owned several pro NLE systems for the last six years and I have the depleted bank account to prove it. These systems had the economic shelf life of canned corn. Useless after 18 months.
High definition non-linear editing will radically alter how theatrical film and broadcast television is post-produced. This is good. But any new system you buy will still have the shelf life of canned corn.
Even better, the announcement of the $30,000 Apple/Pinnacle uncompressed HD non-linear editing system may be the start of the end of custom professional HD/SD NLE systems.
For instance, the Avid/Soft Image uncompressed HD NLE is about $250,000 and is quite a challenge to learn. The The Accom Affinity uncompressed SD NLE is about $75,000.
BTW, you don't have a complete professional editing system without video tape recorders, monitors, sound equipment, support equipment and test equipment.
These items add up to quite a fortune. For instance, a Sony HDW500 HD VCR will set you back $67,500 and you will need several. Even better, the HD formats are mostly incompatible, so you will need to buy several flavors of HD VCR at third of a Ferrari a pop. Test equipment is equally bad and you will need lots. Allow $275,000 to $500,000 for all this HD swellness.
A professional SD editing system will also need quite a lot of expensive pro support equipment. Allow $50,000 to $80,000.
And remember, it's all worthless in 18 months.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot. A real limitation of systems based on any standard OS/CPU is it takes a while to render effects, dissolves, wipes and other production elements. This is not a big pain with a small project with no real fixed deadline but most real paying projects are big, complex and arrive at your shop at the last minute. You do want someone else to pay for your video equipment and your living expenses, right?
To solve the pain and personal embarrassment of the go out in the hallway, distract the client with card tricks and wait for the coffee to brew while the box renders yet another simple dissolve, many of the high end systems use a dedicated processor and only use the CPU as a GUI front end to the processor box. This swell idea will easily cost you $100,000 and up.
Oh yeah. The Mac/Pinnacle uncompressed HD NLE. Note that uncompressed HD video runs at a constant 150 Mbps per video stream. You may have several streams. BTW, not 150 Mbps for a few minutes, you need 150 Mbps worst case, forever. Yes, you will need serious hard driveage.
And always remember, all pro video editing equipment gets useless just as fast as your computer but it costs 100 times more.
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Annie Hall 1977
Woody Allen
ALVY:
(Looking at Rob who is wearing a foil covered suit and hood)
Why are you wearing that? Worried about thought control from space aliens?
ROB:
(Pulling the hood over his head)
Gamma rays, Alvy. Gamma rays. Wear this and you'll live forever.
Both 19" and 22" iMacs have been rumored. It's MacWorld time.
It's not the end of the iMac. Apple will be in business next month. They will still be selling one button mice. They will still be annoying Wintel gearheads.
My earliest is at 9 months or so.
My daughter can remember being born and the immediate aftermath. Her birth was at home, using the Leboyer technique, FWIW
Expect a phone call from the RIAA When you answer it, you get threatened with a DCMA lawsuit for infringing the intellectual property of a long dead classical composer.
Speed to edit a project is also a function of time lost while the crashed Wintel reboots, yet again.
Would you rather have a $12,000,000 project in a Wintel box or a G4 tower?
Regards
Real Mac cultists get an Apple logo branded on their forehead.
NeXT Step 3.1 and on ran on Motorola 68k, Intel x86, Sun Ultra Sparc and HP PA RISC. Unreleased NeXT Steps also ran on DEC Alpha and Motorola 88k/98/PPC.
Big endian/little endian; it didn't matter. The development tools compiled all the supported versions. The resulting fat binaries ran on any NeXT Step on any supported platform.
NeXT solved the Intel compatibility problem by limiting supported Intel systems and cards. As a side note, NeXT developed an object code program to write drivers for NeXT Step.
It's just a business decision.
This was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC as part of a show on the Office of the Future.
The intended use is to do a year long survey of rain forest ecosystems. The build quality is fantastic.
Yet, after looking at it for a while, I thought it looked like a command car for the Beverly Hills Army.
After more reflection I thought: too much money and not enough girlfriend. I expect one to appear in Steve Balmer's driveway.
Dear user:
.doc
.. (insert a very simple description of how to change preferences here) ..
.doc about this too. I don't want you getting any viruses from the 'attachments" to the email that you get.
.doc in thousands of email accounts.
.doc is a virus.
Thanks for your email. I didn't open it because I was worried about viruses. Sometimes they get into my computer in a email like the one you sent to me.
I'm also a little worried about your computer. Some emails that you get could give your computer a virus. The emails that you have to worry about have something called an "attachment." Not all "attachments" are bad but you might have trouble with an "attachment" ending in
There is a good way to keep this from happening. It's pretty easy to do and it won't damage anything.
This is what you do. There is a button to click in
You might tell other people who send you email with "attachments" ending in
Thanks
I believe that an approach like this could result in a powerful user virus. This user virus could erase all the
Remember users,
Advanced operating systems. Defining technology as a subset of an unresponsive monopoly OS is a waste of time.
Efficient programming tools. If four programmers could write a better Photoshop in two months and distribute it electronically, then things will change.
Human factors driven technology. People will buy more stuff that works easily and makes them happy.
On site pizza and ATM.
You may find this pointer to the Sony ultraviolet laser useful.
http://www.sonypt.co.jp/en/products/p_11.html
Yes, smaller units are in the works. Uncompressed high-definition video recorders might be one application.
At $10,000,000 per centiliter, I'd suspect that only airheaded supermodels and Donald Trump will be swigging it.
I'd also suspect that the ad campaign will feature Robin Leach taking a sip, making a face and saying:
"Ummm, incredible. That's real brackish pond water. From Mars."
Check out this machine. It's pretty much the standard film scanner for 35mm post production. 4k scans are standard.
t s/XE/specific.htm
http://www.ise.imagica.co.jp/scanner/IDS/produc
The money spent did not fund a new Paulie Shore film.
These guys have a complete digital video solution based on Immarsat / 1394 / and DV cameras. Speeds to 384 kbs.
I assume it could do email.
http://www.tokovast.com/vast-dv/index.html
The Pentagon funds a lot of stupid research projects. This often happens at the end of a fiscal year when managers have to spend the rest of their allocated money or lose it. Sometimes, the resultant Really Stupid Project gets noticed and the manager gets to contemplate the peace and quiet of a remote Alaskan radar base. Sometimes, the Really Stupid Project is supposed to get noticed by the other guys. For instance, the Soviets stopped talking about Lunar military bases just about the time of this study. I'm sure it's a coincidence. During this period, my parents worked at the RAND Corporation, BTW. Something to do with Bombs.
Without refrigeration, you'd have to live on a farm and stand next to the cow for fresh milk.
The Roman Empire was a pretty serious police state and it lasted quite a while.
Imagine what would happen if users could sue software makers for faulty code.
"It crashed. It cost me time. It cost me money. I want my lost money and time back. Plus punitive damages for mental anguish."
Imagine software makers having to produce erroer free code or face a lawsuit. Sorta like what aircraft or car companies have to do.
One lawsuit against Microsoft about faulty code would sink this law.
Why would an advanced technology communicate at the speed of light? SETI searches are somewhat like looking for smoke signals while standing next to fiber optic central office.
I've owned several pro NLE systems for the last six years and I have the depleted bank account to prove it. These systems had the economic shelf life of canned corn. Useless after 18 months.
High definition non-linear editing will radically alter how theatrical film and broadcast television is post-produced. This is good. But any new system you buy will still have the shelf life of canned corn.
Even better, the announcement of the $30,000 Apple/Pinnacle uncompressed HD non-linear editing system may be the start of the end of custom professional HD/SD NLE systems.
For instance, the Avid/Soft Image uncompressed HD NLE is about $250,000 and is quite a challenge to learn. The The Accom Affinity uncompressed SD NLE is about $75,000.
BTW, you don't have a complete professional editing system without video tape recorders, monitors, sound equipment, support equipment and test equipment.
These items add up to quite a fortune. For instance, a Sony HDW500 HD VCR will set you back $67,500 and you will need several. Even better, the HD formats are mostly incompatible, so you will need to buy several flavors of HD VCR at third of a Ferrari a pop. Test equipment is equally bad and you will need lots. Allow $275,000 to $500,000 for all this HD swellness.
A professional SD editing system will also need quite a lot of expensive pro support equipment. Allow $50,000 to $80,000.
And remember, it's all worthless in 18 months.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot. A real limitation of systems based on any standard OS/CPU is it takes a while to render effects, dissolves, wipes and other production elements. This is not a big pain with a small project with no real fixed deadline but most real paying projects are big, complex and arrive at your shop at the last minute. You do want someone else to pay for your video equipment and your living expenses, right?
To solve the pain and personal embarrassment of the go out in the hallway, distract the client with card tricks and wait for the coffee to brew while the box renders yet another simple dissolve, many of the high end systems use a dedicated processor and only use the CPU as a GUI front end to the processor box. This swell idea will easily cost you $100,000 and up.
Oh yeah. The Mac/Pinnacle uncompressed HD NLE. Note that uncompressed HD video runs at a constant 150 Mbps per video stream. You may have several streams. BTW, not 150 Mbps for a few minutes, you need 150 Mbps worst case, forever. Yes, you will need serious hard driveage.
And always remember, all pro video editing equipment gets useless just as fast as your computer but it costs 100 times more.
Microsoft has been options churning for several years. To keep up their share price they buy and sell their own options.
What's interesting is that the outstanding options will accelerate a negative trend if the stock drops below a certain value.
I understand that the Wall Street whisper number is that Microsoft becomes insolvent below a share price of 55.
What is not clear is how fast it would become insolvent. It might be quick.
Note that very large market forces will try to push the stock up or down depending on who owns what put or call options.