Remember Creative got to that point not by innovation, but by litigation. They sued Aureal (their main competitor), a US company, into bankruptcy and then purchased their IP assets (see Audigy 1&2). Linkage
I now have 10x the HD capacity that I can afford to back up (DLTs are still insanely expensive) and the access and transfer speeds haven't changed in years.
How about an 80 Gig drive that lasts 5 years and can transfer at about 1 Gig per second that costs $200. THAT I would buy.
I am not surprised about Java being on top. In a recent call to a top headhunter here in Indiana, they told me that there are four people in the state that they consider experts in Java at the enterprise.
Four.
That is scary. BTW, I am know studying MVC and J2EE VERY intently now.
The low price offered on the street is representitive of what would be a fair price to those in the area. Considering the lower cost of living, lower wages in China, it seems like a very fair price.
Does anyone think that someone who would buy a low quality dupe would pay full price to see it in the theatre? Maybe...I did not go see "Blair Witch" in the theatres until I saw a crappy VCD first.
Actually Composer and Xpress run on both Mac and PC and AVID products cost so much because they can. I miss my Toaster, now that was bang for your buck!
Windows has full support for ICC and other color calibrating APIs. Oddly enough, this is one area where Microsoft has stuck to supporting open standards...go figure.
When done properly, you can get exactly the same level of color calibration as the Mac, but yes, it does take more work. The nice thing is that you are not stuck with proprietary hardware and and can mix and match software because of the support of open standards.
Can't believe I wrote "open standards" and "Microsoft" in the same paragraph...and it was positive.
Sorry...I forgot that Shake still runs on linux and version 2.5 still runs on windows. Apple bought Shake and killed the windows version (and they say Gates is an asshole?).
Uh...AVID...uh, Premier...uh, Video Explosion (el cheapo)...oh those are the "commercial ones". Every DV card comes with editing software. Windows Movie Maker is built in...heh.
Also, shake is an effects generator, not an editor.
Final Cut Pro is very nice, but it is unfortunately tied to proprietary hardware. I'll stick with the AVID.
The highpoint craps out in real world usage and is only two channel (no RAID 5). The reason why it appears so fast is it uses the system CPU and ram as opposed to the others cards which use embedded ram and processing. The highpoint is a great value for small workstations, though.
Actually doctors and lawyers are always studying something just to stay current. My fathers side of the family are mostly lawyers and research scientists, my mothers is mostly doctors and nurses. I grew up with seeing them always having to stay current just to be competitive.
The IT worker has the same knowledge demands as doctors, lawyers, engineers, and architects. Why do we not have state licensure to shake out the undesirables, the people who are manager-cum-IT guy?
How many of us have had to deal with idiot managers with unrealistic projects, CIO's that didn't know a port from his sphincter, and salesmen that screw over service departments for higher commision? And don't forget all of these people make a HELL of a lot more than we do.
I say by having formal licensure (instead of a hodgepod of certs and degrees), we can elevate our standing in the corporate pecking order and create a tangible seperation between those who KNOW and those DO NOT. I would guess about half of the "IT" workers out there (read: most of the managers and salesmen) would not be able to pass a real boarded exam. The ones who do get licensed would have a much more leverage on demanding higher salaries.
I may be a little bitter in that I stupidly live in the worst state for IT, Indiana. I went from $24 hour in a factory (and almost lost a hand) to $14 hour doing tier II support (our salesmen made $40000 + commision and never got out of their chairs, we never got to sit down).
Oh did I mention I got laid off (support department got centralized to Kansas City...nice...no warning, no severance). Chrysler here I come...
I also used to work at a teaching hospital (Wishard for Indiana University) and I learned more there about networking and systems support than in years of college. I remember one day we found a still used piece of thick-net (you know...old firehose). It was connecting the ambulance office's systems to the rest of the hostpital. The rest of the hospital ran on DEC VAX clusters and terminals. To be fair, they have gotten much better (I don't work there anymore either), but this wasn't the first hospital network I had seen that truly terrified me, and it hasn't been the last.
Many groups (both inside Apple and outside) have been pushing for the porting of the MacOS to x86 hardware since before the System 7 days. It's Apples hardware (and prices) we don't want.
I bet if Apple was willing to burn the billions (which they have) and dropped the price of their top model to $1500 or less, they would have a 20% - 30% market share in a year.
Except in the microprocessor market (like petroleum or pharmaceuticals) the cost of entry is stagering (billions and billions) and the ROI is tenuous at best. The it manufacturing business makes bankrolling movies seem like a surefire investment.
The interstate bandwidth exists in massive excess (This is what got worldcom in such a pinch...they kept pumping their investors to lay down more lines saying the internet was doubling every 18 months or so...BIG lie), it is the last mile that costs so much. The problem is, however, that the cable companies will have recouped their investment sometime this year (or early next year). Will the prices go down? Hell no! We are now going to be paying for the cable companies to upgrade to digital VOD for televsion and the changeover to HDTV.
Not that that isn't a valid (and quite smart) business move, but there is no reason that everyone in the country could not have T1 speeds (at least for DL) for about $20 a month.
If the FCC would get off it's ass, we would have had high speed wireless by now and the landline infrastructure could have been used more effectively (it is always cheaper to go wireless last mile)...
After reading up on it, it looks like they expect demos of receivers at the CES in January (Japan). Also, ClearChannel, Ford, et al. are in on this so I think we can all look forward to this soon becoming the next standard. Sorry XM, ouch...
Wonder how long it'll take them to design pop-up ads for the receivers (I bet less than 24 hours after it goes live...heh)
Here is a list of stations that is CURRENTLY testing this technology. I have no idea what type of receiver you need for this.
WNEW-FM (102.7) in New York; WETA-FM (90.9), WHFS-FM (99.1), WJFK-FM (106.7), WAMU-FM (88.5), and WTOP-AM (1500), in Washington, D.C.; KLLC-FM (97.3), KDFC (102.1) and KABL-AM (960) in San Francisco; WILC-AM (900) and WPOC-FM (93.1) in Baltimore; WNOP-AM (740) in Cincinnati, WPST-FM (97.5), and WBJB-FM (90.5) in Central, N.J.; KWNR-FM (95.5), KNPR-FM (89.5), and KSFN-AM (1140) in Las Vegas; and WGRV-FM (105.1) and WWJ-AM (950) in Detroit; WWMO-FM (98.9), in Orlando.
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Remember Creative got to that point not by innovation, but by litigation. They sued Aureal (their main competitor), a US company, into bankruptcy and then purchased their IP assets (see Audigy 1&2). Linkage
I now have 10x the HD capacity that I can afford to back up (DLTs are still insanely expensive) and the access and transfer speeds haven't changed in years.
How about an 80 Gig drive that lasts 5 years and can transfer at about 1 Gig per second that costs $200. THAT I would buy.
I am not surprised about Java being on top. In a recent call to a top headhunter here in Indiana, they told me that there are four people in the state that they consider experts in Java at the enterprise.
Four.
That is scary. BTW, I am know studying MVC and J2EE VERY intently now.
I can't wait to be able to tell my kids about the fabled OS wars before Microsoft and Apple became middleware vendors...heh.
The low price offered on the street is representitive of what would be a fair price to those in the area. Considering the lower cost of living, lower wages in China, it seems like a very fair price.
Does anyone think that someone who would buy a low quality dupe would pay full price to see it in the theatre? Maybe...I did not go see "Blair Witch" in the theatres until I saw a crappy VCD first.
Actually Composer and Xpress run on both Mac and PC and AVID products cost so much because they can. I miss my Toaster, now that was bang for your buck!
Oh dear god, now we have Mac people spreading Intel FUD...
That's it, I am switching back to the Amiga...
I wonder if Final Cut Pro will run on Darwin?
And IBM invented (and ditched) core multithreading back in the 70's.
HT is cute and all, but it just makes the P4 architecture almost as efficient as the PIII.
Windows has full support for ICC and other color calibrating APIs. Oddly enough, this is one area where Microsoft has stuck to supporting open standards...go figure.
When done properly, you can get exactly the same level of color calibration as the Mac, but yes, it does take more work. The nice thing is that you are not stuck with proprietary hardware and and can mix and match software because of the support of open standards.
Can't believe I wrote "open standards" and "Microsoft" in the same paragraph...and it was positive.
Sorry...I forgot that Shake still runs on linux and version 2.5 still runs on windows. Apple bought Shake and killed the windows version (and they say Gates is an asshole?).
Uh...AVID...uh, Premier...uh, Video Explosion (el cheapo)...oh those are the "commercial ones". Every DV card comes with editing software. Windows Movie Maker is built in...heh.
Also, shake is an effects generator, not an editor.
Final Cut Pro is very nice, but it is unfortunately tied to proprietary hardware. I'll stick with the AVID.
It's called interleaveing and has been around for a while.
The highpoint craps out in real world usage and is only two channel (no RAID 5). The reason why it appears so fast is it uses the system CPU and ram as opposed to the others cards which use embedded ram and processing. The highpoint is a great value for small workstations, though.
Actually doctors and lawyers are always studying something just to stay current. My fathers side of the family are mostly lawyers and research scientists, my mothers is mostly doctors and nurses. I grew up with seeing them always having to stay current just to be competitive.
I worked at 96th street...and got laid off. All the jobs went out of state. This was at one of the largest insurance companies in the world.
The IT worker has the same knowledge demands as doctors, lawyers, engineers, and architects. Why do we not have state licensure to shake out the undesirables, the people who are manager-cum-IT guy?
How many of us have had to deal with idiot managers with unrealistic projects, CIO's that didn't know a port from his sphincter, and salesmen that screw over service departments for higher commision? And don't forget all of these people make a HELL of a lot more than we do.
I say by having formal licensure (instead of a hodgepod of certs and degrees), we can elevate our standing in the corporate pecking order and create a tangible seperation between those who KNOW and those DO NOT. I would guess about half of the "IT" workers out there (read: most of the managers and salesmen) would not be able to pass a real boarded exam. The ones who do get licensed would have a much more leverage on demanding higher salaries.
I may be a little bitter in that I stupidly live in the worst state for IT, Indiana. I went from $24 hour in a factory (and almost lost a hand) to $14 hour doing tier II support (our salesmen made $40000 + commision and never got out of their chairs, we never got to sit down).
Oh did I mention I got laid off (support department got centralized to Kansas City...nice...no warning, no severance). Chrysler here I come...
Oh yeah...Hey Joe...good luck out there...heh.
I also used to work at a teaching hospital (Wishard for Indiana University) and I learned more there about networking and systems support than in years of college. I remember one day we found a still used piece of thick-net (you know...old firehose). It was connecting the ambulance office's systems to the rest of the hostpital. The rest of the hospital ran on DEC VAX clusters and terminals. To be fair, they have gotten much better (I don't work there anymore either), but this wasn't the first hospital network I had seen that truly terrified me, and it hasn't been the last.
Many groups (both inside Apple and outside) have been pushing for the porting of the MacOS to x86 hardware since before the System 7 days. It's Apples hardware (and prices) we don't want.
I bet if Apple was willing to burn the billions (which they have) and dropped the price of their top model to $1500 or less, they would have a 20% - 30% market share in a year.
Except in the microprocessor market (like petroleum or pharmaceuticals) the cost of entry is stagering (billions and billions) and the ROI is tenuous at best. The it manufacturing business makes bankrolling movies seem like a surefire investment.
Just an FYI, but "SECRET" is the lowest level of COMSEC and is even below "CLASSIFIED" and far, far below "COMPARTMENTALIZED".
The interstate bandwidth exists in massive excess (This is what got worldcom in such a pinch...they kept pumping their investors to lay down more lines saying the internet was doubling every 18 months or so...BIG lie), it is the last mile that costs so much. The problem is, however, that the cable companies will have recouped their investment sometime this year (or early next year). Will the prices go down? Hell no! We are now going to be paying for the cable companies to upgrade to digital VOD for televsion and the changeover to HDTV.
Not that that isn't a valid (and quite smart) business move, but there is no reason that everyone in the country could not have T1 speeds (at least for DL) for about $20 a month.
If the FCC would get off it's ass, we would have had high speed wireless by now and the landline infrastructure could have been used more effectively (it is always cheaper to go wireless last mile)...
After reading up on it, it looks like they expect demos of receivers at the CES in January (Japan). Also, ClearChannel, Ford, et al. are in on this so I think we can all look forward to this soon becoming the next standard. Sorry XM, ouch...
Wonder how long it'll take them to design pop-up ads for the receivers (I bet less than 24 hours after it goes live...heh)
Here is a list of stations that is CURRENTLY testing this technology. I have no idea what type of receiver you need for this.
WNEW-FM (102.7) in New York; WETA-FM (90.9), WHFS-FM (99.1), WJFK-FM (106.7), WAMU-FM (88.5), and WTOP-AM (1500), in Washington, D.C.; KLLC-FM (97.3), KDFC (102.1) and KABL-AM (960) in San Francisco; WILC-AM (900) and WPOC-FM (93.1) in Baltimore; WNOP-AM (740) in Cincinnati, WPST-FM (97.5), and WBJB-FM (90.5) in Central, N.J.; KWNR-FM (95.5), KNPR-FM (89.5), and KSFN-AM (1140) in Las Vegas; and WGRV-FM (105.1) and WWJ-AM (950) in Detroit; WWMO-FM (98.9), in Orlando.