Thus, we see Apple dropping all of that, as $500/copy simply can't cover the cost of supporting a complex and mission-critical app like that. The biggest studios may find it necessary to drop $50K on the source code to be able to fix bugs themselves, but not many would be willing to continue full development (not their business), and will doubtless be looking at phasing out Shake in favour of more actively-developed alternatives (most have been doing this for some time).
I think you are overanalyzing this. Apple will likely work toward making the base program more stable while 3rd party plug-in makers enticed by a larger market can produce higher end effects. It's a move that could turn Shake into a compositing platform rather than an application. Also when the plug-in market grows this allows high end customers to buy only the features that they need. It's a win/win/win situation. Apple sells more copies of Shake, Plug-in developers have more customers, and users get cheaper software. The only people that loose are those who bought shake for $4999. Oh, and also those who bought it before Apple purchased it. Also this could bring it closer in it's user base toward intergration with Final Cut.
Man, I live in New York City and rent on my closet-sized apartment alone consumes half my salary. A single slice of pizza can easily cost $4.50 if I find myself in the wrong neighborhood. I guess it's nice to only have to share my tiny apartment with one roommate instead of 100.
is the source of this recent furvor all because of the off hand statement made by the CEO of AT&T? if so, he got exactly what he wanted, and what he never expected with one offhand remark.
not a zealot mac love, i was going to defend the microscopic "unix" box. i guess there is no point now. i guess it would just suffice to say that i like the idea of a really small fairly powerful unix box/HD video editor.
muslims threatening violence because the subtext of a thougtless cartoon is accusing them of being a violent people. i'm not trying to make a generalization here saying all muslims are violent, but those who do make generalizations might be a bit confused by the strong and threatening response. it's poor judgement defending yourself by committing the crime of which you've been accused. that being said i realize that this is an emotional response, and not one that was particularly thought out. i just feel that this world would be a better place if we instilled a sense of irony, and a disgust of hypocrisy in our children. this whole thing is akin pro-lifers murdering doctors.
thanks for correcting my grammar. it kind of feels like having a manservant.
are you such a slave to apostraphies that you thought that i meant to say "it is infancy." could you not read past that? were you thinking to yourself "what did he mean by 'it is infancy.'" i'm really sick of people trying to exercise their intellect here. reading submissions on this site makes me feel like there are still people who never truly recovered from the dot-com bust. like there are programmers who still haven't found work or another project to prove their intellegence so they have to come here to do it.
these locks do exist, my highschool used them as recently as 7 years ago, so the story is at least feasible. i doubt anyone would make up a story about a prank so lame. now, if they trained and hid superinterllegent bionically and biologically enhanced monkies in the school overnight to open and switch i'd be impressed.
i've worked in 3d for 5 years, and i don't understand half of what you just said about shaders and private perimeter blocking, nor have i needed any of it to ever complete a project. are these tools specific to MAX because if they are it's not really a fair comparison? every 3D program uses different jargon for it's tools, and also uses different techniques to get the same job done. it seemed like you were throwing around your knowledge of 3D jargon specific to one program rather than making a solid point.
but back to the point i wanted to make. while no sanely managed studio would consider this tool to create a feature film that isn't to say it can't be done. once a program has gotten past it's infancy and included IK, particles, layered texturing, ray tracing, and global illumination (and implimented them well!!!) it can basically be set onto any 3d task. it's merely time constraints and trained talent that are an issue. what blender truly lacks is the scalablity and file management system of XSI and maya. those are the tools that make a program studio worthy. a simple load save system just doesn't cut it on a major motion picture or television show. a studio could do well to adopt blender as a to build propriotory tools. with a bit of work it can be integrated well into a pipeline based on major OS platforms. using it as a cost saving measure would be useless however as the pool of talent trained on this product is quiet limited.
that someone should organize a "buy no music day" or better yet a "buy no music week" to remind the RIAA that they aren't holding all the cards. of coarse they'd probably blame the drop in record sales on the late peer to peer networks.
when hell freezes over. even when their older proprietory standards (beta, minidisc) weren't adopted by 3rd parties, they still matured well under sony's care. they ending up as strong competitors to the more open standards like VHS and CD's. BetaSP gave way to digi BETA, and mini disc capacity is getting larger and larger while CD's remain the same. minidiscs allowed people to record digial music long before cd burning came to the masses.
i doubt the dupes are intentional, and we, the casual readers could go into older articles. however a dupe here and there doesn't warrant the anger that is being displayed here.
how would denying slashdot ad revenue they deserve for serving you interesting ads help to improve the quality of their site? i understand not subscribing as a form of protest. even not visitng slashdot is a legitimate way of asserting yourself as a consumer. but to circumvent their ad revenue is just malicious, especially with the kind of traffic posting the same redundant complaint "a million times" would generate.
they were scanning the part of the ticket covered in scratch off to see through it for winning numbers, not scanning for a winner with the barcode reader.
why is every third post on technology sites, the end of the old way, and the ushering in of something untested. i understand the need to write eye grabbing headlines, but wouldn't saying something threatens the old way, be more accurate?
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just like i'm down for having my testicals burned off by electrical heat from an extra harddrive, and a graphics card. i'd love a laptop that had this kind of power, but i think waiting for a cooler, less power hungry beast is worthwhile. how long will battery life be able to last when it's searing my legs and possibly damaging other components. now if it there was flashdisk RAID with even a modest performance/storage/price ratio I'd be foaming at the mouth.
i think it's very unfair to single out the u.s. for making terrible movies. i'm assuming you are american, because if you weren't, you'd realize foreign studios make shite movies too. the percieved disparity comes from the fact that we, as americans, have the luxury of being picky about importing foreign films because we have the largest film industry providing us with so many "options". granted most of those options are ever so slight variations on the themes and concepts, sometimes nullifying our freedom of choice. this contributes the perception that only the u.s. produces terrible movies. the truth is we are the only ones who produce them at such a dizzying volume. it's the overabundance of domestic films (that has astonishingly been maintained and grown for some time in the u.s.) mixed with the bizarre american take on patriotism, and plain old hubris that has limited the need for foreign movies in the u.s. market. other countries don't spit out a dozen movies a week, making the market for u.s. films larger by comparison. these markets have more opening for movies of which we have an abundance, therefore, they get more of our shitty movies. this is why they sell multi-region dvd players and multi-format televisions in europe, but you need to break some laws or your back to get one in the united states.
that's the problem. it's easy to throw money at FX, sex, and gore, and get quality results. really it's just as easy to throw money at a screen writer, but you can't expect consistantly quality results. that's why there are rewriters. and even if you get quality, a great script doesn't always make a great movie. in fact it's generally cheaper to spend money on writing, and throwing more money into writing isn't going to make a project good. in fact, the opposite is probably true. it's fairly easy to choose an effects house that has done good work in the past and judge if do it again. fx are a very refined process. the more money you give them the more they can put on screen. it's also incredibly easy to find an attractive woman in hollywood willing to take her clothes off. you can't find this kind of consistancy in screen writing. even a finished script that sparkles on paper won't neccessarily make a good movie. good stories can be made awful, even in the hands of capable directors and producers. it's just the way movies work. there is so much work and input required that a few bad elements can taint the whole project. this is made worst because the product is so high profile, and careers are based on reputation. everyone wants input, and producers with money and power will always get their say. too many cooks will spoil the soup even if they are all qualified. i'm not saying every movie movie exec is qualified to put together projects or revise a movie's trajectory, but even the skilled experienced ones are going to run into some walls.
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are the sleep keys they've been adding to key boards lately. drop your head phones on that sucker and you can really F up your day.
Thus, we see Apple dropping all of that, as $500/copy simply can't cover the cost of supporting a complex and mission-critical app like that. The biggest studios may find it necessary to drop $50K on the source code to be able to fix bugs themselves, but not many would be willing to continue full development (not their business), and will doubtless be looking at phasing out Shake in favour of more actively-developed alternatives (most have been doing this for some time). I think you are overanalyzing this. Apple will likely work toward making the base program more stable while 3rd party plug-in makers enticed by a larger market can produce higher end effects. It's a move that could turn Shake into a compositing platform rather than an application. Also when the plug-in market grows this allows high end customers to buy only the features that they need. It's a win/win/win situation. Apple sells more copies of Shake, Plug-in developers have more customers, and users get cheaper software. The only people that loose are those who bought shake for $4999. Oh, and also those who bought it before Apple purchased it. Also this could bring it closer in it's user base toward intergration with Final Cut.
Man, I live in New York City and rent on my closet-sized apartment alone consumes half my salary. A single slice of pizza can easily cost $4.50 if I find myself in the wrong neighborhood. I guess it's nice to only have to share my tiny apartment with one roommate instead of 100.
is the source of this recent furvor all because of the off hand statement made by the CEO of AT&T? if so, he got exactly what he wanted, and what he never expected with one offhand remark.
not a zealot mac love, i was going to defend the microscopic "unix" box. i guess there is no point now. i guess it would just suffice to say that i like the idea of a really small fairly powerful unix box/HD video editor.
this could be the kick in teh ass they need.
save the celebration until the FTC and FCC allows SBC and verizon merge.
r! Seriously this is how the elderly get things done.
muslims threatening violence because the subtext of a thougtless cartoon is accusing them of being a violent people. i'm not trying to make a generalization here saying all muslims are violent, but those who do make generalizations might be a bit confused by the strong and threatening response. it's poor judgement defending yourself by committing the crime of which you've been accused. that being said i realize that this is an emotional response, and not one that was particularly thought out. i just feel that this world would be a better place if we instilled a sense of irony, and a disgust of hypocrisy in our children. this whole thing is akin pro-lifers murdering doctors.
thanks for correcting my grammar. it kind of feels like having a manservant.
are you such a slave to apostraphies that you thought that i meant to say "it is infancy." could you not read past that? were you thinking to yourself "what did he mean by 'it is infancy.'" i'm really sick of people trying to exercise their intellect here. reading submissions on this site makes me feel like there are still people who never truly recovered from the dot-com bust. like there are programmers who still haven't found work or another project to prove their intellegence so they have to come here to do it.
these locks do exist, my highschool used them as recently as 7 years ago, so the story is at least feasible. i doubt anyone would make up a story about a prank so lame. now, if they trained and hid superinterllegent bionically and biologically enhanced monkies in the school overnight to open and switch i'd be impressed.
i've worked in 3d for 5 years, and i don't understand half of what you just said about shaders and private perimeter blocking, nor have i needed any of it to ever complete a project. are these tools specific to MAX because if they are it's not really a fair comparison? every 3D program uses different jargon for it's tools, and also uses different techniques to get the same job done. it seemed like you were throwing around your knowledge of 3D jargon specific to one program rather than making a solid point.
but back to the point i wanted to make. while no sanely managed studio would consider this tool to create a feature film that isn't to say it can't be done. once a program has gotten past it's infancy and included IK, particles, layered texturing, ray tracing, and global illumination (and implimented them well!!!) it can basically be set onto any 3d task. it's merely time constraints and trained talent that are an issue. what blender truly lacks is the scalablity and file management system of XSI and maya. those are the tools that make a program studio worthy. a simple load save system just doesn't cut it on a major motion picture or television show. a studio could do well to adopt blender as a to build propriotory tools. with a bit of work it can be integrated well into a pipeline based on major OS platforms. using it as a cost saving measure would be useless however as the pool of talent trained on this product is quiet limited.
why they didn't go with AMD? mobility chips?
that someone should organize a "buy no music day" or better yet a "buy no music week" to remind the RIAA that they aren't holding all the cards. of coarse they'd probably blame the drop in record sales on the late peer to peer networks.
someone should organize a "buy no music day" or perhaps a full week to teach the RIAA that they aren't holding all the cards.
when hell freezes over. even when their older proprietory standards (beta, minidisc) weren't adopted by 3rd parties, they still matured well under sony's care. they ending up as strong competitors to the more open standards like VHS and CD's. BetaSP gave way to digi BETA, and mini disc capacity is getting larger and larger while CD's remain the same. minidiscs allowed people to record digial music long before cd burning came to the masses.
i doubt the dupes are intentional, and we, the casual readers could go into older articles. however a dupe here and there doesn't warrant the anger that is being displayed here.
how would denying slashdot ad revenue they deserve for serving you interesting ads help to improve the quality of their site? i understand not subscribing as a form of protest. even not visitng slashdot is a legitimate way of asserting yourself as a consumer. but to circumvent their ad revenue is just malicious, especially with the kind of traffic posting the same redundant complaint "a million times" would generate.
they were scanning the part of the ticket covered in scratch off to see through it for winning numbers, not scanning for a winner with the barcode reader.
why is every third post on technology sites, the end of the old way, and the ushering in of something untested. i understand the need to write eye grabbing headlines, but wouldn't saying something threatens the old way, be more accurate?
just like i'm down for having my testicals burned off by electrical heat from an extra harddrive, and a graphics card. i'd love a laptop that had this kind of power, but i think waiting for a cooler, less power hungry beast is worthwhile. how long will battery life be able to last when it's searing my legs and possibly damaging other components. now if it there was flashdisk RAID with even a modest performance/storage/price ratio I'd be foaming at the mouth.
i think it's very unfair to single out the u.s. for making terrible movies. i'm assuming you are american, because if you weren't, you'd realize foreign studios make shite movies too. the percieved disparity comes from the fact that we, as americans, have the luxury of being picky about importing foreign films because we have the largest film industry providing us with so many "options". granted most of those options are ever so slight variations on the themes and concepts, sometimes nullifying our freedom of choice. this contributes the perception that only the u.s. produces terrible movies. the truth is we are the only ones who produce them at such a dizzying volume. it's the overabundance of domestic films (that has astonishingly been maintained and grown for some time in the u.s.) mixed with the bizarre american take on patriotism, and plain old hubris that has limited the need for foreign movies in the u.s. market. other countries don't spit out a dozen movies a week, making the market for u.s. films larger by comparison. these markets have more opening for movies of which we have an abundance, therefore, they get more of our shitty movies. this is why they sell multi-region dvd players and multi-format televisions in europe, but you need to break some laws or your back to get one in the united states.
let me amend that last sentence. ...will run into several dozen walls on every project they work on.
that's the problem. it's easy to throw money at FX, sex, and gore, and get quality results. really it's just as easy to throw money at a screen writer, but you can't expect consistantly quality results. that's why there are rewriters. and even if you get quality, a great script doesn't always make a great movie. in fact it's generally cheaper to spend money on writing, and throwing more money into writing isn't going to make a project good. in fact, the opposite is probably true. it's fairly easy to choose an effects house that has done good work in the past and judge if do it again. fx are a very refined process. the more money you give them the more they can put on screen. it's also incredibly easy to find an attractive woman in hollywood willing to take her clothes off. you can't find this kind of consistancy in screen writing. even a finished script that sparkles on paper won't neccessarily make a good movie. good stories can be made awful, even in the hands of capable directors and producers. it's just the way movies work. there is so much work and input required that a few bad elements can taint the whole project. this is made worst because the product is so high profile, and careers are based on reputation. everyone wants input, and producers with money and power will always get their say. too many cooks will spoil the soup even if they are all qualified. i'm not saying every movie movie exec is qualified to put together projects or revise a movie's trajectory, but even the skilled experienced ones are going to run into some walls.