The DV line of products does well for hardware stuff, but it can't do everything. I use a dual PII 400 (Soon upgrading, it's old) with 1GB of memory (Go for memory, it's worth it). I use two ultra SCSI 2 10gig drives and a Soney CDR/RW for main storage. I use a Jaz drive for portability. You need a good scanner as well (HP makes the best in my opinion). Belive it or not, I'm running a wimpy little G-Force card. It's a lot cheeper than the business-grade cards but it can keep up just fine. The only cards better will cost you upwards of $3000. Get these core tools: 1.) Win NT 2.) 3D Studio MAX r3 + Character Studio 3.) Adobe Photoshop 4.) Adobe AfterEffects The fact is, spend money on your system, because if you do this for a living, you will never keep clients by saving money and sacrificing the time it takes you to turn out a product. Everyone comes to you with a rush job, and you can't work faster than your system.
I went to the site. Not only is it well-presented but it does exactly what he says it does: supporting students. What the school should be doing is paying him to build and maintain the site to fully support the school since he is doing a good job. But I don't see where they have any legal ground to stand on since he is obviously not squatting. But I don't see why he should have to get a lawyer and spend money to defend himself. I say take it to an independant arbiter.
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The DV line of products does well for hardware stuff, but it can't do everything. I use a dual PII 400 (Soon upgrading, it's old) with 1GB of memory (Go for memory, it's worth it). I use two ultra SCSI 2 10gig drives and a Soney CDR/RW for main storage. I use a Jaz drive for portability. You need a good scanner as well (HP makes the best in my opinion). Belive it or not, I'm running a wimpy little G-Force card. It's a lot cheeper than the business-grade cards but it can keep up just fine. The only cards better will cost you upwards of $3000. Get these core tools: 1.) Win NT 2.) 3D Studio MAX r3 + Character Studio 3.) Adobe Photoshop 4.) Adobe AfterEffects The fact is, spend money on your system, because if you do this for a living, you will never keep clients by saving money and sacrificing the time it takes you to turn out a product. Everyone comes to you with a rush job, and you can't work faster than your system.
I went to the site. Not only is it well-presented but it does exactly what he says it does: supporting students. What the school should be doing is paying him to build and maintain the site to fully support the school since he is doing a good job. But I don't see where they have any legal ground to stand on since he is obviously not squatting.
But I don't see why he should have to get a lawyer and spend money to defend himself. I say take it to an independant arbiter.