What's so fucking special about Flame? It's just a comping tool - the only guys in our facility who do much comping use Shake, AE, DS HD and Editbox FX. No tool is perfect - the power and versatility of Shake is BETTER than Flame, and you can always use Combustion on the Mac - my machine runs Commotion, which has SOME facilites that Flame can't touch - motion tracking in Commotion is fucking miles better, for example. Typography in fucking AE is better than Flame's etc etc etc.
Give me a Quantel iQ and a PowerMac G5 and I'll do more than a truckload of Floctanes (Flezro doesn't have the same ring, does it?).
...then you don't need Photoshop. Why are you using such an expensive, capable application to crop pictures? You could get Corel Photo Paint free with a box of Cornflakes.
"So she paid for all the other stuff on the desktop (Office, OS, etc.) right?"
No, her notebook is company property, and includes all the productivity software that they need (Win2K Pro, MS Office). Her PDA is her own (Clié) which she syncs both with one of my Macs and with her Win notebook. The Clié included virtually everything required, but there's some shareware, freeware and commercial progs on there too, not to mention her eBooks.
No, but I'd put money on a G5 outperforming a Tezro in just about EVERY metric. SGI used to have the highest bandwidth architecture by far, but first PCs and now the Mac G5 have overtaken them by a mile.
SGI became a dying niche manufacturer the day Adobe pulled Photoshop for IRIX. A real shame too, PS would have been pretty sharp on their subsequent workstations.
I know how you feel - I paid for Omniweb because I value it's features above other browsers I've used. I can't even remember what it cost, but I think it was around the price of a music CD...
it's hard to explain the concept to people these days, but I DID manage to get my girlfriend to register and pay for her copy of Bejeweled (I mean, she only plays it about 2 hours a day...) and she still thinks it's a bit much to have to PAY for stuff - I did explain to her that the people who wrote the software have to eat and everything but... I sometimes wonder if there will come a time when commercial software will simply die outside of the corporate sphere because no-one can grasp the idea of paying for software at all.
IBM's little initialism for the PPC 970 is GPUL - meaning 'Giga Processor Ultra Light" - certainly NOT a server chip, probably not a workstation chip (though we don't know yet) - definitely aimed at the PC/laptop space.
What Apple and/or IBM MAY do in the future to market the 970 or its successors has no bearing whatever on what's happening NOW. Apple hardly compete with SGI or Sun - their pricing policies place them squarely in the middle ground between those two and the mass x86 market.
You are indeed confused. English has developed over more than a thousand years from the native tongues of the various peoples that have made their home here. English derives much of its basic structure and vocab from "Anglo-Saxon", a language much like that spoken in modern day Freisland. Add in to that various Scandinavian and Celtic words, phrases and idioms and then give the whole thing a massive injection of French and you get English as we know it. American English is a language falling apart because so few of its native users seem to understand it.
OSX in pen operable, and has a handwriting (well capitals, anyway) recognition system built in. I wish Apple would get an iBook-esque tablet out - I'd snap one up in a second. But only if it ran OSX proper.
Funnily enough, I know a couple of guys who used to use SGI Octanes as their PCs, although neither do anymore. Still, SGI never sold the Octane as a PC...
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30 years of uptime? Eh? Can you explain to me how this is KNOWN when the PPC platform hasn't existed yet for 30 years?
Incidentally, my Powermac pisses on your crappy Indy so there.
That's what this is all REALLY about, isn't it? Your just a feeble SGI fanboy, you wouldn't know what people use to get work done in the real world.
Stop dreaming and get some work done.
3. ???
4. Profit!!!
incidentally, a 1080i FRAME is the same size as a 1080 FRAME - what are you blathering about?
No, I mean a sitting-around-waiting-for-it-to-finish-rendering metric.
What's so fucking special about Flame? It's just a comping tool - the only guys in our facility who do much comping use Shake, AE, DS HD and Editbox FX. No tool is perfect - the power and versatility of Shake is BETTER than Flame, and you can always use Combustion on the Mac - my machine runs Commotion, which has SOME facilites that Flame can't touch - motion tracking in Commotion is fucking miles better, for example. Typography in fucking AE is better than Flame's etc etc etc.
Give me a Quantel iQ and a PowerMac G5 and I'll do more than a truckload of Floctanes (Flezro doesn't have the same ring, does it?).
...then you don't need Photoshop. Why are you using such an expensive, capable application to crop pictures? You could get Corel Photo Paint free with a box of Cornflakes.
Why don't record companies drop ALL of their bands who aren't at number 1 in the charts? It would save them a ton of dollars in A&R.
you've got a car FROM THE FUTURE?
you're not Dr Brown, are you?
700Mhz
3.2Ghz
32/7=4.57
maybe you should master your calculator before graduating to a personal computer?
...by at least FIVE YEARS.
"So she paid for all the other stuff on the desktop (Office, OS, etc.) right?"
No, her notebook is company property, and includes all the productivity software that they need (Win2K Pro, MS Office). Her PDA is her own (Clié) which she syncs both with one of my Macs and with her Win notebook. The Clié included virtually everything required, but there's some shareware, freeware and commercial progs on there too, not to mention her eBooks.
Flame is quite a bit better specced than Combustion, but your Athlon beast has WAY more CPU resources than an Octane.
WAY more.
Don't forget, most decent Flame installations will have a lot of extra rendering resources across the LAN to provide the necessary horsepower.
So? SGI doesn't have Photoshop, Graphic Coverter, Illustrator, Freehand, Pro Tools, Logic, Xpress, InDesign, MS Office etc etc etc
If you want applications, I think MacOS can safely hold its own against IRIX.
No, but I'd put money on a G5 outperforming a Tezro in just about EVERY metric. SGI used to have the highest bandwidth architecture by far, but first PCs and now the Mac G5 have overtaken them by a mile.
SGI became a dying niche manufacturer the day Adobe pulled Photoshop for IRIX. A real shame too, PS would have been pretty sharp on their subsequent workstations.
I know how you feel - I paid for Omniweb because I value it's features above other browsers I've used. I can't even remember what it cost, but I think it was around the price of a music CD...
it's hard to explain the concept to people these days, but I DID manage to get my girlfriend to register and pay for her copy of Bejeweled (I mean, she only plays it about 2 hours a day...) and she still thinks it's a bit much to have to PAY for stuff - I did explain to her that the people who wrote the software have to eat and everything but... I sometimes wonder if there will come a time when commercial software will simply die outside of the corporate sphere because no-one can grasp the idea of paying for software at all.
If your superior intellect still hasn't fixed that spelling mistake - how do you expect people to take the rest of your post seriously?
What would your grade school teachers think if they could see that?
"and IE comes out on top for speed and usability"
I'll grant you that IE can be pretty swift but it's a usability nightmare - to see just HOW bad IE for Windows is, go check out IE5 for MacOS9.
...no, it's a Mac! :-]
...and it wouldn't cost £2000 if AMD wanted it to be used in PERSONAL COMPUTER systems. You see?
IBM's little initialism for the PPC 970 is GPUL - meaning 'Giga Processor Ultra Light" - certainly NOT a server chip, probably not a workstation chip (though we don't know yet) - definitely aimed at the PC/laptop space.
What Apple and/or IBM MAY do in the future to market the 970 or its successors has no bearing whatever on what's happening NOW. Apple hardly compete with SGI or Sun - their pricing policies place them squarely in the middle ground between those two and the mass x86 market.
You are indeed confused. English has developed over more than a thousand years from the native tongues of the various peoples that have made their home here. English derives much of its basic structure and vocab from "Anglo-Saxon", a language much like that spoken in modern day Freisland. Add in to that various Scandinavian and Celtic words, phrases and idioms and then give the whole thing a massive injection of French and you get English as we know it. American English is a language falling apart because so few of its native users seem to understand it.
consept?
what are you, some kind of spelling terrorist?
OSX in pen operable, and has a handwriting (well capitals, anyway) recognition system built in. I wish Apple would get an iBook-esque tablet out - I'd snap one up in a second. But only if it ran OSX proper.
"For instance, there is more than one way to compress music."
I think it's about time you were sent off to our re-education facility in Redmond.
Repeat after me: "There is only one way to compress music, Windows Media 9. Thanks be to Bill".
Funnily enough, I know a couple of guys who used to use SGI Octanes as their PCs, although neither do anymore. Still, SGI never sold the Octane as a PC...
maybe they should have.