Democracy? Let me see... you've got somehere between 280- and 300 MILLION citizens in the USA and by some absolute miracle the current king/president is the SON of the previous Republican president. What are the odds? It's a plutocracy you're living in, your American dream means NOTHING.
Bill of rights? Don't make me laugh - how does racial profiling, Guantanamo Bay and the Disney coyright extension fit in with THAT?
no kidding, but you've got an uphill struggle in the USA trying to convince anyone that a woman should be anything other than a stupid, sunbed-tanned, bottle-blonde, fake-breasted, collagen-lipped, lipo-sucked, sparkle-toothed, botox-riddled whore.
if that IS the case then it says more about their website than anything else - if they wanted to force a download, they didn't have to go to the lengths of ZIPing.
the point wasn't about the Opteron per se, but about the almost irrelevant gains in productivity and utility we see from our ever-stronger CPUs. And you know as well as I that AMD isn't really interested in selling 1000 Opterons when they could be selling 100000 Athlon 64s. Opteron is just a slow start for them.
Is the introduction of the Opteron going to help out my ever growing inbox spam problem? Didn't think so.
I don't know what a semi-truck is, but all of your other counterpoints are meaningless. He's right, all the things that are wrong with our computers NOW will not be ameliorated by faster CPUs, more RAM and more bloated software. It often occurs to me that my Palm Tungsten T is QUITE A BIT more powerful than my Commodore 64, my Mac Classic, my old 386DX, possibly even than my Amiga 500 and my Mac Colour Classic, yet that extra power doesn't seem to make it much quicker or easier to do stuff with. My PowerMac G4 dual 500 doesn't seem to run my Excel spreadsheets any faster than my old Quadra 800 either - despite it being probably 100 x faster and despite it having 1024MB of RAM where my Quadra had 80MB.
Mac OSX's "Genie" mnimising effect is probably the best example of pointless CPU utilisation I've ever seen - with the possible exception of MS Office.
the fact that they're using DivX at all shows that they know absolutrely-fuck-all about video encoding. And you're right, entropy encoding is the most basic technique used in all post 1995 codecs AFAIK - video files often EXPAND if "compressed".
hey, I've lived in the USA - I therefore am FLUENT in awful chocolate. American "candy" constitutes the absolute lowest form of confectionary life on this planet. I don't know why, it just does. Hershey's chocolate in particular is bloody awful.
but MOST of acting is in the voice - if the voice doesn't even match the cadence of the animation, you're totally fucked. I ALWAYS go for subtitles with the OST. I used to live in France, where I had the displeasure of seeing MANY English language films dubbed as VF (Version Francaise). Just about the worst thing I ever saw was Pulp Fiction. You remember Sam Jackson's memorable " well I'm a mushroom cloud layin' motherfucker, motherfucker!" that was dubbed as "je suis un bombe nucleaire" in a kind of butch monotone - absolutely destroyed the scene.
why don't Moto advertise these same chips as being capable of such speeds, and why are there such radical cooling solutions in the Apple MDD case design?
but it's still a pair of overclocked G4s on a fairly creaky motherboard - those massive L3 caches are there to try give the poor old G4 some fast access to memory - those Altivec units have been starved for years.
don't let it's price tag fool you? It cost us £1500! I don't know if you could really call AE "industry standard", but it's WIDELY used across all sectors of broadcast and film work, but is rather too slowly and fiddly for most TV work. Most of our gfx are created in Quantel Editbox (much better than AE) and DS (questionable...).
I used to work over at FrameStore, and I can assure that the tools and techniques that they used then would NOT have allowed them to tackle projects as big as thiose that ILM routinely do. Episodic effects are one thiing, but the intense cutting edge stuff seen in Star Wars Episode II are a little beyond an operation the size of FrameStore. FrameStore are great, but I don't know why it's hate ILM day today - they pioneered half of this stuff. Credit where it's due, surely?
What are these "high end systems" that you're talking about? At our facility we have both a Symphony and a DS/HD as well as Unity and 10 Media Composer suites. All are PC or Mac based, of course. The last Avid product that I saw running on SGi was Matador, and I haven't seen THAT for quite a while...
What are the Avid products that run on SGi hardware now? I'm genuinely curious to know if there are any.
I actually work with the guy who did those! They were done by Touch Animation AFAIK - now defunct. Apart from the fact that The Day Today's gfx didn't have a huge budget, they were also done quite a long time ago now - still excellent and groundbreakingly satirical (can gfx be satirical? you bet).
On the Partridge point, you're forgetting my combat-based gameshow that runs on digital TV.
They're ACTORS, their job is to fucking handle distractions and make it look good. They are distracted on all sides by techies doing THEIR jobs, they're taking direction from the directors, they're hitting focus marks over and over again and they're crying on fucking cue.
they did (Avid? Their systems use a Mac or PC host), but not anymore. Look at (for example) ForA's Digiwarp product - Win 2K based. Video Toaster? Win 2K based. There are others, but these two are real and they work - and they're nothing to do with SGI.
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Religion is so fucking depressing. Good to see that Tony Blair is a Catholic and GWB a born again alcoholic.
Democracy? Let me see... you've got somehere between 280- and 300 MILLION citizens in the USA and by some absolute miracle the current king/president is the SON of the previous Republican president. What are the odds? It's a plutocracy you're living in, your American dream means NOTHING.
Bill of rights? Don't make me laugh - how does racial profiling, Guantanamo Bay and the Disney coyright extension fit in with THAT?
no kidding, but you've got an uphill struggle in the USA trying to convince anyone that a woman should be anything other than a stupid, sunbed-tanned, bottle-blonde, fake-breasted, collagen-lipped, lipo-sucked, sparkle-toothed, botox-riddled whore.
it's just because Mac users are more willing to actually PAY for stuff with enhanced functionality
in case your question WASN'T rhetorical...
A: Because most of their benchmarks WON'T RUN on a 16Mhz 386.
eh?
if that IS the case then it says more about their website than anything else - if they wanted to force a download, they didn't have to go to the lengths of ZIPing.
the point wasn't about the Opteron per se, but about the almost irrelevant gains in productivity and utility we see from our ever-stronger CPUs. And you know as well as I that AMD isn't really interested in selling 1000 Opterons when they could be selling 100000 Athlon 64s. Opteron is just a slow start for them.
Is the introduction of the Opteron going to help out my ever growing inbox spam problem? Didn't think so.
I think he mistyped "farcical".
I don't know what a semi-truck is, but all of your other counterpoints are meaningless. He's right, all the things that are wrong with our computers NOW will not be ameliorated by faster CPUs, more RAM and more bloated software. It often occurs to me that my Palm Tungsten T is QUITE A BIT more powerful than my Commodore 64, my Mac Classic, my old 386DX, possibly even than my Amiga 500 and my Mac Colour Classic, yet that extra power doesn't seem to make it much quicker or easier to do stuff with. My PowerMac G4 dual 500 doesn't seem to run my Excel spreadsheets any faster than my old Quadra 800 either - despite it being probably 100 x faster and despite it having 1024MB of RAM where my Quadra had 80MB.
Mac OSX's "Genie" mnimising effect is probably the best example of pointless CPU utilisation I've ever seen - with the possible exception of MS Office.
the fact that they're using DivX at all shows that they know absolutrely-fuck-all about video encoding. And you're right, entropy encoding is the most basic technique used in all post 1995 codecs AFAIK - video files often EXPAND if "compressed".
the IBM 970's going to be a whole lot faster, and we Mac users will once again (briefly) triumph!
probably!
heh heh heh?
some what? some dublin 5.1 power macs?
bafaled?
did you even ATTEMPT to find out how to spell that word?
it's BAFFLED you freakin muppet
hey, I've lived in the USA - I therefore am FLUENT in awful chocolate. American "candy" constitutes the absolute lowest form of confectionary life on this planet. I don't know why, it just does. Hershey's chocolate in particular is bloody awful.
Shawn King is an idiot - he also said that Apple would DEFINITELY release a cellphone about a year ago.
bad peanut butter + awful "chocolate" = very nasty indeed
but MOST of acting is in the voice - if the voice doesn't even match the cadence of the animation, you're totally fucked. I ALWAYS go for subtitles with the OST. I used to live in France, where I had the displeasure of seeing MANY English language films dubbed as VF (Version Francaise). Just about the worst thing I ever saw was Pulp Fiction. You remember Sam Jackson's memorable " well I'm a mushroom cloud layin' motherfucker, motherfucker!" that was dubbed as "je suis un bombe nucleaire" in a kind of butch monotone - absolutely destroyed the scene.
why don't Moto advertise these same chips as being capable of such speeds, and why are there such radical cooling solutions in the Apple MDD case design?
and it's cheaper too.
but it's still a pair of overclocked G4s on a fairly creaky motherboard - those massive L3 caches are there to try give the poor old G4 some fast access to memory - those Altivec units have been starved for years.
don't let it's price tag fool you? It cost us £1500! I don't know if you could really call AE "industry standard", but it's WIDELY used across all sectors of broadcast and film work, but is rather too slowly and fiddly for most TV work. Most of our gfx are created in Quantel Editbox (much better than AE) and DS (questionable...).
Oh come on
I used to work over at FrameStore, and I can assure that the tools and techniques that they used then would NOT have allowed them to tackle projects as big as thiose that ILM routinely do. Episodic effects are one thiing, but the intense cutting edge stuff seen in Star Wars Episode II are a little beyond an operation the size of FrameStore. FrameStore are great, but I don't know why it's hate ILM day today - they pioneered half of this stuff. Credit where it's due, surely?
What are these "high end systems" that you're talking about? At our facility we have both a Symphony and a DS/HD as well as Unity and 10 Media Composer suites. All are PC or Mac based, of course. The last Avid product that I saw running on SGi was Matador, and I haven't seen THAT for quite a while...
What are the Avid products that run on SGi hardware now? I'm genuinely curious to know if there are any.
I actually work with the guy who did those! They were done by Touch Animation AFAIK - now defunct. Apart from the fact that The Day Today's gfx didn't have a huge budget, they were also done quite a long time ago now - still excellent and groundbreakingly satirical (can gfx be satirical? you bet).
On the Partridge point, you're forgetting my combat-based gameshow that runs on digital TV.
you don't know anything about anything, do you?
They're ACTORS, their job is to fucking handle distractions and make it look good. They are distracted on all sides by techies doing THEIR jobs, they're taking direction from the directors, they're hitting focus marks over and over again and they're crying on fucking cue.
they did (Avid? Their systems use a Mac or PC host), but not anymore. Look at (for example) ForA's Digiwarp product - Win 2K based. Video Toaster? Win 2K based. There are others, but these two are real and they work - and they're nothing to do with SGI.
you've never heard of virtual sets then? The BBC uses them every single day.