The Brady Bunch did this back in the 70's. According to precidence, your kids will be kidnapped by Vincent Price, locked up in the town jail of a ghost town and lost in the Grand Canyon.
Never mind faking UFOs, saving the local park, battling with card building for greenstamps, launching their recording career and hanging with Davy Jones/Don Drysdale/Joe Nameth.
Before you tell me i'm wrong, take a stroll through any of the big (or small) production and post-production shops in the world, and marvel at the fact that, with the exception of secretarial workstations, every machine in the office is some sort of macintosh
Old school production houses used Macs becuase they came standard with SCSI drives. People don't want to change platforms unless they have to. If you are making money producing/editing video, why would you change something that works. Most production houses I know of that started in the last 8 years have a pretty even split between platforms. This is because they need to be flexible with customers needs which can sometimes bring about the need to work on a particular platform.
The Macintosh platform, and the software written for it, is a far better choice than ANY PC-based setup as far as dealing with video.
Well, pretty much every software manufacturer for video makes a nearly identical product for both Mac and Win. This is so that anyone who knows the software can use either platform. Quite frankly, your comment is pretty short sighted and a bit trollish.
It's rare that I ever find old Windows PCs in multimedia production environments.
That is likely becuase in the "ol' days" Macs came standard with SCSI drives. Even though they were slow back then, they were still much faster than any windows standard ide drive, never mind the fact that their continuous throughput could never stand to capture video (back before digital video cameras) at any sort of serious resolution. That coupled with people's usual reluctance to switch platforms is why so many production houses are Mac based. That had started to change with smaller post houses until FCP came along.
I remember buying my first PC with an ultra wide SCSI Barracudda, a Miro DC30+ capture card and Adobe Premiere.
These days, hard drives are fast enough or one is bringing video in via firewire, so sustained throughput isn't as important for video, unless one is on a real budget to get stuff done.
For the casual user, any compter you buys these days can do video editing, albeit slowly.
One thing that is VERY cool about FCP 3 is the compression utility they use for video while editing.
I work for a video special effects software company (link in my profile). Our customer base is split about 50/50 between PCs and Macs.
It has been the case for about 5 years or so that you could do the same work on a PC for significantly less money (in hardware costs) than with a Mac.
That said, mosst folks are diehard platform fanatics (regardless of the I-Switch campaign), especially Mac users (boy, religious fanatics could take some lessons) and tend to stick with what they know best.
I must say that the market has been leaning toward Apple as of late, but really becuase of Final Cut Pro. Though I myself am a PC guy, I have to hand it to Apple, not for clever ad campaigns, but becuase they designed an excellent NLE (non linear editing). There is nothing under $1000 on a PC that can do the same (sorry Premiere users). We've found a number of high end users that had a few $10000+ Avid licenses moving to a single Avid and replacing others with FCP work stations. Avid has responded with DV Xpress, which is just over $1300 or so.
I guess my point is that for most users, the platform doesn't matter as much in terms of raw speed, but in terms of the software tools available for it. Aplle has the upper hand right now.
Well, if I remember correctly (and I rarely do), Richochet's service covered only metropolitian areas. Many of us work in them but live outside in good ol' suburbia. So unless my company paid for this, I wouldn't spring for it.
Now if a cell provider impliments it across their coverage area, it is a different story.
I have never heard of any company that would hire a graphic designer who didn't have practical experience in Photoshop. As much as Gimp is similar, you wouldn't get by human resources with Gimp in place of Photoshop on your resume.
1. Photoshop - really isn't a full featured open source equal
2. Open Office doesn't work with a lot of MS docs - we tried
3. Employee changes - sure I can handle Linux on a desktop - but if I leave, I'd bet my replacement couldn't
4. Already a mixed bag for IT - we use PC's and Macs and about 4 flavors of each, stretching our IT resources thin already
5. Where's the third party support - if the IT guy is unavailable, most of us can tweak/fix/support our own boxes and the software that's on it. I'm not the IT guy who fixes broken boxes and I don't want to be if that guy is out.
6. Though it might be short sighted, out CEO believes that you get what you pay for - free OS equals no one resposible for OS when it f@cks up.
7. Servers great - desktops? haven't we already gone over this before?
how much does my credit card company charge for currency conversion?
these sites are a dime a dozen. they all get corrupt after a while (after all, they want to make some money and the old style payolla scheme is too tempting for anyone not to take advantage of after a while), giving the largest visibility to those who can afford it.
oligopoly Pronunciation Key (l-gp-l, l-)
n. pl. oligopolies
A market condition in which sellers are so few that the actions of any one of them will materially affect price and have a measurable impact on competitors.
Unfotunately, when you use the trial version, you get a very untimely nag screen to buy the full version which pretty much destroy the usefullness of hiding the fact that you are surfing.
Also, I found the "movement" you need to make with the mouse to be something I couldn't do naturally (ie - look like I am trying to hide something).
As an American, I feel a strange sort of pride at this. Yeah, it's just a TV show, but dammit, I've always felt that if you're going to commit to something, then commit yourself to doing the best job you can.
Can someone please forward this concept to Detroit so that our automobile manufacturers know that we pay attention?
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The Brady Bunch did this back in the 70's. According to precidence, your kids will be kidnapped by Vincent Price, locked up in the town jail of a ghost town and lost in the Grand Canyon.
Never mind faking UFOs, saving the local park, battling with card building for greenstamps, launching their recording career and hanging with Davy Jones/Don Drysdale/Joe Nameth.
I say go for it.
:P
Sorry - 50/50 is a common (though usually spoken, not written) way to communicate % in the US.
Ah but now you are atalking images and not video. Though they are obviously related, they are not used in the same manner.
Any serious editor will have a separate NSTC monitor for color correction.
Before you tell me i'm wrong, take a stroll through any of the big (or small) production and post-production shops in the world, and marvel at the fact that, with the exception of secretarial workstations, every machine in the office is some sort of macintosh
/editing video, why would you change something that works. Most production houses I know of that started in the last 8 years have a pretty even split between platforms. This is because they need to be flexible with customers needs which can sometimes bring about the need to work on a particular platform.
Old school production houses used Macs becuase they came standard with SCSI drives. People don't want to change platforms unless they have to. If you are making money producing
The Macintosh platform, and the software written for it, is a far better choice than ANY PC-based setup as far as dealing with video.
Well, pretty much every software manufacturer for video makes a nearly identical product for both Mac and Win. This is so that anyone who knows the software can use either platform. Quite frankly, your comment is pretty short sighted and a bit trollish.
It's rare that I ever find old Windows PCs in multimedia production environments.
That is likely becuase in the "ol' days" Macs came standard with SCSI drives. Even though they were slow back then, they were still much faster than any windows standard ide drive, never mind the fact that their continuous throughput could never stand to capture video (back before digital video cameras) at any sort of serious resolution. That coupled with people's usual reluctance to switch platforms is why so many production houses are Mac based. That had started to change with smaller post houses until FCP came along.
I remember buying my first PC with an ultra wide SCSI Barracudda, a Miro DC30+ capture card and Adobe Premiere.
These days, hard drives are fast enough or one is bringing video in via firewire, so sustained throughput isn't as important for video, unless one is on a real budget to get stuff done.
For the casual user, any compter you buys these days can do video editing, albeit slowly.
One thing that is VERY cool about FCP 3 is the compression utility they use for video while editing.
:P
I work for a video special effects software company (link in my profile). Our customer base is split about 50/50 between PCs and Macs.
It has been the case for about 5 years or so that you could do the same work on a PC for significantly less money (in hardware costs) than with a Mac.
That said, mosst folks are diehard platform fanatics (regardless of the I-Switch campaign), especially Mac users (boy, religious fanatics could take some lessons) and tend to stick with what they know best.
I must say that the market has been leaning toward Apple as of late, but really becuase of Final Cut Pro. Though I myself am a PC guy, I have to hand it to Apple, not for clever ad campaigns, but becuase they designed an excellent NLE (non linear editing). There is nothing under $1000 on a PC that can do the same (sorry Premiere users). We've found a number of high end users that had a few $10000+ Avid licenses moving to a single Avid and replacing others with FCP work stations. Avid has responded with DV Xpress, which is just over $1300 or so.
I guess my point is that for most users, the platform doesn't matter as much in terms of raw speed, but in terms of the software tools available for it. Aplle has the upper hand right now.
:P
Well, if I remember correctly (and I rarely do), Richochet's service covered only metropolitian areas. Many of us work in them but live outside in good ol' suburbia. So unless my company paid for this, I wouldn't spring for it.
Now if a cell provider impliments it across their coverage area, it is a different story.
:P
In Massachusetts, Peapod does this (owned by Stop and Shop, I believe). We get a delivery to work once a week.
:P
Its like if you have a car that shows instant gas millage. I had to turn it off as it caused me to drive like a pussy.
:P
The art dept uses gimp for photos, etc.
I have never heard of any company that would hire a graphic designer who didn't have practical experience in Photoshop. As much as Gimp is similar, you wouldn't get by human resources with Gimp in place of Photoshop on your resume.
:P
I work at a community college, which is not that different from K-12.
:P
Don't forget about Penny as the femme fatale...
I bet she's filled out nicely!
hubba hubba
:P
Oh wait...
they said asteroids not hemmeroids...
:P
1. Photoshop - really isn't a full featured open source equal
2. Open Office doesn't work with a lot of MS docs - we tried
3. Employee changes - sure I can handle Linux on a desktop - but if I leave, I'd bet my replacement couldn't
4. Already a mixed bag for IT - we use PC's and Macs and about 4 flavors of each, stretching our IT resources thin already
5. Where's the third party support - if the IT guy is unavailable, most of us can tweak/fix/support our own boxes and the software that's on it. I'm not the IT guy who fixes broken boxes and I don't want to be if that guy is out.
6. Though it might be short sighted, out CEO believes that you get what you pay for - free OS equals no one resposible for OS when it f@cks up.
7. Servers great - desktops? haven't we already gone over this before?
how many dollars in a euro?
how much does my credit card company charge for currency conversion?
these sites are a dime a dozen. they all get corrupt after a while (after all, they want to make some money and the old style payolla scheme is too tempting for anyone not to take advantage of after a while), giving the largest visibility to those who can afford it.
see: labels
oligopoly Pronunciation Key (l-gp-l, l-) n. pl. oligopolies
A market condition in which sellers are so few that the actions of any one of them will materially affect price and have a measurable impact on competitors.
Now watch what happens when they band together...
I tried Ghostzilla a few weeks ago at the office.
Unfotunately, when you use the trial version, you get a very untimely nag screen to buy the full version which pretty much destroy the usefullness of hiding the fact that you are surfing.
Also, I found the "movement" you need to make with the mouse to be something I couldn't do naturally (ie - look like I am trying to hide something).
Um
parent poster's login name is "egg troll" for a reason!
:P
I thought that's what Frontpage is for.
Right?
:P
Now I can NOT get any action from women all over the world!
I will make sure to drive behind you (or in the fron or side - whatever keeps me "under the radar".
Is that your website? Or are you just a fan?
I'm not so sure that the parent poster you replied to was trying to be insightful, so much as funny.
I mean, does anyone really think he meant it was fact that the rest were directly influenced by the RIAA?
Someone needs to come up with an emoticon for sarcasm...
I am actually waiting for the radar sucking paint they use on stealth bombers for my car.
No more speeding tickets for me!!
As an American, I feel a strange sort of pride at this. Yeah, it's just a TV show, but dammit, I've always felt that if you're going to commit to something, then commit yourself to doing the best job you can.
Can someone please forward this concept to Detroit so that our automobile manufacturers know that we pay attention?
It was more of a sarcastic irony...