My brother was having problems with QT6 under windows. He finally reinstaled it and all is well.
I've been a Mac user since 94 and a Mac owner since 96. I've always been impressed by the function of Apple's products. I liked how they "just worked", but the iPod is the first Apple product that made me really go "WOW"! Even the packaging is beautiful.
If the Windows software for the iPod is really as bad as everyone says, I would just recommend the Media4 software. The iPod itself is just such a gem!
I've heard about the UK digital television scene. Very interesting. I'm curious as to what the bit rate for each channel is. Here in the US, a digital over-the-air broadcaster is given 6Mhz to do with as they please. The digital bit rate is around 20Mb/s. In that space they can fit a HDTV signal or around 4 standard definition channels at around the same quality as a regular analog broadcast. I have been to an NAB show where I saw an over-the-air broadcast of HDTV. I thought it looked pretty good. I've also seen digital satellite and was amazed by the Mpeg noise and crap in the signal. At the same time they have commercials talking about "digital quality"!
No, It's the architect that's insane. I think we're all using the same tools and materials.
You have the house designer sneering at the new home-owners because they couldn't find the refrigerator because it was located in the attic. I'm not sure how the home-owners even got into the house when the doorknobs are only on the inside of the doors. Well, I guess they shouldn't complain, the house was free. Too bad, they too will probably go insane trying to live in that house.
Do I actually subscribe to this analogy? No, but I thought the one I was responding to was pretty stupid. Use what works for you.
It has allowed me to go back and view a website I designed for NTT (The Japan Telco) back in 1998. As it appears that internet avatars aren't part of their business anymore, it nice to be able to show people, "Hey look I did this!":)
Also, it allows me to go back and laugh at failed prost production companies that had websites. (www.brickhouse-editorial.com)
Uhhh, Am I on Slashdot? Last time I looked, Linux WAS available for the Macintosh. If I was to extrapolate the concept you put forth, Windows is your only choice on x86 hardware.
Gosh, I thought everyone used Linux here. (double checking the header graphics) Yep, I'm on Slashdot... Strange!
TWC uses a system called WSI for their weather graphics. They have been almost exclusively SGI based, except for some systems based on Solaris. (just systems to ingest data) They are starting to use some systems from Dell but I'm not sure of their purpose. (rendering I think) WSI support hasn't been the best. Oh who am I kidding, they suck! Perhaps TWC is going to start building their own systems?
This explains some things. I had a tube receiver about 20 years ago made by a company named "Scott". Even with really, really bad speakers, I thought it had a nice, sweet sound. I think there was a problem though, as a couple of the four main output tubes would glow red-hot! This receiver also made summers in Florida just a bit hotter.
What's really odd though, is the only thing I remember listening to at the time, was REO Speedwagon. What's up with that?
Slashdot has linked to a TV station website. (WKMG) That wouldn't be so bad except that it's a TV station I used to work for!!! Ack! They are owned by the Post-Newsweek corporation. Yuck! Eeewwwww! Arggggg!
The station is named after Katherine Graham... She's dead now... from a golf-cart accident!
I had one of those clones, a Power Computing system. While it served me well for a few years, I aways found it a bit wonkey. I bought a video capture card and CPU card that never worked correctly with it. Both DID work fine in a real Apple machine. And the CPU card was MADE by Power Computing!!!
While the Power Computing machines were all pretty cool, they could sometimes be a real pain when you added 3rd party hardware.
I work in the broadcast industry! I'm at a small market tv station somewhere in Florida. We have yet to purchase ANY HDTV or digital gear. We are waiting for the FCC to get off their lazy butts and grant us a digital channel. The cost of a digital transmitter is in the millions, and their decision determines just how many millions we will have to spend! On top of that, the Chairman of the FCC has stated that Television is a waste of bandwidth! Well I feel so much better for picking this career path now!
Yes, buy a Digital High Definition Television so I can keep my job!
I went and saw this last night with some friends from work. It's the worst movie I think I have ever seen. I left after an hour and e-mailed my friends with this...
My own opinion that I formed while watching the film was this... The films that NATM were trying to parody, were in fact parodies themselves. It is at that point that the movie becomes pointless. Parody worked with Airplane because is was poking fun at something that took itself seriously. I enjoy raunch as much as the next person. But there was not one character you could care about. No character had any motivation to do any of the things they did. All it was, was an hour and a half send-up of every dumb teen movie for people who were too stupid to get any of the jokes the first time around. (Orion, you did say that Molly enjoyed it right?) There was not one shred of intelligence anywhere in the film, and that is what I thought was sad. It made Airplane look like a Mensa candidate.
I saw something really neat at an AmiExpo back in `89 or `90. IVS was playing back the movie Star Wars in full motion, full screen, directly from a hard drive. Because the motion was pretty fluid, you didn't notice the HAM artifacting too much. A pretty amazing feat on an Amiga at the time. I later owned a DCTV. (Not to be confused with CDTV) A device that would take a 768x480 (or close to it) 16 color display, and turn it into a fairly high quality true color TV image. At a TV station I worked at, we used it's output, single frame edited it to a broadcast tape format where it was used in commercial production.
I would say that the Amiga invented "Multimedia" on computers, but Apple took it to the next level. Something Commodore probably could never have done because of their mismanagement. They never knew what they had. Commodore started out marketing the Amiga 1000 as a business computer with PC compatibility. Back then, a computer with pretty graphics couldn't possibly be a serious machine!
I use Quicktime every day in my work. I don't think I would want to be in the business of motion graphic design if I had to use something else.
I remember being out at night on my bicycle, probably 15 years ago or more. I saw a meteor fly overhead from west to east with a bright green glow. I had always placed a sound with that incident! I had never really thought about the time that sound would need to propagate through the atmosphere! I was only 15 or so when it happened. Neat!
This is why I really like Slashdot. Little by little, proving that I'm not completely insane. Now that I think about it, I think my older brother did look at me strange when I told him I heard the meteor.:)
I wonder how the DMCA would have affected the creation of PC clones back in the `80's? Could IBM have sued Compaq, or does a "cleanroom" version squeak past that? How about you copy the ROM BIOS verbatim, but you encrypt it. You then counter sue under DMCA for circumventing the encryption!:)
While there was some truly neat things in Shrek, almost all of the characters had a kind of stiffness to them. What PDI seems to do well is the shaders and lighting. A lot of the images in Shrek had a sense of place, but the movements of the characters are awkward. Pixar seems to bias more towards the characters movements. What I find interesting is that PDI has been around longer than Pixar. I think the Pixar advantage is that there are two people at the top that guide the company. Catmull is the tech genius, and Lasseter is the Disney trained animator. You have a heart and a soul. I'm not sure about the makeup of PDI but I know that they have great tools. I just think they lack a strong animation director. I've also wondered if there is too heavy a hand from Dreamworks. I thought the Disney jabs in Shrek (while funny) seemed forced. I guess we'll see how "Tusker" does for Them.
Wahhh? What the hell were you expecting? An "R" rated "Toy Story"? If you want something edgy, go rent a copy of "Rock and Rule". That is unless you have something against Canadians.
I had heard about the restaurant before I saw the picture (Perhaps CGW magazine?) but I was the only one to laugh ot loud in the theater when I saw it. Beautiful film! I'm probably going to see it again this week.
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Quote: "HAHAHAHA OMG another Mac nerd opens his pie-hole."
And an AC is better because?.....
Two words: Bite Me.
My brother was having problems with QT6 under windows. He finally reinstaled it and all is well.
I've been a Mac user since 94 and a Mac owner since 96. I've always been impressed by the function of Apple's products. I liked how they "just worked", but the iPod is the first Apple product that made me really go "WOW"! Even the packaging is beautiful.
If the Windows software for the iPod is really as bad as everyone says, I would just recommend the Media4 software. The iPod itself is just such a gem!
Or how about TrollPod? XTroll? eTroll? :)
I've heard about the UK digital television scene. Very interesting. I'm curious as to what the bit rate for each channel is. Here in the US, a digital over-the-air broadcaster is given 6Mhz to do with as they please. The digital bit rate is around 20Mb/s. In that space they can fit a HDTV signal or around 4 standard definition channels at around the same quality as a regular analog broadcast. I have been to an NAB show where I saw an over-the-air broadcast of HDTV. I thought it looked pretty good. I've also seen digital satellite and was amazed by the Mpeg noise and crap in the signal. At the same time they have commercials talking about "digital quality"!
No, It's the architect that's insane. I think we're all using the same tools and materials.
You have the house designer sneering at the new home-owners because they couldn't find the refrigerator because it was located in the attic. I'm not sure how the home-owners even got into the house when the doorknobs are only on the inside of the doors. Well, I guess they shouldn't complain, the house was free. Too bad, they too will probably go insane trying to live in that house.
Do I actually subscribe to this analogy? No, but I thought the one I was responding to was pretty stupid.
Use what works for you.
It has allowed me to go back and view a website I designed for NTT (The Japan Telco) back in 1998. As it appears that internet avatars aren't part of their business anymore, it nice to be able to show people, "Hey look I did this!" :)
Also, it allows me to go back and laugh at failed prost production companies that had websites. (www.brickhouse-editorial.com)
"> Mac OS is your only choice."
Uhhh, Am I on Slashdot? Last time I looked, Linux WAS available for the Macintosh. If I was to extrapolate the concept you put forth, Windows is your only choice on x86 hardware.
Gosh, I thought everyone used Linux here. (double checking the header graphics) Yep, I'm on Slashdot... Strange!
TWC uses a system called WSI for their weather graphics. They have been almost exclusively SGI based, except for some systems based on Solaris. (just systems to ingest data) They are starting to use some systems from Dell but I'm not sure of their purpose. (rendering I think) WSI support hasn't been the best. Oh who am I kidding, they suck! Perhaps TWC is going to start building their own systems?
This explains some things. I had a tube receiver about 20 years ago made by a company named "Scott". Even with really, really bad speakers, I thought it had a nice, sweet sound. I think there was a problem though, as a couple of the four main output tubes would glow red-hot! This receiver also made summers in Florida just a bit hotter.
What's really odd though, is the only thing I remember listening to at the time, was REO Speedwagon. What's up with that?
Slashdot has linked to a TV station website. (WKMG) That wouldn't be so bad except that it's a TV station I used to work for!!! Ack! They are owned by the Post-Newsweek corporation. Yuck! Eeewwwww! Arggggg!
The station is named after Katherine Graham... She's dead now... from a golf-cart accident!
WKMG isn't even in the Palm Beach Market!!!
I had one of those clones, a Power Computing system. While it served me well for a few years, I aways found it a bit wonkey. I bought a video capture card and CPU card that never worked correctly with it. Both DID work fine in a real Apple machine. And the CPU card was MADE by Power Computing!!!
While the Power Computing machines were all pretty cool, they could sometimes be a real pain when you added 3rd party hardware.
(Quote) Fortunately, China appears to have a much more civilized foreign policy than the US and they didn't take the bait (end Quote)
If only China was more civilized toward their own people.
Ahhh, that explains Slashdot then.
So am I!
I work in the broadcast industry! I'm at a small market tv station somewhere in Florida. We have yet to purchase ANY HDTV or digital gear. We are waiting for the FCC to get off their lazy butts and grant us a digital channel. The cost of a digital transmitter is in the millions, and their decision determines just how many millions we will have to spend! On top of that, the Chairman of the FCC has stated that Television is a waste of bandwidth! Well I feel so much better for picking this career path now!
Yes, buy a Digital High Definition Television so I can keep my job!
Quote: lazy, overworked, unskilled, american - pick one
[with hand raised]
Oooh, Oooh, Oooh! Pick me! Pick Me!
I went and saw this last night with some friends from work. It's the worst movie I think I have ever seen. I left after an hour and e-mailed my friends with this...
My own opinion that I formed while watching the film was this... The films that NATM were trying to parody, were in fact parodies themselves. It is at that point that the movie becomes pointless. Parody worked with Airplane because is was poking fun at something that took itself seriously. I enjoy raunch as much as the next person. But there was not one character you could care about. No character had any motivation to do any of the things they did. All it was, was an hour and a half send-up of every dumb teen movie for people who were too stupid to get any of the jokes the first time around. (Orion, you did say that Molly enjoyed it right?) There was not one shred of intelligence anywhere in the film, and that is what I thought was sad. It made Airplane look like a Mensa candidate.
Thankfully I only spent $5
Well, so much for an intelligent conversation. I've noticed that a lot of those old Amiga users are now PC users... So they are in YOUR camp now.
:)
You can still get an Amiga emulator and see what you missed all those years ago.
http://cloanto.com/amiga/forever/
Join us.
I saw something really neat at an AmiExpo back in `89 or `90. IVS was playing back the movie Star Wars in full motion, full screen, directly from a hard drive. Because the motion was pretty fluid, you didn't notice the HAM artifacting too much. A pretty amazing feat on an Amiga at the time. I later owned a DCTV. (Not to be confused with CDTV) A device that would take a 768x480 (or close to it) 16 color display, and turn it into a fairly high quality true color TV image. At a TV station I worked at, we used it's output, single frame edited it to a broadcast tape format where it was used in commercial production.
I would say that the Amiga invented "Multimedia" on computers, but Apple took it to the next level. Something Commodore probably could never have done because of their mismanagement. They never knew what they had. Commodore started out marketing the Amiga 1000 as a business computer with PC compatibility. Back then, a computer with pretty graphics couldn't possibly be a serious machine!
I use Quicktime every day in my work. I don't think I would want to be in the business of motion graphic design if I had to use something else.
I remember being out at night on my bicycle, probably 15 years ago or more. I saw a meteor fly overhead from west to east with a bright green glow. I had always placed a sound with that incident! I had never really thought about the time that sound would need to propagate through the atmosphere! I was only 15 or so when it happened. Neat!
:)
This is why I really like Slashdot. Little by little, proving that I'm not completely insane. Now that I think about it, I think my older brother did look at me strange when I told him I heard the meteor.
I wonder how the DMCA would have affected the creation of PC clones back in the `80's? Could IBM have sued Compaq, or does a "cleanroom" version squeak past that? How about you copy the ROM BIOS verbatim, but you encrypt it. You then counter sue under DMCA for circumventing the encryption! :)
While there was some truly neat things in Shrek, almost all of the characters had a kind of stiffness to them. What PDI seems to do well is the shaders and lighting. A lot of the images in Shrek had a sense of place, but the movements of the characters are awkward. Pixar seems to bias more towards the characters movements. What I find interesting is that PDI has been around longer than Pixar. I think the Pixar advantage is that there are two people at the top that guide the company. Catmull is the tech genius, and Lasseter is the Disney trained animator. You have a heart and a soul. I'm not sure about the makeup of PDI but I know that they have great tools. I just think they lack a strong animation director. I've also wondered if there is too heavy a hand from Dreamworks. I thought the Disney jabs in Shrek (while funny) seemed forced. I guess we'll see how "Tusker" does for Them.
Wahhh? What the hell were you expecting? An "R" rated "Toy Story"? If you want something edgy, go rent a copy of "Rock and Rule". That is unless you have something against Canadians.
I had heard about the restaurant before I saw the picture (Perhaps CGW magazine?) but I was the only one to laugh ot loud in the theater when I saw it. Beautiful film! I'm probably going to see it again this week.
No, it's a shame that you couldn't spend 5 seconds doing some research.
:)
http://www.drbott.com/prod/DVIator.html
Could you really work at your old PC with that Apple logo right there on the front of the machine? It's taunting you.
It's called recycling. :)