Also note that the heaviest lobbying against the merger has been from the NAB. The organization that speaks oh behalf of the "Over the Air" broadcasters.
I own Sirius stock, so I'm hoping the deal goes through; but I also work for a company that owns or operates several radio stations. I still don't understand the mindset that goes into programming stations. In the entire market where I live, there is not one station that I enjoy listening to. While some people make an argument for putting FM tuners in DAPs, I haven't missed them in the ones I've owned.
My work in radio has mostly involved logos and branding for radio stations. I sometimes want to stop the people I see in traffic with a bumper sticker of a logo I've designed and ask them why they felt so compelled to attach it to their vehicle. I've not had that compulsion, but it somehow cool to know that someone liked it enough to ruin the paint on their car to display it.
It's my understanding that VHS was developed at JVC. You might look at the 3/4" U-Matic format as the precursor to Betamax and VHS. They are all "color-under" formats. U-Matic was developed by Sony in 1971 and licensed to JVC, Panasonic and others. The U-Matic had use in broadcast and industrial areas for over 20 years. It was originally supposed to be a consumer format.
The Betamax format follows some of the engineering laid out in U-Matic, especially in its loading and tape wrap around the scanner drum.
JVC used a similar recording method, but chose a different tape loading system they called the "M Wrap". This possibly was to circumvent patents. They also initially picked a slower tape speed and larger cassette to give them 2 hours of record time to the Beta's 1 hour.
While I'm not a fan of VHS, they did get a lot of things right after looking at what Sony had already done. Very shrewed engineering and marketing.
It is a fascinating book. It's more than just about Commodore. It's about the entire personal computer revolution. Even though I'm a Apple user now, It is good to read some history that isn't Apple and Microsoft centric.
Seriously! As a young teenager in the backseat of the car for a long family trip, I had the idea that either music or, more importantly, warnings could be modulated as a sound onto a road bed. Combine the knowledge of those thing they used to put on balloons that would make a sound when you ran your fingernail over them with the creepy sounds that would sometimes come from the tires when riding over grooved pavement and you have an idea. If only I had patented it.
Even on a standard definition set, I can see the difference between a regular DVD and a BluRay disc. I have a PS3 connected to an old 25" Sony TV with composite NTSC going into it. To me, it's like looking at the playback from a professional broadcast tape machine. But then again, I work in broadcasting, and I take notice of such things. I'm not like the average consumer of television.
I never liked Shrek, and always loved Wallace and Gromit, so I am happy to see Aardman moving away from Dreamworks. Perhaps Pixar and Disney could work with them?
I was just reminded of the 1993 Christmas season where Commodore couldn't build enough CD32 systems to meet Christmas demand. Commodore had already gone through a bunch of cuts and did not survive them. I'm hoping that Lego has somewhat better management and perhaps some cash on hand to weather the bad times ahead.
Quote: "A system crash with a tasteful little box can be as easily despised as all the the preceding. I suppose, like everything Apple is doing these days, they've given it a certain panache and now everybody will want one."
For a short moment I thought you were talking about an Amiga Guru Meditation Error. It was a tasteful little box. It even flashed to warn you. Circa 1985.
Probably not. Our Moon is very large and fairly far away. It would have to be a massive amount of mining to change it's topography.
Over the next few millennia, we are going to be looking for a way off this rock, and a first step is our Moon and it's resources. Hopefully, someday we'll explore the rest of the solar system and figure out a way to carry on. It's the imprint on each and every living thing on this planet. We are just going to try and take it to a higher level. You never know though, People in the future could say "Wow, if only they had listened to BoldAndBusted all those years ago, we wouldn't be looking at a Swiss Cheese Moon.". (Would make for some interesting solar eclipses though)
There is also a power struggle inside of Avid between the classic Media Composer developers and the Softimage DS guys. That is also helping FCP. (You want fixes to the buggy 3D DVE in DS? Well, you're going to have to wait until we figure out how to make Symphony work with Nitris. Tree-based compositors be damed!)
Also: The guy that lead the development of Final Cut at Macromedia was someone who developed Premiere. Go figure!
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Also note that the heaviest lobbying against the merger has been from the NAB. The organization that speaks oh behalf of the "Over the Air" broadcasters.
I own Sirius stock, so I'm hoping the deal goes through; but I also work for a company that owns or operates several radio stations. I still don't understand the mindset that goes into programming stations. In the entire market where I live, there is not one station that I enjoy listening to. While some people make an argument for putting FM tuners in DAPs, I haven't missed them in the ones I've owned.
My work in radio has mostly involved logos and branding for radio stations. I sometimes want to stop the people I see in traffic with a bumper sticker of a logo I've designed and ask them why they felt so compelled to attach it to their vehicle. I've not had that compulsion, but it somehow cool to know that someone liked it enough to ruin the paint on their car to display it.
It's my understanding that VHS was developed at JVC. You might look at the 3/4" U-Matic format as the precursor to Betamax and VHS. They are all "color-under" formats. U-Matic was developed by Sony in 1971 and licensed to JVC, Panasonic and others. The U-Matic had use in broadcast and industrial areas for over 20 years. It was originally supposed to be a consumer format.
The Betamax format follows some of the engineering laid out in U-Matic, especially in its loading and tape wrap around the scanner drum.
JVC used a similar recording method, but chose a different tape loading system they called the "M Wrap". This possibly was to circumvent patents. They also initially picked a slower tape speed and larger cassette to give them 2 hours of record time to the Beta's 1 hour.
While I'm not a fan of VHS, they did get a lot of things right after looking at what Sony had already done. Very shrewed engineering and marketing.
It is a fascinating book. It's more than just about Commodore. It's about the entire personal computer revolution. Even though I'm a Apple user now, It is good to read some history that isn't Apple and Microsoft centric.
I think you're talking about the special on CNBC. It was very interesting. The specials on American Airlines and Starbucks were also good.
Mmmmm, PopTarts.
I'm curious; Is there any difference in how solar storms affect DC transmission lines as opposed to AC?
Seriously! As a young teenager in the backseat of the car for a long family trip, I had the idea that either music or, more importantly, warnings could be modulated as a sound onto a road bed. Combine the knowledge of those thing they used to put on balloons that would make a sound when you ran your fingernail over them with the creepy sounds that would sometimes come from the tires when riding over grooved pavement and you have an idea. If only I had patented it.
Even on a standard definition set, I can see the difference between a regular DVD and a BluRay disc. I have a PS3 connected to an old 25" Sony TV with composite NTSC going into it. To me, it's like looking at the playback from a professional broadcast tape machine. But then again, I work in broadcasting, and I take notice of such things. I'm not like the average consumer of television.
You seem to have forgotten that Apple kind of started the whole PDA thing with the Newton.
I'm pretty sure that Apple is still using the Mach Kernel.
I never liked Shrek, and always loved Wallace and Gromit, so I am happy to see Aardman moving away from Dreamworks. Perhaps Pixar and Disney could work with them?
And you are using "their" instead of "They're". Witch... er, Which is more stupid?
Quote: "I don't expect us to ever switch, but much more because we're obstinate than because of any sort of rational cost-benefit analysis."
Reminds me of Thomas Friedman's "The Lexus and the Olive Tree".
I was just reminded of the 1993 Christmas season where Commodore couldn't build enough CD32 systems to meet Christmas demand. Commodore had already gone through a bunch of cuts and did not survive them. I'm hoping that Lego has somewhat better management and perhaps some cash on hand to weather the bad times ahead.
Quote: "A system crash with a tasteful little box can be as easily despised as all the the preceding. I suppose, like everything Apple is doing these days, they've given it a certain panache and now everybody will want one."
For a short moment I thought you were talking about an Amiga Guru Meditation Error. It was a tasteful little box. It even flashed to warn you. Circa 1985.
"...Well, Whatever."
I'm an iPod owner and user and the "Royal We" parody made me laugh out loud. It's campy, unlike the iSheep campaign which is just patronizing.
Adobe did have a version of Photoshop running on SGI systems a long time ago. I believe it was Photoshop 3.
Why didn't you say, "I'll never call you again"?
How about Intellivision? :)
Or perhaps the "i" of iMac stood for Intel all along?
Should I be concerned that the satellites have the name "ViewMaster" on the side of them?
I used to have one of these...
http://www.compassnet.com/concept/tables/1214.htm
It was my brother's... It was purchased from a TurnSyle department store in Indianapolis, IN.
OK, I just noticed my mistake, It's vs. its. I know, I know...
Probably not. Our Moon is very large and fairly far away. It would have to be a massive amount of mining to change it's topography.
:)
Over the next few millennia, we are going to be looking for a way off this rock, and a first step is our Moon and it's resources. Hopefully, someday we'll explore the rest of the solar system and figure out a way to carry on. It's the imprint on each and every living thing on this planet. We are just going to try and take it to a higher level. You never know though, People in the future could say "Wow, if only they had listened to BoldAndBusted all those years ago, we wouldn't be looking at a Swiss Cheese Moon.". (Would make for some interesting solar eclipses though)
I'm also not concerned with "Lunar Warming"
There is also a power struggle inside of Avid between the classic Media Composer developers and the Softimage DS guys. That is also helping FCP. (You want fixes to the buggy 3D DVE in DS? Well, you're going to have to wait until we figure out how to make Symphony work with Nitris. Tree-based compositors be damed!)
Also: The guy that lead the development of Final Cut at Macromedia was someone who developed Premiere. Go figure!
Go Apple and FCP!!!
Is that German for "The SCO, The"?