there tends not to be a sudden huge leap from 5MB hard drives to 50GB hard drives
I recall a jump from 1.44 MB floppies to 650 MB CD-Rs... an order of magnitude less than your example, but still a massive improvement
Heretic was indeed the best deathmatch ever. Not only could you turn your opponents into mostly-helpless chickens, there was a countermove that meant it wasn't always a good idea to do so.
Adobe recognizes the strong equity of the Macromedia brand. That said, it makes great
business sense for a company the size of the combined company to align behind a single
corporate brand. Over time, Macromedia products will transition to the Adobe brand. Adobe
expects to keep and continue investing in key Macromedia product brands.
Also of interest:
Do you expect to integrate the FlashPlayer and the Adobe Reader?
The complementary functionality of FlashPlayer and Adobe Reader will enable the deployment
of a more robust cross-media, rich-client technology platform. The combined company will
continue to be committed to the needs of both the FlashPlayer and Adobe Reader users.
Actually I personally think people should be taxed as a fixed percentage of how much they own, without regard to how much they make or how much they buy (though with an exception for necessities at the poverty line).
That falls apart right at the property line of a valuable nonliquid asset like real estate. I know the "family farmers" (ha!) are the republican strawman for estate/capital gains taxes, but if ALL taxation went that route, it'd actually be valid. End result being a consolidation of land ownership among those rich enough to pay the tax. And that's uncomfortably close to feudalism, or sharecropping.
In the 3D animation industry, setting up a character for animation involves creating invisible bones and defining joint parameters that animators use to drive the animation. This step used to be called "boning" the character, but has come to be called "rigging."
Legend has it that one too many studio executives overheard some guy in VFX talking about spending the last few days "boning $ACTRESS."
The New Yorker had an article a couple of weeks ago that talked about this phenomenon. Apparently advertisers are being involved now at the level of producing and writing the shows. For example, Ford is apparently deeply involved in American Dreams (a drama set in late 1960s America), and they coordinated an episode where the plot revolved around a Mustang with the launch of their new model year. This goes well beyond simple product placement (but I guess falls short of The Disney Channel, although there you know what you're getting yourself into).
What about the high-speed aircooling with subzero air? Doesn't that help? You're talking like there's no such thing as terminal velocity, and every joule of heat will be retained by the person.
Most big shops largely use Maya, but not as much more than a plugin loader for custom code that handles most aspects of the pipeline, and tons of custom MEL to handle routine tasks, so it's hard to say with a straight face that most film effects shots are "done in" any package. They'll also split a shot between several applications/renderers sometimes, though, to get the strengths of each (a few shots in the Incredibles used 3ds max with the Brazil renderer, for example, for generating matte paintings - and this is at Pixar, the home of Renderman).
Smaller shops might use more (but still not entirely) off-the-shelf Maya, XSI, max, Houdini, Lightwave, etc. seats, to get the job done.
I think very few places use blender at all, however(other than the FX house that wrote most of it) because its UI and workflow are so very different than most other 3D packages, which makes it harder to throw extra artists at a particularly big job or farm out work.
You also see less and less IRIX around, as the SGI hardware is becoming hopelessly outdated. Hence the interest in Linux by the big studios.
Now, if some users get together and decide they're willing to pay someone to develop a particular feature, they'll create the incentive for someone to do so.
I'll bite:
I want to pay for adjustment layers and float images (16-bit is old news thanks to Paul Debevec's HDRI work) in GIMP.
I agree that they're out of their depth when reviewing anything that would've been unheard of in 1960, but that's secondary to the approach. Keep in mind that the car reviews are targeting suburban families, not auto enthusiasts, too.
Also, they were one of the pioneers in making auto dealer invoice prices available to the public, and have done a great deal to reduce the 3rd-world marketplace aspect of buying a car.
Finally, they've done a great deal to push prouct safety and fair pricing.
Not disagreeing with you, but pointing out that they aren't totally irrelevant either.
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A performance is ephemeral, not fixed in a medium, and CANNOT be copyrighted.
A recording of a performance is subject to copyright. Therefore, the person making the recording is the copyright holder (although there may be an issue of getting clearances for certain 3rd-party copyrights contained in the performance, e.g. scripts - IIRC there is a compulsory license for musical arrangements, however).
The prohibition from recording in a theatre is a contract issue that you agree to by purchasing a ticket. If you are allowed to record the performance, YOU are the copyright holder of the recording (although as stated above, this may not get you off the hook completely).
If the artists signed a contract that the company has an exclusive right to record live performances, and they allow recording, it is a matter of breach of contract between the artists and the label - your copyright to your recording does not magically evaporate.
Read about it here (about halfway down). They did fix the max6 issues with sp2, which were less severe, but max6 was the shipping version at the time, too.
SP2's security enhancments broke the way 3ds max used some activeX widgets in the interface. Apparently in ways that are severely disruptive to basic use of the program.
No, you need to follow the example of Consumer's Union (publisher of Consumer Reports) if you want to be unimpeachably objective:
Buy your own hardware at retail, using obfuscated identifying information.
Carry NO 3rd-party advertising of any kind.
Disallow manufacturers from using your name, excerpts from reviews, or any other acknowledgment that you exist in THEIR advertising.
Of course, that means your revenue model is going to have to change, either to a subscription site; privately funded, capped, and transparent donations; or through selling stuff (books?) of some kind.
Not really some, I don't think I know of a single piece of incompatible software which hasn't been updated (for free) by the company.
3ds max 5. And it never will be. Which sucks, because scene files and plugins aren't always compatible, and a client can come back much later and ask for revisions.
Do you feel that making 'games' is helpful to society? I've always wondered this.
No more so than writing books and dramas, making art, composing symphonies, or making music.
Of course, there's room in those fields of endeavor for Danielle Steele, Jerry Bruckheimer, and the members of N' Sync just as much as there is for Great Art that Redeems Humanity.
The medium isn't the message if you wait long enough - the first couple of decades of cinema were pretty atrocious too.
Is that a joke or something real? If real, got a link? I was under the impression that luminance, red/green, and blue/yellow were all there is in the human eye from a physiological and neural standpoint.
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there tends not to be a sudden huge leap from 5MB hard drives to 50GB hard drives I recall a jump from 1.44 MB floppies to 650 MB CD-Rs... an order of magnitude less than your example, but still a massive improvement
Now that's thinking it all the way through.
What happens to the Macromedia brand?
Adobe recognizes the strong equity of the Macromedia brand. That said, it makes great business sense for a company the size of the combined company to align behind a single corporate brand. Over time, Macromedia products will transition to the Adobe brand. Adobe expects to keep and continue investing in key Macromedia product brands.
Also of interest:
Do you expect to integrate the FlashPlayer and the Adobe Reader?
The complementary functionality of FlashPlayer and Adobe Reader will enable the deployment of a more robust cross-media, rich-client technology platform. The combined company will continue to be committed to the needs of both the FlashPlayer and Adobe Reader users.
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Don't forget John Carpenter's "Ghosts of Mars."
That falls apart right at the property line of a valuable nonliquid asset like real estate. I know the "family farmers" (ha!) are the republican strawman for estate/capital gains taxes, but if ALL taxation went that route, it'd actually be valid. End result being a consolidation of land ownership among those rich enough to pay the tax. And that's uncomfortably close to feudalism, or sharecropping.
Legend has it that one too many studio executives overheard some guy in VFX talking about spending the last few days "boning $ACTRESS."
The New Yorker had an article a couple of weeks ago that talked about this phenomenon. Apparently advertisers are being involved now at the level of producing and writing the shows. For example, Ford is apparently deeply involved in American Dreams (a drama set in late 1960s America), and they coordinated an episode where the plot revolved around a Mustang with the launch of their new model year. This goes well beyond simple product placement (but I guess falls short of The Disney Channel, although there you know what you're getting yourself into).
What about the high-speed aircooling with subzero air? Doesn't that help? You're talking like there's no such thing as terminal velocity, and every joule of heat will be retained by the person.
Smaller shops might use more (but still not entirely) off-the-shelf Maya, XSI, max, Houdini, Lightwave, etc. seats, to get the job done.
I think very few places use blender at all, however(other than the FX house that wrote most of it) because its UI and workflow are so very different than most other 3D packages, which makes it harder to throw extra artists at a particularly big job or farm out work.
You also see less and less IRIX around, as the SGI hardware is becoming hopelessly outdated. Hence the interest in Linux by the big studios.
No.
You don't live in a bubble.
I thought Richard Garriot was doing something on cell phones...
I'll bite:
I want to pay for adjustment layers and float images (16-bit is old news thanks to Paul Debevec's HDRI work) in GIMP.
How much will it cost? To whom do I send the RFP?
Also, they were one of the pioneers in making auto dealer invoice prices available to the public, and have done a great deal to reduce the 3rd-world marketplace aspect of buying a car.
Finally, they've done a great deal to push prouct safety and fair pricing.
Not disagreeing with you, but pointing out that they aren't totally irrelevant either.
A recording of a performance is subject to copyright. Therefore, the person making the recording is the copyright holder (although there may be an issue of getting clearances for certain 3rd-party copyrights contained in the performance, e.g. scripts - IIRC there is a compulsory license for musical arrangements, however).
The prohibition from recording in a theatre is a contract issue that you agree to by purchasing a ticket. If you are allowed to record the performance, YOU are the copyright holder of the recording (although as stated above, this may not get you off the hook completely).
If the artists signed a contract that the company has an exclusive right to record live performances, and they allow recording, it is a matter of breach of contract between the artists and the label - your copyright to your recording does not magically evaporate.
Read about it here (about halfway down). They did fix the max6 issues with sp2, which were less severe, but max6 was the shipping version at the time, too.
SP2's security enhancments broke the way 3ds max used some activeX widgets in the interface. Apparently in ways that are severely disruptive to basic use of the program.
Buy your own hardware at retail, using obfuscated identifying information.
Carry NO 3rd-party advertising of any kind.
Disallow manufacturers from using your name, excerpts from reviews, or any other acknowledgment that you exist in THEIR advertising.
Of course, that means your revenue model is going to have to change, either to a subscription site; privately funded, capped, and transparent donations; or through selling stuff (books?) of some kind.
3ds max 5. And it never will be. Which sucks, because scene files and plugins aren't always compatible, and a client can come back much later and ask for revisions.
...because a delivery system using a ground burst from a container ship (or yacht!) is even more prohibitively expensive.
Try it in the arcade. I dare ya.
Unless you were killed when your house collapsed under the weight of all your paper.
No more so than writing books and dramas, making art, composing symphonies, or making music.
Of course, there's room in those fields of endeavor for Danielle Steele, Jerry Bruckheimer, and the members of N' Sync just as much as there is for Great Art that Redeems Humanity.
The medium isn't the message if you wait long enough - the first couple of decades of cinema were pretty atrocious too.
Is that a joke or something real? If real, got a link? I was under the impression that luminance, red/green, and blue/yellow were all there is in the human eye from a physiological and neural standpoint.