Kodak has also failed to grasp the resurgence of film-based motion picture production either. Do you realize that Super8 film sales are up for the past 2 years? Kodak finally realized this, and are releasing Super8 forms of their higher-end film, the Vision-series. But, there are no new cameras, so this groundswell of Super8 support will be lost to Kodak when some genius company goes "hey, look at the sales growth of Super8 film, let's make a new camera!" and takes away Kodak's market. Already you can get Foma Super8 film, but Kodak still pretty much controls this market. If Kodak released a modern, high-end and high-quality Super8 camera, new revenue stream.
It's called "retro." There is a growing resistance to newer technology. Look at the growth in the sale of Vinyl records. Look at cars that resemble those of 50 years ago. People are buying into the older technology. Kodak needs a sales stream to compliment their CCD business (which is, in fact, doing well) so why not this?
Intel had to play 'catch-up" by incorporating MMX into the Pentium when NexGen was plotting on incorporating their own SIMD system (which became 3DNow!) but this time, they really got screwed over. They had planned on Itanium taking the 64-bit market over, and did not figure on AMD's x86-64 at all. What really did Intel in this time around was that AMD was doing what Intel had traditionally done, continue the backwards compatibility long past any logical point and not only making it work, but making it attractive. This is the mis-step that brought Motorola down from it's "king of the desktop CPU" position, when they released the 88k as the "next-generation" CPU rather than focus on delivering better 68k's. The division of resources back then is a step Motorola never really recovered from. I wonder how Intel will do on it.
A great example of what can/will happen with the Microsoft monoculture can be found in the potato blight of Ireland. For those that lack any historical reference here, Ireland had a booming population due to the introduction of a nice, hardy breed of potato. For years, everything was going great, everyone had food, the potato became the staple of the diet. Everyone ate potatos, it is estimated to have been between 20-40% of all food consumed during this period.
Then a viral attack that affected only this particular breed of potato struck. Within less than a year, whole crops failed, the economy collapsed as people literally starved to death.
Yet, other breed of potatos were completely unaffected. It wasn't the reliance on potatos that was to blame, it was the reliance of one strain of potatos that was Irelands achilles heel.
The genlocking signal was present on all Amiga's. The 23-pin video connector on the back *also* had the genlocking signal, allowing for even the small-box Amiga's like the 500 to be used in video production. (One setup I worked with directly used a pair of 1200's to run a public access station with the software, SCALA)
The typical clock in an amiga is 28.something Mhz. NTSC and PAL models have slightly different clocks. Plus this clock can be replaced with an external clock, to allow perfect-synching with other devices.
The chipset provided the timing and genlock signals necessary for the toaster to work. It is these signals that make traditional editing machines so expensive to produce. The Amiga's chipset gave these to the toaster cards so Newtek didn't have to.
But, if your timing is off by even a percentage, your broadcast signal falls apart, rendering dependent systems, such as the toaster, useless for their primary job of interfacing with these signals. This is analog technology here, can't use digital techniques to solve the problems.
I have never heard of IBM bidding on the Amiga technology. The only other firm I had heard interested in the technology at the time was Atari. (it was Atari's bid that made Commodore aware of the technology, from what I've heard)
Using an FPGA to replace the Amiga custom chips has been discussed for ages.
Noone's gotten it to work. The timing ends up wrong.
Discussing with a former Amiga chipset engineer, they couldn't even migrate the core chip from the ancient fabs to newer ones because when they did, the timing got schewed, rendering the toaster worthless.
Porn was over 1/3rd of all traffic on the net, last time I checked. The amount of money they generate because they have embraced openness has made even Microsoft envious.
A typical $10k porn movie can generate tens of millions in sale. Just need to slip some clips into a common p2p network with some taglines, and people go out to buy the whole thing. A friend of mine runs several porn sites, makes a comfortable living off of them, providing original content. (5-figure takehome salary, not too shabby) He points out how the movies he has clips of invariably end up his top sellers. And those clips are traded freely on P2P networks. He releases a new clip, putting it on KaZaa himself, sales for it boom in less than 14 days.
The net is a wonderful technology, if you let it be.
We spend countless billions, burn more fuel than Soudi Arabia can pump in a year, and find ourselves looking at the same landscape we could have found in Utah or California!
In most employment contracts found at such firms as SCO, these employees would be banned from working in a similar field for a specified period of time, correct?
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If you think that A4000 is hot, try a Pegasos running the Amiga-compatable MorphOS. My A1200 now collects dust.
Kodak has also failed to grasp the resurgence of film-based motion picture production either. Do you realize that Super8 film sales are up for the past 2 years? Kodak finally realized this, and are releasing Super8 forms of their higher-end film, the Vision-series. But, there are no new cameras, so this groundswell of Super8 support will be lost to Kodak when some genius company goes "hey, look at the sales growth of Super8 film, let's make a new camera!" and takes away Kodak's market. Already you can get Foma Super8 film, but Kodak still pretty much controls this market. If Kodak released a modern, high-end and high-quality Super8 camera, new revenue stream.
It's called "retro." There is a growing resistance to newer technology. Look at the growth in the sale of Vinyl records. Look at cars that resemble those of 50 years ago. People are buying into the older technology. Kodak needs a sales stream to compliment their CCD business (which is, in fact, doing well) so why not this?
Intel had to play 'catch-up" by incorporating MMX into the Pentium when NexGen was plotting on incorporating their own SIMD system (which became 3DNow!) but this time, they really got screwed over. They had planned on Itanium taking the 64-bit market over, and did not figure on AMD's x86-64 at all. What really did Intel in this time around was that AMD was doing what Intel had traditionally done, continue the backwards compatibility long past any logical point and not only making it work, but making it attractive. This is the mis-step that brought Motorola down from it's "king of the desktop CPU" position, when they released the 88k as the "next-generation" CPU rather than focus on delivering better 68k's. The division of resources back then is a step Motorola never really recovered from. I wonder how Intel will do on it.
A great example of what can/will happen with the Microsoft monoculture can be found in the potato blight of Ireland. For those that lack any historical reference here, Ireland had a booming population due to the introduction of a nice, hardy breed of potato. For years, everything was going great, everyone had food, the potato became the staple of the diet. Everyone ate potatos, it is estimated to have been between 20-40% of all food consumed during this period.
Then a viral attack that affected only this particular breed of potato struck. Within less than a year, whole crops failed, the economy collapsed as people literally starved to death.
Yet, other breed of potatos were completely unaffected. It wasn't the reliance on potatos that was to blame, it was the reliance of one strain of potatos that was Irelands achilles heel.
That is our economys achilles heel, Windows.
You know it wouldn't be used for WMD tho. It would be used to look at topless sunbathers while the manager's in his office.
The genlocking signal was present on all Amiga's. The 23-pin video connector on the back *also* had the genlocking signal, allowing for even the small-box Amiga's like the 500 to be used in video production. (One setup I worked with directly used a pair of 1200's to run a public access station with the software, SCALA)
The typical clock in an amiga is 28.something Mhz. NTSC and PAL models have slightly different clocks. Plus this clock can be replaced with an external clock, to allow perfect-synching with other devices.
The chipset provided the timing and genlock signals necessary for the toaster to work. It is these signals that make traditional editing machines so expensive to produce. The Amiga's chipset gave these to the toaster cards so Newtek didn't have to.
But, if your timing is off by even a percentage, your broadcast signal falls apart, rendering dependent systems, such as the toaster, useless for their primary job of interfacing with these signals. This is analog technology here, can't use digital techniques to solve the problems.
Several elements of the Toaster could do much higher than TV quality. Lightwave and the paint program could do thousands by thousands in resolution.
Please don't mistake the limits of the TV card as the absolute limit of the system.
I have never heard of IBM bidding on the Amiga technology. The only other firm I had heard interested in the technology at the time was Atari. (it was Atari's bid that made Commodore aware of the technology, from what I've heard)
Using an FPGA to replace the Amiga custom chips has been discussed for ages.
Noone's gotten it to work. The timing ends up wrong.
Discussing with a former Amiga chipset engineer, they couldn't even migrate the core chip from the ancient fabs to newer ones because when they did, the timing got schewed, rendering the toaster worthless.
Mid-5 figure would be more accurate. I don't want to give away his salary should he notice me chatting about it. (Hi Sid)
Porn was over 1/3rd of all traffic on the net, last time I checked. The amount of money they generate because they have embraced openness has made even Microsoft envious.
A typical $10k porn movie can generate tens of millions in sale. Just need to slip some clips into a common p2p network with some taglines, and people go out to buy the whole thing. A friend of mine runs several porn sites, makes a comfortable living off of them, providing original content. (5-figure takehome salary, not too shabby) He points out how the movies he has clips of invariably end up his top sellers. And those clips are traded freely on P2P networks. He releases a new clip, putting it on KaZaa himself, sales for it boom in less than 14 days.
The net is a wonderful technology, if you let it be.
Ah, sorry for that. I was rather puzzled by the single lack of mentioning AmigaDE/AmigaAnywhere/AmigaGen2 in the comment.
What institutions? Please, back this up with facts.
Oh wait, this is Mike Bouma, he doesn't need facts, he's an Amiga-fan!
A friend of mines husband works for Intel. In fact, he was in the FPU division last time I checked.
This man I wouldn't sign on to design me a doghouse!
His checkbook was a horrid mess, he got basic math wrong.
Yet, he is desiging critical areas of Intel's high-end chips?
haven't gotten the damned t-shirt yet. 8(
Ok, thinkgeek here I come!
Hyperion, a software producer, is not a competitor to Genesi, a hardware vendor. In fact, I would call Genesi the logical parter for Hyperion.
Come on, out of who knows how many votes for AmigaOS 4, they picked me?
especially if they pull a harry potter and begin using all 5 books of the trilogy to produce the movies in sequence.
Come on you movie guys, this can work!
He just got a bunch of easily riled up geeks that love the GPL pissed off at him.
Expect mailbombing, DDOS attacks, and outright criticism. Then expect to start hearing from legal advisors that know what they are talking about.
The universe has gravastars but is inside a gravastar...
GNU is not Unix.
We spend countless billions, burn more fuel than Soudi Arabia can pump in a year, and find ourselves looking at the same landscape we could have found in Utah or California!
This sounds similar to the VideoLAN project.
A great idea tho, tried it out a few years back to much success.
I can imagine it now, one careless motion and SMASH your CPU is in itty bitty pieces.
In most employment contracts found at such firms as SCO, these employees would be banned from working in a similar field for a specified period of time, correct?