Final Cut Pro X is a completely new rewrite. Apple's tradition is new rewrites of software is to get the basics working rock solid first, then add back missing features.
ask _any_ editor that doesn't work out of their bedroom what "the basics" of a professional editing package are.
i'm not sure you understand the sheer scale of Apple's fuckup with FCP-x. sure, they've made some amends on a few features, but the entire industry is shell-shocked and afraid to trust again - even my old boss, who was a die-hard mac fanboy (to the extent of installing an xSAN system and having to spend 100k+ on hardware and software getting it to work with the PC, linux, and mac systems in the facility).
from a pro point of view, it's hard not to see Apple's standard operating procedure as "find software that's potentially disruptive, buy it, hard-sell it so it dominates the industry, EOL it - to hell with the customers".
i know one should never ascribe to malice something sufficiently explained by incompetence, but given Apple's market capitalization, even a "hater" must concede that they are not incompetent.
if you're not fundamentalist, why are you attempting to excuse your fundamentalist allies?
i don't give a damn about your brand of christianity, or the Apollo astronauts'.
talk to the fucking politicians. the ones that have been fighting resource wars under the guise of ideals and beliefs for so long that they've started believing the lies they use to justify yet another war over resources.
that's intentional. not to avoid lawsuits, but to provide one last place where words online work like words offline - once they're uttered, the go away and exist only in people's memories. there's no permanence, so you need not worry about saying something stupid and having it come back at you.
also saves on backups...
anyway, all the people that were on/b/ when it was good (inb4/b/ was never good) are trolling slashdot now.
i thought that definition was "projectile"? some point in the late '90s it became fashionable to extend the definition of "missile" to "shit that an unruly highschool kid throws", just for emotive impact.
i was thinking more hardware and software. Final Cut Pro X is a recent example. they added some interesting stuff if you're shooting multi-cam, and broke EDL, XML, backward compatibility, the ability to share projects and removed Color entirely.
hardware wise... if they could remove the home, power and volume buttons they would. they lost me as a supporter when they removed the "reset" button - an arrogant statement that their (then OS 8.6) machines will never crash and hence never need the kill button. had to wrench the fuckers out of the wall. God help you if you had a laptop.
their entire weapons program is based on freely available info.
their plutonium is made by reverse engineered magnox reactors.
their missiles are based on (old) russian tech....neither of which they seem to be able to do right. they get frighteningly close, but by frightening i mean they have a lot of toys that could explode and cause damage beyond their borders.
though i agree, there's programs i use which still do not work properly on anything else, or if they do, features (like playback through an archaic MPEG-2 decoder card) certainly do not.
i can _almost_ get some of these things to work in wine, but not enough to be able to use them for work.
maybe it means running a sandboxed machine and a connected machine in tandem? still more pain in the arse than just continuing with XP.
or MS could iron out some kinks, but where's the motivation for them to wrestle their code to run with obsolete software/abandonware when nobody's going to pay them for it?
1. you can get your product immediately (with no shipping fee) 2. you can look at more than a low res pic of your product 3. you can ask a knowledgeable staff member about the products
so far they can only get the first one right, and that at a 100%+ markup. if they only took a cut equivalent to the shipping cost, they'd be laughing. if they had 2 and 3, they could charge more.
you never bought something that didn't work, returned it, only to have the replacement fail as well? all within 90 days? it happens.
this is basically an incentive to sell products of even less quality than they already are. i cannot justify buying from a place that has a "sell crap and get away with it" policy.
long ago, i had a saga with a series of defective stereo systems. all from the same store.
in another instance, i bought a 2CD set of Physical Graffiti only to find it did not play on any CD/DVD device i owned. i exchanged for another copy, same deal. turns out it was a shit batch from the replication plant (Australians: never buy a disc from D.A.T.A. read the inner ring on the disc, or the embossing on the plastic jewel case). i never managed to get the fucking store to bring in an import so i stood a chance of actually being able to play the album. eventually when i got a blu-ray drive i found that i could rip the disc in burst mode, but by then i'd given up and found a second hand vinyl copy.
my point is that change-of-mind (such as in the case of the TV being returned after "the big game"), and defective/unfit for purpose should absolutely not be included in the same bucket. if a store sells shit, they should expect to see it again after it leaves the store.
retailers are crying foul at a market in decline and a business model that is no longer relevant. i have utterly no sympathy for them. i work for a company that sells product to retailers, and let me tell you, their terms are more than fair - they're exploitative and damaging to industries that rely on them.
case in point with DVD - any anime fans from the USA might have noticed that there's pretty much only 1 big company putting out everything, where years ago there were heaps. this is because retailers negotiated to be able to return any unsold stock at any time and get refunded. they then let their stock control practices slide and overbought anime DVDs (that's part of what killed Borders - overbuying), and then dumped millions in stock back to the distributors in a single quarter. they dumped so much stock that the quarterly losses of the companies they dumped on exceeded their cash flow, and they sunk. only the biggest survived, and overall quality and product diversity suffered hugely (it's recovered somewhat now, but only due to luck).
CEOs of retail chains are behaving like retarded, spoilt, entitled gen y fucktards. they all want something for nothing. they spout libertarian shit like it was gospel, but when competition threatens their business model, they're crying for the government to pass laws to kill their competition.
3, barring 5, should still be detectable if the communications work in any way like ours do - the payload is encrypted, but the protocol syntax is necessarily clear, otherwise nothing would be able to distinguish it from noise, including the intended receiving device.
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that method takes 5 seconds.
wrenching out the power takes less than a second :)
Final Cut Pro X is a completely new rewrite. Apple's tradition is new rewrites of software is to get the basics working rock solid first, then add back missing features.
ask _any_ editor that doesn't work out of their bedroom what "the basics" of a professional editing package are.
i'm not sure you understand the sheer scale of Apple's fuckup with FCP-x. sure, they've made some amends on a few features, but the entire industry is shell-shocked and afraid to trust again - even my old boss, who was a die-hard mac fanboy (to the extent of installing an xSAN system and having to spend 100k+ on hardware and software getting it to work with the PC, linux, and mac systems in the facility).
from a pro point of view, it's hard not to see Apple's standard operating procedure as "find software that's potentially disruptive, buy it, hard-sell it so it dominates the industry, EOL it - to hell with the customers".
i know one should never ascribe to malice something sufficiently explained by incompetence, but given Apple's market capitalization, even a "hater" must concede that they are not incompetent.
if you're not fundamentalist, why are you attempting to excuse your fundamentalist allies?
i don't give a damn about your brand of christianity, or the Apollo astronauts'.
talk to the fucking politicians. the ones that have been fighting resource wars under the guise of ideals and beliefs for so long that they've started believing the lies they use to justify yet another war over resources.
no resources... why bother? save their starving people? security for US allies in the region? naaah.
also it'd piss China off to no end.
that's intentional. not to avoid lawsuits, but to provide one last place where words online work like words offline - once they're uttered, the go away and exist only in people's memories. there's no permanence, so you need not worry about saying something stupid and having it come back at you.
also saves on backups...
anyway, all the people that were on /b/ when it was good (inb4 /b/ was never good) are trolling slashdot now.
i thought that definition was "projectile"? some point in the late '90s it became fashionable to extend the definition of "missile" to "shit that an unruly highschool kid throws", just for emotive impact.
everything since the V2 has had guidance though... you think NASA just pointed and hoped?
well... they removed some of the crashes i guess.
i was thinking more hardware and software. Final Cut Pro X is a recent example. they added some interesting stuff if you're shooting multi-cam, and broke EDL, XML, backward compatibility, the ability to share projects and removed Color entirely.
hardware wise... if they could remove the home, power and volume buttons they would. they lost me as a supporter when they removed the "reset" button - an arrogant statement that their (then OS 8.6) machines will never crash and hence never need the kill button. had to wrench the fuckers out of the wall. God help you if you had a laptop.
i'm pretty sure that crisis was resolved before a certain november day in 1963...
he who is without sin cast the first stone yada yada...
their entire weapons program is based on freely available info.
their plutonium is made by reverse engineered magnox reactors.
their missiles are based on (old) russian tech. ...neither of which they seem to be able to do right. they get frighteningly close, but by frightening i mean they have a lot of toys that could explode and cause damage beyond their borders.
the Atlas vehicles were ICBMs IIRC.
that said, the space shuttle was pretty much 2 ICBMs strapped to a giant fuel tank with a little help from the SSMEs.
the "i" broke off just under a minute after posting.
apple's design philosophy is to progressively remove features, so this fits quite well.
(anyone wanting to knee-jerk at my assertation - give me a counter-example)
best post in this story :)
though i agree, there's programs i use which still do not work properly on anything else, or if they do, features (like playback through an archaic MPEG-2 decoder card) certainly do not.
i can _almost_ get some of these things to work in wine, but not enough to be able to use them for work.
maybe it means running a sandboxed machine and a connected machine in tandem? still more pain in the arse than just continuing with XP.
or MS could iron out some kinks, but where's the motivation for them to wrestle their code to run with obsolete software/abandonware when nobody's going to pay them for it?
maybe you should have paid for your copy?
of course a writer can! the aspies in here, honestly.
a writer can do anything they can think of, so long as it's part of their work.
i can't count... nm
yes, exactly.
physical stores have two advantages:
1. you can get your product immediately (with no shipping fee)
2. you can look at more than a low res pic of your product
3. you can ask a knowledgeable staff member about the products
so far they can only get the first one right, and that at a 100%+ markup. if they only took a cut equivalent to the shipping cost, they'd be laughing. if they had 2 and 3, they could charge more.
you never bought something that didn't work, returned it, only to have the replacement fail as well? all within 90 days? it happens.
this is basically an incentive to sell products of even less quality than they already are. i cannot justify buying from a place that has a "sell crap and get away with it" policy.
I recommend the read the GP post.
long ago, i had a saga with a series of defective stereo systems. all from the same store.
in another instance, i bought a 2CD set of Physical Graffiti only to find it did not play on any CD/DVD device i owned. i exchanged for another copy, same deal. turns out it was a shit batch from the replication plant (Australians: never buy a disc from D.A.T.A. read the inner ring on the disc, or the embossing on the plastic jewel case). i never managed to get the fucking store to bring in an import so i stood a chance of actually being able to play the album. eventually when i got a blu-ray drive i found that i could rip the disc in burst mode, but by then i'd given up and found a second hand vinyl copy.
my point is that change-of-mind (such as in the case of the TV being returned after "the big game"), and defective/unfit for purpose should absolutely not be included in the same bucket. if a store sells shit, they should expect to see it again after it leaves the store.
retailers are crying foul at a market in decline and a business model that is no longer relevant. i have utterly no sympathy for them. i work for a company that sells product to retailers, and let me tell you, their terms are more than fair - they're exploitative and damaging to industries that rely on them.
case in point with DVD - any anime fans from the USA might have noticed that there's pretty much only 1 big company putting out everything, where years ago there were heaps. this is because retailers negotiated to be able to return any unsold stock at any time and get refunded. they then let their stock control practices slide and overbought anime DVDs (that's part of what killed Borders - overbuying), and then dumped millions in stock back to the distributors in a single quarter. they dumped so much stock that the quarterly losses of the companies they dumped on exceeded their cash flow, and they sunk. only the biggest survived, and overall quality and product diversity suffered hugely (it's recovered somewhat now, but only due to luck).
CEOs of retail chains are behaving like retarded, spoilt, entitled gen y fucktards. they all want something for nothing. they spout libertarian shit like it was gospel, but when competition threatens their business model, they're crying for the government to pass laws to kill their competition.
disgusting pricks.
you're gonna have to just learn how to take photos, rather than hiding your shit under a filter.
3, barring 5, should still be detectable if the communications work in any way like ours do - the payload is encrypted, but the protocol syntax is necessarily clear, otherwise nothing would be able to distinguish it from noise, including the intended receiving device.