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End of The Mac Pro
For those of you with a sense of humor …
https://macperformanceguide.com/blog/2012/20120219_1-Dinosaur.html
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I’ll admit I’ve written a number of Cow posts on the can.
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[Bret Williams] “I’ll admit I’ve written a number of Cow posts on the can.”
I think I could only with low data-rate posts,
Unfortunately i don’t have any iPod, iPad, iPhone ar even an Android or Galaxynote to make the test.
I’ll try it with my Mac Pro.
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I doubt there can be anyone unfamiliar with the persona of Leonardo daVinci, especially since we use the name so commonly, and of course for colorists DaVinci is a brand name.
But here’s a sample of what he really thought:
1178.
It seems to me that men of coarse and clumsy habits and of small knowledge do not deserve such fine instruments nor so great a variety of natural mechanism as men of speculation and of great knowledge; but merely a sack in which their food may be stowed and whence it may issue, since they cannot be judged to be any thing else than vehicles for food; for it seems to me they have nothing about them of the human species but the voice and the figure, and for all the rest are much below beasts.
1179.
Some there are who are nothing else than a passage for food and augmentors of excrement and fillers of privies, because through them no other things in the world, nor any good effects are produced, since nothing but full privies results from them.He was so far ahead of his time, we’re still catching up.
jPo
You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?
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Da Vinci as compared to the mass market products we have today? I think he was definitely way ahead of us, certainly ahead of the church that imprisoned him for thinking his thoughts, and most certainly far, far ahead of any conventional wisdom I see presenting itself these days. If you are comparing Leonardo da Vinci to Apple I think da Vinci wins hands down.
Tim
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And, also you cannot distill what da Vinci thought in a few random lines. His was a long life for those days – sixty seven or eight years as I recall – and I don’t think you can really tell us that we are not worthy of using any tool based on a da Vinci quote taken out of context. I feel sure that he would’ve been the first to question that. Because he asked questions.
Tim
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. . . and yet he left us the da Vinci Resolve and the Resolve Lite.
Why would he do such a thing?
Why would he make such a good color grading tool but no NLE to go with it?
It would seem Reason had left him . . . even that was left to Propellerhead to develop.
Alas even “privy” has two meanings
sharing in the knowledge of (something secret or private)
a toilet located in a small shed outside a house or other building; outhouse.
or maybe it is really the same meaning articulated differently.
Would this forum be shared privy and that we keep it full.
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Privy has far more than two meanings. In this particular “quote” – translation really – I am fairly sure it refers to a latrine. What you refer to I am not entirely sure.
Tim
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Did you read my post?
a toilet located in a small shed outside a house or other building; outhouse.
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Yes, I did. Did you read mine?
Tim
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Yes, “latrine”
You mention more than two meanings but I only see two variations even in regards to old english.
latrine is close to the definition I posted.
The first known use of the word latrine was in the 1640s (France I believe) which was more than a century after he died.
Privy dates to the 1300s. Privy was a known word to da Vinci, Latrine was not.
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