Chris Harlan
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[Bernard Newnham] “Just can’t resist showing off – I’ve made a few Dr Who trails, and I worked as a cameraman on a number of series from Troughton to Baker. I put Lis Sladen in the arms of the giant robot.
At some point someone left a Dalek in the scene dock for months. We used to wander arounf in it.
“Cool! That gets major traction with me, though my daughter just acknowledges Doctors 1-8 in theory only.
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[Bill Davis] “Doesn’t that LaCie hub kinda solve this?
If you have a one to many hub, how important is loop through any more?
Granted, it requires power, but at such low levels, that I can’t believe that the market won’t enable a battery powered hub that can do this.
“The LaCie TBolt hub is for eSATA devices. TBolt can’t be split by a hub. It needs a single line like SCSI.
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[TImothy Auld] “I think we should move to London. If we could get paid there. Or maybe we could move London here? CSI? Doctor Who. CSI LA? Doctor Who LA. CSI NY? Doctor Who NY. Why not?
“Oh man, my daughter would kill for such a thing (hopefully, only figuratively). Cutting Doctor Who spots would guarantee me a daily dose of (d)adulation for at least two years. The only thing is this country that could equal it would be carving out little gems for The Hunger Games of Catching Fire. Hear that Lionsgate?! WILL WORK FOR DAUGHTER’S LOVE.
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[Walter Soyka] “[Bill Davis] “But underneath that reality is another one. If you can make the pretty monitor – it’s not so near as difficult to make the accurate one.”
Making a pretty monitor and making an accurate monitor are worlds apart, and a pretty monitor has no use to anyone in a color-critical environment.
“I don’t understand that logic either. In both video and audio, there are many very expensive, very well made devices that are beautiful to watch or listen to, but are absolutely dreadful for monitoring. A number of them are far more expensive than their professional counterparts. That’s because they are specifically designed to cover up, blend or otherwise gloss over imperfections, whereas a proper professional monitor is designed to a) reveal imperfections in a manner that is b) consistent and repeatable on similarly calibrated systems. The required monitor designs for attaining accuracy and for attaining “pretty” are hardly complementary.
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[TImothy Auld] “but the Spanish subtitles have me laughing big”
I love that the many, many, many utterances of the single word “Doctor” are each individually covered by the appropriate translation, which is, of course, “Doctor.”
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[TImothy Auld] “I am an idiot. A new version has been released, visible up and down this thread, and I did not see it. Apologies.
“Will this help?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIlKiRPSNGA
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[Thomas Frank] “Yes some do this but how successfully are they?”
Sometimes very. Off the top of my head, I think both IBM and Lenovo were happy with their deal. I think Apple was happy to be out of printers.
[Thomas Frank] ” VW, Audi, BMW they did not only focus on there strong saling product but on all fronts.”
Well, as a matter of fact car manufacturers are always dropping lines and have been since the beginning of the industry, so limiting it to whatever happened during the peak of the last global economic crisis does not make for a persuasive argument. But also, this is illustrates how we disagree about the basic situation. You see Pro Apps and Mac Pros as being a car division alongside other car divisions. While I agree that that was the case, I now see them as, say, a division that makes lawn mowers sitting next to a division that makes a whole fleet of cars.
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[Thomas Frank] “Okay, well let see what real Marketing agent would see or say when you give him that example…
What of that market gets saturated and drops? Oh yeah we lost that other market.
It’s good to have big profit share but it is better to have all of them. Right?
“I fear I don’t follow what you are saying. Companies re-prioritize all the time. They sometimes let whole, healthy divisions or product lines go because it suits their focus to do so. Apple is doing plenty of things about future market saturation, including becoming a leading content distributor. And the further they move toward the center of their thin client businesses, the farther they are moving from their workstation business. Remember, Apple used to be in the printer business, too. Though I suppose that could change back again:
https://www.theonion.com/articles/new-apple-ceo-tim-cook-im-thinking-printers,21207/
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[Steve Connor] “As I previously mentioned, something “feels” different, I opened my feature projects and they scrub considerably faster than before, no slight delays on playback.”
Just double checking: are you sure its not the play-cebo effect?
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[Chris Harlan] “Hey, maybe the announcement will be Smoke for Windows NT!”
And, if they do, they apparently still have another whole two years on the platform. Apparently MS just announced that they will be ending all XP support on April 8, 2014.