Chris Jacek
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Now if we’re going do the Toaster nostalgia right, we need to watch the original demo, featuring Ken Nordine and Todd Rundgren.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nymVNhy4dw8
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Is there any mention in this last round of MBP rumors, whether they will offer traditional drives, or will it be SSD only?
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I also think that the line about the Macbook Air can be viewed as tacit confirmation that the Macbook Pro is dead, at least the way that we know it.
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Don’t forget the Genie board!
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[Richard Cardonna] “Apple’s return is $400.00 bucks per employe they could still pay 20 per employ and make a killing but they wont. Because its about the system.”
It’s not $400.00 per employee, it’s $400,000.00 per employer.
I agree that many of the logistic problems also stand in our way, but many of these things go hand in hand. For about 50 years following World War II, it was the US that had all of these advantages. Once we decided to create more jobs overseas than here in the US (and there is no question the WE started this, and empowered the evolving industrial might of China), we also stopped concerning ourselves with creating our own innovation. The laws were changed (i.e. deregulation) in a way that allows the corporations to leach more profits by abandoning our infrastructure.
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Tariffs help in leveling the playing field with countries with lower wages. If a tariff is applied to raise the cost of a foreign-made product, so that its shelf cost is close to the same price as something made in the US, then a major incentive to manufacture overseas is removed. As a result, the jobs return to the U.S..
An earlier poster said that some people will have to bite the bullet and take a lower wage job. This is exactly the opposite of how we should be approaching the situation. Instead, we should bite the bullet, and spend more than $200 on a handheld supercomputer, or more than $8 on a pair of jeans (seriously, it cost more to buy a pair of pants 30 years ago than it does now). The end result is more jobs in the U.S, more demand for workers, and ultimately, higher wages. The relative costs of the gadgets works out to be about the same, since the wages are raised, but people have more money for commodities like food.
This is exactly what most corporations and the politicians that they own DO NOT want to have happen. They want cheap labor no matter what the cost is ethically.
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Thanks for posting the original article. It’s a fascinating read, and shows how much trouble we are in as an economy. You cannot compete with government/corporate mandated factories with dorms and an 24/7 staff. Of course, there are U.S. politicians who think we should do exactly that. They think we should get rid of minimum wage laws and build similar factories here, which are really just glorified work-camps. Their jobs plan is a race to the bottom.
This problem will not end until we go back to the tariff system that made us so prosperous in the mid-20th century. This was Alexander Hamilton’s plan, and it worked well. To see a successful example of this, just look at Brazil.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “Jobs, ultimately, was fifteen ley lines coming together: an ascetic Lennon meets a mercantile Turing bearing Dutch taste.
Apple surely will, once he finally dissipates, have, as a company, the ancient mother of all hangovers waiting for them.
the moves he made! re-orientating the development stage slate to the phone, before returning to the slate with a proven formula through mobile computing, after picking up the appstore – that stuff is fast Eddie Felson – you can’t repeat the shots.”
Now that’s impressive. Referencing historic political minds and “The Hustler” in the same post.
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[Bret Williams] “As for the Keywords, I felt that way until I realized it’s no different than creating bins and dragging clips to them. Except you can’t really have bins within bins within bins. And really, NLEs were meant to be used more this way originally.”
This was actually something that I originally planned to add to my original post, but it started getting kinda long. The fact that you cannot have sub-folders is a another big sticking point for me. I have worked on projects with 80 source tapes, and a multi-level folder hierarchy was the only way to maintain order.
I agree with your point of how NLEs were originally were meant to work (economical digitizing of only what you needed). I worked like that when I started with an 18GB NuVista Avid system. But they evolved beyond that in the early 2000s. FCP was a big part of that. My preferred workflow became digitizing entire tapes via machine control while doing other work, and then being able to scrub and log my footage after it was already in the machine. This is certainly not everyone’s preferred method, but those versions of FCP never took away the option of capturing “1990’s style.”
I like the idea of an Event Manager, especially if it would save your settings until the next time you launch. I also do not believe that a folder system and event system couldn’t coexist.
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[Kevin Patrick] “I’m hoping that you either didn’t read my entire post, or that you are expanding on my parody of FCP X issues. “
Man, I had hoped the rest of my post made it apparent that I was continuing the joke.
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