Clint Wardlow
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[Bob Woodhead] “Sorta reminds me of the old SGI O2 desktop.
Unless maybe it’s like those hand towels that expand when you get ’em wet…. HEY PHIL!…. do we dunk it water to turn it into a real workstation?”
Probably won’t feel quite as small when you have all of those Thuderbolt devices you need for expandability hooked up. Instead of one honking tower that rises like a skyscraper, you will have a veritable city of small boxes surrounding your workspace.
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[TImothy Auld] “Patent law these days is surreal. People found business with the sole idea of suing for patent infringement”
If we want to give it a label, we could call it “pulling a Darl McBride,” named after the former CEO of the SCO Group (aka SCO unix). If I remember correctly he tried to save his flagging company by claiming patents on Linex code. He was the devil incarnate as far as the open source community was concerned.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “It’s easy.
Everyone switched to home built PCs with $3,000 CUDA cards.
Didn’t you?”
Well, I have to admit that I was looking at switching to PC because of issues I was having with AE on my imac.
However, I discovered it wasn’t computer-based but idiot-based (the idiot being me).
So I figure I can still slog along on my imac for awhile longer in hopes of a new mac pro.
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[Bret Williams] “I’m starting to feel like a 10.1”
What is interesting is the Adobe Cloud move is providing an opportunity for Apple. I think a lot of folks that jumped ship to Premiere early in the game will look at FCPX with new eyes.
Man, the last couple of years have been a roller coaster ride.
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Haven’t you all heard? The new Mac Pro is going to be cloud-based. You’ll have to downloaded it from the app store and load it onto your ipad or iphone. Oh, it is also a subscription. Plus in a secret cabal meeting Shantanu Narayen and Tim Cook have agreed to join forces to enslave the world. Apparently Sherlock Holmes is our only hope.
Well, that is about as much false rumor-mill as I can hurl in a day in good conscious.
I too am curious about the new mac pro or lack thereof. It seems to have gotten lost in the shuffle lately. Though I still think the earliest we are going to get any news is in the fall.
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[Bret Williams] “Are you that dude from Family Guy that has seen every movie? His name is Carl.
No, but I have seen Zulu. Also, Zulu Dawn.
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Hey since this is thread about analogies, thought I would come up with another. Since this a site aimed at video editors I think it is apropos to bring up a movie analogy (and also a history one as well).
Maybe Adobe sees itself like the British Empire of the 1880s and their stance on the CC like its own Rourke’s Drift (as detailed in the classic movie Zulu). The PR department is the 1st/24th Foot defending against the Zulu hoard (CC detractors). They just need to pile the mealy bags high enough and hold out long enough. The Zulu hoard will give up and go away.
Then it is Victoria Crosses(or the Adobe equivalent)for everybody.
Or maybe I have too much time on my hands today.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “There are more car analogies running around about the CC.”
That is because we love our cars. So much that we think everything everywhere somehow relates to our cars. A car is not so much a mode of transportation as a universal metaphor for all human experience from the beginning of time to present. I am just waiting for the day when it moves from car to hovercraft.
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[TImothy Auld] “I am quite curious as to whether you have ever registered any copyrights.”
And I am curious, Tim. Have you ever really worked hard on creating a project, only to sell it to someone who buries it. Make it so you can’t show or release your own work.
I had a friend who made a movie in the 1990s, his first feature. He basically was bamboozled by a fast-talking distributor against future profits. Said distributor buried the film as a tax write off. My friend lost everything he and his investors has sunk into. To this day he can’t show the film because he doesn’t hold the copyright. His labor of love just sits on some film library shelf going nowhere.
I wonder how many green film-makers have suffered such a fate? Copyright can work against the artist sometimes, especially one who can’t afford lawyers to insure he gets the best deal.
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I suspect I am older than you. And in terms of copyright law…I think militant observation to the degree it exists is relatively new. When I was a younger, during the heyday of affordable audio tape machines, folks thought nothing of copying a friends albums to cassette or making mix tapes.
Technically such activities were illegal, but it was only when commercial ventures used such did the lawyers step in. (It was amazing how hardcore Mattel came down on “the Karen Carpenter Story” and the artist who was making the “trailer-trash” Barbie Dolls.)Also during the early days of consumer videotape, the big guys did introduce macrovision to prevent folks from making copies of the movies they purchased.
In a lot of ways, with the birth of disk software, folks didn’t really give much thought to making copies for friends. I think it is in the last decade with the computer generation and the ease in which one can provide such things that folks started really looking at it.