Phil Hoppes
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Damn, I’ve been looking for something like this. I got $40K just sitting around doing nothing and I’d like nothing better that to blow a wad of cash on equipment and tell my paying customers go piss off because I want to be some arrogant a$$hole’s bit$h and work for nothing so I can get my name in 2point font on a trailer that is whizzing by at 800 feet per second.
Man where do I sign up……….
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Yea but no one is going to develop a web site knowing it won’t play on a mobile device and they won’t want to do it twice. HTML5 is what they will use. Flash as a stand alone app with AIR has a good future but this will kill Flash as a web plug-in.
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Ah, yes, you are correct on that point. Actually I was posting more on articles I’ve read on the net from prognosticators on both sides. With the installed base Flash has, it’s crazy to say it is dead. Of course it’s not. But it is safe to say it’s glory days are over. That Adobe is killing it for mobile and, one my safely assume, begrudgingly, looking to see how they can support HTML5, in the long run will help them. Its tough to see something you’ve put so much into fall aside but that is especially the way of new technology. Plus, things that are so proprietary and end up taking so much of the market, in the end, make themselves huge targets for competing alternative strategies, which is exactly what has happened.
In the end users and developers win. Competition is always good. I use an iPhone and love it but I’m really glad there are Androids out there. And even though the CPU market is still very lopsided, I’m glad AMD is around to keep Intel on their respective toes.
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Nobody said that they were not going to keep development on the desktop, but given that volumes by platform in the PC market place have already shifted significantly towards mobile platforms (laptops vs desktops) and with the coming of tablets and smartphones being the exponential growth markets it is probably more than safe to say the slope of the curve for Flash is down not up. Windows 8 IE10 will not support it and that is a significant nail for the coffin just as Apple’s refusal to put it into any iOS.
I for one won’t miss it.
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Having done development on Flash and now teaching it, I won’t be sorry to see it go. It’s continually been buggy as heck and their is no question as to player being a resource pig. It did work on some Android’s but not all. Time to move on.
With that announcement was the statement too that 750 people were let go. That is a shame. Having been on that side of the fence myself in history past it’s no fun. I have to wonder, however, with that many people working on just the mobile product and it still sucked, they must have been really flogging a dead horse there.
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My Mac is a MacBook Pro not a MacPro. Yea I always by my memory from Crucial. Get the minimum from Apple and upgrade it elsewhere.
On this model MacBook Pro Crucial only lists an 8Gb upgrade. (Not bad at all, its $53 and change) MacSales (https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/Apple_MacBook_MacBook_Pro/Upgrade/DDR3_1333MHz_SDRAM) has a 16Gb upgrade for this MacBook Pro but it is $580. Actually that is down significantly from when I bought it in June. Then the 16Gb upgrade was around $1000. Apple does not even off that much although they may now, I’ve not looked. They did not when I purchased it.
For my PC about a month ago I upgraded it to 24Gb of ram for a whopping $180. Just checking newegg and that is already down to $150. Gotta love it.
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Yea, my MBP is a recent (June) version with the SandyBridge CPU. It has an 512Gb SSD with 8Gb of ram and I bootcamp it to run Win7. Have FCPX on the Mac Side which is nice along with a few other Mac apps I still use. Win7 is the workhorse for me with Maya, Nuke, PP, Vue and AE. Both run fine. Would like to put in 16Gb but the cost of that upgrade is just stupid at the moment. A year from now it won’t be so bad I’m sure. Without a doubt this is the finest laptop I’ve ever had running OSX and Windows and it screams.
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I’m an original Mac Fan-Boy (first Mac was the original…. many since then) but come on. Ok, Win XP and it’s entire ecosystem is nothing short of a major PITA but Win 7 is really pretty good as OS’s go. To be able to truly measure productivity the study would have to have side by side comparisons of people doing exactly the same tasks but on different platforms. I don’t believe that study did it that way. Yes, OSX is a great OS and for the standard “Office Worker” I’m more than sure they could do their daily tasks quite nicely.
As to the 44% richer? Me thinks I would attribute that much more to the fact that (Warning Gross Generalization Ahead) I believe a substantial proportion of that group are very independent thinkers who take no issue with picking the tool that suits them best, IT departments, corporate policy be damned. Their independence and drive have lots more to do with the fact that they make 44% more, not just because they use Mac’s.
Use the tool that works best.
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Here is a bit of interesting trivia for you all.
I purchase FCPX the day it came out. Tried it. Liked some things but didn’t like some other things. Figured I should spend more time working with PP so I emailed Apple and requested a refund. Apple, to their credit, was prompt and courteous and they refunded my money. I in turn deleted FCPX from my Mac. I pay for what I use and work hard to be up front about it. Fast forward to now. I picked up a new iPhone 4S (love it) and I’ve been shooting a lot of videos of my grandson’s soccer game and other various outings and, in addition, I co-lead the local FCPUG, so I figured I really did not give FCPX an even shake and one of the things that really did impress me was how fast it can work for a quick slam and bang production. (Like something I do with kids soccer games). So I decided to repurchase FCPX.
I logged on to the App store and went to repurchase the program. Low and behold, the App store comes back and tells me I am due a “free” update to 10.0.1 and it proceeds to download to my MBP. I’m a little perplexed but just figured there must have been some dangling file hiding in the bowels of my hard drive. Well, in the mean time, we were also doing our once every 3 or so years hand me down of computers to my kids and I’d just purchased a new 27″ iMac for my wife. I wanted to put FCPX on this machine so I figured “Well, I’ll come clean and really purchase it when I load on to her iMac”. The new iMac arrives and I go to again purchase FCPX and the App store announces, “You are due a free update to 10.0.1” and proceeds to install on my wife’s new, clean iMac. I have a brief WTF moment and figure, ok, I don’t want to be on the phone to Bangalore or where ever for 2 hours to fix this so I just wrote App store support explaining the situation and that I wanted to PAY Apple for the program I now wanted to use.
I get a very polite letter back from the App store support basically telling me that the way there system works, once the charge someone for an item it is impossible for them to charge the same account twice for the same thing. They ended with :
“This is your lucky day. Enjoy”
Now really, I’m not complaining. But I just had to ask myself “82 Billion dollars in the bank. 108 Billion dollars a year in revenue and they don’t have an ERP system that can manage their on line sales with a one to many relationship?” WOW………………
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Just got a 1U ASUS rackmount from newegg. 2x Xenon Hex Core 2.4Ghz CPU’s with 24Gb Ram, 1Tb drive, 4 hot swap front bays, Win7 Pro, just over $2600. Gives me 24 rendering threads, which is HUGE for me, and at about 1/4 to 1/2 the cost of an equivalent MacPro (haven’t priced them lately but weren’t they running around 8K for a 12core?)
and yea…. HP’s commitment to PC’s is … ah… dubious at best. Wonder what eBay Meg is going to do with that CF.