Phil Hoppes
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Yea.
1) It’s an asinine practice and ….
2) No one ever learns and continues to do it somehow thinking that this time things will be different.
3) I just kinda was hoping that may Apple was above it, but no, they do the same crap.
I can say with definite experience. It does not work. I was forced to do it against my wishes on numerous occasions. The results were always the same.
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Having worked in the corporate engineering world for close to 30 years, this practice of pulling people off project A and dumping them on Project B so B can ship earlier is so asinine it is not to be believed.
Unless these people are doing pure monkey work such that coming on in the 11th hour to a project requires no training what so ever, this is just a Dilbert PHB waste of everyone’s time. I use to have this practice shoved down my throat all of the time. Everyone claims to have read The Mythical Man Month but all of my managers just ignored it. You can’t have a kid in one month by getting 9 women pregnant. Throwing bodies on a project in the end just slows down the really productive members of the team as they are scrambling teaching the new bodies what to do and praying they don’t break what has already been done. Sheesh……. history just keeps repeating itself.
Enough soap box…….
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Speaking as a boomer who’s hearing has gotten so bad I can hardly hear myself let alone someone else, having an “integrated” hearing aid system that incorporated to all of my devices would be pretty slick. I have a set of hearing aids now that will communicate via BT to a device I have to wear around my neck but quite frankly it is still a PITA to use. I’ve about given up going to movies and theater as I have a very difficult time making out dialog. Movies these days, I swear, have their audio mixed by idiots, and this is not just deaf me talking. My kids routinely complain that they have a very difficult time making out dialog.
If I could get a well integrated hearing aid system that would allow me to use my aids so I can hear well in my home, movie theater and dramatic theaters such that things don’t have to be a 90db for everyone else I’d get it in a heartbeat. At the moment, while some of these things are available, they are a hodge-podge of services that may or may not work and are not consistent.
Definitely hearing challenged in Phoenix………..
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I use Screenflow on the Mac and Camtasia on my PC. If you do or plan to do a lot of screen captures these programs are quite worth while. If it is one shot or a few shot kind of deal just use what is built into OSX.
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I never said that the animation is live. I do animation for a living. Seeing what is there I believe it has to have been pre-produced but the dancers are doing a live production with the animation projected over. They have obviously worked very hard to learn their moves so to be in sync with the animated overlay. As I said previously, it would not surprise me too that the animation was designed in conjunction with a choreographer.
All that being said we are diverging hugely from the intent of the original post. It is a very beautiful production. Quite artistic and a very nice blend of old school (dance) with new school (light show). For me it has a very nice esthetic quality and is quite engaging.
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No it is a live performance. There is a link just a few lines below where someone has a link to a similar performance that was done at the TED conference.
There is even a name for it. It is called Quixotic Fusion.
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I don’t believe there is any motion tracking at all. This is a live performance not a slick editing composition. Watch it again. There are a few slight but noticeable miss-tracks between the dancers and light. Clearly, the animation was done before, I’m guessing in concert with a choreographer. The light animation is complete and the dancers must learn their moves to go in sync with the animation.
IMHO it is quite a stunning work of art. It never ceases to amaze me the imagination of what people can come up with. Truly novel.
Thanks for posting Bill.
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Wonder how many minutes of operation you get until the thing catches fire……
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You could stack them end to end for a MacPro Bazooka 😉
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I do 3D and my workstation is a i7 Hexcore 980 with 24Gb ram, an nVidia K5000 Quadro with a hardware RAID 10 data drive. I agree with what you said. But… I have to admit the numbers the MacPro is putting down on 4K video editing is very impressive to say in the least. The PC that the guy built in the article was nothing but a bunch of compromises and did not have near the same capability for a fairly significant higher price so overall I have to give Apple high marks. For the target that they were shooting for I think they hit it spot on. It’s just not going to work for all people but Apple does not play that game and never will.
