I expected a better letter from Carl Bass, one with answers deeper rooted to the letter of Perry. I doubt he even wrote the reply, I think he just sended it.
Let's hope maya stays as shit as it is and modo and houdini turn into gold. fu AD 2014-03-24 5:05 GMT+01:00 Sebastien Sterling <sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com>: > The beautiful irony being, we won't have a say either way ;) > > > On 24 March 2014 03:58, Raffaele Fragapane <raffsxsil...@googlemail.com>wrote: > >> Yeah, except that at that point there would be no viable commercial >> software left in the world to animate on that could be legally used and >> bought seats for and have ready to go in a reasonable amount of time and >> without training hundreds of people on it. >> It would be a lot worse than now and it'd take years to catch up to such >> a nuclear winter scenario. >> >> I mean, it's great that everybody is loving Houdini, Modo and all that, >> but if both Maya and Soft were to have no seats you could purchase for >> offline use next year a very large number of places would be screwed. The >> competition isn't anywhere near being able to replace either without an >> inordinate amount of work going into re-doing, re-wrapping, and >> re-training... yet again for those coming from Soft. >> >> No, thank you, I'd rather we get another three or four years before AD >> nukes itself taking a large chunk of the userbase with them if they really >> plan on the market equivalent of a suicide bombing. Sure, let them, but >> free the area of crowds first, please :p >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Sebastien Sterling < >> sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I say bring it, bring the cloud, let them bring it and let it be the >>> worst most singular monumental blunder in the recorded history of >>> client/provider inter dynamics. >>> >>> A fuck up of such magnitude it can be viewed from space. >>> >>> Sure we'd have to get creative for one year maybe two, but it's no >>> difference to what is happening now. >>> >>> And when the dust settles maybe they finally learn their lesson, or they >>> go extinct. >>> >>> personally am rooting for the latter. >>> >>> >>> On 24 March 2014 02:45, Raffaele Fragapane >>> <raffsxsil...@googlemail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> If anybody moves a software I rely on to deliver a movie to the cloud >>>> with no alternatives there are plenty lives at stakes. Those of anybody >>>> around me in a 1Km radius for a start, and then several others after that. >>>> >>>> I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are >>>> looking for more maintenance fees, I can tell you I don't have money. But >>>> what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired >>>> over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like >>>> you. If you let my software work offline, that'll be the end of it. I will >>>> not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for >>>> you, I will find you, and I will kill you. >>>> >>>> P.S. >>>> If you haven't seen Taken you might be inclined to take the above more >>>> seriously than it should be :p >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Ed Manning <etmth...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Crap. Hate phone buttons. >>>>> >>>>> Between a $200m bldg and a $200m movie. >>>>> >>>>> In the former, there's little or no proprietary IP. If one critical >>>>> detail fails to be communicated, in the worst case people die. >>>>> >>>>> In the latter, no ones' lives are at stake but if one critical detail >>>>> goes to the wrong person, there may be huge repercussions financially, but >>>>> no ones life is at stake. >>>>> >>>>> So there are very different needs for information sharing. >>>>> >>>>> Despite superficial similarities, making a movie or TV spot with >>>>> digital tools and designing and building a physical structure with digital >>>>> tools are fundamentally different and the idea that there could be some >>>>> magical cloud solution that fits both would appear to be wishful thinking >>>>> at best, snake oil at worst. >>>>> >>>>> In the long run, I just don't see what AD can do for the M & E world >>>>> with this attitude. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Sunday, March 23, 2014, Ed Manning <etmth...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Well, I think or hope the cloud issue will be settled by the contract >>>>>> lawyers for the film studios and advertisers. There's a big difference >>>>>> between putting up a $100M building and making >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship >>>> it and let them flee like the dogs they are! >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it >> and let them flee like the dogs they are! >> > >
