[CGUYS] A Multigenerational Look at the iPad

2010-03-07 Thread tjp
http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?doc_id=188456f_src=ieupdate One of the big attractions of the iPod was that it was immediately obvious how to work it. Other MP3 players can still leave one scratching ones head over how to operate them. This article predicts a similar huge

[CGUYS] CNET News.com: Final Cut Pro the Apple of Oscar's eye - CNET News

2010-03-07 Thread Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
This email was sent from popoz...@earthlink.net Message from sender: Tom will like this story. Final Cut Pro the Apple of Oscar's eye - CNET News URL: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10465202-37.html Many filmmakers at Sunday's Academy Awards used Apple's Final Cut Studio to edit their

Re: [CGUYS] CNET News.com: Final Cut Pro the Apple of Oscar's eye - CNET News

2010-03-07 Thread tjpa
On Mar 7, 2010, at 6:32 PM, Rev. Stewart A. Marshall wrote: Many filmmakers at Sunday's Academy Awards used Apple's Final Cut Studio to edit their movies. Tom will like this story. And Adobe will be pissed off. Apple's FCP entered the market late and quickly shoved all the incumbents off

Re: [CGUYS] CNET News.com: Final Cut Pro the Apple of Oscar's eye - CNET News

2010-03-07 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
The only other one mentioned was Avid. Stewart At 07:19 PM 3/7/2010, you wrote: On Mar 7, 2010, at 6:32 PM, Rev. Stewart A. Marshall wrote: Many filmmakers at Sunday's Academy Awards used Apple's Final Cut Studio to edit their movies. Tom will like this story. And Adobe will be pissed off.

Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

2010-03-07 Thread Art Clemons
On 03/06/2010 09:23 PM, John Duncan Yoyo wrote: If any pictures of an underage child were taken let alone viewed they are likely open to prosecution for kiddie porn. This happened in Pennsylvania where they prosecuted a teenage girl for taking pictures of herself and emailing them to her

Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

2010-03-07 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Art Clemons artclem...@aol.com wrote: On 03/06/2010 09:23 PM, John Duncan Yoyo wrote: If any pictures of an underage child were taken let alone viewed they are likely open to prosecution for kiddie porn. This happened in Pennsylvania where they prosecuted

Re: [CGUYS] CNET News.com: Final Cut Pro the Apple of Oscar's eye - CNET News

2010-03-07 Thread Tony B
What a laugh. The story reads like an ad for FC Studio, not surprising since it's in Cnet's Apple section. But in fact what it says is that most of the nominees did *not* use FCP. On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 8:19 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: And Adobe will be pissed off. Apple's FCP entered the

Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

2010-03-07 Thread Art Clemons
On 03/06/2010 09:23 PM, mike wrote: If this was it, why wasn't he accused of stealing it? Why did school officials continue to watch this kid when they knew he had it? Why did they further accuse him of selling and taking drugs? This software was clearly not used to track a stolen laptop,

Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

2010-03-07 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
At present this is a lot of he said she said type stuff. As stated before we are only getting sound bytes not all the legal niceties. I am only hoping that when this thing truly plays out in the courts (if it does) we get to find out all the stuff that really went on. So far there are just

Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

2010-03-07 Thread mike
You seem to not understand that after finding who had the 'stolen' laptop they spent zero time in telling the parents the boy had taken it without permission. It never came up. They just called the kid in and tried to accuse him of doing drugs. Then they had to backtrack and explain why they

Re: [CGUYS] CNET News.com: Final Cut Pro the Apple of Oscar's eye - CNET News

2010-03-07 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Tony B ton...@gmail.com wrote: What a laugh. The story reads like an ad for FC Studio, not surprising since it's in Cnet's Apple section. But in fact what it says is that most of the nominees did *not* use FCP. What other computer section would an article

Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

2010-03-07 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Right now a lot of hearsay and not too many substantiating facts. Also note this is now almost 4 months past when it happened. what happened between the actual incident and now tog et us to this point? There is just too much missing to start drawing firm conclusions on everything. Stewart

Re: [CGUYS] CNET News.com: Final Cut Pro the Apple of Oscar's eye - CNET News

2010-03-07 Thread Tony B
Right. That's 9 out of how many movies nominated? Or eligible for nomination? I'm not going to count them all, but I'll just remind you that Documentaries are only a small part of the Oscars. On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 10:40 PM, phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at

Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

2010-03-07 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall revsamarsh...@earthlink.net wrote:  what happened between the actual incident and now tog et us to this point? Read what I have written about what took place between November 2009 and January 2010 as far as the Robbins family is

Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

2010-03-07 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 10:33 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote: You seem to not understand that after finding who had the 'stolen' laptop they spent zero time in telling the parents the boy had taken it without permission.  It never came up.  They just called the kid in and tried to accuse him

Re: [CGUYS] A Multigenerational Look at the iPad

2010-03-07 Thread Eric S. Sande
Yes but it still sucks, * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ **

Re: [CGUYS] CNET News.com: Final Cut Pro the Apple of Oscar's eye - CNET News

2010-03-07 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
I think the key is that it did say. Final Cut Pro has almost 50 percent market share in the nonlinear editor space, outperforming competitors like Avid. Many of the big studios and editors may not use it, instead using dedicated expensive editing suites. (They were pretty specific to state

Re: [CGUYS] CNET News.com: Final Cut Pro the Apple of Oscar's eye - CNET News

2010-03-07 Thread mike
That's one area of film making. * Of course, Final Cut Pro isn't the only product available for filmmakers, but it is the most popular now. According to market research firm SCRI International, Final Cut Pro has almost 50 percent market share in the nonlinear editor space, outperforming

Re: [CGUYS] A Multigenerational Look at the iPad

2010-03-07 Thread mike
Yeah but, how do you really feel? On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Eric S. Sande esa...@verizon.net wrote: Yes but it still sucks, * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy,

Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

2010-03-07 Thread Art Clemons
On 03/06/2010 10:05 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: Technical, schmechnical. Give the parents a call, for goodness sake. That's what you do when a school fee has not been paid. What do we have here, the KGB or something? Is this the sort of behavior that technology can breed? Did the

Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

2010-03-07 Thread mike
I haven't seen it, but perhaps you have..a definitive statement that the school thought the laptop was in fact stolen? I keep seeing vague things like 'security was used in case it was missing or stolen', but never that in this case they had turned it on because of that. And again, if it was

Re: [CGUYS] CNET News.com: Final Cut Pro the Apple of Oscar's eye - CNET News

2010-03-07 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Tony B ton...@gmail.com wrote: Right. That's 9 out of how many movies nominated? Or eligible for nomination? I'm not going to count them all, but I'll just remind you that Documentaries are only a small part of the Oscars. The article focused solely on those

Re: [CGUYS] CNET News.com: Final Cut Pro the Apple of Oscar's eye - CNET News

2010-03-07 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Exactly. This article mentioned that they did this on a budget of less than 15K for computer, hardware, and software. Professional studios used dedicated workstations and computers costing much more money. (add 000s to whatever figure) They are dedicated machines and specialized software.

Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

2010-03-07 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Art Clemons artclem...@aol.com wrote: The problem for your logic is that the laptop was removed without permission so was missing.  The laptop was supposed to be used in school only under the circumstances indicated unless the insurance was purchased.  The

Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

2010-03-07 Thread Art Clemons
On 03/07/2010 11:20 PM, mike wrote: I haven't seen it, but perhaps you have..a definitive statement that the school thought the laptop was in fact stolen? I keep seeing vague things like 'security was used in case it was missing or stolen', but never that in this case they had turned it on

Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

2010-03-07 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
On Mar 8, 2010 12:45am, Art Clemons artclem...@aol.com wrote: You'll note that there is no disputing that the laptop in question was removed from the school without permission. The question is though is did the kid get in trouble initially for taking the computer home without insurance? We

Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

2010-03-07 Thread mike
Thanks Art, good catch. I'm going to however pick a nit on this article though..it could be just bad writing on the reporter's part or perhaps not. *The district says it turned on the camera in Robbins' computer because, since he had not paid a $55 insurance fee, he should not have been taking