...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Davidson
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Nice that it has a pressure sensitive pen (Wacom)
Like you said, the review is not great.
And it's
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On Behalf Of Stephen Davidson
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Subject: Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?
Nice that it has a pressure
Of *Jens Lindgren
*Sent:* Thursday, August 23, 2012 1:55 AM
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The Samsung Galaxy Note II will be announced August 29th and I think it
will be more targeted to the artistic people as you can see
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Nice that it has a pressure sensitive pen (Wacom)
Like you said, the review is not great.
And it's Android OS which does not support Photoshop.
I don't know of any decent paint program for Android
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softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Paul Griswold
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Actually the one device I'm very interested
, 2012 6:32 PM
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Subject: Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?
After seeing your post about not being able to switch off the touchscreen while
you are using a pen, I
did some research, and found this YouTube link that not only shows off how well
the tablet works, it also
There's the new Galaxy Note with a Wacom pen. Underwhelmed a bit in the
review though-
http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/15/3243546/samsung-galaxy-note-10-1-review
-Nic
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.netwrote:
Bottom line, for me, Windows 8 is fine to use on
Nice that it has a pressure sensitive pen (Wacom)
Like you said, the review is not great.
And it's Android OS which does not support Photoshop.
I don't know of any decent paint program for Android
Thanks for trying, though.
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:48 AM, Nic Groot Bluemink
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Sam Bowling sbowl...@cox.net wrote:
What $0.99 video format converters do you know of that will give you real
professional quality results, because I couldn't find any. Also there are a
ton of free programs for synchronizing your drives on windows and I
Wow, my simple question on Windows 8 took quite an interesting turn...
For the time being I think I'll keep trying to figure out why Windows 7 is
so crash-prone on my main system perhaps do a fresh install.
Thanks for the lively discussion guys.
Paul
I've made Soft work on 12.04, but if you were to now ask me how the
bottom line is that if you go through all the Linux related posts on
Stephen's blog you'll get it running totally fine in the end.
As an aside, I have to say that I love Gnome Shell (just called Gnome now
in 12.04). Unity
Dan,
cool - have you actually done any production work on this install?
Does opening/saving/merging scenes work for you? And can you read/write
icecaches?
I personally haven't spent any time trying to get it to work because I've
read all these reports about these show stopper type problems
: Windows 8 - anyone?
Dan,
cool - have you actually done any production work on this install?
Does opening/saving/merging scenes work for you? And can you read/write
icecaches?
I personally haven't spent any time trying to get it to work because I've read
all these reports about
Well... I came off a little harsh there. My apologizes, it was not intended
to be that harsh.
*stefan goes off and hides under a rock*
I hope no one (especially Sam) wasn't offended, it was never my intention.
best regards
stefan andersson
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Stefan Andersson
Hi Martin,
No production work no. Opening and Saving definitely worked! I don't
recall having had to merge and I wasn't doing any caching with ICE (but I
was using ICE extensively)...
I didn't encounter any issues at all and it seemed very stable to me. I've
used 2011 and 2013 with Ubuntu
Hi Dan,
awesome, thanks! :-)
I just dug out the old thread I vaguely remembered - if you want you can check
it out
here.https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/xsi_list/ubuntu$20segfault/xsi_list/OgyvRv4X22w/yQOE9qb5UxsJ
That was a year ago on Ubuntu 11.04 - keeping my fingers
Hmmm. Nope, seems I have those exact same issues! Even the batch issue
that Patrick mentions in the last thread.
Sorry for creating the false hope! :/
DAN
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Martin Chatterjee
martin.chatterjee.li...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi Dan,
awesome, thanks! :-)
I
1:06 PM
*To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
*Subject:* Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?
Dan,
cool - have you actually done any production work on this install?
Does opening/saving/merging scenes work for you? And can you
read/write icecaches?
I personally haven't spent any time trying to get
Well, for grins and giggles I installed Windows 8 RTM on my laptop.
Softimage 2013 SP1 runs ok from what I can see. There's some interface
weirdness, such as the top menu bar is pure white and Softimage
2013...etc etc. is centered at the top of the screen instead of on the
left. I loaded a
You need to disable Face Robot.
From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Paul Griswold
Sent: August-21-12 12:44 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?
Well, for grins and giggles I installed
with a job it either costs us money (and my boss
does not like to part with money) or has to be done on a windows box.
-Original Message- From: Gene Crucean
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 1:04 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Windows 8 - anyone?
What? hehe
with a job it either costs us money (and my
boss
does not like to part with money) or has to be done on a windows box.
-Original Message- From: Gene Crucean
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 1:04 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Windows 8 - anyone?
What
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Gene Crucean
emailgeneonthel...@gmail.com wrote:
They're mac users after all.
You know you are talking down to just about everybody these days right?
Apple was just reported as the worlds most valuable company.
As you know there is no link between the valuation on the gambling
market that is the stock market, and the actual results of a company.
Microsoft has sold more than 650 million licenses of Windows 7 in
three years, but the stock is cheap because it doesn't attract
gamblers.
Actually Apple
RE: desktops are doomed
Don't forget all this mobile devices are consumerist in nature - someone
will somehow still have to create the content for them to consume. Desktop
sales are in decline as most people realize they can survive with a tablet
and a phone. In my opinion Microsoft is trying to
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?
Nice that it has a pressure sensitive pen (Wacom)
Like you said, the review is not great.
And it's Android OS which does not support Photoshop.
I don't know of any decent paint program for Android
Thanks for trying, though.
On Tue
but the stock is cheap because it doesn't attract gamblers.
Actually... it's cheap because why would I dump money into a stock that
hasn't done jack sh** in 5 years, vs dumping money into a company that's
exploding. Proof: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/403879/AppleVsMS.png
... but feel free to
That's the gambling market.. money is made by speculating about how
much one could sell the stock to someone else in the future. The way
the stock market was supposed to work was that you bought shares in a
company in order to own part of it and get dividends, proportional to
your number of
Interesting how heated this is still getting when the differences are
actually growing smaller every day. :-)
Windows Explorer has grown as crappy as the stock Finder, but for both
there are good replacements (I use XYplorer and Pathfinder but there are
many).
I run both systems on a MacPro and
Win 8 will be fine; it's already outperforming Win 7 in the benchmarks.
Mac influence in the desktop world is very minor compared to Windows
dominance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems
Windows = 70.42%
Mac = 7.46%
Linux = 1.53%
Daniel
VFXM
Bottom line, for me, Windows 8 is fine to use on my tablet, but
there is no reason to use it on my workstation, unless they force me to,
by dropping support for Windows 7, like they will, for XP, on April 8th
2014.
I have a laptop/tablet pc that I use for drawing (it has a Wacom
pressure
Am 20.08.2012 19:56, schrieb Stephen
Davidson:
Bottom line, for me, Windows 8 is fine to use on my
tablet, but
there is no reason to use it on my workstation, unless they
force me to,
by dropping support for Windows 7, like they will, for XP, on
Asus EP121?
Rob
\/-\/\/
On 20-8-2012 20:11, Eugen Sares wrote:
Am 20.08.2012 19:56, schrieb Stephen
Davidson:
Bottom line, for me, Windows 8 is fine to use on my
tablet, but
there is
NO.
On 8/18/2012 12:44 PM, David Gallagher wrote:
Mobile is so overrated. Does anyone actually get anything done on a
mobile device?
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I liked Vista a lot too. If you disable some of the very stupid web
oriented crap it outperforms Win7 by a good margin. I have 2 identical
machines, 1 on Win7 and one on Vista and main programs such as SI, PS,
Avid MC all open in half the time and run better overall and Aero works
smoother.
they probably won’t allow it on
this version.
From: Martin yara
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 11:53 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Windows 8 - anyone?
We gained stability directx and some other things with winXP so it was a
good change from win98 and 2000. It felt
costs us money (and my boss
does not like to part with money) or has to be done on a windows box.
-Original Message-
From: Gene Crucean
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 1:04 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Windows 8 - anyone?
What? hehe. Is that whole $0.99 gonna
that are still running
windows XP, right? You also seem to be forgetting Vista (which I actually
liked, but most other people didn’t).
*From:* Andreas Bystrom andreas.byst...@gmail.com
*Sent:* Saturday, August 18, 2012 1:05 AM
*To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
*Subject:* Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone
PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Windows 8 - anyone?
We gained stability directx and some other things with winXP so it was a good
change from win98 and 2000. It felt like a 98 and 2000 mixed and with the SPs
blue screens were pretty rare.
XP 64 and Vista never felt like
. So... I've installed Windows7 on my workstation at home. And so far I'm
really impressed with the speed and the response from the system. Softimage
works a lot smoother on Windows7 than on CentOS 6.3.
hmm, it's not april did hell just freeze over? actually the day alan
jones writes
this makes me think about Apple rumour to let go the dev on the mac pros...
Is this latest news?
The late 2012 MacPros are, umhh, not impressive but apple mgmnt has promised
something really great for next year...
I wonder how much this is a result of Jobs gone (r.i.p.) and Intel not feeling
Sam is right on the money. I heard an interview with Paul Thurrott and he
said according to the Windows team, Windows 8 is much like the first
version of OS-X. It's not Windows 7 with some bolt-on UI elements, it is a
new OS that has a Classic mode to maintain compatibility with non-Metro
apps.
When I think of operating systems today I think of the death scene in Toy
Story 3. Perhaps we should just hold hands and face the facts. Maybe there
will be a giant claw out there that can save us all...
/Stefan
On Saturday, August 18, 2012, Paul Griswold wrote:
Sam is right on the money. I
I don't think there will be any pro-friendly OS's out there in a few
years time.
Like people already said, everybody is jumping on the mobile train, and
the 'pro's' get the leftovers on the desktop.
As more and more apps move to the web and cloud (Office 2012 e.g.),
we'll slowly start too see
It seems like the market might be ripe for some enterprising new company to
come along and develop some specialized pro-level hardware software. Of
course it would be Silicon based hardware, specialize in Graphics and would
need to be Incorporated... ah, but that's a crazy idea!
On Sat, Aug
:
Interesting because no one seems to have been able to find it yet. I
haven’t tried the actual RTM version.
*From:* Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com
*Sent:* Friday, August 17, 2012 7:39 PM
*To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
*Subject:* RE: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?
Microsoft stated
Depends on what you mean by getting things done. With my iPhone iPad +
Growl and Boxcar I can have Deadline send me a message when renders finish.
I do a lot of general-purpose office work while sitting on the sofa with
my kids in the evening on my iPad. I'm not doing modeling, etc., but it's
Wasn't I supposed to be all gloomy about newfangled stuff ;-)
Well, I currently work on audio related things and just read an interesting
article about Windows 8 and some benchmarks:
http://blog.cakewalk.com/windows-8-a-benchmark-for-music-production-applications/
I can't see any reason for doom
Minor correction: It doesn't render on the iPad, it receives a streaming
progressive render in realtime and the client is just a GUI to it. ;)
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Paul Griswold
pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com wrote:
Depends on what you mean by getting things done. With my
: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?
. So... I've installed Windows7 on my workstation at home. And so far I'm
really impressed with the speed and the response from the system. Softimage
works a lot smoother on Windows7 than on CentOS 6.3.
hmm, it's not april did hell just freeze over? actually the day
of
doubt it. Apple tends to think different from normal people.
-Original Message-
From: Tim Leydecker
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 2:14 AM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?
this makes me think about Apple rumour to let go the dev on the mac
everything in one place.
From: Luc-Eric Rousseau
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 8:53 AM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Windows 8 - anyone?
It's not possible to turn it back to win7, but it's my understanding that it's
only the Start menu you'd miss when you run
Bystrom andreas.byst...@gmail.com
*Sent:* Saturday, August 18, 2012 1:05 AM
*To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
*Subject:* Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?
. So... I've installed Windows7 on my workstation at home. And so far I'm
really impressed with the speed and the response from the system
My main Win 7 workstation has been really acting flaky lately. Microsoft
has just release Windows 8 RTM, so I was wondering if anyone had tested it
out yet?
I realize there are plenty of opinions on the whole Metro interface, but
I'm just wondering if it's stable and if Softimage will run under
I haven't tried Windows 8, yet, but I do have Windows 7 64 bit Pro. My
machine was acting flaky,
also, so I reformatted the drive and re-installed Windows and all my APPS.
It took me
an entire day, with all the Windows updates, and drivers, but it was worth
it. Much more
stable, now.
I had heard
Check out the Wacom Intuos 5 Touch tablets, should work great with Win8, I
use it with Win7 and OSX.
I too don't intend to grab at my monitor all day but with the Wacom it's
quite natural.
My only gripe is, that it doesn't act like a tablet with absolute
coordinates (where you touch is where your
For the record you can click on Desktop and get the standard Windows
desktop you know and love.
It does show the Metro UI by default at first though.
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Mirko Jankovic
mirko.janko...@aeonproduction.com wrote:
it seems to be shame that they create OS that works a
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Subject: Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?
I tried out the release preview on my laptop and windows 8 is crap. The only
reason this exists is so Microsoft can leverage their desktop OS to get people
you use their extremely unpopular Phone OS. They have literally removed
everything
Interesting because no one seems to have been able to find it yet. I haven’t
tried the actual RTM version.
From: Matt Lind
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 7:39 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: RE: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?
Microsoft stated Windows 7 mode would be retained
this makes me think about
Apple rumour to let go the dev on the mac pros...
Seem's everybody is going nuts on the mobile thing. And all professional
market get's ignored!!
i wont be able to do Arnold render regions on my f-ing iphone!
wtf is going on with these guys!?
sly
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