The beautiful irony being, we won't have a say either way ;)
On 24 March 2014 03:58, Raffaele Fragapane <[email protected]>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 < > [email protected]> 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 >> <[email protected]>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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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! >
