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Friday, June 21, 2013

[Avid-L2] Now WAY off topic: Re Article: New Mac Pro Won't Be Much Faster For Most Users

Mike Parsons:

Which Jag do you have? My sophomore year in college (1966) I wanted a British sports car really badly but due to tuition payments had to settle for a Triumph GT6. God, I wish I had skipped two or five semesters and worked to pay for an XKE convertible- maroon or British racing green with wire rims. If I had bought and kept an XKE I might have a better retirement fund eventually when I pack it in and retire (or at least a lot more fun when driving I retire).

Now it's just me and my Camry Hybrid. I'm probably no longer capable of climbing into an XKE without getting a hernia.

I know I'm dating myself here but I was dating myself then as well. (It was only the beginning of the free love era and the girls wanted guys with muscle cars - so much for the classier and better handling British cars in the New World at that time).

Sigh.

End of fantasy.

Back to editing.....

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Mikeparsons.tv" <mikeparsons.tv@...> wrote:
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> I drive a classic jag so i can't really push cars either.. Course there's a school of though that says a brand new jag is already a classic...
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> Its lucky there isn't a jag-l actually - damn you positive earth!
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> On 22 Jun, 2013, at 1:01 AM, Jim Feeley <jfeeley@...> wrote:
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> > I agree with you, though not about cars. And phones are rather cheap. And older computers can be demoted to more mundane but still useful tasks (of course, I don't buy a facility's worth of computers, so it's easier for me to migrate one or two computers downard). But an older camera gets pretty hard to hire out.
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> > I'm packing right now for an interview we're shooting this afternoon. The tripod is a dozen years old. Part of main mic we're using is about the same (old but lovely schoeps 41 capsule with newer cmc6 preamp). The crew: older still...
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> > But I basically treat most biz expenditures, from gaffers tape to computers, as expendables.
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> > On Jun 21, 2013, at 10:44 AM, Mikeparsons.tv wrote:
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> > > Or cars, or mobile phones or well anything.
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> > > I don't get this whole 'it will be out of date soon' misery. Everything is old by the time it hits the shops and the next thing is going to be really great.
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> > > In reality you just have to run your business at a price that allows regular purchase of new toys.
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> > > On 21 Jun, 2013, at 11:25 PM, Jim Feeley <jfeeley@...> wrote:
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> > > > Be glad you aren't buying cameras...
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> > > > On Jun 21, 2013, at 7:50 AM, Terence Curren wrote:
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> > > > > Except that in two years I will replace the GPUS in my existing PC with the current state of the art and it will blow the MacPro away for the cost of a few GPUs. And you'll have to buy a whole new MacPro to keep up. Oh wait a minute, I guess Apple is clever....
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