RE: DS 7.6, the XW8200 and you

["Chasteen, Howard" <Howard.Chasteen(at)fotf.org>]

Rick Said:

 

"Shouldn't the box turn on, work properly and as long as we play by the rules with good housekeeping manners, work day in day out?"

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We must remember that it is still a COMPUTER. whether it is a PC or an Apple. They do have bugs and unforeseen conflicts and errors. When a program has millions of lines of code nothing is perfect.

 

As solid as some of the newer OS are we will probably never arrive at "Turn it on and it works properly" every time until we get to HD Heaven.[Kudos to Tony for the name].

 

Howard

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From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Dsderanged(at)aol.com
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 9:05 AM
To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: DS 7.6, the XW8200 and you

Wow, what a story.  It sure makes the case for having an experienced tech / re-seller.  Just curious.  Who paid for all your and the other tech's time?  AVID?  The Customer?  Factored in to price?

 

Don't these things ship directly from AVID checked and ready to go, or is each one built by indivdual re-sellers?

 

Further, I suppose this "open architecture" thing still isn't so great after all.  Seems like alot of variables from a myriad of suppliers still have to all dance together to make this work.  I thought the whole dedicated hardware ( DNA ) simplified all this.  Garden variety CPU should simply run DS software and the outboard DNA box should do video / audio processing etc.

 

All that file sharing permission, QFE's, firmware, drivers blah blah blah sounds VERY confusing to an end user.

I don't mind that editors have become, "digital artists" / "compositors" / "grand poo-bah's", but not engineers.  Shouldn't the box turn on, work properly and as long as we play by the rules with good housekeeping manners, work day in day out?   I thought the DS had matured and been refined over the last 8 years and not gotten more complicated.

 

OK, I will duck for cover now and anticipate the "must realize how complicated yada, yada, yada"

 

It is just kinda scary to be back and see these kind of issues reamain.

 

Rick (at) naked eye

I'm still DS, and still deranged.