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PerroneFord
wrote on 2/16/2010, 7:29 AM
LOL
In so many ways, I'd love to have the creativity of a lot of the folks I see on this forum and others. Much of my work is just so bland by necessity. But I can't complain.
As for the bit about the path to enlightenment, it's an old saying...
If you can't bring Mohamed to the mountain, you have to bring the mountain to Mohamed. It means if you can't get someone to adapt to what you'd prefer, then you have to adapt to what they'd prefer. I was thinking of the Vegas paradigm and these scripts. If you can't get people into VDub, then you bring VDub to them inside Vegas!
Have a great day.
In so many ways, I'd love to have the creativity of a lot of the folks I see on this forum and others. Much of my work is just so bland by necessity. But I can't complain.
As for the bit about the path to enlightenment, it's an old saying...
If you can't bring Mohamed to the mountain, you have to bring the mountain to Mohamed. It means if you can't get someone to adapt to what you'd prefer, then you have to adapt to what they'd prefer. I was thinking of the Vegas paradigm and these scripts. If you can't get people into VDub, then you bring VDub to them inside Vegas!
Have a great day.
Coursedesign
wrote on 2/16/2010, 8:23 AM
If you can't bring Mohamed to the mountain, you have to bring the mountain to Mohamed.
The original statement was:
"If the mountain won't come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain."
Imagine if someone in another country had said that about Christ.
Attack war plans would have been drawn up immediately.
The original statement was:
"If the mountain won't come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain."
Imagine if someone in another country had said that about Christ.
Attack war plans would have been drawn up immediately.
PerroneFord
wrote on 2/16/2010, 8:55 AM
Thanks for the correction on the statement. But I don't understand why this would be cause for war? I guess I am just ignorant as to the underlying meaning or something.
Coursedesign
wrote on 2/16/2010, 9:19 AM
The story is that Mohammed was asked to show a miracle to prove that he was a prophet.
He got suckered by the crowd into asking the mountain to come, but it didn't, hence the slur above.
(He then said that an angel told him that if the mountain had come to them, they would all have been crushed, which sounds reasonable.)
David Copperfield does stuff like that, so he must be the true prophet!
He got suckered by the crowd into asking the mountain to come, but it didn't, hence the slur above.
(He then said that an angel told him that if the mountain had come to them, they would all have been crushed, which sounds reasonable.)
David Copperfield does stuff like that, so he must be the true prophet!
PerroneFord
wrote on 2/16/2010, 10:39 AM
I was not aware of it as a slur at all, and never thought of it as such. Thanks for giving the back story.
BudWzr
wrote on 2/16/2010, 7:14 PM
Hey, stop fooling around with Mohammit.
Grazie
wrote on 2/16/2010, 11:18 PM
> "I was not aware of it as a slur at all, . . "
I did kinda knew it was pejorative, and I took it to mean as such when you paraphrased it. I couldn't understand why you were being the same with me, and thinking I was being objurgate and obstinate in not delving deeper into VDub, but would prefer it being served up on a plate.
I have no problem with my ongoing quest or wish for simplicity in my work. Life is tough enough without the need to rummage around in 4th party s/w. I decided to have this approach when obtaining my very first 56k modem and had to configure the initialisation handshake strings . . . ugh . . . . I thought then that IT at the USER end should NOT be this difficult, and I still do.
Grazie
I did kinda knew it was pejorative, and I took it to mean as such when you paraphrased it. I couldn't understand why you were being the same with me, and thinking I was being objurgate and obstinate in not delving deeper into VDub, but would prefer it being served up on a plate.
I have no problem with my ongoing quest or wish for simplicity in my work. Life is tough enough without the need to rummage around in 4th party s/w. I decided to have this approach when obtaining my very first 56k modem and had to configure the initialisation handshake strings . . . ugh . . . . I thought then that IT at the USER end should NOT be this difficult, and I still do.
Grazie
Jeff9329
wrote on 2/18/2010, 7:30 AM
Maybe in Vegas 10, Sony will integrate a deshaker in to the program. It seems to be a mandatory tool to me. It keeps Western Digital in business too.
Coursedesign
wrote on 2/18/2010, 10:07 AM
First of all, Sony needs to provide a modern plug-in API so that 3rd party developers can provide whatever comes up.
I don't think they'll do that before blowing out the VfW code that Microsoft said to bail on 10 years ago.
That will take a complete rewrite of Vegas, which is likely in progress since at least a year. Either that, or they'll have to EOL the product within 2 years.
I don't think they'll do that before blowing out the VfW code that Microsoft said to bail on 10 years ago.
That will take a complete rewrite of Vegas, which is likely in progress since at least a year. Either that, or they'll have to EOL the product within 2 years.