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bigcreek wrote on 2/21/2005, 7:09 AM
I believe Vegas YAK hurling is qualified as a 2008 Olympic sport in Beijing.

Only a few YAK's on this board are not spoken far, so hurry and nail yours down!
BillyBoy wrote on 2/21/2005, 7:40 AM
Good point. I was crushed that bowling didn't make it as a Olympic event either. This world is so unfair!
Spot|DSE wrote on 2/21/2005, 9:10 AM
Big Creek, would that be "Hurling Yak" or "Yak Hurling?" Either way, sounds like a fairly messy proposition. Sign me up for a sponsorship, will ya? I've got a few yaks I'd like to hurl.
DataMeister wrote on 2/21/2005, 12:17 PM
This is such an interesting thread. I've learned so much. This is the reason why I've stuck with Vegas all these years.

On the Olympic side of things I think they should drop all events that require direct competition against another person/team. Basketball, volleyball, etc. Anything that can't be measured solely by itself.

As for Vegas 6, I think I prefer Adobe's product cycle of of 18 months rather than Sony's 12 month upgrade schedule.

JBJones
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 2/21/2005, 1:05 PM
"As for Vegas 6, I think I prefer Adobe's product cycle of of 18 months rather than Sony's 12 month upgrade schedule"

Yea, but then how would they get us to shell out a couple hundred or so every year??? They'd have to figure out some way of getting money from us every 12 months as well as every 18, and then how would they handle it when it cross over every 3 years? hmmm hmmm, bet ya didn't think of that did ya? :-)

Dave
filmy wrote on 2/21/2005, 9:34 PM
>>>I've got a few yaks I'd like to hurl.<<<

Some of my closest friends are Yaks and I find that comment very hurtful. The Yaks I know are nice fun loving members of the woods and would be very offended if someone came and tried to hurl them. How would you feel if a Yak came into your home and hurled you? I only pray they never have to view your hurtful words.

Besides everyone knows that it is Canadian Geese that need some serious hurling.
Spot|DSE wrote on 2/21/2005, 9:38 PM
Busted!! Yaks don't live in the woods! Have you ever milked a yak? Those milkers would make great hurling handles.
But geese....they poop in my yard and steal my horse grain, so I'm with ya on that.
filmy wrote on 2/21/2005, 9:43 PM
>>>Yaks don't live in the woods!<<<

It depends on what your definition of "woods" is. Besides I can't see the forrest through the trees anyway.

>>>Have you ever milked a yak? <<<

It depends on what your definition of "milked" is.
VivaVegas wrote on 2/22/2005, 8:57 AM
What you guys aren't testing the Apple OS X 10.5 version o Vegas yet?

:>)
Spot|DSE wrote on 2/22/2005, 9:00 AM
Are you related to Bill Clinton? :-) or does that depend on your definition of "related?"
SimonW wrote on 2/22/2005, 11:55 AM
For once I hope there is an upgrade soon. I'm going to have to be hypocritical going on comments I have made in the past regarding EDL's. I need to have MXF and full XDCAM support as well as XML support else I may have to consider migrating once again.
rs170a wrote on 2/22/2005, 3:25 PM
Besides everyone knows that it is Canadian Geese that need some serious hurling.

filmy and DSE!! Watch what you're saying about MY geese or I'll send you some more of our good Canadian beef :-)

Mike
(obviously Canadian)
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 2/22/2005, 3:43 PM
Are you kidding me, MAC users would be too uptight about using a program that was originally on a PC exclusively and was competition with their god FCP.

No offense to any mac daddies here ;-)

Dave
desire_vie wrote on 2/22/2005, 9:19 PM
Ok all you beta testers with mega puters, read this, and best of all, it isnt the future, its from Nov 2004.

http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=174442&FS=F1

Here is a snippet:

The supercomputer was built by the Swiss company DALCO and has a total of 530 AMD Opteron(tm) processors installed in High-Density Cooling Enclosures supplied by American Power Conversion (APC). The software is provided by Fluent. Sauber has established technology partnership agreements with all four companies.

Sauber Petronas has been working with a supercomputer for years. However, the growing complexity of the tasks has drastically raised the demands made on computing power. Hence, the new supercomputer is nearly 30 times more powerful than the one previously used by Sauber. This enormous power reduces computing times considerably as well as enabling much more complex tasks to be solved.

These capacities are underlined by impressive technical data: The supercomputer can achieve a peak performance of 2.3 Tflop/s and is being equipped with 1 TB RAM and 11 TB of storage. To illustrate the point for non-computer experts, this means that "ALBERT" is capable of performing 2,332,000,000,000 computing operations per second.

To achieve the same computing performance, the entire population of the city of Zurich would have to multiply two eight-digit figures every four seconds for a whole year. The machine has over 1,085,440 megabytes of physical memory and over 10,880 gigabytes of hard drive storage.


Go read it!