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- In article <3d9ihb$69m@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, dsdmmedia@aol.com (DSD MMEDIA) says:
- >>>>>>>Come now, Lee, I've found that people who spend $20K a year on
- >Wavefront tend to be very confident of the wisdom of their
- >decision. When they lose confidence, they start to cry.<<<<<<<<<
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- >People who aren't succesful enough to spend $20k a year on Wavefront (or
- >any good SGI stuff) start to cry if you put down their home computer.
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- >I have my own CGI studio and we use Macs and SGIs for 3D work. I also get
- >about 50 magazines a month with no platform bias. One of these is Video
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- I've got an SGI on my desk, too, along with three other platforms.
- My point about Wavefront (quoted above) is about price, not platform.
- I didn't say anything about talent, either... I'm the first to
- remind anyone that tools do not equal talent.
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- Back to price... certainly the price of the high-end systems have
- been coming down, due to pressure from the price and power of
- lower-end systems. Where are the $20K programs for the PC?
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- As for the rest of your message, I disagree with several points...
- SGI users certainly do scream "Terminator, Abyss, etc." Right or
- wrong? I'd say it's back to talent, not platform. If anything,
- many people are using SGIs for the sheer raw horsepower of the
- CPUs, not the graphics engines. Are the talented attracted to
- speed, or did the speed make them talented?
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- As for success, do you mean working 80 hours a week as a sweatshop
- modeler/animator for a company founded by some famous animator who cut
- their teeth on a VAX?
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