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eldon
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 Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 6:10 am Post subject: Where are Foss and Doug? |
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Does anyone know the whereabouts or have any info on Foss (Fossicker7) or Doug (Dfinagle)?
It's been some time now since either of them have posted, and un-like others members who simply leave (pi..ed offed or otherwise) but continue to be active at other sites, these guys seem in the same category as the Bard and SirEric before them, ie, gone and out of sight.....but certainly not forgotten.
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gilinAZ
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| Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 11:10 am Post subject: |
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Eldon...yeah, I miss all these guys. I used to have great conversations with Sir Eric Brocolli. Then...suddenly, he was gone!
Have also been wondering about Foss and Doug, as well. Bard flew the coop a long time ago! He was the one who got me started at TNT.
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thebakerliteline
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| Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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Foss was looking forward to catching up with his hobby when he last wrote to me in the autumn. He had a variety of projects in mind but was looking forward to some space from running a forum for a while.
Doug has been setting up a rather interesting business in painting. It has kept him really busy but I had hoped we would see/hear more from him.
Eric Brocolli totally dissappeared from the forums and one wonders what actually happened to him. Like bard I sent snail mail but nothing has ever been replied to. Recently I had the same situation with one of the Brits who completely dissappeared too.
I guess we have to accept that people come and go either for a short while or permanently. I often wondered what happened to the old guy in UK who was on OTRtnt and collected WW2 material. One South African has kept in touch despite health failing very badly and we usually manage a few contacts each year. Some people seem to collect for a season and then go off and listen to what they've collected, others are collectaholics but I suspect many just enjoy the titbits of show information and the banter on sites.
Now would anyone like to guess what we will be looking for in 10 years time? How we will store it? How we will share it?
I like the film with Sandra Bullock in it as a Policewoman in the future where everyone was collecting advert jingles of today...... mind numbing...
Of course in ten years time we could all be listening to Gil on the organ?
Time for Tea....!
Ian
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gilinAZ
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| Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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Ian...yeah, and wouldn't I just love to be sitting at an 8 or 10 manual pipe...not only to play it, but to see if I could manage it. Those stops can get quite complicated  Can you imagine something that big, in a house? You'd have to tear out the whole west wall!
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thebakerliteline
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| Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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I've got visions of you dressed in full Transylvanian costume plumbing the depths of your pipes, missing no stops and feet at 4:4 time rising out of the mist in your gothic mansion west wing.... the fire crackles into life as you sing
'I'm, in heaven....'
Off to bed now as soon as I've sharpened the wooden stakes........
Chuckle
Ian
(Just for the record Gil plays really well! but we cant have him getting to big-headed)
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gilinAZ
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| Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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Ian..well, maybe....but I was thinking of something more in the line of Dr. Phibes . Especially, at the beginning of that movie, where he raises one arm, then the other, while playing his pipe organ.
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Insights48
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For the last 15 years I have been following the evolution of technology in people's lives for companies like Microsoft, Comcast, and Canon. Here is what I suspect that we will see happening over the next 10 years.
The On Demand style of content delivery will continue to evolve and spread into other areas, partly because of intellectual property rights (content owners would rather we rent rather than own their content so they can grab a revenue stream). Instead of everyone downloading and holding files, all of them will be available at any time from a number of devices, including your car. If you want to listen to the next episode of Dick Tracy, access your site with a spoken command in your car, it will recognize you, what the last episode you listened to was, and it will serve up the next one. When you get in the house, you can direct your PC or next generation of cellular phone to that site, and the episode will pick up right where you left off.
Everything will move to digital, including High-Def programming. Blockbuster and NetFlix will be out of business or quickly learn to evolve.
I-Tunes will move to a subscription basis where all your music is available as long as you pay the monthly charge.
Either Microsoft or Apple will control the content highway. Right now it looks like Apple has the lead but cutting exclusive deals like they did with
AT&T for the iPhone has left the door open for others to come in.
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t has been fun watching the changes so far and if you disagree, by all means, let me know.
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gilinAZ
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I saw something, in the newspaper...the other day...about a local movie house doing "digital movies". Does this mean without film? I mean, if you can get a digital movie to play, on your computer screen...why not on a large movie screen, as well?? Just insert a disk, and voila!
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thebakerliteline
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I think we still have a post war attitude of saving everything personally. Common sense says that there is no reason why we shouldnt be able to download and listen on demand however that would kill sales of disks completely - I hear the sound of dropping profits.....
Whatever the war is, over who will be the provider, I am more curious as to whether the internet as we see it today will be in the same format - period. It would seem logical that signals could be bounced off the tin drums revolving round the earth and all this local cable could be done away with.
I wonder how many of you have a flat screen (I dont - too poor) Ten years ago they would have been for maybe an elite handful of people? Digital TV common today but ten years ago? And why am I still sitting here typing why cant someone simply convert my thoughts to words on screen - well maybe not that one...! And printers - theres a way to become a millionaire - why are they such rubbish? why are they cheap to buy and a fortune to buy refills for? If all information (including help manuals!) had to be posted digitally there would be more trees! The air would be less poluted. Gosh I've turned Green!
And what will we have instead of a mouse? Anyone remember digitisng tablets? What will have in ten years time? Maybe a virtual keyboard? virtual mouse? Then again maybe we'll have virtual users too and go and spend our time more profitably sitting in a chair in the garden.....
Personally I'm still waiting for the virtual wife....... well I can dream cant I?
Ian
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Insights48
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| Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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Here is a good overview for Gilinaz of how movie theaters could change to digital projectors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_cinema
| Quote: | | And printers - theres a way to become a millionaire - why are they such rubbish? why are they cheap to buy and a fortune to buy refills for? |
If you made a really good printer, you wouldn't be a millionaire - you'd be broke because you would only have to buy one. HP originally made that mistake with some of the first laser printers. I have a 4L printer from about 1993 that still works perfectly fine. I looked into replacing it and an honest salesman told me to absolutely keep this one because, "they don't make 'em the way they used to."
Printers now follow the razor model - sell the razor for next to nothing and make the money on the razor blades. |
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gilinAZ
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| Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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Insights...very interesting article about the digital concept for theaters. Is there any place where it gives the location of the theaters mentioned? I'd like to know which ones have this, in my area.
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Insights48
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| Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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Many of the theaters already have this capability. You can tell which ones by the commercials before the movie. If you are watching local commercials that you might also see on local TV or national spots with a "crispness", they are probably using a digital projector.
In the Seattle area, Paul Allen (co-founder of Microsoft) rebuilt a downtown theater called the Cinerama with the digital picture quality and sound system to simultaneously broadcast a live concert at this theater. |
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gilinAZ
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From what I understand, the source can be from any location...it doesn't have to be in the theater, itself. They mentioned something about performances of the Met Opera...from the stage of the Met, in NYC.
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thebakerliteline
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| Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:52 am Post subject: |
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Dont know about the US but certainly digital projectors are becoming common place in Churches here. They show movies, clips, text the whole biz in very high quality. Cost about £3000 >
Dont know about the cinemas as I havent been in some five years now!
Have I missed anything?
Ian
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gilinAZ
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| Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:47 am Post subject: |
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Ian..well, with all the hullabaloo they get from the media, I really can't say that much about "today's" actors. I would also put some of today's movies (cinema) in the same category. It's too bad we can't go back to the days, when they had "stars".
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