Alex Campbell

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• December 28, 2001, on Producing Streaming Video (and Audio) for the Web:

  Digital video is the answer. Analog video will be out, hopefully, very soon. DVD players are so prolific that companies are giving them away with mobile phones, dishwashers... DV camcorders are down to low prices. Unfortunately, the Apple software and hardware that are vital to the process are still expensive. That is where the corporate expense account comes into it. At my school, we bought a stack of DV cameras and iMac DVs, so that kids could record and edit their videos easily. The 14gb hard drives and 64MB of RAM seems to satisfy the kids need but I wasn't really content. So if you just have basic editing needs, a cheap DV camera and an iMac DV will be plenty for you - and then you can burn your videos onto CD with the builtin burners in the iMac DVs. To fill the gap, we ordered one of the new dual processor G4s, with 512MB of RAM, numerous high speed disk drives and Final Cut Pro. Pulling the video off the DV cameras is lightning fast. Editing is amazing, with eithe...

• April 9, 2002, on Career Guide for Engineers and Computer Scientists:

  "Text and pictures are copyright 1990-1998 Philip Greenspun." There was some discussion above as to whether Philip just searched around and stole some pictures of poor people to make fun of. I would like to point out that Philip *created* the Photo.net community, and the quote above would indicate that he took the photos himself. I think this demonstrates a great deal of photographic and artistic talent, and I thought the comments were funny. The heart of satire, and indeed any humor, is incongruity. MIT PhDs living on the streets is, like it or not, incongruous. The infamour Greenspun subtle message was that careers in engineering/science are not all that they are made out to be. This is an important message. Ask anyone who has toilet anonymously in the cubicle bowels of IBM developing useless software for obsolete hardware. Ask Dilbert. And when these idiots say that it isn't fair to make fun of people less fortunate, they're not just being full of shit, but they're al...