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Keith Walters
Banned
About 25 years ago I used to know this quite horrid little man who did something (I’m not entirely sure what) for a certain Sony Branch I used to do work for. He was both little (as in vertically challenged), and horrid in that he is one of those people who is born with a gift for irritating people. Every time he’d make some prediction of the positive outcome of some future event, he would always reinforce it with this bizarre mime of a golfer teeing-off. Anything he disagreed with on the other hand, was always sneeringly dismissed as: “When Hell Freezes Over”.
At that time all of Sony’s broadcast cameras were fully analog. At one point I ventured to suggest that a major part of their success could be put down to Sony’s knowledge of who made the best parts, and their access to a vast and dedicated workforce of nimble-fingered housewives to put them all together in their factories.
Eventually, I predicted, cameras would move to all-digital processing using a relatively small number of processing chips whose manufacture is more akin to publishing than electronic construction. The real key to success would be the software, which is a field the Japanese have always been very weak in, and I suggested that eventually, we would find that the manufacture of high-end cameras would start drifting back to US and European manufacturers.
“Yeah; when Hell freezes over…”
Well, a lot of strange things have been happening lately.
First Europe, then large parts of the US have been thoroughly snowed-in by the biggest blizzards in living memory.
Then, not to be outdone, parts of Australia were treated to a white Christmas.
Yeah, we do get a bit of snow in some cooler places here but remember this is the Southern Hemisphere, December is supposed the middle of summer!
And usually a bloody hot summer…
Anyway I’m now holidaying in a small NSW mid-north coast town, which should by rights be enjoying a climate similar to L.A. in July.
But we’ve had to bring blankets out of storage.
A few days back I was at an evening barbeque down at the beach and we were freezing. Nobody had any warm clothes, because who needs warm clothes in Dec/Jan, right?
I haven’t been home to pick up my latest copy of New Scientist, but I’m sure all this will be explained by “Global Warming”.
Meanwhile the billion-dollar desalination plants some of our State Governments recently thought were a good idea (no doubt on advice of the same scientists) are now being mothballed due to the heaviest rains in our recorded history.
And now, RED-manufactured cameras
atriot:are being used (or soon to be used) in large quantities, muscling aside traditional offerings from Sony, in some really-bigtime Hollywood productions. Even one produced by Bryan Singer. I’ve actually heard of him, and love some of his work. (Not Superman Returnsuke.
But then it finally hit me:
It’s not global warming: Hell is actually freezing over! The little bastard was right!
So I thought to mark that occasion, I should post something here on Reduser..
(I had originally planned to post this on the wee hours of Jan 1, but the news of OffHollywood’s stolen camera sort of put a dampener on that…)
At that time all of Sony’s broadcast cameras were fully analog. At one point I ventured to suggest that a major part of their success could be put down to Sony’s knowledge of who made the best parts, and their access to a vast and dedicated workforce of nimble-fingered housewives to put them all together in their factories.
Eventually, I predicted, cameras would move to all-digital processing using a relatively small number of processing chips whose manufacture is more akin to publishing than electronic construction. The real key to success would be the software, which is a field the Japanese have always been very weak in, and I suggested that eventually, we would find that the manufacture of high-end cameras would start drifting back to US and European manufacturers.
“Yeah; when Hell freezes over…”
Well, a lot of strange things have been happening lately.
First Europe, then large parts of the US have been thoroughly snowed-in by the biggest blizzards in living memory.
Then, not to be outdone, parts of Australia were treated to a white Christmas.
Yeah, we do get a bit of snow in some cooler places here but remember this is the Southern Hemisphere, December is supposed the middle of summer!
And usually a bloody hot summer…
Anyway I’m now holidaying in a small NSW mid-north coast town, which should by rights be enjoying a climate similar to L.A. in July.
But we’ve had to bring blankets out of storage.
A few days back I was at an evening barbeque down at the beach and we were freezing. Nobody had any warm clothes, because who needs warm clothes in Dec/Jan, right?
I haven’t been home to pick up my latest copy of New Scientist, but I’m sure all this will be explained by “Global Warming”.
Meanwhile the billion-dollar desalination plants some of our State Governments recently thought were a good idea (no doubt on advice of the same scientists) are now being mothballed due to the heaviest rains in our recorded history.
And now, RED-manufactured cameras
atriot:are being used (or soon to be used) in large quantities, muscling aside traditional offerings from Sony, in some really-bigtime Hollywood productions. Even one produced by Bryan Singer. I’ve actually heard of him, and love some of his work. (Not Superman Returnsuke.But then it finally hit me:
It’s not global warming: Hell is actually freezing over! The little bastard was right!
So I thought to mark that occasion, I should post something here on Reduser..
(I had originally planned to post this on the wee hours of Jan 1, but the news of OffHollywood’s stolen camera sort of put a dampener on that…)
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