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What video software? Huh? Huh? It's a bit off topic BUT I've used video loops triggered via midi using both Vidvox and Arkaos, and I believe "Looper's Delight" says nothing about visual loops, but we can always take this off the list. I find that the farther "out" my music is, it is better received by non "out" music listeners if it has a visual component. Mark "Emile Tobenfeld (a.k.a Dr. T)" wrote: > As a professional software developer currently involved in very > complex video effects software, I can sympathize. > > Here is my partly tongue-in-cheek algorithm for estimating a software >job. > > 1. Estimate the amount of time the job would take if nothing went >wrong. > 2. Allow for the fact that things will surely go wrong, as they > have in the past, and double it. > 3. Allow for the fact that, in addition to the things that have > gone wrong in the past, new things will go wrong. These will be even > harder to fix, so double the estimate again. > 4. One of the things most likely to go wrong is the initial > estimate i step 1. Allow for this by doubling your estimate again. > > If you work hard, and are reasonably lucky, you won't exceed this > estimate by more than 100%. > > Although the above analysis was conceived of as a joke, I suspect > that it would be reasonably accurate at estimating software jobs. > > Back to tweaking loops on a Nord Modular so I can twist the input of > s sax player friend who is coming by tomorrow.-:) > > At 9:42 PM -0700 8/3/01, Mark Hamburg wrote: > >Here's my guess as to what's happening at Electrix. Software is hard. >Big > >software is really hard. People who've written small pieces of software >and > >had them work don't always realize that it doesn't all just scale >linearly. > > > >Add to that the fact that there are probably a lot of time-dependent and > >parallel operations going on in the unit and you've got a debugging > >nightmare. Things go wrong but you can't make them go wrong again. > > > >So, if you'd be prepared to only do the things they demo'd in the >sequence > >and with the timing they demo'd them, you'd probably be fine. Some >tester > >probably didn't stick to the script and had something bad happen, but >they > >are having a horrendous time reproducing it reliably. > > > >My first job in the commercial software industry was working for Ann >Arbor > >Softworks. At the time A2S was famous for FullWrite Professional being > >vaporware (though in total it was less than a year late). I joined at a > >point where we spent several months operating under the lines: (a) >we'll be > >done in two weeks and (b) if we don't ship in two weeks we're going to >go > >out of business. A few years later I was talking to one of the lead > >engineers on the team and he confessed that he'd realized afterward >that he > >and the other lead engineer could hold about two weeks worth of work in > >their heads. Hence when asked how long it would take to finish, they'd > >reflect for a while and come up with the answer "Two weeks". > > > >My question is: Has anyone at Electrix read _The Mythical Man-Month_? > > > >Mark > > > >on 8/1/01 6:04 PM, Mark Sottilaro at sine@zerocrossing.net wrote: > > > >> I'd love to here an > >> uncensored version of what's going on at Electrix from an >engineer/software > > > engineer. I'd bet we'd all have a nice chuckle. > > > > > > <nelson> Ha ha </nelson> > > -- > > "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man > persists in adapting the world to himself. Therefore, all progress > depends on the unreasonable man. > > -- George Bernard Shaw > > Emile Tobenfeld, Ph. D. > Video Producer Image Processing Specialist > Video for your HEAD! Boris FX > http://www.foryourhead.com http://www.borisfx.com