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Posted by Mark Lensenmayer (Member # 134) on 08-04-2002, 07:41 AM:
Oh, Brad, I can't tell you how happy I am that you have dropped the old analog forums and moved into the digital age. Digital HAS to be better than anything else. It's just like back in the '50's, where if it was Atomic, it had to be better.It will now be so much easier to interface my own set of 10 digits to the system.
You did choose the 32-bit digital system, didn't you? I wouldn't think you'd settle for anything less than that.
Maybe you ought to think about making Film-Tech "ALL NATURAL".
Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 08-04-2002, 11:30 AM:
Will the next change be
Film Handlers forum becoming Digital handlers forum
and
Film Yak becoming Digi-Yak?
Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 08-04-2002, 12:56 PM:
I'm enduring an allergy attack right now, but things are going better since I am using Digital Kleenex. And that's pretty good because I'm not just blowing snot into it, it is digital snot! In a little while, I'm going to go eat lunch and order a digital hamburger.
Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 08-04-2002, 01:18 PM:
Well, It always was gearless here anyway, so why not.....
Bobby, Might that digital snot be better treated by simply cleaning your drive?
Mark
Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 08-04-2002, 04:16 PM:
Thursday I had a digital headache, I sneezed and swallowed my right eye. Then my tongue got stuck in my left ear and it has been difficult to post as my feet are connected to my arms. Can anyone help? 
Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 08-04-2002, 04:46 PM:
yes Bob we can help have 2 "digital" martinis with digital olives as well
Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 08-04-2002, 05:04 PM:
I wonder how a digital hangover would feel.
Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 08-04-2002, 05:08 PM:
Probably a "bit" painfull
Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 08-04-2002, 06:26 PM:
Bob, I know how you feel. While I've not had the problems you describe, I have had my head up my ass several times in the last 30 years..... >>> Phil
Posted by Ben Wales (Member # 92) on 08-04-2002, 06:31 PM:
I thought it took ages (9 hours) to download and open the forum page, then realize that I did not have a super-conductor multiplexer (fandango) server to operate this weeks E Cinema software
Posted by Gerard S. Cohen (Member # 994) on 08-04-2002, 07:22 PM:
Hey, aren't "digits" fingers? So doesn't "digital" mean
"giving the finger" or "been fingered already?"
I think this suggests a new logo.
Posted by Ken Lackner (Member # 1002) on 08-04-2002, 09:29 PM:
So Freddy Got Fingered was "Digital"? 
Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 08-04-2002, 11:32 PM:
By all marketing accounts, that film would have done better (and maybe even won a few Oscars) if it had been called "Freddy Got Digitally Fingered".
Posted by Gerard S. Cohen (Member # 994) on 08-05-2002, 09:04 PM:
...Digital...Digitalis??!!
Isn't there something called Digitalis?
A medcine for heart-attack?
Or for relief from dandruff?
...Something...something...
(I wish Brad would remove that embarrassing logo atop these pages.)
Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 08-05-2002, 09:12 PM:
Congrats Gerard, you're getting it. You managed to use the golden word "digital" THREE TIMES in your post. That right there makes for a great post, regardless of what you had to say. Way to go!
Posted by Paul G. Thompson (Member # 655) on 08-05-2002, 09:13 PM:
Yeah - some people think a Digital Exam is a test about binary numbers. Ask your Proctologist.
Posted by Rick Long (Member # 213) on 08-05-2002, 11:22 PM:
Thank God Film-Tech has gone digital! I was getting so tired of waiting for those analogue vaccum tubes to warm up every time I checked in.
Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 08-06-2002, 02:17 AM:
DIGITAL! Does this mean I can no longer login with the ol' Univac?!
Posted by Sean McKinnon (Member # 612) on 08-06-2002, 04:38 AM:
101010001111101010101010101010101010101010001111111101010101010101010
101010101010101111111111110000000000
001111111111111101010101010101011
0101101100110101010101010101011011
01011010111111111111101010101010
1010101010110101000111110101010101
01010101010101010100011111111010
101010101010101010101010101011111
11111110000000000001111111111111
10101010101010101101011100110101
01010101010101101101011010001111
1111111110101010101010101010101
If anyone doesnt know how to read digital that says:
"Microswitch brains rock!"
Digital is definately better than english!
Posted by Steven Privett (Member # 718) on 08-06-2002, 09:18 AM:
I'm building my own DLP at home. I'm in the process of getting all the mirrors I need. If anyone wants to donate some, I sure could use them. I've got 5 so far.
Posted by David Rigby (Member # 1301) on 08-06-2002, 09:52 AM:
...so these DLP projectors use tiny mirrors eh? So if I smash one up with a really really big hammer till there are even tinier little bits of mirror, will I get improved resolution?!
Posted by Bruce McGee (Member # 131) on 08-06-2002, 10:11 AM:
I just made the vacuum tube computer joke on another thread. Didn't realize that it had already been done... 
Way To Go... Rick!!I think that this is nothing but a conspiricy!! Chief Miller is digitally altering all of our analog posts so that he can use the originals for some diabolical plot that he has secretly hidden away somewhere on this site. Dont be surprised if BIZARRO Film-Tech suddenly pops up on you!! Be afraid....
Oops. I just blew another 6L6G tube... I'll end this here. Miller has digitally interfaced with my tubes, er, computer, and is causing negative ion flows and overloads. Please! Let Me LIVE!!!! :O
Yes, I've been awake nearly all night....
Posted by Gracia L. Babbidge (Member # 582) on 08-06-2002, 01:39 PM:
digital this
digital that
digital who cares?oh wait, everyone seems to care.
digital, the new magic word.
*goes and sits in a corner with her pile of LPs & turntable*
Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 08-07-2002, 12:48 PM:
I just love it that the word "digital" is in HUGE letters. Maybe it should also have an exclamation point..?
~Manny (an excellent source of Vitamin C and now with 10% more fibre)
Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 08-07-2002, 05:26 PM:
David asked, "if I smash one up with a really really big hammer till there are even tinier little bits of mirror, will I get improved resolution?!"No, but you would get 1280 X 1024 X 7 years of bad luck.
That's 9,175,040 years. I think that's like an epoch of bad luck.
Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 08-07-2002, 06:02 PM:
I think actually it would be expodential since each the bad luck from the first mirror breaking would then be the base for the next 7 years
Posted by Craig Hanham (Member # 1010) on 08-08-2002, 10:55 PM:
Digitalis.
Look up a digital botany encyclopaedia. Its a plant and is toxic if memory serves.
Why is digital Crap?
Because the world is analogue as wel as discrete. Digital is a model of reality sliced into (in)convenient bits.
Colours exist in a continuous spectrum. Sounds are produced along a spectrum using mulltiple harmonics many of which are felt rather than heard.
Digital does allow signals to be cleaned from noise, but I live in a dirt filled world and clean rooms make me unwell.
Bring back analogue. It was all so much richer back then. Music was rich and emotional, colours had depth, shapes had shape, edges were sharp , curves were curved...... I could see form side to side and pixels were somebody elses nightmare
Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 08-08-2002, 11:28 PM:
Digitalis is a heart medicine derived from a plant. It's used when a patient suffers from congestive heart failure.Digitalis Info
Check the side effects! Sounds just about the same as the side effects from watching a digital movie... Don't you think?
Posted by Jason Black (Member # 684) on 08-08-2002, 11:57 PM:
Totally off topic, but CRaig, has anyone ever told you of yoru uncanny resemblence to Kyle Petty? (Richard Petty, famed NASCAR drivers son, for those of you who might not know)
Posted by David Rigby (Member # 1301) on 08-09-2002, 05:57 AM:
> Check the side effects! That explains why I came out a 38DD after watching Monsters Inc
David
Posted by Gracia L. Babbidge (Member # 582) on 08-10-2002, 12:26 AM:
o_O