Toon Boom Studio 2.5
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Update: Toon Boom Studio 2.5
Update: Toon Boom Studio 2.5
04/22/2004 09:19 AMThe 2D cartoon animation application adds sound scrubbing in the
Timeline, bitmap vectorization, scanner support, automatic mapping of
lip charts to lip drawings, export to DV Stream and AVI, and other
improvements.
15-day demo of Toon Boom Studio 2.5
available
15-day demo of Toon Boom Studio 2.5
available
05/10/2004 12:14 AMYou can now download Toon Boom Studio 2.5 for Mac OS X for a trial run
at the Toon Boom Animation Web site...
Toon Boom Studio Express 1.2
Toon Boom Studio Express 1.2
07/27/2004 09:45 PMEasy-to-use, Toon Boom Studio Express, the value-priced solution, is a
must-have animation tool for all your creative projects.
Toon Boom Studio 2.5 sneak peeked
Toon Boom Studio 2.5 sneak peeked
01/05/2004 01:12 AMToon Boom Technologies will be offering a "sneak peek" of Toon Boom
Studio 2.5 for the Mac this week at Macworld Expo...
Toon Boom Studio 2.5 For Mac OS X: An
Animation Tool That's A Joy To Use And
Easy To Learn
Toon Boom Studio 2.5 For Mac OS X: An
Animation Tool That's A Joy To Use And
Easy To Learn
07/28/2004 10:11 PM By Mike Caputo, Mac Audio Pro (via MyAppleMenu)
Toon Boom Studio 2.5 adds sound
scrubbing, scan support
Toon Boom Studio 2.5 adds sound
scrubbing, scan support
04/20/2004 03:16 AMToon Boom Animation Inc. on Monday released Toon Boom Studio v2.5 for
Mac OS X, the latest upgrade to the company's cartoon animation
software. New features in Toon Boom Studio v2.5 include sound
scrubbing in the timeline, the ability to draw in Sceneplanning and
support for scanning.
Toon Boom gets sound scrubbing in
Timeline, more
Toon Boom gets sound scrubbing in
Timeline, more
04/19/2004 05:40 PMToon Boom Animation has updated Toon Boom Studio, the US$199 cartoon
animation solution for Mac OS X, to version 2.5...
Toon In, Turn Out
Toon In, Turn Out
06/27/2004 10:50 PMIn the political magazine Washington Monthly there's an article that
examines the exploding popularity of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim
programming block. While it is a...
A Silent Toon
A Silent Toon
07/23/2004 03:01 PMI'll be buried in code for the next few days, which means I
probably won't be blogging too much. So, I've decided to post one of
my old "Dexter" cartoons to make up for my silence.
This
one was originally published in The Daily Beacon when I was a
student at the University of Tennessee, and it remains one of my
favorites since it hasn't aged a bit:
The Bush Boomlet: "the Bush boom rests
more on hope than hard data—and on a
pretty weak definition of a boom." 10/31
The Bush Boomlet: "the Bush boom rests
more on hope than hard data—and on a
pretty weak definition of a boom." 10/31
10/31/2003 08:16 AMIs the economy really booming? .. this one by Daniel Gross .. This
Salon article .. another
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CoD United Offensive boom boom
CoD United Offensive boom boom
09/20/2004 07:05 PMLuigi Auriemma (Sep 18 2004)
"Toon In" by Justin Peters
"Toon In" by Justin Peters
07/13/2004 08:23 AMwashington monthly article on Williams Street (adult swim content
producers) .. Why Adult Swim whipped the Com Central and Spike TV
imitators .. "Toon In" The best TV happens when no one is looking ..
It's the only reason I miss
cable
washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0406.peters.html
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ComponentOne(R) Announces Studio
Enterprise(TM) Beta Program for
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
ComponentOne(R) Announces Studio
Enterprise(TM) Beta Program for
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
03/28/2005 06:14 PMWWW Coder Mar 28 2005 9:38PM GMT
Kinetic junk-sculptures straight out of
a Road Runner toon
Kinetic junk-sculptures straight out of
a Road Runner toon
02/05/2005 09:25 PMCory Doctorow:
Gina Kamentsky builds gorgeous kinetic sculptures out of found objects
-- they look like something out of a Road Runner cartoon or a Rube
Goldberg illustration. The videos are fantastic.
Link
(
Thanks, Madeline!)
ComponentOne® Releases ComponentOne
DevKits for Visual Studio .NET and
Borland® Delphi™ 8 —Combines Powerful
Microsoft .NET development environments
with ComponentOne Studio Enterprise
ComponentOne® Releases ComponentOne
DevKits for Visual Studio .NET and
Borland® Delphi™ 8 —Combines Powerful
Microsoft .NET development environments
with ComponentOne Studio Enterprise
06/11/2004 03:46 AMComponentOne today released ComponentOne DevKit for Visual Studio .NET
and ComponentOne DevKit for Borland® Delphi™ 8. These combos not only
include the .NET and Delphi 8 development environments, they also
include the entire line of award-winning components for .NET, ASP.NET,
Mobile Devices, and even COM, which are included in ComponentOne
Studio Enterprise. [PRWEB Jun 11, 2004]
Boom 1.4.4
Boom 1.4.4
10/29/2003 10:29 PMBOOM is an arcade game in the grand tradition.
Ka-boom Boom (12:02 PM)
Ka-boom Boom (12:02 PM)
02/26/2003 03:39 PMThursday night I went out into the snow and bought Grand Theft Auto 3.
After spending a large chunk of the weekend playing, I have
Boom 1.5
Boom 1.5
06/15/2004 07:01 AMBOOM is an arcade game in the grand tradition.
New: The Boom Box
New: The Boom Box
06/22/2005 02:00 AMRoxio released The Boom Box, a bundle of five audio programs: CD Spin
Doctor, Audio Hijack, iPodderX, MusicMagic Mixer, and iSpeak It.
Boom Boom Box
Boom Boom Box
07/16/2004 11:47 AM
Sure, it's cheesy, but
there's a surprising amount of potential use to be had from this $20
Boom Boom Box. Four AA batteries power built-in stereo speakers inside
a water-proof casing that even comes with a hanger so you can hook it
on your shower curtain rod or nozzle, turning almost any portable
audio player into a waterproof shower stereo. Put your $500 portable
player inside at your own peril, of course.
And it's not like you have to use it in the shower, either.
There's something to be said for a cheap, hard-plastic case that lets
you share your sound whenever, wherever you want. (Thanks,
Rachel!)
Read - Product
Page [DreamGear]
BOOM!
BOOM!
06/03/2004 11:25 PM
Nuclear
codes = 00000000 Remember Johnson's Daisy ad, which led to the
question whose finger do you want on the button? Well it seems it was
not the President's finger alone. SAC took it upon itself (if this
article can be believed) to set all the nuclear launch codes to
00000000 and then to tell all of the launch operators. Any one of
those crews could have by themselves started WWIII. Apparently, that
whole "nuclear briefcase" trick was nothing but a charade
for many years. YIKES! (via Geekpress and Slashdot).
Semicon boom
Semicon boom
01/02/2004 06:04 AMCNET Asia Jan 2 2004 4:51AM ET
Disney Goes Boom!
Disney Goes Boom!
09/01/2004 07:19 PMBoom Of The iPod Add-Ons
Boom Of The iPod Add-Ons
02/01/2005 09:36 PMStratospheric iPod sales have created a vast opportunity for other
companies to sell companion gear, but the spoils have gone to those
able to keep pace with Apple, which has introduced at least a half
dozen kinds of iPods since the first model arrived in late 2001. By
Ina Fried, CNET News.com
IDC: A Boom in VoIP
IDC: A Boom in VoIP
04/04/2005 09:45 PMInternet News Apr 5 2005 1:35AM GMT
Boom to bust ...but dot.com man would
still do it again
Boom to bust ...but dot.com man would
still do it again
01/18/2004 09:20 PMStraits Times Jan 19 2004 0:07AM GMT
Disk Goes Boom!
Disk Goes Boom!
01/30/2003 12:12 AMI hate it when crap like this happens. A few months ago, I built a new
server (with hardware from ASA Computers, highly recommended) to serve
as a backup/spare for family.zawodny.com (the machine that hosts my
blog and about 40...
Wireless boom
Wireless boom
12/04/2003 09:36 PMCNET Asia Dec 4 2003 7:53PM ET
the language boom
the language boom
12/07/2003 10:34 AM Language
tree rooted in Turkey. Transmeta Looks For a Different PC Boom
Transmeta Looks For a Different PC Boom
12/08/2003 06:56 AMSiliconValley.Internet.com Dec 8 2003 6:27AM ET
The new Internet boom
The new Internet boom
06/03/2004 05:06 AMUSA Today Jun 3 2004 9:17AM GMT
Telstra claims 3G boom
Telstra claims 3G boom
03/29/2005 11:28 PMDigital Connect News Mar 30 2005 3:38AM GMT
UK housing boom continues
UK housing boom continues
04/29/2004 05:01 AMHouse prices have picked up again, rising by 2.1% during April, but
may cool in the second half of the year says the Nationwide.
Lowering the Boom on Copycats
Lowering the Boom on Copycats
11/15/2003 05:33 AMA bill pending in the Senate would impose a prison sentence of up to
five years for anyone caught distributing movies or music ahead of
their official release dates.
Baby Boom Ahead?
Baby Boom Ahead?
03/19/2005 02:58 AM
The Idea: The
recent UN projection that global population will level off at 9.5
billion is based on the flawed assumption that a recent phenomenon --
families having fewer children than they want due to economic and
political constraints -- will continue throughout the century and
become a global phenomenon. Remove those constraints and the linear
growth of nearly a billion more people per decade will continue, and
precipitate a great ecological challenge to our planet.
Take a look at the historical
demographic trends and you see that, with only a few exceptions in
different places and times, people have the number of children they
want. During pioneer times in North America, fifteen children were
needed to run the farm, so that's how many most families had. In
Niger,
Africa today men want 12-15 babies each, and women want almost as
many,
and that's how many they have. In the last thirty years, a remarkable
and global gap has arisen between the ideal number of children wanted
and the number of children actually born. This gap has a number of
different explanations, all of them transient. There is no precedent
for such a gap continuing, and no reason to believe it will continue.
When that gap closes, the average number of children per family will
rise by between 0.50 and 0.75. The chart above shows what that will
mean to world population. The entire
basis for the projection that global population will peak at 9.5
billion and then level off is based on the assumption that this recent
anomaly -- families having 0.5 children fewer each than they want --
will continue as a global phenomenon for the rest of the century and
beyond.
Every year a whole set of surveys are taken throughout the world on
what people consider the 'ideal' family size. Here are some of their
findings:
- In the US, adults say on average that ideal family size
is
2.6 children; those wanting children at all want an average of just
under 3.0; and younger Americans want an average of almost 0.5
children
more than the
previous generation had.
- In Canada, average ideal family size is also 2.6
children, and this number has been rising steadily since it bottomed out a generation
ago.
- In the UK, France and Germany, average ideal family size
among non-immigrants is 2.5, 3.3 and 2.3 children respectively (among
immigrants from South Asia and North Africa it is much higher).
- In India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Egypt, average
ideal family size is 2.7, 2.5, 4.1 and 3.1 children
respectively.
- In Latin America, ideal family size is 2.7 to
3.5 children.
- In most of Africa, ideal family size is 7.0
children.
- The UK and Germany are the only countries in the
world
where more than 10% of families hope to have 0 or 1 child (the
percentages in those countries are 12% and 11% respectively). Two or
three children are overwhelmingly preferred even in countries where
population is temporarily stable or declining, and 80% globally say
having children is essential to their personal
fulfillment.
- Immigrants from third world to first world
countries
typically plan to have at least two more children on average than
non-immigrants, and significantly more than the countrymen they left
behind.
These ideals are, on average, between 0.5 and 0.75 children more
than actual fertility rates. In other words, people are having fewer
children around the world than they would like to. The 2004 UN
population projection says "In the medium variant, fertility is
projected to decline from 2.6 children per woman today to slightly
over
2 children per woman in 2050. If
fertility were to remain about half a child
above the levels projected in
the medium variant, world population would reach 10.6 billion by 2050
and 14 billion by 2100".
The red line on the chart above shows therefore what global population
will be if people have the number of children they say they want. An
average of 2.6 children per family with growing average life
expectancies will double world population every 60 years.
What are the reasons for the recent phenomenon of families having 0.5
to 0.75 children fewer than
they want? They vary from country to country:
- In China, having more than one child is strongly
discouraged, and due to abortion and infanticide of girls the ratio of
girls to boys has now reached 0.84 to 1. That means there would be
about 50 million more young girls in China without the availability of
prenatal gender-detection technology (illegal in China but still
widespread) and without the social acceptability of female
infanticide.
- In India, the dowry system and perceived lower
labour value
of girls has produced the same situation as in China, with the ratio
of
girls to boys now as low as 0.77 to 1 in several areas of India. That
means there would be about 30 million more young girls in India
without
the availability of prenatal gender-detection technology (illegal in
India but still widespread) and without the social acceptability of
female infanticide.
- Throughout the world, as participation by
women in the
workplace has risen, driven mainly by economic necessity, women have
deferred their first pregnancy by an average of about five years from
when they hoped to initially conceive. Data suggests this delay of
first pregnancy might account for the entire drop in fertility rates in the past generation
in the third world.
- In the US, gender preference among
expectant parents has
the same male bias as in India. And over 40% of Americans say they
would have more children if they were wealthier.
- In Europe,
over 30% of women report they actually had fewer
children than they wanted, with affordability being the overwhelming
explanation for not having more.
From this data, a very troubling hypothesis presents itself. We have
taken great comfort from reports that correlate lower birth rates with
higher education, especially of women. But it appears we may have
missed the real cause and effect here: Higher rates of education for
women mean, as the Two-Income
Trap
so eloquently explained, higher rates of participation of women in the
workforce, which means more supply of labour relative to demand and
hence ability to offer lower wages, and also means more price-pressure
on housing in prestige areas especially near good schools, driving up
the price of housing and forcing women to stay in the workforce longer
and defer having children longer, or even until it is too late. So it
is possible that it is the cost of
living, not education, that has temporarily slowed soaring
human population.
That deferral will eventually start to crimp the availability of cheap
labour (although offshoring could sustain it a bit longer). When that
happens, wages will have to rise and women will once again be able to
leave the labour force long enough to have the children they want. And
then we'll see a baby boom, leading to the red line in the chart above
-- 14 billion people by the end of the century. That will happen even
with HIV and other epidemic diseases and famines -- historically human
population has always 'bounced back' from these setbacks by having
more
children to compensate for the ones that die young.
Of course there's always the possibility that the Two-Income Trap
could
become a permanent and global phenomenon, with wage increases always
pushing housing and other prices up to negate any real increase, so
people will forevermore have fewer children, and start having children
later in life, than they would want to. Except that the Trap is not
sustainable without the pressure of more and more people competing for
wage-slave jobs and scarce resources. Alas, the 14 billion human
population isn't sustainable either.
I know readers of How to Save the
World
don't like my 'pessimistic' posts, and I suspect some will jump in
with
reasons why the red line forecast won't happen, or say I'm just being
an alarmist. I think expecting people to have the families they want
is
realism not pessimism, and while the idea of 14 billion humans
troubles
me, I think it makes sense to consider the possibility, and how to
deal
with the fact that our species, for the past several millennia, seems
predestined and biologically driven to procreate at more than
replacement levels until we hit a wall.
Sources: Gallup
International polls of ideal family size; the Guttmacher Institute
family values studies; papers to the 2004 World Congress on Bioethics;
Johns Hopkins INFO project reports; papers to the 2001 World
Population
Conference; the European Foundation quality of life studies; UN
Population Prospects 2004 Revision report.
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IT industry to boom while others go bust
IT industry to boom while others go bust
03/30/2005 08:56 PMvnunet.com Mar 31 2005 12:32AM GMT
Sun and IBM to lead 64-bit boom -
analyst
Sun and IBM to lead 64-bit boom -
analyst
01/02/2004 07:30 PMOn AMD's back
The iPod Is The New Sonic Boom
The iPod Is The New Sonic Boom
12/17/2003 06:05 PMBy Toby Manhire (The Guardian via MyAppleMenu)
Retailers welcome spending boom
Retailers welcome spending boom
06/27/2004 04:42 AMScotland's retailers look at ways to encourage investment and growth
on the back of healthy sales figures.
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