The problem lions have had is the divergence away from solving problems to purely winning engagement. 30 years ago, there were a lot of late night efforts to just play an audio waveform longer than 3 minutes or a sequence of frames longer than a minute.  It was problem solving that would forever fill a need.  

Today, spectators want clickbait of no value to provide a few months of  entertainment & to never be used again.

Lions had a good run in audio software & then video software development.  Now the problems all center on how to win engagement in the useless.  There could be more work in de-essing & background noise removal, effects gootubers have praised.  It might be a good clickbait flick.  The problem is this stuff is never going to be used in Cinelerra.  The limiting factor is support & platforms.



 


 


 

 

Lions have pondered what made the golden age of the UNIX workstation happen & how it could be reborn with modern hardware.  They didn't have much software besides a web browser, schematic editor, & pro engineer.  The RS 6000's had really nice monitors despite their slowness.  

The lion kingdom's own interest seemed to be purely in their unique audio hardware & audio software of their own making.  It was about what the tools enabled rather than the tools themselves.  Possibly, lions would have said goodbye if they finished their audio development & the hardware stayed 125Mhz, never evolving to support video or even realtime audio effects.  Lions could have written a user space audio daemon to overcome the lockups in the audio driver. 

It would take a new problem to replace the audio editing environment of the golden age.  AI is really disappointing because it just doesn't work outside a few extremely narrow applications & with immense investment in training, hardware, & development.  Maybe there's a really high price point where it is satisfying, just like the old workstations were, but you could buy a discounted UNIX workstation in the form of Linux while you can't buy discounted AI hardware & expect useful results.

There was a bit of pondering about 3D graphics & VR near the end of the golden age.   Young lion knew nothing about 3D graphics, having never taken a formal class in it.  The killer enabling feature today still seems to be capturing high enough fidelity 3D model data from the real world or synthesizing it with the least labor.  Results with AI & the best photogrammetry are still really poor & extremely labor intensive.

It's kind of satisfying that we can now converse with a confuser the way they only could in movies long ago, but that's a 1 & done flick.  It's not enabling something we couldn't do before.


Lions made standalone tools to aid mesh creation & 3D printing.  It's easier to do that in a UNIX shell with the C math library than in an IDE while spraying chatgpt prompts to use the latest geometry library.


The only egg nog available this year.  HP9000 nostalgia wouldn't be complete without egg.


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