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From: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: SIGGRAPH -- The REAL show stopper.  (Also  Bundling apology)
Message-ID: <1877@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Aug-87 08:15:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: xanth.1877
Posted: Fri Aug  7 08:15:27 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Aug-87 06:53:07 EDT
References: <1097@gryphon.CTS.COM> <915@hp-sdd.HP.COM> <831@percival.UUCP> <922@hp-sdd.HP.COM>
Reply-To: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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Keywords: NewTek
Summary: Grr! and Oops!

In article <922@hp-sdd.HP.COM> nick@hp-sdd.UUCP (Nick Flor) writes:
[in response to other letters about Leo's demo:]
>See what I mean???  Yet another poster who thinks that Leo came up with
>the idea all by his lonesome.  (And Doyle wonders why PIXAR is pissed).
>
>
>The idea of the unicycle came from PIXAR.  Leo get's an "A" for implementation
>energy.  Creativity energy credit goes to PIXAR.
>
>
>It is far easier to implement than it is to conceive.
>This is especially true in the case of art.

Two comments on this:   (Warning!!!!! Sexism ahead!!!!!)

First, ask any wife,eight months pregnent in sweltering August, seen
glaring at her beer swilling hubby, whether it is easier to conceive
or to implement!

Second, remember Thomas Edison's aphorism:  "Invention is one percent
inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration."

To put it another way, "Ideas, I got a million of 'em.  The guts to
carry any of them out, not a bit."  All credit to Leo for applying the
skull sweat and the time to make this thing work.  Leo didn't have
$100,000 of hardware and a team of programmers to do his demo, and
that is the whole point - "I can do it for you wholesale!"  If he
hadn't chosen to (pretty much) duplicate an existing demo, it wouldn't
have been nearly so blowing-away-powerful a statement of the Amiga's
capabilities.  Yea, Leo!  Hit 'em again!  (And please post; I'm dying
to see it!)

Now my apology, to Commodore and the net, for going off half cocked
about the bundled software deal.  I didn't understand that it was just
for user groups of existing Commodore computers.  As a way to lure in
the C64, C128 and etc. crowd, it is an excellent idea.

I was wrong, and I'm sorry.

Kent, the man from xanth.