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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+96If we can't ship this puppy by then, we might as well be herding yaks.
I'm glad it's getting weird again. I didn't understand it when it wasn't weird.
More lizards, fewer bugs.
It's not awful by some of our standards.
I speak for us, all three of me.
With a rotary attachment like that it's already interesting to me.
That's the pain that keeps on giving.
Am I going to get killed if I walk through here?
I've got a slimy stick
The yellow snow ones have been really popular.
The teeth marks, you know, they just don't say squirrel.
Did we just have an HR moment?
We're still almost done again.
You'll notice a lack of crystal balls in this office.
We have a plan, we just need to tackle him.
It's hard to be mad in fuzzy slippers.
Do you have an chickens that you want to sacrifice at this tim?
Exploding trail mix strikes again.
Someone barfed performance all over our shoes.
Call it art and buy a frame.
Are we letting him modify code?
All through art school... I was clean!
If you'd filmed it right the first time, you wouldn't have to cut it.
I don't think I was tall enough to get on this ride.
The answer is violence.
Programatically generated violence?!?
Stimulants for everyone.
I have enough seeding in my life. I don't need them in my grapes.
What's next for our headless friend?
They're too busy rioting.
All of our balls are effectively juggled.
But they looked cute online.
It's not like you put it in your mouth.
Once you change how you think it makes sense.
Are headless yak bites appropriate for younger viewers?
So maybe you can tell me how this is supposed to work?Is Marketing under NDA?
I'm sooo a rock star already.
Why does feature creep have to sound so ominous?
You know they were peeing in the pond and now no one wants to drink.
Stop messing with the tail of my stuffed animal.
Drop ribs, not frames.
Holy shh...oes!
If we're not going to do it we should do it now. If we are going to do it we should wait.
I'd be less concerned if it weren't for the squeeling animal sound that preceded it.
Just put a fresh diaper on it and ship it!
Who is Mark Good anyway?
He's kind of middle-aged, but he might not have a head.
Semi-transparent hangover.
Your brothers and sisters still exist when you aren't on the phone with them.
That's a better finger than all five.
It's easy to rock when you're in a great band.
The best thing about living in San Francisco is that you have time to make a full build on your way home.
Understanding threads in a C++ world is like getting a root canal.
This is terribly unsatisfying.
It's far more satisfying if you throw it at someone.
That would be better on a hot dog bun.
The C switch statement: Mmmmmm! Chock full of nooses!
That would be like crossing the streams or something.
Mmmm... Chicago style pizza!
I've got my blankie, I'm good to go.
A lot of this job is mental.
"Mostly clockwise, sometimes reverses..."
What's the sound of one luma clamping?
I just wanna be in the app!
Oh, rough and woeful music which we have! Cause it to sound!
The Yak is a delightful creature... rather like a visit with a bovine Confucious
Nobody might know anything.
I don't know, somehow it just works.
How do you tempt a Yak?
Chocolate covered espresso beans!
We're not the engineers you're looking for. Move along, move along.
The little cartoon man is messing with my head!
Speed kills, but sync maims.
It's compatible with it's legacy.
Twix bars: A brand-new bad habit!
Many Yaks were exploited during the creation of this product.
I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of nuclear weapons in this product.
I'm concerned because the cow sounded pretty threatening.
I am NOT a mad cow!
I don't care who's on the other end of the phone... Hang it up!
I have deniable plausibility.
Note to the galley: Romulan Cosmos no longer to be served on school nights!
Carrot and a footprint.
Asteriskified?
Where's a single Yak to go now that the Edit Bar is gone?
Aaargh, I forgot to pay the rent!
When you have a car that's that uncool, you just gotta drive stupid.
Did it happen with yesterday's umbrella?
When can I do color correction by the pool?
Are you filling his head with chocolate?
The lights going off at midnight, it's almost like a slap in the face... Hey, stupid, it's tomorrow!
Yeah, that's covered under item #152.
I was probably the last one to see him alive.
We're not play'in poker here.
All I want for Christmas is a stack trace!
Think PIKE!
Don't look at me. They're not my flying monkeys.
What, were you expecting "Moo" or something?
This is not a Yak Bite.
Somehow I can't convince myself that this isn't all just one big hack.
At least Spock had stone knives and bear skins!
It's a single malt problems.
Everyone drops it the first time.
OK... who's job is it to write the Flush Wizard?
Controlled evil is not necessarily bad.
Pinky, are you thinking what I'm thinking? I think so, Brain... but can you do that with a Yak?
It's like a gob of peanut butter for the roof of your brain.
Savor the unbridled complexity that we've crafted for you.
Look, there's no such thing as a 'Clacker'!
Don't panic - everything is under control. There is no fire. Have a great day.
Get rid of the spasmic "U".
That's my fault originally, but many others are to blame since.
The disco ball is spinning, but no one's home.
There were many lessons learned during the early years.
That movie had plot holes big enough to drive whole other movies through!
Please refrain from sucking.
I'm highly in favor of putting in code to do stuff.
I want to see lots of deliminators.
Can I get that for free?
Wrong thinking will be punished. Right thinking will be as quickly rewarded.
All right, Who replaced the Oscillation OverThruster with an AutoSyncDetector?
Will, you're scaring the children.
Didn't this used to be purple?
Hellooooo! I'm trying to edit here!
Remember-- thingies are free!
...and so forth and so on...
That and a folded napkin will level a chair.
Oops, It works!
Free drink? That just cost me $200!
Don't lick your zipper.
I went to pull it out and it was like three feet long.
Kinda cool; kind of a hack. Like so much of this business.
Salad is a lot of work!
The opposite of "weird" is "boring".
Do or do not. There is no don't.
Thirty quatloos says it crashes during launch!
Check your Caps Lock key.
...by an expert. Worse, a committee of experts.
There's a disease going around in QA right now. Stay away from those guys.
What? You were expecting a paper clip?
Personally, I _like_ editing under a tree!
We're going to leave the underwear in the tutorial.
Ok, Nobody prints, Nobody gets hurt!
Please hold for the next available consumer.
Cows didn't have dynamite and steam shovels.
This is so lame it hurts.
She's speaking in tongues.
I was the innocent victim of a drive by coding.
It's all wired up... we just have to turn it on.
Where's the 'Poof' manager?It's the international symbol for "Your zipper's open".
There exists, but you can't get there from here.
There was a memo?
That's a little too non-virtual for this group.
These buttons are... Bonk with Wrench, I Love Lightning, and Enjoy Fireworks from Lakefront.
It also doesn't read French novels.
I am SO 29.97 all the way!
Well, and 7 is more than 6.
Two "its" can be a "them".
I assume you stayed away from the snapping turtles in the pool.
I've been here before
You can call me Bruce the Wonder Yak. - devicenul1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+75Leaving FCP open for 24+ hours displays a small Yak, the yak has one-liners, these appear to be them.
- meshman, on 10/12/2007, -7/+56Story? This looks like the crap they append to image only spam emails.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+45Apparently it is an easter egg .. "Bruce is a Final Cut Pro easter egg. If you leave FCP sit still for over 12 hours Bruce (the yak) will walk out, eat some grass and think some interesting things (the lines of text above)" .. This site also gives a way to activate it manually .. http://bamcat.typepad.com/bamcat/2006/05/my_mac_has_a_ya.html
- noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -7/+46Best part is their code still ends up smaller than most Microsoft products.
Sorry, Jues you set it up. - moglenstar, on 10/12/2007, -9/+46http://digg.com/apple/Easter_Egg_Found_in_Apple_s_Final_Cut_Pro_HD
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1 year 46 days ago, made popular 1 year 45 days 15 hours ago - bedouin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3929.97 is the FPS for NTSC video I believe.
- listrophy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35Actually, it sounds like an office quote board. Whenever someone says something outlandish, it gets put into the resource file. I've (ie: we here at the office have) done the same thing before, albeit in a less-electronic form.
- unit101, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25Apparently its been in FCP since 4.0. Just do a search for Bruce the Wonder Yak.
- phmfthacim, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25once I went to the library and dropped strange files in peoples drop boxes
- hs112186, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25sounds like whoever wrote it stuck in a random comment on a daily basis or something. lol love this one
"�I am SO 29.97 all the way!�" 29.97 rocks!!!!!!!!!! - winnopeg, on 10/12/2007, -5/+24@xsuite: Apple wouldn't possibly fire someone over this. This is creative genius.
- nick0909, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19Many offices I have been a part of keep a quote file going for those funny one-liners after a 48-hour shift, it seems maybe they kept theirs right in their code.
- tealwarrior, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17There is a description of what drove the developers (then at Macromedia) to do this in the following article:
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/8AA115DC-2398-456E-9319-FE5842A41BD1.html
Here's an except:
After years of delays at Macromedia, things looked so bleak for Final Cut that one of the frustrated engineers pounded the table saying, “If we can't ship this puppy in a year then we might as well all go herd Yaks!”
For more background, see the whole article. - aroundlsu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Cyburdine: Not correct. DF and NDF only refer to the way the timecode data is measured on a timeline. The actual playback rate stays fixed at 29.97 no matter how you set up your sequence.
NTSC video is always 480i 29.97.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMPTE_time_code
The difference between measuring your timeline using DF vs. NDF is several seconds on a one hour television show. Being short by a few seconds will get your program kicked out by QC at major television stations so it's important to set up your sequence properly when producing for broadcast. - jues, on 10/12/2007, -8/+23From the looks of things the developers dropped new comments in there over a period of time as small, disjointed conversations map out... Glad apple is keeping the bloat down ;)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Sounds like a collection of inside jokes
- anotherdiggdude, on 10/12/2007, -6/+19Is this what they call an easter egg
- bang21, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13You are correct (it's not 30 FPS like most people think). I too liked that one.
- rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Best line: "I just wanna be in the app!"
- Milstead1979, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11What's strange about it?
Hey get off me while I'm typing !!! ... Damn yak. - directedition, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11The FCP guru at my film school showed me what those quotes were for. He did something screwing around in the vectorscope and after a while a cow came out onto the timeline and began eating grass that was growing there. Every now and then the cow would say something from that film and resume eating. He would run away after he sees your mouse move. Very strange indeed. Odd that I haven't met anyone else who has seen the cow or knows the correct mouse gesture combination to make him come back (took a good 15 minutes of screwing around in the vectorscope before he showed up).
Edit: thanks DracoXul! - cyburdine, on 10/12/2007, -8/+16@bang21
nice try...
29.97 fps is drop frame.
30 fps is non drop frame.
both are valid NTSC frame rates... It actually is as most people think. ;) - foolonthehill, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9@ listrophy
Exacty. It's a load of seperate quotes (presumably from during development), not a story. There's a simiar sort of list in the credits for Deus Ex IIRC. - noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Huh, what do you know. It's true
- hotdamn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7sounds like a Radiohead song.
- heinousjay, on 10/12/2007, -8/+14Well, *****. I guess anyone who missed it the first time is just screwed, right? Never, never, never shall anything be repeated on Digg! NEVER!
- flashboy131, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"It's a single malt problems."
nice. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6and this is what happens when developers get really tired and/or get really high...
- Wyzard, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7The easter egg would be the hidden "feature" in the program that makes it show you these quotes. Opening the resource file directly is just circumventing the easter egg. :-)
- jbudlives, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I always wanted to make a t-shirt of bruce the wonder yak
- Gogogo111, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"Exploding trail mix strikes again."
Win. - flipmeat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5 Bruce would appear in FCP 1.0, running on OS 9. I am surprised he has not been upgraded to hi-def, and now saying his lines through random surround channels, with yak lip sync. (ew, yak lips)
I think the different ways of activating Bruce posted here are from different versions of FCP. They change it, but somehow the trick keeps leaking out... which is great. What does iMovie have, a goat? - MikeyMoose, on 01/30/2009, -1/+4http://www.chaosmint.com/macintosh/articles/easter-egg-final-cut-pro.shtml
It's the new "Clarus", the DogCow! - TylerLavite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4this is prolly the file for the Yak that comes out on the screen. this is the stuff he says.. add stuff see if he will say it.
- pilotmike, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Cool! That Easter Egg works in Final Cut Express HD, too.
- Roger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Heh, nice find.
I see lots of Star Wars, Star Trek and Buckaroo Banzai references. There's probably others.
EDIT: Pinky and the Brain! - rancidchickn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5The quality work of some bored developer.
- flipmeat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3 It is a common misconception that drop-frame time code actually drops frames. The media is never touched. The 'drops' are adjustments to the frame *numbering* to resolve the video clock to real time.
Motion graphics goddess Trish Meyer explained this and other video myths in a definitive 2001 article in DV Magazine:
http://www.dv.com/print_me.php?articleId=23902745
Quote: "The reality is that NTSC color video runs at 29.97 fps regardless of the method you choose to number those frames. The only thing that should be dropped are the numbers used to label those frames, not any actual content itself." - nevermind, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Roughly Drafter recently had an article about this which goes back to the original Macromedia programmers/engineers who worked on FC and the story of how Microsoft tried to stifle its development, the Apple QuickTime connection and the frustration that lead up the famous rant in the FCP's code.
How Microsoft Pushed QuickTime's Final Cut
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/8AA115DC-2398-456E-9319-FE5842A41BD1.html - ThreeDee912, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Developers, Developers, Developers!
- tobsterius, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Are you certified? You forgot to mention that.
FYI: Software certifications mean you just know the software, it doesn't mean you're any good. I'm sure you are, but boasting it around like it's something special doesn't mean jack. Your reel matters a hell of a lot more than a piece of paper saying that you passed a test. - serpicolugnut, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Actually, I believe this easter egg was in FCP since the very first version. The reference is in relation to when Final Cut was an unreleased Macromedia product that was not getting the attention it deserved. The joke goes that the lead developer mused to the team "if we can't ship this software, we might as well be hearding yaks". This was due to Macromedia refusing to release the product, for lack of it fitting in to their product matrix (they were focusing on web apps at the time).
There's a good write up of this at MSN City (along with all the other deviousness of MS):
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/8AA115DC-2398-456E-9319-FE5842A41BD1.html - flipmeat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Attention FCP team: Wonder yak widget please. :-)
- eridius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2bhess: iWeb has a ton of resources in it. And I also doubt you're measuring the full Office installation - the apps themselves are not the full installation. Microsoft Office installs stuff elsewhere in the system too.
That said, you can't really compare the two. iWeb is so huge because of the resources, because it's a media-rich design app. Office isn't a design app, so it doesn't have that mess of resources. It would be like comparing Garage Band to Office (Garage Band being even more resource-intensive, since sound is larger than images). - morphie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Entertainment++
- dmcipod, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2i have version 5.1.4 and "call the yak" was not there as the site mentioned. any other way to manually call him?
- g00dETH3R, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Orientation day at Apple.
Why is our stuff is so pretty and white and smooth.....its the only way we can distinguish it from the rainbows, fractals and yaks in the office, you need to keep it white man!! If its not white it will merge into the color and be lost forever. White and smooth man, thats what you do, white and smooth or the office will get you! BTW don't go into that room its bat county.
I knew it! they called me crazy but i knew there was LSD in the water. - ericd543, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2If it's so old then where's my plugin/feature for gmail to update my sig every day with a new Bruce the Wonder Yak witticism?
- WiseWeasel, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Digg will get duplicates, and that's just a fact of life. If enough people missed it the first time, then what's the problem with having the story on digg a second time? Not everyone reads religiously enough to catch every story the first time around... Complaining about duplicates on digg is not too productive, unless it's very recent and landed on the front page.
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