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starman · Jan 14, 2003, 09:12 PM

Hi all,
I didn't realize it, but I had my Superbook on for 2 days. It's connected to an external monitor and kept closed. I opened the lid and pressed the power button to turn it on, and my monitor started coming back to life. The screen said "Do you wish to turn your computer off?", but just as the screen was coming into view, I saw this...animal running across the screen. Only Final Cut Pro and the Finder were running. Anyone know what this is??? No third party screen savers installed amd activation is set to "never".

Mike

Severed Hand of Skywalker · Jan 14, 2003, 09:14 PM

I think you need to get away from your XBOX for a while

King Bob On The Cob · Jan 14, 2003, 09:32 PM

It was final Cut Pro. A little known easter egg in there. It really is a cow (or hepher or some sort of hooved quadruped)

moki · Jan 14, 2003, 09:37 PM

Originally posted by starman:
Hi all,
I didn't realize it, but I had my Superbook on for 2 days. It's connected to an external monitor and kept closed. I opened the lid and pressed the power button to turn it on, and my monitor started coming back to life. The screen said "Do you wish to turn your computer off?", but just as the screen was coming into view, I saw this...animal running across the screen. Only Final Cut Pro and the Finder were running. Anyone know what this is??? No third party screen savers installed amd activation is set to "never".

Hey man... quit bogarting the blunt... pass it along...

bradoesch · Jan 14, 2003, 09:56 PM

Dang you! I've spent hours (actually only a few minutes, but hours is more effective) trying to invoke that easter egg, and you've done it by accident!! Ikes!!!

Brad

[APi]TheMan · Jan 14, 2003, 10:07 PM

Originally posted by King Bob On The Cob:
It was final Cut Pro. A little known easter egg in there. It really is a cow (or hepher or some sort of hooved quadruped)

Whoa, that is so l33t.

kvm_mkdb · Jan 15, 2003, 01:50 AM

Originally posted by starman:
I saw this...animal running across the screen. Only Final Cut Pro and the Finder were running. Anyone know what this is???

an ant ?

Cipher13 · Jan 15, 2003, 02:58 AM

It's Clarus, I think.

direktor · 04:51 AM

Nope, it's not Clarus...it's a yak

And the first time I saw it, way back in FCP 1.0.1, I thought I had gone crazy too. Haven't seen it in a long long time, though.

The story goes that when FCP was in development at Macromedia, a coder at one point got pissed, slammed his fist into his desk, and yelled "If we can't ship this thing by ____, we might as well all go herd yaks" The joke went from there.

And there you have it.

EDIT: I forgot, there's also a way to summon Bruce, but I'll let you and Google work that one out.

Rastar · Jan 15, 2003, 07:45 AM

I agree....
A: Hey man... quit bogarting the blunt... pass it along...
B: I think you need to get away from your XBOX for a while...
C: Don't ever open the lid again.

My Advice: Never shut the computer off.

LeeG · Jan 15, 2003, 07:53 AM

puff puff give...

sbjordal · Jan 15, 2003, 12:18 PM

Originally posted by LeeG:
puff puff give...

Dude, it's Puff Puff Pass!

edddeduck · Jan 15, 2003, 12:47 PM

I reccomend you all go out and rent Human Traffic. Howard Marks explains the rules very well.

Edwin

Peter · Jan 15, 2003, 01:32 PM

its an odd Easter Egg, its not features on eeggs.com - although the kill bill gates one is

awaspaas · Jan 15, 2003, 01:45 PM

awaspaas · Jan 15, 2003, 02:03 PM

Somebody who reads Japanese should check out this page: http://www.ii-okinawa.ne.jp/people/k3710/datrdm.html

Babelfish isn't really doing it justice.

Misanthrope · Jan 15, 2003, 02:56 PM

Originally posted by direktor:
Nope, it's not Clarus...it's a yak

And the first time I saw it, way back in FCP 1.0.1, I thought I had gone crazy too. Haven't seen it in a long long time, though.

The story goes that when FCP was in development at Macromedia, a coder at one point got pissed, slammed his fist into his desk, and yelled "If we can't ship this thing by ____, we might as well all go herd yaks" The joke went from there.

And there you have it.

EDIT: I forgot, there's also a way to summon Bruce, but I'll let you and Google work that one out.

FCP in development at Macromedia?

Wha?

sandsl · Jan 15, 2003, 03:18 PM

I think Apple bought Final Cut Pro (or atleast the technology) from Macromedia.

eggman · Jan 15, 2003, 09:01 PM

In a former life I was a software architect at Macromedia, and shortly after I started working there they hired Randy Ubillos, the senior engineer on Adobe Premiere, away from Adobe.

He was given the task of building a "Premiere killer" and had a team working away at it for several years.

They were still working away at it when the technology (and much of the team, I presume) was sold to Apple... where it became Final Cut Pro.

I suspect the "If we can't ship this puppy by then" refers to a date that was missed. <grin>

Axo1ot1 · Jan 15, 2003, 10:44 PM

I know the guy who was the project manager for FCP 1 at macromedia and 2 at apple. I'll give him a call and ask him about it. This is interesting stuff!

Chaaaosss · Jan 15, 2003, 11:30 PM

Yes, his full name is Bruce the Wonder Yak.

Severed Hand of Skywalker · Jan 15, 2003, 11:42 PM

Originally posted by Axo1ot1:
I know the guy who was the project manager for FCP 1 at macromedia and 2 at apple. I'll give him a call and ask him about it. This is interesting stuff!

Save yourself the call. It is common knowledge that Apple bought FCP from Macromedia back in 1997/98 and took a year to clean it up and improve the UI.

awaspaas · Jan 16, 2003, 03:19 AM

Now, if we could only figure out how to summon the yak...

Xeo · Jan 16, 2003, 03:22 AM

http://www.gac.edu/~jwangen/fcpyak.mov

issa · Jan 16, 2003, 04:25 AM

Somebody who reads Japanese should check out this page: http://www.ii-okinawa.ne.jp/people/k3710/datrdm.html

Thanks for the link. I checked out the site and subsequent links. The short story is that the fellow who runs this site took the time and effort to record and transcribe some 76 phrases that Bruce utters in the respective versions of FCP. According to this page, there were 60 phrases in version 1.2.5, an additional 8 added to version 2.0.2, and another 8 added to version 3. Here they are:

01. I'm glad it's getting weird again. I didn't understand it when it wasn't weird.
02. The C switch statement: Mmmmmm! Chock full of nooses!
03. That would be like a crossing the streams or something.
04. I've got my blankie, I'm good to go. ( *1 )
05. A lot of this job is mental.

06. "Mostly clockwise , sometimes reverses..."
07. What's the sound of one luma clamping?( *1 )
08. Oh, rough and woeful music which we have! Cause it to sound!
09. Nobody might know anything.( *2 )
10. How do you tempt a Yak?

11. Chocolate covered espresso beans!
12. We're not the engineers you're looking for. Move along..., move along.( *3 )
13. The little cartoon man is messing with my head!
14. Speed kills, but sync maims.( *1 )
15. Twix bars; A brand-new bad habit!

16. Many Yaks were exploited during the creation of this product.
17. I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of nuclear weapons in this product.
18. I'm concerned because the cow sounded pretty threatening.
19. I am NOT a mad cow.( *2 )
20. I don't care who's on the other end of the phone... Hang it up!

21. Carrot and a footprint.
22. Where's a single Yak to go now that the Edit Bar is gone?
23. Aaargh, I forgot to pay the rent!
24. When you have a car that's that uncool, you just gotta drive stupid.
25. Did it happen with yesterday's umbrella?( *1 )

26. When can I do color correction by the pool?( *2 )
27. Are you filling his head with chocolate?
28. The lights going off midnight, it's almost the a step in the face...Hey, stupid, it's tomorrow.( *4 )
29. Yeah, that's covered under item #152.
30. I was probably the last one to see him alive.

31. All I want for Christmas is a stack trace!
32. Think PIKE!
33. What, were you expecting "Moo" or something?
34. This is not Yak Bite.( *2 )
35. Somehow I can't convince myself that this isn't all just one big hack.

36. At least Spock had stone knives and bear skins!( *1 )
37. Ok... who's job is it to write the Flush Wizard?
38. Controlled evil is not necessarily bad.
39. Pinky, are you thinking what I'm thinking? I think so, Brain...but can you do that with a Yak?( *4 )
40. It's like a gob of peanut butter for the roof of your brain.( *2 )

41. Savor the unbridled complexity that we've crafted for you.
42. Look, there's no such things as a "Clacker"!
43. Don't panick - everything is under control. There is no fire. Have a great day.
44. Get rid of the spasmic "U".( *2 )
45. That's my fault originally, but many others are to blame since.( *1 )

46. There were many lessons learned during the early years.
47. That movie had plot holes big enough to drive whole other movies through!
48. Please refrain from sucking.
49. I'm highly in favor of putting in code to do stuff.
50. Wrong thinking will be punished. Right thinking will be as quickly rewarded.

51. All right, Who replaced the Oscillation Over Thruster with an AutoSyncDetector?
52. Will, you're scaring the children.
53. Didn't this used to be purple?
54. Remember-- thingies are free!
55. ...and so forth and so on...

56. Oops, It works!( *1 )
57. Free drink? That just cost me $200!( *1 )
58. Don't lick your zipper.
59. Kinda cool; kind of a hack. Like so much of this business.
60. Salad is a lot of work!( *2 )

61. Thirty quatloos says it crashes during launch!
62. Check your Caps Lock Key.
63. ...by an expert. Worse, a committee of experts.
64. There's a disease going around in QA right now. Stay away from those guys.
65. Personally, I _like_ editing under a tree!( *2 )

66. We're going to leave the underwear in the tutorial.
67. OK, Nobody prints, Nobody gets hurt!
68. This is so lame it hurts.
69. She's speaking in tongues.
70. I was the innocent victim of a drive by coding.

71. It's all wired up... we just have to turn it on.
72. It's the international symbol for "Your zipper's open".
73. There exists, but you can't get there from here.
74. That's a little too non-virtual for this group.
75. You can call me Bruce the Wonder Yak.

76. If we can't ship this puppy by then, we might as well be herding yaks.

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*1 New to ver.2.0.2, not in ver.1.2.5
*2 New to ver.3, not in ver.2.0.2 or earlier versions
*3 The phrase "move along" is displayed only once and not repeated in ver.2.0.2 or earlier
*4 The order of phrases #30 and #41 are reversed in ver. 2.0.2