After exploring the IMAX system further and discovering that the IMAX Corporation was using their proprietary re-mastering process, Deakins had further tests made without the process and found that "the images looked spectacular on the big IMAX screen", quelling his doubts about the format.
At Continental, my first big mistake was hiring someone to do non-technical data tasks on proprietary software suites I had neither mastered nor fully understood.
Finally, for aspiring masters of the universe, D.D. Guttenplan checks out a one-year master of science course in proprietary trading, developed in part by Futex.
That's right, the bills go in the billfold, the coins go in the little coin purse, the billfold and the coin purse go back in the pocketbook — no, in a side pocket of the pocketbook, which seems to have a clasp whose design incorporates some proprietary technology that you haven't yet mastered.
The book, like today's drive, is a ride through Young's many obsessions, including model trains, cars like the one we were touring in and Pono, a proprietary digital musical system that can play full master recordings and will, he hopes, restore some of the denuded sonic quality to modern music.
An early, instinctive master of wide-screen filmmaking, Ray turns 20th Century Fox's proprietary CinemaScope process away from the spectacles and travelogues for which it was intended.
Of course, you could say these offerings are loss leaders, a way of getting potential customers in the door so that they can be sold on other classes, other types of trading, not to mention the potential profit in getting these would-be masters of the universe to use the school's proprietary trading systems.
"I love finding a great man's-style watch, with lots of features and a big dial it makes me feel like a master of the universe," says a trader at one Wall Street proprietary trading desk.
Instead, Jarvis marshals his own beliefs into a giddy portrayal of Google as the master of a brave new world where customers are in charge and openness trumps proprietary systems.
The former banker and author Satyajit Das, who has a new critical book about finance called "Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk" (FT Press), says that proprietary trading has simply moved over to market-making desks.
Formerly known as Shuffle Master, SHFL makes products like automatic card shufflers and roulette chip sorters, as well as proprietary table games and electronic gambling machines.
