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Linux goes to Hollywood

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the something-to-read dept.

j2brown writes: " Yahoo! News has this little article about IBM taking Linux to Hollywood. " It's not a very in-depth article, but it is interesting that Big Blue is saying that Hollywood will be moving their rendering stuffs to Linux in the next 12 to 18 months. Wonder how SGI feels about that.

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  1. job openings at square usa film company...... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Minimum of three years of network experience and experience with UNIX based systems (SGI, Linux, etc.)

  2. Re:when you get off your fat ass by greenrd · · Score: 0, Troll
    It's not a good idea to tell people to "write one yourself" when they already exist, now is it, mr. troll?

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  3. Linux goes to Hollywood? by 4n0nym0u$+C0w4rd · · Score: 4, Troll

    Hopefully it won't end up like 90% of the people who go down that road, drugged-out, bimbo starlet doing softcore porn (and the director) to support it's escalating Coke addiction :)

    Who wants to bet they'll still manage to put out multi-billion dollar "master pieces"....generally with nice fancy roman numerals next to the title to exploit the success of a previous successful movie (Jurassic Park II or III), or based on a video game that never really had much of a plot (Streetfighter).

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  4. Author Stephen King, dead at 54 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll


    I just heard sad news on talk radio - Horror/fiction writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine house this morning. I'm sure we'll all miss him - even if you didn't read his books you've probably enjoyed one of his movies. Truly an American icon.

  5. fuck it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    yup I think so

  6. Re:SGI says this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Troll
    "Hi I'm an idiot..."

    Um the point SGI is making is that their software (ie. OS) doesn't suck. You can blather all you want about "CPU bound", "parallelization", "distribution", etc. but the fact is that IRIX is better than any OS OS where ncpus > 1 and much better where ncpus >> 2. They have lower latencies for many critical operations when dealing with RT tasks. They have larger I/O throughput.

    Of course you probably can't conceive of the fact that when you want to push a continuous 2 GB/s from a disk array you are going to run into more than just hardware bottlenecks. Weenie.

  7. Nope, I Don't Think So by egg+troll · · Score: -1, Troll
    The unfortunate side-effect of trying to produce OpenSource software is that its never as good as commercial software. The reason for this is simple: Are you going to work harder at something you do for free, or something you're getting paid big bucks to do?

    As a consequence, OpenSource software will always suck. I know that by going against the mainstream opinion on Slashdot, I'll be moderated down. After all, the truth hurts. Personally, I'd love it if MS went out of business because of Linux. Unfortunately, some Communist OS isn't going to put a dent in MS.

    Its time we all click our heels together and head back to Kansas, before we see Linus of Oz for what he really is (and before the Flying Monkey of Alan Cox comes after us!)

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  8. The plural of "stuff" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    is still "stuff" because it's already plural. Get it? Was your college mail-order by any chance?