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sushi writes: "Another LoTR article: this one focusing on the technology used at Weta Digital (the CG shop). Interesting that they are undertaking "major" R&D into running more Linux, and that Linux "delivers about two times the price performance compared to systems running proprietary operating systems". I've been lucky enough to have seen inside this place, and it's cool to see a render-wall of linux boxen. Full story
from a New Zealand newspaper." We linked to another good article about WETA a month ago.
heh....finally
this is for HD, you know who she is, dont ya!
This is not news. It's pr0n!!!!
Try out fish, the friendly interactive shell.
Chris Dibona è un omosessuale ammesso. Egualmente ha sesso con gli animali. Lui suo un ragazzo omosessuale! E mangia i bambini!
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I'm a mother fuckin' COW BABY
Vaffanapolis!
My wife threw out my porn collection, my dog ran away, and I caught my son reading slashdot. Help!
no shit. that term is the lamest of all the lame /-speak. when i see it i instantly think of a large bovine animal with big horns pulling a plow.
sux. swe2:aotc will rule.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
has a beer and cheats on his wife.
you were saying? no, please, go on. i find it fascinating.
I'd like a filter applied to all movies that makes niggers appear white, and also makes them behave like humans instead of monkeys. That's where the real advancements will be. Hell, I wouldn't even mind if they did it on that gay faggot operating system Linux.
They do it on a simple computer, so they don't have to worry about the technical crap and can concentrate on the aesthetic value.
.Net strategy - namely, pay per use. It costs $10 per computation, or 15 minutes, whichever comes first.
Anyway, here is the simplest computer around, and the interface is perfect because we are all born with it - the interface is human DRIVE. The computer works like this: I stick my pee sprout in your mom's poop chute for 1, and I stick it in her pee hole for 0.
poop chute = 1
pee hole = 0
Sometimes I stick it in her mouth, but that is for parity.
Sometimes complex operations can take a long time to complete, but that's okay! We're looking for simplicity here, not speed. And waiting for this interface isn't that bad.
This simple computer is very susceptable to visuses. In fact, it comes pre-loaded with several.
For review:
poop chute = 1
pee hole = 0
This computer also fits into Microsoft's
poop chute = 1
pee hole = 0
Weeelllll -
my cunt is a'drippin',
your lips are a'sippin',
my ass is a'crappin',
your mouth is a'lappin'
all that comes out of an oracifce
you eat for a main course-ifice
poop and pee, all a'yummy
Sitting proud inside your tummy!
Thank you, thank you very much. I'll be here all week. Tip your waitstaff.
this post is karma whoring -
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except for the sig
I'm serious. Why are you so small-minded and petty that you cry troll at the slightest provocation? I love Linux, love seeing it being adopted by IBM, the MPAA, Sony, and other big companies, but I'm also annoyed that it does all this flashy stuff while still not getting the basics right. I'm sorry if I offended you, but you need to grow up and be a little less closed-minded.
Here is my ass
Which you may kiss.
Take time and aim well
You don't want to miss.
For if you aim low
And your lips they do fall
Then you will find
You'll be sucking my balls.
If you aim high
Despite your true heart
Sucks to be you
Now you're eating my fart.
Thank you, you're too kind. I'll be in Vega next week. Please, tip your waitstaff.
Don't click those links! It looks like it uses some kind of exploit to put the goatse.cx man on your slashdot user page. It also takes your moderator points if you have any. MOD PARENT DOWN!
Two points, (Sorry for feeding the trolls)
First, who has the right approach, KDE or GNOME? Which system is better? If we don't know that it would be a mistake to devote all of our energy to one. Second, the kernel has no competition? What about BSD?
Spencer Ogden
And what have YOU, personally, done to help remedy this perceived problem, other than bring up this (oft repeated, and spurriously argued) point of view?
Opening a Word document is difficult, because it requires lots of reverse engineering, and many people do play Quake at roughly equal performance under Linux or Windows. XFree is popular because it is FREE, the others you mentioned are commercial (and with other advantages and disadvantages).
So, no, it really isn't all that interesting. It is a banal view point; if things aren't improving in your specific area quick enough for you, then do something about it (coding, guidance, money, bug fixing, bug reporting, whatever) It seems to me that YOU have the ego problem, expecting that everything should do exactly what you want.
Besides, you are WAY off topic.
"It's overkill, of course. But you can never have too much overkill." - Anonymous Slashdot Coward
I have my system dual booted with win2k and Mandrake. I use win2k over
mandrake 10 to 1. Main reason is I am a graphics, web page designer and
photographer. Linux doesn't have anything close to PhotoShop, Freehand,
Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, Golive, Imageready, Fireworks,
Pagemaker, Premiere and many many many many many many other productive
software. Have any of you ever heard of high end productive software. You
should give them a try sometime. Don't tell me GIMP is the same as
PhotoShop. As a designer I have used them both and GIMP can't even compete
with PhotoShop version 1. Since my system is dual booted the exact same
hardware is used. Linux boots slower and programs load much much slower. The
general response of Linux GUI KDE or Gnome is much slower then w2k. Even
though I use Linux much less it has crashed and froze far more then w2k by a
factor of 5 to 1. My favorite Linux program is X kill. Using Linux is like
stepping back in time 10 years with its worthless freeware that does
nothing. Only reason why people use Linux is because it is a religion. No a
cult fed by false myths. Here is a Linux prayer that the cult prays. Oh
mighty Linux. You are the savior and deliverer from the evils of Microsoft.
We suffer though incompatibilities and poor software that can't do a damn
thing just to escape the overblown myths of Microsoft's evils. Please O
Linux God keep us in the closet. Let no one know that our systems are duel
booted with Windows (not Windoze morons). We have to duel boot so we can do
something. Please forgive us O Linux god for this but we need windows so we
can be productive. We still worship Linux though. I pledge O Linux god that
I will spread false lies and rumors about how great Linux is. I will lie
that Linux never crashes. It is just as good and easy desktop to use and
that even grandma can use it. I will spread the false rumors that office
star is just as good as MS Office and the GIMP blows away PhotoShop. I
pledge my life to you O Linux god, amen.
Don't be. I am not a troll, and am well-fed besides. :-)
First, who has the right approach, KDE or GNOME? Which system is better? If we don't know that it would be a mistake to devote all of our energy to one.
Well it should have been obvious from day one that KDE was the better target. GNOME was a hastily-thrown-together mishmash of whatever GPL programs were available at the time, put out solely for the purpose of avoiding the "corrupting" influence of Qt (a point which is moot today) and destroying KDE. KDE was and is planned out; detailed release schedules are maintained and are met more often than not, because everything being done to the core KDE framework is well-planned in advance. Can you tell me, with any certainty, when the next version of GNOME will be thrown together, and what improvements the new version will bring? (I'm sorry for sounding trollish, but GNOME really is a mess. What were they thinking when they decided to do everything in C? Why do I need to install 34 different packages with extremely fragile version dependencies in order to get it running?)
Second, the kernel has no competition? What about BSD?
The *BSD developers make no pretensions of competing with Linux; their development focuses most on its strengths as a server, router and general network bit-pusher. If they were attempting to compete with Linux, you would see more work put in towards implementing 3D support, low-latency patches and other multimedia enhancements Linux has been making great strides in. The fact is, 200FPS in Quake is worthless on a server, and they don't try to compete in this arena. BSD and Linux complement each other, they don't compete.
Insight@Home be representin', yo! We be all up in dis biznatch, dawg! Dem honky mofos sho nuff doan cut off my ax-ess, W3RD!!!!
GIVE IT UP HOMESLICES!!! Can I get a WHAT! WHAT from all you @Home mofos up in dis bitch like pancakes?????
W3RD TO YO MOMMA!!!!