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Weta Digital's Render Farm Upgrade
Headspace2 writes "Weta Digital (The graphics company behing LOtR computer effects) has just purchased 220 2.2GHz dual Xenon machines, each with 4GB of ram, to add to their current render wall of 350 1 Ghz P3 systems. They have also placed an order for another 256 Xenon servers. And it's all running Linux. My favorite
quote is 'it is thought the server farm will be the most powerful processing site in the Southern Hemisphere'. They should use that in the FotR ad campaign... 'Rendered using the most powerful processing site in the southern hemisphere' Congrats the guys that get to play with all those clock cycles.
Make more movies.
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A long, long time ago I can still remember How the trollers used to make me smile And I knew if I had to boast That I could try to get first post And maybe I'd be happy for a while But moderators made me shiver With every minus they'd deliver DoS scripts couldn't stop it They scored them all "Offtopic" I know that it's cheap crack they smoke And meta-moderation's broke At first I thought it was a joke The day that trolltalk died
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Bye, bye, MEEPTy, OOG, and Grits guy Drove the Cruiser like some loser who starts posts with a *sigh*
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Bought my Sony laptop working Pizza Hut The day that trolltalk died
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10 grams. Inchfan. Didn't log out. Goddamn The mods will find the sid real soon, man
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Oh and then we were wearing out "All your base" And started posting monospace
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- posted by poopbot: because we're all crapflooders at heart
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Really! He does
For those of us who learnt language from books instead of from listening to TV, it *is*. As another poster said, it's as painful as listening to out of tune music.
My head damn near exploded reading that blurb there were so many grammatical errors. Do the Slashdot editors not have a grammar checker they could make use of? I say we start a fundraiser of some sort.
I know this is offtopic...but probably close to the heart of many /. readers
why can't I see the value of my Karma any more? The number has been replaced with a descriptive word.
Does your Karma show up as a number still?
If you're about to mod me down, re-read what I said. I don't post garbage here.
Funny, I've never seen you post anything other than garbage.
I doubt it. My karma's 'excellent'.
It's bad enough that the Slashtards can't write with basic competence in their native language, but when they screw up common terminology in their own field of endeavor, it is especially embarrassing.
Civilization is a thin veneer, why surrender to barbarism?
There's a show on FOX called "American Idol", the long and short of it is that they hope to create a "pop superstar" ala NSync or whatever. The voting for this show is done by the public via telephone. Please call this toll-free number 1 (866) 436-5707 to vote for the most retarded of all the contestants just to undermine the results of this show. Must call within the next 2 hours. Pass it on!
The editors are there to choose which stories go up. Think about their job for a sec: 'Read a bunch of story submissions and pick one that's interesting.' The FAQ basically says that they want to get the stories up quickly, not that every story goes up pristine and perfect.
I can imagine that going through all the stories in the submission queue is mind-numbing at best. Having to correct grammar and spelling etc is not going to make that any more fun. Besides, that's what the comments section is for.
They say they have a copy editor that works on the spelling/grammar etc. Actually, that does shine an interesting light on this topic though, doesn't it? How much you wanna bet their spell checker mistook 'XEON' for 'XENON'?
You might need that one from swordfish.
Geek MPAA movies (eg LOTR): good
Linux: good
Using Linux to further the MPAA: good
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one Xenon is bad spelling....
two is gross negligence on the part of the editors.
Live today. Tomorrow will cost a lot more!
sorry, couldn't resist
Live today. Tomorrow will cost a lot more!
I hate the Romans already!
That was classic intercourse!
Slashdot's so funny,
"Down with the MPAA, movie makers are the bad guys" in one article then,
"Go movie makers! Using lots of Linux, yipee"