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New Wallace and Gromit Shorts

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stuff-to-get dept.

disco_stu00 writes "Aardman Animations has produced 10 new one-minute Wallace and Gromit shorts entitled Cracking Contraptions in preparation and training for the upcoming feature length film. BBC News has the first short available for download."

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  1. Not Linux compatible by fruey · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    So many content providers using custom consoles that don't work in Linux. It's a shame. Just like those that only stream in Windows Media.

    But what gets me here is that it is Real Player content, and Real One is available for Linux, but they add a console and bang! it won't work in Linux :(

    I made the switch to Linux a long time ago as my main desktop OS, and I can say that the main thing I go back to Windows for is for streamed content. Not because Linux doesn't support it, but because there is too much obfuscation on the part of streaming providers, they virtually want you to be running Windows XP with the latest media player in order to let you see their content. I can handle Office files, I can handle any email you throw at me, I can do VPN and SSL and all that, I can even get reasonable HTML rendering with Opera or Mozilla, but why no sensible Real Player content available? Why oh why is there always loads of javascript bullshit?

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    1. Re:Not Linux compatible by clemens · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Are you sure it's Real movie? I clicked on the link, and it launches a console of Quicktime on my WinXP box (Only XP box in my office, dude). Maybe someone could clarify on this?

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    2. Re:Not Linux compatible by edrugtrader · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      DRM by Obscurity???

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  2. Re:Not Linux compatible (Split: Design Moan) by mong · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm a designer/developer. I make sure that everything works fine in IE5, and is acceptable over 56k. THEN I start trying to ensure it works at least "okay" in other browsers.

    Don't tar us all with the same brush! I avoid PDF as much as possible, and all of my Flash is compact and efficent.

    So there :-P

    (I do get angry with "Designers who design sites to impress other designers with fast machines and phat pipes")

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  3. Re:NO CGI! by JordanH · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Heh. At first I was wondering what the Common Gateway Interface had to do with this.

    Then I remembered.