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New Wallace and Gromit Shorts
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."
crackling good shows, Aardman Animations...
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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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I award you an honorary +1 metamod bonus for being funny. I've already posted here you see. :-)
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You ain't seen nothing yet. When Palladium will run full-steam, you won't be able to download and watch offline the movies/trailers/shorts anymore.
Why is this 'interesting' and not off-topic. Oh yeha, cause it uses the 'L' word...
Slashdot policy not to post links to sites using closed standards, please ?
Moderators: Saying something is funny may on occasion be 'informative', but it is not particularly 'funny'.
I know! I'm actually wondering why on earth people have +1 my post? It's not funny... maybe "insightful", but then not by much!
Hohum...
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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.
:-P
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
(I do get angry with "Designers who design sites to impress other designers with fast machines and phat pipes")
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Remember: Nothing is Cool.
Please don't mistake this for a troll, I'm genuinely interested in the response to this question...
What would your dot-com have done if Microsoft had just switched to using something completely incompatible with the standards? Before the market settles one way or another, there would've been two competing camps: Microsoft's new standard which hadn't been accepted yet, or the real standard? I'm phrasing this badly, over and over again, but the question is, would you bet on the future of Microsoft's market share, or real standards?
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"Bother," said Pooh, "Eeyore, ready two photon torpedoes and lock phasers on the Heffalump. Piglet, meet me in transporter room three. Christopher Robin, you have the bridge."
Heh. At first I was wondering what the Common Gateway Interface had to do with this.
Then I remembered.
a buddy of mine had these like 5 months ago this is nothing new. im pretty sure he had it on dvd
Sure... Slashdot'll post a story about Wallace and Grommitt, but they've rejected every story I've ever submitted about Banana Chan... Yes, I like Wallace and Gromitt, but c'mon.