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An anonymous reader writes "Shots of Linux being used in movie production including Star Wars, Scooby-Doo, Collateral Damage, and other films. The Linux Movies Group is an open group advancing Linux motion picture technology, founded by Robin Rowe who leads the Film Gimp project."
Don't get me wrong... but "incredible!"?
I think that the "rah rah" club for Linux needs to get over their "underdog" status.
Linux might not be Windows (concerning market saturation), but it's not a joke, or a temporary thing. Yeah, I'm jaded and cynical for not being excited when I hear that the Girl Scouts used Linux to host their cookie sales website, but let's get real... Linux is more than good enough for use in business production and nobody should be surprised when anyone in the mainstream figures this out.
You want me to get excited about someone using Linux? Get Asia Carrera to host her website with Linux...
Otherwise let's get over the "Gee willikers Mr. Peabody, someone else is a nerd too!" response and get to the "It's about damn time these idiots saw a good thing for what it is!" response.
(Sorry if I sound offensive nathana, it's cool and all, but sheesh)
Grimwell - old, cranky, mean, obsessive
ingram% telnet www.asiacarrera.com 80
Trying 209.163.238.131...
Connected to asiacarrera.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 02:32:47 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.19 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) PHP/4.0.4pl1 mod_perl/1.21 FrontPage/4.0.4.3
Last-Modified: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 01:59:58 GMT
ETag: "50013-1cc7-3e139d1e"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 7367
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
Connection closed by foreign host.
You may be missing the humor inherent in the original poster's comment:
I don't know what amazes me more; the fact that Linux is being used by professional artists to create blockbuster films... or the fact that application developers are still using Tk!
Tk is a graphics toolkit. It's also a suck-ass graphics toolkit, and it's also impossible to separate from a suck-ass language called TCL (pronounced "tickle"); you can get Tk bindings for perl, python, etc., etc. but it still requires TCL. TCL/Tk is so suck-ass that I find it hard to believe that someone would actually consider using it for a new project - thus, it's incredible.
In all fairness, TCL/Tk was the only GUI scripting environment for Unix many years ago. Back in the day, your choices for X11 GUI toolkits were TCL/Tk (suck-ass), Motif (costs $$), Athena (looks nasty, confusing semantics), or DIY with Xlib (which isn't as hard as it sounds, but takes time). Nowadays we have really nice toolkits like Qt and wxWindows (and GTK for those who refuse to program in C++), but the pyhon and perl people still consider Tk the "canonical" toolkit for their languages. Really a pity, since wxPython is much nicer RAD environment.