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Pixar Switches to Mac OS X and G5s
fmorgan writes "No big surprise here: when Apple introduced the G5 at 2003 WWDC, it become more a question of 'when' Pixar will move to G5s, than 'if'). At the same conference, Apple showed a new codec for Mac OS X named 'Pixlet,' developed with Pixar. In last year O'Reilly's Mac OS X conference, there was a presentation on how Pixar moved their desktop/office environment to Mac OS X. Now it seems it's the main production work: 'Apple's Don Peebeles said that Pixar has used Linux and Intel-based architecture in 2003, but that Pixar was switching to Mac OS X and G5 workstations for its production work: Peebles went on to say that this switch was "a move that no doubt made common CEO Steve Jobs very happy."'"
was CEO of Disney and switched Disney to Windows (stricly on merits mind you), people would be screaming bloody murder.
Oh wait...
I'm sure this, in fact, does make Steve Jobs the happiest man in the world right now. Almost as happy as Bill Gates when Hotmail switched to WinServer and died for a few days.
-EB
Do you ever walk alone like a drifter in the dark?
Apple in the movie industry? I've never seen an Apple computer in a movie...
Back at apple headquarters, "Steve your commission for the sale of these workstations to Pixar is the use of your airplane for another year."
Cue the sound of much cheering from the peanut gallery.
Degaussing scares the bad magnetism out of the monitor and fills it with good karma.
Jobs buys 500 G5's for Pixar
The next week, Apple comes out and lowers all the prices $300 and doubles the RAM and HD space, and includes iPods with every purchase.
Now, is Pixar going to end every movie with a shitty gif of a spinning Apple logo that says "Made on a Mac" ?
"Things are more moderner than before- bigger, and yet smaller- it's computers-- San Dimas High School football RULES!"
What I'd like to run is the XGrid Pixar plugin, to donate my dual 2GHz G5's night-time spare cpu cycles to producing the next Pixar movie. That would be cool.
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Can you see the list of credits? "Also thanks to 24.35.100.153, 10.1.5.18,
The most important question that hasn't been asked yet: Will Debian continue to use Pixar characters as the names of their releases?
I mean really.
c'mon.
Yeah...
Holy crap! You mean I bought a workstation? Damnit! All I wanted was a desktop computer!
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
Why select a slower, more expensive platform and take on the cost of porting one's in-house software to yet another platform, when multi-processor AMD-64 chips running GNU/Linux are a dime a dozen?
Here's my dime...need my shipping address?
Actually, I thought most enterprises used Majel Barrett.
They are probably waiting until they get to 100,000 UNIQUE stories
I think they are calling it Pixar@home
Reconstruct? I'd be more interested in modifying it. Just a brief glimpse of Jar-Jar Binks being savaged by the Toy Story cast would be worth it.
---If you can't trust a nerd, who can you trust?
apt-get install sarcasm-1.1
The page talks about all of the things Apple has stolen from the open source community while still remaining closed source. If OS X is committed to the open source model then point me to the download for OS X source code, or the x86 port of OS X. Perhaps I missed the part in the OS X Eula where it gave me permission to download, install, modify and redistribute OS X free of charge. Apple takes a lot from OSS without giving a lot in return. If OS X was open source Microsoft would have been out of business a long time ago. Apple, just like Microsoft wants to be the evil monopolistic overlord of choice.
Everyone's focusing on Macs being so much more expensive than PC's, but missing the most important think of all, how are the going to make movies with just one mouse button ?!
...' statements covered ...
I think thats both of the 'I hate Mac's because
It will be a glorious, shiny Apple logo rotating though Calabi-Yau space, and the mere act of watching it will give you inner peace, deep insight, and three orgasms.
--- Ban humanity.
I'm sitting here looking at my great linux box on the left, thinking "Uh, oh; a major linux user is switching over to OSX." Then I look at the very nice Powerbook on my right, and think "Hey, great; a major linux user is switching to OSX."
I'm so confused. Which side am i supposed to root for?
I wonder if I could get a 17" Powerbook with linux and drivers for everything? With the translucent apple on the cover replaced with a translucent Tux? It'd be fun to compare them side by side. And tell the partisans of both what they could be doing better.
Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
I bet if you searched the Internet long enough, you could find an erotic fanfic detailing this very situation.
Never underestimate the depths of human perversity.
I hear UVa students wear T-Shirts that say "Friends don't let friends go to Virginia Tech".
"Also thanks to 24.35.100.153"
That's *my* IP, you insensitive clod!
That's OK. We hate you too.
I predict that the 17.x.x.x IPs will have a strong supporting role.
Don Negro
Perl 6 will give you the big knob. -- Larry Wall
Jobs hands off? Are we talking about the same person?
Obviously you've been paying attention to the villains.
;)
They usually have some crappy Dell...
Does that mean I can get an Oscar for Best Supporting IP Address? They have oscars for everything else.
In Soviet Russia the insensitive clod is YOU!