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Linux Based HD DDR used on Starship Troopers 2

Psinatmium writes "LinuxDevices is currently running a story about a Linux based, uncompressed high definition video DDR/Editor that I have been working on called RaveHD. The article also goes on to talk a little about how it was used at Tippett Studio in the upcoming feature "Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation"."

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  1. DDR? by DougMackensie · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dance Dance Revolution.

    interesting Linux development!

    1. Re:DDR? by axis-techno-geek · · Score: 2, Funny
      Double Data Rate

      We got to move this fast before the public realizes it crap!

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  2. warm front? by AsimovBesterClarke · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nope, just the heat from Heinlein spinning in his grave again

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  3. Re:What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    We cannot ill afford another Kandathu.

  4. i'm so confused by XO · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm lost.

    What does Dance Dance Revolution have to do with Starship Troopers 2?

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    1. Re: i'm so confused by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny


      > What does Dance Dance Revolution have to do with Starship Troopers 2?

      They decided that 2 hours of DDR webcam would be more interesting than the first movie, so that's what they're going to release as the sequel.

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  5. The most versatile OS in the world by roystgnr · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why, Linux can be used for everything from palmtops to pissing on Heinlein's grave!

  6. Re: Oh no, not a sequel! by Black+Parrot · · Score: 2, Funny


    > Hence the brilliant satire that is Starship Troopers.

    Satire, maybe... brilliant, no.

    You can't make suckage go away by labeling it "satire" any more than you can by labeling it "prequel".

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  7. Re: hyped hdtv by Black+Parrot · · Score: 2, Funny


    > guess what ? you can't polish a turd

    Actually you can, but it's still a turd when you're done.

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  8. Re:Starship Troopers *2*!?!?! by m1chael · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah because the following titles were taken:

    * Apocalypse Now.
    * Judgement Day
    * Jesus does Jerusalem.

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  9. Re: Starship Troopers *2*!?!?! by Black+Parrot · · Score: 2, Funny


    > No, broken will be the inevitable sequel. *No* movie makes that kind of money without a sequel. The way I see it, we have about a year and a half before "THE PASSION 2: DAWN OF THE DEAD."

    More likely Jesus II: Walking Tall .

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  10. Re: hyped hdtv by Mr.+Roadkill · · Score: 2, Funny
    > guess what ? you can't polish a turd

    Actually you can, but it's still a turd when you're done.

    I guess that means you've used Windows XP...

  11. Re:Oh no, not a sequel! by Ralph+Wiggam · · Score: 2, Funny

    The only cool part about the book was the mech suits that the mobile infantry wore. I have no idea why the film left them out. Instead they show a bunch of retards fighting with futuristic weapons and using World War One tactics. I spent most of the hour and a half yelling "Spread Out!" at the screen.

    -B

  12. Re:Oh no, not a sequel! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny



    For more convincing Heinlein, I suggest "Stranger in a strange land" or "The Moon is a harsh mistress" (They should film THAT one! Throwing rocks from the moon to Earth would be, well spectacular!) or "The number of the beast".

    ... or you can just listen to Iron Maiden

  13. Re:Oh no, not a sequel! by anopres · · Score: 2, Funny

    Aww, come on. What good is having a war if you can't have snappy one-liners.

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  14. Re:tv movie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Check out the trailer... "The bugs are back. And this time its 'different'" Damn, what a tag line. I wish I were that clever.

  15. Re:Appearently.... by Destoo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey! Modern Vampires was good!

    Plus he gets to play with Udo Kier.
    That's a plus.

    I'm still shocked by the DDR thing.
    "What? Dance Dance Revolution on Unix? Why would they play that in Starship Trooper 2?"

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  16. More widespread effects... by TheOldBear · · Score: 5, Funny

    Since R.A.H. was buried at sea, the results of him spinning in his grave effect the angular momentum of the Earth, and can be directly measured by changes in the length of the day and year. Since the original movie was perpetrated, the standards bodies have not needed to add any 'leap seconds' - indicating that the system has gained angular momentum from some external influence.

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  17. Re:What? by alcmaeon · · Score: 3, Funny
    LOL, "awesome movie." You kill me.

    Two-dimensional characters played by wooden actor-props fighting CGI bug-alien-things and all done with about as much plot as Doom I: yeah, that deserves a sequel if anything does.

    At least with a video game I get to control the lame-assed character with the gun.

  18. Snore.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Snore....

    Linux digital disk recorder...
    Linux steels Protools GUI
    Linux Steels Photo Shop GUI
    Linux toothbrush
    Linux toaster
    Linux on a dead ferret
    Linux on a mutant ninja turtle

    When will the narcissism end?

  19. Re:Oh no, not a sequel! by Oligonicella · · Score: 2, Funny

    "I have not read the book"

    "My view of the book"

    "I'll still read it and then I'll judge."

    You see no contradiction here?