"You just aren't getting it are you? The Cray doesn't have any significant graphics capability. That is not what they were built for. They just offloaded the datasets on to another computer which actually made the pretty pictures you love so well. The Cray crunched the numbers and another machine actually made the images from those numbers."
Exactly, I couldn't agree more. Mostly because it's the truth, but that's beside the point. From what I remember, and this was years ago I saw that information about the Last Starfighter, the Cray was used to render everything. Now, since this wasn't a documentary about a computer but rather, one about a movie (which was very cool) they didn't add that the Cray was actually used to make the actual end product. Jeez man, don't fly off the handle next time. I realize that the Cray wasn't/isn't made for it's awesome graphics presentation capabilities, I was just commenting on a documentary. Don't play that "I know more than you" game, man. It's cool and all that you know about that stuff, but keep the spirit of information sharing alive and don't be elitist about it.
Since the first day I attended university, there have been--among other things--credit card tables set up in the student center using the tried and true tactic of giving out free t-shirts(hey, who don't like free t-shirts?!) to the passers by who sign away their soles on credit cards with hellacious intrest rates. I think it sucks, but what can you do. Ignoring it doesn't make it go away, that's for damn sure...
Now that I think about it, this really gives me the red ass. I thought I paid for student center usage as part of my fees for christsake(holden caulfield). It seems that the university is getting suplemental fees from these credit card whore booths. The more I think about it, this is worse than telemarketing because it is face to face.
"The first time I heard of Cray was from an old copy of ENTER Magazine (A off-shoot of 3-2-1 Contact). The article went into detail about how a cray was used to do some of the CG effects in the film "The Last Starfighter" (I think)."
I can definitely confirm this. I saw the exact thing on an old documentary. You've also just caused some serious dejavu right down to your user name... Must be a glitch in the matrix.
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"You just aren't getting it are you? The Cray doesn't have any significant graphics capability. That is not what they were built for. They just offloaded the datasets on to another computer which actually made the pretty pictures you love so well. The Cray crunched the numbers and another machine actually made the images from those numbers."
Exactly, I couldn't agree more. Mostly because it's the truth, but that's beside the point. From what I remember, and this was years ago I saw that information about the Last Starfighter, the Cray was used to render everything. Now, since this wasn't a documentary about a computer but rather, one about a movie (which was very cool) they didn't add that the Cray was actually used to make the actual end product. Jeez man, don't fly off the handle next time. I realize that the Cray wasn't/isn't made for it's awesome graphics presentation capabilities, I was just commenting on a documentary. Don't play that "I know more than you" game, man. It's cool and all that you know about that stuff, but keep the spirit of information sharing alive and don't be elitist about it.
"sign away their soles"
whoops... uh, not shoes... I meant souls as in eternal essence. Figuratively speaking of course.
Since the first day I attended university, there have been--among other things--credit card tables set up in the student center using the tried and true tactic of giving out free t-shirts(hey, who don't like free t-shirts?!) to the passers by who sign away their soles on credit cards with hellacious intrest rates. I think it sucks, but what can you do. Ignoring it doesn't make it go away, that's for damn sure...
Now that I think about it, this really gives me the red ass. I thought I paid for student center usage as part of my fees for christsake(holden caulfield). It seems that the university is getting suplemental fees from these credit card whore booths. The more I think about it, this is worse than telemarketing because it is face to face.
"which is better?"
I happen to like Mars better. It's not as hot...
"The first time I heard of Cray was from an old copy of ENTER Magazine (A off-shoot of 3-2-1 Contact). The article went into detail about how a cray was used to do some of the CG effects in the film "The Last Starfighter" (I think)."
I can definitely confirm this. I saw the exact thing on an old documentary. You've also just caused some serious dejavu right down to your user name... Must be a glitch in the matrix.