Forgive me my ignorance... but what exactly do you mean, "make PCs look like toys"? What is it about VAXen that's so great? What do they *do*? Is it the hardware? Is it the OS? An amazing support department? What?
Oddly enough, our resident VAXtroll seems to have yet to post. One would think he'd have a great big rotating red klaxon above his bed to alert him when something VAX happened.
Revenge is certainly sweet -- bwa ha ha! Though I'm sure many mainframe installations will hold on to their refrigerators for years to come, the high-end server market is now totally Unix-derived.
The VAX promise: Obsolete early, obsolete often.
(Okay, it works better as a VAXman reference than as an actual phrase...)
They have a notice up saying that they're collecting royalty information.
I believe that about as much as I believe the "You must not access this MP3 3133+ FTP unless you're a 104-year-old lesbian dog named 'Bruce'" disclaimers.
As was stated above -- it's illegal to do a little copyright infringement, but if you're a Big Corporation, it seems to all be a-OK.
Does anyone *really* think they'll get royalties from this? Bah, they'll make their money, and the Jon Johansens (sp?) of the world will keep getting in trouble with the authorities...
I don't know about you. but this seems like a much greater-scale violation of the rights of more people than a potential copy-protection-bypass utility.
They're stealing people's work and selling it without their permission. And they're going to get away with it. I have no problem with the idea that theses should be made available, or that they can be sold, but these pirates (unlike the MP3 collectors who don't make a single dime off it ) are making a quick buck off of everyone else's work.
And who is able to stand outside of the monetary influences and say that the farmer should be allowed to modify his environment so that he can get more money?
What are you saying here? What do you mean, 'allowed'? If he owns his land, he should be able to sow salt on it or plant genetically modified SuperCrops, if he can sell them, whatever he pleases.
And how much will it cost you to have your baldness and impotence cured, and what will you do to get the money to pay for it?
Work. You know, that dirty word that you socialists can't stand?
What happens when the continent of Africa gets a few nuclear warheads and starts ransoming the planet for money (hey they are only applying some old tech).
Given that there's nothing to be gained from doing it -- anyone since 1970 or so could have grabbed a physics grad student or two, walked by the *bad* security at Los Alamos or wherever and picked up some plutonium, and made a suitcase bomb to blow up New York.
And the only reason the world hates us so much is because of all that stupid, misguided, metagovernmental meddling we do, propping up dictators that we like and pulling down elected democrats we don't.
We have shat all over our ecosystem and enslaved 3/4 of the planets population in poverty. Of course everything is going to be alright.
What's your solution? Think before you answer! Any 'agency', or 'law', or 'bureau' will be misused and abused to the greatest extent possible. The cure is nearly *always* worse than the disease. Oh, and don't forget that all of your precious protectors of the environment will be themselves exempt from these rules. And that your hated corporate Darth Vaders will make some select campaign contributions, and, in a shining example of free-market economics, buy themselves a Congressman.
'Enslaved'? All of those Nike employees are free to go starve in the streets if they like. Americans are free to have slightly less stylin' shoes. Forced by economic circumstance and forced by a gun to the head are quite different.
Next time, think before you post. Remember, think about what you want your solution *not* to do, as well as to do.
Yes, we have misery. But what is the solution? All the left seems to be able to offer can be summed up as "Robin Hood!", which looks good when Errol Flynn does it, but runs into certain problems in real life.
You need someone to do the stealing, and someone to do the distributing. And, of course, no one's perfect, so they must be supervises. And someone must, of course, Watch the Commisars, I mean Watchmen. And an gargantuan superstructure is built around society, demeaning and impoverishing everything it comes in contact with. Like welfare. Capitalism has its flaws, but any cure seems to be exponentially worse.
I *do* have issues with metagovernmental corporate entities meddling in the affairs and destinies of nations. Like the WTO. That's not free-market, that's boot-on-the-neck-of-the-market. Or with the government bailing out hedge funds. Part of the free market is the responsibility to sink instead of crying 'Help me! It's *your* responsibility!'. And I think Michael Milken should have been shot, or at least had to pay back those he ripped off.
Hmm... we manage to produce more food every year (most of it for the cows, I concede that), live longer and less sickly lives, and produce more wealth every year.
How?
It's the technology, stupid.
One farmer at the beginning of this century could feed about forty. One farmer now can feed ten times that many. What allowed this miraculous development? Technology! Fertilizers, improved equipment, better processing and distribution systems (though not to those ucky third-world folks, I concede) and the like.
And all in a closed system.
I'm confident that humanity can rise to whatever challenges it meets, as soon as they start affecting us rich straight white American folks. (I may not be rich, but I fit the rest pretty well.) Like impotence, and baldness.
Hmm, I was meaning to write a serious response, but I guess I got carried away. The irony -- too much!
And this is as it should be, the only way *I* can conceive of, the way it's been since one man established dominion over another. Politics, war -- it's all been done over money!
The Crusades were largely fought by second sons who wanted a piece of the familial pie.
The Civil War was fought over tariffs and other economic policies (no matter *what* they tell you in some watered-down 'history' class, it *wasn't* slavery).
The Cold War was fought for military-industrial dollars.
The Gulf War was fought for oil dollars (and something like twenty million personally as a little 'thank you' to George Senior from the Kuwait government, no paragon of freedom and non-repressiveness itself.)
Hell, World War II came on the heels of a *major* depression in Germany that left the nation starving and scrambling for a solution -- and a scapegoat.
Long before 'corporatism' became a lefty buzzword, people were killing each other over money. We still do it today, though we pretend we have other reasons. And it comes as a surprise that *universities*, which already receive scads of government funding, might not be so detached from the pernicious grasp of money?
Be still, my blathering Katz... I notice you still get paid for your work. And by a corporation, no less. I *might* give some credence to what you say... if only you'd put your money where your too, too big mouth is.
I know, I know, it's just BeerFree right now, but the render daemon is SpeechFree. And it's primarily for Linux. Damn skippy. Ton and the gang had themselves a booth and a demo reel, just like everyone else.
And besides, SIGGRAPH isn't primarily about games, it's about that high-end stuff they use in movies, commercials and 'Beast Wars.'
I thought they had those? I remember a demo called (something) Reality, which rocked my world back when I was, oh... twelve. Mmm. Basic DOS-based graphics, downloaded from a BBS at 500 bps. Whoa, I'm having nostalgia now.
http://ms.demo.org/ (a current demo scene with parties and all)
There! I *knew* there was a current scene. I know, it's not posted on slashdot, but it's out there if you look for it. (That was an av search for 'the demo scene'.)
This file is forbidden to spread, in some cases even forbidden to possess.
(PREAMBLE)
This file is neither a work of art nor a joke. This is a serious file, all its contents have been written for the purpose of creating chaos and disorder. This preamble is neither a work of art nor a joke.
(INSTIGATION)
... to criminal activity...
You shall make a bomb. You shall use it. Here is the receipt: mix 50% sugar with 50% saltpeter, put in a proper container; ignite. You shall make this bomb. You shall use it. You shall use it. It is good for you. The blast will make your day.
... to harassment...
After you have made this bomb, mail a letter to this bastard and tell him that he must die:
... to high treason...
Then use the bomb to kill the king of Sweden. Do not vote! Use the bomb! Do not vote! SEEK PLEASURE THROUGH VIOLENCE, SEIZE POLITICAL POWER WITH FORCE, THE FUTURE SHINES SO BRIGHT I GOTTA WEAR SHADES
(COPYRIGHT VIOLATION)
My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh my friends It gives a lovely light!
(DESINFORMATION)
1+1=3
(INDECENT LANGUAGE WITHOUT PROPER CAUSE)
shit piss fuck ass arse damn screw breast hell piss-christ dick cock cunt dumbass big-ass heck blast blazes gosh son-of-a-bitch prick pussy turd fart bastard sucker crap bananas schmuck crud twit twat
(CHILD PORNOGRAPHY)
"Oh, my sweet lover, what a wonderful night we had together. When the moon was a cold chisel dagger, we embraced each other and embarked on the journey into sexual pleasures; me, penetrating your rectum; you, being only (Depending upon sexual preference, put any number (in letters, you illiterate fool!) between one and fifteen here; Example: eleven) years old."
(TRADEMARK VIOLATION)
always the real thing always underground eXperts united
(VIOLATION OF THE FAHRENHEIT 451-CLAUSE)
The meaning of life is not only a complicated question. The answer, if there is any, would probably be even more complicated; so complicated that we would never be able to understand it.
(WRONG PROPAGANDA)
(X) is the superior political movement. It must prevail!
(Depending upon which political paranoia that is currently fashion among the masses and intellectual elite in your country, exchange the (X) with your favorite fringe political conspiracy. Examples: Marxism, nazism, anarchism or the republic of Plato.)
(SEXUAL HARASSMENT)
I love You.
(THE WORST POSSIBLE CRIME EVER FACED IN HUMAN HISTORY)
The 'old lady' in question suffered third-degree burns, and originally was laughed at by McDonald's when she came to them asking for money for her medical expenses, which had reached five figures by then. She only sued them because it was her only recourse, and the amount, like in nearly all tort cases, was reduced on appeal.
The whole *point* of our legal system is that we *can* do things like this. If someone bigger and stronger than us screws us over, we have recourse to the law, where we hopefully receive justice. I know that the system has flaws, but it's better than having nowhere to go for these things, and having all those corporate lawyers doing whatever else they're useful for... err, dealing crack? Pimping? (That's all I could think of...)
Think for yourself and do some damn research before you go parroting a year-and-a-half old story that's half urban legend.
Think about it -- it's widely considered the best hope for a full-featured open-source browser. NASA is widely considered (by non-slashdotters) to be the best hope for space travel in the near future.
Mozilla has had the vast majority of browser development time spent on it. (With the exception of Konqueror.) NASA was a monopoly until recently, and they're *certainly* the biggest name in the space field.
And, most importantly, Mozilla has taken a decently fast, efficent rendering engine, Gecko, and surrounded it with 'cool shit', AKA bloat, that would make a VBScriptKiddie ask "What were they thinking?" NASA has taken new technologies and an assload of money, and spent them all trying to cram 'cool shit' onto a previously working device, causing failure rates and cost overruns capable of making Joe Sixpack ask "What were they thinking?"
Every read 'Understanding Comics'? Scott McCloud show us a glass representing comics, empties the glass to symbolize the separation of form and content...
Just because the last dozen animated movies have sucked, does *not* mean that animation sucks.
This happens with so many movies... I hear about it, my hopes get inflated. Then cold, hard reality steps in and the movie turns out to be another suck-ass cookie-cutter pile. The number of movies I've been pleasantly surprised at, I can count on my fingers. (Usual Suspects, Pi, Fight Club.) Probably a few others. I'd say that no one can make a truly visionary movie in Hollywood, but two of those three were big-budget mainstream films. The problem is, creative vision is too often subsumed in 'we gotta sell this' or 'we gotta sell to this bunch'. Example: the *stupid fscking love subplot* in The Matrix. That was stapled on. No damned doubt about it. I can't stand being pandered to. The Matrix was *not* a love story! Ahem. And that's why they'll never make and animated 'Watchmen' with John Malkovich as Doctor Manhattan. It's too edgy, long (that's another thing -- movies should be up to eight hours long, with a possible intermission somewhere in there (I'm dead serious)) and even if it did become a movie, they'd tone it down and defang it. I would certainly never be able to redefine the genre. Fsck that. -grendel drago
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'Blair Witch Project 2' is being bandied around Hollywood. With a huge budget and big-name producer.
"Drawing on the success of last year's 'Mona Lisa', we've decided to capitalize on this momentum, and create a sequel: a painting that is also taller than it is wide!" (applause, thrown money.)
(My apologies to Leonardo.)
-grendel drago
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Actually overheard:
"Schindler's List sucked in black and white! It should have been in color!"
SoftImage|DS is a $150,000 editing studio that includes full cel-animation facilities. There's a program called ReTimer (NT/Irix only, I think) that does some kind of dense-field inbetweening that (in the ads) looks bloody *fantastic*. Most professional 3D programs (and even Blender has been able to do this from the get-go if you know how) include "ink 'n' paint" facilities to simulate 2D animation.
But we all want volumetric 3D 4-billion-polygon eyecandy. Which has its place, see www.finalfantasy.com.
Of course, I think that animation's problem lies in its content rather than method. If only they'd make, say, a Watchmen animated movie, with John Malkovich as Dr. Manhattan... mmm...
This is really, really ridiculous. Does Katz even *read* posts? If everyone on Slashdot hates him, since he hasn't come up with a new idea since Columbine made him a star, why is his Old Fartist ass still writing for us? We're the users! This system is here for *us*! Ban Katz! Make him get a real job! grendel drago
Bah! I'd only be less impressed if Jon used the word 'screenager'. First off, he's an Old Fart. But this doesn't stop him from being a Purveyor of Grandiose Yet Vague Predictions, no.
Hey Katz! My father was the one who got me interested in computers in the first place, when I was four. He'd been interested since 1972 or thereabouts, but, of course, he's on Old Fart.
Katz plays to the crowd so much, I feel vaguely... shafted. I want my five minutes back! For Bob's sake, Katz, next time you write an article, here's an idea: include some content! Got that?
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Forgive me my ignorance... but what exactly do you mean, "make PCs look like toys"? What is it about VAXen that's so great? What do they *do*? Is it the hardware? Is it the OS? An amazing support department? What?
-grendel drago
Oddly enough, our resident VAXtroll seems to have yet to post. One would think he'd have a great big rotating red klaxon above his bed to alert him when something VAX happened.
Revenge is certainly sweet -- bwa ha ha! Though I'm sure many mainframe installations will hold on to their refrigerators for years to come, the high-end server market is now totally Unix-derived.
The VAX promise: Obsolete early, obsolete often.
(Okay, it works better as a VAXman reference than as an actual phrase...)
-grendel drago
Do you really think that's the point?
They have a notice up saying that they're collecting royalty information.
I believe that about as much as I believe the "You must not access this MP3 3133+ FTP unless you're a 104-year-old lesbian dog named 'Bruce'" disclaimers.
As was stated above -- it's illegal to do a little copyright infringement, but if you're a Big Corporation, it seems to all be a-OK.
Does anyone *really* think they'll get royalties from this? Bah, they'll make their money, and the Jon Johansens (sp?) of the world will keep getting in trouble with the authorities...
I don't know about you. but this seems like a much greater-scale violation of the rights of more people than a potential copy-protection-bypass utility.
They're stealing people's work and selling it without their permission. And they're going to get away with it. I have no problem with the idea that theses should be made available, or that they can be sold, but these pirates (unlike the MP3 collectors who don't make a single dime off it ) are making a quick buck off of everyone else's work.
-grendel drago
And who is able to stand outside of the monetary influences and say that the farmer should be allowed to modify his environment so that he can get more money?
What are you saying here? What do you mean, 'allowed'? If he owns his land, he should be able to sow salt on it or plant genetically modified SuperCrops, if he can sell them, whatever he pleases.
And how much will it cost you to have your baldness and impotence cured, and what will you do to get the money to pay for it?
Work. You know, that dirty word that you socialists can't stand?
What happens when the continent of Africa gets a few nuclear warheads and starts ransoming the planet for money (hey they are only applying some old tech).
Given that there's nothing to be gained from doing it -- anyone since 1970 or so could have grabbed a physics grad student or two, walked by the *bad* security at Los Alamos or wherever and picked up some plutonium, and made a suitcase bomb to blow up New York.
And the only reason the world hates us so much is because of all that stupid, misguided, metagovernmental meddling we do, propping up dictators that we like and pulling down elected democrats we don't.
We have shat all over our ecosystem and enslaved 3/4 of the planets population in poverty. Of course everything is going to be alright.
What's your solution? Think before you answer! Any 'agency', or 'law', or 'bureau' will be misused and abused to the greatest extent possible. The cure is nearly *always* worse than the disease. Oh, and don't forget that all of your precious protectors of the environment will be themselves exempt from these rules. And that your hated corporate Darth Vaders will make some select campaign contributions, and, in a shining example of free-market economics, buy themselves a Congressman.
'Enslaved'? All of those Nike employees are free to go starve in the streets if they like. Americans are free to have slightly less stylin' shoes. Forced by economic circumstance and forced by a gun to the head are quite different.
Next time, think before you post. Remember, think about what you want your solution *not* to do, as well as to do.
-grendel drago
Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth.
Socialism is the equal distribution of poverty.
Yes, we have misery. But what is the solution? All the left seems to be able to offer can be summed up as "Robin Hood!", which looks good when Errol Flynn does it, but runs into certain problems in real life.
You need someone to do the stealing, and someone to do the distributing. And, of course, no one's perfect, so they must be supervises. And someone must, of course, Watch the Commisars, I mean Watchmen. And an gargantuan superstructure is built around society, demeaning and impoverishing everything it comes in contact with. Like welfare. Capitalism has its flaws, but any cure seems to be exponentially worse.
I *do* have issues with metagovernmental corporate entities meddling in the affairs and destinies of nations. Like the WTO. That's not free-market, that's boot-on-the-neck-of-the-market. Or with the government bailing out hedge funds. Part of the free market is the responsibility to sink instead of crying 'Help me! It's *your* responsibility!'. And I think Michael Milken should have been shot, or at least had to pay back those he ripped off.
But that's just my 0000 0010b cents.
-grendel drago
Hmm... we manage to produce more food every year (most of it for the cows, I concede that), live longer and less sickly lives, and produce more wealth every year.
How?
It's the technology, stupid.
One farmer at the beginning of this century could feed about forty. One farmer now can feed ten times that many. What allowed this miraculous development? Technology! Fertilizers, improved equipment, better processing and distribution systems (though not to those ucky third-world folks, I concede) and the like.
And all in a closed system.
I'm confident that humanity can rise to whatever challenges it meets, as soon as they start affecting us rich straight white American folks. (I may not be rich, but I fit the rest pretty well.) Like impotence, and baldness.
Hmm, I was meaning to write a serious response, but I guess I got carried away. The irony -- too much!
-grendel drago
And this is as it should be, the only way *I* can conceive of, the way it's been since one man established dominion over another. Politics, war -- it's all been done over money!
... if only you'd put your money where your too, too big mouth is.
The Crusades were largely fought by second sons who wanted a piece of the familial pie.
The Civil War was fought over tariffs and other economic policies (no matter *what* they tell you in some watered-down 'history' class, it *wasn't* slavery).
The Cold War was fought for military-industrial dollars.
The Gulf War was fought for oil dollars (and something like twenty million personally as a little 'thank you' to George Senior from the Kuwait government, no paragon of freedom and non-repressiveness itself.)
Hell, World War II came on the heels of a *major* depression in Germany that left the nation starving and scrambling for a solution -- and a scapegoat.
Long before 'corporatism' became a lefty buzzword, people were killing each other over money. We still do it today, though we pretend we have other reasons. And it comes as a surprise that *universities*, which already receive scads of government funding, might not be so detached from the pernicious grasp of money?
Be still, my blathering Katz... I notice you still get paid for your work. And by a corporation, no less. I *might* give some credence to what you say
-grendel drago
The majority of 3D under linux is done with Blender.
The majority of 3D under windows is not done with blender.
That's what I meant by 'primarily'.
-grendel drago
I know, I know, it's just BeerFree right now, but the render daemon is SpeechFree. And it's primarily for Linux. Damn skippy. Ton and the gang had themselves a booth and a demo reel, just like everyone else.
And besides, SIGGRAPH isn't primarily about games, it's about that high-end stuff they use in movies, commercials and 'Beast Wars.'
-grendel drago
I thought they had those? I remember a demo called (something) Reality, which rocked my world back when I was, oh... twelve. Mmm. Basic DOS-based graphics, downloaded from a BBS at 500 bps. Whoa, I'm having nostalgia now.
But really, I'm *sure* there are demo scenes:
http://www.df.lth.se/~cato/nostalgia.html
(classic Amiga demos)
http://ms.demo.org/
(a current demo scene with parties and all)
There! I *knew* there was a current scene. I know, it's not posted on slashdot, but it's out there if you look for it. (That was an av search for 'the demo scene'.)
-grendel drago
The GNN (DCS/uXu) has, some time back, gifted us with this:
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... to criminal activity...
... to harassment...
... to high treason...
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FORBIDDEN FILE
by THE GNN/DualCrew-Shining/uXu
This file is forbidden to spread, in
some cases even forbidden to possess.
(PREAMBLE)
This file is neither a work of art nor a joke. This is a serious file, all
its contents have been written for the purpose of creating chaos and
disorder. This preamble is neither a work of art nor a joke.
(INSTIGATION)
You shall make a bomb. You shall use it. Here is the receipt: mix 50%
sugar with 50% saltpeter, put in a proper container; ignite. You shall
make this bomb. You shall use it. You shall use it. It is good for you.
The blast will make your day.
After you have made this bomb, mail a letter to this bastard and tell
him that he must die:
Then use the bomb to kill the king of Sweden. Do not vote! Use the
bomb! Do not vote! SEEK PLEASURE THROUGH VIOLENCE, SEIZE POLITICAL POWER
WITH FORCE, THE FUTURE SHINES SO BRIGHT I GOTTA WEAR SHADES
(COPYRIGHT VIOLATION)
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh my friends
It gives a lovely light!
(DESINFORMATION)
1+1=3
(INDECENT LANGUAGE WITHOUT PROPER CAUSE)
shit piss fuck ass arse damn screw breast hell piss-christ dick cock cunt
dumbass big-ass heck blast blazes gosh son-of-a-bitch prick pussy turd
fart bastard sucker crap bananas schmuck crud twit twat
(CHILD PORNOGRAPHY)
"Oh, my sweet lover, what a wonderful night we had together. When the moon
was a cold chisel dagger, we embraced each other and embarked on the
journey into sexual pleasures; me, penetrating your rectum; you, being
only (Depending upon sexual preference, put any number (in letters, you
illiterate fool!) between one and fifteen here; Example: eleven) years
old."
(TRADEMARK VIOLATION)
always the real thing always underground eXperts united
(VIOLATION OF THE FAHRENHEIT 451-CLAUSE)
The meaning of life is not only a complicated question. The answer, if
there is any, would probably be even more complicated; so complicated that
we would never be able to understand it.
(WRONG PROPAGANDA)
(X) is the superior political movement. It must prevail!
(Depending upon which political paranoia that is currently fashion among
the masses and intellectual elite in your country, exchange the (X) with
your favorite fringe political conspiracy. Examples: Marxism, nazism,
anarchism or the republic of Plato.)
(SEXUAL HARASSMENT)
I love You.
(THE WORST POSSIBLE CRIME EVER FACED IN HUMAN HISTORY)
Spread this file.
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uXu #443 Underground eXperts United 1998 uXu #443
Call UNPHAMILIAR TERRITORY -> telnet upt.org
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Boy, I hope that worked.
-grendel drago
http://www.cypherspace.org/~adam/uk- shirt.html
http://www.cypherspace.org/~adam/uk-shirt.html if you're goatse.cx-phobic.
Never mind that dead link I just posted. This is the real thing, with an address and pricing. Sixteen bucks for t-shirt or XXL sweatshirt.
-grendel drago
http://www.obscura.com/~shirt
Spend away, my man.
-grendel drago
The 'old lady' in question suffered third-degree burns, and originally was laughed at by McDonald's when she came to them asking for money for her medical expenses, which had reached five figures by then. She only sued them because it was her only recourse, and the amount, like in nearly all tort cases, was reduced on appeal.
The whole *point* of our legal system is that we *can* do things like this. If someone bigger and stronger than us screws us over, we have recourse to the law, where we hopefully receive justice. I know that the system has flaws, but it's better than having nowhere to go for these things, and having all those corporate lawyers doing whatever else they're useful for... err, dealing crack? Pimping? (That's all I could think of...)
Think for yourself and do some damn research before you go parroting a year-and-a-half old story that's half urban legend.
-grendel drago
It's *just* *like* *NASA*!
Think about it -- it's widely considered the best hope for a full-featured open-source browser. NASA is widely considered (by non-slashdotters) to be the best hope for space travel in the near future.
Mozilla has had the vast majority of browser development time spent on it. (With the exception of Konqueror.) NASA was a monopoly until recently, and they're *certainly* the biggest name in the space field.
And, most importantly, Mozilla has taken a decently fast, efficent rendering engine, Gecko, and surrounded it with 'cool shit', AKA bloat, that would make a VBScriptKiddie ask "What were they thinking?" NASA has taken new technologies and an assload of money, and spent them all trying to cram 'cool shit' onto a previously working device, causing failure rates and cost overruns capable of making Joe Sixpack ask "What were they thinking?"
-Grendel Drago
Computer Generated Image(s).
Happy?
-grendel drago
Koreans. Forget the name of the studio, though.
-grendel drago
Every read 'Understanding Comics'? Scott McCloud show us a glass representing comics, empties the glass to symbolize the separation of form and content...
Just because the last dozen animated movies have sucked, does *not* mean that animation sucks.
-grendel drago
This happens with so many movies... I hear about it, my hopes get inflated. Then cold, hard reality steps in and the movie turns out to be another suck-ass cookie-cutter pile. The number of movies I've been pleasantly surprised at, I can count on my fingers. (Usual Suspects, Pi, Fight Club.) Probably a few others. I'd say that no one can make a truly visionary movie in Hollywood, but two of those three were big-budget mainstream films. The problem is, creative vision is too often subsumed in 'we gotta sell this' or 'we gotta sell to this bunch'. Example: the *stupid fscking love subplot* in The Matrix. That was stapled on. No damned doubt about it. I can't stand being pandered to. The Matrix was *not* a love story! Ahem. And that's why they'll never make and animated 'Watchmen' with John Malkovich as Doctor Manhattan. It's too edgy, long (that's another thing -- movies should be up to eight hours long, with a possible intermission somewhere in there (I'm dead serious)) and even if it did become a movie, they'd tone it down and defang it. I would certainly never be able to redefine the genre. Fsck that. -grendel drago
'Blair Witch Project 2' is being bandied around Hollywood. With a huge budget and big-name producer.
"Drawing on the success of last year's 'Mona Lisa', we've decided to capitalize on this momentum, and create a sequel: a painting that is also taller than it is wide!" (applause, thrown money.)
(My apologies to Leonardo.)
-grendel drago
Actually overheard:
"Schindler's List sucked in black and white! It should have been in color!"
I talked to him. He was dead serious.
Scary.
-grendel drago
Well...
SoftImage|DS is a $150,000 editing studio that includes full cel-animation facilities. There's a program called ReTimer (NT/Irix only, I think) that does some kind of dense-field inbetweening that (in the ads) looks bloody *fantastic*. Most professional 3D programs (and even Blender has been able to do this from the get-go if you know how) include "ink 'n' paint" facilities to simulate 2D animation.
But we all want volumetric 3D 4-billion-polygon eyecandy. Which has its place, see www.finalfantasy.com.
Of course, I think that animation's problem lies in its content rather than method. If only they'd make, say, a Watchmen animated movie, with John Malkovich as Dr. Manhattan... mmm...
-grendel drago
This is really, really ridiculous. Does Katz even *read* posts? If everyone on Slashdot hates him, since he hasn't come up with a new idea since Columbine made him a star, why is his Old Fartist ass still writing for us? We're the users! This system is here for *us*! Ban Katz! Make him get a real job! grendel drago
And beer-free, too. So Solaris may replace SCO instead of Linux doing it...
-grendel drago
Bah! I'd only be less impressed if Jon used the word 'screenager'. First off, he's an Old Fart. But this doesn't stop him from being a Purveyor of Grandiose Yet Vague Predictions, no.
Hey Katz! My father was the one who got me interested in computers in the first place, when I was four. He'd been interested since 1972 or thereabouts, but, of course, he's on Old Fart.
Katz plays to the crowd so much, I feel vaguely... shafted. I want my five minutes back! For Bob's sake, Katz, next time you write an article, here's an idea: include some content! Got that?