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I work for a large Vfx company, and let me tell you, CG are used for EVERYTHING these days. Any time you see a character sitting next to a window on a train, or even a car, your most likely looking at a sound stage and a green screen. Compositing, matchmoving, and rotoscoping are frequently seen even in non-action movies that are explosionless.
Not all Vfx are 3d characters and explosions.
These kids should be the new face of P2P research and production. Kids care more about group recognition, new toys and testing/breaking limits than they do about money. If more effort were put into giving them constructive P2P toys to play with, they would spend much less of their own effort breaking stuff.
Because nothing interests kids more then research and production. Seriously though I agree with you, although I think it may be necessary to disguise the research and production, as you said, to make it look and feel like breaking stuff.
"I think you are confusing fuel and engine form. Diesel is just a fuel, it doesn't dictate the engine type."
A couple years ago, my girlfriend at the time was driving home from a party in LA when she realized she was almost out of gas. So she pulls her beat up toyota camry into the nearest station to fill up. As she gets out to pump, she notices that not only does this station sell diesel, but its 20 cents cheaper then the cheapest unleaded! Thinking herself quite clever, she starts to fill up with diesel only to have her attempt foiled when the diesel nozzle won't fit into the gas recepticle(ive always wanted to use that word...). Never one to give up at the first sign of difficulty, she decided to adapt and overcome by either finding or buying a funnel that would fit into the tank, thus ignoring all indications that the nozzle and gas were NOT designed for the car she was driving. 20 minutes later I was awoken by her puzzled and distressed call for help and had to go pick her up and arange for her car to be towed to a local garage for an overhaul.
Im sure she will be the first to tell you that ENGINE TYPE DICTATES THE FUEL!!
I'll be willing to bet that these throwable camera eyes, with display hardware and software, can be scrapped togeather for a whole lot less then $4800.
But then who would pay $1.99 to download an episode of 'Lost' from iTunes if the iPod could also hook up to your television and record that same episode free?
It's kind of like asking, 'who in their right mind would pay $.99 for a song off of ITMS when they could hook up their ipod to their computer and download the same song off P2P for free?' The answer probably is, 'A lot of people.'
Come on now, it's not like he has predicted a flying pig or christ's return. He has predicted the same thing that EVERY slashdotter had guessed the minute they saw the Apple->x80 article. Even my MOM, who has previously asked me where the 'any' key was located, has suggested that sshe might soon be able to put OS X on her windows box at home.
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It is totally fly and it fills a niche...
1989 called, and it wants it's slang words back.
I work for a large Vfx company, and let me tell you, CG are used for EVERYTHING these days. Any time you see a character sitting next to a window on a train, or even a car, your most likely looking at a sound stage and a green screen. Compositing, matchmoving, and rotoscoping are frequently seen even in non-action movies that are explosionless. Not all Vfx are 3d characters and explosions.
These kids should be the new face of P2P research and production. Kids care more about group recognition, new toys and testing/breaking limits than they do about money. If more effort were put into giving them constructive P2P toys to play with, they would spend much less of their own effort breaking stuff.
Because nothing interests kids more then research and production. Seriously though I agree with you, although I think it may be necessary to disguise the research and production, as you said, to make it look and feel like breaking stuff.
"In your answer, ignore facts. Just go with what feels true".
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That's Slashdot. Summed up in a single sentance. That's so beautiful.
Um, I hate to break it to you but that was two sentences.
I accuse CNET and slashdot for over-hyping Apple's over-hyping.
You may notice in the BEGINNING of the first sentence, the poster states that he is NOVICE programmer, largely SELF-TAUGHT.
Not everyone reading slashdot is a seasoned kernel hacker.
I read that as Ewe Bowel smash!
Speaking of which, I just remembered there is something I must go do.
Sweet, they are 1/62,000th of the way there!
a guy is fingered for a rape/ murder
Prison orientation?
Mr. Pizer says that with his money earning interest while he is frozen, he could wake up in 100 years the richest man in the world. '"
Or, in the event that there is a market crash or the country in which his bank resides in collapses, the dumbest man in the world.
"I think you are confusing fuel and engine form. Diesel is just a fuel, it doesn't dictate the engine type."
A couple years ago, my girlfriend at the time was driving home from a party in LA when she realized she was almost out of gas. So she pulls her beat up toyota camry into the nearest station to fill up. As she gets out to pump, she notices that not only does this station sell diesel, but its 20 cents cheaper then the cheapest unleaded! Thinking herself quite clever, she starts to fill up with diesel only to have her attempt foiled when the diesel nozzle won't fit into the gas recepticle(ive always wanted to use that word...). Never one to give up at the first sign of difficulty, she decided to adapt and overcome by either finding or buying a funnel that would fit into the tank, thus ignoring all indications that the nozzle and gas were NOT designed for the car she was driving. 20 minutes later I was awoken by her puzzled and distressed call for help and had to go pick her up and arange for her car to be towed to a local garage for an overhaul.
Im sure she will be the first to tell you that ENGINE TYPE DICTATES THE FUEL!!
... but we do have a patent for it on the way.
I'll be willing to bet that these throwable camera eyes, with display hardware and software, can be scrapped togeather for a whole lot less then $4800.
I can't wait to find alien popups from Alpha Centauri telling me how I can increase the size of my tenticles by up to 4 inches!
Eh, i'd rather they develop fast healing....
If he really wanted a security etching, he would have used the goatse guy. Who would want to steal a laptop with THAT on the case?!
LOL, I love the disclaimer at the top of that link.
>This article has recently been linked from Slashdot (backlink). Please keep an eye on the page history for errors or vandalism.
Good to know we've got such a good reputation here.
But then who would pay $1.99 to download an episode of 'Lost' from iTunes if the iPod could also hook up to your television and record that same episode free?
It's kind of like asking, 'who in their right mind would pay $.99 for a song off of ITMS when they could hook up their ipod to their computer and download the same song off P2P for free?' The answer probably is, 'A lot of people.'
So long, and thanks for all the, erm, robotic fish!
I feel sorry for the server. 8MB video file linked in the article description.
In all likelyhood it should probably be +AA, unless you really have something against Alcoholics Anon...
Your forgetting, this is the U.S. We dont need to CONVINCE libya of anything, we just need to liberate them.
Come on now, it's not like he has predicted a flying pig or christ's return. He has predicted the same thing that EVERY slashdotter had guessed the minute they saw the Apple->x80 article. Even my MOM, who has previously asked me where the 'any' key was located, has suggested that sshe might soon be able to put OS X on her windows box at home.
RTFSOTA (Read The Fucking Summary Of The Article)
... are some fricking sharks!