Not exactly what you are talking about, but last.fm has something that tells you if the artist you are listening to is on tour and provides show dates.
When i was in college in Savannah GA, we would scrape a penny perpendicular to the ground for a few seconds and flatten one side, then put it in the dime slot. It would give you maximum time on any meter in the city. Eventually we just got a pair of tin snips and cut hundreds of pennies and kept them in the car for parking.
Workstation cards typically have certain features enabled that their gaming counterparts do not. Some are just driver features, others are in silicon. Hardware overlay planes are a common example. This is required by some 3d applications like maya in order to display parts of the gui properly.
That's the best idea for success for Sony I've heard yet. I'm just not sure if their movie division would let that happen, since the whole reason the PS3 exists, in my opinion, is to advance blue-ray over HD-DVD.
BMW is the only car manufacturer that I know of that is able to put the track info on the dashboard. The Ipod integration found in most cars is nothing more than a 3.5mm input. This is true for all GM cars, I know this for a fact. I would hardly call that integration. And the zune can hook into that too, as well as any other mp3 player on the market.
They seem to always skimp on the video cards in their high end computers. I would have expected at least a quadro card for them to compete in the workstation segment.
If you cant see the difference between the original Xbox and the 360 then you need to look a little closer. Granted it's not the same leap as say a SNES to a N64, but it's pretty big one, especcially at HD res which is apparently what this whole next-gen is about.
Most pc cases with windows that I've seen have the hard drives mounted in such a way that the top of the drive is not even visible. It's usually in some sort of tray or area covered in metal. I'm sure there are cases out there with the drive facing the window, but there few and far between. Average joe who buys this drive wont even be able to see the moving parts, although the specs on the drive are reason enough. My 02 cents.
I went to Target in Burbank CA, at about 9:30 to pickup God of War, and they had about 20 PSPs. I went back after work, about 7:30 to pick up something I forgot, and I noticed one PSP gone from the display case. I asked the guy if they restocked the shelves, and he said no. But the weird thing was, the bestbuy two stores down was sold out. Maybe people didn't think to try Target. The way I see it, the PSP is going to be there tommorrow, the next day and next month, so I'm going to sit on it for a while and see how it plays out.
If they follow their current philosophy, they'll just buy out nintendo and call it their own. I can see the ads now. "iGame, the worlds first dvd-rom based game console"
It's also been around in the fcheck file viewer for maya for quite some time. Just rick click and draw on the frames. I haven't tried to save out the modified frames though.
And if you think that "the other side of the story" stands up, go make a documentary showing it (it's not as if you need a huge budget or a big crew). Again, for some reason no-one has...
Trust me, there are several documentaries in the works that tell "the other side of the story" This is a link to one of them. The other I'm not at liberty to talk about, but it will be out soon enough.
Explain to me why photoshop, illustrator and the like are better on the mac? Oh that's right, the blur filter is 10% faster. Come on, really, does a mac make you more creative? Can you produce more aesthically pleasing work on a mac? I think people need to get over the "mac is for the creative professional" bullsh*t. I've yet to hear any convincing reasons for this.
I work at a small post production facility in Hollywood. We have a render farm of 6 dual Xeon Win2000 Boxx rack machines as well as five dual Xeon Win2000 Boxx workstations that render in their spare time. We run Maya and After Effects and we use Smedge to handle the distributed rendering for both maya and AE and Mental Ray. We also have another Dual Xeon box running Server 2003 with a eight drive raid setup with two main partitions, one is raid 1 for the maya scenes and the AE projects and the other is raid 0 for the rendered frames and comps. We started with just two rack machines, but we add one or two every couple months when the budget permits. Our renders are sent to Smedge via a script that we run from an Interix csh. It greatly simplifies the process of sending out renders. Each project we work on has a script with the name of the project, or the shot, and when we're ready to render we run the script which parses the text file with all the parameters for the render such as frame range, render quality and so on. Some people don't care for Smedge to much, but it gets the job done, and works for most all 3d applications as well as most compositing apps.
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Am I the only one that didn't know you could sell things on Facebook?
Not exactly what you are talking about, but last.fm has something that tells you if the artist you are listening to is on tour and provides show dates.
Seems like you could just set a password and post it somewhere in a room that is not accessible to guests. Change the password every week.
I've got one of those vibrating "power" razors, and its actually one of the best razors i've ever used, too bad the damn blades are 17 dollars a box.
I name my home machines after baked goods. Cupcake, Donut, etc.
When i was in college in Savannah GA, we would scrape a penny perpendicular to the ground for a few seconds and flatten one side, then put it in the dime slot. It would give you maximum time on any meter in the city. Eventually we just got a pair of tin snips and cut hundreds of pennies and kept them in the car for parking.
crazybump does an excellent job of this already. we've been using it since early beta at the studio. http://www.crazybump.com/
One of the main additions the quadro cards provide are hardware overlay planes which maya requires to draw certain gui elements
SCUMMVM would be awesome on the wii. Monkey Island anyone?
I'm not too sure about 3DS Max, but I know in Maya a Quadro 5700 would blow the 8800 GTS away. We have some at the studio and their ridiculously fast.
Workstation cards typically have certain features enabled that their gaming counterparts do not. Some are just driver features, others are in silicon. Hardware overlay planes are a common example. This is required by some 3d applications like maya in order to display parts of the gui properly.
I would imaging that is because 95% of the tourism dollar go to Myrtle Beach?
That's the best idea for success for Sony I've heard yet. I'm just not sure if their movie division would let that happen, since the whole reason the PS3 exists, in my opinion, is to advance blue-ray over HD-DVD.
BMW is the only car manufacturer that I know of that is able to put the track info on the dashboard. The Ipod integration found in most cars is nothing more than a 3.5mm input. This is true for all GM cars, I know this for a fact. I would hardly call that integration. And the zune can hook into that too, as well as any other mp3 player on the market.
They seem to always skimp on the video cards in their high end computers. I would have expected at least a quadro card for them to compete in the workstation segment.
If you cant see the difference between the original Xbox and the 360 then you need to look a little closer. Granted it's not the same leap as say a SNES to a N64, but it's pretty big one, especcially at HD res which is apparently what this whole next-gen is about.
Most pc cases with windows that I've seen have the hard drives mounted in such a way that the top of the drive is not even visible. It's usually in some sort of tray or area covered in metal. I'm sure there are cases out there with the drive facing the window, but there few and far between. Average joe who buys this drive wont even be able to see the moving parts, although the specs on the drive are reason enough. My 02 cents.
I can see a dual-core being useful for someone who does on-site video editing. Avid Express Pro is very processor intensive.
I went to Target in Burbank CA, at about 9:30 to pickup God of War, and they had about 20 PSPs. I went back after work, about 7:30 to pick up something I forgot, and I noticed one PSP gone from the display case. I asked the guy if they restocked the shelves, and he said no. But the weird thing was, the bestbuy two stores down was sold out. Maybe people didn't think to try Target. The way I see it, the PSP is going to be there tommorrow, the next day and next month, so I'm going to sit on it for a while and see how it plays out.
My series 2 directivo has two tuners and can record two channels at once. Very nice for conflicting schedules.
If they follow their current philosophy, they'll just buy out nintendo and call it their own. I can see the ads now. "iGame, the worlds first dvd-rom based game console"
It's also been around in the fcheck file viewer for maya for quite some time. Just rick click and draw on the frames. I haven't tried to save out the modified frames though.
And if you think that "the other side of the story" stands up, go make a documentary showing it (it's not as if you need a huge budget or a big crew). Again, for some reason no-one has...
Trust me, there are several documentaries in the works that tell "the other side of the story" This is a link to one of them. The other I'm not at liberty to talk about, but it will be out soon enough.
http://www.fahrenhype911.com/
Explain to me why photoshop, illustrator and the like are better on the mac? Oh that's right, the blur filter is 10% faster. Come on, really, does a mac make you more creative? Can you produce more aesthically pleasing work on a mac? I think people need to get over the "mac is for the creative professional" bullsh*t. I've yet to hear any convincing reasons for this.
I work at a small post production facility in Hollywood. We have a render farm of 6 dual Xeon Win2000 Boxx rack machines as well as five dual Xeon Win2000 Boxx workstations that render in their spare time. We run Maya and After Effects and we use Smedge to handle the distributed rendering for both maya and AE and Mental Ray. We also have another Dual Xeon box running Server 2003 with a eight drive raid setup with two main partitions, one is raid 1 for the maya scenes and the AE projects and the other is raid 0 for the rendered frames and comps. We started with just two rack machines, but we add one or two every couple months when the budget permits. Our renders are sent to Smedge via a script that we run from an Interix csh. It greatly simplifies the process of sending out renders. Each project we work on has a script with the name of the project, or the shot, and when we're ready to render we run the script which parses the text file with all the parameters for the render such as frame range, render quality and so on. Some people don't care for Smedge to much, but it gets the job done, and works for most all 3d applications as well as most compositing apps.