No this is completely win-win for Jeroen (producer/director) and his crew. ILM is very cool about this sort of thing. He will be able to show the film at festivals and get notoriety (i.e. Slashdot and Wired) to help get him investors and propel the excitement forward. In order to become a noticed force in the entertainment industry you HAVE to put in countless hours outside of your normal work and expect that money will follow in time. However, working for ILM as your daily grind is fairly lucrative. Jeroen has worked for them for over 10 years and he's doing what he loves.
I've had the pleasure of meeting and spending time with Jeroen at ILM, and well, he is MORE than happy to be working with Mr. Clark and this is definately his dream come true. In the same position I can't imagine anyone would be averse to spending extra time to realize their goal.
More power to them, and thanks for posting this story to/. !!
IANAP but shouldn't there be a way for the OS to know the difference between an app that wants to install kernel level code and one that just wants to let you play Tetris? If so, couldn't it be implemented in such a way that you are only asked for security clearance (press the OK button) if the former is true? Seems like a tiered system would be the best way to balance security with ease-of-use.
After 8 trillion years of hype and build up I'd figure this would be the least that Vista would do for it's users.
well you're not correct in my case... It was a logicboard malfunction. I don't know about your brother, but in my MB there was no way to access anything including the ability set the Startup Disk. I inserted my DVD as the very first thing to try and fix the problem, and well all I got was more lines. It wouldn't boot up from the HDD or the DVD. Hence the replacement MB I recieved.
Well I only bought one, and have just had it replaced or repared under warranty. And the past Macs that I've bought never had this level of problems, and I've bought gen1 G4s and PowerMacs etc...
I was just trying to show that this is a systemic issue with the current line, and maybe a sign of the times.
I'd go for this reasoning except I happen to be one of the unlcky stiffs who bought the MacBook. Here's my tale of terror thus far:
I purchased the upper tier MB in white to save some cash (black is a $150 premium). LCD had a stuck pixel, it wasn't dead, just stuck green. I had the MB for a bit under a week before returning it, and I realized why the black has a premium price. The white had already gotten several scuffs and was starting to become off-white. So I upgraded to the black upon returning the first purchase. Apple replaced it with no questions. It was also unbearably slow, but my 2GB of ram hadn't arrived in the mail yet.
In great spirits with my new black MB and 2GB of RAM (which made an insane difference in performance) I did all the things I love to use my notebook for. I dealt with the 100 degree (F) plus heat with a lap guard or by placing it on the table... I noticed the "mooing" but it wasn't all that bad, but then it started randomly shutting down. At first it was inconsistant, but quickly became more frequent. 1 month old now and the thing siezed up on me 4-5 times. I was going to bring it back to Apple after I came back from my vacation, but then the thing shut down for it's last time. I rebooted it and this time I had a brilliant white screen with pretty pink and green virticle lines all over it. After several reboots, and returning to the stock memory, zapping pram, etc. I returned to the Apple store. This time there were questions asked... I had the 3 year warranty and well... they wanted to ship the thing out for repair. I expressed my disgust, and the option I was given next blew my mind. "You can just buy an open box MB and then when this one comes back you'll just return it for 100% the purchace price." So they obviously wanted some colateral... After some much deserved bitching the manager came to my rescue and swapped out my HDD to a new machine and sent me on my way.
3rd MB, also in black, 2GB RAM. Very pleased again, until I received Studio 8 in the mail. I popped the CD in and... *GRIND GRIND GRIND GRIND Eject*... WTF... Inserted CD again. *GRIND GRIND GRIND GRIND Eject* I tried the CD in several other machines including a slot loading iMac and had no problems. So I tried another CD in the new MB. Same results...
Needless to say I'm ging back to the Apple store again tonight to get a new one, but I no longer have any hope that I will get a MB that works flawlessly. I love Apple products usually, and I really want this to work out, but I'm just not able to believe that this is 1st gen jitters. There is something inherently wrong in either the design or the QC of all of these notebooks.
Just FYI here's a list of the current reported problems. I've had 3 MBs and have experienced 4 of the issues...
I have to agree with the parent here because not only is the theory not new, the idea of a commuter car that can go 100 miles and charge in 4.5 hours isn't very new either, that's pretty close to the spec on the EV from GM if I remember correctly.
I think it'd be really fun/economical/treehugging to have an electric car, but the infrastructure still sucks, and the technology isn't advanced enough for most people, especially those willing to pay $100,000 for a car.
Now, if this guy marketed his race car and formed a new league around Fourmula "E" racing.... then he might have an idea worth somthing.
If you currently have a fully functioning windows machine, with apps, docs, etc installed. What's the deal? Can you pop that HDD in the compy and get the Mactel to recognise it, or do you have to rebuild your windows system over again?
If it's the latter I think there's still an uphill battler for Apple. I suppose that any user who wanted to buy a Mac and run windows could just transfer your docs over, but it would be nice if there was a way to keep your clean install with out reloading every app you wanted. I dunno, might not be that big of a deal...
Wait a second.... do I smell a April fool here? Who the hell starts a company rolling on April Fool's Day? It's no wonder that (as much as I love and cherish mine) Apple has never gotten any head way, everyone's always thought the cool crazy gadgets they release on their anniversaries were just hoaxes... Now I get it!
Ok, but seriously, who cares if this guy kills himself? I, for one, do not.
additionally... why would Jobs want to? He's already getting a fat paycheck cut from the Disney corp... he essentially "owns" the name of Disney already with all the media fantasia over the PIXAR merger.
The people who Steve trusts for creative (John Lassiter [sp?], Ed Catmul, etc...) now have essentially Stalinist control over ALL of Disney's creative (including the imagineers who make the ride concepts and other Disney trinkets) and have already scrapped the probably terrible Toy Story 3. They obviously can take Disney where ever they want already.
So my question again, is WHY whould Apple want to buy Disney when they can very easily enjoy life as partners in content creation and distribution? Steve gets majority say in both companies, and there's no worries about anti-trust.
No Pro Apps are "Intel ready" at this point, so you'll have to keep waiting.
I found it most disapointing that Apple decided to go from the G5 64-bit chip to a Core Duo which is a double die 32-bit chip. Seems bass ackwards to me. It seems that that would only hurt performance in "pro" lever apps. But hey I guess we'llhave to wait and see what the towers have in them before passing judgement.
Interesting you say that. What MIT product would he be contacted about? The Media Lab site has no reference to any product of this capability that I could find.
I have a friend who is developing a technology that would mix seamlessly with this Google idea, and I believe he is currently in talks with cable companies about it. The device he's engineered will actually map the picture coming accross the broadband cable to your television set, and with a joystick-like remote control you can navagate around the screen and click on products that you are interested in. Information, or links to information, about each product or person in a show would be served along the broadband stream making virtually everything you see in a show "clickable." It would allow you to say, get information about the gadget that is being used in CSI, or stats on your favorite sports player/team.
It seems that integration with Google would be invaluable for something like this, and it would really change the landscape of advertising content. We would begin to choose what ads we want to see based on our personal interest in a certain item. Since DVRs are striking a blow to the standard 30 second spot, and product placement is growing in leaps and bounds this really seems like the new stage for advertisement in general, but best of all it might allow us to finally have seamless programming.
Sorry I don't have a link to info about this device, he doesn't have a product site built up yet since it's still in development.
This is so typical... announce your grand plan with NOTHING to support it or release. At the moment all of this is just hype, possibly to take away from next weeks MacWorld where there will be actual hardware and software released for public use. This entire "strategy" is based on an OS that isn't even released yet, and may not be for a few months. I don't want a pile of frelling speculation!!!! Though I doubt this will result in any more head way into the foray of media integration, I would still rather see this than hear Bill$ Gate$ rattle on about how great Mircro$oft products will be some day.
additionally, if you use the mesurement in TFA of 15 metres per pixel, and apply that to the "hi-res" image (which is undoubtedly not the original resolution) you get some pretty amazing numbers.
A quick measure of the "pool" is about 1990 pixels across. 1990px*15m/px=29850m. That means this thing is almost 18miles in diameter!
I always thought that sublimation was the state change from a solid directly to a gas w/o achiving a liquid state inbetween. This is what happens to dry ice (carbon-dioxide ice), but I don't think that water sublimates. I might be wrong, but when the tempature rises shouldn't it just melt, and eventually evaporate if it gets hot enough?
so that the end product is improved from what the engineers originally thought was a good idea.
Of course if Microsoft was to be true to form they would take all the comments/critisism/complaints/compliments about their Beta version, raise a middle finger to them, and then strip the product of any exciting "new" features so that they can make their release date on time (3 years late).
...if they're frequent travelers and they've already been cleared and their data is fine, then they can move through it much more quickly
Isn't this the sort of thing that has caused problems in the past? If we just begin to accept travelers who frequent the country as "safe" then we're leaving ourselves open to counterfiting and other trickery. It makes much more sense to take a fresh look at every person crossing the borders.
Not to mention the fact that our government wouldn't be tracking every move by these travelers. This would more likely be used to find a perpitrator after a major event already happened! So how exactly does this help?
Most 3D animation companies use several different platforms/software packages to complete their projects.
Pixar, for one, uses Maya to model, Gipetto (Pixar proprietary animation software) to animate, RenderMan (also proprietary) for final output w/ alpha chanels, Shake to composite.
They chose Linux to run the heart of their modeling/animation/render farm because it has a $0 per seat licence and is stable enough to run, intensly, for days or weeks on end.
Single frames of Monsters, Inc. took over 48 hours to render. That kind of work load makes other OSs crap in their pants.
The roots of the 3D industry are in UNIX and IRIX, so it's only natural for them to make the move to Linux as it becomes more robust. The people who founded these business have a special place in their hearts for *IX systems, it's what they "grew up" with, and it's what works.
Aditionally Linux is easy to support/diagnose/fix, and in an industry that is creating software and algorithms that constantly break the limist of computing they need this flexability. They don't care about the other frills that commercial OSs have to offer, because they develop their own frills every day.
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No this is completely win-win for Jeroen (producer/director) and his crew. ILM is very cool about this sort of thing. He will be able to show the film at festivals and get notoriety (i.e. Slashdot and Wired) to help get him investors and propel the excitement forward. In order to become a noticed force in the entertainment industry you HAVE to put in countless hours outside of your normal work and expect that money will follow in time. However, working for ILM as your daily grind is fairly lucrative. Jeroen has worked for them for over 10 years and he's doing what he loves.
/. !!
I've had the pleasure of meeting and spending time with Jeroen at ILM, and well, he is MORE than happy to be working with Mr. Clark and this is definately his dream come true. In the same position I can't imagine anyone would be averse to spending extra time to realize their goal.
More power to them, and thanks for posting this story to
IANAP but shouldn't there be a way for the OS to know the difference between an app that wants to install kernel level code and one that just wants to let you play Tetris? If so, couldn't it be implemented in such a way that you are only asked for security clearance (press the OK button) if the former is true? Seems like a tiered system would be the best way to balance security with ease-of-use.
After 8 trillion years of hype and build up I'd figure this would be the least that Vista would do for it's users.
well you're not correct in my case... It was a logicboard malfunction. I don't know about your brother, but in my MB there was no way to access anything including the ability set the Startup Disk. I inserted my DVD as the very first thing to try and fix the problem, and well all I got was more lines. It wouldn't boot up from the HDD or the DVD. Hence the replacement MB I recieved.
Well I only bought one, and have just had it replaced or repared under warranty. And the past Macs that I've bought never had this level of problems, and I've bought gen1 G4s and PowerMacs etc...
I was just trying to show that this is a systemic issue with the current line, and maybe a sign of the times.
I'd go for this reasoning except I happen to be one of the unlcky stiffs who bought the MacBook. Here's my tale of terror thus far:
I purchased the upper tier MB in white to save some cash (black is a $150 premium). LCD had a stuck pixel, it wasn't dead, just stuck green. I had the MB for a bit under a week before returning it, and I realized why the black has a premium price. The white had already gotten several scuffs and was starting to become off-white. So I upgraded to the black upon returning the first purchase. Apple replaced it with no questions. It was also unbearably slow, but my 2GB of ram hadn't arrived in the mail yet.
In great spirits with my new black MB and 2GB of RAM (which made an insane difference in performance) I did all the things I love to use my notebook for. I dealt with the 100 degree (F) plus heat with a lap guard or by placing it on the table... I noticed the "mooing" but it wasn't all that bad, but then it started randomly shutting down. At first it was inconsistant, but quickly became more frequent. 1 month old now and the thing siezed up on me 4-5 times. I was going to bring it back to Apple after I came back from my vacation, but then the thing shut down for it's last time. I rebooted it and this time I had a brilliant white screen with pretty pink and green virticle lines all over it. After several reboots, and returning to the stock memory, zapping pram, etc. I returned to the Apple store. This time there were questions asked... I had the 3 year warranty and well... they wanted to ship the thing out for repair. I expressed my disgust, and the option I was given next blew my mind. "You can just buy an open box MB and then when this one comes back you'll just return it for 100% the purchace price." So they obviously wanted some colateral... After some much deserved bitching the manager came to my rescue and swapped out my HDD to a new machine and sent me on my way.
3rd MB, also in black, 2GB RAM. Very pleased again, until I received Studio 8 in the mail. I popped the CD in and... *GRIND GRIND GRIND GRIND Eject*... WTF... Inserted CD again. *GRIND GRIND GRIND GRIND Eject* I tried the CD in several other machines including a slot loading iMac and had no problems. So I tried another CD in the new MB. Same results...
Needless to say I'm ging back to the Apple store again tonight to get a new one, but I no longer have any hope that I will get a MB that works flawlessly. I love Apple products usually, and I really want this to work out, but I'm just not able to believe that this is 1st gen jitters. There is something inherently wrong in either the design or the QC of all of these notebooks.
Just FYI here's a list of the current reported problems. I've had 3 MBs and have experienced 4 of the issues...
MacBook Issues
-Disgruntled
Nintendo+Intel+Apple=NIpple?
I wonder what the controller would look like.
I have to agree with the parent here because not only is the theory not new, the idea of a commuter car that can go 100 miles and charge in 4.5 hours isn't very new either, that's pretty close to the spec on the EV from GM if I remember correctly.
I think it'd be really fun/economical/treehugging to have an electric car, but the infrastructure still sucks, and the technology isn't advanced enough for most people, especially those willing to pay $100,000 for a car.
Now, if this guy marketed his race car and formed a new league around Fourmula "E" racing.... then he might have an idea worth somthing.
If you currently have a fully functioning windows machine, with apps, docs, etc installed. What's the deal? Can you pop that HDD in the compy and get the Mactel to recognise it, or do you have to rebuild your windows system over again?
If it's the latter I think there's still an uphill battler for Apple. I suppose that any user who wanted to buy a Mac and run windows could just transfer your docs over, but it would be nice if there was a way to keep your clean install with out reloading every app you wanted. I dunno, might not be that big of a deal...
Wait a second.... do I smell a April fool here? Who the hell starts a company rolling on April Fool's Day? It's no wonder that (as much as I love and cherish mine) Apple has never gotten any head way, everyone's always thought the cool crazy gadgets they release on their anniversaries were just hoaxes... Now I get it!
Ok, but seriously, who cares if this guy kills himself? I, for one, do not.
to get rid of all the employees.
Seriously, how can anyone get any work done with all this security risks running around?
additionally... why would Jobs want to? He's already getting a fat paycheck cut from the Disney corp... he essentially "owns" the name of Disney already with all the media fantasia over the PIXAR merger.
The people who Steve trusts for creative (John Lassiter [sp?], Ed Catmul, etc...) now have essentially Stalinist control over ALL of Disney's creative (including the imagineers who make the ride concepts and other Disney trinkets) and have already scrapped the probably terrible Toy Story 3. They obviously can take Disney where ever they want already.
So my question again, is WHY whould Apple want to buy Disney when they can very easily enjoy life as partners in content creation and distribution? Steve gets majority say in both companies, and there's no worries about anti-trust.
No Pro Apps are "Intel ready" at this point, so you'll have to keep waiting.
I found it most disapointing that Apple decided to go from the G5 64-bit chip to a Core Duo which is a double die 32-bit chip. Seems bass ackwards to me. It seems that that would only hurt performance in "pro" lever apps. But hey I guess we'llhave to wait and see what the towers have in them before passing judgement.
Interesting you say that. What MIT product would he be contacted about? The Media Lab site has no reference to any product of this capability that I could find.
I have a friend who is developing a technology that would mix seamlessly with this Google idea, and I believe he is currently in talks with cable companies about it. The device he's engineered will actually map the picture coming accross the broadband cable to your television set, and with a joystick-like remote control you can navagate around the screen and click on products that you are interested in. Information, or links to information, about each product or person in a show would be served along the broadband stream making virtually everything you see in a show "clickable." It would allow you to say, get information about the gadget that is being used in CSI, or stats on your favorite sports player/team.
It seems that integration with Google would be invaluable for something like this, and it would really change the landscape of advertising content. We would begin to choose what ads we want to see based on our personal interest in a certain item. Since DVRs are striking a blow to the standard 30 second spot, and product placement is growing in leaps and bounds this really seems like the new stage for advertisement in general, but best of all it might allow us to finally have seamless programming.
Sorry I don't have a link to info about this device, he doesn't have a product site built up yet since it's still in development.
This is so typical... announce your grand plan with NOTHING to support it or release. At the moment all of this is just hype, possibly to take away from next weeks MacWorld where there will be actual hardware and software released for public use. This entire "strategy" is based on an OS that isn't even released yet, and may not be for a few months. I don't want a pile of frelling speculation!!!! Though I doubt this will result in any more head way into the foray of media integration, I would still rather see this than hear Bill$ Gate$ rattle on about how great Mircro$oft products will be some day.
Now if only we had a way to simulate Zero-G for longer than 20 seconds
Otherwise I see some really short games with some really motion-sick players.
When we first hooked them up, the plane 'crashed' all the time, but over time, the neural network slowly adapts...
Crap, the last thing I want is for my fighter plane to be smarter than me!
I'm curently a student of 3D special effects and animation. Physical effects and mechanical engineering have always been a secret passion of mine.
How did you start your careers in physical special effects, and what training does it take to be a "mythbuster"?
Now if I could only read these diagrams!
additionally, if you use the mesurement in TFA of 15 metres per pixel, and apply that to the "hi-res" image (which is undoubtedly not the original resolution) you get some pretty amazing numbers.
A quick measure of the "pool" is about 1990 pixels across. 1990px*15m/px=29850m. That means this thing is almost 18miles in diameter!
That's some pool.
I always thought that sublimation was the state change from a solid directly to a gas w/o achiving a liquid state inbetween. This is what happens to dry ice (carbon-dioxide ice), but I don't think that water sublimates. I might be wrong, but when the tempature rises shouldn't it just melt, and eventually evaporate if it gets hot enough?
so that the end product is improved from what the engineers originally thought was a good idea.
Of course if Microsoft was to be true to form they would take all the comments/critisism/complaints/compliments about their Beta version, raise a middle finger to them, and then strip the product of any exciting "new" features so that they can make their release date on time (3 years late).
...if they're frequent travelers and they've already been cleared and their data is fine, then they can move through it much more quickly
Isn't this the sort of thing that has caused problems in the past? If we just begin to accept travelers who frequent the country as "safe" then we're leaving ourselves open to counterfiting and other trickery. It makes much more sense to take a fresh look at every person crossing the borders.
Not to mention the fact that our government wouldn't be tracking every move by these travelers. This would more likely be used to find a perpitrator after a major event already happened! So how exactly does this help?
Most 3D animation companies use several different platforms/software packages to complete their projects.
Pixar, for one, uses Maya to model, Gipetto (Pixar proprietary animation software) to animate, RenderMan (also proprietary) for final output w/ alpha chanels, Shake to composite.
They chose Linux to run the heart of their modeling/animation/render farm because it has a $0 per seat licence and is stable enough to run, intensly, for days or weeks on end.
Single frames of Monsters, Inc. took over 48 hours to render. That kind of work load makes other OSs crap in their pants.
The roots of the 3D industry are in UNIX and IRIX, so it's only natural for them to make the move to Linux as it becomes more robust. The people who founded these business have a special place in their hearts for *IX systems, it's what they "grew up" with, and it's what works.
Aditionally Linux is easy to support/diagnose/fix, and in an industry that is creating software and algorithms that constantly break the limist of computing they need this flexability. They don't care about the other frills that commercial OSs have to offer, because they develop their own frills every day.