during last year's e3 (or was it the tgs?) kojima froze the trailer and moved the camera around, displaying different dof effects, lighting conditions, and so on. it's real.
graphic designers, illustrators, and photographers spell out reproduction rights VERY EXPLICITLY in their contracts - if you get first production for a specific medium then you get no more, no less. if you don't agree, don't sign the dotted line.
you might want to look into how phase-change cooling systems such as asetek (http://www.asetek.com/) deal with the problem. i think they use a heating element under the cpu to keep it above freezing, thus avoiding any nasty condensation problems. you might also have to watch out for contraction of the metallic elements involved - i recall hard[ocp] managed to destroy a chip with a phase-change setup because the heatspreader actually popped off due to the extreme cold.
i most certainly use my win32/osx pc's to do actual work as well. i would love to use ubuntu as my day-to-day os, but it doesn't run the apps i actually need - photoshop, illustrator, and cinema4d. the blame can be laid on adobe and maxon respectively for not shipping linux versions, but as an end user i can't afford to waste my time putzing around with gimp et al.
(not to mention that last time i installed ubuntu i had to jump through some non-trivial hoops to get past a nasty boot-up crash related to my video card - something of a nightmare as a linux newbie.)
because the animators, artists, writers, and voice actors need to feed their families. it takes a lot of money to start up a production workflow, and all the people involved need to know that yes, they are going to get a steady paycheck out of it.
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during last year's e3 (or was it the tgs?) kojima froze the trailer and moved the camera around, displaying different dof effects, lighting conditions, and so on. it's real.
very often there are clauses in contracts for designers, photographers etc. that specify reproduction rights for 'all media not yet created'.
graphic designers, illustrators, and photographers spell out reproduction rights VERY EXPLICITLY in their contracts - if you get first production for a specific medium then you get no more, no less. if you don't agree, don't sign the dotted line.
you might want to look into how phase-change cooling systems such as asetek (http://www.asetek.com/) deal with the problem. i think they use a heating element under the cpu to keep it above freezing, thus avoiding any nasty condensation problems. you might also have to watch out for contraction of the metallic elements involved - i recall hard[ocp] managed to destroy a chip with a phase-change setup because the heatspreader actually popped off due to the extreme cold.
i most certainly use my win32/osx pc's to do actual work as well. i would love to use ubuntu as my day-to-day os, but it doesn't run the apps i actually need - photoshop, illustrator, and cinema4d. the blame can be laid on adobe and maxon respectively for not shipping linux versions, but as an end user i can't afford to waste my time putzing around with gimp et al.
(not to mention that last time i installed ubuntu i had to jump through some non-trivial hoops to get past a nasty boot-up crash related to my video card - something of a nightmare as a linux newbie.)
because the animators, artists, writers, and voice actors need to feed their families. it takes a lot of money to start up a production workflow, and all the people involved need to know that yes, they are going to get a steady paycheck out of it.