Not at all. IIRC, they didn't even use *nix for the rendering. They used NT machines as their workstations, creating the geometry during the day, and left them to render overnight (with a few extra render-only machines).
Besides Blender, there aren't really any decent visual effects or 3d modelling apps for Linux. I haven't heard of anyone using Blender for big stuff like The Matrix either.
Actually the Chinese invented the printing press long before then. However, they were using fixed wood blocks for printing. Since English speakers have the simplicity of only 26 letters to deal with, Gutenberg had the idea of using movable, re-usable type in a printing press. he didn't invent the printing press itself.
Well no, they actually settled out of court. MS must have seen a loss (gasp!) coming, and jumped out at the last minute. Poor things - It could have been so demoralising for the MS borg lawyer army..:P
That said, I would STILL rather a system be devised to pay the artists directly.
I agree, but also think of this: RIAA != The copyright owner of every single MP3 in existence. I don't think I download *any* american music from RIAA. There is absolutely no way I'd pay an RIAA tax to allow me to share files which they don't even hold the copyright to!
I'd imagine this would be even worse for musicians who distribute their music for free on the web, napster etc. How would they feel about having to pay a commission to the RIAA (their competitors!) in order for them to freely share their own work?! Its ludicrous.
If I did listen to RIAA music, I would pay for a RIAA-napster in which they provide the servers, and also rip their artists CDs and put them all on computers connected to this sharing service. A situation in which the RIAA gets kickbacks for *users* providing their bandwidth, and *napster* providing the infrastructure just stinks of... well.. the RIAA.
The Korean distinct vowel sounds can be roughly romanised as:
o, eo, a, ae, e, eu, u, i.
The pronunciation isn't quite how many people would read those above, because Korean vowel pronunciation doesn't really have many English equivalents. There also doesn't seem to be a definitive standard for romanising Korean. Interesting thing about the Korean alphabet (Hangul) - It is written in syllables like Japanese, but within each syllable character, it is made up of consonants and vowels. Its a very logical alphabet.
it would be cool to see if the Slashdot community in whole is for or against Anime
Huh? The 'slashdot community' isn't for or against ANYTHING! Just because we all happen to find a certain news site interesting doesn't mean we all have the same stances on things. Its obvious by the trolling/flaming that goes on in these anime stories that the Slashdot community as a whole is somewhat divided on the matter.
... or at least information which is the property of big corporations...
Whoa, hold it there, partner! The MPAA don't even own DeCSS - It is not their property! If it was, they have have a case claiming breach of copyright, but they can't! DeCSS is entirely the work of Jon Johansen himself. If you want to talk about the actual keys, thats a bit murkier, but people often forget that DeCSS is a program that was pretty much written from scratch.
Well, not exactly 'hijacking' per se, but it seems that someone has quickly gone out and registered http://www.gnomefoundation.org and directed it at the KDE website. And I seriously doubt that this would have been done by any of ther KDE developers/associates either.
Ogg Vorbis is a codec/file format for audio data. Napster is a distribution network built on a combined client/server program. The only thing they have in common is that they're to do with digital audio.
One thing that's good from some of the shots I've seen of Nautilus is the representation of file permissions as little overlaid icons. Perhaps taking this further to represent other sorts of properties would be a good idea.
I'm really waiting for a scriptable GUI/file manager for Linux. There's so much potential with pipes/redirections in the shell, which isn't taken advantage of in Linux GUIs. How cool would it be to string together a series of icons - drop your file on a Gimp filter icon, which in turn sends it through to a pngcrush icon, which sends it to an ftp upload icon, which uploads it to your website. Or even link these up with your/dev icons for all sorts of fun. And then use those components with other ones in different orders etc etc. to different effect.
I'd like to see graphical power, intuitiveness and flexibility - the Unix way!
"hardly a geek in the group"?
I think be quite surprised (not that I'm an authority on this or anything)... But, if you're using SGIs you're probably doing some pretty high-end stuff, in which case you'd probably be quite well informed on graphics programming and computers in general.
Yes but an entry in the RPM database makes it easy for people to uninstall it if a) they've forgotten the location/name of the file, or b) are newbies and don't know how to go hunting through the system and deleting the file. RPM is also nice, as graphical tools can give you a quick at-a-glance look of what's installed on your system by parsing the RPM database.
Microsoft's OS's are buggy and bloated, but they did get the UI right in many ways.
Actually, wih reference to windows controls, they fucked up big time, by putting the close button right next to the non-destructive minimise/maximise buttons. One slip of the mouse, and that soon-to-be maximised window is now destroyed. The Mac platinum interface is much better as it has the close button on the left by itself, with the minimise/maximise buttons over on the right.
I don't think so. As far as I know, you can license your software under the GPL but maintain copyright. You can however assign your copyright to the FSF if you choose to. In this case, the FSF can fight off any copyright infringements/GPL violations for you since they hold the copyright. However, if you choose to maintain copyright, you have to do things like that yourself.
I think to be considered GNU software, you have to assign copyrights to the FSF, but you can still have your own copyrighted software licensed under the GNU GPL.
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Not at all. IIRC, they didn't even use *nix for the rendering. They used NT machines as their workstations, creating the geometry during the day, and left them to render overnight (with a few extra render-only machines).
Besides Blender, there aren't really any decent visual effects or 3d modelling apps for Linux. I haven't heard of anyone using Blender for big stuff like The Matrix either.
Actually the Chinese invented the printing press long before then. However, they were using fixed wood blocks for printing. Since English speakers have the simplicity of only 26 letters to deal with, Gutenberg had the idea of using movable, re-usable type in a printing press. he didn't invent the printing press itself.
Well no, they actually settled out of court. MS must have seen a loss (gasp!) coming, and jumped out at the last minute. Poor things - It could have been so demoralising for the MS borg lawyer army.. :P
I agree, but also think of this: RIAA != The copyright owner of every single MP3 in existence. I don't think I download *any* american music from RIAA. There is absolutely no way I'd pay an RIAA tax to allow me to share files which they don't even hold the copyright to!
I'd imagine this would be even worse for musicians who distribute their music for free on the web, napster etc. How would they feel about having to pay a commission to the RIAA (their competitors!) in order for them to freely share their own work?! Its ludicrous.
If I did listen to RIAA music, I would pay for a RIAA-napster in which they provide the servers, and also rip their artists CDs and put them all on computers connected to this sharing service. A situation in which the RIAA gets kickbacks for *users* providing their bandwidth, and *napster* providing the infrastructure just stinks of
Bang! I hate to be a stupid 'me too-er' , but that post was brilliant. You hit the nail square on the head.
Well I never. A post with a link to goatse.cx got moderated to 4, Insightful. The moderators must be on some high quality crack right now..
Brilliant flame. Well done. Ladies and gentlemen, I believe we have a new contender to the title of 'Grammar Nazi'!
Korean.
The Korean distinct vowel sounds can be roughly romanised as:
o, eo, a, ae, e, eu, u, i.
The pronunciation isn't quite how many people would read those above, because Korean vowel pronunciation doesn't really have many English equivalents. There also doesn't seem to be a definitive standard for romanising Korean. Interesting thing about the Korean alphabet (Hangul) - It is written in syllables like Japanese, but within each syllable character, it is made up of consonants and vowels. Its a very logical alphabet.
Yeah, but there's a hell of a lot more difference between BSD and MacOS then there is between win16 and winNT..
IIRC, LZW isn't used in ALL GIF images. You can make GIFs with no LZW compression, but the file size is quite a bit bigger.
Also, I thought not even Mozilla supported MNG yet...?
D'oh! /. ate my HTML
I mean: <TABLE BACKGROUND="foo.gif">
When running into issues with images and BGCOLORs, WHat I tend to do if I can, is use a 1x1 gif of the same exact colour, and use that as the .
it would be cool to see if the Slashdot community in whole is for or against Anime
Huh? The 'slashdot community' isn't for or against ANYTHING! Just because we all happen to find a certain news site interesting doesn't mean we all have the same stances on things. Its obvious by the trolling/flaming that goes on in these anime stories that the Slashdot community as a whole is somewhat divided on the matter.
There are also a few similar OpenGL file managers for Linux here:
Whoa, hold it there, partner! The MPAA don't even own DeCSS - It is not their property! If it was, they have have a case claiming breach of copyright, but they can't! DeCSS is entirely the work of Jon Johansen himself. If you want to talk about the actual keys, thats a bit murkier, but people often forget that DeCSS is a program that was pretty much written from scratch.
Well, not exactly 'hijacking' per se, but it seems that someone has quickly gone out and registered http://www.gnomefoundation.org and directed it at the KDE website. And I seriously doubt that this would have been done by any of ther KDE developers/associates either.
DeCSS could be seen as having a key to someone's house that you made yourself.
I would say that DeCSS could be seen as having a key to YOUR house, that you made yourself without the 'authorisation' of the locksmith company.
In Windows, CTRL-Doubleclick on a folder in single-window mode to open it up in a new window.
Ogg Vorbis is a codec/file format for audio data. Napster is a distribution network built on a combined client/server program. The only thing they have in common is that they're to do with digital audio.
One thing that's good from some of the shots I've seen of Nautilus is the representation of file permissions as little overlaid icons. Perhaps taking this further to represent other sorts of properties would be a good idea.
/dev icons for all sorts of fun. And then use those components with other ones in different orders etc etc. to different effect.
I'm really waiting for a scriptable GUI/file manager for Linux. There's so much potential with pipes/redirections in the shell, which isn't taken advantage of in Linux GUIs. How cool would it be to string together a series of icons - drop your file on a Gimp filter icon, which in turn sends it through to a pngcrush icon, which sends it to an ftp upload icon, which uploads it to your website. Or even link these up with your
I'd like to see graphical power, intuitiveness and flexibility - the Unix way!
"hardly a geek in the group"? I think be quite surprised (not that I'm an authority on this or anything)... But, if you're using SGIs you're probably doing some pretty high-end stuff, in which case you'd probably be quite well informed on graphics programming and computers in general.
Yes but an entry in the RPM database makes it easy for people to uninstall it if a) they've forgotten the location/name of the file, or b) are newbies and don't know how to go hunting through the system and deleting the file. RPM is also nice, as graphical tools can give you a quick at-a-glance look of what's installed on your system by parsing the RPM database.
Microsoft's OS's are buggy and bloated, but they did get the UI right in many ways.
Actually, wih reference to windows controls, they fucked up big time, by putting the close button right next to the non-destructive minimise/maximise buttons. One slip of the mouse, and that soon-to-be maximised window is now destroyed. The Mac platinum interface is much better as it has the close button on the left by itself, with the minimise/maximise buttons over on the right.
I don't think so. As far as I know, you can license your software under the GPL but maintain copyright. You can however assign your copyright to the FSF if you choose to. In this case, the FSF can fight off any copyright infringements/GPL violations for you since they hold the copyright. However, if you choose to maintain copyright, you have to do things like that yourself.
I think to be considered GNU software, you have to assign copyrights to the FSF, but you can still have your own copyrighted software licensed under the GNU GPL.