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Russel Crowe's Robin Hood Is Powered By Linux

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| Colorist Stephen Nakamura of Santa Monica-
| based Company 3 used DaVinci Resolve and 
| DaVinci 2K high-end Linux systems for all 
| the color grading work on Universal 
| Pictures’ epic action-adventure “Robin 
| Hood,” starring Oscar winners Russell Crowe 
| and Cate Blanchett, directed by Ridley Scott 
| and produced by Oscar winner Brian Grazer.
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http://www.muktware.com/news/19/2010/120


Recent:

Something Seriously Missing In Avatar Movie Reviews

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| Where are the accolades for Linux?
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| A review of the company that made the Linux
| computer graphics happen, known as WETA
| Digital (Wellington, New Zealand, a Peter
| Jackson spin off company), is notoriously
| absent from the articles.
|
| The underlying operating system, Linux RHEL
| (hundreds of HP blade servers running as Linux
| cluster) is also utterly absent from even the
| more technical news sources.
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http://www.reallylinux.com/docs/avataruseslinux.shtml


Cool Kubuntu Users

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| One rather cool user which is missing is Weta
| Digital. Whenever I've been out the flat this
| week I've seen adverts for the Avatar DVDs,
| those blue 3D faces are all made on Kubuntu
| desktops and a whopping 35,000 cluster of
| rendering machines. That must be a large
| proportion of computers in New Zealand running
| Kubuntu.
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http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/4203


What Lies at the Heart of "Avatar"?

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On 5/20/2010 8:14 PM, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> Russel Crowe's Robin Hood Is Powered By Linux

Bullshit.


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 > | Colorist Stephen Nakamura of Santa Monica-
 > | based Company 3 used DaVinci Resolve and
 > | DaVinci 2K high-end Linux systems


Why are you promoting proprietary software?

Oh, in this post you're talking out of the left side of your mouth.






> Something Seriously Missing In Avatar Movie Reviews

Well heck, Spamowitz, you've never complained when the Fortune 500 
reported billions in profitability but failed to mention it was made 
possible by Windows (definitely, and maybe Unix or Linux or Mac).

Why not?

On Thu, 20 May 2010 20:42:39 -0400, DFS wrote:

> On 5/20/2010 8:14 PM, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> Russel Crowe's Robin Hood Is Powered By Linux
> 
> Bullshit.

Key word rendered.
Great movie BTW.
I don't normally like those kind of flicks, but this one was a
great one and kept my interest the entire time.

Excellent, believable graphics.
I usually hate that  "stop motion, jittery effect" a lot of the
films use these days for action scenes, but it was kept to a
minimum in this movie and actually added to it.

It might have been the theater, but I thought the dialog was
sometimes a little too muffled and difficult to understand.


 
> 
>  > ,----[ Quote ]
>  > | Colorist Stephen Nakamura of Santa Monica-
>  > | based Company 3 used DaVinci Resolve and
>  > | DaVinci 2K high-end Linux systems
> 
> 
> Why are you promoting proprietary software?
> 
> Oh, in this post you're talking out of the left side of your mouth.

For the same reason he demanded payment for proof reading a fellow
student's paper.

He is a hypocrite.

 
 
>> Something Seriously Missing In Avatar Movie Reviews
> 
> Well heck, Spamowitz, you've never complained when the Fortune 500 
> reported billions in profitability but failed to mention it was made 
> possible by Windows (definitely, and maybe Unix or Linux or Mac).
> 
> Why not?

See above.

On May 20, 8:42=A0pm, DFS <nospam@dfs_.com> wrote:
> On 5/20/2010 8:14 PM, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> > Something Seriously Missing In Avatar Movie Reviews

Like so many other places, Linux/Unix has become so commonplace in
high-end motion picture animation that it's almost like not noticing
that there's a 7-11 in the town you just came to.  Of course there's a
7-11, they are everywhere.  It would be unusual to have a town of
100,000 and NOT have a 7-11.

> Well heck, Spamowitz, you've never complained when the Fortune 500
> reported billions in profitability but failed to mention it was made
> possible by Windows (definitely, and maybe Unix or Linux or Mac).

> Why not?

These days, it's when there's a "Glitch" that the computer makes the
news.  If that computer is a server running Linux or Unix that is.  E-
bay down for an hour - that's news.  Stock market down 700 points
because of a 90 second glitch with a UNIX server - that's news.

As for Windows producing massive productivity gains?  I don't see it.
Look at Microsoft's big announcements

Windows 98 - better photographs.
Windows ME - Video
Windows NT 4.0 - Better security - (than Windows 9x)
Windows 2000 - Yeah - that was faster- why was Microsoft in such a
rush to kill it?  They didn't get any $$
Windows XP - 2001 - Better Security - than Windows 2000 without i-zone
and symantic or norton.
Vista - No productivity gains there.
Windows 7 - Hey - it's better than Vista.

So Microsoft put out one really good operating system in 15 years,
that actually led to a substantial productivity gain - and they killed
it because they had already agreed to give all of their corporate
customers free upgrades after the grief they had with Windows NT 4.0.

Meanwhile - we got Iloveyou, Melissa, Sky, bagel, bugbear,
jane'sResume, ....

Even Microsoft doesn't want to try and make a case that Windows has
improved productivity in the last 10-15 years.


Yes, in 1990 to 1993, Microsoft did do some wonderful things that made
it possible for hundreds of millions of people to learn how to use a
computer without ever opening a book.  And it also tought them how to
steal software without feeling guilty about it.

Because of Microsoft, it's crazy prices, predatory policies, shady
deals, and funky business model, we have nearly 30 years of really
bizarre ethics.  The result is naked short selling, gambling with
people's pension funds, sub-prime mortgage loans to people who can't
possibly pay them back, funny financial reporting, and disabling the
fail-safes on an oil rig because you don't want to lose a "gusher".

I don't think Steve Ballmer wants any news pundit taking a video of
him doing his crazy eddie routine - telling us how Vista or Windows 7
has made the world more productive - in the middle of an economic melt-
down.

On 5/20/2010 10:01 PM, Rex Ballard wrote:
> On May 20, 8:42 pm, DFS<nospam@dfs_.com>  wrote:
>> On 5/20/2010 8:14 PM, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>>> Something Seriously Missing In Avatar Movie Reviews
>
> Like so many other places, Linux/Unix has become so commonplace in
> high-end motion picture animation that it's almost like not noticing
> that there's a 7-11 in the town you just came to.  Of course there's a
> 7-11, they are everywhere.  It would be unusual to have a town of
> 100,000 and NOT have a 7-11.
>
>> Well heck, Spamowitz, you've never complained when the Fortune 500
>> reported billions in profitability but failed to mention it was made
>> possible by Windows (definitely, and maybe Unix or Linux or Mac).
>
>> Why not?
>
> These days, it's when there's a "Glitch" that the computer makes the
> news.  If that computer is a server running Linux or Unix that is.  E-
> bay down for an hour - that's news.  Stock market down 700 points
> because of a 90 second glitch with a UNIX server - that's news.

Rex Ballard blabbing endless baloney?  That's not news.

623rd Linux crapware distro?  That's not news.




> As for Windows producing massive productivity gains?  I don't see it.

You must've had your eyes closed, since you spent most of your career 
developing on or for Windows, or hawking proprietary software that runs 
on Windows.




> Look at Microsoft's big announcements
>
> Windows 98 - better photographs.
> Windows ME - Video
> Windows NT 4.0 - Better security - (than Windows 9x)
> Windows 2000 - Yeah - that was faster- why was Microsoft in such a
> rush to kill it?  They didn't get any $$
> Windows XP - 2001 - Better Security - than Windows 2000 without i-zone
> and symantic or norton.
> Vista - No productivity gains there.
> Windows 7 - Hey - it's better than Vista.
>
> So Microsoft put out one really good operating system in 15 years,

That's one more than Linux has achieved in 15 years.



> that actually led to a substantial productivity gain - and they killed
> it because they had already agreed to give all of their corporate
> customers free upgrades after the grief they had with Windows NT 4.0.

Lie.



> Meanwhile - we got Iloveyou, Melissa, Sky, bagel, bugbear,
> jane'sResume, ....

And you got a Windows job.



> Even Microsoft doesn't want to try and make a case that Windows has
> improved productivity in the last 10-15 years.

If computers have increased productivity, it sure wasn't due to Linux.




> Yes, in 1990 to 1993, Microsoft did do some wonderful things that made
> it possible for hundreds of millions of people to learn how to use a
> computer without ever opening a book.

Since then, Linux idiots drink sour grapes each and every day.



 > And it also tought them how to
> steal software without feeling guilty about it.

People were stealing software long before 1990.



> Because of Microsoft, it's crazy prices, predatory policies, shady
> deals, and funky business model, we have nearly 30 years of really
> bizarre ethics.  The result is naked short selling, gambling with
> people's pension funds, sub-prime mortgage loans to people who can't
> possibly pay them back, funny financial reporting, and disabling the
> fail-safes on an oil rig because you don't want to lose a "gusher".

All that "because of Microsoft"?

You're really just a big-baby sore loser and frustrated wannabe 
technologist, Rex.  You desperately wanted to make a big contribution to 
IT somewhere, but you didn't have it in you... so you feel you have to 
make absurdly ridiculous lies about Microsoft, as if that will soothe 
your pain.




> I don't think Steve Ballmer wants any news pundit taking a video of
> him doing his crazy eddie routine - telling us how Vista or Windows 7
> has made the world more productive - in the middle of an economic melt-
> down.

Ballmer's "routine" is like reading the GAAP compared to your nutjob 
blabbering about Linux "having the potential to double the world's 
global output every 2 years".