Linux in Hollywood The First Linux Movies Conference SidebarsA Sampler of Linux MoviesSome Motion Picture Studios Using PrimarilyLinux A Brief History of Open Source and the Movies For Star Wars: Episode II, Linux made Yoda a lightsaber-wielding action figure. In short, the big news in Hollywood about Linux is it is no longerbig news. At the software level, studios are using Linux versions of some ofthe leading commercial applications for 3D animation, compositing,special effects, and rendering — Alias Maya, Apple Shake, andPixar RenderMan. Linux began in 1991 as grad student Linus Torvalds' personal hobby.How did it become a professional graphics powerhouse in the mostdemanding of CG industries? Linux got its commercial boost as a platform to serve web pages.During the Internet boom Linux captured a third of the ISP servermarket on its effectiveness powering Apache web servers. Linux got its big Hollywood break in 1997 when Digital Domain (D2)used Linux to render the special effects for Titanic.
Podcast -- WoW Insider Every week, join us as we present you with The WoW Insider Show podcast -- an hour's worth of WoW community discussion covering everything from the week's top stories here on WoW Insider to emails from our readers and what's been going on with our particular characters in Azeroth. This week we're joined by the legendary Lead Systems Designer of World of Warcraft, Greg Street, aka "Ghostcrawler." Greg recently departed Blizzard for other adventures, and he was kind enough to spend his Monday evening talking with us about WoW and his time spent at Blizzard. Please note that during the first four minutes of the podcast the audio is off somewhat -- however the remaining 55 minutes everything is fine. Get the podcast: [iTunes] Subscribe to the WoW Insider Show directly in iTunes. Listen here on the page: Filed under: Podcasts, WoW Insider Show
VB versus Java John asks a question that gets me thinking about it. John Pusatera wrote to me with this question, "I am not a professional programmer, but I always wondered how the professional community viewed Visual Basic compared to Java." A “professional developer” has one rule that overrides all the others: “Do what the boss wants done.” If the boss needs Java development, that’s what you do. If the boss needs VB, do that instead. Update!! But getting back to my original blog ..... If you’re talking about just having fun, it’s VB all the way for me. The comparison of .NET to Java, however, is more one of guessing about what the future may bring. So why use .NET? I like to think in terms of analogies. One way to classify real estate investments is to decide whether you’re going to go for a relatively cheap piece of property and hope it turns into something grand; or buy something that is already pretty grand and expect it to get even better. What's your opinion?
World Of Warcast The Death of the Extender for Windows Media Center | We Got Serv As you may have seen on Gizmodo this week, both Linksys and HP have confirmed that they’ve dropped their Extender for Windows Media Center products, and other than a prototype device from Toshiba announced at CES this year, it looks like the category is pretty much dead in the water at this point. Regular readers may remember that my crystal ball pretty much predicted this when I wandered around the show floors at Las Vegas this year. Networked TVs and DLNA support from the CE guys as well as Microsoft in Windows 7 ultimately will provide most of the functionality you need to enjoy music, videos and photos on your TV from your PC or home server without the need for an additional (and historically underpowered) extender device. For the likes of Linksys and especially HP, Extenders were a niche product within a niche category and I guess the volume just wasn’t there (or likely to develop) to make money. For more perspectives, check out GeekTonic and Ian Dixon.
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