Most commenters on Hacker News don't know what freedom of speech is. They also don't understand, or maybe don't care, about the responsibility of society to protect minority groups. They also haven't read the bible or understand any of the history behind religion-based attacks on gay rights. I had no idea we had so many Fox News viewers here.
I'd love to see a study on privilege and libertarianism because that would explains the views of so many on Hacker News. If your field of study is computer science, you don't get to tell climate scientists that have extensively studied something that they're wrong because it might inconvenience your lifestyle.
These open movies are great technical demos for Blender but I haven't been impressed with the writing. The stories have been flat, emotionless, poorly paced and lacking in any kind of mass appeal. I'd love to see Blender put out a movie with the depth and complexity of a Pixar film using open-source software. They need a message and a story, something brave and ambitious. So far, it seems like the stories have been written to demo features they're working on. It's really a waste of the amazing talent they have working on these films and the abilities of this software to be used for storytelling.
To make a Pixar quality film would require a bunch of different world class skillsets. In addition to animators, modellers, riggers, lighters, lookdev artists, fx artists and compositors you'd need writers, editors, sound designers, voice actors etc.
In addition to all that you'd need some sort of top down project management structure. If the people who are directing/supervising the project decide one of the sequences that a bunch of people have worked on for 6 months isn't working, they need to be able to make the decision to abandon the work without causing massive animosity and have people quit the project.
You have a strange perception of all this. You haven't enjoyed the films, so they are a waste of talent.
As if these people weren't bogged down working for blender movies, they'd have jobs at Pixar. These people apply to get on the project and they are hand picked crews. They in some cases get to live on the "campus" and work on the film. Everybody benefits, the film is released for free in dozens of file formats / resolutions.
the residual benefits are big, the educational benefits are obvious. Some of the crew have gone on to bigger paid work including pixar and the lego movie, and that's just the popular recent ones. Others create their own companies, others work more on blender and do what they want.
To say it's a waste of talent is very strange way of looking at this.
Although little cliched, "Sintel"'s story had great depth and pull. In any case writing good story is hard, their is a reason their is only one "Pixar" .
Why not just use a piece (an old play for example) that is already in the commons? Or they could request permission from a short story writer that would probably love the exposure.
There is no reason to try to be completely original. There are plenty of great stories out there.
I don't think that has anything to do with the "OSS model". The management/leadership dynamic of FOSS projects can differ from one another just as much as closed projects do.
Well, I am assuming its going to be really really hard to ask someone to part with 6 million Euros for a project that outsider-to-a-industry wants to do, on promise of "maybe" some benefit at end of 2 years :)
I lived close to that area for a while and know people that have moved to North Dakota to work. They're coming right out of high school and immediately making tons of money. A lot of it is wasted on motorcycles, TVs, trucks, alcohol and drugs. The work itself can be very hard, taking a toll on even the youngest and strongest of them. It's put a strain on a lot of marriages as husbands have moved away to work leaving their wives and children behind in communities that can provide decent homes, schools and safety.
It's a difficult situation for me because I know a lot of people that rely on this work to support themselves and their families. Without oil, gas and coal many of these communities would collapse. At the same time, I know the effect this has on the environment and I support us moving towards cleaner, renewable energy sources. I don't have a solution for any of this, just a lot of empathy for everyone involved.
Most of the communities that existed before the oil boom would have been fine without it. Some small towns were slowly dying, but the major players and what was effectively their suburbs (South Heart's relationship with Dickinson for example) left the region stable.
For those that were slowly circling the drain of death, they've been handed a fate even worse.
There is not mac support for the cryengine? This is really strange considering that apple has surely a bigger installed base in consumer computers compared to linux
Macs have sucked, do suck, and likely will suck for all time to come as far as gaming is concerned. They ship with shitty graphics cards, have bad cooling, and there's simply not much in the way of interest from Apple in supporting gaming.
If enough large games were released for OS X, even as a port, Apple may put a little more effort in. And yes, the graphics cards are weak (mine is an Intel HD 4000.) But look at the Mac Pro. They invested a ton on engineering it for performance, including a lot of effort on the cooling. Apple can do it, they just need a little push. And now is a great time for it, they have no place else to go. They can't keep marketing the CPU speed or how thin the machines are for much longer. They need a new metric to push and gaming performance would be a great one.
The only way Apple would become a good choice for PC gamers is if they started shipping computers that competed on price with gaming PCs while offering comparable performance.
I could easily see "casual" PC gamers (people who play games casually, not who play casual games) buying a Mac for their general purpose PC and playing games on the side, iff the Mac offered decent gaming performance (they don't) and were priced around the same as a decent gaming PC (they aren't).
It's a chicken-and-egg problem, though. Studios don't want to invest in making (or even porting) games for a non-gaming platform, gamers don't want to buy a computer they can't play games on, and Apple doesn't want to invest in pleasing a consumer segment that doesn't exist.
I love how arrogant writers think that if you want GMO labeling suddenly you're anti-science or a nut-job. Personally, I'd like the entire food chain carefully documented and put online so data could be gathered, trends could be established and science can be done.
A lot of things that have been considered safe for generations we now understand to have harmful effects on the population or segments of it. As we begin to engineer our food, instead of just growing it, we should take extra care to understand the effects of what we're doing. We should also give people the choice to opt-out of this big experiment by letting people know what's in their food and letting them have the option to decide if they want to consume it.
I've been on the internet long enough to understand the arguments for GMOs, I just think people should know where their food comes from and what's in it.
People who know about the issue already know what food is GMO. Its all the food that isn't labelled "GMO free". So a label will not change your level of knowledge about your food and where it comes from.
Imagine if you went to the grocery store and noticed everything said "contains dihydrogen monoxide" (H2O). Does such a label inform, or merely confuse, consumers?
*not a chemist, so please give me a pass on the H20 example
I bought CodeKit 1 a while ago and about a week later he announced he had been working on CodeKit 2. Basically, my purchase was immediately abandonware. He's released no new features and very few updates (just library updates) since then. When I contacted him he wrote a short message back saying there will be no free upgrades to CodeKit 2. Stuff like this just teaches me not to trust these companies, I'm always going to get screwed. So, instead of investing myself to configure CodeKit and make it a part of my development pipeline, I moved over to Grunt. I didn't get to use CodeKit 1 on a single project because I knew it was already abandoned. It took me an hour or so to optimize my grunt file and get used to it but it's all been for the best. Grunt won't abandon me or gouge me for more money. I've also been using Adobe Brackets (and playing with GitHub Atom) a lot lately and it will probably soon replace the expensive Coda 2 that Panic never updates. I've never really been a huge open-source guy but the actions of Mac developers are pushing me that way.
Actually, they have. Freelancing isn't everyone's cup of tea, and sure, when you can grab 100k+ for a project, you don't need to be listed on a website, but we have quite a few really stellar individuals.
Most commenters on Hacker News don't know what freedom of speech is. They also don't understand, or maybe don't care, about the responsibility of society to protect minority groups. They also haven't read the bible or understand any of the history behind religion-based attacks on gay rights. I had no idea we had so many Fox News viewers here.