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by froo 18y ago
You're also forgetting Brad Bird (The Incredibles & Finding Nemo) and also to a lesser extent Pete Docter (Monster's inc & I think he has another in the pipeline due out called UP, that will be Pixar's release for this year...but do
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by froo 18y ago
Close but not the full story. Ed Catmull was put in charge ("president") of all Disney and Pixar Animation and Lasseter was made CCO as you said, so both have control of both animation studios.
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by froo 18y ago
I thought scientists had already been arguing about the existance of life on Titan? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(moon) or more specifically http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7716
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by froo 18y ago
I'm going down the list reading a lot of the comments and there doesn't seem to be too many wanting Steve to get well soon. So from 1 hacker to Steve, we wish you get better soon mate.
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by froo 18y ago
So NASA is hinting at life on Mars because they may have discovered the presence of alien farts? A big win for science.
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by froo 18y ago
Hmm, to be honest, I personally don't care about the language used in apologizing for problems caused by downtime - downtimes happen to even the most technically savvy of companies (Google + Gmail anyone?) so really, this is like pissing in
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by froo 18y ago
Heh... ok, riffing off this clearly silly idea, what about something that converts your tweets to smoke signals (using morse code?)
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by froo 18y ago
"Good artists copy, Great artists steal" - Pablo Picasso
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by froo 18y ago
Weird, my experience has been exactly the opposite. I reinstalled ubuntu 8.10 on my Asus notebook less than 2 days ago without any of these weird things happening, wifi, sound, trackpad, power management and sleep/resume all work perfectly
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by froo 18y ago
I agree that photoshop is the better of the two tools, I'm mostly using gimp BECAUSE it's a less powerful tool.. it's an experiment to see what I can create using lesser tools so that I rely more on my creative abilities and less on an eleg
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by froo 18y ago
I was scrolling down the comments looking to see if someone was going to make this joke. Glad to find it at the bottom where it belongs - Thanks HN.
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by froo 18y ago
Does all of the "great" Web technology only come out of California? Absolutely not. I am going to have a lot more on this topic early next week. I read PG's "Hackers and Painters" recently and I think he already answered this questi
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by froo 18y ago
I don't doubt that whatsoever, I originally was going to expand on what I meant but it didn't come out right, so I removed a large part of my response. I think the problem extends mostly from the poor choice of platform - the PC In the grea
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by froo 18y ago
Doesn't the surface also detect objects placed on top (eg phones) and can in some cases interact with those devices (again, phones) While I think this is defintely cool - I don't think its a step up, merely a competing product which is alwa
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by froo 18y ago
I had a dual boot xp/ubuntu system for the last 18 months now and last night around 1am I reformatted and am on a pure ubuntu system as Photoshop was really the only thing that kept me tethered to Windows (I bit the bullet and have instead
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by froo 18y ago
You're statement is wrong unfortunately. Maya (arguably the premier 3D modelling program for film and games) runs on Windows, Mac and Linux systems
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by froo 18y ago
While the possibilities are definitely interesting, ultimately I think this will be not much more than a gimmicky toy - kind of like VR Helmets for PC's.
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by froo 18y ago
Hmm, didn't think I would have gotten as many upvotes as I did... Anyway, I know this may seem like common sense, but if someone was going to build an app like this, I would suggest that the best platform for it is the iphone simply because
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by froo 18y ago
Some kind of GPS-based app for a mobile device that works out how you get to and from work and tries and puts you in touch with others who work closeby and the hours that you do for the sake of carpooling. Using your phone to reduce carbon
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by froo 18y ago
Incoming anecdote... The only computer I have had that hasn't eventually failed was my old Dell laptop - which funnily enough was dropped more times than I care to imagine. The worst of which was when it slipped off the hood of my car, slid
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by froo 18y ago
I wouldn't say its necessarily so, take Microsoft - its a corporation with thousands of employees that work on its products, but how many people hold Gates personally responsible for the failings of Windows? This example is a fairly mainstr
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by froo 18y ago
My "Introduction to Programming" course I did at Uni dealt with Ada shudder and I remember the very first things they were trying to teach were how to open, close and save files under Windows. I played Quake 3 for first 2 weeks during tha
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by froo 18y ago
Just did some napkin math for this site (please bare with me, there are a few assumptions based off the figures I could actually find) They say they have 50k users, and in 2008 their revenue was $28.3 million USD (from wikipedia). Theres al
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by froo 18y ago
Heh, that was the first thing that came to mind too. GaryV definitely has that kinda thing down packed. Shortened version for people too lazy to watch video, Type in keywords appropriate to your site in Google etc, look at the ads in the si
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by froo 18y ago
This seems like some common sense... cant they just get some magic beans instead?
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by froo 18y ago
We submitted our application earlier in the year but had another look over it earlier this week
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by froo 18y ago
The way I see it is I'm providing a launching point for a concerted, collaborative effort. I figured Rick wouldn't have had a chance otherwise - which is pretty evident given he wasn't actually invited until I got people to make a stink by
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by froo 18y ago
No I'm just finding it overwhelming given I started it as a hobby I guess. One of the commenter's above mentioned short and scripted - seems obvious unless you've got so much going on.
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by froo 18y ago
yes, I know... and on reddit (which is where I picked up on it) and it originated on the UG forums, this wasn't a question on the origins of the nomination idea, it was on how to deal with the media attention as a result of spearheading the
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by froo 18y ago
you make some good points, although given the way the aussie dollar is crashing, $5k might be like $10.50 USD in a couple weeks..

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