Linux Used To Make "Star Trek, Nemesis" 249
Mike McCune writes "The "Linux Journal" has a nice article about the switch
from Irix to Linux at Digital Domain and the use of Linux in 'Star Trek, Nemesis.' I guess this means that Linux is finally ready for 'The Enterprise.'"
No (Score:5, Funny)
No. It means the Enterprise is finally ready for Linux.
Data... (Score:5, Funny)
Grooooaaannn! (Score:5, Funny)
I guess this means that Linux is finally ready for 'The Enterprise.'
Urge
For that, you should surely be PUNished.
Sequel (Score:2, Funny)
M$, Nemesis
I can see it now... (Score:2, Funny)
The big question (Score:5, Funny)
Ready for the Enterprise (Score:5, Funny)
pfff (Score:5, Funny)
Rendering pretty pictures is oh-so-boring. I'd like to sit in front of a mic at a console, utter the command "Make it sew!" then watch a beowulf cluster of Singers make the whole crew wardrobe in 4 minutes, including the time needed for Troi's custom boob expansion panels.
Does this mean there is less chance (Score:4, Funny)
Hmmm (Score:5, Funny)
and giving plenty more tag-lines to Linux PR - "Who's handling your Enterprise software these days? Linux, where no company has gone before."
Urghh.... Must... Stop... Stupid... Puns... Kill... Timothy... for... starting... it...
Re:I've said it before... (Score:5, Funny)
You are new to slashdot, right?
Re:The big question (Score:5, Funny)
Worst pun EVER! (Score:5, Funny)
Allow me to present this as timothy should have.
Re:./ away (Score:4, Funny)
Uh, no. You see, web servers are from real life. Data is a character on a TV show.
Anyone notice the date of the pLJ posting? (Score:2, Funny)
Er, would that be Stardate 2003.1
Linux Used To Make Star Trek, Nemesis? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:L-Cars Skin (Score:4, Funny)
Captain, I'm unable to complete your command. I mistakenly typed in www.abcnew.com when researching current events, and now my console is flooded by what 21st Century humans called "Pop-ups". They are replicating faster than I can close them. I recommmend a complete LCARS shutdown.
Captain:
DAMNIT! I told them we should have installed Adaware at spacedock!
That makes sense (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The deeper meaning of switching from Irix to Li (Score:5, Funny)
I've got money on OS/2.
Re:The big question (Score:2, Funny)
Klingons use BSD (Score:5, Funny)
Not convinced? Consider this additional evidence. On TNG, the Klingons are worried that their traditional values are dying. On Slashdot, the crapflooding trolls declare daily that BSD is dying. 'Nuff said.
Not in 2.4.20 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:introduction... (Score:3, Funny)
Getting from IRIX to here,
It's been a long time,
But Linux time is finally near.
I see Torvalds dream come alive at last,
Kissing Irix'es goodbye,
And they're not gonna hold me down no more,
No they're not gonna change my mind...
yadda yadda you get the idea...
Re:Data... (Score:5, Funny)
My idiot friend recently installed RH 8 and jumped on IRC with a client rinning from root. It gave him the verbatim "Running IRC from root is stupid" message, and he wouldn't shut up about it for the next few weeks: "Linux called me stupid"
Gee, artificial intelligence in Linux. If only there were natural intelligence in users.
That explains (Score:4, Funny)
Such a fickle bunch.
Re:The big question (Score:5, Funny)
Nope. The manufacturer refused to release specs for the hardware, so no driver has been written yet. Reverse engineering is in progress, though.
Re:Ho hum, whatever.... (Score:4, Funny)
KDE, Gnome, the widget sets. Yep, that pretty much covers it.
Re:The big question (Score:4, Funny)
Fry: Well, usually on the show, somebody would come up with a complicated plan, then explain it with a simple analogy.
Leela: Hmmm... if we can re-route engine power through the primary weapons and reconfigure them to Melllvar's frequency, that should overload his electro-quantum structure.
Bender: Like putting too much air in a balloon!
Fry: Of course! It's all so simple!
This just in... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The big question (Score:2, Funny)
Nope. The manufacturer refused to release specs for the hardware, so no driver has been written yet. Reverse engineering is in progress, though.
Not so fast!
The data stream between phase buffers and any output device (including the primary deflector antenna) must be encrypted as required by the QMCA (Quantum Millennium Copyright Act). Since the act also makes it illegal to decrypt that content, or exposing the encryption algorithms publicly is banned by the same act, any hope of having open-source drivers is pretty well stuffed! Besides, the phase bufferes would never allow output to an untrusted device, like the deflector dish; no part of the shield system has the proper Palladium4 technology to ensure content security.
This is what you get, for allowing unlimited "soft money" donations to Federation Council members! And yes, "Steamboat Willie" is still under copyright, until at least the year 4300.
you joke but (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The big question (Score:3, Funny)
No but emacs can.
That explains why..... (Score:5, Funny)