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- camiloteram, on 12/22/2008, -5/+591Her acting kills my braincells.
- Unregisteredusr, on 12/22/2008, -41/+624lol I love how he upgrades from vista to XP. Wonderful world we live in.
- spritom, on 12/22/2008, -44/+577So in a 1-on-1 battle the $400 PC was trashing the $2k Mac.
- josepablos, on 12/22/2008, -10/+427dugg for iBall's
- kmb1794, on 12/22/2008, -7/+405I was hoping the PC would escape the graphic design lab and make it to the server racks.
- fwertz, on 12/22/2008, -8/+312The hype shield doesn't recharge very quickly.
- spilo101, on 12/22/2008, -6/+272Shame the actors could not act for sh*t...
- GarmaZed, on 12/22/2008, -43/+269Macs are the "300" of the computer world. Shiny and impressive, but ***** when it comes to the market share.
- ertz, on 12/22/2008, -14/+226Was anyone else absolutely sure that this would end up being some Apple fanboy video?
- FredFredrickson, on 12/22/2008, -50/+247Yes, what a wonderful world we live in where people who, by and large, have never used Vista and just assume that it sucks because other people on the internet who have never used Vista insist that it's terrible.
- rschenkel, on 12/22/2008, -7/+188But the dialogue is funny and sooo original:
Guy: "Yours is all big and clunky."
Girl: "That's what she said." - lilmentor3, on 12/22/2008, -10/+189"your face gets viruses"
muahahaha - netfool, on 12/22/2008, -20/+191Correction: The PC won the 1 vs 1 laptop battle. It took 4 Mac desktops to kill the PC.
But whatever, this is fake anyways; we all know Macs don't have any balls to begin with. - gordonf238, on 12/22/2008, -15/+162What for? To be annihilated by Linux bots?
- TheKorn2, on 12/22/2008, -18/+162That's right, it takes FOUR macs to take out a single PC!
- usingpond, on 12/22/2008, -5/+142Awesome, but the red screen at the end should have been blue.
- borez, on 12/22/2008, -2/+131What acting?
- interferens, on 12/22/2008, -5/+131oh *****...i would like to see the next episode!
- vestlandsfanden, on 12/22/2008, -3/+128Dugg for Job´s face on the apple star.
- inactive, on 12/22/2008, -9/+130too bad the linux bots would have been too busy fighting amongst themselves over which distro was the least *****
- TheKorn2, on 12/22/2008, -17/+135(copy from reddit)
It's interesting, buuut... The weakest thing about the whole movie are the "transformer" designs themselves. With 'real' transformers, you can sorta-kinda see how there are still car/truck/plane parts in there that form the basis for the robot's outer shell. Yeah, you have to suspend disbelief for the concept of a transformer to even work at all, but by keeping the car/truck/plane parts recognizable it prevents your brain from immediately rejecting the concept entirely.
Unfortuantely in this movie, the robot forms have nothing to do with anything in the computer forms, so your brain immediately rejects the entire concept. (It violates the preestablished principle of a transformer.) So in order for these to "work", the transformer would also have to be a T-1000 liquid metal Terminator. And if it's already a T-1000, why the f* would it bother with transforming in the first place!???
(Apologies to 5-4-3-2-1-bang. You're bang on, so I stole it!) - Kivenkantaja, on 12/22/2008, -13/+119Awesome CGI 10/10
- ta10n, on 12/22/2008, -13/+105So the moral is Macs are for pussies with lots of money?
- TheKorn2, on 12/22/2008, -2/+92It would have been excuseable if this were porn. This is no porn.
- redponygt, on 12/22/2008, -3/+83Let the little bastards walk into the server closet!
- BullHunter, on 12/22/2008, -6/+80Nerds vs The Nerds. The Nerds won!
- Renton, on 12/22/2008, -4/+78I'll save you the trouble of reading all the Digg comments below:
"PC is better!"
"Nuh-uh, Mac is better!"
"Nuh-uh, PC is better!"
"Nuh-uh, Mac is better!"
"You're a fanboy!"
"No, you're a fanboy!"
"Hey guys, what did you think of the video?"
"Video?" - rusty_g, on 12/22/2008, -5/+67amazing video, looks like students from AI
- Subduction, on 12/22/2008, -0/+60I've noticed that a while back there was a sudden increase in CGI that's perfectly synced to shaky hand-held shots. Questions for a CGI nerd:
1) Was this the result of someone noticing how much cooler it looked, and then it became all the rage, or was it the result of a specific new tool or technique that made it possible?
2) How *do* they keep cg objects so perfectly matched with a camera frame that's constantly swinging around?
Thanks.
Oh, and if you have any detailed questions about trumpets or trumpet playing I'll be happy to return the favor...And who doesn't have a bunch of questions about trumpets? - gwhardyiv, on 12/22/2008, -0/+56What braincells?
- flammablewater, on 12/22/2008, -2/+58Linux would be the peace loving hippies, and try to make everyone get along.
- iliketowin, on 12/22/2008, -1/+54Drawing hearts in Paint would drive me crazy too.
- scratend0788, on 12/22/2008, -3/+55i think that is probably the most impotant thing we can draw from this
- Zegarek, on 12/22/2008, -2/+50Digital Graphics Students =! Actors
I mean was it really that much worse than the actual Transformers movie? - SkippyDoorknob, on 12/22/2008, -0/+47MS Paint
- Atomic05, on 12/22/2008, -0/+46He would have, but he's part of a new distro version so he couldn't get the new software drivers for his legs to work until after the fight was over.
/fanboy joke - hmunkey, on 12/22/2008, -6/+52Um, it lost. It ran like a pussy to get more teammates.
- Dronez, on 12/22/2008, -0/+45Yeah, it was still a cool video but they didn't really preserve the aesthetics of each machine when they transformed. They just kind of turned into regular robots with a logo on them.
- HamNCheese, on 12/22/2008, -10/+52The linux bot would have 5000 different weapons and attachments - none of which work worth a damn.
- norman619, on 12/22/2008, -3/+44You do realize this was a battle between hardware not software right? Linux actually runs on a standard PC.
- AnalJustice, on 12/22/2008, -2/+42yeah man. until it cheated and got its g5 buddies to come along
- TwoKill, on 12/22/2008, -10/+49Except in this video where the 400$ laptop beat the crap out of the much more expensive mac.
- Murdats, on 12/22/2008, -3/+42not to mention the arms and legs would be of all different models and disproportionate to each other, it would come with 3 different faces and its body would look like a patchwork creation.
- inactive, on 12/22/2008, -8/+46That was um, pretty awesome!
The robots should have been less rounded, and have a lot more flat parts. - bagboyrebel, on 12/22/2008, -6/+42<~~ Currently using vista, it doesn't suck.
Then again, my computer is less than a year old. - NinjaGod, on 12/22/2008, -2/+36So true
- aristotle1990, on 12/22/2008, -3/+37A++++++ WOULD SEE AGAIN!!!!!11111one
- ivosilva, on 12/22/2008, -0/+34It's a techique called Match Moving/Camera Tracking.
The software keeps getting better/cheaper/more accessible to everyone. There are several (PF Track, Syntheyes, Boujou, MatchMover)...
Basically it analizes the movement of the pixels in the image, and translates it to a 3D movement, wich you can later import into a 3D software (like Max or Maya) and apply it to a 3D camera, so that it moves in the same way as the "shaky" camera. You then export/render the 3D image and composite it with the video using any compositing software (After Effetcs, Combustion, etc).
You might want to check this thread here at digg:
http://digg.com/movies/Death_Star_over_San_Francis ...
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I hope I helped you understand a little bit how it works... - se1zure, on 12/22/2008, -5/+39analogy fail.
- DLit, on 12/22/2008, -0/+34blinktude: "thats what she said"
Thats what she said -
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