Thor Melsted

To all the haters...
Jim Cameron's motto is: "Set your goals ridiculously high. That way, if you fail, you at least fail higher than everyone else."

So, even if he falls short of his goals, he'll still kick everyone's ass.

That attitude, combined with his track record, plus the pure awesomeness of the 3.5 minute theatrical trailer tells me Avatar is going to be great.

Well, this is stupid.
System requirements for iTunes 9: OS X 10.5 or later.
blah-blah-blah. buried at the bottom: Safari 4 or later

iTunes Store does not work without Safari 4.0.3.
One minor problem with that.
Safari 4 requires OS X 10.5.7 or later - so why not put 10.5.7 as the minimum for iTunes 9??
I didn't notice the Safari requirement until after I had installed iTunes. But shouldn't iTunes check for OS version during the install, just like Safari does?
Like I said, this is stupid.

I have 10.5.6 and due to compatibility issues with the software I use for my work, I cannot upgrade to 10.5.7 - let alone SL.
So, effectively, Apple just killed my iTunes by trying to force me to use Safari 4 - I can neither upgrade my iTunes nor my iPhone.

Thanks guys!

No use for 4k?
Composites done at 4k and then resampled to 2k look much, much better than composites done at 2k.
That's just one.
Your claim busted, I don't need to list any more - and there's a myriad.

Your backwards attitude reminds me of something I heard a long time ago: "640K should be enough for everyone."

OK, two things inaccurate in this post.

1. The camera is 4k, not 8k. The projector is 8k/4k.
2. D-ILA is projection technology, not capture technology. The camera uses a CMOS sensor.

DRM for cars?
I guess it stands for Digital Repo Man.

Just because it can be hacked is no reason not to make it. Everything can be hacked. If we made business decisions based on hacking possibilities, no technology would ever be released out of fear.

Personally, I think this is a good idea, from a business standpoint.

Donald Trump is a joke.
Donald Trump is a child.
Donald Trump is an attention whore of the worst sort.
Donald Trump is a schoolyard bully.

How that man keeps getting media attention is beyond me.
He's not "worth 5 billion" like he said, and in the next breath he says "you can't make false statements".
If anyone's making false statements, it's TtheC.

Plus, he's attacking Rosie personally, by calling her ugly, fat, stupid, ignorant and a loser. He offers no retort to her statements other than personal attacks. In the real world of debate, that's called an ad hominem.
Rosie didn't attack him personally. She called him on his hypocrisy, by pointing out his moral failures at a time when he's passing moral judgement over others.
Pointing out hypocrisy is very different from ad hominem attacks.

But Donald Trump is a spoiled little brat who grew up to be a bully with a bad comb-over. He's a classic bully. Look up the meaning of the word. It should have a picture of TtheC next to it.
I was bullied as a kid, and can spot bullies very quickly, and he fits the bill perfectly. Usually the bullies made fun of my weight and beat me up if I responded.
That's what TtheC is doing to Rosie. He can't make a rational argument, so he starts talking about her weight and her looks, and threatening lawsuits is his version of "beating up".

But he doesn't have a leg to stand on legally. Nothing Rosie said is actionable, as everything she said can be backed up with facts, so slander is out of the question.
The fact is... the truth hurts, and TtheC can't take it, so he wants revenge the only way he knows how, through personal attacks and frivolous legal action.

Talking about how it must be easy to "take her girlfriend away because of her looks" is beyond pathetic, and only exposes his own shallow self. We've all known for quite some time that he likes physically attractive women, so one must wonder aloud, is that all he cares about? Is that all he thinks anyone else cares about? If Kelli didn't love Rosie as a person, she wouldn't be in the relationship to begin with.

What a deuche this guy is.

I greatly look forward to the day when TtheC disappears from public view forever.

OK, two things.

First, the motion capture used to animate both The Polar Express and Haunted House does indeed capture facial movement (and is in fact the very reason it has been dubbed "performance capture"). The main benefit of this system, is that it isn't limited to the number of "markers" placed on an actor's face, so it can generate a far more detailed representation of the actor's facial movements.

Second, the purpose of motion capture in general is not to replace actors, but to get better performances into animated characters. The angle of "cgi replacing actors" is simply an example of lazy journalism.

Also, when you said "I don't really understand it", you were absolutely correct, you don't. And moreover, you completely missed the point.