Informal Poll WAS RE: [geeks] Laid off blues

Kris Kirby geeks at sunhelp.org
Tue Oct 23 02:41:50 CDT 2001


On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> Now, I've heard of raytracers written in postscript.  That means that he
> could do the next Shrek short film, and do the rendering on the nearest
> postscript printer.  Ooh.  Now the ideas are coming.

Ssssh! They'll feed the cells into the printer and put the animators out
of a job. Pay some dipshit $5.60 / hr to sequence the cells and push a
button.

Do you have any idea how much power a room of LaserJet 4000s would
consume? How much ozone they'd produce? :)

-----
Kris Kirby, KE4AHR          | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said.
<kris at nospam.catonic.net>   |
-------------------------------------------------------
"Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony."




More information about the geeks mailing list