Light heeeeeeeerrrrrrrrr. LIGHT HEEEERRRRRRRR.

You realize the PS3's hardware WAS exotic right? That's exactly why it's hard! Write code optimized for multiple SPE units, and see how well you can get it to run on x86.

Probably not for most people, but I do it all the time on film sets. Rather than carry a workstation, you can just cary a laptop and a thunderbolt chassis with a RED ROCKET card for playback and transcoding. On location, this is a lifesaver.

Citizen Kane has a shit ton of special effects. Double exposures, matte paintings and set extensions, miniatures, etc. In fact the film is known for using these techniques very well.

We already have good codecs for professional use, lossy and lossless, that support alpha channels. For lossless there's Animation or DPX, for lossy Prores or DNxHD, etc. These codecs are standardized and supported by a wide variety of hardware and software. I think anybody doing this type of work professionally is going to be using already proven established codecs. There's nothing old, clunky, or painful about these (maybe animation).

Pretty much anybody can fly an airplane under general aviation, yet you see relatively few nasty accidents. This is because, surprise, it's much more difficult to get a pilot's license than a driver's license because the standards are high. I imagine flying cars would be no different.

Show me where a complete, working crack of Diablo 3 is. Oh wait there isn't one since so much of the code runs server side. What's out there is a buggy half playable mess with tons of missing content. When you run tons of code and serve content server side, you can't just crack it and call it a day. It's delusional to think pirates will win if the industry goes with these methods.

That's irrelevant. The CMOS sensor on the RED works the same way as a frame of film - it is activated and exposed to light in exactly the same way, for a fraction of a second depending on the desired shutter speed. The only difference is that the shutter is electronic (turning the sensor on and off) vs mechanical, and even new digital cameras like the Sony F65 have mechanical shutters exactly like film cameras.

It's not racism, just an observation that parents usually teach children values similar to their own.

"Answer #1: Any professional with any ambition at all. Collective bargaining agreements are a noose around the neck of anybody with the ambition to better themselves."

Bullshit. How do you figure? You are always free to negotiate yourself above and beyond what your union sets for everybody. I negotiate my salary myself on union jobs ALL THE TIME, and haven't worked for the union minimum in a long long time.

You can yell fire in a theatre, and there is nothing illegal about the speech itself. However, you would be charged with reckless endangerment, or if someone were trampled, manslaughter. Censoring the speech is bad because you cannot know the context before hand. All you can do is base law on actions, not words.

I routinely work 10-12 hour days in the film industry. You can absolutely get more done and better utilize your time on set, and only working 8 hours a day would seriously impact productions. 12 hours is standard. Of course, it pays extremely well so after many weeks of doing this I can take off a month or two. I would rather work 12 hours a day for 3 months then get 2 months off than work 5 days a week every week for 32 hours and basically only get weekends.

The difference is that if you are a player in say, the NFL, you will make a ton of money, and after 8-12 years retire and draw a pension from the NFL. Bench warmers make 150K+ a year, so if you're even halfway decent you will be making good money.

But in E-Sports, the 150K figure is for the very best. The very best are making less than a bench warmer in the NFL. Being the very best means practicing in your team house for 10-12 hours per day. Many top Starcraft players have needed surgery for RSI injuries.So even if you're the best in the world, you're going to get 10 years at best. You think 150K a year is a lot, but after your career is over what do you do? What skills do you have? All you can do is play a video game. You're hostage to it. Former top players have gone on to become coaches, and this is the only real progression left. If you are near the middle or bottom of the pack, your situation is even worse since you have less money.

This is not a long term career like traditional professional sports is.

That may be against the law. A better way is to put infrared lights around the plate. It in no way obscures the plate visually to the human eye, but cameras will see a big bright mess.

This is because a higher frame rate in games means it is more responsive, and since you are interacting with it, fast response time is necessary for lots of genres like FPS or fighting. You are not interacting with the film, so the frame rate is merely a stylistic choice. 24fps is not bad; it merely gives a certain look. 48 fps is also not bad; it just gives a different look.