Mailing hudnreds of thousands of physical DVDs in the mail is actually an impressive amount of bandwidth, far more than anything netflix's or gamefly's servers could begin to handle.
Yeah, While I get a certain nostalgic buzz listening to music from the 80's, it's very clear to me that it was mostly crap.
That doesn't mean that we're not in a low point as regards the quality of popular music... I think it's clear that we are. That's very different than saying there's NO good new popular bands.
Personally, I've been listening more and more to soundtracks. There's a lot of unique and interesting, genre-mixing composition going on today in movies, TV, and videogames. Neat mixes of classical and modern. Track down the soundtrack for "The Fountain", for instance.
Businesses can never, and never have, spoken. Speech comes from a human. All commercial speech has originated from a human. The distinction between private and commercial speech is a meaningless, nebulous, distinction.
Maybe his email address is BikeHelmet@gmail.com? Lots of people have the same nickname they reuse in various contexts. It's probably sloppy to do so, but understandable.
In not really wanting a faster machine? The last two decades, I've been eager to upgrade my machine, so I could get stuff done faster. Now... everything is fast enough. Compiles and even rendering take only moments. I can re-encode video faster than I play it. And I've been chased away from using PCs for games by all the bugs, patches, DRM, and expenses.
Maybe once I upgrade from XP I'll desperately want a faster processor.
I like how the summary quotes the minister Qin Gang as denying any involvement, and then immediately goes on to ask "The obvious question is, why are the Chinese so interested in the NYPD computer network?".
Last I heard, it was a sliding scale. Studios got a really high percentage (like 90%) of box office the first week, and it decreased over time to about a 50/50 split for long-runs. This might vary for different regions and different theater chains.
Lots of people went to see it. As stated elsewhere, it was the 6th biggest R-Rated opening ever. It also is the 3rd best performing movie so far in 2009. It perhaps underperformed against what Warners HOPED it would be, but it will be one of the bigger films of the year. There might be 5-10 movies that do better this year. It's not a flop, and it will turn a profit.
Inability to contemplate or consider a viewpoint or perspective outside one's self. It's a necessity for civil discussion, and somebody who can't understand that using a PDA in a theater is rude probably has never learned the concept.
This was moderated a troll? Sorry, I don't have mod points, buddy. The GP poster was clearly in need of a loud "FUCK YOU". Sometimes people are. If he was open to reasonable discussion, he wouldn't be using his PDA IN A MOVIE THEATER in the first place.
Oh, I agree. I'm generally pro-Israel, and I'm neither Jew nor Christian. However, in the big demographic picture of the US, it's hard to imagine any less consequential minority than "Conservative Atheist."
There would just have to be some game mechanic added to simulate blocking without actual resistance. It doesn't have to be realistic, if it's FUN.
My first inclination is to have the swords clash on the screen, with a red spark or something, and the first player that immediately pulls his sword back in the opposite direction gets a slight initiative advantage.
For some reason, I vaguely remember that the efficiency of extracting energy from heat is proportional to some power (4th?) of the relative difference in temperature between the object and its surroundings. As a practical matter, I think energy is generally reclaimed by using variations on the mechanical work expansion/contraction performs when temperature changes.
I'm sure somebody will come by in a few minutes to prove me wrong about everything I said.
It's vastly more efficient, and probably less expensive, to redesign the Dryer/Air Conditioner/whatever to waste less heat in the first place. So I'm not really disagreeing with you, but I feel that it's a bit more of a feel good effort than an actual relevant solution.
My impression is that the values sent from the Wiimote are jittery in the 0-255 range, a bit like the old joystick pots were. That is, holding it at a certain value might result in 32, 37, 29, 30, 35... and a bit of smoothing is done to get a 'real' value. If the peripheral can ensure that these values are more consistent and accurate, it might help pre-existing games.
I rented it, really expecting to like it, but I found it a little dull. Amusing for a couple hours, but I had NO desire to play further.
Oddly, the week before I rented "OneChanbara Bikini Zombie Slayers" for the Wii, which has very similar gamplay to MadWorld, and which also has over the top violence and gore, and found it to be the most fun I've had on the Wii for months. I intend to purchase that one. Interesting how two games can play so similarly, yet feel entirely different.
All that said, a title like Resident Evil 4 or the new Metroid Prime in my opinion show the Wii to be an EXCELLENT platform for FPS and hard core games. The control scheme when done well is infinitely superior to the xbox/ps3 analog stick controllers.
RE4 proved that the Wii controls were vastly superior than a standard gamepad for aiming, when done right... in the same sense that a mouse is superior to a gamepad for some types of games. Developers promptly learned nothing from that example, though.
You don't understand the situation if you think Israel's support in the US is composed solely of Jews. I think they're probably a minority of pro-Israel faction. A huge subset of American Christians are dedicated to helping Israel.
Addendum, because I forgot to make a point: The 19 year old is off to college, and I don't mean to classify him as a kid; but he sure was one when he was 17, for instance.
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Mailing hudnreds of thousands of physical DVDs in the mail is actually an impressive amount of bandwidth, far more than anything netflix's or gamefly's servers could begin to handle.
Temporarily putting people at risk; in the long run, it's building a more resistant species.
Yeah, While I get a certain nostalgic buzz listening to music from the 80's, it's very clear to me that it was mostly crap.
That doesn't mean that we're not in a low point as regards the quality of popular music... I think it's clear that we are. That's very different than saying there's NO good new popular bands.
Personally, I've been listening more and more to soundtracks. There's a lot of unique and interesting, genre-mixing composition going on today in movies, TV, and videogames. Neat mixes of classical and modern. Track down the soundtrack for "The Fountain", for instance.
Businesses can never, and never have, spoken. Speech comes from a human. All commercial speech has originated from a human. The distinction between private and commercial speech is a meaningless, nebulous, distinction.
Maybe his email address is BikeHelmet@gmail.com? Lots of people have the same nickname they reuse in various contexts. It's probably sloppy to do so, but understandable.
It's not a commons; bandwidth is paid for. It's a toll road, or an pay-at-the-door club.
In not really wanting a faster machine? The last two decades, I've been eager to upgrade my machine, so I could get stuff done faster. Now... everything is fast enough. Compiles and even rendering take only moments. I can re-encode video faster than I play it. And I've been chased away from using PCs for games by all the bugs, patches, DRM, and expenses.
Maybe once I upgrade from XP I'll desperately want a faster processor.
I like how the summary quotes the minister Qin Gang as denying any involvement, and then immediately goes on to ask "The obvious question is, why are the Chinese so interested in the NYPD computer network?".
Hey, I'm sure he's lying too...
Last I heard, it was a sliding scale. Studios got a really high percentage (like 90%) of box office the first week, and it decreased over time to about a 50/50 split for long-runs. This might vary for different regions and different theater chains.
Lots of people went to see it. As stated elsewhere, it was the 6th biggest R-Rated opening ever. It also is the 3rd best performing movie so far in 2009. It perhaps underperformed against what Warners HOPED it would be, but it will be one of the bigger films of the year. There might be 5-10 movies that do better this year. It's not a flop, and it will turn a profit.
Inability to contemplate or consider a viewpoint or perspective outside one's self. It's a necessity for civil discussion, and somebody who can't understand that using a PDA in a theater is rude probably has never learned the concept.
You're pretty much spot on, but I'd like to add that all the Lego games have been pretty good. If you dismiss them as kid's games, you're missing out.
Can I add minimal antivirus capability to my shareware game?
This was moderated a troll? Sorry, I don't have mod points, buddy. The GP poster was clearly in need of a loud "FUCK YOU". Sometimes people are. If he was open to reasonable discussion, he wouldn't be using his PDA IN A MOVIE THEATER in the first place.
None of that is necessary. You think Apple wouldn't be happy to sell to the Military? Of course they would be.
Oh, I agree. I'm generally pro-Israel, and I'm neither Jew nor Christian. However, in the big demographic picture of the US, it's hard to imagine any less consequential minority than "Conservative Atheist."
There would just have to be some game mechanic added to simulate blocking without actual resistance. It doesn't have to be realistic, if it's FUN.
My first inclination is to have the swords clash on the screen, with a red spark or something, and the first player that immediately pulls his sword back in the opposite direction gets a slight initiative advantage.
For some reason, I vaguely remember that the efficiency of extracting energy from heat is proportional to some power (4th?) of the relative difference in temperature between the object and its surroundings. As a practical matter, I think energy is generally reclaimed by using variations on the mechanical work expansion/contraction performs when temperature changes.
I'm sure somebody will come by in a few minutes to prove me wrong about everything I said.
It's vastly more efficient, and probably less expensive, to redesign the Dryer/Air Conditioner/whatever to waste less heat in the first place. So I'm not really disagreeing with you, but I feel that it's a bit more of a feel good effort than an actual relevant solution.
My impression is that the values sent from the Wiimote are jittery in the 0-255 range, a bit like the old joystick pots were. That is, holding it at a certain value might result in 32, 37, 29, 30, 35... and a bit of smoothing is done to get a 'real' value. If the peripheral can ensure that these values are more consistent and accurate, it might help pre-existing games.
Not by that much, really. Just thinking out-loud.
I rented it, really expecting to like it, but I found it a little dull. Amusing for a couple hours, but I had NO desire to play further.
Oddly, the week before I rented "OneChanbara Bikini Zombie Slayers" for the Wii, which has very similar gamplay to MadWorld, and which also has over the top violence and gore, and found it to be the most fun I've had on the Wii for months. I intend to purchase that one. Interesting how two games can play so similarly, yet feel entirely different.
All that said, a title like Resident Evil 4 or the new Metroid Prime in my opinion show the Wii to be an EXCELLENT platform for FPS and hard core games. The control scheme when done well is infinitely superior to the xbox/ps3 analog stick controllers.
RE4 proved that the Wii controls were vastly superior than a standard gamepad for aiming, when done right... in the same sense that a mouse is superior to a gamepad for some types of games. Developers promptly learned nothing from that example, though.
True. Do you believe that wiretapping is always morally wrong? I don't.
You don't understand the situation if you think Israel's support in the US is composed solely of Jews. I think they're probably a minority of pro-Israel faction. A huge subset of American Christians are dedicated to helping Israel.
Addendum, because I forgot to make a point: The 19 year old is off to college, and I don't mean to classify him as a kid; but he sure was one when he was 17, for instance.