Punk rock is like abstract painting. Either you laugh at how talentless the artists are, or you admire them for their defiant pioneering moxy. Both are misunderstood for the most part, and in the end, it's all your POV, there is no correct opinion.
Then all you do is turn on text-to-speech and have everything end with "End of line."
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The hard edge aspect of the 3d polygons can be rectified by using ATI's Truform technology which creates curved sufaces through 3d points as opposed to the the flat planes normally created. The software has to support this feature, such as Serious Sam does, so it's not a cure all, but it looks more organic if it's used.
On a related note, I wonder if the new generation games like Doom III and UT 2003 will bring back the familiar cycle of upgrading my whole system in order to play a new game. I haven't had to do that since Half-life. I'm sure that if that were the case, if a software company like id pushed the minimum requirements up enough to force a lot of new hardware purchases, there would be a resurgence in the whole hardware market. I mean, my credit card debts truly started after I got Mechwarrior 2 for christmas. I could see hardware companies hoping for this.
Did anyone actually follow the rules for fighting monsters in these modules? From the second encounter on, I would just think "Okay, I killed the shit out of this [centaur, wooly mammoth, etc], what's my prize? Sad, I know, but I was playing D&D by myself. How much sadder does it get?:)
It would be useful for playing mp3's, but I can do that with the DVD player I currently have (and almost all new dvd players can as well), so that's not so much of a draw for the xbox if they have one of these players already. I meant primarily with video, and since the xbox is already dvd-ready, it seems like a downgrade in the long run to switch to ripped divx's.
I don't understand the drive to have substandard formats rushed into the livingroom other than for piracy reasons. If I like a movie, a DVD will always sound and look better than a divx rip. A cd always sounds better on my stereo system than an mp3. If you want top quality, buy the stupid thing, if you want flexibility with your pirated copies, hack your xbox.
My dear blecky, the overall issue was not who was responsible for spilling the coffee. Have you ever eaten while driving? Used a cell phone while driving? Changed the radio station? Of course. We do things that aren't the absolute safest things (otherwise we wouldn't even get in a car most times) and sometimes these things come back to bite you. The overall viewpoint as a corporation then is to acknowledge that these events happen. McDonalds knew this and knew that the unnecessarily high temperature of their coffee directly contributed to third degree burns that would not have occurred had they lowered the temp to a more normal level. They knew it and deliberately continued to increase people's risk. This was the behavior the punitive damages seeked to end, not the spilling of coffee, which will continue to happen regardless.
Re:Trying real hard to hide java similarities?
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Programmers built the.NET Framework. Not some evil empire borg. Real programmers like you and me. Smart guys. They obviously saw a lot of good in Java, and wanted to pursue development in that direction, so they offer a competing product with their own personal touch.
I take exception to this. Programmers designed and built.Net to the specifications that Microsoft (read: evil empire borg) determined. They saw an area that could be expanded into, took the best of what was currently there, twisted it into a Microsoft-serving version of itself, and began the proliferation of this through the leveraging of it's other business monopolies. How does this differ from so many other areas?
I feel my real problem is with your using of the word 'competing product'. Seems a misnomer.
I moved into my current apartment about a year ago, and never ended up buying cable TV (financially, it was either CATV or DSL, TV lost easily) For the first few months, I couldn't even get tv channels from an antennae, so I survived on DVD's. Netflix was perfect for that. Provided you have the odd discipline I have for watching half a movie at a time, it becomes fairly easy to set up a cycle where there is new material arriving all the time.
I have the 3 DVD package, but you can also have 8 out at a time (for about 40 bucks a month) that would ensure new movies every day.
The main reason I like Netflix however, is that with the Machiavellian rental periods and fines for Blockbuster rentals and my horrible timing on returns, I could have easily bought a dozen of the DVD's I've rented from there. For me, even 5 rentals a month from netflix is a bargain at $20:)
agreed. 3d file systems are irrelevent until virtual reality becomes common because in the end we are filtering 3d views through _2d_ screens.
Also with 3d gloves, there needs to be some ultra quick way of deactivating it for when you are typing on the keyboard. Plus 3d gloves sound like a lot more arm movement than me resting my hands on ergo gel strip all day.
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convergence is going to happen one way or another, I just don't want the monopoly reaching it's hands (w/ hardware now as well as software) into the family room. Next thing you know I'll be sitting on an MS IP Toilet. Innovation is happening all the time and will get there with or without Microsofts help.
I peddeled (sorry) an idea to a vr company many moons ago about attaching some vr glasses to an excercise bike and having a type of "Man-copter" flight simulator where you could fly around in your man powered plane or helicopter. I know I would be incredibly fit if they ever actually made a product like that. I must have been talking to the wrong guy though, because shorty after I never heard from him again. Would anybody else use something like that?
I often look at all the energy being wasted at health clubs and wonder if any of that electricity could be captured and used by the club - perhaps to lower the price of membership? maybe 8 cycles connected to one big generator belt. ?:)
However, this is like putting a tax on bongs to help fight the war on drugs. Digital information is easy to copy these days, and they won't be able to put their fingers in all the holes in the dyke. The sooner they switch to a workable online sales model and embrace the online market, the better off they will be financially. I'm actually looking forward to it, although I can't really imagine they will come up with something that is reasonable financially for the average user. If a $1.50 CD didn't cost me $17.95, I don't think I would be that interested in alternatives.
check my tunes out at http://www.mp3.com/digitalcardboard
It's people like you that make movies like this possible. Bruckheimer is the Poison of the movie industry - Lot's of glam, no soul, less challenging than the maze on a Pizza Hut placemat.
There are 30-40 million kids that play video games in this country - does that sound right?
Out of that many, something like 40 of them went on a rampage at school?
Why are we getting so obsessed about something that affects such a miniscule amout of kids? How many die or kill from drunk driving or drugs a year? A thousand times as many? It's almost like the attention from the media and alarmist factions focused on violent video games is about the same level as these other topics! It's sensational and perhaps a little more entertaining than focusing on that old, boring drug problem, but if you grab 40 million people of ANY DEMOGRAPHIC, about 40 of them will be murders, probably more, so how can you possibly make a connection to just games as being a cause?
During the summer of 1987 I would climb in my best friend's window at around 8:30 am and while he was sleeping I would copy gold or magic items, recharge, heal, and get ready for the day on his commodore 64. Then he would get up and we would play Bard's Tale until 10:00 at night.
This cycle was repeated almost every day for three months. We finished I and II, and most of III by then. Our characters were about 130th level and could do about 1500 points of damage to everbody we faced using mangar's mind mallet. We were gods.
Due to the constraints of having a real life, I've never had the chance to do anything like that since, but I haven't had the addiction too often either. Anything by Blizzard is about as close as it has come.
If I'm not mistaken, that game was by Llamasoft and was called something like hovverbovver (since it used a hover mower aparently). I happened to enjoy that game, as well as a few others from that tiny company.
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After Episode II, I'm against anything involving cloning.
Punk rock is like abstract painting. Either you laugh at how talentless the artists are, or you admire them for their defiant pioneering moxy. Both are misunderstood for the most part, and
in the end, it's all your POV, there is no correct opinion.
Then all you do is turn on text-to-speech and have everything end with "End of line."
The hard edge aspect of the 3d polygons can be rectified by using ATI's Truform technology which creates curved sufaces through 3d points as opposed to the the flat planes normally created. The software has to support this feature, such as Serious Sam does, so it's not a cure all, but it looks more organic if it's used.
On a related note, I wonder if the new generation games like Doom III and UT 2003 will bring back the familiar cycle of upgrading my whole system in order to play a new game. I haven't had to do that since Half-life. I'm sure that if that were the case, if a software company like id pushed the minimum requirements up enough to force a lot of new hardware purchases, there would be a resurgence in the whole hardware market. I mean, my credit card debts truly started after I got Mechwarrior 2 for christmas. I could see hardware companies hoping for this.
Did anyone actually follow the rules for fighting monsters in these modules? From the second encounter on, I would just think "Okay, I killed the shit out of this [centaur, wooly mammoth, etc], what's my prize? Sad, I know, but I was playing D&D by myself. How much sadder does it get? :)
It would be useful for playing mp3's, but I can do that with the DVD player I currently have (and almost all new dvd players can as well), so that's not so much of a draw for the xbox if they have one of these players already. I meant primarily with video, and since the xbox is already dvd-ready, it seems like a downgrade in the long run to switch to ripped divx's.
I don't understand the drive to have substandard formats rushed into the livingroom other than for piracy reasons. If I like a movie, a DVD will always sound and look better than a divx rip. A cd always sounds better on my stereo system than an mp3. If you want top quality, buy the stupid thing, if you want flexibility with your pirated copies, hack your xbox.
My dear blecky, the overall issue was not who was responsible for spilling the coffee. Have you ever eaten while driving? Used a cell phone while driving? Changed the radio station? Of course. We do things that aren't the absolute safest things (otherwise we wouldn't even get in a car most times) and sometimes these things come back to bite you. The overall viewpoint as a corporation then is to acknowledge that these events happen. McDonalds knew this and knew that the unnecessarily high temperature of their coffee directly contributed to third degree burns that would not have occurred had they lowered the temp to a more normal level. They knew it and deliberately continued to increase people's risk. This was the behavior the punitive damages seeked to end, not the spilling of coffee, which will continue to happen regardless.
I take exception to this. Programmers designed and built
I feel my real problem is with your using of the word 'competing product'. Seems a misnomer.
I moved into my current apartment about a year ago, and never ended up buying cable TV (financially, it was either CATV or DSL, TV lost easily) For the first few months, I couldn't even get tv channels from an antennae, so I survived on DVD's. Netflix was perfect for that. Provided you have the odd discipline I have for watching half a movie at a time, it becomes fairly easy to set up a cycle where there is new material arriving all the time.
:)
I have the 3 DVD package, but you can also have 8 out at a time (for about 40 bucks a month) that would ensure new movies every day.
The main reason I like Netflix however, is that with the Machiavellian rental periods and fines for Blockbuster rentals and my horrible timing on returns, I could have easily bought a dozen of the DVD's I've rented from there. For me, even 5 rentals a month from netflix is a bargain at $20
agreed. 3d file systems are irrelevent until virtual reality becomes common because in the end we are filtering 3d views through _2d_ screens.
Also with 3d gloves, there needs to be some ultra quick way of deactivating it for when you are typing on the keyboard. Plus 3d gloves sound like a lot more arm movement than me resting my hands on ergo gel strip all day.
convergence is going to happen one way or another, I just don't want the monopoly reaching it's hands (w/ hardware now as well as software) into the family room. Next thing you know I'll be sitting on an MS IP Toilet. Innovation is happening all the time and will get there with or without Microsofts help.
Hmmmmmm.
I peddeled (sorry) an idea to a vr company many moons ago about attaching some vr glasses to an excercise bike and having a type of "Man-copter" flight simulator where you could fly around in your man powered plane or helicopter. I know I would be incredibly fit if they ever actually made a product like that. I must have been talking to the wrong guy though, because shorty after I never heard from him again. Would anybody else use something like that?
I often look at all the energy being wasted at health clubs and wonder if any of that electricity could be captured and used by the club - perhaps to lower the price of membership? maybe 8 cycles connected to one big generator belt. ? :)
When Counterstrike isn't fun any more, you can always play Starcraft.
After "Young Einstein", he should feel lucky if anyone mentioned the word "Yahoo" ever again.
However, this is like putting a tax on bongs to help fight the war on drugs. Digital information is easy to copy these days, and they won't be able to put their fingers in all the holes in the dyke. The sooner they switch to a workable online sales model and embrace the online market, the better off they will be financially. I'm actually looking forward to it, although I can't really imagine they will come up with something that is reasonable financially for the average user. If a $1.50 CD didn't cost me $17.95, I don't think I would be that interested in alternatives.
check my tunes out at http://www.mp3.com/digitalcardboard
It's people like you that make movies like this possible. Bruckheimer is the Poison of the movie industry - Lot's of glam, no soul, less challenging than the maze on a Pizza Hut placemat.
There are 30-40 million kids that play video games in this country - does that sound right?
Out of that many, something like 40 of them went on a rampage at school?
Why are we getting so obsessed about something that affects such a miniscule amout of kids? How many die or kill from drunk driving or drugs a year? A thousand times as many? It's almost like the attention from the media and alarmist factions focused on violent video games is about the same level as these other topics! It's sensational and perhaps a little more entertaining than focusing on that old, boring drug problem, but if you grab 40 million people of ANY DEMOGRAPHIC, about 40 of them will be murders, probably more, so how can you possibly make a connection to just games as being a cause?
This cycle was repeated almost every day for three months. We finished I and II, and most of III by then. Our characters were about 130th level and could do about 1500 points of damage to everbody we faced using mangar's mind mallet. We were gods.
Due to the constraints of having a real life, I've never had the chance to do anything like that since, but I haven't had the addiction too often either. Anything by Blizzard is about as close as it has come.
ahh C64, I still remember ye.
You must be a hoot at parties. You would make a good Vulcan.
If I'm not mistaken, that game was by Llamasoft and was called something like hovverbovver (since it used a hover mower aparently). I happened to enjoy that game, as well as a few others from that tiny company.