A major Karma burn, but at the time I had to post, and I didn't have a convenient target thread. Here was my review, attacched to the videogame thread that night:
----- The Indie Game Jam is a yearly game design and programming event designed to encourage experimentation and innovation in the game industry...
Whoop-tee-doo!:P Most of us 12:01am showing folks just got back from Episode II premiers. It's 4am, I saw it in digital with 11 close friends. Concensus reaction:
OH MY FUCKING GAWD.
(In a jaw-dropped, wide-eyed, wired-at-3am , good kind of way:)
The big surprise was that we somehow got the "Director's Cut," which according to the theater manager, was 11 minutes longer than the celluloid version. Which makes sense, since we were dispersing behind the 12:05 showing and right alongside the 12:10 showing, both of which were "non-digital" formal.
Valley View Cinemark in Ohio RULES!
Favorite quote was some dude commenting to the media after the movie: "Yoda is like Bruce Lee, Mister Myogi, and Kermit the Frog all rolled into one!!"
That's just the thing, there is so little heroic about Jerome at all. You can't tell if his cynicism was there before his accident or not, but his smug elitist attitude clearly was. He covered for Vincent because Vincent was paying the bills, not because he appreciated Vincent's courage.
Vincent was willing to give anything, his life included, to be accepted as a "valid" human being despite his "imperfect" conception.
I agree largely with Wired's list, with the exception of Brazil and The Boys From Brazil, neither of which I have seen. (The two don't appear related.)
Call Gattaca a snoozer if you must, but I would place it in the top 10 SciFi films that I have seen; definitely top three on the scale they used for futurism and plausibility.
I caught Gattaca on HBO by accident (before they jacked up the price to $13.95 a month... I don't like HBO *that* much). By the end of that month I had seen it 4 times. From the cameo of Ernest Borgnine as head janitor to the all-telling final scene; it was so completely and totally plausible that it scared me. (I won't spoil the ending if you haven't seen it, but the good doctor gives us hope that the human spirit will not be overcome by science and "genetic discrimination.")
Rent it! Or if you are a cheap bastard, er, sorry, "poor college student with 10 megabit bandwidth and several hundred gigs of storage," download it. Some put the poo-poo on the film because it does not have enough action (AKA fight scenes and explosions), but the suspense does honor to the memory of Hitchcock. And it is a good story, despite the cardboard cut-out performance of Uma Thurman in the female lead.
Ethan Hawke is excellent, and Jude Law is good as a spoiled genetic-elite with a spinal injury. I liked Jude better as "Gigolo Joe" in AI, though.:)
Well of course it will be out earlier; DVD cloning technology is vastly improved from 1999 when Phantom was delayed!
*Dodges rotten tomatoes*
By the way, you don't have to wait for the DVD, the VCD is available from most asian sidewalk vendors TODAY! Act now and you can even download it and burn a copy for yourself! Who cares if it looks like a guy with a pinhole camera...
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The Indie Game Jam is a yearly game design and programming event designed to encourage experimentation and innovation in the game industry...
Whoop-tee-doo!:P Most of us 12:01am showing folks just got back from Episode II premiers. It's 4am, I saw it in digital with 11 close friends. Concensus reaction:
OH MY FUCKING GAWD.
(In a jaw-dropped, wide-eyed, wired-at-3am , good kind of way:)
The big surprise was that we somehow got the "Director's Cut," which according to the theater manager, was 11 minutes longer than the celluloid version. Which makes sense, since we were dispersing behind the 12:05 showing and right alongside the 12:10 showing, both of which were "non-digital" formal.
Valley View Cinemark in Ohio RULES!
Favorite quote was some dude commenting to the media after the movie: "Yoda is like Bruce Lee, Mister Myogi, and Kermit the Frog all rolled into one!!"
Sorry to self-reply, but I should mention that my above post refers to a custom config; the standard is two 64-bit PCI slots, and one 32-bit PCI slot with an ATI vid card in it.
Later it listed two 64bit PCI slots so I assumed that the network card was in one. Now it lists three slots with one being dedicated to the second NIC. Ah well, having two free slots is much better.
Three Expansion Slots.
Two 64bit PCI slots; one open if you add a second Gigabit Ethernet port (on a PCI card).
One AGP 4x slot, comes populated with a Radeon 8500 video card.
I think the RAID server that they announced (not shipping until later) will be pretty hot, too...3U height...
Just to reiterate, this is not a 3U server, this is a 3U storage unit. No processors (except RAID controllers), just hard drives. It is a "companion product" to the 1U G4 server.
Hey do you know if Valley View sold out the later shows on the 16th? I'm skippin classes that day to go see it cuz i'm only 40minutes from valley view.
They weren't on some of them, like the morning-ish ones. My buddy at work bought 10 tickets last night to the 7:45pm show.
this movie is going to suck anyway and you know it. why not spend your money on some QUALITY movies instead that deserve your money, not this hollywood crapovera.
I've read the script. The dialogue is pedestrian, pure Lucas blah blah. Lucas is a storyteller and effects conceptualizer, but not much of a screenplay writen.
Less Jar Jar, but Anakin still saying things like "Wow! That was wacky!" And "I had to pick a speeder with a real gonzo color!" Arrrgh!
At least there are the Windu and Yoda fight scenes though.
I gave up on downloading cams when someone promised "Spider-Man - 1 of 2 - Real!!" And it was ACTUALLY Part 2 of Changing Lanes. Man, KaZaa is a mixed blessing.
On the other hand, I am fortunate enough to live within close proximity to one of the "sacred places" specified by Wired that have digital projection. Cinemark started selling tickets Monday morning, but didn't advertise them until Tuesday. By then, word of mouth had already sold out the 12:01am show online, and I had stopped down Monday afternoon to the kiosk in the Valley View Cinemark lobby to claim my tickets.:)
Next thing you know, I'm EVERYONE's best friend. I ordered 12 tickets (the most I wanted to spend on tickets on my credit card wa $100) and they were gone to friends and co-workers in 2 hours. The next day and a half, I got 4 calls from people BEGGING me to bump other confirmed viewers!:(
I just told them to pre-order for Thursday or Friday night. In the mean time, I'm taking a Jedi Holiday on Thursday, with my boss'es blessing, because Wednesday night I'm lining up! I may not own any Star Wars costumes or merchandise, but the movie is going to rock, and the cultural experience of being there opening night with the HARD CORE SW folks is too unique to miss.
It's a virus with a cleverly-worded EULA that several million people clicked "I Agree" on.
Whoops, now it's up to us to invalidate the EULA in court. I'd be RIGHT THERE helping you, but since 1) I'm too poor to pay for an attorney, and 2) I already uninstalled Brilliant's software with AdAware... I think I'll just download some more Metallica videos on KaZaa!!
This will do nothing. I'd wager that a vast majority of 12 to 17 year old gamers either get their games from relatives as gifts, or just warez 'em anyways.
Why don't we just stick our young in big glass jars till they turn 18, anyways?
I really wish I could run into a good NT guy, just to change my perception. The last guy would reboot the NT server...
That's why you can't find any good NT guys. They're all working here at my corp, with 1800 NT4/W2K servers to support. There are 12 of us doing (internal) client consultation, need analysis, installation, config, app loads, support, patching, and monitoring.
I just joined this group from a different area of the bank where I was the "NT guy" and we had 5 serves, All I wanted was a chance to get Win2000 MCP-test training. They said "not in the budget." New group says "MCP within a year is a requirement on your perf review." I am a happy man!
And by the way, if you know what you're doing, and you have a group of solid people behind you, the environment stays stable. Security oversight is handled by our own security division, but we make sure everything is test and configured as it should be. We only see about 3 bluescreens / ASRs per month. Most from NT4 Compaq boxes slated for replacement anyway.
So your yokel "NT guy" is the guy who applied for my job and said "I like to reboot servers when the MMC crashes." I don't profess to know everything, but I take the time to learn when I don't know how to do something, and I work with like-minded people.
There is some good news on the horizon - the survey of employers by the Information Technology Association of America says that more than a million IT jobs are going to be created in the coming year...
And, why, exactly, should we trust an entity with an acronym like ITAA?:D
I think it's just a ploy by the RIAA and MPAA to get geeks to stop downloading music and movies and go back to looking for jobs, using the Internet for what it was designed for, like spamming resumes...
I liked Jon Stewart's (of The Daily Show) description a couple of years ago when the movie was up to be greenlighted by the major studios... something along the lines of:
"Just remember, spidey; when you're up in front of all those Hollywood mogul-types, it's not "Spider-Man," it's (pronounced): Spidermn, Eli Spidermn."
Nobody tells better "jew jokes" than Mr. Stewart.:)
When Geforce3 came out it didn't have much of a clock speed increase
Not over the GF2 Ultra series, but it was a pretty big jump from the MX and GTS cards most people had. In addition to the HUGE FPS jump in games like Quake III, it had all those eye-candy programmable things that are going into things like Aquanox and The New Doom (tm). Also, the memory increase to 64 then 128 megs of DDR graphics RAM allows for insanely better Anti-Aliasing at "normal" gaming resolutions like 1024x768. The NV25 core (GF4 Ti series) increases this further, where you can turn on full-scene anti-aliasing and still get killer performance in your old games.
I only play Quake 3 and RTCWolfenstein on a regular basis, but my GF2 GTS (on an Athlon XP 1600+) pushes a masochistic 0.3 FPS in Quake 3 demos with 4xFSAA. Testing with the new card (128 megs of 600MHz graphics RAM, I never could have imagined in 1999) shows that I'll turn on 8 way Aniso, 4xFSAA and STILL gank 60fps on my 1024x768 LCD. Starting at $199, which is my limit for a graphics card.
And trust me, there is a TON of difference in visual quality with 4xFSAA on using a 15" LCD.
So yes, the programmable pixel shading pales against the power of prettier pictures in your "old stand-by" games, like Q3A. (Alliteration is your friend.)
Unfortunately, I have to drive from Mid Michigan all the way to Ohio. Better start planning now:)
Yeah, who would have thought that the Valley View, OH Cinemark would have this capability? Not I, and I've lived in CLeveburg most of my life.
The downside is, if you go the the link, they DO offer advanced ticket sales, but only for confirmed films and showtimes. SWep2 hasn't appeared on their radar yet, apparently, because the website has nothing and they will give me no info on the phone. Come on; it's less than two weeks away!!
I recommend using the +1 bonus whenever possible, if for no other purpose then as an offering to the slashgods.
Hell yeah, you're right. I am in one of those moods now, realizing that I have spent 4 years getting UID 12075 to 50 Karma and trying to keep it there. Since I've already blow 4 karma points being "offtopic" today, why not go for a hatrick here? Just gives me more incentive to post a few more Score: 5 remarks later.
I'd also like to point out that several of the other contributors to this sub-thread have all still got Score: 2's and they are just as offtopic as I am. At least I'm up front about being offtopic. If it pleases the moderators, I'd like to see a little equality in passing judgement, s'il vous plait.
I might get flamed or modded down for this, but any chance of a TV version?
I don't disagree with you, but you are offtopic as hell and will probably be modded as such, unless Rupert Murdough and Ted Turner have modpoints today.
Admit it, you had already wirtten this comment somewhere else and were just trolling for a book review to attach it to, weren't ya?
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I did not come up with this I found it somewhere in the last few days(the origin eludes me I'm afraid) but I think this sums up the whole Yoda thing:
:P Most of us 12:01am showing folks just got back from Episode II premiers. It's 4am, I saw it in digital with 11 close friends. Concensus reaction:
:)
:D
'Yoda is like Bruce Lee, Mister Myagi, and Kermit the Frog all rolled into one!!'
Good eye!! It's from my Score:0 Offtopic comment posted right after I saw the movie in digital on opening night.
A major Karma burn, but at the time I had to post, and I didn't have a convenient target thread. Here was my review, attacched to the videogame thread that night:
-----
The Indie Game Jam is a yearly game design and programming event designed to encourage experimentation and innovation in the game industry...
Whoop-tee-doo!
OH MY FUCKING GAWD.
(In a jaw-dropped, wide-eyed, wired-at-3am , good kind of way
The big surprise was that we somehow got the "Director's Cut," which according to the theater manager, was 11 minutes longer than the celluloid version. Which makes sense, since we were dispersing behind the 12:05 showing and right alongside the 12:10 showing, both of which were "non-digital" formal.
Valley View Cinemark in Ohio RULES!
Favorite quote was some dude commenting to the media after the movie: "Yoda is like Bruce Lee, Mister Myogi, and Kermit the Frog all rolled into one!!"
:D
That's just the thing, there is so little heroic about Jerome at all. You can't tell if his cynicism was there before his accident or not, but his smug elitist attitude clearly was. He covered for Vincent because Vincent was paying the bills, not because he appreciated Vincent's courage.
Vincent was willing to give anything, his life included, to be accepted as a "valid" human being despite his "imperfect" conception.
I agree largely with Wired's list, with the exception of Brazil and The Boys From Brazil, neither of which I have seen. (The two don't appear related.)
:)
Call Gattaca a snoozer if you must, but I would place it in the top 10 SciFi films that I have seen; definitely top three on the scale they used for futurism and plausibility.
I caught Gattaca on HBO by accident (before they jacked up the price to $13.95 a month... I don't like HBO *that* much). By the end of that month I had seen it 4 times. From the cameo of Ernest Borgnine as head janitor to the all-telling final scene; it was so completely and totally plausible that it scared me. (I won't spoil the ending if you haven't seen it, but the good doctor gives us hope that the human spirit will not be overcome by science and "genetic discrimination.")
Rent it! Or if you are a cheap bastard, er, sorry, "poor college student with 10 megabit bandwidth and several hundred gigs of storage," download it. Some put the poo-poo on the film because it does not have enough action (AKA fight scenes and explosions), but the suspense does honor to the memory of Hitchcock. And it is a good story, despite the cardboard cut-out performance of Uma Thurman in the female lead.
Ethan Hawke is excellent, and Jude Law is good as a spoiled genetic-elite with a spinal injury. I liked Jude better as "Gigolo Joe" in AI, though.
So I'm guessing that this is a "Pan?" Two thumbs down?
Not only does the movie sound so bad that I will actively prevent others that I care about from watching it...
This review was so bad, so comepletely over the top, I think I want my 15 minutes of precious Sunday-morning surf time back!
(Who is Daryl Carpenter anyways? Maybe Taco would take my review of "Transformers: The Movie" on DVD?)
...Clones DVD will be out earlier than expected.
Well of course it will be out earlier; DVD cloning technology is vastly improved from 1999 when Phantom was delayed!
*Dodges rotten tomatoes*
By the way, you don't have to wait for the DVD, the VCD is available from most asian sidewalk vendors TODAY! Act now and you can even download it and burn a copy for yourself! Who cares if it looks like a guy with a pinhole camera...
The Indie Game Jam is a yearly game design and programming event designed to encourage experimentation and innovation in the game industry...
:P Most of us 12:01am showing folks just got back from Episode II premiers. It's 4am, I saw it in digital with 11 close friends. Concensus reaction:
:)
:D
Whoop-tee-doo!
OH MY FUCKING GAWD.
(In a jaw-dropped, wide-eyed, wired-at-3am , good kind of way
The big surprise was that we somehow got the "Director's Cut," which according to the theater manager, was 11 minutes longer than the celluloid version. Which makes sense, since we were dispersing behind the 12:05 showing and right alongside the 12:10 showing, both of which were "non-digital" formal.
Valley View Cinemark in Ohio RULES!
Favorite quote was some dude commenting to the media after the movie: "Yoda is like Bruce Lee, Mister Myogi, and Kermit the Frog all rolled into one!!"
:D
Sorry to self-reply, but I should mention that my above post refers to a custom config; the standard is two 64-bit PCI slots, and one 32-bit PCI slot with an ATI vid card in it.
Later it listed two 64bit PCI slots so I assumed that the network card was in one. Now it lists three slots with one being dedicated to the second NIC. Ah well, having two free slots is much better.
Three Expansion Slots.
Two 64bit PCI slots; one open if you add a second Gigabit Ethernet port (on a PCI card).
One AGP 4x slot, comes populated with a Radeon 8500 video card.
http://www.apple.com/xserve/specs.html
I think the RAID server that they announced (not shipping until later) will be pretty hot, too...3U height...
Just to reiterate, this is not a 3U server, this is a 3U storage unit. No processors (except RAID controllers), just hard drives. It is a "companion product" to the 1U G4 server.
Hey do you know if Valley View sold out the later shows on the 16th? I'm skippin classes that day to go see it cuz i'm only 40minutes from valley view.
They weren't on some of them, like the morning-ish ones. My buddy at work bought 10 tickets last night to the 7:45pm show.
...that nowhere in any of the existing StarWars movies (don't know about Episode II yet) does there appear a "marketing droid".
It's in Episode III, I just downloaded it and watched.
this movie is going to suck anyway and you know it. why not spend your money on some QUALITY movies instead that deserve your money, not this hollywood crapovera.
I've read the script. The dialogue is pedestrian, pure Lucas blah blah. Lucas is a storyteller and effects conceptualizer, but not much of a screenplay writen.
Less Jar Jar, but Anakin still saying things like "Wow! That was wacky!" And "I had to pick a speeder with a real gonzo color!" Arrrgh!
At least there are the Windu and Yoda fight scenes though.
which is rather extensive, but is somewhat of a showcase of antipriracy arguments.
:)
/. lexicon! It should be close enough for Taco!
Priracy, is that where privacy and piracy collide?
Priracy! Sounds good to me; add it to the
I gave up on downloading cams when someone promised "Spider-Man - 1 of 2 - Real!!" And it was ACTUALLY Part 2 of Changing Lanes. Man, KaZaa is a mixed blessing.
:(
On the other hand, I am fortunate enough to live within close proximity to one of the "sacred places" specified by Wired that have digital projection. Cinemark started selling tickets Monday morning, but didn't advertise them until Tuesday. By then, word of mouth had already sold out the 12:01am show online, and I had stopped down Monday afternoon to the kiosk in the Valley View Cinemark lobby to claim my tickets.:)
Next thing you know, I'm EVERYONE's best friend. I ordered 12 tickets (the most I wanted to spend on tickets on my credit card wa $100) and they were gone to friends and co-workers in 2 hours. The next day and a half, I got 4 calls from people BEGGING me to bump other confirmed viewers!
I just told them to pre-order for Thursday or Friday night. In the mean time, I'm taking a Jedi Holiday on Thursday, with my boss'es blessing, because Wednesday night I'm lining up! I may not own any Star Wars costumes or merchandise, but the movie is going to rock, and the cultural experience of being there opening night with the HARD CORE SW folks is too unique to miss.
What's the difference? It's a VIRUS!
It's a virus with a cleverly-worded EULA that several million people clicked "I Agree" on.
Whoops, now it's up to us to invalidate the EULA in court. I'd be RIGHT THERE helping you, but since 1) I'm too poor to pay for an attorney, and 2) I already uninstalled Brilliant's software with AdAware... I think I'll just download some more Metallica videos on KaZaa!!
This will do nothing. I'd wager that a vast majority of 12 to 17 year old gamers either get their games from relatives as gifts, or just warez 'em anyways.
Why don't we just stick our young in big glass jars till they turn 18, anyways?
Then they'll be old enough to draft, anyways...
It's 1996 Compaq hardware, with PPros that LIKELY have failing VRUs.
Trollbutt.
I really wish I could run into a good NT guy, just to change my perception. The last guy would reboot the NT server...
That's why you can't find any good NT guys. They're all working here at my corp, with 1800 NT4/W2K servers to support. There are 12 of us doing (internal) client consultation, need analysis, installation, config, app loads, support, patching, and monitoring.
I just joined this group from a different area of the bank where I was the "NT guy" and we had 5 serves, All I wanted was a chance to get Win2000 MCP-test training. They said "not in the budget." New group says "MCP within a year is a requirement on your perf review." I am a happy man!
And by the way, if you know what you're doing, and you have a group of solid people behind you, the environment stays stable. Security oversight is handled by our own security division, but we make sure everything is test and configured as it should be. We only see about 3 bluescreens / ASRs per month. Most from NT4 Compaq boxes slated for replacement anyway.
So your yokel "NT guy" is the guy who applied for my job and said "I like to reboot servers when the MMC crashes." I don't profess to know everything, but I take the time to learn when I don't know how to do something, and I work with like-minded people.
There is some good news on the horizon - the survey of employers by the Information Technology Association of America says that more than a million IT jobs are going to be created in the coming year...
:D
And, why, exactly, should we trust an entity with an acronym like ITAA?
I think it's just a ploy by the RIAA and MPAA to get geeks to stop downloading music and movies and go back to looking for jobs, using the Internet for what it was designed for, like spamming resumes...
I liked Jon Stewart's (of The Daily Show) description a couple of years ago when the movie was up to be greenlighted by the major studios... something along the lines of:
:)
"Just remember, spidey; when you're up in front of all those Hollywood mogul-types, it's not "Spider-Man," it's (pronounced): Spidermn, Eli Spidermn."
Nobody tells better "jew jokes" than Mr. Stewart.
When Geforce3 came out it didn't have much of a clock speed increase
Not over the GF2 Ultra series, but it was a pretty big jump from the MX and GTS cards most people had. In addition to the HUGE FPS jump in games like Quake III, it had all those eye-candy programmable things that are going into things like Aquanox and The New Doom (tm). Also, the memory increase to 64 then 128 megs of DDR graphics RAM allows for insanely better Anti-Aliasing at "normal" gaming resolutions like 1024x768. The NV25 core (GF4 Ti series) increases this further, where you can turn on full-scene anti-aliasing and still get killer performance in your old games.
I only play Quake 3 and RTCWolfenstein on a regular basis, but my GF2 GTS (on an Athlon XP 1600+) pushes a masochistic 0.3 FPS in Quake 3 demos with 4xFSAA. Testing with the new card (128 megs of 600MHz graphics RAM, I never could have imagined in 1999) shows that I'll turn on 8 way Aniso, 4xFSAA and STILL gank 60fps on my 1024x768 LCD. Starting at $199, which is my limit for a graphics card.
And trust me, there is a TON of difference in visual quality with 4xFSAA on using a 15" LCD.
So yes, the programmable pixel shading pales against the power of prettier pictures in your "old stand-by" games, like Q3A. (Alliteration is your friend.)
Unfortunately, I have to drive from Mid Michigan all the way to Ohio. Better start planning now :)
Yeah, who would have thought that the Valley View, OH Cinemark would have this capability? Not I, and I've lived in CLeveburg most of my life.
The downside is, if you go the the link, they DO offer advanced ticket sales, but only for confirmed films and showtimes. SWep2 hasn't appeared on their radar yet, apparently, because the website has nothing and they will give me no info on the phone. Come on; it's less than two weeks away!!
-Roger
Did we just get bitchslapped?
I recommend using the +1 bonus whenever possible, if for no other purpose then as an offering to the slashgods.
Hell yeah, you're right. I am in one of those moods now, realizing that I have spent 4 years getting UID 12075 to 50 Karma and trying to keep it there. Since I've already blow 4 karma points being "offtopic" today, why not go for a hatrick here? Just gives me more incentive to post a few more Score: 5 remarks later.
I'd also like to point out that several of the other contributors to this sub-thread have all still got Score: 2's and they are just as offtopic as I am. At least I'm up front about being offtopic. If it pleases the moderators, I'd like to see a little equality in passing judgement, s'il vous plait.
"Posted at +1 Bonus for Maximum Karma Burn!"
Oh come on, Offtopic? I took off my +1 bonus! I tried to be funny and make a joke about media moguls! Can't I please get a +1 - Nice Try???
Please? Spare some modpoints for a guy having hard karma luck lately? Huh buddy?
I might get flamed or modded down for this, but any chance of a TV version?
I don't disagree with you, but you are offtopic as hell and will probably be modded as such, unless Rupert Murdough and Ted Turner have modpoints today.
Admit it, you had already wirtten this comment somewhere else and were just trolling for a book review to attach it to, weren't ya?