but CmdrTaco is sooo right on this one. I've played all 5 of the games, and this movie was just awful. I went in expecting very little, maybe not as much plot as even one of the games, and I was still disappointed. It was just boring. No, make that BORING. Incredibly bad effects, dull acting, and no story whatsoever. The original Tomb Raider would have made a much better story to base a movie off of. Natla, at least, was a baddie that was interesting. If you are a big fan of the games, and just have to see it, wait until it's at the dollar theatres, or rent it. It's not even worth matinee prices. Yecch.
Whatever you do, don't get Sprint. They are cheap in every sense of the word. They look great on paper, but in the real world of dropped calls and 3 hour customer service queues in order to be told that they "don't do that" and "can't fix that" and it "isn't their problem" they way way way beyond massively suck.
I had the SC3500, and there was a fatal flaw with it as far as I was concerned. When the battery was getting low, it made a ~95dB shreik in my ear. May not sound like much, but typically I ran out of battery life in the evening 2 or 3 nights a week.
Sprint is evil enough that I'm just going to get a new phone when I switch over to At&T. They may cost more, but they are the only vaguely competent telco that I have ever dealt with.
If you are truly looking for some of the coolest high-end DV editing around, be sure to check out Trinity by Play. Their site is at http://www.play.com I remember a couple of years back that we had just spent about 100k at NASA for a D-Vision custom system, and Play finally shipped the Trinity. It would do significantly more than the D-Vision would, and only cost around 20k. The trickest part was that the effects happened in real-time. Trinity is considerably higher-end than anything from Apple, Adobe, or Avid. It is more of a complete replacement for a studio than a home setup, but it does rock, and one of the questions was about the top of the line. This is pretty darn close to it.
Um, yep, you got it wrong.:) Lara sprang from Toby Gard's overactive imagination. Only later did Core / Eidos found an actress to "play" her at some events. The first one to play Lara was Rhona Mitra, and the current "Lara" is a lass named Lara Weller.
Jon, One of the aspects of this that I haven't seen brought up yet is what happens after the data is collected? What next? Assuming for the sake of argument that Pinkerton's system had the desired effect of identifying disturbed teenagers, what are they going to do about them? In theory, their system is going to identify lots of kids here, and the support networks that schools have in place are strained to the point of bursting as it is. Is Pinkerton going to provide more therapists and school counselors? Or are they going to leave that to the state?
Yes. You are saying that you don't care if the solution is a good one. As long as it works for some, might as well go with it. Who cares if it causes more harm than good? If just one child (tm) is saved, then any abuse can be justified. That is what you are saying.
I use pair.com for my hosting. Basic service starts at US$5/mo. Hosting your own domain with telnet is US$10/mo. Not too bad. Their price list is here.
Actually, there are buttons on the page that allow you to adjust its threshold when you are reading it even if you are not logged in. Where you default to is affected by your logging in, not the ability to change your threshold.
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but CmdrTaco is sooo right on this one. I've played all 5 of the games, and this movie was just awful. I went in expecting very little, maybe not as much plot as even one of the games, and I was still disappointed. It was just boring. No, make that BORING. Incredibly bad effects, dull acting, and no story whatsoever. The original Tomb Raider would have made a much better story to base a movie off of. Natla, at least, was a baddie that was interesting. If you are a big fan of the games, and just have to see it, wait until it's at the dollar theatres, or rent it. It's not even worth matinee prices. Yecch.
Whatever you do, don't get Sprint. They are cheap in every sense of the word. They look great on paper, but in the real world of dropped calls and 3 hour customer service queues in order to be told that they "don't do that" and "can't fix that" and it "isn't their problem" they way way way beyond massively suck. I had the SC3500, and there was a fatal flaw with it as far as I was concerned. When the battery was getting low, it made a ~95dB shreik in my ear. May not sound like much, but typically I ran out of battery life in the evening 2 or 3 nights a week. Sprint is evil enough that I'm just going to get a new phone when I switch over to At&T. They may cost more, but they are the only vaguely competent telco that I have ever dealt with.
If you are truly looking for some of the coolest high-end DV editing around, be sure to check out Trinity by Play. Their site is at http://www.play.com I remember a couple of years back that we had just spent about 100k at NASA for a D-Vision custom system, and Play finally shipped the Trinity. It would do significantly more than the D-Vision would, and only cost around 20k. The trickest part was that the effects happened in real-time. Trinity is considerably higher-end than anything from Apple, Adobe, or Avid. It is more of a complete replacement for a studio than a home setup, but it does rock, and one of the questions was about the top of the line. This is pretty darn close to it.
Um, yep, you got it wrong. :) Lara sprang from Toby Gard's overactive imagination. Only later did Core / Eidos found an actress to "play" her at some events. The first one to play Lara was Rhona Mitra, and the current "Lara" is a lass named Lara Weller.
Jon,
One of the aspects of this that I haven't seen brought up yet is what happens after the data is collected? What next? Assuming for the sake of argument that Pinkerton's system had the desired effect of identifying disturbed teenagers, what are they going to do about them? In theory, their system is going to identify lots of kids here, and the support networks that schools have in place are strained to the point of bursting as it is. Is Pinkerton going to provide more therapists and school counselors? Or are they going to leave that to the state?
Yes. You are saying that you don't care if the solution is a good one. As long as it works for some, might as well go with it. Who cares if it causes more harm than good? If just one child (tm) is saved, then any abuse can be justified. That is what you are saying.
I use pair.com for my hosting. Basic service starts at US$5/mo. Hosting your own domain with telnet is US$10/mo. Not too bad. Their price list is here.
Actually, there are buttons on the page that allow you to adjust its threshold when you are reading it even if you are not logged in. Where you default to is affected by your logging in, not the ability to change your threshold.