No, all the cool kids like George Lazenby's -movie-. OHMSS was without question the best representation of the Fleming books--and got one of the best of the original Fleming stories, to boot. Telly Savalas and Diana Rigg held up the acting bit remarkably well despite Lazenby, but he wasn't so great. If only the acting persona of Craig could be put into the looks of Connery into an otherwise-untouched* OHMSS, I'd have my personal Bond movie nirvana. That or take Casino Royale and chop off the Venice bit, and just let Vesper commit suicide like she did in the book. Much neater and cleaner than the movie's flashy ending. With that said, Casino Royale is absolutely the best Bond movie since OHMSS. (Frankly, the truly good 007 movies in my book are Dr No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, OHMSS, and Casino Royale...and Goldfinger barely makes the list). Your mileage may vary.
*Heaven forbid you ever having to see the horrid ABC TV cut of the movie....ugh.
Dual cores already have shown up in some phones...my Nokia E90, for example, has a dual-core ARM11. One core is assigned to telephony, the other to the "smartphone" functions. Granted, its' not an average "free on a 2-year contract" phone, but they're out there if you look.
A fair point--consider Stolar's perspective (in the Saturn era) that Americans didn't want RPGs--meanwhile, SCEA had this little game called Final Fantasy 7...and 8...and 9...etc. The PS1 is probably the best single console for RPGs ever, and meanwhile, Bernie Stolar blew off Working Designs et all. Smooth.
Ultimately, though, I'm inclined to agree that the lack of a DVD player (combined with Sony's excellent marketing/lying) is what killed the Dreamcast. The piracy concerns were valid, but your average gamer geek didn't necessarily have a CD burner or an internet connection good enough to facilitate downloading game ISOs...heck, I was the only kid on my block with cable internet back then, and I wasn't exactly living in slumsville....
Cool, good to know. I didn't have any sets from that early on, as my Lego collection started as a product of 60s-era blocks from my mother's childhood, later augmented with 90s stuff...mostly American-market (disabled cannon), but I'd take my Danish cannons and load them into my 6268 Renegade Runner (1993), 6264 Caribbean Clipper (1989, but a hand-me-down that was missing cannons) etc...
True, but if you ever had the Danish-market sets*, you could get the Pirate sets which had the little cannons which actually shot projectiles...GREAT fun.
*(could have been available elsewhere as well, but the US sets didn't have them...and since my family is Danish, I'd pick up sets every time we visited when I was a kid)
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No, all the cool kids like George Lazenby's -movie-. OHMSS was without question the best representation of the Fleming books--and got one of the best of the original Fleming stories, to boot. Telly Savalas and Diana Rigg held up the acting bit remarkably well despite Lazenby, but he wasn't so great. If only the acting persona of Craig could be put into the looks of Connery into an otherwise-untouched* OHMSS, I'd have my personal Bond movie nirvana. That or take Casino Royale and chop off the Venice bit, and just let Vesper commit suicide like she did in the book. Much neater and cleaner than the movie's flashy ending. With that said, Casino Royale is absolutely the best Bond movie since OHMSS. (Frankly, the truly good 007 movies in my book are Dr No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, OHMSS, and Casino Royale...and Goldfinger barely makes the list). Your mileage may vary. *Heaven forbid you ever having to see the horrid ABC TV cut of the movie....ugh.
A car analogy! Of course! Now I understand :D
Nah, there was just this little thing called the Madrid Train Bombings instead.
Dual cores already have shown up in some phones...my Nokia E90, for example, has a dual-core ARM11. One core is assigned to telephony, the other to the "smartphone" functions. Granted, its' not an average "free on a 2-year contract" phone, but they're out there if you look.
A fair point--consider Stolar's perspective (in the Saturn era) that Americans didn't want RPGs--meanwhile, SCEA had this little game called Final Fantasy 7...and 8...and 9...etc. The PS1 is probably the best single console for RPGs ever, and meanwhile, Bernie Stolar blew off Working Designs et all. Smooth. Ultimately, though, I'm inclined to agree that the lack of a DVD player (combined with Sony's excellent marketing/lying) is what killed the Dreamcast. The piracy concerns were valid, but your average gamer geek didn't necessarily have a CD burner or an internet connection good enough to facilitate downloading game ISOs...heck, I was the only kid on my block with cable internet back then, and I wasn't exactly living in slumsville....
Cool, good to know. I didn't have any sets from that early on, as my Lego collection started as a product of 60s-era blocks from my mother's childhood, later augmented with 90s stuff...mostly American-market (disabled cannon), but I'd take my Danish cannons and load them into my 6268 Renegade Runner (1993), 6264 Caribbean Clipper (1989, but a hand-me-down that was missing cannons) etc...
True, but if you ever had the Danish-market sets*, you could get the Pirate sets which had the little cannons which actually shot projectiles...GREAT fun. *(could have been available elsewhere as well, but the US sets didn't have them...and since my family is Danish, I'd pick up sets every time we visited when I was a kid)