You're right - no-one on/. ever brought down a webserver through sheer traffic volume, oh no...
Well, you're right really. Its a pretty stupid thing to do when one of the biggest complaints about the present Government is their attempts to stifle human rights.
They both shoot at the same time, only Greedo misses.
If you're going to rant about the new versions, at least rant about the new, new version;)
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Personally, I can't stand the '97 5.1 mix. The mixes on these new DVD versions is far superior to that, but partly because it sounds so much more like the original Dolby Stereo mix.
How did you do the audio transfer? If you'd ripped the uncompressed PCM off the LD's digital out I'd have been surprised to hear any audio complaints - its an absolutely classic mix.
On another note, as someone else who has done this (only with rather less ability on the video side), they do look nice, but these new DVDs are absolutely STUNNING. If you look past the little changes, the core issues of colour timing, fine detail, compression artifacting and so on are amongst the best I've ever seen, and certainly the best of any catalogue release from that era. Its really, really worth owning both these discs and the original cut from laser.
Since no-one else has given you a straight answer, they now both shoot at the same time, but Greedo's shot misses.
Seriously - to the frame.
It blatently looks like George wanted to appease the fans who didn't like Greedo shooting first, but at the same time felt it necessary to have him shooting.
So its still stupid, but looks nowhere near as dumb as it did in '97; Greedo is at least aiming vaguely in the right direction this time.
Laserdisc is indeed analogue (at least the picture is analogue - its got either PCM, Dolby Digital or full-bitrade DTS sound, depending on title). Doesn't mean that its in any way bad, though; it took DVD a good year or two to substantially beat LD for image quality.
Sorry, I must have missed the part where Rockstar announced they were going to play up living in poverty as quality lifestyle choice. Was it while they were suggesting that the benefits include increasing your likelihood of being shot at, or is it the possibility of being mugged that appealed to you?
Nope, its a patent thing. Patents are about saying "I came up with this idea first", while copyrights are about saying "The blueprints for this particular design are mine".
Making a wind-up radio is liable to fall foul of Trevor Bayliss's patent. Sticking a Freeplay logo on the front will be breaching his copyright.
"oh that would be great if people would plan ahead and there would be a cheap way to exclude those not paying from getting the benefits"
I'm a bit fuzzy on this one. Personally, as a pacifist, I may well not want to pay my contribution towards defence expenditure. Are the Government going to turn a blind eye when my house gets invaded by a foreign power, but not my next-door neighbour, who did pay?
Naked Lunch is a wonderful, brilliant film, in my eyes. But I'll agree that its not for everyone; the plot is buried in so many layers of metaphor that it takes a fair bit of effort just to keep up. But once you do, the thing is just fascinating, I find.
Let me guess, you're not keen on very many other Cronenberg films either, are you?
Strictly Ballroom is an utterly, utterly wonderful film. Sure, its as camp as an entire field of pink tents, but I don't think that is necessarily a bad thing.
And besides - its at least 12500 times better than Dirty Dancing, which it shares several similarities with.
I didn't feel like a 'worse person' after watching either A Clockwork Orange or Natural Born Killers.
But I wouldn't recommend either to anyone. A Clockwork Orange was just rather too unpleasant in several parts, and I didn't feel it conveyed it messages as well as the original book either. Personally, I found Eyes Wide Shut a far superior film, but there you go.
Natural Born Killers, despite one of the best 'song' soundtracks of all time, just gave me a headache. Stone's use of multiple film stocks and shooting styles worked superbly in JFK, as you instinctively followed the cross-cutting of flashback, recollection, rumour and report by it. In NBK, he just threw everything at the audience, and came over like a below-par film student trying to ape Tony Scott.
They weren't really "rednecks" per se; more Michigan Militia types. A right pain they were, too, since after you've vaguely annoyed one of them they'll shoot anything in sight.
"Movies are quite different and you know that. Actors are what drive the industry. If minorities were only used as criminals, yes, ban them."
This quote actually cuts to the heart of what I think is really going on here, both with your own posts and the article.
Yes, it is true that the majority of black characters in this game will be portrayed as criminals, or otherwise negatively. However, with computer games about committing criminal acts in a semi-realistic setting, even if (as with the previous GTA games) they provide broad swathes of social satire and in-jokery to counter the severity of the violence, there aren't any positive role models around.
The cynical, satirical world of GTA is populated by criminal mobs, corrupt law enforcement, a gung-ho military with little regard for bystanders and hypocritical politicians. There truly aren't any innocents or decent people out there in these games. So either you admit that each and every section of society is going to be ridiculed somewhere, or you insist that the game is a digital apartheid.
The game is centred around gang warfare. Specifically, rival gangs in a thinly-veiled reconstruction of South-Central Los Angeles, 1991.
Given that the main characters will be male youths in gangs, what percentage of minorities would be acceptable? 0%? 7% (to reflect the national average population)? Or shall we reflect the facts?
Rockstar take as their inspiration (across the entire GTA series) the many and varied classic films about criminal life.
Shall we also ban Goodfellas, The Godfather and Scarface for their negative depictions of Italian-Americans? Boyz N The Hood for racism?
Actually, the UK will get its first Holden soon in the new souped-up Monaro VXR.
Its following their first VXR release, the new Vauxhall VXR220 Turbo. Which is based off the same chassis as the (far, far, FAR nicer to look at) Lotus Elise.
So you can add those to your lists of GM subsidiaries, if you want, too.
"VAG stands for Volkswagen AG, and you forgot Bugatti, Seat, Skoda and Europcar"
They do indeed. My Seat Leon shares most of its components with the Mk4 Golf, the Audi A3 and the Skoda Fabia, but with each having a slightly different bodyshell (I think the Leon looks nicest) and price point (partly because German workers are more expensive than Spanish or Czech ones).
It might, but that really wasn't the tone I got from the post. Personally, it felt a lot more like the ones you get over in the games threads, where people ask "which should I buy for my Cube; Mario or Zelda?", and get the reply "Buy an XBox, they're much better!" - it really doesn't answer their question.
"I have an urge to give a snotty "you block a whole site because of their ads? Isn't that excessive"?"
Yep, I "block" (by which I mean avoid going to) any site that has annoying adverts. This is the Internet, where there are hundreds if not thousands of copycat sites about practically anything you want to read about. If one of them has annoying adverts and the other doesn't, you'll find me at the latter. Its all about balance, really. There are, in fact, one or two sites I occasionally visit that do have annoying adverts, because the payoff of quality content is worth it. However, that really is the exception rather than the rule.
Once you've got a copy of Firefox to avoid popups, then adverts generally fall into categories of either banners (acceptable, and I ignore them) or that really annoying Flash nonsense that gets in the way of what you're reading. The latter are the sites I avoid.
The circular explosion effect is even called a 'Praxis Ring' at ILM, after they first created the effect for the beginning of Star Trek VI. They've since used it all over the shop.
Well, there's probably something odd. I know a fair old few UK DBAs. I'd actually almost agree with the idea that The Smiths are UK DBA's fave band. Could someone explain to me who the HELL are "Haven" when they're at home? No-one here seems to know.
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Well, you're right really. Its a pretty stupid thing to do when one of the biggest complaints about the present Government is their attempts to stifle human rights.
But Greedo doesn't shoot first.
;)
They both shoot at the same time, only Greedo misses.
If you're going to rant about the new versions, at least rant about the new, new version
Personally, I can't stand the '97 5.1 mix. The mixes on these new DVD versions is far superior to that, but partly because it sounds so much more like the original Dolby Stereo mix.
How did you do the audio transfer? If you'd ripped the uncompressed PCM off the LD's digital out I'd have been surprised to hear any audio complaints - its an absolutely classic mix.
On another note, as someone else who has done this (only with rather less ability on the video side), they do look nice, but these new DVDs are absolutely STUNNING. If you look past the little changes, the core issues of colour timing, fine detail, compression artifacting and so on are amongst the best I've ever seen, and certainly the best of any catalogue release from that era. Its really, really worth owning both these discs and the original cut from laser.
Since no-one else has given you a straight answer, they now both shoot at the same time, but Greedo's shot misses.
Seriously - to the frame.
It blatently looks like George wanted to appease the fans who didn't like Greedo shooting first, but at the same time felt it necessary to have him shooting.
So its still stupid, but looks nowhere near as dumb as it did in '97; Greedo is at least aiming vaguely in the right direction this time.
Laserdisc is indeed analogue (at least the picture is analogue - its got either PCM, Dolby Digital or full-bitrade DTS sound, depending on title). Doesn't mean that its in any way bad, though; it took DVD a good year or two to substantially beat LD for image quality.
Advocate?
Sorry, I must have missed the part where Rockstar announced they were going to play up living in poverty as quality lifestyle choice. Was it while they were suggesting that the benefits include increasing your likelihood of being shot at, or is it the possibility of being mugged that appealed to you?
"ITYM breach his trademark"
D'oh! You're right, of course. Breaching his copyright would be using an identical form factor without the logo.
Nope, its a patent thing. Patents are about saying "I came up with this idea first", while copyrights are about saying "The blueprints for this particular design are mine".
Making a wind-up radio is liable to fall foul of Trevor Bayliss's patent. Sticking a Freeplay logo on the front will be breaching his copyright.
"oh that would be great if people would plan ahead and there would be a cheap way to exclude those not paying from getting the benefits"
I'm a bit fuzzy on this one. Personally, as a pacifist, I may well not want to pay my contribution towards defence expenditure. Are the Government going to turn a blind eye when my house gets invaded by a foreign power, but not my next-door neighbour, who did pay?
Naked Lunch is a wonderful, brilliant film, in my eyes. But I'll agree that its not for everyone; the plot is buried in so many layers of metaphor that it takes a fair bit of effort just to keep up. But once you do, the thing is just fascinating, I find.
Let me guess, you're not keen on very many other Cronenberg films either, are you?
Strictly Ballroom is an utterly, utterly wonderful film. Sure, its as camp as an entire field of pink tents, but I don't think that is necessarily a bad thing.
And besides - its at least 12500 times better than Dirty Dancing, which it shares several similarities with.
I didn't feel like a 'worse person' after watching either A Clockwork Orange or Natural Born Killers.
But I wouldn't recommend either to anyone. A Clockwork Orange was just rather too unpleasant in several parts, and I didn't feel it conveyed it messages as well as the original book either. Personally, I found Eyes Wide Shut a far superior film, but there you go.
Natural Born Killers, despite one of the best 'song' soundtracks of all time, just gave me a headache. Stone's use of multiple film stocks and shooting styles worked superbly in JFK, as you instinctively followed the cross-cutting of flashback, recollection, rumour and report by it. In NBK, he just threw everything at the audience, and came over like a below-par film student trying to ape Tony Scott.
They weren't really "rednecks" per se; more Michigan Militia types. A right pain they were, too, since after you've vaguely annoyed one of them they'll shoot anything in sight.
"Movies are quite different and you know that. Actors are what drive the industry. If minorities were only used as criminals, yes, ban them."
This quote actually cuts to the heart of what I think is really going on here, both with your own posts and the article.
Yes, it is true that the majority of black characters in this game will be portrayed as criminals, or otherwise negatively. However, with computer games about committing criminal acts in a semi-realistic setting, even if (as with the previous GTA games) they provide broad swathes of social satire and in-jokery to counter the severity of the violence, there aren't any positive role models around.
The cynical, satirical world of GTA is populated by criminal mobs, corrupt law enforcement, a gung-ho military with little regard for bystanders and hypocritical politicians. There truly aren't any innocents or decent people out there in these games. So either you admit that each and every section of society is going to be ridiculed somewhere, or you insist that the game is a digital apartheid.
As the old gag goes, Emacs would be a pretty nice OS, if only someone could write a decent text editor for it...
The game is centred around gang warfare. Specifically, rival gangs in a thinly-veiled reconstruction of South-Central Los Angeles, 1991.
Given that the main characters will be male youths in gangs, what percentage of minorities would be acceptable? 0%? 7% (to reflect the national average population)? Or shall we reflect the facts?
Rockstar take as their inspiration (across the entire GTA series) the many and varied classic films about criminal life.
Shall we also ban Goodfellas, The Godfather and Scarface for their negative depictions of Italian-Americans? Boyz N The Hood for racism?
Don't these people at DMA know that LA gangs of the early nineties were uniformly white?
Oh. Never mind.
Actually, the UK will get its first Holden soon in the new souped-up Monaro VXR.
Its following their first VXR release, the new Vauxhall VXR220 Turbo. Which is based off the same chassis as the (far, far, FAR nicer to look at) Lotus Elise.
So you can add those to your lists of GM subsidiaries, if you want, too.
"VAG stands for Volkswagen AG, and you forgot Bugatti, Seat, Skoda and Europcar"
They do indeed. My Seat Leon shares most of its components with the Mk4 Golf, the Audi A3 and the Skoda Fabia, but with each having a slightly different bodyshell (I think the Leon looks nicest) and price point (partly because German workers are more expensive than Spanish or Czech ones).
It might, but that really wasn't the tone I got from the post. Personally, it felt a lot more like the ones you get over in the games threads, where people ask "which should I buy for my Cube; Mario or Zelda?", and get the reply "Buy an XBox, they're much better!" - it really doesn't answer their question.
Sontag: This little Scandinavian lasted a lot longer than that with no funding and no lawsuits.
McBride: So why don't we put him in charge!!!
"I have an urge to give a snotty "you block a whole site because of their ads? Isn't that excessive"?"
Yep, I "block" (by which I mean avoid going to) any site that has annoying adverts. This is the Internet, where there are hundreds if not thousands of copycat sites about practically anything you want to read about. If one of them has annoying adverts and the other doesn't, you'll find me at the latter. Its all about balance, really. There are, in fact, one or two sites I occasionally visit that do have annoying adverts, because the payoff of quality content is worth it. However, that really is the exception rather than the rule.
Once you've got a copy of Firefox to avoid popups, then adverts generally fall into categories of either banners (acceptable, and I ignore them) or that really annoying Flash nonsense that gets in the way of what you're reading. The latter are the sites I avoid.
'before the second barrel of ...'
"00" gets used
Why do I have strange visions of you torturing someone with bits of Hornby railway track?
The circular explosion effect is even called a 'Praxis Ring' at ILM, after they first created the effect for the beginning of Star Trek VI. They've since used it all over the shop.
Well, there's probably something odd. I know a fair old few UK DBAs. I'd actually almost agree with the idea that The Smiths are UK DBA's fave band. Could someone explain to me who the HELL are "Haven" when they're at home? No-one here seems to know.