Hey, that's a great idea! I'll claim ownership of the number 999.99 - Every time someone's is charged that exact sum, the bank owes me 50 for copyright violation on their statement.
I wonder if www.1000000000 0000000000 0000000000 0000000000 0000000000 0000000000 0000000000 0000000000 0000000000 0000000000.com is available?
According to this month's Edge, Diddy Kong Pilot for the GBA has been resurrected post Nintendo-split as Banjo Pilot.
So its definitely looking like we're on target to see more Rare releases on Nintendo hardware this year than we are Microsoft (with GBA Sabre Wulf already on shelves). Oops.
If the last couple of Pixar films are anything to go by, expect the US DVD release about a month after the UK cinema release.
As much as its annoying having to wait in the first place, its quite cool that I can see it once on the big digital screen in all its glory, and then don't have to either wait 6 months to see it a second time, or pay through the nose for multiple cinema visits. With Finding Nemo I was a bit slow to get to it in the cinema, so I saw it on the Sunday, and my DVD turned up two days later, which was nice.
By 'geared at adults', you really seem to be aiming at 'not involving talking animals'. After all, Finding Nemo's dealt with Marlin's coming to terms with losing most of his family in a far superior way to many live action films, and Woody's stuggles with the price of immortality in Toy Story 2 certainly stood up with the best that SF has to offer.
But if there is one thing that the Final Fantasy movie tells us, it is that if you want to do fancy SF with people, then use real people and greenscreens. Its a lot less hard work than creating CG models of humans, and the 'animation' isn't quite as terrible.
You're right that no-one complains about the ability to suspend disbelief when watching a Pixar film. But this is because they have the best animators in the business and brilliant screenwriters, not because Al of Al's Toy Barn looks even remotely photorealistic.
"Do you say everything's ok and you're just like a normal, honest citizen after you've served your 4 years in jail for auto theft, or do you have a GTA record?"
Is that like owning a vinyl copy of Cutting Crew's Died In Your Arms Tonight? If so, its a pretty harsh sentence.
I've just bought UT2K4 on DVD for my Windows XP box. It would be fun (from a sheer novelty factor, apart from anything) to run it on the Linux box and even the Mac Powerbook. Do I actually have to re-purchase the software (since I see that the three versions are sold seperately?
Or is this like Quake III and the original UT, where I can go some place (legally, obviously) and download the executables required to run on the other platforms, and just use the one DVD for the 3.5Gb of data files and necessary license string?
Because if there's one thing that puts me off a platform switch, its not so much the titles that are unavailable at all elsewhere, but the thought of re-buying software I've already paid for once.
I think you're being overly harsh, but I struggled through the first half of Quicksilver myself. The second half is better, but The Confusion (so far, I'm only a couple of hundred pages in yet) absolutely blows it out of the water. Its well worth persevering, honestly.
"oh, and there better be a Gran Turismo for the PSP, that would make me a Garanteed PSP Customer"
As much as I'll definitely be wanting a racing game of some kind if I buy a PSP, why GT? The lure of that game is the wonderful handling model, despite the traditional problems of bad AI and erratic difficulty level.
But the PSP isn't going to have a force-feedback wheel; I doubt the pad will even be as suitable to serious racing as the PS2's. Personally, I'd be far, far more interested in a Burnout or Wipeout for the machine, and leave GT's charms to the home.
Actually, dogs have pretty delicate hearts, so I wouldn't be surprised if an electric shock designed to stun a human would kill them, now I think about it.
Is this similiar to the theory that Pac Man is a Marxist diatribe against the consumer society that tries to use up every available resource until the ghosts of the exploited catch up with it?
Is it actually possible to complete like this? I can't remember any unavoidable missions (as supposed to Kill Frenzy side missions) that _require_ civilian casualties, but its been a while.
True. But then my AthlonXP is 32-bit as well. Strangely enough, that doesn't stop it being rather faster than a 386.
What I think Gord was trying to get at was the fact that certain idiots tended to regard 'bit' as some sort of performance indicator, and so if the Dreamcast was a better machine than the N64 that meant it had to have more of them, in some way.
But then its no different to the arguments between AMD and Intel about whether or not a 2600+ that runs at 2GHz in reality (give or take 100MHz or so depending on if its a Thoroughbred or a Barton) is faster or slower than a 2.4GHz P4, I suppose.
The DVD Region X is very useful if you wish to watch an imported film on the built-in DVD player, but does absolutely nothing to help you run import games, which is what was being argued about here. Whether its getting GT4 Prologue 6 months early as a European (or at all in the case of America), or like me wanting to run titles that won't ever get released outside Japan, these chips have their uses.
Precisely. Take the free PS2, and then ask the girl out on a date where you're not being a cheap bastard paying with free vouchers, getting to go wherever seems a good idea for you both, not necessarily a ball game.
The leaked Half-Life is pretty playable, and the main reason why it only counts as a beta was that the loading times were terrifyingly bad.
Galleon DC, however, got nowhere near as done - don't expect anything even vaguely playable to ever appear. You'd honestly be better off wishing for a Propellor Arena release.
Pointilism doesn't look 'real' either, but the brain can work out what it is.
Just like I can understand what Stephen Hawking is saying, without being fooled that it's his 'natural' voice. So it sounds like you're applying two different standards.
No, its rather like your 'straw house' wasn't actually made out of straw this time (as far as we've been able to tell, thanks to SCO's obfuscatory and stalling claims), but that until the (vigilante and frankly piss-poor, in this case) planning office came to give us an audit it hadn't occurred to anyone to check if we're obeying the necessary building regulations.
Now we know to keep an eye on the builders to ensure they aren't sneaking in cheap flammable materials without our knowing, and so we're bound to end up with a safer house.
Like I said, even the 5200 is a shiny new fast ninja card in comparison to my aged thing. Its just that its known for having slow pixel shaders. Since UT2k4 cares more about geometry its just fine and dandy for that. I'd happily swap my card for one, if anyone were dumb enough to do so.
The game is going crazy with the shaders from what I understand, so the poor grandparent with his GeForce 5200 is bound to be struggling more than your Radeon. Personally, I've only got a GeForce 2, though, so I can't even load the thing.
Forget the poor guy with night vision, though. Top of the list for screaming is the arsehole with someone's fist in their face. Its the least they deserve if they are going to piss off the entire audience with their 'clever' flashlight antics during the film.
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That "dodgy geezer" was Karl Bloody Howman, the twat from Brush Strokes and those Godawful Flash Liquid adverts. Git.
Still Mulberry was strangely watchable.
Hey, that's a great idea! I'll claim ownership of the number 999.99 - Every time someone's is charged that exact sum, the bank owes me 50 for copyright violation on their statement.
I wonder if www.1000000000 0000000000 0000000000 0000000000 0000000000 0000000000 0000000000 0000000000 0000000000 0000000000.com is available?
According to this month's Edge, Diddy Kong Pilot for the GBA has been resurrected post Nintendo-split as Banjo Pilot.
So its definitely looking like we're on target to see more Rare releases on Nintendo hardware this year than we are Microsoft (with GBA Sabre Wulf already on shelves). Oops.
If the last couple of Pixar films are anything to go by, expect the US DVD release about a month after the UK cinema release.
As much as its annoying having to wait in the first place, its quite cool that I can see it once on the big digital screen in all its glory, and then don't have to either wait 6 months to see it a second time, or pay through the nose for multiple cinema visits. With Finding Nemo I was a bit slow to get to it in the cinema, so I saw it on the Sunday, and my DVD turned up two days later, which was nice.
I'd have to disagree, to some extent at least.
By 'geared at adults', you really seem to be aiming at 'not involving talking animals'. After all, Finding Nemo's dealt with Marlin's coming to terms with losing most of his family in a far superior way to many live action films, and Woody's stuggles with the price of immortality in Toy Story 2 certainly stood up with the best that SF has to offer.
But if there is one thing that the Final Fantasy movie tells us, it is that if you want to do fancy SF with people, then use real people and greenscreens. Its a lot less hard work than creating CG models of humans, and the 'animation' isn't quite as terrible.
You're right that no-one complains about the ability to suspend disbelief when watching a Pixar film. But this is because they have the best animators in the business and brilliant screenwriters, not because Al of Al's Toy Barn looks even remotely photorealistic.
"Do you say everything's ok and you're just like a normal, honest citizen after you've served your 4 years in jail for auto theft, or do you have a GTA record?"
Is that like owning a vinyl copy of Cutting Crew's Died In Your Arms Tonight? If so, its a pretty harsh sentence.
Ta for that (and to SoVeryWrong, as well). I'll take a look at the actual disc tonight when I get home.
Genuine question:
I've just bought UT2K4 on DVD for my Windows XP box. It would be fun (from a sheer novelty factor, apart from anything) to run it on the Linux box and even the Mac Powerbook. Do I actually have to re-purchase the software (since I see that the three versions are sold seperately?
Or is this like Quake III and the original UT, where I can go some place (legally, obviously) and download the executables required to run on the other platforms, and just use the one DVD for the 3.5Gb of data files and necessary license string?
Because if there's one thing that puts me off a platform switch, its not so much the titles that are unavailable at all elsewhere, but the thought of re-buying software I've already paid for once.
I think you're being overly harsh, but I struggled through the first half of Quicksilver myself. The second half is better, but The Confusion (so far, I'm only a couple of hundred pages in yet) absolutely blows it out of the water. Its well worth persevering, honestly.
"oh, and there better be a Gran Turismo for the PSP, that would make me a Garanteed PSP Customer"
As much as I'll definitely be wanting a racing game of some kind if I buy a PSP, why GT? The lure of that game is the wonderful handling model, despite the traditional problems of bad AI and erratic difficulty level.
But the PSP isn't going to have a force-feedback wheel; I doubt the pad will even be as suitable to serious racing as the PS2's. Personally, I'd be far, far more interested in a Burnout or Wipeout for the machine, and leave GT's charms to the home.
Absolutely - those "other" OSes aren't really any more secure by design, its just that they are too obscure to bother writing a virus for.
That _is_ what you mean by "security through obscurity", isn't is?
Actually, dogs have pretty delicate hearts, so I wouldn't be surprised if an electric shock designed to stun a human would kill them, now I think about it.
Is this similiar to the theory that Pac Man is a Marxist diatribe against the consumer society that tries to use up every available resource until the ghosts of the exploited catch up with it?
Is it actually possible to complete like this? I can't remember any unavoidable missions (as supposed to Kill Frenzy side missions) that _require_ civilian casualties, but its been a while.
Apart from anything else, a proper CD, rather than some silly mp3 keychain thing, will work in the car on the way home. Which would be great.
True. But then my AthlonXP is 32-bit as well. Strangely enough, that doesn't stop it being rather faster than a 386.
What I think Gord was trying to get at was the fact that certain idiots tended to regard 'bit' as some sort of performance indicator, and so if the Dreamcast was a better machine than the N64 that meant it had to have more of them, in some way.
But then its no different to the arguments between AMD and Intel about whether or not a 2600+ that runs at 2GHz in reality (give or take 100MHz or so depending on if its a Thoroughbred or a Barton) is faster or slower than a 2.4GHz P4, I suppose.
The DVD Region X is very useful if you wish to watch an imported film on the built-in DVD player, but does absolutely nothing to help you run import games, which is what was being argued about here. Whether its getting GT4 Prologue 6 months early as a European (or at all in the case of America), or like me wanting to run titles that won't ever get released outside Japan, these chips have their uses.
Precisely. Take the free PS2, and then ask the girl out on a date where you're not being a cheap bastard paying with free vouchers, getting to go wherever seems a good idea for you both, not necessarily a ball game.
The leaked Half-Life is pretty playable, and the main reason why it only counts as a beta was that the loading times were terrifyingly bad.
Galleon DC, however, got nowhere near as done - don't expect anything even vaguely playable to ever appear. You'd honestly be better off wishing for a Propellor Arena release.
Pointilism doesn't look 'real' either, but the brain can work out what it is.
Just like I can understand what Stephen Hawking is saying, without being fooled that it's his 'natural' voice. So it sounds like you're applying two different standards.
No, its rather like your 'straw house' wasn't actually made out of straw this time (as far as we've been able to tell, thanks to SCO's obfuscatory and stalling claims), but that until the (vigilante and frankly piss-poor, in this case) planning office came to give us an audit it hadn't occurred to anyone to check if we're obeying the necessary building regulations.
Now we know to keep an eye on the builders to ensure they aren't sneaking in cheap flammable materials without our knowing, and so we're bound to end up with a safer house.
Like I said, even the 5200 is a shiny new fast ninja card in comparison to my aged thing. Its just that its known for having slow pixel shaders. Since UT2k4 cares more about geometry its just fine and dandy for that. I'd happily swap my card for one, if anyone were dumb enough to do so.
The game is going crazy with the shaders from what I understand, so the poor grandparent with his GeForce 5200 is bound to be struggling more than your Radeon. Personally, I've only got a GeForce 2, though, so I can't even load the thing.
Forget the poor guy with night vision, though. Top of the list for screaming is the arsehole with someone's fist in their face. Its the least they deserve if they are going to piss off the entire audience with their 'clever' flashlight antics during the film.
So they've optimized it down so amazingly well the zip fits in 96kb, but the thing still needs half a Gb of memory to run? Interesting.
Personally, I'd rather go for a 512Mb package that runs on a 96kb box, but I'm odd like that.