why do you refill it yourself? just pay someone to do it. i asked the guy at the shop i bought my printer from and he told me he would do it for Rs400 (~$8), including the toner. sure, it works for only half the number of pages the original does. but then the original thing costs Rs2000 (~$40).
If there are any good digital picture frames, that would be news to me, I haven't seen any.
yes and i have not seen any good space stations, so that must surely mean that none exists, right?? while i agree that most picture frames initially were low-res and crappy, now you can find many that have higher density than your 1080p monitor.
and i hate it that the picture frame stays on all the time even when nobody is looking at it. and if i switch it off, then nobody ever stops to look, so it stays of for a week or so. also, snapfish is quite reasonable these days.
For example, if little children are asked to draw a picture of a "firefighter" they will be more likely to draw a female than if they are asked to draw a picture of a "fireman."
About a month ago my employer gave me an old laptop with Windows 3.1 --- trust me, you're not missing anything. Although I'm impressed that the OS and software fit inside just 0.008 gigabytes of RAM, I'm not impressed when I compare it to the other OSes of the day like MacOS 7, Amiga OS, or Atari ST-OS, all of which were superior. Even GEOS on the lowly C64 was better (imho).
Windows95 and NT 4 were Microsoft's first truly good OSes.... prior to that MS is best avoided.
no. market share and monthly sales are completely different things. market share= % of devices that are in the market being used by people. monthly sales= no of devices sold in a particular month.
You've misunderstood the goals. There isn't a compromise because the goal is mostly about the 3D software.
i agree. i thought that the people making the movie were completely separate from the developers.
Crysis had a budget about 50-100 times larger than the budget for this film
exactly what i said.
watching the cutscenes - there is no hair, no cloth simulation, no subsurface scattering effects, almost all of the surfaces including the bodys of the characters are hard surfaces which is trivial to animate, light and render. The body animation is all motion capture and facial capture (and not high quality at that). The texture quality in Crysis is far worse. Your visual acuity appears to be lacking if you think that Crysis has superior visuals or animation skill.
don't watch the cutscenes. they are blurry and of low quality. watch this. turn on 720p. of course the animations and camera movement are not nearly as good as in your movie. but i still think that the textures are substantially better. there is cloth simulation but i don't know what sub-pixel scattering even is.
they're not even playing catch up right now. read the summary. '...after weeks of fighting technology...'. i don't intend to be rude or belittle others' hard work (harder than i have ever done), but if you really want to make a movie, you don't care about the politicks behind your tools. you simply use the best available, which let you bring your idea/story to life most easily, letting you concentrate on the movie making part. otoh, what these people are doing is essentially a compromise. they want to develop software as well as make a movie. and in my experience compromises in art usually don't work. an artist does not care about anything but his creation. and yes, it is quite sad to see the graphics quality somewhat worse than crysis running with all effects on. i have always been excited by open source sw and cc licensed works of art but at times like these i realize that without lots of financial backing, mainstream movies are just not possible. and that kind of money you won't get if you plan to give away your product for free.
there is a very highly developed niche for quicktime porn. but unfortunately its all for gays!! i wonder if that has anything to do with iphone/pod/pad not having flash.
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exactly.. I just thought the same exact thing
yeah! me too!
not to be rude but if you thought the same exact thing someone else has already posted then SHUT UP!
Yes, that's million with an M.
maybe it is some sort of an inside joke but how would you spell million without an 'm'?
but mach 3 razors last much much more longer than the cheap ones. its not a ripoff.
why do you refill it yourself? just pay someone to do it. i asked the guy at the shop i bought my printer from and he told me he would do it for Rs400 (~$8), including the toner. sure, it works for only half the number of pages the original does. but then the original thing costs Rs2000 (~$40).
If there are any good digital picture frames, that would be news to me, I haven't seen any.
yes and i have not seen any good space stations, so that must surely mean that none exists, right??
while i agree that most picture frames initially were low-res and crappy, now you can find many that have higher density than your 1080p monitor.
please give me a contact email of your super-awesome, printer-manufacturing brother!
you dont need to develop pictures. you just give the machine your memory card and it gives you the prints and then you pay the guy some money.
and i hate it that the picture frame stays on all the time even when nobody is looking at it. and if i switch it off, then nobody ever stops to look, so it stays of for a week or so. also, snapfish is quite reasonable these days.
For example, if little children are asked to draw a picture of a "firefighter" they will be more likely to draw a female than if they are asked to draw a picture of a "fireman."
[citation needed]
yay!!
you are my hero!
wrong again. now it's F*ck Steve Jobs.
your experience with windows+touchscreen is horribly outdated. atleast 3-5 years old.
About a month ago my employer gave me an old laptop with Windows 3.1 --- trust me, you're not missing anything. Although I'm impressed that the OS and software fit inside just 0.008 gigabytes of RAM, I'm not impressed when I compare it to the other OSes of the day like MacOS 7, Amiga OS, or Atari ST-OS, all of which were superior. Even GEOS on the lowly C64 was better (imho).
Windows95 and NT 4 were Microsoft's first truly good OSes.... prior to that MS is best avoided.
is this for real?
I still haven't had a chance to try Win7, though from all the positive feedback I definitely will when I get around to my next system overhaul.
As stated above, it certainly has some tweaks that could be used, but overall it's a great operating system.
Amongst many other reasons why, it even boots and runs faster and smoother on my Dell Mini 9 than a stripped down version of XP. Seriously.
true. i'm baffled. it takes about 30 seconds for firefox to start up on xp and only about 5 on 7. on the same system.
no. market share and monthly sales are completely different things. market share= % of devices that are in the market being used by people. monthly sales= no of devices sold in a particular month.
You've misunderstood the goals. There isn't a compromise because the goal is mostly about the 3D software.
i agree. i thought that the people making the movie were completely separate from the developers.
Crysis had a budget about 50-100 times larger than the budget for this film
exactly what i said.
watching the cutscenes - there is no hair, no cloth simulation, no subsurface scattering effects, almost all of the surfaces including the bodys of the characters are hard surfaces which is trivial to animate, light and render. The body animation is all motion capture and facial capture (and not high quality at that). The texture quality in Crysis is far worse. Your visual acuity appears to be lacking if you think that Crysis has superior visuals or animation skill.
don't watch the cutscenes. they are blurry and of low quality. watch this. turn on 720p. of course the animations and camera movement are not nearly as good as in your movie. but i still think that the textures are substantially better. there is cloth simulation but i don't know what sub-pixel scattering even is.
i and the poster above me were talking about the market, not the sales.
You're an idiot. Please don't post here anymore.
yes.
i feel ultra-stupid now. It's plain common sense.
they're not even playing catch up right now. read the summary. '...after weeks of fighting technology...'.
i don't intend to be rude or belittle others' hard work (harder than i have ever done), but if you really want to make a movie, you don't care about the politicks behind your tools. you simply use the best available, which let you bring your idea/story to life most easily, letting you concentrate on the movie making part.
otoh, what these people are doing is essentially a compromise. they want to develop software as well as make a movie. and in my experience compromises in art usually don't work. an artist does not care about anything but his creation.
and yes, it is quite sad to see the graphics quality somewhat worse than crysis running with all effects on. i have always been excited by open source sw and cc licensed works of art but at times like these i realize that without lots of financial backing, mainstream movies are just not possible. and that kind of money you won't get if you plan to give away your product for free.
please tell me. if i make a movie with blender, do i HAVE to make it cc attribution? or can i have it all rights reserved?
Or it's very good beer. (:
i don't know if you are aware, but that smiley is upside down.
he's right that personal computers are going away. every mac/iphone/pad you buy is not your personal computer. it is apple's/stevie's computer.
there is a very highly developed niche for quicktime porn. but unfortunately its all for gays!! i wonder if that has anything to do with iphone/pod/pad not having flash.
hell you can order a pc from dell/hp that will wipe the floor with any Mac for 1000 bucks.