If this NY Times article is to be believed, $100Bn is what we spend in six months in Iraq and Afghanistan.
As much as it would be neat to spend $100Bn on broadband, I'm sure there's better uses for the money. Again, according to that article, that would be enough to more than double funds for cancer research for the next decade.
Well, we're halfway there already. I believe most studios that are now remastering for HD (especially HD DVD and Blu-Ray) are mastering the picture at 4K resolution: Blade Runner being one of those titles. The idea I guess is once "4K" becomes a standard, they'll have this content ready.
Sony already sells a 4K projector meant for digital cinemas. But, you can use it to show 4 HD signals at once, something which Sony has been trying to promote to sportsbooks, tradeshows, etc.
It all ultimately depends on visual acuity. Some people are already having trouble seeing the difference between an upscaled NTSC signal and an HD signal. I can only imagine this well get more troublesome as we keep ramping up the resolution.
Just remember, HD doesn't even get close to properly displaying all of the resolution of 35mm film. We've got ways to go, although I don't see more than one new generation replacing the current HDTV "standard" for consumer-level high-end technology.
The cards are all interesting until 1995, when they start getting very PC. I mea... Chewbacca walking kids through the snow? It's a nice sentiment but, c'mon.
3) Jeremy Soule. Every self-respecting gamer has to recognize this name at this point. A British composer who specializes in background orchestral music. Notable scores: Morrowind, Oblivion, Guild Wars
Don't forget he also did the music to Total Annihiliation, which I think stands among his best work.
The PS3 will sell, and it's going to be impossible for it to get 20% market share. EA will just develop on whatever middleware they use now and release games on the PS3, the 360, the Wii, and the PS2. There's no reason for EA to make a title specifically for the PS3 or the 360: there's too much overlap in those consoles to leave one of them in the dark without that title.
You don't need to jump around. I've played Wii Sports lying down. It's a bit less fun, but you still play.
I've got a limited number of TV inputs, and the Wii recently lost out to my original Xbox, because I wanted to play RalliSport Challenge 2. It's a fun system, but there's not a lot of software out that's great out there. If its titles were all $20, I'd buy more of them (as I did with the DS).
I do want to try Super Mario Galaxy as well as Zack and Wiki.
It's impossible to accurately give a price to what it costs to publish a magazine without knowing how much ad revenue you get from it and how many subscribers it has. For example Metro is an international five-times-a-week newspaper that prints in 4 colors. They were obviously entirely ad-supported, but at least aesthetically they were pretty high quality.
Periodicals like to almost give subscriptions away because it means they can increase their subscriber (guaranteed) reader base and charge more for ads.
The four year old games are $15 on Live. Considering some people have complained about finding older Xbox games in stores, this is not a bad idea. I don't mind downloading games for $5-$15. Even if I could resell them, I would only get a few dollars back. But unless I'm 100% sure I will keep a game forever, I am unlikely to spend $40-$60 on a game.
Yes, Warhawk for the PS3 looks interesting. No, I will not pay $40 for it.
Sony's catalog is garbage compared to the two big players. Yes, you can name plenty of titles that they have but doing some simple analysis on the movies of the past twenty years leaves you with one result, and it's this one: Warner Bros. and Disney are the two big guns.
The issue, so far, is that Disney has been reluctant in releasing a lot of Blu-Ray titles. Last year Blu-Ray owners got things like Dinosaur and Eight Below from Disney. Whoop-dee-doo.
This year, they're bringing out their recent blockbusters as well as the Pixar films but they still haven't touched the interesting areas of their catalog: Buena Vista, Touchstone, Miramax and the like.
In my mind the only company that has done anything right is Warner Bros. Copious releases of new and old material generally lauded by critics and technophiles, and movies in both formats.
Well, if you're hiring Lionel Hutz, the question is, how many sandwiches does that buy? I hear he works on three sandwiches a day. Also, he might live in your car.
If you're not impressed by Landfall, you might be impressed by Alive in Joburg, a short film by Neill Blomkamp. Halo movie or not, this is one director whose career I will be following.
The correct political answer is: "They're both older than me, but not as old as my opponent." Chuckle, then make exploding-bomb-hand-motion over the heart while pointing at the more senior, graying opponent with a history of medical problems.
It's been happening here for a while. If you're a new band you can get critical acclaim and exposure at a level that wasn't possible say, fifteen years ago (unless you had a friend at Spin or RS that would do a write-up on you).
Kelefah Sanneh of the NY Times summed it up nicely in this article about Vampire Weekend:
For a proactive indie-rock fan in 2007 a debut album is more like an end product than a starting point. By the time that first shrink-wrapped and bar-coded CD finds its way into shops, the band will probably be old news, having suffered through many online cycles of hype and backlash. In a world that won't wait patiently for an album release date, it probably makes more sense to talk about a debut MP3, a debut YouTube appearance, a debut MySpace page.
In a sense this new state of affairs is really an old one, a throwback to the early 1960s, when concerts and singles ruled, and albums were merely compilations. And it probably makes bands (not to mention record companies) nervous: It means you can pick up fans faster, and lose them faster too. I don't know how the economics work, but I'm sure that for certain bands, if they can give away an album to get people to come to a show, they may end up making more money that way.
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The rope did not only not unwind fully, it started going back into the spacecraft. Representatives from the manufactuer of the rope-unwinding mechanism, Duncan YY Heavy Industries, were unavailable for comment.
I got the gist of it from the article, but enjoin specifically means:
Law. to prohibit or restrain by an injunction. So it's not a made-up word. It's a perfectly cromulent word and now my vocabulary has been embiggened.
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If this NY Times article is to be believed, $100Bn is what we spend in six months in Iraq and Afghanistan.
As much as it would be neat to spend $100Bn on broadband, I'm sure there's better uses for the money. Again, according to that article, that would be enough to more than double funds for cancer research for the next decade.
Well, we're halfway there already. I believe most studios that are now remastering for HD (especially HD DVD and Blu-Ray) are mastering the picture at 4K resolution: Blade Runner being one of those titles. The idea I guess is once "4K" becomes a standard, they'll have this content ready.
Sony already sells a 4K projector meant for digital cinemas. But, you can use it to show 4 HD signals at once, something which Sony has been trying to promote to sportsbooks, tradeshows, etc.
It all ultimately depends on visual acuity. Some people are already having trouble seeing the difference between an upscaled NTSC signal and an HD signal. I can only imagine this well get more troublesome as we keep ramping up the resolution.
Just remember, HD doesn't even get close to properly displaying all of the resolution of 35mm film. We've got ways to go, although I don't see more than one new generation replacing the current HDTV "standard" for consumer-level high-end technology.
This may be the first and only time that Firefox has ever been compared to a child abductor. Bravo, sir.
The cards are all interesting until 1995, when they start getting very PC. I mea... Chewbacca walking kids through the snow? It's a nice sentiment but, c'mon.
Just do what I do. Have an old guy in a security uniform ask everyone to sign in on a dry-erase board.
It saves paper.
Don't forget he also did the music to Total Annihiliation, which I think stands among his best work.
The PS3 will sell, and it's going to be impossible for it to get 20% market share. EA will just develop on whatever middleware they use now and release games on the PS3, the 360, the Wii, and the PS2. There's no reason for EA to make a title specifically for the PS3 or the 360: there's too much overlap in those consoles to leave one of them in the dark without that title.
I think the main problem was not with the written review but with the video review.
You don't need to jump around. I've played Wii Sports lying down. It's a bit less fun, but you still play.
I've got a limited number of TV inputs, and the Wii recently lost out to my original Xbox, because I wanted to play RalliSport Challenge 2. It's a fun system, but there's not a lot of software out that's great out there. If its titles were all $20, I'd buy more of them (as I did with the DS).
I do want to try Super Mario Galaxy as well as Zack and Wiki.
It's impossible to accurately give a price to what it costs to publish a magazine without knowing how much ad revenue you get from it and how many subscribers it has. For example Metro is an international five-times-a-week newspaper that prints in 4 colors. They were obviously entirely ad-supported, but at least aesthetically they were pretty high quality.
Periodicals like to almost give subscriptions away because it means they can increase their subscriber (guaranteed) reader base and charge more for ads.
The four year old games are $15 on Live. Considering some people have complained about finding older Xbox games in stores, this is not a bad idea. I don't mind downloading games for $5-$15. Even if I could resell them, I would only get a few dollars back. But unless I'm 100% sure I will keep a game forever, I am unlikely to spend $40-$60 on a game.
Yes, Warhawk for the PS3 looks interesting. No, I will not pay $40 for it.
Sony's catalog is garbage compared to the two big players. Yes, you can name plenty of titles that they have but doing some simple analysis on the movies of the past twenty years leaves you with one result, and it's this one: Warner Bros. and Disney are the two big guns.
The issue, so far, is that Disney has been reluctant in releasing a lot of Blu-Ray titles. Last year Blu-Ray owners got things like Dinosaur and Eight Below from Disney. Whoop-dee-doo.
This year, they're bringing out their recent blockbusters as well as the Pixar films but they still haven't touched the interesting areas of their catalog: Buena Vista, Touchstone, Miramax and the like.
In my mind the only company that has done anything right is Warner Bros. Copious releases of new and old material generally lauded by critics and technophiles, and movies in both formats.
Shadowrun killed Shadowrun's sales. It didn't do well on the 360 either.
Well, if you're hiring Lionel Hutz, the question is, how many sandwiches does that buy? I hear he works on three sandwiches a day. Also, he might live in your car.
If you're not impressed by Landfall, you might be impressed by Alive in Joburg, a short film by Neill Blomkamp. Halo movie or not, this is one director whose career I will be following.
The correct political answer is: "They're both older than me, but not as old as my opponent." Chuckle, then make exploding-bomb-hand-motion over the heart while pointing at the more senior, graying opponent with a history of medical problems.
Ironic, considering this is being discussed on a US tech-oriented website.
Kelefah Sanneh of the NY Times summed it up nicely in this article about Vampire Weekend: For a proactive indie-rock fan in 2007 a debut album is more like an end product than a starting point. By the time that first shrink-wrapped and bar-coded CD finds its way into shops, the band will probably be old news, having suffered through many online cycles of hype and backlash. In a world that won't wait patiently for an album release date, it probably makes more sense to talk about a debut MP3, a debut YouTube appearance, a debut MySpace page.
In a sense this new state of affairs is really an old one, a throwback to the early 1960s, when concerts and singles ruled, and albums were merely compilations. And it probably makes bands (not to mention record companies) nervous: It means you can pick up fans faster, and lose them faster too. I don't know how the economics work, but I'm sure that for certain bands, if they can give away an album to get people to come to a show, they may end up making more money that way.
It's pretty clear to me: Your wife is a fish.
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Eh, the only knob I see is the one writing about the item.
Well, I used to use corpses. So now I will either need to heat them, or make sure they are fresh.
Oh, the things they make me do to avoid traffic.
No, I'm pretty sure I saw that as a bullet point at a Sony conference. Isn't death the fourth dimension?
The rope did not only not unwind fully, it started going back into the spacecraft. Representatives from the manufactuer of the rope-unwinding mechanism, Duncan YY Heavy Industries, were unavailable for comment.