The movies left out a bunch of information from the books. However if you are just looking at the story told in the movies, you would be correct. Most people don't seem to care too much what got left behind. For me, I can't really stand those movies not just because they are edited but because of what was changed, and how they changed things. In many respects the movie tells a very different, more shallow story.
Garcia makes an excellent point: with this wireless tracking system, can you really be sure who has access to this data? Theoretically, someone could go "Warhiking" (lol) scouring for data on passing hikers. Beyond "unfriendly" law enforcement agents, you could run the danger of exposing unsuspecting hikers to high-tech brigands or worse. (Camping equipment is expensive.) Something to think about.
I allowed my friend to have an extended loan of my nVidia Ti4200 after I bought a Radeon 9800 Pro. This friend is interested in designing video games, is a programmer and computer literate. It was updating an old nVidia TNT.
He came to me a few days later and said it wasn't working. Hmmm I thought, what could the problem be? So I went ahead and asked the obvious: did you download and install the right drivers? "No," he said, "I just plugged it in, shouldn't it work? The old card was an nVidia."
I agree, that seemed much more like, "Watch us build an expensive PC with a lot of hard disks" than "Watch us build something useful for reliable network storage."
I am currently trying to put together a RAID 5 file server and they do not cover any topic of use to me in that article. For example, practical backup solution? They chose a DVD burner, why that over similar tape solutions? I would guess price, but it would be nice if they at least mentioned some of their considerations. Especially since it would take 112 DVD-R's to back up a terrabyte?
Also, aside from their DVD backups, they seem to have no data recovery plan in case a hard drive fails. I guess they aren't storing anything important on these drives?
I would just like to second the acclaim for the Daewoo. If you dont have the patience to dig through the Sampo forums, this player has almost everything you need. Unfortunately, I have noticed that on US region 1 discs it will let me skip the warnings, but on Japanese (region 2) discs it will not. I do not have enough info to tell you hy this is. I also had a Apex 3201 for a while, and can say those are really a POS. The build quality is pretty cheap, and there are alot of annoying bugs in the player's interface. It's Daewoo or Sampo all the way! btw, http://www.nerd-out.com/ is your best friend when it comes to buying dvd players.
Except that many, many narrative films are based on books or short stories or other previous written works. Your rationale doesn't really work that well when confronted with the works, say, of Hitchcock, who took great books, and turned them into great movies. However often the books and the movies are very different.
Books and movies are two different media, and they don't *literally* translate well... successful film versions of books are almost always substantially different from their original source.
The Quake 3 engine can be set up to use multiple monitors, though I haven't done this myself. This includes games based on the engine, like Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Jedi Knight II, etc. Of course you need a kick-ass graphics card to be able to do this successfully... something the Parhelia is touting as a feature is the ability to use three monitors, for games just like quake (makes much more sense to have three monitors for peripheral vision. Two is awkward, with the split in the middle).
The other reason for the WMV format is it provides a Digital Rights Management solution. Alot of people are interested in selling internet videos under a "rental" model.
Also, in my experience, there is some hype over the whole DivX phenomenon, but I dont think it is going anywhere. The quality of MPEG4 at low bitrates just isn't good enough. Maybe if DVD players start coming with MPEG4 decoders in them...
Most of the servers I play on generally give a lot of respect to the good players. I think one thing that helps are programs that display player statistics, like Psychostats for C-S. This program collects 2 weeks of playing info on certain players which you can access via the web... it is an awesome system. Not only can you check out how you rank, but you get a sense of how other players perform. If I see someone on there with a 37:1 k:d record, obviously I am going to watch that person for cheating. You can also see the patterns that makes a player good vs. a cheater. Frankly I am surprised no one writes a statistics analysis program for these sorts of things... there must be certain player stats that spike or behave differently for certain kinds of cheating.
This is actually a great thing, adding weight to the possibility of overturning that goofball ruling. The appeals court will be hard-pressed to deny the cultural relevance (and thus speech issues) of video games now that they are being featured in a major, major museum. When I first saw the headline I assumed this was in response to the Limbaugh ruling actually.
You might know this already, or it might be mentioned previously, but the way to get rid of that annoying little OneBox thing is to delete the "TkBellEXE" key from
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\C ur rentVersion\Run]
Well this worked for me anyway, your results may vary. This bigger question is, why do we have to do this crap? Why haven't these companies learned Pop-ups = user spite. Fools.
In the SF Bay Area, you can set your watch by the playlist of most stations. "creed? 10:15am (or 4:32pm)" "linkin park? Time to go home already?"
It's funny, because I found out KALX (UC Berkeley radio station) is broadcast on the internet... just in time to hear it will be shutting down due to licensing fees. Great.
I absolutely agree. If I had mod points I'd mod this up. Humans need down time. You can only work so long before you need to stare at the wall for a few hours. Comparing these numbers to big projects of human engineering really doesn't mean a whole heap of alot. Now if by playing a game as simple as solitaire we could accomplish feats of grandeur, that would be something.
XP also stands for eXperience Points, which you lose by switching to this OS. I have heard of 10th level hackers actually falling back down to 8th! Horrible.
Yeah, a friend of mine is a huge WWII history buff, and he later told me there are pictures from Stalingrad of soldiers, half buried in snow, frozen where they stood. This film definitely does not portray a very accurate Stalingrad winter.
Oh... for some reason, I only remember there being snow in his childhood flashbacks. The people I talked to didn't remember snow either, so I guess it's just a blunder on my part.
I want to mention something else though, what sniper worth his salt aims for the eye?! Target moves his head two inches and you've wasted the shot. Give me a break.
I have to say, there was almost nothing good about this movie. It was disappointing in almost every aspect.
Technically, most of the shots were very disappointing. Particularly, one scene comes to mind. Konig has Vasily pinned down in a factory, so that he can't move. Vasily is stuck behind a stove, and can't see Konig. As per usual the germans bomb the entire area (don't they know their best man is in the area? Apparently not...) Some glass falls from the ceiling. A bunch of the glass stick upright in the dirt, and Konig can see close-ups of Vasily's face. In every single piece that fell. The biggest disappointment though is that rather than actually set up the shot so that there is a reflection, they just put some CG reflections on the glass, which look horrible, totally fake. Since it's hard to beleive that could happen in reality to begin with, the fact that the director didn't use real reflections hurts the scene even more. Plus it's just corny to begin with.
Second on the techinical list, the movie is full of inexplicable scene changes. It is never explained how Vasily ever escapes Konig's scopes. It always just changes scene, from him being pinned down to him returning to Russion HQ. Since this film clearly is not supposed to be an avant garde piece, this little trick of editing makes it seem as if they hastily put this film together at the last minute. It makes it seem as if they had to cut a lot from the story.
This movie does not explore the experience of being a sniper in the Russian army. It is simple a goofy love story cast with historical characters. Sniper had a more interesting look at being a sniper than this movie.
I could rant about this movie for days but, for my finale, can I just ask, where is the snow in this movie? It is set in Stalingrad in winter... and there is not a drop of snow in the city. Considering that the Russian cold is always an enormous factor when invading Russia, the omission of snow is laughable, at best.
If you want to see a corny yet horribly violent love story, go see this movie. If you are expecting a Saving Private Ryan-esque dramatization of the experiences of WWII, don't waste your time. You will be sorely disappointed. I recommend renting Full Metal Jacket instead. You will benefit more from seeing this movie twice than Enema at the Gates once.
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The movies left out a bunch of information from the books. However if you are just looking at the story told in the movies, you would be correct. Most people don't seem to care too much what got left behind. For me, I can't really stand those movies not just because they are edited but because of what was changed, and how they changed things. In many respects the movie tells a very different, more shallow story.
Garcia makes an excellent point: with this wireless tracking system, can you really be sure who has access to this data? Theoretically, someone could go "Warhiking" (lol) scouring for data on passing hikers. Beyond "unfriendly" law enforcement agents, you could run the danger of exposing unsuspecting hikers to high-tech brigands or worse. (Camping equipment is expensive.) Something to think about.
I allowed my friend to have an extended loan of my nVidia Ti4200 after I bought a Radeon 9800 Pro. This friend is interested in designing video games, is a programmer and computer literate. It was updating an old nVidia TNT.
He came to me a few days later and said it wasn't working. Hmmm I thought, what could the problem be? So I went ahead and asked the obvious: did you download and install the right drivers? "No," he said, "I just plugged it in, shouldn't it work? The old card was an nVidia."
Sigh.
How about Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates? It is fairly original, constructing a fairly complex group dynamic from a relatively simple set of puzzles.
Y!PP
Yeah my friend in China has had a PS2 for years. Frankly, he probably wouldn't have survived the long, boring Changchun winters without it.
I agree, that seemed much more like, "Watch us build an expensive PC with a lot of hard disks" than "Watch us build something useful for reliable network storage."
I am currently trying to put together a RAID 5 file server and they do not cover any topic of use to me in that article. For example, practical backup solution? They chose a DVD burner, why that over similar tape solutions? I would guess price, but it would be nice if they at least mentioned some of their considerations. Especially since it would take 112 DVD-R's to back up a terrabyte?
Also, aside from their DVD backups, they seem to have no data recovery plan in case a hard drive fails. I guess they aren't storing anything important on these drives?
A package management system. You could then just apt-get update your clothes every six months. You just need to hold out for nano-clothes my friend.
I would like to submit a link at snopes.com for your consideration. I am no fan of Bush, but...
I would just like to second the acclaim for the Daewoo. If you dont have the patience to dig through the Sampo forums, this player has almost everything you need. Unfortunately, I have noticed that on US region 1 discs it will let me skip the warnings, but on Japanese (region 2) discs it will not. I do not have enough info to tell you hy this is. I also had a Apex 3201 for a while, and can say those are really a POS. The build quality is pretty cheap, and there are alot of annoying bugs in the player's interface. It's Daewoo or Sampo all the way! btw, http://www.nerd-out.com/ is your best friend when it comes to buying dvd players.
Books and movies are two different media, and they don't *literally* translate well... successful film versions of books are almost always substantially different from their original source.
It's a Real Doll made to look like Sarah Gellar of course.
The Quake 3 engine can be set up to use multiple monitors, though I haven't done this myself. This includes games based on the engine, like Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Jedi Knight II, etc. Of course you need a kick-ass graphics card to be able to do this successfully... something the Parhelia is touting as a feature is the ability to use three monitors, for games just like quake (makes much more sense to have three monitors for peripheral vision. Two is awkward, with the split in the middle).
Whoops. I even previewed. BMRC
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This is where I used to work at Berkeley. The Berkeley Multimedia Research Center was big on the MBone for a while.
The other reason for the WMV format is it provides a Digital Rights Management solution. Alot of people are interested in selling internet videos under a "rental" model.
Also, in my experience, there is some hype over the whole DivX phenomenon, but I dont think it is going anywhere. The quality of MPEG4 at low bitrates just isn't good enough. Maybe if DVD players start coming with MPEG4 decoders in them...
Most of the servers I play on generally give a lot of respect to the good players. I think one thing that helps are programs that display player statistics, like Psychostats for C-S. This program collects 2 weeks of playing info on certain players which you can access via the web... it is an awesome system. Not only can you check out how you rank, but you get a sense of how other players perform. If I see someone on there with a 37:1 k:d record, obviously I am going to watch that person for cheating. You can also see the patterns that makes a player good vs. a cheater. Frankly I am surprised no one writes a statistics analysis program for these sorts of things... there must be certain player stats that spike or behave differently for certain kinds of cheating.
This is actually a great thing, adding weight to the possibility of overturning that goofball ruling. The appeals court will be hard-pressed to deny the cultural relevance (and thus speech issues) of video games now that they are being featured in a major, major museum. When I first saw the headline I assumed this was in response to the Limbaugh ruling actually.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
Well this worked for me anyway, your results may vary. This bigger question is, why do we have to do this crap? Why haven't these companies learned Pop-ups = user spite. Fools.
It's funny, because I found out KALX (UC Berkeley radio station) is broadcast on the internet... just in time to hear it will be shutting down due to licensing fees. Great.
I absolutely agree. If I had mod points I'd mod this up. Humans need down time. You can only work so long before you need to stare at the wall for a few hours. Comparing these numbers to big projects of human engineering really doesn't mean a whole heap of alot. Now if by playing a game as simple as solitaire we could accomplish feats of grandeur, that would be something.
XP also stands for eXperience Points, which you lose by switching to this OS. I have heard of 10th level hackers actually falling back down to 8th! Horrible.
Yeah, a friend of mine is a huge WWII history buff, and he later told me there are pictures from Stalingrad of soldiers, half buried in snow, frozen where they stood. This film definitely does not portray a very accurate Stalingrad winter.
I want to mention something else though, what sniper worth his salt aims for the eye?! Target moves his head two inches and you've wasted the shot. Give me a break.
Technically, most of the shots were very disappointing. Particularly, one scene comes to mind. Konig has Vasily pinned down in a factory, so that he can't move. Vasily is stuck behind a stove, and can't see Konig. As per usual the germans bomb the entire area (don't they know their best man is in the area? Apparently not...) Some glass falls from the ceiling. A bunch of the glass stick upright in the dirt, and Konig can see close-ups of Vasily's face. In every single piece that fell. The biggest disappointment though is that rather than actually set up the shot so that there is a reflection, they just put some CG reflections on the glass, which look horrible, totally fake. Since it's hard to beleive that could happen in reality to begin with, the fact that the director didn't use real reflections hurts the scene even more. Plus it's just corny to begin with.
Second on the techinical list, the movie is full of inexplicable scene changes. It is never explained how Vasily ever escapes Konig's scopes. It always just changes scene, from him being pinned down to him returning to Russion HQ. Since this film clearly is not supposed to be an avant garde piece, this little trick of editing makes it seem as if they hastily put this film together at the last minute. It makes it seem as if they had to cut a lot from the story.
This movie does not explore the experience of being a sniper in the Russian army. It is simple a goofy love story cast with historical characters. Sniper had a more interesting look at being a sniper than this movie.
I could rant about this movie for days but, for my finale, can I just ask, where is the snow in this movie? It is set in Stalingrad in winter... and there is not a drop of snow in the city. Considering that the Russian cold is always an enormous factor when invading Russia, the omission of snow is laughable, at best.
If you want to see a corny yet horribly violent love story, go see this movie. If you are expecting a Saving Private Ryan-esque dramatization of the experiences of WWII, don't waste your time. You will be sorely disappointed. I recommend renting Full Metal Jacket instead. You will benefit more from seeing this movie twice than Enema at the Gates once.
That sounds whack!
I think it would be a better idea to give the parents that accompany the kids the CDs. 7 year olds want candy, not pennies or Linux CDs. C'mon.
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