Even if they are not putting the warmed water back into the lake, the removal of cold water will raise the average temperature of the water (as warmer surface water has more of an impact on the overall lake) and will cause the lake to get warmer. We've done enough (I'm from Toronto) to screw up the environment around this city, we should NOT be doing this!
With close to a $200 million take (article at hollywood.com), have people around the world missed the point of this film?? Nimom, kidnapped by humans and presumably sold in a store, spends most of the movie desperately trying to flee human confinment. And yet people are flocking in droves to stores to pick up Nimo's cousin, or uncle or settling for a "second best" puffer fish or seahorse if the clown fish are sold out. I don't get it!
I work for a wireless internet consulting division for a large cellphone company. While the economy has cut our division here in Canada from 70 to a mere 27, we still have a very good work environment. I pick my own hours, work from home when I want and wear just about anything to work. When projects get rough and there is lots of work to be done, project managers are out buying us goodies and junk food to keep the code flowing. Sure, it's not nerf-balls and super-soakers, but we do have pool and foossball tables right by our cafeteria:-)
While I agree that games tend to lack literary depth, games DO provide a wonderful, common frame of reference to work from. The worlds and characters tend to be very rich in detail and history. The films could really capitalize on that, really rewarding people who have played the game. Don't get caught up in explaining all of the minute details. In Alien, they didn't both trying to explain what laid all the eggs, or building a whole background of the alien ship on the planet or anything. The _plot_ revolved around other things. Still, if Alien were adapted from a game, they could have made the alien ship a species that game players loved to hate - kind of an inside joke for the enlightened.
Movies based on games do not have to be bad. Script writers should _gain_ by having such a rich, detailed background to work from. Bad writing if just plain bad writing.
I use Sun's Java 1.2.2 on RedHat Linux 6.2 and don't have any problems. I write web applications (servlets, beans and JSPs) and the application is quite sophisticated (50 business objects, 64 tables/400 fields in the database, over 110 java objects total all done in a MVC design pattern). The app was quick to write, easy to model and other developers find it very easy to learn.
I would be very interested to know if Autodesk is thinking about creating official support channels to back the release of a free Max. I seen many posts about people who have downloaded the full version, but uninstalled after not being able to figure it out. Autodesk might be banking that many of those people might part with some money for assistance.
So call from a pay phone... Or maybe Pinkerton guards in every city will madly rush to the location of every call and fingerprint payphones on an as-need basis.
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Could a virus author, on his way to jail, sue your butt off for reverse engineering their code, if he/she put "copy protection" (obfuscation) in it?
Even if they are not putting the warmed water back into the lake, the removal of cold water will raise the average temperature of the water (as warmer surface water has more of an impact on the overall lake) and will cause the lake to get warmer. We've done enough (I'm from Toronto) to screw up the environment around this city, we should NOT be doing this!
With close to a $200 million take (article at hollywood.com), have people around the world missed the point of this film?? Nimom, kidnapped by humans and presumably sold in a store, spends most of the movie desperately trying to flee human confinment. And yet people are flocking in droves to stores to pick up Nimo's cousin, or uncle or settling for a "second best" puffer fish or seahorse if the clown fish are sold out. I don't get it!
I work for a wireless internet consulting division for a large cellphone company. While the economy has cut our division here in Canada from 70 to a mere 27, we still have a very good work environment. I pick my own hours, work from home when I want and wear just about anything to work. When projects get rough and there is lots of work to be done, project managers are out buying us goodies and junk food to keep the code flowing. Sure, it's not nerf-balls and super-soakers, but we do have pool and foossball tables right by our cafeteria :-)
While I agree that games tend to lack literary depth, games DO provide a wonderful, common frame of reference to work from. The worlds and characters tend to be very rich in detail and history. The films could really capitalize on that, really rewarding people who have played the game. Don't get caught up in explaining all of the minute details. In Alien, they didn't both trying to explain what laid all the eggs, or building a whole background of the alien ship on the planet or anything. The _plot_ revolved around other things. Still, if Alien were adapted from a game, they could have made the alien ship a species that game players loved to hate - kind of an inside joke for the enlightened. Movies based on games do not have to be bad. Script writers should _gain_ by having such a rich, detailed background to work from. Bad writing if just plain bad writing.
I use Sun's Java 1.2.2 on RedHat Linux 6.2 and don't have any problems. I write web applications (servlets, beans and JSPs) and the application is quite sophisticated (50 business objects, 64 tables/400 fields in the database, over 110 java objects total all done in a MVC design pattern). The app was quick to write, easy to model and other developers find it very easy to learn.
I would be very interested to know if Autodesk is thinking about creating official support channels to back the release of a free Max. I seen many posts about people who have downloaded the full version, but uninstalled after not being able to figure it out. Autodesk might be banking that many of those people might part with some money for assistance.
So call from a pay phone... Or maybe Pinkerton guards in every city will madly rush to the location of every call and fingerprint payphones on an as-need basis.