Hey, don't knock the new stuff so completely. The new action figures have some good features - for one thing, they're waaaay more posable then the original transformers..... I used to make little "Battle scenes" when I was a kid, and I was always annoyed at guys who had no posability except for the shoulders, so they could raise the gun arms. The newer models are mostly ball+socket joints at the elbows, hips, and shoulders, so they're quite posable. Plus, if you stick with it a bit, the Mainframe 3d cartoons really grow on you - yeah, its got some low points, like the grand finale, but its pretty. The Beast Machines Cheetorr is damn schweet, not to mention the bad guys in that (though RatTrap is freaking pestulent in that show).
Seriously, people look at their childhood memories through rose-coloured glasses. Watch some of the old stuff again, you'll see its pretty well about the same quality overall - some crap here, some crap there. For example, most of the original transformers had such shitty transformations that the cartoon had to fudge them completely - like the fact that most TF action figures don't even have separate legs.
Don't be so quick to damn the new stuff. It was made by and for TF fans, like it should be. Just because we're all automatically wired to say "Its a revival of the original, ergo it sucks ass" by all the shitty Hollywood revivals doesn't mean its always the case.
Umm, you know, a major cause of the power shortage is the air conditioners and the heat damage last summer. The is caused by climactic change, AKA global warming. Global warming is one thing the environmentalists have been fighting for years and years. Its a building power plants to power air-conditioners to fight the warming from other power plants is a nasty cycle, one that ends with this solar system having 2 planets that look like venus, instead of one.
In that case, you're business is fscked. When I call tech support, I expect to be talking to a person in an office chair, who's got time to deal with my problem. Not intruding onto a programmer's private life. That's a pain in the ass for both of us. I expect to talk to someone who's prepared for their job, not just the guy who drew the short straw. I can understand why your customers are so annoying, they think "I'm calling a big business which has a bad manual" not "I'm in someone's bedroom". Damn, that must scuk.
You know what the scary part is? You're wrong. You don't even have to read the article to know that (though they give a good example of such an instance).
Yep, this is a great day for piracy of all forms. Imagine VCD's with this. Imagine how much warez you can stuff on one of these. I wonder if they'll make CD (audio) players that support this? If so, that's the end of double-CD albums and suchlike.
So that big businesses could hire huge, expensive, unstoppable armies of lawyers, knowing that the risk of losing will stop any lawsuit, frivolous or not.
No... The Quadrantids are coming, run for your lives!
Seriously, after trying to figure out how to pronounce the name (you squirmed with it, admit it), doesn't Quadrantids sound like a bad 50's sci-fi alien invasion.
You are totally, 100% correct that there is absolutely dick-all at the solar L-points save for a little rubble. This is, of course, the *exact* reason they want to build there. Keep in mind the primary purpose for any permanent station, until mining becomes a real possibility, is for astronomical observation. Space telescopes, gravity wave detectors, microwave scanners, ect. Being anywhere near the earth, or any other object, would seriously inhibit any such project. Earth has tidal effects, magnetic fields, lots of light, an orbiting moon (in orbit, the earth is a source of tides as well as the moon). The earth puts out as much radio as a small star, from human communication, which would also interfere. NASA has plans to use this point for these purposes. This ANTS jump-off point would be just one more application of this hypothetical station. Basically, the idea is that the next ISS should be built there, instead of here.
Ummm, actually this is a very important development, learn a little about animation and you'll see that.
Humans do, in fact, see motion blur. The brain just filters it out for you. Humans can't see much better then 60-70 frames/sec, and interpret anything happening faster then that as motion blur. Wave your hand in front of your face as fast as you can. You should see some blurring.
This is extremely important for very fast-paced action, like Quake, where you can have fights where something will happen so fast that you only see it for 1 or 2 frames. The problem is this - if you only see it for a few frames, that's not enough data for your mind to assimilate the information. All you see is a couple of still frames one after another, very quickly. You're not quite sure where anything's going, where they're coming from. Ever watch the sword-fights in Beast Wars? They suffer from this badly, as does a lot of 3d combat. If those images were blurred, the mind could fill in the gaps between the frames better. This is also why framerates of higher then 60 are often a good thing - if the computer wont blur it, then the human eye will instead.
Mind you, the effect they've got there looks a little bad. They're handling it simply by fading previous frames, when its actually much more complicated.
Heheh, have you thought about physics? Seconds are used in metric mathematics. Acceleration is m/s, speed is m/s, power is J/s, etc. Seconds are the only imperial unit still used in metric mathematics, but they're thoroughly ingraned into the math. If your going to fsck with time units, may as well redo the whole damn thing over again (may I suggest switching over to hexidecimal while we're at it?)
Actually, I've seen a few cartoons done with computer-aided in-betweening to add to the conventional in-betweening, and with the cumulative effect its damn sweet. Smoothest things you've ever seen. Some of the work in MTV's The Maxx uses this, for example. Don't knock it.
Besides, I'm always kinda fumed by posters who say "well wouldn't it be nicer if this were done by hand". Try it yourself, then see how much you say "goddamn I wish a computer would do this chicken shit!". In-betweening is one of the shittiest jobs on earth, and although it is helpful in giving an budding animator practice and experience, it is by-and-large a simple grunting pain in the ass.
Animators will go back to traditional approaches when all programmers decide to work exclusively in assembler.
Well, as cellular gizmoes become cheaper, not to mention contact with developing countries increases, there will be demand for 56k users for much longer then you might think. Sure, they might not be the mainstream consumer public, but they're there.
Personally, I don't think the internet peaked - it grows at a nice, gradual scale, and we overinflated its capabilities. I figure its about a year or three behind our expectations, and that's frustrating. It has not peaked, it has just spiked slightly.
Umm, SC2's music was made through a contest for mod music, the creators of the game explain it at the SC creators' chat log at Pages of Now and Forever. They had 4 or 5 different music guys in the end. Nicholson was one of several. Another one of those guys is part of Robots Are Supreme. Wierd shit. Potatojuice is actually a remix of the Melnorme theme. I recommend "homage to RC Sonic" and "Powerdown/fly home".
Shitty or not, I doubt even Verizon deserves this sort of assault. Spamming has really gotten out of control to reach this point. Still, it does make you wonder, what sort of organization would make a "malicious spam assault" rather then just using more conventional server-cracking forms.
Honestly, I'll bet a lot of people out there first heard you when Tiny Toons did that music video day with two of your songs (Istanbul and Particle Man, to the slashdotters who don't know).... how much do you think your carreer owes to that episode? How did that get handled, were you simply approached by WB with a proposal and a contract to sign, or was it more complicated?
The videogame of Dune (the first game, not the second) had a nice looking ornithopter. I don't believe it had flapping wings, but it looked like a nice hybrid of a helicopter, a dragonfly and a glider. The wings unfolded, not flapped.
Children have much less disposable income than adults. Excuuuuuuuuuuse me? Have you seen the kids these days? Ever heard of pokemon cards? Nintendo? Gap kids? Teenaged girls raiding the mall with mum's credit card? Been to the CD store lately? Its all aimed at the consumeristic middle-schoolers who've so little discretion that they've let the biz triple prices. If little jimmy wants an AK-47, he can afford it.
That's a modern stupid definition of fascism that looks at Nazi's and says they're it. Fascism is not that simple. The primary function of a fascist government is to do what is right for the nation (where communism is for the people, and libertarianism is for the individual). Read a real book on the subject.
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Hey, don't knock the new stuff so completely. The new action figures have some good features - for one thing, they're waaaay more posable then the original transformers..... I used to make little "Battle scenes" when I was a kid, and I was always annoyed at guys who had no posability except for the shoulders, so they could raise the gun arms. The newer models are mostly ball+socket joints at the elbows, hips, and shoulders, so they're quite posable. Plus, if you stick with it a bit, the Mainframe 3d cartoons really grow on you - yeah, its got some low points, like the grand finale, but its pretty. The Beast Machines Cheetorr is damn schweet, not to mention the bad guys in that (though RatTrap is freaking pestulent in that show). Seriously, people look at their childhood memories through rose-coloured glasses. Watch some of the old stuff again, you'll see its pretty well about the same quality overall - some crap here, some crap there. For example, most of the original transformers had such shitty transformations that the cartoon had to fudge them completely - like the fact that most TF action figures don't even have separate legs. Don't be so quick to damn the new stuff. It was made by and for TF fans, like it should be. Just because we're all automatically wired to say "Its a revival of the original, ergo it sucks ass" by all the shitty Hollywood revivals doesn't mean its always the case.
Umm, you know, a major cause of the power shortage is the air conditioners and the heat damage last summer. The is caused by climactic change, AKA global warming. Global warming is one thing the environmentalists have been fighting for years and years. Its a building power plants to power air-conditioners to fight the warming from other power plants is a nasty cycle, one that ends with this solar system having 2 planets that look like venus, instead of one.
In that case, you're business is fscked. When I call tech support, I expect to be talking to a person in an office chair, who's got time to deal with my problem. Not intruding onto a programmer's private life. That's a pain in the ass for both of us. I expect to talk to someone who's prepared for their job, not just the guy who drew the short straw. I can understand why your customers are so annoying, they think "I'm calling a big business which has a bad manual" not "I'm in someone's bedroom". Damn, that must scuk.
You know what the scary part is? You're wrong. You don't even have to read the article to know that (though they give a good example of such an instance).
Jeeze, that link explains a lot. Not the least of which is the continued success of AOL.
Yep, this is a great day for piracy of all forms. Imagine VCD's with this. Imagine how much warez you can stuff on one of these. I wonder if they'll make CD (audio) players that support this? If so, that's the end of double-CD albums and suchlike.
So that big businesses could hire huge, expensive, unstoppable armies of lawyers, knowing that the risk of losing will stop any lawsuit, frivolous or not.
No... The Quadrantids are coming, run for your lives!
Seriously, after trying to figure out how to pronounce the name (you squirmed with it, admit it), doesn't Quadrantids sound like a bad 50's sci-fi alien invasion.
You are totally, 100% correct that there is absolutely dick-all at the solar L-points save for a little rubble. This is, of course, the *exact* reason they want to build there. Keep in mind the primary purpose for any permanent station, until mining becomes a real possibility, is for astronomical observation. Space telescopes, gravity wave detectors, microwave scanners, ect. Being anywhere near the earth, or any other object, would seriously inhibit any such project. Earth has tidal effects, magnetic fields, lots of light, an orbiting moon (in orbit, the earth is a source of tides as well as the moon). The earth puts out as much radio as a small star, from human communication, which would also interfere. NASA has plans to use this point for these purposes. This ANTS jump-off point would be just one more application of this hypothetical station. Basically, the idea is that the next ISS should be built there, instead of here.
Ummm, actually this is a very important development, learn a little about animation and you'll see that.
Humans do, in fact, see motion blur. The brain just filters it out for you. Humans can't see much better then 60-70 frames/sec, and interpret anything happening faster then that as motion blur. Wave your hand in front of your face as fast as you can. You should see some blurring.
This is extremely important for very fast-paced action, like Quake, where you can have fights where something will happen so fast that you only see it for 1 or 2 frames. The problem is this - if you only see it for a few frames, that's not enough data for your mind to assimilate the information. All you see is a couple of still frames one after another, very quickly. You're not quite sure where anything's going, where they're coming from. Ever watch the sword-fights in Beast Wars? They suffer from this badly, as does a lot of 3d combat. If those images were blurred, the mind could fill in the gaps between the frames better. This is also why framerates of higher then 60 are often a good thing - if the computer wont blur it, then the human eye will instead.
Mind you, the effect they've got there looks a little bad. They're handling it simply by fading previous frames, when its actually much more complicated.
Heheh, have you thought about physics? Seconds are used in metric mathematics. Acceleration is m/s, speed is m/s, power is J/s, etc. Seconds are the only imperial unit still used in metric mathematics, but they're thoroughly ingraned into the math. If your going to fsck with time units, may as well redo the whole damn thing over again (may I suggest switching over to hexidecimal while we're at it?)
Actually, I've seen a few cartoons done with computer-aided in-betweening to add to the conventional in-betweening, and with the cumulative effect its damn sweet. Smoothest things you've ever seen. Some of the work in MTV's The Maxx uses this, for example. Don't knock it.
Besides, I'm always kinda fumed by posters who say "well wouldn't it be nicer if this were done by hand". Try it yourself, then see how much you say "goddamn I wish a computer would do this chicken shit!". In-betweening is one of the shittiest jobs on earth, and although it is helpful in giving an budding animator practice and experience, it is by-and-large a simple grunting pain in the ass.
Animators will go back to traditional approaches when all programmers decide to work exclusively in assembler.
Well, as cellular gizmoes become cheaper, not to mention contact with developing countries increases, there will be demand for 56k users for much longer then you might think. Sure, they might not be the mainstream consumer public, but they're there.
Personally, I don't think the internet peaked - it grows at a nice, gradual scale, and we overinflated its capabilities. I figure its about a year or three behind our expectations, and that's frustrating. It has not peaked, it has just spiked slightly.
Umm, SC2's music was made through a contest for mod music, the creators of the game explain it at the SC creators' chat log at Pages of Now and Forever. They had 4 or 5 different music guys in the end. Nicholson was one of several. Another one of those guys is part of Robots Are Supreme. Wierd shit. Potatojuice is actually a remix of the Melnorme theme. I recommend "homage to RC Sonic" and "Powerdown/fly home".
Shitty or not, I doubt even Verizon deserves this sort of assault. Spamming has really gotten out of control to reach this point. Still, it does make you wonder, what sort of organization would make a "malicious spam assault" rather then just using more conventional server-cracking forms.
Idunno about you, but I thought Willow was pretty damn good.
The above AC makes a good point. Copyright law is for the courts or the legislature to decide, not the copyright office. Who gave them the right?
Honestly, I'll bet a lot of people out there first heard you when Tiny Toons did that music video day with two of your songs (Istanbul and Particle Man, to the slashdotters who don't know).... how much do you think your carreer owes to that episode? How did that get handled, were you simply approached by WB with a proposal and a contract to sign, or was it more complicated?
Yeah, like the guy in the article, I get AOL Canada.
The videogame of Dune (the first game, not the second) had a nice looking ornithopter. I don't believe it had flapping wings, but it looked like a nice hybrid of a helicopter, a dragonfly and a glider. The wings unfolded, not flapped.
Children have much less disposable income than adults. Excuuuuuuuuuuse me? Have you seen the kids these days? Ever heard of pokemon cards? Nintendo? Gap kids? Teenaged girls raiding the mall with mum's credit card? Been to the CD store lately? Its all aimed at the consumeristic middle-schoolers who've so little discretion that they've let the biz triple prices. If little jimmy wants an AK-47, he can afford it.
I read that gay Vader thing.... it was just bad. I'm sorry, but it was. Don't bother.
Actually, TMNT 2 for NES was BABAUDBALRBA
Amen, brother. Too many people here on slashdot are a little out of touch with the very concept of extreme poverty. If I had mod points.
That's a modern stupid definition of fascism that looks at Nazi's and says they're it. Fascism is not that simple. The primary function of a fascist government is to do what is right for the nation (where communism is for the people, and libertarianism is for the individual). Read a real book on the subject.