Well, if you'd tried the Linux version, you'd find out it DOES support SVG... It's still in early stages but they are working on full support and new builds are published daily...
It's a little bit misleading to call Episode 3 "bloodbath" when there is not a single drop of blood anywhere in it.:) True, there are some severed limbs and heads and (very stylized) burnt flesh but all "cuts" are very clean and quick (the reasoning probably being that lightsabers automatically cauterize the wound). The terrors are mostly psychological, due to surprisingly good directing and few neat plot ideas. (E.g. we don't ever SEE Anakin killing the Jedi kids but we know very clearly he did it)
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I am the writer of the original Czech article (which was badly quoted by Dark Horizons article which is badly quoted here on Slashdot). And yes, you are right, the "final twist" is that the whole movie actually takes place on devastated Earth.
I was not referring to current rarity of the hardware, I was referring to the setence in the article that said "This is the only videogame that was ever created in Communist countries" or something to that effect, which is very much untrue. By the way, I saw exactly this "Polyplay" machine fully operational (although not played by many patrons) in a pub in our country about 3 years ago. So even this "rarity" is somehow doubtful - i.e. how can you PROVE that 1497 of 1500 mechines were destroyed?
As a citizen of former Communist block I distinctly remember there were MANY official amusement games (mechanical / electronic hybrids, not videogames). There was bowling (the "fake" one, where the ball doesn't really touch the hanging pins but presses sensors under them), there was "Zimnaya ochota" - shooting at blinking animals with lightgun, various "racers" (mechanical model traveling over the projected road), there was a sub shooting torpedoes at the ships (also mechanical, using ship models and mirrors). Most of them were made in Soviet Union. I even remember a Russian pinball (I think the theme was "Ruslan & Ludmila"). I suspect most of them were ripped of from similar U.S. games of 60s and 70s. But I also remember several communist VIDEO games. There was Russian game of multiplayer horseracing - there were about six or so horizontal racetracks and everyone had to press his button for a horse to jump over the obstacles. The color was provided by colored celophanes glued to the screen. I remember spending dozens of hours at the "arcades", watching these marvels. There was also definitely Pong made in Czechoslovakia (this was a home videogame you could buy around 1985). Also, several Nintendo Game & Watch games were ripped off and officially sold as Russian games. I remember THE EGG, which slightly changed the wolf's face and turned the hen into the hare, thus making it a game based on popular Russian "Nu pagadi" cartoon about Wolf battling the Hare...
As a GBA SP owner I was really underwhelmed by QD as a gaming machine (I tried about half a dozen games). - Both by quality and by LOADING TIMES (up to 30 seconds before you can start playing)! However, for the price, I think this is really useful phone for people who want to surf wap/WWW and send/receive e-mails. And have cool ringphones.:) I would be happiest if it was a little bit smaller and without the cartridge-based games capability. Also, you cannot connect it directly to computer and it doesn't have IR port. So if you want to transfer data from/to it, you must do it using Bluetooth or internet.
Ths is SOO true. I tried dozens of different games for various platforms. None got such an ovewhelming reponse as Animal Crosing. Altghough lately, Harvest Moon (farming simulator, also for Gamecube) came rather close. It seems that most of girls don't want to play games where they have time limits and can be killed, etc... E.g. majority of today's games.
No. Unlimited ADSL with guaranteed speed is about 20,000 CZk per month ($800). Everything else is either not guaranteed speed or the data amount is limited and you have to pay extra for going over the limit. "Not guaranteed" means that you pay for 512/128, the actual speed is 50 times lower and you cannot say a word.
The cheapest UNLIMITED connection over here is using your mobile phone: About 30 US$ a month. The connection speed is 4kB/s (yes, 4 kilobytes per second) or less.
Standard dial-up connection is actually much more expensive because you have to pay per minute, there is no flat per-month tariff. If you want to be connected several hours each day, you'll easily pay over $400 (yes, four hundred) per month. The speed is 4 kB/s.
The cheapest DSL is about $40 a month. The speed less than 16 kb/s (the actual line speed is higher but there is 1:50 overbooking, which, according to Czech Telecom, is "normal") and you pay additional $15 for each 3 GB over the first 10 GB of traffic. Not very cool.
If you want real UNLIMITED ADSL connection and guaranteed speed of at least 16 kb/s, it will cost you about $800 a month.
Thank you very much. BTW, Bill Gates is coming over here this month to tell us how great it is to be on the Information Superhighway.
"I don't recognize the sovereignty of a nation that doesn't recognize the liberty of its people."
By your definition, it seems you don't recognize the sovereignity of the United Kingdom.
On the other hand, if you say that UK (a monarchy) DOES recognize the liberty of its people while the old Iraq (a republic) did not, who exactly decides what "recognizing the libery of its people" means and who does/doesn't recognize this liberty? Of course, "everyone can see that" is hardly an argument.
(Please note that my post doesn't state that UK is not sovereing nor that the old Iraq was sovereing and makes no claims about legitimity of the Iraq invasion)
Shouldn't this be true only for J2ME games?
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I presume this only concerns the "simple" J2ME games. Certainly other mobile phones lack hardware to run "big" N-Gage games like Tomb Raider, Pandemonium or Tony Hawk...? (I don't know for sure, the article is already shlashdotted, but Headline like this seems to be misleading.)
Beauty and the Beast is not the first Disney movie with CGI. There are definitely CGI scenes in Little Mermaid (The ship at the beginning, stairs in the castle when Ariel is running down from them) and in Oliver & Co. (the chase on the railway tracks).
That is not the trailer. That is "teaser", meaning that it doesn't contain any footage from the actual movie (which started shooting just a few days ago).
More interesting than the teaser itself is the "Behind the scenes footage", also available at the oficial site, which contains suprisingly detailed information about the movie plot and some nice storyboard illustrations.
I attended KILL BILL press screening today and most certainly, the reddish dot patterns were there! They seemed to be present only in one reel of the movie (the bloody scene with dozens of Lucy Liu's henchmen at the end) and they were not very subliminal - I looked at the guy sitting next to me when I first noticed them and he's seen them too. They appeared at least half a dozen times, even in the scenes which were shot in black & white (so the red dots were very visible). They seemed to have a precise pattern suggesting that this is some sort of (binary?) encoding of the print number. click here to see how it looked. (Note that this is not screengrab from the movie itself, it's just me putting some dots on the movie photo so that you can see how it looks like and you can spot it in the theatre easier.)
Yes, exactly. The original KONG was from 1984 and contains no mention of Nintendo. Their DONKEY KONG is more recent. I remember they also did MOON ALERT (unlicensed clone of MOON PATROL), MR. WIMPY (clone of BURGER TIME) and others...
That old Donkey Kong clone from Ocean was in fact called "KONG" and was itself an illegal (not licensed) copy of the Nintendo game. Ocean did this rather often...
Czech Republic. The absolutely cheapest unmetered internet connection costs about $180 monthly (plus installation fee of $250 for the wireless antenna). The speed is 32 kbps. Do you think the standard dial-up connection is cheaper? Well, tough luck, our Telecom is state-owned defacto monopoly. If you are online for a few hours each day, your phone bill is over $300 monthly. The average monthly pay is about $400. Just think about it for a while...
And this is not Zimbabwe or Bosnia. We are members of Nato, we have Vaclav Havel, Eva Herzigova and Czech beer.
1) Just point the camera out of the window, record for 24 hours, convert the footage to highest-possible quality movie and call it "Reflections on life, Part I".
2) If that's still not 150 GB, repeat the same (for 48 hours) and call it "Reflections on life, Part II"
I work as a English movie translator (in the Czech Republic) and I put together a little page of things that appear in OFFICIAL translations of English movies in our theatres.
That means people were PAID for this and EVERYONE who sees the movie in our country watches it like this.
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Well, if you'd tried the Linux version, you'd find out it DOES support SVG... It's still in early stages but they are working on full support and new builds are published daily...
It's a little bit misleading to call Episode 3 "bloodbath" when there is not a single drop of blood anywhere in it. :) True, there are some severed limbs and heads and (very stylized) burnt flesh but all "cuts" are very clean and quick (the reasoning probably being that lightsabers automatically cauterize the wound). The terrors are mostly psychological, due to surprisingly good directing and few neat plot ideas. (E.g. we don't ever SEE Anakin killing the Jedi kids but we know very clearly he did it)
I am the writer of the original Czech article (which was badly quoted by Dark Horizons article which is badly quoted here on Slashdot). And yes, you are right, the "final twist" is that the whole movie actually takes place on devastated Earth.
I was not referring to current rarity of the hardware, I was referring to the setence in the article that said "This is the only videogame that was ever created in Communist countries" or something to that effect, which is very much untrue. By the way, I saw exactly this "Polyplay" machine fully operational (although not played by many patrons) in a pub in our country about 3 years ago. So even this "rarity" is somehow doubtful - i.e. how can you PROVE that 1497 of 1500 mechines were destroyed?
Not until I discovered English language. :) In Czech, it's pronounced "fooksoft" and my name (Fuka) is pronounced "fooka" - like in Japanese.
As a citizen of former Communist block I distinctly remember there were MANY official amusement games (mechanical / electronic hybrids, not videogames). There was bowling (the "fake" one, where the ball doesn't really touch the hanging pins but presses sensors under them), there was "Zimnaya ochota" - shooting at blinking animals with lightgun, various "racers" (mechanical model traveling over the projected road), there was a sub shooting torpedoes at the ships (also mechanical, using ship models and mirrors). Most of them were made in Soviet Union. I even remember a Russian pinball (I think the theme was "Ruslan & Ludmila"). I suspect most of them were ripped of from similar U.S. games of 60s and 70s. But I also remember several communist VIDEO games. There was Russian game of multiplayer horseracing - there were about six or so horizontal racetracks and everyone had to press his button for a horse to jump over the obstacles. The color was provided by colored celophanes glued to the screen. I remember spending dozens of hours at the "arcades", watching these marvels. There was also definitely Pong made in Czechoslovakia (this was a home videogame you could buy around 1985). Also, several Nintendo Game & Watch games were ripped off and officially sold as Russian games. I remember THE EGG, which slightly changed the wolf's face and turned the hen into the hare, thus making it a game based on popular Russian "Nu pagadi" cartoon about Wolf battling the Hare...
Isn't that "Schiessbude" (shooting booth)? See Schiessen vs. Scheissen...
As a GBA SP owner I was really underwhelmed by QD as a gaming machine (I tried about half a dozen games). - Both by quality and by LOADING TIMES (up to 30 seconds before you can start playing)! However, for the price, I think this is really useful phone for people who want to surf wap/WWW and send/receive e-mails. And have cool ringphones. :) I would be happiest if it was a little bit smaller and without the cartridge-based games capability. Also, you cannot connect it directly to computer and it doesn't have IR port. So if you want to transfer data from/to it, you must do it using Bluetooth or internet.
Ths is SOO true. I tried dozens of different games for various platforms. None got such an ovewhelming reponse as Animal Crosing. Altghough lately, Harvest Moon (farming simulator, also for Gamecube) came rather close. It seems that most of girls don't want to play games where they have time limits and can be killed, etc... E.g. majority of today's games.
SCO has interesting FAQ over here. It seems to me it contains several points I haven't read before.
Yes, cable is by far the greatest thing. If you can have it. I live 10 minutes from the city center and there's no cable in our street.
No. Unlimited ADSL with guaranteed speed is about 20,000 CZk per month ($800). Everything else is either not guaranteed speed or the data amount is limited and you have to pay extra for going over the limit. "Not guaranteed" means that you pay for 512/128, the actual speed is 50 times lower and you cannot say a word.
Standard dial-up connection is actually much more expensive because you have to pay per minute, there is no flat per-month tariff. If you want to be connected several hours each day, you'll easily pay over $400 (yes, four hundred) per month. The speed is 4 kB/s.
The cheapest DSL is about $40 a month. The speed less than 16 kb/s (the actual line speed is higher but there is 1:50 overbooking, which, according to Czech Telecom, is "normal") and you pay additional $15 for each 3 GB over the first 10 GB of traffic. Not very cool.
If you want real UNLIMITED ADSL connection and guaranteed speed of at least 16 kb/s, it will cost you about $800 a month.
Thank you very much. BTW, Bill Gates is coming over here this month to tell us how great it is to be on the Information Superhighway.
Have a look at this screenshot
By your definition, it seems you don't recognize the sovereignity of the United Kingdom.
On the other hand, if you say that UK (a monarchy) DOES recognize the liberty of its people while the old Iraq (a republic) did not, who exactly decides what "recognizing the libery of its people" means and who does/doesn't recognize this liberty? Of course, "everyone can see that" is hardly an argument.
(Please note that my post doesn't state that UK is not sovereing nor that the old Iraq was sovereing and makes no claims about legitimity of the Iraq invasion)
I presume this only concerns the "simple" J2ME games. Certainly other mobile phones lack hardware to run "big" N-Gage games like Tomb Raider, Pandemonium or Tony Hawk...? (I don't know for sure, the article is already shlashdotted, but Headline like this seems to be misleading.)
Beauty and the Beast is not the first Disney movie with CGI. There are definitely CGI scenes in Little Mermaid (The ship at the beginning, stairs in the castle when Ariel is running down from them) and in Oliver & Co. (the chase on the railway tracks).
More interesting than the teaser itself is the "Behind the scenes footage", also available at the oficial site, which contains suprisingly detailed information about the movie plot and some nice storyboard illustrations.
I attended KILL BILL press screening today and most certainly, the reddish dot patterns were there! They seemed to be present only in one reel of the movie (the bloody scene with dozens of Lucy Liu's henchmen at the end) and they were not very subliminal - I looked at the guy sitting next to me when I first noticed them and he's seen them too. They appeared at least half a dozen times, even in the scenes which were shot in black & white (so the red dots were very visible). They seemed to have a precise pattern suggesting that this is some sort of (binary?) encoding of the print number. click here to see how it looked. (Note that this is not screengrab from the movie itself, it's just me putting some dots on the movie photo so that you can see how it looks like and you can spot it in the theatre easier.)
See exclusive MATRIX REVOLUTIONS screenshot here. :)
Yes, exactly. The original KONG was from 1984 and contains no mention of Nintendo. Their DONKEY KONG is more recent. I remember they also did MOON ALERT (unlicensed clone of MOON PATROL), MR. WIMPY (clone of BURGER TIME) and others...
That old Donkey Kong clone from Ocean was in fact called "KONG" and was itself an illegal (not licensed) copy of the Nintendo game. Ocean did this rather often...
And this is not Zimbabwe or Bosnia. We are members of Nato, we have Vaclav Havel, Eva Herzigova and Czech beer.
And, you know, in Soviet Russia...
1) Just point the camera out of the window, record for 24 hours, convert the footage to highest-possible quality movie and call it "Reflections on life, Part I".
2) If that's still not 150 GB, repeat the same (for 48 hours) and call it "Reflections on life, Part II"
3) Wait for movie awards to start pouring in.
4) Profit!
That means people were PAID for this and EVERYONE who sees the movie in our country watches it like this.