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All of a sudden they have tons of potential new customers in area code 10022.. At least thats what the web log says.. Hope they aren't filling warehouses based on that info, or they could suffer the webvan fate.
I can tell you one reason why black and white: file sizes.
In most cases its not that coloring the strips would be a lot more work, but it can definately add to file sizes, and thereby lead to really slow site responses (especially for dial-up users). No body is going to read your strip if it takes 20 minutes to load up each one. The other option (the one I went for) is to use low color gifs, it all depends on what sort of 'look' you're going for.
Of course I havent even produced a "weekly" comic for months, so maybe a more productive artist has a better reason.
We could save a whole lot of trouble by having everyone chained up and electronically monitored at birth. We could most likely achieve a zero percent crime rate. We've just got to find someone that everyone trusts to monitor the system and administer electric shocks to those suspected of contemplating bad thoughts. Someone pure of heart. We better get voting, ideally using some of those ultra secure secret electronic voting machines..
That's interesting.. I thought the whole concern with digital technology was that it was easier to copy at high quality. DVD's are easy to rip, divx looks better than VHS and fits on a CD. Sure you can get a box to strip macrovision out of a vhs and run two VCRs to dub a substandard quality vhs, but any consumer level PC out there now with some free software will rip a DVD. I would even believe that DVDs are pirated at a far higher rate than VHS tapes. How does this fit in with that theory?
Its a bit more probable that people with movie collections on DVD have more disposable income and will buy DVD's for their extra features and higher quality, whereas many family with only a VCR wont have the same spending power, and tend to rent tapes, or watch tv.
I hope that price is correct - the real danger is that MS makes the media center dirt cheap - you can't afford NOT to have one. They replace everyones VCR / Etc with a system that doesn't work unless it has tons of 'copy protection' in place. MS could very quickly become the gatekeeper between the user and home entertainment.
When was the last time 'copy protection' actually stopped 'copying' (i.e. large scale bootleg CD factories) instead of presenting an inconvenience to the end user (i.e. your new 'protected' cd wont play in your mac).
..and on your left you can thousands of chunks of space debris hurtling towards us. The smaller chunks burst into beautiful firework displays as they hit the windows of our touring craft.. the larger chunks? Well, lets just say thats why we had you sign all those forms before you took this tour.
I don't care how much space you give me.. its never enough. I'm running around 300 gigs right now and it mostly full. Why? because I do video work and motion graphics design, and I'm not very organized. I've got tons of source files from archive.org and I really don't want to go through the trouble of burning CD's or backing up to tape - I love to have it all accesible quickly via harddrive.
So of course I'm not going to fill all that space with typed notes, but even if I dont do as the article suggest and "document every moment of our lives and create a second-by-second digital diary". I still want that space for massive amounts of easily accesible data.. There's no reason I should ever have to delete anything ever again..
Uh. Except that I cant find anything I'm looking for anymore.. Can't this search function go faster?
Opt in.. Why try to move all "adult oriented sites" to a new TLD? Why not create a.kids TLD and offer free (or cheap) domains to any site that passes certain criteria.. This way the current net remains, but worried parents could limit childrens browsing to *.kids..
Hundreds of millions are being spent on promoting the "Star Wars" series in every form, fawning pieces on Lucas are broadcast on "60 Minutes", and local newscasts are going to have a camera crew around to watch the people waiting in line for weeks outside the theaters.
Uh yeah, but thats all just business. People seem to like the whole starwars franchise and Lucas will wring as much soggy cash as he can out of the thing before it implodes in a jarjarbinksian mush of uncoolness.
Anybody who thinks Star Wars was meant to be more than that really should take a good hard look at all the unnecessary digital work they did.
You mean like re-releasing the original movies with dull digital explosions and a completely pointless scene with Jaba the Hutt? I thought the only real fix the original films needed was to remove the blue mattline from the battle scene on Hoth in ESB, but hey! look! Digital effects! How very 1998!
I agree with you to a certain extent, but I'm wondering how much of this is due to nostalgia, and how much is due to reality. I have a feeling that 3D games are just now coming into their own. They involve a whole different type of game play and they are starting to be more cinematic in scope. As developers get more experience with the limitations and possibilities of 3D the gameplay gets better, and as graphic power increases, the cinematic and design aspects of the game become more important.
Eeewww.. If they look anything like that screenshot from that Britney Spears game I'll pass. That model looks more like Marilyn Manson crossbred with Ronald McDonald - I'm guessing that would appeal to a pretty small demographic, but hey you never know.
Which is exactly why I find it strange that this comment was moderated a 'troll' or 'offtopic'.. This is a factual statement about a MAJOR problem some Iomega products had. In reality I hope and expect that experience has made Iomega a lot more attentive to reliablity problems. I guess we'll find out.
Warwick also hopes to wire himself up to a ultrasonic sensor, used by robots to navigate around objects, to give himself a bat-like sixth sense.
Hmm.. I've heard that when somebody loses one sense (sight, hearing, etc) the other senses grow stronger to compensate. So the obvious question is: Would this work the other way around? If you add a 'sixth sense' would the strength of your five basic senses be diminished? Would they become 'lazy'?
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All of a sudden they have tons of potential new customers in area code 10022.. At least thats what the web log says.. Hope they aren't filling warehouses based on that info, or they could suffer the webvan fate.
I can tell you one reason why black and white: file sizes.
In most cases its not that coloring the strips would be a lot more work, but it can definately add to file sizes, and thereby lead to really slow site responses (especially for dial-up users). No body is going to read your strip if it takes 20 minutes to load up each one. The other option (the one I went for) is to use low color gifs, it all depends on what sort of 'look' you're going for.
Of course I havent even produced a "weekly" comic for months, so maybe a more productive artist has a better reason.
Boy! the mental picture of a gecko 'supporting' 280 pounds is not a pretty one. Poor little geckos..
We could save a whole lot of trouble by having everyone chained up and electronically monitored at birth. We could most likely achieve a zero percent crime rate. We've just got to find someone that everyone trusts to monitor the system and administer electric shocks to those suspected of contemplating bad thoughts. Someone pure of heart. We better get voting, ideally using some of those ultra secure secret electronic voting machines..
That's interesting.. I thought the whole concern with digital technology was that it was easier to copy at high quality. DVD's are easy to rip, divx looks better than VHS and fits on a CD. Sure you can get a box to strip macrovision out of a vhs and run two VCRs to dub a substandard quality vhs, but any consumer level PC out there now with some free software will rip a DVD. I would even believe that DVDs are pirated at a far higher rate than VHS tapes. How does this fit in with that theory?
Its a bit more probable that people with movie collections on DVD have more disposable income and will buy DVD's for their extra features and higher quality, whereas many family with only a VCR wont have the same spending power, and tend to rent tapes, or watch tv.
I hope that price is correct - the real danger is that MS makes the media center dirt cheap - you can't afford NOT to have one. They replace everyones VCR / Etc with a system that doesn't work unless it has tons of 'copy protection' in place. MS could very quickly become the gatekeeper between the user and home entertainment.
When was the last time 'copy protection' actually stopped 'copying' (i.e. large scale bootleg CD factories) instead of presenting an inconvenience to the end user (i.e. your new 'protected' cd wont play in your mac).
That picture (on CNN) looks like a gigantic iPaq. Looks like HP's really getting their moneys worth from Compaq..
..and on your left you can thousands of chunks of space debris hurtling towards us. The smaller chunks burst into beautiful firework displays as they hit the windows of our touring craft.. the larger chunks? Well, lets just say thats why we had you sign all those forms before you took this tour.
I don't care how much space you give me.. its never enough. I'm running around 300 gigs right now and it mostly full. Why? because I do video work and motion graphics design, and I'm not very organized. I've got tons of source files from archive.org and I really don't want to go through the trouble of burning CD's or backing up to tape - I love to have it all accesible quickly via harddrive.
So of course I'm not going to fill all that space with typed notes, but even if I dont do as the article suggest and "document every moment of our lives and create a second-by-second digital diary". I still want that space for massive amounts of easily accesible data.. There's no reason I should ever have to delete anything ever again..
Uh. Except that I cant find anything I'm looking for anymore.. Can't this search function go faster?
Opt in.. Why try to move all "adult oriented sites" to a new TLD? Why not create a .kids TLD and offer free (or cheap) domains to any site that passes certain criteria.. This way the current net remains, but worried parents could limit childrens browsing to *.kids..
Yeah but, unless you hire an 'expensive expert' you can't write off the investment in apache. Thats the problem with free software.
heh. nevermind.
Yeah! thats it!
And we're going to have to do something with the end too.
instead of:
"Its.. Its.. Like a cosmic rebirth!"
it should be:
"Sh*t! [explosion]".
..Then the building collapses, and as the dust clears, Bruce Willis crawls out of the debris with a small cut above his right eyebrow.
Hell this is easy, I should make a more 'accesible' version myself..
Well once you've got your own luxury submarine this would be a good toy to take along with you beneath the waves.
Hundreds of millions are being spent on promoting the "Star Wars" series in every form, fawning pieces on Lucas are broadcast on "60 Minutes", and local newscasts are going to have a camera crew around to watch the people waiting in line for weeks outside the theaters.
Uh yeah, but thats all just business. People seem to like the whole starwars franchise and Lucas will wring as much soggy cash as he can out of the thing before it implodes in a jarjarbinksian mush of uncoolness.
Anybody who thinks Star Wars was meant to be more than that really should take a good hard look at all the unnecessary digital work they did.
You mean like re-releasing the original movies with dull digital explosions and a completely pointless scene with Jaba the Hutt? I thought the only real fix the original films needed was to remove the blue mattline from the battle scene on Hoth in ESB, but hey! look! Digital effects! How very 1998!
Blah blah grump grump grump. Cheating grump bastard. grump grump grump. Buckets of money. Grump grump, lack of appreciation for true source of inspiration. grump complain whine grump.
Some people take entertainment way to seriously.
What about thulium
All it says there is GLUG! sorry no comics yet for this element..
I wonder if I should rush out and make a thulium comic and take my place in history. Hm.
Probably not.
Definately Human lawyers. For one thing they are dropping the orcs from the game, and for another, Whats worse than human lawyers?
Absolutely not.
Its got to be a Delorean. Definately a Delorean. Something with more battery power than the honda Insight
I agree with you to a certain extent, but I'm wondering how much of this is due to nostalgia, and how much is due to reality. I have a feeling that 3D games are just now coming into their own. They involve a whole different type of game play and they are starting to be more cinematic in scope. As developers get more experience with the limitations and possibilities of 3D the gameplay gets better, and as graphic power increases, the cinematic and design aspects of the game become more important.
Eeewww.. If they look anything like that screenshot from that Britney Spears game I'll pass. That model looks more like Marilyn Manson crossbred with Ronald McDonald - I'm guessing that would appeal to a pretty small demographic, but hey you never know.
When I went to that news.com link the Gigantic quarter page size ad in that article has big bold letters that says "dont accept the lies"
heh.
Which is exactly why I find it strange that this comment was moderated a 'troll' or 'offtopic'.. This is a factual statement about a MAJOR problem some Iomega products had. In reality I hope and expect that experience has made Iomega a lot more attentive to reliablity problems. I guess we'll find out.
Mmm. Boy I hope these aren't susceptible to the click of death. Ah yes, the reliability of the zip disk..
Warwick also hopes to wire himself up to a ultrasonic sensor, used by robots to navigate around objects, to give himself a bat-like sixth sense.
Hmm.. I've heard that when somebody loses one sense (sight, hearing, etc) the other senses grow stronger to compensate. So the obvious question is: Would this work the other way around? If you add a 'sixth sense' would the strength of your five basic senses be diminished? Would they become 'lazy'?