IMDB actually has some interesting trivia about TRON. Such as the random pulses in the light ribbons on the background walls were glitches in the effects so they added sound to them and incorporated them into the world.
i go way back to the Riva TNT2 and voodoo2 days. i bought a top of the line voodoo2 the day it came out back in 1998. cost me $299. these days a top of the line card is $500 or more and it sucks enough electricity to power a small town.
x-box 360 cost me $299 same as my PS3. i can also use each one to watch media on my tv without the hassle of doing it on the PC which is usually in the opposite side of the house or room. the games are usually the same which means that the gameplay experience is the same. most people won't spend the money just for the graphics card. the "gamer" is now a 40 year old person that plays Cityville on facebook. not a nerd playing Doom, command and conquer or starcraft on their PC
That's not bad. I go back to the Matrox Mystique and Millennium days. I bought the first 4mb voodoo 1 passthrough card a few days after they came out for almost $400. Let me tell you, no upgrade since has ever made me squee as much as firing up Quake2 and selecting the voodoo 3dfx renderer for the first time. I shat myself.
People who enjoy creating music will continue to create music. Just as those who enjoy art will continue to create art. Music will never die. Period. End of story. This whole issue revolves around who can distribute that music to as wide an audience as possible. The wider you get, the more popular you get, and the more money you can make, but once you cross that line it's about diminishing returns. Welcome to the future.
It's very difficult to regulate and control the production of, really, any plant (anything containing sugars, amino or fatty acids).
This is why the government is so strongly opposed to it. It can't be taxed and controlled easily. Any dumb alcoholic can ferment or distill a years supply of it in anything from few pickle buckets to a simple device the size of a small car, anywhere on the planet.
It isn't difficult to produce like tobacco, and massive-scale growing operations are not needed, as with opium or cocaine./fixed it for you
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IMDB actually has some interesting trivia about TRON. Such as the random pulses in the light ribbons on the background walls were glitches in the effects so they added sound to them and incorporated them into the world.
i go way back to the Riva TNT2 and voodoo2 days. i bought a top of the line voodoo2 the day it came out back in 1998. cost me $299. these days a top of the line card is $500 or more and it sucks enough electricity to power a small town.
x-box 360 cost me $299 same as my PS3. i can also use each one to watch media on my tv without the hassle of doing it on the PC which is usually in the opposite side of the house or room. the games are usually the same which means that the gameplay experience is the same. most people won't spend the money just for the graphics card. the "gamer" is now a 40 year old person that plays Cityville on facebook. not a nerd playing Doom, command and conquer or starcraft on their PC
That's not bad. I go back to the Matrox Mystique and Millennium days. I bought the first 4mb voodoo 1 passthrough card a few days after they came out for almost $400. Let me tell you, no upgrade since has ever made me squee as much as firing up Quake2 and selecting the voodoo 3dfx renderer for the first time. I shat myself.
People who enjoy creating music will continue to create music. Just as those who enjoy art will continue to create art. Music will never die. Period. End of story. This whole issue revolves around who can distribute that music to as wide an audience as possible. The wider you get, the more popular you get, and the more money you can make, but once you cross that line it's about diminishing returns. Welcome to the future.
There's got to be a joke in here somewhere.
If the First, Second and Third Awakening People's Army didn't rattle enough cages effectively, what makes them think the Fourth will prevail?
I haven't played a game on mine in over 5 years, but instead just use xbmc and mce to stream movies from a PC to a non-HD TV.
It's very difficult to regulate and control the production of, really, any plant (anything containing sugars, amino or fatty acids). This is why the government is so strongly opposed to it. It can't be taxed and controlled easily. Any dumb alcoholic can ferment or distill a years supply of it in anything from few pickle buckets to a simple device the size of a small car, anywhere on the planet. It isn't difficult to produce like tobacco, and massive-scale growing operations are not needed, as with opium or cocaine. /fixed it for you