Oh I agree...though to some extent, I think "The Blair Witch Project" came close to leaving much up to the imagination. While many people outright hated this movie, I thought that it captured the "feel" of a Lovecraftian theme.
And actually, I think they could capture the mood and feel of a Lovecraft story. IF they did it right. But things of this nature never get done right as the money men in Hollywood will want to put the latest computer effects on the screen.
An example of this would be "The Haunting". The original movie, shot in black and white back in the early 60's, didn't have special effects. It had to rely on mood, atmosphere, imagination. The scene when the "thing" was pounding on the bedroom door...then moving down the hall...still gives me shivers. The remake from just a few years ago was a horrible flop that had to have state-of-the-art computer special effects to justify the millions and millions of dollars they wasted. It was terrible.
Why couldn't they shoot a Lovecraft story...like "At the Mountains of Madness" or "The Call of Cthulhu" as a period piece. Set in the 1930s. Why does everything have to be updated? Oh well, maybe some day.
I still get a little spooked by some of his stories. I like it when so much is left up to the imagination.
Also, there has yet to be a good serious movie made around the Cthulhu mythos yet. Sorry, none of the Stuart Gordon crap counts. They're played more for laughs than anything else...and Lovecraft was anything but laughs.
I also get a kick out of all the fringe people that believe a bunch of this stuff...like the existence of a real Necronomicon. Give me a break. The stories are spooky and cool...but they're just stories.
To you. I find it interesting that people that shit over someone else's entertainment themselves have very lame preferences also.
Go ahead, enlighten us with the superior music choice or sports activity that put both Baseball and The Grateful Dead to shame.
Of course, you won't post anything as whatever you post will and can be torn to shreds also. But you're trying to be a troll on a thread that's already dead. The only reason I saw it was you responded to my post.
If a troll farts in the woods when no one is around, does anyone care? BTW I don't like either the Dead or Baseball...but I don't shit all over it either.
It's addictive personality. Much the same way as alcohol and drugs can ruin a persons view on many things.
But to ban something because some people get addicted to it is nonsense. Some people are addicted to overeating, should we ban food next?
How about this, we all become responsible for our own behavior. The guy that you were responding to blames the porn for his addiction to it, instead of laying the blame on himself for no control. Moderation in all things is best, but some people have no control. So does that mean that since some peoples lives are ruined by alcohol, drugs, porn, gambling and food we should ban it all...you know...just in case?
But doesn't it seem that even if they did try to wipe the contents from the drives, someone would be able to read everything anyway?
You always hear about no matter how many times or what technique you use to wipe out a hard-drive, there is always a way to read everything that has ever been written to it since the birth of the drive. Which is why they say the only reliable way to destroy the data on the drive is to physically destroy the drive itself.
So hard drives seem to be media that you can write to and write to and write to and you'll always be able to get the data back. So a 1 gig drive could become an infinite gig drive since you can keep going and going and going and still someone could read the data back to where it was first written to.
At least it seems this way with the way the media makes out.
It depends on what you're used to I suppose. I've had the opposite experience when a friend who was a "burned into the brain" GIMP user who was going to show me how much faster GIMP was to PS. Needless to say, I left him in a quivering mass on the floor afterwards.
Again, it's what you're used to. GIMP isn't better than PS in my world...in yours it probably is.
Thanks Ant (is this the Ant from Bluesnews...if so, cool!).
I've been playing these types of games since the original Wolfenstein...but I met my match with this one in terms of nausia.
I DO remember getting motion sick when playing Quakeworld...but I was using this weird controller at the time called The Orb...where you just move while holding this ball attached to this gamepad...you could pull and twist and bend the direction to move and look in opposite directions. This is before WASD became popular as a control scheme...but The Orb got me motion sick also.
I have no idea what the hell is going on. But Half-Life 2 gives me major motion sickness. Never had that before playing these games.
I can play CS:S with no problems. Been playing Battlefield 2 everyday. Red Orchestra through UT2004 quite a bit. So just 3 nights ago, I thought I'd fire up HL:2 and go a little further and WHAM about 2 minutes in I begin to get queasy again. Breaking out in a cold sweat and very nauseous.
Over the past couple of years, whenever there is a story about censorship involving the net or games, chances are it was coming out of Australia.
And I used to think the US was bad in these types of things. I'm sure the congressmen senators will be going to Australia now for censorship training camps. But who knows...
I have a feeling it depends on where you're at. When I had @home/ATT/Comcast it was in the Chicago area. We didn't have any problems with @home/ATT...but when Comcast took over it was down quite a bit and when you called to try to inform them of an outtage they tried to tell you there is no outtage and there must have been something wrong with your computer. Only after a few hours of tons of people calling in do they get around to working on the outtage they said didn't exist.
Not to mention the way they like to just raise their rates at their whim, the BS of having to pay more for their Internet if you don't use their TV service. They were a pain. I've had too many problems with Comcast to ever go back. At this point in time if I had to choose between Comcast and dial-up, I'd pick dial-up.
I see a bunch of people below saying how great their cable service is and that they'll never change. Most of them, from what I can tell, seem to be using Cox cable.
I was in a similar situation a few years ago. Had a great cable service that was quick to repair, had helpful techs that knew what they were doing. It was called AT&T. But that all changed when Comcast bought them out of the cable division. It quickly went downhill from there.
Don't be surprised if Comcast were to buy out Cox in the future. Then you'll join the ranks of the mediocre.
it kind of is like that now. I mean, my wife and I started playing Warcraft 3...and got so caught up in the story we just used the cheat codes to hurry through the levels to continue on with the story.
Yeah, I know, this isn't quite what it should be. Should be a good story and good gameplay together. And Warcraft certainly has the good gameplay...as I went back afterwards and played it normally.
Really, the thing is though that I've had Photoshop burned into my brain over the past 15 years...it's stuck there now. It's like second nature to me to do stuff as it's a no-brainer.
Also, I'm an old dog, and you know the saying about old dogs and new tricks...
Today in Seattle Washington, Linus Torvalds, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs announced they are all getting an apartment together, each sharing 1/3 of the rent. They say they're just really good friends when asked why they were doing this, while all 3 smiled uncomfortably.
When asked if Oracle CEO Larry Ellison would also be moving in, the 3 software giants just looked at each other and busted out laughing.
Very interesting, very insightful comments...unfortunately we've been hearing the exact same thing for the past 20 years. You're basically regurgitating what the pundits and "experts" have been saying forever. We've yet to see any of these things....
That's my thoughts anyway. Sometime in the near future, I'll get them blogged down in detail.:-)
No, these are not your thoughts. These are the ideas from about a 1000 different people over the years that have been saying the same things. It's bad when you have to take the work or ideas from others and switch them around to try to make them your own.
How many drivers does Microsoft write? When was the last time Microsoft wrote a driver for your nvidia or ATI video card? How about for your Soundblaster?
Not trying to be a smart-ass here, I really don't know. Does Microsoft write driver software for every piece of hardware out in the world right now that runs on a PC? Or does the burden of providing drivers fall on the manufacturers of the hardware piece itself?
Don't know this yet. If we look back on the 68000 to PPC years there were companies that allowed upgrades to the PPC code. The ones that didn't (such as Quark) were bullied in the Mac magazines of the day for not doing so. They didn't relent, but many companies did...though as you point out not all did.
We'll have to see how this all shakes out though, but I believe that it will come down to the different companies doing different things. I'm sure Apple will want this to go as smooth as possible.
How can you say that? You buy a mac today, use it for years, then get a new one. Does this mean as soon as an Intel Mac comes along all of a sudden the PPC box will stop working? NO, you keep going and work on it. When it gets old you go out and get a new one. By then the new one will be an Intel Mac.
So where is the obsolescence coming into factor? You're confusing this with a company that may be Mac based and they're switching to Windows next year...so therefore they won't be buying any new Mac hardware when they're moving to Windows. THEN the Mac would be obsolete for that company. But this isn't the case here. You get a machine...use it...when it's old you upgrade to a new machine.
It comes down to this, it's a Mac...it doesn't matter what the processor is, it's what's RUNNING the processor that counts. OSX. A person that doesn't read anything about Mac switching to Intel could walk into a Mac store and buy a Laptop today...use it for 3 or 4 years...then walk into a Mac store and buy a new Laptop. He'll be none the wiser as to it being a PPC in one and a x86 in the new one. At least this is what is SHOULD be like.
How are people leaping to the conclusion that when the x86 Macs come out that everything that's come before will all-of-a-sudden become obsolete?
You buy an iBook today, you can use it for years until the thing is too old to keep going...then you go out and buy a new one.
You know...just like any other computer out there. Software won't be a problem with Apple's developers plan with being able to compile both PPC and x86 into the same build.
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Oh I agree...though to some extent, I think "The Blair Witch Project" came close to leaving much up to the imagination. While many people outright hated this movie, I thought that it captured the "feel" of a Lovecraftian theme.
And actually, I think they could capture the mood and feel of a Lovecraft story. IF they did it right. But things of this nature never get done right as the money men in Hollywood will want to put the latest computer effects on the screen.
An example of this would be "The Haunting". The original movie, shot in black and white back in the early 60's, didn't have special effects. It had to rely on mood, atmosphere, imagination. The scene when the "thing" was pounding on the bedroom door...then moving down the hall...still gives me shivers. The remake from just a few years ago was a horrible flop that had to have state-of-the-art computer special effects to justify the millions and millions of dollars they wasted. It was terrible.
Why couldn't they shoot a Lovecraft story...like "At the Mountains of Madness" or "The Call of Cthulhu" as a period piece. Set in the 1930s. Why does everything have to be updated? Oh well, maybe some day.
I still get a little spooked by some of his stories. I like it when so much is left up to the imagination.
Also, there has yet to be a good serious movie made around the Cthulhu mythos yet. Sorry, none of the Stuart Gordon crap counts. They're played more for laughs than anything else...and Lovecraft was anything but laughs.
I also get a kick out of all the fringe people that believe a bunch of this stuff...like the existence of a real Necronomicon. Give me a break. The stories are spooky and cool...but they're just stories.
Probably see a few posts saying how wrong I am.
Given how long it takes Valve to put out a game, I would say that HL3 will be out for the Xbox-3...whatever that will be called.
To you. I find it interesting that people that shit over someone else's entertainment themselves have very lame preferences also.
Go ahead, enlighten us with the superior music choice or sports activity that put both Baseball and The Grateful Dead to shame.
Of course, you won't post anything as whatever you post will and can be torn to shreds also. But you're trying to be a troll on a thread that's already dead. The only reason I saw it was you responded to my post.
If a troll farts in the woods when no one is around, does anyone care? BTW I don't like either the Dead or Baseball...but I don't shit all over it either.
Wow, must be an internet first. Somone mentioned a band (any band will do) and then someone posts how much they suck...
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It's addictive personality. Much the same way as alcohol and drugs can ruin a persons view on many things.
But to ban something because some people get addicted to it is nonsense. Some people are addicted to overeating, should we ban food next?
How about this, we all become responsible for our own behavior. The guy that you were responding to blames the porn for his addiction to it, instead of laying the blame on himself for no control. Moderation in all things is best, but some people have no control. So does that mean that since some peoples lives are ruined by alcohol, drugs, porn, gambling and food we should ban it all...you know...just in case?
Wow...this has to be the weakest attempt at a troll. Don't people learn how to be a proper troll anymore?
Get some learnin under your belt junior and come back and try again.
But doesn't it seem that even if they did try to wipe the contents from the drives, someone would be able to read everything anyway?
You always hear about no matter how many times or what technique you use to wipe out a hard-drive, there is always a way to read everything that has ever been written to it since the birth of the drive. Which is why they say the only reliable way to destroy the data on the drive is to physically destroy the drive itself.
So hard drives seem to be media that you can write to and write to and write to and you'll always be able to get the data back. So a 1 gig drive could become an infinite gig drive since you can keep going and going and going and still someone could read the data back to where it was first written to.
At least it seems this way with the way the media makes out.
It depends on what you're used to I suppose. I've had the opposite experience when a friend who was a "burned into the brain" GIMP user who was going to show me how much faster GIMP was to PS. Needless to say, I left him in a quivering mass on the floor afterwards.
Again, it's what you're used to. GIMP isn't better than PS in my world...in yours it probably is.
I'm on an LCD, so there is no flicker or framerate really.
But I'm going to try the FOV adjustments.
Thanks Ant (is this the Ant from Bluesnews...if so, cool!).
I've been playing these types of games since the original Wolfenstein...but I met my match with this one in terms of nausia.
I DO remember getting motion sick when playing Quakeworld...but I was using this weird controller at the time called The Orb...where you just move while holding this ball attached to this gamepad...you could pull and twist and bend the direction to move and look in opposite directions. This is before WASD became popular as a control scheme...but The Orb got me motion sick also.
I have no idea what the hell is going on. But Half-Life 2 gives me major motion sickness. Never had that before playing these games.
I can play CS:S with no problems. Been playing Battlefield 2 everyday. Red Orchestra through UT2004 quite a bit. So just 3 nights ago, I thought I'd fire up HL:2 and go a little further and WHAM about 2 minutes in I begin to get queasy again. Breaking out in a cold sweat and very nauseous.
No idea...
Over the past couple of years, whenever there is a story about censorship involving the net or games, chances are it was coming out of Australia.
And I used to think the US was bad in these types of things. I'm sure the congressmen senators will be going to Australia now for censorship training camps. But who knows...
I have a feeling it depends on where you're at. When I had @home/ATT/Comcast it was in the Chicago area. We didn't have any problems with @home/ATT...but when Comcast took over it was down quite a bit and when you called to try to inform them of an outtage they tried to tell you there is no outtage and there must have been something wrong with your computer. Only after a few hours of tons of people calling in do they get around to working on the outtage they said didn't exist.
Not to mention the way they like to just raise their rates at their whim, the BS of having to pay more for their Internet if you don't use their TV service. They were a pain. I've had too many problems with Comcast to ever go back. At this point in time if I had to choose between Comcast and dial-up, I'd pick dial-up.
I see a bunch of people below saying how great their cable service is and that they'll never change. Most of them, from what I can tell, seem to be using Cox cable.
I was in a similar situation a few years ago. Had a great cable service that was quick to repair, had helpful techs that knew what they were doing. It was called AT&T. But that all changed when Comcast bought them out of the cable division. It quickly went downhill from there.
Don't be surprised if Comcast were to buy out Cox in the future. Then you'll join the ranks of the mediocre.
it kind of is like that now. I mean, my wife and I started playing Warcraft 3...and got so caught up in the story we just used the cheat codes to hurry through the levels to continue on with the story.
Yeah, I know, this isn't quite what it should be. Should be a good story and good gameplay together. And Warcraft certainly has the good gameplay...as I went back afterwards and played it normally.
Really, the thing is though that I've had Photoshop burned into my brain over the past 15 years...it's stuck there now. It's like second nature to me to do stuff as it's a no-brainer.
Also, I'm an old dog, and you know the saying about old dogs and new tricks...
Perhaps it's because this story has been on every other news site and blog and newsgroup in the world...nah, if wasn't on Slashdot it didn't happen.
Today in Seattle Washington, Linus Torvalds, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs announced they are all getting an apartment together, each sharing 1/3 of the rent. They say they're just really good friends when asked why they were doing this, while all 3 smiled uncomfortably.
When asked if Oracle CEO Larry Ellison would also be moving in, the 3 software giants just looked at each other and busted out laughing.
Very interesting, very insightful comments...unfortunately we've been hearing the exact same thing for the past 20 years. You're basically regurgitating what the pundits and "experts" have been saying forever. We've yet to see any of these things....
:-)
That's my thoughts anyway. Sometime in the near future, I'll get them blogged down in detail.
No, these are not your thoughts. These are the ideas from about a 1000 different people over the years that have been saying the same things. It's bad when you have to take the work or ideas from others and switch them around to try to make them your own.
You offer nothing new here...move along.
Pixar renders with "Photorealistic Renderman". You can buy this from them. It's not proprietary any more than Maya is.
PRman is available for OSX, Windows, Linux and I believe it's still available on Irix...but not sure.
How many drivers does Microsoft write? When was the last time Microsoft wrote a driver for your nvidia or ATI video card? How about for your Soundblaster?
Not trying to be a smart-ass here, I really don't know. Does Microsoft write driver software for every piece of hardware out in the world right now that runs on a PC? Or does the burden of providing drivers fall on the manufacturers of the hardware piece itself?
Don't know this yet. If we look back on the 68000 to PPC years there were companies that allowed upgrades to the PPC code. The ones that didn't (such as Quark) were bullied in the Mac magazines of the day for not doing so. They didn't relent, but many companies did...though as you point out not all did.
We'll have to see how this all shakes out though, but I believe that it will come down to the different companies doing different things. I'm sure Apple will want this to go as smooth as possible.
How can you say that? You buy a mac today, use it for years, then get a new one. Does this mean as soon as an Intel Mac comes along all of a sudden the PPC box will stop working? NO, you keep going and work on it. When it gets old you go out and get a new one. By then the new one will be an Intel Mac.
So where is the obsolescence coming into factor? You're confusing this with a company that may be Mac based and they're switching to Windows next year...so therefore they won't be buying any new Mac hardware when they're moving to Windows. THEN the Mac would be obsolete for that company. But this isn't the case here. You get a machine...use it...when it's old you upgrade to a new machine.
It comes down to this, it's a Mac...it doesn't matter what the processor is, it's what's RUNNING the processor that counts. OSX. A person that doesn't read anything about Mac switching to Intel could walk into a Mac store and buy a Laptop today...use it for 3 or 4 years...then walk into a Mac store and buy a new Laptop. He'll be none the wiser as to it being a PPC in one and a x86 in the new one. At least this is what is SHOULD be like.
How are people leaping to the conclusion that when the x86 Macs come out that everything that's come before will all-of-a-sudden become obsolete?
You buy an iBook today, you can use it for years until the thing is too old to keep going...then you go out and buy a new one.
You know...just like any other computer out there. Software won't be a problem with Apple's developers plan with being able to compile both PPC and x86 into the same build.
Come on...