For me, it's more about how to access what I want to read.
I think the UI would be inferior mainly because flipping through pages with my fingers will always be more convenient than a search box (that needs either a stylus or keyboard to work) or previous/next buttons that go one page at a time.
A bookmarks UI will either need screen space or an extra step to access, as opposed to just grabbing and flipping the pages. Have you ever held your fingers between pages at a few spots in a book and flipped back and forth?
How about comparing/referenceing multiple pages from the same or multiple books?
Also, it's always nice to have a feel for where you are in a book, and I don't think a picture or number can convey that as well as physical pages.
Sure, it would be nice to have a thin letter sized tablet to carry on the subway for reading, and I think it would certainly add some useful features (automatic updating of news, searching and highlighting, etc), but I can think of many situations where I would be more comfortable with real books.
Some might argues that this is what makes Apple better.
Microsoft and the Linux people give you a hundred ways to get to the same place. Some people claim that freedom is great, but most just get confused.
Apple figures out where you'll want to go and the best way to get there.
Sure, some people complain about the lack of options, but that's often after they've already gotten their job done, and they have nothing better to do.
You're right that acting with game characters can be limiting, but I think that's what makes it interesting in the first place. A guy who puts on a puppet show obviously has some limitations, but if he can still make an expressive performance, then I don't think he should need to upgrade to less limiting tools.
As for the Crytek thing, I wasn't really suggesting that the difference was the output format. It's that one is animated, and the other is acted. If something is animated and rendered in Maya, it isn't called machinima, so why would it be if it's animated and rendered using Crytek's tools and engine?
The president tells me that we have freedom. That we love freedom. That others hate freedom. That we must force them to embrace freedom. That we must make those who choose to live their lives differently understand what freedom is all about.
That's good enough for me.
Your "freedom" of speech might cause people to doubt that. It would actually hurt freedom. You don't want to do that, do you?
The duck has air in it (making it less dense than the water). That's why it floats. In order for it to sink, you'd have to make a hole in it so the air could escape. And if you did that, then no, the water would NOT rise.
The point is that there is a lot of ice in the Arctic which is not in the water and therefore doesn't displace water.
Ice is less dense than water. That's why it floats. In order for it to sink, it would have to melt. That would make it less dense, and again, the water would NOT rise.
Sure, if you pushed the ice down (just like the duck), the water would rise, but then you'd be the one making the water rise, not the ice.
Recently the guys behind Far Cry used the game's engine to create a short film, and for some reason people still refered to it as machinima. But it wasn't. In fact, it was really no different than a cutscene from any other game, but without the game.
Machinima isn't just using a game engine for rendering an animation. That would make it no more special than using any other animation/rendering software to do the same. If anything, it's less so, because they are using pre-made animation (or sound effects, etc.) and just making a script, while the computer is doing the acting/filming/effects, etc.
That has nothing to do with what something like Red vs. Blue is about, which is players taking the game characters and using them to ACT in the game's world, along with others that use theirs to control the camera to record the scene or work the props.
Palm Desktop. (it has to be installed by an admin, but puts all of its settings in HKEY_CURRENT_USER. So it has to be installed by whoever needs to run it. So you have to promote any user who needs it to admin, log on as that user, install the application, then demote the user back to limited. God help you if you have more than a couple users.
You mean that the stuff it puts in HKCU when installing has to be there before running it the first time?
If so, you could have just installed Plam Desktop once, exported its keys from under HKCU to a.reg file, and then had each user just double click on that file before using it the first time.
I'd expect there to be more than 6 people. Ever visit a Mac IRC channel during one of these things?... Ted: here it comes... MacBoy: that wasn't so cool iluvsteve: it's not small enough lickable: i'm in love gregmac: steve is hot G6: what's happening now?!?!? doug-eMac: OMGOMGOMGOMG nickname: one more thing! AppleDave: One more thing!!! hax0r: he said "one more thing" macdude: knew it! one more thing! steveiloveyou: ONE MORE THING iPaul: i bet it's the apple tv! G6: i can't see the stream;_; yoda: onew moer thigns!!!!! iluvsteve: one more thingg BondiTed: there's one more thing!!1 MACSSUCK: YOU GUYS SUCK MY ASS!!!!!!!!!!!! iDude: ha! cindyjobs: one more thing!!!! steve_: it's the icar!!! mosesjones: one more thing! applerules: better be a cheaper ipod! freeipod: one more thing! G6: i want to see!1 3macs: one more!! i want steve: one more thing!! penis: he said one more thing!...
And this goes on for about 90 minutes with a hundred or so people repeating every line out of Steve's mouth!
And trust me when I say the Mac web forums are much worse.
The SNES (and probably Genesis too) versions were like the Mac version, so you could always try to find the ROMS.
As for no dialog?
Well, the classic line "Mai-too-baa" that the alien uses to explain the game's complex plot when you first meet is one that will always stick in my head.
It was also out for the Mac, but by not so well known, I mean:
"hey, you remember that game, out of this world?"
"huh?"
"...you're this scientist that gets zapped to another planet..."
"nope"
"...make friends with an alien prisoner..."
"nuh uh"
"...find a gun and run away from other aliens and big alien buffalo things and leaches and drive a big tank in some alien arena and see naked alien babes bathing and get the snot beaten out of you by some huge alien bouncer guy..."
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Bits are the things being transfered. Not Bytes.
A byte is a measurement that refers to the space needed to store 8 bits.
If I send someone 8 shoes, would you suggest that I refer to it as 8 feet (or 96 inches) of shoes?
Oh come on...
A movie just came out that was made specifically for slashdotters!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405422
For me, it's more about how to access what I want to read.
I think the UI would be inferior mainly because flipping through pages with my fingers will always be more convenient than a search box (that needs either a stylus or keyboard to work) or previous/next buttons that go one page at a time.
A bookmarks UI will either need screen space or an extra step to access, as opposed to just grabbing and flipping the pages. Have you ever held your fingers between pages at a few spots in a book and flipped back and forth?
How about comparing/referenceing multiple pages from the same or multiple books?
Also, it's always nice to have a feel for where you are in a book, and I don't think a picture or number can convey that as well as physical pages.
Sure, it would be nice to have a thin letter sized tablet to carry on the subway for reading, and I think it would certainly add some useful features (automatic updating of news, searching and highlighting, etc), but I can think of many situations where I would be more comfortable with real books.
...and now we're laughing at you. :P
The latest Opera apparently already offers this.
Yes and no.
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http://www.vonage.com/features.php?feature=911&li
"I can go on and on..."
Please do.
We're listening.
Really.
"I also suspect there's very few people who would consider anything G-rated inappropriate for any child old enough to use a computer without help."
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You think so, huh?
http://www.christiananswers.net/spotlight/games/2
Some might argues that this is what makes Apple better.
Microsoft and the Linux people give you a hundred ways to get to the same place. Some people claim that freedom is great, but most just get confused.
Apple figures out where you'll want to go and the best way to get there.
Sure, some people complain about the lack of options, but that's often after they've already gotten their job done, and they have nothing better to do.
That's just what I was thinking.
And this seems to be the big problem at the moment.
I don't know about you, but I certainly haven't been seeing optional 64-bit versions of drivers anywhere.
You're right that acting with game characters can be limiting, but I think that's what makes it interesting in the first place. A guy who puts on a puppet show obviously has some limitations, but if he can still make an expressive performance, then I don't think he should need to upgrade to less limiting tools.
As for the Crytek thing, I wasn't really suggesting that the difference was the output format. It's that one is animated, and the other is acted. If something is animated and rendered in Maya, it isn't called machinima, so why would it be if it's animated and rendered using Crytek's tools and engine?
...and somehow I think that people won't trust the tinyurl bit.
Ooh, thanks. That's a good idea.
I had to tinyurl it though, because slashdot reformats the URL and adds a title.
And you're just one more idiot in the world.
So, I guess that evens it out?
Hmm...
The president tells me that we have freedom. That we love freedom. That others hate freedom. That we must force them to embrace freedom. That we must make those who choose to live their lives differently understand what freedom is all about.
That's good enough for me.
Your "freedom" of speech might cause people to doubt that. It would actually hurt freedom. You don't want to do that, do you?
Are you a freedom hater?
Sorry, but your duck theory is completely wrong.
The duck has air in it (making it less dense than the water). That's why it floats. In order for it to sink, you'd have to make a hole in it so the air could escape. And if you did that, then no, the water would NOT rise.
The point is that there is a lot of ice in the Arctic which is not in the water and therefore doesn't displace water.
Ice is less dense than water. That's why it floats. In order for it to sink, it would have to melt. That would make it less dense, and again, the water would NOT rise.
Sure, if you pushed the ice down (just like the duck), the water would rise, but then you'd be the one making the water rise, not the ice.
Recently the guys behind Far Cry used the game's engine to create a short film, and for some reason people still refered to it as machinima. But it wasn't. In fact, it was really no different than a cutscene from any other game, but without the game.
Machinima isn't just using a game engine for rendering an animation. That would make it no more special than using any other animation/rendering software to do the same. If anything, it's less so, because they are using pre-made animation (or sound effects, etc.) and just making a script, while the computer is doing the acting/filming/effects, etc.
That has nothing to do with what something like Red vs. Blue is about, which is players taking the game characters and using them to ACT in the game's world, along with others that use theirs to control the camera to record the scene or work the props.
In other words, making a film in a virtual world.
Palm Desktop. (it has to be installed by an admin, but puts all of its settings in HKEY_CURRENT_USER. So it has to be installed by whoever needs to run it. So you have to promote any user who needs it to admin, log on as that user, install the application, then demote the user back to limited. God help you if you have more than a couple users.
.reg file, and then had each user just double click on that file before using it the first time.
You mean that the stuff it puts in HKCU when installing has to be there before running it the first time?
If so, you could have just installed Plam Desktop once, exported its keys from under HKCU to a
I'd expect there to be more than 6 people. Ever visit a Mac IRC channel during one of these things? ... ;_; ...
Ted: here it comes...
MacBoy: that wasn't so cool
iluvsteve: it's not small enough
lickable: i'm in love
gregmac: steve is hot
G6: what's happening now?!?!?
doug-eMac: OMGOMGOMGOMG
nickname: one more thing!
AppleDave: One more thing!!!
hax0r: he said "one more thing"
macdude: knew it! one more thing!
steveiloveyou: ONE MORE THING
iPaul: i bet it's the apple tv!
G6: i can't see the stream
yoda: onew moer thigns!!!!!
iluvsteve: one more thingg
BondiTed: there's one more thing!!1
MACSSUCK: YOU GUYS SUCK MY ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!
iDude: ha!
cindyjobs: one more thing!!!!
steve_: it's the icar!!!
mosesjones: one more thing!
applerules: better be a cheaper ipod!
freeipod: one more thing!
G6: i want to see!1
3macs: one more!!
i want steve: one more thing!!
penis: he said one more thing!
And this goes on for about 90 minutes with a hundred or so people repeating every line out of Steve's mouth!
And trust me when I say the Mac web forums are much worse.
Viruses are pretty easy to write in just a few lines too, so they should be legal as well.
Bad business is bad business.
If a company doesn't have a monopoly, people can choose to avoid them. If another comapny does, people can't, and the law will help out.
That DOESN'T mean that a non-molopolistic company can't be just as bad when they do the same bad things.
Actually, looking at the screenshots, the DOS vrsion seems to look just like the others. Maybe you just remember it differently.
Don't know about the sound though.
The SNES (and probably Genesis too) versions were like the Mac version, so you could always try to find the ROMS.
As for no dialog?
Well, the classic line "Mai-too-baa" that the alien uses to explain the game's complex plot when you first meet is one that will always stick in my head.
It was also out for the Mac, but by not so well known, I mean:
"hey, you remember that game, out of this world?"
"huh?"
"...you're this scientist that gets zapped to another planet..."
"nope"
"...make friends with an alien prisoner..."
"nuh uh"
"...find a gun and run away from other aliens and big alien buffalo things and leaches and drive a big tank in some alien arena and see naked alien babes bathing and get the snot beaten out of you by some huge alien bouncer guy..."
"wtf?"
None of my friends know this game.