If yahoo is offering all of it's features as a free and publically accessable system, don't they have the right to do whatever they want with the default settings? Granted they due operate on the sole basis of being used, but I wouldn't get up in arms if something that I used for free just up and changed one day in some way that I didn't agree with. If it really has such a huge negative reaction from enough people then yahoo make other changes. However somehow i doubt that the hundreds of thousands of yahoo users are all in that slashdot mindset.
Guess it's time to get an email address on a non-US server. They can't send a US court jury duty request to a non-us email address, can they?
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What a wonderful little action flick.
Of course I had reservations that Capcom had pulled another Street Fighter the Movie, and soon we'd see a Resident Evil the Movie The Game, but thankfully it was really enjoyable.
Maybe I'm in a lone minority here, but I don't have to have a complex plot and character development to enjoy a hack and slash action movie. I don't need to have twenty minute long monologues detailing the philosophical ramifications of the reanimated dead wanting to eat BRAAAAIIIIIINSSSSSSSSSS. All I need are sexy actors, sexy scenes, and a few good jump scenes to make me happy. Sure, I'd LOVE to see a video-game movie (I feel dirty refering to them all like some sort of mutant sub genre) that really makes me think and has some lasting impact on society or some other sweeping hope, but let's face it, despite how passionate many of us are about various video games that we think are genious, the widest audience for these games, and thus the movies based after them, probably just want to see things blown up and a little T&A. So what happens? They go with the lowest common denomonator, where the money is. I think the Final Fantasy movie might be a good example of what happens when you don't. I, like several other people I know, absolutly loved this movie. I enjoyed the odd concepts and veiled hints of what was really going on. To me, it felt alot like one of the bizzare plot lines in some random Final Fantasy game that you just want to attribute to a translation error. Alot of people didn't like that. Those people probably expected something a little bit more base. Now Square Pictures is selling off all their assets to try and make up for the loss. Resident Evil however will appeal to a much wider base. It works off a proven formula for a good movie, one that I alluded to earlier-- Attractive cast, attractive sets, jump scenes, and motivation toward a goal. Sure, it's overly simplistic, but we can all think of movies that followed this formula that did well enough in their own right to be considered successes.
Maybe I'm not asking enough of the motion picture industry when I go to be entertained, but like most of everyone else, I'm only thinking about what I want to see. And what I saw, I liked.
I've tried this several times with varying degrees of sucsess. For those of you with plenty of time, try repeating the experiment with a glass container not given enough ventilation. When the plasmoid ignites (lights? is born? stabilizes?) it radiates a lot of heat. Without proper ventilation the glass vessle will jump upwards with a satisfying bang. The flash is quite impressive for the easily amused.
As for the sound, there is some sound produced other than the low pitch hum of the microwave itself, sort of a buzzing noise.
I once saw a page describing this experiment, but this person had taken the magnetron tube out of the microwave, mounted it in a very sexy looking raygun type configuration. It looked exceedingly dangerous. I'm sure all the reflected radiation was an excellent stimulation to his fertility.
I love how all the impending doom forcasts that come from NASA and such other large organizations are always closed with "But don't worry about this happening for (large number) of years."
Sure, it's probably because we'll see it coming and still not be able to do anything about it, but I find the trend amusing none the less.
On the subject of game development for PSX I'm suprised no one has mentioned the Yaroze system on the original console. It was a special psx in a sexy blue colour along with a web community for the independent development of games. As I remember it was right expensive too, but none the less had a large enough group of supporters to keep it running.
With the linux infrastructure already out there, it would seem to me like this will have the same level of success despite what the doomsayers may have to say. Sure it's expensive, but there are enough people with the money to blow on a toy like this that it probably won't be a big hype bomb.
Then again, i think they said things not unlike this about the Coleco Adam.
Am I the only one disappointed that we have an article about computers starting with the word Imagine that isn't immediatly followed by "a beowulf cluster of these"?
If I wasn't aware of better operating sytems
available I'd be whining about how Windows XP
made a mess of my harddrive while trying to
upgrade from 98se, or how the Win2k drivers
for my soundcard are fidgity and lamenting that
this is still the future.
Hell, if I hadn't gotten hosed by the operating
system blues this would have been "FIRST POST!!!"
because I wouldn't have had to look up my
randomly generated password for slashdot.
Oh woe is me. Someday I will be free of these
infernal machines.
I've heard it commented many times that the series as a whole is slowly declining and even more whining over Uematsu's musical ability, yet none the less the game continue to be popular enough to warrent a decent fan following. Each release will the first introduction to the series to many gamers. I would venture that many of those gamers do not own a SNES or NES that they could play the older games on, so the only frame of referance they have are the more recent sequals.
Square wouldn't be making another sequal if they didn't think there wasn't a demand for it.
Probably the same reason that almost half of the remixes at Overclocked Remix are from a Final Fantasy game.:P
As Damidar's theme started myself and at least 4 others completed the Imperial March theme after the first few notes, to the laughter of several others. I also noticed plays on the theme from Legend of Zelda in there.
I didn't like parts of it, but I thought it at least had some entertainment value aside from tearing it down. Let's face it, we're only allowed to have 1 or 2 movies worth watching every few years anyway, so we might as well make the best with what we get. Unless someone proposes a worldwide boycott against Suck in movies.
"I want to cast magic missiles!"
"But there is no one else in the room..."
"uh.. I'm attacking the darkness!"
- Summoner Geeks
Slashdot Mirror
If yahoo is offering all of it's features as a
free and publically accessable system, don't they
have the right to do whatever they want with
the default settings? Granted they due operate
on the sole basis of being used, but I wouldn't
get up in arms if something that I used for
free just up and changed one day in some way
that I didn't agree with. If it really has
such a huge negative reaction from enough people
then yahoo make other changes. However somehow
i doubt that the hundreds of thousands of yahoo
users are all in that slashdot mindset.
there are alot of droids out there.
Guess it's time to get an email address on a non-US server. They can't send a US court jury duty
request to a non-us email address, can they?
What a wonderful little action flick.
Of course I had reservations that Capcom had
pulled another Street Fighter the Movie, and
soon we'd see a Resident Evil the Movie The Game,
but thankfully it was really enjoyable.
Maybe I'm in a lone minority here, but I don't
have to have a complex plot and character
development to enjoy a hack and slash action
movie. I don't need to have twenty minute long
monologues detailing the philosophical
ramifications of the reanimated dead wanting to
eat BRAAAAIIIIIINSSSSSSSSSS. All I need are
sexy actors, sexy scenes, and a few good jump
scenes to make me happy. Sure, I'd LOVE to see
a video-game movie (I feel dirty refering to
them all like some sort of mutant sub genre) that
really makes me think and has some lasting
impact on society or some other sweeping hope,
but let's face it, despite how passionate many
of us are about various video games that we
think are genious, the widest audience for these
games, and thus the movies based after them,
probably just want to see things blown up
and a little T&A. So what happens? They go with
the lowest common denomonator, where the money
is. I think the Final Fantasy movie might be a
good example of what happens when you don't.
I, like several other people I know, absolutly
loved this movie. I enjoyed the odd concepts and
veiled hints of what was really going on. To me,
it felt alot like one of the bizzare plot lines
in some random Final Fantasy game that you just
want to attribute to a translation error.
Alot of people didn't like that. Those people
probably expected something a little bit
more base. Now Square Pictures is selling off
all their assets to try and make up for the loss.
Resident Evil however will appeal to a much
wider base. It works off a proven formula for a
good movie, one that I alluded to earlier--
Attractive cast, attractive sets, jump scenes,
and motivation toward a goal. Sure, it's overly
simplistic, but we can all think of movies that
followed this formula that did well enough in
their own right to be considered successes.
Maybe I'm not asking enough of the motion
picture industry when I go to be entertained,
but like most of everyone else, I'm only thinking
about what I want to see. And what I saw, I liked.
I've tried this several times with varying
degrees of sucsess. For those of you with
plenty of time, try repeating the experiment
with a glass container not given enough
ventilation. When the plasmoid ignites
(lights? is born? stabilizes?) it radiates
a lot of heat. Without proper ventilation
the glass vessle will jump upwards with a
satisfying bang. The flash is quite impressive
for the easily amused.
As for the sound, there is some sound produced
other than the low pitch hum of the microwave
itself, sort of a buzzing noise.
I once saw a page describing this experiment,
but this person had taken the magnetron tube
out of the microwave, mounted it in a very
sexy looking raygun type configuration. It
looked exceedingly dangerous. I'm sure all the
reflected radiation was an excellent
stimulation to his fertility.
Such wonderful toys.
I love how all the impending doom forcasts that
come from NASA and such other large organizations
are always closed with "But don't worry about
this happening for (large number) of years."
Sure, it's probably because we'll see it
coming and still not be able to do anything
about it, but I find the trend amusing none
the less.
On the subject of game development for PSX
I'm suprised no one has mentioned the Yaroze
system on the original console. It was a special
psx in a sexy blue colour along with a web
community for the independent development of
games. As I remember it was right expensive too,
but none the less had a large enough group of
supporters to keep it running.
With the linux infrastructure already out there,
it would seem to me like this will have the same
level of success despite what the doomsayers may
have to say. Sure it's expensive, but there are
enough people with the money to blow on a toy
like this that it probably won't be a big
hype bomb.
Then again, i think they said things not unlike
this about the Coleco Adam.
So first we hear lots of news because the
:D
software erased harddrives, and now we hear
people are coming up with cute little hacks.
It would seem your opinions of late have been
rediculous.
next thing you know we'll start seeing people
booting linux on an xbox, in a beowulf cluster,
and used to heat cowboyneil's dinner.
Turns out they are just tracking all the pron
file names so they can track them down on
kazaa easier.
Those lazy bastards. (:
Am I the only one disappointed that we have an article about computers starting with the word Imagine that isn't immediatly followed by "a beowulf cluster of these"?
If I wasn't aware of better operating sytems
available I'd be whining about how Windows XP
made a mess of my harddrive while trying to
upgrade from 98se, or how the Win2k drivers
for my soundcard are fidgity and lamenting that
this is still the future.
Hell, if I hadn't gotten hosed by the operating
system blues this would have been "FIRST POST!!!"
because I wouldn't have had to look up my
randomly generated password for slashdot.
Oh woe is me. Someday I will be free of these
infernal machines.
I've heard it commented many times that the series as a whole is slowly declining and even more whining over Uematsu's musical ability, yet none the less the game continue to be popular enough to warrent a decent fan following. Each release will the first introduction to the series to many gamers. I would venture that many of those gamers do not own a SNES or NES that they could play the older games on, so the only frame of referance they have are the more recent sequals.
:P
Square wouldn't be making another sequal if they didn't think there wasn't a demand for it.
Probably the same reason that almost half of the remixes at Overclocked Remix are from a Final Fantasy game.
Heh, we we'll finally get to CE the source?
All that needs to be said. (:
As Damidar's theme started myself and at least 4 others completed the Imperial March theme after the first few notes, to the laughter of several others. I also noticed plays on the theme from Legend of Zelda in there.
I didn't like parts of it, but I thought it at least had some entertainment value aside from tearing it down. Let's face it, we're only allowed to have 1 or 2 movies worth watching every few years anyway, so we might as well make the best with what we get. Unless someone proposes a worldwide boycott against Suck in movies.
"I want to cast magic missiles!"
"But there is no one else in the room..."
"uh.. I'm attacking the darkness!"
- Summoner Geeks
This the next place we'll loose a lander to then?