He is working in top secret and will not patent, publish or share concepts as he says no physicist or scientist he has ever studied or researched had this approach
Perhaps you're talking about Capacitance Electronic Discs, also known as RCA VideoDisc. The discs weren't vinyl, but carbon-doped PVC. The video was a bit higher quality than VHS, but not as good as LaserDisc or DVD.
$25??? I remember seeing Van Halen for $12 back in 1984. Last concert I went to was Elton John (by himself, with just a piano... awesome show) and it was about $60 if I remember. I'm trying to think of other things that have increased in price 5x in 16 years, and only movies come close.
Sorry, I didn't know that. I haven't seen AOTC yet, and I'm not planning to see it until it's on video. Anyway, that's still hardly "every planet in the universe a desert", it's two out of probably a dozen planets we've seen. That doesn't seem too farfetched - in a galaxy with easy interstellar travel, anyplace habitable will eventually be inhabited, and there are likely to be more borderline planets like Tatooine or Hoth than earth-like planets.
the sterile outlook of Star Wars (is every planet in the universe a desert?)
Which planets in Star Wars (just the movies, not counting novels) other than Tatooine are deserts? I can't think of one. Unless you stretch the definition of desert to include a frozen wasteland like Hoth.
I agree the "oops, there's the evidence we missed" feels a little forced, but Ethan Hawke's character couldn't have been the murderer. That would have ruined the movie. Ethan's character was supposed to be a man whose only crime was trying to rise above his "flawed" genetics.
I think it would have been more interesting to have had the murder investigation turn up a second, unrelated "borrowed ladder" at Gattaca....
If you've still got an old copy of Win95 you could try tunning the really wacko stuff under Win4Lin or VMWare. Of course, you might get some strange looks from the users you're trying to convert, as Windows launches on their new Linux system that you bought to get out from under Microsoft.
Using your analogy, Columbus should never have gone so far out to America...
Columbus wasn't going to America. He didn't know it was there. He thought he would make it to the East Indies, because he was using a figure for the circumference of the earth that was about half the size of the correct value that the Greeks had determined centuries before.
He was an idiot, and if a continent hadn't been there to stop him, he'd have been dead long before rounding the globe.
The difference is, that a video game is not just hardware, it's software or intellectual property also. Perhaps a better analogy would be to compare the price of video games to the price of movies or CD's, which have increased faster than inflation since the early '80s.
Also, another poster mentioned that the old Atari carts were programmed by only one guy, so they should have been cheaper. This is true, but we also have to keep in mind that the game programming world of 1980 was a lot different than now. That one guy had a hell of a lot of work to do, and it wasn't point-and-click.
I just figure the greater cost of the artwork and music on today's games balances out the much lower cost of production, and I think games are still relatively speaking as good a deal now as back then. Of course, now that I'm working for my money, I'm a lot less likely to spend it on a game, so while it's the same deal, my perception of the value has changed a bit.
I remember buying games as a kid for my Atari for $20 or less.
I remember $25-30 being average. Now add the effects of 20 years of inflation. $50 is actually reasonable. Now figure it out as a percentage of your weekly income. In the early 80's my weekly income was about $10. It's substantially more now.
But, then again, Midway needs profitability at this point... putting out old titles seems like wonderful ideas, I just so rarely see it actually result in profits.
But it's so simple:
Phase 1: Release old video game Phase 2: ? Phase 3: Profit!
What about in 3D? I would think going through DRI to the hardware and not through X you'd be able to use the gigacolor functionality. And that's where it would be most handy - I don't really care about billion-color icons on my desktop.
Ooh, on second thought, even 24-bit color doesn't do well on the gradients in title bars and background images sometimes....
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Marvin shot it down.
He is working in top secret and will not patent, publish or share concepts as he says no physicist or scientist he has ever studied or researched had this approach
My bullshit detector just went off.
I've been told that the OS will, when you hit three keys at the same time, figure out which one you actually meant to hit, and only insert that one.
So, it magically will know whether I mean to call you a 'duck', a 'fuck', or a 'dick' ?
Perhaps you're talking about Capacitance Electronic Discs, also known as RCA VideoDisc. The discs weren't vinyl, but carbon-doped PVC. The video was a bit higher quality than VHS, but not as good as LaserDisc or DVD.
"How can you have your meat if you don't have your pudding?!! "
No, it's "How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?"
Or the alternate, "How can you squirt any pudding if you don't beat your meat?"
After however many months on the ocean with no women around, I bet it did.
"The New York Times has this article (no registration required) on plans to test the DNA on various sets of bones which
And incidentally, when I clicked the link to the alleged no-registration-required article, it asked me to register. Cute.
or, as he's known in Spain, Cristóbal Colón
I always thought he was an ass. Now I know he's a colon.
Oh, F1R57 P057.
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...the stuff that comes out of MY radio is one step above the dog shit on my lawn.
That makes it two steps above the stuff from the radio stations here.
The secret to removing any song from your head is to hum the "Barney Miller" theme to yourself over and over again.
dumm... da da dumm... da da dumm... da da da da da da da da da da dumm...
$25??? I remember seeing Van Halen for $12 back in 1984. Last concert I went to was Elton John (by himself, with just a piano... awesome show) and it was about $60 if I remember. I'm trying to think of other things that have increased in price 5x in 16 years, and only movies come close.
At least they have good beer. Mmm... Labatt Blue (Bleue)...
Sorry, I didn't know that. I haven't seen AOTC yet, and I'm not planning to see it until it's on video. Anyway, that's still hardly "every planet in the universe a desert", it's two out of probably a dozen planets we've seen. That doesn't seem too farfetched - in a galaxy with easy interstellar travel, anyplace habitable will eventually be inhabited, and there are likely to be more borderline planets like Tatooine or Hoth than earth-like planets.
I'd prefer it to have included The Fly rather than The Fly.
the sterile outlook of Star Wars (is every planet in the universe a desert?)
Which planets in Star Wars (just the movies, not counting novels) other than Tatooine are deserts? I can't think of one. Unless you stretch the definition of desert to include a frozen wasteland like Hoth.
I agree the "oops, there's the evidence we missed" feels a little forced, but Ethan Hawke's character couldn't have been the murderer. That would have ruined the movie. Ethan's character was supposed to be a man whose only crime was trying to rise above his "flawed" genetics.
I think it would have been more interesting to have had the murder investigation turn up a second, unrelated "borrowed ladder" at Gattaca....
Don't forget the ever-popular:
Dogs come when you call them.
Cats take a message.
If you've still got an old copy of Win95 you could try tunning the really wacko stuff under Win4Lin or VMWare. Of course, you might get some strange looks from the users you're trying to convert, as Windows launches on their new Linux system that you bought to get out from under Microsoft.
Using your analogy, Columbus should never have gone so far out to America...
Columbus wasn't going to America. He didn't know it was there. He thought he would make it to the East Indies, because he was using a figure for the circumference of the earth that was about half the size of the correct value that the Greeks had determined centuries before.
He was an idiot, and if a continent hadn't been there to stop him, he'd have been dead long before rounding the globe.
The difference is, that a video game is not just hardware, it's software or intellectual property also. Perhaps a better analogy would be to compare the price of video games to the price of movies or CD's, which have increased faster than inflation since the early '80s.
Also, another poster mentioned that the old Atari carts were programmed by only one guy, so they should have been cheaper. This is true, but we also have to keep in mind that the game programming world of 1980 was a lot different than now. That one guy had a hell of a lot of work to do, and it wasn't point-and-click.
I just figure the greater cost of the artwork and music on today's games balances out the much lower cost of production, and I think games are still relatively speaking as good a deal now as back then. Of course, now that I'm working for my money, I'm a lot less likely to spend it on a game, so while it's the same deal, my perception of the value has changed a bit.
Of course the MPAA is good right now. This is Thursday! We'll hate the MPAA tomorrow.
Oh, that's it? I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
I remember buying games as a kid for my Atari for $20 or less.
I remember $25-30 being average. Now add the effects of 20 years of inflation. $50 is actually reasonable. Now figure it out as a percentage of your weekly income. In the early 80's my weekly income was about $10. It's substantially more now.
But, then again, Midway needs profitability at this point... putting out old titles seems like wonderful ideas, I just so rarely see it actually result in profits.
But it's so simple:
Phase 1: Release old video game
Phase 2: ?
Phase 3: Profit!
What about in 3D? I would think going through DRI to the hardware and not through X you'd be able to use the gigacolor functionality. And that's where it would be most handy - I don't really care about billion-color icons on my desktop.
Ooh, on second thought, even 24-bit color doesn't do well on the gradients in title bars and background images sometimes....