the idea of taking away content from movies it's stupid in general. People here are talking about studios wanting to release PG13 versions of Aliens or Pulp Fiction or whatever, so the DVD player goes against their sales... Well, what ever happened to just not showing your kid Pulp Fiction? There are kid movies. I lived through the 80s and didn't see many adult oriented movies, not because my parents didn't let me watch them, but because I just had no interest in them. I never wanted to watch Glengarry Glen Ross, or Aliens, or whatever. I watched crappy Richard Prior blaxploitation comedies like The Toy... I had interest in them. Anyway, this whole argument is dumb. Parents shouldn't have to be able to take away "bad" content from movies since kids probably have more interest in seeing stuff like Britney Spears' Crossroads, or Dana Carvey in Master of Disguise. When I go into the theatres to see a rated R movie, I don't see kids in there unless people bring their screaming babies into the theatre. I don't suspect that kids aren't there because their parents aren't letting them. I usually think it's because they have no interest in seeing them.
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as Kurt Vonnegut once said (paraphrased), good science fiction writers don't know anything about science. Personally, I would agree with him since Vonnegut is my favorite writer and I read science fiction not for the scientific facts, but for the writers interpretation of the "human condition" with perhaps the future or some crazy invention thrown in as a plot device. If I wanted a view of the future, I'd read science journals.
Looks like China has some serious competition on the chip front. SGI is already reaching a whole 700MHz! The Dragon better catch up soon is China wants to stay in business.
PC games have always sold less than console games so it's not a recent thing, but to me, the 6% loss doesn't come as surprising. PC games just suck now. I used to be a die-hard PC game enthusiast in the hey-day of adventure games and RPGs, but now everything that comes out is a hack and slash MMORPG or an FPS game. The last PC game I really got into was the Sims and that was during the first few weeks it came out. Meanwhile, I've been starting to play a few console games these days since it seems they're just getting better. I've been playing Metroid Prime on my GC and Splinter Cell on the XBox, both games being a lot better than anything I've seen on the PC in recent months. I even played GTA3 on the PC for awhile but even that originated on the PS2.
So who really cares about the star system on Amazon? When I shop for books there, I usually actually read the reviews. If it's something like "THIS BOOK WAS GREAT!!!!!!! 10 STARS!!!!!!" I ignore it and move on to the next review. I take in a few positive and a few negative reviews and judge if it would be a book I want. I doubt G. Cooke can give very insightful reviews on books she hasn't read.
What interests me is that I've always thought this was quite a "western" mentality, grounded in materialism and greed. Are the Chinese just the same? Or do they have other motivations?
Nah, man... they obviously pirate movies as a means to reach enlightenment.
So I ask you, when does this become an addiction and when is it just being a fan?
I think when you're loved ones start a page for it.
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How about because you don't know them? If you're looking for a ride home for instance, are you going to ask any and every stranger on the street if they are going in the same direction? Or if they're selling exactly the thing you're looking for? of course not. I think this would be a very good thing since it will definately open up communication between strangers.
Regret is the worst of human emotions. There is no going back with regret. There is no future with regret. Regret is not something I live with. If there is something I wished I hadn't done, I don't do it anymore or I forgive myself and try better.
My life is my statement and I try to be true to myself and thusly to other people. Whatever my failings are, they are human and I try to perfect it each day.
So anyone know which Star Trek episode this quote is from?
Easy solution - port it to Java... that should be cross compatible and alive for the rest of eternity. I'm even pretty sure that the advanced mecha that will be recovering our frozen servers 10,000 years from now will be running some version of it.
I think Futurama had the best Star Trek script writing "formula",
Fry: Well, usually on the show somebody would come up with a complicated plan then explain it with a simple analogy
Leela: If we can reroute engine power through the primary weapons and reconfigure them to Mellvar's frequency, that should overload his electro-quantum structure!
I'm surprised the parent got modded up so far... I didn't know who the hell Ellen Feiss was so I looked her up on google expecting her to be some kind of open source guru, but lo and behold google just took me to a mac switch ad. Am I just out of the loop since I don't watch any tv and has Ellen Feiss became some kind of new geek sex symbol ala Natalie Portman or did everyone else have to look this up to? I'm not saying the post isn't +5 funny... I'm just wondering how much out of the loop I am.
Except Apache, ftpd, sshd and LaTeX do some things better than their commercial counterparts... I can't say the same for Blender.
But there is no free tool which I could use to make 3D objects for my game.
did you stop reading at those quotes? I stated that Blender is useful for hobbyists and amateurs looking for some place to start but it won't win any converts so therefore it isn't part of a niche that "needed to be filled."
What specificly would you like added/fixed in Blender to make it more competative? (besides a friendlier interface)
BTW, Maya is something like 5 grand a pop IIRC.
The Blender site is being restructured or something so they don't have much info on the latest greatest features of Blender, but the question is much like asking "How can I make truespace like maya. I don't see many examples of Blender animation so I assume the animation tools are lacking. How bout adding full IK/FK support with easy skinning? A dope sheet editor to mess around with keyframes? A graph editor? BTW, I don't know if any of this is currently there since I haven't looked at Blender in awhile so I'm just talking about what's generally important for me.
Also, you can't just dismiss a friendlier interface - that's the NUMBER ONE thing that Blender developers should be working on. In ANY art based application, if you want actual artists using your software instead of software engineers and hobbyists, you have to make it practically invisible... this is ESPECIALLY true for something as complicated as a 3d modelling/animation package since there's enough to learn about working in a 3d environment itself without having to futz around with the interface of the program you're using. If I can't figure out how to rotate and pan and zoom around the 3d space in the first 5 min of opening the software without resorting to a tutorial (and this is after some experience using 3d software), then the interface is no good.
Also, Maya used to be around 17 grand a pop or so and people still bought it. When you're making 30 grand off of each project, 5 grand for your software isn't much. I'm not telling people to go rushing out to buy Maya, just making a point that high end software is an investment.
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the idea of taking away content from movies it's stupid in general. People here are talking about studios wanting to release PG13 versions of Aliens or Pulp Fiction or whatever, so the DVD player goes against their sales... Well, what ever happened to just not showing your kid Pulp Fiction? There are kid movies. I lived through the 80s and didn't see many adult oriented movies, not because my parents didn't let me watch them, but because I just had no interest in them. I never wanted to watch Glengarry Glen Ross, or Aliens, or whatever. I watched crappy Richard Prior blaxploitation comedies like The Toy... I had interest in them. Anyway, this whole argument is dumb. Parents shouldn't have to be able to take away "bad" content from movies since kids probably have more interest in seeing stuff like Britney Spears' Crossroads, or Dana Carvey in Master of Disguise. When I go into the theatres to see a rated R movie, I don't see kids in there unless people bring their screaming babies into the theatre. I don't suspect that kids aren't there because their parents aren't letting them. I usually think it's because they have no interest in seeing them.
now they have to play a distant game of catch up.
Don't you mean they're playing a distant game of ketchup?
but where are my damn bubble cities?
as Kurt Vonnegut once said (paraphrased), good science fiction writers don't know anything about science. Personally, I would agree with him since Vonnegut is my favorite writer and I read science fiction not for the scientific facts, but for the writers interpretation of the "human condition" with perhaps the future or some crazy invention thrown in as a plot device. If I wanted a view of the future, I'd read science journals.
They would probably look like the Remans from ST: Nemesis since that's the condition you described on Remus.
Looks like China has some serious competition on the chip front. SGI is already reaching a whole 700MHz! The Dragon better catch up soon is China wants to stay in business.
When is someone gonna hack Linux onto one of these smart guns? Then we can have the first slashdotted gun in the world!
So what's that mean? In Soviet Russia, the music pirates you?
PC games have always sold less than console games so it's not a recent thing, but to me, the 6% loss doesn't come as surprising. PC games just suck now. I used to be a die-hard PC game enthusiast in the hey-day of adventure games and RPGs, but now everything that comes out is a hack and slash MMORPG or an FPS game. The last PC game I really got into was the Sims and that was during the first few weeks it came out. Meanwhile, I've been starting to play a few console games these days since it seems they're just getting better. I've been playing Metroid Prime on my GC and Splinter Cell on the XBox, both games being a lot better than anything I've seen on the PC in recent months. I even played GTA3 on the PC for awhile but even that originated on the PS2.
So who really cares about the star system on Amazon? When I shop for books there, I usually actually read the reviews. If it's something like "THIS BOOK WAS GREAT!!!!!!! 10 STARS!!!!!!" I ignore it and move on to the next review. I take in a few positive and a few negative reviews and judge if it would be a book I want. I doubt G. Cooke can give very insightful reviews on books she hasn't read.
What interests me is that I've always thought this was quite a "western" mentality, grounded in materialism and greed. Are the Chinese just the same? Or do they have other motivations?
Nah, man... they obviously pirate movies as a means to reach enlightenment.
So I ask you, when does this become an addiction and when is it just being a fan?
I think when you're loved ones start a page for it.
How about because you don't know them? If you're looking for a ride home for instance, are you going to ask any and every stranger on the street if they are going in the same direction? Or if they're selling exactly the thing you're looking for? of course not. I think this would be a very good thing since it will definately open up communication between strangers.
Regret is the worst of human emotions. There is no going back with regret. There is no future with regret. Regret is not something I live with. If there is something I wished I hadn't done, I don't do it anymore or I forgive myself and try better.
My life is my statement and I try to be true to myself and thusly to other people. Whatever my failings are, they are human and I try to perfect it each day.
So anyone know which Star Trek episode this quote is from?
Easy solution - port it to Java... that should be cross compatible and alive for the rest of eternity. I'm even pretty sure that the advanced mecha that will be recovering our frozen servers 10,000 years from now will be running some version of it.
Now, if only we can get Microsoft to switch their workstations over to Linux... Then the chaos can begin.
The first transatlantic handshake will be shortly followed by the first transatlantic thumb wrestling competition.
while we're at it, how can I build a tv to use my homebrew DVD-R TiVO on?
at least my link to goatse.cx got rejected...
I think Futurama had the best Star Trek script writing "formula",
Fry: Well, usually on the show somebody would come up with a complicated plan then explain it with a simple analogy
Leela: If we can reroute engine power through the primary weapons and reconfigure them to Mellvar's frequency, that should overload his electro-quantum structure!
Bender: Like putting too much air in a balloon!
Fry: Of course! It's so SIMPLE!
I'm surprised the parent got modded up so far... I didn't know who the hell Ellen Feiss was so I looked her up on google expecting her to be some kind of open source guru, but lo and behold google just took me to a mac switch ad. Am I just out of the loop since I don't watch any tv and has Ellen Feiss became some kind of new geek sex symbol ala Natalie Portman or did everyone else have to look this up to? I'm not saying the post isn't +5 funny... I'm just wondering how much out of the loop I am.
that's the best Karma whore I've ever seen! These links should keep me busy for hours!
you read all your spam?
Yes. Just like Apache, ftpd, sshd or LaTeX.
Except Apache, ftpd, sshd and LaTeX do some things better than their commercial counterparts... I can't say the same for Blender.
But there is no free tool which I could use to make 3D objects for my game.
did you stop reading at those quotes? I stated that Blender is useful for hobbyists and amateurs looking for some place to start but it won't win any converts so therefore it isn't part of a niche that "needed to be filled."
What specificly would you like added/fixed in Blender to make it more competative? (besides a friendlier interface) BTW, Maya is something like 5 grand a pop IIRC. The Blender site is being restructured or something so they don't have much info on the latest greatest features of Blender, but the question is much like asking "How can I make truespace like maya. I don't see many examples of Blender animation so I assume the animation tools are lacking. How bout adding full IK/FK support with easy skinning? A dope sheet editor to mess around with keyframes? A graph editor? BTW, I don't know if any of this is currently there since I haven't looked at Blender in awhile so I'm just talking about what's generally important for me. Also, you can't just dismiss a friendlier interface - that's the NUMBER ONE thing that Blender developers should be working on. In ANY art based application, if you want actual artists using your software instead of software engineers and hobbyists, you have to make it practically invisible... this is ESPECIALLY true for something as complicated as a 3d modelling/animation package since there's enough to learn about working in a 3d environment itself without having to futz around with the interface of the program you're using. If I can't figure out how to rotate and pan and zoom around the 3d space in the first 5 min of opening the software without resorting to a tutorial (and this is after some experience using 3d software), then the interface is no good. Also, Maya used to be around 17 grand a pop or so and people still bought it. When you're making 30 grand off of each project, 5 grand for your software isn't much. I'm not telling people to go rushing out to buy Maya, just making a point that high end software is an investment.