"X-Play, and Icons are both shows worth watching, but on a channel that at one point was 'for gamers', only two decent shows is pretty pathetic"
You would have thought they would realize their failure when they needed to buy another station just to deliever the content they were created to have.
I used to live down there and could see it out of my backyard in Oldsmar (west of Tampa) so you can see it from just about anywhere.
It really depends on what kind of view you want. There's a long road that drives by the launch platform on the way to NASA that people typically just pull off to the side and park there.
If you show up an hour ahead of launch you can probably get a pretty good spot.
What would the quality of such a quickly turned around patch be? About the only thing they'd be able to truely gaurantee is that you could install it. They couldn't have tested it very thoroughly to ensure it performed the intended functionality, much less that it didn't create more problems than it solved.
I think as long as there's 1 main OS that the majority of people on the internet use, we simply have to accept the fact that it's going to be a target for malicious code.
Still too expensive. Some of their screens, sure. I know AMC's done that at a few, as has Lowes and maybe Regal. But it's still too expensive. And even if it weren't, you still have the problem of the film distributors not making the films in the approrpriate digital format.
So in order to keep thier screens full of a strong variety of movies, they'll have to have "analogue" projectors as well on a majority of those screens.
As far as THX, having your theatres THX certified doesn't say anything about their commitment to digital and audio/visual excellence. SDDS is just as good as THX, and cheaper. Cheaper because THX requires *huge* hoops and hurdles to go through in order to be "THX certified". You have to pay for the technology, pay for the certification, pay pay pay. And then the only movies that show the true "high quality" THX is capable of, are movies designed to use the enhancing capability of THX.
When Star Wars, Episode I came out many people might remember all the restrictions Lucas put on the films. For those of you who keep track of the Theatre Industry you'll also remember that these restrictions were the "straw that broke the camel's back" causing nearly every Theatre Exhibitor to file bankrupcy.
Origianlly one of the restrictions was that you had to THX certify every theatre you played it in. There's a reason that restriction was removed well before the movie actually released.
The Syufy's have done a good job with their theatre so far, and being privatly owned by the Syufy's main company, they certainly have a certain amount of cash and assets. But they're just not big enough. You'd need a more major contendor, a Regal or Lowes or AMC.
And really you'd almost want it to be a public company, which I believe Lowes is the only one left? At least at that level. Problem is Lowes is having significant cash flow problems right now.
I'm going to respond to a few things here. Sorry if someone mentioned something on one of these points, I couldn't bring myself to read every one of the 45 posts.
Firstly, yes the projectors can take AVI inputs. DVI too probably, now a days. A few companies in the States have a few projectors scattered around, and I worked as a projectionist at one of them for a time, a few projectionists were fired for outputting a DVD player to the projector after hours and using it to watch Top Gun.
Secondly, the reason we haven't seen it wide spread in the States and probably won't for a bit yet is simply Cost. Cost to produce the movies in a digital format by the distributors, and cost to the theatres to purchase all those digitgal projectors. They are *not* cheap. For your local 24 mega-plex to replace it's 24 multi-thousand dollar projectors with a digital projector would be *well* more than the profit that theatre sees (if the theatre even manages to post a profit).
With rising costs put on the theatres by the distributors, and lowering numbers of patrons *in* the theatres, the profit margins and simple ability to make money to invest in new technology for the theatres is drastically being reduced. So until the time that *that* situation reverses itself (which I don't imagine we'll ever see) or until the digital projectors become much cheaper, we'll just have to wait.
Running a succesful company requires a number of things. Background and a strong understanding in the industry is only one of them, and not always the most important one.
If the manager is good at delegation, good at recgonizing and promoting the strenghts of his/her employees that helps.
At the end of the day the manager should be dependent on the skills and knowledge of their product anyway (even if they have a strong competant knowledge) so wether they have to pick up the background as they go or they already have it, it's almost inconsuiqential.
I went through a similar thing when I went from the "Software Programing" side of IT Healthcare Software Engineering market, to the "Clinical Analyst" side of Healtcare.
Make sure you stress the other skills and abilities you have. If you want them to hire you for a reason/skill set/purpose other than programing, give them something to hire you for. Certainly don't leave out your programing skills, but put it on the backburner, make it your back up. "Not only can I do all these great things, but if the situation calls I do have this reservouir of experince and skill to draw from."
I stressed in my interview process and resume that I was interested in moving toward an architech / project manager / analyst role and out of a programing role. I got hired in with those expectations but also with the mutual understanding that, if need be, I could sit down and bash out some needed code. Mostly though they are simply happy to have someone with the background and understanding who can speak intelligently on the topic.
The key is just to sell yourself for whatever skill and trait you want to be "bought" for.
Whatever you emphasize and put on the surface is what gets you hired. Employers don't scratch the surface until they're alread interested.
Here, have this $25 video game that we're having trouble selling as a way of making amends for the fact that we totally screwed you deleting hours of gameplay and progress in games you actually wanted to play.
Oh well. I don't even have a ps2. I'm just waiting for this to happen on the xbox...start wiping people's harddrives.
RTCW on the X-Box. Err..Return to Castle Wolfenstien (some people don't know it) has co-op, at least on the X-Box.
NExt time you're in the store check out hte back of the X-Box games. It has a little label on the lower left, tells you how many players max can play at a time and *usually* what type of play it is.
Then, if you want to buy it or the PS2, you can assume that it might.
Also, my own personal advice, rent everything before buying =)
For the X-Box there's Halo, that's great co-op. Still introducing myself to the x-box though..so that's about all I can recomend co-op there =)
Really, almost any game that *supports* co-op is good co-op. Go to the store and look at the back, often it'll say. I would imagine that a lot of FPSe'rs with a story line will support co-op (if it supports multiplayer) perahps the MoH series and Bond series excluded.
I think that's the key, it *won't* be BF1942 any more, it'll be BFVietnam.
I've been wondering where they were going with the franchise, they had to do something. BF1942 was a huge success, even bigger once they got their latency issues sorted out. Then with the first expansion they proved it. The second expansion will only continue to prove these things, but they're starting to run out of changes. I mean I suppose they could try to do more battles, more missions, etc, etc, but there's only so much you can milk out of one war.
So they had to go somewhere else...
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I was diagnosed with ADHD (or whatever you want to call it) when I was about 6 years old. It was the only possible answer to the problems I was having, and the diagnosis was decided on after many many hours of many days of tests and observation and psychology sessions.
At that time the choice was given to me how to treat it. To try to treat it through drug usage (ritalen..a drug I can not spell), or to try to learn to cope myself. Despite my young age my parents wanted me to make the decision for myself (of course they didn't want to tell me about Santa Clause since they didn't want to lie to me....so take that as a grain of salt). Being the child I was I heard it could stunt my growth and decided not to do it. This was the best decision I ever made.
Over the last 17 years (23 now) I've been forced to face my ADHD head on and learn to cope with it. A lot of things have helped. One, creating an orginizational structure that I keep standard through everything. I force myself to live by it, keep notes in a certain way, document things the same way every time, put this here, that there, etc, etc. Because I know later on I'm not going to remember, or I'm going to be so nervious or anxious that I'm not going to be thinking, and having everything where it always is as it always is really helps.
Currently I'm a programer for a hospital software manufacturer. I find that I program my best when I'm in the middle of an ADD rush. What happens is my energy level chalks up to high high levels and I start thinking about a few things at once....turn on my headphones to act as white noise barrier between me and everything else (that is a very important step) and then I just zone. I do my best work there, it's all natural, instinctive. Done fast and done well. A part of my brain is totally focused on the code I'm writing and so long as I keep myself distracted enough that it's all I can focus on, I can really get some work done.
This is what helps the most. Another thing that helps is the flexability of my job. I can work remotely and I can work mostly whatever hours I want. So long as I get my work done and work at least 40 hours a week, I can work them wherever I want, whenever I want. So I can choose (and often do) to work at home in my home office where I can control the surrondings and situation. It's much more comfertable for me to get up every 5 minutes to let hte dog out, walk around, stretch, clear my head.
Something that many non ADD'ers don't understand is the brain process of an ADD person. It's hyper, it's frantic, it's non stop (so long as they're not drugged). They're just as smart if not often smarter and more creative than the regular person. The problem is that they can never settle down to one thing. THey keep jumping around in their head from topic to topic, idea to idea. The key is to learn to focus this. I tend to have a few different projects at one time for work. I'll have *all* of them open on my desktop at one time and I'll flip back and forth as my mind wanders from one ot the others. It's not a thing I choose to do. I don't decide "oh hey let's think about project b when I'm working on project a". It just happens so rather than fight it, or get frustrated, or take a break and stop the process, I simply switch and work on b until my mind switches back to a, or maybe over to c.
These are my recomendations anyway, I hope you figure out what works best for you.
the projectors are just too high $$ for theatre's to use. My dad's a vp for one of the leading Theatre Exhibitioners, and I've discussed it with him a few times. It just doesn't make sense now.
Even if you were to, as a theatre, buy say 3 of those projectors (theatres now a day have 1 if any) you can only play digital movies in those 3. And you're not going to buy a 140k dollar projector and put it in your small houses are you? No..you're going to put it in your big one. But then your making your big theatres digital exclusive (when you hvae a digital film out).
Maybe in 10 years once the cost of projectors goes down, then we'll start to see more of them. I know boweing (sp??) is working on making a line of projectors, shipping out nearly 150 of them this year....so hopefully that kind of tech advacement will help.
I thought this movie rocked! I encourage everybody to go see it. I will admit that some of the K. Reeves acting was a bit cheesy, but what can you expect? None the less, the movie was still very good, and I think that everybody should go out and see it!
So...now Microsoft has gone from one main monopoly, to 5 smaller powerhouses.....if you ask me, this is better for Microsoft...I think that they will ultimatly make more money from it..but on the other side, it could also help promote more competition. I think this is a good step all around.
This is rediculous. I mean, really, I was told this class was easy, and it wasn't, so now I'm going to sue you. I thought macroeconomics was going to be hard, and it was too easy, I was dissapointed...does that mean that I can sue them for not challenging me?
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I don't really think that we need to see the proof of it. After all, Oracle said that it only had to be 100 times as close, so if MS' database was 100 times slower, it would still win, I think think that they might be able to do it..of course it would crash right afterwards.
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"X-Play, and Icons are both shows worth watching, but on a channel that at one point was 'for gamers', only two decent shows is pretty pathetic"
You would have thought they would realize their failure when they needed to buy another station just to deliever the content they were created to have.
I used to live down there and could see it out of my backyard in Oldsmar (west of Tampa) so you can see it from just about anywhere.
It really depends on what kind of view you want. There's a long road that drives by the launch platform on the way to NASA that people typically just pull off to the side and park there.
If you show up an hour ahead of launch you can probably get a pretty good spot.
What would the quality of such a quickly turned around patch be? About the only thing they'd be able to truely gaurantee is that you could install it. They couldn't have tested it very thoroughly to ensure it performed the intended functionality, much less that it didn't create more problems than it solved.
I think as long as there's 1 main OS that the majority of people on the internet use, we simply have to accept the fact that it's going to be a target for malicious code.
Still too expensive. Some of their screens, sure. I know AMC's done that at a few, as has Lowes and maybe Regal. But it's still too expensive. And even if it weren't, you still have the problem of the film distributors not making the films in the approrpriate digital format.
So in order to keep thier screens full of a strong variety of movies, they'll have to have "analogue" projectors as well on a majority of those screens.
As far as THX, having your theatres THX certified doesn't say anything about their commitment to digital and audio/visual excellence. SDDS is just as good as THX, and cheaper. Cheaper because THX requires *huge* hoops and hurdles to go through in order to be "THX certified". You have to pay for the technology, pay for the certification, pay pay pay. And then the only movies that show the true "high quality" THX is capable of, are movies designed to use the enhancing capability of THX.
When Star Wars, Episode I came out many people might remember all the restrictions Lucas put on the films. For those of you who keep track of the Theatre Industry you'll also remember that these restrictions were the "straw that broke the camel's back" causing nearly every Theatre Exhibitor to file bankrupcy.
Origianlly one of the restrictions was that you had to THX certify every theatre you played it in. There's a reason that restriction was removed well before the movie actually released.
Century's not big enough.
The Syufy's have done a good job with their theatre so far, and being privatly owned by the Syufy's main company, they certainly have a certain amount of cash and assets. But they're just not big enough. You'd need a more major contendor, a Regal or Lowes or AMC.
And really you'd almost want it to be a public company, which I believe Lowes is the only one left? At least at that level. Problem is Lowes is having significant cash flow problems right now.
I'm going to respond to a few things here. Sorry if someone mentioned something on one of these points, I couldn't bring myself to read every one of the 45 posts.
Firstly, yes the projectors can take AVI inputs. DVI too probably, now a days. A few companies in the States have a few projectors scattered around, and I worked as a projectionist at one of them for a time, a few projectionists were fired for outputting a DVD player to the projector after hours and using it to watch Top Gun.
Secondly, the reason we haven't seen it wide spread in the States and probably won't for a bit yet is simply Cost. Cost to produce the movies in a digital format by the distributors, and cost to the theatres to purchase all those digitgal projectors. They are *not* cheap. For your local 24 mega-plex to replace it's 24 multi-thousand dollar projectors with a digital projector would be *well* more than the profit that theatre sees (if the theatre even manages to post a profit).
With rising costs put on the theatres by the distributors, and lowering numbers of patrons *in* the theatres, the profit margins and simple ability to make money to invest in new technology for the theatres is drastically being reduced. So until the time that *that* situation reverses itself (which I don't imagine we'll ever see) or until the digital projectors become much cheaper, we'll just have to wait.
Running a succesful company requires a number of things. Background and a strong understanding in the industry is only one of them, and not always the most important one.
If the manager is good at delegation, good at recgonizing and promoting the strenghts of his/her employees that helps.
At the end of the day the manager should be dependent on the skills and knowledge of their product anyway (even if they have a strong competant knowledge) so wether they have to pick up the background as they go or they already have it, it's almost inconsuiqential.
It's all about who's reviewing it and how much you trust them.
I have a few sources that I trust pretty well. But even *those* it's not what score they give it. It's what they say.
I went through a similar thing when I went from the "Software Programing" side of IT Healthcare Software Engineering market, to the "Clinical Analyst" side of Healtcare.
Make sure you stress the other skills and abilities you have. If you want them to hire you for a reason/skill set/purpose other than programing, give them something to hire you for. Certainly don't leave out your programing skills, but put it on the backburner, make it your back up.
"Not only can I do all these great things, but if the situation calls I do have this reservouir of experince and skill to draw from."
I stressed in my interview process and resume that I was interested in moving toward an architech / project manager / analyst role and out of a programing role. I got hired in with those expectations but also with the mutual understanding that, if need be, I could sit down and bash out some needed code. Mostly though they are simply happy to have someone with the background and understanding who can speak intelligently on the topic.
The key is just to sell yourself for whatever skill and trait you want to be "bought" for.
Whatever you emphasize and put on the surface is what gets you hired. Employers don't scratch the surface until they're alread interested.
I agree they could....
but they could also send you a copy of GTA:SA or something.
Here, have this $25 video game that we're having trouble selling as a way of making amends for the fact that we totally screwed you deleting hours of gameplay and progress in games you actually wanted to play.
Oh well. I don't even have a ps2. I'm just waiting for this to happen on the xbox...start wiping people's harddrives.
not sure if you're still reading this thread...
RTCW on the X-Box. Err..Return to Castle Wolfenstien (some people don't know it) has co-op, at least on the X-Box.
NExt time you're in the store check out hte back of the X-Box games. It has a little label on the lower left, tells you how many players max can play at a time and *usually* what type of play it is.
Then, if you want to buy it or the PS2, you can assume that it might.
Also, my own personal advice, rent everything before buying =)
"Most gamers are men, so this seems to suggest that men do not like being treated like women."
Maybe it simply suggests that most men who play everquest *prefer* to play a male character simply because they're male.
Obviously there's the Gauntlet Games =)
For the X-Box there's Halo, that's great co-op.
Still introducing myself to the x-box though..so that's about all I can recomend co-op there =)
Really, almost any game that *supports* co-op is good co-op. Go to the store and look at the back, often it'll say. I would imagine that a lot of FPSe'rs with a story line will support co-op (if it supports multiplayer) perahps the MoH series and Bond series excluded.
Yes I am aware of the S controller, I own 4 of them.
You'll have to excuse me for making a joke...
"whereas North American companies still do not know how to market to the japanese"
I think the problem is that North American companies feel the need to manufacture controllers larger than the average car in Japan...
I think that's the key, it *won't* be BF1942 any more, it'll be BFVietnam.
I've been wondering where they were going with the franchise, they had to do something. BF1942 was a huge success, even bigger once they got their latency issues sorted out. Then with the first expansion they proved it. The second expansion will only continue to prove these things, but they're starting to run out of changes. I mean I suppose they could try to do more battles, more missions, etc, etc, but there's only so much you can milk out of one war.
So they had to go somewhere else...
I was diagnosed with ADHD (or whatever you want to call it) when I was about 6 years old. It was the only possible answer to the problems I was having, and the diagnosis was decided on after many many hours of many days of tests and observation and psychology sessions.
At that time the choice was given to me how to treat it. To try to treat it through drug usage (ritalen..a drug I can not spell), or to try to learn to cope myself. Despite my young age my parents wanted me to make the decision for myself (of course they didn't want to tell me about Santa Clause since they didn't want to lie to me....so take that as a grain of salt). Being the child I was I heard it could stunt my growth and decided not to do it. This was the best decision I ever made.
Over the last 17 years (23 now) I've been forced to face my ADHD head on and learn to cope with it. A lot of things have helped. One, creating an orginizational structure that I keep standard through everything. I force myself to live by it, keep notes in a certain way, document things the same way every time, put this here, that there, etc, etc. Because I know later on I'm not going to remember, or I'm going to be so nervious or anxious that I'm not going to be thinking, and having everything where it always is as it always is really helps.
Currently I'm a programer for a hospital software manufacturer. I find that I program my best when I'm in the middle of an ADD rush. What happens is my energy level chalks up to high high levels and I start thinking about a few things at once....turn on my headphones to act as white noise barrier between me and everything else (that is a very important step) and then I just zone. I do my best work there, it's all natural, instinctive. Done fast and done well. A part of my brain is totally focused on the code I'm writing and so long as I keep myself distracted enough that it's all I can focus on, I can really get some work done.
This is what helps the most. Another thing that helps is the flexability of my job. I can work remotely and I can work mostly whatever hours I want. So long as I get my work done and work at least 40 hours a week, I can work them wherever I want, whenever I want. So I can choose (and often do) to work at home in my home office where I can control the surrondings and situation. It's much more comfertable for me to get up every 5 minutes to let hte dog out, walk around, stretch, clear my head.
Something that many non ADD'ers don't understand is the brain process of an ADD person. It's hyper, it's frantic, it's non stop (so long as they're not drugged). They're just as smart if not often smarter and more creative than the regular person. The problem is that they can never settle down to one thing. THey keep jumping around in their head from topic to topic, idea to idea. The key is to learn to focus this. I tend to have a few different projects at one time for work. I'll have *all* of them open on my desktop at one time and I'll flip back and forth as my mind wanders from one ot the others. It's not a thing I choose to do. I don't decide "oh hey let's think about project b when I'm working on project a". It just happens so rather than fight it, or get frustrated, or take a break and stop the process, I simply switch and work on b until my mind switches back to a, or maybe over to c.
These are my recomendations anyway, I hope you figure out what works best for you.
- Brian
ohh..it basically spams the hell out of your computer's browser.
the projectors are just too high $$ for theatre's to use. My dad's a vp for one of the leading Theatre Exhibitioners, and I've discussed it with him a few times. It just doesn't make sense now.
Even if you were to, as a theatre, buy say 3 of those projectors (theatres now a day have 1 if any) you can only play digital movies in those 3. And you're not going to buy a 140k dollar projector and put it in your small houses are you? No..you're going to put it in your big one. But then your making your big theatres digital exclusive (when you hvae a digital film out).
Maybe in 10 years once the cost of projectors goes down, then we'll start to see more of them. I know boweing (sp??) is working on making a line of projectors, shipping out nearly 150 of them this year....so hopefully that kind of tech advacement will help.
I thought this movie rocked! I encourage everybody to go see it. I will admit that some of the K. Reeves acting was a bit cheesy, but what can you expect? None the less, the movie was still very good, and I think that everybody should go out and see it!
So...now Microsoft has gone from one main monopoly, to 5 smaller powerhouses.....if you ask me, this is better for Microsoft...I think that they will ultimatly make more money from it..but on the other side, it could also help promote more competition. I think this is a good step all around.
This is rediculous. I mean, really, I was told this class was easy, and it wasn't, so now I'm going to sue you. I thought macroeconomics was going to be hard, and it was too easy, I was dissapointed...does that mean that I can sue them for not challenging me?
I don't really think that we need to see the proof of it. After all, Oracle said that it only had to be 100 times as close, so if MS' database was 100 times slower, it would still win, I think think that they might be able to do it..of course it would crash right afterwards.