It's probably been said before (I don't feel like reading 800+ comments to find it), but what makes science fiction is not the special effects (spectacle), the elaborate description of a high-tech thingamabob (diction) -- it's the story! In order to be 'fiction', it must have "one unbelievable thing" that is crucial to the story. In order to be "science fiction" that crucial, unbelievable thing must be scientific in nature.
(That covers a lot, Quazi. can you narrow it down some??)
Well, you're gonna hate me for this, but in order to be GOOD sci-fi, the story must not be based on any other genre. Star Wars was a WWII flick. Star Trek could be the Partridge Family (going from one place to the next, meeting new people). Don't get me wrong, Star Wars and Star Trek make for some good stories, but they're not intrinsically sci-fi.
On the other hand, imagine "2001" without HAL. You can't just replace him with a human character, the story will lose a crucial element (a computer cannot lie, a human can). That is the only way the story can be told -- with a piece of technology at the center of the story.
With imagery like that (which looks more like a crazy montage of everything at deviantart.com), they ought to have Aphex Twin or Autechre do the music. If it's just Philip Glass alone with his orchestra, that will seem out of place..
Charge us for it (cable TV, premium channels), and/or have the characters use specific products in the dialogue. Besides, whenever I see a character using a 'real' product (drinking a "Pepsi" rather than a "generic made for TV cola") it makes the show seem more believable. Rewrite the dialogue so the characters will actually mention the products they use -- unconscious advertising!
My guess (the keyword here = "guess") is that another company besides id will do the Xbox port. id will oversee the operation to make sure it operates as close to the OGL original, but they won't touch the DirectX code itself.
He won't release the first version on DVD because he knows no one would buy the edited version. He needs to justify the fact that he put all his time & effort into screwing around with it and showing off his screwing-around skillz...
2001 has no plot and doesn't say anything about society?! Which version did you see?? Because I saw one that asked what would happen if we created machines more intelligent than ourselves, and posed the question that we are not alone in the universe. This is a very difficult task, and it pulled it off!
Oh well, I'm stuck in a time when people think only Jerry Bruckheimer can make movies..
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I saw the Good Morning America demo, and I gotta say I was impressed! Nobody was running into things like I thought they would, but they were wearing helmets and had security people walking next to them. That tells me that they still think there's a risk of injury..
Now, it amplifies my movements -- I lean forward a little, and it moves for me. Let's say I'm not the most agile, dextrous person in the world: my movements are twitchy, I occasionally overcompensate and run into things, knocking them over and such.. How will this thing react to my klutziness? Will it make me even more accident-prone than I already am? Or will it smooth them out and make me look more agile? As I said before, nobody was running into stuff this morning (unless they *tried*!)
Hell, I'd like to see what they'd do to a move we've all see a zillion times (and probably made fun of already!) -- Star Wars (episode 1 would be great!), Titanic, Gladiator, Fight Club..
The so-called good movies can be just as fun to ridicule as the really bad ones!
"Name 5 20th century musical artists you think will still be listened to 50 years from now."
Since today's music scene isn't geared for longevity, this would seem to be a much more difficult question to answer. Sure, we'll have bands like Elvis and the Beatles sitting around for reference defining decades for us (Elvis + Beatles = the 1960s), but what will people actually *listen to* 50 years from now?
Then again, what do people actually listen to now? Sure, we hear music playing in the car, on the radio, on TV, in the elevator, in the shower, but do we pay attention to it? If we can't remember it from one year to the next, what makes you think we'll remember it 50 years from now?
Everybody knows what's wrong and how to fix it, but nobody wants to do anything about it. You say that it is up to OEM resellers to configure Linux to their customer's specs (using twm, vi, TeX, lynx, KDE2), but she wants it to be up to the creator of the distribution. It will make it easier on everyone if the people writing the code assume responsibility over their own creations instead of trying to create a zillion "options" and telling Joe Sixpack to make up his own mind. If Linux wants to succeed, it should appear simple at all layers -- the code itself, the documentation, and the logistical distribution (from manufacturer to reseller to retailer to customer).
Welp, there goes that media blackout id was talking about.
The original DOOM had the impact of a drug. There was no one giving me small doses of it before I really took it. I just took it all at once and BAM! I was hooked.
Now with the new DOOM, I'm getting little drops of it on my tongue -- the air is full of new DOOM smoke and I can't get out of the room. Everybody's taking it, but I don't want it yet. It's not strong enough. But now I realize that when I do take the strong version, I will have built up a tolerance.
I have been looking for the big-ass paper starmap for SC2 for about two years (off-and-on) -- that's the only thing keeping me from playing now. I think I found one on eBay (just so happens to be included in a retail box with a copy of the game.. Sure, I can use two copies..:)
As for the music, I did a follow-up and found that Dan Nicholson of Kosmic wrote all of that!
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/67/kosmic_free_m us ic_foundati.html
It was an interesting feeling finding out that one of my favorite music groups made the music for one of my favorite games...
If I keep rambling, I'm gonna get a "(Score:-1, Rambling Idiot)" tag..:)
Just because it's done doesn't mean I like it any better. They went the wrong direction. Instead of trying to make it look all purty, they should have made it more stable.
It is still one of the three things that crashes my Win2000 box (*sigh*, Sorry, but I haven't had the time to move up to Linux..) -- Netscape, IE, and Windows itself.
"..yeah, and if frogs had sidepockets, they'd carry handguns."
"It's not over until the heavy lady sings. But somewhere backstage, we can definately hear her humming."
He's either going senile and forgot his medecine, got tenure, getting fired tonight, or all three!
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It's probably been said before (I don't feel like reading 800+ comments to find it), but what makes science fiction is not the special effects (spectacle), the elaborate description of a high-tech thingamabob (diction) -- it's the story! In order to be 'fiction', it must have "one unbelievable thing" that is crucial to the story. In order to be "science fiction" that crucial, unbelievable thing must be scientific in nature.
(That covers a lot, Quazi. can you narrow it down some??)
Well, you're gonna hate me for this, but in order to be GOOD sci-fi, the story must not be based on any other genre. Star Wars was a WWII flick. Star Trek could be the Partridge Family (going from one place to the next, meeting new people). Don't get me wrong, Star Wars and Star Trek make for some good stories, but they're not intrinsically sci-fi.
On the other hand, imagine "2001" without HAL. You can't just replace him with a human character, the story will lose a crucial element (a computer cannot lie, a human can). That is the only way the story can be told -- with a piece of technology at the center of the story.
It would have been foreshadowing, but I was half-expecting the "should be posted here" link to go to fuckedcompany.com..
At the bottom of the Reuters article posted above:
d =C AFJ5135ALXEKCRBAE0CFEY?type=entertainmentnews&Stor yID=1516818
http://reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessioni
With imagery like that (which looks more like a crazy montage of everything at deviantart.com), they ought to have Aphex Twin or Autechre do the music. If it's just Philip Glass alone with his orchestra, that will seem out of place..
Charge us for it (cable TV, premium channels), and/or have the characters use specific products in the dialogue. Besides, whenever I see a character using a 'real' product (drinking a "Pepsi" rather than a "generic made for TV cola") it makes the show seem more believable. Rewrite the dialogue so the characters will actually mention the products they use -- unconscious advertising!
Who created those terms?? It sounds like we're dealing with planets, and even then 'the third world' (third rock) would refer to everyone! ...
This is why we need to lift the ban on human cloning. We need a 'Laurence Fishburne' in every theater!
In movie theaters, just a "turn your fucking phone off" courtesy message right after the FBI warning should do the trick.
My guess (the keyword here = "guess") is that another company besides id will do the Xbox port. id will oversee the operation to make sure it operates as close to the OGL original, but they won't touch the DirectX code itself.
Imagine this as a 3U rackmount case.. heh!
He won't release the first version on DVD because he knows no one would buy the edited version. He needs to justify the fact that he put all his time & effort into screwing around with it and showing off his screwing-around skillz...
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2001 has no plot and doesn't say anything about society?! Which version did you see?? Because I saw one that asked what would happen if we created machines more intelligent than ourselves, and posed the question that we are not alone in the universe. This is a very difficult task, and it pulled it off!
Oh well, I'm stuck in a time when people think only Jerry Bruckheimer can make movies..
I saw the Good Morning America demo, and I gotta say I was impressed! Nobody was running into things like I thought they would, but they were wearing helmets and had security people walking next to them. That tells me that they still think there's a risk of injury..
Now, it amplifies my movements -- I lean forward a little, and it moves for me. Let's say I'm not the most agile, dextrous person in the world: my movements are twitchy, I occasionally overcompensate and run into things, knocking them over and such.. How will this thing react to my klutziness? Will it make me even more accident-prone than I already am? Or will it smooth them out and make me look more agile? As I said before, nobody was running into stuff this morning (unless they *tried*!)
Hell, I'd like to see what they'd do to a move we've all see a zillion times (and probably made fun of already!) -- Star Wars (episode 1 would be great!), Titanic, Gladiator, Fight Club..
The so-called good movies can be just as fun to ridicule as the really bad ones!
"Name 5 20th century musical artists you think will still be listened to 50 years from now."
Since today's music scene isn't geared for longevity, this would seem to be a much more difficult question to answer. Sure, we'll have bands like Elvis and the Beatles sitting around for reference defining decades for us (Elvis + Beatles = the 1960s), but what will people actually *listen to* 50 years from now?
Then again, what do people actually listen to now? Sure, we hear music playing in the car, on the radio, on TV, in the elevator, in the shower, but do we pay attention to it? If we can't remember it from one year to the next, what makes you think we'll remember it 50 years from now?
Instead of just being able to moderate the replies, I'd like to be able to mod the Slashdot news article itself..
they probably have some hidden moves in there:
..gotta be!
while holding ctrl: down, right, middlebuton, rightbutton, rightbutton, P -- pingflood the opposing server
while holding alt: down, up, left, space, (release alt, hold tab) right, down, up, enter -- bypass username/password prompt (to bypass root, press "XYZZY" then enter)
shift-up-left-right -- triple high-kick
there's dozen's more!
-Quazi
"The Chip Connection Specialists. We Never Stop Innovating." -- Rambus.com
"Microsoft strives to produce innovative products..." -- Microsoft.com
For people learning english, they might think the word "innovation" means "to stick a honkin' corporate phallus up the customer's ass".
It's called PowerDesk. Go to http://www.ontrack.com or find it at download.cnet.com.
It does every one of those things, and it's for -- *gasp* -- Windows!
Everybody knows what's wrong and how to fix it, but nobody wants to do anything about it. You say that it is up to OEM resellers to configure Linux to their customer's specs (using twm, vi, TeX, lynx, KDE2), but she wants it to be up to the creator of the distribution. It will make it easier on everyone if the people writing the code assume responsibility over their own creations instead of trying to create a zillion "options" and telling Joe Sixpack to make up his own mind. If Linux wants to succeed, it should appear simple at all layers -- the code itself, the documentation, and the logistical distribution (from manufacturer to reseller to retailer to customer).
Welp, there goes that media blackout id was talking about.
The original DOOM had the impact of a drug. There was no one giving me small doses of it before I really took it. I just took it all at once and BAM! I was hooked.
Now with the new DOOM, I'm getting little drops of it on my tongue -- the air is full of new DOOM smoke and I can't get out of the room. Everybody's taking it, but I don't want it yet. It's not strong enough. But now I realize that when I do take the strong version, I will have built up a tolerance.
or GeDoo..
Let's hope nothing happens to AMD..
First it was the Betamax leaving us, then (skip ahead a few years..) Creative purchased Aureal, now this.
I know the market's going south for the winter, but DAMN..
Dude, don't even get me started!
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..too late.
I have been looking for the big-ass paper starmap for SC2 for about two years (off-and-on) -- that's the only thing keeping me from playing now. I think I found one on eBay (just so happens to be included in a retail box with a copy of the game.. Sure, I can use two copies..
As for the music, I did a follow-up and found that Dan Nicholson of Kosmic wrote all of that!
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/67/kosmic_free_
It was an interesting feeling finding out that one of my favorite music groups made the music for one of my favorite games...
If I keep rambling, I'm gonna get a "(Score:-1, Rambling Idiot)" tag..
Just because it's done doesn't mean I like it any better. They went the wrong direction. Instead of trying to make it look all purty, they should have made it more stable.
It is still one of the three things that crashes my Win2000 box (*sigh*, Sorry, but I haven't had the time to move up to Linux..) -- Netscape, IE, and Windows itself.
"..yeah, and if frogs had sidepockets, they'd carry handguns." "It's not over until the heavy lady sings. But somewhere backstage, we can definately hear her humming." He's either going senile and forgot his medecine, got tenure, getting fired tonight, or all three!