I don't think the production was strong on content.
From the interview. "The idea was triggered from seeing a young mother and her baby sitting across from me on a train I was to be travelling on.... The story then fell together quite naturally." When I'm riding on the subway I don't imagine people I see killing themselves and throwing helpless children away. Maybe that's just me.
On the plot. I felt somekind of circle of life thing going on. Fade up Lion King soundtrack. Something has happened to someone she loves hence the ring, that indeed is obvious. The baby is a distraction letting her forget her grief/longing/whatever. However she is sharply reminded of this when her focus is again bought back to the ring. As to why she would now throw away a baby and jump off a bridge is beyond me. However she now lies where the baby was found curls up in the fetal position and presumably dies. She dies where the baby would have. "This wonderfull life" Hers? The babys? Life in general? The viewer is left undecided and the story feels rather incomplete.
On the story telling. "This Wonderful Life" is far too much to do about nothing. I ran the film through at double speed and still found myself getting bored. Many sections felt better with some pace. The somber score also responded well in places to some speed. With no dialoge I thought the character development, or lack there of, was very well done. To convey emotion action, and reaction is hard, especially given the static feel of CG.
On the production as a whole. I don't believe this is anything special. I mavel at it yet, it's not a technical achievement, it's not a first there is nothing new here. The story seems to be lacking a message or emotional involvement for the viewer. What was the point? What was this trying to prove? My only answer is nothing.
"...'reading' each other's facial expressions. I wanted to recreate this unique bond and understanding they had but within the framework of a movie..." I had a glimps of this in the scene with the leaf falling from the tree. It was the high point of the movie but wasn't the kind of moment that really makes people connect. CG has a ways to go.
RTFA, Doh! Guess its time to go to bed. Price is useless comparison, hush is a pre built system tnns not. My non existent money is still with Zalman, but I guess Hush are aiming at a different market.
I have been interested in a silent system for awhile, although I don't really have the money. Zalman made the TNN 500A which is the same concept as this case, giant heat sinks with heat pipes. However the Zalman has plenty of room, supports ATX P4 3GHz or more, top ATI/Nvidia graphics chips, Tomshardware has a review. Other than weight I see no advantage with the Hush system. Price? Hush $3,069.45 USD Zalman $1199.99 USD. My no money is with Zalman.
GeForces.. capable of splitting the image over 2 monitors
I'm talking full hardware accelerated 3d on all screens. Dual output is common. A GPU that does what I'm talking about is not.
the cross-hair/center of the screen is right in the middle of the deadspace
The attack of the blind spot. This is why I bought a Parhelia in the first place. Matrox labeled what they do 'surround gaming' (peripheral vision with a marketing spin).
Yes I'm aware the Parhelia does not preform. The best I get out of mine is 2400x600 at about 70fps under UT04. Although 70fps is slow its not a 'slide show' seeing my three lcds run at 60hz. Hate to think what HL2 would be like though. Of course I'd like it higher, and my old Nvidia card did 270fps. However split across two screens it did about 30fps. The parhelia does its job. NO other 'fast card' I've seen can do a good job of surround gaming.
I don't know anyone at Matrox nor have I been able to find any info on new cards, so your probably right. In which case I'll wait for Nvidia to attempt something that actually works across multiple monitors.
Although the Parhelia wasn't a gaming success, with the masses tending toward FPS count above all else, the Parhelia is a great card. I'm guessing features such as 'surround gaming' are not available on the Nvidia fan heater. Given that matrox have sat quietly since the Parhelia's release, only tweaking it here and there, i'm sure there working on something. I'm holding out for Matroxs answer. That, and my room is warm enough.
Foxy Cleopatra: "So, what does this thing do?" Austin Powers: "Well it's called the internet, and it's completely revolutionized the way we live and access vital information. For example have a look at this... monkey.mpg Foxy: "Wow... now that's vital information." Austin: "I know, it's amazing!"
Being good human beings, we've adjusted admirably to contraptions such as keyboard and mouse pointing devices," said Charles Golvin, a mobile phone industry analyst with Forrester Research. "But these are very, very poor ways to go about interacting with such machines."
Yeah, did anyone consider that the pen is just an older form of the keyboard? All that has happened is that the good human beings that we are have adjusted to this pen technology that is a couple thousand years old. Something new would be reading brain signals. Then all you have to do is dump the language part, that's true data input.
I have been looking at flat glass CRT's for ages and I got one about six months ago. There great! After seeing a Sony Triniton 17" Flat CRT I decided I had to have one. After seeing the price I decided I didn't. However Philips who are just as good as Sony have made an equivilent I have had both a Sony and Philips, Flat CRT 17" (16" v.i.s) sitting next to each other, there is no differece between them other than the price tag. Everyone has complimented the screen even my Mom who always has problems looking at screens could easly read the fonts. Also the ClearType to round font edges in Windows XP really helps. I have a lazy eye and find it hard to focus on books some times. But have no problems with this combo. And I had some extra money for my graphics card.
All technologies can be used for good or evil. If these jackasses keep it up all we have to do is add a few more frames in.
JVC have a good digi vid recorder (sorry thinkgeek but you dont gots its) but its here . Very good for avoiding ads with 30sec jumps and also able to pause live tv then when you return you can play it and it will speed up to catch up with the live stream. Very flash, very expensive, very JVC.
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I don't think the production was strong on content.
... The story then fell together quite naturally." When I'm riding on the subway I don't imagine people I see killing themselves and throwing helpless children away. Maybe that's just me.
From the interview. "The idea was triggered from seeing a young mother and her baby sitting across from me on a train I was to be travelling on.
On the plot. I felt somekind of circle of life thing going on. Fade up Lion King soundtrack. Something has happened to someone she loves hence the ring, that indeed is obvious. The baby is a distraction letting her forget her grief/longing/whatever. However she is sharply reminded of this when her focus is again bought back to the ring. As to why she would now throw away a baby and jump off a bridge is beyond me. However she now lies where the baby was found curls up in the fetal position and presumably dies. She dies where the baby would have. "This wonderfull life" Hers? The babys? Life in general? The viewer is left undecided and the story feels rather incomplete.
On the story telling. "This Wonderful Life" is far too much to do about nothing. I ran the film through at double speed and still found myself getting bored. Many sections felt better with some pace. The somber score also responded well in places to some speed. With no dialoge I thought the character development, or lack there of, was very well done. To convey emotion action, and reaction is hard, especially given the static feel of CG.
On the production as a whole. I don't believe this is anything special. I mavel at it yet, it's not a technical achievement, it's not a first there is nothing new here. The story seems to be lacking a message or emotional involvement for the viewer. What was the point? What was this trying to prove? My only answer is nothing.
"...'reading' each other's facial expressions. I wanted to recreate this unique bond and understanding they had but within the framework of a movie..." I had a glimps of this in the scene with the leaf falling from the tree. It was the high point of the movie but wasn't the kind of moment that really makes people connect. CG has a ways to go.
As I sit here infront of my four current LCD's... 'crap'
1. I can install 3rd party disk drivers during a Windows install from a CD or USB device (right now you can only do that with a floppy)
Can't you do this with the Windows XP deployment tools burn a new XP bootable install disk, and why not also slipstream SP2?
RTFA, Doh! Guess its time to go to bed. Price is useless comparison, hush is a pre built system tnns not. My non existent money is still with Zalman, but I guess Hush are aiming at a different market.
Ill go sit in the corner.
I have been interested in a silent system for awhile, although I don't really have the money. Zalman made the TNN 500A which is the same concept as this case, giant heat sinks with heat pipes. However the Zalman has plenty of room, supports ATX P4 3GHz or more, top ATI/Nvidia graphics chips, Tomshardware has a review. Other than weight I see no advantage with the Hush system. Price? Hush $3,069.45 USD Zalman $1199.99 USD. My no money is with Zalman.
The attack of the blind spot. This is why I bought a Parhelia in the first place. Matrox labeled what they do 'surround gaming' (peripheral vision with a marketing spin).
Yes I'm aware the Parhelia does not preform. The best I get out of mine is 2400x600 at about 70fps under UT04. Although 70fps is slow its not a 'slide show' seeing my three lcds run at 60hz. Hate to think what HL2 would be like though. Of course I'd like it higher, and my old Nvidia card did 270fps. However split across two screens it did about 30fps. The parhelia does its job. NO other 'fast card' I've seen can do a good job of surround gaming.
I don't know anyone at Matrox nor have I been able to find any info on new cards, so your probably right. In which case I'll wait for Nvidia to attempt something that actually works across multiple monitors.
Although the Parhelia wasn't a gaming success, with the masses tending toward FPS count above all else, the Parhelia is a great card. I'm guessing features such as 'surround gaming' are not available on the Nvidia fan heater. Given that matrox have sat quietly since the Parhelia's release, only tweaking it here and there, i'm sure there working on something. I'm holding out for Matroxs answer. That, and my room is warm enough.
Maybe it's a process of natural selection if certain unbreakable laws don't exist then maybe neither does the universe, or us. Not so weak.
common star-trek go claim trademark of next-generation then they have nothing to stand on
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"Captian's Blog Star Date 4815.6, Im starting to think someone should have spoken up back in 2003, 'blog' who came up with that?"
sig. My new years resolution? 2560 x 1024.
Foxy Cleopatra: "So, what does this thing do?"
Austin Powers: "Well it's called the internet, and it's completely revolutionized the way we live and access vital information. For example have a look at this...
monkey.mpg
Foxy: "Wow... now that's vital information."
Austin: "I know, it's amazing!"
mole.sig
Just a link to some more info.
Oh no!
If Slashdot readers and developers get a chance to implement a voting system, the next president of the U.S. will be Cowboy Neal.
75% of all stats are made up on the spot.
"relaxing in my chair, RedBull close at hand..." wouldn't the RedBull be closer to you if you were reading your email infront of the fridge?
Our light bulbs save power... they get people to stop using there computers.
Latest announcement the people who invented FTP have reported last quarter earnings of a grand total of zero. Now say they want to go public.
Being good human beings, we've adjusted admirably to contraptions such as keyboard and mouse pointing devices," said Charles Golvin, a mobile phone industry analyst with Forrester Research. "But these are very, very poor ways to go about interacting with such machines."
Yeah, did anyone consider that the pen is just an older form of the keyboard? All that has happened is that the good human beings that we are have adjusted to this pen technology that is a couple thousand years old. Something new would be reading brain signals. Then all you have to do is dump the language part, that's true data input.
I have been looking at flat glass CRT's for ages and I got one about six months ago. There great! After seeing a Sony Triniton 17" Flat CRT I decided I had to have one. After seeing the price I decided I didn't. However Philips who are just as good as Sony have made an equivilent I have had both a Sony and Philips, Flat CRT 17" (16" v.i.s) sitting next to each other, there is no differece between them other than the price tag. Everyone has complimented the screen even my Mom who always has problems looking at screens could easly read the fonts. Also the ClearType to round font edges in Windows XP really helps. I have a lazy eye and find it hard to focus on books some times. But have no problems with this combo. And I had some extra money for my graphics card.
"ahhhhh!!!, noooooo, ohh, ahhhh! %$(* ouch ahhh noooooo... oh im OK." - Amy.
Futurama S03E04 Parasites lost
Oh and im writing my congressman now.
Wow, it took this long for someone to actually bother to read the EULA.
Trust the geeks to find something that looks bad and make it look worse.
All technologies can be used for good or evil. If these jackasses keep it up all we have to do is add a few more frames in.
JVC have a good digi vid recorder (sorry thinkgeek but you dont gots its) but its here . Very good for avoiding ads with 30sec jumps and also able to pause live tv then when you return you can play it and it will speed up to catch up with the live stream. Very flash, very expensive, very JVC.
...The U.S. have sent them after President Jiang Zemin already, look out!