"Check out the screen shots. The game almost has better special effects than the film itself:)"
I would go as far as to say that they are at least as good. Not only that, these effects on the game are rendered in real time. When the movie was made, each frame of the CGI took a very long time to render.
Over the past few months, I've seen a few articles referring to TRON 2.0 as a game made of a movie that was made from a game.
This is not how it happened. TRON 2.0 is another game made from a movie that has previously had games made from it.
While the movie was about games, the origin of TRON lies in a advertising character created by Steven Lisberger's studio. This character eventually had the film story built around it. Interestingly enough, the original TRON character had more of the Samurai-type helmet worn by Sark and the bad guys later in the film: he was not wearing a the hockey helmet that Bruce Boxleitner would later have.
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I'm looking forward to this game, especially if it uses Wendy Carlos' standout soundtrack themes.
Here are some of the patents I have decided to file:
10. Time Travel. I've registered any method of moving through time. This includes moving into the future at the regular pace. If I have to sue, Johnny Cochrane will have a slogan for the courtroom: "If you live another day, then us you will have to pay".
9. Death. I should be able to collect through the funeral parlors on this one. Cochran zez: "If into the coffin you fall it will come from your wallet"
8. Space Travel. If I see you step one foot past Jupiter, buster, you're going to pay.
7. A patent on the drink dispension technique of spilling hot coffee on your own lap. I'll sue that lady who sued McDonald's.
6. The Internet itself. Al Gore may have invented it, but I'm the one who patents it.
5. Pop-up ads. I'll charge those who do this without permission so much they will never do it again.
4. I've patented the monopoly. Not only does Milton-Bradley owe me money, so does Microsoft, Cisco, etc etc etc.
3. I've patented "Item # 3"
2. Top 10 Lists. Letterman, you will get a letter from my attorney, man.
1. The Knife-Spoon-Fork icon. If you use such an icon anywhere, such as a News for Nerds site, you need to pay me.
"Are you also waiting for MS to change the channel on your TV for you? Go to the menu and choose View/Status Bar."
Someone said that it was a blunder in MS shipping XP. I only noticed the problem since I started using XP. The channel changer analogy is not the best: I never had to worry about this setting before, since it was always on, and no one ever messed with it until the MS guys did with the XP release.
The View Menu did the trick. However, "They" did remove it: it was always on in previous versions, and it was only after recent updates on my machine that I found it was gone. I have found it missing on all other MSIE installations, and others I have talked to have mentioned this unwanted change as well.
" The user base for these two browsers combined is infinitesimal compared to IE. It thus stands to reason that all of the bugs and vulnerabilities of these browsers lay dormant, "
It would seem to me that the opposite is true. Mozilla goes out of their way to make it easy to report bugs and problems, while with MSIE all there is is a feedback thing buried in the Help menu that is likely a black hole resulting in nothing but spam.
Microsoft has a habit of leaving bugs and problems in place for years, while the Mozilla guys appear to be much more responsive. After all, they killed popups for their browser.
In other words, it seems to me that Mozilla has a much better and much more developed "improve the product and get rid of bugs" system going than Microsoft does for MSIE.
(I'm still waiting for MS to turn on the "bottom of the browser line that shows links, progress, etc" that they removed.)
"You are probably more vulnerable, when you take into account the lack of users and lack of accountability of the OSS project developers"
The Mozilla guys are much more accountable: look at the forums they have for dealing with problems. Also, they have to be accountable or people will choose "No Mo' !". In contrast, Microsoft does not have to be accountable with MSIE: whether or not anyone likes it, they give it away as the default browser on just about all PC's.
" Amazon has the entire first season for $29.99, and other available seasons for $45. "
Mod that informative! That sounds like a much much better deal than the arm,leg, and 12 strips of gold-pressed latinum they charge for each season of Deep Space 9.
The show sounds good. There are many fans of it on here (Well, I hope it is good, unlike Farscape which is pretty bad but also has many fans on Slashdot). However, one of the "Telecommunication acts" of the 1990s contained a provision that would make my cable company pay a fine for carrying an actual UPN affiliate (with Buffy). So much for that.
I know the interest in retro gaming, but the interest in Corel seems to be part of a desire for "retro apps", nostalgia for good old long-outdated Word Perfect.
By the way, anyone know what ever became of Wordstar?
"and now these corporate robber-barons have set up shop in the former seats of government."
Not only that, but from the name "Vector Capitol" I would guess that the word processing company is being bought out by the maker of the vector-graphics video game console Vectrex.
"With DVD's at least, the issue is that the movies are available at different prices in different places"
The "out of region" DVD's I am interested in have been available in the other regions, and not mine, for at least 2 years. I am pretty sure there is no intent of ever releasing them in my region, so there is no price difference issue for this.
"It's only his first work in that in order to write tH and LotR be decided to work out more of the "back-story" behind the world"
The body of work known as "The Silmarillion" was started way before "The Hobbit" was conceived. In fact, "The Hobbit" was sort of shoehorned into this mythic world after the fact.
" it was only intended as Tolkein's "research notes" and not as a book in its own right."
Tolkien makes quite clear in his letters that he did intend to get it published some day.
"The Silmarillion is a must-have for anyone interested in Tolkien's world. It was actually his FIRST work. [spelling corrected]
The book entitled "The Silmarillion" is actually one of JRR Tolkien's LAST works. He never finished it before his death, although he intended to.
To confuse matters, the body of myth that Tolkien started on before "The Hobbit" is also called the Silmarillion. In other words, there are two. The books on the writing of Tolkien's books are careful to distinguish the two.
Technically, it is not true that the book "The Silmarillion" predated The Hobbit"
"Do you see why this is a bad thing? Not just because I can't listen to it in my car"
You can listen to it in your car, but you will have to get a free copy of the song off Grokster or some other such place. This is just another example of how these DRM strategies encourage piracy and discourage sales.
[Not really. The real problem is the DMCA. If the DMCA were repealed, DRM would not be a problem].Please do explain.
The DMCA makes it illegal to "crack" and bypass these copy protection schemes which make it difficult sometimes to even view material on DVD's which you have paid for.
"You do not own the content, you own the media it's on."
Then how come they advertise "own a movie today", instead of "own the disc the movie is recorded on"?
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"Check out the screen shots. The game almost has better special effects than the film itself :)"
I would go as far as to say that they are at least as good. Not only that, these effects on the game are rendered in real time. When the movie was made, each frame of the CGI took a very long time to render.
Over the past few months, I've seen a few articles referring to TRON 2.0 as a game made of a movie that was made from a game.
This is not how it happened. TRON 2.0 is another game made from a movie that has previously had games made from it.
While the movie was about games, the origin of TRON lies in a advertising character created by Steven Lisberger's studio. This character eventually had the film story built around it. Interestingly enough, the original TRON character had more of the Samurai-type helmet worn by Sark and the bad guys later in the film: he was not wearing a the hockey helmet that Bruce Boxleitner would later have.
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I'm looking forward to this game, especially if it uses Wendy Carlos' standout soundtrack themes.
This appears to be the exact thing prohibited as "public performance" in the FBI warning and elsewhere.
This prohibition does not seem that outrageous: it looks like you plan on using this media content to make money, why shouldn't they be concerned?
Now, I wonder what would be involved with getting permission from the movie/TV companies to do this the "legit" way.
Here are some of the patents I have decided to file:
10. Time Travel. I've registered any method of moving through time. This includes moving into the future at the regular pace. If I have to sue, Johnny Cochrane will have a slogan for the courtroom: "If you live another day, then us you will have to pay".
9. Death. I should be able to collect through the funeral parlors on this one. Cochran zez: "If into the coffin you fall it will come from your wallet"
8. Space Travel. If I see you step one foot past Jupiter, buster, you're going to pay.
7. A patent on the drink dispension technique of spilling hot coffee on your own lap. I'll sue that lady who sued McDonald's.
6. The Internet itself. Al Gore may have invented it, but I'm the one who patents it.
5. Pop-up ads. I'll charge those who do this without permission so much they will never do it again.
4. I've patented the monopoly. Not only does Milton-Bradley owe me money, so does Microsoft, Cisco, etc etc etc.
3. I've patented "Item # 3"
2. Top 10 Lists. Letterman, you will get a letter from my attorney, man.
1. The Knife-Spoon-Fork icon. If you use such an icon anywhere, such as a News for Nerds site, you need to pay me.
"Are you also waiting for MS to change the channel on your TV for you? Go to the menu and choose View/Status Bar."
Someone said that it was a blunder in MS shipping XP. I only noticed the problem since I started using XP. The channel changer analogy is not the best: I never had to worry about this setting before, since it was always on, and no one ever messed with it until the MS guys did with the XP release.
"They" didn't remove anything"
The View Menu did the trick. However, "They" did remove it: it was always on in previous versions, and it was only after recent updates on my machine that I found it was gone. I have found it missing on all other MSIE installations, and others I have talked to have mentioned this unwanted change as well.
" The user base for these two browsers combined is infinitesimal compared to IE. It thus stands to reason that all of the bugs and vulnerabilities of these browsers lay dormant, "
It would seem to me that the opposite is true. Mozilla goes out of their way to make it easy to report bugs and problems, while with MSIE all there is is a feedback thing buried in the Help menu that is likely a black hole resulting in nothing but spam.
Microsoft has a habit of leaving bugs and problems in place for years, while the Mozilla guys appear to be much more responsive. After all, they killed popups for their browser.
In other words, it seems to me that Mozilla has a much better and much more developed "improve the product and get rid of bugs" system going than Microsoft does for MSIE.
(I'm still waiting for MS to turn on the "bottom of the browser line that shows links, progress, etc" that they removed.)
"You are probably more vulnerable, when you take into account the lack of users and lack of accountability of the OSS project developers"
The Mozilla guys are much more accountable: look at the forums they have for dealing with problems. Also, they have to be accountable or people will choose "No Mo' !". In contrast, Microsoft does not have to be accountable with MSIE: whether or not anyone likes it, they give it away as the default browser on just about all PC's.
Teh rhymes with meh. See this discussion of Meh for more.
I guess this means if a rabid dog bites you, then smoke 'em if you got 'em (and get lots more to smoke if you got none)
" Amazon has the entire first season for $29.99, and other available seasons for $45. "
Mod that informative! That sounds like a much much better deal than the arm,leg, and 12 strips of gold-pressed latinum they charge for each season of Deep Space 9.
You know, the more I read this article, the angrier I get. You won't like me when I'm ...aaa .Arrgh
ARGGHHHH
HULK MOD-DOWN YOU PUNY TROLLS!
The show sounds good. There are many fans of it on here (Well, I hope it is good, unlike Farscape which is pretty bad but also has many fans on Slashdot). However, one of the "Telecommunication acts" of the 1990s contained a provision that would make my cable company pay a fine for carrying an actual UPN affiliate (with Buffy). So much for that.
I know the interest in retro gaming, but the interest in Corel seems to be part of a desire for "retro apps", nostalgia for good old long-outdated Word Perfect.
By the way, anyone know what ever became of Wordstar?
"and now these corporate robber-barons have set up shop in the former seats of government."
Not only that, but from the name "Vector Capitol" I would guess that the word processing company is being bought out by the maker of the vector-graphics video game console Vectrex.
"When you read LOTR, you realize that the timeline for those three books is 11 months,"
It might have taken you 11 months to read them, but the timeline within the context of the books is many years!
See The Lord of the Rings Chronology:
3001 September 22 Bilbos farewell party and his subsequent departure from the Shire (Fellowship of the Ring)
3019 January 17 The Company comes to Caras Galadon in the evening.
The chronology cuts off at this point, but you will see that this is 18+ years just for the first book.
"With DVD's at least, the issue is that the movies are available at different prices in different places"
The "out of region" DVD's I am interested in have been available in the other regions, and not mine, for at least 2 years. I am pretty sure there is no intent of ever releasing them in my region, so there is no price difference issue for this.
Why does Nintendo even care about this?
It seems to make as much sense as the region system, which prevents me from getting DVD's which are only available outside my region.
unlike Brooks, at least Tolkien did not name his wizard after a detox program.
Oops.
6. Galadriel? Isn't that an air-freshener?
(It was either that, or something that involved how Tolkien ripped off "Sword of Shannara".)_
At last I have hope that my lost car keys might show up in one of these photos. I've looked everywhere else for them.
"It's only his first work in that in order to write tH and LotR be decided to work out more of the "back-story" behind the world"
The body of work known as "The Silmarillion" was started way before "The Hobbit" was conceived. In fact, "The Hobbit" was sort of shoehorned into this mythic world after the fact.
" it was only intended as Tolkein's "research notes" and not as a book in its own right."
Tolkien makes quite clear in his letters that he did intend to get it published some day.
"Repeat after me: T O L K I E N, not Tolkein
S I L M A R I L L I O N, not Silmarillian"
10. Who's that guy Fordo Prefect?
9. Tolkien got Golem from Yiddish myth, right?
8. Stan Lee should sue: Tolkein got "Sauron" from the X-Men Savage Land comics.
7. Captain Kirk battled Aragorn on Star Trek.
5. What's that bad wizard and the guy with the eye? I never get the two straight: Sarmon and Souron? Souromon and Sauromon? Whatever.
4. If you call me with a technical support question about your Tolkien Ring network, I WILL hang up on you.
3. Brie: cheese or town?
2. Fangorn is that horror movie magazine!
1. "Teleporno". Well, this one is correct: it is a real name in the Tolkien works. This is the one that should be wrong!
"The Silmarillion is a must-have for anyone interested in Tolkien's world. It was actually his FIRST work. [spelling corrected]
The book entitled "The Silmarillion" is actually one of JRR Tolkien's LAST works. He never finished it before his death, although he intended to.
To confuse matters, the body of myth that Tolkien started on before "The Hobbit" is also called the Silmarillion. In other words, there are two. The books on the writing of Tolkien's books are careful to distinguish the two.
Technically, it is not true that the book "The Silmarillion" predated The Hobbit"
"Do you see why this is a bad thing? Not just because I can't listen to it in my car"
You can listen to it in your car, but you will have to get a free copy of the song off Grokster or some other such place. This is just another example of how these DRM strategies encourage piracy and discourage sales.
[Not really. The real problem is the DMCA. If the DMCA were repealed, DRM would not be a problem].Please do explain.
The DMCA makes it illegal to "crack" and bypass these copy protection schemes which make it difficult sometimes to even view material on DVD's which you have paid for.
"You do not own the content, you own the media it's on."
Then how come they advertise "own a movie today", instead of "own the disc the movie is recorded on"?