Videogames are more often than not bland products created by teams of unimaginative drones of big corporations, following simple formulaes. However, some are art.
Its a lot like movies, some of the are real pieces of art, and some are simple cash-cows.
Quake isn't art, and Most Valuable Primate isn't art, but then you can see O Brother Where Art Thou or play Myst, wich are in my opinion works of art.
First of all, I saw the premiere of the Tick, and I loved it, I've been telling people at work about it all morning.
On to the question:
Do you plan to get the actors any special training so that they can more readily play their super hero roles? I noticed that the Tick looked a bit stiff as he was jumping around rooftops. I'm guessing the big rubber suit doesn't help, but action heroes need to look lively don't they?
according to the article, the prototype cat was run over in the test trial (they took it to a park and it was run over by a taxi).
Clearly suicide.
And BTW, you guys think maybe the parts that are still classified are the ones about the later models that worked right?
Listen to me, I'm talking about cyborg cats like I would about cars...
Does it? But I was talking about the specific voice (I think its marvin) that seems to be the one from the OK Computer album by RADIOHEAD.
AFAIK, that voice was new in os8.
I could very well be wrong about that though...
Big article, only had time to glance over it (and I'm not technically qualified to understand it in its full detailed glory), but as far I can see, the dude isn't picking sides. Wich is a rare treat.
Although he does confirm Steve Job's words of wisdom: Mhz aren't everything:)
What part of "monopoly" did you not understand?
If I want to watch a given show, and its only playing on ONE channel, I don't have the option of changing the channel. I can shut it off and not watch it, but that isn't what I want, is it now?
And so what if its "only TV", that makes it ok? When will it be wrong? If they start doing it in movie theatres, will it be "just movies"?
And its silly to call it defacement???
Hmm, according to href="http://webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary">We bster defacement is exactly that: Modifying the external appearance of something. I -really- don't see why the fact that the thing being defaced is a tv show changes anything about that.
If you don't want to watch TV, I'm all for it, stay away from the tube all you want, but defacement is wrong. Its as wrong for the networks to tag their logos on shows as it is for idiots with spray cans to tag your house.
And the TV shows are available on DVD since when please?
Networks have the monopoly for given shows (unless syndicated), if you want to watch a specific show, you have to watch a specific network. The network then defaces the show with their logo (on top of reminding you what channel you're on with countless adds), wich is wrong.
I know I've gotten really annoyed when trying to watch a show with a dark atmosphere and having a bright logo pop up and totally obscure the rest of the image.
The thing about being smitten "by god" is that the bible assumes that everything that happens is because of that god. So something catastrophic happens to that city on the other side of the mountain, and of course that was because god was displeased at them, why else would something bad happen to people?
Its not as if giant fiery rocks just fell out of the sky for no reason, right?
non-stop ripoffs of the martial arts/ balletic combat sequences Neo brought to the big screen for the mass audience.
Well, I was watching Jet Li movies long before the Matrix came out, and I thought that it was a total rip-off of his movies.
Didn't stop me from liking it, and I'm guessing it won't stop me from liking The One either.
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Finally, what if one of these cds was originally intended as a mainly music item, but the software happens to be so cool that people buy it just for the software and ignore the music entirely.
Clearly, when/if this happens, we'll all be too worried about the flying pigs to notice.
I was watching the Discovery channel yesterday night and they had a segment on the siberia blast, they had this guy claiming that it had to do with mirror matter (kinda like anti-matter except that it passes through normal matter instead of blowing up with it). See, this guys has this theory about said mirror matter, and he thinks that the blast could have been caused by it (he's clearly trying to get attention for his pet theory by pointing out that it could DOOM US ALL).
It was the usual meteorite theory with a parralel-universe twist.
Unfortunatly I wasn't paying attention when they got the part about why it would have interacted with our matter in that particular instance...anybody?
No need to aim at that speed, just ram it in downtown anywhere and you'll have a great big mess.
And that's on top of the already touchy issue of the sonic booms (not life-threatning in any way, just annoying enough to cause problems).
I think this is really cool tech, but lets face it, there is no way this will be the plane of the future. The rocket (or missile) of the future maybe, but stop telling people it'll get them across the ocean super fast.
One of the really annoying trends in tech news is to tell people that this tech is some kind of convenience-enhancer, or a life saver. They don't say things like "This will make tactical nuclear missiles so fast that all those crazy missile-shields ideas will be totally useless".
Supersonic planes might have sounded like a good ideas a few months ago, but now I think that the though of freankin' fast supersonic planes crashing into buildings will make it hard for people to get funding for these.
Can you imagine the damage one of those things would do?
The thing is that most (if not all) "strategy" games are rip-offs of the old Risk board game, with pretty GUIs.
But I've once used Strategy while playing a demo version of Conquest Frontier Wars (a rip-off of StarCraft), in it they have nebulae wich affect ships speeds. It was fun to position units according to these.
I also use harvesters to draw enemy units into traps.
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Here's the same story on IGN.
Videogames are more often than not bland products created by teams of unimaginative drones of big corporations, following simple formulaes. However, some are art.
Its a lot like movies, some of the are real pieces of art, and some are simple cash-cows.
Quake isn't art, and Most Valuable Primate isn't art, but then you can see O Brother Where Art Thou or play Myst, wich are in my opinion works of art.
First of all, I saw the premiere of the Tick, and I loved it, I've been telling people at work about it all morning.
On to the question:
Do you plan to get the actors any special training so that they can more readily play their super hero roles? I noticed that the Tick looked a bit stiff as he was jumping around rooftops. I'm guessing the big rubber suit doesn't help, but action heroes need to look lively don't they?
Disintegrate before it hits the ground eh?
Two words: tunguska blast!
according to the article, the prototype cat was run over in the test trial (they took it to a park and it was run over by a taxi).
Clearly suicide.
And BTW, you guys think maybe the parts that are still classified are the ones about the later models that worked right?
Listen to me, I'm talking about cyborg cats like I would about cars...
Does it? But I was talking about the specific voice (I think its marvin) that seems to be the one from the OK Computer album by RADIOHEAD.
AFAIK, that voice was new in os8.
I could very well be wrong about that though...
I'm pretty sure that OK computer was MacIntalk.
(The bundled voices for text to speech on MacOS 8+)
Does anybody know if the fabled G5 will be compatible with the existing motherboards of the G4 machines?
ie: Will I be able to just buy a chip upgrade and keep my pretty tower?
Big article, only had time to glance over it (and I'm not technically qualified to understand it in its full detailed glory), but as far I can see, the dude isn't picking sides. Wich is a rare treat.
:)
Although he does confirm Steve Job's words of wisdom: Mhz aren't everything
(I, on the other hand, am picking sides)
-Did you ever have to take that Kuder Preference test in high school?
-Sure, it said I was going to be a fire watcher. What are you supposed to be?
-An underachiever.
-...You take drugs, Danny?
-Every day.
-Good. So whats the problem?
What part of "monopoly" did you not understand?
If I want to watch a given show, and its only playing on ONE channel, I don't have the option of changing the channel. I can shut it off and not watch it, but that isn't what I want, is it now?
And so what if its "only TV", that makes it ok? When will it be wrong? If they start doing it in movie theatres, will it be "just movies"?
And its silly to call it defacement???
Hmm, according to href="http://webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary">We bster defacement is exactly that: Modifying the external appearance of something. I -really- don't see why the fact that the thing being defaced is a tv show changes anything about that.
If you don't want to watch TV, I'm all for it, stay away from the tube all you want, but defacement is wrong. Its as wrong for the networks to tag their logos on shows as it is for idiots with spray cans to tag your house.
And the TV shows are available on DVD since when please?
Networks have the monopoly for given shows (unless syndicated), if you want to watch a specific show, you have to watch a specific network. The network then defaces the show with their logo (on top of reminding you what channel you're on with countless adds), wich is wrong.
I know I've gotten really annoyed when trying to watch a show with a dark atmosphere and having a bright logo pop up and totally obscure the rest of the image.
Something must be done.
If a civilization vanishes without a trace in the forest, does it make a sound?
The thing about being smitten "by god" is that the bible assumes that everything that happens is because of that god. So something catastrophic happens to that city on the other side of the mountain, and of course that was because god was displeased at them, why else would something bad happen to people?
Its not as if giant fiery rocks just fell out of the sky for no reason, right?
Lets try your translation theory out, only this time, we'll use french!
Sea of Reeds is Mer des Roseaux, and Red Sea, is mer Rouge.
Hmmm...funny...that don't work...
non-stop ripoffs of the martial arts/ balletic combat sequences Neo brought to the big screen for the mass audience.
Well, I was watching Jet Li movies long before the Matrix came out, and I thought that it was a total rip-off of his movies.
Didn't stop me from liking it, and I'm guessing it won't stop me from liking The One either.
Free your mind dude.
I went and had a look at the pictures, it reminds me of the mental image I have of Asimov's Multivac city-sized super computer.
Fun.
Similar, but easter eggs in a game isn't the same as thos lame extras you get with music CDs :)
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Finally, what if one of these cds was originally intended as a mainly music item, but the software happens to be so cool that people buy it just for the software and ignore the music entirely.
Clearly, when/if this happens, we'll all be too worried about the flying pigs to notice.
I was watching the Discovery channel yesterday night and they had a segment on the siberia blast, they had this guy claiming that it had to do with mirror matter (kinda like anti-matter except that it passes through normal matter instead of blowing up with it). See, this guys has this theory about said mirror matter, and he thinks that the blast could have been caused by it (he's clearly trying to get attention for his pet theory by pointing out that it could DOOM US ALL).
It was the usual meteorite theory with a parralel-universe twist.
Unfortunatly I wasn't paying attention when they got the part about why it would have interacted with our matter in that particular instance...anybody?
Preposterous! We all know that it was Tesla's expiriment with transmitting high voltage electricity through the ionosphere that did that blast!
All hail Tesla!
No need to aim at that speed, just ram it in downtown anywhere and you'll have a great big mess.
And that's on top of the already touchy issue of the sonic booms (not life-threatning in any way, just annoying enough to cause problems).
I think this is really cool tech, but lets face it, there is no way this will be the plane of the future. The rocket (or missile) of the future maybe, but stop telling people it'll get them across the ocean super fast.
One of the really annoying trends in tech news is to tell people that this tech is some kind of convenience-enhancer, or a life saver. They don't say things like "This will make tactical nuclear missiles so fast that all those crazy missile-shields ideas will be totally useless".
Supersonic planes might have sounded like a good ideas a few months ago, but now I think that the though of freankin' fast supersonic planes crashing into buildings will make it hard for people to get funding for these.
Can you imagine the damage one of those things would do?
Side note to Mac fans: According to IGN, Steve Jobs was the one that confirmed the trailer was playing with Monsters Inc.
The thing is that most (if not all) "strategy" games are rip-offs of the old Risk board game, with pretty GUIs.
But I've once used Strategy while playing a demo version of Conquest Frontier Wars (a rip-off of StarCraft), in it they have nebulae wich affect ships speeds. It was fun to position units according to these.
I also use harvesters to draw enemy units into traps.