I think Quentin Crisp put it best, "People are uncomfortable with homosexuals because they're uncomfortable with what homosexual men do to each other. And when you imagine someone else doing something, you automatically imagine yourself doing the same thing."
I've met a few people who've been in the military and they've all worked with gay guys and said they were the best officers they had ever seen. They also said it was annoying because you couldn't say anything about it because of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
To paraphrase what Bucky Fuller once said, once humans reach a point where there are enough resources to feed and house everyone on the planet (although it is debatable that this is true now...I think it will become realistically possible within the next few decades), we'll shift from a product-oriented society to a service-based one.
Stop jacking off to Peter Jackson, okay? LotR was horrible, Gollum was horrible, it was all a mess. Karma be damned, I'm going to keep saying this until someone agrees with me.
I even had the pleasure of speaking to Jim Swallow a few weeks ago (head of the visual effects dept. at Universal Studios) and he agreed with me that while "Gollum was neat, it was nothing revolutionary. I mean, I wish I had six years to devote to a single character."
Bottom line, they had a shitload of money and an insane amount of people slaving away at it. It was just cinematic masturbation from my point of view. But not the good, Tarantino kind.
Back on topic, video games will never be good movie ideas because video games are an interactive medium and film is not.
....that the natural air-conditioning method described in the article was discovered in the 1930's by R. Buckminster Fuller, during the development of his Dymaxion House.
Hackers 2 has no relation to the original Hackers. For some reason people in bootleg circles started calling it 'Hackers 2: Takedown' instead of its real title, simply 'Takedown'.
Bah. I thought of this when I was 8 years old and playing with one of those make-your-own hand crank generator things to light up a light bulb. Unfortunately, it breaks the convervation of energy so it doesn't.....really work.
It was at 2 AM, driving down a road with one lane going in each direction (RT 10 I believe, in NC). Suddenly I see blue and red lights flashing in my rearview, and pull over. The cop said I was going 65 in a 35. He asked me repeatedly if I had been drinking, and of course I hadn't, so I kept saying no. He also asked me a few times whether it was my car that I was driving. I assume he kept asking me those questions because I was a teenager in raggedy looking clothes driving a BMW at 2 AM in the morning. Truth is, I was COMING from a party (this was at beach week) where everybody was drunk, but I don't drink. Anyway, he slapped the cuffs on me, and had my car towed. (I should mention that I never acted inappropriate or rude towards him.)
They put me in a cell and everything, I had to call my mom to bail me out (that's not embarassing), and surprise surprise, she was more mad at the cop than I was. Also, when we went to pick up my car, the cause for towing was listed as "DUI" at the gas station where it was held, which made my mom more furious (again at the cop, not me, she knows I don't drink).
The ticket he gave me said I was speeding 30 miles over the limit (he also said that going 25+ over in NC is grounds for arrest) and that I made an "inappropriate lane change" in that I crossed a solid line to pass someone. I did not - the line was dashed on my side, solid on the other when I passed the other person, and I did it very safely.
I had to get a lawyer and he actually managed to negotiate the fine down to me going 20 mph over the limit and they threw out the lane change charge.
I don't dispute the fact that I was going over the limit, but the fact that I got arrested is ludicrous.
There is a good ending to the story though! I got arrested in Dare County, NC, which was the county hardest hit by Hurricane Andrew. Take that, Dare County!
Actually, nm. I just read some reviews of it and apparently it doesn't work quite as well as advertised. I'm also pretty sure it won't work with anything other than the games that it comes with (and for the two games they have patches for on their site, which, btw, looks like it hasn't been updated in at least a year). Oh well.
Wow, I had no idea they were so inexpensive. When I first heard about the P5 a few years ago I was immediately interested in what I could do in my 3D modeling apps, but was turned off by the suggested price of around $130. Now I must get one!
I love that movie (haven't read the book it was based on yet though), and I seriously can't think of ANY possible way to adapt that into a video game.
How about a video game based on the The Shining? THAT would take the horror genre to new heights, man. That's the only horror movie I actually like. Everything else just makes be laugh.
It's compositing software made by discreet, the same guys who make 3ds max. I seem to have picked up their bad habit of never capitalizing their software program names (or their company name for that matter), which is confusing, sorry.
I think they even tried a "no speed limit" deal on the highways in....Montana IIRC? Turns out the number of highway deaths was decreased. But for some reason the results weren't publicized.
When I was in high school making short films, I tried building a ghetto steadicam, but found it much easier to not use one and fix the footage in post with some software I found called SteadyHand, from Dynapel. I bought it, but the demo version actually only puts a watermark in a corner, so theoretically you could just crop it out if you wanted to do it that way.
Nowadays I would probably fix it in combustion, where I'd have more control over it.
Is it also possible that the quality of music is not as great as in the past or that a lot of music is "more of the same?"
Anybody who says that the music being produced today "isn't as good" as older music are just lazy in my book. If you can't put forth a little effort in finding new music that isn't force-fed to you by MTV or the radio, then you don't really know the whole story, do you?
There is a ridiculous amount of good music out there, if you just stop by a music news website to check it out. Also, online radio is a great way to find new artists that you like.
I wouldn't be too worried, I'm pretty sure they're raking in the dough as it is. Everybody and their brother has a Netflix account these days, or at least it seems that way. I've had one for years.
The real problem is that you can only write/rewrite on solid state memory a certain number of times. Until that hurdle is jumped over it can never be used for permanent/semi-permanent storage.
I'm just curious why people bash RIT....I actually considered it for a second when looking at colleges - but then I realized I like good weather and so here I am in Sunnyvale, CA.
The only thing that he'd have to do to get me to buy the DVDs if he he actually put the ORIGINAL FUCKING VERSIONS on there. I can't believe he's only releasing the special editions. What a way to shit on your fans who've been waiting for the original trilogy on DVD since the inception of the format.
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why the hell is the parent not getting modded at all when any idiot could see he was merely being "funny?"
Good lord, people..
I think Quentin Crisp put it best, "People are uncomfortable with homosexuals because they're uncomfortable with what homosexual men do to each other. And when you imagine someone else doing something, you automatically imagine yourself doing the same thing."
I've met a few people who've been in the military and they've all worked with gay guys and said they were the best officers they had ever seen. They also said it was annoying because you couldn't say anything about it because of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
To paraphrase what Bucky Fuller once said, once humans reach a point where there are enough resources to feed and house everyone on the planet (although it is debatable that this is true now...I think it will become realistically possible within the next few decades), we'll shift from a product-oriented society to a service-based one.
Stop jacking off to Peter Jackson, okay? LotR was horrible, Gollum was horrible, it was all a mess. Karma be damned, I'm going to keep saying this until someone agrees with me.
I even had the pleasure of speaking to Jim Swallow a few weeks ago (head of the visual effects dept. at Universal Studios) and he agreed with me that while "Gollum was neat, it was nothing revolutionary. I mean, I wish I had six years to devote to a single character."
Bottom line, they had a shitload of money and an insane amount of people slaving away at it. It was just cinematic masturbation from my point of view. But not the good, Tarantino kind.
Back on topic, video games will never be good movie ideas because video games are an interactive medium and film is not.
Also, Bucky's method probably worked better than this one, as his Dymaxion Houses were cylindrical and not boxy like that house.
....that the natural air-conditioning method described in the article was discovered in the 1930's by R. Buckminster Fuller, during the development of his Dymaxion House.
Hackers 2 has no relation to the original Hackers. For some reason people in bootleg circles started calling it 'Hackers 2: Takedown' instead of its real title, simply 'Takedown'.
Bah. I thought of this when I was 8 years old and playing with one of those make-your-own hand crank generator things to light up a light bulb. Unfortunately, it breaks the convervation of energy so it doesn't.....really work.
I went to jail last summer for speeding.
It was at 2 AM, driving down a road with one lane going in each direction (RT 10 I believe, in NC). Suddenly I see blue and red lights flashing in my rearview, and pull over. The cop said I was going 65 in a 35. He asked me repeatedly if I had been drinking, and of course I hadn't, so I kept saying no. He also asked me a few times whether it was my car that I was driving. I assume he kept asking me those questions because I was a teenager in raggedy looking clothes driving a BMW at 2 AM in the morning. Truth is, I was COMING from a party (this was at beach week) where everybody was drunk, but I don't drink. Anyway, he slapped the cuffs on me, and had my car towed. (I should mention that I never acted inappropriate or rude towards him.)
They put me in a cell and everything, I had to call my mom to bail me out (that's not embarassing), and surprise surprise, she was more mad at the cop than I was. Also, when we went to pick up my car, the cause for towing was listed as "DUI" at the gas station where it was held, which made my mom more furious (again at the cop, not me, she knows I don't drink).
The ticket he gave me said I was speeding 30 miles over the limit (he also said that going 25+ over in NC is grounds for arrest) and that I made an "inappropriate lane change" in that I crossed a solid line to pass someone. I did not - the line was dashed on my side, solid on the other when I passed the other person, and I did it very safely.
I had to get a lawyer and he actually managed to negotiate the fine down to me going 20 mph over the limit and they threw out the lane change charge.
I don't dispute the fact that I was going over the limit, but the fact that I got arrested is ludicrous.
There is a good ending to the story though! I got arrested in Dare County, NC, which was the county hardest hit by Hurricane Andrew. Take that, Dare County!
Actually, nm. I just read some reviews of it and apparently it doesn't work quite as well as advertised. I'm also pretty sure it won't work with anything other than the games that it comes with (and for the two games they have patches for on their site, which, btw, looks like it hasn't been updated in at least a year). Oh well.
Wow, I had no idea they were so inexpensive. When I first heard about the P5 a few years ago I was immediately interested in what I could do in my 3D modeling apps, but was turned off by the suggested price of around $130. Now I must get one!
I love that movie (haven't read the book it was based on yet though), and I seriously can't think of ANY possible way to adapt that into a video game.
How about a video game based on the The Shining? THAT would take the horror genre to new heights, man. That's the only horror movie I actually like. Everything else just makes be laugh.
Welcome to Hollywood!
It's compositing software made by discreet, the same guys who make 3ds max. I seem to have picked up their bad habit of never capitalizing their software program names (or their company name for that matter), which is confusing, sorry.
I think they even tried a "no speed limit" deal on the highways in....Montana IIRC? Turns out the number of highway deaths was decreased. But for some reason the results weren't publicized.
When I was in high school making short films, I tried building a ghetto steadicam, but found it much easier to not use one and fix the footage in post with some software I found called SteadyHand, from Dynapel. I bought it, but the demo version actually only puts a watermark in a corner, so theoretically you could just crop it out if you wanted to do it that way.
Nowadays I would probably fix it in combustion, where I'd have more control over it.
Is it also possible that the quality of music is not as great as in the past or that a lot of music is "more of the same?"
Anybody who says that the music being produced today "isn't as good" as older music are just lazy in my book. If you can't put forth a little effort in finding new music that isn't force-fed to you by MTV or the radio, then you don't really know the whole story, do you?
There is a ridiculous amount of good music out there, if you just stop by a music news website to check it out. Also, online radio is a great way to find new artists that you like.
Office Space anyone?
I wouldn't be too worried, I'm pretty sure they're raking in the dough as it is. Everybody and their brother has a Netflix account these days, or at least it seems that way. I've had one for years.
What's with that period? It makes the headline seem so...threatening, ominous.
The real problem is that you can only write/rewrite on solid state memory a certain number of times. Until that hurdle is jumped over it can never be used for permanent/semi-permanent storage.
I'm just curious why people bash RIT....I actually considered it for a second when looking at colleges - but then I realized I like good weather and so here I am in Sunnyvale, CA.
All I know is "durak" is Russian for "fool"....
/high school Russian class wearing off...
They are similar, but there actually IS an extra "da" in the Vanilla Ice song if you listen close.
I'm not defending V-Ice (that's what he likes to go by nowadays) by any means, I'm just saying they are different.
The only thing that he'd have to do to get me to buy the DVDs if he he actually put the ORIGINAL FUCKING VERSIONS on there. I can't believe he's only releasing the special editions. What a way to shit on your fans who've been waiting for the original trilogy on DVD since the inception of the format.