Personally, LotR is the first time I've ever liked the movie more than the book. I found the books to be sort of boring, and far too long and drawn out in places.
It would be nice to have the option to run WMP in Linux
Crossover does just exactly that. It only runs WMP 6.4, but at least that plays proprietary WMP files. It can also play as well Quicktime files and Shockwave. Well worth the $25 to register. I know I've been extremelly happy with it.
As other people have pointed out, DDR is actually really quite big in the US. Of course it's only a recent development as when I first heard of DDR 3 years ago it was pretty much only in few select (ie maybe 20) arcades in California. It took me a year to find an arcade that had it (1 out of a whopping 2 in Florida), and it's taken another 2 years for it to spread to most every decent arcade that you stop by now days. (Now about 70 in Florida alone)
Now it's one of the biggest money makers arcades have. For example at that arcade in our (University of Florida) student union, the DDR machine at one point made $700 a week. The next closest game, MvC2, made $180 a week. So yeah, arcades aren't stupid and they see how much money DDR can bring, hence why it's spread all over the country now.
Other than that they're both music games, they're really not that similiar.
I got to play Taiko no Tatsujin at an arcade in Orlando (XS Orlando; also has a ton of other Bemania like ParaParaParadise, a few DDR mixes, DanceFreaks, EZ 2 Dancer, DrumFreaks, and used to have Samba De Amigo) and all you basically do his hit a drum to the beat. Very fun, but I don't think I'd buy the game.
Frequency on the other hand you hit controller buttons to the beat and slowly build up a song with the different sections (bass, vocals, guiatar, synth, etc, etc). Also a really really great game (and definitly worth buying) but not really similiar to the game that this article is about.
Are you sure the deaths were because of SAS in the last year? According to an article on the Darwin Awards, there's been a total of 42 roller-coaster related deaths in the last 11 years. And I'm willing to bet that a vast majority of the cases were user stupidity, with the rest machine malfunction. Roller coasters are incredibly safe considering how many people ride them each year.
Have you tried deleting your ~/.gaim directory and starting over from scratch? Be sure ot backup your logs and buddy list first though. I've never had any kind of problem like that with Gaim.
If you actually played it, I think you'd see why it's so popular. It may be a fad, but at least it's one for a reason and not because Madison Ave said so.
"It's like asking why Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is beautiful. If you don't see why, someone can't tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is."
I completely agree. I unfortunatly was 6 months shy of voting age when it came to the ballot, but the only people who would ride this are tourists, and putting something like this in the state constitution seems like a very very bad idea. Of the people I talked to about it, most of them didn't think about how Florida would get the money to pay for this thing, or even the proposed routes or anything. Instead it was "Hey cool, a train, that's neat, sure!"
It isn't blockbuster, though it wouldn't be too suprising if they used their power to "encourage" movie studios to edit it themselves. From the Blockbuster FAQ:
Does BLOCKBUSTER edit the movies in the store? No, Blockbuster does not edit the content of its films. We offer all movies for sale or rental in the exact condition we receive them from the movie studios.
This movie is beautiful enough on my TV set, I'd love to see it projected onto a huge IMAX screen. Amelie is definitly one of the best shot and most gorgeous movie's I've ever seen. The only bad thing about having it IMAXized is Amelie's already big eyes would be almost frightengly large. But a small price to pay to see it on the big, big screen.
Wouldn't astronomers have seen it coming, at least for a day or two beforehand? Thus they could get the word out worldwide, causing mass panic and chaos!
The greatest Tetris site on the net (or ex-greatest since it doesnt' seem to be up anymore) had a very interesting article about the sexual implications of Tetris. Made me a believer anyways. Thank god for Google.
I think anyone burning DVD's would probably be at home next to an outlet. I can't think of any reason that a DVD would have to be burned on a whim sitting in an airplane or something.
I also started out with Pirch and loved it. Unfortunatly since many IRC scripts are for mIRC, I've migrated over to the darkside for my Windows IRC needs. On Linux it's good ol' XChat (which comes in a Windows version too I think, I'll have to try that out)
DDR does that to people. There's a DDR club at my college (University of Florida), and just about any location that there's a DDR machine, there will probably be a DDR team in the vicinity.
And here are the direct links to the Real Player movies, since Mozilla just tells me to download the plugin and so I have to search through the source:
Well that's only on campus file sharing from the people who live in dorms or professors who download stuff in their offices. So 5,800 sounds about right.
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I used it back in like 99 (?) when it was still just soley a FTP search engine. Of course once Napster came out then I no longer went back.
Rewatching The Phantom Menace (actually the Phantom Edit) today, it does make Episode 1 a little bit better. Once all 3 new movies are completed then we'll know for sure.
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Personally, LotR is the first time I've ever liked the movie more than the book. I found the books to be sort of boring, and far too long and drawn out in places.
Or one of the most sexually suggestive (and most funny) games ever made: Conker's Bad Fur Day.
(It's on the N64 and made by Rare, but it was still only for a Nintendo console)
It would be nice to have the option to run WMP in Linux
Crossover does just exactly that. It only runs WMP 6.4, but at least that plays proprietary WMP files. It can also play as well Quicktime files and Shockwave. Well worth the $25 to register. I know I've been extremelly happy with it.
As other people have pointed out, DDR is actually really quite big in the US. Of course it's only a recent development as when I first heard of DDR 3 years ago it was pretty much only in few select (ie maybe 20) arcades in California. It took me a year to find an arcade that had it (1 out of a whopping 2 in Florida), and it's taken another 2 years for it to spread to most every decent arcade that you stop by now days. (Now about 70 in Florida alone)
Now it's one of the biggest money makers arcades have. For example at that arcade in our (University of Florida) student union, the DDR machine at one point made $700 a week. The next closest game, MvC2, made $180 a week. So yeah, arcades aren't stupid and they see how much money DDR can bring, hence why it's spread all over the country now.
Other than that they're both music games, they're really not that similiar.
I got to play Taiko no Tatsujin at an arcade in Orlando (XS Orlando; also has a ton of other Bemania like ParaParaParadise, a few DDR mixes, DanceFreaks, EZ 2 Dancer, DrumFreaks, and used to have Samba De Amigo) and all you basically do his hit a drum to the beat. Very fun, but I don't think I'd buy the game.
Frequency on the other hand you hit controller buttons to the beat and slowly build up a song with the different sections (bass, vocals, guiatar, synth, etc, etc). Also a really really great game (and definitly worth buying) but not really similiar to the game that this article is about.
And I second that. The soundtrack to Requiem is incredible (as is the movie).
And try running a modern Linux distro with Gnome or KDE on a machine like that. With only 32 MB of RAM, it'll crawl right along too.
Are you sure the deaths were because of SAS in the last year? According to an article on the Darwin Awards, there's been a total of 42 roller-coaster related deaths in the last 11 years. And I'm willing to bet that a vast majority of the cases were user stupidity, with the rest machine malfunction. Roller coasters are incredibly safe considering how many people ride them each year.
Have you tried deleting your ~/.gaim directory and starting over from scratch? Be sure ot backup your logs and buddy list first though. I've never had any kind of problem like that with Gaim.
If you actually played it, I think you'd see why it's so popular. It may be a fad, but at least it's one for a reason and not because Madison Ave said so.
I think it's pretty established that playing DDR wil l make girls look at you and smile maybe, but get you laid? Nope. It's been done and tried.
"It's like asking why Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is beautiful. If you don't see why, someone can't tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is."
Paul Erdos, Hungarian mathematician
I completely agree. I unfortunatly was 6 months shy of voting age when it came to the ballot, but the only people who would ride this are tourists, and putting something like this in the state constitution seems like a very very bad idea. Of the people I talked to about it, most of them didn't think about how Florida would get the money to pay for this thing, or even the proposed routes or anything. Instead it was "Hey cool, a train, that's neat, sure!"
This movie is beautiful enough on my TV set, I'd love to see it projected onto a huge IMAX screen. Amelie is definitly one of the best shot and most gorgeous movie's I've ever seen. The only bad thing about having it IMAXized is Amelie's already big eyes would be almost frightengly large. But a small price to pay to see it on the big, big screen.
Wouldn't astronomers have seen it coming, at least for a day or two beforehand? Thus they could get the word out worldwide, causing mass panic and chaos!
The greatest Tetris site on the net (or ex-greatest since it doesnt' seem to be up anymore) had a very interesting article about the sexual implications of Tetris. Made me a believer anyways. Thank god for Google.
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I think anyone burning DVD's would probably be at home next to an outlet. I can't think of any reason that a DVD would have to be burned on a whim sitting in an airplane or something.
I also started out with Pirch and loved it. Unfortunatly since many IRC scripts are for mIRC, I've migrated over to the darkside for my Windows IRC needs. On Linux it's good ol' XChat (which comes in a Windows version too I think, I'll have to try that out)
Consider the thousands of Japanese machines in the US today, I don't think anyone cares.
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And who has time to listen to the lyrics when you're fixing to pass out from Paranoia Maniac?
DDR does that to people. There's a DDR club at my college (University of Florida), and just about any location that there's a DDR machine, there will probably be a DDR team in the vicinity.
Realplayer is avaliable for Linux. Get it here.
And here are the direct links to the Real Player movies, since Mozilla just tells me to download the plugin and so I have to search through the source:
Trailer
First 8 Minutes
Well that's only on campus file sharing from the people who live in dorms or professors who download stuff in their offices. So 5,800 sounds about right.
I used it back in like 99 (?) when it was still just soley a FTP search engine. Of course once Napster came out then I no longer went back.
Rewatching The Phantom Menace (actually the Phantom Edit) today, it does make Episode 1 a little bit better. Once all 3 new movies are completed then we'll know for sure.