..was the fact it had crude graphics for certain items.
All of the humans and such looked like Playmobil figures. It looks as if the developers tried using as few polygons as possible to make them. The result are eye-catching characters with weird tweaks(like diving board hairstyles). The cop reminds me of the cop from South Park.
I also like some of the sounds the people make when you pick them up. One of them is a woman making a weird cackling laugh "ahihahiahhaihaih". Probably an unlocalized sound, unlike the ones that are in plain English.
The other favorite sound is one of the big office where there's a phone ringing and some woman screaming.
As for a sequel there's some room. You could introduce a puzzle segment where you have to get your katamari a certain size to pass a tunnel, otherwise it goes down a pit(like billiard balls).
On her appearance on Saturday Night Live, she did a fake commercial for a geek-oriented phone sex line. She dressed up in a hat & huge scarf and made various Doctor Who references.
After that, i have now officially seen everything on TV. Nothing could ever top such an obscure reference than that. Closest was the cast of AbFab showing up on an episode of Roseanne.
I swear the magazine "Computer User"(free rag in the twin cities. almost nothing of merit for content) said that in one of their editorials, many moons ago.
And it was only just a few years ago they finally gave up on their BBS listing.
Any chance of accessing their whole music video library, a la the videos played on VH1 Classic? If I could download a buncha music videos from the 80s and such, I just might pay for it.
I wrote up my 2 cents on the possibilities of a GTA-based MMORPHG here. Instead of classes, you would get occupations(cop, thug, fireman, etc). Put in the skill sets from San Andreas, and the game writes itself.
If Rockstar offered a monthly fee to host servers of a GTA "America", yes, i would happily pay for the priveledge.
Let's make a video game where you are the President, and the object is to have an affair with your Intern and try to cover the whole thing up to a country.
I'm sure Rockstar would set aside some developers for that.
Ya know, just mod this post down. It was better in my head.
So technically, there will be 13 versions of Longhorn.
So that means there will be 13 versions of Windows to test in QA for your software. If that's true, I take back any gripes testing Windows 98-Win2k-winNt4-WinXP over for the same app.
The one truly useful website I found on my cell phone was I believe switchboard.com.
I was in Los Angeles, and I was able to cough up directions to various places of businesses VERY easily. It gave you basic turn left here, turn right here x miles from your present location. I just looked for a nearby house address #, punched it in, and was given instant walking/driving directions.
With the plain english directions I would almost say it was easier than mapquest. Mind you, I was walking in West Hollywood, so no chance of rental car accidents gazing into a phone in the sunlight.
Try as you might, but the litle area you put your signature on the back of the card doesn't last a month. It wipes off all too easily in your warm wallet after time. The friction of slipping it out against another card hurts it worse.
Why don't more credit card companies just put a picture on it? It won't work for certain transactions(gas pumps, mail order, etc), but if it attempts to be physically used(ie cashier has to pick it up & use it) at least that'll foil the would-be idenity thief. I know one company does the picture id thing.
You gotta love it. Video technology is increasing at a pretty good pace, but the blasted fucking digital cable box is several years behind.
The only advancement I've seen is the Video on Demand. I like it.
But, we have first person shooter games with gazillions of polygons, insane refresh rate, yet they can't make a cable box menu(in my case Motorola's), scroll fast enough.
Someday I want a Hauppage digital cable tuner PCI card so I can watch all the cable channels in my bedroom. And please, clean signal.
Yes, it's sad to see a symbolic engineering marvel like the EV1
I wouldn't call it a marvel, with an 8 hour charge time and a ~55 mile range. It sounds like it's as efficient as a remote controlled car, except that it's 1:1 scale.
When I watched it on my 2-year old athlon xp, the audio was way off sync, up to 3 seconds. Did that happen to you? The video also stalled at times, like right at the end of the title sequence.
Not sure if it was my computer struggling, or a bad rip.
Surprisingly, I didn't have to download some funky codec to watch it. I may have had it already installed, but I didn't see any Divx watermark show for a few seconds.
Anyone remember the Second City Televison skit with Jerry Todd(played by Rick Moranis) advertising "audio games"? Hilarious commercial. He just puts on a pair of headphones, his a few buttons and you hear gunshots, etc.
I for one would like to have an MS Explorer mouse with a not-so touchy mousewheel. I've numerous times scrolled up or down on a web page when I meant to click. There's practically no rolling resistance on the newer 5-button USB mice.
Yet I remember their 2-button(3 if you include the mousewheel itself) MS mice being pretty stiff, and hence no accidental scrolling.
Or better yet, a screw at the bottom to adjust the sensitivity.
Has anyone explored Comcast's Video on Demand? I was amazed to be able to see the classic film "Hardbodies" for free. But it didn't end there: They had almost the full first season of Diff'Rent Strokes avaialble, all free! Saved me the cost of renting the DVD. I was in 80s nostalgia heaven.
"Tube Time" is easily my favorite showcase of shows on Comcast's VOD. I eagerly await for more 80s tv shows in rotation.
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..was the fact it had crude graphics for certain items.
All of the humans and such looked like Playmobil figures. It looks as if the developers tried using as few polygons as possible to make them. The result are eye-catching characters with weird tweaks(like diving board hairstyles). The cop reminds me of the cop from South Park.
I also like some of the sounds the people make when you pick them up. One of them is a woman making a weird cackling laugh "ahihahiahhaihaih".
Probably an unlocalized sound, unlike the ones that are in plain English.
The other favorite sound is one of the big office where there's a phone ringing and some woman screaming.
As for a sequel there's some room. You could introduce a puzzle segment where you have to get your katamari a certain size to pass a tunnel, otherwise it goes down a pit(like billiard balls).
Alternate Wep key(er, something like this): BA DB 0B 13 37 (bad bob leet)
There have been three Doctor Who referenecs on SNL in the last couple of years. So one of the writers must be a fan.
Proof:
On her appearance on Saturday Night Live, she did a fake commercial for a geek-oriented phone sex line. She dressed up in a hat & huge scarf and made various Doctor Who references.
After that, i have now officially seen everything on TV. Nothing could ever top such an obscure reference than that. Closest was the cast of AbFab showing up on an episode of Roseanne.
I swear the magazine "Computer User"(free rag in the twin cities. almost nothing of merit for content) said that in one of their editorials, many moons ago.
And it was only just a few years ago they finally gave up on their BBS listing.
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Any chance of accessing their whole music video library, a la the videos played on VH1 Classic? If I could download a buncha music videos from the 80s and such, I just might pay for it.
The thing is, new phones don't give the satisfaction of slamming the phone back on the hook when given bad news.
Old fashioned(rotary or touch-tone) phones will give a brief ring if you hang up hard enough. You hear this in movies often.
I wrote up my 2 cents on the possibilities of a GTA-based MMORPHG here. Instead of classes, you would get occupations(cop, thug, fireman, etc). Put in the skill sets from San Andreas, and the game writes itself.
If Rockstar offered a monthly fee to host servers of a GTA "America", yes, i would happily pay for the priveledge.
Let's make a video game where you are the President, and the object is to have an affair with your Intern and try to cover the whole thing up to a country.
I'm sure Rockstar would set aside some developers for that.
Ya know, just mod this post down. It was better in my head.
within the fairer sex.
What does the term "the fairer sex" mean anyways? Are males unfairer? I dun get it.
So technically, there will be 13 versions of Longhorn.
So that means there will be 13 versions of Windows to test in QA for your software. If that's true, I take back any gripes testing Windows 98-Win2k-winNt4-WinXP over for the same app.
I hope VMWare and my hard drive can take it.
Did you try driving the ATV thing? Every time I drove it, it jerked around like crazy. Not so much motion, as it teleported.
Anyone else I saw driving it, it moved normally.
T3 just seemed really slow paced compared to T2.
and lots of B-list celebs (who clearly needed to collect the appearance fee)
I didn't see any in the pics. Got me curious. Who showed? Ron Perlman?
Old & busted: programs that had Windows systray icons you couldn't turn off, nor did you need
New hotness: programs that have a web browser toolbar you can't uninstall.
The one truly useful website I found on my cell phone was I believe switchboard.com.
I was in Los Angeles, and I was able to cough up directions to various places of businesses VERY easily. It gave you basic turn left here, turn right here x miles from your present location. I just looked for a nearby house address #, punched it in, and was given instant walking/driving directions.
With the plain english directions I would almost say it was easier than mapquest. Mind you, I was walking in West Hollywood, so no chance of rental car accidents gazing into a phone in the sunlight.
Didn't the Amiga OS allow icons of any size to exist? That tended to get obnoxious.
Try as you might, but the litle area you put your signature on the back of the card doesn't last a month. It wipes off all too easily in your warm wallet after time. The friction of slipping it out against another card hurts it worse.
Why don't more credit card companies just put a picture on it? It won't work for certain transactions(gas pumps, mail order, etc), but if it attempts to be physically used(ie cashier has to pick it up & use it) at least that'll foil the would-be idenity thief. I know one company does the picture id thing.
Or would privacy advocates be up in arms?
You gotta love it. Video technology is increasing at a pretty good pace, but the blasted fucking digital cable box is several years behind.
The only advancement I've seen is the Video on Demand. I like it.
But, we have first person shooter games with gazillions of polygons, insane refresh rate, yet they can't make a cable box menu(in my case Motorola's), scroll fast enough.
Someday I want a Hauppage digital cable tuner PCI card so I can watch all the cable channels in my bedroom. And please, clean signal.
Just out of curiousity, what apps do support CSS2 to 100%? Web browsers, whatever.
Next week we will discuss what apps support the SVG spec 100%(inkscape?).
Yes, it's sad to see a symbolic engineering marvel like the EV1
I wouldn't call it a marvel, with an 8 hour charge time and a ~55 mile range. It sounds like it's as efficient as a remote controlled car, except that it's 1:1 scale.
When I watched it on my 2-year old athlon xp, the audio was way off sync, up to 3 seconds. Did that happen to you? The video also stalled at times, like right at the end of the title sequence.
Not sure if it was my computer struggling, or a bad rip.
Surprisingly, I didn't have to download some funky codec to watch it. I may have had it already installed, but I didn't see any Divx watermark show for a few seconds.
Anyone remember the Second City Televison skit with Jerry Todd(played by Rick Moranis) advertising "audio games"? Hilarious commercial. He just puts on a pair of headphones, his a few buttons and you hear gunshots, etc.
I for one would like to have an MS Explorer mouse with a not-so touchy mousewheel. I've numerous times scrolled up or down on a web page when I meant to click. There's practically no rolling resistance on the newer 5-button USB mice.
Yet I remember their 2-button(3 if you include the mousewheel itself) MS mice being pretty stiff, and hence no accidental scrolling.
Or better yet, a screw at the bottom to adjust the sensitivity.
Has anyone explored Comcast's Video on Demand? I was amazed to be able to see the classic film "Hardbodies" for free. But it didn't end there: They had almost the full first season of Diff'Rent Strokes avaialble, all free! Saved me the cost of renting the DVD. I was in 80s nostalgia heaven.
"Tube Time" is easily my favorite showcase of shows on Comcast's VOD. I eagerly await for more 80s tv shows in rotation.
Let me guess.
:)
1.2-300 pounds
2.black duster or trenchcoat
3.t-shirt with either Star Wars or some free 4.computer-related shirt acquired from a trade show
5.big beard. Mandatory
5.telltale fedora
6.2 cellphones on belt pocket. One might be a Treo.
7.Lifetime membership to RenFair
You don't want to mess with these guys.