But yeah, 99% of student films are crap, regardless of whether or not they have special effects. It's good to learn how to use the tools of the trade, though.
"Seven Swans" has a great artistic look, compared to the other film linked. Reminds me of the old Riven/Myst cutscenes.
Some street lights already do this in major cities. There is a gunshot sound detector.. if it hears what it thinks is a gunshot, it will report (most likely with pager technology) to alert police/etc. about the potential gunshot.
If your SteamID is banned for cheating, you can still download updates and play your game single player.. but if you try to play it multiplayer, you are usually booted right away, saying your SteamID is banned.
Now, if you got banned banned.. like your account was banned from Steam, you wouldn't even be able to logon/authenticate with Steam.
Valve already pissed a lot of people off, simply by lying about things like "the game is done" over a year before it was actually released, showing a pre-recorded demo on E3, claiming that it was part of the finished game, and that the AI was real, and so on.
You can't really fault them for the delays. I mean, there are a lot of games that get pushed back further and further, but you see people bitching about those companies, do ya? Not to mention the fact that Valve is sort of an exception.. they had their systems comprimised.. etc.
The demos they showed at E3 were done with the engine, and the AI was real. Many of the locations in the E3 demos, though, were not included in the retail game. A lot of people are speculating that they'll make appearances in a Half-Life 2.5 type add-on, or Half-Life 3. I don't know.
And I love how Valve managed to screw over everyone who bought the game outside of their Steam service. Thats gonna be great publicity to encourage new people to buy direct from them./sarcasm
Thank Vivendi for that, not Valve.
If you bought it through Steam, you're sailing smooth, baby! Vivendi was retarded and added in the ridiculous CD-check, CD key, etc.
Just because the ability exists.. people freak out.
If Valve went to a subscription system, they'd instantly piss off 90+% of their fan base. Or if they went under, I'm sure themselves or another intelligent programmer will release a patch so that Steam can run without connecting to the master servers.
If you had bought the game directly through Steam, you wouldn't have had half of those problems. You can thank Vivendi for treating you like a criminal, and tacking on lame anti-copy measures (like the "CD in drive", CD keys, etc.)
In Windows XP, it still gets upset but it now keeps its mouth shut. You're now on your honor not to rip out your USB drive before waiting two seconds for all I/O to flush, not to unplug your printer while a job is printing, etc. If you do, then your drive gets corrupted / print job is lost / etc. and you're on your own.
Sorry, we live in the USA, not Canada. Our healthcare/medicine/"wellbeing" isn't socialized. (and I'm friggin happy it ain't!)
So the federal government dumps a bunch of cash into stem cells.. and lets say they figure out how to re-grow nerves, or any damaged organ. That's great. Now those corporations/researchers will charge the medical field for use/deployment of the technology, who in turn will charge you out the arse when you need treatment. Lovely cycle.
It's also important to note that Bush hasn't banned stem cell research, or stem cells at all. He just doesn't want to provide massive federal funding for it (and I agree with him on that.)
California just passed a prop to have the state dump a huge load of cash into stem cell research. Who knows how that will benefit the entire state.. but, whatever.
When I rip with Exact Audio Copy, I have it throw Various Artist rips into a seperate directory, and then I use FooBar to add a "Compilation = True" tag to the files, before I use FooBar to rename them out to their final directories. Using FooBar's scripting, you can pull something off like this:/$if(%compilation%,Compilations,%artist%)/%album% [%date%]/%tracknumber% $if(%compilation%,%artist% -,)%title
That will add the "Artist - " in front of the song titles and stick them under Compilations, if they are tagged as such (like I mentioned before.)
It seems tedious, but it's really not that difficult.
For tagging, you might want to check out MusicBrainz, it only works on MP3s, but it can scan the MP3's contents and try to guess the proper tag data.. it's actually fairly accurate. For general tagging, I use a program called TheGodfather. It's able to tap into Amazon.com for album cover images, and a user supplied script (on the GodFather forums) can read directly from AllMusic.com
I use a similiar naming string.. something like this..
For single artist albums:/%artist%/%album% [%albumyear%]/%trackno% %title%
For multi artist albums:/Compilations/%album% [%albumyear%]/%trackno% %trackartist% - %title%
Works pretty well for my needs. I've also put the year at the beginning, to make it easy to see what albums came in what order.. but I don't like the presentation of that file-system wise. I'd rather load it all into FooBar/iTunes/whatever and have the sorting occur in there.
It does do batch jobs. I just converted ~5000 MPC/FLAC/MP3/OGG files to M4A, via Nero's MP4 encoding plugin and Foobar2000. Foobar also automagically copied the tags from the MPC/FLAC/MP3/OGG files to the new M4A files.
(Why did I convert all those to M4A? They're for a smaller portable drive I bring to and from work..)
Also, there's a program called Mareo (I think it's open source, but I don't remember) which will call multiple encoding/tagging programs when you pass in a single set of data. So when I rip with Exact Audio Copy, it encodes into FLAC and MP3/MP4 for me automatically.
Anyhow, this Ask Slashdot is incredibly silly. A 5 minute search on Google would turn up the answers this person seeks.
I have about 40 of my game CD's/DVD's loaded up in Alcohol 120%, and they all play flawlessly via image, cd-checks and all. I've never had an installer complain about Alcohol 120% (nor should it.)
I have a Dell P4-3GHz, with an ATI X800 SE PCI-E, and it exhibits the stutter. It's pretty scattered throughout the game, but it does happen in the same places every time.
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True dat.
Walken is the man!
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind & Garden State = Overrated.
Life Aquatic looks good, as does the Incredibles.
Go-L doesn't actually make that huge monitor, and are most likely a bunch of frauds. Check out ViewSonic's, Panoram Tech's and 9XMedia's models.
Repeat after me: There is no contract.
Thanks for playing, though.
If you don't like how they present their content, then stand up for something and don't view their content.
/dev/null for all I'm concerned.
I'm viewing their good/desirable content. Their crap content (read: ads) can go to
I bought that huge "collector's pack" that came out, it has RA/RA2/CNC/CNC2 and all the expansions.. and they work fine for XP.
Young Indiana Jones was a semi-trial run of a lot of ILM's signature special effects. They used the TV show to "practice", so to speak..
There was an interesting show about special effects in general (on A&E I think) and it had a segment on Young Indy/ILM.
BAD MOVIES.
Eh, ok, maybe I'm too hard on them.
But yeah, 99% of student films are crap, regardless of whether or not they have special effects. It's good to learn how to use the tools of the trade, though.
"Seven Swans" has a great artistic look, compared to the other film linked. Reminds me of the old Riven/Myst cutscenes.
1) Run a seperate ground/power block, just for your recording studio.
2) Make sure your equipment itself doesn't have ground loops. Check out this video on TaylorGuitars.com about the importance of a good ground.
Some street lights already do this in major cities. There is a gunshot sound detector.. if it hears what it thinks is a gunshot, it will report (most likely with pager technology) to alert police/etc. about the potential gunshot.
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Here's an article on it:
http://www.fcw.com/geb/articles/2003/0113/web-g
If your SteamID is banned for cheating, you can still download updates and play your game single player.. but if you try to play it multiplayer, you are usually booted right away, saying your SteamID is banned.
Now, if you got banned banned.. like your account was banned from Steam, you wouldn't even be able to logon/authenticate with Steam.
Valve already pissed a lot of people off, simply by lying about things like "the game is done" over a year before it was actually released, showing a pre-recorded demo on E3, claiming that it was part of the finished game, and that the AI was real, and so on.
You can't really fault them for the delays. I mean, there are a lot of games that get pushed back further and further, but you see people bitching about those companies, do ya? Not to mention the fact that Valve is sort of an exception.. they had their systems comprimised.. etc.
The demos they showed at E3 were done with the engine, and the AI was real. Many of the locations in the E3 demos, though, were not included in the retail game. A lot of people are speculating that they'll make appearances in a Half-Life 2.5 type add-on, or Half-Life 3. I don't know.
And I love how Valve managed to screw over everyone who bought the game outside of their Steam service. Thats gonna be great publicity to encourage new people to buy direct from them. /sarcasm
Thank Vivendi for that, not Valve.
If you bought it through Steam, you're sailing smooth, baby! Vivendi was retarded and added in the ridiculous CD-check, CD key, etc.
Just because the ability exists.. people freak out.
If Valve went to a subscription system, they'd instantly piss off 90+% of their fan base. Or if they went under, I'm sure themselves or another intelligent programmer will release a patch so that Steam can run without connecting to the master servers.
If you had bought the game directly through Steam, you wouldn't have had half of those problems. You can thank Vivendi for treating you like a criminal, and tacking on lame anti-copy measures (like the "CD in drive", CD keys, etc.)
You can read why you get a warning on 2000, but don't on XP.. straight from the horse's mouth.
In Windows XP, it still gets upset but it now keeps its mouth shut. You're now on your honor not to rip out your USB drive before waiting two seconds for all I/O to flush, not to unplug your printer while a job is printing, etc. If you do, then your drive gets corrupted / print job is lost / etc. and you're on your own.
Sorry, we live in the USA, not Canada. Our healthcare/medicine/"wellbeing" isn't socialized. (and I'm friggin happy it ain't!)
So the federal government dumps a bunch of cash into stem cells.. and lets say they figure out how to re-grow nerves, or any damaged organ. That's great. Now those corporations/researchers will charge the medical field for use/deployment of the technology, who in turn will charge you out the arse when you need treatment. Lovely cycle.
It's also important to note that Bush hasn't banned stem cell research, or stem cells at all. He just doesn't want to provide massive federal funding for it (and I agree with him on that.)
California just passed a prop to have the state dump a huge load of cash into stem cell research. Who knows how that will benefit the entire state.. but, whatever.
When I rip with Exact Audio Copy, I have it throw Various Artist rips into a seperate directory, and then I use FooBar to add a "Compilation = True" tag to the files, before I use FooBar to rename them out to their final directories. Using FooBar's scripting, you can pull something off like this: /$if(%compilation%,Compilations,%artist%)/%album% [%date%]/%tracknumber% $if(%compilation%,%artist% - ,)%title
That will add the "Artist - " in front of the song titles and stick them under Compilations, if they are tagged as such (like I mentioned before.)
It seems tedious, but it's really not that difficult.
For tagging, you might want to check out MusicBrainz, it only works on MP3s, but it can scan the MP3's contents and try to guess the proper tag data.. it's actually fairly accurate. For general tagging, I use a program called TheGodfather. It's able to tap into Amazon.com for album cover images, and a user supplied script (on the GodFather forums) can read directly from AllMusic.com
I use a similiar naming string.. something like this..
/%artist%/%album% [%albumyear%]/%trackno% %title%
/Compilations/%album% [%albumyear%]/%trackno% %trackartist% - %title%
For single artist albums:
For multi artist albums:
Works pretty well for my needs. I've also put the year at the beginning, to make it easy to see what albums came in what order.. but I don't like the presentation of that file-system wise. I'd rather load it all into FooBar/iTunes/whatever and have the sorting occur in there.
It does do batch jobs. I just converted ~5000 MPC/FLAC/MP3/OGG files to M4A, via Nero's MP4 encoding plugin and Foobar2000. Foobar also automagically copied the tags from the MPC/FLAC/MP3/OGG files to the new M4A files.
(Why did I convert all those to M4A? They're for a smaller portable drive I bring to and from work..)
Also, there's a program called Mareo (I think it's open source, but I don't remember) which will call multiple encoding/tagging programs when you pass in a single set of data. So when I rip with Exact Audio Copy, it encodes into FLAC and MP3/MP4 for me automatically.
Anyhow, this Ask Slashdot is incredibly silly. A 5 minute search on Google would turn up the answers this person seeks.
Check out this guy's Doom/monitor conversion:
http://www.afrotechmods.com/doom1.htm
I have about 40 of my game CD's/DVD's loaded up in Alcohol 120%, and they all play flawlessly via image, cd-checks and all. I've never had an installer complain about Alcohol 120% (nor should it.)
I have a Dell P4-3GHz, with an ATI X800 SE PCI-E, and it exhibits the stutter. It's pretty scattered throughout the game, but it does happen in the same places every time.
Yet another reason to hate "The Sims" and all it's incarnations.
I already live "Life v1.0", so why do I need the sims?