Can we expect more in live action? Or will we get another Tomb Raider?
Depends on your opinion on James Cameron. Battle Angel Alita has a lot of themes that are very similar to Camerons other work, a tough female lead in the vein of Dark Angel/Aliens/T2, centered around a love story like Titanic/Abyss. And it'll need great special effects. It has such similar themes to Camerons other work I can see him doing a faithful adaptation.
Akira, on the other hand, I have no idea how they're going to pull off as a live action, so much is tied to it's setting in Neo-Tokyo and the drug use and the confusing ending, I don't see Hollywood doing that faithfully.
The site was up on Metafilter yesterday, and it even had trouble handling that traffic. Nice site though, you could choose from a few different resoluctions from 1 metre per pixel up to 2000 metres per pixel. And you could drag the images around to compare.
The largest was the second Death Star from episode 6, followed by some alien ship from Macross 2, and the ID4 mothership (which held several 24 kilometer city destroyers).
Also included were ships from Star Trek (the probe from episode IV was huge) Lexx, Babylon 5, Hitchhikers Guide, Battlestar Galactica... that's all I can remember. It borrowed some graphics and the look from skyscraperpage.com.
You could just fill in jibberish. This might give you some hassles if someone tries hijacking your domain, but if it's just a weblog just for a few strangers to look at you might not care. Depends on how important anonimity is to you, if your talking about inside dirt about some major coporation, I'd use blogspot or geocities and only post from internet cafes (freenet if you're really paranoid). If your just bitching occasionally about your boss at the video store then just use some fake whois info.
Keep in mind whoever you register your domain with still has your billing information. If you say something that's legal but still pisses off a corporation or scientologists or something, they might use the lawsuit trick, where they sue you for libel, forcing the registar to hand over your identity, then they drop the lawsuit.
OK, may be it's my paranoya talking, but hasn't anyone ever considered that this JUST MIGHT NOT BE Joe Iraqi's blog?
Your right for questioning it. I think this has occured to a lot of people.
Journalist Paul Boutin has looked into it and concludes it's probably legit. It would be fascinating if some reporter tracked down Salam (the pseudonym of the author) after the war settles.
Using shorter expressions has been around for centuries, since Marcus Tiro used "&" instead of "and" back in the first century B.C.
Sure eventually these changes may be incorporated into the language, but I don't see how a little short-hand will threaten a language. I think it's kind of funny that adults using short-hand for centuries never raised concern but some kids use "tnx" for "thanks" and it's speculated the language is going to hell.
How many people play PS1 games on their PS2? Just about none, I think.
If you go over to gamefaqs, you'll notice that there is still a lot of interest in the Final Fantasy PS1 games. The RPG crowd tends to be more nostalgic.
I went to all of the Wolfchase malls in St. Louis, and *none* of them had arcades anywhere.
Heh, that reminds me, heard about the St. Louis mall that tried banning black people by having a no "wearing or showing a bandanna or do rag of any color, a hat tilted or turned to the side, a single sleeve or pant leg pulled/rolled up" policy. It's true.
I used to spend alot of time (and money) going to arcades, but now I'd rather spend 40-50 bucks and buy a game than 1.00 to play one for 3 minutes.
I've noticed a lot of people would rather pay 3.00 for an hour at an internet cafe and play Warcraft or Counterstrike.
No wonder arcades are struggling, the only thing keeping peeople there are shooting games, dance dance revolution, and fighting games... and if capcom or someone came out with a really good networked pc fighting game, well that might hurt arcades further.
Why is the negotiating position of these bands so weak that they end up with such a shitty deal?
It might piss people off to hear this, but my guess is because musicians have shitty union representation.
For example, most actors are desperate for exposure and most movies don't make profits, but when that kid that played Harry Potter agreed to star in the movies for a relatively small sum, the British actors union stepped in and said the studio had to pay him millions, link.
You could try EText Reader, for linux or windows. Allows you to read zipped etexts as well as retrieve online Project Gutenberg texts. You can also select the font and bookmark stuff.
I'm not a chess expert, but I do know that white has a slight advantage in chess. So in a six game series each side gets to play white three times.
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hell it might bring the prices of games down to a more reasonable $20-$30 per game. I like it. I know we're already innundated with advertising everywhere, but this could save you money.
I doubt that, since increased product placement and additional commercials in movie theatres hasn't brought down ticket prices. Supply and demand determine prices. Considering how well video games are selling this year games will probably stay at the current price point.
But, the money from product placement will help cover the budget and let companies spend a little more on the game.
Here's a list of Chinese Blogs that are written in English. Some of the blogs (especially those hosted on blogspot) are quite vocal about how pissed off they are. Fun reading for getting an idea of what's going on over there.
technology moves too quickly and your game looks old fast.
You know, I wish developers would worry less about how many polygons they can push and put together a good storyline and give me stuff to do besides kill everything/find the switch.
Half-Life is a good example of a game that came out late and sold well even though there were better looking games around. People still play it for the great storyline and creative gameplay.
Good gameplay will compensate for old-looking graphics every time.
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Makes you figure how much asian sites and users make up the whole of the internet while we (read: I) surf only those pages with our western fonts.
I was wondering about that too, especially after looking at things like the alexa top 500, almost half the sites are asian.
The Playstation came out in Sept 1995, and in late 2001 new games were still being released for it (Dragon Quest VII, Syphon Filter 3). Arc the Lad Collection came out this year.
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Answering my own question here (guess I'm the first person to read the pdf).
We used a pinhole as the projector's iris in order to obtain a perfectly focused image. Furthermore, the projected image through the small aperture on the normal surface is too dim to be perceived by human eyes.
However the light coming out from the projector is reflected on the half mirror then on the screen and goes straight back in the eye to form the image, which is about ten or hundred times brighter than the image on the normal surface. Therefore the image only appears on the retroreflective material so that the viewer can observe as if the images projected on the retroreflective material are occluded by the object which exists in front of the screen.
So the image projected is too dim to be seen, but the objects are covered in a special highly reflective material (not just colored lightly like a projector screen).
I guess it might be sort of like a dim flashlight hitting a bicycle reflector at night, you only see the reflector lit up.
Still can't figure out how it works...
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A number of posters on those site feel it's no big deal, a guy holding things in front of a projector... That's what I thought at first. But what I can't figure out is why doesn't the image show on the guys hands and face. You'd think at least some light would be reflected off of his hands.
I suspect you could achieve what you want in Mozilla by setting the default policy to blocking cookies, and then visiting the sites where you want to allow cookies and using the Unblock Cookies from this Site option to enable cookies for just those sites.
No such luck, if I have chosen "disable cookies" then the "unblock cookies from this site" option becomes unhighlighted.
I even tried adding "slashdot.org [tab] 0T" to cookperm.txt, and while the cookie manager lists slashdot as "site can set cookies", it still doesn't override the "disable cookies" option.
I like using mozilla too, but I don't like the cookie management.
I would like, for example, to allow only slashdot.org and nytimes.com to set persistant cookies. I can do this in explorer by setting it to block all cookies, then putting certain sites in my 'trusted sites' list, but I don't think mozilla works that way.
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Depends on your opinion on James Cameron. Battle Angel Alita has a lot of themes that are very similar to Camerons other work, a tough female lead in the vein of Dark Angel/Aliens/T2, centered around a love story like Titanic/Abyss. And it'll need great special effects. It has such similar themes to Camerons other work I can see him doing a faithful adaptation.
Akira, on the other hand, I have no idea how they're going to pull off as a live action, so much is tied to it's setting in Neo-Tokyo and the drug use and the confusing ending, I don't see Hollywood doing that faithfully.
(and hey I mentioned this in October)
The largest was the second Death Star from episode 6, followed by some alien ship from Macross 2, and the ID4 mothership (which held several 24 kilometer city destroyers).
Also included were ships from Star Trek (the probe from episode IV was huge) Lexx, Babylon 5, Hitchhikers Guide, Battlestar Galactica... that's all I can remember. It borrowed some graphics and the look from skyscraperpage.com.
You could just fill in jibberish. This might give you some hassles if someone tries hijacking your domain, but if it's just a weblog just for a few strangers to look at you might not care. Depends on how important anonimity is to you, if your talking about inside dirt about some major coporation, I'd use blogspot or geocities and only post from internet cafes (freenet if you're really paranoid). If your just bitching occasionally about your boss at the video store then just use some fake whois info.
Keep in mind whoever you register your domain with still has your billing information. If you say something that's legal but still pisses off a corporation or scientologists or something, they might use the lawsuit trick, where they sue you for libel, forcing the registar to hand over your identity, then they drop the lawsuit.
Your right for questioning it. I think this has occured to a lot of people.
Journalist Paul Boutin has looked into it and concludes it's probably legit. It would be fascinating if some reporter tracked down Salam (the pseudonym of the author) after the war settles.
Sure eventually these changes may be incorporated into the language, but I don't see how a little short-hand will threaten a language. I think it's kind of funny that adults using short-hand for centuries never raised concern but some kids use "tnx" for "thanks" and it's speculated the language is going to hell.
If you go over to gamefaqs, you'll notice that there is still a lot of interest in the Final Fantasy PS1 games. The RPG crowd tends to be more nostalgic.
$50k a year? You'd think this would be the sort of job you could have done in India/Eastern Europe really cheap.
Heh, that reminds me, heard about the St. Louis mall that tried banning black people by having a no "wearing or showing a bandanna or do rag of any color, a hat tilted or turned to the side, a single sleeve or pant leg pulled/rolled up" policy. It's true.
I've noticed a lot of people would rather pay 3.00 for an hour at an internet cafe and play Warcraft or Counterstrike.
No wonder arcades are struggling, the only thing keeping peeople there are shooting games, dance dance revolution, and fighting games... and if capcom or someone came out with a really good networked pc fighting game, well that might hurt arcades further.
It might piss people off to hear this, but my guess is because musicians have shitty union representation.
For example, most actors are desperate for exposure and most movies don't make profits, but when that kid that played Harry Potter agreed to star in the movies for a relatively small sum, the British actors union stepped in and said the studio had to pay him millions, link.
You could try EText Reader, for linux or windows. Allows you to read zipped etexts as well as retrieve online Project Gutenberg texts. You can also select the font and bookmark stuff.
Or the poor little PS/2 adaptor.
Some keyloggers (keykatcher?) are shaped like PS/2 adaptors, can you tell the difference?
I'm not a chess expert, but I do know that white has a slight advantage in chess. So in a six game series each side gets to play white three times.
I doubt that, since increased product placement and additional commercials in movie theatres hasn't brought down ticket prices. Supply and demand determine prices. Considering how well video games are selling this year games will probably stay at the current price point.
But, the money from product placement will help cover the budget and let companies spend a little more on the game.
Like, "Vote for me, and I'll get rid of that damn photo-radar." Democracy works sometime.
http://www.sinosplice.com/chinablogs.html
Good question. Also, why not just go to the library then?
There are a number of reasons people buy books
ThirdVoice, now defunct.
You know, I wish developers would worry less about how many polygons they can push and put together a good storyline and give me stuff to do besides kill everything/find the switch.
Half-Life is a good example of a game that came out late and sold well even though there were better looking games around. People still play it for the great storyline and creative gameplay.
Good gameplay will compensate for old-looking graphics every time.
I was wondering about that too, especially after looking at things like the alexa top 500, almost half the sites are asian.
The Playstation came out in Sept 1995, and in late 2001 new games were still being released for it (Dragon Quest VII, Syphon Filter 3). Arc the Lad Collection came out this year.
I guess it might be sort of like a dim flashlight hitting a bicycle reflector at night, you only see the reflector lit up.
A number of posters on those site feel it's no big deal, a guy holding things in front of a projector... That's what I thought at first. But what I can't figure out is why doesn't the image show on the guys hands and face. You'd think at least some light would be reflected off of his hands.
No such luck, if I have chosen "disable cookies" then the "unblock cookies from this site" option becomes unhighlighted.
I even tried adding "slashdot.org [tab] 0T" to cookperm.txt, and while the cookie manager lists slashdot as "site can set cookies", it still doesn't override the "disable cookies" option.
I would like, for example, to allow only slashdot.org and nytimes.com to set persistant cookies. I can do this in explorer by setting it to block all cookies, then putting certain sites in my 'trusted sites' list, but I don't think mozilla works that way.