Yeah well, all those actors have been successful, but they haven't been making the same kind of great stuff they used to do. Of course, their worst American stuff is excellent compared to their worst HK stuff, but none of them made anything that's better than what they were doing back then. On average, their HK movies are more enjoyable
I mean, those guys are incredible action heroes and stuntmen, not great actors. And the fights in the Hollywood movies are never as good or as well done as the fights in the HK movies. That's highly disappointing - I don't go watch a Jackie Chan movie to watch him do weird faces (although that's part of the fun), I watch a Jackie Chan movie to see incredible stunts and great fights.
It's true that those HK actors who were not action figures exclusively got better out of it - Chow Yun Fat can act, afterall. But his characters were much cooler back in HK.
Uh, the Big Hit isn't a Woo movie. He's one of the 10 or so producers, not exactly what I'd call involved in the (pseudo) artistic process.
John Woo didn't do anything good since he made it to Hollywood. I thought Broken Arrow was nice when I was 12, Face|Off had some cool gunfights, and MI2 had a few nice action scene, but overall they were all terrible.
Not that anything John Woo made back in HK was all that great, but it was still much better than the tripe he's spweing these days. Actually, I can't think of a single Chinese actor who has been doing better in the US than in HK. Although, if Jet Li stopped making movies with lame rappers he'd be faring quite good - The One was great fun
Anyway, all this to say that John Woo's name isn't as much a turn-off as much as, say, Michael Bay. Ben Affleck, however, is even worse than Keanu Reeves. How can a guy who has been in *Daredevil*, *Reindeer Games* and *Gigli* be allowed to keep making movies. He's like a failure magnet.
Here's how to recognize a good Affleck movie: Matt Damon's in it. From there it's only a small step to give all the credit to Mr Damon.
I was on the open beta as well, and it's a wonder you could do anything on the last day. Everybody I know who was in the beta had to sit around in the newbie area with their freshly given 70th level characters because all the other areas crashed.
I bought the game on the first day, but I didn't have my credit card yet (I turned 18 the week the game was released, IIRC) and it saved my ass. Horror stories started spreading on the net and when I eventually got my credit card I waited till word that the game was now good got on the street.
I played for a few month, and I got the impression that the game was fricking good, even though my machine didn't run the game very well (the announced requirements and the actual requirements are *very* different). The game certainly had depth, and I loved how much I could customize my character. Getting lost in the *huge* fricking world was lots of fun, too.
The game didn't hold my attention for very long though. The whole "massively multiplayer" part wasn't very interesting since most players kept to themselves. And paying 12.95 bucks a month for a game I might as well play alone just wasn't worth it.
Life is actually the single most widespread sexually transmitted disease. Although life expectancy after contracting the disease varies greatly, mortality rate is believed to be close to 100%.
That's competition-wise. But from a simple enjoyment perspective, a good racing bike is much better than a bad bike. You really feel as though the effort you put into pedalling is converted entirely to speed, instead of being lost on friction.
And there's something immensely enjoyable about being able to lift your bike with your pinky, although I couldn't really tell you why it is so. It just feels very satisfying
Quite true - on the other hand, the stuff on Polycount is a great way to have something to show. If your game is playable, you have a chance to build a bit of a fanbase, and to attract artists. Then you have a chance to get some really Free artwork.
But seeing as how the ratio to "game projects" to "game that are actually written" is very low, and that programmers (or people who think they are programmmers) appear to outnumber artists, I'd venture a guess it's pretty damn hard to get an artist to do some stuff for you. The "something to show" part is a good way to convince some people who don't know you that putting their talents at your service isn't a complete waste of time
Polycount has lots of free graphics. Sure, you'll have to credit the author, but I don't think that's a problem. A friend of mine has an Hack'n'Slash game written in BlitzBasic using a bunch of models he found there. Doesn't look half-bad, either (except for the GUI... that needs work)
Erm... speaking out of your ass, are you? PNG support in Netscape since 4.04, even if it doesn't support transparency at all, qualifies as PNG support in Netscape 4.
Besides, with content-negociation and other technologies, it's possible to serve pngs to supporting browsers and gifs to the others.
The biggest problem actually comes from half-supporting browsers, not non-supporting browsers. A browser that can't handle PNGs will display the alt tag (or a gif, if you use content-negotiation), which isn't too bad. A half supporting browser will take the PNG and screw up everything. It's not as bad with PNG as it is with CSS, but on the web, no support is often better than partial support.
I'm under the impression that this isn't the first time he files for bankruptcy. I'm also under the impression that he doesn't care about his business, and that he'll find a way to sue some more people next week
What I'd like to know is: does he manage to profit from it? I'm not very knowledgeable of bankruptcy law, but is there a way he could be trading money for a bad credit history, in a way? Because if he manages and cares to do it again and again, he's probably not losing everything every time. Or maybe he's just hoping he'll get lucky?
Adorer in french has the same meaning as to adore in English: it refers to worship and devotion. It can also mean "aimer beaucoup" - which can then mean either "to love a lot" or "to like a lot", depending on context. Aimer is a very context- and intonation-dependant verb.
As far as Forgotten Realms is concerned, I think RA Salvatore is the only really good writer. I haven't read all of FR, so maybe I was just unlucky, but everything else I read was crap
Death Gate cycle, by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman, is damn good fantasy (especially the 4 first books). The Dragonlance trilogies are good, too, and so is Rose Of The Prophet apparently, although I haven't read that.
Ì saw someone recommend Connelly - I must concur, although that's no summer read. If you buy all the Connellies this week, you'll have finished reading them before summer starts. They're page turners - heck, I read Blood Work in one sitting. I started reading before going to bed - didn't sleep all night:)
wxWindows has plotting functions, and is cross-platform and GPL. We don't need no stinking VB *shudder*. Less than 10$ in parts, but a hundred bucks in software?
You only read the first definition. There's a dozen references with slightly different definitions. In all those definitions, the primary meaning is hacker as per the Jargon File, with an addendum that it can also mean what is known as a cracker. Dictionary.com uses the Jargon File as one of its references, too, so one of the definitions actively states that a hacker is NOT a cracker.
I don't think popularity==validity. Just because something is popular, or widely believed, doesn't make it true. It just means that there's a lot of people who need to be educated
I'll agree that Opera 6 for Mac sucked, and sucked hard. I downloaded it about as soon as it got out of beta, but it still felt like a beta version. It was slow and unresponsive, and it crashed a few times (in very little time, and crashed HARD). I went back to Camino (which back then was still called Chimera, I think).
However, Opera 7 on both PC and Linux has been a HUGE improvement over O6. Hopefully these improvements will carry over to MacOSX. Afterall, they have a lot of competition on a small market with Macs (Mac users, however, seem to pay for shareware more readily than PC users). If they still want to compete, it must be because they feel they *can* compete, and they are confident that their product is better than the other parties' offerings.
So anyway, I'd wait till I see it before I say that it's going to suck.
I'm pretty sure that they're not quite as interested in the lives of policemen than they are at games depicting assault on figures of authority.
My personal question is: doesn't this favor piracy? "Well, that sucks, I can't buy the game I wanted. Guess I'll download it off Kazaa instead". Sure, it's not any more legal, but for a twelve years old, it may be much easier to pull off
Opera has a feature similar to type-ahead. Type ctrl+j to open a list of links in the page. Type in letters - the list of links will decrease as you type in new letters to display only those containing the sequence of letter you've specified (similar to the Jump feature in Winamp (and I believe, XMMS)
The list of features the parent has posted are the features your grandmother would use. Opera has a lot more features than that - excellent keyboard navigation, incredibly configurable interface, the ability to change your Quick Preferences (UA string, pop-up blocking, toggling Java/JavaScript/Background Music/Plugins/Gif Animation, cookies, referrer logging and proxy servers) in a few keypresses, image zooming, Navigation Bar (allowing you to get to a document's related document (link rel = First, Previous, Next, Last, Home, Index, Search etc). Then there's Kiosk mode (allowing you to securely setup a browsing computer in a public place), all the neat things for developpers (such as the ability to see what your page would look like when viewed from a PDA, or to validate your page by pressing alt+ctrl+v), the useful user stylesheet they provide (Accessibility layout, Debug with outline and Hide certain-sized elements, in particular are nice) and tons of things I'm just forgetting or haven't even discovered yet.
Opera 7 is light, fast, incredibly efficient and full of features - well worth the money. Now that it's (officially) out on Linux, I'll be able to take advantage of their multiple platform discount:)
To get your JavaScript errors you need to go to Window/Special/JavaScript console. There is an option in the preferences to automatically open the console on JavaScript errors, but it is off by default.
The DOM support listed on the page is probably for 7.11. There have been lots of improvement to JavaScript support since 7.0
You haven't used Opera 7, obviously. DOM support is rock solid, and it supports most non-standard javascript as well.
Read the Standard support page to get an idea of Opera's standards support. It's pretty darn great.
Add to that all the neat, neat features (besides mouse gestures and excellent keyboard navigation, they also make the best use of stylesheets and page relations (link rel=next, etc) I've ever seen.) and you got a great goodness.
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Yeah well, all those actors have been successful, but they haven't been making the same kind of great stuff they used to do. Of course, their worst American stuff is excellent compared to their worst HK stuff, but none of them made anything that's better than what they were doing back then. On average, their HK movies are more enjoyable
I mean, those guys are incredible action heroes and stuntmen, not great actors. And the fights in the Hollywood movies are never as good or as well done as the fights in the HK movies. That's highly disappointing - I don't go watch a Jackie Chan movie to watch him do weird faces (although that's part of the fun), I watch a Jackie Chan movie to see incredible stunts and great fights.
It's true that those HK actors who were not action figures exclusively got better out of it - Chow Yun Fat can act, afterall. But his characters were much cooler back in HK.
Uh, the Big Hit isn't a Woo movie. He's one of the 10 or so producers, not exactly what I'd call involved in the (pseudo) artistic process.
John Woo didn't do anything good since he made it to Hollywood. I thought Broken Arrow was nice when I was 12, Face|Off had some cool gunfights, and MI2 had a few nice action scene, but overall they were all terrible.
Not that anything John Woo made back in HK was all that great, but it was still much better than the tripe he's spweing these days. Actually, I can't think of a single Chinese actor who has been doing better in the US than in HK. Although, if Jet Li stopped making movies with lame rappers he'd be faring quite good - The One was great fun
Anyway, all this to say that John Woo's name isn't as much a turn-off as much as, say, Michael Bay. Ben Affleck, however, is even worse than Keanu Reeves. How can a guy who has been in *Daredevil*, *Reindeer Games* and *Gigli* be allowed to keep making movies. He's like a failure magnet.
Here's how to recognize a good Affleck movie: Matt Damon's in it. From there it's only a small step to give all the credit to Mr Damon.
I was on the open beta as well, and it's a wonder you could do anything on the last day. Everybody I know who was in the beta had to sit around in the newbie area with their freshly given 70th level characters because all the other areas crashed.
I bought the game on the first day, but I didn't have my credit card yet (I turned 18 the week the game was released, IIRC) and it saved my ass. Horror stories started spreading on the net and when I eventually got my credit card I waited till word that the game was now good got on the street.
I played for a few month, and I got the impression that the game was fricking good, even though my machine didn't run the game very well (the announced requirements and the actual requirements are *very* different). The game certainly had depth, and I loved how much I could customize my character. Getting lost in the *huge* fricking world was lots of fun, too.
The game didn't hold my attention for very long though. The whole "massively multiplayer" part wasn't very interesting since most players kept to themselves. And paying 12.95 bucks a month for a game I might as well play alone just wasn't worth it.
Life is actually the single most widespread sexually transmitted disease. Although life expectancy after contracting the disease varies greatly, mortality rate is believed to be close to 100%.
That's competition-wise. But from a simple enjoyment perspective, a good racing bike is much better than a bad bike. You really feel as though the effort you put into pedalling is converted entirely to speed, instead of being lost on friction.
And there's something immensely enjoyable about being able to lift your bike with your pinky, although I couldn't really tell you why it is so. It just feels very satisfying
So there hasn't been a Tour de France every year since it's inception.
Makes perfect sense, too - I'd have been questioning the priorities of the people involved if there had been a Tour de France during either World War.
Yes, IE6 is far superior to the majority of browsers out there - IE3,IE4,IE5 and IE5.5!
Quite true - on the other hand, the stuff on Polycount is a great way to have something to show. If your game is playable, you have a chance to build a bit of a fanbase, and to attract artists. Then you have a chance to get some really Free artwork.
But seeing as how the ratio to "game projects" to "game that are actually written" is very low, and that programmers (or people who think they are programmmers) appear to outnumber artists, I'd venture a guess it's pretty damn hard to get an artist to do some stuff for you. The "something to show" part is a good way to convince some people who don't know you that putting their talents at your service isn't a complete waste of time
Polycount has lots of free graphics. Sure, you'll have to credit the author, but I don't think that's a problem. A friend of mine has an Hack'n'Slash game written in BlitzBasic using a bunch of models he found there. Doesn't look half-bad, either (except for the GUI... that needs work)
Was the word you were looking for "onomatopoeia". You weren't even close, but I can hardly blame you
Erm... speaking out of your ass, are you? PNG support in Netscape since 4.04, even if it doesn't support transparency at all, qualifies as PNG support in Netscape 4.
Besides, with content-negociation and other technologies, it's possible to serve pngs to supporting browsers and gifs to the others.
The biggest problem actually comes from half-supporting browsers, not non-supporting browsers. A browser that can't handle PNGs will display the alt tag (or a gif, if you use content-negotiation), which isn't too bad. A half supporting browser will take the PNG and screw up everything. It's not as bad with PNG as it is with CSS, but on the web, no support is often better than partial support.
I'm under the impression that this isn't the first time he files for bankruptcy. I'm also under the impression that he doesn't care about his business, and that he'll find a way to sue some more people next week
What I'd like to know is: does he manage to profit from it? I'm not very knowledgeable of bankruptcy law, but is there a way he could be trading money for a bad credit history, in a way? Because if he manages and cares to do it again and again, he's probably not losing everything every time. Or maybe he's just hoping he'll get lucky?
Which article? This one says it works. The other one - well, it's slashdotted, so I don't even know if it's in french...
Adorer in french has the same meaning as to adore in English: it refers to worship and devotion. It can also mean "aimer beaucoup" - which can then mean either "to love a lot" or "to like a lot", depending on context. Aimer is a very context- and intonation-dependant verb.
I'm internally consistent because in French the verb "Aimer" means both "to love" and "to like". Nitpicker
Not to mention that Aimée means "love" in french (from where the name no doubts originate). So, she likes it deep eh?
As far as Forgotten Realms is concerned, I think RA Salvatore is the only really good writer. I haven't read all of FR, so maybe I was just unlucky, but everything else I read was crap
Death Gate cycle, by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman, is damn good fantasy (especially the 4 first books). The Dragonlance trilogies are good, too, and so is Rose Of The Prophet apparently, although I haven't read that.
Ì saw someone recommend Connelly - I must concur, although that's no summer read. If you buy all the Connellies this week, you'll have finished reading them before summer starts. They're page turners - heck, I read Blood Work in one sitting. I started reading before going to bed - didn't sleep all night :)
wxWindows has plotting functions, and is cross-platform and GPL. We don't need no stinking VB *shudder*. Less than 10$ in parts, but a hundred bucks in software?
You only read the first definition. There's a dozen references with slightly different definitions. In all those definitions, the primary meaning is hacker as per the Jargon File, with an addendum that it can also mean what is known as a cracker. Dictionary.com uses the Jargon File as one of its references, too, so one of the definitions actively states that a hacker is NOT a cracker.
I don't think popularity==validity. Just because something is popular, or widely believed, doesn't make it true. It just means that there's a lot of people who need to be educated
I'll agree that Opera 6 for Mac sucked, and sucked hard. I downloaded it about as soon as it got out of beta, but it still felt like a beta version. It was slow and unresponsive, and it crashed a few times (in very little time, and crashed HARD). I went back to Camino (which back then was still called Chimera, I think).
However, Opera 7 on both PC and Linux has been a HUGE improvement over O6. Hopefully these improvements will carry over to MacOSX. Afterall, they have a lot of competition on a small market with Macs (Mac users, however, seem to pay for shareware more readily than PC users). If they still want to compete, it must be because they feel they *can* compete, and they are confident that their product is better than the other parties' offerings.
So anyway, I'd wait till I see it before I say that it's going to suck.
I'm pretty sure that they're not quite as interested in the lives of policemen than they are at games depicting assault on figures of authority.
My personal question is: doesn't this favor piracy? "Well, that sucks, I can't buy the game I wanted. Guess I'll download it off Kazaa instead". Sure, it's not any more legal, but for a twelve years old, it may be much easier to pull off
Opera has a feature similar to type-ahead. Type ctrl+j to open a list of links in the page. Type in letters - the list of links will decrease as you type in new letters to display only those containing the sequence of letter you've specified (similar to the Jump feature in Winamp (and I believe, XMMS)
The list of features the parent has posted are the features your grandmother would use. Opera has a lot more features than that - excellent keyboard navigation, incredibly configurable interface, the ability to change your Quick Preferences (UA string, pop-up blocking, toggling Java/JavaScript/Background Music/Plugins/Gif Animation, cookies, referrer logging and proxy servers) in a few keypresses, image zooming, Navigation Bar (allowing you to get to a document's related document (link rel = First, Previous, Next, Last, Home, Index, Search etc). Then there's Kiosk mode (allowing you to securely setup a browsing computer in a public place), all the neat things for developpers (such as the ability to see what your page would look like when viewed from a PDA, or to validate your page by pressing alt+ctrl+v), the useful user stylesheet they provide (Accessibility layout, Debug with outline and Hide certain-sized elements, in particular are nice) and tons of things I'm just forgetting or haven't even discovered yet.
Opera 7 is light, fast, incredibly efficient and full of features - well worth the money. Now that it's (officially) out on Linux, I'll be able to take advantage of their multiple platform discount :)
To get your JavaScript errors you need to go to Window/Special/JavaScript console. There is an option in the preferences to automatically open the console on JavaScript errors, but it is off by default.
The DOM support listed on the page is probably for 7.11. There have been lots of improvement to JavaScript support since 7.0
You haven't used Opera 7, obviously. DOM support is rock solid, and it supports most non-standard javascript as well.
Read the Standard support page to get an idea of Opera's standards support. It's pretty darn great.
Add to that all the neat, neat features (besides mouse gestures and excellent keyboard navigation, they also make the best use of stylesheets and page relations (link rel=next, etc) I've ever seen.) and you got a great goodness.
AtheOS looks neat, but has it been updated in, say, the past century or so? Syllable is an AtheOS fork that continues development.