Stark Enterprises, S.T.A.R. labs, two different things. former is Marvel, I think the latter is DC, though I could be mixing it up with the B.R.A.N.D. corporation... It gets so confusing... You can tell, perhaps, I had a bit of a solitary childhood?
the thing is, when I started collecting comics, they were on newsprint paper, and less than $.50 each. you could afford to follow a bunch of different series, and get a couple of new ones each week.
the saddest days were late in high school, when all the comics went to 'baxter' paper, and the prices went up... Walt Simonson pointed out once that the annoying thing about the 'nice' paper was that all the printing screens were set up for news print, which allowed the ink dots to spread a bit, and blend. the baxter paper did not, so you got very obvious dots in the 'special' reprints.
btw, if you want one of the best series ever, 1973-74, Manhunter, Archie Goodwin and Walter Simonson. Revolutionary comic artwork, widely copied (and as a result, regrettably cliched) Started as series of 8 page backup stories in Batman Digests, and finished with a 22 page batman episode.
simply one of the greatest bits of comic book construction ever. bar none.
ant man I was henry (hank) pym, who at various times was also goliath, yellowjacket, giant-man, husband to the wasp, just hank pym and various others. definitely a hero with an identity crisis, (and unreliable source of drugs.(himself)(it was the same drug that made him both big and small))
generally he was a member of the Avengers (east coast) and like tony stark, (iron man) was one of the wealthy ones that allowed the super team to be able to afford the things like quinjets that he designed.
the things is, unlike daredevil and elektra which were passed off to secondrate scripters and directors, the Hulk was a brilliant and underappreciated film. of all the comic book movies, it is the one that most closely captured the graphical elements of comic book design since will eisner and walt simonson. the way ang lee manipulated the multiple layers of imagery and time was really brilliant.
one thing that really makes the hulk a great adaptation of a comic book though is that the writers and director were smart enough to cut rick jones. if there was *ever!* a comic book character that needed to burn in hell, it was rick jones. who managed to be the dippy sidekick to not only the hulk, but captain america and captain marvel too (and the whole bloody avengers team!) oy what a waste of ink!
I am not a great fan of the Hulk comic book, I was aways in the x-men corner, and while I think the x-men moves are well made and a lot of fun, (more joss whedon dialogue please) and the spider-man movies are very good, the hulk is, I think, a much better piece of art. (of course I prefer batman begins to any of the other batman movies to date too, despite the plot holes.)
the things that always made the great comics characters, was the real depth of character, and what really made the comics books great, was creators who really believed in and felt for those characters.
see what kind of rant 3 glasses of wine can start? kids, don't drink and post!
ah, probably true, but the 20ft. penske truck I rented a few months back got slightly better mileage (10 vs. 10.5 mpg) I shudder to think what would have happened to the suburban's mileage with a trailer... (*shudder*)
and thankfully it ain't mine anymore, it has been removed from the roads. replaced by a 40 mpg mazda which itself has now been largely replaced by a trek...
spoken like someone who has never tried to load a Suburban. SUVs are not for carrying cargo, the S stands for 'Sport'.
hell even most pick-ups today can't haul worth a damn, you just try to get a 4'x8' sheet of ply into anything. there was a day when you could get a small, reasonably efficient pick-up truck that could actually carry a full sheet of ply with the gate closed. these days the 'small' trucks are twice the size, and need a special attachment to act like a gate so you can leave the real gate open and you still can't get very much into them.
sorry, off topic I know, but I had to suffer owning a suburban for 6 months, and I'm still recovering...
mine was to change jobs and cities. A couple months back I moved from a place where I had a 65 mile commute to where I have a pleasant 4 mile (bike) commute.
not only have I not bought gas since I got here, but I lost 10 pounds so far too.
I'll never take another job I don't want to live near again.
pity, it seems what would be a neat idea, ( and an extension of the double buffered concept) is to accumulate frames, and spit them out as blended composites.
I think this would tend to give you the best of all possible worlds for the price of a lot of extra ram... and look more realistic in the bargain.
persistence of vision is closer to 18 fps, the only reason film goes faster (24) is for the optical audio track... for tv it was 30 (25 for europe et al.) due to the speed of the house current, ((60Hz/50Hz) though this is no longer the case.) (film is projected with a double shutter rate to appear at 48 to reduce flicker, but this of course does nothing for the motion.)
but the fact remains that your eye does not see in fps, it sees in continuous time. just that the response rate of the average cone is rather slow. so showing a frame rate higher than perceptible would tend to present to the eye's interpretive mechanism a blurry image, which is what you would get in reality.
What I would like to know is, if your game is running at a framre rate 3x what your monitor can display, are you getting a composite image every 3 frames? or just every third frame is being shown on screen... if the former, that would be pretty amazing, if the latter, so what.
and are there not other "DRM laden" selling music sites? why is this article particular about criticizing apple? is not yahoo's, napster2.0's, microsoft's, sony's various services equally drmd? but to a different line of hardware/OS?
--and now a side remark not directed at the parent...
To everyone else who is complaning about apple and the iTunes store, I have to say, it is called the 'iTunes' music store, because you buy music to play in iTunes. if you wish to play your music elsewhere, buy your music elsewhere. for the life of me I can't understand the complaints about this. it's like going to a *record* store and complaining that you can't play vinyl on your CD player. (showing my age...)
This store is meant to give people who want to use that software an easy way to buy music. for me it's delightful.
one of the things that @26 fps doesn't cover is the motion blur that would normally be a part of a 'moving' image. massive frame rates cover that part up. given how fast I've seen some of these games play, the possiblity of seeing the blur vs. finding out something hit you between frames, might make a difference.
the bit that confuses me sometimes is that I don't recall ever seeing a monitor with better than a 120Hz frame rate... the one I'm working with now only goes as far as 90. is this not a barrier?
gouging is only when you do that for things that the gougee *needs* not when you do if for something the customer *wants* there's an important distinction there.
If I make/do something that no one else does, or even wants, to do, I am entitled to charge everything the market will bear.* watching "the Magic Christian" is another good place to look. especially the bit about the parking ticket.
on the other hand if you corner a commodity, especially one that has become a necessity, (water, phone, electricity) and start raising the rates, That's gouging. the line where M$ crosses that line is getting every one dependent on, say,.doc files, and then raising the price and closing the spec, etc. but not this.
It's curious how this discussion both parallels and contrasts the one about charging for CDs of music... (hmmm... am I breaking some corrolary to Godwin's law by referencing the Evil RIAA?)
*for a good example, look up "oops poops" in Oregon, and think just how much you'd rather pay someone else for that job.
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I was leaving 'Casablanca' one night, and overheard:
"I don't see what was so great about it, it was all so cliche..."
I won't watch it 'til it's emacs compatible...
Stark Enterprises, S.T.A.R. labs, two different things. former is Marvel, I think the latter is DC, though I could be mixing it up with the B.R.A.N.D. corporation... It gets so confusing... You can tell, perhaps, I had a bit of a solitary childhood?
the thing is, when I started collecting comics, they were on newsprint paper, and less than $.50 each. you could afford to follow a bunch of different series, and get a couple of new ones each week.
the saddest days were late in high school, when all the comics went to 'baxter' paper, and the prices went up... Walt Simonson pointed out once that the annoying thing about the 'nice' paper was that all the printing screens were set up for news print, which allowed the ink dots to spread a bit, and blend. the baxter paper did not, so you got very obvious dots in the 'special' reprints.
btw, if you want one of the best series ever, 1973-74, Manhunter, Archie Goodwin and Walter Simonson. Revolutionary comic artwork, widely copied (and as a result, regrettably cliched) Started as series of 8 page backup stories in Batman Digests, and finished with a 22 page batman episode.
simply one of the greatest bits of comic book construction ever. bar none.
agreed,
I actually think they had good actors for the 4, (not doom) but such lousy writing.
sad... it could have been good, there were a couple of moments, but the whole romance...
A couple of days editing, I'm sure I could clean it up...
ant man I was henry (hank) pym, who at various times was also goliath, yellowjacket, giant-man, husband to the wasp, just hank pym and various others. definitely a hero with an identity crisis, (and unreliable source of drugs.(himself)(it was the same drug that made him both big and small))
generally he was a member of the Avengers (east coast) and like tony stark, (iron man) was one of the wealthy ones that allowed the super team to be able to afford the things like quinjets that he designed.
I can't believe I remember all that...
here, a link... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Pym
the things is, unlike daredevil and elektra which were passed off to secondrate scripters and directors, the Hulk was a brilliant and underappreciated film. of all the comic book movies, it is the one that most closely captured the graphical elements of comic book design since will eisner and walt simonson. the way ang lee manipulated the multiple layers of imagery and time was really brilliant.
one thing that really makes the hulk a great adaptation of a comic book though is that the writers and director were smart enough to cut rick jones. if there was *ever!* a comic book character that needed to burn in hell, it was rick jones. who managed to be the dippy sidekick to not only the hulk, but captain america and captain marvel too (and the whole bloody avengers team!) oy what a waste of ink!
I am not a great fan of the Hulk comic book, I was aways in the x-men corner, and while I think the x-men moves are well made and a lot of fun, (more joss whedon dialogue please) and the spider-man movies are very good, the hulk is, I think, a much better piece of art. (of course I prefer batman begins to any of the other batman movies to date too, despite the plot holes.)
the things that always made the great comics characters, was the real depth of character, and what really made the comics books great, was creators who really believed in and felt for those characters.
see what kind of rant 3 glasses of wine can start? kids, don't drink and post!
more (hic) wine!
not until they embrace it first...
ah, probably true, but the 20ft. penske truck I rented a few months back got slightly better mileage (10 vs. 10.5 mpg) I shudder to think what would have happened to the suburban's mileage with a trailer... (*shudder*)
and thankfully it ain't mine anymore, it has been removed from the roads. replaced by a 40 mpg mazda which itself has now been largely replaced by a trek...
spoken like someone who has never tried to load a Suburban. SUVs are not for carrying cargo, the S stands for 'Sport'.
hell even most pick-ups today can't haul worth a damn, you just try to get a 4'x8' sheet of ply into anything. there was a day when you could get a small, reasonably efficient pick-up truck that could actually carry a full sheet of ply with the gate closed. these days the 'small' trucks are twice the size, and need a special attachment to act like a gate so you can leave the real gate open and you still can't get very much into them.
sorry, off topic I know, but I had to suffer owning a suburban for 6 months, and I'm still recovering...
mine was to change jobs and cities. A couple months back I moved from a place where I had a 65 mile commute to where I have a pleasant 4 mile (bike) commute.
not only have I not bought gas since I got here, but I lost 10 pounds so far too.
I'll never take another job I don't want to live near again.
pity, it seems what would be a neat idea, ( and an extension of the double buffered concept) is to accumulate frames, and spit them out as blended composites.
I think this would tend to give you the best of all possible worlds for the price of a lot of extra ram... and look more realistic in the bargain.
or am I way off base...
persistence of vision is closer to 18 fps, the only reason film goes faster (24) is for the optical audio track... for tv it was 30 (25 for europe et al.) due to the speed of the house current, ((60Hz/50Hz) though this is no longer the case.)
(film is projected with a double shutter rate to appear at 48 to reduce flicker, but this of course does nothing for the motion.)
but the fact remains that your eye does not see in fps, it sees in continuous time. just that the response rate of the average cone is rather slow. so showing a frame rate higher than perceptible would tend to present to the eye's interpretive mechanism a blurry image, which is what you would get in reality.
What I would like to know is, if your game is running at a framre rate 3x what your monitor can display, are you getting a composite image every 3 frames? or just every third frame is being shown on screen... if the former, that would be pretty amazing, if the latter, so what.
and are there not other "DRM laden" selling music sites? why is this article particular about criticizing apple? is not yahoo's, napster2.0's, microsoft's, sony's various services equally drmd? but to a different line of hardware/OS?
--and now a side remark not directed at the parent...
To everyone else who is complaning about apple and the iTunes store, I have to say, it is called the 'iTunes' music store, because you buy music to play in iTunes. if you wish to play your music elsewhere, buy your music elsewhere. for the life of me I can't understand the complaints about this. it's like going to a *record* store and complaining that you can't play vinyl on your CD player. (showing my age...)
This store is meant to give people who want to use that software an easy way to buy music. for me it's delightful.
one of the things that @26 fps doesn't cover is the motion blur that would normally be a part of a 'moving' image. massive frame rates cover that part up. given how fast I've seen some of these games play, the possiblity of seeing the blur vs. finding out something hit you between frames, might make a difference.
the bit that confuses me sometimes is that I don't recall ever seeing a monitor with better than a 120Hz frame rate... the one I'm working with now only goes as far as 90. is this not a barrier?
definitely, yeah, a meta comment... (damn, damn, damn) ah well, live by the..... oh wait, I can fix that!
unfortunately, he commit suicide back in '72
Who will take up the slack?
isn't that, more or less, what subversion does as well?
maya paint effects at 10 paces.
runs both linux and windows (and mac for that matter,) processor intensive.
and it makes such pretty pictures...
Google Operating System Here!
it's a pity that was the hit, because the solo on his version of "sunshine of your love" was pretty amazing...
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/236360_appl epatent12.html
it was filed *after* the relevant technology was released by someone else...
requires a 3 button mouse...
gouging is only when you do that for things that the gougee *needs* not when you do if for something the customer *wants* there's an important distinction there.
.doc files, and then raising the price and closing the spec, etc. but not this.
If I make/do something that no one else does, or even wants, to do, I am entitled to charge everything the market will bear.* watching "the Magic Christian" is another good place to look. especially the bit about the parking ticket.
on the other hand if you corner a commodity, especially one that has become a necessity, (water, phone, electricity) and start raising the rates, That's gouging. the line where M$ crosses that line is getting every one dependent on, say,
It's curious how this discussion both parallels and contrasts the one about charging for CDs of music... (hmmm... am I breaking some corrolary to Godwin's law by referencing the Evil RIAA?)
*for a good example, look up "oops poops" in Oregon, and think just how much you'd rather pay someone else for that job.
drove a forklift once that had just that. very weird experience...