Watch Kurosawa's "The Hidden Fortress." It's the EXACT SAME STORY as Star Wars, only in feudal Japan.
I suggest you do, as it's not. While the characters of Obi-Wan, Leia, and the droids have obvious parallels in 'The Hidden Fortress', the structure and plot are completely different. However, ever since Lucas admitted to being partially inspired by it, legions of fanboys have been running with the rumour that it's a direct copy. Completely ignoring the minor problem that Leia spends half of Star Wars in a cell, completely seperated from the other characters, whereas her equivalent in The Hidden Fortess, is in the thick of the action for almost the whole movie.
Units, total shipped. Units, last quarter. Games, total shipped. Games, last quarter.
Tell you what, you can pick a time period, you can even pick a territory. Back it up with published figures, rather than baseless accusations, and you can have my rubber GBA.
Anyone else think that a lot of these people with that same opinion, just don't dance? Don't get on down with their bad selves? Don't shake their booty to the beat?
Yup. It's portholes that are round, because otherwise they fracture at the corners. There's a hell of a lot of stress in a ships hull. Not so much in the pavement.
The 480p progressive scan mode was only enabled in a relatively recent version of the libraries. This will be the first update of the DVD player software since then.
> Biggest Crap is the death of side scrolling beat them up games
True 'nuff. The excellent (if short) Two Towers game is basically Double Dragon in 3d, with swords. Devil May Cry, Rygar, and Shinobi, are pretty close too. They may tack on puzzle elements, but they're rarely more complicated than "pick up obvious object (yes/no)?", "solve puzzle with object (yes/no)?".
> just keep asking for DX5 interfaces...it'll work just fine for someone with DX 8
That's the theory. Pity about the practice.
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> The Xbox was designed in half the time that the GCN was,
With the result that it costs more than twice as much to manufacture. They may be neck and neck in terms of sales, but only one of them is actually turning a profit for it's parent company.
Oh, and 'technical superiority'? I think not. Metroid looks better than Halo, and there's a perfect port of Splinter Cell on the way for the Cube (heck, the PS2 port of SC is pretty damn close).
Only those that are natural monopolies. There's only one road directly outside your house. There's only one gas line in. There's only one electric main. One phone line. One cable.
Some things are natural local monopolies due to physical resource limitations.
It's a branch from an older version of Perforce. It's considered a mission critical internal app, they don't sell it, and they only admit it exists under pressure.
Laserdisc CAV had one frame per revolution, you could actually see the structure of a frame in the metal. The best thing about CAV was perfect rock-solid smooth back and forward scan and slow-mo. We used to have endless hours of stoned fun turning light-saber duels into dance routines.
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Watch Kurosawa's "The Hidden Fortress." It's the EXACT SAME STORY as Star Wars, only in feudal Japan.
I suggest you do, as it's not. While the characters of Obi-Wan, Leia, and the droids have obvious parallels in 'The Hidden Fortress', the structure and plot are completely different. However, ever since Lucas admitted to being partially inspired by it, legions of fanboys have been running with the rumour that it's a direct copy. Completely ignoring the minor problem that Leia spends half of Star Wars in a cell, completely seperated from the other characters, whereas her equivalent in The Hidden Fortess, is in the thick of the action for almost the whole movie.
Star Wars was the FIRST movie to do a Space based SCI-FI with lots of semi believeable special effects.
*cough* 2001 *cough*
I believe you meant to say 'action sci-fi'.
IMHO it says "it's almost impossible to retrofit an unlimited undo/redo system into an application that wasn't designed with it in mind".
Units, total shipped.
Units, last quarter.
Games, total shipped.
Games, last quarter.
Tell you what, you can pick a time period, you can even pick a territory. Back it up with published figures, rather than baseless accusations, and you can have my rubber GBA.
All three current consoles have seperate power and eject buttons.
Anyone else think that a lot of these people with that same opinion, just don't dance? Don't get on down with their bad selves? Don't shake their booty to the beat?
Somebody ain't feelin the funk.
While the PS2 may be outselling the Xbox and GameCube, the GBA is outselling the PS2 hands down.
Not even close. The GBA and the GC combined, almost reach the sales of the PS2.
Yup. It's portholes that are round, because otherwise they fracture at the corners. There's a hell of a lot of stress in a ships hull. Not so much in the pavement.
That's either +1 Funny, or portholes.
No, actually, Fox is a product that someone else got right, which was then bought by MS.
Even more amusing, is that they bought FoxPro, so they could kill it, and force everyone to use Access.
Or, in keeping with the car motif, HotWheels.
The 480p progressive scan mode was only enabled in a relatively recent version of the libraries. This will be the first update of the DVD player software since then.
Except that even the British don't use the 'British billion' anymore.
Smooth scrolling in IE is fundamentally broken. That's a criticism of IE, not smooth scrolling in general.
> Biggest Crap is the death of side scrolling beat them up games
True 'nuff. The excellent (if short) Two Towers game is basically Double Dragon in 3d, with swords. Devil May Cry, Rygar, and Shinobi, are pretty close too. They may tack on puzzle elements, but they're rarely more complicated than "pick up obvious object (yes/no)?", "solve puzzle with object (yes/no)?".
There's a workaround:
In IE, use the 'import and export' wizrd, in the file menu, to export favourites to a HTML file. Then import them into Mozilla.
It's not automatic, but it does work.
Now maybe Microsoft' strategy is to flood the Land of the Rising Sun with arcade DOA Beach Volleyball,
With a special wipe-clean cabinet.
> just keep asking for DX5 interfaces...it'll work just fine for someone with DX 8
That's the theory. Pity about the practice.
> The Xbox was designed in half the time that the GCN was,
With the result that it costs more than twice as much to manufacture. They may be neck and neck in terms of sales, but only one of them is actually turning a profit for it's parent company.
Oh, and 'technical superiority'? I think not. Metroid looks better than Halo, and there's a perfect port of Splinter Cell on the way for the Cube (heck, the PS2 port of SC is pretty damn close).
They'll just start fighting over water instead.
> You could say that about every business.
Only those that are natural monopolies. There's only one road directly outside your house. There's only one gas line in. There's only one electric main. One phone line. One cable.
Some things are natural local monopolies due to physical resource limitations.
It's a branch from an older version of Perforce. It's considered a mission critical internal app, they don't sell it, and they only admit it exists under pressure.
Laserdisc CAV had one frame per revolution, you could actually see the structure of a frame in the metal. The best thing about CAV was perfect rock-solid smooth back and forward scan and slow-mo. We used to have endless hours of stoned fun turning light-saber duels into dance routines.
For the non-brits check this.