If the domains were $100 each, I am pretty sure that they wouldn't be burning through domains like that.
If the domains were $100 each, I wouldn't have a website. Period. Hell, hosting charges are enough, much less $100 every 2 years for the domain. I don't make any profit, believe me, and I can probably find a couple thousand other little guys who wouldn't have sites either.
My phone line actually doesn't have that much in fees, but I know what you're talking about. That gets my goad a lot, and I will never understand why a local line costs a staggering $28.00 a month, and then then they still tack more hidden fees in on top of that.
What annoys me is the 5 cents-a-minute plan I have for long distance. "5 cents anywhere, anytime! It's dirt cheap. You can call anyone in the contenental US and Canada for 5 cents a minute!" Calls cost 7 cents per minute if you call in-state. Fuck you James Earl Jones! They didn't tell me this until I got my first friggin bill, and you'd better be damned sure I read all the fine print!
the one from lik sang uses CF, not SD (in my mind, that's a point for the lik sang one since I already have CF cards)
the one from lik sang requires you to re-save your movies and music to their format, which apparently is pretty shitty. the nintendo one says it'll play Mpeg 4 and MP3, excellent formats.
Most likely there's just no plans for a NA release because they're trying to get it to market in Japan ASAP to counter the PSP. They have time to delay any plans to release it abroad because the PSP won't be released here for a while yet. At any rate, Nintendo doesn't region-protect their handhelds, so get the import.
No, it works just fine if the visual designers can make the characters sufficiently different looking. There are a lot of shows I watch where I don't know the characters' names (usually subtitled anime where the reading/listening action jumbles everything), but the context works well enough for me to get who they're talking about. Besides, it can draw an audience in, making them have to think to "get" what's going on and taking a participatory role in the show.
Well, keep in mind that the "butchering" of FOTR you speak of is pretty subjective. I've read the books multiple times, and when I saw the movie, I though it was a pretty good adaptation. There were differences, but the characters were mostly what I expected and I had a good time. It's not that the script writers didn't "understand" the characters, it's that they don't have the same take on them that you do. (Though they seemed to have a similar take on them as I do.)
And about her being "just as guilty,"... for what? Is this about FOTR or Earthsea? As far as Earthsea goes, she can't really be that guilty, as the producers were pretty closed minded to her requests and yet they claimed to know her intentions (which is the main complaint, as far as I can tell).
See, the problem with arguing whether or not somebody "gets" the LOTR series is pretty useless. Unlike Le Guin, Tolkein is dead, and we're not going to get an authoritative answer on our interpretations.
Well, at the very least, there's still one company out there whose shareholders realize that bad employee treatment is bad for business. Not to say that Digital Illusions if devoid of altruism, but I suspect that the bad press surrounding EA has raised concerns about their bottom line and their reputation among their audience should they "sell out" to EA.
Keep in mind that I don't really agree with that viewpoint, and that I hate the concept that morality in business is a weakness. I just thappen to think that it's more likely that this is the case.
While you're correct, I think that you (and the parent post) are missing the concept of a NAND gate. First of all, all you need is NOT and AND. OR can be constructed with them. Secondly, a NAND gate is a type of electronic gate that can be modified to become either a NOT or an AND. This brings down the cost of hardware considerably because you're only producing one type of logic gate. After the NAND gates are placed on the silicon they're burned so that each is either a NOT gate or an AND gate.
As far as I know (since the article is slashdotted), you can't even make a NAND gate from legos, but having both NOT and AND means you can apply the same logic in design. Your solution would be a pretty decent one, though, and totally implimentable given their resources.
At least in the tomb raider movie they included the essential elements: big boobs, dual weilding pistols, raiding tombs. I dare say it may be a much better movie.
Well, a more complete summary of the letter is that (a) the remarks quoted in other articles are not his and are provably falsified, (b) he respects Doom fans and has a sense of humor (in his own opinion), (c) the Doom movie will be a thematic match for the Doom series, containing the "themes" and "elements" we know and love.
Still, though, this does nothing to rebuke the statement that the following items will be missing from Doom, the movie:
Mars
Space Marines
Demons
Rift to Hell
Gory Violence
So, basically, he said it will contain "some" elements from Doom, but apparently, not the most essential ones to the series. Maybe we'll get to watch the main character run around in poor lighting picking up PDA's/looking for the blue key for 90 minutes.
There are some free homebrew GB and GBC emulators written for the GBA. I always thought a project like that was redundant, but now it seems to have merrit. Basically, you can play GB and GBC games, just not from the carts. You have the have the roms on your flash linker.
I'm not sure if you're familiar with 3D modeling, but it's a horrifically painful experience, unless you've become so good at it that it's totally natural. Nothing ever works the way you expect it to, and getting any moderately realistic results demands hours upon hours (usually days) of modeling. Some 3D packages have sub-standard "undo" features... so if you screw up, you're done. Pack up your busted model and go home. And 3D studio may as well include a "do random shit" button, because sometimes that's what it seems like it's doing. Z-Brush is the only modeling tool I've ever seen that seems even remotely copable, but it suffers from a lack of a solid undo feature, and working with multiple objects is an extreme pain in the ass. I'd say there's plenty of room for improvement in 3D modeling, and anything that anyone does to make it easier, even if just a failed experiment, helps the industry evolve.
I had a friend who prefered his watch in military time (i.e. 23:45 hours, not 11:45 P.M.). When people asked what time it was, he'd tell them in military time. When they got all confused, he told them that his watch used "Metric Time." 95% of the time, they were just fine with that description.
DS has sold half a million units in Japan so far...
This is going to be a big problem with Sony. They've never really had to play catch-up with Nintendo before (the PSX and PS2 both beat the Nintendo systems to launch), so this is relatively uncharted territory for them. They're losing the sheer numbers battle right now. The DS has sold over 500,000 units in Japan so far (and a million worldwide), and Sony will only ship 400,000 units by years' end. It's impossible for them to catch up at that rate, even if the demand is high enough, because the production output isn't. Don't flame me, as I'm advocating neither. I'm merely saying that from a business standpoint Sony's going to have a tough row to hoe for the next several months.
Yeah, but, as you probably already know, Akihabara is the "gadget" district. You can usually gague the success of a product by seeing how popular it is in Akihabara, or so the conventional wisdom goes. In reality, the people who shop there are more techno-centric and don't represent the average consumer very well.
You know, I took physics here in the states, and everything was in metric units. We had like a 20 minute lecture on conversions and were basically told that if we want to be in science, then everything is done in metric and only converted to english units for the sake of a marketing department. Then I took a calculus class where there were some physics questions on tests that demanded we know offhand that the gravity force is 32 pounds or something like that (I still don't know what the english unit for force is, but I learned that 32 == g for that class). To this day, I refuse to use English whenever I know physics may come in to play. Even though I'm better with English, if I believe that I'll have any physics (or even simple area or volume calculations), I will go through the trouble to convert the measurements. So there's one American who uses both... better than refusing to use metric at all.
That's not "American," that's "redneck." For more information on this distinction, google image search for the "United States of Canada/Jesusland" diagram.
That's like 40F. Wusses. I used to wait for the bus every morning in 5F weather (that's -15C) back in Kindergarten. Thankfully, by high school I was able to convince the bus driver to let me take a mug of coffee onto the bus. The cold seems less bitter when you can bury your face in the eminating steam.:)
d'oh... seems/. kills the ° tag. Sorry if this creates confusion.
PREAMBLE: Please don't flame me, I'm not advocating either system here.
First rule of gaming:
More power != more fun
In theory, that's true, but not in practice. There's a certain minimum level of power you're going to need to do a decent quality 3D game without it being a totally jarring experience. That's not to say that it can't be done (hey, look at Star Fox), but it is to say that it can be harder for a developer to make a quality game when the platform limitations constrict them too much. Here's what I think: if Nintendo can show us something on the level of Quake 2 running on the DS at full framerate, I'll be sufficiently satisfied that it's fast enough. (Metroid Prime Hunters uses the portal "cheat," meaning that, while an efficient way to set up a game, it doesn't exactly show off the graphical power of the system.)
Not that the DS has it made.
Of course not, but beating the PSP to market has sure helped them out a lot. I'm very impressed with the DS sales figures, actually. If Sony manages to get the upper hand even though they're starting at such a disadvantage, I'll be all the more impressed.
One catch, though. Even though flash memory prices are falling, Memory Stick® prices aren't. Sony keeps them up higher than, say, compact flash because their users have no choice. If you get a Sony product, it most likely uses Memory Sticks, and since only Sony makes them you have to pay their prices.
Well, maybe you don't have to freak out just yet. I'm still liking the micrometeorite theory, though the unliklihood of that is astounding. I wouldn't guess that the flash card was kinked simply because you see 3 seemingly connected images on the film (dark streak, bright flash on the lamp, smoke rising from the base of the lamp).
The flash and smoke would seem to be what you'd see if the electical system in the lamp (usually housed in the base) got surged and baked itself to death. Seeing as how this lamp is on a dock, the short circuit theory doesn't seem entirely unplausable. The dark streak, however, I can't explain. Could it be some sort of CCD artifact resulting from too high a contrast ratio? I know earlier digital cameras had problems with that.
Actually, Joe Average Buyer either (a) isn't "in the know" and makes his/her decisioin based on recommendations from the store clerk (because they haven't heard the hype at all), or (b) is following a Christmas list written by their kid. This is actually one of the big problems for the ESA/ESRB. During the holiday season, a lot of parents buy games without actually knowing what they are, and then get really apalled when they see what their kids are playing.
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My phone line actually doesn't have that much in fees, but I know what you're talking about. That gets my goad a lot, and I will never understand why a local line costs a staggering $28.00 a month, and then then they still tack more hidden fees in on top of that.
What annoys me is the 5 cents-a-minute plan I have for long distance. "5 cents anywhere, anytime! It's dirt cheap. You can call anyone in the contenental US and Canada for 5 cents a minute!" Calls cost 7 cents per minute if you call in-state. Fuck you James Earl Jones! They didn't tell me this until I got my first friggin bill, and you'd better be damned sure I read all the fine print!
The WMV container has DRM built in, whereas AVI is too old for that. This is probably a move to keep them from catching the ire of the MPAA.
Most likely there's just no plans for a NA release because they're trying to get it to market in Japan ASAP to counter the PSP. They have time to delay any plans to release it abroad because the PSP won't be released here for a while yet. At any rate, Nintendo doesn't region-protect their handhelds, so get the import.
No, it works just fine if the visual designers can make the characters sufficiently different looking. There are a lot of shows I watch where I don't know the characters' names (usually subtitled anime where the reading/listening action jumbles everything), but the context works well enough for me to get who they're talking about. Besides, it can draw an audience in, making them have to think to "get" what's going on and taking a participatory role in the show.
Well, keep in mind that the "butchering" of FOTR you speak of is pretty subjective. I've read the books multiple times, and when I saw the movie, I though it was a pretty good adaptation. There were differences, but the characters were mostly what I expected and I had a good time. It's not that the script writers didn't "understand" the characters, it's that they don't have the same take on them that you do. (Though they seemed to have a similar take on them as I do.)
And about her being "just as guilty,"... for what? Is this about FOTR or Earthsea? As far as Earthsea goes, she can't really be that guilty, as the producers were pretty closed minded to her requests and yet they claimed to know her intentions (which is the main complaint, as far as I can tell).
See, the problem with arguing whether or not somebody "gets" the LOTR series is pretty useless. Unlike Le Guin, Tolkein is dead, and we're not going to get an authoritative answer on our interpretations.
Well, at the very least, there's still one company out there whose shareholders realize that bad employee treatment is bad for business. Not to say that Digital Illusions if devoid of altruism, but I suspect that the bad press surrounding EA has raised concerns about their bottom line and their reputation among their audience should they "sell out" to EA.
Keep in mind that I don't really agree with that viewpoint, and that I hate the concept that morality in business is a weakness. I just thappen to think that it's more likely that this is the case.
While you're correct, I think that you (and the parent post) are missing the concept of a NAND gate. First of all, all you need is NOT and AND. OR can be constructed with them. Secondly, a NAND gate is a type of electronic gate that can be modified to become either a NOT or an AND. This brings down the cost of hardware considerably because you're only producing one type of logic gate. After the NAND gates are placed on the silicon they're burned so that each is either a NOT gate or an AND gate.
As far as I know (since the article is slashdotted), you can't even make a NAND gate from legos, but having both NOT and AND means you can apply the same logic in design. Your solution would be a pretty decent one, though, and totally implimentable given their resources.
At least in the tomb raider movie they included the essential elements: big boobs, dual weilding pistols, raiding tombs. I dare say it may be a much better movie.
Still, though, this does nothing to rebuke the statement that the following items will be missing from Doom, the movie:
- Mars
- Space Marines
- Demons
- Rift to Hell
- Gory Violence
So, basically, he said it will contain "some" elements from Doom, but apparently, not the most essential ones to the series. Maybe we'll get to watch the main character run around in poor lighting picking up PDA's/looking for the blue key for 90 minutes.There are some free homebrew GB and GBC emulators written for the GBA. I always thought a project like that was redundant, but now it seems to have merrit. Basically, you can play GB and GBC games, just not from the carts. You have the have the roms on your flash linker.
I'm not sure if you're familiar with 3D modeling, but it's a horrifically painful experience, unless you've become so good at it that it's totally natural. Nothing ever works the way you expect it to, and getting any moderately realistic results demands hours upon hours (usually days) of modeling. Some 3D packages have sub-standard "undo" features... so if you screw up, you're done. Pack up your busted model and go home. And 3D studio may as well include a "do random shit" button, because sometimes that's what it seems like it's doing. Z-Brush is the only modeling tool I've ever seen that seems even remotely copable, but it suffers from a lack of a solid undo feature, and working with multiple objects is an extreme pain in the ass. I'd say there's plenty of room for improvement in 3D modeling, and anything that anyone does to make it easier, even if just a failed experiment, helps the industry evolve.
I had a friend who prefered his watch in military time (i.e. 23:45 hours, not 11:45 P.M.). When people asked what time it was, he'd tell them in military time. When they got all confused, he told them that his watch used "Metric Time." 95% of the time, they were just fine with that description.
Even though I tend to agree, that's a terrible example. One of the DS launch games is a Madden sequel.
Yeah, but, as you probably already know, Akihabara is the "gadget" district. You can usually gague the success of a product by seeing how popular it is in Akihabara, or so the conventional wisdom goes. In reality, the people who shop there are more techno-centric and don't represent the average consumer very well.
... but because they use the white ear-buds as indications of who may have one, just end up with a pile of iPods.
You know, I took physics here in the states, and everything was in metric units. We had like a 20 minute lecture on conversions and were basically told that if we want to be in science, then everything is done in metric and only converted to english units for the sake of a marketing department. Then I took a calculus class where there were some physics questions on tests that demanded we know offhand that the gravity force is 32 pounds or something like that (I still don't know what the english unit for force is, but I learned that 32 == g for that class). To this day, I refuse to use English whenever I know physics may come in to play. Even though I'm better with English, if I believe that I'll have any physics (or even simple area or volume calculations), I will go through the trouble to convert the measurements. So there's one American who uses both... better than refusing to use metric at all.
That's not "American," that's "redneck." For more information on this distinction, google image search for the "United States of Canada/Jesusland" diagram.
That's like 40F. Wusses. I used to wait for the bus every morning in 5F weather (that's -15C) back in Kindergarten. Thankfully, by high school I was able to convince the bus driver to let me take a mug of coffee onto the bus. The cold seems less bitter when you can bury your face in the eminating steam. :)
/. kills the ° tag. Sorry if this creates confusion.
d'oh... seems
One catch, though. Even though flash memory prices are falling, Memory Stick® prices aren't. Sony keeps them up higher than, say, compact flash because their users have no choice. If you get a Sony product, it most likely uses Memory Sticks, and since only Sony makes them you have to pay their prices.
Well, maybe you don't have to freak out just yet. I'm still liking the micrometeorite theory, though the unliklihood of that is astounding. I wouldn't guess that the flash card was kinked simply because you see 3 seemingly connected images on the film (dark streak, bright flash on the lamp, smoke rising from the base of the lamp).
The flash and smoke would seem to be what you'd see if the electical system in the lamp (usually housed in the base) got surged and baked itself to death. Seeing as how this lamp is on a dock, the short circuit theory doesn't seem entirely unplausable. The dark streak, however, I can't explain. Could it be some sort of CCD artifact resulting from too high a contrast ratio? I know earlier digital cameras had problems with that.
Actually, Joe Average Buyer either (a) isn't "in the know" and makes his/her decisioin based on recommendations from the store clerk (because they haven't heard the hype at all), or (b) is following a Christmas list written by their kid. This is actually one of the big problems for the ESA/ESRB. During the holiday season, a lot of parents buy games without actually knowing what they are, and then get really apalled when they see what their kids are playing.