It is indeed moody. I hit buttons 1-4 to try the other enviros. They had one like the original arcade game, and a tunnel and city one as well. I love the feel of it and it runs very, very smoothly.
It's just a software demo, not a game, but i still found it entertaining.
Yes it has alot of limitations but it was still pretty entertaining.
The city they put together is amazing, especially the giant neon signs. They did a good job integrating the CGI and live action.
So the acting and writing is a little limp. That makes it about the same as the current crop of star wars movies.
There were some cute jokes, like the beeping noise the AT-ATs were making while they backed up.
The shoot out in the landing bay was nicely done. Alot of complex effects underway at once and well-handled.
People are incredibly hard on these 'fan' movies, to the point of spewing bile. This one is just fine. They did a ton of work on it I applaud their efforts. I hope they keep working on their skills and concentrating on the weak areas.
That little picture is just about useless as a tool to make emergency communications easier.
I was a 911 dispatcher in L.A. (including during the riots) and I can tell you that in an emergency the average person sometimes forgets basic information such as: their address, vehicle type, child's name, etc.
If such a tool could ever be made to work it would need as few buttons as possible, as large as possible, with as few words as possible.
Maybe if you hit the good sized emergency button you immediately get two big buttons that almost fill the screen.
(POLICE) (FIRE/AMBULANCE)
In a decent dispatch environment if someone hits the wrong one they can quickly be routed to the right one.
Anything else is basically not an emergency and doesn't belong on the tool.
This is in reference to Galaga. Seems the kids had some trouble accepting that arcade games were just not so pretty in the old days:
EGM: Now imagine you've reached the 10th stage, and you're on your last life. Once you die and you put another quarter in, you don't just continue from there--you start all over.
Parker: Are you serious?
EGM: Yep. When you lose all your lives, you have to start over. You don't keep going.
I'm not sure where these weird claims are coming from that the U.S. media is not giving this story enough coverage. The first day there was not much but I think that's because the initial damage reports sounded outlandish. By the second day it was the top story of every newscast I've seen, both national and local and that persists to today. I don't watch Fox news so I can't tell you if their coverage is weak. I'm watching CNN/headline news, NBC and ABC national and local news.
It's kind of stupid the way they compare WMP 10 to the Itunes music store. One is a media player, one is,well... a store! Is it somehow significant that WMP 10 can play various flavors of music file and the itunes music store sells songs for ipods/itunes? Are those two things not mutually exclusive?
It appears that even in the official demo which was probably done on a very high end machine there are some moments when the frame rate drops into the toilet. It's nice to show off all the eye candy but the last thing I would want in my demo is even a few seconds of crappy framerate. Just seems kinda odd to release it like that.
A repairman from US Worst was in the computer room for the callcenter. This was the callcenter for the United States Postal Service in Denver and we had some Very Heavy Duty equipment in there, like the database of all the 9 digit ZIPs, change of address, the phone system, etc. On the way out after his service call the repairman hit the large red button on the wall next to the door thinking that it would open the door. It wouldn't. It would, however, instantly cut all power to the computer room in case of an emergency. That's probably why it was labeled in large red letters "EMERGENCY ELECTRICAL CUTOFF":)
My God, did I play alot of Shufflepuck Cafe. I worked in a Software Etc. where we had a Mac Plus on display and that game got me through many a long, customer-free shift.
I can still hear the big, scary, fat dude that was the last opponent laughing at me when he got the puck past me.:)
having had to work with Bryce Zabel I can assure you all that he is satan. i was in his home office one day and saw a script on his floor called "ROBOT MOM." He's a hack and I don't want him anywhere near anything that requires talent.
I do not have positive things to say about things that do not have positive elements. A bunch of media flacks passing themselves off as truly tech-savvy spooning out wisdom to the unwashed is not positive. It is dumb and should not be encouraged.
I still don't understand why anything related to TechTV is considered news. There is nothing remotely technical about their info. It's the same dumb stuff the "cyberguy" on the local news talks about, with the exact same shallow level of understanding. Why does anyone who is actually in the I.T. business give a crap about this? It's not like someone burned Infoworld's HQ down! These are just internet leeches pretending to have expertise. Let them go out and find a real job.
Are you mixing up Wasteland with Fallout? I played wasteland on my C64 back in the old days and don't remember that, but they definitely had it in Fallout.
Although my 65 year-old father has been using newsgroups for years for his cancer support contacts the mainstream media still doesn't have a clue about them. It's kind of amazing since these weenies don't have anything else to do other than dig up things to try and scare the public with.
As for IRC I'm sure it's the pit of sin and mania that they describe but really, so what? Any communication stream will be used that way!
I've tried IRC a couple of time but have to admit I don't know how to use it properly. I've tried about five different IRC clients and still am completely lost when I try and do anything.
Maybe if I wait long enough it will be replaced by something that doesn't confuse me.:)
This is just some luddite demonstration to prove that the good old library is still the best, you damn kids!
Really, was there any other point to this? Everyone has already made it clear that not figuring in travel time to the library is an obvious massive flaw to this test.
Yes there are some things that will be easier at the library and they are going to be (surprise) questions related to books!
I love libraries, worked in one as well but have not been inside one in a year or so. That doesn't diminish how important they were to me as a teenager but their time has passed except maybe as a study hall. That is not an insult, just a simple fact.
Watch as your McAfee antivirus now fails to autoupdate. Find out about it when all the users at your company get the latest virus because they are three months behind the update schedule.
Wheee!
Running as a "Regular user" does not work because too much common Windows software will not run properly under anything but "admin" rights.
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This appears to be the end result of an awful lots of work.... and absolutely no sense of humor.
As usual, cheers to the CGI and OMGZ to everything else.
It is indeed moody. I hit buttons 1-4 to try the other enviros. They had one like the original arcade game, and a tunnel and city one as well. I love the feel of it and it runs very, very smoothly.
It's just a software demo, not a game, but i still found it entertaining.
Looks like Catherine Mary Stewart in the lower right corner, and one of the dorks from "Full House" in the upper right.
Hmmm.
The BF series is great if you like thing like dropping a 120mm tank shell at the feet of an infantryman without effect. Over and over and over.
.50 cal and then watch as the soldier runs up and stabs you to death with a hairbrush.
Do the same with a
Marvel as pointblank machine gun bursts miraculously do nothing at all.
BF2 looks lovely and has some great maps but just like all the BF before it there are the same old dumb problems with either:
1. cursor on target = nothing
2. heavy weapons vs. infantry = nothing
After days of this and flashbacks to BF:1942 I had to give up and go back to games that do not suffer from this very basic flaw.
Yes it has alot of limitations but it was still pretty entertaining.
The city they put together is amazing, especially the giant neon signs. They did a good job integrating the CGI and live action.
So the acting and writing is a little limp. That makes it about the same as the current crop of star wars movies.
There were some cute jokes, like the beeping noise the AT-ATs were making while they backed up.
The shoot out in the landing bay was nicely done. Alot of complex effects underway at once and well-handled.
People are incredibly hard on these 'fan' movies, to the point of spewing bile. This one is just fine. They did a ton of work on it I applaud their efforts. I hope they keep working on their skills and concentrating on the weak areas.
That little picture is just about useless as a tool to make emergency communications easier.
I was a 911 dispatcher in L.A. (including during the riots) and I can tell you that in an emergency the average person sometimes forgets basic information such as: their address, vehicle type, child's name, etc.
If such a tool could ever be made to work it would need as few buttons as possible, as large as possible, with as few words as possible.
Maybe if you hit the good sized emergency button you immediately get two big buttons that almost fill the screen.
(POLICE)
(FIRE/AMBULANCE)
In a decent dispatch environment if someone hits the wrong one they can quickly be routed to the right one.
Anything else is basically not an emergency and doesn't belong on the tool.
This is in reference to Galaga. Seems the kids had some trouble accepting that arcade games were just not so pretty in the old days:
EGM: Now imagine you've reached the 10th stage, and you're on your last life. Once you die and you put another quarter in, you don't just continue from there--you start all over.
Parker: Are you serious?
EGM: Yep. When you lose all your lives, you have to start over. You don't keep going.
Parker: And you guys back then were OK with this?
I'm not sure where these weird claims are coming from that the U.S. media is not giving this story enough coverage.
The first day there was not much but I think that's because the initial damage reports sounded outlandish.
By the second day it was the top story of every newscast I've seen, both national and local and that persists to today.
I don't watch Fox news so I can't tell you if their coverage is weak. I'm watching CNN/headline news, NBC and ABC national and local news.
Wesley Crusher was a bad character played by a weak actor. Why the hell does everyone here worship this guy? Because he owns a computer?
Jesus, people. Enough.
"As Foale boarded the Soyuz, an official kicked him in the back: a Russian launch tradition"
I doubt that this is a Russian tradition. It's what my last boss did when he showed me my cube.
It's kind of stupid the way they compare WMP 10 to the Itunes music store. One is a media player, one is,well... a store!
Is it somehow significant that WMP 10 can play various flavors of music file and the itunes music store sells songs for ipods/itunes?
Are those two things not mutually exclusive?
It appears that even in the official demo which was probably done on a very high end machine there are some moments when the frame rate drops into the toilet. It's nice to show off all the eye candy but the last thing I would want in my demo is even a few seconds of crappy framerate. Just seems kinda odd to release it like that.
It's a rare /. story that can be interesting, funny, clever and stupid all at the same time.
A repairman from US Worst was in the computer room for the callcenter. This was the callcenter for the United States Postal Service in Denver and we had some Very Heavy Duty equipment in there, like the database of all the 9 digit ZIPs, change of address, the phone system, etc. :)
On the way out after his service call the repairman hit the large red button on the wall next to the door thinking that it would open the door.
It wouldn't.
It would, however, instantly cut all power to the computer room in case of an emergency. That's probably why it was labeled in large red letters "EMERGENCY ELECTRICAL CUTOFF"
Shufflepuck Cafe
:)
My God, did I play alot of Shufflepuck Cafe. I worked in a Software Etc. where we had a Mac Plus on display and that game got me through many a long, customer-free shift.
I can still hear the big, scary, fat dude that was the last opponent laughing at me when he got the puck past me.
having had to work with Bryce Zabel I can assure you all that he is satan. i was in his home office one day and saw a script on his floor called "ROBOT MOM."
He's a hack and I don't want him anywhere near anything that requires talent.
I do not have positive things to say about things that do not have positive elements. A bunch of media flacks passing themselves off as truly tech-savvy spooning out wisdom to the unwashed is not positive. It is dumb and should not be encouraged.
I still don't understand why anything related to TechTV is considered news. There is nothing remotely technical about their info. It's the same dumb stuff the "cyberguy" on the local news talks about, with the exact same shallow level of understanding.
Why does anyone who is actually in the I.T. business give a crap about this? It's not like someone burned Infoworld's HQ down!
These are just internet leeches pretending to have expertise. Let them go out and find a real job.
Got it. I also did some hex editing when a character go stuck in the radiation pit near the end of the game.
Are you mixing up Wasteland with Fallout? I played wasteland on my C64 back in the old days and don't remember that, but they definitely had it in Fallout.
Although my 65 year-old father has been using newsgroups for years for his cancer support contacts the mainstream media still doesn't have a clue about them. It's kind of amazing since these weenies don't have anything else to do other than dig up things to try and scare the public with.
:)
As for IRC I'm sure it's the pit of sin and mania that they describe but really, so what? Any communication stream will be used that way!
I've tried IRC a couple of time but have to admit I don't know how to use it properly. I've tried about five different IRC clients and still am completely lost when I try and do anything.
Maybe if I wait long enough it will be replaced by something that doesn't confuse me.
This is just some luddite demonstration to prove that the good old library is still the best, you damn kids!
Really, was there any other point to this? Everyone has already made it clear that not figuring in travel time to the library is an obvious massive flaw to this test.
Yes there are some things that will be easier at the library and they are going to be (surprise) questions related to books!
I love libraries, worked in one as well but have not been inside one in a year or so. That doesn't diminish how important they were to me as a teenager but their time has passed except maybe as a study hall. That is not an insult, just a simple fact.
No matter what they try to do they will eventually fail to contain the information they are frightened of.
So eventually we will see what this story is talking about? Why don't we post the story when that actually happens?
Okay, run as a Regular User under Win XP.
Watch as your McAfee antivirus now fails to autoupdate. Find out about it when all the users at your company get the latest virus because they are three months behind the update schedule.
Wheee!
Running as a "Regular user" does not work because too much common Windows software will not run properly under anything but "admin" rights.