The movie plays with one of the central puzzles about World War II, an issue that has fascinated historians for years: why did the Russian people fight so hard and sacrifice so much
I would think that this just shows Machiavelli's Principle that it is better to be feared than loved. The Russians were taking huge losses, throughout the war. I do know that Stalin tried many things, including putting more units behind the front lines to "clean up" those that retreated. If you know your superior is going to shoot you if you stand still, why the hell not charge the damn guns? Not to mention the fact that Hitler stated his primary goal was to take Russia up to the Urals. Hell, in the territory the Nazis did take over, there were Enzitazgruppen(sp?) that came after and once again "cleaned up" what the army didn't take care of.
ok, I've finished that rant. I do think the Battle of Stalingrad is worthy of a movie, more so than a lot of other WWII movies depending on your perspective. It was the turning point in the eastern front, the Nazis never made any major advances after it(of course in 6 months one must learn how to effictively fight one's foe). What I find incredably intresting, are the reasons behind the battle. Hitler's propaganda machine was always looking for new blood, and noticed that Stalingrad was named after Stalin(duh). Therefore the Nazi's make a valiant effort to siege the city. Of course, Stalin says to himself, 'Hey! I named that place after me! They can't take it!' and the bloody bloodshed we see follows, says a lot about the nature of the two, don't you think?
Actually I haven't seen any CGI I couldn't tell was CGI, the lighting is still too hard, inanimate objects are almost there, but show a light shining right on them and the surfaces still look like rubber. Its even worse for human skin. The Final Fantasy Movie doesn't look too bad, but they still look like rubber.
As I remember plans leaked from Sony about 6 months after the PS1 shipped of the PS3, and how they were going to brand the Playstation name (which they have) like the walkman. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the PS2 was supposed to come out in '99 with the PS3 in 2K1 or 2K2. Of course the media got hold of this and the plans were changed.
I may be remembering incorrectly but didn't Doom use a lot of Sprites? And Actually Doom came out for the SNES. one that by your thinking(at least it seems correct me if I'm wrong) has less power than the AGB. Look at the specs, and games were sprite based hella earlier than Polygons showed up on the scene.
Actually the Game Boy Color was more or less a portable NES, actually CGB had a little more power, but it was basically the same thing with a different screen so games wouldn't run verbatum. The Game Boy Advance is pretty much a SNES again with a different screen. Developers have been saying that its more or less a SNES with a SuperFX chip (Star Fox, Stunt Race FX, Yoshi's Island).
if you pretend that you're still going to be using those P3's running Office xxxx in 5 years time, you're wrong.
I plan on using my computer in 5 years. But then again I'm on a Mac.
Anyway, as long as this pricing doesn't move to games, I'm not too worried about it. There is a good explination of the technology over at Ars Technica
My main beef with this is: My parents bought a Pac Bell in Christmas of '99. While, I can't stand to use it, its fine for them. They don't need any more power than a K6-2 333 for the internet and checking e-mail. It came with Word 97 and that's the biggest piece of software they use. That being said, this computer came with virus protection. Which is all nice, fine, and good. Of course we all know that you've got to update your virus protection periodically. It logically follows that we had to pay to update this virus protection. In my mind, this is a perfect parallel with installing Office XP on a monthly subscription. If I can't convince my mother that we need to update our virus protection every month, how is Micro$oft going to convince her to PAY(I bought this computer it should work!) again just to use Word the 3 times a month she uses it.
This will be bad, because the vast majority of people that buy OEM will not upgrade their hardware every 2 years. This is why I wish those damn Internet Appliances would take off. My Parents don't need a full computer for what they do. and I know they don't need to be paying every month or year for software they don't always use.
yes, nothing is truly free. Suppose someone says hey, how about a free lunch? And also suppose you agree and you go and have a nice meal with said person. Now what has that cost you? No money, but what else? Your time, first and foremost. See, there's this thing called opportunity cost. So what ever you decide to do, costs you the second thing you would have done.
Suppose again you have a choice between a date with two women. If you go out with Woman #1, it has cost you the date with Woman #2. So on and so forth.
And the beauty of it is that your hometown lawyer never had a chance against a mob of the best corporate lawyers in the country.
Dude, didn't you see Erin Brockobitch?(or what ever on my green earth it was called). All ya gotta do is show a lot of clevage and you'll get your way. THAT's the New(and old for that matter) America.
ok, say it with me: OSX on x86 bad for apple.
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That being said, one of the main points about OSX is that it gives mac users lickable goodies like Aqua and BSD and fun stuff like that but it also runs OLD Mac OS apps. Its called Classic and its a beautiful thing. There is no way someone is going to tell me that an 800 Duron is going to run my PPC apps just as fast through emulation as my G3. I know Apple migrated everyone from 68K to PPC, but then again it was just in OS 8.5(we're on 9.1 now) that they cut off 68K users from OS upgrades. PPC came out in 1991, So even if Apple made itself a nice 1.2 Ghz T-bird, with DDR and GeForce 2 Ultras standard, they won't run the vast majority of Mac apps like PPC will; ALL apps will have to be completely rewritten to take full advantage of the new processor, and those that aren't will be slow as hell; AMD and Intel are begining the migration to 64-bit chips. And the last switch took almost 10 years to complete, and you can still find apps that run 68K natively.
Its not in Apple's best intrest to switch. They've been optmizing OSX for Altivec anyway, and with the 3 or 4 1.2 Ghz G4s that Motorola is hiding from Public eyes, I don't see any reason to switch.(that and I bought my G3 with the intent of keeping it for at least 6 years)
No, because now you're not passively intercepting the radio waves. You're taking active steps to steal service.
Ummmmm... Isn't hacking a smart card taking active steps to steal service? Just a thought.
So by this logic, If you are using a Cell phone and I evesdrop on your conversation I'm not invading your privacy? Your Phone is broadcasting out and assuming you're close enough its on my property. I'm not paying for cell phone access, so I can listen to your conversation cause its on my property, right?
Its just like me listening to a friend talking on a cell phone cause he has one.
I have phone lines that cross my propery, does that mean I can hook into them and get free long distance?
Actually the IE 5 beta for The PB is a Cocoa app. Open up your Mac OS X partition(or HD I'm not picky) in OS9 and you'll see its a bundle which, can't run in 9. Course this would explain why its so slow and buggy, but I digress.
people said that the console industry couldn't support 3 players when Sony decided to get into the game(of course nintendo brought them into it but:P). and since you say that Sega is still in it then I feel that each of the new consoles have their own advantages. The Dreamcast has been out for a year already, that gives it a bigger playerbase than the other next-gen consoles, which isn't to be overlooked. The Playstation 2 has Sony behind it, which can't be overlooked. The Gamecube has Zelda, Mario, Pokemon, Metriod, and Donkey Kong. Other than Sonic, those are Video Games. Hell I still just tell my parents I'm playing Mario just so they understand what I'm doing. Gamers will flock to those games that they know have always been good (which brings about another point about games in general, but I won't go any farther into that in this post), And Finally, the X-box has both Micro$oft behind it and Direct-X (of course technically the Dreamcast does too but I digress again) That makes it much easier for games to be ported. Of course, in my experience, the best games for either PC or console, are those that are exclusive to it (online Q2 w/Mouse & keyboard vs. mario on my NES Advantage). I think Micro$oft will force their way in, just like Sony did. and remember Competition is a good thing
The Dreamcast's codename was katana. and the Playstation 2 was codenamed uhh Playstation 2. Sony has had plans for a line of Playstations from the beginning. of course the harsh realities of the Video-Game industry forced them to rethink their stragites. I remember the quasi-uproar when it leaked that Sony wanted the PS2 to come out in '98 with the PS3 sometime around now. But I digress.
I would like to thank you for making a rational thought on the nature of console development. It will always take developers a few months if not a few years to truly learn how to program for a given console. I thank you for pointing this out and for others modding it up.
ummm... no
The Saturn was hugely successful in japan. In fact until the Dreamcast (and possible afterward) they were still releasing games for it in japan. They stopped in America in what '97?
Motorola owns Altivec. almost 2 years ago Motorola and IBM split on the main PPC design. Motorola wanted Altivec which adds to the die size and therefore limits clock speeds IBM wanted really fast chips. So now Apple chooses between altivec and higher clock speed chips They took altivec, 'cept Motorola couldn't keep up with demand. So Apple presuaded IBM to licence the 7400 from Motorola. As fara s I know most of the chips shipping in Macs now are made by IBM of a design by motorola.
... but haven't powerbooks had this for awhile??? There's a control panel that allows you to decide between more power and longer battery life. besides the ibook already has a 6 hour battery life(of course that's not real world but its pretty close under normal usage) and that's longer than Transmeta is saying. Old news; Apple has thought of this for years.
All ADC Premire and Select members are getting an extra CD with this stuff on it. The CD that will be sent to the lowly masses excludes them. Apple has already said that they will become avalible in October, which to me means that they are building a graphical front end to them. This is Mac OS not *nix. There are people like me that are just learning a cli or haven't seen one. Besides this is the first *nix for the masses. Joe Shmoe that wants a blue computer doesn't need gcc and everything else.
Everyone has been saying how Napster plans to make money from their service. If so, then how? I use a mac and master doesn't have any kind of banner ads in it so does the Win9x version? Unless they plan on marketing a different kind of peer-to-peer sharing to business or start charging users to connect, I don't see any way they can make money.
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Damn straight
First off, Mario never died.
... spinoffs
That's not too hard to do, considering that Sonic the Hedgehog died along with Sega's plan to stop making consoles.
Last I heard, Sonic was a piece of software, not hardware. 10 bucks says that we'll see a Sonic vs. Mario or some deravation thereof for NGC.
Also, Sony has pretty much dropped the Crash Bandicoot franchise
Sony never had the Crash Bandicoot franshise. Its owned by Universal who is taking it to at least PS2 and x-box .
replacing it with yet more Tekken
See above comment, replace Universal with Namco.
not to mention the many EA sports games
EA makes games for every system, DC, PS2, N64, PC, and I believe they've commited to X-box as well.
Just thought I'd point this stuff out
yes, its to differenciate from the Divx standard that Circuit City tried to push on everybody
The movie plays with one of the central puzzles about World War II, an issue that has fascinated historians for years: why did the Russian people fight so hard and sacrifice so much
I would think that this just shows Machiavelli's Principle that it is better to be feared than loved. The Russians were taking huge losses, throughout the war. I do know that Stalin tried many things, including putting more units behind the front lines to "clean up" those that retreated. If you know your superior is going to shoot you if you stand still, why the hell not charge the damn guns? Not to mention the fact that Hitler stated his primary goal was to take Russia up to the Urals. Hell, in the territory the Nazis did take over, there were Enzitazgruppen(sp?) that came after and once again "cleaned up" what the army didn't take care of.
ok, I've finished that rant. I do think the Battle of Stalingrad is worthy of a movie, more so than a lot of other WWII movies depending on your perspective. It was the turning point in the eastern front, the Nazis never made any major advances after it(of course in 6 months one must learn how to effictively fight one's foe). What I find incredably intresting, are the reasons behind the battle. Hitler's propaganda machine was always looking for new blood, and noticed that Stalingrad was named after Stalin(duh). Therefore the Nazi's make a valiant effort to siege the city. Of course, Stalin says to himself, 'Hey! I named that place after me! They can't take it!' and the bloody bloodshed we see follows, says a lot about the nature of the two, don't you think?
Actually I haven't seen any CGI I couldn't tell was CGI, the lighting is still too hard, inanimate objects are almost there, but show a light shining right on them and the surfaces still look like rubber. Its even worse for human skin. The Final Fantasy Movie doesn't look too bad, but they still look like rubber.
As I remember plans leaked from Sony about 6 months after the PS1 shipped of the PS3, and how they were going to brand the Playstation name (which they have) like the walkman. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the PS2 was supposed to come out in '99 with the PS3 in 2K1 or 2K2. Of course the media got hold of this and the plans were changed.
the Lynx didn't have shoulder buttons.
I may be remembering incorrectly but didn't Doom use a lot of Sprites? And Actually Doom came out for the SNES. one that by your thinking(at least it seems correct me if I'm wrong) has less power than the AGB. Look at the specs, and games were sprite based hella earlier than Polygons showed up on the scene.
Now, a handheld NES... THAT would be worthwhile.
Actually the Game Boy Color was more or less a portable NES, actually CGB had a little more power, but it was basically the same thing with a different screen so games wouldn't run verbatum. The Game Boy Advance is pretty much a SNES again with a different screen. Developers have been saying that its more or less a SNES with a SuperFX chip (Star Fox, Stunt Race FX, Yoshi's Island).
if you pretend that you're still going to be using those P3's running Office xxxx in 5 years time, you're wrong.
I plan on using my computer in 5 years. But then again I'm on a Mac.
Anyway, as long as this pricing doesn't move to games, I'm not too worried about it. There is a good explination of the technology over at Ars Technica
My main beef with this is: My parents bought a Pac Bell in Christmas of '99. While, I can't stand to use it, its fine for them. They don't need any more power than a K6-2 333 for the internet and checking e-mail. It came with Word 97 and that's the biggest piece of software they use. That being said, this computer came with virus protection. Which is all nice, fine, and good. Of course we all know that you've got to update your virus protection periodically. It logically follows that we had to pay to update this virus protection. In my mind, this is a perfect parallel with installing Office XP on a monthly subscription. If I can't convince my mother that we need to update our virus protection every month, how is Micro$oft going to convince her to PAY(I bought this computer it should work!) again just to use Word the 3 times a month she uses it.
This will be bad, because the vast majority of people that buy OEM will not upgrade their hardware every 2 years. This is why I wish those damn Internet Appliances would take off. My Parents don't need a full computer for what they do. and I know they don't need to be paying every month or year for software they don't always use.
7. *Nothing* is truly free?
yes, nothing is truly free. Suppose someone says hey, how about a free lunch? And also suppose you agree and you go and have a nice meal with said person. Now what has that cost you? No money, but what else? Your time, first and foremost. See, there's this thing called opportunity cost. So what ever you decide to do, costs you the second thing you would have done.
Suppose again you have a choice between a date with two women. If you go out with Woman #1, it has cost you the date with Woman #2. So on and so forth.
And the beauty of it is that your hometown lawyer never had a chance against a mob of the best corporate lawyers in the country.
Dude, didn't you see Erin Brockobitch?(or what ever on my green earth it was called). All ya gotta do is show a lot of clevage and you'll get your way. THAT's the New(and old for that matter) America.
That being said, one of the main points about OSX is that it gives mac users lickable goodies like Aqua and BSD and fun stuff like that but it also runs OLD Mac OS apps. Its called Classic and its a beautiful thing.
There is no way someone is going to tell me that an 800 Duron is going to run my PPC apps just as fast through emulation as my G3.
I know Apple migrated everyone from 68K to PPC, but then again it was just in OS 8.5(we're on 9.1 now) that they cut off 68K users from OS upgrades. PPC came out in 1991, So even if Apple made itself a nice 1.2 Ghz T-bird, with DDR and GeForce 2 Ultras standard, they won't run the vast majority of Mac apps like PPC will; ALL apps will have to be completely rewritten to take full advantage of the new processor, and those that aren't will be slow as hell; AMD and Intel are begining the migration to 64-bit chips. And the last switch took almost 10 years to complete, and you can still find apps that run 68K natively.
Its not in Apple's best intrest to switch. They've been optmizing OSX for Altivec anyway, and with the 3 or 4 1.2 Ghz G4s that Motorola is hiding from Public eyes, I don't see any reason to switch.(that and I bought my G3 with the intent of keeping it for at least 6 years)
No, because now you're not passively intercepting the radio waves. You're taking active steps to steal service.
Ummmmm... Isn't hacking a smart card taking active steps to steal service? Just a thought.
So by this logic, If you are using a Cell phone and I evesdrop on your conversation I'm not invading your privacy? Your Phone is broadcasting out and assuming you're close enough its on my property. I'm not paying for cell phone access, so I can listen to your conversation cause its on my property, right?
Its just like me listening to a friend talking on a cell phone cause he has one.
I have phone lines that cross my propery, does that mean I can hook into them and get free long distance?
Actually the IE 5 beta for The PB is a Cocoa app. Open up your Mac OS X partition(or HD I'm not picky) in OS9 and you'll see its a bundle which, can't run in 9. Course this would explain why its so slow and buggy, but I digress.
people said that the console industry couldn't support 3 players when Sony decided to get into the game(of course nintendo brought them into it but :P). and since you say that Sega is still in it then I feel that each of the new consoles have their own advantages. The Dreamcast has been out for a year already, that gives it a bigger playerbase than the other next-gen consoles, which isn't to be overlooked. The Playstation 2 has Sony behind it, which can't be overlooked. The Gamecube has Zelda, Mario, Pokemon, Metriod, and Donkey Kong. Other than Sonic, those are Video Games. Hell I still just tell my parents I'm playing Mario just so they understand what I'm doing. Gamers will flock to those games that they know have always been good (which brings about another point about games in general, but I won't go any farther into that in this post), And Finally, the X-box has both Micro$oft behind it and Direct-X (of course technically the Dreamcast does too but I digress again) That makes it much easier for games to be ported. Of course, in my experience, the best games for either PC or console, are those that are exclusive to it (online Q2 w/Mouse & keyboard vs. mario on my NES Advantage). I think Micro$oft will force their way in, just like Sony did. and remember Competition is a good thing
The Dreamcast's codename was katana. and the Playstation 2 was codenamed uhh Playstation 2. Sony has had plans for a line of Playstations from the beginning. of course the harsh realities of the Video-Game industry forced them to rethink their stragites. I remember the quasi-uproar when it leaked that Sony wanted the PS2 to come out in '98 with the PS3 sometime around now. But I digress.
Can't we just give the presidency to Bob Dole?
I would like to thank you for making a rational thought on the nature of console development. It will always take developers a few months if not a few years to truly learn how to program for a given console. I thank you for pointing this out and for others modding it up.
ummm... no The Saturn was hugely successful in japan. In fact until the Dreamcast (and possible afterward) they were still releasing games for it in japan. They stopped in America in what '97?
Motorola owns Altivec. almost 2 years ago Motorola and IBM split on the main PPC design. Motorola wanted Altivec which adds to the die size and therefore limits clock speeds IBM wanted really fast chips. So now Apple chooses between altivec and higher clock speed chips They took altivec, 'cept Motorola couldn't keep up with demand. So Apple presuaded IBM to licence the 7400 from Motorola. As fara s I know most of the chips shipping in Macs now are made by IBM of a design by motorola.
... but haven't powerbooks had this for awhile??? There's a control panel that allows you to decide between more power and longer battery life. besides the ibook already has a 6 hour battery life(of course that's not real world but its pretty close under normal usage) and that's longer than Transmeta is saying. Old news; Apple has thought of this for years.
All ADC Premire and Select members are getting an extra CD with this stuff on it. The CD that will be sent to the lowly masses excludes them. Apple has already said that they will become avalible in October, which to me means that they are building a graphical front end to them. This is Mac OS not *nix. There are people like me that are just learning a cli or haven't seen one. Besides this is the first *nix for the masses. Joe Shmoe that wants a blue computer doesn't need gcc and everything else.
Everyone has been saying how Napster plans to make money from their service. If so, then how? I use a mac and master doesn't have any kind of banner ads in it so does the Win9x version? Unless they plan on marketing a different kind of peer-to-peer sharing to business or start charging users to connect, I don't see any way they can make money.