***takes svideo connecter, attaches video card to tv, sits in bean bag chair, plays UT2003 with all the wonderful eyecandy***...... you're right, PCs = desk-slaves! Throw away your pc! Grab an XBox and all the latest games. Hell, buy a few copies of each! And make sure you stock pile up on bean bag chairs as the bean bag chair market is poised to skyrocket and prices to do similar. And then you can laugh at all those poors saps with their |4/\/\3 @$$ PCs as you ride in 5|_|p3r |337 comfort with you haXorBOX!
I remember a while back there was a way to make a keyboard and mouse for your XBox posted on here: http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/ of course, they don't work on any of the games, but MS may eventually support it. After all, PS2 has a keyboard and mouse.
Personally, I hate the XBox controllers for FPSs, except for Splinter Cell. Keyboard and mouse are useless on Splinter Cell, you need a gamepad.
Course, I'm not drooling over the XBox port for two reasons: 1) I play games on my PC where I can jack up the resolution and download level mods and design my own skins; and 2) all those perty DX9 effects don't exist on the XBox, making the true glory and splendor of DOOMIII a non-existant on the XBox.
because there was some copyright problem with Pheonix (taken by someone else, don't remember whom though).
What your talking about though is codenames. Those are supposed to change once the product is released. Excuse me if i'm wrong, but Pheonix wasn't a code name, It was a product name.
If size compression was your number one concern, you could always just use Lynx ^^. Of course, Phoenix, errm, sorry, firebird, is pretty damn small for being a full fledged browser. Not to say that there isn't room for improvement, but I'd say it's about as small of a full fledged browser as you'll find. Course, there is the less popular K-meleon browser (same enginge), but it ends up being 11-12 megs with all the standard plugins. So, if you were to choose not to install the plug-ins (do you really need them at school), K-meleon might be a nice alternative.
For me its the Gremling or nothing. Now that was one hot car (especially when it exploded). Course, I really don't know why you would ever name a car model Gremling (even if it was appropriate).
Probably because there was a rather odd debacle over the name Pheonix being taken and the team being forced to change it. Of course, the name firebird isn't all that different than pheonix ^^ but thats what they were going for. And, if most people are like me, they have been curious to find out the new name of Pheonix, err.. sorry, Firebird (i say pheonix sounded better). Course, it might just be a slow news day ^^ (j/k). Either way, the editors do have a strange notion of what constitutes as news, but who am I to complain. Or an AC for that matter.
GOD NO! NOT THE KREBBS CYCLE --- ***shudders from horrible memories of the month's spent learning every last part of the Krebbs cycle for his biology class***... evil, evil Krebbs...
ok.. nuf of that. One thing is sure, It's nice to know that there was a swift plethora of responces to the grandparent's psuedo-science posts. Of course, this is a site for nerds, and we nerds should know our sciences better!
Live long and prosper (and don't eat too much bacon!)
Sugar is not bad. People are designed to eat sugars (specifically fructose). Proccessed sugar - you're right, bad (in large quantities). Complex carbs are NOT bad. They are good because the are easier for the human body to digest than meats. (Meats are protein strands - one strand is a very complex mass of amino acids). Complex carbs provide a good source of energy. They are only bad when consumed in large quantities (americans eat far too many carbs). Meats --- lean meats can provide a great source of long-term energy. It digests slowly, and therefore can last you a while. However, fat is far worse than anything. Avoid fats, they have no nutritional value. Therfore, you should not eat loads of bacon everyday. Eggs, the whites are good for you, the yolks are full of calories and fats. Again, avoid fats. Now, if you happen to loose weight while scarfing down eggs and bacon, it is more than likely that your body can't absorb most of what is being digested and is therefore being passed through. That is a waste of food, and prooves dangerous as it restricts important vitamins and minerals. I will stress that you eat fruits and vegitables. They have important nutrients. They are lower in calories than many other foods. The fructose found in fruits is actually good for the body. Don't beleive me? Fine, but don't come crying to me when you have a heart attack and die. And remember, being low in weight does not make you healthy. Nutrients are important, as is such invisible things as clogged arteries. So excersize, and eat a balanced diet. Such is the key to health.
i never really understood the logic behind that. "Hey! You can't sell that!... however, we will take a percentage of whatever money you did make selling it." That is the last straw. I'm gonna go revive David Thoerough, and we are gonna get together with a bunch of people and (dun, dun!) NOT pay our taxes. OH, YES What a sinister and insidious plan, BRUHAHA!
Personally, I don't get taxes. I sure as hell never agreed to be under the rule of the Gov't. (so what, you were born here, you have to pay the taxes). So f*ing what. Nothing gives them the right to take my money to spend on things that I disagree with and then rape me by passing legislation that makes it illegal for me to do anything.
Maybe taxes make me cranky, or maybe I have some valid points.
Well, it is OSS, so it may be possible for someone to hack at it till it functioned on a monochrome. But judging by the images on the site, it might not work out to well on monochrome displays.
Troll? I object to that. There is nothing trollish. A troll is someone who tries to get dumb replies by posting inaccurate info. Nothing here is inaccurate, and i was not trying to get dumb posts. I say that HP makes crappy comps because THEY do. I would know, I own some.
can it do reverse polish notation? Seriously, that would be so sweet.
Anywayz, I hate the Company Hewletcompagergishmess. Their computers are flaming shit piles. But there calcs rival Ti (some argue that they are far bettr) and it is totally cool that they are supporting emulation (unlike the console game industry - as if they are still making money off of the SNES!). But the coolest part is that it's OSS, so I could just program it to do reverse polish notation if i really wanted to.
hmmm... b then a then g then n... engineers don't beleive in the alphabet. "[the alphabet] is just a suggestion, Marge. Like pants" - homer yes, I know that the quote actually talks about roads, so lets just call this the information super HIGHWAY and get on with our lives ^^
(if the above is incoherent, you haven't spent enuf time on slashdot)
this is why i meta-mod all redundants with a +2. it usually allows me to read them. Anyway, Moderators should check the timestamp before modding down as redundant.
But what pisses me off is the over-rated mod. If you think that my opinion is invalid, then respond to it with your own insightful remarks (and don't be suprised when no one mods you up). If i have a +funny post, and you mod it redundant, then ask yourself this.. "Is this actually no funny, or do I just lack the sense of humor to realize just how funny this is" . i HATE overrated mods.
Now, we get to off-topic. it's just as abused as the others, so I meta-mod them +2. Of course, I wouldn't have to do this if you moderators would just realize what the topic was, and bother to read the posts leading up to the one you are reading. Just because someones conversation leads off into something unrelated, doesn't mean that it is entirely off-topic. If the conversation leads to that post and follows a coherent flow of logic, it is NOT offtopic.
take this post for example. It seems off-topic to the unwitty moderator (who hasn't read this far anyway). However, I am have a valid disagreement with the way the above post was modified.
Now, to make a relavant comment. I use hotmail, I never get span (except from MSN, but it is THEIR damned webspace i'm using). Now, i am worried that i will get spam blasts from having my address on my website, but it hasnt happened yet. hopefully it never will. Perhaps i will jsut add REMOVETHISWICKYTICKYREMOVETHIS to the address name. a simple solution that many a person uses
let's see.... Does it run Linux? (obligatory joke)... ok... kinda reminds me of the golf cart the school monitor used to chase me in when I ditched class. Seriously, this guy would chase you around campus with a damned golf cart. Once, I got him to chase me all the way to McDonalds (about a mile away on foot for me - funny as hell though, cuz he got busted for driving his golf cart on the street)
That's kinda a difficult situation to address. After all, Fileplanet and Fileshack have their place and provide an important service. They have ALWAYS up access to files. To get these files, you have to sign up (bleh), but sign up is free. No hard feelings there, just give them a hotmail address and wam!, you have access. They also host a wide variety of files from most popular games, even older ones like tribes. However, the real pain in the ass is waiting in line, a necessary, yet extremely aggrivating affair. So, if you can spare a hotmail address (you can), and don't mind waiting inline (have patience young one ^^), then fileplanet isn't so bad. Granted, i HATE waiting inline, but if it bugged me that bad i could PAY for their premium service (i know you don't want to pay, but it's only optional, not mandatory), and have instant access to the game related files I want. Course, it's your choice
.... a guilty pleasure that movie was... but funny as hell...
Uhhh, doesnt sound like crap to me. You laughed, you found it pleasureable. It entertained people, it has done what it set uot to do in the first place.
What then constitutes crap? If crap means a ridiculous and incoherent story, then most of my favorite movies are crap (that includes JaSB:SB). Of course, if you mean that crap = not entertaining, then it is quite obvious that it wasn't crap.
Now i was argueing with a friend that Vertigo was a crappy movie. I found no entertainment in that movie what-so-ever. By my definition that makes it crap. However, it did have a deep and intrigual plot (supposably), and that would make it... not crap? of course, she finds the movie entertaining, and therefore, not crappy to her. But you say its funny as hell and entertaining, but then you say it's crap. (uhuh)
DEFINE CRAP
looks up crap : v - To defecate (dictionary.com)....
hmmm, nope, the movie did not defecate on me, therefore, it is not crap.
... you mean the one with Neo flying on the cover or something.... hmm...I don'r remember any spoilers (course, i could be wrong) . they did put a lot of information about the technical works in the movie (their new super-ultra-hyper-realistic cgi stuff), but thats not really spoiling the plot.
Cause if you don't get into the special reading class in 4th grade timmy you won't get into that advanced math class and sixth and then they'll never let you into AP Chem your junior year!
You don't even realize how true that is, do you? I can't get into AP Chem because I failed to do 60% of the math homework during seventh grade, so that I couldn't get into the more advanced math classes to meet thr pre-resiguits for the AP chem class. (you insensitive clod) . However, being the goof-off stoner type, I have learned to accept the damned beauracracies and am Now learning Calculus and AP Chem in my spare time. Self-teaching is the only way to learn ^^
actually, I did. New trim type (which I won't use) new title generator (i like the ones i use, so I really woudn't notice the new one), customizable keyboard (but after years of using FCP, i'm not about to change my keyboard layout), and some new audio mixers (i don't do the audio in FCP, i use other software). Am I incoherent and rambling, maybe. But remember, your mind is an incoherent and chaotic universe wrapped in a white shell. It reminds me of a story where in a litt... sorry, lost my train of thought again. oh well. anywayz, the same seems to hold true for FCP2 to FCP3 as well as FCP3 to FCP4. But hey, just ignore the rambling looney. 0_o
I know you're just joking, but you probably shouldn't knock to hard on iMovie. For a free video editor (how free is it when you pay $3000 for the machine? SHUT UP U!) it is suprisingly powerful. It handles a fair number of video effects, as well as a fairly powerful yet mind-numbingly easy to use Title Generator. It also sports a variety of transitions. But most importantly it is easy to use and can produce some really nice results without forking over thousands for software. Of course, you could knock on it for being some lame peice of shit with only one video track and two audio tracks, as well as its inability to slow down audio without horrible "shutter-voice," but let's just look at the competition. The most recent release of Windows movie maker finally added Transitions to its tool-box. Nuf sed.
Of course, real men edit movies using text editors under the command console!
is by far my FAVORITE video editing software. in fact, that is the ONLY reason I use a mac (please don't hate me for that). However, I really don't think that these improvements warrant an upgrade (hey, it's an expensive product). In fact, I can hardly tell the difference between FCP2 and FCP3. Maybe I'm just ignorant, or retarded, but I can't actually tell the difference when using the product. Maybe that's a good thing though, Mac is all about streamlining their software for perfect integration. Anywayz... kinda lost my train of thought... oh, yeah. Anywayz, Their DVD software is only mediocre, nothing really superb about it. Nothing really wrong with it either. Ok, then we have shake. Looks a lot like combustion from Discreet (3dstudio max people) but i haven't used shake before (I'm on a budget, okay) so I really can't say too mush about it. But lets look at the bright side, it runs in OSX (first time i read that i thought it sed osex) and the slashdot crowd should probably appreciate that. Personally, I'm happy chugging along with OS9 and the dual 1ghz mac I use FCP on. Moral of the story, apple does ONE thing very well, and that thing is Video editing.... i wish FCP was released for winders (or at least linux. I mean, if it can run on OSX, then its only a jump, hop, and skip away from Linux, Right?)
I have yet to see the movie, but I have always loved the show. It has just enough dramatic-art elements to it to really highlight the excellent story telling. However, I didn't even know that the movie was being shown in American theaters, and that makes me a bit upset. Why, because the American corporations don't support the animes. Then they say, "HEY, these animes don't do well, let's not put any money into more releases." Of course, then some of them are such great film acheivements (Spirited Away comes to mind) that the companies suddenly realize that they CAN make bucko bicks off of the animes, without doing any of the work. Hell, they don't even put that much money into advertising them. Yet they pour millions of dollars into some of the biggest peices of crap that they can produce. I am sick of people saying that anime sux just because it's a cartoon. Luckily, with releases such as spirited away, and films heavily influenced by anime (The Watchowski Brothers loved Ghost in the Shell and Arkira [as do I]) I feel that more and more people will appreciat anime as another form of cinematic art, and not just some little kiddy thing.
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***takes svideo connecter, attaches video card to tv, sits in bean bag chair, plays UT2003 with all the wonderful eyecandy*** ... ... you're right, PCs = desk-slaves! Throw away your pc! Grab an XBox and all the latest games. Hell, buy a few copies of each! And make sure you stock pile up on bean bag chairs as the bean bag chair market is poised to skyrocket and prices to do similar. And then you can laugh at all those poors saps with their |4/\/\3 @$$ PCs as you ride in 5|_|p3r |337 comfort with you haXorBOX!
on second thought, i'll keep my PC.
I remember a while back there was a way to make a keyboard and mouse for your XBox posted on here :
http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/
of course, they don't work on any of the games, but MS may eventually support it. After all, PS2 has a keyboard and mouse.
Personally, I hate the XBox controllers for FPSs, except for Splinter Cell. Keyboard and mouse are useless on Splinter Cell, you need a gamepad.
Course, I'm not drooling over the XBox port for two reasons: 1) I play games on my PC where I can jack up the resolution and download level mods and design my own skins; and 2) all those perty DX9 effects don't exist on the XBox, making the true glory and splendor of DOOMIII a non-existant on the XBox.
because there was some copyright problem with Pheonix (taken by someone else, don't remember whom though).
What your talking about though is codenames. Those are supposed to change once the product is released. Excuse me if i'm wrong, but Pheonix wasn't a code name, It was a product name.
If size compression was your number one concern, you could always just use Lynx ^^. Of course, Phoenix, errm, sorry, firebird, is pretty damn small for being a full fledged browser. Not to say that there isn't room for improvement, but I'd say it's about as small of a full fledged browser as you'll find. Course, there is the less popular K-meleon browser (same enginge), but it ends up being 11-12 megs with all the standard plugins. So, if you were to choose not to install the plug-ins (do you really need them at school), K-meleon might be a nice alternative.
For me its the Gremling or nothing. Now that was one hot car (especially when it exploded). Course, I really don't know why you would ever name a car model Gremling (even if it was appropriate).
Now, excuse me as I get modded off-topic.
Probably because there was a rather odd debacle over the name Pheonix being taken and the team being forced to change it. Of course, the name firebird isn't all that different than pheonix ^^ but thats what they were going for. And, if most people are like me, they have been curious to find out the new name of Pheonix, err.. sorry, Firebird (i say pheonix sounded better).
Course, it might just be a slow news day ^^ (j/k).
Either way, the editors do have a strange notion of what constitutes as news, but who am I to complain. Or an AC for that matter.
GOD NO! NOT THE KREBBS CYCLE --- ***shudders from horrible memories of the month's spent learning every last part of the Krebbs cycle for his biology class*** ... evil, evil Krebbs ...
ok.. nuf of that. One thing is sure, It's nice to know that there was a swift plethora of responces to the grandparent's psuedo-science posts. Of course, this is a site for nerds, and we nerds should know our sciences better!
Live long and prosper (and don't eat too much bacon!)
Sugar is not bad. People are designed to eat sugars (specifically fructose). Proccessed sugar - you're right, bad (in large quantities). Complex carbs are NOT bad. They are good because the are easier for the human body to digest than meats. (Meats are protein strands - one strand is a very complex mass of amino acids). Complex carbs provide a good source of energy. They are only bad when consumed in large quantities (americans eat far too many carbs). Meats --- lean meats can provide a great source of long-term energy. It digests slowly, and therefore can last you a while. However, fat is far worse than anything. Avoid fats, they have no nutritional value. Therfore, you should not eat loads of bacon everyday. Eggs, the whites are good for you, the yolks are full of calories and fats. Again, avoid fats. Now, if you happen to loose weight while scarfing down eggs and bacon, it is more than likely that your body can't absorb most of what is being digested and is therefore being passed through. That is a waste of food, and prooves dangerous as it restricts important vitamins and minerals. I will stress that you eat fruits and vegitables. They have important nutrients. They are lower in calories than many other foods. The fructose found in fruits is actually good for the body. Don't beleive me? Fine, but don't come crying to me when you have a heart attack and die. And remember, being low in weight does not make you healthy. Nutrients are important, as is such invisible things as clogged arteries. So excersize, and eat a balanced diet. Such is the key to health.
i never really understood the logic behind that. "Hey! You can't sell that! ... however, we will take a percentage of whatever money you did make selling it." That is the last straw. I'm gonna go revive David Thoerough, and we are gonna get together with a bunch of people and (dun, dun!) NOT pay our taxes. OH, YES What a sinister and insidious plan, BRUHAHA!
Personally, I don't get taxes. I sure as hell never agreed to be under the rule of the Gov't. (so what, you were born here, you have to pay the taxes). So f*ing what. Nothing gives them the right to take my money to spend on things that I disagree with and then rape me by passing legislation that makes it illegal for me to do anything.
Maybe taxes make me cranky, or maybe I have some valid points.
Well, it is OSS, so it may be possible for someone to hack at it till it functioned on a monochrome. But judging by the images on the site, it might not work out to well on monochrome displays.
Troll? I object to that. There is nothing trollish. A troll is someone who tries to get dumb replies by posting inaccurate info. Nothing here is inaccurate, and i was not trying to get dumb posts. I say that HP makes crappy comps because THEY do. I would know, I own some.
can it do reverse polish notation? Seriously, that would be so sweet.
Anywayz, I hate the Company Hewletcompagergishmess. Their computers are flaming shit piles. But there calcs rival Ti (some argue that they are far bettr) and it is totally cool that they are supporting emulation (unlike the console game industry - as if they are still making money off of the SNES!). But the coolest part is that it's OSS, so I could just program it to do reverse polish notation if i really wanted to.
FP (okay, first relavent post)?
hmmm... b then a then g then n ... engineers don't beleive in the alphabet. "[the alphabet] is just a suggestion, Marge. Like pants" - homer
yes, I know that the quote actually talks about roads, so lets just call this the information super HIGHWAY and get on with our lives ^^
(if the above is incoherent, you haven't spent enuf time on slashdot)
this is why i meta-mod all redundants with a +2. it usually allows me to read them. Anyway, Moderators should check the timestamp before modding down as redundant.
.. "Is this actually no funny, or do I just lack the sense of humor to realize just how funny this is" . i HATE overrated mods.
But what pisses me off is the over-rated mod. If you think that my opinion is invalid, then respond to it with your own insightful remarks (and don't be suprised when no one mods you up). If i have a +funny post, and you mod it redundant, then ask yourself this
Now, we get to off-topic. it's just as abused as the others, so I meta-mod them +2. Of course, I wouldn't have to do this if you moderators would just realize what the topic was, and bother to read the posts leading up to the one you are reading. Just because someones conversation leads off into something unrelated, doesn't mean that it is entirely off-topic. If the conversation leads to that post and follows a coherent flow of logic, it is NOT offtopic.
take this post for example. It seems off-topic to the unwitty moderator (who hasn't read this far anyway). However, I am have a valid disagreement with the way the above post was modified.
Now, to make a relavant comment. I use hotmail, I never get span (except from MSN, but it is THEIR damned webspace i'm using). Now, i am worried that i will get spam blasts from having my address on my website, but it hasnt happened yet. hopefully it never will. Perhaps i will jsut add REMOVETHISWICKYTICKYREMOVETHIS to the address name. a simple solution that many a person uses
the ex or the car? (or both?)
where's the computer? Oh... no computer :( ...
.... Does it run Linux? (obligatory joke) ... ok ... kinda reminds me of the golf cart the school monitor used to chase me in when I ditched class. Seriously, this guy would chase you around campus with a damned golf cart. Once, I got him to chase me all the way to McDonalds (about a mile away on foot for me - funny as hell though, cuz he got busted for driving his golf cart on the street)
let's see
That's kinda a difficult situation to address. After all, Fileplanet and Fileshack have their place and provide an important service. They have ALWAYS up access to files. To get these files, you have to sign up (bleh), but sign up is free. No hard feelings there, just give them a hotmail address and wam!, you have access. They also host a wide variety of files from most popular games, even older ones like tribes. However, the real pain in the ass is waiting in line, a necessary, yet extremely aggrivating affair. So, if you can spare a hotmail address (you can), and don't mind waiting inline (have patience young one ^^), then fileplanet isn't so bad.
Granted, i HATE waiting inline, but if it bugged me that bad i could PAY for their premium service (i know you don't want to pay, but it's only optional, not mandatory), and have instant access to the game related files I want.
Course, it's your choice
Uhhh, doesnt sound like crap to me. You laughed, you found it pleasureable. It entertained people, it has done what it set uot to do in the first place.
What then constitutes crap? If crap means a ridiculous and incoherent story, then most of my favorite movies are crap (that includes JaSB:SB). Of course, if you mean that crap = not entertaining, then it is quite obvious that it wasn't crap.
Now i was argueing with a friend that Vertigo was a crappy movie. I found no entertainment in that movie what-so-ever. By my definition that makes it crap. However, it did have a deep and intrigual plot (supposably), and that would make it... not crap? of course, she finds the movie entertaining, and therefore, not crappy to her. But you say its funny as hell and entertaining, but then you say it's crap. (uhuh)
DEFINE CRAP
looks up crap : v - To defecate (dictionary.com)....
hmmm, nope, the movie did not defecate on me, therefore, it is not crap.
... you mean the one with Neo flying on the cover or something .... hmm ...I don'r remember any spoilers (course, i could be wrong) . they did put a lot of information about the technical works in the movie (their new super-ultra-hyper-realistic cgi stuff), but thats not really spoiling the plot.
Cause if you don't get into the special reading class in 4th grade timmy you won't get into that advanced math class and sixth and then they'll never let you into AP Chem your junior year!
You don't even realize how true that is, do you?
I can't get into AP Chem because I failed to do 60% of the math homework during seventh grade, so that I couldn't get into the more advanced math classes to meet thr pre-resiguits for the AP chem class. (you insensitive clod) . However, being the goof-off stoner type, I have learned to accept the damned beauracracies and am Now learning Calculus and AP Chem in my spare time. Self-teaching is the only way to learn ^^
actually, I did. New trim type (which I won't use) new title generator (i like the ones i use, so I really woudn't notice the new one), customizable keyboard (but after years of using FCP, i'm not about to change my keyboard layout), and some new audio mixers (i don't do the audio in FCP, i use other software). Am I incoherent and rambling, maybe. But remember, your mind is an incoherent and chaotic universe wrapped in a white shell. It reminds me of a story where in a litt ... sorry, lost my train of thought again. oh well. anywayz, the same seems to hold true for FCP2 to FCP3 as well as FCP3 to FCP4. But hey, just ignore the rambling looney. 0_o
I know you're just joking, but you probably shouldn't knock to hard on iMovie. For a free video editor (how free is it when you pay $3000 for the machine? SHUT UP U!) it is suprisingly powerful. It handles a fair number of video effects, as well as a fairly powerful yet mind-numbingly easy to use Title Generator. It also sports a variety of transitions. But most importantly it is easy to use and can produce some really nice results without forking over thousands for software. Of course, you could knock on it for being some lame peice of shit with only one video track and two audio tracks, as well as its inability to slow down audio without horrible "shutter-voice," but let's just look at the competition. The most recent release of Windows movie maker finally added Transitions to its tool-box. Nuf sed.
Of course, real men edit movies using text editors under the command console!
is by far my FAVORITE video editing software. in fact, that is the ONLY reason I use a mac (please don't hate me for that). However, I really don't think that these improvements warrant an upgrade (hey, it's an expensive product). In fact, I can hardly tell the difference between FCP2 and FCP3. Maybe I'm just ignorant, or retarded, but I can't actually tell the difference when using the product. Maybe that's a good thing though, Mac is all about streamlining their software for perfect integration. Anywayz ... kinda lost my train of thought ... oh, yeah. Anywayz, Their DVD software is only mediocre, nothing really superb about it. Nothing really wrong with it either. Ok, then we have shake. Looks a lot like combustion from Discreet (3dstudio max people) but i haven't used shake before (I'm on a budget, okay) so I really can't say too mush about it. But lets look at the bright side, it runs in OSX (first time i read that i thought it sed osex) and the slashdot crowd should probably appreciate that. Personally, I'm happy chugging along with OS9 and the dual 1ghz mac I use FCP on. Moral of the story, apple does ONE thing very well, and that thing is Video editing.... i wish FCP was released for winders (or at least linux. I mean, if it can run on OSX, then its only a jump, hop, and skip away from Linux, Right?)
I have yet to see the movie, but I have always loved the show. It has just enough dramatic-art elements to it to really highlight the excellent story telling. However, I didn't even know that the movie was being shown in American theaters, and that makes me a bit upset. Why, because the American corporations don't support the animes. Then they say, "HEY, these animes don't do well, let's not put any money into more releases." Of course, then some of them are such great film acheivements (Spirited Away comes to mind) that the companies suddenly realize that they CAN make bucko bicks off of the animes, without doing any of the work. Hell, they don't even put that much money into advertising them. Yet they pour millions of dollars into some of the biggest peices of crap that they can produce. I am sick of people saying that anime sux just because it's a cartoon. Luckily, with releases such as spirited away, and films heavily influenced by anime (The Watchowski Brothers loved Ghost in the Shell and Arkira [as do I]) I feel that more and more people will appreciat anime as another form of cinematic art, and not just some little kiddy thing.
Long Live CB! 0_o
just like they always have?