Pr0n pr0n pr0n... What - are you guys afraid to use the real word? How about being more original, like, say, using the word prawn instead. Whoheww, I'm on Kazaa and downloading prawn by the bucketload.
The opening of Enter the Matrix is a direct continuation of the Animatrix short Last Flight of the Osiris. You can choose to start with either Niobe or Ghost, and the plot thereafter is a subset of the movies. It's not necessary to play it to enjoy the movie, but it does give you more insight into the characters and the background story.
Hard to imagine this working in multiplayer. However, the single player game Enter the Matrix doesn't have bullet time either. It has something called focus time, and it's very underwhelming.
Doom 3 looks fantastic, but the Half Life 2 cap stunned me even more. The physics in the video was astounding. For a gamer, Doom 3 and Half Life 2 is nirvana!
Well said. Now, how long before Microsoft unveils their plans for a handheld X-Box? I mean, they already got the OS. It's just a matter of making a more specialized PocketPC.
MAYBE the truth is that Microsoft recieved so much bad press over it that they decided to pull the iLoo and pretend it was a joke. If that is the case, aren't there regulations against such things?
I agree with your reasoning, but regulations? A press release does by no means constitute a contract.
When will people learn that buying top-of-the-line hardware just isn't nessecary anymore, and that you pay through the nose for it?
I say let them. If nobody bought the latest and the greatest, who would care to develop them? If you don't want to buy the latest cards, fine, I respect that. I rarely do it myself. But I'm happy people are buying them, because this is what is driving the development of even better cards.
Well said, although I'm not sure I agree that Matrix is overrated. The sequels may be grossly overhyped, but the original is still a pretty good action movie. Personally though, all of the above mentioned films struck a deeper cord with me than Matrix, but I still enjoyed Matrix a lot and do look forward to seeing the sequels.
Forget the DMCA -- As long as you retain the codec you use for encoding, you will be able to play back your videos. You're not reverse engineering, you're just reusing the same piece of software over and over. Keep an old computer configured to play the encoded videoes and leave it alone. This doesn't ensure compatability with every new format, but you will be able to view your stuff.
I'm crying a river for Microsoft. How much do they pay you, incidentally?
Yeah, anyone who doesn't harbour bad feelings for Microsoft must be on their payroll. Sure. Whatever. Objectivity is important. If you think this was funny:
"According to this article in PC World, Microsoft 'publicly confirmed 2005 as the release year for Longhorn, the successor to Windows XP.' And of course, we all know tha Microsoft release dates never slip..."
Then you probably would love these editorials (fake comments in italics):
"Well, Mandrake 9.1 is out for PPC processors and a nifty utility included is the Mac-on-Linux feature where you can run mac os 9/x in a window at native speed." Wow, Mac AND Linux at the same time. I must be in slow-poke one-button heaven.
Or:
"OpenBSD's Theo De Raadt provides an update on his team's efforts to remove potential buffer overflows within OpenBSD code by always calculating. Yeah, like this effort is going anyhwere....
13th floor was cool. So was Dark City, Cube -- and The Matrix. Who cares which one was "best". I don't rate movies like, ooh that's deep, +2, or punch to the head, -1, cool flying kick, +1, no Sandra Bullock, -5. They're all great movies.:)
Who anointed you the philosophy police? If for a lot of people the The Matrix is subtle and philosophical, well, that's great. At least it makes those people think. Philosophy is a personal thing. Just because you think The Matrix's take on philosophy was primitive doesn't mean that everyone feels that way. For a lot of people, it was probably pretty deep.
Why use humans at all? If all you need is a powersource, stick in sheep? Less troublesome by half.
Animatrix Second Renaissance parts 1 and 2 explain this. It's not just for efficiency, which probably doesn't make sense. It's for preservation of intelligence. To the machine, intelligence is holy.
It's a great boon for users behind firewalls. Many corporations set up their firewalls to disallow downloading of files ending with.mov/.avi/.mpg etc., but rarely against.zip-files.
It doesn't matter if the format or codec is eventually forgotten. As long as you preserve the codec in question, you will be able to play what you encoded. It's that simple.
Nor has easy management arived. I count four non obvious interface level navigations and seven mouse click to change a mount. Editing/etc/fstab is trivial by compairison.
No, it's not. This attitude is why Linux is so hard to configure by non-technical users.
Windows isn't THAT solid still.. whilst I think Windows XP is one of the best systems Microsoft have ever produced, I have still seen a few random resets and blue screens since using it. I think journalling filesystems definately still have a place.
I have been witness to exactly three lockups. One while trying to install XP on a computer with a RIVA TNT2-card (critical, had to change the card to a newer one), and two with memory segment faults. I could have avoided the latter by switching auto restart off, but it's better to restart than to continue when this happens. XP is not the end of the world, but it's damn good software. Too bad they put in the activation -- I really despise this way of registering software.
Alone in the Dark scared the bejeezus out of me. Never since has a computer game truly felt scary. It was also the first game to make me realize that the Amiga didn't cut it any more. I had to buy a decent PC. Of course, when Doom finally came along, I had to get a new one:).
Games have always inspired me. As a young adult, Sierra many Quest games whetted my appetite for adventure and were a constant "friend" during my growing up period. I felt such a bond with Sierra that it really made an impact to me when they were forced to call quits. I feel nothing for the Sierra of today.
It's hard to make good movies from action games. The Gabriel Knight series, though, would be a great basis for a movie.
Btw, I enjoyed Max Payne. It's a fun game, as long as you skip the dreadful "nightmare" scenes.
The linked article made it look like the students merely owned MP3s, but other, more detailed articles explains that the students had hosted a web site with links to mp3s. Apparently, one of the mirrors to their web site, MP3 WMA Land, has had 7 million hit in the past 12 months.
Sigh... Kids. Of course RIAA and their Australian equivalent would put an end to this.
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Pr0n pr0n pr0n... What - are you guys afraid to use the real word? How about being more original, like, say, using the word prawn instead. Whoheww, I'm on Kazaa and downloading prawn by the bucketload.
Enter the Matrix is released. It's not half as good as the movie, but I guess it's worthwhile if you're a fan. A bit disappointing, really.
Ok, point taken. :)
The opening of Enter the Matrix is a direct continuation of the Animatrix short Last Flight of the Osiris. You can choose to start with either Niobe or Ghost, and the plot thereafter is a subset of the movies. It's not necessary to play it to enjoy the movie, but it does give you more insight into the characters and the background story.
Hard to imagine this working in multiplayer. However, the single player game Enter the Matrix doesn't have bullet time either. It has something called focus time, and it's very underwhelming.
Doom 3 looks fantastic, but the Half Life 2 cap stunned me even more. The physics in the video was astounding. For a gamer, Doom 3 and Half Life 2 is nirvana!
I'm imagining it. Hmm. Pretty compact cluster. Could fit hundreds of those in my closet. :)
Well said. Now, how long before Microsoft unveils their plans for a handheld X-Box? I mean, they already got the OS. It's just a matter of making a more specialized PocketPC.
I say let them. If nobody bought the latest and the greatest, who would care to develop them? If you don't want to buy the latest cards, fine, I respect that. I rarely do it myself. But I'm happy people are buying them, because this is what is driving the development of even better cards.
Well said, although I'm not sure I agree that Matrix is overrated. The sequels may be grossly overhyped, but the original is still a pretty good action movie. Personally though, all of the above mentioned films struck a deeper cord with me than Matrix, but I still enjoyed Matrix a lot and do look forward to seeing the sequels.
Forget the DMCA -- As long as you retain the codec you use for encoding, you will be able to play back your videos. You're not reverse engineering, you're just reusing the same piece of software over and over. Keep an old computer configured to play the encoded videoes and leave it alone. This doesn't ensure compatability with every new format, but you will be able to view your stuff.
"According to this article in PC World, Microsoft 'publicly confirmed 2005 as the release year for Longhorn, the successor to Windows XP.' And of course, we all know tha Microsoft release dates never slip..."
Then you probably would love these editorials (fake comments in italics):
"Well, Mandrake 9.1 is out for PPC processors and a nifty utility included is the Mac-on-Linux feature where you can run mac os 9/x in a window at native speed." Wow, Mac AND Linux at the same time. I must be in slow-poke one-button heaven.
Or: "OpenBSD's Theo De Raadt provides an update on his team's efforts to remove potential buffer overflows within OpenBSD code by always calculating. Yeah, like this effort is going anyhwere....
13th floor was cool. So was Dark City, Cube -- and The Matrix. Who cares which one was "best". I don't rate movies like, ooh that's deep, +2, or punch to the head, -1, cool flying kick, +1, no Sandra Bullock, -5. They're all great movies. :)
Who anointed you the philosophy police? If for a lot of people the The Matrix is subtle and philosophical, well, that's great. At least it makes those people think. Philosophy is a personal thing. Just because you think The Matrix's take on philosophy was primitive doesn't mean that everyone feels that way. For a lot of people, it was probably pretty deep.
It's a great boon for users behind firewalls. Many corporations set up their firewalls to disallow downloading of files ending with .mov/.avi/.mpg etc., but rarely against .zip-files.
It doesn't matter if the format or codec is eventually forgotten. As long as you preserve the codec in question, you will be able to play what you encoded. It's that simple.
Games have always inspired me. As a young adult, Sierra many Quest games whetted my appetite for adventure and were a constant "friend" during my growing up period. I felt such a bond with Sierra that it really made an impact to me when they were forced to call quits. I feel nothing for the Sierra of today.
Ok, so the Ranger movie didn't really work. But Crusade rocked, and I'm really sad it didn't pan out.
It's hard to make good movies from action games. The Gabriel Knight series, though, would be a great basis for a movie. Btw, I enjoyed Max Payne. It's a fun game, as long as you skip the dreadful "nightmare" scenes.
In the dark, obviously...
Sigh... Kids. Of course RIAA and their Australian equivalent would put an end to this.