How bizarre. Why would you bother to lie about something like that?
Admittedly, it's the photos that make the site interesting. I couldn't care less if she rode an oversized beagle to get there. Just seeing the decaying city left behind is fascinating in and of itself.
Of course, this finally settled the nagging question of how she got so many photos of the back her own head.
Just in case anyone missed it the first couple of times it went through/., there's a great website a photographer put up of her trip through chernobyl - http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm
Wow... that's really odd. I've been playing Mario games for over two decades now. And until right now, when I read your post it never occurred to me how really quite odd it is that the question blocks and bricks just... float in the air for no reason. They just sit there much in the way flowers just sit on the ground. Its odd how you can really miss the forest for the trees.
I guess when you've been around something since you're a kid, it just sort of becomes normal for blocks to float in the air.
I kind of wonder how many gaming conventions we accept as normal, our kids and their kids will find ludicrous? Like bodies that disappear, items that simply vanish when you touch them, etc.
This is quite true and also one of the reason why Episodes 4, 5, & 6 were so much better. (Although admittedly still quite campy sci-fi). It's well known that Harrison Ford pretty much ignored all direction from Lucas and went with his gut.
For example, in the famous scene where Han Solo is frozen in Carbonite, Leia says "I love you" and Han replies "I know." It's a great scene and fits the character of Han Solo quite well. Lucas was furious stating that he wanted Han Solo to reply "I love you too."
But, I'm sure in the extra special 3rd mix dub edition of Star Wars, we'll hear the dialog remixed that way.
I saw that and for a split second I thought I would be seeing more from the old company that brought us Zak McKracken and Maniac Mansion. Some of us still fondly remember the old adventure games.
I'm sick and tired of their recent obsession with 3d, it just doesn't look as good. I would love to see a 2d adventure game from them that would run natively at 1600x1200 and scale down to lower resolutions.
Can anyone honestly look and tell me that this 3d Sam & Max has more artistic style than this 2d Sam & Max??
I'm not opposed to 3d games mind you, lord knows I didn't buy this Nvidia board for running OO.org faster and Grim Fandango was utterly phenomenal. I'd just like to see Lucasfilm games, lucasarts, whatever, spend more time in making a well written, well crafted worlds and games, rather than just "Wow, it's an adventure title, but in 3d!"
I have two titles for you. "Baldur's Gate 1 & 2" for the Ps2, and "We Love Katamari."
I have yet to meet a woman that doesn't like those two titles. Granted, most woman I know are big into Tolkien/Fantasy, but it's bizarre how receptive they are to a good gauntlet type dungeon crawl. My wife (Who is 25) and I have beaten both Baldur's gate a couple of times.
The two main approaches to analysis are "candidate elimination" and "what-if"."
"In "candidate elimination", progress is made by successively eliminating candidate numerals from one or more cells to leave just one choice."
"In the "what-if" approach, a cell with only two candidate numerals is selected, and a guess is made. The steps above are repeated unless a duplication is found or a cell is left with no possible candidate, in which case the alternative candidate is the solution."
Which is my point exactly. It would be ludicrous to sit there and try each number 1-9 until you found the correct number, but the game is still a process of elimination until you arrive at the correct number.
I must be getting old when the 18-23 crowd seems like kids to me...
I'd agree with you that gamefaqs is a lot "cheats." But most of the people I know who use that site are on there for the message boards, or reading up on older games to find new things out about them. i.e. Morrowind comes to mind.
I'm going to have to disagree with that statement. While I do love Chess (And everyone and their brother should learn to play Go.) I really don't see the intrinsic intellectual value of Sudoku. Sudoku is quite similar to the children's game with the various shaped pegs that you have to fit into the corresponding holes on a board. It can be challenging, but ultimately it comes down to a process of elimination and time will solve just about any problem as long as you keep track of what you've tried.
I'll grant that your average FPS, MMORPG, and Platform game do almost nothing to improve your intellect and really they only improve response times. There is something to be said for a good quality RTS, Turn based strategy game, or the all but dead adventure game which forces you to think critically. And to a lesser extent even the classic "falling object puzzle" games. Certainly far more than watching movies and television.
From TFA ...about one-third of adult gamers spend ten hours or more playing video games per week. Compared to only eleven percent of teens, some have to wonder where we find the time.
I find it hard to believe there are more adults playing long hours of video games than teens.
Compare that to a recent poll by Gamefaqs about their users age.
Admittedly, that is only a poll showing the age of the people using that site, but it seems to be a fairly accurate representation of the age demographics of video game players.
Interesting fact they glossed over.
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One thing the article failed to mention was how ardous it was to make those "mere 15 minutes of cgi." Back then, no animation tools existed nor were there any GUI based rendering tools either. All of the CGI was hard coded by hand using a text system very similar to Pov-ray. There was no animation programming either. To animate something they had to calculate how far they wanted each object to move, then calculate and enter the cordinates by hand frame-by-frame.
Furthermore, the computers of the time didn't have enough memory to store entire movies, let alone any sort of device to output it to video tape or film like we have now. Instead, they had to render each individual frame, display the frame on a high-resolution monitor and then photograph the monitor onto regular 35mm film. Each frame would take several hours to render further complicating the process trying to keep the lighting uniform on each exposure.
Now, fifteen minutes * 60 seconds in a minute * 24 frames per second = roughly 21,600 frames. Just an insane amount of manual labor.
You're absolutely right. Look how much ground Windows lost when 95 came out and it's bloated system requirements. And when windows xp came out with its hefty requirements...
Nintendo had a partnership with Lifetime Fitness where they produced exactly what you described.
As seen here
When Nintendo originally previewed they had hoped to sell it to gamers for about $200 for the unit, but whenever was said and done it ended up being a lot more (Like $600 I think for the bike and game?) So they made a single unit built for fitness centers and sold a few of them to baileys and the like.
Its too bad, because in typical Nintendo fashion they promised the moon. It was supposed to have 2 player battles on the home version, and up to 8 player races in the arcade/fitness center. Even including features like varying resistance for going up and down hills. AFAIK, there was only ever a single player version released.
Screen shot here.
they had on at the local gym when I was a kid, but the stupid thing was always being hogged when I got there, until eventually the thing just wore out, so I've never actually tried it.
MythTV offers transcoding options to automatically convert the video to xvid/divx after it's finished recording. So, while it may not be "live" tv, it's pretty easy to setup the machine to record say, The Daily Show, each night, save the file to xvid format, then you just shared the folder on the network and stream away.
1 idea anyway.
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It would be nice if it could actually watch or import DVDs, like it claims it can. WatchDVD drops out after the first intro section, playing only 1 section. Import DVD does nothing. Yes I did install the CSS library. It did not help
I had the same problem on my box since Mplayer doesn't support menus on dvds at all.
Install Xine and then change your Watch DVD to call
xine -pfhq --no-splash dvd://
instead.
It works great AND Xine let's you fastforward/skip those obnoxious FBI messages at the start of DVDs.
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How bizarre. Why would you bother to lie about something like that?
Admittedly, it's the photos that make the site interesting. I couldn't care less if she rode an oversized beagle to get there. Just seeing the decaying city left behind is fascinating in and of itself.
Of course, this finally settled the nagging question of how she got so many photos of the back her own head.
Just in case anyone missed it the first couple of times it went through /., there's a great website a photographer put up of her trip through chernobyl - http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm
Really surreal and well worth a look.
Hell, Caramilk bars now have an ad which is a parody of the "Kama Sutra" -- you could never do that 15-20 years ago without causing a huge uproar.
Way off topic, but... It's funny you say that... when I was in college my dorm was actually called Kama Sutra...
Wow... that's really odd. I've been playing Mario games for over two decades now. And until right now, when I read your post it never occurred to me how really quite odd it is that the question blocks and bricks just... float in the air for no reason. They just sit there much in the way flowers just sit on the ground. Its odd how you can really miss the forest for the trees. I guess when you've been around something since you're a kid, it just sort of becomes normal for blocks to float in the air. I kind of wonder how many gaming conventions we accept as normal, our kids and their kids will find ludicrous? Like bodies that disappear, items that simply vanish when you touch them, etc.
Not a bad idea, but WoW doesn't do an ip dns resolution, it just direct connects to the server ip.
:)
Now... if you blocked it on the router on the other hand.
This is quite true and also one of the reason why Episodes 4, 5, & 6 were so much better. (Although admittedly still quite campy sci-fi). It's well known that Harrison Ford pretty much ignored all direction from Lucas and went with his gut.
For example, in the famous scene where Han Solo is frozen in Carbonite, Leia says "I love you" and Han replies "I know." It's a great scene and fits the character of Han Solo quite well. Lucas was furious stating that he wanted Han Solo to reply "I love you too."
But, I'm sure in the extra special 3rd mix dub edition of Star Wars, we'll hear the dialog remixed that way.
I saw that and for a split second I thought I would be seeing more from the old company that brought us Zak McKracken and Maniac Mansion. Some of us still fondly remember the old adventure games.
I'm sick and tired of their recent obsession with 3d, it just doesn't look as good. I would love to see a 2d adventure game from them that would run natively at 1600x1200 and scale down to lower resolutions.
Can anyone honestly look and tell me that this 3d Sam & Max has more artistic style than this 2d Sam & Max??
Or this is better than this?
I'm not opposed to 3d games mind you, lord knows I didn't buy this Nvidia board for running OO.org faster and Grim Fandango was utterly phenomenal. I'd just like to see Lucasfilm games, lucasarts, whatever, spend more time in making a well written, well crafted worlds and games, rather than just "Wow, it's an adventure title, but in 3d!"
I have two titles for you. "Baldur's Gate 1 & 2" for the Ps2, and "We Love Katamari."
I have yet to meet a woman that doesn't like those two titles.
Granted, most woman I know are big into Tolkien/Fantasy, but it's bizarre how receptive they are to a good gauntlet type dungeon crawl. My wife (Who is 25) and I have beaten both Baldur's gate a couple of times.
Plus, Katamari Damacy is an instant win.
From the wiki article "Analysis
The two main approaches to analysis are "candidate elimination" and "what-if"."
"In "candidate elimination", progress is made by successively eliminating candidate numerals from one or more cells to leave just one choice."
"In the "what-if" approach, a cell with only two candidate numerals is selected, and a guess is made. The steps above are repeated unless a duplication is found or a cell is left with no possible candidate, in which case the alternative candidate is the solution."
Which is my point exactly. It would be ludicrous to sit there and try each number 1-9 until you found the correct number, but the game is still a process of elimination until you arrive at the correct number.
I must be getting old when the 18-23 crowd seems like kids to me...
I'd agree with you that gamefaqs is a lot "cheats." But most of the people I know who use that site are on there for the message boards, or reading up on older games to find new things out about them. i.e. Morrowind comes to mind.
I'm going to have to disagree with that statement.
While I do love Chess (And everyone and their brother should learn to play Go.) I really don't see the intrinsic intellectual value of Sudoku. Sudoku is quite similar to the children's game with the various shaped pegs that you have to fit into the corresponding holes on a board. It can be challenging, but ultimately it comes down to a process of elimination and time will solve just about any problem as long as you keep track of what you've tried.
I'll grant that your average FPS, MMORPG, and Platform game do almost nothing to improve your intellect and really they only improve response times. There is something to be said for a good quality RTS, Turn based strategy game, or the all but dead adventure game which forces you to think critically. And to a lesser extent even the classic "falling object puzzle" games. Certainly far more than watching movies and television.
Like any and all hobbies, moderation is the key.
From TFA ...about one-third of adult gamers spend ten hours or more playing video games per week. Compared to only eleven percent of teens, some have to wonder where we find the time.
I find it hard to believe there are more adults playing long hours of video games than teens. Compare that to a recent poll by Gamefaqs about their users age.
Admittedly, that is only a poll showing the age of the people using that site, but it seems to be a fairly accurate representation of the age demographics of video game players.
One thing the article failed to mention was how ardous it was to make those "mere 15 minutes of cgi." Back then, no animation tools existed nor were there any GUI based rendering tools either. All of the CGI was hard coded by hand using a text system very similar to Pov-ray. There was no animation programming either. To animate something they had to calculate how far they wanted each object to move, then calculate and enter the cordinates by hand frame-by-frame.
Furthermore, the computers of the time didn't have enough memory to store entire movies, let alone any sort of device to output it to video tape or film like we have now. Instead, they had to render each individual frame, display the frame on a high-resolution monitor and then photograph the monitor onto regular 35mm film. Each frame would take several hours to render further complicating the process trying to keep the lighting uniform on each exposure.
Now, fifteen minutes * 60 seconds in a minute * 24 frames per second = roughly 21,600 frames. Just an insane amount of manual labor.
ehhh, not quite. Space War preceded Pong, and the table tennis game at Brookhaven preceded even Space War.
However, Pong was the first widely popular video game and the first home game.
You're absolutely right. Look how much ground Windows lost when 95 came out and it's bloated system requirements.
And when windows xp came out with its hefty requirements...
But has it POWERED UP yet?
Sorry, couldn't resist....
Nintendo had a partnership with Lifetime Fitness where they produced exactly what you described.
As seen here
When Nintendo originally previewed they had hoped to sell it to gamers for about $200 for the unit, but whenever was said and done it ended up being a lot more (Like $600 I think for the bike and game?) So they made a single unit built for fitness centers and sold a few of them to baileys and the like.
Its too bad, because in typical Nintendo fashion they promised the moon. It was supposed to have 2 player battles on the home version, and up to 8 player races in the arcade/fitness center. Even including features like varying resistance for going up and down hills.
AFAIK, there was only ever a single player version released. Screen shot here.
they had on at the local gym when I was a kid, but the stupid thing was always being hogged when I got there, until eventually the thing just wore out, so I've never actually tried it.
Maybe now we'll find out who wrecked his expensive holo-synth tv.
Sorry, couldn't resist posting an obligatory Phillip K. Dick reference.
Especially since these days, more and more stories in the newspaper sound like something out of one of his novels...
Ahhh, ok. I misunderstood what the transcode option was. Admittedly I haven't messed around with it yet. Thanks for the heads up.
MythTV offers transcoding options to automatically convert the video to xvid/divx after it's finished recording.
So, while it may not be "live" tv, it's pretty easy to setup the machine to record say, The Daily Show, each night, save the file to xvid format, then you just shared the folder on the network and stream away.
1 idea anyway.
It would be nice if it could actually watch or import DVDs, like it claims it can. WatchDVD drops out after the first intro section, playing only 1 section. Import DVD does nothing. Yes I did install the CSS library. It did not help
I had the same problem on my box since Mplayer doesn't support menus on dvds at all. Install Xine and then change your Watch DVD to call
xine -pfhq --no-splash dvd://
instead.
It works great AND Xine let's you fastforward/skip those obnoxious FBI messages at the start of DVDs.
True the image itself is only 2mb, but they render the show in Maya. So Scripts+models+textures+scenes=100mb.
More like you Start pressing the brake to stop the car.
You always post random pr0n? I wasn't offended, but I thought I'd at least give the working class folks a warning.
NSFW = Not Safe For Works.