Scrolling myself across the world like a little god, from checking out my house (which isn't there, since it's built a year ago) to the Colosseum to Tokyo to Iceland, I came upon something that simply blew my mind:
The Sahara desert. It's incredible! I had no idea it would look so amazing from orbit. Does it really look like that, or is it just distortions from merging multiple satellite images? If real, it's the most spectacular thing I've seen on the web since boobies.
My Radeon 9600 Pro had it running at around 5fps, so I never bothered to explore the full hour of gameplay, but what I did try out felt more like a technical demonstration than a game. Running around chugging rocks at stuff? Oh well.
Apart from the hideous performance and lack of actual gameplay, what bothered me most was that there was no jumping animation to speak of. Unless my system is so crappy that the interchanging animation frames were simply dropped, it seems that the game's idea of a jump is to teleport the character two foot above ground, then drop her. Not exactly immersive.
We also get to enjoy the awesome loading times that the almighty Valve unleashed with Half-Life 2. I didn't even finish their game, since I felt I spent more time waiting for a new level to load than I did playing it.
Re:DivX 6 is Out...for Windows 2000/XP.
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DivX 6.0 is Out
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I'd be more impressed by the this if it didn't play like a slideshow.
System requirements for a 720p video: * Dual 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon or faster processor * At least 1 GB of RAM * 64 MB or greater video card
I don't know about you, but personally I don't have dual anything, much less 2.8GHz of it. Mind you, this may change in the future, once they've finished developing the PC version of Quicktime.
Quality-wise, I agree that 720p video is stunning. But does it actually make a difference when shown on a television screen, unless one uses the $5.000 plasma behemoths? In any case, Quicktime isn't alone in having unplayable high-definition video, Microsoft http://www.wmvhd.com/ has something similar.
The Japanese companies are not completely uncaring of the online distribution.
I've been watching Japanese shows without subtitles for a while now, since I'm studying the language, and I've started noticing warning messages about not spreading their show on the internet, etc, etc.
An example of this is "He is my Master" which started airing a few weeks ago, where a message scrolls by at the start of the episode.
I used to be a fansubber, before I went back to the university in order to learn Japanese properly. At the time I wrote a guide for curious people, describing the process our group went through for subtitling an episode.
I'd also like to point out that fansubs are likely to spread the Japanese culture a lot more than any dubbed-and-slashed US versions released. Granted, this may not be an amazing thing for American companies looking for quick profits on a new frontier, but I believe Japan as a nation will benefit in the end.
Somehow this reminded me of when I first gained access to female sexual activities.
There's a hidden button on women which, if pressed properly, generates various responses.
Click once for a slap, twice for a moan, or keep on clicking for more amusing results and sound effects.
And with my dear mother watching The Bachelor religiously, "limited resource computing devices" isn't all that bad a description.
Re:this isn't free yet, AFAIK
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An IMDb for Books
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I have no intentions of selling out. I was simply naïve enough to think just about everyone would love a website where they could look up books without having pricetags pushed up their nostrils every three seconds.
Regarding copyrights, I haven't even thought about it. I didn't realize people would be so annoyed for putting their time into a project like this. I do, however, intend to read up on the GNU licenes and whatnot and make sure I end up not even being able to sell other people's work for my own profit.
It might be nice with some money to upgrade the server, though.:p
Currently only administrators are able to enter new books into the database. This is done to hopefully remove whatever ill-willing bastards happen to feel like destroying something.
It's perfectly possible to become an administrator by following the instructions on the Help page.
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Scrolling myself across the world like a little god, from checking out my house (which isn't there, since it's built a year ago) to the Colosseum to Tokyo to Iceland, I came upon something that simply blew my mind:
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The Sahara desert. It's incredible! I had no idea it would look so amazing from orbit. Does it really look like that, or is it just distortions from merging multiple satellite images? If real, it's the most spectacular thing I've seen on the web since boobies.
My Radeon 9600 Pro had it running at around 5fps, so I never bothered to explore the full hour of gameplay, but what I did try out felt more like a technical demonstration than a game. Running around chugging rocks at stuff? Oh well.
Apart from the hideous performance and lack of actual gameplay, what bothered me most was that there was no jumping animation to speak of. Unless my system is so crappy that the interchanging animation frames were simply dropped, it seems that the game's idea of a jump is to teleport the character two foot above ground, then drop her. Not exactly immersive.
We also get to enjoy the awesome loading times that the almighty Valve unleashed with Half-Life 2. I didn't even finish their game, since I felt I spent more time waiting for a new level to load than I did playing it.
I'd be more impressed by the this if it didn't play like a slideshow.
System requirements for a 720p video:
* Dual 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon or faster processor
* At least 1 GB of RAM
* 64 MB or greater video card
I don't know about you, but personally I don't have dual anything, much less 2.8GHz of it. Mind you, this may change in the future, once they've finished developing the PC version of Quicktime.
Quality-wise, I agree that 720p video is stunning. But does it actually make a difference when shown on a television screen, unless one uses the $5.000 plasma behemoths? In any case, Quicktime isn't alone in having unplayable high-definition video, Microsoft http://www.wmvhd.com/ has something similar.
The Japanese companies are not completely uncaring of the online distribution.
I've been watching Japanese shows without subtitles for a while now, since I'm studying the language, and I've started noticing warning messages about not spreading their show on the internet, etc, etc.
An example of this is "He is my Master" which started airing a few weeks ago, where a message scrolls by at the start of the episode.
Would someone mind explaining to me how this is different from bootlegging? I haven't followed the allofmp3.com story too closely.
URL is http://www.lolikon.org/guide.html
I'd also like to point out that fansubs are likely to spread the Japanese culture a lot more than any dubbed-and-slashed US versions released. Granted, this may not be an amazing thing for American companies looking for quick profits on a new frontier, but I believe Japan as a nation will benefit in the end.
Personally I have a severe dog allergy, so developing a robot to guide me if I was to go blind isn't a bad idea.
If he dies, someone might bother to invent the Invincible Suit I always dream of when taking the subway.
There's a hidden button on women which, if pressed properly, generates various responses. Click once for a slap, twice for a moan, or keep on clicking for more amusing results and sound effects.
And with my dear mother watching The Bachelor religiously, "limited resource computing devices" isn't all that bad a description.
Regarding copyrights, I haven't even thought about it. I didn't realize people would be so annoyed for putting their time into a project like this. I do, however, intend to read up on the GNU licenes and whatnot and make sure I end up not even being able to sell other people's work for my own profit.
It might be nice with some money to upgrade the server, though. :p
Age is not an issue; the system will handle any year concerning humanly written works.
It's perfectly possible to become an administrator by following the instructions on the Help page.