Actually, the head in the neck thing has now given the existence of a second head a purpose. Whereas before the extra head was merely a cosmetic change, it now makes sense as the place he put the part of his brain that actually knew the real reason he wanted to become President of the Galaxy and steal the Heart of Gold in the first place, along with the other parts of his brain/personality that would have prevented him from getting the job in the first place. It's a great setup, and the point in the movie that told me they (directors and writer) actually knew what was going in the greater plot, and gave me hope for a sequel. And I actually like how Sam Rockwell played the role, and I find his character in the movie as likeable in the movie as in the book, if that's important to you (a character need not be likeable to be a good character).
I admit, this isn't the ideal movie that it could have been; I would have actually rather seen it made by the Farscape producers, as I think they could have better hit the style (and it could still have those Henson Creature Shop creations in it). But all in all, I think the good exceeds the bad. And I can sit here and go on for a few hours about the parts they got wrong. Arthur was great; Ford was hit and miss; Zaphod was good, but it felt to me like he was occasionally pulling off a bad George W impersonation; Trillian was fairly far from the mark; Marvin was done damn near perfect; and the Vogons where better than I had imagined.
Valve and Id are probably the only two developers that have that kind of clout these days.
Close, but I'd include Square-Enix on that list as well. I was thinking maybe Blizzard as well, but a brief search showed they are a subsidary of Vivendi. Any others?
I'd say the gameplay is better, myself. I've been playing since the E3 event a year ago as well, though I wasn't been able to spend a lot of time with the betas - seemed like my schedule regularly conflicted with them. And now, there are no long stretches of solo areas - you can form parties for every explorable adventure area.
As for timing - I know it may not seem like it, because damn, that E3 version played extremely well, but at that point, the game was technically still in an Alpha stage. So, for a major project, one year from the last stages of Alpha testing to released product really isn't bad at all. I believe I read that the game had been in development for 5 years?
I can understand not having time to play GW and WoW - GWs going to be pretty much the only PC game I play for awhile, simply 'cause I don't have a lot of time for gaming. Funny how when you finally get to the point where you can afford the hardware and games and all, you don't have time for it. If you get a chance, though, you may want to give the current gameplay a chance.
If you happen to have 2 computers, then there are a lot more available. Given a couple fo the beta events, I've gotten my gf into GuildWars - and I've heard good reports that it plays well on older machines as well. There's also a nice range of Baldur's Gate games, Diablo II, and the like. Unfortunately, I only have a PS2 and PCs, so I can't add anything for Xbox or Gamecube...
I'll tell you one thing - I've ben playing the betas, and from all that I've seen, this game has looked like it was ready to ship months ago. I've seen more bugs in games that have been out for years than this one. I'd say that the beta process they have been using has proven itself a success (not many ways faster at finding a bug than letting a few hundred thousand play the game).
From what the developers have said so far, new areas will be released via the streaming technology periodically to all. Expansions may include any combination of the following: new races, new classes, new abilities, major new areas (as in, introduce an entirely newmajor storyline of quests, equal to the major storyline of current GW). From what it sounds like, it should be worth it. I mean, it seems like they've gone out of their way to make sure you aren't penalized by NOT having an expansion, this making the expansion's content it's (almost) only selling point.
Actually, they have stated that they want to keep the expansions in balance with current content as far as gameplay goes. So, instead of healing for x with a recharge of n and a cost of m, it may heal 2x, recharge 1.5n, cost 2m, or even have heal/recharge/cost all halved. In other words, more options to customize and improve your gameplay, but not throw it all out of balance.
I'll do it one worse. Here, we have a mall that has a Gamestop and an EB in it, and across the street was a FuncoLand. Since Gamestop bought Funcoland, they have kept both stores running - there is literally an EB in between two Gamestops right now, all within walking distance (for the average gamer).
I think the emphasis was in regards to the rumors going around during the January BWE event that the game was going to be released after the February BWE. Note: ArenaNet never changed the release date.. once they set it.
I hate playing the role of Spelling Nazi, but I just had to point out your typo - you mistakenly typed "Left Coast crazies", when the correct spelling is "Right Wing Nutjobs"...
I too have known a few mall security guards as well. Very good at their job, too... able to maintain a secure and safe environment while pulling off donuts in the Mall Security SUV in the parking lot.
A special capture-the-flag level featuring SCO on one side and Slashdot on the other!
Actually, it's been updated... it is now SCO vs Microsoft. The coding for this level is unique because the game never announces the winner for the round, as is usual, but merely states who the biggest loser of the round is.
Oh, and don't forget the "feature" where every third level is the same.
SPOILER: The faint of heart or the easily annoyed will NOT want to play this game on the first day of April.
If you were to make the remaining books into movies, would you try to fit it all into 3 movies? If so, should heralded as the "The Increasingly Innaccurately Described as Increasingly Innaccurately Named Hitchhiker's Trilogy"?
... at which point she should be welcome to the source code. The website was the gift, the domain name is just a convenient way to find it. I can take a phone from my house and give it as a gift, too... but I get to keep the phone number.
Of course, since all of the code that was at that domain has gone bye-bye, gotta replace it with something, and at that point the grandparent's gonna be pissed off enough to think of all sorts of other things to go in it's place;)
Data Center:
Lee's Summit, MO
Note: For security reasons, we cannot disclose it's exact address.
Now of course, anyone who knows Lee's Summit (I used to live there, still pass through it regularly) thinks of this place, an old AT&T plant, now turned over to a number of smaller businesses. Note: I'm of course not suggesting anything happen here, as I have friends and family working in that building (no, none for jumpdomain, if you must know).
Now, I know a "data center" can also mean just a small office with a bunch of machines shoved into it, but despite that city's recent growth, I still don't know of any major location for a data center to live in Lee's Summit. If it's not there, then fine... keep the address quiet, fully understandable. However, if it *is* there, then their obfuscation is sort of like saying "I've hidden it in a 100 foot tall green statue of a woman in NYC, but I'm not telling you what it is, for security reasons" - sort of pointless.
Can't help but wonder...
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It's like ignoring the EULAs and looking at the source code for your mind for the first time.
So, just what sort of licensing scheme would the average mind have anyways?
I don't doubt that MS has vast resources that they could devote to the issue, and if they would just buckle down and work on it, I wouldn't be surprised if they were able to meet full compliance in a matter of weeks. The only problem is that for the past few years, the crack team of developers (phrasing it that way doesn't infer the negative connotations of "Team of Crack Developers", anyways...) has been doing little more than rotating the tires and replacing the fluids, whereas the "6 guys in a white van" have taken a busted old Delorean and not only restored it to it's former glory, they've thrown in a Flux Capacitor and a Mr Fusion as well (ain't no analogy like a dead analogy, my pappy always said).
And that's what makes it all the more frustrating for the users - MS has all of this potential programming ability, yet one of the tools that is used the most by more people is easily matched, nay surpassed, by 6 guys in a van, while their own utility sits on blocks and rusts away (ok, last one, I swear!).
At the end of the day, no it's not. Broken is broken.
At the end of the day, I'd like to drive home in the car that's timing is a little off causing a loss of 2 mpg and 3 hp, as opposed to the car that is in such a state of disrepair that the axle falls off after 2 miles and the fuel tank spontaneously combusts.
There's also the idea that, assuming all parties are working to make their browser compliant, then it may also be assumed that one party may be closer to reaching full complaice than the other.
Or, to further mutilate an abused analogy, which of the above cars would be easier to repair?
After reading the article, it sounds to me like like Larry and Linus still like/respect one another, and Larry really wants to *@#! Tridge right now... That's good enough for a lot of films.
That's not true. We here at Slashdot never take quotes out of context. What possible reason could you have for trying to mislead the readers like this?
I believe it is arrogant of man to think he is capable of damaging the earth to the point of it being uninhabitable,
I agree with this statement; however, it is extremely plausible that we can damage the Earth to the point that it is uninhabitable by human beings. But this isn't our only concern - there are a lot of forces in the universe more destructive than us.
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I admit, this isn't the ideal movie that it could have been; I would have actually rather seen it made by the Farscape producers, as I think they could have better hit the style (and it could still have those Henson Creature Shop creations in it). But all in all, I think the good exceeds the bad. And I can sit here and go on for a few hours about the parts they got wrong. Arthur was great; Ford was hit and miss; Zaphod was good, but it felt to me like he was occasionally pulling off a bad George W impersonation; Trillian was fairly far from the mark; Marvin was done damn near perfect; and the Vogons where better than I had imagined.
Well, maybe if I was Darl McBride...
Close, but I'd include Square-Enix on that list as well. I was thinking maybe Blizzard as well, but a brief search showed they are a subsidary of Vivendi. Any others?
As for timing - I know it may not seem like it, because damn, that E3 version played extremely well, but at that point, the game was technically still in an Alpha stage. So, for a major project, one year from the last stages of Alpha testing to released product really isn't bad at all. I believe I read that the game had been in development for 5 years?
I can understand not having time to play GW and WoW - GWs going to be pretty much the only PC game I play for awhile, simply 'cause I don't have a lot of time for gaming. Funny how when you finally get to the point where you can afford the hardware and games and all, you don't have time for it. If you get a chance, though, you may want to give the current gameplay a chance.
If you happen to have 2 computers, then there are a lot more available. Given a couple fo the beta events, I've gotten my gf into GuildWars - and I've heard good reports that it plays well on older machines as well. There's also a nice range of Baldur's Gate games, Diablo II, and the like. Unfortunately, I only have a PS2 and PCs, so I can't add anything for Xbox or Gamecube...
I'll tell you one thing - I've ben playing the betas, and from all that I've seen, this game has looked like it was ready to ship months ago. I've seen more bugs in games that have been out for years than this one. I'd say that the beta process they have been using has proven itself a success (not many ways faster at finding a bug than letting a few hundred thousand play the game).
From what the developers have said so far, new areas will be released via the streaming technology periodically to all. Expansions may include any combination of the following: new races, new classes, new abilities, major new areas (as in, introduce an entirely newmajor storyline of quests, equal to the major storyline of current GW). From what it sounds like, it should be worth it. I mean, it seems like they've gone out of their way to make sure you aren't penalized by NOT having an expansion, this making the expansion's content it's (almost) only selling point.
Actually, they have stated that they want to keep the expansions in balance with current content as far as gameplay goes. So, instead of healing for x with a recharge of n and a cost of m, it may heal 2x, recharge 1.5n, cost 2m, or even have heal/recharge/cost all halved. In other words, more options to customize and improve your gameplay, but not throw it all out of balance.
Here's the Coral Cache of the article, just in case it get's Slashdotted...
I'll do it one worse. Here, we have a mall that has a Gamestop and an EB in it, and across the street was a FuncoLand. Since Gamestop bought Funcoland, they have kept both stores running - there is literally an EB in between two Gamestops right now, all within walking distance (for the average gamer).
I think the emphasis was in regards to the rumors going around during the January BWE event that the game was going to be released after the February BWE. Note: ArenaNet never changed the release date.. once they set it.
Ah yes, Canada, filming location for such sci-fi greats as Battlefield Earth and Pluto Nash...
Just saying, you find all types...
Actually, it's been updated... it is now SCO vs Microsoft. The coding for this level is unique because the game never announces the winner for the round, as is usual, but merely states who the biggest loser of the round is.
Oh, and don't forget the "feature" where every third level is the same.
SPOILER: The faint of heart or the easily annoyed will NOT want to play this game on the first day of April.
So, when can we expect the movie version of "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" to come out?
If you were to make the remaining books into movies, would you try to fit it all into 3 movies? If so, should heralded as the "The Increasingly Innaccurately Described as Increasingly Innaccurately Named Hitchhiker's Trilogy"?
Of course, since all of the code that was at that domain has gone bye-bye, gotta replace it with something, and at that point the grandparent's gonna be pissed off enough to think of all sorts of other things to go in it's place ;)
Data Center:
Lee's Summit, MO
Note: For security reasons, we cannot disclose it's exact address.
Now of course, anyone who knows Lee's Summit (I used to live there, still pass through it regularly) thinks of this place, an old AT&T plant, now turned over to a number of smaller businesses. Note: I'm of course not suggesting anything happen here, as I have friends and family working in that building (no, none for jumpdomain, if you must know).
Now, I know a "data center" can also mean just a small office with a bunch of machines shoved into it, but despite that city's recent growth, I still don't know of any major location for a data center to live in Lee's Summit. If it's not there, then fine... keep the address quiet, fully understandable. However, if it *is* there, then their obfuscation is sort of like saying "I've hidden it in a 100 foot tall green statue of a woman in NYC, but I'm not telling you what it is, for security reasons" - sort of pointless.
So, just what sort of licensing scheme would the average mind have anyways?
And that's what makes it all the more frustrating for the users - MS has all of this potential programming ability, yet one of the tools that is used the most by more people is easily matched, nay surpassed, by 6 guys in a van, while their own utility sits on blocks and rusts away (ok, last one, I swear!).
At the end of the day, I'd like to drive home in the car that's timing is a little off causing a loss of 2 mpg and 3 hp, as opposed to the car that is in such a state of disrepair that the axle falls off after 2 miles and the fuel tank spontaneously combusts.
There's also the idea that, assuming all parties are working to make their browser compliant, then it may also be assumed that one party may be closer to reaching full complaice than the other.
Or, to further mutilate an abused analogy, which of the above cars would be easier to repair?
After reading the article, it sounds to me like like Larry and Linus still like/respect one another, and Larry really wants to *@#! Tridge right now... That's good enough for a lot of films.
That's not true. We here at Slashdot never take quotes out of context. What possible reason could you have for trying to mislead the readers like this?
Disclaimer: I am... ...affiliated with BK.
Ahh, now the sordid truth comes out!
I agree with this statement; however, it is extremely plausible that we can damage the Earth to the point that it is uninhabitable by human beings. But this isn't our only concern - there are a lot of forces in the universe more destructive than us.