Revolution has a free trial version that can do just about anything the full one can if you don't mind using a couple of tricks and the support community is excellent. Revolution is basically hypercard with a bunch of new features and is constantly being updated.
Sorry, Sam & Max's cancellation is still upseting me. http://www.savesamandmax.com
Nothing wrong with sequels. GTA3 was vastly better than GTA1 and 2. Just because it's a sequel doesn't mean it isn't going to be creative. Just think about the amount of Final Fantasy games, or a lot of the Nintendo games. Pretty much every incarnarnation of Mario has been very creative and original.
I think part of the problem may be piracy and the fact that the top selling games like Half-Life sell an ungodly amount of copies more than other solid selling FPS games like No One Lives Forever. Thus, people copy what sells big, not what works.
Exactly! Thank you so much for answering that before I had to. I wonder which version of the movie they'll be using. The book's or the radio show's. The order of events and structure is very different yet both have their own merits. Personally, I'm hoping for the radio show's structure.
Well, I figure it shouldn't be that hard to find a good narrator. Basically every video that my teachers try and make me watch in history courses is narrated by some guy with a british accent.
Although Bond talking about digital watches would have a certain level of entertainment value.
I can only hope they have a compotent narrator, a good percentage of the jokes in the book/radio show are from the narration of book passages and exposition.
Actually, I think a crewman in black running around with the bunny puppet just might be weird enough for it to work in Monty Python.
I know that the background animations like the jumping suns and whatnot could all happen on he backlit projectors, but it would look really bad to see real people running from a monster on a blacklit screen.
Don't get me wrong, I love Mel Brooks, I think his best works (Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein) are better than any of Monty Python's movies, but if he could turn "The Producers" into an excellent musical, certainly the much better "Holy Grail" could be one also.
Of course, some gags, like the bunny might be dificult, it'd be very hard to see on stage. But the tradeoff is, we'll be able to see a chorus line singing, "We're Knights of the Round Table, we dance we e'er we're able...."
Of course, it also means more exposure to Sir Robin's minstrels probably. That could be problematic.
The thing I really want to see though, is how Terry Gilliam's animation transfers to broadway. How exactly do we depict an animator having a heartattack on broadway?! I mean, it's a given that the aptly named, "Sir Not Apperaing in this Musical" won't be there, but how can we cut the monster out?
Oh well, as long as they still depict god talking like a Gilliam creation, you know, head completely detaching, I will be happy.
Wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more!
Idle was Sir Robin and was the guy on the cross next to Brian.
Idle was the best singer. I dunno, he might have been the weakest, but he had his moments. Some roles were roles only he could play. He's kinda like Phil Hartman on SNL. Doesn't have the most individually funny characters, but he did so many things that only he could do (announcers is the one that springs to mind quickest).
Also, I think he was one of the better writers. "Road to Mars" and his other movies are excellent. "Nuns on the Run" isn't "A Fish Called Wanda," but it is still an excellent movie.
I still think some of the greatest games where the old point and click RPG/Adventure games made by Lucas Arts.
Sam & Max was hilarious, Maniac Mansion was great, Full Throttle was excellent. And I still think that the best video game title of all time is "Day of the Tentacle." It totally sounds like a hentai game, but isn't.
The First "Cyborg Championship"?
Meanwhile, Garry Kasparov has arranged for an exhibition match with 23 year old GM Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria for June in which both players will have an (identical) laptop computer that they may consult during the games. The laptops will have databases preloaded by each player (therefore containing their own analysis and selections), as well as a tactical engine. Each game of the 6 game match will last only one hour, meaning that a large part of the strategy will be how much time spend on the computer! A number of analysts are calling this the "First 21st Century World championship" although of course it's only an exhibition.
(http://www.uschess.org/clife/issue47/buzz.html)
It's from 1997, but I think they're right. The future does seem to be moving in that direction.
I recall reading an interview with former world chapion karpov who said that when he was learning chess, his teacher said that one day it would all be computers. One of the other students said, "So why are we bothering to do this then?" and the coach replied, "My computer will beat your computer." or something like that. Pretty soon it'll all be down to which computer is better and which person can better control it. I'm sorry I can't better quote the interview. It was in the ChessLife about the Karpov v. Kasparov x3d match in Times Square in case anyone has it.
If that case didn't get thrown out something would be seriously wrong.
If EBay can get sued for that, I'd hate to see what would happen to Amazon.com for their buyer comments. As long as EBay makes it clear that the views of its posters are not their views, that's how the system is supposed to work. The reason other users are allowed to make comments is to warn other people about crazy sellers.
And does anyone else find all the supposed "first posts" amusing? At least this time the true FP was apt.
Okay, I think I understand a bit better now.
But if the Ether was charectoristically different, then how exactly could we test for its existance? And dark matter should have similar properties meaning what? It distorts time or something?
Well, I suppose those names are better then the ones they give quarks.
Honestly, the "flavor" quark? And the "strangness" quark? One of these days we'll start getting good names again.
I think they should of named them GNM: "GNM's not matter". Recursive acronyms rule!
Cellphones are banned, and some companies seem to be making the most of it
I just got a Siemens c56 and oddly enough it has an "Aircraft Mode" as one of the profiles. Simply put, it deactivites all alarms (alarm clock, appointments) and turns the phone off.
I guess it's comforting to know that my cellphone won't turn itself on in case I were to set my alarm clock to go off during my flight, or if I were to schedule an appoitment for that time. Well, actually, I might be in danger of that appointment thing with all the time changes.
Patents are a tricky thing. While it is important for inventors and whatnot to get credit for their work, I think that for some things the patent system inhibits growth. With music, for example, there is a limit to what can be "created" because really, the permutations of notes is already pre-determined. There are only 88 keys on a piano. While there are many possibilities for, say, a 3 min. tune, it is a finite number. Assume most of those permutations will not sound very good, and a very large portion will sound almost identical, changing one or two notes of a song doesn't make it different enough to pass a patent check.
There's a reason many artists are forced to sample old songs, there's not as much new stuff out there. Wagner's "Ring" alone runs 21 hours. You could play every note of every beatles song in a row and still be done in 6 hours or something like that. Today's composers are coming up with far less then their predecessors. We need to be careful not to extend the copyrights to the point where we are left with nothing new.
Eventually, the infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters will start writing the same things.
I know much of the previous comics you worked on were of characters owned by Marvel or DC or whoever, and I was wondering what runs through your mind when you see the directions that later writers take the characters in.
Think about it. He's a time traveler. Now that a news source has picked up on it, it goes down in the public record. Why would someone go back in time to an era where they are sure to be captured? Clearly this proves he gets away with it, because if he were to not get away with it, it would have been written down somewhere and he would have fair warning.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, I can hit about 80wpm on a QWERTY keyboard, but I can't touch a Japanese schoolgirl typing with her thumbs on a cellphone.
I swear to god, some of them hit around 100 doing that...
Revolution has a free trial version that can do just about anything the full one can if you don't mind using a couple of tricks and the support community is excellent. Revolution is basically hypercard with a bunch of new features and is constantly being updated.
Quest foR curIOsity
that's the closest I can figure.
Sorry, Sam & Max's cancellation is still upseting me. http://www.savesamandmax.com Nothing wrong with sequels. GTA3 was vastly better than GTA1 and 2. Just because it's a sequel doesn't mean it isn't going to be creative. Just think about the amount of Final Fantasy games, or a lot of the Nintendo games. Pretty much every incarnarnation of Mario has been very creative and original. I think part of the problem may be piracy and the fact that the top selling games like Half-Life sell an ungodly amount of copies more than other solid selling FPS games like No One Lives Forever. Thus, people copy what sells big, not what works.
Exactly! Thank you so much for answering that before I had to.
I wonder which version of the movie they'll be using. The book's or the radio show's. The order of events and structure is very different yet both have their own merits. Personally, I'm hoping for the radio show's structure.
Well, I figure it shouldn't be that hard to find a good narrator. Basically every video that my teachers try and make me watch in history courses is narrated by some guy with a british accent. Although Bond talking about digital watches would have a certain level of entertainment value.
I can only hope they have a compotent narrator, a good percentage of the jokes in the book/radio show are from the narration of book passages and exposition.
If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.
We all know that the Spam won't show up if you want it. That's against the very nature of spam.
All annoying things always happen every time except for the one time you try and prove the phenomenon to a non-beliver. Well known fact.
Good luck at finding the spam (wow, I never thought I'd have say that.)
Actually, I think a crewman in black running around with the bunny puppet just might be weird enough for it to work in Monty Python. I know that the background animations like the jumping suns and whatnot could all happen on he backlit projectors, but it would look really bad to see real people running from a monster on a blacklit screen.
Don't get me wrong, I love Mel Brooks, I think his best works (Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein) are better than any of Monty Python's movies, but if he could turn "The Producers" into an excellent musical, certainly the much better "Holy Grail" could be one also.
Of course, some gags, like the bunny might be dificult, it'd be very hard to see on stage. But the tradeoff is, we'll be able to see a chorus line singing, "We're Knights of the Round Table, we dance we e'er we're able...."
Of course, it also means more exposure to Sir Robin's minstrels probably. That could be problematic.
The thing I really want to see though, is how Terry Gilliam's animation transfers to broadway. How exactly do we depict an animator having a heartattack on broadway?! I mean, it's a given that the aptly named, "Sir Not Apperaing in this Musical" won't be there, but how can we cut the monster out?
Oh well, as long as they still depict god talking like a Gilliam creation, you know, head completely detaching, I will be happy.
Wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more!
Idle was Sir Robin and was the guy on the cross next to Brian.
Idle was the best singer. I dunno, he might have been the weakest, but he had his moments. Some roles were roles only he could play. He's kinda like Phil Hartman on SNL. Doesn't have the most individually funny characters, but he did so many things that only he could do (announcers is the one that springs to mind quickest).
Also, I think he was one of the better writers. "Road to Mars" and his other movies are excellent. "Nuns on the Run" isn't "A Fish Called Wanda," but it is still an excellent movie.
I still think some of the greatest games where the old point and click RPG/Adventure games made by Lucas Arts. Sam & Max was hilarious, Maniac Mansion was great, Full Throttle was excellent. And I still think that the best video game title of all time is "Day of the Tentacle." It totally sounds like a hentai game, but isn't.
The First "Cyborg Championship"?
Meanwhile, Garry Kasparov has arranged for an exhibition match with 23 year old GM Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria for June in which both players will have an (identical) laptop computer that they may consult during the games. The laptops will have databases preloaded by each player (therefore containing their own analysis and selections), as well as a tactical engine. Each game of the 6 game match will last only one hour, meaning that a large part of the strategy will be how much time spend on the computer! A number of analysts are calling this the "First 21st Century World championship" although of course it's only an exhibition. (http://www.uschess.org/clife/issue47/buzz.html)
It's from 1997, but I think they're right. The future does seem to be moving in that direction.
I recall reading an interview with former world chapion karpov who said that when he was learning chess, his teacher said that one day it would all be computers. One of the other students said, "So why are we bothering to do this then?" and the coach replied, "My computer will beat your computer." or something like that. Pretty soon it'll all be down to which computer is better and which person can better control it. I'm sorry I can't better quote the interview. It was in the ChessLife about the Karpov v. Kasparov x3d match in Times Square in case anyone has it.
Okay, that link is hilarious! I am having much dificulty trying to stop laughing. We need to get comments of that level of insight on /.
If that case didn't get thrown out something would be seriously wrong.
If EBay can get sued for that, I'd hate to see what would happen to Amazon.com for their buyer comments. As long as EBay makes it clear that the views of its posters are not their views, that's how the system is supposed to work. The reason other users are allowed to make comments is to warn other people about crazy sellers.
And does anyone else find all the supposed "first posts" amusing? At least this time the true FP was apt.
Yuriy Semyonov, suggested that "one of the Americans" had pushed the backup-mode activation button.
Of course we blame the Americans!
At least it's good to know that it's not just my codes that seem to be faulty.
Okay, I think I understand a bit better now.
But if the Ether was charectoristically different, then how exactly could we test for its existance? And dark matter should have similar properties meaning what? It distorts time or something?
Maybe I'm just not up on this enough, but isn't all this "dark matter" stuff pretty similar to the old ideas about ether?
Well, I suppose those names are better then the ones they give quarks.
Honestly, the "flavor" quark? And the "strangness" quark? One of these days we'll start getting good names again.
I think they should of named them GNM: "GNM's not matter". Recursive acronyms rule!
Since cell phones are so harmful, how exactly did those Airphones work? Were they just as harmful to the systems or what?
Cellphones are banned, and some companies seem to be making the most of it
I just got a Siemens c56 and oddly enough it has an "Aircraft Mode" as one of the profiles. Simply put, it deactivites all alarms (alarm clock, appointments) and turns the phone off.
I guess it's comforting to know that my cellphone won't turn itself on in case I were to set my alarm clock to go off during my flight, or if I were to schedule an appoitment for that time. Well, actually, I might be in danger of that appointment thing with all the time changes.
Oh, come on, offtopic? How so?
Patents are a tricky thing. While it is important for inventors and whatnot to get credit for their work, I think that for some things the patent system inhibits growth. With music, for example, there is a limit to what can be "created" because really, the permutations of notes is already pre-determined. There are only 88 keys on a piano. While there are many possibilities for, say, a 3 min. tune, it is a finite number. Assume most of those permutations will not sound very good, and a very large portion will sound almost identical, changing one or two notes of a song doesn't make it different enough to pass a patent check.
There's a reason many artists are forced to sample old songs, there's not as much new stuff out there. Wagner's "Ring" alone runs 21 hours. You could play every note of every beatles song in a row and still be done in 6 hours or something like that. Today's composers are coming up with far less then their predecessors. We need to be careful not to extend the copyrights to the point where we are left with nothing new.
Eventually, the infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters will start writing the same things.
I know much of the previous comics you worked on were of characters owned by Marvel or DC or whoever, and I was wondering what runs through your mind when you see the directions that later writers take the characters in.
Think about it. He's a time traveler. Now that a news source has picked up on it, it goes down in the public record. Why would someone go back in time to an era where they are sure to be captured? Clearly this proves he gets away with it, because if he were to not get away with it, it would have been written down somewhere and he would have fair warning.