No scouring of the shire was ever filmed. It doesn't happen.
Really? I had heard the reson the 'shire' wasn't still down in NZ to visit, was that they had to burn it down in the souring of the shire scene. Otherwise, wouldn't the shire be a huge tourist attraction there?
So, how many theatres have packed showings at every one of their screens (most are multi-plexes these days) right now? Toss out one of the lower attended movies (theatre less than half-full) and toss in the LOTR trilogy. A packed house for the trilogy will pay more than a shorter movie with less than half the seats sold.
Give me a break. Ever look at the average Japanese diet? What's that? A very large percentage of it is rice! Oh my, carbs! Look how obese the average Japanese person is! (ok, Sumo wrestlers are, but they try to bulk up, hard)
Carbs are not bad for you. Just eat a reasonable amount of them. Don't super-size everything. Telling people to eat lots of meat and other fatty foods instead is a LOT worse then telling them to eat carbs.
Forget your friggin Adkins diet and just eat sane size portions of food and get some exercise.
They put out a food pyramid with such things on it as a 2 ounce muffin as a serving..,
and joe sixpack buys the 10 ounce 'mega-muffin' to eat as his serving.
They put out a 3 ounce burger as a serving on their food chart...,
and joe sixpack buys the 12 ounce triple-burger with the super-duper-size fries.
Americans are getting fatter because they eat HUGE portions of bad things, and don't excercise enough. The food pyramid works fine if you eat the reasonably sized portions they suggest. It also might help if folks would get off the damn couch too.
Please don't suggest that industry should be in charge of basic research... That's a major league bad idea.
Not all basic research is done by government funded scientists. There is a notable amount done my private drug companies. Unfortunately, since they are private companies with a desire to hold on to their IP and trade secrets, so that they can take full advantage of their knowledge and discoveries, and not their competitors, most of these experiments are never made public.
If the bulk of basic research was done by drug companies, what would lead to? A huge duplication of effort of one. Vast sums of money wasted on duplication of mostly dead-ends. You thing drug prices are high now? Wait until each company has to do a nations worth of R&D.
What else? A HUGE slow-down in the rate of scientific progress. Each company has to re-invent the wheel. You can't tell your competitors what all works or doesn't work. They might get a let up on you. What does that lead to? A huge slowdown in the development of new drugs and treatments. That means death or a lower quality of life for a lot of people in the country (and the world) that would have had medicines available under the current scheme.
Open-ness can leads to good things in knowledge areas. You should know that reading slashdot.
I'll agree that the government should get more kickbacks from patents derived off government-funded work, but privatizing basic research is just a really really bad idea.
Really? I tried it. It seemed to search around for some windows drivers for NTFS, then just abruptly quit running. I've had no sucess writing to NTFS with it.
The best workers flee to India? I think the best ones will be the ones the American companies keep. They will be letting go of the bad to middle of the road ones and only keeping the cream of the crop. (In most cases that is. I know how office politics go and sometimes the good worker will be let go while some suckup stays).
And you don't think it takes water to make the paper cup in the first place? As the son of a paper maker, I can tell you, it takes a lot of water to make that paper cup.
I've got all settings on high except for anti-aliasing (2x) and filtering (trilinear). (1280x1024 res) My load times are ~10 seconds on a AMD Athlon 2400+ XP, running windows xp.
If you take a full minute to load, something is definitely messed up on your machine somewhere.
I'm sorry, you need to stop calling them dinosaurs. Along the guidlines for the new church based educational systm in the U.S., they are now to be termed 'Jesus Horses'.
I'm running my free copy of HL2 on my 9600 pro all-in-wonder. I've got it slightly overclocked (~10%). I'm running at 1280x1024 with all the graphics turned to high except anti-aliasing (2x) and filtering (trilinear). It's very playable.
I agree with you that the diversity of environments and art design are much better in HL2, but those have nothing to do with the engine. Those are the level designers and artists at work.
I think HL2 is a better game than DOOM3, but except for physics, I think DOOM3 is the better game engine.
These game engines will be used again and again for other games coming out in the next 4 years or so (till Valve and ID make their next generation of engines).
As far as environmental effects, I thought water, steam, heat shimmer, etc, all looked better in DOOM3 than in HL2. The HL2 level designers and artists just made much better use of what their more limited engine could do to make it more enjoyable.
The article seems to be slashdoted, so I can't see it but...
I'm thinking folks who work on computers for long periods of time just may fall into a couple stereoypes. Glasses wearing and/or overweight/out-of shape. (I know sitting at a computer all hours doesn't do much for my physical fitness)
People of shape are going to risk a higher rate of diabetes, which is a risk factor for glaucoma. Being nearsighted is also a risk factor.
I dont' know that every other game engine just became obsolete...
Doom III seemed to have much better texturing, lighting, and environmental effects.
HL2 runs tons better on old hardware and has better physics. (much better storyline too, at least so far, 3 hours in, but we are talking game engines here)
I'm having a lot more fun playing HL2, but as far as game engines, I think the DOOM3 one will do just fine when the average spec of machines is up a bit. And if they can work on the physics. It looked a lot 'prettier' to me, but HL2 is more fun to play.
If he throws your bones away and takes the jewelry you were buried with, he's a grabe robber. If he puts your bones in a museum, he's an archaeologist.
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Really? I had heard the reson the 'shire' wasn't still down in NZ to visit, was that they had to burn it down in the souring of the shire scene. Otherwise, wouldn't the shire be a huge tourist attraction there?
So, how many theatres have packed showings at every one of their screens (most are multi-plexes these days) right now? Toss out one of the lower attended movies (theatre less than half-full) and toss in the LOTR trilogy. A packed house for the trilogy will pay more than a shorter movie with less than half the seats sold.
Carbs are not bad for you. Just eat a reasonable amount of them. Don't super-size everything. Telling people to eat lots of meat and other fatty foods instead is a LOT worse then telling them to eat carbs.
Forget your friggin Adkins diet and just eat sane size portions of food and get some exercise.
They put out a food pyramid with such things on it as a 2 ounce muffin as a serving..,
and joe sixpack buys the 10 ounce 'mega-muffin' to eat as his serving.
They put out a 3 ounce burger as a serving on their food chart...,
and joe sixpack buys the 12 ounce triple-burger with the super-duper-size fries.
Americans are getting fatter because they eat HUGE portions of bad things, and don't excercise enough. The food pyramid works fine if you eat the reasonably sized portions they suggest. It also might help if folks would get off the damn couch too.
Not all basic research is done by government funded scientists. There is a notable amount done my private drug companies. Unfortunately, since they are private companies with a desire to hold on to their IP and trade secrets, so that they can take full advantage of their knowledge and discoveries, and not their competitors, most of these experiments are never made public.
If the bulk of basic research was done by drug companies, what would lead to? A huge duplication of effort of one. Vast sums of money wasted on duplication of mostly dead-ends. You thing drug prices are high now? Wait until each company has to do a nations worth of R&D.
What else? A HUGE slow-down in the rate of scientific progress. Each company has to re-invent the wheel. You can't tell your competitors what all works or doesn't work. They might get a let up on you. What does that lead to? A huge slowdown in the development of new drugs and treatments. That means death or a lower quality of life for a lot of people in the country (and the world) that would have had medicines available under the current scheme.
Open-ness can leads to good things in knowledge areas. You should know that reading slashdot.
I'll agree that the government should get more kickbacks from patents derived off government-funded work, but privatizing basic research is just a really really bad idea.
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My guess is some zelot modded you down because you dared say it wasn't "safe". Unfortunately, testing shows it's definitely not ready for prime-time.
Really? I tried it. It seemed to search around for some windows drivers for NTFS, then just abruptly quit running. I've had no sucess writing to NTFS with it.
The best workers flee to India? I think the best ones will be the ones the American companies keep. They will be letting go of the bad to middle of the road ones and only keeping the cream of the crop. (In most cases that is. I know how office politics go and sometimes the good worker will be let go while some suckup stays).
And you don't think it takes water to make the paper cup in the first place? As the son of a paper maker, I can tell you, it takes a lot of water to make that paper cup.
I got it via Steam (coupon for steam came with my ATI 9600 all-in-wonder pro).
If you take a full minute to load, something is definitely messed up on your machine somewhere.
If writing in another language that takes 20% more time only got you another 2% of the market share, would you do it?
I'm sorry, you need to stop calling them dinosaurs. Along the guidlines for the new church based educational systm in the U.S., they are now to be termed 'Jesus Horses'.
You put money down 2 years ago? Wow, you are a serious gamer!
I'm running my free copy of HL2 on my 9600 pro all-in-wonder. I've got it slightly overclocked (~10%). I'm running at 1280x1024 with all the graphics turned to high except anti-aliasing (2x) and filtering (trilinear). It's very playable.
You win ;)
Nope. The default was the middle option.
Maybe it's a difference in what effects various video cards support. I'm running an ATI 9600. DOOM3's environmental effects just looked better to me.
I think HL2 is a better game than DOOM3, but except for physics, I think DOOM3 is the better game engine.
These game engines will be used again and again for other games coming out in the next 4 years or so (till Valve and ID make their next generation of engines).
As far as environmental effects, I thought water, steam, heat shimmer, etc, all looked better in DOOM3 than in HL2. The HL2 level designers and artists just made much better use of what their more limited engine could do to make it more enjoyable.
I'm thinking folks who work on computers for long periods of time just may fall into a couple stereoypes. Glasses wearing and/or overweight/out-of shape. (I know sitting at a computer all hours doesn't do much for my physical fitness)
People of shape are going to risk a higher rate of diabetes, which is a risk factor for glaucoma. Being nearsighted is also a risk factor.
http://www.umm.edu/ency/article/001620.htm
Doom III seemed to have much better texturing, lighting, and environmental effects.
HL2 runs tons better on old hardware and has better physics. (much better storyline too, at least so far, 3 hours in, but we are talking game engines here)
I'm having a lot more fun playing HL2, but as far as game engines, I think the DOOM3 one will do just fine when the average spec of machines is up a bit. And if they can work on the physics. It looked a lot 'prettier' to me, but HL2 is more fun to play.
I'm sure with the hundreds of millions they will make off this, they will really miss your $50.
(please note for the sarcasm impaired, this happens quite a bit...)
If he throws your bones away and takes the jewelry you were buried with, he's a grabe robber. If he puts your bones in a museum, he's an archaeologist.