I dunno, I played all the Lucasarts games for the first time* in the early 2000s, and Loom left me cold. It's a little too "airbrushed on the side of a van," if you know what I mean, and hasn't held up well. I second the recommendation for Day of the Tentacle. Probably the best writing I've seen in a game that has graphics.
*I spent an inordinate amount of time getting absolutely nowhere in Zak McCracken in glorious CGA as a middle schooler, but I'm not sure if that counts.
From where I sit, releasing the diplomatic cables has demonstrably done more good in the middle east than the previous 3 decades or so of official policy (counting from Camp David '79), and possibly the most good since the fall of the Ottoman Empire created the modern middle east in the first place.
I call that praiseworthy, and worth breaking an oath for.
It recalls the old saying "If you owe the bank a million dollars and can't pay, you have a problem; if you owe the bank a billion dollars and can't pay, the bank has a problem."
I know (and have helped clean the machines of) several people who have spent the last 10+ years in medical school, residency, specialist training, etc. Within their field, they are extremely adept at using the computer-based tools available to them. However, removing malware requires a whole different set of knowledge and experience they haven't been learning.
...unless you want to watch anything but a local network affiliate. In which case you're back to your set-top box. (Unless things have changed recently.)
The action takes place in a storage unit and other structures (soundstage), on a highway (backlot), in a small boat on open water (soundstage/pool/CG), in a nonphotorealistic virtual world (greenscreen/CG), and a crazy manmade island (OK, that's an expensive set, but could probably be a few matte paintings/set extensions plus soundstage interiors). What am I forgetting?
I think the more difficult obstacle to a Hollywood treatment is that the presence of a vaginal dentata is a major plot point.
I, too loved Reveal Codes in its day. But that day has passed.
However, there is a simple secret to taming Word's formatting, that will serve you well if you heed it: For anything more involved than Bold, Italic, Underline, or a tab stop, always define and use a style rather than entering formatting commands. Yes, it's a horrendous pain in the ass. But it works.
How about how clicking a link in a comment will send you to a different comment somewhere in the same branch most of the time, and you have to actually right-click > copy link location > paste to address bar to get there?
a million? You're off by almost two orders of magnitude. About 40,000 british soldiers and sailors died in the revolution, according to wikipedia. Or did you mean that Britain lost about a million subjects by virtue of them forming their own country?
Biologic activity would have been detectable for much longer, though. High concentrations of atmospheric O2 seems pretty suspicious in the presence of lots of things it would like to bond with better.
...and the cheap, reliable source for the images exposed onto those photographic plates was the mac. Cold type before the Mac didn't have the value proposition it did once the layout artists didn't need to be highly trained multidisciplinary experts.
Since the entire supply line to Stalingrad was (disastrously) by air, I think we can say with confidence that the availability of lots of extra labor on the home front doesn't have much to do with anything.
Hell, I've been dinking around with CG apps for 10 years now, and I'm still learning things when it comes to maximizing what even my most favorite and oft-used tools can do.
Shit, I wrote a chapter for an edition of Inside 3ds Max, and I hit the helpfile at least a couple times a week and IRC/discussion forums for help daily.
Right, and it makes lots of sense if the only thing you need to do is get CCD data to a screen. How do you render a title overlay on lie footage in this system, though? Or composite the weatherman on top of a weather map? Or render the map in the first place? Or color-correct? And if the answer is "save full-frame snapshots at certain intervals," you're back to frame encoding.
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I dunno, I played all the Lucasarts games for the first time* in the early 2000s, and Loom left me cold. It's a little too "airbrushed on the side of a van," if you know what I mean, and hasn't held up well. I second the recommendation for Day of the Tentacle. Probably the best writing I've seen in a game that has graphics.
*I spent an inordinate amount of time getting absolutely nowhere in Zak McCracken in glorious CGA as a middle schooler, but I'm not sure if that counts.
From where I sit, releasing the diplomatic cables has demonstrably done more good in the middle east than the previous 3 decades or so of official policy (counting from Camp David '79), and possibly the most good since the fall of the Ottoman Empire created the modern middle east in the first place.
I call that praiseworthy, and worth breaking an oath for.
Of course, the motorboating concussions are less fun...
They could make MSE available on XPx64, though...
(suggested alternatives welcome)
You mean like this? People won't mind, it's in the public domain.
It recalls the old saying "If you owe the bank a million dollars and can't pay, you have a problem; if you owe the bank a billion dollars and can't pay, the bank has a problem."
I know (and have helped clean the machines of) several people who have spent the last 10+ years in medical school, residency, specialist training, etc. Within their field, they are extremely adept at using the computer-based tools available to them. However, removing malware requires a whole different set of knowledge and experience they haven't been learning.
...unless you want to watch anything but a local network affiliate. In which case you're back to your set-top box. (Unless things have changed recently.)
The action takes place in a storage unit and other structures (soundstage), on a highway (backlot), in a small boat on open water (soundstage/pool/CG), in a nonphotorealistic virtual world (greenscreen/CG), and a crazy manmade island (OK, that's an expensive set, but could probably be a few matte paintings/set extensions plus soundstage interiors). What am I forgetting?
I think the more difficult obstacle to a Hollywood treatment is that the presence of a vaginal dentata is a major plot point.
Because the applicants:slots ratio is >1.
Intrigue, newsletter, etc.
Headings, block quotes, bulleted/numbered lists, and code examples are all pretty common.
I, too loved Reveal Codes in its day. But that day has passed.
However, there is a simple secret to taming Word's formatting, that will serve you well if you heed it: For anything more involved than Bold, Italic, Underline, or a tab stop, always define and use a style rather than entering formatting commands. Yes, it's a horrendous pain in the ass. But it works.
How about how clicking a link in a comment will send you to a different comment somewhere in the same branch most of the time, and you have to actually right-click > copy link location > paste to address bar to get there?
a million? You're off by almost two orders of magnitude. About 40,000 british soldiers and sailors died in the revolution, according to wikipedia. Or did you mean that Britain lost about a million subjects by virtue of them forming their own country?
Biologic activity would have been detectable for much longer, though. High concentrations of atmospheric O2 seems pretty suspicious in the presence of lots of things it would like to bond with better.
...and the cheap, reliable source for the images exposed onto those photographic plates was the mac. Cold type before the Mac didn't have the value proposition it did once the layout artists didn't need to be highly trained multidisciplinary experts.
Nobody, but nobody edits on film anymore. Avid did for splicing film what the Macintosh did for hot type.
Since the entire supply line to Stalingrad was (disastrously) by air, I think we can say with confidence that the availability of lots of extra labor on the home front doesn't have much to do with anything.
Aside from Motionbuilder, and (under the hood) SketchUp, are there ANY applications where COLLADA support isn't lacking?
Wait, to constrain x, y, and z in blender you have to actually type the x, y, and z keys? And take your eyes off the viewports?
Shit, I wrote a chapter for an edition of Inside 3ds Max, and I hit the helpfile at least a couple times a week and IRC/discussion forums for help daily.
Right, and it makes lots of sense if the only thing you need to do is get CCD data to a screen. How do you render a title overlay on lie footage in this system, though? Or composite the weatherman on top of a weather map? Or render the map in the first place? Or color-correct? And if the answer is "save full-frame snapshots at certain intervals," you're back to frame encoding.
Um, no.