Flight 587, when it went down in Rocakway Beach, Queens, New York City, destroyed exactly one single-family home and damaged another one. And that was a direct hit of nearly an entire Airbus A300 (minus the vertical stabilizer and an engine, I believe.)
Neither Freelancer nor Homeworld were space combat sims. Homeworld was an RTS in space, and Freelancer was a half-finished pile of crap with a great demo. The various Freespace Open community projects, and Allegiance (if you're willing to take a course to learn how to play a game) are the best I've found this decade, and both are updates of 1990s titles.
I felt that way. 15 years of nethack, without passing the swamp. Then I read The Saga of Ellora the Elven Archer (PDF Warning), an unspoiled player's blow-by-blow of getting unreasonably far in the game, and had The Epiphany: Retreat from a fight when things look bad, build basecamps full of items every 5 dungeon levels, and remember to take things slow. 2 or 3 games later I got my ascenscion on nethack.alt.org. I would have got it the first time, but I rearranged inventory without gloves on, and touched a cockatrice corpse.
The way I read it, the question revolves around the outcome for the mother. The word 'miscarry' says to me that the baby didn't make it. With bronze age medical care, I have to imagine the mother's chances weren't that good in the aftermath.
There is a whole industry of digital matte work and set extensions below the threshold of perception. Pick up a copy of Cinefex sometime and be surprised. One of my favorites is that Brad Pitt had an entirely digital head for the whole first half of Benjamin Button. Not 3D-enhanced makeup, but 100% motion-captured 3D.
It would be a different awards ceremony. Television, books, stage drama, and recorded music area all major parts of the entertainment industry, and have their own awards. Sometimes these overlap (i.e. the Emmy awards), but the oscars are and will always be about movies, because they're awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Even the technical Oscars, which have been given for things that are fundamental to video game production (Premultiplied alpha, for example), were given because they represented huge advances for film visual effects.
22. And should men quarrel and hit a pregnant woman, and she miscarries but there is no fatality, he shall surely be punished, when the woman's husband makes demands of him, and he shall give [restitution] according to the judges' [orders].
23. But if there is a fatality, you shall give a life for a life,
Not only is there a lesser penalty for causing a miscarriage, said miscarriage explicitly isn't considered a fatality.
No, it exists because Arafat picked the wrong side to support in the first gulf war, and his funding from the Saudis to buy the population's loyalty through schools, hospitals, and social services dried up. Geopolitical rule of thumb #1: Follow the money.
That's absurd. The Continental Congress never targeted British civilians in England for random killings to advanced their agenda, nor advocated a policy of ethnically cleansing England. Oh, and they didn't share a border. And England had no desire whatsoever to grant statehood to its colony, regardless how good the governance was. In fact, the parallels are extremely few.
Well, what are they going to do with it, other than use it to animate some CG assets for an extended period of time on the cheap, that wouldn't be even easier/cheaper with widely-available 2D tools?
Film students and amateur filmmakers simply don't have the resources to invest in CGI requiring significant amounts of motion capture (not just financial resources, but expertise/personnel). People who know what the hell they're doing well enough to improve on commercially-available systems are an extremely small group, all of whom are either highly-paid freelancers or employed full-time at a VFX house or motion capture vendor.
The people who would love to save lots of money are the quantity-over-quality studios throwing bodies at saturday-morning kiddie crap and the accompanying commercials.
And visual effects houses typically do not use Hollywood accounting and "write it off later," they charge productions something closely resembling cost + profit. This is also why they frequently go out of business.
Not only that, they brought it back from the dead (i.e. when it was replaced by the crappy tilt-wheel version) and still sell it. I have 3 in my closet in case they change their mind back.
Still pissed about them deprecating the MS Office Keyboard and not releasing drivers for the keyboard scroll wheel for XP64, Vista, 7, etc.
People who need to save boatloads of money on motion capture aren't interested in tools a vendor is actively hostile to. This is why, e.g. they'll buy racks and racks of renderfarm nodes for faster render times, but wouldn't dream of overclocking one.
Nobody said anything about military prowess. France, however, has the third-largest nuclear weapons stockpile in the world, and is one of the five nations allowed to have nukes under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (please diff this list with with the five nations holding permanent seats on the security council, BTW.)
Not fishy. The crieterion for permanent member status on the UN security council is "can start a global nuclear war if so desires." This is by design, and a hell of a good idea. Would you want such an entity NOT to be included in security matters in the UN's purview?
I think it's because they're levied against the property, regardless of owner, and their legitimacy derives from provisions in the land deed rather than a contract signed by the debtor.
And let's not forget that it is largely a needless support of Israel that massive amounts of money is being wasted on. There are certain things they just won't talk about of course.
That seems like a pretty clear intimation that they believe we're spending massive amounts of money supporting Israel. I pointed out that we aren't, directly at least, and then speculated as to what they might have meant if they were talking about money spent indirectly supporting Israel.
And no, I don't think the Israeli military saw the US invasion of Iraq as a win for them, short-term or long.
As for my take on why we did it, I think it's a combination the administration taking the opportunity to loot the US treasury bare for the benefit of some well-connected friends while the getting was good; and oil money, or more specifically, the petro-Euro.
Iraq hasn't posed a serious threat to Israel for a long, long time. Bombing Saddam's nuclear reactor in '82 mitigated the existential threat, and the massive buildout of anti-missile batteries (as well asostracism of Hussein's government by other arab states) during the first Gulf War, followed by the UN inspection program and no-fly zones in the later '90s sealed the deal.
Iran, on the other hand, has been funding and arming Hezbollah, who have proven capable of inflicting real pain on the Israeli military and northern civilian populations, for decades.
Iran and Iraq were enemies of each other, and spent the 1980s in an expensive and bloody shooting war, so removing that threat to Iran is arguably a real loss for Israel.
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Flight 587, when it went down in Rocakway Beach, Queens, New York City, destroyed exactly one single-family home and damaged another one. And that was a direct hit of nearly an entire Airbus A300 (minus the vertical stabilizer and an engine, I believe.)
Neither Freelancer nor Homeworld were space combat sims. Homeworld was an RTS in space, and Freelancer was a half-finished pile of crap with a great demo. The various Freespace Open community projects, and Allegiance (if you're willing to take a course to learn how to play a game) are the best I've found this decade, and both are updates of 1990s titles.
But he was talking about the Wii 2, which presumably will not have an integrated display.
I felt that way. 15 years of nethack, without passing the swamp. Then I read The Saga of Ellora the Elven Archer (PDF Warning), an unspoiled player's blow-by-blow of getting unreasonably far in the game, and had The Epiphany: Retreat from a fight when things look bad, build basecamps full of items every 5 dungeon levels, and remember to take things slow. 2 or 3 games later I got my ascenscion on nethack.alt.org. I would have got it the first time, but I rearranged inventory without gloves on, and touched a cockatrice corpse.
Doesn't the PS3 support 3D right now?
The way I read it, the question revolves around the outcome for the mother. The word 'miscarry' says to me that the baby didn't make it. With bronze age medical care, I have to imagine the mother's chances weren't that good in the aftermath.
There is a whole industry of digital matte work and set extensions below the threshold of perception. Pick up a copy of Cinefex sometime and be surprised. One of my favorites is that Brad Pitt had an entirely digital head for the whole first half of Benjamin Button. Not 3D-enhanced makeup, but 100% motion-captured 3D.
Russian Ark. Filmed in the Hermitage, no less. They nailed it on the 4th take.
It would be a different awards ceremony. Television, books, stage drama, and recorded music area all major parts of the entertainment industry, and have their own awards. Sometimes these overlap (i.e. the Emmy awards), but the oscars are and will always be about movies, because they're awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Even the technical Oscars, which have been given for things that are fundamental to video game production (Premultiplied alpha, for example), were given because they represented huge advances for film visual effects.
It also killed tens of millions and wrecked the environment. It's rather cavalier to call it a benefit without at least a disclaimer.
Not only is there a lesser penalty for causing a miscarriage, said miscarriage explicitly isn't considered a fatality.
No, it exists because Arafat picked the wrong side to support in the first gulf war, and his funding from the Saudis to buy the population's loyalty through schools, hospitals, and social services dried up. Geopolitical rule of thumb #1: Follow the money.
That's absurd. The Continental Congress never targeted British civilians in England for random killings to advanced their agenda, nor advocated a policy of ethnically cleansing England. Oh, and they didn't share a border. And England had no desire whatsoever to grant statehood to its colony, regardless how good the governance was. In fact, the parallels are extremely few.
Well, what are they going to do with it, other than use it to animate some CG assets for an extended period of time on the cheap, that wouldn't be even easier/cheaper with widely-available 2D tools?
Film students and amateur filmmakers simply don't have the resources to invest in CGI requiring significant amounts of motion capture (not just financial resources, but expertise/personnel). People who know what the hell they're doing well enough to improve on commercially-available systems are an extremely small group, all of whom are either highly-paid freelancers or employed full-time at a VFX house or motion capture vendor.
The people who would love to save lots of money are the quantity-over-quality studios throwing bodies at saturday-morning kiddie crap and the accompanying commercials.
And visual effects houses typically do not use Hollywood accounting and "write it off later," they charge productions something closely resembling cost + profit. This is also why they frequently go out of business.
Still pissed about them deprecating the MS Office Keyboard and not releasing drivers for the keyboard scroll wheel for XP64, Vista, 7, etc.
People who need to save boatloads of money on motion capture aren't interested in tools a vendor is actively hostile to. This is why, e.g. they'll buy racks and racks of renderfarm nodes for faster render times, but wouldn't dream of overclocking one.
Nobody said anything about military prowess. France, however, has the third-largest nuclear weapons stockpile in the world, and is one of the five nations allowed to have nukes under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (please diff this list with with the five nations holding permanent seats on the security council, BTW.)
Not fishy. The crieterion for permanent member status on the UN security council is "can start a global nuclear war if so desires." This is by design, and a hell of a good idea. Would you want such an entity NOT to be included in security matters in the UN's purview?
I think it's because they're levied against the property, regardless of owner, and their legitimacy derives from provisions in the land deed rather than a contract signed by the debtor.
They are. And clearly you don't know any 3-year old boys.
Who's finishing behind the dead guys?
That seems like a pretty clear intimation that they believe we're spending massive amounts of money supporting Israel. I pointed out that we aren't, directly at least, and then speculated as to what they might have meant if they were talking about money spent indirectly supporting Israel.
And no, I don't think the Israeli military saw the US invasion of Iraq as a win for them, short-term or long.
As for my take on why we did it, I think it's a combination the administration taking the opportunity to loot the US treasury bare for the benefit of some well-connected friends while the getting was good; and oil money, or more specifically, the petro-Euro.
Now that you mention it, seeing a film in the theater might be a good way to avoid those "deleted scenes" of owl mating, if they ogodihopenot exist...
Iran, on the other hand, has been funding and arming Hezbollah, who have proven capable of inflicting real pain on the Israeli military and northern civilian populations, for decades.
Iran and Iraq were enemies of each other, and spent the 1980s in an expensive and bloody shooting war, so removing that threat to Iran is arguably a real loss for Israel.