Just as he was getting to the punchline, the guy telling it fell through the ceiling after climbing up there to get out of the closet his teaher locked him in for acting up during Saturday detention. Sadly, we'll never hear the rest. Oh wait, wrong joke.
There was a Who RPG a while back. It was kind of odd because it was only one sourcebook and that was sold as a regular paperback. I can't remember if Virign published it but it was around the time Virgin was publishing Who novels that I saw it. It was a system that only used six-sided dice. I kick myself for not buying it when I found it. It looked like rubbish but would've been fun to have around just for the sake of it.
I'd seriously consider updating my GURPS collection to include some Dr Who.
Thinking of PvE and X-Men arcade cabinets, I remember one night in the late 90's when one my friends and I went out to look for a game to rent for his N64. The only criteria was that we wanted a game where we could both at the same time beat the crap out of something that wasn't each other (using X-Men as our example in case you were wondering the connection). Not one single game at any of the 3 rental stores in our area had any such game for the N64. Utterly disappointing. I'll never understand why co-op playing against a computer enemy isn't mroe popular than it is.
Oh and just so you don't change your opinion of slashdotters any time soon:
"I prefer challenges where I go up against something hard with my friends"
I've got something hard you and your friends can go up against.
"Many of the games in development look similar at a first glance, and developers will have to make their product unique and appealing."
Well said. It still looks like the world of MMORPG is still 90% dungeons, dragons, and monsters. I will at least be looking forward to the new Phantasy Star and Star Trek offerings though. I'm also interested in Fallen Earth. Maybe some of these competing MMOs can price war each other down to a reasonable monthly fee.
This brings up a good point. There are several theatrical releases of Star Wars from a content perspective. You can check them some of the differences on IMDB. I thought I was crazy for years because I swore that Star Wars didn't have an "Episode IV" designation on it when I saw it in the theater. Turns out I was right. I don't remember the Biggs scene though.
Isn't this the sort of business practice that led to the dot com boom in the first place? They're going to give everything away and hope that advertising money eventually catches up. Something tells me this isn't going to work. Maybe they'll ad a feature where they pay you for each advertiser's banner you click on.
I can understand and appreciate what you're saying but S3 doesn't have a "level" playing field. They're behind the curve pretty substantially. Even if S3 has bits and pieces that perform better than ATI and Nvidia components, it won't matter in the end. ATI and Nvidia could be better than S3 in every single way and it wouldn't put S3 any further in the hole. Open sourcing will at least give them a niche of enthusiasts to hold onto, especially since they'll be butting heads with Intel from the value side of the spectrum.
Is there something I'm missing or is there no full screen for these shows? There's a higher resolution image option but it doesn't go very full at all. I'm really trying to be good and not download the "other" versions of these shows but if I can't even watch the show at a decent size on my TV, these streams are near useless to me. I guess I'll just stick to my Head of the Class reruns on IN2TV. At least their full screen is bareable.
What's really interesting is that S3 has nothing to lose by open sourcing its drivers. They're not doing anything that ATI and Nvidia aren't already doing better. That's kind of like Yugo being protective of their drivetrain design.
Have you been to a Blockbuster lately? Buying DVDs has gotten pretty cheap while renting movies has only gotten more expensive. The $4.50 per rental they charge is about 1/3 to 1/4 the price it would cost to buy the movie outright. And game rentals are now in the neighborhood of $7 per game! That's just crazy when the used video game market is rapidly devaluing games. Most of Blockbuster's gaming library can be bought for $20 or less. Why spend $7 just to rent it for a week?
Then there's Netflix where I can't just go pick up any movie I want. I have to request it and have it shipped. And that only happens after they get back one of the earlier movies I rented from them. That's a minimum two day turnaround. And while it is nice that you can request Netflix movies from the comfort of your own home, the less scrupulous out there have discovered that you can download just about any movie you want in far less time than it would take Netflix to get it to your door. And on top of that, their "unlimited" rental model leaves a lot to be desired for those who don't rent very often. Their cheaper packages offer little enough that they're not a good deal.
No, the Wii won't be televised. That's ok though. They usually don't show that sort of thing on TV, especially since the FCC has been real active at enforcing decency regulations and all
"if I weren't floating around stodgy old academic institutions"
Instead of looking at a major metropolitan area, you might do as the parent of this post does instead of what he says and find work in a college town (though not neccessarily for the college in question). I make right along the average pay for my skillset working for a private company in a college town in the southeast. I was able to buy a 3500 sq foot home on 1.3 acres of land that's only about 1/2 hour from where I work (and the same distance from a nice lake) for $120K dollars. My wife's school teacher pay combined with my own puts us a bit over six figures and we're on our way to having our house paid off in about four years and that's while putting her entire paycheck into retirement. Cost of living is a joke here compared to the major city I live closest to. Everything down to gasoline and groceries is about 15%-20% cheaper and the unemployment is one of the lowest in the country (which is pretty common in college towns). Plus, there's always a stable real estate market because the constant influx of new students picks up the slack. If I ever move and can't sell (or just don't want to), it's easy to find a property manager willing to manage it as a rental for a reasonable price.
"I wonder how many of those seats were empty because scalpers had taken most of the tickets then tried to sell them to people for massively inflated prices and failing?"
I would assume none since you could buy tickets at the door.
Here'a a list adjusted for inflation (in 2005 dollars):
1. Wrath of Kahn $158M 2. Voyage Home $186M 3. Undiscovered Country $104M 4. Generations $95M 5. Search for Spock $140M 6. First Contact $111M 7. Motion Picture $232M 8. Nemesis $45M 9. Final Frontier $81M 10. Insurrection $81M
Old Crew: $133M per movie (not counting TMP since that's kind of unfair) New Crew: Not a single movie that hit's the old crew's average though First Contact only missed the average by $22M. FC did commendably beat out the Undiscovered Country.
Now that's not even adjusting for ticket prices that have outpaced inflation so the older movies will probably have even more of an edge is you adjust for that too. I just used an inflation calculator.
The last time I went and saw David Bowie in concert, it was for his Earthling tour. He was playing a relatively small venue in Atlanta and only charging $30 per ticket. It didn't come close to selling out. While the article does explicity state that Bowie sees the need to make more money off of concerts, his solution is "doing a lot of touring," not charging $200+ per ticket. Madonna has reached the status where she can charge $200+ per ticket. Most musicians will just see less attendance if they raise ticket prices. Looks to me like if this article is implying anything, it's saying that the days of good studio performers who can't play live are numbered.
I wouldn't insult crap by comparing it to Insurrection. I didn't think TMP was terrible. The story was decent but it was a one hour show stretched into a two hour movie. Insurrection was the same thing but it was a pitiful and uninteresting one hour show stretched into a two hour movie. I just thought there were more outright stupid moments in Nemesis than there were in TMP. I credit TMP with giving TNG it's theme song.
I'm not saying they should focus a movie on Kirk and Spock. Just make them secondary roles. Get you Johnny Knoxvilles and your Jessica Simpsons to do the big roles. Hollywood could have the best of both worlds.
Enterpise Babies would have to be set in the TNG era because of the extensive use of the holodeck.
I wouldn't rank it 3rd. It was a decent movie but I thought the early earth characters and setting was by far the weakest part of the movie. As much as I dislike the Borg, I thought the Enterprise vs. Borg situation really saved the movie. Just for kicks, here's my rankings:
1. Wrath of Kahn 2. Voyage Home 3. Undiscovered Country 4. Generations 5. Search for Spock 6. First Contact 7. Motion Picture 8. Nemesis 9. Final Frontier 10. Insurrection
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Just as he was getting to the punchline, the guy telling it fell through the ceiling after climbing up there to get out of the closet his teaher locked him in for acting up during Saturday detention. Sadly, we'll never hear the rest. Oh wait, wrong joke.
There was a Who RPG a while back. It was kind of odd because it was only one sourcebook and that was sold as a regular paperback. I can't remember if Virign published it but it was around the time Virgin was publishing Who novels that I saw it. It was a system that only used six-sided dice. I kick myself for not buying it when I found it. It looked like rubbish but would've been fun to have around just for the sake of it.
I'd seriously consider updating my GURPS collection to include some Dr Who.
Thinking of PvE and X-Men arcade cabinets, I remember one night in the late 90's when one my friends and I went out to look for a game to rent for his N64. The only criteria was that we wanted a game where we could both at the same time beat the crap out of something that wasn't each other (using X-Men as our example in case you were wondering the connection). Not one single game at any of the 3 rental stores in our area had any such game for the N64. Utterly disappointing. I'll never understand why co-op playing against a computer enemy isn't mroe popular than it is.
Oh and just so you don't change your opinion of slashdotters any time soon:
"I prefer challenges where I go up against something hard with my friends"
I've got something hard you and your friends can go up against.
"Many of the games in development look similar at a first glance, and developers will have to make their product unique and appealing."
Well said. It still looks like the world of MMORPG is still 90% dungeons, dragons, and monsters. I will at least be looking forward to the new Phantasy Star and Star Trek offerings though. I'm also interested in Fallen Earth. Maybe some of these competing MMOs can price war each other down to a reasonable monthly fee.
This brings up a good point. There are several theatrical releases of Star Wars from a content perspective. You can check them some of the differences on IMDB. I thought I was crazy for years because I swore that Star Wars didn't have an "Episode IV" designation on it when I saw it in the theater. Turns out I was right. I don't remember the Biggs scene though.
The geek shall inherit the earth, my friend. Even Seattle.
Google didn't have the massive overhead of licensing a music library. Google created the product they were giving away.
Isn't this the sort of business practice that led to the dot com boom in the first place? They're going to give everything away and hope that advertising money eventually catches up. Something tells me this isn't going to work. Maybe they'll ad a feature where they pay you for each advertiser's banner you click on.
We've got bush!
I can understand and appreciate what you're saying but S3 doesn't have a "level" playing field. They're behind the curve pretty substantially. Even if S3 has bits and pieces that perform better than ATI and Nvidia components, it won't matter in the end. ATI and Nvidia could be better than S3 in every single way and it wouldn't put S3 any further in the hole. Open sourcing will at least give them a niche of enthusiasts to hold onto, especially since they'll be butting heads with Intel from the value side of the spectrum.
Yeah, as long as this is still as profitable as it is, you'll never see your backlog of Lost episodes online in any legal (US) and free format.
Is there something I'm missing or is there no full screen for these shows? There's a higher resolution image option but it doesn't go very full at all. I'm really trying to be good and not download the "other" versions of these shows but if I can't even watch the show at a decent size on my TV, these streams are near useless to me. I guess I'll just stick to my Head of the Class reruns on IN2TV. At least their full screen is bareable.
What's really interesting is that S3 has nothing to lose by open sourcing its drivers. They're not doing anything that ATI and Nvidia aren't already doing better. That's kind of like Yugo being protective of their drivetrain design.
Have you been to a Blockbuster lately? Buying DVDs has gotten pretty cheap while renting movies has only gotten more expensive. The $4.50 per rental they charge is about 1/3 to 1/4 the price it would cost to buy the movie outright. And game rentals are now in the neighborhood of $7 per game! That's just crazy when the used video game market is rapidly devaluing games. Most of Blockbuster's gaming library can be bought for $20 or less. Why spend $7 just to rent it for a week?
Then there's Netflix where I can't just go pick up any movie I want. I have to request it and have it shipped. And that only happens after they get back one of the earlier movies I rented from them. That's a minimum two day turnaround. And while it is nice that you can request Netflix movies from the comfort of your own home, the less scrupulous out there have discovered that you can download just about any movie you want in far less time than it would take Netflix to get it to your door. And on top of that, their "unlimited" rental model leaves a lot to be desired for those who don't rent very often. Their cheaper packages offer little enough that they're not a good deal.
Fine then. How do we pronounce it?
"the revolution won't be televised!"
No, the Wii won't be televised. That's ok though. They usually don't show that sort of thing on TV, especially since the FCC has been real active at enforcing decency regulations and all
Hey, if you don't like 1-ply you can always fold it in half.
Right. Now how many of those came out before FFVII? The GP's assertion is quite correct in the context of when the game was released.
"if I weren't floating around stodgy old academic institutions"
Instead of looking at a major metropolitan area, you might do as the parent of this post does instead of what he says and find work in a college town (though not neccessarily for the college in question). I make right along the average pay for my skillset working for a private company in a college town in the southeast. I was able to buy a 3500 sq foot home on 1.3 acres of land that's only about 1/2 hour from where I work (and the same distance from a nice lake) for $120K dollars. My wife's school teacher pay combined with my own puts us a bit over six figures and we're on our way to having our house paid off in about four years and that's while putting her entire paycheck into retirement. Cost of living is a joke here compared to the major city I live closest to. Everything down to gasoline and groceries is about 15%-20% cheaper and the unemployment is one of the lowest in the country (which is pretty common in college towns). Plus, there's always a stable real estate market because the constant influx of new students picks up the slack. If I ever move and can't sell (or just don't want to), it's easy to find a property manager willing to manage it as a rental for a reasonable price.
"I wonder how many of those seats were empty because scalpers had taken most of the tickets then tried to sell them to people for massively inflated prices and failing?"
I would assume none since you could buy tickets at the door.
"not adjusted for inflation:"
Here'a a list adjusted for inflation (in 2005 dollars):
1. Wrath of Kahn $158M
2. Voyage Home $186M
3. Undiscovered Country $104M
4. Generations $95M
5. Search for Spock $140M
6. First Contact $111M
7. Motion Picture $232M
8. Nemesis $45M
9. Final Frontier $81M
10. Insurrection $81M
Old Crew: $133M per movie (not counting TMP since that's kind of unfair)
New Crew: Not a single movie that hit's the old crew's average though First Contact only missed the average by $22M. FC did commendably beat out the Undiscovered Country.
Now that's not even adjusting for ticket prices that have outpaced inflation so the older movies will probably have even more of an edge is you adjust for that too. I just used an inflation calculator.
The last time I went and saw David Bowie in concert, it was for his Earthling tour. He was playing a relatively small venue in Atlanta and only charging $30 per ticket. It didn't come close to selling out. While the article does explicity state that Bowie sees the need to make more money off of concerts, his solution is "doing a lot of touring," not charging $200+ per ticket. Madonna has reached the status where she can charge $200+ per ticket. Most musicians will just see less attendance if they raise ticket prices. Looks to me like if this article is implying anything, it's saying that the days of good studio performers who can't play live are numbered.
I wouldn't insult crap by comparing it to Insurrection. I didn't think TMP was terrible. The story was decent but it was a one hour show stretched into a two hour movie. Insurrection was the same thing but it was a pitiful and uninteresting one hour show stretched into a two hour movie. I just thought there were more outright stupid moments in Nemesis than there were in TMP. I credit TMP with giving TNG it's theme song.
I'm not saying they should focus a movie on Kirk and Spock. Just make them secondary roles. Get you Johnny Knoxvilles and your Jessica Simpsons to do the big roles. Hollywood could have the best of both worlds.
Enterpise Babies would have to be set in the TNG era because of the extensive use of the holodeck.
I wouldn't rank it 3rd. It was a decent movie but I thought the early earth characters and setting was by far the weakest part of the movie. As much as I dislike the Borg, I thought the Enterprise vs. Borg situation really saved the movie. Just for kicks, here's my rankings:
1. Wrath of Kahn
2. Voyage Home
3. Undiscovered Country
4. Generations
5. Search for Spock
6. First Contact
7. Motion Picture
8. Nemesis
9. Final Frontier
10. Insurrection