The reason why video-game inspired movies suck...
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Why Game Movies Stink
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...is that who ever is making the movie is choosing the wrong video-games to be inspired by!
Doom?! Come on! How about Baldur's Gate? Super Mario Bros?! (though I admit to liking this one)? How about Star Control 2? Mortal Kombat?! How about X-COM: Enemy Unknown? Street Fighter?! How about Final Fantasy VII?
Little girls have tons of imagination - they play "House", "Mom and Dad", "Doctor and Patient" and whatnot. Give them something to focus their creativity on.
A new generation of sparkle pony girl geeks just might emerge for the benefit of us all:)
Funny. I've written an application's GUI using C# and it's logic using C/C++ (a DLL). Had no problems whatsoever with interop. Mind pointing me at the bug report in Microsoft's Knowledge Base? Or any reference to it online?
By the way, talking of "C++.NET" - you're probably referring to the horrible C++ with Managed Extensions supported in Visual Studio.NET 2003. Try the new C++/CLI that is supported in Visual Studio.NET 2005 - legacy code can be compiled as is.
Baldur's Gate II is just amazing. It is part of an incredible RPG series, which has depth, continuity, believability and playability. You could keep your character and build it up over many many hours of gameplay. Make love connections. Decide whether to be good or evil. Explore all there is to explore or never leave the primary quest. Discover things about yourself. Be amazed by plot twists. Arghh, so lovely!
This series has to be my favourite RPG series, rivaled only - maybe - by the Final Fantasy S-Generation.
Most of the games you've noted are over 1 year old, some over 5 years old.. (SiN?!)
Linux is the inferior gamer's platform. Doesn't mean it won't change in the future, but right now - it is.
That's simply utter crap. Expressing yourself through the way you look is just as valid as expressing yourself through the way you act. Who are you to define what is valid, what is immature and who are "idiots"?
"...one should not wear any form of *visible* modifications outside of those that are generally acceptable..." How very 1984ish of you.
The fact is that you simply have prejudice against "non-professional" dressers, that is - anyone who dresses differently than most of the mainstream who follow the herd mentality's demands. (Of course, sometimes dressing non-mainstream simply means dressing as an alternate stream - still defining yourself as part of a group, albeit not the largest one) Assuming that the professional skill level of a uniquely styled person is lower simply because of his taste in style or clothing is silly and juvenile. This is irrelevant to job performance - especially in IT - and if you'd judge someone by "what he does" instead of what "he looks like", you'd see what I mean. As if most geeks are presentable.
I have no piercing, nor tatoos, nor any other body mods, in case you wonder. I am just horrified by the closed mindedness of you old fasioned geeks. What an oxymoron..
I assume you read my post completely, so I won't comment on the "intarweb fer idiots" situation.
I understand the problem some people might have, having principles and refusing to agree to such a license. The best solution is not to use AIM. That's what I do. However, I am not worried at all that AOL will ever get any useful information by use of the freedom this license offers them.
Yeah, AOL will elimintate encryption the same way NSA did for e-mail. Because AOL needs your IM correspondance!
Obviously, tons of highly-sensitive material is transmitted using IM, information such as credit-card numbers (which AOL can use, of course), business strategies (I am sure that Bill Gates uses AIM to tell his surrogates what industry to take over next... this could be AOL's chance to finally overshadow Microsoft) and government secrets (naturally, AOL will sell this information to China).
Only idiots pass truely sensitive information through an IM system. It takes an even bigger idiot to pass this type of information unencrypted. Thankfully, idiots rarely if ever get access to truely sensitive information.
What is this truely about, then? AOL wants to publicize its new Teen-Date service or some other using its member pictures, or something of this sort.
Remember: don't be paranoid. Unless they're truely after you...:)
Actually you are using wireless power all the time. For example in your car: The fuel is certainly not transported by wire.
How about the wires from the alternator (or battery) of your car to your car sound system? Do they count or is the car still using "wireless power"?
I don't get this definition of wireless power - if something is not connected to the main power grid, is it wireless? Is a portable stereo system using wireless power, as it is using batteries? That's nonsense.
My unit has serious problems with physical space (we are positioned in an old building, I think it was originally built by the British army circa 1940 - too damn small). We need all the space we can get. (Is this sounding like a radio commercial?)
We used to work with 21" and 22" IBM CRTs. IBM CRTs are acknowledged as some of the best out there (like almost anything IBM does.. except, maybe, for the Java IDE;]). The problem was that the CRTs are huge - taking large amount of space, and that using them for over 10-12 hours a day was simply painful for the eyes, whatever refresh-rate you use.
Since then we've received a few of the latest IBM ThinkVision 19" LCD screens, and it's a great improvement. I can work for longer periods of time without physical inconvenience, text crispness is improved (using ClearType fonts) and I can actually see my desk.
Also, in my opinion the color and crispness of the graphics has improved. Nothing like Laetitia Casta in true color:) This is only my personal opinion, though - some graphic designers might have a different opinion.
You quote him: "whose only natural resource is large amounts of scorching hot desert". Obviously, since Saudi Arabia has both oil and scorching hot deserts - it is not a country that he could possibly be referring to.
You might be forgetting their huge amounts of oil.
They might be the only country in the world who would find these solar cells attractive at one point or another, though, having the capital to use them.
The ovens would have to be very very expensive, heating up the raw material (to be carbonized) up to 3000 degrees celcius and applying pressure of hundreds of thousands kilograms per CM^2.
Haven't heard of anyone making such ovens. Anyone care to point me at details?
A play is not a movie, nor is another version of a play a prequel/sequel of the play - it is a remake.
There are plenty of Hamlet movies, and though most are pointless and simply bad - some bring new ideas and concepts.
A prequel/sequel where the integrity of the story/cast is broken just won't be as good as the original. This is especially true when you're talking about a series of movies, like Indie, where the story/cast is defined in a very strong manner over time. A few good example of why this change of original story/cast/author can't be good are the new Godfather and Dune books, and all the shitty sequels of the world (Alien 4 stands out produly).
And in this case, especially - in my mind and I bet in the minds of many others, Indie simply is Harrison Ford. No other actor would do.
You can't compare the older and newer Bonds. They're just difference movies, different styles. Of course, a lot of it is because of the era in which they were taken.. but still. Each Bond is different, character and movies.
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...is that who ever is making the movie is choosing the wrong video-games to be inspired by!
Doom?! Come on! How about Baldur's Gate?
Super Mario Bros?! (though I admit to liking this one)? How about Star Control 2?
Mortal Kombat?! How about X-COM: Enemy Unknown?
Street Fighter?! How about Final Fantasy VII?
A game based on Baldur's Gate would ROCK.
Little girls have tons of imagination - they play "House", "Mom and Dad", "Doctor and Patient" and whatnot. Give them something to focus their creativity on.
:)
A new generation of sparkle pony girl geeks just might emerge for the benefit of us all
Israel. Less than 7 million "units of population", yet vast amounts of science and technology when compared to the population.
Funny. I've written an application's GUI using C# and it's logic using C/C++ (a DLL). Had no problems whatsoever with interop. Mind pointing me at the bug report in Microsoft's Knowledge Base? Or any reference to it online?
.NET 2003. Try the new C++/CLI that is supported in Visual Studio .NET 2005 - legacy code can be compiled as is.
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By the way, talking of "C++.NET" - you're probably referring to the horrible C++ with Managed Extensions supported in Visual Studio
Check it out: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/00/Pu
Baldur's Gate II is just amazing. It is part of an incredible RPG series, which has depth, continuity, believability and playability. You could keep your character and build it up over many many hours of gameplay. Make love connections. Decide whether to be good or evil. Explore all there is to explore or never leave the primary quest. Discover things about yourself. Be amazed by plot twists. Arghh, so lovely!
This series has to be my favourite RPG series, rivaled only - maybe - by the Final Fantasy S-Generation.
Silly slashdot, it removed my hebrew text.
Anyhow, an arnevet is a rabbit - and a rabbit does not "maale geira" or whatever. It's not a cow.
An arnevet is a rabbit.
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Most of the games you've noted are over 1 year old, some over 5 years old.. (SiN?!) Linux is the inferior gamer's platform. Doesn't mean it won't change in the future, but right now - it is.
Solder Fumes doesn't care about the PETA, he cares about karma. He uses people who read on Slashdot to achieve his own goals. Open your eyes.
Do I get Insightful too?
That's simply utter crap. Expressing yourself through the way you look is just as valid as expressing yourself through the way you act. Who are you to define what is valid, what is immature and who are "idiots"?
"...one should not wear any form of *visible* modifications outside of those that are generally acceptable..."
How very 1984ish of you.
The fact is that you simply have prejudice against "non-professional" dressers, that is - anyone who dresses differently than most of the mainstream who follow the herd mentality's demands. (Of course, sometimes dressing non-mainstream simply means dressing as an alternate stream - still defining yourself as part of a group, albeit not the largest one) Assuming that the professional skill level of a uniquely styled person is lower simply because of his taste in style or clothing is silly and juvenile. This is irrelevant to job performance - especially in IT - and if you'd judge someone by "what he does" instead of what "he looks like", you'd see what I mean. As if most geeks are presentable.
I have no piercing, nor tatoos, nor any other body mods, in case you wonder. I am just horrified by the closed mindedness of you old fasioned geeks. What an oxymoron..
I see you've never programmed/designed/supported any large-scale product before.
Do you honestly think it is the programming or design team that does the tech support?
OTP is not transmitted on any channel, dummy.
The possible "hack" is killing the agent carrying the OTP and taking the media containing it from it.
The algorithm is perfect. It cannot be hacked.
I assume you read my post completely, so I won't comment on the "intarweb fer idiots" situation.
I understand the problem some people might have, having principles and refusing to agree to such a license. The best solution is not to use AIM. That's what I do. However, I am not worried at all that AOL will ever get any useful information by use of the freedom this license offers them.
Yeah, AOL will elimintate encryption the same way NSA did for e-mail. Because AOL needs your IM correspondance!
:)
Obviously, tons of highly-sensitive material is transmitted using IM, information such as credit-card numbers (which AOL can use, of course), business strategies (I am sure that Bill Gates uses AIM to tell his surrogates what industry to take over next... this could be AOL's chance to finally overshadow Microsoft) and government secrets (naturally, AOL will sell this information to China).
Only idiots pass truely sensitive information through an IM system. It takes an even bigger idiot to pass this type of information unencrypted. Thankfully, idiots rarely if ever get access to truely sensitive information.
What is this truely about, then? AOL wants to publicize its new Teen-Date service or some other using its member pictures, or something of this sort.
Remember: don't be paranoid. Unless they're truely after you...
We're talking of electrical energy, not mechanical/chemical energy.
How about the wires from the alternator (or battery) of your car to your car sound system? Do they count or is the car still using "wireless power"?
I don't get this definition of wireless power - if something is not connected to the main power grid, is it wireless? Is a portable stereo system using wireless power, as it is using batteries? That's nonsense.
I am a programmer with the Israeli army.
;]). The problem was that the CRTs are huge - taking large amount of space, and that using them for over 10-12 hours a day was simply painful for the eyes, whatever refresh-rate you use.
:) This is only my personal opinion, though - some graphic designers might have a different opinion.
My unit has serious problems with physical space (we are positioned in an old building, I think it was originally built by the British army circa 1940 - too damn small). We need all the space we can get. (Is this sounding like a radio commercial?)
We used to work with 21" and 22" IBM CRTs. IBM CRTs are acknowledged as some of the best out there (like almost anything IBM does.. except, maybe, for the Java IDE
Since then we've received a few of the latest IBM ThinkVision 19" LCD screens, and it's a great improvement. I can work for longer periods of time without physical inconvenience, text crispness is improved (using ClearType fonts) and I can actually see my desk.
Also, in my opinion the color and crispness of the graphics has improved. Nothing like Laetitia Casta in true color
You should read matt's message.
You quote him: "whose only natural resource is large amounts of scorching hot desert". Obviously, since Saudi Arabia has both oil and scorching hot deserts - it is not a country that he could possibly be referring to.
You might be forgetting their huge amounts of oil.
They might be the only country in the world who would find these solar cells attractive at one point or another, though, having the capital to use them.
DAMN! Better go capture myself a Chocobo.
The diamonds cost 50$, not the ovens..
The ovens would have to be very very expensive, heating up the raw material (to be carbonized) up to 3000 degrees celcius and applying pressure of hundreds of thousands kilograms per CM^2.
Haven't heard of anyone making such ovens. Anyone care to point me at details?
A play is not a movie, nor is another version of a play a prequel/sequel of the play - it is a remake.
There are plenty of Hamlet movies, and though most are pointless and simply bad - some bring new ideas and concepts.
A prequel/sequel where the integrity of the story/cast is broken just won't be as good as the original. This is especially true when you're talking about a series of movies, like Indie, where the story/cast is defined in a very strong manner over time. A few good example of why this change of original story/cast/author can't be good are the new Godfather and Dune books, and all the shitty sequels of the world (Alien 4 stands out produly).
And in this case, especially - in my mind and I bet in the minds of many others, Indie simply is Harrison Ford. No other actor would do.
I've seen a few episodes.. Liked the show. I heard it isn't as popular as Seinfeld in the US. Care to comment?
You can't compare the older and newer Bonds. They're just difference movies, different styles. Of course, a lot of it is because of the era in which they were taken.. but still. Each Bond is different, character and movies.
Harrison Ford is Indiana Jones. There's no other. What's next, replacing Jerry Seinfeld in Seinfeld?