I wonder if anyone with access to the the LaserDisc versions of the original trilogy and/or THX 1138 ever bothered to make an MPEG2 release to burn on DVDs? And to release that on any P2P?
All cracks and personal opinion about Spymac aside [...]
I think it's very difficult to leave opinions about Spymac aside. Yes, I have problems with them being the iWalk source (the older ones here will remember) but what's really bad is the involvement with JackCampbell.
I could play Unreal Tournament on a G3/800 iBook with maxed RAM
Well, still no need for me to try it here;) But seriously: Did you play networkgames aginst real people or only for yourself against the bots? Are frame rates still good enough to get frags with more than 5 people in a big room all firing their weapons?
this mean this might even run on some of the high-end G4 MacIntosh, once ported
Seeing how you spell Macintosh I can clearly see that you are not a Mac user. If you were you would surely know this: Game companies normally make sure that titles, once ported to the Mac will run so shitty that the minimum requiremnts effectly double. Of course this won't be stated on the package, which will read like: Minimum G3, 256 MB.
Yes, I own a very old Mac and am filled with bitterness...
[Microsoft]bought a large chunk of non voting shares in exchange for making IE Apple's default browser.
In fact this was part of an out-of-court settlement between Apple and MS about patent and copyright issues.
"Preferred Stock - In August 1997, the Company and Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft) entered into a patent cross license and technology agreements. In addition, Microsoft purchased 150,000 shares of Apple Series A nonvoting convertible preferred stock ("preferred stock") for $150 million. These shares were convertible by Microsoft after August 5, 2000, into shares of the Company's common stock at a conversion price of $8.25 per share. During 2000, 74,250 shares of preferred stock were converted to 9 million shares of the Company's common stock. During 2001, the remaining 75,750 preferred shares were converted into 9.2 million shares of the Company's common stock." source (PDF-File - 10-K/Part II/Item 8 - page 75)
Even then this wasn't a "large chunk"
It would mean MS has 18 million shares in Apple, of what? 400 million shares? How many shares of AAPL are on the market?
MS sold the shares, and for a decent profit.
If you have a source that Microsoft ever sold those shares please provide a link to it.
[hits Anonymous Coward over the head] 35 Years are not "nearly 40 years"! I'm 35 and do not feel like "nearly 40 years". [hits Anonymous Coward over the head once more for good measure.]
Here's my little review of what I saw so far (Yeah, as if anyone cares):
Starship Exeter: I like the lighting and design. Some acting is ok other is very bad. Maybe some sponsors relatives had to get a job on the show. Greatest annyoance: It looks like they used VHS or SuperVHS, no DV. And they should have done something in post production to give it more of a film look. As the original was filmed on 16 or 35 mm film.
New Voyages: Brilliant set design, nicely combinated with CGI that tries to recreate the classic look. And they treated their video to more look like film. All in all it best matches the classic series. Feels cheap here and there? Yes, the original did too. Sometimes really felt like watching a never before seen episode of the original show. Which happened for the last time in the seventies when I watched in in my payamas before going to bed.
Final Frontier: Good story, best acting, overall good look, but with all the bluescreen stuff it got the look of movie sequences in a Star Trek game. Anyone remembers Starfleet Academy?
Which gives me an idea which is pretty obvious: How about a fan based effort about Starfleet Academy? You could give it a classic look but also could make your own designs. It would make perfect sense to use young actors. Still you could use the classic characters. IIRC Paramount thought about that concept before.
What I really don't get: Why not use a format that will play on every machine (standalone DVD players included) and LOOK GOOD FFS? Sorenson QuickTime, WMV... Someone please give them some hours of video encoding 101. (Grumbel...) No, size shouldn't matter. There are distribution systems that work perfectly fine for big files, like BitTorrent and donkey/overnet.
Would be a nice thing if those projects would join their efforts.
In the end all those shows are good enough to make me want to watch more of them. Which is more than the first season of "Enterprise" achieved for me.
I really wish the audio were redubbed. Do the shots just using the microphones on the set, and then perform a seperate dubbing session [...]
Would make it worse. You need really good talent for dubbing. It's hard. Trust me , I know what I'm talking about. I'm from germany where all shows and movies are dubbed. And if done cheaply it sucks ass.
I would even go so far to say that the conservative CSU/CDU is actually more like the US Democrats, while the SPD is somewhere to the left of that even.
I really would like to now what made you arrive at that conclusion.
In Germany, at least, the term 'socialist' has never really had a negative connotation like in the US. In fact, it seems to be thrown around all over the place like we throw 'democratic' around.
Absolutely not. Maybe we were not as paranoid as most Americans, but being at the front in the cold war, most of western Germany was pretty much anti communist and is still.
I'm pretty sure you mistake "sozial" with "sozialistisch".
Politically active Christians in the USA would find the CDU/CSU's positions on many issues abhorrent
Depends on what you mean by "politically active christians". Planting bombs at entries of abortion clinics? Well, I guess you're right. But I'm pretty sure you will find a few nutheads everywhere.
Gerhardt Schroeder, the current Chancellor, is from the major "liberal" opposition party- I forget the name now.
As they are in power now you can't call 'em "opposition", can you? And the name is SPD (Social-Democratic Party of Germany), which these days (unfortunately) is very comparable to the US Democrats.
Slashdot Mirror
May be not perFe ct but it works quite fine here as you can clearly see.
This would be the right time for Apple to open source their Quicktime stuff. Not only Darwin Streaming Server, but all the rest too.
Innovative? I wonder if Robert Sabiston has any patents on his software: http://www.lariat.org/AtTheMovies/wakinglife.html
I wonder if anyone with access to the the LaserDisc versions of the original trilogy and/or THX 1138 ever bothered to make an MPEG2 release to burn on DVDs? And to release that on any P2P?
Gee, now you totally spoiled the surprise.
Will 3 follow the layout of episode 6?
As in being an episode 4 rip-off?
Phew ... Thank god.
The StarWars Making Of ran on TV when the first movie was released and later appeared on VHS cassettes. I would love to see that again.
I think it's very difficult to leave opinions about Spymac aside. Yes, I have problems with them being the iWalk source (the older ones here will remember) but what's really bad is the involvement with Jack Campbell.
Well, still no need for me to try it here ;) But seriously: Did you play networkgames aginst real people or only for yourself against the bots? Are frame rates still good enough to get frags with more than 5 people in a big room all firing their weapons?
And in some parallel dimension Microsoft might have a perfect track record for meating deadlines.
As far as I know, they're still saying 2006 and they're right on track for 2006,
Yup, no miracle with postponing some more hard to implement features (at least hard to implement for Microsoft) to the later Blackcomb release.
But, yeah, I'm pretty sure by 2006 they'll have some smoke and mirrors presentation for people like you :)
Seeing how you spell Macintosh I can clearly see that you are not a Mac user. If you were you would surely know this: Game companies normally make sure that titles, once ported to the Mac will run so shitty that the minimum requiremnts effectly double. Of course this won't be stated on the package, which will read like: Minimum G3, 256 MB.
Yes, I own a very old Mac and am filled with bitterness ...
Who use Macs for their work, btw.
Which reminds me of those commercials:
Toasted bunny
Snail
(QuickTime required)
And this has to do with Microsoft exactly what?
In fact this was part of an out-of-court settlement between Apple and MS about patent and copyright issues.
"Preferred Stock - In August 1997, the Company and Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft) entered into a patent cross license and technology agreements. In addition, Microsoft purchased 150,000 shares of Apple Series A nonvoting convertible preferred stock ("preferred stock") for $150 million. These shares were convertible by Microsoft after August 5, 2000, into shares of the Company's common stock at a conversion price of $8.25 per share. During 2000, 74,250 shares of preferred stock were converted to 9 million shares of the Company's common stock. During 2001, the remaining 75,750 preferred shares were converted into 9.2 million shares of the Company's common stock." source (PDF-File - 10-K/Part II/Item 8 - page 75)
Even then this wasn't a "large chunk"
It would mean MS has 18 million shares in Apple, of what? 400 million shares? How many shares of AAPL are on the market?
MS sold the shares, and for a decent profit.
If you have a source that Microsoft ever sold those shares please provide a link to it.
Does that mean Mac users now finally will get altivec support on seti@home?
[hits Anonymous Coward over the head] 35 Years are not "nearly 40 years"! I'm 35 and do not feel like "nearly 40 years". [hits Anonymous Coward over the head once more for good measure.]
Argh, f***, yes :)
Which totally will stop people from bootlegging this album. (Looks at donkey) Or not.
Starship Exeter: I like the lighting and design. Some acting is ok other is very bad. Maybe some sponsors relatives had to get a job on the show. Greatest annyoance: It looks like they used VHS or SuperVHS, no DV. And they should have done something in post production to give it more of a film look. As the original was filmed on 16 or 35 mm film.
New Voyages: Brilliant set design, nicely combinated with CGI that tries to recreate the classic look. And they treated their video to more look like film. All in all it best matches the classic series. Feels cheap here and there? Yes, the original did too. Sometimes really felt like watching a never before seen episode of the original show. Which happened for the last time in the seventies when I watched in in my payamas before going to bed.
Final Frontier: Good story, best acting, overall good look, but with all the bluescreen stuff it got the look of movie sequences in a Star Trek game. Anyone remembers Starfleet Academy?
Which gives me an idea which is pretty obvious: How about a fan based effort about Starfleet Academy? You could give it a classic look but also could make your own designs. It would make perfect sense to use young actors. Still you could use the classic characters. IIRC Paramount thought about that concept before.
What I really don't get: Why not use a format that will play on every machine (standalone DVD players included) and LOOK GOOD FFS? Sorenson QuickTime, WMV ... Someone please give them some hours of video encoding 101. (Grumbel ...) No, size shouldn't matter. There are distribution systems that work perfectly fine for big files, like BitTorrent and donkey/overnet.
Would be a nice thing if those projects would join their efforts.
In the end all those shows are good enough to make me want to watch more of them. Which is more than the first season of "Enterprise" achieved for me.
Would make it worse. You need really good talent for dubbing. It's hard. Trust me , I know what I'm talking about. I'm from germany where all shows and movies are dubbed. And if done cheaply it sucks ass.
But can some good eps save a whole show?
Can't be worse than Enterprise.
Your donkeylinks are somehow broken ...
I really would like to now what made you arrive at that conclusion.
In Germany, at least, the term 'socialist' has never really had a negative connotation like in the US. In fact, it seems to be thrown around all over the place like we throw 'democratic' around.
Absolutely not. Maybe we were not as paranoid as most Americans, but being at the front in the cold war, most of western Germany was pretty much anti communist and is still.
I'm pretty sure you mistake "sozial" with "sozialistisch".
And where the hell are you from?
Basically, the Chrsitian Socialists Union [...]
It's Christian _Social_ Union
Politically active Christians in the USA would find the CDU/CSU's positions on many issues abhorrent
Depends on what you mean by "politically active christians". Planting bombs at entries of abortion clinics? Well, I guess you're right. But I'm pretty sure you will find a few nutheads everywhere.
Gerhardt Schroeder, the current Chancellor, is from the major "liberal" opposition party- I forget the name now.
As they are in power now you can't call 'em "opposition", can you? And the name is SPD (Social-Democratic Party of Germany), which these days (unfortunately) is very comparable to the US Democrats.
German Chancellors:
1949-1963 Konrad Adenauer (CDU)
1963-1966 Ludwig Erhard (CDU)
1966-1969 Kurt Georg Kiesinger (CDU)
1969-1974 Willy Brandt (SPD) <---
1974-1982 Helmut Schmidt (SPD) <---
1982-1998 Helmut Kohl (CDU)
1998- Gerhard Schröder (SPD) <---
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