I borrowed DVD sets for all of the SG1 seasons- it's decline in quality was a very, very smooth curve. I tried watching a bit of Stargate Atlantis but it was worse than SG1 Season 9.
400 million years in the future, my descendents will profit unthinkable amounts from their ownership of y400002k.com
Just in case the religious right get a further hold on our country in the future, I've also registered jesuswillreturn400002k.com and (hedging my bets) spaghettimonsterwillreturn400002k.com
but we all know that by that time, humanity will simply be slaves to the powerfully accurate mercury clock.
So, I for one welcome our new mercury atom overlords, and remind them that mercyatomoverlords.com can be had for the steal of 6.7 billion dollars, should cover the cost of registering the domain up to that point.
If he says this, I fear for the movie. While many of us see the average Halo player as mindless, the Halo Marathon universe is probably one of the most detailed universes out there- way more detailed than say.. Super Mario Brothers.. or Resident Evil (which is one of the more detailed ones out there).
There's many, many unexplained things that I would hope the movie could elaborate on, rather than confuddle the whole thing some more.
"So, in the movie, Master Chief's really a Spht transexual refugee?" "Yes, we felt that it enabled the movie to make the adaptation from the game easier"
I don't hope/want/expect just to see Halo 1 BUT IN A MOVIE FORMAT but rather an entirely different story.
As someone who works in Hollywood and with screenwriters, and counts many of them as friends, I can tell you that this guy was an idiot, and he's probably not a real screenwriter (IE, he just moved to Hollywood and is just starting out).
Every screenwriter I know- even the most tech backwards ones- are so incredibly anal about backups that it drives me mad. You'd think there'd be a reasonable limit on the amount of CDs or floppies they mail to their friends for safekeeping- some even out of the state incase of a statewide disaster.
The techbackwards ones- rather than burn to CD or floppy or zip or upload to file servers actually print out copies and mail the copies out, or leave them in old places at places they used to work at or go to school. Know that no one ever goes behind the orange box in the storeroom? PERFECT PLACE FOR A SCREENPLACE ARCHIVE!
So, these were probably his first screenplays, and he hasn't learned how to write screenplays yet (apparently), it wouldn't even surprise me if they were Word documents- from the facts we know about I can easily make the reasonable assumption that his work is shit, because no one makes even a D movie screenplay their first time around, and no wannabe screenwriter is in Hollywood for more than 3 weeks without becoming obsessed with backups.
And one more thing, if there was a bright center of money control in the universe known as Hollywood- the real creative people are on the planet furthest from- so simply by you have "money" and "creative" within two sentences of each other I can also deduce that you were likely no where near the real creative people.
The First Rule of screenwriting is to back up everything on multiple formats, in multiple places.
As this idiot can now attest, you never know what will happen to one location, one computer or even one draft- especially when the stakes are between zero dollars and 2.7 million.
What would he have done had his apartment been destroyed by fire? Sue the complex for the same thing? What would he have done had a random computer virus deleted or overwrote the files, sued the virus protection company whose software he declined to keep up to date?
There is not _A_ CG Artist, there is a team of them. The characters they create are already handed to them by their bosses, who are working under contract from the studio (who thought up the idea in the first place for the character/movie).
If anyone has the kind of control over a single character that you suggest, it would be the concept/character 2d artist who draws sketches to hash out what the character will look like in the movie- and he's only trying to realize the director/producers vision for the film.
If the above situation were possible in the structure of Hollywood, it would have probably already happened in the 2d animated world- but just like the 2d animated world there's so many people involved in the process that there simply isn't room for something like this to ever happen.
That the article gets several points wrong (such as the upgradability of the low end PS3 compared to the upgradability of the 360 (it switches them around). Kinda annoying to see something like that pop up in an article that's trying to compare the two it mixes up.
Rechargable batteries? 1up.com being too stupid to work their HDTV into the non stretch mode? Playing PCs on an HDTV (gee, what a novel idea considering there's a subclass of HDTV's without built in tuners made for just this purpose), "building" an arcade machine? And the FINAL piece to perfect the ULTIMATE GAMING SYSTEM is importing games from Japan- something no one has suggested before.
I was hoping this article would cover important things, like making sure your reciever is getting surround sound from the xbox 360 and not enhanced stereo- or properly calibrating your system for video games; but it was much more useless.
The point is that the next gen consoles (360 when it gets an HD-DVD drive and PS3 with Blu-Ray) will be bringing an HD-DVD or Blu-Ray player into every home that has a next gen console- therefore every console sold is ALSO a player sold. To make the numbers smaller, if 100,000 PS3 sell, 20,000 360s, 2000 Blu-Ray Players and 10,000 HD-DVD players, it might LOOK like HD-DVD has won the war, but when you add in consoles, it's actually 102k vs 30k- Blu-Ray wins because of the game consoles.
Industry analysts are predicting that because of the expense of the standalone players this is EXACTLY how thw "winner" is going to be decided- therefore what Sony and MS say at E3 _is_ going to have a big impact- but everyone knows what they're going to say anyway.
That not only is the public perception of ninjas pathetic, but the twisted distortion of what "real" ninjas are now.
You think you can debate if Kamakazi pilots or Ghost Dog is a samurai?
These modern day "ninjas" have little in common with their ancestors. Shit, ninjas aren't even seperate from Samurai, a ninja is just a job for a samurai.
*grumble*
*drink*
of course, there's almost zero books written about ninjas in english that is based in fact. You'll find some decent books in Japanese, and some decent prime sources if you can rid classic japanese- but other than that you're SOL at learning anything about Ninjas- and not from some washed out old man who can barely remember lessons taught to him when he was young.
Often teachers seem to believe that the purpose of class time is for the students to write down notes, so it's not like the students are the only ones who make that mistake.
The classes I learned the most in involved the most discussion, the classes I barely remember are the ones that focused on note taking because the professor made you.
I also stopped reading there. Why was this story even linked when the author admitted he had no clue what he was talking about? He didn't even understand the basics of Apple's DRM.
The parent topic was modded down, therefore it doesn't show in thread view anymore and you couldn't see it, making my comment seem weird on it it's own.
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I detect no bias in the above submission, none.
When I was unemployed recently thats when I watched all the SG1 seasons!
Must have something to do with the "that job would rock" mentality..
I borrowed DVD sets for all of the SG1 seasons- it's decline in quality was a very, very smooth curve. I tried watching a bit of Stargate Atlantis but it was worse than SG1 Season 9.
I always made the grades up off the top of my head at the end of the semester, and found it much more fitting with academic tradition and principals.
hehe, jk.
Duke Nuken Forever?
400 million years in the future, my descendents will profit unthinkable amounts from their ownership of y400002k.com
Just in case the religious right get a further hold on our country in the future, I've also registered jesuswillreturn400002k.com and (hedging my bets) spaghettimonsterwillreturn400002k.com
but we all know that by that time, humanity will simply be slaves to the powerfully accurate mercury clock.
So, I for one welcome our new mercury atom overlords, and remind them that mercyatomoverlords.com can be had for the steal of 6.7 billion dollars, should cover the cost of registering the domain up to that point.
If he says this, I fear for the movie. While many of us see the average Halo player as mindless, the Halo Marathon universe is probably one of the most detailed universes out there- way more detailed than say.. Super Mario Brothers.. or Resident Evil (which is one of the more detailed ones out there).
There's many, many unexplained things that I would hope the movie could elaborate on, rather than confuddle the whole thing some more.
"So, in the movie, Master Chief's really a Spht transexual refugee?"
"Yes, we felt that it enabled the movie to make the adaptation from the game easier"
I don't hope/want/expect just to see Halo 1 BUT IN A MOVIE FORMAT but rather an entirely different story.
As someone who works in Hollywood and with screenwriters, and counts many of them as friends, I can tell you that this guy was an idiot, and he's probably not a real screenwriter (IE, he just moved to Hollywood and is just starting out).
Every screenwriter I know- even the most tech backwards ones- are so incredibly anal about backups that it drives me mad. You'd think there'd be a reasonable limit on the amount of CDs or floppies they mail to their friends for safekeeping- some even out of the state incase of a statewide disaster.
The techbackwards ones- rather than burn to CD or floppy or zip or upload to file servers actually print out copies and mail the copies out, or leave them in old places at places they used to work at or go to school. Know that no one ever goes behind the orange box in the storeroom? PERFECT PLACE FOR A SCREENPLACE ARCHIVE!
So, these were probably his first screenplays, and he hasn't learned how to write screenplays yet (apparently), it wouldn't even surprise me if they were Word documents- from the facts we know about I can easily make the reasonable assumption that his work is shit, because no one makes even a D movie screenplay their first time around, and no wannabe screenwriter is in Hollywood for more than 3 weeks without becoming obsessed with backups.
And one more thing, if there was a bright center of money control in the universe known as Hollywood- the real creative people are on the planet furthest from- so simply by you have "money" and "creative" within two sentences of each other I can also deduce that you were likely no where near the real creative people.
The First Rule of screenwriting is to back up everything on multiple formats, in multiple places.
As this idiot can now attest, you never know what will happen to one location, one computer or even one draft- especially when the stakes are between zero dollars and 2.7 million.
What would he have done had his apartment been destroyed by fire? Sue the complex for the same thing? What would he have done had a random computer virus deleted or overwrote the files, sued the virus protection company whose software he declined to keep up to date?
Nothing to see here but idiocy at work.
Right there with you.
There is not _A_ CG Artist, there is a team of them. The characters they create are already handed to them by their bosses, who are working under contract from the studio (who thought up the idea in the first place for the character/movie).
If anyone has the kind of control over a single character that you suggest, it would be the concept/character 2d artist who draws sketches to hash out what the character will look like in the movie- and he's only trying to realize the director/producers vision for the film.
If the above situation were possible in the structure of Hollywood, it would have probably already happened in the 2d animated world- but just like the 2d animated world there's so many people involved in the process that there simply isn't room for something like this to ever happen.
That the article gets several points wrong (such as the upgradability of the low end PS3 compared to the upgradability of the 360 (it switches them around). Kinda annoying to see something like that pop up in an article that's trying to compare the two it mixes up.
Thats easy, they're in SNES9X :)
Arr!!!!!
Nope, referring to gems like these:
42" 1080p LCD HD Monitor (For Cheap)
Same, only 37"
Westinghouse isn't the only company doing this. You'll find a bunch of HD PC gamers who are doing stuff like this already on the AVS Forums
Rechargable batteries? 1up.com being too stupid to work their HDTV into the non stretch mode? Playing PCs on an HDTV (gee, what a novel idea considering there's a subclass of HDTV's without built in tuners made for just this purpose), "building" an arcade machine? And the FINAL piece to perfect the ULTIMATE GAMING SYSTEM is importing games from Japan- something no one has suggested before.
I was hoping this article would cover important things, like making sure your reciever is getting surround sound from the xbox 360 and not enhanced stereo- or properly calibrating your system for video games; but it was much more useless.
"I have never used a PS2 or an Xbox as a DVD player, and I never will use a PS3 or X360 to play HD video discs."
So if you've never used it, where do you find the authority to judge it? *rolly eyes*
The point is that the next gen consoles (360 when it gets an HD-DVD drive and PS3 with Blu-Ray) will be bringing an HD-DVD or Blu-Ray player into every home that has a next gen console- therefore every console sold is ALSO a player sold. To make the numbers smaller, if 100,000 PS3 sell, 20,000 360s, 2000 Blu-Ray Players and 10,000 HD-DVD players, it might LOOK like HD-DVD has won the war, but when you add in consoles, it's actually 102k vs 30k- Blu-Ray wins because of the game consoles.
Industry analysts are predicting that because of the expense of the standalone players this is EXACTLY how thw "winner" is going to be decided- therefore what Sony and MS say at E3 _is_ going to have a big impact- but everyone knows what they're going to say anyway.
Sorry, not true ;)
Just more American and modern day myths. Enjoy them.
That not only is the public perception of ninjas pathetic, but the twisted distortion of what "real" ninjas are now.
You think you can debate if Kamakazi pilots or Ghost Dog is a samurai?
These modern day "ninjas" have little in common with their ancestors. Shit, ninjas aren't even seperate from Samurai, a ninja is just a job for a samurai.
*grumble*
*drink*
of course, there's almost zero books written about ninjas in english that is based in fact. You'll find some decent books in Japanese, and some decent prime sources if you can rid classic japanese- but other than that you're SOL at learning anything about Ninjas- and not from some washed out old man who can barely remember lessons taught to him when he was young.
Anyone who submits songs should submit with this in mind:
http://xkcd.com/c70.html
Often teachers seem to believe that the purpose of class time is for the students to write down notes, so it's not like the students are the only ones who make that mistake.
The classes I learned the most in involved the most discussion, the classes I barely remember are the ones that focused on note taking because the professor made you.
I also stopped reading there. Why was this story even linked when the author admitted he had no clue what he was talking about? He didn't even understand the basics of Apple's DRM.
Can anyone recommend a good website for Azureus plugins? (And, of course, their favorites)
The parent topic was modded down, therefore it doesn't show in thread view anymore and you couldn't see it, making my comment seem weird on it it's own. (idiot)