I would be facinated to know what sort of budgets were available for Blizzard's intro movies (I'm thinking of Diablo and Starcraft especially) as well as the obvious final fantasy epics.
as for using a game engine I'm not convinced that its not overly limiting, unless you use it pretty much "as is" wouldn't the time spent modding be better spent in 3D studiomax or something?
if its a cost, or learning curve thing, I would have thought the Neverwinter Nights package might be a good tool, the editor is very good at getting scenery down, making an adventure, is another question, but for having characters move around and interact with objects i would have thought NWN is hard to beat for quick and dirty filming.,br> finally i would say the most important thing about film is story telling, a great physics engine may help you move your characters, but it wont make the story for you, nor will help with the cinematography, in fact in many ways i would have thought using a game-engine would restrict you to a very formulaic set of possible scenes.
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by Mr. Slippery (47854) Yep. When I was young and naive, I said I didn't want to contract because a full-time "permanent" position was so much more stable. Then two full-time "permanent" jobs evaporated on me in the span of a year.
and this is modded redundant?... ah from the mouths of babes and slashdot moderators.
find another same model printer that does this, then DUPLICATE PRECISELY these yellow dots in your final image... two sets, should--- well, supply reasonable doubt at least...
I would have thought the easiest way to do this is to print a set of blank sheets through a couple of other laser printers, in fact I wonnder what the spacing and distribution rules on the chip are, because you could very easily get those dots overprinting each other, making identification much harder.
ok, i now see that the degree was dropped off in 1967, you can see how long it is since i did physics...
still the original post refered to just "15 degrees" hence the ambiguity of scales, my suggestion of Kelvin was purely for comic value... and I would have got away with it too, if it hadn't been for you meddling kids!
I think one of microsoft's biggest problems with Office is the Users of office (ie the general public).
The standard way of "improving" your software is to go and talk to the users, find out what they need, what they like, what they don't like, and put it into your next version.
This is where microsoft's biggest problem is... its users don't know what they want, because most of them don't know what their program can do, or even what it ought to do. It's just the one on their desk top that they are assumed to know how to use.
Photoshop and AutoCAD users (for example) know exactly what their application can do, and what it would be really usefull if it could do, and they tend to get these features in their upgrades.
Office users mostly don't have a clue what they want... and so they get different animations for clippy, menus that hide from you so you can't remember where things are, images that once inserted are a nightmare to tweak etc etc etc.
And i can't believe, it's because microsoft just want to piss people off, somebody has to ask for these things, I'm sure they have focus group, after focus group saying how it would be nice if clippy could be a hedgehog now and then...
I feel so sorry for the developers, office can do some absolutely amazing things... It's just that 90% of its users use 1% of it's functionality...and then demand more "wordart".
Excel and Access are the two least clippified applications in the suite, probably because they have the more specialised users who actually USE the programs instead of playing with them like most users do. (of course most access users want to be using something else... but still!)
sayeth the sig "Am I the only slashdot user that thought that Minority Report qualified as a horror movie?
well if its the plot you you are refering to, I'd have to say it would be fair comment referring to it as horror, much of Philip K Dick's work is scary as hell. Probably not suprising considering he was a paranoid schizophrenic genius with a bad speed habit.
I don't know though are Orwell's "1984", or Bradbury's "Farenheit 451" Horror? what is a good definition of horror?
Microsoft recently announced patents on the Instructions PRINT and GOTO, the Variable "Hello world" and the concept of Line Numbers (with particular reference to 10 and 20.)
from bridgestone's point of view though, they just got some excellent worldwide feel good PR and advertising for $95,000, cheap at twice the price...I can't find data on the price of F1 tires (mostly because Bridgestone refuses to discuss figures, usually a good sign you can't afford them!),but i wouldn't be at all suprised if it made 95k look like spare change
not to mention they will have got some valuable research data from the experiment
and while i might agree that saving one dolphin, is (pardon the pun) a drop in the ocean... it's a start. Dolphins are truely facinating creatures, very bright and with a primary sense (ultra sound) we are just begining to understand. It would be a great shame if they were all gone before we actually got to know them a bit more.
and yes there is an element of "feel goodism" involved, but if that translates into more empathy for dolphins, ie NOT " euthanize the dolphin and go out and catch another one" then i for one am all for it.
actually alien's prequel of sorts is also a comedy
Dark Star: during the scene where Pinback is trying to track the beachball alien down the narrow service ducts, Dan O'Bannon realised that this funny bit they were filming could also make a great horror, he then went on to write Alien, (IFAIK as a studio fund-raiser for Dune)
I think you have hit the nail on the head with the "small steps" approach, although i think the 30 years tech rule applies:
anything that was invented before you were born is the natural order of things.
anything that was invented before you are 30, is cool new technology and you can probably get a good job because of it.
anything invented after you are 30, is new fangled rubbish and not to be trusted!
automonous system running on the interstate, with human control for exiting & entering, Actually I would have thought the amount of human control you would want is pushing a button saying enter/leave as this is the point with the most possibility of humans screwing everything up... it will be interesting to see how they implement the test to determine that the human is ready to take full control back, some sort of response test hoops to jump through? Otherwise i foresee problems when someone puts their coffee mug on the disengage autopilot option at 100 mph!
Isn't that kinda like sayin that if I stole your watch (Not that piracy is property theft), you get the right to ransack my house looking for the watch
I think its more like saying if you steal my watch, and then it stops telling the time, you can't sue me for now owning a defective watch. (although seeing some of the strange cases people have sued for, i'm not 100% on this one)
Surely this just the same sort of concept as a Honey Trap on a network?
wasn't the robot road project cancelled in the US for exactly that reason, depite the fact that they can make robot cars/roads safer than most current human drivers, there is the whole problem of blame in the case of failure.
I saw an intersting Open University TV program about this issue a while back. Over 60% of the code was to deal with exceptions that happen less than 1% of the time.
Their major stumbling block? Anything their software couldn't cope with, there was no point handing control back to the human, because they wouldn't be able to react fast enough either.
The sight of 20 strech limos moving in absolute (down to the fraction of an inch) synch was very impressive... a bit un-nerving, but very impressive.
I think the problems facing robot cars are more to do with psychology than engineering. Look at how much fuss is raised over a train crash that kills people "not in control of the vehicle" therefore innocent compared to the number of people who die in car wrecks "in control" therefore less innocent.
I realise this issue is conflated with the number of deaths in an instant too, but i think one of the key "shock" factors is the helplessness of the passangers
I would guess that the individuals concerned probably get a bit more than $5/hour, you need people who can actually recognise the wheat from the chaff.
while offers of cheap viagra can be dealt with by a robot, Bill DOES know millionares looking to invest in XYZ...
I would be more interested in knowing just how many aliases and dedicated alternate accounts, as well as how large an army of PA's he has so REAL (ie rich/influential) people can get through to him, or if indeed he can use e-mail that way at all anymore?
(in a life imitating art moment, I am currently looking at a job application that wants me "To exploit all synergies within the group and drive through efficiencies via excellent operational planning.")
I can't recall which one but the first arthur c clarke book i started to read had a line describing space as being cold at least -400 degrees C... any credit he had as any kind of authority evaporated at that point.
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I would be facinated to know what sort of budgets were available for Blizzard's intro movies (I'm thinking of Diablo and Starcraft especially) as well as the obvious final fantasy epics.
as for using a game engine I'm not convinced that its not overly limiting, unless you use it pretty much "as is" wouldn't the time spent modding be better spent in 3D studiomax or something?
if its a cost, or learning curve thing, I would have thought the Neverwinter Nights package might be a good tool, the editor is very good at getting scenery down, making an adventure, is another question, but for having characters move around and interact with objects i would have thought NWN is hard to beat for quick and dirty filming.,br>
finally i would say the most important thing about film is story telling, a great physics engine may help you move your characters, but it wont make the story for you, nor will help with the cinematography, in fact in many ways i would have thought using a game-engine would restrict you to a very formulaic set of possible scenes.
I believe this has already been done in "do androids dream of electric sheep?"...
having to fake reactions to things like art is what gives the replicants away.
and this is modded redundant?
find another same model printer that does this, then DUPLICATE PRECISELY these yellow dots in your final image... two sets, should--- well, supply reasonable doubt at least...
I would have thought the easiest way to do this is to print a set of blank sheets through a couple of other laser printers, in fact I wonnder what the spacing and distribution rules on the chip are, because you could very easily get those dots overprinting each other, making identification much harder.
How ironic that the pluralization troll would correct contractions!
No that's just inevitable...
nice to see that the new york times is keeping up with last weekends UserFriendly
ok, i now see that the degree was dropped off in 1967, you can see how long it is since i did physics...
still the original post refered to just "15 degrees" hence the ambiguity of scales, my suggestion of Kelvin was purely for comic value... and I would have got away with it too, if it hadn't been for you meddling kids!
15 degrees Kelvin would suck pretty bad for outdoor hockey too i'd guess....
I think one of microsoft's biggest problems with Office is the Users of office (ie the general public).
... and so they get different animations for clippy, menus that hide from you so you can't remember where things are, images that once inserted are a nightmare to tweak etc etc etc.
The standard way of "improving" your software is to go and talk to the users, find out what they need, what they like, what they don't like, and put it into your next version.
This is where microsoft's biggest problem is... its users don't know what they want, because most of them don't know what their program can do, or even what it ought to do. It's just the one on their desk top that they are assumed to know how to use.
Photoshop and AutoCAD users (for example) know exactly what their application can do, and what it would be really usefull if it could do, and they tend to get these features in their upgrades.
Office users mostly don't have a clue what they want
And i can't believe, it's because microsoft just want to piss people off, somebody has to ask for these things, I'm sure they have focus group, after focus group saying how it would be nice if clippy could be a hedgehog now and then...
I feel so sorry for the developers, office can do some absolutely amazing things... It's just that 90% of its users use 1% of it's functionality...and then demand more "wordart".
Excel and Access are the two least clippified applications in the suite, probably because they have the more specialised users who actually USE the programs instead of playing with them like most users do. (of course most access users want to be using something else... but still!)
sayeth the sig "Am I the only slashdot user that thought that Minority Report qualified as a horror movie?
well if its the plot you you are refering to, I'd have to say it would be fair comment referring to it as horror, much of Philip K Dick's work is scary as hell. Probably not suprising considering he was a paranoid schizophrenic genius with a bad speed habit.
I don't know though are Orwell's "1984", or Bradbury's "Farenheit 451" Horror? what is a good definition of horror?
HalfLife is the point where it absorbs half of your life, where you should probably doing more productive things
I thought that was Everquest?
(ducks...and covers)
Microsoft recently announced patents on the Instructions PRINT and GOTO, the Variable "Hello world" and the concept of Line Numbers (with particular reference to 10 and 20.)
from bridgestone's point of view though, they just got some excellent worldwide feel good PR and advertising for $95,000, cheap at twice the price...I can't find data on the price of F1 tires (mostly because Bridgestone refuses to discuss figures, usually a good sign you can't afford them!),but i wouldn't be at all suprised if it made 95k look like spare change
not to mention they will have got some valuable research data from the experiment
and while i might agree that saving one dolphin, is (pardon the pun) a drop in the ocean... it's a start. Dolphins are truely facinating creatures, very bright and with a primary sense (ultra sound) we are just begining to understand. It would be a great shame if they were all gone before we actually got to know them a bit more.
and yes there is an element of "feel goodism" involved, but if that translates into more empathy for dolphins, ie NOT " euthanize the dolphin and go out and catch another one" then i for one am all for it.
actually alien's prequel of sorts is also a comedy
Dark Star: during the scene where Pinback is trying to track the beachball alien down the narrow service ducts, Dan O'Bannon realised that this funny bit they were filming could also make a great horror, he then went on to write Alien, (IFAIK as a studio fund-raiser for Dune)
You forgot the original Evil Dead - "The badness which dies" by Akira Kurosawa all 4 rain filled hours of it...
on the subject of most number of remakes is there anything that beats 3 Yojimbo/Fistfull of Dollars/LastMan Standing ?
Well... he couldn't have been desperate to see it, otherwise he'd have already gone...
...But the word "yet..."
Yeah, you know what, I'd get the impression that he wanted to see it. Otherwise he'd say he didn't really want to.
I think you have hit the nail on the head with the "small steps" approach, although i think the 30 years tech rule applies:
anything that was invented before you were born is the natural order of things.
anything that was invented before you are 30, is cool new technology and you can probably get a good job because of it.
anything invented after you are 30, is new fangled rubbish and not to be trusted!
automonous system running on the interstate, with human control for exiting & entering,
Actually I would have thought the amount of human control you would want is pushing a button saying enter/leave as this is the point with the most possibility of humans screwing everything up... it will be interesting to see how they implement the test to determine that the human is ready to take full control back, some sort of response test hoops to jump through? Otherwise i foresee problems when someone puts their coffee mug on the disengage autopilot option at 100 mph!
Isn't that kinda like sayin that if I stole your watch (Not that piracy is property theft), you get the right to ransack my house looking for the watch
I think its more like saying if you steal my watch, and then it stops telling the time, you can't sue me for now owning a defective watch. (although seeing some of the strange cases people have sued for, i'm not 100% on this one)
Surely this just the same sort of concept as a Honey Trap on a network?
wasn't the robot road project cancelled in the US for exactly that reason, depite the fact that they can make robot cars/roads safer than most current human drivers, there is the whole problem of blame in the case of failure.
I saw an intersting Open University TV program about this issue a while back. Over 60% of the code was to deal with exceptions that happen less than 1% of the time.
Their major stumbling block? Anything their software couldn't cope with, there was no point handing control back to the human, because they wouldn't be able to react fast enough either.
The sight of 20 strech limos moving in absolute (down to the fraction of an inch) synch was very impressive... a bit un-nerving, but very impressive.
I think the problems facing robot cars are more to do with psychology than engineering. Look at how much fuss is raised over a train crash that kills people "not in control of the vehicle" therefore innocent compared to the number of people who die in car wrecks "in control" therefore less innocent.
I realise this issue is conflated with the number of deaths in an instant too, but i think one of the key "shock" factors is the helplessness of the passangers
I would guess that the individuals concerned probably get a bit more than $5/hour, you need people who can actually recognise the wheat from the chaff.
while offers of cheap viagra can be dealt with by a robot, Bill DOES know millionares looking to invest in XYZ...
I would be more interested in knowing just how many aliases and dedicated alternate accounts, as well as how large an army of PA's he has so REAL (ie rich/influential) people can get through to him, or if indeed he can use e-mail that way at all anymore?
meaningless technobable, managementspeak, sentence fragments and misspelled words?
you want it? You already have it
Mission statement Generator
(in a life imitating art moment, I am currently looking at a job application that wants me "To exploit all synergies within the group and drive through efficiencies via excellent operational planning.")
I suggest we invade ASAP and liberate the oppressed!
I for one am all for invading ASAP to help liberate the poor Asapians... i'm just having a little difficulty finding it on the map.
I just don't know what "doing a phycological analysis of people" would actually mean..
well makes sense actually, means you avoid giving laptops to vegetables!... or possibly make sure they have a cubicle with good lighting.
It was indeed in England, what was less well known until secret Home Office papers were released in 1999, was that shortly after that trial the police senior police officer responsible for bringing the case was found guilty of corruption and jailed as well.
I can't recall which one but the first arthur c clarke book i started to read had a line describing space as being cold at least -400 degrees C... any credit he had as any kind of authority evaporated at that point.