The flipping Dooku was very obviously CG. I didn't even have to look for it to notice it. You could easily see when it switched from actor to CG back to actor. I've got no problem with them using CG to make the characters do things that the actors can't do, but it shouldn't be so obvious. The flip really did look fake. They should've done a better job with the CG and had better transitions. Fortunately most of the CG is pretty good, that scene was the only one that stood out to me.
Personally, I think the "dual rendering" support is a very bad thing. First of all, it's an insult to the Firefox developers, and second, if it were to gain acceptance, it would just encourage people to make bad website code that only works in IE. If a lot of people were to start using this, website developers would just be able to ignore Mozilla, since they'd figure "Oh well, if it doesn't work they can switch to IE rendering mode." IMO this Netscape release is a very bad thing and should be avoided. It might be more convenient for some people in the short term, but in the long term it will create nothing but problems.
No kidding...especially considering that I've seen portable DVD players for less than the cost of a PSP. I saw one at Sam's Club that was around $150. Granted, it wasn't one of the top of the line ones, but I bet it'd be better than watching movies on a PSP. And you won't have to buy all your movies again on a new format. I know UMD's hold a heck of a lot less data than DVD's too, which likely means fewer extras and greater compression (meaning worse video quality). It'll probably look more like Divx than DVD. I've watched Divx stuff before, but the quality doesn't even come close to DVD.
Huh...I just tried it on my Linux box and it worked fine for me...
akai@becton akai $ uname -a Linux becton 2.4.22 #3 Thu Oct 23 13:16:48 EDT 2003 i586 AMD-K6(tm) 3D+ Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux akai@becton akai $ ping 127.0.0.2 PING 127.0.0.2 (127.0.0.2) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 127.0.0.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.235 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.071 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.2: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.065 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.2: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.067 ms
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I'm in Columbus, Ohio. There's a mall here that has 1 Gamestop and 2 EB's. One's EB Games and one's EBX or something like that...one right above the other. I've been in both and they employees say "Yeah, we're the same company as the other one upstairs/downstairs, I have no idea why they have 2 stores in the same mall." So yeah, it happens.
No kidding...I used to be a Star Trek fanatic before Voyager. Voyager basically made me lose interest in Star Trek period. I stuck with DS9 until the end and then just quit watching all of it. I still like pretty much anything pre-Voyager, but I've never even seen Enterprise, not sure it's even worth it. The problem is, with sci-fi, to enjoy it, you have to suspend disbelief to an extent, and Voyager made it so I can't do that with Star Trek anymore. I got into SG-1 in the past year when I got a computer fast enough to play my roommate's downloaded episodes. I wasn't expecting to like it (I liked the movie, but I didn't like how they changed the actors for the series...until I wathced it), but I got hooked pretty fast. The next thing I know, I have seasons 1-7 on DVD and have seen all of it at least twice. I went back and tried to watch some TNG after that, and even the best of TNG sucks in comparison to Stargate.
No kidding...I have a Samsung 17" LCD, and it doesn't have any dead pixels or sub pixels. My roommate has a 19" Sceptre, it has 1 dead sub pixel...he's had it for well over 2 years. All of the computers where I work have 17" LCD monitors, and they are all cheap ones...I think I've seen maybe 3 dead pixels the entire year and a half I was there, after using who knows how many computers. My GBA-SP doesn't have any dead pixels either. Dead pixels are generally not a problem on modern displays, even cheap ones, in my experience.
Hehe...so I guess I'm not the only one who thought "replicators" as soon as I read the article. I've actually pondered making a replicator um...replica out of an erector set or something. And I've pondered making a Goa'uld hand device replica (complete with LED's or something to make it glow), and a thing to Goa'uld-ify your voice. I don't know how I'd do the glowy eyes...but if I figure it out I know what I'm doing for the halloween contest at work this year.;P
Actually, it's specifically illegal for a telemarketer to call your cell phone. If they do, inform them that that number is a cell phone, they should apologize and hang up immediately and never call back. If for some reason they do call back, you can report them. I got rid of my landline over 2 years ago for a cellphone, haven't gotten a single telemarketing call since.
There are already third party clients using Oscar. Gaim has been using Oscar for years. It supports almost all of the features of the "official" clients for all the networks. Only thing it's lacking in so far is webcam support, but I'm sure that's coming. I've been transferring files over MSN and Yahoo with Gaim for months now. http://gaim.sourceforge.net Reverse engineering is your friend, Oscar may not technically be open, but for all intents and purposes it is.
Flashblock has a whitelist...at least the version I have does. The only sites I whitelist are places that I go just to watch flash movies (like homestarrunner.com and joecartoon.com). Other than places like that, I could care less about flash, so flashblock is a godsend.
A quarter is kind of steep for the low quality you get from those downloaded videos though, considering you can get them on DVD for a little over a dollar an episode. I might be willing to pay $2-$3/season at the most (assuming fast downloads, something bittorrent doesn't really provide) for those low quality files. Any more than that just isn't worth it, it's better to put up with bittorrent until they come out on DVD.
It's actually very loosely based on a Stephen King book (published as Richard Bachman)...but very loosely. The plot was heavily changed for the movie...the only real similarity is the character names. The book had the main character signing up because he was poor and they promised his family free money as long as he survived, and ended with him crashing a 747 into the building shown in the movie.
On my network, the XP machines couldn't see each other until I set up a Samba server on the router and set the priority or whatever they call it really high, higher than the Windows machines. It's scary that I needed Linux and Samba to make a Windows filesharing network work. Even the two XP machines couldn't see each other before that. The things I do to make things convenient for my roommates.:P
I can't speak for the V700's, but I have a pair of V600's that I've had for years, and they're still fine. I've also had good luck with my PS2 so far. *knock on wood* However, I did have a Sony audio/video home-theater type amp that mostly died after just a few years. The left channel started getting flaky, and the display started freaking out. However, a friend of mine looked at it, found some loose solder joints in the display and fixed them, and amazingly the thing worked right again. I have no idea why a flaky display would cause the sound to mess up, but it did. However...I can't fault that thing too much because it did once get rained in when I left the window open.
It depends...if you're using the VGA input, the card is still outputting an analog signal with refresh. It's handled within the monitor with an analog to digital converter. So as long as you don't specify frequencies or refresh rates that the converter can't handle, there's no problem. I usually just set mine to 75 Hz. If you're using DVI, then none of that applies...but monitors that support DVI are still too expensive.
None. The movies are not related to the games in any way. Consider them in a completely alternate unrelated universe, they are not part of the official RE storyline.
Why don't they just put everyone in jail? Pretty soon they're going to have to convert whole cities into giant prisons, like in Judge Dredd, and similar things. Pretty soon only CEO's of large corporations and the very rich will be the only people not in jail.
The Asgard were puppets in the first season or two, but in the later seasons they started using CGI for them instead...looks much better, and they can do things like walk around and pick up stuff.
Not everyone thinks that. I personally will never own an Xbox or Xbox 2, regardless of which games are made for it, simply because it's Microsoft...even if someone gave me one for free, I'd sell it. I currently have a PS2, plus every Nintendo and Sega console going back to the 8-bit ones, and I plan on getting both a PS3 and whatever Nintendo calls their next system. I've passed on good games before, just because they're Xbox. I was a huge Panzer Dragoon fan, I have all 3 Saturn games, but I won't play Panzer Dragoon Orta unless it's ported to another system. I feel it is ehtically wrong to support Microsoft by buying their products or playing games on their systems...plus I'm incredibly stubborn.
I actually enjoyed the Super Mario Bros movie. Sure, it wasn't exactly like the games, but taken on its own I thought it was decent. The plot wasn't that terribly original, but I thought it was executed decently. Heh, toxic air aside, the plot is very similar to Metroid Prime 2. Asteroid hits planet, causing dimensional split. Not the best movie I've seen, by any means, but certainly not that bad.
The SPC-800 (SNES sound chip) was capable of some incredible stuff, especially for the time. The Playstation can't even begin to match it. It had full 8-channel sound, it stored the samples in the file (plus it also had its own sample set in the hardware). The best way to describe it is a combo MIDI/MOD player, all done in hardware. Listen to the soundtrack from Chrono Trigger or Final Fantasy 6 sometime, there is some VERY good music in there...worlds away from beeps and blips. Incidentally, the SPC-800 was designed by Sony...and yet they can't make a decent sound chip for their own systems. Go figure.
Wal-mart carded me to get the Diablo 2 expansion pack 2 years ago. I'm 32 right now, do the math. The cashier did look shocked when she saw my age though...but then most of my friends tell me I look 20 or less.
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The flipping Dooku was very obviously CG. I didn't even have to look for it to notice it. You could easily see when it switched from actor to CG back to actor. I've got no problem with them using CG to make the characters do things that the actors can't do, but it shouldn't be so obvious. The flip really did look fake. They should've done a better job with the CG and had better transitions. Fortunately most of the CG is pretty good, that scene was the only one that stood out to me.
Personally, I think the "dual rendering" support is a very bad thing. First of all, it's an insult to the Firefox developers, and second, if it were to gain acceptance, it would just encourage people to make bad website code that only works in IE. If a lot of people were to start using this, website developers would just be able to ignore Mozilla, since they'd figure "Oh well, if it doesn't work they can switch to IE rendering mode." IMO this Netscape release is a very bad thing and should be avoided. It might be more convenient for some people in the short term, but in the long term it will create nothing but problems.
No kidding...especially considering that I've seen portable DVD players for less than the cost of a PSP. I saw one at Sam's Club that was around $150. Granted, it wasn't one of the top of the line ones, but I bet it'd be better than watching movies on a PSP. And you won't have to buy all your movies again on a new format. I know UMD's hold a heck of a lot less data than DVD's too, which likely means fewer extras and greater compression (meaning worse video quality). It'll probably look more like Divx than DVD. I've watched Divx stuff before, but the quality doesn't even come close to DVD.
Huh...I just tried it on my Linux box and it worked fine for me...
akai@becton akai $ uname -a
Linux becton 2.4.22 #3 Thu Oct 23 13:16:48 EDT 2003 i586 AMD-K6(tm) 3D+ Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
akai@becton akai $ ping 127.0.0.2
PING 127.0.0.2 (127.0.0.2) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 127.0.0.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.235 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.071 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.2: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.065 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.2: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.067 ms
I'm in Columbus, Ohio. There's a mall here that has 1 Gamestop and 2 EB's. One's EB Games and one's EBX or something like that...one right above the other. I've been in both and they employees say "Yeah, we're the same company as the other one upstairs/downstairs, I have no idea why they have 2 stores in the same mall." So yeah, it happens.
Firefox flashblock extension. Enough said.
No kidding...I used to be a Star Trek fanatic before Voyager. Voyager basically made me lose interest in Star Trek period. I stuck with DS9 until the end and then just quit watching all of it. I still like pretty much anything pre-Voyager, but I've never even seen Enterprise, not sure it's even worth it. The problem is, with sci-fi, to enjoy it, you have to suspend disbelief to an extent, and Voyager made it so I can't do that with Star Trek anymore. I got into SG-1 in the past year when I got a computer fast enough to play my roommate's downloaded episodes. I wasn't expecting to like it (I liked the movie, but I didn't like how they changed the actors for the series...until I wathced it), but I got hooked pretty fast. The next thing I know, I have seasons 1-7 on DVD and have seen all of it at least twice. I went back and tried to watch some TNG after that, and even the best of TNG sucks in comparison to Stargate.
No kidding...I have a Samsung 17" LCD, and it doesn't have any dead pixels or sub pixels. My roommate has a 19" Sceptre, it has 1 dead sub pixel...he's had it for well over 2 years. All of the computers where I work have 17" LCD monitors, and they are all cheap ones...I think I've seen maybe 3 dead pixels the entire year and a half I was there, after using who knows how many computers. My GBA-SP doesn't have any dead pixels either. Dead pixels are generally not a problem on modern displays, even cheap ones, in my experience.
Hehe...so I guess I'm not the only one who thought "replicators" as soon as I read the article. I've actually pondered making a replicator um...replica out of an erector set or something. And I've pondered making a Goa'uld hand device replica (complete with LED's or something to make it glow), and a thing to Goa'uld-ify your voice. I don't know how I'd do the glowy eyes...but if I figure it out I know what I'm doing for the halloween contest at work this year. ;P
Actually, it's specifically illegal for a telemarketer to call your cell phone. If they do, inform them that that number is a cell phone, they should apologize and hang up immediately and never call back. If for some reason they do call back, you can report them. I got rid of my landline over 2 years ago for a cellphone, haven't gotten a single telemarketing call since.
There are already third party clients using Oscar. Gaim has been using Oscar for years. It supports almost all of the features of the "official" clients for all the networks. Only thing it's lacking in so far is webcam support, but I'm sure that's coming. I've been transferring files over MSN and Yahoo with Gaim for months now. http://gaim.sourceforge.net Reverse engineering is your friend, Oscar may not technically be open, but for all intents and purposes it is.
Flashblock has a whitelist...at least the version I have does. The only sites I whitelist are places that I go just to watch flash movies (like homestarrunner.com and joecartoon.com). Other than places like that, I could care less about flash, so flashblock is a godsend.
A quarter is kind of steep for the low quality you get from those downloaded videos though, considering you can get them on DVD for a little over a dollar an episode. I might be willing to pay $2-$3/season at the most (assuming fast downloads, something bittorrent doesn't really provide) for those low quality files. Any more than that just isn't worth it, it's better to put up with bittorrent until they come out on DVD.
It's actually very loosely based on a Stephen King book (published as Richard Bachman)...but very loosely. The plot was heavily changed for the movie...the only real similarity is the character names. The book had the main character signing up because he was poor and they promised his family free money as long as he survived, and ended with him crashing a 747 into the building shown in the movie.
On my network, the XP machines couldn't see each other until I set up a Samba server on the router and set the priority or whatever they call it really high, higher than the Windows machines. It's scary that I needed Linux and Samba to make a Windows filesharing network work. Even the two XP machines couldn't see each other before that. The things I do to make things convenient for my roommates. :P
I can't speak for the V700's, but I have a pair of V600's that I've had for years, and they're still fine. I've also had good luck with my PS2 so far. *knock on wood* However, I did have a Sony audio/video home-theater type amp that mostly died after just a few years. The left channel started getting flaky, and the display started freaking out. However, a friend of mine looked at it, found some loose solder joints in the display and fixed them, and amazingly the thing worked right again. I have no idea why a flaky display would cause the sound to mess up, but it did. However...I can't fault that thing too much because it did once get rained in when I left the window open.
It depends...if you're using the VGA input, the card is still outputting an analog signal with refresh. It's handled within the monitor with an analog to digital converter. So as long as you don't specify frequencies or refresh rates that the converter can't handle, there's no problem. I usually just set mine to 75 Hz. If you're using DVI, then none of that applies...but monitors that support DVI are still too expensive.
None. The movies are not related to the games in any way. Consider them in a completely alternate unrelated universe, they are not part of the official RE storyline.
They are gonna have to seriously water down the graphics to put it on the PS2. There's no way the PS2 can handle the graphics in this game as-is.
Why don't they just put everyone in jail? Pretty soon they're going to have to convert whole cities into giant prisons, like in Judge Dredd, and similar things. Pretty soon only CEO's of large corporations and the very rich will be the only people not in jail.
The Asgard were puppets in the first season or two, but in the later seasons they started using CGI for them instead...looks much better, and they can do things like walk around and pick up stuff.
Not everyone thinks that. I personally will never own an Xbox or Xbox 2, regardless of which games are made for it, simply because it's Microsoft...even if someone gave me one for free, I'd sell it. I currently have a PS2, plus every Nintendo and Sega console going back to the 8-bit ones, and I plan on getting both a PS3 and whatever Nintendo calls their next system. I've passed on good games before, just because they're Xbox. I was a huge Panzer Dragoon fan, I have all 3 Saturn games, but I won't play Panzer Dragoon Orta unless it's ported to another system. I feel it is ehtically wrong to support Microsoft by buying their products or playing games on their systems...plus I'm incredibly stubborn.
I actually enjoyed the Super Mario Bros movie. Sure, it wasn't exactly like the games, but taken on its own I thought it was decent. The plot wasn't that terribly original, but I thought it was executed decently. Heh, toxic air aside, the plot is very similar to Metroid Prime 2. Asteroid hits planet, causing dimensional split. Not the best movie I've seen, by any means, but certainly not that bad.
The SPC-800 (SNES sound chip) was capable of some incredible stuff, especially for the time. The Playstation can't even begin to match it. It had full 8-channel sound, it stored the samples in the file (plus it also had its own sample set in the hardware). The best way to describe it is a combo MIDI/MOD player, all done in hardware. Listen to the soundtrack from Chrono Trigger or Final Fantasy 6 sometime, there is some VERY good music in there...worlds away from beeps and blips. Incidentally, the SPC-800 was designed by Sony...and yet they can't make a decent sound chip for their own systems. Go figure.
Wal-mart carded me to get the Diablo 2 expansion pack 2 years ago. I'm 32 right now, do the math. The cashier did look shocked when she saw my age though...but then most of my friends tell me I look 20 or less.