Alan Moore's dissociated himself from ANY movie based on his works - it used to be he was okay with it, but then after the lawsuit concerning the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, he lost his desire to even cash the cheques. http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/496/496681p1.htm l
So:
He got money for From Hell and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen He didn't get money for Constantine, V for Vendetta, and presumably Watchmen
In TFA, it is because Joel Silver said Moore endorsed the movie, whereas his actual position is that he doesn't care one way or the other. He didn't appreciate the lying.
"The exceedingly large fraction of the costs going to create art is an anomaly. In the future the content will a) be taken from huge libraries of real-world objects b) generated procedurally and c) created by users."
I don't believe that's the case. Initial content of games with an artistic vision, say, a sci-fi game, would require completely new assets. Real world objects won't work for everything, procedural generation of objects are not enough to fulfill the vision of the creators, and there are very few users prior to release.
And look at movies - even ones set in the present day require some art direction. The comment severely underestimates the importance of visual artists to games.
Yeah, but isn't the more appropriate analogy to Lunux/hacker/gaming conventions a, y'know, Star Wars or science fiction convention? I'm not denying it could be fun to hang out with people who share the same interests as you, but it's the time scale... it comes out in six weeks.
More to the point, these ones in particular are mock worthy because they're at the wrong theatre. This is something you ought to check before leaving home six weeks before the movie starts.
Well, as a government, if you tax more you get to spend more - the spending tends to be on things like universal healthcare and other social programs, which are generally a good thing. As at seems you are a Republican, you're probably not in favour of them, so of course you may not agree with me there.;)
What's to prevent them from installing readers everywhere? Because that would cost a lot of money. $20 a reader times how many street corners in Dallas? Plus all the money it costs to install the damn things - ripping up the roads or putting them in boxes next to the road and running power to them and maintenence of the boxes...
Besides, if they were that concerned with speeding, there's nothing stopping them from using, say, photoradar; where they detect how fast you're going, and if you're over the limit snap a picture of your license plate and send you a ticket.
It's not the existence of the pointing device that does it, although that does help - it is the combination of the second screen and being able to use the pointing device with it that allows for a theoretically better interface than the PSP. You don't need to cover up the page with a virtual keyboard that is a pain in the ass to type use - I love the PSP, but it's virtual keyboard works like a cellphone number pad - rather, you just bring up a qwerty-keyboard on the lower screen and tap it to type. And you can still use the d-pad to go through the page as in lynx.
As for the screen - I'm pretty sure that in terms of LCD real-estate, the DS has more - but being divided in two makes the PSP's screen better. But I still think that the DS can have a much better browser interface.
I had a Dell for one year before it fried. Bough another, same deal. The costomer service/documentation sucked. On the other hand, I have now had a mac Powerbook for the last two years, and its providing better functionality than any other machine I have bought. When you buy apple, you buy quality. Think of an apple as a Lexus, and a dell as a Ugo. Sure, the Ugo will get you from point A to point B, but it is made of inferrior parts, tends to fail, and lacks any style.
Let's be honest here, a Dell isn't as bad as a Yugo. It's more like a Chrysler.
Someone in Ontario sued the Washington Post for a story on the internet that saw print before he even moved to Ontario. I also live in Ontario. Say I am accused of some impropriety and the story sees print in the London Telegraph or Le Monde or the Mail & Guardian from South Africa on one of their websites. I am later cleared. Based on the ruling, I should be able to sue those papers successfully.
This is not some US-centric thing, and to state that it only affects the American presence on the web is extremely shortsighted - the ruling already reaches across one international boundary, there is no reason why it can not reach across others.
Oh yes. Because Arab nations have veto power by virtue of being on the permanent Security Council.
Oh. Wait. They don't. Seriously, how could Arab nations run the United nations? What line of reasoning could even make you think that?
Actually, in the original Wired article (http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,66554,00.html), the teachers still had to verify everyone was there, only they got a fancy PDA to do it.
But since they were still taking attendence ANYways, what was the point?
Then why use a Mac Mini? Especially in this case, where the Mac mini is for his girlfriend - granted, she may have to test code on a Linux platform, but it seems silly.
In the case of Mario 64 for DS, it's because they wanted to launch at Christmas and before the PSP lest they end up eating Sony's dust. Investing more time in a good brand new Mario DS for launch means likely either delaying the launch of the DS or launching without their flagship franchise, which is something they're unlikely to repeat after the GameCube. They were on the clock, simple as that.
Now, they are making a new Mario DS game, as there's video of it. But whatever it ends up being, it wouldn't have been near the quality they require for the system's launch title.
Now, as a DS owner, I am frustrated that it will take until February for another game I actually want to hit the North American market. But you can't argue that the DS's market penetration in the last month and a half hasn't been impressive. And the library will be built up by the time the PSP launches, so they've got themselves a head start on Sony.
Dreamcast was the first of the generation including XBox, PS2 and GameCube. It's the weakest machine spec-wise, and it was the first to fail, but it is clearly not of the previous generation, which was PSX, Saturn, N64. Just because it had effectively died off prior to the release of the GameCube does not mean it is not of the same generation.
It's entirely possible you just hate ESPN Football.
Not me, personally I'm not as fond of Madden. Been playing the Sega Sports version since NFL 2K1 on Dreamcast, unless you count NFL 95 for Genesis.
It's a European rocket, a Canadian satellite, and a South American launch site. I imagine some US funding was involved somewhere along the line, but I have serious doubts that American taxpayer dollars had much to do with this.
They're not allowed to telemarket on cellphones because you pay for the airtime, IIRC... tell them they've called your cell phone, and they will usually apologize profusely and hang up, since they'll be in BIG trouble if you report them.
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He got money for From Hell and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
He didn't get money for Constantine, V for Vendetta, and presumably Watchmen
In TFA, it is because Joel Silver said Moore endorsed the movie, whereas his actual position is that he doesn't care one way or the other. He didn't appreciate the lying.
"Shada" was recently done as a BBC webcast with Paul McGann as Doctor #8 (instead of Tom Baker) with Romana #2 and K9 voiced by the original actors:
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/webcasts/shad
Sorry, but, uh, what's step 1?
No. You can only access it from Britain. The BBC is publicly funded so British citizens have already paid their license fee.
There will probably be ways around the Britain Barrier, as I believe it is going to be based on your IP.
"The exceedingly large fraction of the costs going to create art is an anomaly. In the future the content will a) be taken from huge libraries of real-world objects b) generated procedurally and c) created by users."
I don't believe that's the case. Initial content of games with an artistic vision, say, a sci-fi game, would require completely new assets. Real world objects won't work for everything, procedural generation of objects are not enough to fulfill the vision of the creators, and there are very few users prior to release.
And look at movies - even ones set in the present day require some art direction. The comment severely underestimates the importance of visual artists to games.
Yeah, but isn't the more appropriate analogy to Lunux/hacker/gaming conventions a, y'know, Star Wars or science fiction convention? I'm not denying it could be fun to hang out with people who share the same interests as you, but it's the time scale... it comes out in six weeks.
More to the point, these ones in particular are mock worthy because they're at the wrong theatre. This is something you ought to check before leaving home six weeks before the movie starts.
Well, as a government, if you tax more you get to spend more - the spending tends to be on things like universal healthcare and other social programs, which are generally a good thing. As at seems you are a Republican, you're probably not in favour of them, so of course you may not agree with me there. ;)
What's to prevent them from installing readers everywhere? Because that would cost a lot of money. $20 a reader times how many street corners in Dallas? Plus all the money it costs to install the damn things - ripping up the roads or putting them in boxes next to the road and running power to them and maintenence of the boxes...
Besides, if they were that concerned with speeding, there's nothing stopping them from using, say, photoradar; where they detect how fast you're going, and if you're over the limit snap a picture of your license plate and send you a ticket.
It's not the existence of the pointing device that does it, although that does help - it is the combination of the second screen and being able to use the pointing device with it that allows for a theoretically better interface than the PSP. You don't need to cover up the page with a virtual keyboard that is a pain in the ass to type use - I love the PSP, but it's virtual keyboard works like a cellphone number pad - rather, you just bring up a qwerty-keyboard on the lower screen and tap it to type. And you can still use the d-pad to go through the page as in lynx.
As for the screen - I'm pretty sure that in terms of LCD real-estate, the DS has more - but being divided in two makes the PSP's screen better. But I still think that the DS can have a much better browser interface.
The Shuffle recharges when you plug it into your USB port. Besides, a pair of AAs would probably more than double the weight and size of the Shuffle.
That said, if you're happy, you've no reason to switch.
They're releasing it in 2005. October was probably just a guess based on "well, that's PLENTY of time for Christmas, right?"
I had a Dell for one year before it fried. Bough another, same deal. The costomer service/documentation sucked. On the other hand, I have now had a mac Powerbook for the last two years, and its providing better functionality than any other machine I have bought. When you buy apple, you buy quality. Think of an apple as a Lexus, and a dell as a Ugo. Sure, the Ugo will get you from point A to point B, but it is made of inferrior parts, tends to fail, and lacks any style.
Let's be honest here, a Dell isn't as bad as a Yugo. It's more like a Chrysler.
Someone in Ontario sued the Washington Post for a story on the internet that saw print before he even moved to Ontario. I also live in Ontario. Say I am accused of some impropriety and the story sees print in the London Telegraph or Le Monde or the Mail & Guardian from South Africa on one of their websites. I am later cleared. Based on the ruling, I should be able to sue those papers successfully.
This is not some US-centric thing, and to state that it only affects the American presence on the web is extremely shortsighted - the ruling already reaches across one international boundary, there is no reason why it can not reach across others.
It's not Dark Horse taking over the City of Heroes comic, it's Top Cow. Wrong farm animal!
Oh yes. Because Arab nations have veto power by virtue of being on the permanent Security Council. Oh. Wait. They don't. Seriously, how could Arab nations run the United nations? What line of reasoning could even make you think that?
Actually, in the original Wired article (http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,66554,00 .html), the teachers still had to verify everyone was there, only they got a fancy PDA to do it.
But since they were still taking attendence ANYways, what was the point?
Then why use a Mac Mini? Especially in this case, where the Mac mini is for his girlfriend - granted, she may have to test code on a Linux platform, but it seems silly.
In the case of Mario 64 for DS, it's because they wanted to launch at Christmas and before the PSP lest they end up eating Sony's dust. Investing more time in a good brand new Mario DS for launch means likely either delaying the launch of the DS or launching without their flagship franchise, which is something they're unlikely to repeat after the GameCube. They were on the clock, simple as that. Now, they are making a new Mario DS game, as there's video of it. But whatever it ends up being, it wouldn't have been near the quality they require for the system's launch title. Now, as a DS owner, I am frustrated that it will take until February for another game I actually want to hit the North American market. But you can't argue that the DS's market penetration in the last month and a half hasn't been impressive. And the library will be built up by the time the PSP launches, so they've got themselves a head start on Sony.
Dreamcast was the first of the generation including XBox, PS2 and GameCube. It's the weakest machine spec-wise, and it was the first to fail, but it is clearly not of the previous generation, which was PSX, Saturn, N64. Just because it had effectively died off prior to the release of the GameCube does not mean it is not of the same generation.
It's entirely possible you just hate ESPN Football. Not me, personally I'm not as fond of Madden. Been playing the Sega Sports version since NFL 2K1 on Dreamcast, unless you count NFL 95 for Genesis.
It's a European rocket, a Canadian satellite, and a South American launch site. I imagine some US funding was involved somewhere along the line, but I have serious doubts that American taxpayer dollars had much to do with this.
They're not allowed to telemarket on cellphones because you pay for the airtime, IIRC... tell them they've called your cell phone, and they will usually apologize profusely and hang up, since they'll be in BIG trouble if you report them.