I just picked up the program today. I love it! I have been telling all my co-workers about it, but it's fairly embaressing everytime I say the name. I have to put out a disclaimer every time I say it.
I was amazed at the quantity of different scenes they managed to show in the trailer! Heck, for the amount of epic battle scenes you could probably get two movies!
Ok. I was not very impressed with the episode one, but I am willing to pony up for the next two. Even if they end up sucking, I think the first three (or second three movies (if you think about it)) movies make the $16 worth it.
At VERY least, I know I will get to see some of the best special effects ever made. Say what you will about story, but nowhere at the movies will you find a better exibition of cutting edge CGI and special effects. Nowhere.
The bigest irony of it all is the fact that BattleBots is NOT a big corperation. BattleBots inc was started by two competitors of the (non-telavised) Robot Wars (In San Francisco). The Orginal Robot Wars (not to be confused with the UK, which was a spin-off) was shut down by the greed of one of it's partners, Profile Records. Battlebots has done an amazing job of keeping the competition Builder Centric and not giving into the glitz of Robot Wars. Ask any competitor who has been there and they will tell you: Battlebots is for Builders, Robot Wars is for TV.
A great history of the "death" of Robot Wars can be found here: http://www.robotcombat.com/history.html by Jim Smentowski, builder of "Nightmare". He was first at Robot Wars '97, the last Robot Wars event. There was no Robot Wars '98 because of the legal hassels. The first BattleBots event, pre-Comedy Central, was in '99 in Long Beach. I have been to every event since '97 (except one) and I have met Trey Roski and Greg Munson, founders of BattleBots. They are great guys who really care for the sport.
I am betting that this turns out to just be another overzellous lawyer getting the the way. Remember that in order to keep a trademark, you have to defend it.
I have to second this thought. I recently did almost this exact thing late last summer. My Fiance and I traveled cross country with a Laptop and Digital Camera. We used the (hated) AOL all across the USA. We never had trouble finding a local number. We were also able to plug our modem into the wall at almost every hotel we stopped at.
We found that most hotels are "Modem Savy" and if you ask about it they will know what you are talking about. Most had standard phone hookups, and those who did not had adapters. We also had a cellular modem/phone along, which we found did not work well at all. We had a hard time connecting/staying connected. Ultimatly we had to rely almost exclusivly on land lines.
We were able to update almost every day. All of our relatives back home were able to follow along as we went. We got a lot of positive comments. It really gave us something to do as we were going along. Having a reason to take pictures added a lot of fun and purpose to our trip. I think that without the web site to work on we would have been really board. It was also a great thing to do while the other person was driving!
We brought along an inverter so we could keep the laptop running full time. This turned out to be great in conjunction with "Microsoft Streets & Trips 2000". We used S&T as our map THE ENTIRE TRIP! It was totally awesome to never have to open a paper map! It not only had all the streets, pathfinding, and time/distance calculations, it also had all the HOTELS and their telephone numbers. Heck, it even had resturants we ate at!
Make sure that you bring the right software! We had to download some image editing/compression software while on the road, which sucked.
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Amen, Brother.
I just picked up the program today. I love it! I have been telling all my co-workers about it, but it's fairly embaressing everytime I say the name. I have to put out a disclaimer every time I say it.
Still, love the program.
I was amazed at the quantity of different scenes they managed to show in the trailer! Heck, for the amount of epic battle scenes you could probably get two movies!
Ok. I was not very impressed with the episode one, but I am willing to pony up for the next two. Even if they end up sucking, I think the first three (or second three movies (if you think about it)) movies make the $16 worth it.
At VERY least, I know I will get to see some of the best special effects ever made. Say what you will about story, but nowhere at the movies will you find a better exibition of cutting edge CGI and special effects. Nowhere.
The bigest irony of it all is the fact that BattleBots is NOT a big corperation. BattleBots inc was started by two competitors of the (non-telavised) Robot Wars (In San Francisco). The Orginal Robot Wars (not to be confused with the UK, which was a spin-off) was shut down by the greed of one of it's partners, Profile Records. Battlebots has done an amazing job of keeping the competition Builder Centric and not giving into the glitz of Robot Wars. Ask any competitor who has been there and they will tell you: Battlebots is for Builders, Robot Wars is for TV.
A great history of the "death" of Robot Wars can be found here: http://www.robotcombat.com/history.html by Jim Smentowski, builder of "Nightmare". He was first at Robot Wars '97, the last Robot Wars event. There was no Robot Wars '98 because of the legal hassels. The first BattleBots event, pre-Comedy Central, was in '99 in Long Beach. I have been to every event since '97 (except one) and I have met Trey Roski and Greg Munson, founders of BattleBots. They are great guys who really care for the sport.
I am betting that this turns out to just be another overzellous lawyer getting the the way. Remember that in order to keep a trademark, you have to defend it.
We found that most hotels are "Modem Savy" and if you ask about it they will know what you are talking about. Most had standard phone hookups, and those who did not had adapters. We also had a cellular modem/phone along, which we found did not work well at all. We had a hard time connecting/staying connected. Ultimatly we had to rely almost exclusivly on land lines.
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We were able to update almost every day. All of our relatives back home were able to follow along as we went. We got a lot of positive comments. It really gave us something to do as we were going along. Having a reason to take pictures added a lot of fun and purpose to our trip. I think that without the web site to work on we would have been really board. It was also a great thing to do while the other person was driving!
We brought along an inverter so we could keep the laptop running full time. This turned out to be great in conjunction with "Microsoft Streets & Trips 2000". We used S&T as our map THE ENTIRE TRIP! It was totally awesome to never have to open a paper map! It not only had all the streets, pathfinding, and time/distance calculations, it also had all the HOTELS and their telephone numbers. Heck, it even had resturants we ate at!
Make sure that you bring the right software! We had to download some image editing/compression software while on the road, which sucked.
"Always drive on roads, not on people."