I've seen these things in action, I can tell you I'm less the impressed. They zoom around the room sucking things up at random, there is no orginisation to their cleaning pattern. You get it more for bragging rights then you do for actual cleanlyness...
Having contacts in the law enforcement profession in Boston I believe I can speak with some certainty.
For the most part, such laws aren't even given any attention. And should you get "cought" you are likely to be let off with a couple of chuckles at most.
so it would be an infinite number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of keyboards, with an infinite number of bionic arms, hooked up to in infinite number of word processors, would eventually get the theory of relativity?
Thats the problem, the film producers feel the same way. Which is why they don't even TRY to make it good (or so it seems), they seem to just want to get it over with so they can get their monthly check and move on to the next franchise. If they would even TRY and make them even remotely resemble the games they are based on, things might be different.
The answer:: Didly squat. In fact, the number of filesharers out there are (I would assume) less then 1% of the movie viewer population. In fact, considering how (sadly) most poeple need to call tech support to just turn on their dell, what are the odds they know how to operate bittorrent? Pretty slim I'd say...
Although the ease of browsing was also my main reason for swiching over to FF, you cannot disscount the hundreds of browser extensions that FF has going for it. I currently have my browser so over customised that if I were to even TRY to swich back, I just wouldn't be able to navigate.
What most of us mightn't have realised is that a cheap & nasty solution works so much better for its intended job than some of the pricey (but flashy!) fixes.
Who says a fan can't be flashy? Just get a UV reactive LED fan.
I beta tested it on the 15th. It was pretty good from what I've deen, although the only other MMORPG I have played has ben city of heroes, so I don't know how it holds up to other D&D based RPGs.
There were some things about it that kind of bugged me however, first, you can't jump. I know in RPGs where the point of the game is fighting and leveling up, jumping isn't that big of a deal, but still having the ability does make the game seem a bit more "real" for me.
Secondly, you can only play as a human, no elves, dwarfs, gnomes, or super intellegent shades of the color blue. This was a bit of a bummer for me, becuase I had really hoped to play as a shapeshifting elf (half elf half volf). But I guess they were really trying to avoid the steriotype that has been slapped on them as "WoW rip off".
And lastly, the lack of character design choices, you get maybe 12 hair types (that tend to be the same, no matter what profession you choose), 12 or so hair colors, 6 face types, your basic skin colors, and thats about it. I had really hoped to be able to change tome of the body proportions to have a character that actually looked like me, but all you can really change is hight. Also the clothing choices are very limited, in fact there are none. You get your basic profession spisific clothing and thats it. Although yes you can get new cloths in quests and by trading, it would still be nice to have say, three different suits to pick from at the start of the game.
The gameplay was pretty much what I expected, you have standerd WASD controls, you click objects to select ect... However one minor thing that bugged me was, the second you select an enamy object, you start attacking, regardless of its level. You CAN call off the attack and still have him selected so you can see what level it is, if you have a hand-to-hand weapon out, however if you are a range attacker you shoot one arrow, and you comitted to this fight till death (and death is useually the case).
now these problems are not rearly as bad as I make them out to be, the gameplay is very nice. I had a blast playing it. The quests are quite fun, and not in the least bit dull or tedious, the level design is breathtaking to say the least, even on lower graphic resolutions.And if you can rope a few friends to shell out the 50 bucks and pick it up, get a party going, there will be no end to the fun you will have.
Homosexuality is neither a choice (that's long ago been proven scientifically), nor is it particularly a disability.
Therefore homosexuality is genetic.
And yet here you say::
There is no reason that discrimination on the basis of sexual preference should be permissable.
Therefore homosexuality is a preference. But wait! Didn't you just say it was scientifically proven to be genetic? Get your story straight and come back to me later.
Does even bandai realise that most people can simply rip their DVDs to an avi format and then convert them to UMD with a 3rd party hack?
What follows is a tutorial for doing just that
(lovingly stolen from my friends redvsblue journal).
March 26th, 2005
The tutorial for getting RvB on PSP
Important Step Skipped, try again if you didn't get it before.
OK. Many of you have been wondering, WTF, why can't I just drag and drop my files, and bam there are my movies? One of the sad things about the PSP is, the lack of a program on the computer that easily sorts out the files.
Go here, and watch the tutorial. If you don't have time... just connect your psp to the computer and make a folder on it entitled: "MP_ROOT." Then make a folder within that called: "100MNV01"
Note: "MP_ROOT" should be right next to the folder called "PSP," not inside of it.Also, although not tested, I don't believe you need a video saying, congradulations on getting video to your PSP.
This is the 3GP website. For those of you that want to know the source of the site, its in Japanese.
When you get it downloaded, unzip the file, and then install the software. EDIT IMPORTANT: Double click SETUP and change it to MP4, PSP (you can use "direct" if you have USB mode set up on your PSP). You'll know that you're good so far when you see a program that looks like this:
http://www.nurs.or.jp/~calcium/3gpp/images/3GPPC onv_01.gif
You can change the language to English.
Set a directory (unless you want it to hog up the desktop, two files will be made each time you start a conversion. Drag and drop an episode of your choice, and the program should begin a conversion. Watch the log, to see if it is making good progress. If you want episode fifty-two, the episode is downloadable at the bottom for PSP play.
I ran into a problem with both Windows Media Video, and.mov formats.
Divx versions of the episodes worked fine.
Once you recieve TWO output files, with the beginning numbers "M4VCXXXX" (x=numbers) with a.mp4 extension and a.THM format, drag and drop the two files into "100MNV01."
Enjoy
For those of you who are redvsblue members and would like to go mod him up,the entery from which I stole is Here
OMG! Gaming is mainstream, now I have to quit or I'll look like a trend follower!!!
Honestly, this is nothing to loose sleep over. Paris got a PSP, so what? She'll get bored with it when her aids/pimps aren't around to help her find the power swich.(kind of like the "any" key on her dell).
And if gameing DOES go mainstream, at the very least it means we can start bringing girls to out halo 2 lans.
Oh rubbish, that was all made up by a wily editor of the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy to increase the levels of universal uncertainty and thus boost the sales of the guide;-)
Good point. Most people are used to windows, and swiching OS's on less computer literate will require training, more hunting around for the right apps, and more downtime as people get used to the new os.
Also, as much as it pains me to say this. Linux isn't free anymore.
Sure you can download free versons, but those come with no support, no updates of any kind, at it will be atleast a year behind the computer times.
Sticking with windows ensures that 80% of the software in the market will work for you, you will have automatic updates, and a relativly friendly user interface.
You could just self publish. Pay a manufacture to make you X ammount of CDs with your choice of tracks to put on them. Then you open your own little yahoo store and pay a couple of your friends to ship stuff for you.
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Or, if your senetor is from massachusetts, wrap your letter around about a pint of cold rum.
Microsoft couldn't have planned it better themselves...
I've seen these things in action, I can tell you I'm less the impressed. They zoom around the room sucking things up at random, there is no orginisation to their cleaning pattern. You get it more for bragging rights then you do for actual cleanlyness...
Having contacts in the law enforcement profession in Boston I believe I can speak with some certainty. For the most part, such laws aren't even given any attention. And should you get "cought" you are likely to be let off with a couple of chuckles at most.
so it would be an infinite number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of keyboards, with an infinite number of bionic arms, hooked up to in infinite number of word processors, would eventually get the theory of relativity?
you come here for the posterity? Wow... I just come here to put goatse in all my first posts...
Thats the problem, the film producers feel the same way. Which is why they don't even TRY to make it good (or so it seems), they seem to just want to get it over with so they can get their monthly check and move on to the next franchise. If they would even TRY and make them even remotely resemble the games they are based on, things might be different.
The answer:: Didly squat. In fact, the number of filesharers out there are (I would assume) less then 1% of the movie viewer population. In fact, considering how (sadly) most poeple need to call tech support to just turn on their dell, what are the odds they know how to operate bittorrent? Pretty slim I'd say...
Although the ease of browsing was also my main reason for swiching over to FF, you cannot disscount the hundreds of browser extensions that FF has going for it. I currently have my browser so over customised that if I were to even TRY to swich back, I just wouldn't be able to navigate.
Nah, they're too busy trying to get "fisrt post!" in to build anything constructive...
Apperantly they do, and don't call me shurley...
Who says a fan can't be flashy? Just get a UV reactive LED fan.
They give whoever has the most market hype high scores as far as I can tell...
There were some things about it that kind of bugged me however, first, you can't jump. I know in RPGs where the point of the game is fighting and leveling up, jumping isn't that big of a deal, but still having the ability does make the game seem a bit more "real" for me.
Secondly, you can only play as a human, no elves, dwarfs, gnomes, or super intellegent shades of the color blue. This was a bit of a bummer for me, becuase I had really hoped to play as a shapeshifting elf (half elf half volf). But I guess they were really trying to avoid the steriotype that has been slapped on them as "WoW rip off".
And lastly, the lack of character design choices, you get maybe 12 hair types (that tend to be the same, no matter what profession you choose), 12 or so hair colors, 6 face types, your basic skin colors, and thats about it. I had really hoped to be able to change tome of the body proportions to have a character that actually looked like me, but all you can really change is hight. Also the clothing choices are very limited, in fact there are none. You get your basic profession spisific clothing and thats it. Although yes you can get new cloths in quests and by trading, it would still be nice to have say, three different suits to pick from at the start of the game.
The gameplay was pretty much what I expected, you have standerd WASD controls, you click objects to select ect... However one minor thing that bugged me was, the second you select an enamy object, you start attacking, regardless of its level. You CAN call off the attack and still have him selected so you can see what level it is, if you have a hand-to-hand weapon out, however if you are a range attacker you shoot one arrow, and you comitted to this fight till death (and death is useually the case).
now these problems are not rearly as bad as I make them out to be, the gameplay is very nice. I had a blast playing it. The quests are quite fun, and not in the least bit dull or tedious, the level design is breathtaking to say the least, even on lower graphic resolutions.And if you can rope a few friends to shell out the 50 bucks and pick it up, get a party going, there will be no end to the fun you will have.
Sorry, not happening. Freedom of religion /= freedom from religion.
Here you say::
Homosexuality is neither a choice (that's long ago been proven scientifically), nor is it particularly a disability.
Therefore homosexuality is genetic.
And yet here you say::
There is no reason that discrimination on the basis of sexual preference should be permissable.
Therefore homosexuality is a preference. But wait! Didn't you just say it was scientifically proven to be genetic? Get your story straight and come back to me later.
What follows is a tutorial for doing just that
(lovingly stolen from my friends redvsblue journal).
March 26th, 2005 The tutorial for getting RvB on PSP Important Step Skipped, try again if you didn't get it before.
OK. Many of you have been wondering, WTF, why can't I just drag and drop my files, and bam there are my movies? One of the sad things about the PSP is, the lack of a program on the computer that easily sorts out the files.
Go here, and watch the tutorial. If you don't have time... just connect your psp to the computer and make a folder on it entitled: "MP_ROOT." Then make a folder within that called: "100MNV01"
Note: "MP_ROOT" should be right next to the folder called "PSP," not inside of it.Also, although not tested, I don't believe you need a video saying, congradulations on getting video to your PSP.
Download this, next
This is the 3GP website. For those of you that want to know the source of the site, its in Japanese.
When you get it downloaded, unzip the file, and then install the software. EDIT IMPORTANT: Double click SETUP and change it to MP4, PSP (you can use "direct" if you have USB mode set up on your PSP). You'll know that you're good so far when you see a program that looks like this:
http://www.nurs.or.jp/~calcium/3gpp/images/3GPPC onv_01.gif
You can change the language to English.
Set a directory (unless you want it to hog up the desktop, two files will be made each time you start a conversion. Drag and drop an episode of your choice, and the program should begin a conversion. Watch the log, to see if it is making good progress. If you want episode fifty-two, the episode is downloadable at the bottom for PSP play.
I ran into a problem with both Windows Media Video, and .mov formats.
Divx versions of the episodes worked fine.
Once you recieve TWO output files, with the beginning numbers "M4VCXXXX" (x=numbers) with a .mp4 extension and a .THM format, drag and drop the two files into "100MNV01."
Enjoy
For those of you who are redvsblue members and would like to go mod him up,the entery from which I stole is Here
OMG! Gaming is mainstream, now I have to quit or I'll look like a trend follower!!! Honestly, this is nothing to loose sleep over. Paris got a PSP, so what? She'll get bored with it when her aids/pimps aren't around to help her find the power swich.(kind of like the "any" key on her dell).
And if gameing DOES go mainstream, at the very least it means we can start bringing girls to out halo 2 lans.
Did you leave the original narration done by the book in the movie?
If so, How much of it? Will it be in pauses between chapters or did you manage to integrate it into the plot somehow?
Oh rubbish, that was all made up by a wily editor of the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy to increase the levels of universal uncertainty and thus boost the sales of the guide ;-)
Yes, freeBSD would ensure that the majority of their unix based programs would carry over well.
Yeah, as far as I could tell, there was no mention of a new FF distro.
Also, as much as it pains me to say this. Linux isn't free anymore.
Sure you can download free versons, but those come with no support, no updates of any kind, at it will be atleast a year behind the computer times.
Sticking with windows ensures that 80% of the software in the market will work for you, you will have automatic updates, and a relativly friendly user interface.
Sorry, but thats the way things are.
*sits down and waits for the -1 troll mod*
New music CD = $28.99
New videogame = $49.99
Do the math...
You could just self publish. Pay a manufacture to make you X ammount of CDs with your choice of tracks to put on them. Then you open your own little yahoo store and pay a couple of your friends to ship stuff for you.