The first PotC was such an awesome movie because Disney thought it would suck. They half-made it, and tossed it aside. Because they thought it would fail, they let the director and Johnny Depp do their thing - no market droids wanted to touch it.
... And ask anyone what they remember from the first, and it'll be Johnny Depp's character and the humour, not the special effects.
... But Titan's crust is made out of water ice. If you were to take it out of the deep-freeze and bring it to a comfortable, Earth-like temperature - it would melt.
While surface features may be analogous to those found here on Earth, they're made out of entirely different things...
But, since Lotus SmartSuite from 1986-2002 can start Word Pro in under 8 seconds in Win4Lin in windoze 98 in 256 MB of shared ram, on an 6 and on a 128 MB card, in 700, 800 and 900 MHz systems, then why the hell is OOo still taking forEVER?
Have you ever used StarOffice, the suite which begat OpenOffice.org?
I remember when it was made freely available for download. I installed it on my not-that-shabby Linux PC of the era, and started it. And waited. And waited. And waited.
It was... embarrassingly slow.
I think the only thing which would make OpenOffice.org run truly quickly would be a complete rewrite.
Everyone, pool your mod points and give 'em to this guy. I always found it ridiculous that OpenOffice has to run on an X session, it always seemed like a horrible kludge to me, especially getting printing to work.
Conversely, I got modded down for linking to NeoOffice, which is... "based on the OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 code and includes all of the new OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 features".
It's very much a Mac program. Native fonts, copy-and-paste, printing, Aqua interface... Have a look.
It's ECMA. It even says that in the page you've linked to. And the original article. This Slashdot typo's infectious - it seems to have spread to half the comments posted already...
Can anyone post the HD version (I know...46 Mb is kinda big) for me to look at? Please?
I downloaded a fairly high-quality.MOV from GameTrailers.com earlier.
I like the visuals (the white sands contrasting with the deep-blue-to-black sky) and the sound and animation look great, but the presence of pre-rendered footage in advertising a computer game still annoys me. But I do hope Bungie steals the specular map for the pre-rendered Whatsit Chief's armour - it looks far better than the slightly naff, moulded-plastic effort being flaunted in in-game screenshots...
I remember there also being a online distribution system that had the possibility of buying Prey online (I think it was even offered at closing of the demo of Prey), with a service which name eludes me now:
I would caution those who champion the Wii to take a closer look at what they're doing. They're saying it's great before they've even seen a unit in person.
So the only way to tell if a game is good or fun is by the quality of the graphics? Halo was dummed down to work on the xbox and has never recovered.
Have you seen non-cinematic videos of the early versions?
There. Was. No. AI.
Aliens just... stand there, oblivious to the player's presence. Going further back to the third-person versions - aiming was a mess of reticules and lucky guesses. 'Gameplay' might have involved driving over someone with a warthog, or shooting him/her/it with one of the vast and peculiar array of weapons available. While wandering round an unfinished map with almost no cover whatsoever.
The beginnings weren't much of an improvement - the game was an RTS where you could place units, order some around, and that was about it. Wahey.
There's a video out there somewhere which has Bungie employees pointing and laughing at the incredible smoke-and-mirrors act they pulled from a game which, to be honest, wasn't really going anywhere. They had ideas, they had talent, but if someone hadn't bought them out or paid them, and then given them a giant deadline to meet, then Halo would probably have been forgotten...
The amazing, nebulous vision of a perfect, detailed Mac-only Halo steeped in aeons of complex gameplay - then being crushed under the boot of a monolithic Microsoft - is just a creation of people's imaginations. Sorry.
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Interesting that you should bring up MS, since my frame of reference is with the same disease.
A friend of the family had a particularly severe form of multiple sclerosis.
Over roughly a decade, she went from walking with a stick, to using a manual wheelchair, to using an electric wheelchair, to having nerves in her legs cut to stop the spasms, to undergoing many, many operations and treatments to lower the pain and to keep her comfortable, to dying.
She was in her thirties. Everyone was amazed she lasted that long.
I seriously doubt the treatment from the NHS was remotely near perfect, but she had all necessary drugs, equipment and carers provided - her house was fitted with stair-lifts, bed-lifts, bath-lifts, ramps and so on, replaced as needed while her disease progressed. Many visits from carers to wash her, dress her, and later change her colostomy and catheter bags, supporting both her and her husband. (Somehow, they managed to turn a blind eye to the 'tomato plants' on her window-sills.)
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Is this compassionate conservatism in action?
You forget. The compassion in compassionate conservatism is the lovely warm feeling one gets in one's heart when scattering breadcrumbs at Christmas to those poor, adorable, starving orphans.
Charity will help out the most needy, remember?
Fuck anyone who's suffering from an unfashionable or distasteful illness; they only brought it upon themselves. The good old mom-and-pop doctor will solve everything else - that's what capitalism is for!
When a competitive free market group of companies goes after work, they have to balance their profit versus their ability versus the good use of their time.
This NHS case is one of the government using the free market, and of the free market bidding low and then screwing the government for every penny it has.
Slashdot Mirror
I suggest taking off and nuking its servers from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
There are four episodes planned.
One could demand that the ransom be paid in pennies, then you could melt those down as scrap, for double the illegality!
Sir, you're on to a really money-spinner here. I salute you.
(Although maybe, just maybe, ask for a billion dollars?)
Does teamspeak allow my grandmother (and the rest of my family) to call me on a traditional UK phone number number when I'm in Belgium?
... But Titan's crust is made out of water ice. If you were to take it out of the deep-freeze and bring it to a comfortable, Earth-like temperature - it would melt.
While surface features may be analogous to those found here on Earth, they're made out of entirely different things...
Have you ever used StarOffice, the suite which begat OpenOffice.org?
I remember when it was made freely available for download. I installed it on my not-that-shabby Linux PC of the era, and started it. And waited. And waited. And waited.
It was
I think the only thing which would make OpenOffice.org run truly quickly would be a complete rewrite.
Conversely, I got modded down for linking to NeoOffice, which is... "based on the OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 code and includes all of the new OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 features".
It's very much a Mac program. Native fonts, copy-and-paste, printing, Aqua interface... Have a look.
*TYPEY-TYPEY-TYPE*
Ta-daaa!
It's ECMA. It even says that in the page you've linked to. And the original article. This Slashdot typo's infectious - it seems to have spread to half the comments posted already...
I downloaded a fairly high-quality
I like the visuals (the white sands contrasting with the deep-blue-to-black sky) and the sound and animation look great, but the presence of pre-rendered footage in advertising a computer game still annoys me. But I do hope Bungie steals the specular map for the pre-rendered Whatsit Chief's armour - it looks far better than the slightly naff, moulded-plastic effort being flaunted in in-game screenshots...
Still most definitely working on MINERVA - have a look at my development blog thingy for information. Such as, HDR screenshots!
I'm not in Windows right now, but right-click on Half-Life 2 and select 'do not automatically update game', or something like that?
Yep - it was called Triton, and it recently went belly-up in a spectacular manner.
I try to be as libertarian as I can, but that had me in tears. Can I have that? I want that as my sig (the part in Parentheses).
;-)
You can if you like, but attributing it to 'Ford Prefect' will only annoy the Douglas Adams fans...
Aren't they really the most darling creatures?
Not really. They're near-impossible to housetrain!
(A libertarian shat on my carpet once. Claimed the free market would sort it out. No it sodding didn't.)
This is one thing I absolutely love about the MacBooks. You just close the lid. Done.
I do just that on my laptop running Windows XP, and it works fine!
... Although said laptop is a dual-boot MacBook Pro. Oops.
What does wmv have over mp3?
Erm... Video?
Maybe they've been swayed by the vastly superior advertising?
So the only way to tell if a game is good or fun is by the quality of the graphics? Halo was dummed down to work on the xbox and has never recovered.
... stand there, oblivious to the player's presence. Going further back to the third-person versions - aiming was a mess of reticules and lucky guesses. 'Gameplay' might have involved driving over someone with a warthog, or shooting him/her/it with one of the vast and peculiar array of weapons available. While wandering round an unfinished map with almost no cover whatsoever.
Have you seen non-cinematic videos of the early versions?
There. Was. No. AI.
Aliens just
The beginnings weren't much of an improvement - the game was an RTS where you could place units, order some around, and that was about it. Wahey.
There's a video out there somewhere which has Bungie employees pointing and laughing at the incredible smoke-and-mirrors act they pulled from a game which, to be honest, wasn't really going anywhere. They had ideas, they had talent, but if someone hadn't bought them out or paid them, and then given them a giant deadline to meet, then Halo would probably have been forgotten...
The amazing, nebulous vision of a perfect, detailed Mac-only Halo steeped in aeons of complex gameplay - then being crushed under the boot of a monolithic Microsoft - is just a creation of people's imaginations. Sorry.
(Aha! Found it: The Evolution of Halo. Worth seeing.)
Interesting that you should bring up MS, since my frame of reference is with the same disease.
A friend of the family had a particularly severe form of multiple sclerosis.
Over roughly a decade, she went from walking with a stick, to using a manual wheelchair, to using an electric wheelchair, to having nerves in her legs cut to stop the spasms, to undergoing many, many operations and treatments to lower the pain and to keep her comfortable, to dying.
She was in her thirties. Everyone was amazed she lasted that long.
I seriously doubt the treatment from the NHS was remotely near perfect, but she had all necessary drugs, equipment and carers provided - her house was fitted with stair-lifts, bed-lifts, bath-lifts, ramps and so on, replaced as needed while her disease progressed. Many visits from carers to wash her, dress her, and later change her colostomy and catheter bags, supporting both her and her husband. (Somehow, they managed to turn a blind eye to the 'tomato plants' on her window-sills.)
Is this compassionate conservatism in action?
You forget. The compassion in compassionate conservatism is the lovely warm feeling one gets in one's heart when scattering breadcrumbs at Christmas to those poor, adorable, starving orphans.
Charity will help out the most needy, remember?
Fuck anyone who's suffering from an unfashionable or distasteful illness; they only brought it upon themselves. The good old mom-and-pop doctor will solve everything else - that's what capitalism is for!
When a competitive free market group of companies goes after work, they have to balance their profit versus their ability versus the good use of their time.
This NHS case is one of the government using the free market, and of the free market bidding low and then screwing the government for every penny it has.
There's some bloody bird outside my bedroom window that has a natural ability to memorize the latest ringtone on my mobile phone whenever I change it.
Make it do the Crazy Frog!
(For those who don't know what I'm talking about, you're lucky. The horror, the horror...)
... And with Intel, they're now just PCs in drag?
(Disclaimer: I'm typing this on a ladyboy MacBook Pro. Which for games purposes, is currently running Windows XP. Eww!)