"just as it landed big distribution deals with Hollywood."
I can't wait until I want to buy a movie drm'ed so bad that I can only watch it on my computer screen after downloading it at 5 KB/s over a week because there are only a handful of seeders and a few thousand lechers, that's how I want to get my movies delivered to me!
From the no shit serlock department: you can't censor in the US! I smell a constitutional amendment to prohibit boobies from being seen! It doesn't matter how many "enemies" spew virtual blood on your screen, boobies are 100% worse!
"decided to make love and not war on the ancient plains of Eurasia"
you know how these sorta things start out... they knew each other from somebody else... met at a party and after alot of drinking let there hormones get the best of there barely separated genes and they mixed back together.
It should happen almost halfway through the month on the 12th.57 of the way through the day according to the US POPClock Projection.
I could not imagine a worse time...Ocotober 12th, 1:40:01 PM? way to close to Columbus Day...
I live and currently am typing this in Medfield and I have to say that this is one of the biggest things to happen to this town since Disney started using the name in all of his movies... Wiki page on medfield
There's only about 12,000 people in the town and I know exactly where that house is which kinda makes me want to take a walk with a shovel this weekend...
Alot of Cingular cell phones allow you to turn off "send my identity" and probably a lot of other carriers do the same... If your really all that concerned that they will track you down go find a payphone and use it or better yet find a nice neighbor:D
I don't see this as anything revolutionary or even big for that matter. The idea that you use a ground texture has been around for a very very long time... recently there has been many different techinques to handle this such as texture blending and many other ways. The idea that you can use such huge image files over a large area is nothing new... it just has never been done with a single image before which doesn't drop off qulity over distances like most engines do. This, in my opinion is just one of the next step logical steps now that game developers have alot more power and space to work with.
honestly, I'm not sure I do know that there are alot of people that I have talked to who didn't know what firefox was, so I think, if anything, it can help spread awareness. I will admit that it is a bit annoying to have that on top of every page but I think that you should be using firefox... It won't show up in other browsers besides IE so if your using Opera it shouldn't be there.
I've been using this at "level 2" for a month now and nobody has complained so far... Nor have I got any money through the referral program that google has but my website doesn't get that much IE traffic to begin with.
When you open my website up in IE you get a banner across the top telling you to get firefox. the website itself is still functional but you will always have that banner if you're viewing it in IE.
Here are my stats: since the start of this year: 52.3 % firefox 38.7 % IE
last year: 45.1 % IE 44.7 % Firefox
my website is targeted towards the more techically capable but I'm proud that firefox is now the dominate browser.
This contest was more of a joke than the jokes in the SNL that's on right now... Here They got rid of there blog(Here) after a lot of the entrants posted "comments" questioning what happened to it. Read the comments on that page to see the problems but here's a sum up of what the general story is: Facts: -Before I say anything about the videos this is how the contest was to be done (Herel)1) Concept (30%); 2) Production Quality (30%); 3) Script/Screenplay (20%); 4) Use of Firefox Logo, Name, or Tagline (10%); 5) Jingle or Soundtrack (10%). The winners were all in the first 20% of the videos posted. Only around 30% of the ads have been posted. -The winner of the competition "Daredevil" was posted online Apr. 11th on the firefoxflicks.com website...the contest ended Apr. 14th. This ad incorporates ALMOST NONE of the guidelines set forth other than the fact that she actually uses a browser. (And it's a clear of the recent coca-cola and American express ads... that's more of a rumor though but you decide for yourself) -"Wheee!" was in complete denial of the FAQ that they posted (specifically Here) that said that other logos could not be used without permission and yet there goes IE, Netscape and Safari(not to mention the TOS on those logos on there websites(which can also includes modifying the logos in any way)) -"Fox Fever" had no video production quality other than that is was trying to be cheesy which can be argued to have not fallen under the scoring system set forth by the rules. -"This is Hot" deserved to win more than an honorable mention. It fit the "rules" set forth perfectly and has a very high production quality that (in my opinion) can take on some super bowl commercials. -"Give Me the Soap" was cute and could fit the rules perfectly. -It starts to appear that the actual "winners" were not exactly following the rules and guidelines of the contest and the two honorable mentions fit it perfectly (which is probably why there were 2 "honorable mentions" because there wasn't any mention that there was going to be).
Rumors: -I'll quote myself for the first "rumor": "the only concern I have about the judging is that the 5 winners were among the first 25% up... I'm not to good at stat but doesn't that mean the odds of that happening unintentionally (5 hits within 25%) 1 in 1024(4^5) (or one could even argue 20% (5^5: 1 in 3125))? If the first ones up were a "cross-section" as noted earlier doesn't that imply that they weren't the best of the best?...sorry if that was a bit confusing "# Asa(one of the firefoxflicks staff Says: April 25th, 2006 at 8:16 am cleancut, I don't think it was purely our idea of "the 50 best ones". We posted what we thought was a good cross-section of ads, from humorous to serious and everything in between. We certainly tried to launch the site and build early momentum by highlighting a set of ads that we thought would be compelling and entertaining to a broad audience. - A " " -NONE of the judges ever said a word about the contest ANYWHERE. try googling one the famous "judges" names and firefoxflicks and the only page that will come up is that the list of them on firefoxflicks.com. This lead to ALOT of speculation that some of the videos (Wheeeeeeeee) were picked because of the instant popularity when they were put on the site and not by market viability (or the "rules"). Also all of the judges apparently viewed all 2.5 hours of commercials in LA over 5 days even though they are all working on movies in various parts of the world. But that's probably because the firefoxflicks team forced them to this deadline to be at the SF film fest which wasn't the original plan. -The firefoxflicks team will never be able to use some of the ads (Wheeee
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"just as it landed big distribution deals with Hollywood."
I can't wait until I want to buy a movie drm'ed so bad that I can only watch it on my computer screen after downloading it at 5 KB/s over a week because there are only a handful of seeders and a few thousand lechers, that's how I want to get my movies delivered to me!
It doesn't. The person who invents that won't tell anybody about it until their on their deathbed, so expect it in another 60/70 years.
in other news, thousands of Japense men buy a Wii to compensate for another Wii of theirs....
horrible horrible joke.
So, what, all two of them? The two marketing executives @ Microsoft who got there position for expecting nothing short of a "wave of hype"?
If it works, don't fix it.
From the no shit serlock department: you can't censor in the US! I smell a constitutional amendment to prohibit boobies from being seen! It doesn't matter how many "enemies" spew virtual blood on your screen, boobies are 100% worse!
"Capacitors don't kill people, it's the circuit of which the person is a part that is dangerous..." Capacitors don't kill people, I do.
"decided to make love and not war on the ancient plains of Eurasia" you know how these sorta things start out... they knew each other from somebody else... met at a party and after alot of drinking let there hormones get the best of there barely separated genes and they mixed back together.
No, they have it pointed to a picture of there mother pointing at the camera in disguest.
It should happen almost halfway through the month on the 12th .57 of the way through the day according to the US POPClock Projection.
I could not imagine a worse time...Ocotober 12th, 1:40:01 PM? way to close to Columbus Day...
wicked confidential: http://lockport-ny.com/Features/confidential.htm ... that's security for ya
I live and currently am typing this in Medfield and I have to say that this is one of the biggest things to happen to this town since Disney started using the name in all of his movies... Wiki page on medfield There's only about 12,000 people in the town and I know exactly where that house is which kinda makes me want to take a walk with a shovel this weekend...
Alot of Cingular cell phones allow you to turn off "send my identity" and probably a lot of other carriers do the same... If your really all that concerned that they will track you down go find a payphone and use it or better yet find a nice neighbor :D
I don't see this as anything revolutionary or even big for that matter. The idea that you use a ground texture has been around for a very very long time... recently there has been many different techinques to handle this such as texture blending and many other ways. The idea that you can use such huge image files over a large area is nothing new... it just has never been done with a single image before which doesn't drop off qulity over distances like most engines do. This, in my opinion is just one of the next step logical steps now that game developers have alot more power and space to work with.
you wouldn't be banned... just a banner at the top of the page coward.
honestly, I'm not sure I do know that there are alot of people that I have talked to who didn't know what firefox was, so I think, if anything, it can help spread awareness. I will admit that it is a bit annoying to have that on top of every page but I think that you should be using firefox... It won't show up in other browsers besides IE so if your using Opera it shouldn't be there.
I've been using this at "level 2" for a month now and nobody has complained so far... Nor have I got any money through the referral program that google has but my website doesn't get that much IE traffic to begin with. When you open my website up in IE you get a banner across the top telling you to get firefox. the website itself is still functional but you will always have that banner if you're viewing it in IE. Here are my stats: since the start of this year: 52.3 % firefox 38.7 % IE last year: 45.1 % IE 44.7 % Firefox my website is targeted towards the more techically capable but I'm proud that firefox is now the dominate browser.
This contest was more of a joke than the jokes in the SNL that's on right now... Here
...sorry if that was a bit confusing
They got rid of there blog(Here) after a lot of the entrants posted "comments" questioning what happened to it. Read the comments on that page to see the problems but here's a sum up of what the general story is:
Facts:
-Before I say anything about the videos this is how the contest was to be done (Herel)1) Concept (30%); 2) Production Quality (30%); 3) Script/Screenplay (20%); 4) Use of Firefox Logo, Name, or Tagline (10%); 5) Jingle or Soundtrack (10%). The winners were all in the first 20% of the videos posted. Only around 30% of the ads have been posted.
-The winner of the competition "Daredevil" was posted online Apr. 11th on the firefoxflicks.com website...the contest ended Apr. 14th. This ad incorporates ALMOST NONE of the guidelines set forth other than the fact that she actually uses a browser. (And it's a clear of the recent coca-cola and American express ads... that's more of a rumor though but you decide for yourself)
-"Wheee!" was in complete denial of the FAQ that they posted (specifically Here) that said that other logos could not be used without permission and yet there goes IE, Netscape and Safari(not to mention the TOS on those logos on there websites(which can also includes modifying the logos in any way))
-"Fox Fever" had no video production quality other than that is was trying to be cheesy which can be argued to have not fallen under the scoring system set forth by the rules.
-"This is Hot" deserved to win more than an honorable mention. It fit the "rules" set forth perfectly and has a very high production quality that (in my opinion) can take on some super bowl commercials.
-"Give Me the Soap" was cute and could fit the rules perfectly.
-It starts to appear that the actual "winners" were not exactly following the rules and guidelines of the contest and the two honorable mentions fit it perfectly (which is probably why there were 2 "honorable mentions" because there wasn't any mention that there was going to be).
Rumors:
-I'll quote myself for the first "rumor":
"the only concern I have about the judging is that the 5 winners were among the first 25% up... I'm not to good at stat but doesn't that mean the odds of that happening unintentionally (5 hits within 25%) 1 in 1024(4^5) (or one could even argue 20% (5^5: 1 in 3125))? If the first ones up were a "cross-section" as noted earlier doesn't that imply that they weren't the best of the best?
"# Asa(one of the firefoxflicks staff Says:
April 25th, 2006 at 8:16 am
cleancut, I don't think it was purely our idea of "the 50 best ones". We posted what we thought was a good cross-section of ads, from humorous to serious and everything in between. We certainly tried to launch the site and build early momentum by highlighting a set of ads that we thought would be compelling and entertaining to a broad audience.
- A
" "
-NONE of the judges ever said a word about the contest ANYWHERE. try googling one the famous "judges" names and firefoxflicks and the only page that will come up is that the list of them on firefoxflicks.com. This lead to ALOT of speculation that some of the videos (Wheeeeeeeee) were picked because of the instant popularity when they were put on the site and not by market viability (or the "rules"). Also all of the judges apparently viewed all 2.5 hours of commercials in LA over 5 days even though they are all working on movies in various parts of the world. But that's probably because the firefoxflicks team forced them to this deadline to be at the SF film fest which wasn't the original plan.
-The firefoxflicks team will never be able to use some of the ads (Wheeee