From tfa: Fourteen of the 17 watches, with an average price of $4,800, sold in the first six hours. Gilt now holds a watch sale every month. "In certain circles," Mr. Thoreson said, "if you donâ(TM)t have a substantial timepiece with some pedigree, you feel like youâ(TM)re missing out on something."
A friend of mine is a parent in this school system. The PTA (or PTA-style group) actually asked for a low, but fair, settlement; they knew they'd be paying for it eventually.
> If anything, the first MW was more ambiguous in that regard, since at least you had "good Russians" and "bad Russians"; in MW2, the former kind has apparently rapidly died out again, so we're back to good old stereotypes.
I'm not 100% sure, but I believe the guy piloting the aircraft for Soap is Russian. Or at least he has an Eastern European name/accent.
It's interesting that console games are now more like PC games than ever: some need specific hardware configurations (GTA IV on the Xbox 360 requires a hard drive, IIRC) or lengthy installations (games on the PS3), many have a lot of software patches that repair broken games (Fat Princess's online) or constantly improve the game experience (Burnout Paradise) and some are great principally based on their online connectivity (without human opponents or user-created content, they wouldn't be as good).
I'm excited, actually. With some of the hardware coming out in the next one or two years, I feel like I may finally be able to build a machine that runs Ultima IX at more than 20 fps.
To me it all smacks of the comic book and recent movies of "The Fantastic Four". Superior powers and prowess does not appear suddenly when exposed to some variant of radiation from space. In most cases, biological life-forms either 1). Die, 99.999% the time 2). Mutate, leaving a sickly, short-lived organism 3). Mutate but in an unexpected manner.
Since you're looking for your radiation death machine to perform at five nines, I must dissuade you from running it on.NET. I've had reports from some of our operatives in London where their death machines failed to kill their subjects for up to seven hours at a time. May I suggest a Guild-approved Linux distro like Deviant or Cthulbuntu?
It's no Larsen B, the Antarctic shelf that broke up earlier this decade:
During [early 2002] the Larsen B sector collapsed and broke up, 3,250 sqkm of ice 220 m thick disintegrated, meaning an ice shelf covering an area comparable in size to the state of Rhode Island disappeared in a single season.
Plus Larsen B had a song written about it by British Sea Power so it's got more indie cred with the kids.
Sorry, I meant 6-channel analog outputs: left and right fronts, left and right rears, center, and subwoofer.
Optical is better than your regular red/white analog jacks, but it's not better than HDMI. Optical cables are limited in the bitrate of information they can pass through, so they downmix audio to a lower bitrate. This "downmix" is still DTS quality so it probably doesn't affect 95% of people.
Their XviD/etc. video playback is still not entirely awesome, although I haven't checked since the last update. The PS3's wireless connection keeps dropping out, making streaming sometimes a chore; the Wii doesn't have this problem. Some files that the 360 could play, the PS3 couldn't.
I finally used the memory card slot the other day. I took out the SDHC card in my HD camera and put it into the slot. The card came up on video and the AVCHD video from my Canon camera played back without a problem.
The only thing the PS3 lacks as a great BD player is analog outs for audio. You're stuck with HDMI (great if your TV or receiver has it) or you have to use optical, which can downmix the audio depending on the format it is in.
I'm really glad your advice wasn't heeded by Jenova Chen & Nicholas Clark, Jonathan Blow, Jonathan Mak, Bostjan Cadez, Paul Preece, Jetro Lauha, or Stephen Cakebread (among others). They (in many or most cases, single-handedly) made some of the coolest games I've played in the last five years.
Are you referring to the Image Constraint Token (ICT)? I don't think there's been a single release, on HD DVD or Blu-ray, that actually had that flag set on. I just saw a thread recently (perhaps on AVS forum) of a guy that had a setup routing the data from his HD DVDs and Blu-ray discs through a home theatre PC. So it can definitely be done, although I don't know how.
I watch hi-def content on my old projection HDTV, and I've done A/B comparisons through different inputs between DVD content and hi-def content. There's quite an improvement.
Where I can't tell an improvement is sound. But then I'm neither an audiophile nor do I have a surround sound set up that is good enough to differentiate between the compressed audio on DVDs and the lossless sound on (many/most) HD DVDs/BDs.
And to the grandparent: it's Blu-ray. Not Blue-Ray.
Years after I had my NES, I started having trouble with one of my games; I think maybe it was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I called into Nintendo's free helpline and they suggested putting in the game and then rubbing it side to side while it was in the system. They never explained it as "cleaning the contacts" but that worked better than the $10 "special solvent" I had purchased at the store.
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What a sad, insecure little man.
I'd say closer to 10-15 months.
I take it your diet of tobacco salad with sugar vinaigrette is working wonders for your health?
A friend of mine is a parent in this school system. The PTA (or PTA-style group) actually asked for a low, but fair, settlement; they knew they'd be paying for it eventually.
Nintendo doesn't.
> If anything, the first MW was more ambiguous in that regard, since at least you had "good Russians" and "bad Russians"; in MW2, the former kind has apparently rapidly died out again, so we're back to good old stereotypes.
I'm not 100% sure, but I believe the guy piloting the aircraft for Soap is Russian. Or at least he has an Eastern European name/accent.
Everyone is airdropped. They hack the US's defense systems so we can't tell they're coming until it's too late.
I'm Colombian too and am happy to see the name of my country spelled correctly. Too often it's spelled Columbia.
Just use the term analblog.
Wait...
It's interesting that console games are now more like PC games than ever: some need specific hardware configurations (GTA IV on the Xbox 360 requires a hard drive, IIRC) or lengthy installations (games on the PS3), many have a lot of software patches that repair broken games (Fat Princess's online) or constantly improve the game experience (Burnout Paradise) and some are great principally based on their online connectivity (without human opponents or user-created content, they wouldn't be as good).
And Casablanca was made with 1940s-quality film equipment. Still looks great on HD though.
Perhaps you think only movies from 1996 onward look good in HD?
I'm excited, actually. With some of the hardware coming out in the next one or two years, I feel like I may finally be able to build a machine that runs Ultima IX at more than 20 fps.
Or, preferably, both. That way consumers/businesses are not tied to one solution.
Since you're looking for your radiation death machine to perform at five nines, I must dissuade you from running it on .NET. I've had reports from some of our operatives in London where their death machines failed to kill their subjects for up to seven hours at a time. May I suggest a Guild-approved Linux distro like Deviant or Cthulbuntu?
Sincerely,
Guild Operative 305-DD4
It's no Larsen B, the Antarctic shelf that broke up earlier this decade:
Plus Larsen B had a song written about it by British Sea Power so it's got more indie cred with the kids.
I wonder if Chrome auto-updated. That site doesn't crash mine (Chrome 0.2.149.27 on XP).
Well, if you go by the title alone, the cap is only there in October. In November we can all resume our previous usage levels.
Sorry, I meant 6-channel analog outputs: left and right fronts, left and right rears, center, and subwoofer.
Optical is better than your regular red/white analog jacks, but it's not better than HDMI. Optical cables are limited in the bitrate of information they can pass through, so they downmix audio to a lower bitrate. This "downmix" is still DTS quality so it probably doesn't affect 95% of people.
It's based on this M:tG card.
Which actually makes it worse than what you thought.
Their XviD/etc. video playback is still not entirely awesome, although I haven't checked since the last update. The PS3's wireless connection keeps dropping out, making streaming sometimes a chore; the Wii doesn't have this problem. Some files that the 360 could play, the PS3 couldn't.
I finally used the memory card slot the other day. I took out the SDHC card in my HD camera and put it into the slot. The card came up on video and the AVCHD video from my Canon camera played back without a problem.
The only thing the PS3 lacks as a great BD player is analog outs for audio. You're stuck with HDMI (great if your TV or receiver has it) or you have to use optical, which can downmix the audio depending on the format it is in.
And not just in their physical makeup, but their movements too.
The movements of Wall-E are, to Pixar's credit, more realistically "human" than almost every video game animation I've seen.
I'm really glad your advice wasn't heeded by Jenova Chen & Nicholas Clark, Jonathan Blow, Jonathan Mak, Bostjan Cadez, Paul Preece, Jetro Lauha, or Stephen Cakebread (among others). They (in many or most cases, single-handedly) made some of the coolest games I've played in the last five years.
I'm sorry things didn't work out for your game.
Are you referring to the Image Constraint Token (ICT)? I don't think there's been a single release, on HD DVD or Blu-ray, that actually had that flag set on. I just saw a thread recently (perhaps on AVS forum) of a guy that had a setup routing the data from his HD DVDs and Blu-ray discs through a home theatre PC. So it can definitely be done, although I don't know how.
I watch hi-def content on my old projection HDTV, and I've done A/B comparisons through different inputs between DVD content and hi-def content. There's quite an improvement.
Where I can't tell an improvement is sound. But then I'm neither an audiophile nor do I have a surround sound set up that is good enough to differentiate between the compressed audio on DVDs and the lossless sound on (many/most) HD DVDs/BDs.
And to the grandparent: it's Blu-ray. Not Blue-Ray.
Years after I had my NES, I started having trouble with one of my games; I think maybe it was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I called into Nintendo's free helpline and they suggested putting in the game and then rubbing it side to side while it was in the system. They never explained it as "cleaning the contacts" but that worked better than the $10 "special solvent" I had purchased at the store.