First poster for the 40th anniversary re-release of ‘TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE’.
The film is remastered in 4K & includes a new post-credits scene.
Returning to theaters on September 17.
Pokémon's sold out Magikarp cat toy is already being scalped for up to $129.99 on eBay
Several have already sold for more than four times the retail price
In my Atari ST video codec, the decoder maintains a codebook of small tiles out of which the video frames are composed. A certain number of tiles, here 32, are updated every frame, replacing less useful ones. This approach allows for high performance and decent compression.
After so many years of being lost media, Pokémon’s original introduction to the west during E3 1998 has been archived!
Check this historic moment where Pokémon is introduced, and thanks to the Video Game History Foundation for their incredible work at preserving gaming history.
Two former Nintendo employees have shared what it’s really like working at the company.
Positive things:
>They said Nintendo offers job security, good benefits and a healthy work-life balance.
>Long hours aren’t the norm, and many employees stay for years.
Biggest downsides:
>lower pay than other big gaming and tech companies
>slow promotions and a workplace sometimes slow to change.
MIT put its full multivariable calculus course online in 2007 and charged nobody a dollar for it.
Lecture 34 is the final review. A professor in an orange sweater writes Unit 1 on a chalkboard and starts working through the whole semester.
The camera never moves much. No editing, no music, no production budget visible anywhere.
MIT OpenCourseWare launched in 2001 with 50 courses. The plan was to publish materials from every course the university taught.
Faculty were told they would get no royalties and no extra pay. Most agreed anyway.
The catalog passed 2,400 courses. Downloads run past 300,000,000 and the site draws millions of visitors a year from countries with no equivalent institution.
Universities charging 60,000 dollars a year watched a peer give the lectures away and kept charging.
The thing people pay for was never the lecture.