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'Sith' Already Found Online
ScentCone writes "Of course it was bound to happen, so now it's mostly a matter of discussing why Lucas does or does not deserve to make the proceeds, or whether people would or would not have gone to see it now that the usual path has been carved around the opening weekend box office." I've yet to find a blockbuster movie that isn't readily available on the net after it opens, but somehow this is still news. It's still usually worth shelling out the cash to see a version that isn't fuzzy with garbled sound, though.
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and guess who becomes Vader?
This is sort of offtopic, but:
My younger sister has never seen any of the movies, but she's aware of a lot of the mythology and stuff. And she was trying to quote the scene where Luke first discovers Leia's recorded message on R2D2, and my sister looked at me very seriously and said, "Help me Yoda, I'm in trouble." That's a true story. Dumb story, but true.
"show me all the blueprint show me all the blueprint show me all the blueprints"
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perhaps this isn't the forum for dissing star wars, but can we be honest for a moment. the first movie, circa 1977 was one the greatest films of all time. a true masterpiece. the later two were really good as well. now, the prequels, or whatever they're called, are all about comptuer wizardry and natalie portman's tits. okay, i don't mind that, but the stories kinda blow. the acting is lame, and without the effects, what have you got? nah, i'll take the first three, of course i'm old enough to have seen the original in a theatre when it originally came out.
My problem? I was perfectly gruntled, until some numbnuts came by and dissed me.
Saw it in the theater this morning.
Shheeee-at.
Really pretty eye-candy, but Christensen and Portman were awful. Maybe they saw read the script, saw their lines, and just gave up. I'm talking major league sucky dialog delivered unconvincingly.
Dang, even Jackson kind of wanders through his role.
What a let-down.
Stefan
So like the last 26 minutes was good?
Maybe I'll just wait for the DVD.
ALL the servers also have been noted to be in Canada...
In other news...
911 service over VoIP is not as difficult as one is lead to believe. Basically point the 911 call to a 911 center. The 911 center asks what your location is etc, and routes teh call to the appropriate local dispatch center. Slower yes, but 911 none the less
The E911 service on the other hand has it's technical challenges (it supplies address and extended details for a location) because the databses that drive the E911 are not generally accessable to most VoIP providors (only the big 'telco' companies, who maintain them) Partnering with the likes of SBC and Verizon (just to name some names) is as we all know, just getting into bed with the devil, and praying we survive the night !
Once the playing field is leveled (mandated) there may be a shot at getting some level of 'fixed location' E911 servics available. This will require validation of IP in a reigon, and the End User to register their physical location. That said the data out will only be as reliable as the data in, and there may be more stringent requirements (and agreemetns) that get tacked on to the usage for any provider.
The only drawback will be the willingness of the big telcos to play fair (and when was the last time that happened )