If there's anything that could bring more credibility to Star Wars, it's less control from Lucas. Now we might actually see the original trilogy released without all the special edition plastic muck. Or perhaps restored, but not ruined with added scenes and horrible modifications.
And since Lucas already ruined Star Wars with Episode I-III, I have absolutely nothing against further Episodes, especially since they likely won't let Lucas direct them.
Sure Disney is known for sanitising their products, but Star Wars has always been pretty clean. I am not worried about that. What does concern me, is that Disney will now control ILM and LucasArts, possibly affecting what projects ILM contribute to, and the contents of LucasArts' games.
But I find it very hard to believe someone will ever come close to Noah Whyle's excellent portrayal of Jobs in Pirates of Silicon Valley. That really is a superb movie. (And as far as I know, very historically accurate as well!)
In fact, I'd rather see POSV released on Blu-ray than another movie solely about Jobs.
TYet, now we have the government admiting that the vaccine resulted in what happened to the girl.
So typical the american government/courts to admit shit they have no understanding what so ever about. This is what happens when you bring in morons to make decisions above their competence after some agenda-driven jerk has spewed bullshit over them for hours.
So yes, it sounds like a bad April Fools story. Sadly enough, it ain't.
..which obviously worked just fine since countless people were able to go to the US and come home to Europe with dozens of these things and sell them here.
You clearly don't work for a company who's primary purpose is developing new hardware.
Nor have you realised that Apple is above all a hardware manufacturer. What's on the device is certainly important, but the hardware is the product.
There are at least two reasons this shouldn't be possible.
1) Firearms (or knives for that matter) should never be reachable by children. If you don't keep your arms locked up and the key hidden (where your children cannot reach), you are incredibly reckless.
2) A 3-year-old is way to young to play whatever game using a gun as a controller.
I somehow find it ironic to find one of you allergics on/. of all places.
It's a relatively common problem for a subset of people with tinnitus.
Now, as tinnitus is typically caused by trauma in young people and age related hearing loss in elderly people, I find your statement very hard to believe, as it would mean this allergy is something you can 'catch'.
Best fitting explaination is still that this is a psychological condition. That however, doesn't make it any less of a problem for those affected.
...previously preferred playing physical games with boys, and shunned traditional female activities and clothing...
If my wife has pants, does that make her a man?
And furthermore, does that make me a homosexual?
If so, does it work the other way around as well?
Would a man dressed in womens' clothing qualify as a woman?
Would that in turn make gay couples were one part dress in womens' clothing heterosexual?
Sigh, if only Douglas Adams were still around to sort out the logic behind all this...
No, no, no. There are plenty of people without high speed connections, you obviously live in, or in the vicinity of a city. (In a country with an Internet infrastructure not consisting of snails and mud.) Many people in many countries have crappy DSL-connections at best. Many still connect through dial up-modem. (I know this is hard to believe for someone born on the Internet through a 1000 Mbit connection.)
This gives, as many has already pointed out, a situation where you could have 8 guys connected to a 1000/100 Mbit switch. Lovely, no problems at all.
Or, the same 8 guys, with 8 great modern computers could be connected through that same 1000 Mbit switch,but then linked to battle.net through a 8 Mbit down/1 Mbit up connection! This is nothing short of madness.
Some of the best LAN-parties I've ever been to has been in cabins in the coutryside. It's peaceful, we disturb no one and no one disturb us. Obviously, Blizzard think we're better off playing something else nowadays.
To throw out LAN-support as of 2009 is not just a mistake, it's a god damn disgrace to the gaming industry.
For someone who only has access to the free channels, I was really surprised when I realised this.
I don't get it, the networks expect people to pay them good money for access to their channels and then suffer through commercials? And these guys wonder how people have the morale to pirate their shit...
Why bring all the crappy downsides of the real world to the Internet?
Then people like me would have to create an Internet inside the Internet to escape the real world-Internet... this just doesn't make sense.
If I want something, and need comparative information on that something, I'd rather go through pages on the net than talk to the people i just happen to know.
One of social networks' great disadvantages is that they are just that: social. And many/.'s aren't.
There is a huge difference between never finishing and have no degree, since the first implies that one was enrolled in a university or such and thus have studied the required courses.
I know at least two persons (engineers, but not software) who did projects with companies which employed them and so they never finished their degrees. After 10-15 years experience nobody asks for a missing degree.
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If there's anything that could bring more credibility to Star Wars, it's less control from Lucas. Now we might actually see the original trilogy released without all the special edition plastic muck. Or perhaps restored, but not ruined with added scenes and horrible modifications.
And since Lucas already ruined Star Wars with Episode I-III, I have absolutely nothing against further Episodes, especially since they likely won't let Lucas direct them.
Sure Disney is known for sanitising their products, but Star Wars has always been pretty clean. I am not worried about that. What does concern me, is that Disney will now control ILM and LucasArts, possibly affecting what projects ILM contribute to, and the contents of LucasArts' games.
Always in motion, the future is.
an ask /. that actually belongs here!
Looking forward to reading the comments on the topic.
"Hello Ground!" or "oh no, not again"
I bet it was one of them though.
Stand by while a flood the car with a deadly neurotoxin like that time i flooded the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin.
But I find it very hard to believe someone will ever come close to Noah Whyle's excellent portrayal of Jobs in Pirates of Silicon Valley. That really is a superb movie. (And as far as I know, very historically accurate as well!) In fact, I'd rather see POSV released on Blu-ray than another movie solely about Jobs.
Someone ought to slap a big warning label on all american newborns.
WARNING! Your newborn may eventually get sick, get beat up in school, bullied in school, get depressed and become an alcoholic.
It really blows my mind that americans aren't suing each others over this daily. Oh wait, they are.
...uh...such as about every child that gets into puberty? Yeah, sure.
As always, we are talking about those who show these traits beyond the norm.
TYet, now we have the government admiting that the vaccine resulted in what happened to the girl.
So typical the american government/courts to admit shit they have no understanding what so ever about. This is what happens when you bring in morons to make decisions above their competence after some agenda-driven jerk has spewed bullshit over them for hours.
So yes, it sounds like a bad April Fools story. Sadly enough, it ain't.
So true.
..which obviously worked just fine since countless people were able to go to the US and come home to Europe with dozens of these things and sell them here.
You clearly don't work for a company who's primary purpose is developing new hardware. Nor have you realised that Apple is above all a hardware manufacturer. What's on the device is certainly important, but the hardware is the product.
...Zooiiiiiidbeeeeerg?
Surrender your mysteries to Zoidberg!
...but if Zoidberg fixes it, then perhaps gifts?
[breaks the bottle]
Oh no! Professor will hit me!
You just have to love the lobster's brilliant reasoning!
There are at least two reasons this shouldn't be possible.
1) Firearms (or knives for that matter) should never be reachable by children. If you don't keep your arms locked up and the key hidden (where your children cannot reach), you are incredibly reckless.
2) A 3-year-old is way to young to play whatever game using a gun as a controller.
They're both quacks.
I somehow find it ironic to find one of you allergics on /. of all places.
It's a relatively common problem for a subset of people with tinnitus.
Now, as tinnitus is typically caused by trauma in young people and age related hearing loss in elderly people, I find your statement very hard to believe, as it would mean this allergy is something you can 'catch'.
Best fitting explaination is still that this is a psychological condition. That however, doesn't make it any less of a problem for those affected.
Indeed. Tethering is possible with an iPhone in its original state in most countries in the world.
This seems like yet another case where the USA and the world got mixed up.
You said it. The day ads start showing up in my Mac, I revert to Slackware.
...previously preferred playing physical games with boys, and shunned traditional female activities and clothing...
If my wife has pants, does that make her a man?
And furthermore, does that make me a homosexual?
If so, does it work the other way around as well?
Would a man dressed in womens' clothing qualify as a woman?
Would that in turn make gay couples were one part dress in womens' clothing heterosexual?
Sigh, if only Douglas Adams were still around to sort out the logic behind all this...
No, no, no. There are plenty of people without high speed connections, you obviously live in, or in the vicinity of a city. (In a country with an Internet infrastructure not consisting of snails and mud.) Many people in many countries have crappy DSL-connections at best. Many still connect through dial up-modem. (I know this is hard to believe for someone born on the Internet through a 1000 Mbit connection.)
This gives, as many has already pointed out, a situation where you could have 8 guys connected to a 1000/100 Mbit switch. Lovely, no problems at all.
Or, the same 8 guys, with 8 great modern computers could be connected through that same 1000 Mbit switch, but then linked to battle.net through a 8 Mbit down/1 Mbit up connection! This is nothing short of madness.
Some of the best LAN-parties I've ever been to has been in cabins in the coutryside. It's peaceful, we disturb no one and no one disturb us. Obviously, Blizzard think we're better off playing something else nowadays.
To throw out LAN-support as of 2009 is not just a mistake, it's a god damn disgrace to the gaming industry.
For someone who only has access to the free channels, I was really surprised when I realised this. I don't get it, the networks expect people to pay them good money for access to their channels and then suffer through commercials?
And these guys wonder how people have the morale to pirate their shit...
I just read the other day, but now I can only find this link, that there are studies suggesting that DVR's are actually good (or at least do no harm) to ads. Television Week: Study Says DVRs, Ads Can Co-Exist (television)
For those of you who understand Swedish: MMS (Mediamätning i Skandinavien) has some info on it, and they also encourage you to visit www.adage.com, I did this, and the results are interesting.
Why bring all the crappy downsides of the real world to the Internet?
Then people like me would have to create an Internet inside the Internet to escape the real world-Internet... this just doesn't make sense.
If I want something, and need comparative information on that something, I'd rather go through pages on the net than talk to the people i just happen to know. /.'s aren't.
One of social networks' great disadvantages is that they are just that: social. And many
1. Finland
2. Iceland
3. Belgium
4. Denmark
5. Norway
6. Sweden
Incidently, you find a similar pattern when browsing The Economist's Index of Democracy with Sweden in top.
The Power Rangers guide to VI.
I'd buy it. So, where's the Gandalf's Great Book of FORTRAN?
or Batman Begins With XML? (Would make an awesome movie!).
Really? I have yet to see Hi! I'm BeOS...
There is a huge difference between never finishing and have no degree, since the first implies that one was enrolled in a university or such and thus have studied the required courses. I know at least two persons (engineers, but not software) who did projects with companies which employed them and so they never finished their degrees. After 10-15 years experience nobody asks for a missing degree.