[B]SPOILER ALERT - DONT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE FILM.[/B]
[I]Its a Yin/Yan universe, we have the Jedi and the Sith, the 'good' side and the 'dark' side. Palpatine is the Yoda equivelant, but more powerful since me manages to deceive everyone. He somehow manages to splinter the senate into two factions, the Trade Federation and the Republic, although he's in charge of both factions. The TradeFederation know that he is leading a double life, they know that his goals are to create a clone army, so they create a cannon-fodder army called the Drone army (makes sense, you dont wont to risk the lives of your supporters, use robots instead). The senate give Palpatine emergency powers to end this crisis. Storm Troopers are recruited as the Army of the Republic.[/I]
Based on these facts, we can conclude that Ep3 will consist of the following: 1. The war ends when Palpatine negotiates peace between the TradeFederation and the Republic. The TF gets trade concessions (why else would they bother with Palpatines schemes), and even a priviledged position (Palpatines loyal friends). The TF may have financed everything (an investment so that they can make more profits later). 2. Palpatine controls an army of StormTroopers, probably to maintain the peace. Since he's in cooperation with the TradeFederation, he also starts building the Death Star to ensure peace is maintained. Think NATO. 3. Some planets want Palpatines emergency powers to end, but since he refuses (and is backed by a large army), they secede from the Republic and form the Rebel Alliance. The Jedi join the Alliance to restore things to the way they were. 4. Anakin doesn't like the politics and bickering of the Republic of old, instead he supports the 'strong hand' leadership of Palpatine and joins him to 'bring order to the galaxy'. Anakin decides to seek out and destroy the Jedi. 5. The Rebel Alliance is driven to the outskirts of the galaxy. Somehow, a spy manages to acquire the plans to the Death Star. 6. Episode 4 - A New Hope.
- the whole saga is about an ambitious senator who creates a bit of havoc in order to be granted emergency powers, which he uses to eventually become emperor, and ends up being killed in Episode 6. Correct?
- there needs to be a prequel (or an Episode 0) in which it explains how an ordinary man becomes senator (SP), and how he avoided detection by a heap of Jedi for at least 10 years (before Ep1-Ep2). Somehow he manages to get the loyalty of Yoda's apprentice (Christopher Lee - CL), who disappears just before Ep1. Nobody notices how CL disappears and a new count appears - not even the Jedi, who are all-seeing.
- the galaxy is at peace for over 1000 years, with no army (only the Jedi to maintain peace) and a centralised government (senate) which is always quaralling. How the hell does one senator manage to persuade an entire fraction (Trade Federation) to start creating havoc? Episode 0?
- In order to avoid detection from the Jedi, the Trade Federation need to create a robot army, since an army formed of life forms are detectable by the Jedi. So why dont the Jedi detect the Clone Army? On a side note, the Clone Army are created on a planet 2 parsec away from "capital planet', which is a little over 6 light years away (basically suburbia in the SW universe). A parsec in a galaxy far far away is obviously different from an parsec in the Milky Way.
- Who finances the Jedi? Who finances the creation of the clone army? This Army is secret, started by CL on orders from SP while he was still a normal senator. So who financed SP?
- CL is loyal to SP, as are the Jedi throughout Ep1 and Ep2. The Jedi basically ask SP to take emergency powers in Ep2. They are still on the same side. So, storm troopers (a brain child of SP) are sent in to fight the drone army (also a brain child of SP). What the $#@%?
- Who the hell is Darth Maul (Ep1)? Wasn't there word that the Sith always come in 2's? If CL is the current dark lord, does that mean he is the 2nd sith. Since CL was trained by Yoda, who trained Darth Maul? My head hurts.
- In Ep4-Ep6, Anakin (AS) is loyal to the emperor (SP). In Ep2, he is loyal to SP. Most probably he'll remain loyal in Ep3, that is, he is loyal throughout the saga (Ep1-Ep6). So it's the Jedi who switch sides in Ep3. They join a rebellion. But who are the rebellion at this point? The only objection to the republic at this stage are the Trade Federation, taking orders from both SP and CL. But hang on, the central authority is SP (emperor). So who is the rebellion?
- So Anakin is there to bring order to the force. On one side you have the Jedi, who is on the other? SP? But the Jedi are working for him. My head hurts.
Wouldn't it be ironic if people bought tickets to AOTC just so that they can see the Matrix Reloaded trailer, after which they'd walk out of the cinema.
If I were Michael Dell or Ted Waitte (Gateway), I would be on 'red alert', so to speak. Microsoft are literally giving hardware away and establishing themselves with a box in every living room. An XBox upgrade kit in the future (with a USB keyboard and mouse, maybe throw in WindowsXBox and a lite version of XBox Office) and suddenly you have proprietry hardware running a proprietry OS. Future versions of desktop Windows will have terrible driver support or hardware crippling commands for Dells and Gateway, making them seem slower, while uncrippled Xbox drivers will run at normal speed (which will seem very fast for normal users).
Microsoft are positioning themselves to be a hardware company, muscling Dell and Gateway out the PC business. The next M$ monopoly will be on PC hardware. A one stop solution, so to speak - Microsoft will supply the OS, hardware and software.
Back in the 2nd half of the 90's, DV (digital video) poised to take the consumer video camcorder market by storm. The pesky Europeans had a taxation clause which added a hefty tax on professional digital video recorders, which would have also included consumer camcorders. The manufacturers disabled DV-IN in order to avoid this hefty sales tax. Australia on the other hand did not have this stupid tax, so most camcorders shipped with DV-IN enabled (just like in the US).
So I step into Ted's cameras (a big franchise in Australia) and ask for a Canon-MV1 (a PAL version of the Optura) and specifically ask if DV-IN was enabled. "Yes, all our cameras have DV-IN enabled". "Fine, here is the $3600 for the camera". 18 months later I finally purchase a Firewire card, and guess what, DV-IN is disabled on my model. Who do I complain to? It sucks, doesn't it.
Thank god for Optus. Its cheaper than the gov. sponsored Telstra, it doesn't have ridiculous caps, its faster than Telstra and the service is hassle free. In neighbourhoods where both Optus and Telstra have rolled out cables, Optus is mopping the floor with Telstra guts. Unfortunately, only portions of large metropolitan areas have access to Optus cable.
Quick question - why is Slashdot so interested in DownUnder? Most of these telco idiosynchrocies come from Telstra, not Optus.
I dont want to sound like an old fart, but isn't this kernel dance a bit too breakneck. Once update per quarter (every 3 months) is acceptable, but an update every 6 days is reckless and irresponsible. Just check the change log - this is nothing more than a bug fix release. THE PREVIOUS VERSION SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN RELEASED UNTIL BUGS GOT IRONED OUT.
I'm off to check the FreeBSD release. Less hectic. Better VM.
The term "illegal alien" contrieves a whole new meaning... Now other than Iraqi and Indonesian boat people, we have to deal with International Space Station refugees and political assylum seekers. Oh well, for the first time in Australian history we will be the ones shooting garbage into space rather than having it fall down into our backyards.
The amount of money spent by a foreign power into tunnel microscophy, Hal effect backtracing, cracking pseudo-random no generator etc (insert favourite technique here) will always be more expensive than just bribing a key person to bring data from the Pentagon. A bit of social engineering is always more beneficial than electrical / software engineering. Besides, the whole issue of conflicting governments and human rights is something that belongs on kuro5hin, not/.
Ever hear of a Deltra grill or Trinitron Mask? If you look very closely, you can see vertical lines down your screen. The maximum resulotion depends on the mask / grill. You're in the same boat as TFT/LCD screens.
There are rumours that Apple will release a dual G4@600MHz Powerbook (the Titanium flavour) with DVD, Wirport, MacOSX and Radeon/GeForce2 build in. If this is true, then I'll sell my left kidney and dump my girlfriend (or sell her kidneys). This is a nerds dream come true...
So, what is the difference between a government controlling all the regions resources and a coorporation? From the point of view of an average individual, they are just as likely to become a member of parliament as they are becoming a member of the board of directors of a large coorporation. On the positive side, disputes among coorporations do not lead to large scale bloodlusts (wars) as disputes amongst governments. Loyalties are less deadly when abandoned by coorporations, and the amount of cynicism coming from the powers that Be is much lower.
I look forward to the day when CNN hosts a debate amongst the CEO's of GM and WalMart to elect the next president.
What I'd really like to get is BeOS R6 running on a dual G4 motherboard, which would be a perfect development platform for Amiga (Tao) Intent. Dual boot with LinuxPPC or MacOSX. Get Sony (who'll probably buy out BeInc) to sponsor Connetix to port Virtual PC (and Virtual Playstation) to this platform, and we've got a box which can utilise one G4 for emulation and the other for running native apps. Drooooooooool.
This strategy allows 3 players to always win. Before hand they agree that if ANY player sees that the other two have different coloured hats, that player would pass. The other 2 players would immediately know that their hats had the opposite colours, and since they can see the other player they know what their colour is.
If NO ONE passes, that means that all players have the same colour hat. A simple 30 second solution. This strategy can also be expanded to any number of players as long as they divide themselves two groups - one group with three people and the other group with everyone else.
Seriously, if you haven't tried Opera, now is a perfect time. It ships on multiple platforms (BeOS, Win32, Linux... even Epoc ?), is HTLM4 compliant, fits in under 2 Mb, has tons of useful features to ease navigation/zooming/filtering. I've even registered it, it really is **that good**(TM).
You haven't tried BeOS - the GUI and user responsiveness was one of the systems highest design priorities. Its just as responsive as what the Amiga used to be like, but on modern hardware.
Well, until I find another system which actually responds to my mouse-clicks when I actually click them (not 4 seconds later), then I will convert. Right now, no other platform is as responsive as beOS. I dont care about the latest IE6 browser and GeForce3 support if I have to stare at an hourglass while waiting for my emails to download.
Check www.bebits.com for an app called SheepShaver. It allows MacOS apps (up to 8.6) to run on PowerPC based BeBoxes. The MacOS environment is in a seperate window, with data interchangable between the platforms. In the 5 years since Apple bought NeXT, Be could have implemented multi-user support (its almost there already). I Have an iMac with MacOSX and run BeOS on my x86 box, and BeOS is still in my zealot opinion a much better OS. Plus BeOS needs much less grunt to push the system, that it has more room for growth that MacOSX can grow. If only BeInc had the finances the push BeOS (ie - allocate enough engineers to finish the OS), the OS scene would be much different today.
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[B]SPOILER ALERT - DONT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE FILM.[/B]
[I]Its a Yin/Yan universe, we have the Jedi and the Sith, the 'good' side and the 'dark' side. Palpatine is the Yoda equivelant, but more powerful since me manages to deceive everyone. He somehow manages to splinter the senate into two factions, the Trade Federation and the Republic, although he's in charge of both factions. The TradeFederation know that he is leading a double life, they know that his goals are to create a clone army, so they create a cannon-fodder army called the Drone army (makes sense, you dont wont to risk the lives of your supporters, use robots instead). The senate give Palpatine emergency powers to end this crisis. Storm Troopers are recruited as the Army of the Republic.[/I]
Based on these facts, we can conclude that Ep3 will consist of the following:
1. The war ends when Palpatine negotiates peace between the TradeFederation and the Republic. The TF gets trade concessions (why else would they bother with Palpatines schemes), and even a priviledged position (Palpatines loyal friends). The TF may have financed everything (an investment so that they can make more profits later).
2. Palpatine controls an army of StormTroopers, probably to maintain the peace. Since he's in cooperation with the TradeFederation, he also starts building the Death Star to ensure peace is maintained. Think NATO.
3. Some planets want Palpatines emergency powers to end, but since he refuses (and is backed by a large army), they secede from the Republic and form the Rebel Alliance. The Jedi join the Alliance to restore things to the way they were.
4. Anakin doesn't like the politics and bickering of the Republic of old, instead he supports the 'strong hand' leadership of Palpatine and joins him to 'bring order to the galaxy'. Anakin decides to seek out and destroy the Jedi.
5. The Rebel Alliance is driven to the outskirts of the galaxy. Somehow, a spy manages to acquire the plans to the Death Star.
6. Episode 4 - A New Hope.
SPOILER ALERT
SPOILER ALERT
- the whole saga is about an ambitious senator who creates a bit of havoc in order to be granted emergency powers, which he uses to eventually become emperor, and ends up being killed in Episode 6. Correct?
- there needs to be a prequel (or an Episode 0) in which it explains how an ordinary man becomes senator (SP), and how he avoided detection by a heap of Jedi for at least 10 years (before Ep1-Ep2). Somehow he manages to get the loyalty of Yoda's apprentice (Christopher Lee - CL), who disappears just before Ep1. Nobody notices how CL disappears and a new count appears - not even the Jedi, who are all-seeing.
- the galaxy is at peace for over 1000 years, with no army (only the Jedi to maintain peace) and a centralised government (senate) which is always quaralling. How the hell does one senator manage to persuade an entire fraction (Trade Federation) to start creating havoc? Episode 0?
- In order to avoid detection from the Jedi, the Trade Federation need to create a robot army, since an army formed of life forms are detectable by the Jedi. So why dont the Jedi detect the Clone Army? On a side note, the Clone Army are created on a planet 2 parsec away from "capital planet', which is a little over 6 light years away (basically suburbia in the SW universe). A parsec in a galaxy far far away is obviously different from an parsec in the Milky Way.
- Who finances the Jedi? Who finances the creation of the clone army? This Army is secret, started by CL on orders from SP while he was still a normal senator. So who financed SP?
- CL is loyal to SP, as are the Jedi throughout Ep1 and Ep2. The Jedi basically ask SP to take emergency powers in Ep2. They are still on the same side. So, storm troopers (a brain child of SP) are sent in to fight the drone army (also a brain child of SP). What the $#@%?
- Who the hell is Darth Maul (Ep1)? Wasn't there word that the Sith always come in 2's? If CL is the current dark lord, does that mean he is the 2nd sith. Since CL was trained by Yoda, who trained Darth Maul? My head hurts.
- In Ep4-Ep6, Anakin (AS) is loyal to the emperor (SP). In Ep2, he is loyal to SP. Most probably he'll remain loyal in Ep3, that is, he is loyal throughout the saga (Ep1-Ep6). So it's the Jedi who switch sides in Ep3. They join a rebellion. But who are the rebellion at this point? The only objection to the republic at this stage are the Trade Federation, taking orders from both SP and CL. But hang on, the central authority is SP (emperor). So who is the rebellion?
- So Anakin is there to bring order to the force. On one side you have the Jedi, who is on the other? SP? But the Jedi are working for him. My head hurts.
Wouldn't it be ironic if people bought tickets to AOTC just so that they can see the Matrix Reloaded trailer, after which they'd walk out of the cinema.
Troll alert!!!
Thank you, you have been trolled (all posts arguing with him).
Ever hear of harmonics?
If I were Michael Dell or Ted Waitte (Gateway), I would be on 'red alert', so to speak. Microsoft are literally giving hardware away and establishing themselves with a box in every living room. An XBox upgrade kit in the future (with a USB keyboard and mouse, maybe throw in WindowsXBox and a lite version of XBox Office) and suddenly you have proprietry hardware running a proprietry OS. Future versions of desktop Windows will have terrible driver support or hardware crippling commands for Dells and Gateway, making them seem slower, while uncrippled Xbox drivers will run at normal speed (which will seem very fast for normal users).
Microsoft are positioning themselves to be a hardware company, muscling Dell and Gateway out the PC business. The next M$ monopoly will be on PC hardware. A one stop solution, so to speak - Microsoft will supply the OS, hardware and software.
Back in the 2nd half of the 90's, DV (digital video) poised to take the consumer video camcorder market by storm. The pesky Europeans had a taxation clause which added a hefty tax on professional digital video recorders, which would have also included consumer camcorders. The manufacturers disabled DV-IN in order to avoid this hefty sales tax. Australia on the other hand did not have this stupid tax, so most camcorders shipped with DV-IN enabled (just like in the US).
So I step into Ted's cameras (a big franchise in Australia) and ask for a Canon-MV1 (a PAL version of the Optura) and specifically ask if DV-IN was enabled. "Yes, all our cameras have DV-IN enabled". "Fine, here is the $3600 for the camera". 18 months later I finally purchase a Firewire card, and guess what, DV-IN is disabled on my model. Who do I complain to? It sucks, doesn't it.
Thank god for Optus. Its cheaper than the gov. sponsored Telstra, it doesn't have ridiculous caps, its faster than Telstra and the service is hassle free. In neighbourhoods where both Optus and Telstra have rolled out cables, Optus is mopping the floor with Telstra guts. Unfortunately, only portions of large metropolitan areas have access to Optus cable.
Quick question - why is Slashdot so interested in DownUnder? Most of these telco idiosynchrocies come from Telstra, not Optus.
I dont want to sound like an old fart, but isn't this kernel dance a bit too breakneck. Once update per quarter (every 3 months) is acceptable, but an update every 6 days is reckless and irresponsible. Just check the change log - this is nothing more than a bug fix release. THE PREVIOUS VERSION SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN RELEASED UNTIL BUGS GOT IRONED OUT.
I'm off to check the FreeBSD release. Less hectic. Better VM.
The term "illegal alien" contrieves a whole new meaning... Now other than Iraqi and Indonesian boat people, we have to deal with International Space Station refugees and political assylum seekers. Oh well, for the first time in Australian history we will be the ones shooting garbage into space rather than having it fall down into our backyards.
The amount of money spent by a foreign power into tunnel microscophy, Hal effect backtracing, cracking pseudo-random no generator etc (insert favourite technique here) will always be more expensive than just bribing a key person to bring data from the Pentagon. A bit of social engineering is always more beneficial than electrical / software engineering. Besides, the whole issue of conflicting governments and human rights is something that belongs on kuro5hin, not /.
Ever hear of a Deltra grill or Trinitron Mask? If you look very closely, you can see vertical lines down your screen. The maximum resulotion depends on the mask / grill. You're in the same boat as TFT/LCD screens.
Now thats clever. Hats off :-)
There are rumours that Apple will release a dual G4@600MHz Powerbook (the Titanium flavour) with DVD, Wirport, MacOSX and Radeon/GeForce2 build in. If this is true, then I'll sell my left kidney and dump my girlfriend (or sell her kidneys). This is a nerds dream come true...
So, what is the difference between a government controlling all the regions resources and a coorporation? From the point of view of an average individual, they are just as likely to become a member of parliament as they are becoming a member of the board of directors of a large coorporation. On the positive side, disputes among coorporations do not lead to large scale bloodlusts (wars) as disputes amongst governments. Loyalties are less deadly when abandoned by coorporations, and the amount of cynicism coming from the powers that Be is much lower.
I look forward to the day when CNN hosts a debate amongst the CEO's of GM and WalMart to elect the next president.
Half on OS for half a PC. OS/2 for PS/2.
What I'd really like to get is BeOS R6 running on a dual G4 motherboard, which would be a perfect development platform for Amiga (Tao) Intent. Dual boot with LinuxPPC or MacOSX. Get Sony (who'll probably buy out BeInc) to sponsor Connetix to port Virtual PC (and Virtual Playstation) to this platform, and we've got a box which can utilise one G4 for emulation and the other for running native apps. Drooooooooool.
This strategy allows 3 players to always win. Before hand they agree that if ANY player sees that the other two have different coloured hats, that player would pass. The other 2 players would immediately know that their hats had the opposite colours, and since they can see the other player they know what their colour is.
If NO ONE passes, that means that all players have the same colour hat. A simple 30 second solution. This strategy can also be expanded to any number of players as long as they divide themselves two groups - one group with three people and the other group with everyone else.
Can I have my award now?
One word - Opera.
Seriously, if you haven't tried Opera, now is a perfect time. It ships on multiple platforms (BeOS, Win32, Linux... even Epoc ?), is HTLM4 compliant, fits in under 2 Mb, has tons of useful features to ease navigation/zooming/filtering. I've even registered it, it really is **that good**(TM).
You haven't tried BeOS - the GUI and user responsiveness was one of the systems highest design priorities. Its just as responsive as what the Amiga used to be like, but on modern hardware.
Do you know what your missing - you miss seeing the hourglass in BeOS.
Oh, by the way, this is posted with the half-arsed Mozilla port with Flash and RealPlayer pluggins.
Well, until I find another system which actually responds to my mouse-clicks when I actually click them (not 4 seconds later), then I will convert. Right now, no other platform is as responsive as beOS. I dont care about the latest IE6 browser and GeForce3 support if I have to stare at an hourglass while waiting for my emails to download.
I purchased MacOSX ;last week and its a bloated slow pig. BeOS is still my preffered OS.
Check www.bebits.com for an app called SheepShaver. It allows MacOS apps (up to 8.6) to run on PowerPC based BeBoxes. The MacOS environment is in a seperate window, with data interchangable between the platforms. In the 5 years since Apple bought NeXT, Be could have implemented multi-user support (its almost there already). I Have an iMac with MacOSX and run BeOS on my x86 box, and BeOS is still in my zealot opinion a much better OS. Plus BeOS needs much less grunt to push the system, that it has more room for growth that MacOSX can grow. If only BeInc had the finances the push BeOS (ie - allocate enough engineers to finish the OS), the OS scene would be much different today.