When I realized that not only was it an irredeemibly bad movie, it also diminished the originals by making them NOT MAKE SENSE. (Never mind all the dick-waving special effects)
Making Darth Vader build C3PO was beyond retarded...but the lack of recognition can be explained by the fact that C3PO is a robot and his memory can be erased, and that Vader no doubt saw a lot of such droids. Still, if you make a prequel, you should NOT need to do any rationalizing.
But chewbacca is a sentient being for whom things should remain a bit more clear. He had BETTER NOT meet obi-wan...there would be no rationalizing that.
Not that it matters, I won't watch it anyway. George lucas can suck my balls.
No version of windows 9x can compare to 2000 for a workstation. I'm shocked that you manage to get months of uptime for a server. But if you got more than about 2 or 3 days for a workstation, either you're not using it right, or you're some kind of miracle worker.
Actually, you might put that on your resume: "Months of uptime with win 95a!"
Back when yahoo's directory MEANT something (at least 6 years ago), it was the most navigable index to the web, and it was one of the better ways to search it. If yahoo could make an index as complete, or nearly so, as Google's and make it as browseable as their index was/is, they would have a google-slayer. A heirarchical index allows you to look for topics without having key words (and the RIGHT key words, ones which exclude things you DONT want...searching, even with google, is an art which resides largely in the PERSON)...it allows you to more often find interesting or important stuff you wouldn't have otherwise found.
DMOZ/Google Directory is not that good.
Yahoo can regain the title by doing what they USED to do best well enough to compete with what Google does.
Isn't this kind of like if a car company were to install parts to prevent the use of aftermarket perfomance parts?
Does overclocking actually cause Intel any problems, like people making warranty claims after cooking their chips, or is it just to prevent people for getting performance without paying for it?
Of course, this is preferable I think to having later iterations of the same platform LOSE useful features of the earlier ones. (Later versions of the sega genesis and playstation)
Now for high-end applications, this would no doubt be a godsend, no matter what the fuel cartridges would cost...but for general consumer use, even if they DO last 30 times as long as batteries, it's still going to be costing more, since chances are you won't be able to recharge them yourself. And as for standards...if they're going to replace As Cs and Ds, sure. But the article mainly talks about applications where the batteries people are already using are non-standard. We might end up seeing something akin to the ink/toner market, with something being made non-standard just so that it can be priced at some ungodly margin.
Also, I'm no expert, and I don't even follow this topic very closely...but every article I'd read previously about fuel cells mentioned that they get pretty hot. I mean like broil a roast hot. How hot are these tiny little fuel cells going to get, and would that worsen the already tricky problem of heat dissipation in notebooks?
News for NERDS....the sort of people who will have to go farther afield to find their social circle. Anything that makes that simpler is a good thing, IMO.
Like those old Magnavox RGB monitors people used with C-64s and shit. Still to be found in thrift stores, the only better display you'll find for your video games (without getting into expensive or exotic displays) is that Samsung gaming TV of several years back.
If lucas didn't do this he would actually have to learn how to handle large amounts of exposition without beating audiences over the head with it. clearly that is not going to happen.
ROJ wasn't so bad, in it's original form. The ewoks sucked, but I'll admit I liked them when I was 6 or 7. The thing is, they don't grate on me as an adult the same way the gungans did, because THEY DON'T SPEAK ENGLISH! Almost none of the aliens do, as opposed to the prequels, where almost all of them do.
In the special edition, however, we got that fucking scene with the band at jabba's palace (I swear, I have never been so glad for the existence of the fast-forward button as that), we got a more animated sarlac (which makes less sense for something that will take a thousand years to digest it's prey), and we got few or no improvements to the compositing, like we got in Empire. (see the rancor scene)
what we DID get was a replacement for "Yubba Nubba Cubba Chubba," the song at the end. that was welcome, but it fit in with the rest of the music in the series even worse than the original song did.
The only "Special Edition" which was improved in any way worth mentioning was Empire. The rest....>>SHUDDER.
I would not touch a DVD with only the special editions on it, I'd be afraid that the extreme suckiness would be contagious and cause me to suck in a similar manner.
Maybe they shouldn't be using it to acquire stuff...money can solve other problems that keep one from being as happy as one could be. Or at least, assuming those problems exist. If I won a lottery, I wouldn't stay where I am but just live in a better house and drive a better car...I'd be bumming around the planet, doing whatever my whimsy demanded. I'd use the money for VERBS, not for NOUNS!
Anyhow, as for what my 12 year old self would need to hear: Strangle the fuckers, and your troubles will end. Just remember, once they're gone (prison, dropped out, etc...), you will no longer be an outcast, so don't fucking act like it. >BITCHSLAP And lose some goddamn weight, fatass! You may be able to break any other 12 year old in half, but *I* have to live with those stretchmarks and back hair, dumbass! Oh yeah, and leave town the femtosecond you graduate. Alaska sucks balls.
For very specific subjects with a limited audience, IRC brings people together more effectively than any file sharing network ever did. #MP3Metal is a good example (or it used to be, I've been off of IRC for a while). It exists(existed?) for file sharing, but it also was full of fairly lively conversation. Some anime trading channels were (are?) as well.
Some smaller warez channels (I would never join a warez channel with more than 30 people) can actually be more interesting and helpful than more legitimate computer discussion channels.
Most of the larger music and movie trading channels though, did/do suck. Too many retards and leeches. (I consider it a bad sign for any community online when a significant fraction of the users have Dragonball Z related/nicks.)
People want to benefit from the US economy (rewarding) without contributing to it (expensive). They want to be parasites, but what happens when all there are are parasites, or at least everyone who can become one has become one?
Anyone remember a REALLY lame Doom (I'm pretty sure thats what it was, but it was a while ago) conversion that was included in boxes of Chex some years back?
If memory serves, it involved shooting Chex at space aliens (?)
Anyhow, I can't imagine even a substantial majority of such games being beyond that level of inanity.
Lots of little chutes...yeah, what if one or more doesn't deploy properly, and you end up with tremendous drag forces on one end of the plane and little to none on the other? They might stand a better chance in the more traditional crash.
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If you're on a budget, this isn't going to save you anything. It's 9800 yen, for a kit, 13800 assembled. That's about 80-110 -ish dollars.
This is for the fashion or environmentally conscious, not the budget-conscious. (Not that that's tremendously expensive for a case or anything...)
to have a patent on SARS? Collect a royalty every time someone is infected!
"Half the size, actually. The rest is all glitter and gee-gaw designed to make a gullible public more likely to pay five dollars to see it."
I was issued a Rio Volt for my language classes. Beats a shoebox full of tapes every semester.
When I realized that not only was it an irredeemibly bad movie, it also diminished the originals by making them NOT MAKE SENSE. (Never mind all the dick-waving special effects)
Making Darth Vader build C3PO was beyond retarded...but the lack of recognition can be explained by the fact that C3PO is a robot and his memory can be erased, and that Vader no doubt saw a lot of such droids. Still, if you make a prequel, you should NOT need to do any rationalizing.
But chewbacca is a sentient being for whom things should remain a bit more clear. He had BETTER NOT meet obi-wan...there would be no rationalizing that.
Not that it matters, I won't watch it anyway. George lucas can suck my balls.
"Now is a good time to test the new MOAB bomb again. "
Yeah, and then I'll go to the ATM machine, type in my PIN number, get some cash and go buy some CD discs.
No version of windows 9x can compare to 2000 for a workstation. I'm shocked that you manage to get months of uptime for a server. But if you got more than about 2 or 3 days for a workstation, either you're not using it right, or you're some kind of miracle worker.
Actually, you might put that on your resume: "Months of uptime with win 95a!"
I agree to some extent though...95 > 98/ME
Back when yahoo's directory MEANT something (at least 6 years ago), it was the most navigable index to the web, and it was one of the better ways to search it. If yahoo could make an index as complete, or nearly so, as Google's and make it as browseable as their index was/is, they would have a google-slayer. A heirarchical index allows you to look for topics without having key words (and the RIGHT key words, ones which exclude things you DONT want...searching, even with google, is an art which resides largely in the PERSON)...it allows you to more often find interesting or important stuff you wouldn't have otherwise found.
DMOZ/Google Directory is not that good.
Yahoo can regain the title by doing what they USED to do best well enough to compete with what Google does.
Isn't this kind of like if a car company were to install parts to prevent the use of aftermarket perfomance parts?
Does overclocking actually cause Intel any problems, like people making warranty claims after cooking their chips, or is it just to prevent people for getting performance without paying for it?
Nintendo has done this before.
Gameboy Pocket. Gameboy Pocket Light.
Sony did it with the PSOne.
Of course, this is preferable I think to having later iterations of the same platform LOSE useful features of the earlier ones. (Later versions of the sega genesis and playstation)
It mentions "fuel cartridges," which raises a whole new set of questions.
Now for high-end applications, this would no doubt be a godsend, no matter what the fuel cartridges would cost...but for general consumer use, even if they DO last 30 times as long as batteries, it's still going to be costing more, since chances are you won't be able to recharge them yourself. And as for standards...if they're going to replace As Cs and Ds, sure. But the article mainly talks about applications where the batteries people are already using are non-standard. We might end up seeing something akin to the ink/toner market, with something being made non-standard just so that it can be priced at some ungodly margin.
Also, I'm no expert, and I don't even follow this topic very closely...but every article I'd read previously about fuel cells mentioned that they get pretty hot. I mean like broil a roast hot. How hot are these tiny little fuel cells going to get, and would that worsen the already tricky problem of heat dissipation in notebooks?
News for NERDS....the sort of people who will have to go farther afield to find their social circle. Anything that makes that simpler is a good thing, IMO.
Like those old Magnavox RGB monitors people used with C-64s and shit. Still to be found in thrift stores, the only better display you'll find for your video games (without getting into expensive or exotic displays) is that Samsung gaming TV of several years back.
If lucas didn't do this he would actually have to learn how to handle large amounts of exposition without beating audiences over the head with it. clearly that is not going to happen.
ROJ wasn't so bad, in it's original form. The ewoks sucked, but I'll admit I liked them when I was 6 or 7. The thing is, they don't grate on me as an adult the same way the gungans did, because THEY DON'T SPEAK ENGLISH! Almost none of the aliens do, as opposed to the prequels, where almost all of them do.
In the special edition, however, we got that fucking scene with the band at jabba's palace (I swear, I have never been so glad for the existence of the fast-forward button as that), we got a more animated sarlac (which makes less sense for something that will take a thousand years to digest it's prey), and we got few or no improvements to the compositing, like we got in Empire. (see the rancor scene)
what we DID get was a replacement for "Yubba Nubba Cubba Chubba," the song at the end. that was welcome, but it fit in with the rest of the music in the series even worse than the original song did.
The only "Special Edition" which was improved in any way worth mentioning was Empire. The rest....>>SHUDDER.
I would not touch a DVD with only the special editions on it, I'd be afraid that the extreme suckiness would be contagious and cause me to suck in a similar manner.
Maybe they shouldn't be using it to acquire stuff...money can solve other problems that keep one from being as happy as one could be. Or at least, assuming those problems exist. If I won a lottery, I wouldn't stay where I am but just live in a better house and drive a better car...I'd be bumming around the planet, doing whatever my whimsy demanded. I'd use the money for VERBS, not for NOUNS!
Anyhow, as for what my 12 year old self would need to hear: Strangle the fuckers, and your troubles will end. Just remember, once they're gone (prison, dropped out, etc...), you will no longer be an outcast, so don't fucking act like it. >BITCHSLAP And lose some goddamn weight, fatass! You may be able to break any other 12 year old in half, but *I* have to live with those stretchmarks and back hair, dumbass! Oh yeah, and leave town the femtosecond you graduate. Alaska sucks balls.
For very specific subjects with a limited audience, IRC brings people together more effectively than any file sharing network ever did. #MP3Metal is a good example (or it used to be, I've been off of IRC for a while). It exists(existed?) for file sharing, but it also was full of fairly lively conversation. Some anime trading channels were (are?) as well.
/nicks.)
Some smaller warez channels (I would never join a warez channel with more than 30 people) can actually be more interesting and helpful than more legitimate computer discussion channels.
Most of the larger music and movie trading channels though, did/do suck. Too many retards and leeches. (I consider it a bad sign for any community online when a significant fraction of the users have Dragonball Z related
People want to benefit from the US economy (rewarding) without contributing to it (expensive). They want to be parasites, but what happens when all there are are parasites, or at least everyone who can become one has become one?
Hmm...maybe cancer is a better analogy?
Anyone remember a REALLY lame Doom (I'm pretty sure thats what it was, but it was a while ago) conversion that was included in boxes of Chex some years back?
If memory serves, it involved shooting Chex at space aliens (?)
Anyhow, I can't imagine even a substantial majority of such games being beyond that level of inanity.
price vs. cost. Some people just can't understand the difference.
(dons flameproof suit) Sounds like the makings of a microsoft slogan. (erroneous or no)
Farenheit 451 and A Sound of Thunder were infinitely better.
And the US are the Harkonnen?
Lots of little chutes...yeah, what if one or more doesn't deploy properly, and you end up with tremendous drag forces on one end of the plane and little to none on the other? They might stand a better chance in the more traditional crash.
I think it's easier to read without the mirror.