Ahh, don't you see? He was constantly refering to kernel 2.x, not 2.2.x! So by his (perhaps accidental) view, these features *are* new. Of course, we all know that when he said 2.x, he really meant 2.2.x and thus a number of "new" features he mentioned really aren't.
Midi-chlorians are something Lucas came up with. The point here is that until TPM, we don't *know* how the force works. Yoda and Obi-wan never explain it fully in the original trilogy. You may ask why they didn't explain it to Luke if they both new. Well, simple, really. Luke was years past the prime age for training a Jedi (luke was nearly 20 or so, Anakin is 9 in TPM and they still say he's too old). Not only that, but he had a mission. No time to spend on trivial things such as how the force works when all he needs to know is how to use it and how to stay away from the Dark Side. And before things slow down enough for Luke to get a real explanation, those who know die (unless Yoda explains during Luke's training between ESB and ROTJ). TPM takes place during a more enlightened age. The Jedi are at the peak of their knowledge. Of course they'll know how the force works. All that is lost by the time ANH comes around.
Am I just blind? I can't find the guy's e-mail address. He brings up a few points I'd like to respond to him about, but can't find anything for feedback.
Mmmm...Scheme. Seriously, Scheme *is* a fun language. Some of my fondest coding memories come from my freshman year Scheme class. I've since moved on to C, C++, some VB, Javascript (I don't usually count that or HTML), and a small amount of Perl and shell scripting. But given the choice, I like to code in Scheme or Lisp, or C++ when those two are insufficient. After two years of not using Scheme for any classes, I found an AI class that uses Lisp. I'm happy.
To a certain extent, the students who would rather not be in a class may be there not because their parents make them, but because the university makes them. I've suffered through my fair share of boring or uninteresting classes simply because the university requires that I have x amount of humanities, y amount of social sciences, etc. What most often happens is that I have to balance interest with what fits in my schedule. There've been a number of classes I would rather have taken to fill some of these requirements, but with the schedules of the other, more important required classes, I couldn't fit them in. In that case, I have to either find another course that *does* fit into the schedule, or wait a semester to take the class, possibly throwing off all plans of graduation, and still not guaranteeing me that I can take the class because other more important classes may conflict again.
The point is, there are some classes that students take because they're required by their school (perhaps a choice among classes, but still a requirment), and they may not be interested in these classes at all.
I totally agree! The Rapiers looked nothing like Rapiers, the Broadswords were nothing like a Broadsword (what happened to the turret crew? And the turrets, for that matter!). Paladin was given too much importance for the time period (yes, he did get more important in WC2, but in WC1 he was just another grunt flying a fighter -- and what happened to his Scottish accent!?!?!). Angel was okay, because the actress was cute (though she should've been a red-head, like the angel from WC1&2), and Hunter was almost dead-on (except for his antagonization of Blair). It would've been nice to see some other familiar faces, such as Iceman, or Spirit. Maniac was just plain wrong. Overall, the movie only had the names in common with the game.
"... entertain some people who liked the games..."
Whoa! Being a big fan of the games (Well, the first two, anyway), I found the movie quite awful. There were so many liberties taken with the technology, setting, plot, etc. that all the games and the movie had in common were names. The Rapiers were totally different than any rapier in the game, the kilrathi were awful, the portrayal of the different characters was awful (Angel was decent, and Hunter was pretty true to the game, but the rest were just plain bad -- including Maniac).
In short, the movie didn't even aim to please the WC fans. It's the same thing as if a Star Wars game were made that bastardized the universe so badly that the only thing that was recognizable was the names (of certain fighters, characters, etc.).
I have pretty much the same chip in my older model HP Pavilion. If you compile the kernel with MSS support, rather than OPL support, it will work. In fact, the 2.2.x kernels seem to have better support for this (through the MSS driver) than the 2.0.x kernels did. Now I just need to get midis playing decently.
The only problem with this is that during a "flipped" period, as opposed to a "flopped" period, there is still a field. It's not as though it goes away for X years, and then comes back for Y. Instead, it's a polarity reversal. For X years, compass North is North, and compass South is South. then it all flips. Compass North becaomes South, and compass South becomes North. If Mars were to follow the same pattern, then there would be some form of magnetic field, whether it be "normal" or "flopped", but the strength would not change.
(thanks to Geology 117, at UIUC, where I skipped more than I should have)
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Ahh, don't you see? He was constantly refering to kernel 2.x, not 2.2.x! So by his (perhaps accidental) view, these features *are* new. Of course, we all know that when he said 2.x, he really meant 2.2.x and thus a number of "new" features he mentioned really aren't.
Midi-chlorians != mitochondria.
Midi-chlorians are something Lucas came up with. The point here is that until TPM, we don't *know* how the force works. Yoda and Obi-wan never explain it fully in the original trilogy. You may ask why they didn't explain it to Luke if they both new. Well, simple, really. Luke was years past the prime age for training a Jedi (luke was nearly 20 or so, Anakin is 9 in TPM and they still say he's too old). Not only that, but he had a mission. No time to spend on trivial things such as how the force works when all he needs to know is how to use it and how to stay away from the Dark Side. And before things slow down enough for Luke to get a real explanation, those who know die (unless Yoda explains during Luke's training between ESB and ROTJ). TPM takes place during a more enlightened age. The Jedi are at the peak of their knowledge. Of course they'll know how the force works. All that is lost by the time ANH comes around.
I think I'm done rambling now.
> I can't recall what the Microsoft record was. Probably people downloading some "minor bugfixes" for Win95.
I believe Microsoft's record was for IE4, or possibly IE5 most recently.
That facts are there. Star Wars has been immense since it originally came out. It was immense 25 years ago, and it will be immense in May.
Not to pick nits or anything, but star wars has only been around for 22 years, not 25 (the first movie was released in 77, it's now 99, do the math)
And call me dumb, because I didn't reference the story I was refering to. Anyway, does anybody know Jimmy Gutterman's e-mail address?
Am I just blind? I can't find the guy's e-mail address. He brings up a few points I'd like to respond to him about, but can't find anything for feedback.
Mmmm...Scheme. Seriously, Scheme *is* a fun language. Some of my fondest coding memories come from my freshman year Scheme class. I've since moved on to C, C++, some VB, Javascript (I don't usually count that or HTML), and a small amount of Perl and shell scripting.
But given the choice, I like to code in Scheme or Lisp, or C++ when those two are insufficient. After two years of not using Scheme for any classes, I found an AI class that uses Lisp. I'm happy.
To a certain extent, the students who would rather not be in a class may be there not because their parents make them, but because the university makes them. I've suffered through my fair share of boring or uninteresting classes simply because the university requires that I have x amount of humanities, y amount of social sciences, etc. What most often happens is that I have to balance interest with what fits in my schedule. There've been a number of classes I would rather have taken to fill some of these requirements, but with the schedules of the other, more important required classes, I couldn't fit them in. In that case, I have to either find another course that *does* fit into the schedule, or wait a semester to take the class, possibly throwing off all plans of graduation, and still not guaranteeing me that I can take the class because other more important classes may conflict again.
The point is, there are some classes that students take because they're required by their school (perhaps a choice among classes, but still a requirment), and they may not be interested in these classes at all.
I totally agree! The Rapiers looked nothing like Rapiers, the Broadswords were nothing like a Broadsword (what happened to the turret crew? And the turrets, for that matter!). Paladin was given too much importance for the time period (yes, he did get more important in WC2, but in WC1 he was just another grunt flying a fighter -- and what happened to his Scottish accent!?!?!). Angel was okay, because the actress was cute (though she should've been a red-head, like the angel from WC1&2), and Hunter was almost dead-on (except for his antagonization of Blair). It would've been nice to see some other familiar faces, such as Iceman, or Spirit. Maniac was just plain wrong. Overall, the movie only had the names in common with the game.
"... entertain some people who liked the games..."
Whoa! Being a big fan of the games (Well, the first two, anyway), I found the movie quite awful. There were so many liberties taken with the technology, setting, plot, etc. that all the games and the movie had in common were names. The Rapiers were totally different than any rapier in the game, the kilrathi were awful, the portrayal of the different characters was awful (Angel was decent, and Hunter was pretty true to the game, but the rest were just plain bad -- including Maniac).
In short, the movie didn't even aim to please the WC fans. It's the same thing as if a Star Wars game were made that bastardized the universe so badly that the only thing that was recognizable was the names (of certain fighters, characters, etc.).
I have pretty much the same chip in my older model HP Pavilion. If you compile the kernel with MSS support, rather than OPL support, it will work. In fact, the 2.2.x kernels seem to have better support for this (through the MSS driver) than the 2.0.x kernels did. Now I just need to get midis playing decently.
The only problem with this is that during a "flipped" period, as opposed to a "flopped" period, there is still a field. It's not as though it goes away for X years, and then comes back for Y. Instead, it's a polarity reversal. For X years, compass North is North, and compass South is South. then it all flips. Compass North becaomes South, and compass South becomes North. If Mars were to follow the same pattern, then there would be some form of magnetic field, whether it be "normal" or "flopped", but the strength would not change.
(thanks to Geology 117, at UIUC, where I skipped more than I should have)