What I find hilarious is how this thread is stuffed to the gills with people who rushed a post on Slashdot to tell the world that people with blogs are pathetic for thinking their opinions are important enough to publish on the web.
Mr. Kettle? There's a Mr. Pot holding for you on line two... says he wants to tell you something.
That was supposed to be depicted as the moment when Anakin realized he reached a "point of no return."
Once he chose to attack Mace and save Palpatine, he committed to selecting which side he was on. When he saw Palpatine turn around and kill Mace, he suddenly realized that he chose the wrong side, but also believed that there was no going back. He betrayed and helped murder a Jedi for the sake of a Sith lord, motivated by his own personal greed for power... He knew he could never become a Jedi master after that. The die was cast, and he was to join Palpatine as a new Sith apprentice.
His "what have I done" line was an expression of regret in having realized that he just threw his old life away in favor of the Dark Side, not shame over betraying Mace Windu.
In that context, his seemingly abrupt conversion is not quite so hard to swallow.
I want to win just to pull the old Chris Farley interview from SNL.
The bit practically writes itself.
Nytewynd: So... um... did you, like, um... you know the mouse? Did you invent that?
Bill: No. I think that was Doug Engelbart.
Nytewynd: Oh. But, that was awesome, huh?
Bill: Yes, I suppose it was.
Nytewynd: Yeah. (Jeez, I'm so stupid! God!)
Bill: Take it easy, you're doing fine.
Nytewynd: Oh. Thanks. So... um... do you remember that time when you said... um... when you said (looks at paper) 640K should be enough for anybody? Do you remember that?
Bill: Well, I get a lot a grief for that old soundbite, but the truth is...
I also find that it's lightning-fast on my G4 iBook.
Faster than I type fast.
There's something goofy about your set-up. If Spotlight is running slowly for you, then it ain't that "Spotlight is slow", it's that something is wrong with your system. If you live near an Apple Store, lug it over there and show it to those "Genius Bar" people.
Because Men and Women like looking at attractive females.
And with good reason...
Women are pretty. Men are not. Simple as that.
If you want people's attention, something pretty to look at usually works better than something which is not. That much should be obvious to anybody.
Personally, I go out of my way to buy products which use beautiful women to promote them, because I want to encourage companies to continue the practice... I don't know what the hell I'm going to do with a box of "Intuition" leg razor cartriges, but there's a principle to uphold here, dammit!
Science fiction (ooo-ooo-ooo) sextuple feature Emporer Palpatine (ooo-ooo-ooo) will build a creature See androids fight for (ooo-ooo-ooo) Darth Tyranus Brian Blessed stars in (ooo-ooo-ooo) The Phantom Menace Oh-oh oh-oh-oooooh... At the late night Sextuple feature Picture show (From Lucasfilm, Ltd.) At the late night Sextuple feature Picture show
instead of having mail, address book, ical and whatnot all open at once, I get one stop.
I guess... If you like using PC-based calendars for something.
I prefer the individual apps over a suite for the same reason many people prefer Firefox over the full-blows suite of Mozilla: I don't want one app to "do it all" for me, I want an app which just does what I want it to do.
So for my needs, Mail.app still wins by a long shot. Both Outlook and Entourage feature way too much bloat for an e-mail program as far as I'm concerned.
The Outlaw Josey Wales was certainly a great western, but it came out in 1976, while Lucas was already hard at work making Star Wars.
Unforgiven came out much, much later.
During the late 60s and early 70s, the most popular westerns were either comedies (Butch Cassedy and the Sundance Kid, Blazing Saddles, Support Your Local Sheriff!) or else entirely unsuited to young audiences by the standards of the time (The Wild Bunch, McCabe and Mrs. Miller)
In the case of McCabe and Mrs. Miller you could make the case that it was actually an "anti-western." Many critics who praised Unforgiven did so for the same reason.
Movies like Shane, High Noon, Stagecoach and My Darling Clementine were long-gone, but more importantly, the "Oaters" were no longer popular. Nobody watched The Lone Ranger in the early seventies, and we were barely aware of the Radio/TV westerns and "B" movie cowboy shows our parents or older siblings loved as kids, such as Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Hopalong Cassidy, etc.
And all of this is besides the fact that you sound as if you prefer stories to be isolated
No, I prefer the stories to make some kind of sense, and the connections to be at least marginally credible.
Of the thousands of Wookies fighing with Yoda, the one who carries him to safety just happens to be the only Wookie that Luke Skywalker ever meets.
Of all the call-signs that could have been given to Luke during the Death Star raid, it just happens to be the same exact same designation ("Red Five") which Obi-Wan was assigned during the Clone Wars.
And why the fuck does a slave child on a desert planet in the middle of nowhere build a protocol droid? His own hot-rod pod racer, I can see, but a protocl droid? How could he even afford the parts, anyway? His mom (who he allegedly loves enough to slaughter Bantha families over) is living in an adobe hut fer cryin' out loud! Buy some windows and an air conditioner first!
And wasn't Boba Fett about a million times cooler when he was just a jaded Mandelorian warrior-turned-freelancer curising around in Slave One as a cunning bounty hunter? Now he's the child of Jango Fett, who was used as the genetic source for all those cloned stormtroopers... none of whom could hit any wall of a barn while standing inside of it. Just a poser, flying around in his daddy's ship and wearing his daddy's armor. Pathetic.
Speaking of which, I noticed that "Baby Fett" was completely forgotten about in Ep. III, along with Jar-Jar Binks (apart from a brief funeral procession shot.) Yet another reason why this one was, by far, the best of the prequels.
1. Replace a failed DVD drive (which happens at a shocking rate on the X-Box) with an inexpensive, industry-standard DVD drive instead of buying inflated X-Box specific hardware.
2. Run Linux on it to use as a general-purpose computer system.
3. Use it as a TV media console.
4. Make back-ups of your game media which can be used if the originals are damaged.
5. Inspire "Imagine a Beowulf Cluster" trolls.
6. Expand the hardware add-on options.
7. "Ov3rcl0x0r, b4by!"
8. Oh yea... some Japanese games which maybe two or three dozen Americans care about.
Then again, there's also the joy of piracy. Arrr! Avast, me hearties!
(Note: I own an X-Box. No, it's not modded. I don't really need any of the uses I just listed, and I'm willing to pay for games I play. Those who do have a need to mod their X-Box, I say more power to 'em.)
Yoda obviously didn't mean "another boy," so what he was saying is, there's "another hope." No reference to it being a Jedi, and certainly no clue to it being a Skywalker.
(IIRC, Lucas didn't settle on the idea of Liea being Luke's sister until he needed a plot device to lure Luke towards the dark side in the big final showdown with Vader.)
"Vader was seduced by the dark side. He betrayed and murdered your father." -- Hoo boy, that's taking some liberties with symantics!
More accurately, it's a total lie.
I mean, what was he going to say?
"Your father turned evil, murdered little children, and tried to choke your mom to death, so I chopped him into pieces and left what remained of him burning to death by a sea of moltel lava. Turns out he survived, but he needs a robot body and an iron lung now. I really should have stayed and finished the job, but I was too busy running off and crying."
Not a good opening if you want to talk the kid into helping you rescue a princess, is it?
The reason lightsabers don't have hilts is very simple: Flashlights don't have hilts.
Kids have been playing "lightsaber" with flashlight beams since 1977, and it has been a key element to the appeal of the entire series with young children.
Except Apple is a spreadsheet program away from not needing Microsoft for anything ever again.
Pages not only kicks Word's ass, it even frees most Mac users who do page layout from needing Quark.
FileMaker remains a sweet database program, not to mention PostgreSQL and MySQL. Goodbye MS-Access.
Safari is superior in every way to IE.
Mail.app vs. Outlook? LOL. It's not even fair.
Keynote vs. PowerPoint? Okay, now we're just piling on and running up the score. The game's over.
So yeah... Microsoft still makes the best consumer-level spreadsheet program out there... so far. Who wants to bet against Apple coming out with a vastly superior spreadsheet app (which can open Excel workbooks and save to.xls formats) within the year?
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What are you talking about? I set my threshold to 5, and it's like sitting at a table with the philosopher kings here.
:)
Had I not already posted in this thread, I would mod that comment up as "funny."
Not because it was all that hilarious or anything... I just think it would be nice if he could read his own posts once in a while.
What I find hilarious is how this thread is stuffed to the gills with people who rushed a post on Slashdot to tell the world that people with blogs are pathetic for thinking their opinions are important enough to publish on the web.
Mr. Kettle? There's a Mr. Pot holding for you on line two... says he wants to tell you something.
That was supposed to be depicted as the moment when Anakin realized he reached a "point of no return."
Once he chose to attack Mace and save Palpatine, he committed to selecting which side he was on. When he saw Palpatine turn around and kill Mace, he suddenly realized that he chose the wrong side, but also believed that there was no going back. He betrayed and helped murder a Jedi for the sake of a Sith lord, motivated by his own personal greed for power... He knew he could never become a Jedi master after that. The die was cast, and he was to join Palpatine as a new Sith apprentice.
His "what have I done" line was an expression of regret in having realized that he just threw his old life away in favor of the Dark Side, not shame over betraying Mace Windu.
In that context, his seemingly abrupt conversion is not quite so hard to swallow.
Your point about these little connections between the characters being pretty much random is correct... and proves my point perfectly, so thanks.
And the OS on the X-Box != Win2K. Your point is?
Apple is rumored to have MacOS on an Intel box
Honestly, I don't know where these silly rumors come from.
I've meet several people in my life who claimed to be MS zealots.
Turns out that every last one of them was a Microsoft "Solutions Provider" who made their living off selling Windows-based IT solutions.
Strangely, none of their customers matched that enthusiasm.
I want to win just to pull the old Chris Farley interview from SNL.
The bit practically writes itself.
Nytewynd: So... um... did you, like, um... you know the mouse? Did you invent that?
Bill: No. I think that was Doug Engelbart.
Nytewynd: Oh. But, that was awesome, huh?
Bill: Yes, I suppose it was.
Nytewynd: Yeah. (Jeez, I'm so stupid! God!)
Bill: Take it easy, you're doing fine.
Nytewynd: Oh. Thanks. So... um... do you remember that time when you said... um... when you said (looks at paper) 640K should be enough for anybody? Do you remember that?
Bill: Well, I get a lot a grief for that old soundbite, but the truth is...
Nytewynd: That was so awesome!
and so on...
Why do I get the feeling that this is going to be like Apple's Switch ads?
That's the whole idea.
Another Microsoft innovation!
I also find that it's lightning-fast on my G4 iBook.
Faster than I type fast.
There's something goofy about your set-up. If Spotlight is running slowly for you, then it ain't that "Spotlight is slow", it's that something is wrong with your system. If you live near an Apple Store, lug it over there and show it to those "Genius Bar" people.
Because Men and Women like looking at attractive females.
And with good reason...
Women are pretty. Men are not. Simple as that.
If you want people's attention, something pretty to look at usually works better than something which is not. That much should be obvious to anybody.
Personally, I go out of my way to buy products which use beautiful women to promote them, because I want to encourage companies to continue the practice... I don't know what the hell I'm going to do with a box of "Intuition" leg razor cartriges, but there's a principle to uphold here, dammit!
Sing it with me now, kids!
Science fiction (ooo-ooo-ooo) sextuple feature
Emporer Palpatine (ooo-ooo-ooo) will build a creature
See androids fight for (ooo-ooo-ooo) Darth Tyranus
Brian Blessed stars in (ooo-ooo-ooo) The Phantom Menace
Oh-oh oh-oh-oooooh...
At the late night
Sextuple feature
Picture show
(From Lucasfilm, Ltd.)
At the late night
Sextuple feature
Picture show
Of course, the problem is that anybody who knows how to get this show doesn't really need a "howto" show about computer technology.
Perhaps he should have done a show on how to meet girls or something.
Just a thought.
There's a real easy way to keep uploading and downloading straight. You uploading is you pushing data.
There's an easier way than that. A simple Mnemonic device:
"Go up. Come down."
Try it next time you teach a n00b the difference. It could be the next "righty tighty, lefty loosey."
Call me a heretic
;)
If you insist.
instead of having mail, address book, ical and whatnot all open at once, I get one stop.
I guess... If you like using PC-based calendars for something.
I prefer the individual apps over a suite for the same reason many people prefer Firefox over the full-blows suite of Mozilla: I don't want one app to "do it all" for me, I want an app which just does what I want it to do.
So for my needs, Mail.app still wins by a long shot. Both Outlook and Entourage feature way too much bloat for an e-mail program as far as I'm concerned.
YMMV, obvously.
The Outlaw Josey Wales was certainly a great western, but it came out in 1976, while Lucas was already hard at work making Star Wars.
Unforgiven came out much, much later.
During the late 60s and early 70s, the most popular westerns were either comedies (Butch Cassedy and the Sundance Kid, Blazing Saddles, Support Your Local Sheriff!) or else entirely unsuited to young audiences by the standards of the time (The Wild Bunch, McCabe and Mrs. Miller)
In the case of McCabe and Mrs. Miller you could make the case that it was actually an "anti-western." Many critics who praised Unforgiven did so for the same reason.
Movies like Shane, High Noon, Stagecoach and My Darling Clementine were long-gone, but more importantly, the "Oaters" were no longer popular. Nobody watched The Lone Ranger in the early seventies, and we were barely aware of the Radio/TV westerns and "B" movie cowboy shows our parents or older siblings loved as kids, such as Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Hopalong Cassidy, etc.
And all of this is besides the fact that you sound as if you prefer stories to be isolated
No, I prefer the stories to make some kind of sense, and the connections to be at least marginally credible.
Of the thousands of Wookies fighing with Yoda, the one who carries him to safety just happens to be the only Wookie that Luke Skywalker ever meets.
Of all the call-signs that could have been given to Luke during the Death Star raid, it just happens to be the same exact same designation ("Red Five") which Obi-Wan was assigned during the Clone Wars.
And why the fuck does a slave child on a desert planet in the middle of nowhere build a protocol droid? His own hot-rod pod racer, I can see, but a protocl droid? How could he even afford the parts, anyway? His mom (who he allegedly loves enough to slaughter Bantha families over) is living in an adobe hut fer cryin' out loud! Buy some windows and an air conditioner first!
And wasn't Boba Fett about a million times cooler when he was just a jaded Mandelorian warrior-turned-freelancer curising around in Slave One as a cunning bounty hunter? Now he's the child of Jango Fett, who was used as the genetic source for all those cloned stormtroopers... none of whom could hit any wall of a barn while standing inside of it. Just a poser, flying around in his daddy's ship and wearing his daddy's armor. Pathetic.
Speaking of which, I noticed that "Baby Fett" was completely forgotten about in Ep. III, along with Jar-Jar Binks (apart from a brief funeral procession shot.) Yet another reason why this one was, by far, the best of the prequels.
Ahem.
Non-pirate Reasons for Modding an X-Box
1. Replace a failed DVD drive (which happens at a shocking rate on the X-Box) with an inexpensive, industry-standard DVD drive instead of buying inflated X-Box specific hardware.
2. Run Linux on it to use as a general-purpose computer system.
3. Use it as a TV media console.
4. Make back-ups of your game media which can be used if the originals are damaged.
5. Inspire "Imagine a Beowulf Cluster" trolls.
6. Expand the hardware add-on options.
7. "Ov3rcl0x0r, b4by!"
8. Oh yea... some Japanese games which maybe two or three dozen Americans care about.
Then again, there's also the joy of piracy. Arrr! Avast, me hearties!
(Note: I own an X-Box. No, it's not modded. I don't really need any of the uses I just listed, and I'm willing to pay for games I play. Those who do have a need to mod their X-Box, I say more power to 'em.)
My favorite to see explained is Han's line about making the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs
That's easy to explain.
Lucas didn't actually know what a parsec is at the time the movie was made, and neither did anybody on the set.
Am I alone in thinking that the effects in 4-6 were better than all of the prequels except 3?
I mean, 1 had better lightsaber fights, but otherwise really looked kind of cartoony. 2 looked terrible from beginning to end.
When I watch the escape from Hoth in "Empire"... THAT was breathtaking.
No, he just says there's another potential Jedi.
He doesn't even say "Jedi."
Obi-Wan: "That boy is our last hope."
Yoda: "No. There is another."
Yoda obviously didn't mean "another boy," so what he was saying is, there's "another hope." No reference to it being a Jedi, and certainly no clue to it being a Skywalker.
(IIRC, Lucas didn't settle on the idea of Liea being Luke's sister until he needed a plot device to lure Luke towards the dark side in the big final showdown with Vader.)
"Vader was seduced by the dark side. He betrayed and murdered your father." -- Hoo boy, that's taking some liberties with symantics!
More accurately, it's a total lie.
I mean, what was he going to say?
"Your father turned evil, murdered little children, and tried to choke your mom to death, so I chopped him into pieces and left what remained of him burning to death by a sea of moltel lava. Turns out he survived, but he needs a robot body and an iron lung now. I really should have stayed and finished the job, but I was too busy running off and crying."
Not a good opening if you want to talk the kid into helping you rescue a princess, is it?
None of you get it.
The reason lightsabers don't have hilts is very simple: Flashlights don't have hilts.
Kids have been playing "lightsaber" with flashlight beams since 1977, and it has been a key element to the appeal of the entire series with young children.
End of story.
Actually, the proper English is "think differentLY."
Only if you are asking people to think in a different manner.
The Apple tag line is suggesting to people that they should think about the concept of being different.
Therefore they say, "think different."
It's not correct formal grammar, but it is perfectly valid conversational English.
Except Apple is a spreadsheet program away from not needing Microsoft for anything ever again.
.xls formats) within the year?
Pages not only kicks Word's ass, it even frees most Mac users who do page layout from needing Quark.
FileMaker remains a sweet database program, not to mention PostgreSQL and MySQL. Goodbye MS-Access.
Safari is superior in every way to IE.
Mail.app vs. Outlook? LOL. It's not even fair.
Keynote vs. PowerPoint? Okay, now we're just piling on and running up the score. The game's over.
So yeah... Microsoft still makes the best consumer-level spreadsheet program out there... so far. Who wants to bet against Apple coming out with a vastly superior spreadsheet app (which can open Excel workbooks and save to