NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! If Microsoft buys Adobe, then they'll turn the revered Creative Suite products into a steaming pile of dung, and all our current efforts to get CS on Linux will be crushed once and for all.
The REAL issue here is, where in the Constitution is there the enumerated power to mandate FM radios in mobile devices??
The govt. just does NOT care anymore about its proper role. It has become an UNLIMITED behemoth. Stay OUT of our lives, will you??
I know. I may be the only one here, but of the two bands, I often find more interesting things on AM like the talk radio shows where I really get to learn what's going on. Not to mention just regularly scheduled news and weather (every half hour on my local flagship AM station anyway). I still don't think it should be mandated, however. If anything, maybe mobile devices should have something vital for survival anywhere, like a built-in NOAA weather radio or some emergency notification system on the cellular networks. Something that can actually save people's lives, not force people to have a receiver to receive crappy music. I know, I know, you don't have to use that feature, blah, blah, blah, but still a waste of circuitry space that could be allocated to something better.
I'm so sick of government mandates just to protect certain companies or industries from competition. When will this end?
All I can hope is that I get my next smartphone before the manufacturers are forced to do this. This forced inclusion of an FM radio receiver may just cause another antennagate situation.
It could be, but then again, since we know there were scenes filmed back then that didn't make the final cut (and there always are in films), this could indeed be a genuine original scene that was filmed back in the early 80's during principal photography. We could go on and on with paranoia that everything we see now in movies is a modern digital mockup. It's getting to that point now, unfortunately, where you never know where things stand. And George Lucas is all over it. He'll keep reworking and reworking these movies until his dying day. Let them go, George, and direct a whole other movie project already!
The question is, for a shot like this, why WOULDN'T they have just shot it with the real actor, Mark Hamill? It's not like the scene calls for anything dangerous or difficult, just have him tinker with a metal cylinder and that's it. Certainly they could have shot Mark Hamill for a scene like that, instead of going through all kinds of gyrations with puppets and special effects, etc.
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NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! If Microsoft buys Adobe, then they'll turn the revered Creative Suite products into a steaming pile of dung, and all our current efforts to get CS on Linux will be crushed once and for all.
The REAL issue here is, where in the Constitution is there the enumerated power to mandate FM radios in mobile devices?? The govt. just does NOT care anymore about its proper role. It has become an UNLIMITED behemoth. Stay OUT of our lives, will you??
I know. I may be the only one here, but of the two bands, I often find more interesting things on AM like the talk radio shows where I really get to learn what's going on. Not to mention just regularly scheduled news and weather (every half hour on my local flagship AM station anyway). I still don't think it should be mandated, however. If anything, maybe mobile devices should have something vital for survival anywhere, like a built-in NOAA weather radio or some emergency notification system on the cellular networks. Something that can actually save people's lives, not force people to have a receiver to receive crappy music. I know, I know, you don't have to use that feature, blah, blah, blah, but still a waste of circuitry space that could be allocated to something better.
I'm so sick of government mandates just to protect certain companies or industries from competition. When will this end? All I can hope is that I get my next smartphone before the manufacturers are forced to do this. This forced inclusion of an FM radio receiver may just cause another antennagate situation.
It could be, but then again, since we know there were scenes filmed back then that didn't make the final cut (and there always are in films), this could indeed be a genuine original scene that was filmed back in the early 80's during principal photography. We could go on and on with paranoia that everything we see now in movies is a modern digital mockup. It's getting to that point now, unfortunately, where you never know where things stand. And George Lucas is all over it. He'll keep reworking and reworking these movies until his dying day. Let them go, George, and direct a whole other movie project already!
The question is, for a shot like this, why WOULDN'T they have just shot it with the real actor, Mark Hamill? It's not like the scene calls for anything dangerous or difficult, just have him tinker with a metal cylinder and that's it. Certainly they could have shot Mark Hamill for a scene like that, instead of going through all kinds of gyrations with puppets and special effects, etc.