Remember what Microsoft has been saying all this time regarding software piracy? Since we're talking copies they never made being sold for money they never got, along with losses they've claimed where none physically existed (If you make one million copies of software that sells out, and someone makes one million copies of their own to give away, then they haven't technically lost any money, as they never made that additional one million copies to begin with), I would have to definately say they were using the cookie jar tactic here as well...
You know, by California law (and probably other states), it's illegal to sell toxic/carcinogenic items without a big sign in the front door that informs buyers of this fact... I wonder, then, how many computer retailers fail to have said signs in their doors, and how many are liable for prosecution under Californian law? Since a good deal of computer manufacturers are in CA as well, they would be required to have the same sign on their shops and factories (since many act as in house retailers as well)... The lead is just one factor, another is mercury and dioxins that exist in some electronic components...
Just shows you how far ignorant lawmakers can take things...
It's like the Denis Leary joke about making the warning labels larger on cigarettes, "Holy sh!t! These are bad for you! I thought they were supposed to have vitamins and stuff!!!"
Don't forget as well, Henry Ford's experiments in composite body panels using hemp fiber and resin... While they'll survive water baths very well, just grind them down and they should be biodegradable, or at least smokable...;)
This was covered in the script (and probably wound up on the cutting room floor)... Unfortunately the script fleshed out the movie so much more than the 2 hour timeframe would allow... There were a lot of scenes that would have explained so much more if they were left in, perhaps they'll make it into the DVD version...
That's usually because the website reads a catalog of update files that's kept on your computer... If you click the "Show installed updates" button, you can try reinstalling the patch to be sure...
Jango is asian? Gee, he looked like a black haired New Zealander to me (http://jfett.8m.com/tem.htm)... Maybe the Village Voice reviewer needs glasses...
For $10 more you can get a Gameboy Advance, which, for a new system, kicks ass for the sheer number of games available when you take into account that it plays all Gameboy titles dating back to 1989 (almost twice what you have from PS1)... Only drawback is that the 3D stuff is reeeeallllly lame on the GBA, harkening back to the SNES... But for a handheld, it's pretty impressive...
Depends on how you define a second generation console, the Playstation went through many iterations before finally arriving at the PS1 miniconsole... I doubt, since they don't give any specifics, that this is anything more than Microsoft reducing the size of components used (like chee, how about the controller?), in order to keep the costs of building/shipping the units down... Another possibility is to replace quick to fail components (such as the DVD drive that was failing on a fairly large number of units, which tainted the Xbox record almost immediately) with sturdier models, improve other issues such as cooling, scaling the mainboard/power supply, and of course modify the mainboard to prevent various hacks from being done (like Sony did when modchips appeared...
Sorry MPAA, I'm going to pay to see it... This really was shot off of a movie screen, but gave me enough incentive to pay to see it IN a movie theater, along with buying the DVD... Of course one could say that Lucasfilms deliberately leaked the video in order to get the geeks who hated Ep1 interested in Ep2, if I was a conspiracy nut...
It IS way better than expected, but then again, the folks who are reviewing it:
(a) Are avant garde movie buffs, who think that The Piano was the best movie released since Battleship Potemkin...
(b) Never saw the movie, and are basing their opinions on Episode 1...
(c) Have a policy of hating stuff the more they're told to love it, and vice versa, especially if they can justify it via mob rule...
That aside, however, there are a few things to keep in mind... It's FANTASY... Repeat after me, FAN-TAS-EEE... Got it? Good... It isn't supposed to be completely realistic or believable, it isn't always supposed to make sense (until a major physicist can explain to me how a roadrunner can run into a tunnel painted on a solid rock wall, and a coyote shortly thereafter slams into said painting, you should be willing to suspend belief and logic)...
As for the movie itself, it does a good job of inspiring the viewer to suspend belief... Almost continual action scenes in a mileau of exotic locations, a modicum of humor that doesn't go over the top, and Jar Jar is subdued whenever seen...
Hayden Christianson isn't as bad in his acting as he is unseasoned in his skill... Some of his scenes come across perfectly, others are like watching paint dry, but he shows promise as an actor... Unfortunately one review I've read hits it dead on, a human actor being upstaged by a CG Yoda...
As for the video, the sound was extremely choppy in spots, losing upwards of 5 seconds of audio, the video quality was adequate (watchable), but hey... It's free, (insert Eric Cartman voice here) so quitcher bitchin'!... Or better yet, pay the $8 to see it in a theater or buy the DVD...
Just like these directors and movie moguls figure out how much a product sucks by the money it doesn't make, they also figure out how good it is by how much money it DOES make...
(a) May figure out a way to properly recycle/reuse nuclear waste way sooner than 100,000 years (hopefully within even a few hundred)...
(b) Might not even live on Earth in a couple hundred years, either by wiping ourselves out in a stupid war or calamity, or by rendering the Earth uninhabitable by that time...
(c) That we'd be the dominant species on this planet within 100,000 years...
(d) That some wiz kid in marketing would produce "New Cobalt-14 Coke!", then we'd have morning news hosts and the public lining up around the block to get one...
Depends which sample video you saw, the one I saw was directly centered on the video, whereas the alternative telesync sample was obviously shot at an angle (there's two different sample videos in a.b.v)... Besides, I've SEEN many screeners out there that were exactly the same quality, that were produced in the way I described...
Install a thumping sound system, some crushed velvet interior fabrics, a hydraulic lift system to make it jump, and of course the prerequisite chromed chain steering wheel, and you can be a gangsta in STYYYYLE!
This is either a prerelease screener for review or for movie theater employees (I'm guessing the latter)... It's good quality, not fantastic, obviously made from a quick and dirty optical print dubbed to VHS... Not shot in a theater or with a camera...
If you look at the sample MPEG, you'll note a fuzzy edge to the bottom and right side of the video, which indicates masking that normally occurs in a film to video direct transfer- They usually invest more effort in making retail versions cleaner...
A camera captured version would usually be a little off kilter, chop off a significant portion of the screen, and as was mentioned, occasionally have another audience member either walking through a shot, or coughing, or their cel phone would be going off here and there...
Doesn't making and demonstrating a reverse engineered version of Windows XP (or any Windows for that matter) fall directly in violation of the DMCA? That would make not only the programmer who's making the "XP Lite" operating system, and the court that ordered him to do so, criminals...
As the ol' saying goes, live by the sword, etc etc etc...
Yep, that's the authentic script, I spotted the scanned scripts at Jabba the Turd's website, which basically contained so many scenes that were written *before* the trailers started coming out, too many to be mere coincidence, or hastily added after the fact... That's why I'm convinced of the script's authenticity...
The US loses $750 billion in productivity and revenue every day due to employees going to the bathroom and refilling coffee mugs every day.
To counter this, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has recommended that all coffee machines include meters as well as toilets and urinals, along with seats to enforcing work ethics via electrode embedded toilet seats.
The rubber pants, cork, spackling and caulk industries have applauded this suggestion, foreseeing an explosion in demand for their products.
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They've always had it in for PC users, I mean hey, look how much progress Darwin has made...;)
Remember what Microsoft has been saying all this time regarding software piracy? Since we're talking copies they never made being sold for money they never got, along with losses they've claimed where none physically existed (If you make one million copies of software that sells out, and someone makes one million copies of their own to give away, then they haven't technically lost any money, as they never made that additional one million copies to begin with), I would have to definately say they were using the cookie jar tactic here as well...
You know, by California law (and probably other states), it's illegal to sell toxic/carcinogenic items without a big sign in the front door that informs buyers of this fact... I wonder, then, how many computer retailers fail to have said signs in their doors, and how many are liable for prosecution under Californian law? Since a good deal of computer manufacturers are in CA as well, they would be required to have the same sign on their shops and factories (since many act as in house retailers as well)... The lead is just one factor, another is mercury and dioxins that exist in some electronic components...
Just shows you how far ignorant lawmakers can take things...
It's like the Denis Leary joke about making the warning labels larger on cigarettes, "Holy sh!t! These are bad for you! I thought they were supposed to have vitamins and stuff!!!"
Don't forget as well, Henry Ford's experiments in composite body panels using hemp fiber and resin... While they'll survive water baths very well, just grind them down and they should be biodegradable, or at least smokable...;)
This was covered in the script (and probably wound up on the cutting room floor)... Unfortunately the script fleshed out the movie so much more than the 2 hour timeframe would allow... There were a lot of scenes that would have explained so much more if they were left in, perhaps they'll make it into the DVD version...
That's usually because the website reads a catalog of update files that's kept on your computer... If you click the "Show installed updates" button, you can try reinstalling the patch to be sure...
Jango is asian? Gee, he looked like a black haired New Zealander to me (http://jfett.8m.com/tem.htm)... Maybe the Village Voice reviewer needs glasses...
For $10 more you can get a Gameboy Advance, which, for a new system, kicks ass for the sheer number of games available when you take into account that it plays all Gameboy titles dating back to 1989 (almost twice what you have from PS1)... Only drawback is that the 3D stuff is reeeeallllly lame on the GBA, harkening back to the SNES... But for a handheld, it's pretty impressive...
Depends on how you define a second generation console, the Playstation went through many iterations before finally arriving at the PS1 miniconsole... I doubt, since they don't give any specifics, that this is anything more than Microsoft reducing the size of components used (like chee, how about the controller?), in order to keep the costs of building/shipping the units down... Another possibility is to replace quick to fail components (such as the DVD drive that was failing on a fairly large number of units, which tainted the Xbox record almost immediately) with sturdier models, improve other issues such as cooling, scaling the mainboard/power supply, and of course modify the mainboard to prevent various hacks from being done (like Sony did when modchips appeared...
It's better, more in the vein of Episode 4, with a slightly more down note to end on...
Sorry MPAA, I'm going to pay to see it... This really was shot off of a movie screen, but gave me enough incentive to pay to see it IN a movie theater, along with buying the DVD... Of course one could say that Lucasfilms deliberately leaked the video in order to get the geeks who hated Ep1 interested in Ep2, if I was a conspiracy nut...
It IS way better than expected, but then again, the folks who are reviewing it:
(a) Are avant garde movie buffs, who think that The Piano was the best movie released since Battleship Potemkin...
(b) Never saw the movie, and are basing their opinions on Episode 1...
(c) Have a policy of hating stuff the more they're told to love it, and vice versa, especially if they can justify it via mob rule...
That aside, however, there are a few things to keep in mind... It's FANTASY... Repeat after me, FAN-TAS-EEE... Got it? Good... It isn't supposed to be completely realistic or believable, it isn't always supposed to make sense (until a major physicist can explain to me how a roadrunner can run into a tunnel painted on a solid rock wall, and a coyote shortly thereafter slams into said painting, you should be willing to suspend belief and logic)...
As for the movie itself, it does a good job of inspiring the viewer to suspend belief... Almost continual action scenes in a mileau of exotic locations, a modicum of humor that doesn't go over the top, and Jar Jar is subdued whenever seen...
Hayden Christianson isn't as bad in his acting as he is unseasoned in his skill... Some of his scenes come across perfectly, others are like watching paint dry, but he shows promise as an actor... Unfortunately one review I've read hits it dead on, a human actor being upstaged by a CG Yoda...
As for the video, the sound was extremely choppy in spots, losing upwards of 5 seconds of audio, the video quality was adequate (watchable), but hey... It's free, (insert Eric Cartman voice here) so quitcher bitchin'!... Or better yet, pay the $8 to see it in a theater or buy the DVD...
Just like these directors and movie moguls figure out how much a product sucks by the money it doesn't make, they also figure out how good it is by how much money it DOES make...
For all we know, we:
(a) May figure out a way to properly recycle/reuse nuclear waste way sooner than 100,000 years (hopefully within even a few hundred)...
(b) Might not even live on Earth in a couple hundred years, either by wiping ourselves out in a stupid war or calamity, or by rendering the Earth uninhabitable by that time...
(c) That we'd be the dominant species on this planet within 100,000 years...
(d) That some wiz kid in marketing would produce "New Cobalt-14 Coke!", then we'd have morning news hosts and the public lining up around the block to get one...
Depends which sample video you saw, the one I saw was directly centered on the video, whereas the alternative telesync sample was obviously shot at an angle (there's two different sample videos in a.b.v)... Besides, I've SEEN many screeners out there that were exactly the same quality, that were produced in the way I described...
Install a thumping sound system, some crushed velvet interior fabrics, a hydraulic lift system to make it jump, and of course the prerequisite chromed chain steering wheel, and you can be a gangsta in STYYYYLE!
Do not be too proud of this technological terror you have downloaded. The ability to burn VCDs is nothing compared to the power of Lucasfilm lawyers.
This is either a prerelease screener for review or for movie theater employees (I'm guessing the latter)... It's good quality, not fantastic, obviously made from a quick and dirty optical print dubbed to VHS... Not shot in a theater or with a camera...
If you look at the sample MPEG, you'll note a fuzzy edge to the bottom and right side of the video, which indicates masking that normally occurs in a film to video direct transfer- They usually invest more effort in making retail versions cleaner...
A camera captured version would usually be a little off kilter, chop off a significant portion of the screen, and as was mentioned, occasionally have another audience member either walking through a shot, or coughing, or their cel phone would be going off here and there...
Eh, it's being posted on alt.binaries.vcd as I type this, without any name munging...
*entering leech mode*
The point is that we can SEE how much it will (or won't) suck, without George Lucas getting our money... We didn't have that option with Episode 1...
Doesn't making and demonstrating a reverse engineered version of Windows XP (or any Windows for that matter) fall directly in violation of the DMCA? That would make not only the programmer who's making the "XP Lite" operating system, and the court that ordered him to do so, criminals...
As the ol' saying goes, live by the sword, etc etc etc...
Yep, that's the authentic script, I spotted the scanned scripts at Jabba the Turd's website, which basically contained so many scenes that were written *before* the trailers started coming out, too many to be mere coincidence, or hastily added after the fact... That's why I'm convinced of the script's authenticity...
Ummm, no, as any Star Wars geek can tell you, it was 1977...
Dumbassed media, can't even get the terminology right...
Remember: When you applaud Jar-Jar, you're applauding Communism!
The US loses $750 billion in productivity and revenue every day due to employees going to the bathroom and refilling coffee mugs every day.
To counter this, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has recommended that all coffee machines include meters as well as toilets and urinals, along with seats to enforcing work ethics via electrode embedded toilet seats.
The rubber pants, cork, spackling and caulk industries have applauded this suggestion, foreseeing an explosion in demand for their products.
How am I gonna watch Osama Bin Laden In a Blender now???