he's embarrased by the original trilogy. he should just get it over with and release the damn thing.
If I was a typical moviegoer for the original trilogy, then he's banging his head on the wall for nothing, or actually self destructively.
I was just mentioning my reaction to Star Wars (EP:IV ANH) yesterday.
There were these inexplicable commercials on TV about some movie, but I couldn't make heads or tails of them and ignored them along with spots for Palmolive Dishwashing Liquid, Fleismann's Margarine and anything about the upcoming 6 O'clock news. Then a friend calls, with an almost frantic voice, and asks have I seen the new movie something something. No... Go see it! Drop whatever you are doing and go see it!
Well, you don't get a phone call like that every day (though it may give the MPAA some ideas) I ask and it so happens my Dad, brothers and sister are already planning to go see it, because they've been told this is something really different. Gosh, what can this bee?
So I'm sitting in the theater with my bucket of popcorn and soda and watch the titles, ready for another thrilling cinematic experience, or at the worst, ninety minutes of nursing my snacks and then immediatley forgetting about what I've seen. It wouldn't be like that. Above the broad curvature of a planet a little spacecraft is coasting along with something like short bursts of phasers hitting it. Then the star destroyer seemingly passes overhead while the sense-surround in the theater rumbles and popcorn I just put in my mouth falls back out into my lap. Wooowwww....
The rest of the movie passes with chills of excitement and oohs and ahhs, I probably would have won a staring constest as I don't think I blinked once the whole time. I'd be back a few times, others would be back every day or a few showings every day for months.
When I got home, still late afternoon, I stood in the sun on the driveway with my jaw still slack at what I had seen. Looking up, as if expecting to see a star destroyer cruise over my house. It seemed space fantasy had taken a big step forward and it clearly had a significant impact on millions of others as Star Wars was a massive merchandising success (my sister still has piles and boxes of original stuff, clearly it impacted her more than myself.)
Video games would suddenly take on certain similarities to Tie Fighters, X-Wings, R2D2 and Darth Vader was the epitome of cool.
Star Wars rocked the world and gave George Lucas the finances and clout, which have carried him these 27 years, to do a great many things other producer/directors could only dream of.
It really is pretty awful that he can't be happy with this original artifact and, like some old silver coin with a patina, feels he has to polish it with some course cloth until it's bright, shiny and utterly unattractive to those who appreciate it for what it was.
If the firmware is open-sourced, someone could make a version which preys on SCO executives...
Or FUD
"The giant robot is approaching the Redmond, Washington, leaving a path of destruction. Fighter aircraft have fired missiles at the FUD-Bot, but it seems to grown in strength the closer it gets to this community. Meanwhile in other news, Microsoft is pointing to another independent study bashing TCO, reliability, security and suport for Linux and Open Source..."
Internet access allows users to program recording through cell phones or PCs while away from home."
This would be highly welcome as I'm often away from home and miss shows I might want to record, also could give peace of mind that it is programmed to record the show you really really really don't want to miss.
Of course, it being PC-like and on the internet, I wonder how secure it is. I'd hate to got on a trip in July, hoping this is recording stages of the Tour de France and coming home to a title "SUXX0RS11 UR 0WN3D1!" and a mess of Oprah shows.
Why do they still have any link to the network? Other ISPs should cut them off if they refuse to cut off spammers.
Their major pipe provider could probably care less what they do, same as Savvis did, as long as customers paid their bills. The only people bright enough to figure out who they are are geeks who use traceroute.
the CEO promises that all such accounts will be closed within 10 days (working days?) Amongst these accounts are believed to be the majority of the top 150 worst spammers worldwide."
In related news the CEO said, "To make up for the lost revenue, we'll host pr0n. We'll be actively competing with GoatSex Guy."
It's not space is difficult, we just don't have enough experience with it. When we become complacent is when we're surprised. Making calculation errors (feet instead of metres), wrong kind of glue on foam, etc. And sadly, many errors occur because NASA is ambitious, but funding is somewhat limited (you can go to Mars, but we'll cut your budget and you'll have to make do.)
Or, for instance, if you call thousands of voters in South Carolina, and ask them how they'd feel if they were to find out that John McCain had an illegitimate black child, that implies that he does. Not false, but deceptive. But, gee, wonder what the intent was. That would be to deceive the voting public.
I've wondered why nobody has pursued Bush's illegitimate and aborted child the same way they have the TANG stuff. What I've read of it was he had a former girlfriend pregnant and the child was quietly aborted and suddenly nobody has any information on it and the former girlfriend refused to discuss it. I understand issues of privacy, but politics in the past have done little to ensure protection of individuals when the stakes are high.
Unemployment is currently at the same level that Clinton ran on in the 1996 election, 5.4%.
Presidents don't make jobs.
Presidents do, however, erase jobless numbers. Reagan fudged the unemployment figures to eliminate those who no longer qualify for unemployment. Ta-Da! Unemployment dropped. Have you noticed how congress has not extended unemployment benefits?
"like a million souls cried out and were suddenly
silenced"
Cheney: "Fight the bastard, throw some rule or regulation or contract stipulation in his face!"
Studio rep: "We've looked and tried we have very little to work with."
Cheney: "We invaded Iraq on less! Sue him or get some bullshit injuction!"
Network rep: "We may have a solution..."
Cheney: "Speak!"
Network rep: "It'll start playing and then..."
Cheney: "What? WHAT!?!?"
Network rep: "We'll suddenly cut over to Heidi.." *evil grin*
Cheney: "Brilliant!"
Network rep: "And they call us 'Liberal Media' HA HA HA HA HAAAH!"
Cheney: "HA HA HA!!!"
Network rep: "Bush will love it, naturally."
Cheney: "Oh, yes, it's about all we let him watch!"
From the sounds of it, the person(s) involved with authorizing the installation gave in to Diebold's hype without bothering to give system a thourough inspection/review prior to making the decision. In addition to suing Diebold, maybe the AG should be looking for some heads to chop for making a bad situation[company pushing false claims] even worse[installation and failure of product]?
Hard for me to tell, who are you refering to? Diebold heads? Innocent state employees caught in the crossfire? Or the stupid shit who failed to understand the concept of 'Due Diligence'?
Oh, and by the way, I know it's not the custom in the political arena, but isn't a leader supposed to take responsibility for the errors of his subordinates?
Or the jury will have to count their votes ten times.
You misunderstand...
"Lockyer determined sufficient evidence existed to go forward with a false claims lawsuit against Diebold," the statement said. The state's top lawyer earlier had dropped a criminal investigation of Diebold.
It's an electon year, right? Even if he's not up for re-election, it's the natural behavior of a politician.
To whit:
Diebold Vice President Thomas Swidarski said in a statement that the company was pleased Lockyer dropped the probe. Despite Lockyer's decision to sue, the company is "confident that the state's decision to intervene will aid in a fair and dispassionate examination of the issues raised in the case," Swidarski said.
What Swidarski really oughta said, "[the company] is confident that this is a political ploy and will amount to nothing."
How is this any different than "ksuxless plays more music than ksuxmore" spots that radio stations themselves run? These "if you you like them you'll love us" type of ads are nothing new.
I dunno, been a long time since I actually listened to music stations on FM (or even AM) I have satellite, which done beat it all. =)
Maybe if all the radio stations across the US didn't sound exactly alike....
There's probably about 5 flavors of pop stations, all owned by outfits like Clear Channel, ABC/Disney/CapCities, etc. which are probably all programmed anyway and DJ's don't even exist, but are taped. There was a station in Michigan, WIOG iirc, which was pretty much like this 10 years ago.
'' the programming that makes a station's personality and connection to listeners can't be duplicated by a computer.
Indeed, I think it's something like/dev/rand >/dev/playlist
...or a finite number of monkeys with typewriters...
They're using the actual call letters from the stations.
That strikes me as utterly walking into a law office and screaming, "Sue me!".. but then, Microsoft has enough money to fight or even intimidate, but it seems completely pointless. It's hard to believe MSN could be so blatant, normally there's some craftyness to their attempts to lose money, but this... geez.
"It results in a more pleasant experience because you don't have the ads or the DJs,'' Rob Bennett, senior director for MSN Entertainment, said during a press briefing last week.
And a more pleasant, profitable experience for MSN Entertainment...
genuine-bolex-watches
I'm pretty sure they mean bollocks, or should have...
After school a friend and I would invariably hang out at a pond building rafts, racing across the pond, falling in, coming home with school clothes covered in mud and smelling of brackish water (with the odd frog in a pocket or jar of crayfish.)
These have been released for the PC for a while and with all the emulators, etc. out there, I have to wonder if there is a demand for this?
Keep in mind there's a whole generation (or 1.5 generations) who never had a chance to play some of these in arcades. They're still fun games, the trick is you practically need to show them already being played to attract interest, where hype usually moves something like d00m 3
When Atari re-released a bunch of their classic games for the PC they did a decent job preserving good sound quality. Tempest was always a favorite for the vector graphics and awesome sound, which you can really crank up on a decent set of speakers.
I was sorry not to see Gauntlet included, maybe that'll be in the future. Crystal Castles was always visually appealing and fun (if aggrevating at times.)
One of the most compelling reasons Microsoft has difficulty making inroads with the PRC goverment is because
he central plan is not the have China beholden to foreign interests. The central government has invested strongly in
developing a native CPU and education in computer sciences. Why make something for the rest of the world work for China, when they
could develop something that works for China and not care what the rest of the world does?
I think Microsoft has some of the
right ideas, trying to develop an infrastructure which has a need for their products, but they'll need businesses to buy into it more than government.
Connors responded that the total cost of ownership of Microsoft Windows and Office
products which account for 80 percent of its revenue is in fact less than that of cheaper, open-source software,
because Microsoft can offer the entire weight of the 'eco-system' that supports its products. This eco-system can
be described as the support, customization, integration services, and software that evolve around the Windows product.
Connors cited studies that have endorsed this view from Forrester Research and Merrill Lynch
And at that point the conference center's FUD alarm went off and people fled into the streets.
The sooner we get an education system which does not teach religion or political or patriotic based material the better.
Here's a clue for you. Teachers spend so much time preparing students to take tests (Ever hear of a political candidate saying they've got a better idea on making schools accountable through testing?) there's scant time to teach outside of a packaged program, let along politics or patriotism (and religion, that's a livewire in the local schools, don't touch it.)
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Funny, seems to me it's all about George Lucas now...
If George does go into episodes post VI, it'll be rather hard to be about Darth Vader, unless he comes back as a ghost to council characters...
I think George makes this stuff up as he goes along.
If I was a typical moviegoer for the original trilogy, then he's banging his head on the wall for nothing, or actually self destructively.
I was just mentioning my reaction to Star Wars (EP:IV ANH) yesterday.
There were these inexplicable commercials on TV about some movie, but I couldn't make heads or tails of them and ignored them along with spots for Palmolive Dishwashing Liquid, Fleismann's Margarine and anything about the upcoming 6 O'clock news. Then a friend calls, with an almost frantic voice, and asks have I seen the new movie something something. No... Go see it! Drop whatever you are doing and go see it!
Well, you don't get a phone call like that every day (though it may give the MPAA some ideas) I ask and it so happens my Dad, brothers and sister are already planning to go see it, because they've been told this is something really different. Gosh, what can this bee?
So I'm sitting in the theater with my bucket of popcorn and soda and watch the titles, ready for another thrilling cinematic experience, or at the worst, ninety minutes of nursing my snacks and then immediatley forgetting about what I've seen. It wouldn't be like that. Above the broad curvature of a planet a little spacecraft is coasting along with something like short bursts of phasers hitting it. Then the star destroyer seemingly passes overhead while the sense-surround in the theater rumbles and popcorn I just put in my mouth falls back out into my lap. Wooowwww....
The rest of the movie passes with chills of excitement and oohs and ahhs, I probably would have won a staring constest as I don't think I blinked once the whole time. I'd be back a few times, others would be back every day or a few showings every day for months.
When I got home, still late afternoon, I stood in the sun on the driveway with my jaw still slack at what I had seen. Looking up, as if expecting to see a star destroyer cruise over my house. It seemed space fantasy had taken a big step forward and it clearly had a significant impact on millions of others as Star Wars was a massive merchandising success (my sister still has piles and boxes of original stuff, clearly it impacted her more than myself.)
Video games would suddenly take on certain similarities to Tie Fighters, X-Wings, R2D2 and Darth Vader was the epitome of cool.
Star Wars rocked the world and gave George Lucas the finances and clout, which have carried him these 27 years, to do a great many things other producer/directors could only dream of.
It really is pretty awful that he can't be happy with this original artifact and, like some old silver coin with a patina, feels he has to polish it with some course cloth until it's bright, shiny and utterly unattractive to those who appreciate it for what it was.
Or FUD
"The giant robot is approaching the Redmond, Washington, leaving a path of destruction. Fighter aircraft have fired missiles at the FUD-Bot, but it seems to grown in strength the closer it gets to this community. Meanwhile in other news, Microsoft is pointing to another independent study bashing TCO, reliability, security and suport for Linux and Open Source..."
Something tells me it'll fit right in here. =)
Fly Topping?
WD40
3-in-1
Marvel Mystery Oil
STP Oil Treatment
Liquid Wrench
10w30
Ehylene Glycol
Missing option: I eat my flies straight up, you insensitive clod!
Yep, sounds like like elementary school..
This would be highly welcome as I'm often away from home and miss shows I might want to record, also could give peace of mind that it is programmed to record the show you really really really don't want to miss.
Of course, it being PC-like and on the internet, I wonder how secure it is. I'd hate to got on a trip in July, hoping this is recording stages of the Tour de France and coming home to a title "SUXX0RS11 UR 0WN3D1!" and a mess of Oprah shows.
the horror, the horror
How long before your GPSr goes dark, too?
Their major pipe provider could probably care less what they do, same as Savvis did, as long as customers paid their bills. The only people bright enough to figure out who they are are geeks who use traceroute.
In related news the CEO said, "To make up for the lost revenue, we'll host pr0n. We'll be actively competing with GoatSex Guy."
Maybe they got the headline mixed up...
A Sad Loss For NASA and Science (The Genesis Story)
OOPS (The SP2 Story)
It's not space is difficult, we just don't have enough experience with it. When we become complacent is when we're surprised. Making calculation errors (feet instead of metres), wrong kind of glue on foam, etc. And sadly, many errors occur because NASA is ambitious, but funding is somewhat limited (you can go to Mars, but we'll cut your budget and you'll have to make do.)
I've wondered why nobody has pursued Bush's illegitimate and aborted child the same way they have the TANG stuff. What I've read of it was he had a former girlfriend pregnant and the child was quietly aborted and suddenly nobody has any information on it and the former girlfriend refused to discuss it. I understand issues of privacy, but politics in the past have done little to ensure protection of individuals when the stakes are high.
Presidents don't make jobs.
Presidents do, however, erase jobless numbers. Reagan fudged the unemployment figures to eliminate those who no longer qualify for unemployment. Ta-Da! Unemployment dropped. Have you noticed how congress has not extended unemployment benefits?
"like a million souls cried out and were suddenly silenced"
Studio rep: "We've looked and tried we have very little to work with."
Cheney: "We invaded Iraq on less! Sue him or get some bullshit injuction!"
Network rep: "We may have a solution..."
Cheney: "Speak!"
Network rep: "It'll start playing and then..."
Cheney: "What? WHAT!?!?"
Network rep: "We'll suddenly cut over to Heidi.." *evil grin*
Cheney: "Brilliant!"
Network rep: "And they call us 'Liberal Media' HA HA HA HA HAAAH!"
Cheney: "HA HA HA!!!"
Network rep: "Bush will love it, naturally."
Cheney: "Oh, yes, it's about all we let him watch!"
I think it's because it's in the news and Bill likes to see his name in print.
Hard for me to tell, who are you refering to? Diebold heads? Innocent state employees caught in the crossfire? Or the stupid shit who failed to understand the concept of 'Due Diligence'?
Oh, and by the way, I know it's not the custom in the political arena, but isn't a leader supposed to take responsibility for the errors of his subordinates?
You misunderstand...
"Lockyer determined sufficient evidence existed to go forward with a false claims lawsuit against Diebold," the statement said. The state's top lawyer earlier had dropped a criminal investigation of Diebold.
It's an electon year, right? Even if he's not up for re-election, it's the natural behavior of a politician.
To whit:
Diebold Vice President Thomas Swidarski said in a statement that the company was pleased Lockyer dropped the probe. Despite Lockyer's decision to sue, the company is "confident that the state's decision to intervene will aid in a fair and dispassionate examination of the issues raised in the case," Swidarski said.
What Swidarski really oughta said, "[the company] is confident that this is a political ploy and will amount to nothing."
I dunno, been a long time since I actually listened to music stations on FM (or even AM) I have satellite, which done beat it all. =)
There's probably about 5 flavors of pop stations, all owned by outfits like Clear Channel, ABC/Disney/CapCities, etc. which are probably all programmed anyway and DJ's don't even exist, but are taped. There was a station in Michigan, WIOG iirc, which was pretty much like this 10 years ago.
'' the programming that makes a station's personality and connection to listeners can't be duplicated by a computer.
Indeed, I think it's something like /dev/rand > /dev/playlist
That strikes me as utterly walking into a law office and screaming, "Sue me!" .. but then, Microsoft has enough money to fight or even intimidate, but it seems completely pointless. It's hard to believe MSN could be so blatant, normally there's some craftyness to their attempts to lose money, but this... geez.
"It results in a more pleasant experience because you don't have the ads or the DJs,'' Rob Bennett, senior director for MSN Entertainment, said during a press briefing last week.
And a more pleasant, profitable experience for MSN Entertainment...
genuine-bolex-watches
I'm pretty sure they mean bollocks, or should have...
Copy radiostation formats
Use their call letters
Profit!
Hm..
More Huck Finn.
After school a friend and I would invariably hang out at a pond building rafts, racing across the pond, falling in, coming home with school clothes covered in mud and smelling of brackish water (with the odd frog in a pocket or jar of crayfish.)
Keep in mind there's a whole generation (or 1.5 generations) who never had a chance to play some of these in arcades. They're still fun games, the trick is you practically need to show them already being played to attract interest, where hype usually moves something like d00m 3
I was sorry not to see Gauntlet included, maybe that'll be in the future. Crystal Castles was always visually appealing and fun (if aggrevating at times.)
I think Microsoft has some of the right ideas, trying to develop an infrastructure which has a need for their products, but they'll need businesses to buy into it more than government.
And at that point the conference center's FUD alarm went off and people fled into the streets.Here's a clue for you. Teachers spend so much time preparing students to take tests (Ever hear of a political candidate saying they've got a better idea on making schools accountable through testing?) there's scant time to teach outside of a packaged program, let along politics or patriotism (and religion, that's a livewire in the local schools, don't touch it.)