No, Although that was the original idea 25 years ago, Lucas decided quite a while ago that he was going to stop at 6.
This is an excerpt from an online chat with Rick McCallum:
corren23 asks: Is it true that Lucas will not make episodes 7, 8, and9? If it is why won't he? Thanks StarWars_McCallum: It's definitely true. StarWars_McCallum: These films are so complex and time consuming and he has other projects that he wants to do.
While its a nice thought, you may want to re-read the article. It looks like the rats are "controlled" simply by stimulating the area of the brain that would tell the rat that its whisker brushed against something, causing it to turn the other way, and when it did so, it would get a pleasureable reaponse. Its not as if they're destroying its thought process. A similar situation would be those blinders sometimes shown on some horses. Right side pulled allowing light in; horse sees it and goes that way. Nothing cruel about it.
This technology has some great potential applications (such as searching for disaster victims under rubble) but I can't help but wonder how long it will be until some kid starts asking his parents for a remote controlled rat for Cristmas.
The issue isn't about buying cds and it never was. It was about the RIAA and its little puppets unfair (and personally I think illegal) practices of copy protecting CDs so you can't rip them to listen to them somewhere else or even play them in your computer at all (along with all the other DMCA nonsense that stands with it).
If I download something and listen to it and it is something I want to continue listening to, then I go out and purchase the cd. I don't like what's been going on with the music companies any more than the next person, but that doesn't mean that I'm going to use it as an excuse to stop supporting artists who I honestly believe, deserve the support. (or in the case of some, as justification for their downlolading habits).
Don't get me wrong, I think the emergence of napster and the like was a great thing which could have been (and was to an extent) an enormous boost to the music industry if they hasn't been so short sighted that they jumped on it and started throwing lawsuits at everybody involved without thinking about it first. I certainly took advantage of the music sharing services as much as anybody. But rather than just constantly taking everything that was good, I used it as a method to decide which albums were worth buying (supporting the artist, blah blah) and which were not. </$0.02>
This is certainly only one out of a million possible views, but I see it as a reflection of our society as a whole. People these days would just rather have "somebody else" do it for them in most aspects of their lives. Obviously this is a very broad statement, but it seems that we're seeing less and less "do it yourselfers" in virtually every area. Too bad, when a geek locks himself (or to be fair, herself as well) in a room to work on something, we've seen some pretty cool things emerge which have undeniably made technology history.
Well, that, and the fact that IE6 which it shipped with had a security hole big enough for the Titanic to fit through. Not to mention the numerous major holes like one found in the remote access feature and any number of others which don't come to mind right now.
I think that's true to a certain point. While a highly realistic game is certainly great to look at, sometimes a company will concentrate so much on the appearance that gameplay will be sacraficed. I believe the key is to find a balance so both the visual and playability aspects are developed to a reasonable point (unless of course the company has the free resources to maxamize both).
As far as realism taking away from the quality of the game, I would disagree with that statement unless of course it is at the cost of an enjoyable playing experience.
Good point, but given Sony's track record, I'd say that's doubtful, even though if I remember correctly switching to the 0.13 micron process for making chips allows them to get more chips out of the same material, significantly reducing the cost im the long term for the producer (Sony).
It seems more likely that they'd pocket the difference and keep going until it looks like the market is starting to die down, then lower the price of the console to draw in any stragglers (ala dreamcast).
While its nice to see a company keeping up with the latest technology in an effort to stay ahead, sony might have been better off doing this before everyone and their dog already owned a PS2.
I can't imagine this being extremely profitable for sega. Although a lot of the new devices are built more like gaming controllers (I know the buttons on the latest HP jornada is similar to an oldschool NES controller), how many people would buy retail games to install on a handheld device when there's so many better alternatives for gaming.
If the games are priced the same way as console games I can't see many people buying them, and if they are cheap enough to raise the quantity demanded significantly enough, sega probably won't make much money on them anyway.
Great idea. I just contacted 4 local news shows and the 2 main newspapers in the area with the story and all relevant information. I don't know how much of a difference my messages will make, but if everybody followed suit and took 5 minutes of their time to send an email or two to their local news agencies it might make an impact.
PetSWEARhouse's main strength is the fragmentation of the people and the relatively small number of opponents. If everybody banded together and made a stand, that coompany would be burried in the wave of public backlash against it.
nothing starts out on top. I can think of a few other projects that started out on the weak side but through the long process of trial and error and hard work, eventually proved to be worthwile.
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No, Although that was the original idea 25 years ago, Lucas decided quite a while ago that he was going to stop at 6.
This is an excerpt from an online chat with Rick McCallum:
corren23 asks: Is it true that Lucas will not make episodes 7, 8, and9? If it is why won't he? Thanks
StarWars_McCallum: It's definitely true.
StarWars_McCallum: These films are so complex and time consuming and he has other projects that he wants to do.
While its a nice thought, you may want to re-read the article. It looks like the rats are "controlled" simply by stimulating the area of the brain that would tell the rat that its whisker brushed against something, causing it to turn the other way, and when it did so, it would get a pleasureable reaponse. Its not as if they're destroying its thought process. A similar situation would be those blinders sometimes shown on some horses. Right side pulled allowing light in; horse sees it and goes that way. Nothing cruel about it.
This technology has some great potential applications (such as searching for disaster victims under rubble) but I can't help but wonder how long it will be until some kid starts asking his parents for a remote controlled rat for Cristmas.
If I download something and listen to it and it is something I want to continue listening to, then I go out and purchase the cd. I don't like what's been going on with the music companies any more than the next person, but that doesn't mean that I'm going to use it as an excuse to stop supporting artists who I honestly believe, deserve the support. (or in the case of some, as justification for their downlolading habits).
Don't get me wrong, I think the emergence of napster and the like was a great thing which could have been (and was to an extent) an enormous boost to the music industry if they hasn't been so short sighted that they jumped on it and started throwing lawsuits at everybody involved without thinking about it first. I certainly took advantage of the music sharing services as much as anybody. But rather than just constantly taking everything that was good, I used it as a method to decide which albums were worth buying (supporting the artist, blah blah) and which were not. </$0.02>
This is certainly only one out of a million possible views, but I see it as a reflection of our society as a whole. People these days would just rather have "somebody else" do it for them in most aspects of their lives. Obviously this is a very broad statement, but it seems that we're seeing less and less "do it yourselfers" in virtually every area. Too bad, when a geek locks himself (or to be fair, herself as well) in a room to work on something, we've seen some pretty cool things emerge which have undeniably made technology history.
Well, that, and the fact that IE6 which it shipped with had a security hole big enough for the Titanic to fit through. Not to mention the numerous major holes like one found in the remote access feature and any number of others which don't come to mind right now.
I think that's true to a certain point. While a highly realistic game is certainly great to look at, sometimes a company will concentrate so much on the appearance that gameplay will be sacraficed. I believe the key is to find a balance so both the visual and playability aspects are developed to a reasonable point (unless of course the company has the free resources to maxamize both).
As far as realism taking away from the quality of the game, I would disagree with that statement unless of course it is at the cost of an enjoyable playing experience.
Quoted from Nintendo's vice president of marketing:
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"A GameCube cut was contingent on whether any Sony price cut is to $199 or $249, from the current price of $299.
"We haven't made a decision on (a price cut)," Harrison said. "Sony's expected to make the first move and then we'll see where we stand."
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/04/02/ninten
Good point, but given Sony's track record, I'd say that's doubtful, even though if I remember correctly switching to the 0.13 micron process for making chips allows them to get more chips out of the same material, significantly reducing the cost im the long term for the producer (Sony).
It seems more likely that they'd pocket the difference and keep going until it looks like the market is starting to die down, then lower the price of the console to draw in any stragglers (ala dreamcast).
While its nice to see a company keeping up with the latest technology in an effort to stay ahead, sony might have been better off doing this before everyone and their dog already owned a PS2.
I can't imagine this being extremely profitable for sega. Although a lot of the new devices are built more like gaming controllers (I know the buttons on the latest HP jornada is similar to an oldschool NES controller), how many people would buy retail games to install on a handheld device when there's so many better alternatives for gaming.
If the games are priced the same way as console games I can't see many people buying them, and if they are cheap enough to raise the quantity demanded significantly enough, sega probably won't make much money on them anyway.
Does this mean we'll see schoolchildren offering excuses like "I dont have the homework because I got rooted by a bully"?
Great idea. I just contacted 4 local news shows and the 2 main newspapers in the area with the story and all relevant information. I don't know how much of a difference my messages will make, but if everybody followed suit and took 5 minutes of their time to send an email or two to their local news agencies it might make an impact.
PetSWEARhouse's main strength is the fragmentation of the people and the relatively small number of opponents. If everybody banded together and made a stand, that coompany would be burried in the wave of public backlash against it.
nothing starts out on top. I can think of a few other projects that started out on the weak side but through the long process of trial and error and hard work, eventually proved to be worthwile.