That's OK, maybe Lucas will take out the extra Jabba scene when he releases the Super Special Edition that includes the additional music number where Mark Hammill and Alec Guiness perform a duet with the cantina band.
Well, if you look at the first trilogy, almost noone who who he or she first appeared to be.
Crazy old coot turns out to be famous powerful Jedi. Darth Vader is Luke's father. Leia is Luke's sister. Lando is working for Darth Vader Han Solo is a wussie (i.e., Greedo shot first)
I've given up on Episode 3 having some kind of really mind-blowing wrap up to the story since the plots of 1 and 2 sucked so bad, but I'm sure there will be some kind of big twist in the end.
My vote is for Yoda being the true Dark Lord, Obi-Wan becomes Darth Vader and Anakin goes off into obscurity (perhaps taking Obi-Wan's identity)
You completely missed the reference to the Mystery Science Theater 300 theme song, didn't you?
I appreciate your tirade, but really, you should realize that you're pointing at the wrong target. C'mon now, just lighten up a bit. All I said was that in one place the movie didn't make much sense and I'm willing to let it slide. If I were really the person you are chastising why in the world would I be posting in this forum.
Why is there always some condescending person who has to overreact to a light-hearted comment? You should try responding to what I say rather than what you think I'm saying.
Well, here's the way I see it. The explanation for humans as given in the movie was extrememly weak. Therefore, in order to "stay" in the world of the movie, I say to myself, "The computers need humans for some reason that is not clearly explained." I don't need to know what that is exactly, I'm willing to accept that it's not adequately explained, or the explanation doesn't make any sense.
Just repeat to yourself, "It's just a show, I should really just relax."
At the end of the day it's "robots vs. kung fu". What could be cooler?
Yeah, my first thought was, "Oh, vampires and werewolves... yeah, that's #&^%#*ing original."
Looks like another example of 94 minutes of padding used to extract a 2 minute trailer and snatch enough ticket sales to break even before word-of-mouth gets out.
There used to be a GW shop less than an hour from where I live now, but since the fairly big store was mostly empty (only about 20% of the merchandise they could have had in it), I seriously doubt the store lasted more than a year.
Oh, well, I was never into the whole "dwarves with mohawks" thing anyway...
...who was munching scenery with the best of them in "X-Men", with her on-again-off-again African/Caribbean/I-don't-know-what accent (Storm is from Kenya).
Halle Berry is a fine actress and a beautiful woman, she was just woefully miscast... not her fault! For a chance to work with Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart, et al, _I'd_ play Storm. Imagine a 250 lb. chunky, doughy, buzz-cut, pasty-white "weather witch".
Also don't forget Hugh Jackman, who was superb as Wolverine. And Famke Janssen, who could stand there staring and be just fine with me...:-)
Yeah, but the USPTO, in their rush to issue patents for any conceivable idea, would hardly bother to check who the patent was being issued to. After all, they don't bother with prior art or obviousness.
I don't know, but one of the reasons I use a 10-year-old IBM keyboard, aside of the fact that old IBM keybaords are the best ever made is that they don't have those $(*&^%$ Windows keys.
I use TweakUI to set "My Documents" to my data directory, called, suprisingly, "\data". Most programs default to that directory, so there's a chance I'm no more than one subdir from where I need to be. I find the whole "My" think incredibly annoying and patronizing and remove all references to it.
I would imagine each user could do that, since there's nothing that the OS _expects_ to be there.
TweakUI is the best piece of software MS ever wrote for using their GUI. It allows you to change some of the really stupid things they do. Windows is actually quite flexible, Microsoft just chooses really bad default settings (like the one to hide file extensions, which has to be single stupidest thing they've ever done). Why they keep TweakUI such a secret is beyond me... it's officially unsupported, even though it's been around in one form or another for about 6 or 7 years.
...is because they apparently believe they derive a lot of new business by tricking people into their sites through innocent-sounding names, typosquatting and other devious tricks. Look at porn spam, which is now starting to avoid all the keywords that filters would use to pick them out. This kind of predatory marketing is particularly odious because it affects people (like me) who would never willing go to these sites and has no way of discriminating against children, whom even the most hard-core porn advocates generally agree should not be exposed. At this time, I wouldn't even feel comfortable giving my kids an e-mail account unless I personally previewed everything that came in. That's disgusting and pathetic. If this happened with physical mail, it would be stopped immediately by the Post Office and FBI.
If I had a brick-and-mortar store called "Freddie's Fuzzie Kitties" and people walked in to find a hardcore porn store, it would be closed in 10 minutes, and rightly so.
Why is the Internet treated so different from the physical world? I realize that most of this garbage comes from overseas, which makes enforcement difficult, but it's also clear no effort is being made to address the problem.
I also have a number of system directories set to a central location: %basedrive%:\sys. My Desktop, Favorites, Start Menu and Toolbars are all there. I also have a set of start up batch files for all my machines so that when I launch 4NT (a kick butt command-shell, cmd compatibility, but as powerful as many *nix shells), so that regardless of what machine I'm on, my environment is set up consistently, regardless of the physical location of everything. Even if I need to or like to use Windows, there's no reason to use it the way Microsoft does.
1. I use 4NT which fully supports UNicode long filenames. Your information about WIndows seems to date from about 1996.
2. Writing software that is sold for Windows? I'm so glad that Linux turns you into some kind of coding machine, but the fact remains that 90% of the world still uses Windows, and some of us are happy to work for them, and their customers.
3. And if Slashdot weren't inhabited by a bunch of know-nothing college students and knee-jerk Linux zealots who think a little bit of computer expertise somehow makes them knowledgeable about business, politics or anything else, you'd be laughed out of town.
Of course, the approproate response would have been to mod you to negative infinity for being off-topic.
I reorganize my icons by functionality. My Start Menu has about 7 items in it. Organizing by company is stupid, although it's the best an installer can do without a standard.
I agree. This doesn't sound like anything different from all the patterns (real or not) discovered by this writer playing with his TI-30 while bored in math class.
Of course, the article was sparse on details, but it seems they are taking a physical sciences approach to mathematics... make a hypothesis and experiment to see if it is correct. In math, this is useless because as a system of logic, mathematical proofs can be either proven or disproven 100% (Godel exceptions notwithstanding). That never happens in the physical world.
OK, links to help files are potentially useful, but most of the others aren't. How many times would you really use a the README file icon? How many times would you use the icon to sign up for AT&T or AOL.
The standard that Microsoft has (surprisimgly) adopted is that installers shouldn't gunk up your start menu with a lot of extraneous stuff.
Another peeve of mine is how companies will create a group for their company and another group under it for their product. I understand they want to be known, but this is just egotistical and annoying.
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I know that was added in. That was the joke.
That's OK, maybe Lucas will take out the extra Jabba scene when he releases the Super Special Edition that includes the additional music number where Mark Hammill and Alec Guiness perform a duet with the cantina band.
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Well, if you look at the first trilogy, almost noone who who he or she first appeared to be.
Crazy old coot turns out to be famous powerful Jedi.
Darth Vader is Luke's father.
Leia is Luke's sister.
Lando is working for Darth Vader
Han Solo is a wussie (i.e., Greedo shot first)
I've given up on Episode 3 having some kind of really mind-blowing wrap up to the story since the plots of 1 and 2 sucked so bad, but I'm sure there will be some kind of big twist in the end.
My vote is for Yoda being the true Dark Lord, Obi-Wan becomes Darth Vader and Anakin goes off into obscurity (perhaps taking Obi-Wan's identity)
That said, it's probably as easy as getting a DBA from the town ($10-$50, probably)
Wow, I knew Database Administrators were cheap, but not that cheap!
You completely missed the reference to the Mystery Science Theater 300 theme song, didn't you?
I appreciate your tirade, but really, you should realize that you're pointing at the wrong target. C'mon now, just lighten up a bit. All I said was that in one place the movie didn't make much sense and I'm willing to let it slide. If I were really the person you are chastising why in the world would I be posting in this forum.
Why is there always some condescending person who has to overreact to a light-hearted comment? You should try responding to what I say rather than what you think I'm saying.
Well, here's the way I see it. The explanation for humans as given in the movie was extrememly weak. Therefore, in order to "stay" in the world of the movie, I say to myself, "The computers need humans for some reason that is not clearly explained." I don't need to know what that is exactly, I'm willing to accept that it's not adequately explained, or the explanation doesn't make any sense.
Just repeat to yourself, "It's just a show, I should really just relax."
At the end of the day it's "robots vs. kung fu". What could be cooler?
Yeah, my first thought was, "Oh, vampires and werewolves... yeah, that's #&^%#*ing original."
Looks like another example of 94 minutes of padding used to extract a 2 minute trailer and snatch enough ticket sales to break even before word-of-mouth gets out.
Yawn is right.
There used to be a GW shop less than an hour from where I live now, but since the fairly big store was mostly empty (only about 20% of the merchandise they could have had in it), I seriously doubt the store lasted more than a year.
Oh, well, I was never into the whole "dwarves with mohawks" thing anyway...
...who was munching scenery with the best of them in "X-Men", with her on-again-off-again African/Caribbean/I-don't-know-what accent (Storm is from Kenya).
:-)
Halle Berry is a fine actress and a beautiful woman, she was just woefully miscast... not her fault! For a chance to work with Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart, et al, _I'd_ play Storm. Imagine a 250 lb. chunky, doughy, buzz-cut, pasty-white "weather witch".
Also don't forget Hugh Jackman, who was superb as Wolverine.
And Famke Janssen, who could stand there staring and be just fine with me...
Yeah, but the USPTO, in their rush to issue patents for any conceivable idea, would hardly bother to check who the patent was being issued to. After all, they don't bother with prior art or obviousness.
... who saw the headline and wondered why Harlan Ellison was talking about Linux?
Well, let's see a simple, useful product that works well, does what it advertises without adding a whole lot of useless bloat and complexity.
Microsoft hasn't done that since, well, ever.
I'm not sure he ever started the scripts for episodes 1 and 2!
No, but I can imagine. I think a more likely typo would be googlr.com or googlw.com.
Let's just hope that this doesn't end in a closed-casket funeral and laments of "He tampered in God's domain."
I don't know, but one of the reasons I use a 10-year-old IBM keyboard, aside of the fact that old IBM keybaords are the best ever made is that they don't have those $(*&^%$ Windows keys.
I use TweakUI to set "My Documents" to my data directory, called, suprisingly, "\data". Most programs default to that directory, so there's a chance I'm no more than one subdir from where I need to be. I find the whole "My" think incredibly annoying and patronizing and remove all references to it.
I would imagine each user could do that, since there's nothing that the OS _expects_ to be there.
TweakUI is the best piece of software MS ever wrote for using their GUI. It allows you to change some of the really stupid things they do. Windows is actually quite flexible, Microsoft just chooses really bad default settings (like the one to hide file extensions, which has to be single stupidest thing they've ever done). Why they keep TweakUI such a secret is beyond me... it's officially unsupported, even though it's been around in one form or another for about 6 or 7 years.
...is because they apparently believe they derive a lot of new business by tricking people into their sites through innocent-sounding names, typosquatting and other devious tricks. Look at porn spam, which is now starting to avoid all the keywords that filters would use to pick them out. This kind of predatory marketing is particularly odious because it affects people (like me) who would never willing go to these sites and has no way of discriminating against children, whom even the most hard-core porn advocates generally agree should not be exposed. At this time, I wouldn't even feel comfortable giving my kids an e-mail account unless I personally previewed everything that came in. That's disgusting and pathetic. If this happened with physical mail, it would be stopped immediately by the Post Office and FBI.
If I had a brick-and-mortar store called "Freddie's Fuzzie Kitties" and people walked in to find a hardcore porn store, it would be closed in 10 minutes, and rightly so.
Why is the Internet treated so different from the physical world? I realize that most of this garbage comes from overseas, which makes enforcement difficult, but it's also clear no effort is being made to address the problem.
There you go. You think just like me.
I also have a number of system directories set to a central location: %basedrive%:\sys. My Desktop, Favorites, Start Menu and Toolbars are all there. I also have a set of start up batch files for all my machines so that when I launch 4NT (a kick butt command-shell, cmd compatibility, but as powerful as many *nix shells), so that regardless of what machine I'm on, my environment is set up consistently, regardless of the physical location of everything. Even if I need to or like to use Windows, there's no reason to use it the way Microsoft does.
1. I use 4NT which fully supports UNicode long filenames. Your information about WIndows seems to date from about 1996.
2. Writing software that is sold for Windows? I'm so glad that Linux turns you into some kind of coding machine, but the fact remains that 90% of the world still uses Windows, and some of us are happy to work for them, and their customers.
3. And if Slashdot weren't inhabited by a bunch of know-nothing college students and knee-jerk Linux zealots who think a little bit of computer expertise somehow makes them knowledgeable about business, politics or anything else, you'd be laughed out of town.
Of course, the approproate response would have been to mod you to negative infinity for being off-topic.
I reorganize my icons by functionality. My Start Menu has about 7 items in it. Organizing by company is stupid, although it's the best an installer can do without a standard.
Yes, it's called Add/Remove programs. It's been there since Windows 95.
I agree. This doesn't sound like anything different from all the patterns (real or not) discovered by this writer playing with his TI-30 while bored in math class.
Of course, the article was sparse on details, but it seems they are taking a physical sciences approach to mathematics... make a hypothesis and experiment to see if it is correct. In math, this is useless because as a system of logic, mathematical proofs can be either proven or disproven 100% (Godel exceptions notwithstanding). That never happens in the physical world.
OK, links to help files are potentially useful, but most of the others aren't. How many times would you really use a the README file icon? How many times would you use the icon to sign up for AT&T or AOL.
The standard that Microsoft has (surprisimgly) adopted is that installers shouldn't gunk up your start menu with a lot of extraneous stuff.
Another peeve of mine is how companies will create a group for their company and another group under it for their product. I understand they want to be known, but this is just egotistical and annoying.
So you use Linux. Hooray for you.
Some of us are required to use Windows by our jobs and some of us actually use Windows by choice. Imagine that.
Also, my OS does not use 8.3 filenames thank you very much. And drive letters are a useful convenience, but not really necessary.