Why not instead tell us why Denethor went mad? Or spend a few words expounding on Gandalf's achieivement as the Enemy of Sauron, or the West's general reverence for Frodo's accomplishment? Or show us Eowyn and Faramir meeting each other in the Houses of Healing?
Probably because nobody need to know these things to understand the film, which is about Frodo's journey to destroy the ring and that journey's effects on him.
Denethor is a tragic figure in the book, and a villian in the movie. But the only difference between those two characterizations is that the book gives us more background. Frodo knows very little of that. From the hobbits' point of view, Denethor is a villian.
The same for Gandalf. He is a Maiar spirit, but in the movie he is just a kindly old man who might be a bit impotent in the ways of magic. And that's what he is in the book too, if you don't know his story and history and his motivations. From the hobbits' points of view, Gandalf is very old and very wise and not much more than that.
Again, Eowyn and Faramir are important to the book (which is about the world of Middle-Earth) but they are irrelevant to Frodo's quest; their story does not interact with his journey.
Likewise, the world's reverence is not something that Frodo has in mind during the journey, and it is not something that ultimately changes his character.
Having read the books, these simplifications and omissions seem like a very big deal to us. But the average moviegoer really won't know, and if he does know, he won't care. The movies are almost too long for the general public as it is.
That's why we have the extended editions, I guess. It's where PJ can add material that is integral to the world but not part of Frodo's journey. And that's exactly what we want to see as fans of the trilogy, but it's not important to the telling of the original movies.
It will be solved when you get publishers to stop making milestone dates based on fiscal reports and start paying attention to the development process.
Rushing to beta is just as bad as rushing to release, but many developers are forced to do it because they are working on a timeline that has little room for internal review and repeated small-scale testing.
Counter-example, Blizzard Entertainment and World of Warcraft: they have been testing internally for months, and the game is already stable and polished. When it hits beta, they will be able to manage it, because their "beta" will be more stable than some games that are on store shelves right now. That kind of development process is hard to come, and only a very few large developers have the clout to tell the distributor to STFU until the product is done.
VMware does not pass emulate your video card's features, it just uses a simple framebuffer. Since the virtual OS only sees a SVGA adapter, it cannot access your hardware 3D acceleration. So it is forced to emulate all the texturing, bump mapping, lighting, etc. through software. Obviously this leads to unacceptable game performance.
His only other (IMO) decent film was Heavenly Creatures, which was also a borrowed storyline. Braindead, Meet the Feebles, Bad Taste,... [h]e borrows storylines or concepts, plasters them into massively hyped pop hollywood blockbusters.
Hahahaha! Thanks for the laugh. I'm trying to imagine how a studio would promote Meet the Feebles -- "Nasal sex - it's the next Big Thing".
They need to sue Microsoft for allowing common users to see what services are running. No user has any business looking at what processes are running on their systems.
That isn't funny, its frightening and prophetic. Where do you think "trustworthy computing" is going? The concept certainly doesn't mean that the user is the one to be trusted.
See, some folks *want* to run a damned bot. They aren't really interested in spending their life poking around doing the janitorial portions of the game, building up. They're interested in the more exciting portions of the game.
Everybody understands that, when you're in somebody's house, you play by their rules or you're not welcome to play at all.
Well, when you're playing on Blizzard's Closed Battle.Net servers, you're in their house. If you don't like their rules, then you can play Diablo II off-line. You can play it on a LAN. You can play on Open Battle.Net. Nobody cares what you do in private company.
But you DAMN WELL better play by the rules if you're going to play it on Closed Battle.Net. Blizzard has every right to throw you out and ban your CD-KEY.
Some games recognize this (Open Source and community-driven games are particularly good here) and try to minimize the amount of drudge work a player must do, if he so desires.
Will you please tell me what the hell is left when you take out the point-and-click from Diablo II? Isn't the whole levelling process the point of the game?
Blizzard enters the arena of being reprehensible when they *also* try squashing bnetd, so that the people that purchase a copy of Diablo 2 cannot go elsewhere and play their game in such a manner as *they* would like to do.
Way to confuse the issue. Last time I checked, you didn't need a Battle.Net clone to start a TCP/IP game. If you want to play the game by your own rules, find a forum somewhere and list your game IPs.
In a Matrix thread, anything involving Lord of the Rings will get you modded down.
In a Lord of the Rings thread, anything involving Star Wars will get you modded down.
In a Star Wars thread, anything involving Star Trek will get you modded down.
Alternatively, create a post using only items from the following list: 1. Hot Grits 2. Natalie Portman 3. Beowolf Clusters 4. In Soviet Russia 5. Chratctear Inrvesoin 6.... Profit!
Calling the/. admins a bunch of flaming fags will also work, but I'm not responsible if you lose more than karma.
Let's hope not! Given the state of Political Correctness in America, Han Solo would have to be a woman, and Princess Leia would have to he his lesbian lover. And if you think this is funny or that I'm trolling, read this first.
Actually, I might see that for the laugh value. It's probably the only way left to get me to watch another Star Wars movie.
Yeah, but I figured that the blatant comparisons to Jesus Christ would be enough ego-tripping for Lucas.
Then again, that only offended a handful of Christians. Maybe he's thinking bigger now, so he's throwing Moses into the mix to get the Jews and Muslims pissed too.
First of all, a 26 page "script" does not translate to a full movie's worth of run time. It doesn't even translate to a 30 minute HBO special. I've see longer first-draft plot treatments. And yet this thing includes camera directions and postproduction notes, like specific dissolves and cuts.
That this "script" has got to be some fanboy's interpolation between Ep II and Ep IV, cobbled together out of famous epics and the author's (somewhat lacking) imagination.
Even Lucas is not egotistical enough to redo the "kill-all-newborn-sons-out-of-fear-of-the-prophesi sed-one" thing... is he?
Last time I checked, Geocities still sucked, and Slashdot still had a million visitors. So please stop submitting stories with Geocities links because they WILL NOT WORK. Ever.
There's really no excuse for your non-geek friends and parents to not use Google either. I would go so far as to tell them to use Google as their home page. Domain-name-guessing is NEVER as accurate as the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button.
B&W was so fascinated with its originality and innovative technology that it completely forgot to be an entertaining game.
Not to mention that the state-of-the-art AI was still nowhere smart enough to be allowed to run free. The only sense of satisfaction I ever got from B&W was when I convinced my giant cow to stop eating villagers. That small victory did not pay for the hours of frustration spent training him to stop pooping on houses.
In the end, I deleted my saved games and left the game installed to show people how pretty my graphics card could look during the intro sequence.
That's assuming that all websites have www in the name, and those things without www in the name cannot be websites.
In other words, email@www.somesite.com will still go to a bogus IP, ftp to www.somesite.com will still go to a bogus IP, and misspellings of slashdot.org will never be caught.
So... the speaker is still lying or clueless, or both, and trying to mislead people as to the side effects of this system.
I hate it when I'm wrong, but I hate it more when I'm right.
"Paxfire's Sullivan said his company's service is set up so that only web traffic returns an IP address. Domain queries for non-web applications such as email or FTP are dropped or return error messages, he said."
Bullshit. He's lying or clueless, or both. It's not like DNS requests have a flag saying "I'm sending this query for a web page!" My take? They're lying to hide the side-effects of this blatant violation of internet standards from the general public.
Someone needs to design a simple "anti-stupidity" tutorial and convince the major systems manufacturers to have it come up the first time a browser is launched.
You know, common sense things like:
- Everything you see while on the internet is written by other people. Just because it is there does not always mean that it is true.
- Just because something is flashing and saying "CLICK HERE" does not mean that you have to click on it. Some companies will do just about anything to trick you.
- Don't click "Yes" to strange prompts without reading them carefully. You may be agreeing to something that is not in your best interest.
- Don't be afraid to ask other people for help, but make sure to get an explanation so that you do not have to ask again.
No, it doesn't. At least not the preinstall on the HP Pavilions I've seen. I do free/cheap support around my neighborhood and so far, everyone I've helped has had a cable modem connected to a pre-installed XP Home system.
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Why not instead tell us why Denethor went mad? Or spend a few words expounding on Gandalf's achieivement as the Enemy of Sauron, or the West's general reverence for Frodo's accomplishment? Or show us Eowyn and Faramir meeting each other in the Houses of Healing?
Probably because nobody need to know these things to understand the film, which is about Frodo's journey to destroy the ring and that journey's effects on him.
Denethor is a tragic figure in the book, and a villian in the movie. But the only difference between those two characterizations is that the book gives us more background. Frodo knows very little of that. From the hobbits' point of view, Denethor is a villian.
The same for Gandalf. He is a Maiar spirit, but in the movie he is just a kindly old man who might be a bit impotent in the ways of magic. And that's what he is in the book too, if you don't know his story and history and his motivations. From the hobbits' points of view, Gandalf is very old and very wise and not much more than that.
Again, Eowyn and Faramir are important to the book (which is about the world of Middle-Earth) but they are irrelevant to Frodo's quest; their story does not interact with his journey.
Likewise, the world's reverence is not something that Frodo has in mind during the journey, and it is not something that ultimately changes his character.
Having read the books, these simplifications and omissions seem like a very big deal to us. But the average moviegoer really won't know, and if he does know, he won't care. The movies are almost too long for the general public as it is.
That's why we have the extended editions, I guess. It's where PJ can add material that is integral to the world but not part of Frodo's journey. And that's exactly what we want to see as fans of the trilogy, but it's not important to the telling of the original movies.
It will be solved when you get publishers to stop making milestone dates based on fiscal reports and start paying attention to the development process.
Rushing to beta is just as bad as rushing to release, but many developers are forced to do it because they are working on a timeline that has little room for internal review and repeated small-scale testing.
Counter-example, Blizzard Entertainment and World of Warcraft: they have been testing internally for months, and the game is already stable and polished. When it hits beta, they will be able to manage it, because their "beta" will be more stable than some games that are on store shelves right now. That kind of development process is hard to come, and only a very few large developers have the clout to tell the distributor to STFU until the product is done.
VMware does not pass emulate your video card's features, it just uses a simple framebuffer. Since the virtual OS only sees a SVGA adapter, it cannot access your hardware 3D acceleration. So it is forced to emulate all the texturing, bump mapping, lighting, etc. through software. Obviously this leads to unacceptable game performance.
His only other (IMO) decent film was Heavenly Creatures, which was also a borrowed storyline. Braindead, Meet the Feebles, Bad Taste, ... [h]e borrows storylines or concepts, plasters them into massively hyped pop hollywood blockbusters.
Hahahaha! Thanks for the laugh. I'm trying to imagine how a studio would promote Meet the Feebles -- "Nasal sex - it's the next Big Thing".
They need to sue Microsoft for allowing common users to see what services are running. No user has any business looking at what processes are running on their systems.
That isn't funny, its frightening and prophetic. Where do you think "trustworthy computing" is going? The concept certainly doesn't mean that the user is the one to be trusted.
See, some folks *want* to run a damned bot. They aren't really interested in spending their life poking around doing the janitorial portions of the game, building up. They're interested in the more exciting portions of the game.
Everybody understands that, when you're in somebody's house, you play by their rules or you're not welcome to play at all.
Well, when you're playing on Blizzard's Closed Battle.Net servers, you're in their house. If you don't like their rules, then you can play Diablo II off-line. You can play it on a LAN. You can play on Open Battle.Net. Nobody cares what you do in private company.
But you DAMN WELL better play by the rules if you're going to play it on Closed Battle.Net. Blizzard has every right to throw you out and ban your CD-KEY.
Some games recognize this (Open Source and community-driven games are particularly good here) and try to minimize the amount of drudge work a player must do, if he so desires.
Will you please tell me what the hell is left when you take out the point-and-click from Diablo II? Isn't the whole levelling process the point of the game?
Blizzard enters the arena of being reprehensible when they *also* try squashing bnetd, so that the people that purchase a copy of Diablo 2 cannot go elsewhere and play their game in such a manner as *they* would like to do.
Way to confuse the issue. Last time I checked, you didn't need a Battle.Net clone to start a TCP/IP game. If you want to play the game by your own rules, find a forum somewhere and list your game IPs.
If you still haven't figured it out, the article says to take out the turntable.
To stop the spam, we just need to shut down Ebay for a week or two. He'll starve to death.
In a Matrix thread, anything involving Lord of the Rings will get you modded down.
... Profit!
/. admins a bunch of flaming fags will also work, but I'm not responsible if you lose more than karma.
In a Lord of the Rings thread, anything involving Star Wars will get you modded down.
In a Star Wars thread, anything involving Star Trek will get you modded down.
Alternatively, create a post using only items from the following list:
1. Hot Grits
2. Natalie Portman
3. Beowolf Clusters
4. In Soviet Russia
5. Chratctear Inrvesoin
6.
Calling the
Let's hope not! Given the state of Political Correctness in America, Han Solo would have to be a woman, and Princess Leia would have to he his lesbian lover. And if you think this is funny or that I'm trolling, read this first.
Actually, I might see that for the laugh value. It's probably the only way left to get me to watch another Star Wars movie.
Yeah, but I figured that the blatant comparisons to Jesus Christ would be enough ego-tripping for Lucas.
Then again, that only offended a handful of Christians. Maybe he's thinking bigger now, so he's throwing Moses into the mix to get the Jews and Muslims pissed too.
Ahahahahahahahaha *gasp* hahahahahahaha *wheeze* hahahahahahahahaha! *collapse*
Where are my mod points when I need them?
First of all, a 26 page "script" does not translate to a full movie's worth of run time. It doesn't even translate to a 30 minute HBO special. I've see longer first-draft plot treatments. And yet this thing includes camera directions and postproduction notes, like specific dissolves and cuts.
i sed-one" thing... is he?
That this "script" has got to be some fanboy's interpolation between Ep II and Ep IV, cobbled together out of famous epics and the author's (somewhat lacking) imagination.
Even Lucas is not egotistical enough to redo the "kill-all-newborn-sons-out-of-fear-of-the-prophes
Last time I checked, Geocities still sucked, and Slashdot still had a million visitors. So please stop submitting stories with Geocities links because they WILL NOT WORK. Ever.
There's really no excuse for your non-geek friends and parents to not use Google either. I would go so far as to tell them to use Google as their home page. Domain-name-guessing is NEVER as accurate as the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button.
B&W was so fascinated with its originality and innovative technology that it completely forgot to be an entertaining game.
Not to mention that the state-of-the-art AI was still nowhere smart enough to be allowed to run free. The only sense of satisfaction I ever got from B&W was when I convinced my giant cow to stop eating villagers. That small victory did not pay for the hours of frustration spent training him to stop pooping on houses.
In the end, I deleted my saved games and left the game installed to show people how pretty my graphics card could look during the intro sequence.
I'm sure plenty of teenagers are thinking along the lines of "the bouncers"...
That's assuming that all websites have www in the name, and those things without www in the name cannot be websites.
In other words, email@www.somesite.com will still go to a bogus IP, ftp to www.somesite.com will still go to a bogus IP, and misspellings of slashdot.org will never be caught.
So... the speaker is still lying or clueless, or both, and trying to mislead people as to the side effects of this system.
I hate it when I'm wrong, but I hate it more when I'm right.
"Paxfire's Sullivan said his company's service is set up so that only web traffic returns an IP address. Domain queries for non-web applications such as email or FTP are dropped or return error messages, he said."
Bullshit. He's lying or clueless, or both. It's not like DNS requests have a flag saying "I'm sending this query for a web page!" My take? They're lying to hide the side-effects of this blatant violation of internet standards from the general public.
Someone needs to design a simple "anti-stupidity" tutorial and convince the major systems manufacturers to have it come up the first time a browser is launched.
You know, common sense things like:
- Everything you see while on the internet is written by other people. Just because it is there does not always mean that it is true.
- Just because something is flashing and saying "CLICK HERE" does not mean that you have to click on it. Some companies will do just about anything to trick you.
- Don't click "Yes" to strange prompts without reading them carefully. You may be agreeing to something that is not in your best interest.
- Don't be afraid to ask other people for help, but make sure to get an explanation so that you do not have to ask again.
Since I don't have the original off-the-shelf box what else would constitute Proof of Purchase so I could get a legit WonID to upgrade?
$15 should do it.
The men, described as being of Pakistani-Indian-Arabic appearance
Thats PC for terrorist isnt it?
That's not PC at all! It's like describing someone as Scandinavian-Russian-French.
"All you fsckers look the same to me!"
No, it doesn't. At least not the preinstall on the HP Pavilions I've seen. I do free/cheap support around my neighborhood and so far, everyone I've helped has had a cable modem connected to a pre-installed XP Home system.
This reader thinks that LilSerf has a Sega check in the mail for keeping their game on the front page of Slashdot Games ;)