Clue to Lucas: put REAL people on horses, or even on big stuffed models of the creatures you're portraying (like the Taun-Tauns in Empire), and film them falling off. Looks much better.
I dunno... some of those stop-motion tauntaun shots are some of the worst effects in all of Star Wars. Not sure I'd use those sequences as a model to emulate in any way.
Yeah, and Spider-Man was a real sleeper hit. Now pardon me while I call my Mom on my Spider-Man Cingular Wireless phone and slurp down my Spider-Man Dr. Pepper.
Spider-Man's an okay movie, but let's not turn it into an indie picture. It's as crassly commercial as they come.
Great god, man... GWTW's been out for more than 60 years! Titanic has been out for less than six! Plus, GWTW's grosses were propped up by the fact that subsequent viewings were always theatrical, while Titanic was on home video within 18 months or so.
I'm not saying GWTW wasn't a colossal blockbuster or that it's not, ultimately, the movie that's sold the most tickets over time, but the comparison is kinda ridiculous when you look at it the way you did.
It's a shame really! Why do some companies instantly dismiss making Linux version's of games?
I'm just stabbing in the dark here, but probably because there's not a single instance of any game selling anywhere near enough units to even dream of making even the most modest profit.
Honestly not trying to be a troll here, but with a sub-1% desktop marketshare, you can't be surprised that expensively produced games aren't being produced for Linux yet.
Since he's obviously going to painfully attempt to recreate ESB in a formulaic manner so unimaginative, no one else would have imagined it, I'll make an increadibly obvious prediction: Anakin looses his hand in the climatic lightsaber duel. Maybe it'll happen in episode III, but I'm still betting on episode II.
Seeing as we know he has a robotic arm in Return of the Jedi, that prediction is more than obvious. If he doesn't lose an arm, it's a gross continuity error.
But of course, you could still replace your liver with a bag of CornNuts, thus making it a 1:1 swap. In theory.
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One thing I didn't see mentioned -- I ordered the card and Best Buy did, in fact cancel. A week later, I got a $20 gift certificate to the site. I never expected to get the card for that price anyway (it was obviously an error), so I was happy to get the Robotech DVD box set for $15 instead of $35.
There's definitely something peculiar going on... I have metamod every day and quite decent karma, yet I haven't been given mod points in months. OTOH, a friend of mine who never posts seems to get mod points every three weeks or so. Hmmmmm...
Now my room mate has a 1.6 GHZ AMD with XP on it. That is faster but it crashes at least twice a day. I'll take the extra 10 seconds (more like 2-4) over a crash or a two a day.
What is your roommate doing? Ripping out PCI cards while the machine is running? Clearly this guy has some kind of hardware problem because I have three machines running XP and the one thing they almost never do is crash. Clearly your roommate needs to take his machine back to the store or -- if he built it himself -- learn how to do it properly.
(Seriously) not trying to troll here, but an XP machine in proper working order shouldn't crash twice a day. Did he forget to attach the heat sink? Did he drool some hummus onto the motherboard? Does he have back issues of Gent piled up on the cooling vent? Something is clearly wrong with that machine.
You are; MS has never made a HotSync coduit for either Outlook or Entourage on the PC or the Mac. There are a few third parties that make conduits to do this, but the pigs will be flying before MS even considers supporting Palm, which not only competes with them, but is _winning_ in the handheld market.
Not true. Office 2001 for the Mac (which includes Entourage) installs MS-produced conduits for the HotSync manager that allows the Palm to sync with Entourage.
In the time it took you to post this bizarre idea, you could have signed up for an account yourself and never worried about it again. If you don't want them to have personal information (gasp! they know what story you read!), just lie.
Not sure what hassle having every NYT submitter sign up for an account with a cryptic u/pw saves the world from.
Believe me, Walt Mossberg is anything but pro Microsoft anything. He's consistently battered Pocket PCs for battery life and size and has praised Palm to the rafters. It's pretty rare for him to say anything positive about Microsoft.
What he *does* say in the review, though, is that the Zaurus compares unfavorably with PocketPC devices in terms of battery life, hardware, size, available software and PDA functionality. He's spent time with many Palms, many PocketPCs and now, the Zaurus. Ever think that maybe he knows what he's talking about?
Can I find anywhere that is selling commodity PC, as opposed to commodity Windows boxes? Nope.
Sure, there are companies like AccessMicro/McGlen or mwave.com that will happily build whatever box you want with no OS. They've been doing it a long time and if that's what you want, they'll do all the legwork for you.
Why do I get the distinct impression that people just like to complain?
Apparently the reason is because Outlook uses OE for its newsreader. If you, from Outlook, try to view newsgroups, you're popped into a version of OE with the mail section stripped out.
Not that you were looking for an actual answer but there it is.
StarOffice/OpenOffice: they need to iron out the last few bugs and market it, for crying out loud!
I don't disagree with you, but the problem is... who spends money to market a free consumer/business product that they've already spent a ton of moolah developing? I'm sure it's hard enough for companies to justify spending money to continue developing products they're just going to give away (or sell for little more than the cost of media and docs), but to have to drop money on *advertising* them as well starts seeming like throwing good money after... other money.
At the same time, remember the IBM OS/2 Fiesta Bowl sponsorship? Different situation, but not totally. What a disaster of a promotion, although history seems to show that IBM couldn't market a cure for death.
Couldn't agree more... how can they be punished for being a monopoly when they legally *weren't* a monopoly until the court ruled them one? Since there's no standard for what makes a software monopoly, how was MS supposed to know when they became one?
It might seem pedantic, but think about it -- nowhere else in the law (that I'm aware of) can you be punished retroactively to before your infraction was established.
Jean-Louis Gasse offered BeOS free to any hardware manufacturer at one point. That not one took him up on it is a fairly positive indication that MS was putting some major pressure on PC makers.
It's not an indication of anything. In addition to the cost of the software, there must be demand for it -- after all, it costs OEMs a substantial amount to support additional OSs and unless they're going to sell in significant bulk (and there's no indication that Be would -- there weren't that many downloads even after it became free [as in beer]).
After all, Linux is a free OS and Dell didn't find it worthwhile to continue to provide it on their workstations. (Yeah, yeah... mod me down... doesn't make me wrong)
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I agree that we still need people, but never having to deal with a rude customer service person, distracted airline reservations agent or disinterested store clerk again is a future I can get behind.
At Kroger in Atlanta you can check yourself out with a mostly automated system (you still need a guy to manage every four units to check IDs and whatnot) that allows you to check out without having to deal with lines or bored cashiers.
Let's face it -- there are some things machines do better than people and ringing up groceries is only one of them (booking most airline tickets is another). The only advantage a cashier has over a machine is the ability to smile and ask how my day is, and if he/she isn't going to bother to do that, I'll take a machine any day.
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You are correct, sir (I presume). Once you graduate, they usually have an "upgrade amnesty" type program where you can buy the legit version at the upgrade price. Then again, sometimes not. At any rate, once you're no longer a student, you legally can't use the software (hence the bargain basement prices you get -- $99 for Dreamweaver... $99 for Illustrator... $100 for Office Pro...)
In my case, I'm faculty/staff so unless I get fired or quit, I'm okay.
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Default Java support is gone, which effectively kills it for recreational computer users (client end support, anyway).
Look, we're splitting hairs here about what "drops default Java support" means. To say that it drops support implies that the OS no longer supports Java. It does as long as you have a VM installed (which, again, happens automatically the first time you hit an applet).
Secondly, it's hard to argue that Java was particularly relevent to "recreational computer users" anyway. Very few desktop apps that "recreational" users depend upon are written in Java and applets are less common than ever, so what's the big? Look at it another way -- you get to choose your VM, and isn't choice a Good Thing?
I'm not sure what's "bull" about the fact that you can use multiple languages in the.NET CLR. You CAN. Yes, they have to be.NET aware, but isn't that kind of obvious? It's still a good idea and, by all accounts, it's implemented well.
Re:Official Media from MS does not equal Legit
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This is Slashdot... who's producing commercial code?;-)
Seriously, though, your point about legitimacy is well-taken and something was cavalier about originally. IF you're eligible, it's a great deal. If you're not, then it's illegal software.
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I do not think the word "inexplicable" means what CmdrTaco thinks it means.
I dunno... some of those stop-motion tauntaun shots are some of the worst effects in all of Star Wars. Not sure I'd use those sequences as a model to emulate in any way.
Yeah, and Spider-Man was a real sleeper hit. Now pardon me while I call my Mom on my Spider-Man Cingular Wireless phone and slurp down my Spider-Man Dr. Pepper.
Spider-Man's an okay movie, but let's not turn it into an indie picture. It's as crassly commercial as they come.
Bottom line is, in the quantities they're buying, costs of manufacture should be substantially less than eight months ago.
Great god, man... GWTW's been out for more than 60 years! Titanic has been out for less than six! Plus, GWTW's grosses were propped up by the fact that subsequent viewings were always theatrical, while Titanic was on home video within 18 months or so.
I'm not saying GWTW wasn't a colossal blockbuster or that it's not, ultimately, the movie that's sold the most tickets over time, but the comparison is kinda ridiculous when you look at it the way you did.
I'm just stabbing in the dark here, but probably because there's not a single instance of any game selling anywhere near enough units to even dream of making even the most modest profit.
Honestly not trying to be a troll here, but with a sub-1% desktop marketshare, you can't be surprised that expensively produced games aren't being produced for Linux yet.
Seeing as we know he has a robotic arm in Return of the Jedi, that prediction is more than obvious. If he doesn't lose an arm, it's a gross continuity error.
Relax, dude, it's just a movie.
Er... isn't that the definition of a video game console? What do you think is inside the GameCube -- Keebler Elves?
But of course, you could still replace your liver with a bag of CornNuts, thus making it a 1:1 swap. In theory.
One thing I didn't see mentioned -- I ordered the card and Best Buy did, in fact cancel. A week later, I got a $20 gift certificate to the site. I never expected to get the card for that price anyway (it was obviously an error), so I was happy to get the Robotech DVD box set for $15 instead of $35.
There's definitely something peculiar going on... I have metamod every day and quite decent karma, yet I haven't been given mod points in months. OTOH, a friend of mine who never posts seems to get mod points every three weeks or so. Hmmmmm...
What is your roommate doing? Ripping out PCI cards while the machine is running? Clearly this guy has some kind of hardware problem because I have three machines running XP and the one thing they almost never do is crash. Clearly your roommate needs to take his machine back to the store or -- if he built it himself -- learn how to do it properly.
(Seriously) not trying to troll here, but an XP machine in proper working order shouldn't crash twice a day. Did he forget to attach the heat sink? Did he drool some hummus onto the motherboard? Does he have back issues of Gent piled up on the cooling vent? Something is clearly wrong with that machine.
You are; MS has never made a HotSync coduit for either Outlook or Entourage on the PC or the Mac. There are a few third parties that make conduits to do this, but the pigs will be flying before MS even considers supporting Palm, which not only competes with them, but is _winning_ in the handheld market. Not true. Office 2001 for the Mac (which includes Entourage) installs MS-produced conduits for the HotSync manager that allows the Palm to sync with Entourage.
In the time it took you to post this bizarre idea, you could have signed up for an account yourself and never worried about it again. If you don't want them to have personal information (gasp! they know what story you read!), just lie.
Not sure what hassle having every NYT submitter sign up for an account with a cryptic u/pw saves the world from.
Believe me, Walt Mossberg is anything but pro Microsoft anything. He's consistently battered Pocket PCs for battery life and size and has praised Palm to the rafters. It's pretty rare for him to say anything positive about Microsoft.
What he *does* say in the review, though, is that the Zaurus compares unfavorably with PocketPC devices in terms of battery life, hardware, size, available software and PDA functionality. He's spent time with many Palms, many PocketPCs and now, the Zaurus. Ever think that maybe he knows what he's talking about?
Sure, there are companies like AccessMicro/McGlen or mwave.com that will happily build whatever box you want with no OS. They've been doing it a long time and if that's what you want, they'll do all the legwork for you.
Why do I get the distinct impression that people just like to complain?
"Developing for Windows is corporate suicide."
Compared to what? Developing for Linux? I take it you haven't checked your portfolio at finance.yahoo.com lately....
I'd still rather be Macromedia or Adobe than any of the corporate Linux development houses, what few there are.
Apparently the reason is because Outlook uses OE for its newsreader. If you, from Outlook, try to view newsgroups, you're popped into a version of OE with the mail section stripped out.
Not that you were looking for an actual answer but there it is.
I don't disagree with you, but the problem is... who spends money to market a free consumer/business product that they've already spent a ton of moolah developing? I'm sure it's hard enough for companies to justify spending money to continue developing products they're just going to give away (or sell for little more than the cost of media and docs), but to have to drop money on *advertising* them as well starts seeming like throwing good money after... other money.
At the same time, remember the IBM OS/2 Fiesta Bowl sponsorship? Different situation, but not totally. What a disaster of a promotion, although history seems to show that IBM couldn't market a cure for death.
Couldn't agree more... how can they be punished for being a monopoly when they legally *weren't* a monopoly until the court ruled them one? Since there's no standard for what makes a software monopoly, how was MS supposed to know when they became one?
It might seem pedantic, but think about it -- nowhere else in the law (that I'm aware of) can you be punished retroactively to before your infraction was established.
It's not an indication of anything. In addition to the cost of the software, there must be demand for it -- after all, it costs OEMs a substantial amount to support additional OSs and unless they're going to sell in significant bulk (and there's no indication that Be would -- there weren't that many downloads even after it became free [as in beer]).
After all, Linux is a free OS and Dell didn't find it worthwhile to continue to provide it on their workstations. (Yeah, yeah... mod me down... doesn't make me wrong)
I agree that we still need people, but never having to deal with a rude customer service person, distracted airline reservations agent or disinterested store clerk again is a future I can get behind.
At Kroger in Atlanta you can check yourself out with a mostly automated system (you still need a guy to manage every four units to check IDs and whatnot) that allows you to check out without having to deal with lines or bored cashiers.
Let's face it -- there are some things machines do better than people and ringing up groceries is only one of them (booking most airline tickets is another). The only advantage a cashier has over a machine is the ability to smile and ask how my day is, and if he/she isn't going to bother to do that, I'll take a machine any day.
You are correct, sir (I presume). Once you graduate, they usually have an "upgrade amnesty" type program where you can buy the legit version at the upgrade price. Then again, sometimes not. At any rate, once you're no longer a student, you legally can't use the software (hence the bargain basement prices you get -- $99 for Dreamweaver... $99 for Illustrator... $100 for Office Pro...)
In my case, I'm faculty/staff so unless I get fired or quit, I'm okay.
Look, we're splitting hairs here about what "drops default Java support" means. To say that it drops support implies that the OS no longer supports Java. It does as long as you have a VM installed (which, again, happens automatically the first time you hit an applet).
Secondly, it's hard to argue that Java was particularly relevent to "recreational computer users" anyway. Very few desktop apps that "recreational" users depend upon are written in Java and applets are less common than ever, so what's the big? Look at it another way -- you get to choose your VM, and isn't choice a Good Thing?
I'm not sure what's "bull" about the fact that you can use multiple languages in the .NET CLR. You CAN. Yes, they have to be .NET aware, but isn't that kind of obvious? It's still a good idea and, by all accounts, it's implemented well.
This is Slashdot... who's producing commercial code? ;-)
Seriously, though, your point about legitimacy is well-taken and something was cavalier about originally. IF you're eligible, it's a great deal. If you're not, then it's illegal software.