Speak for yourself, homey. My wife is going to the first two showings near us with me...and, when we were dating, she went through my "I-want-to-see-all-three-in-the-theater-on-the-sam e-day" day back in 1997 with the special editions (that was really cool, actually).
I actually like TPM - but I'm the type of guy who can watch a flick from the eyes of a four-year-old and not a 29-year-old and, from my four-year-old eyes, TPM was pretty cool.
As for AOTC: It's gotta be better than ROTJ. My personal ranking is this (based on the originals of each flick, not any special editions):
1. ESB
2. ANH
3. TPM
4. ROTJ
I give ROTJ SE and TPM a tie at 3 because the SE ending is so much better than the original...
I predict that AOTC will go to 2 or 3 on my personal list. I'll see at 12:01am next Thursday...
Great points - I really recommend Killing Monsters by Gerard Jones - he defends letting kids partake in violent play (within limits, of course). The discussion is excellent and heavily reinforces the way I was brought up...
OS 9 isn't broken? What world do you live in? I'm an ardent Mac Geek, homeslice, and I will tell you that OS 1 - 9 are horrible examples of operating systems. Better than DOS-based Winblows boxes, hell yeah, but not a mature OS.
OS X is. I'm sorry that you feel keeping customers in the dark ages is a good idea. Must be nice for job security since they always look to you to fix the problems with their 1991 Wintel boxen...
Oh, and by the way? I still have a working Mac 128 running System 5, so don't assume that I throw the baby out with the bathwater, nimrod.
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Bullshit, son - we're keeping the platform alive. This all harkens back to System 6 v. System 7, Win 3.x v. Win 95, Nextstep v. Openstep even!
All good things must end. I still have a trusty 6500 running OS 9 and playing MP3s - but I doubt any consumer, given a week, would prefer to use OS 9 over OS X...
Apple had the public beta of OS X in September of 2000, remember? I've been running the thing since then, and I give feedback. There are some shareware pieces that I use, sure (FruitMenu, WindowShade X, etc.), but I love the Dock, iPhoto, Office v.X, Photoshop 7, OmniWeb, BBEdit 6.5, BlogApp - all of which are wonderful in OS X.
Actually, Apple does want to port those X11 apps, and they're not really shouting their X11-ness, but look here and here for, more or less, an official stamp on X11 usage.
Oh, for God's sake! I have my iBook - the machine I'm using right now - for work. Do I need Quartz Extreme for reading e-mail?!?
The machine is great for what it is: a portable computer. No laptop will ever be a true desktop replacement unless they start making laptops that look like the one in Brain Donors!
Hmmm...I think your bridge is feeling lonely, Mr. Troll. You might want to head back
Apple is doing what they've said they were going to do since 1995 or so. You and your users have had years to prepare for this.
My personal opinion is that you and your users are shooting yourselves in the feet by not moving to a better OS. There is precious little excuse to not be on it by now - Office is here, Photoshop is here, Palm is here.
1) Lucas has always given the nod to the pulps - always. Look at his A&E Biography, look at the original making of documentary, etc. The man liked watching Flash Gordon and Buck Rodgers on TV and at the theater when he was a kid.
2) Yes, Lucas did have myth in mind - Obi-wan and Han were once the same, Gandalf/Merlin-esque character. Luke and Leia were also split off from a combined female lead. Lucas was heavily borrowing things from Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces, and he consulted with Campbell at points!
3) As for the screenplay: Leigh Brackett, Leigh Brackett, Leigh Brackett...and Irwin Kerschner.
Now why didn't this silly little piece surface on April Fool's Day?
Wow. Man, according to your argument we're all going to be sued.
After all, we use the Internet, we have systems, we all use computer networks, we generate search listings from the results we get from the engines, and then we influence the position ("Hey, this link from time.com has to be better than joebobmcspanky.com! I'll go there first!").
Please. Google does not implement the system that was patented, homey. Go run a search and then read the patent and then try to actually stand by this argument...
That's a very cool controller. I can stop rubbing the paint off the main app buttons now...
Re:CmdrTaco, you idiot, you're missing the point!
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No, he doesn't think you were fooled, man. You have to be blind not to see that. He enjoys people getting pissy and ragging on him because, in the end, we call all complain and bitch up a storm but Rob ain't goin' nowhere.
He enjoys it, man. He wants the flames.
To be fair, I think it was pretty damn hilarious myself.
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Again, I point to Taco's parent on this thread - he's laughing because people keep falling for it. All the groans, all the complaints, yet people kept posting yesterday...the clickthrough rate must have been decent.
I personally laughed my ass off at the Google story, btw...
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Read what Taco wrote: "Thanks for the usual April Fools Day flame- every year people fall for it. It never ceases to amaze me how angry and venomous, yet utterly clueless a few people can be despite the blatant obviousness of the joke."
I mean, c'mon - how much more does Taco have to spell it out?
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Dude, you still don't get it, do you?
Taco, Hemos and Neal were laughing at you and the folks like you who got so pissy about this whole thing.
The joke wasn't the stories - it was the comments to the stories! You were the April Fool's Day joke!
It's akin to Beavis and Butthead. The show wasn't all that funny, but the people who reacted, positively or negatively, to it were hilarious!
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Are you just a little jealous because I have a wife who'll go to these things with me, homey?
Speak for yourself, homey. My wife is going to the first two showings near us with me...and, when we were dating, she went through my "I-want-to-see-all-three-in-the-theater-on-the-sam e-day" day back in 1997 with the special editions (that was really cool, actually).
AMC Forum 30 in Sterling Heights, MI still has seats in the second theater they're showing it in at 12:01. ;)
As for AOTC: It's gotta be better than ROTJ. My personal ranking is this (based on the originals of each flick, not any special editions):
1. ESB
2. ANH
3. TPM
4. ROTJ
I give ROTJ SE and TPM a tie at 3 because the SE ending is so much better than the original...
I predict that AOTC will go to 2 or 3 on my personal list. I'll see at 12:01am next Thursday...
Great points - I really recommend Killing Monsters by Gerard Jones - he defends letting kids partake in violent play (within limits, of course). The discussion is excellent and heavily reinforces the way I was brought up...
OS X is. I'm sorry that you feel keeping customers in the dark ages is a good idea. Must be nice for job security since they always look to you to fix the problems with their 1991 Wintel boxen...
Oh, and by the way? I still have a working Mac 128 running System 5, so don't assume that I throw the baby out with the bathwater, nimrod.
All good things must end. I still have a trusty 6500 running OS 9 and playing MP3s - but I doubt any consumer, given a week, would prefer to use OS 9 over OS X...
Apple had the public beta of OS X in September of 2000, remember? I've been running the thing since then, and I give feedback. There are some shareware pieces that I use, sure (FruitMenu, WindowShade X, etc.), but I love the Dock, iPhoto, Office v.X, Photoshop 7, OmniWeb, BBEdit 6.5, BlogApp - all of which are wonderful in OS X.
It's evolution, baby.
If I can't get support from the manufacturer I'm not going to continue supporting an OS from my help desk - period.
Actually, Apple does want to port those X11 apps, and they're not really shouting their X11-ness, but look here and here for, more or less, an official stamp on X11 usage.
The machine is great for what it is: a portable computer. No laptop will ever be a true desktop replacement unless they start making laptops that look like the one in Brain Donors!
Ummm...arguably, you shouldn't even be supporting Windows 95 any longer. I think you may need to have your customers re-think their OSs...
Apple is doing what they've said they were going to do since 1995 or so. You and your users have had years to prepare for this.
My personal opinion is that you and your users are shooting yourselves in the feet by not moving to a better OS. There is precious little excuse to not be on it by now - Office is here, Photoshop is here, Palm is here.
Those of us who might not be able to responsibly handle using root as our primary login want to.
For the record, I have root enabled - but I rarely log in with it.
Well, let's be fair: Sega has killed all of their post-Genesis systems.
2) Yes, Lucas did have myth in mind - Obi-wan and Han were once the same, Gandalf/Merlin-esque character. Luke and Leia were also split off from a combined female lead. Lucas was heavily borrowing things from Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces, and he consulted with Campbell at points!
3) As for the screenplay: Leigh Brackett, Leigh Brackett, Leigh Brackett...and Irwin Kerschner.
Now why didn't this silly little piece surface on April Fool's Day?
Well, I'm on Comcast in Metro Detroit and all is well - I just tried searching.
After all, we use the Internet, we have systems, we all use computer networks, we generate search listings from the results we get from the engines, and then we influence the position ("Hey, this link from time.com has to be better than joebobmcspanky.com! I'll go there first!").
Please. Google does not implement the system that was patented, homey. Go run a search and then read the patent and then try to actually stand by this argument...
That's a very cool controller. I can stop rubbing the paint off the main app buttons now...
He enjoys it, man. He wants the flames.
To be fair, I think it was pretty damn hilarious myself.
I personally laughed my ass off at the Google story, btw...
I mean, c'mon - how much more does Taco have to spell it out?
Taco, Hemos and Neal were laughing at you and the folks like you who got so pissy about this whole thing.
The joke wasn't the stories - it was the comments to the stories! You were the April Fool's Day joke!
It's akin to Beavis and Butthead. The show wasn't all that funny, but the people who reacted, positively or negatively, to it were hilarious!
In Charge.
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Nope.
How about joke that Kirk will be in a movie with De Niro? Talk about lame...