That was five years ago when Be was still working on brand-new Power Macs (Apple hasn't given Be the needed info to run on G3's or greater) and Apple was looking for a stable, strong, multimedia OS to become Rhapsody.
I always preferred NeXT to Be because Jobs, even though he can be an ass, is preferable to Gasse's constant complaining about being downtrodden and calling himself a victim because of busniess decisions he himself made. I hope Palm can do with Be what Be wasn't able to do with itself....
They're going to have those spiffy orb-camera-hover-bots (the Personal Satellite Assistant). How is a Mindstorms developer, even one programming in NQC or another of the other "advanced" Mindstorms languages, going to be able to impress anyone who has worked with the ISS thus far?
Plus, how are the Russians going to get the infrared remote control to work from that far away?
...on college campuses. If the academic presses would wake up (they won't - they're academic, after all), and align with a couple of large universities, maybe Barnes & Noble's campus stores, and maybe RCA they could deliver an eBook reader to an incoming freshman for $400 and, each sememster, the freshman would pay $100-$150 for their course materials, which they could download at B&N (which would keep a record of the download so, in the case of loss, malfunction or theft, the student could redownload for free). B&N could also have a secure website where studffents could download patches - addendum, errata, etc. In the end, time, backpack space, paper and money, etc. is saved and the technology is used to a good end - as opposed to publishing Michael Crichton novels...
Last time I looked the iBooks my university bought still ran simulscan resolutions just fine. Perhaps you aren't using the software correctly? Or, possibly, you're using OS X, which may not support simulscan just yet...
Actually, LucasArts has nothing to do with the movies. You're thinking Lucasfilm. LucasArts makes the games.
I personally think the vast majority of people on here have no clue what they're saying when it comes to the movies. I don't have a problem falling back into the mindset of a four-year-old (when I first saw ANH in 1977) when I watch the movies. That allows me to remember that these movies are fantasies and are just a story being told by Lucas - and let's me look past the problems other people have. I also keep in mind that there has been only one (1) of the SW movies that can stand on its own - ANH. Lucas took ESB, ROTJ and TPM and made them rely on one another (we all know that TPM wouldn't work at all if we didn't have episodes IV - VI). Now, keeping that in mind, Lucas decides to create a new trilogy. The public complains that there is no real plot, no character development, that it's only crass commercialism and that Jar Jar sucks.
My response is this: maybe people are right - but you can't make that judgement until 2005, once III is out. Why? Because Lucas knows he has three parts to flesh out the story - very unlike the situation he found himself in with ANH, when it could have bombed (Kenner actually thought it would, but that the toys would take off ) - therefore he can take his time with development. Think of episodes I - III as one large, six-seven hour movie. We've only seen Act I, which begs the question: how much do you know about the characters in the first act of anything (unless it's a one-act play)? I don't see much character development in Act I of Hamlet, because Shakespeare knows there's five or so more acts to follow. This isn't to compare Lucas to Shakespeare, or Hamlet to Star Wars, but it is to say that one cannot judge a work until that work is complete.
Why do I think people judge TPM the way they do? Most people are disappointed because Lucas didn't do the story they've created in their own heads.
We all know what happens in these first three episodes. It's like going to see Titanic or Full Metal Jacket - we know the boat sinks, we know the US loses the war. In this case, we've all had 20+ years of coming up with our own ideas of what the backstory is that nothing could compare with what we've collectively created with our friends and schoolmates and, later, correspondents on the net - because we created it. Even Lucas can't live up to what we've dreamed up in those 20+ years.
In the end, ladies and gents, the new movies won't copy or live up to thre mystique of the first ones - ever - because we've lived through the first ones when they were new and wonderful and ours. Maybe for our future kids, maybe even for our current ones, will experience the same awe once all six episodes exist. Maybe not.
All I know is that this hobbit is going to sit down with his popcorn and Coke and enjoy AOTC - like I've enjoyed all the others - by watching it through the eyes of a four-year-old. No cheesy names or jaded geeks are going to change that. And then, in 2005 when I walk out of the theater from Episode III, I'll pass final judgment.
Lucas has always come up with some cheesy names. I mean, think about "A New Hope." That title really doesn't instill awe. I think, and the titles seem to prove this out, that Lucas is still very much in the 'space opera' mindset. Can't you see a '50's pulp or sci-fi flick called Anakin Skywalker and the Atttack of the Clones? You could apply that logic to the first episode, too: Anakin Skywalker and the Phantom Menace.
Most importantly is that we all have to remember that the new movies will never live up to our ideas of the old movies. Most of us were 10 or under when we first saw and we didn't question the motivations in the movies or their titles. I'm sure that most kids are going to take "Attack of the Clones" in stride and not question it...
In one regard, I wish I could still think like that, and not have the need to think like an adult. The price we pay for growing up, I guess.
Now, after typing about this, I'm really starting to like the name...guess we'll just have to wait till May...
Between just finishing Neil Gaiman's Don't Panic (with some great insights into the H2G2 game), and reading this interview, I'm now going to have to get a converter to hook up my Atari 800XL to the TV and play H2G2...
Just have to make sure I don't eat the sandwich this time...
As long as property is going to be taxed, then taxing a property holding of a LA corporation logically follows.
Perhaps the answer, instead of complaining about LA, is actually pushing your elected reps to change, and think well and hard about (hell, just "to think" would be good), the tax codes across the country, from the federal on down.
Until you do that, though, the laws stand and, logically, those satellites are taxable.
Lynch wanted to be better known - I think Twin Peaks speaks to that. But, because of Dune, his rising star just flatlined. I think, after The Elephant Man, Lynch was well on his way to reach the status of "great." But, to be honest, I think The Elephant Man was clearly his best work (John Hurt's too, for that matter), and Dune proved to be his undoing, showing he couldn't handle a large ensemble cast or a big budget, both of which were skills he would desperately need with his failed attempt to revitalize Twin Peaks in Fire Walk With Me. Don't get me wrong - I would go see a Lynch movie over most any day, but I get the feeling that he never quite reached the status and recognition he seemed to desire.
I said they shouldn't be compared, not that they couldn't be compared. And, let's be honest, comparing and contrasting aren't really all that different - "tomatOE" or "tomAHtoe" basically. Comparing the trilogy and Dune is like trying to compare Finnegan's Wake and Cryptonomicon - sure, it can be done, but it's futile to do it because the books have entirely different goals set to achieve. However, I would love to see a compare and contrast paper from you between, oh, let's say Ulysses and Sam, the Firehouse Cat.
While I think you're right (did Paul have a son die in the first book...I can't remember), in centuries past it wasn't uncommon to name a child after a sibling who had died young. Harrison could be leading up to that. What's also important is that Leto doesn't become Leto II until he assumes the title of Duke. If he really wanted to, if Herbert was basing the empire on old European empires, he chould have named himself Duke Leto II and Emperor Bobby I at the same time, if so inclined...
That's right on the mark, all. Harrison's comparing the feel of ANH and ESB to one another and saying that the level of difference between those two films is akin to the level of difference between Herbert's books. He's not comparing Herbert to Lucas.
Apples and oranges. The Hobbit is a children's story, written for Tolkien's kids. He later decided to use the same world for LOTR in order to create a new mythology. He had a specific goal in mind with LOTR, and Herbert had a different goal in mind with the Dune series. You're comparing two things that shouldn't be compared.
You're joking, right? Even Lynch isn't happy with the movie, and it sealed his fate - he never became a truly big director, which he was well on his way to being. Listen, I like the Lynch movie, but it's just not on target. I mean, Sting? Sting's best acting was seen in Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. The miniseries had problems, but it felt like a '60s sci-fi novel being translated to screen. Call me odd, but I really think that it has a strong, purposeful, retro sensibility that just about everyone missed. When you think of it in that way, I think you'll respect the work that was done with the miniseries.
The difference is simple: they don't have a monopoly that they're leveraging. You have to look at the entire case, not just the portions that interest you. MS is a monoply - this has been proven time and time again. A monopoly, in and of itself, is not illegal. That is worth repeating: A MONOPOLY IN AND OF ITSELF IS NOT ILLEGAL. It is when you use your monopolistic advantage to gain control in other areas - IE, WMP, and the new Windows Messenger. By tying things to the item that creates the monopoly and attempting to make them the standard you are leveraging your monopoly power illegally. Therefore, the WMP 8 player and Messenger that will only come with Win XP helps - illegallly - push, for example, Real and Apple out of the streaming market and AOL out of the IM market. Just as Netcaspe was pushed out of the browser market..
Actually, you're wrong. MS is being tried in the same way Standard Oil was, and is helping set antitrust for the next century. This case will eventually go in front of the Supreme Court - hopefully before Bush appoints anyone - and the "Constitutionality" of antitrust laws will be established. Again.
Wait, wait, wait - you're joking, right? Have you ever gone door-to-door? That's hard phucking work, and it's for piss-poor pay. Get real - my e-mail address is for my communication. Unless I opt-in, I don't want you e-mailing me. The poor person who gets me over the phone gets a very simple "I don't do business over the phone" and a hangup. I wish there were an easier way to do that with e-mail. However, there are a few solutions:
SpamCop, which I use regularly. The DMA, has its E-mail Prefence Service, which you have to renew each year, but seems to work (at least for me).
You can also contact Senator Wyden and tell him exactly what you think of his statement, and, while you're at it, send a message to each of your reps, too.
I think it's obvious to us all that spam is not equivalent to regular advertising - the First Amendment is designed to protect speech that is designed to be unpopular - in a political, religious, social and economic sense. For example, I despise the KKK, but they are protected by the First Amendment, and I respect that. I don't see spam falling under any of those categories, unless you view "Sarah Michelle Gellar Caught Giving Head" as a call for opporessed workers in Third World nations to unite (and, if you do, I think there's a serious problem with one of the two of us, and it ain't me).
For Wyden to say such a stupid remark is beyond me...and, I think, beyond the vast majority of us who understand "the new economy," spam, and the First Amendment (some of us did pay attention in school, Ron). So, I say, "Enough already."
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I always preferred NeXT to Be because Jobs, even though he can be an ass, is preferable to Gasse's constant complaining about being downtrodden and calling himself a victim because of busniess decisions he himself made. I hope Palm can do with Be what Be wasn't able to do with itself....
Plus, how are the Russians going to get the infrared remote control to work from that far away?
...on college campuses. If the academic presses would wake up (they won't - they're academic, after all), and align with a couple of large universities, maybe Barnes & Noble's campus stores, and maybe RCA they could deliver an eBook reader to an incoming freshman for $400 and, each sememster, the freshman would pay $100-$150 for their course materials, which they could download at B&N (which would keep a record of the download so, in the case of loss, malfunction or theft, the student could redownload for free). B&N could also have a secure website where studffents could download patches - addendum, errata, etc. In the end, time, backpack space, paper and money, etc. is saved and the technology is used to a good end - as opposed to publishing Michael Crichton novels...
Last time I looked the iBooks my university bought still ran simulscan resolutions just fine. Perhaps you aren't using the software correctly? Or, possibly, you're using OS X, which may not support simulscan just yet...
Amen, brother!
Agreed - I actually meant in real life. It would be nice to be able to live in a world where we didn't have to be analytical...
I personally think the vast majority of people on here have no clue what they're saying when it comes to the movies. I don't have a problem falling back into the mindset of a four-year-old (when I first saw ANH in 1977) when I watch the movies. That allows me to remember that these movies are fantasies and are just a story being told by Lucas - and let's me look past the problems other people have. I also keep in mind that there has been only one (1) of the SW movies that can stand on its own - ANH. Lucas took ESB, ROTJ and TPM and made them rely on one another (we all know that TPM wouldn't work at all if we didn't have episodes IV - VI). Now, keeping that in mind, Lucas decides to create a new trilogy. The public complains that there is no real plot, no character development, that it's only crass commercialism and that Jar Jar sucks.
My response is this: maybe people are right - but you can't make that judgement until 2005, once III is out. Why? Because Lucas knows he has three parts to flesh out the story - very unlike the situation he found himself in with ANH, when it could have bombed (Kenner actually thought it would, but that the toys would take off ) - therefore he can take his time with development. Think of episodes I - III as one large, six-seven hour movie. We've only seen Act I, which begs the question: how much do you know about the characters in the first act of anything (unless it's a one-act play)? I don't see much character development in Act I of Hamlet, because Shakespeare knows there's five or so more acts to follow. This isn't to compare Lucas to Shakespeare, or Hamlet to Star Wars, but it is to say that one cannot judge a work until that work is complete.
Why do I think people judge TPM the way they do? Most people are disappointed because Lucas didn't do the story they've created in their own heads.
We all know what happens in these first three episodes. It's like going to see Titanic or Full Metal Jacket - we know the boat sinks, we know the US loses the war. In this case, we've all had 20+ years of coming up with our own ideas of what the backstory is that nothing could compare with what we've collectively created with our friends and schoolmates and, later, correspondents on the net - because we created it. Even Lucas can't live up to what we've dreamed up in those 20+ years.
In the end, ladies and gents, the new movies won't copy or live up to thre mystique of the first ones - ever - because we've lived through the first ones when they were new and wonderful and ours. Maybe for our future kids, maybe even for our current ones, will experience the same awe once all six episodes exist. Maybe not.
All I know is that this hobbit is going to sit down with his popcorn and Coke and enjoy AOTC - like I've enjoyed all the others - by watching it through the eyes of a four-year-old. No cheesy names or jaded geeks are going to change that. And then, in 2005 when I walk out of the theater from Episode III, I'll pass final judgment.
Most importantly is that we all have to remember that the new movies will never live up to our ideas of the old movies. Most of us were 10 or under when we first saw and we didn't question the motivations in the movies or their titles. I'm sure that most kids are going to take "Attack of the Clones" in stride and not question it...
In one regard, I wish I could still think like that, and not have the need to think like an adult. The price we pay for growing up, I guess.
Now, after typing about this, I'm really starting to like the name...guess we'll just have to wait till May...
C'mon, moderators - this is actually funny and on subject (albeit it lightly)...
...the answer will be "42."
Just have to make sure I don't eat the sandwich this time...
Perhaps the answer, instead of complaining about LA, is actually pushing your elected reps to change, and think well and hard about (hell, just "to think" would be good), the tax codes across the country, from the federal on down.
Until you do that, though, the laws stand and, logically, those satellites are taxable.
Lynch wanted to be better known - I think Twin Peaks speaks to that. But, because of Dune, his rising star just flatlined. I think, after The Elephant Man, Lynch was well on his way to reach the status of "great." But, to be honest, I think The Elephant Man was clearly his best work (John Hurt's too, for that matter), and Dune proved to be his undoing, showing he couldn't handle a large ensemble cast or a big budget, both of which were skills he would desperately need with his failed attempt to revitalize Twin Peaks in Fire Walk With Me. Don't get me wrong - I would go see a Lynch movie over most any day, but I get the feeling that he never quite reached the status and recognition he seemed to desire.
I said they shouldn't be compared, not that they couldn't be compared. And, let's be honest, comparing and contrasting aren't really all that different - "tomatOE" or "tomAHtoe" basically. Comparing the trilogy and Dune is like trying to compare Finnegan's Wake and Cryptonomicon - sure, it can be done, but it's futile to do it because the books have entirely different goals set to achieve. However, I would love to see a compare and contrast paper from you between, oh, let's say Ulysses and Sam, the Firehouse Cat.
While I think you're right (did Paul have a son die in the first book...I can't remember), in centuries past it wasn't uncommon to name a child after a sibling who had died young. Harrison could be leading up to that. What's also important is that Leto doesn't become Leto II until he assumes the title of Duke. If he really wanted to, if Herbert was basing the empire on old European empires, he chould have named himself Duke Leto II and Emperor Bobby I at the same time, if so inclined...
That's right on the mark, all. Harrison's comparing the feel of ANH and ESB to one another and saying that the level of difference between those two films is akin to the level of difference between Herbert's books. He's not comparing Herbert to Lucas.
Apples and oranges. The Hobbit is a children's story, written for Tolkien's kids. He later decided to use the same world for LOTR in order to create a new mythology. He had a specific goal in mind with LOTR, and Herbert had a different goal in mind with the Dune series. You're comparing two things that shouldn't be compared.
The book, 2001, was a novelization of the movie. BUT, the movie was still an adaptation of an earlier, shorter, work of Clarke's - "The Sentinel."
You're joking, right? Even Lynch isn't happy with the movie, and it sealed his fate - he never became a truly big director, which he was well on his way to being. Listen, I like the Lynch movie, but it's just not on target. I mean, Sting? Sting's best acting was seen in Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. The miniseries had problems, but it felt like a '60s sci-fi novel being translated to screen. Call me odd, but I really think that it has a strong, purposeful, retro sensibility that just about everyone missed. When you think of it in that way, I think you'll respect the work that was done with the miniseries.
The difference is simple: they don't have a monopoly that they're leveraging. You have to look at the entire case, not just the portions that interest you. MS is a monoply - this has been proven time and time again. A monopoly, in and of itself, is not illegal. That is worth repeating: A MONOPOLY IN AND OF ITSELF IS NOT ILLEGAL. It is when you use your monopolistic advantage to gain control in other areas - IE, WMP, and the new Windows Messenger. By tying things to the item that creates the monopoly and attempting to make them the standard you are leveraging your monopoly power illegally. Therefore, the WMP 8 player and Messenger that will only come with Win XP helps - illegallly - push, for example, Real and Apple out of the streaming market and AOL out of the IM market. Just as Netcaspe was pushed out of the browser market..
Actually, you're wrong. MS is being tried in the same way Standard Oil was, and is helping set antitrust for the next century. This case will eventually go in front of the Supreme Court - hopefully before Bush appoints anyone - and the "Constitutionality" of antitrust laws will be established. Again.
I would take Jobs over Gates any day - at least my temper would find an outlet and I wouldn't have to deal with .dll files...
Actually, a lot of Que drives are supported under 10.0.4.
Wait, wait, wait - you're joking, right? Have you ever gone door-to-door? That's hard phucking work, and it's for piss-poor pay. Get real - my e-mail address is for my communication. Unless I opt-in, I don't want you e-mailing me. The poor person who gets me over the phone gets a very simple "I don't do business over the phone" and a hangup. I wish there were an easier way to do that with e-mail. However, there are a few solutions:
SpamCop, which I use regularly.
The DMA, has its E-mail Prefence Service, which you have to renew each year, but seems to work (at least for me).
You can also contact Senator Wyden and tell him exactly what you think of his statement, and, while you're at it, send a message to each of your reps, too.
I think it's obvious to us all that spam is not equivalent to regular advertising - the First Amendment is designed to protect speech that is designed to be unpopular - in a political, religious, social and economic sense. For example, I despise the KKK, but they are protected by the First Amendment, and I respect that. I don't see spam falling under any of those categories, unless you view "Sarah Michelle Gellar Caught Giving Head" as a call for opporessed workers in Third World nations to unite (and, if you do, I think there's a serious problem with one of the two of us, and it ain't me).
For Wyden to say such a stupid remark is beyond me...and, I think, beyond the vast majority of us who understand "the new economy," spam, and the First Amendment (some of us did pay attention in school, Ron). So, I say, "Enough already."
Freak.