But at least he left the Stormtrooper banging his head on the door and he completely missed Leia's blaster which still sounds like a 45 at one point in ANH.
And, of course, anybody who will actually bother looking at the E.T. 20th Anniversary DVD will note that both the original, unaltered 1983 and the "enhanced" 2003 vesions are sold in the very same package.
Are you sure? I seem to recall only having the "enhanced" version on my copy of the DVD... Just checked and there are two versions - the "Enhanced" version and "Enhanced with live John Williams performace". No original ET on my 20th Anniversary DVD. 8-/
I think the alteration in question (guns -> flashlights) is absurd as well, but talk about making a mountain out of a molehill.
It's only if you know the change had been made and look out for it that it becomes noticeable. To me it was not such a major thing.
The big one that gets all the geeks riled up is they changed the Cantina scene, so that Jabba's bounty hunter shoots at Han, and he kills him in 'self defense'. In the original, Han just shoots him under the table and gets up and leaves.
It effectively changes Han's character from an outlaw who cares only about himself, to some sort of good guy who found himself in trouble.
Add to that the fact that the added effects shot was so poorly done that I still cringe just thinking of it. Greedo is sitting two feet away from Han with his blaster aimed squarely at him, yet somehow misses by a mile?
The rest of the Special Editions are not too bad though.
I'll still be getting it on DVD - I have the original Original Trilogy on VHS, as well as the Special Editions of the Original Trilogy, so like a true fan-boy I'll fork out for the DVDs...
Which would have been such a difficult task... He needn't have said "unidentified writer" and could have said something along the lones of: "A message posted on Penny-Arcade..." The fact is, the author of the message was identified, even if that identification was by way of a nickname. Attributing the quote as "unidentified"is not only sloppy reporting, but somewhat insulting.
Did he? I thought seeing how it was in a box with Gabe's avatar and email address at the top with "by: Gabe" that Gabe wrote that piece. I guess I was mistaken... (Hint, click the link I gave and scroll down to the last item...)
I hate to tell you, but his name's not really Gabe.
No shit Sherlock? Next you'll be telling me that my real name isn't arb. Fer fuck's sake - do I have to point out that Gabe is just his nickname, and the name he chooses to use on the site, but if you look closely at the comics, you'll see the name Mike Krahuik.
Oh and Tycho - you know, the other guy who writes that stuff? His name is prolly Jerry Holkins, but everyone still refers to him as Tycho.
An unidentified writer wrote, "If you are like me, [...]
Unidentified? Gabe's name is right there - smack bang on top of the bit of text this guy quotes. Can't he even acknowledge the people behind the Child's Play effort by using their names? Even the smallest amount of research would have revealed the "unidentified writer". After all the Penny-Arcade guys have done, only 3 news reports on their efforts, and one of them attributes the effort to an "unidentified writer." Sheesh! Adding insult to injury or what?
Safari does this as well. The catch is that Safari has two modes of handling this behavior. If there is blank space on the tab bar and you drag a link onto that blank space, Safari will open a new tab onto that page. On the other hand, if you drag a link over an existing tab -- and if you have more than half a dozen or so tabs open, the bar is full and you have nothing but filled tabs on your tab bar -- then the new link will be opened in place of that other page. This, in my mind, kind of negates the point of a tabbed interface.
This is how Firebird works as well, and it makes sense too. When you drag a link onto an existing tab, you are effectively saying "open this link in this tab". Dragging a link onto an empty space in the tab bar (which Firebird will always have, no matter how many tabs you have open) will open the link in a new tab.
The trick is that the browser should leave a reasonable amount of space in the tab bar to drag a link into. If it uses all the available space for tabs, with no empty space at all, then it is most definitely a poor implementation.
I spend most of my online time on my laptop, which means for "Open in a new tab" I have to do the Control-Click contortion, while this seems to allow me to drag and drop for the same effect.
Mozilla Firebird allows you to drag a link to the tab bar to open the link in a new tab if you want. No contortions required - unless you really want to do them...
They aren't going to punish the copyright infringers AT ALL.
In fact they are. If you read the article, you will see that they have gone after the infringers who illegally make the music available for download. They have merely stated that they will not go after the downloaders, but the uploaders are clearly in their sights still.
I would like to point out that some sectors of the community feel aggreived that you are choosing to highlight their unique abilities in a negative by referring to these abilities as "different". The correct title for Mr Zero is therefore "Positive in a manner which, while not the same as other Positive beings, has just as much to offer society in a unique and beneficial way. (Which is not to say that the offerings of other Positive beings is in any way diminished.)" Similarly, Mrs Virtual should be referred to as "Enhanced other respects, without disrespecting any or all other forms of enhancement."
Sinclair's lovely quote that you could "Run a nuclear power station with the ZX-80" were well far-fetched...
However, a friend of mine worked on a ZX-81 based process control system that was used at a steel-works in England. It was in production up until at least the early 90s.
The reported percentages are close. But since the numbers come from the total population, they are accurate: of those individuals who download the trial version, Linux users are more likely to subscribe than Windows users.
But how many Linux users were there compared to Windows users? If there were 1560 purchases out of a total 10000 Windows downloads compared to 10 out of 52 Linux downloads, then can the percentages really be compared directly?
Anyway, it could come down to the amount of choice available on each platform and the type of person most likely to use a particular platform. There are more quality freely available games for Linux than Windows, so a Linux gamer would not have to outlay as much for their gaming needs as a Windows gamer.
Assume that a typical Linux gamer has the same amount of money to spend on games as a Windows gamer (not a given mind you) then it is highly probable that the Linux gamer would be more likely to purchase a commercial Linux game after a trial than a Windows gamer, purely due to the fact that there are less commercial Linux games available. With a smaller number of games to choose from, each game is going to get a larger share of the overall Linux market than a comparable game would in the Windows market.
That doesn't make sense, really. Mac users legally download more music per capita, and though I couldn't find a source, I'd bet anything that Mac users are more likely to own an iPod than Win users are to own any MP3 music player.
But could this be due to the fact that music lovers are more likely to buy Macs?
The VARs should have paid more attention to the man behind the curtain. Get the escrow details written into the contract. Get your lawyers to verify that the agreement is watertight and that the escrowee is reputable and can verify that they have the source. Make sure regular audits are done.
AppGen's word that they had placed the source in escrow should not have been enough for anyone. A company I used to work for told clients that their source would be placed in escrow, but it never was. Never take a salesman's word as gospel. Ever.
From reading the article it seems that many of the VARs accepted AppGen's word that the source would be placed in escrow. To just accept the word of this company was reckless behaviour. Get it in writing, and get your lawyers to go over the terms to make sure it is all kosher.
I feel sorry for the people who are out of pocket over this, but failing companies will quite often say whatever they need to in order to make a sale and get the money out of the customer. If you don't get it in writing, don't expect those promises to be upheld.
This is not so much about the difference between open-source and closed-source, but ethical business practices. To continue to accept orders up until the time you close your doors in this way seems to be just a tad illegal. There are shysters out there feeding off the open-source community as well. (ie SCO)
...he ignores the fact that HD manufacturers are happy using bytes which are 8 bits, all the while flaunting the established convention that MB/GB refers to binary megabytes and binary gigabytes. Why don't they specify the size of their HDs in bits?
Yes, Tom Baker is great but he is as mad as a crate full of squirrels. Ananova reports that he reckons Melinda Messenger would make a good assisstant because:
'Melinda would be good as she can scream and has bosoms. It doesn't really matter if she can act.'
I think his assessment is not too far off the mark. Very few of the past assistants could act, and Melinda does have bosoms - quite nice ones in fact!;-)
Well, I'm plenty disgruntled when I don't get a monetary tip myself, and I deliver pizzas in Australia.
You must be permanently disgruntled then - tipping is not the norm in Australia. Well, unless you count the 5 cents change I "tip" the delivery boy when my pizza order comes to $14.95...
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But at least he left the Stormtrooper banging his head on the door and he completely missed Leia's blaster which still sounds like a 45 at one point in ANH.
And, of course, anybody who will actually bother looking at the E.T. 20th Anniversary DVD will note that both the original, unaltered 1983 and the "enhanced" 2003 vesions are sold in the very same package.
Are you sure? I seem to recall only having the "enhanced" version on my copy of the DVD... Just checked and there are two versions - the "Enhanced" version and "Enhanced with live John Williams performace". No original ET on my 20th Anniversary DVD. 8-/
I think the alteration in question (guns -> flashlights) is absurd as well, but talk about making a mountain out of a molehill.
It's only if you know the change had been made and look out for it that it becomes noticeable. To me it was not such a major thing.
The big one that gets all the geeks riled up is they changed the Cantina scene, so that Jabba's bounty hunter shoots at Han, and he kills him in 'self defense'. In the original, Han just shoots him under the table and gets up and leaves.
It effectively changes Han's character from an outlaw who cares only about himself, to some sort of good guy who found himself in trouble.
Add to that the fact that the added effects shot was so poorly done that I still cringe just thinking of it. Greedo is sitting two feet away from Han with his blaster aimed squarely at him, yet somehow misses by a mile?
The rest of the Special Editions are not too bad though.
I'll still be getting it on DVD - I have the original Original Trilogy on VHS, as well as the Special Editions of the Original Trilogy, so like a true fan-boy I'll fork out for the DVDs...
He probably hadn't contacted PA to ask.
Which would have been such a difficult task... He needn't have said "unidentified writer" and could have said something along the lones of: "A message posted on Penny-Arcade..." The fact is, the author of the message was identified, even if that identification was by way of a nickname. Attributing the quote as "unidentified"is not only sloppy reporting, but somewhat insulting.
Tycho made the comment.
Did he? I thought seeing how it was in a box with Gabe's avatar and email address at the top with "by: Gabe" that Gabe wrote that piece. I guess I was mistaken... (Hint, click the link I gave and scroll down to the last item...)
I hate to tell you, but his name's not really Gabe.
No shit Sherlock? Next you'll be telling me that my real name isn't arb. Fer fuck's sake - do I have to point out that Gabe is just his nickname, and the name he chooses to use on the site, but if you look closely at the comics, you'll see the name Mike Krahuik.
Oh and Tycho - you know, the other guy who writes that stuff? His name is prolly Jerry Holkins, but everyone still refers to him as Tycho.
Unidentified? Gabe's name is right there - smack bang on top of the bit of text this guy quotes. Can't he even acknowledge the people behind the Child's Play effort by using their names? Even the smallest amount of research would have revealed the "unidentified writer". After all the Penny-Arcade guys have done, only 3 news reports on their efforts, and one of them attributes the effort to an "unidentified writer." Sheesh! Adding insult to injury or what?
Safari does this as well. The catch is that Safari has two modes of handling this behavior. If there is blank space on the tab bar and you drag a link onto that blank space, Safari will open a new tab onto that page. On the other hand, if you drag a link over an existing tab -- and if you have more than half a dozen or so tabs open, the bar is full and you have nothing but filled tabs on your tab bar -- then the new link will be opened in place of that other page. This, in my mind, kind of negates the point of a tabbed interface.
This is how Firebird works as well, and it makes sense too. When you drag a link onto an existing tab, you are effectively saying "open this link in this tab". Dragging a link onto an empty space in the tab bar (which Firebird will always have, no matter how many tabs you have open) will open the link in a new tab.
The trick is that the browser should leave a reasonable amount of space in the tab bar to drag a link into. If it uses all the available space for tabs, with no empty space at all, then it is most definitely a poor implementation.
I spend most of my online time on my laptop, which means for "Open in a new tab" I have to do the Control-Click contortion, while this seems to allow me to drag and drop for the same effect.
Mozilla Firebird allows you to drag a link to the tab bar to open the link in a new tab if you want. No contortions required - unless you really want to do them...
One thing to watch out for is reindeer with red noses. They can be trouble makers.
They aren't going to punish the copyright infringers AT ALL.
In fact they are. If you read the article, you will see that they have gone after the infringers who illegally make the music available for download. They have merely stated that they will not go after the downloaders, but the uploaders are clearly in their sights still.
I would like to point out that some sectors of the community feel aggreived that you are choosing to highlight their unique abilities in a negative by referring to these abilities as "different". The correct title for Mr Zero is therefore "Positive in a manner which, while not the same as other Positive beings, has just as much to offer society in a unique and beneficial way. (Which is not to say that the offerings of other Positive beings is in any way diminished.)" Similarly, Mrs Virtual should be referred to as "Enhanced other respects, without disrespecting any or all other forms of enhancement."
Sinclair's lovely quote that you could "Run a nuclear power station with the ZX-80" were well far-fetched...
However, a friend of mine worked on a ZX-81 based process control system that was used at a steel-works in England. It was in production up until at least the early 90s.
The reported percentages are close. But since the numbers come from the total population, they are accurate: of those individuals who download the trial version, Linux users are more likely to subscribe than Windows users.
But how many Linux users were there compared to Windows users? If there were 1560 purchases out of a total 10000 Windows downloads compared to 10 out of 52 Linux downloads, then can the percentages really be compared directly?
Anyway, it could come down to the amount of choice available on each platform and the type of person most likely to use a particular platform. There are more quality freely available games for Linux than Windows, so a Linux gamer would not have to outlay as much for their gaming needs as a Windows gamer.
Assume that a typical Linux gamer has the same amount of money to spend on games as a Windows gamer (not a given mind you) then it is highly probable that the Linux gamer would be more likely to purchase a commercial Linux game after a trial than a Windows gamer, purely due to the fact that there are less commercial Linux games available. With a smaller number of games to choose from, each game is going to get a larger share of the overall Linux market than a comparable game would in the Windows market.
That doesn't make sense, really. Mac users legally download more music per capita, and though I couldn't find a source, I'd bet anything that Mac users are more likely to own an iPod than Win users are to own any MP3 music player.
But could this be due to the fact that music lovers are more likely to buy Macs?
Are you trying to saw that Slashdot is run by a bunch of hypocrites?
Surely you jest?! That cannot be true! Slashdot run by hypocrites? Never!
The VARs should have paid more attention to the man behind the curtain. Get the escrow details written into the contract. Get your lawyers to verify that the agreement is watertight and that the escrowee is reputable and can verify that they have the source. Make sure regular audits are done.
AppGen's word that they had placed the source in escrow should not have been enough for anyone. A company I used to work for told clients that their source would be placed in escrow, but it never was. Never take a salesman's word as gospel. Ever.
From reading the article it seems that many of the VARs accepted AppGen's word that the source would be placed in escrow. To just accept the word of this company was reckless behaviour. Get it in writing, and get your lawyers to go over the terms to make sure it is all kosher.
I feel sorry for the people who are out of pocket over this, but failing companies will quite often say whatever they need to in order to make a sale and get the money out of the customer. If you don't get it in writing, don't expect those promises to be upheld.
This is not so much about the difference between open-source and closed-source, but ethical business practices. To continue to accept orders up until the time you close your doors in this way seems to be just a tad illegal. There are shysters out there feeding off the open-source community as well. (ie SCO)
If it's used to target someone we don't like, then we like patent barratry. If it is a "good" person/corporation being targetted, then we dislike it.
So we have to figure out whether we like/dislike X10 more or the guys who came up with the pop-under concept. 8-/
it would be good if there were more real argument and debate on /. as opposed to just contradiction.
;-)
No it wouldn't!
...he ignores the fact that HD manufacturers are happy using bytes which are 8 bits, all the while flaunting the established convention that MB/GB refers to binary megabytes and binary gigabytes. Why don't they specify the size of their HDs in bits?
So? Who cares if they're real or not? They look okay to me.
Yes, Tom Baker is great but he is as mad as a crate full of squirrels. Ananova reports that he reckons Melinda Messenger would make a good assisstant because:
;-)
'Melinda would be good as she can scream and has bosoms. It doesn't really matter if she can act.'
I think his assessment is not too far off the mark. Very few of the past assistants could act, and Melinda does have bosoms - quite nice ones in fact!
PlayStation II, XBox, GameCube. Take your pick.
Well, I'm plenty disgruntled when I don't get a monetary tip myself, and I deliver pizzas in Australia.
You must be permanently disgruntled then - tipping is not the norm in Australia. Well, unless you count the 5 cents change I "tip" the delivery boy when my pizza order comes to $14.95...