All these other people replying to you are hitting the nail on the head. Where is the money in OGG? Granted SnoCap doesn't even exist yet but they're betting that whatever it ends up being will be somethng that can make some money and that's why it's got an investor.
That's a very risky bet but at least it's a chance. OGG is right there in front of them and ready to go but they don't see any money in it. That should tell you something.
Mp3 made somebody money because it came first. From that point forward the only way your're going to make any money is with a proprietary format with at least some semblance of DRM built into it and blessed by someone important before it's even out in the world (like ACC or WMA).
Otherwise you just have a reinvented (hey maybe even improved, doesn't matter) Mp3 and it's never going to pry away the crown from Mp3.
Face it, Mp3 gets in because it's the standard. If Apple, Microsoft, the RIAA, etc had they way it would vanish too in a second. It won't just like OGG won't be anything more than a footnote format.
Whoa there, slow down for a second and enhance your calm.
First of all I think it's safe to say that BSD and Linux are going to be running on more systems than OSX for some time to come. Hey, I like OSX better than anything but if you're looking for an "OS cult" to join then those are going to be choices that will give you a wider range than OSX. You can run them on more things, you have them doing everything from web servers to desktops to embedded. Maybe more relevant was a poor choice of words but with this added explanation I think you get what I'm talking about. I hope you do.
I also never said that Apple doesn't still make Macs. Of course they still make Macs (and I want a G5 despite having a G4 2x1Ghz Quicksilver on my desk. Their new Macs are just so damned cool) but all I was pointing out with that part was that if you're going to become a "zealot" about something you can also go back and collect a bunch of cool old hardware that's got an Apple on the front. All kinds of (now) affordable machines to buy and tinker with are out there looking for good homes. Try going out and buying a ten year old machine with a Penguin on the front. You can't. Sure you can run older versions of Linux and BSD to see what they were like but old Apples are just plain cooler.
And if you haven't guessed yet I kind of understand that OSX is a cool operating system. In fact I kind of think of it as the coolest of all operating systems. I know it's got BSD under the hood (in parts) and you would have to be living in an ice cave up on the Arctic circle not to.
You got me all wrong there. I'll conceed maybe I wasn't clear enough but I meant nothing negative regarding his choosing the MacOS to be a zealot of.
In my case I started this at home. Got the "addiction" and started buying and tinkering with computers as fast as my budget would allow. I used to be the guy who bought new games and secretly hoped something wouldn't work right out of the box so I could figure out why. One day I looked up and I knew enough that someone would actually pay me to fix PCs for a living.
Eventually that led me to better technician jobs and finally the desire to work on bigger problems. I got an entry level position here where I still work and started learning networks from my boss (And he started his "addiction" in the early 70's). At one point about four years ago management decided that we all needed to be MCSE certified and laid out a bunch of money to a training company for classes and vouchers. We were running Novell then and since we had been given the "We're switching to NT now" speech (again from management) they felt like we needed some training.
We were all like "Ok, whatever." I went to the first class and tried to get into it but I wasn't learning anything. Sure I was learning how much Microsoft thought of their product but everything relevant was stuff I learned on the job. I ended up passing on the rest of the classes and just picking up some "Dummies" books and finishing it on my own.
The vouchers my company paid for were of some use (because I wouldn't have bothered to pay for those tests on my own) and we ended up using the class time for another employee who needed some SQL training but the content was worthless. It amounted to me spending time learning enough "Administrivia" as you so nicely put it just to pass a stupid test I didn't really need and didn't want in the first place.
On the other hand my brother jumped into this field because you could make bank in it. He went to college, I didn't. He has a CIS (or one of those, I don't really know or care much) degree and as soon as he got out he went through the Certification feeding frenzy and jumped into a job from the get go that paid more than I was making. I tried to talk him into spending some time to learn a foundation but he wanted the money and he got it. The thing is though he's lost and in way over his head. I think it's only a matter of time before he's looking for work because he doesn't love this stuff and he doesn't know it well enough. His paper means not much in the long run.
It might sound like I'm looking forward to him hitting the wall but I'm not. I really just wish he'd listened to me (and had gone after something he enjoyed instead of what he thought was going to get him in a BMW faster). I've seen enough of the paper admins to know that no good comes of it.
Seriously though, You HAD coal! Do you know what we would have given to be able to power our computers by burning coal? Those people you worked for must have thought the sun shone out your ass to go giving you coal.
You probably got spat upon often too didn't you? Regular bunch of managers pets you have there.
I always thought I was the first person ever to have someone try to beat them up because I was a Star Wars nerd. I was in sixth grade or so and I think in a matter of months my entire wardrobe became Star Wars t-shirts. One day I ended up getting some crap over it on the bus home and the self appointed "crap-giver" decided to get off at my bus stop to administer the butt kicking.
Before the bus stopped I clocked him with my Trombone case. There were positives to being in band after all. I got in a shit storm of trouble over it (knocked him out cold) but it was worth it. As a Star Wars nerd in Jr. High that was I think, my finest hour.
I wore my Star Wars shirts unmolested from that day forward.
I was going to post something about this as well but I'm glad I saw yours first. This whole name changing mess is much ado about nothing. I wouldn't be surprised if the "Ray" on the Rei art had a similar explanation.
Wish I had some mod points so I could push this up.
I personally consider the Macintosh to be the "official platform" of zealotry. Mac zealots are a unique bunch and I think are the most obnoxious of zealots. Plus they have the original "figurehead" in Steve Jobs. Sure Linux has "The Linus" and Windows (can you be a Windows zealot?) has "Gates of Borg" but Jobs came before them and his reality distortion field is IMO stronger.
What I found really strange was that I didn't expect it to happen to me. All of the Mac nuts I know (with a small handfull of exceptions) all just got a wild hair up their ass and oneday just went and bought a Mac. That's the first step and it seems like all of them suddenly began to hold all other platforms in deep contempt.
Then comes the inevitable collecting of old Apples, Macs, and Next computers. Before you know it you have a room in your house dedicated to a bunch of old computers you didn't even care about 6 months before. You're watching keynote speeches you didn't care about 6 months before.
BSD and Linux would be I think more relevant so maybe you want to be one of those guys. With those you've got cool operating systems and there's nothing wrong with that. With Macs though you've got old hardware AND old software that's unique to your new hobby. You've also got all kinds of collectible junk to spend cash on.
And I'd like to add that I haven't a single fucking doubt that not one person talking on this message board about giving their life for a years worth of research (on a planet that's going to be there for a very long time) is qualified in any way to actually do it. I seriously doubt that any of them could contribute in any way to such a mission.
Find the people who have the skills, brains, and talent to actually do this and you're going to find a bunch of people who are smart enough not to want to go until there's some real benefit and the plan is sound.
The people talking in here are just sounding off with no real expectation of it happening. It's heroism with a condom on. No real danger, no real possibility of danger.
No, someone who draws a connection between soldiers throwing themselves on grenades to save the lives of their platoons and what I wrote is a "fucking idiot".
Someone like, oh let me think...you!
Sacrificing yourself for a greater good is not a new concept. That's correct. Going on a mission to another world without a plan to come back would be a new concept. Thankfully that's not a concept that NASA is going to embrace.
I think it's fairly safe to say that you won't be watching a rocket blast off as an announcer says "And there he goes, that brave soul who's agreed to give his life for some research that could been done by a probe or by another person in a few years who's smart enough to wait until they include a trip home in the plan" . That's one I'm betting the farm I won't be seeing.
Were the soldiers (pilots actually) who volunteered to fly Kamikaze missions sacrificing themselves for the greater good? What's "worth it"? In my book yeah, saving a bunch of other soldiers by throwing yourself on a grenade is an amazing and selfless act that would have meaning. Throwing your life away so we can get a person with two feet on Mars a little sooner is just idiotic.
Your wrong. That's not the very same way the majority of this planet was settled. The explorers you're making reference to went to these new places intending to a) discover them, and b) come back and tell other people that these places exist. Very few if any of them went with the idea that they were going to go as far as possible and then die somewhere. Can you name one? They made a leap of faith but they didn't go on a planned trip to "death in one year" like the original poster I replied to spoke of.
Risky trip to Mars? I'm good with that. It's going to be risky no matter how much time is spent preparing for it but leaving the trip back out of the plan is stupid idea and nobody is going to do that. Sure you can find some idiots that are willing to go "for the good of mankind" and die on Mars INTENTIONALLY but NASA is never going to consider sending a human being to do that. Never.
risk involved versus going with the fact that you WILL die in a year or so is very different from driving a car and knowing that there is a chance you or someone else could make a mistake and die from it.
I'm not saying that a "risky" trip to Mars is a bad idea. No matter how much time we put into it there is going to be risk. That's fine. The risks that have been taken to date in space travel were mitigated to the highest degree possible and when that wasn't enough those things happened and those people knew that could happen but it wasn't the plan.
I'm simply replying to the people who are saying that they're prepared to go on a one way trip to Mars knowing that they'll live only so long but hopefully get "important research" done with their remaining time. That's idiotic. Same person says he's willing to go with a not so hot proposition of being able to get back (but at least getting back is in "the plan) then I'm thinking that's a brave person.
I just don't that a Kamikaze Space Explorer is a very smart career path.
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You get to take care of the Rabbits Lenny, that's how it works. See, other guys they ain't got nuthin. Nobody cares about them and they got nobody to look out for them. But not us.
Lenny? What have you got in your pocket? Is that another dead mouse?
Very noble of you. You could however not go to Mars to die in a year and contribute to society to the extent that you are capable (whatever that may be, I don't know you) and then maybe live to see one of your grandchildren go to Mars and actually return when we have actually figured out how to do that.
I fail to see how this is less worthy a plan than your noble sacrifice. Mankind has been around for a pretty long time and I expect will be around for some time to come. This isn't something that can't wait to happen for 30-40 more years and I personally believe that in that time frame you can expect a "There and Back Again" plan appear that's got a reasonable chance of working.
In all honesty, I'd send you one way to Mars in a heartbeat.
I am speaking for myself and you're a fucking idiot. No doubt about it.
The pioneers in pretty much every case that I can bring to mind had a reasonable expectation that they would not die. In most cases they could expect hardships and possible death but nobody crossed the plains knowing full well that they were going to die there. They all held out hope that they would prevail over whatever odds there were and live.
Comparing someone who took a chance with someone who's agreed to die in advance for mankind (to learn things that could be obtained at a later date without a guarantee of death) IS STUPID. Explorers who never returned planned on returning, People who did things that led others to burn them at the stake did not sign up for this because of the promised "Chrispy Critter" plan, and people who died in accidents and malfunctions did not get into their capsules/shuttles/whatever knowing that those things would happen. They knew there was a chance that those things could happen.
Just to clarify, that makes them brave. If they were like you and climbed into their spacecraft knowing that the plan was for them to die that would make them stupid, a condition they would apparently share with yourself.
Im sorry, I can't see this as anything but pure, uncut stupidity.
To decide that since we aren't quite ready to send someone to Mars and then bring them back home we will instead just do what we can at the moment and send someone to die on Mars is idiotic in the extreme.
We aren't ready to go to Mars yet. It's as simple as that. We will eventually be ready to make an attempt at it and then it will be the thing to do. Right now it's nothing more than another President saying something to try and get some good reviews in a History book.
Since the end of the space race every President has been trying to be John F Kennedy when it comes to space. Carter got to be the Space Shuttle guy, Reagan had his "Space Station Freedom" thing.
I don't think I would go with Georges age as a disqualifier here. I'd like to but he's not so old that he can't get it done if he wants to.
I'm not saying that this is necessarily a good thing so let me make that clear.
First off he's not poor, in bad health that we know of, and he's got the resources to keep himself in good shape for some time to come.
Second you have to admit that at the rate he's going the final three could have almost no actor involvement whatsoever. The last three could be put at the exact moment Jedi ended and I wouldn't put it past George to CGI in all of the characters. You would get the original Luke, Han, and Leia done in CGI and acting almost as wooden as they did in Episode VI and George wouldn't have to deal with any annoying actors while making his "vision" come to life.
Seriously, say he takes another year to get Episode III out (which is I think correct, I have to admit I no longer care after Phantom and Clones) and then takes 3-4 years to crank up Episode VII. By that time he might make an attempt at something like a CGI original cast.
The way Georges mind works anything that didn't come out the way he wanted it to would simply be a good reason to go back and fix it later.
I've got this mental picture of an 80 year old Lucas sitting in a dark room lit only by the glow of several silly big monitors (looking like a cross between Howard Hughes and Palpatine) reviewing the latest CGI work.
Well, honestly when you put it that way I have to admit that much of what he said was true.
I would only submit that a person who was "educated" (in a well rounded manner that included some interpersonal communications skills) might have said these things in a less caustic manner or, upon giving it a thought or two might have chosen to not say them at all. I guess that means I disagree with his decision (which I judge to be a poor one) to post this information in the first place.
But yes, those are all things I would generally accept as being true.
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No of course they don't count as other countries.
And just to be fair neither do the puppet governments that the US didn't put in place regardless of how far along they are.
Eventually it's almost all going to be the same thing. Then the only question will be "Do you want fries with that Big Mac?"
All these other people replying to you are hitting the nail on the head. Where is the money in OGG? Granted SnoCap doesn't even exist yet but they're betting that whatever it ends up being will be somethng that can make some money and that's why it's got an investor.
That's a very risky bet but at least it's a chance. OGG is right there in front of them and ready to go but they don't see any money in it. That should tell you something.
Mp3 made somebody money because it came first. From that point forward the only way your're going to make any money is with a proprietary format with at least some semblance of DRM built into it and blessed by someone important before it's even out in the world (like ACC or WMA).
Otherwise you just have a reinvented (hey maybe even improved, doesn't matter) Mp3 and it's never going to pry away the crown from Mp3.
Face it, Mp3 gets in because it's the standard. If Apple, Microsoft, the RIAA, etc had they way it would vanish too in a second. It won't just like OGG won't be anything more than a footnote format.
Whoa there, slow down for a second and enhance your calm.
First of all I think it's safe to say that BSD and Linux are going to be running on more systems than OSX for some time to come. Hey, I like OSX better than anything but if you're looking for an "OS cult" to join then those are going to be choices that will give you a wider range than OSX. You can run them on more things, you have them doing everything from web servers to desktops to embedded. Maybe more relevant was a poor choice of words but with this added explanation I think you get what I'm talking about. I hope you do.
I also never said that Apple doesn't still make Macs. Of course they still make Macs (and I want a G5 despite having a G4 2x1Ghz Quicksilver on my desk. Their new Macs are just so damned cool) but all I was pointing out with that part was that if you're going to become a "zealot" about something you can also go back and collect a bunch of cool old hardware that's got an Apple on the front. All kinds of (now) affordable machines to buy and tinker with are out there looking for good homes. Try going out and buying a ten year old machine with a Penguin on the front. You can't. Sure you can run older versions of Linux and BSD to see what they were like but old Apples are just plain cooler.
And if you haven't guessed yet I kind of understand that OSX is a cool operating system. In fact I kind of think of it as the coolest of all operating systems. I know it's got BSD under the hood (in parts) and you would have to be living in an ice cave up on the Arctic circle not to.
You got me all wrong there. I'll conceed maybe I wasn't clear enough but I meant nothing negative regarding his choosing the MacOS to be a zealot of.
Yeah, that about covers it.
In my case I started this at home. Got the "addiction" and started buying and tinkering with computers as fast as my budget would allow. I used to be the guy who bought new games and secretly hoped something wouldn't work right out of the box so I could figure out why. One day I looked up and I knew enough that someone would actually pay me to fix PCs for a living.
Eventually that led me to better technician jobs and finally the desire to work on bigger problems. I got an entry level position here where I still work and started learning networks from my boss (And he started his "addiction" in the early 70's). At one point about four years ago management decided that we all needed to be MCSE certified and laid out a bunch of money to a training company for classes and vouchers. We were running Novell then and since we had been given the "We're switching to NT now" speech (again from management) they felt like we needed some training.
We were all like "Ok, whatever." I went to the first class and tried to get into it but I wasn't learning anything. Sure I was learning how much Microsoft thought of their product but everything relevant was stuff I learned on the job. I ended up passing on the rest of the classes and just picking up some "Dummies" books and finishing it on my own.
The vouchers my company paid for were of some use (because I wouldn't have bothered to pay for those tests on my own) and we ended up using the class time for another employee who needed some SQL training but the content was worthless. It amounted to me spending time learning enough "Administrivia" as you so nicely put it just to pass a stupid test I didn't really need and didn't want in the first place.
On the other hand my brother jumped into this field because you could make bank in it. He went to college, I didn't. He has a CIS (or one of those, I don't really know or care much) degree and as soon as he got out he went through the Certification feeding frenzy and jumped into a job from the get go that paid more than I was making. I tried to talk him into spending some time to learn a foundation but he wanted the money and he got it. The thing is though he's lost and in way over his head. I think it's only a matter of time before he's looking for work because he doesn't love this stuff and he doesn't know it well enough. His paper means not much in the long run.
It might sound like I'm looking forward to him hitting the wall but I'm not. I really just wish he'd listened to me (and had gone after something he enjoyed instead of what he thought was going to get him in a BMW faster). I've seen enough of the paper admins to know that no good comes of it.
Of course not, we're Catholics. We burned Jews!
NOBODY Expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Seriously though, You HAD coal! Do you know what we would have given to be able to power our computers by burning coal? Those people you worked for must have thought the sun shone out your ass to go giving you coal.
You probably got spat upon often too didn't you? Regular bunch of managers pets you have there.
You had coal?
Wimp.
I always thought I was the first person ever to have someone try to beat them up because I was a Star Wars nerd. I was in sixth grade or so and I think in a matter of months my entire wardrobe became Star Wars t-shirts. One day I ended up getting some crap over it on the bus home and the self appointed "crap-giver" decided to get off at my bus stop to administer the butt kicking.
Before the bus stopped I clocked him with my Trombone case. There were positives to being in band after all. I got in a shit storm of trouble over it (knocked him out cold) but it was worth it. As a Star Wars nerd in Jr. High that was I think, my finest hour.
I wore my Star Wars shirts unmolested from that day forward.
It's possible to sell someone AOL? I thought it was something you just noticed you had one day like Herpes.
I was going to post something about this as well but I'm glad I saw yours first. This whole name changing mess is much ado about nothing. I wouldn't be surprised if the "Ray" on the Rei art had a similar explanation.
Wish I had some mod points so I could push this up.
I personally consider the Macintosh to be the "official platform" of zealotry. Mac zealots are a unique bunch and I think are the most obnoxious of zealots. Plus they have the original "figurehead" in Steve Jobs. Sure Linux has "The Linus" and Windows (can you be a Windows zealot?) has "Gates of Borg" but Jobs came before them and his reality distortion field is IMO stronger.
What I found really strange was that I didn't expect it to happen to me. All of the Mac nuts I know (with a small handfull of exceptions) all just got a wild hair up their ass and oneday just went and bought a Mac. That's the first step and it seems like all of them suddenly began to hold all other platforms in deep contempt.
Then comes the inevitable collecting of old Apples, Macs, and Next computers. Before you know it you have a room in your house dedicated to a bunch of old computers you didn't even care about 6 months before. You're watching keynote speeches you didn't care about 6 months before.
BSD and Linux would be I think more relevant so maybe you want to be one of those guys. With those you've got cool operating systems and there's nothing wrong with that. With Macs though you've got old hardware AND old software that's unique to your new hobby. You've also got all kinds of collectible junk to spend cash on.
I'd go Mac but then I'm biased
One more time, c'mon bring me another Offtopic you moderator bastards!
And I'd like to add that I haven't a single fucking doubt that not one person talking on this message board about giving their life for a years worth of research (on a planet that's going to be there for a very long time) is qualified in any way to actually do it. I seriously doubt that any of them could contribute in any way to such a mission.
Find the people who have the skills, brains, and talent to actually do this and you're going to find a bunch of people who are smart enough not to want to go until there's some real benefit and the plan is sound.
The people talking in here are just sounding off with no real expectation of it happening. It's heroism with a condom on. No real danger, no real possibility of danger.
No, someone who draws a connection between soldiers throwing themselves on grenades to save the lives of their platoons and what I wrote is a "fucking idiot".
Someone like, oh let me think...you!
Sacrificing yourself for a greater good is not a new concept. That's correct. Going on a mission to another world without a plan to come back would be a new concept. Thankfully that's not a concept that NASA is going to embrace.
I think it's fairly safe to say that you won't be watching a rocket blast off as an announcer says "And there he goes, that brave soul who's agreed to give his life for some research that could been done by a probe or by another person in a few years who's smart enough to wait until they include a trip home in the plan" . That's one I'm betting the farm I won't be seeing.
Were the soldiers (pilots actually) who volunteered to fly Kamikaze missions sacrificing themselves for the greater good? What's "worth it"? In my book yeah, saving a bunch of other soldiers by throwing yourself on a grenade is an amazing and selfless act that would have meaning. Throwing your life away so we can get a person with two feet on Mars a little sooner is just idiotic.
Your wrong. That's not the very same way the majority of this planet was settled. The explorers you're making reference to went to these new places intending to a) discover them, and b) come back and tell other people that these places exist. Very few if any of them went with the idea that they were going to go as far as possible and then die somewhere. Can you name one? They made a leap of faith but they didn't go on a planned trip to "death in one year" like the original poster I replied to spoke of.
Risky trip to Mars? I'm good with that. It's going to be risky no matter how much time is spent preparing for it but leaving the trip back out of the plan is stupid idea and nobody is going to do that. Sure you can find some idiots that are willing to go "for the good of mankind" and die on Mars INTENTIONALLY but NASA is never going to consider sending a human being to do that. Never.
risk involved versus going with the fact that you WILL die in a year or so is very different from driving a car and knowing that there is a chance you or someone else could make a mistake and die from it.
I'm not saying that a "risky" trip to Mars is a bad idea. No matter how much time we put into it there is going to be risk. That's fine. The risks that have been taken to date in space travel were mitigated to the highest degree possible and when that wasn't enough those things happened and those people knew that could happen but it wasn't the plan.
I'm simply replying to the people who are saying that they're prepared to go on a one way trip to Mars knowing that they'll live only so long but hopefully get "important research" done with their remaining time. That's idiotic. Same person says he's willing to go with a not so hot proposition of being able to get back (but at least getting back is in "the plan) then I'm thinking that's a brave person.
I just don't that a Kamikaze Space Explorer is a very smart career path.
See what I mean! Oh who cares I got KARMA TO BURN BABY!
-1 Flamebait already? Geez, figures. Moderators suck monkey nut sometimes.
You get to take care of the Rabbits Lenny, that's how it works. See, other guys they ain't got nuthin. Nobody cares about them and they got nobody to look out for them. But not us.
Lenny? What have you got in your pocket? Is that another dead mouse?
Very noble of you. You could however not go to Mars to die in a year and contribute to society to the extent that you are capable (whatever that may be, I don't know you) and then maybe live to see one of your grandchildren go to Mars and actually return when we have actually figured out how to do that.
I fail to see how this is less worthy a plan than your noble sacrifice. Mankind has been around for a pretty long time and I expect will be around for some time to come. This isn't something that can't wait to happen for 30-40 more years and I personally believe that in that time frame you can expect a "There and Back Again" plan appear that's got a reasonable chance of working.
In all honesty, I'd send you one way to Mars in a heartbeat.
I am speaking for myself and you're a fucking idiot. No doubt about it.
The pioneers in pretty much every case that I can bring to mind had a reasonable expectation that they would not die. In most cases they could expect hardships and possible death but nobody crossed the plains knowing full well that they were going to die there. They all held out hope that they would prevail over whatever odds there were and live.
Comparing someone who took a chance with someone who's agreed to die in advance for mankind (to learn things that could be obtained at a later date without a guarantee of death) IS STUPID. Explorers who never returned planned on returning, People who did things that led others to burn them at the stake did not sign up for this because of the promised "Chrispy Critter" plan, and people who died in accidents and malfunctions did not get into their capsules/shuttles/whatever knowing that those things would happen. They knew there was a chance that those things could happen.
Just to clarify, that makes them brave. If they were like you and climbed into their spacecraft knowing that the plan was for them to die that would make them stupid, a condition they would apparently share with yourself.
Im sorry, I can't see this as anything but pure, uncut stupidity.
To decide that since we aren't quite ready to send someone to Mars and then bring them back home we will instead just do what we can at the moment and send someone to die on Mars is idiotic in the extreme.
We aren't ready to go to Mars yet. It's as simple as that. We will eventually be ready to make an attempt at it and then it will be the thing to do. Right now it's nothing more than another President saying something to try and get some good reviews in a History book.
Since the end of the space race every President has been trying to be John F Kennedy when it comes to space. Carter got to be the Space Shuttle guy, Reagan had his "Space Station Freedom" thing.
I don't think I would go with Georges age as a disqualifier here. I'd like to but he's not so old that he can't get it done if he wants to.
I'm not saying that this is necessarily a good thing so let me make that clear.
First off he's not poor, in bad health that we know of, and he's got the resources to keep himself in good shape for some time to come.
Second you have to admit that at the rate he's going the final three could have almost no actor involvement whatsoever. The last three could be put at the exact moment Jedi ended and I wouldn't put it past George to CGI in all of the characters. You would get the original Luke, Han, and Leia done in CGI and acting almost as wooden as they did in Episode VI and George wouldn't have to deal with any annoying actors while making his "vision" come to life.
Seriously, say he takes another year to get Episode III out (which is I think correct, I have to admit I no longer care after Phantom and Clones) and then takes 3-4 years to crank up Episode VII. By that time he might make an attempt at something like a CGI original cast.
The way Georges mind works anything that didn't come out the way he wanted it to would simply be a good reason to go back and fix it later.
I've got this mental picture of an 80 year old Lucas sitting in a dark room lit only by the glow of several silly big monitors (looking like a cross between Howard Hughes and Palpatine) reviewing the latest CGI work.
Well, honestly when you put it that way I have to admit that much of what he said was true.
I would only submit that a person who was "educated" (in a well rounded manner that included some interpersonal communications skills) might have said these things in a less caustic manner or, upon giving it a thought or two might have chosen to not say them at all. I guess that means I disagree with his decision (which I judge to be a poor one) to post this information in the first place.
But yes, those are all things I would generally accept as being true.
My God, I think you may have just made his point for him Mister AC. Good on you!