Contrast with episode 1 when in the opening scene, all it took for Obi-Wan and Anakin to whip 'em out was a loud noise.... and feeling through the Force their two pilots' sudden panic and death.
These are Jedi, not your average Samurai.
Besides, in ANH Obi-Wan whips out his sabre and dis-arms a guy who just shoved off a barstool. There weren't even any other weapons involved.
I don't recall a lightsabre being used frivously anywhere in the prequels. Perhaps you're thinking of HHGTTG where Trillian uses one to cut and toast bread?
Actually I think the OT tries to explain the Force more than the prequels.
In ANH, Kenobi says "Well the Force is what gives the Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things; it surrounds us, it penetrates us, it binds the galaxy together."
So here the Force is defined as an energy field, made by life itself.
Now the prequels go on about Midichlorians a bit, but as Qui-Gon puts it in TPM, "Without Midichlorians, life could not exist... They constanty speak to us, telling us the will of the Force."
So the only new information we get about the nature of the Force here is that it has a will.
We also learn that a person must have a certain level of midichlorians in order to be sensitive to this will. Nowhere is it said that midichlorians are the Force, merely the channel by which people (beings) can harness its power. We are given the impression that the most basic form of Force ability is merely being alive, with a minimal midichlorian count necessary to survive. This symbiosis isn't explained - it might be something biological (like how we can't survive without bacteria to digest our food), or perhaps the mere fact that they channel the Force itself is necessary for life. This is similar to many belief systems that state a body cannot survive without a spirit.
No attempt is made to explain how the Force works, or even how it has been used in the past (ie where did the prophesy about "The Chosen One" come from?).
In the OT it is made clear that the Force is present in all living things, and I believe the prequels expand on this by giving a fathomable (if not particularly satisfying) means by which one person can utilise this power more than another.
Yes, it's a plot device to show how potentially strong in the Force Anakin is, but it's not that big a deal.
"I got to watch the old ones as a kid, so I always see them now with rose-coloured glasses. Not like those nasty prequels that I can't relate back to childhood memories."
The horrible truth is that both triligies sucked, if you judge them by the same standards.
In terms of acting, the OT was carried by Guinness and Ford, all the other actors were terrible. The prequels were carried by McGregor and later McDiarmond.
The plot and dialogue in the OT was just as random and B-grade as in the prequels. Trust me, it's intentional.
The other horrible truth is, that's the whole POINT! They're supposed to be cheesy space opera where stuff happens purely for entertainment value. Shakespeare it is not. Star Trek it is not.
That's what makes them all great, IMO. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to watch IV, I, II, III, V, VI in that order.
An even nastier truth is that when ESB came out in 1980, people were bitching in much the same way as they do about the prequels, saying how much it sucked compared with the good old Star Wars, before all this "Episode IV - A New Hope" and "I am your father" nonsense. A puppet in a leading role? wtf?
Except in this case they'll tell you how to get around it if you complain.
Which means (I believe) in a court of law, that as far as the DMCA goes you're not circumventing anything, but instead following the manufacturers instructions.
If it is still deemed to be circumventing, then it is on the part of Sony, not yourself.
I mean, a cheesy western, with space ships shoehorned in to make it look cool? wtf? A saloon bar complete with pool table, except the balls bleep when you hit them.
I've seen four episodes now, and what a waste of time. Those 3 hours I'll never get back.
At least Trek and Farscape know they're Sci-fi - they don't pretend they're something else.
But I don't want one that will work on eleven architectures, I want one that will work on one: namely i386.
You know, the one that the vast vast VAST majority uses. And can be emulated by the other important one (AMD64).
But you have highlighted an important downside of this obsession with portability. It's all well and good, but forces developers to code to the lowest common denominator.
Does the title "Darth" translate to "Luke's" or something?
Honestly, how many people would have made such a connection just because he had the name "father" in the title?
I'd still be surprised if I found out that Father Christmas was my father, or Father Ted for that matter.
In fact (2005 Lucas to the contrary) it's debatable whether 1977 Lucas intended for Vader to be Luke's father at all. Think of it more as "Father figure of the empire" or something. Maybe Lucas discovered this connection before ESB and decided to take advantage of it.
Disc-based games should be coded to take advantage of a HD if present, but must be able to run (albeit with somewhat degraded performance) if the hard disk is full. In this case the game should behave as if no hard disk is present.
console gamers are generally a lot less tolerant of software failing than their PC counterparts.
Devs should be coding for both scenarios anyway, so the fact that many PS3's won't have hard drives won't (shouldn't) mean any extra effort.
I was using underclocked in the sense of "making something go slower than the manufacturers intended", not the more literal sense of adjusting a clock speed.
I didn't see in the article if he was running these fans at the standard 12V or had underclocked them.
Since noise produced by air is generally proportional to fan speed and inversely proportional to fan size, you could consider each side of this mod as a single large fan.
If you set each of these fans to a few hundred rpm this beast just might be quieter than a single fan pushing the same amount of air and with much better air flow.
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*stomach rumble*
Dammit, you've just ruined the rest of my work day!
I suspect it's just another opportunity for Linux to grow into a slightly different market.
I don't think it will be long now before Apple dumps Mach and starts shipping OS X with the Linux kernel.
Contrast with episode 1 when in the opening scene, all it took for Obi-Wan and Anakin to whip 'em out was a loud noise. ... and feeling through the Force their two pilots' sudden panic and death.
These are Jedi, not your average Samurai.
Besides, in ANH Obi-Wan whips out his sabre and dis-arms a guy who just shoved off a barstool. There weren't even any other weapons involved.
I don't recall a lightsabre being used frivously anywhere in the prequels. Perhaps you're thinking of HHGTTG where Trillian uses one to cut and toast bread?
Actually I think the OT tries to explain the Force more than the prequels.
In ANH, Kenobi says "Well the Force is what gives the Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things; it surrounds us, it penetrates us, it binds the galaxy together."
So here the Force is defined as an energy field, made by life itself.
Now the prequels go on about Midichlorians a bit, but as Qui-Gon puts it in TPM, "Without Midichlorians, life could not exist... They constanty speak to us, telling us the will of the Force."
So the only new information we get about the nature of the Force here is that it has a will.
We also learn that a person must have a certain level of midichlorians in order to be sensitive to this will. Nowhere is it said that midichlorians are the Force, merely the channel by which people (beings) can harness its power. We are given the impression that the most basic form of Force ability is merely being alive, with a minimal midichlorian count necessary to survive. This symbiosis isn't explained - it might be something biological (like how we can't survive without bacteria to digest our food), or perhaps the mere fact that they channel the Force itself is necessary for life. This is similar to many belief systems that state a body cannot survive without a spirit.
No attempt is made to explain how the Force works, or even how it has been used in the past (ie where did the prophesy about "The Chosen One" come from?).
In the OT it is made clear that the Force is present in all living things, and I believe the prequels expand on this by giving a fathomable (if not particularly satisfying) means by which one person can utilise this power more than another.
Yes, it's a plot device to show how potentially strong in the Force Anakin is, but it's not that big a deal.
Thank you, I did not realise that.
Maybe I should rent the DVD and give the series another chance.
You were just following the manufacturers instructions, as provided when you complained.
If you get accused of anything as a result then that, my friend, is entrapment.
Translation:
"I got to watch the old ones as a kid, so I always see them now with rose-coloured glasses. Not like those nasty prequels that I can't relate back to childhood memories."
The horrible truth is that both triligies sucked, if you judge them by the same standards.
In terms of acting, the OT was carried by Guinness and Ford, all the other actors were terrible. The prequels were carried by McGregor and later McDiarmond.
The plot and dialogue in the OT was just as random and B-grade as in the prequels. Trust me, it's intentional.
The other horrible truth is, that's the whole POINT! They're supposed to be cheesy space opera where stuff happens purely for entertainment value. Shakespeare it is not. Star Trek it is not.
That's what makes them all great, IMO. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to watch IV, I, II, III, V, VI in that order.
An even nastier truth is that when ESB came out in 1980, people were bitching in much the same way as they do about the prequels, saying how much it sucked compared with the good old Star Wars, before all this "Episode IV - A New Hope" and "I am your father" nonsense. A puppet in a leading role? wtf?
Except in this case they'll tell you how to get around it if you complain.
Which means (I believe) in a court of law, that as far as the DMCA goes you're not circumventing anything, but instead following the manufacturers instructions.
If it is still deemed to be circumventing, then it is on the part of Sony, not yourself.
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"We are not evil."
oh yeah?
REDmond!
It seems that you, Mr Coward (if that is your real name), have posted here a great deal more than I have.
I thought the whole series was the gag reel.
I mean, a cheesy western, with space ships shoehorned in to make it look cool? wtf? A saloon bar complete with pool table, except the balls bleep when you hit them.
I've seen four episodes now, and what a waste of time. Those 3 hours I'll never get back.
At least Trek and Farscape know they're Sci-fi - they don't pretend they're something else.
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Ugh. Of course that should read "Semantic Web".
I've spent too long with Mr Nortons software.
Or you could just use MP3s..
:)
Or you could just use Windows...
There are some of us who don't like the silly games Fraunhofer/Thomson want us to play.
Got an SL-5500, huh? The SL-5600, while still chunky is so much better
what the Symantec Web was all about?
Let's try it with a similar computer:
- MS Office Word 2003
- OOo 1.1.4 Writer with J2RE1.4.1
- Athlon 2600+ 512MB Ram, Windows XP SP2, no other software running.
Each block of tests was proceeded by a reboot
Word:
4.5 seconds
1.5 seconds
0.8 seconds
0.8 seconds
OOo Writer w/quickstart enabled:
5.5 seconds
1.0 seconds
0.8 seconds
0.8 seconds
OOo Writer w/quickstart disabled:
17 seconds
1.5 seconds
1.5 seconds
1.5 seconds
These figures tell a different story from the article, I would say.
Note: I did have to turn off Macro security in word, otherwise it hung there for several MINUTES performing a 'virus scan'.
that ogg vorbis players are still so expensive. I'd rather not have to take my Zaurus jogging if I want to listen to music.
But I don't want one that will work on eleven architectures, I want one that will work on one:
namely i386.
You know, the one that the vast vast VAST majority uses. And can be emulated by the other important one (AMD64).
But you have highlighted an important downside of this obsession with portability. It's all well and good, but forces developers to code to the lowest common denominator.
Does the title "Darth" translate to "Luke's" or something?
Honestly, how many people would have made such a connection just because he had the name "father" in the title?
I'd still be surprised if I found out that Father Christmas was my father, or Father Ted for that matter.
In fact (2005 Lucas to the contrary) it's debatable whether 1977 Lucas intended for Vader to be Luke's father at all. Think of it more as "Father figure of the empire" or something. Maybe Lucas discovered this connection before ESB and decided to take advantage of it.
Take a chill pill, man.
Are you referring to spoilers such as Luke/Leias origins and the introduction of Yoda?
You can still watch the OT before the prequels, or in my preferred order:
1 ep4 ANH
2 ep5 ESB
3 ep1 TPM
4 ep2 AOTC
5 ep3 ROTS
6 ep6 ROTJ
That way your kids won't be 'robbed' of anything.
I disagree.
Disc-based games should be coded to take advantage of a HD if present, but must be able to run (albeit with somewhat degraded performance) if the hard disk is full. In this case the game should behave as if no hard disk is present.
console gamers are generally a lot less tolerant of software failing than their PC counterparts.
Devs should be coding for both scenarios anyway, so the fact that many PS3's won't have hard drives won't (shouldn't) mean any extra effort.
I was using underclocked in the sense of "making something go slower than the manufacturers intended", not the more literal sense of adjusting a clock speed.
I didn't see in the article if he was running these fans at the standard 12V or had underclocked them.
Since noise produced by air is generally proportional to fan speed and inversely proportional to fan size, you could consider each side of this mod as a single large fan.
If you set each of these fans to a few hundred rpm this beast just might be quieter than a single fan pushing the same amount of air and with much better air flow.
Never met a jihad muslim, have you?