Sorry, papercrane, but your memory is a bit flawed. CGI (computer generated imagery) has been a film industry standard for over 30 years now and has always been known as CGI.
Exactly my point. Especially when you consider that the XBox 2 is running on IBM/Apple G5 processors. I'm very interested to see what they'll claim against the PowerMac G5s.
Nice quote. Too bad that wasn't my point. Are those skid marks on your head, seeing as how the concept went right over it?
If they really could care less then why are they suggesting the new way to define the computers?
This article also was dealing with the X-Box 2. Sorry that you can't seem to see the writing on the wall here. When they start using the processors of IBM/Apple (G5, not Power 4 procs) in their hardware device there is a good reason to start trying to show that the speed alone isn't the deciding factor in the measurement of performance. Those procs don't hit 3+ GHz like in the machines that usually contain their OS. Since the development kit works on Intel procs too there is very good reason for them to dispel the myths that they have been involved in spreading for years.
They're the ones making the suggestion. It's not as if this type of suggestion hasn't been made many times by other companies in the past. Yet, for some reason it wasn't supposedly credible until now.
This is a load. MS is finally realizing that they've run into a brick wall beyond what Moore's law could predict. The processors can't get many more transistors crammed into them without burning up and rather than using the same old MHz/GHz measurements they need to move to a new convention. This is their own fault since they've been drilling it into everyones heads for so long that it's all about processor speeds and virtually nothing else matters. They dug themselves into this hole and now they need to get back out, but they didn't bring along a ladder.
Interpreting would be remaining true to the original without the addition of scenes and lines that never happened in the original medium. This he did not do.
What you call interpreted, I call bastardized.
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You're speaking of this as if it were a long time ago. Yet you are also saying that you were trying to get service from an Apple retail store, which have only been around for a few years now and which don't do any in house service. The very first Apple retail location has only been around since May of 2001.
It's an interesting story, but I just have to question the veracity of it. As far as I can recall, Apple hasn't made their own external floppy drives since they made them for the Apple II and early Macintoshes, if that's what you are referring to then it would be way out of warranty. That and the "beige boxes" that you refer to had internal floppies, the internals were discontinued back in 1999, just a bit after all the colorful machines started being produced.
To access a Star Wars Trilogy gag reel, go to the Video Game & Still Galleries menu page. Using your remote, press "10+", "1" (or "11" depending on your player) and wait for the pause as the player accepts the input (note that a small box next to R2-D2 will illuminate if you're on the right track). Then press "3" and wait for the pause. Finally, press "8".
If you can get past the changes that Jackson made to the original stories, then I suppose you can sort of call him more credible. But it doesn't change the fact that he added dialogue, events and scenes to the storyline which makes it something other than the Lord of the Rings, IMO.
I don't see that it really matters when he said it. The Stooges issue is different than the Star Wars issue. The copyright holder of the Stooges shorts isn't in any way the "artist" that created them. Whereas the Star Wars one is.
As for the changes made to the distributions of the films, do you think that the copyright extension counts with the changes made to the sound in the films as well? He's made changes to the sound quality with every release of the original trilogy. Star Wars was released in mono, then it hit video in mono, then in stereo then in Pro-Logic, then in THX and so on...
The sound question is an issue that you never hear anybody complain about too much though. "I can't stand that it's in 5.1 now, I want my good old mono audio back!" Nobody is complaining about the digital remastering either, even though it's not the original film anymore.
None of this changes the fact that he's done what he's done just like he did it in the past.
As pointed out by some others here too, this is not a new concept to art. It might be a newer idea with film. Tolkein rewrote a significant part of the Hobbit in the early fifties to support his portrayal of the Golem character in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Ah, well that explains it then. I run 2003. There is a guy in our office running 2004, I'll have to check with him to see what his experience has been.
I do, however, refuse to update to 2004 just for that. They should have included the functionality into an update to the older versions too. Symantec wants too much $$.
I will pay for an upgrade if they can figure out when the installation of the delivery mechanism occurs, that might be worth the extra cash...
I haven't heard anything about Jar Jar being included in any of the original films. But, yes, Hayden is in the ghost scenes on ROTJ. The Han/Greedo incident has been changed again too.
Interesting comment from the quote in that article:
"I'm saying it's not fair to the artist."
In this case, Lucas is the artist in question. In the case of the three stooges, the artists were already deceased and didn't have a say in the matter anymore. Today, Lucas says that this is his decision to make while back then he was saying that it wasn't fair for somebody else to change what wasn't theirs to begin with.
Only one minor point. Lucas funds these "piles of crap" himself, with his own corporation, that he now has because everybody buys his "piles of crap".
I'd like to point out that the "three years from now" remark might show that he previously may have been planning a 30th anniversary release date for the DVDs.
I'm sure that this is related to the heat dissipation capabilities of the machines new design. Most likely, if you put a better graphics card in the machine it would overheat the proc.
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Sorry, papercrane, but your memory is a bit flawed. CGI (computer generated imagery) has been a film industry standard for over 30 years now and has always been known as CGI.
"CGI was first used in movies in 1973." This was in the movie Westworld. Long before Silicon Graphics Inc. was founded in 1982. CGI has always been called CGI in the film industry.
I've never had this happen with mine and I've had it for about five years now. I don't have the home media option because I have a DirecTIVO.
Well, aside from the lost man hours and work, one can only hope.
I didn't notice that at all.
Exactly my point. Especially when you consider that the XBox 2 is running on IBM/Apple G5 processors. I'm very interested to see what they'll claim against the PowerMac G5s.
Nice quote. Too bad that wasn't my point. Are those skid marks on your head, seeing as how the concept went right over it?
If they really could care less then why are they suggesting the new way to define the computers?
This article also was dealing with the X-Box 2. Sorry that you can't seem to see the writing on the wall here. When they start using the processors of IBM/Apple (G5, not Power 4 procs) in their hardware device there is a good reason to start trying to show that the speed alone isn't the deciding factor in the measurement of performance. Those procs don't hit 3+ GHz like in the machines that usually contain their OS. Since the development kit works on Intel procs too there is very good reason for them to dispel the myths that they have been involved in spreading for years.
They're the ones making the suggestion. It's not as if this type of suggestion hasn't been made many times by other companies in the past. Yet, for some reason it wasn't supposedly credible until now.
But, OS X is BSD?!?!
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So, maybe you should move it further up your scale.
This is a load. MS is finally realizing that they've run into a brick wall beyond what Moore's law could predict.
The processors can't get many more transistors crammed into them without burning up and rather than using the same old MHz/GHz measurements they need to move to a new convention.
This is their own fault since they've been drilling it into everyones heads for so long that it's all about processor speeds and virtually nothing else matters.
They dug themselves into this hole and now they need to get back out, but they didn't bring along a ladder.
Interpreting would be remaining true to the original without the addition of scenes and lines that never happened in the original medium. This he did not do.
What you call interpreted, I call bastardized.
You're speaking of this as if it were a long time ago. Yet you are also saying that you were trying to get service from an Apple retail store, which have only been around for a few years now and which don't do any in house service. The very first Apple retail location has only been around since May of 2001.
It's an interesting story, but I just have to question the veracity of it. As far as I can recall, Apple hasn't made their own external floppy drives since they made them for the Apple II and early Macintoshes, if that's what you are referring to then it would be way out of warranty. That and the "beige boxes" that you refer to had internal floppies, the internals were discontinued back in 1999, just a bit after all the colorful machines started being produced.
To access a Star Wars Trilogy gag reel, go to the Video Game & Still Galleries menu page. Using your remote, press "10+", "1" (or "11" depending on your player) and wait for the pause as the player accepts the input (note that a small box next to R2-D2 will illuminate if you're on the right track). Then press "3" and wait for the pause. Finally, press "8".
The blooper reel is an Easter Egg on the Bonus Disc.
I got mine in the mail yesterday, during the day.
Some Best Buy stores had promo events where they opened up at midnight to sell copies. That would constitute yesterday for many.
That would take some 75 years. So, in 2052 Star Wars might be...
If you can get past the changes that Jackson made to the original stories, then I suppose you can sort of call him more credible. But it doesn't change the fact that he added dialogue, events and scenes to the storyline which makes it something other than the Lord of the Rings, IMO.
I don't see that it really matters when he said it. The Stooges issue is different than the Star Wars issue. The copyright holder of the Stooges shorts isn't in any way the "artist" that created them. Whereas the Star Wars one is.
As for the changes made to the distributions of the films, do you think that the copyright extension counts with the changes made to the sound in the films as well? He's made changes to the sound quality with every release of the original trilogy. Star Wars was released in mono, then it hit video in mono, then in stereo then in Pro-Logic, then in THX and so on...
The sound question is an issue that you never hear anybody complain about too much though. "I can't stand that it's in 5.1 now, I want my good old mono audio back!" Nobody is complaining about the digital remastering either, even though it's not the original film anymore.
None of this changes the fact that he's done what he's done just like he did it in the past.
As pointed out by some others here too, this is not a new concept to art. It might be a newer idea with film. Tolkein rewrote a significant part of the Hobbit in the early fifties to support his portrayal of the Golem character in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Ah, well that explains it then. I run 2003. There is a guy in our office running 2004, I'll have to check with him to see what his experience has been.
I do, however, refuse to update to 2004 just for that. They should have included the functionality into an update to the older versions too. Symantec wants too much $$.
I will pay for an upgrade if they can figure out when the installation of the delivery mechanism occurs, that might be worth the extra cash...
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I haven't heard anything about Jar Jar being included in any of the original films. But, yes, Hayden is in the ghost scenes on ROTJ. The Han/Greedo incident has been changed again too.
Interesting comment from the quote in that article:
"I'm saying it's not fair to the artist."
In this case, Lucas is the artist in question. In the case of the three stooges, the artists were already deceased and didn't have a say in the matter anymore. Today, Lucas says that this is his decision to make while back then he was saying that it wasn't fair for somebody else to change what wasn't theirs to begin with.
30th Anniversary is more like it...
Only one minor point. Lucas funds these "piles of crap" himself, with his own corporation, that he now has because everybody buys his "piles of crap". I'd like to point out that the "three years from now" remark might show that he previously may have been planning a 30th anniversary release date for the DVDs.
Like what? I've never seen any detected by NAV.
Symantec NAV certainly doesn't detect any Adware/Malware/SPYWARE. That would be their biggest competitor in the anti-virus market, after all.
I'm sure that this is related to the heat dissipation capabilities of the machines new design. Most likely, if you put a better graphics card in the machine it would overheat the proc.