One man's cranky nitpicking is another man's on-the-nose relentlessly true slam.
Come on, the Ewok song?!? Ewoks in general?!?
Just like with Phantom Menace, a one-item list is enough.
There's an extremely high correlation between old school Star Wars fans who now have kids and those who actually like the new episodes. Generally those without kids don't have those little undiscriminating eyes to see it through and so aren't blind to the stupidity. Jar Jar Binks isn't some "crap bit", he's a huge and epochally terrible ruinous part of Episode I and nothing can change that.
The problem with the "you just aren't twelve anymore or you'd see the new ones the same way you saw the old ones" is twofold:
1. I was still a kid when I saw RotJ and could sense it was largely crap.
2. You can't rate a movie highly becuause kids like it. They are known for their terrible taste. Enduring appeal rather then "that was cool!" as they leave the theater is a better measure.
If you haven't seen this take on Return of the Jedi, you must. Not only is it hilarious and right on the money, it even predicts and explains the crapiness so prevalent in Eps 1 & 2.
Well, your sarcastic examples aside, a lot of breathless technology promises from the 20th century never did get fulfilled.
First of all the parent is referring to the kind of prototype tech announcement we find almost daily on slashdot the vast majority of which never amount to anything.
Second of all if you look back a few decades you will see promises of things like "energy too cheap to meter", "you will go to the moon", flying cars, and pretty much anything pulished in "Popular Science" cover stories like "Build your own robot butler out of free boxes from your neighborhood supermarket!"
What astonishing revisionist history. I assure you the hatred for the first two movies is real and widespread.
And how can you possibly say "Jar-Jar comments aside"? Jar-jar was a huge presence in the first film and went a long way to ruining that stinking pile.
But if you do leave him out for the sake of argument, the first two films were giant disappointments to a large, large number of people.
Most of those people, admittedly, are adults, but I am so tired of people saying "Oh if you loved the first series when you were ten, you just need to see the new ones through the eyes of a ten year old."
Think for five seconds and you can come up with a list of five kid's movies that adults generally love. You can tell a kid's movie sucks when only kids love it.
Wow, I have to say, your lack of an actual response to the very cogent parent is breathtaking.
When you see Mt. Rushmore you think of a creator, I suppose, but when you see a rock outcropping ade to look like a face by weathering you also might think of a creator. In the second case you'd be wrong.
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Here we go. Can you explore to find Lumpy & Itchy? Can you use the weird pleasure machine? What happens on life day?
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the Star Wars Holiday special? That should be fun!
Why don't you try that bullsh!t with your source code and see how well your compile goes.
That's the point. Agrammatical slashdot readers spend endless hours meeting the demands of their compilers/interpreters/html renderers but won't spend five seconds learning or writing correct English.
iMac G5 owners, and probably owners of most other mac setups, should be aware that right now World of Warcraft has major graphics performance problems on that platform.
I have a Windows Pentium M _laptop_ with a mobile graphics card that just creams my brand new 20" 1.8ghz G5 iMac in WoW playability.
Apple + Blizzard + NVidia may be able to help this in future, but as of the latest MacOS & WoW patches the problem is still there.
The fact that the original Dixiecrat are mostly dead is irrelevant. The point is that their legacy is thriving in the red states. Ever heard of a recently powerful politician named Trent Lott?
There are far too many other examples of redneck nation's political success to mention.
PS I was born and raised in South Carolina, home of the rebel flag on the state capitol, so don't tell me I don't know what I'm talking about.
I have a lot of devices including a quirky Echostar PVR. I wanted a universal that had all the buttons I needed and was seriously programmable so it could control all of my devices. After a bunch of research I discovered that the JP1 model control, generally from One For All or Radio Shack, has a huge internet fan community and if you get the right one you can buy or build a cable to program it directly from your computer.
It doesn't have a touch-screen, but it costs something like $20 and I have been completely happy with it. It takes a little hacking to get it just right, but hey, this is slashdot, right? That's like some kind of advantage...
1. The biggest technical problem with 3D games is that they all have a quiality of origamai. The objects mostly look like they are made of 2D paper folded and joined edge to edge clumsily. How many times have you noticed the seams between facets?
2. Too much striving for realism. As people have pointed out, detailed attempts at human-like faces seem like corpses. Blizzard is going in a better direction with the less realistic but more fun graphics in World of Warcraft.
For more info about why comic book style graphics tend to be more compelling read Understanding Comics.
This is starting to get funny. This is exactly what happened around 2 years ao when they cancelled the MMOG Sequel to Ultima Online that seemed like it was going to great.
Are these guys high?
Kandinsky is such old news. When I see an AI art generator that can make a dress out of meat or sell jars of its own excrement for six figures, then I'll be impressed.
This is why sites like slashdot get less respect than they should. "Seperate" is not a word. Come on, editors, is there something non-open-sourcey or Microsofty about a quick spell check before posting an item?
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doesn't that make basically all c code underhanded?
Does this remind anyone of this bit from the Simspsons?
I guess writing in all lower case is easier for computer vision?
I certainly find using initial caps to assist in visually delimiting sentences to be useful, even if you are too modest to capitalize "i."
I know I couldn't work for a week after seeing Jar Jar Binks step in poo in the Phantom Menace.
One man's cranky nitpicking is another man's on-the-nose relentlessly true slam. Come on, the Ewok song?!? Ewoks in general?!? Just like with Phantom Menace, a one-item list is enough.
There's an extremely high correlation between old school Star Wars fans who now have kids and those who actually like the new episodes. Generally those without kids don't have those little undiscriminating eyes to see it through and so aren't blind to the stupidity. Jar Jar Binks isn't some "crap bit", he's a huge and epochally terrible ruinous part of Episode I and nothing can change that.
The problem with the "you just aren't twelve anymore or you'd see the new ones the same way you saw the old ones" is twofold:
1. I was still a kid when I saw RotJ and could sense it was largely crap.
2. You can't rate a movie highly becuause kids like it. They are known for their terrible taste. Enduring appeal rather then "that was cool!" as they leave the theater is a better measure.
Here's your shame.
If you haven't seen this take on Return of the Jedi, you must. Not only is it hilarious and right on the money, it even predicts and explains the crapiness so prevalent in Eps 1 & 2.
Well, your sarcastic examples aside, a lot of breathless technology promises from the 20th century never did get fulfilled.
First of all the parent is referring to the kind of prototype tech announcement we find almost daily on slashdot the vast majority of which never amount to anything.
Second of all if you look back a few decades you will see promises of things like "energy too cheap to meter", "you will go to the moon", flying cars, and pretty much anything pulished in "Popular Science" cover stories like "Build your own robot butler out of free boxes from your neighborhood supermarket!"
What astonishing revisionist history. I assure you the hatred for the first two movies is real and widespread.
And how can you possibly say "Jar-Jar comments aside"? Jar-jar was a huge presence in the first film and went a long way to ruining that stinking pile.
But if you do leave him out for the sake of argument, the first two films were giant disappointments to a large, large number of people.
Most of those people, admittedly, are adults, but I am so tired of people saying "Oh if you loved the first series when you were ten, you just need to see the new ones through the eyes of a ten year old."
Think for five seconds and you can come up with a list of five kid's movies that adults generally love. You can tell a kid's movie sucks when only kids love it.
Wow, I have to say, your lack of an actual response to the very cogent parent is breathtaking.
When you see Mt. Rushmore you think of a creator, I suppose, but when you see a rock outcropping ade to look like a face by weathering you also might think of a creator. In the second case you'd be wrong.
Here we go. Can you explore to find Lumpy & Itchy? Can you use the weird pleasure machine? What happens on life day?
the Star Wars Holiday special? That should be fun!
Wow, I am really confused.
Why don't you try that bullsh!t with your source code and see how well your compile goes.
That's the point. Agrammatical slashdot readers spend endless hours meeting the demands of their compilers/interpreters/html renderers but won't spend five seconds learning or writing correct English.
Owned.
Or is the output the same as plugging a cable into the audio out of the computer?
I'm using the new OS X patch and the new Blizzard patch. Still very choppy.
This is not true for me. I put a gig in my G5 and it doesn't help much.
iMac G5 owners, and probably owners of most other mac setups, should be aware that right now World of Warcraft has major graphics performance problems on that platform.
I have a Windows Pentium M _laptop_ with a mobile graphics card that just creams my brand new 20" 1.8ghz G5 iMac in WoW playability.
Apple + Blizzard + NVidia may be able to help this in future, but as of the latest MacOS & WoW patches the problem is still there.
The fact that the original Dixiecrat are mostly dead is irrelevant. The point is that their legacy is thriving in the red states. Ever heard of a recently powerful politician named Trent Lott? There are far too many other examples of redneck nation's political success to mention. PS I was born and raised in South Carolina, home of the rebel flag on the state capitol, so don't tell me I don't know what I'm talking about.
For the idea that programming isn't a job people should actually pay you for. Yay!
I have a lot of devices including a quirky Echostar PVR. I wanted a universal that had all the buttons I needed and was seriously programmable so it could control all of my devices. After a bunch of research I discovered that the JP1 model control, generally from One For All or Radio Shack, has a huge internet fan community and if you get the right one you can buy or build a cable to program it directly from your computer.
It doesn't have a touch-screen, but it costs something like $20 and I have been completely happy with it. It takes a little hacking to get it just right, but hey, this is slashdot, right? That's like some kind of advantage...
Search for JP1 on Google.
1. The biggest technical problem with 3D games is that they all have a quiality of origamai. The objects mostly look like they are made of 2D paper folded and joined edge to edge clumsily. How many times have you noticed the seams between facets? 2. Too much striving for realism. As people have pointed out, detailed attempts at human-like faces seem like corpses. Blizzard is going in a better direction with the less realistic but more fun graphics in World of Warcraft. For more info about why comic book style graphics tend to be more compelling read Understanding Comics.
This is starting to get funny. This is exactly what happened around 2 years ao when they cancelled the MMOG Sequel to Ultima Online that seemed like it was going to great. Are these guys high?
Kandinsky is such old news. When I see an AI art generator that can make a dress out of meat or sell jars of its own excrement for six figures, then I'll be impressed.
This is why sites like slashdot get less respect than they should. "Seperate" is not a word. Come on, editors, is there something non-open-sourcey or Microsofty about a quick spell check before posting an item?