I've been seeing these at the Albertson's in Mountain View, CA for the last few months, at least. Big widescreen TVs with infomercials, one of which has Donald Trump in it (?!) and the others talk about this and that having anti-oxidents and what not. They also have these big TV's by the checkout lines but I don't remember what those talk about. 1/3 of all the checkout lines are now do-it-yourself, too.
No, there will be plenty of Jedi... fugitives who escaped order 66, and Vader will be hunting them down. In the book "Dark Lord Rising", which takes place immediately after episode iii, one of the main characters is a Jedi named Roan Shryne. The book starts off with him leading a campaign on Murkhana with a battallion of clones when all of a sudden his clones turn on him and he barely escapes. He ends up with a group of smugglers, evading Vader and his legions (also with him are a couple of padawans whose masters have been killed.) He is looking for other surviving Jedi, and makes his way to Kashyykk (the wookiee homeworld) to look for Yoda, but gets trapped there by Vader and ultimately we see Vader's power... as well as the empire's military dictatorship and its atrocities, as they pretty much commit genocide on the wookiees with only a few escaping... like Chewbacca.
Meanwhile, we see the rise of the empire with the new regional governors taking control of the sovereign systems (such as Governor Tarkin.)
This series has HUGE potential, and I can't wait. I too had a problem with episode I, it left me very cold, but after seeing episodes II and III, and how they tie it all up, I love it now, I have learned to just ignore Jar Jar, and believe it or not, I don't even mind him any more, he serves a pretty important purpose in the actual story (though we could have done without a few of his lines that made us all cringe.) In the end, amazingly, I find that I enjoy watching the prequels even more than the OT!!! (blasphemy, I know, and I'm one of those pathetic geeks who can answer just about any obscure star wars trivial pursuit question, from the OT!)
So, to sum up, I think the series will feature:
Senator Organa and the rise of an underground resistance... the rebel alliance
The rise of the military dictatorship and Governor Tarkin -> Gran Moff Tarkin
Darth Vader the emperor's enforcer, flushing out the fugitive Jedi and reigning in defiant star systems
Jedi fugitives looking for other surviving Jedi
Chewbacca, his species having been all but extinct, getting into the smuggling game... perhaps we'll see him hook up with Han and Lando? Maybe we'll find out what Han did to Lando that Chewy reminded him about on the way to Bespin, where Han said "that was a long time ago, I'm sure he's forgotten all about that", and how the millenium falcon changed hands
There will be no Yoda, no Obi-Wan, no Luke. They're all gone, in hiding, or growing up on some back-water planet. This isn't going to be like young Indiana Jones where we see Luke's adventures growing up. It's clear that he has a very dull life as a moisture farmer on Tatooine and wants to leave. This series won't be about him at all.
Leia might be seen here and there just as Bail Organa's daughter but she won't be doing anything. Maybe we'll see how she gets to be a senator at age 20 though. But Alderaan seems to be an off mix of a monarchy and a democracy, Senator Organa is called "your majesty" by captain Antilles, so maybe Leia just gets appointed as a successor in the (powerless) imperial senate.
And, I hope, this all gets seen through the eyes of our favourite droids, the prissy protocol droid C-3PO and the heroic astromech droid R2-D2. A Kurosawa device... telling the story through the eyes of two insignificant characters who are just there, pretty cool. Refer to Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress
Now, about the issue of episodes 7-9, no, that I do not want to see. This whole saga is really all about Anakin Skywalker's rise, fall, and rendemption. After he dies, it makes no sense to continue.
Sit back, enjoy, let yourself go. Don't be jaded. Relax. It's fun. Don't be ashamed to enjoy.
Quit playa' hatin'. I enjoyed the prequels very much, and I am glad they were made. What's wrong with making movies that so many enjoyed? Just because you're a jaded 30 something who remembers seeing the OT as a kid and that therefore new generations shouldn't get to enjoy the backstory is plain and simple playa' hatin'.
AND, btw, George Lucas is a Hollywood rogue. He thumbs his nose at the studios and the writers and actors guilds. You know how pretty much all movies tell you who is in the movie before / as the movie starts? Well that's an actor's guild rule. Star Wars doesn't have opening credits.. and actors who star in them risk career damage by taking part in them. George Lucas used to pay fines on behalf of the actors and also Kirchner who was fined by the director's guild for directing ESB.
So stuff it with the playa hate on Lucas, his prequels have made me happy, and he is anything but a corporate shill for hollywood. He deserves all the money he gets, I love all the toys, everything. I have personally dumped thousands of dollars in action figures and vehicles and DVDs and I watch the movies with glee about once a week, and there are thousands of others just like me who love it. Why do you want to take away our happiness?
BTW, like all of my other avid SW friends, I am married so we're not a bunch of pathetic desperate geeks like that guy in the 40 year old virgin movie.
Who's going to take a hurricane named Katrina or Ophelia seriously? Here are some hurricane names that might get people's attention to get out of dodge:
If we could get a hold of some of that "spice", we could fold space and go anywhere without moving! Dang worms though, keep swallowing the spice harvestors! Baron Harkonen might yet beat us to it!
I enjoyed the first two prequels, I don't care what anybody says about them. I just have one itty bitty question about a possible plothole though:
1. Obi-Wan goes to Kamino and sees a clone army in the works, finds that it's based on Jango Fett
2. Follows Jango Fett to Geonosis where he sees that a droid army is in the works, finds Jango hanging out with Count Dooku.
I ain't a Jedi or nuthin', but seems to me Obi-Wan and his Jedi buddies should have put two and two together there, that the two armies were being financed by the same people.
I cannot wait for ep III. I have my ticket for the midnight show, the 10:40 AM show the next day, and the 10:30 PM show. Gonna be sweeeeeeet!! Yes, it's sad, I even took a precious vacation day off of work to do this.
Back in high school, when I took that lame AP computer science class where we used Borland Turbo Pascal, the instructor allowed us to take home disks for it over spring break but she warned us that anything we wrote with it belonged to Borland heh. I thought it was ridiculous back then too:)
Simple question: Say I rip all my favourite tracks from all my CD's and archive them onto CD-R's in MP3 format. Is it legal for me to _give_ copies of that CD-R to my friends? After all, it's just a gift then isn't it? On the other hand if I sell it, or sell it for more than the media is worth, then I agree that would be shady.
I have two simple questions: 1) Is it legal for me to make MP3's out of tracks of CD's I own and to archive them on a CD-R 2) Is it legal for me to give away copies of this archive to my friends?
I have a very simple question: Is it legal for me to 1) Make mp3's of tracks from CD's I own and to archive them to CD-R 2) To make copies of those CD's for my friends at no charge, or just ask for the price of the media?
Seems like they're no-brainers in that they should be completely legal but all this is starting to make me doubt this. If I were selling the CD-R full of mp3's then it'd be a different story.
While we're on the subject of making money with websites, I have a hobbyist website that is getting quite a number of hits and I wouldn't mind putting some banner ads on there to make it at least pay for itself, can anybody point me to some info / resources for this?
Hurricane Electric has been very good for me for almost a year now so I would recommend them: http://www.he.net/. They run some kind of modified Slackware and have MySQL and PHP.
Well, rule #1 should be to make your own backups and don't trust anybody. Ideally, you should do your development on your own machine and only upload 'production' code to the machine that hosts your domain and has all the bandwidth and then run a cron job each day or so to dump your database, tar and gzip it all, and ftp it someplace else. Also, a cron job that runs a little script to inform you of the state of things and emails it to you every few hours is a good idea if your site is not a full time gig. Of course, since you're paying somebody to do all this for you you really shouldn't have to worry about it but that's life.
"Fat Old Sun" is on "Atom Heart Mother" album actually, but you're right, it is a GREAT song as is that whole album. Gotta love "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast":) Also, it's my understanding Stanley Kubrick wanted to use Atom Heart Mother for the soundtrack to "2001 : A Space Odyssey" but it fell through for some reason. "A Saucerful of Secrets" is also a great album (they all are), I love "Corporal Clegg" heh. My vote for the best ever is "The Final Cut" but I guess it all depends what mood you're in, any of the Floyd's albums can be considered a favourite at any given moment.
That's because Syd was going completely mad from too much acid, he was unable to perform coherently anymore, their gigs were just out of control. So they had to let him loose, he was just losing it. I don't mourn this because Syd went on to record some of the best music I know, "The Madcap Laughs" and "Barrett" are two of my favourite albums, they are truly exquisite. I also love all of the Floyd's music, they are definately the greatest band of all time, from "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" to "The Division Bell", all amazing stuff. My favourite album of all time has to be "The Final Cut" though, it's just awesome. Roger Waters' solo stuff is great too, I'm excited to see that he's doing something. Also check out David Gilmour's solo stuff, it's pretty good as well as Richard Wright's work; the strangely named "Wet Dream" is a GREAT album and his new one "Broken China" is kinda new age but it's really good. Actually by looking at all the Floyd members' solo works, you can see what their contribution was to the Pink Floyd music, it's pretty cool.
Okay, here is what I want to do: I want to get what I have on my minidiscs burnt onto CD's. What is the best way to do this which preserves the track info? If there were MD drives (like IDE or SCSI) available, then it would be simple. * Stereo component CDR's are no good cuz they can't detect track endings (AFAIK). * Feeding the sound in through a sound card makes me weary because of the noise that might be picked up, and I'd have to manually split up the tracks.
Anybody know of a good way? Looks like others also want a way of getting MD tracks onto their hard drives for one purpose or another, it's amazing that there really doesn't seem to be any way to do it at this point. Please tell me different!:)
I love the 3 Who albums I have (Quadrophenia, Who's Next, and Tommy). Are there any others that are any good? My personal favourite band is Jethro Tull. I think that Ian Anderson is a genius and a poet. Nothing like a little Tull while you're coding:)
Well the trouble with that though is that there's too much shuffling of CD's in and out of PC CDROM drives, then you have to capture the tracks you want, store them, etc etc and then finally burn them. On the other hand, all I have to do with my minidisc recorder is hook it up to my stereo receiver and the rest is history (an extra convenience is a 200 disc CD changer here:) So it is a question of laziness, no doubt you are quite right about the CD-R's though. However, I am aware that Philips and several other companies are now making stereo component CD-R's. Anybody know anything about these? Like do you have to program your cd changer to play everything you want and do it all in a linear fashion so that the recorder never stops? Or can it start and stop like a minidisc recorder, or even a cassette recorder?
Well CD's I agree with, but cassettes? I am a big fan of minidiscs. I don't understand why they never caught on. I mean they're great, it's like a digital cassette on which you can record over and over again, move tracks around, name the tracks, etc. It has all the features compilation making ppl like myself always missed with cassettes (random access play, etc.) And it's pretty inexpensive, considering. You can get a portable recorder for under $200 and blank minidiscs are like $2 a pop.
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I've been seeing these at the Albertson's in Mountain View, CA for the last few months, at least. Big widescreen TVs with infomercials, one of which has Donald Trump in it (?!) and the others talk about this and that having anti-oxidents and what not. They also have these big TV's by the checkout lines but I don't remember what those talk about. 1/3 of all the checkout lines are now do-it-yourself, too.
Meanwhile, we see the rise of the empire with the new regional governors taking control of the sovereign systems (such as Governor Tarkin.)
This series has HUGE potential, and I can't wait. I too had a problem with episode I, it left me very cold, but after seeing episodes II and III, and how they tie it all up, I love it now, I have learned to just ignore Jar Jar, and believe it or not, I don't even mind him any more, he serves a pretty important purpose in the actual story (though we could have done without a few of his lines that made us all cringe.) In the end, amazingly, I find that I enjoy watching the prequels even more than the OT!!! (blasphemy, I know, and I'm one of those pathetic geeks who can answer just about any obscure star wars trivial pursuit question, from the OT!)
So, to sum up, I think the series will feature:
Now, about the issue of episodes 7-9, no, that I do not want to see. This whole saga is really all about Anakin Skywalker's rise, fall, and rendemption. After he dies, it makes no sense to continue.
Sit back, enjoy, let yourself go. Don't be jaded. Relax. It's fun. Don't be ashamed to enjoy.
Quit playa' hatin'. I enjoyed the prequels very much, and I am glad they were made. What's wrong with making movies that so many enjoyed? Just because you're a jaded 30 something who remembers seeing the OT as a kid and that therefore new generations shouldn't get to enjoy the backstory is plain and simple playa' hatin'.
AND, btw, George Lucas is a Hollywood rogue. He thumbs his nose at the studios and the writers and actors guilds. You know how pretty much all movies tell you who is in the movie before / as the movie starts? Well that's an actor's guild rule. Star Wars doesn't have opening credits.. and actors who star in them risk career damage by taking part in them. George Lucas used to pay fines on behalf of the actors and also Kirchner who was fined by the director's guild for directing ESB.
So stuff it with the playa hate on Lucas, his prequels have made me happy, and he is anything but a corporate shill for hollywood. He deserves all the money he gets, I love all the toys, everything. I have personally dumped thousands of dollars in action figures and vehicles and DVDs and I watch the movies with glee about once a week, and there are thousands of others just like me who love it. Why do you want to take away our happiness?
BTW, like all of my other avid SW friends, I am married so we're not a bunch of pathetic desperate geeks like that guy in the 40 year old virgin movie.
Who's going to take a hurricane named Katrina or Ophelia seriously? Here are some hurricane names that might get people's attention to get out of dodge:
- Osama
- Saddam
- Adolf
- Lucifer
- Vader
If we could get a hold of some of that "spice", we could fold space and go anywhere without moving! Dang worms though, keep swallowing the spice harvestors! Baron Harkonen might yet beat us to it!
I enjoyed the first two prequels, I don't care what anybody says about them. I just have one itty bitty question about a possible plothole though:
1. Obi-Wan goes to Kamino and sees a clone army in the works, finds that it's based on Jango Fett
2. Follows Jango Fett to Geonosis where he sees that a droid army is in the works, finds Jango hanging out with Count Dooku.
I ain't a Jedi or nuthin', but seems to me Obi-Wan and his Jedi buddies should have put two and two together there, that the two armies were being financed by the same people.
I cannot wait for ep III. I have my ticket for the midnight show, the 10:40 AM show the next day, and the 10:30 PM show. Gonna be sweeeeeeet!! Yes, it's sad, I even took a precious vacation day off of work to do this.
> I'm looking for a good Gyro place in the South >Bay area. If you know of one, please let me know.
Try Yiassoo on De Anza Blvd in Cupertino.
Back in high school, when I took that lame AP computer science class where we used Borland Turbo Pascal, the instructor allowed us to take home disks for it over spring break but she warned us that anything we wrote with it belonged to Borland heh. I thought it was ridiculous back then too :)
Simple question:
Say I rip all my favourite tracks from all my CD's and archive them onto CD-R's in MP3 format. Is it legal for me to _give_ copies of that CD-R to my friends? After all, it's just a gift then isn't it?
On the other hand if I sell it, or sell it for more than the media is worth, then I agree that would be shady.
I have two simple questions:
1) Is it legal for me to make MP3's out of tracks of CD's I own and to archive them on a CD-R
2) Is it legal for me to give away copies of this archive to my friends?
I have a very simple question:
Is it legal for me to
1) Make mp3's of tracks from CD's I own and to archive them to CD-R
2) To make copies of those CD's for my friends at no charge, or just ask for the price of the media?
Seems like they're no-brainers in that they should be completely legal but all this is starting to make me doubt this. If I were selling the CD-R full of mp3's then it'd be a different story.
While we're on the subject of making money with websites, I have a hobbyist website that is getting quite a number of hits and I wouldn't mind putting some banner ads on there to make it at least pay for itself, can anybody point me to some info / resources for this?
Hurricane Electric has been very good for me for almost a year now so I would recommend them: http://www.he.net/. They run some kind of modified Slackware and have MySQL and PHP.
Well, rule #1 should be to make your own backups and don't trust anybody.
Ideally, you should do your development on your own machine and only upload 'production' code to the machine that hosts your domain and has all the bandwidth and then run a cron job each day or so to dump your database, tar and gzip it all, and ftp it someplace else.
Also, a cron job that runs a little script to inform you of the state of things and emails it to you every few hours is a good idea if your site is not a full time gig.
Of course, since you're paying somebody to do all this for you you really shouldn't have to worry about it but that's life.
"Fat Old Sun" is on "Atom Heart Mother" album actually, but you're right, it is a GREAT song as is that whole album. Gotta love "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" :)
Also, it's my understanding Stanley Kubrick wanted to use Atom Heart Mother for the soundtrack to "2001 : A Space Odyssey" but it fell through for some reason.
"A Saucerful of Secrets" is also a great album (they all are), I love "Corporal Clegg" heh.
My vote for the best ever is "The Final Cut" but I guess it all depends what mood you're in, any of the Floyd's albums can be considered a favourite at any given moment.
Phil
That's because Syd was going completely mad from too much acid, he was unable to perform coherently anymore, their gigs were just out of control. So they had to let him loose, he was just losing it.
I don't mourn this because Syd went on to record some of the best music I know, "The Madcap Laughs" and "Barrett" are two of my favourite albums, they are truly exquisite.
I also love all of the Floyd's music, they are definately the greatest band of all time, from "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" to "The Division Bell", all amazing stuff. My favourite album of all time has to be "The Final Cut" though, it's just awesome. Roger Waters' solo stuff is great too, I'm excited to see that he's doing something.
Also check out David Gilmour's solo stuff, it's pretty good as well as Richard Wright's work; the strangely named "Wet Dream" is a GREAT album and his new one "Broken China" is kinda new age but it's really good.
Actually by looking at all the Floyd members' solo works, you can see what their contribution was to the Pink Floyd music, it's pretty cool.
Phil
Okay, here is what I want to do: I want to get what I have on my minidiscs burnt onto CD's. What is the best way to do this which preserves the track info? If there were MD drives (like IDE or SCSI) available, then it would be simple.
:)
* Stereo component CDR's are no good cuz they can't detect track endings (AFAIK).
* Feeding the sound in through a sound card makes me weary because of the noise that might be picked up, and I'd have to manually split up the tracks.
Anybody know of a good way? Looks like others also want a way of getting MD tracks onto their hard drives for one purpose or another, it's amazing that there really doesn't seem to be any way to do it at this point. Please tell me different!
I love the 3 Who albums I have (Quadrophenia, Who's Next, and Tommy). Are there any others that are any good? My personal favourite band is Jethro Tull. I think that Ian Anderson is a genius and a poet. Nothing like a little Tull while you're coding :)
On my Linux box, that lil' C prog yields a 4,463 byte executable. If I strip the symbols, it's only 2,724 bytes.
Well the trouble with that though is that there's too much shuffling of CD's in and out of PC CDROM drives, then you have to capture the tracks you want, store them, etc etc and then finally burn them. On the other hand, all I have to do with my minidisc recorder is hook it up to my stereo receiver and the rest is history (an extra convenience is a 200 disc CD changer here :)
So it is a question of laziness, no doubt you are quite right about the CD-R's though.
However, I am aware that Philips and several other companies are now making stereo component CD-R's. Anybody know anything about these? Like do you have to program your cd changer to play everything you want and do it all in a linear fashion so that the recorder never stops? Or can it start and stop like a minidisc recorder, or even a cassette recorder?
Well CD's I agree with, but cassettes? I am a big fan of minidiscs. I don't understand why they never caught on. I mean they're great, it's like a digital cassette on which you can record over and over again, move tracks around, name the tracks, etc. It has all the features compilation making ppl like myself always missed with cassettes (random access play, etc.) And it's pretty inexpensive, considering. You can get a portable recorder for under $200 and blank minidiscs are like $2 a pop.