First they give us this version, and soon we'll have this "special edition" and let's not forget the inevitable "directors edition" and "boxed=set" editions that will be coming in the future!
Take a look at these assholes in iraq celebrating this tragedy at Reuters
What f'ing assholes. Of course, next week if there is footage of celebrations from iraqis there no doubt will be a mass-email campaign trying to deny these celebrations as racist CNN coverage of "Celebration of some soccer victory from 1987" even though they will be wearing brittney spears t-shirts, having contemporary movie/music posters in the background, dancing atop vehicles from 2000+, etc.
I am referring of course to the footage from Sept. 11th, 2001 that showed Palestinians celbrating our tragedy. They later tried to deny this as a "fake" - that CNN used old footage of "a 1987 soccer victory celebration" until it was seen that a) no one in 1987 would be referring to Osama Bin Laden by name b) one boy was wearing a Brazilian soccer star's jersey (Ronaldo, who was maybe 6 in 1987) and c) there were modern cars appearing not available in 1987.
Just like Gary Condit is the man (American) who benifitted the most from Sept 11 diverting attention from his scandal, looks like Scott Peterson is going to bless this event too. If he's innocent, then I apologize, but if not, an guilty man may get off because there is no media pressure to get him convicted.
>My kids are watching cartoons and won't let me change the channel.:(
I did the exact same thing when Challenger blew up. I was 6 years old and I wanted to watch USA Cartoon Express and my parents kept watching the news. I always felt a little weird about that - understandable, but weird.
Marin movie mogul George Lucas said Tuesday he is consolidating four
companies bearing his name into a single entity, Lucasfilm Ltd.
Lucas, whose first five "Star Wars" movies grossed a reported $2.1 billion,
currently scatters 2,000 special-effects specialists, video game designers and
other workers at four companies around Marin County: special-effects shop
Lucas Digital, gamemaker LucasArts Entertainment, the lucrative Lucas
Licensing and Lucasfilm. Most of those employees will relocate to a planned
Digital Arts Center in San Francisco's Presidio in late 2005, according to
Lucasfilm spokeswoman Lynn Hale.
In a statement on Tuesday, Lucas, who raced to fortune and fame with
"American Graffiti" in 1973, laid out his company's plans to integrate
operations.
"During the past 10 years, my companies have functioned relatively
independent of each other. We have decided to bring these entities together. .
. . This new structure will make it easier for our diverse talents to work as
a team."
Simultaneously with news of the reorganization, Lucas announced the
departure of Lucasfilm President Gordon Radley, who said in a prepared
statement that he is leaving to pursue unspecified opportunities.
Lucasfilm's chief financial officer, Micheline Chau, appears to be the
rising star in the organization, as Lucas promoted her to chief operating
officer, charged with overseeing the new, unified company.
No mention was made of any layoffs from restructuring.
Privately held Lucasfilm is usually guarded when commenting about internal
matters and keeps a relatively low profile between mega-projects such as "Star
Wars" and "Indiana Jones" films. The company appears to be repositioning
itself for the time, two or three years off, when the sixth and last of the
"Star Wars" movies rolls into cineplexes.
The reorganization comes at a time when Lucasfilm faces some formidable
competitors in the digital entertainment realm. Among them are Japan's
powerhouse Sony Corp., struggling but massive AOL Time Warner and the
animation specialists at Pixar Inc., a company that Lucas sold some time ago
to Apple Computer Inc. CEO Steve Jobs. Pixar has subsequently earned critical
and commercial success with its sophisticated use of supple computer animation.
"We're definitely looking to the future," Hale said. "It's a good time to
do it. It's going to be a unified and diverse entertainment company."
Hale said the semi-autonomous structure of Lucas companies such as
Industrial Light & Magic, which does contract work on a variety of Hollywood
movies, has worked well in the past, but future needs require fewer barriers
to collaboration.
"I think it did work. It built a success in various fields," she said.
"We're a stronger company than we've ever been."
Gaile Daikoku, an entertainment analyst for GartnerG2, a research firm,
said that cost-cutting could have been one factor behind the reorganization
plan. Rolling all the units under one umbrella could eliminate duplicated
efforts between the various units and reduce costs, especially in the
administrative area.
Daikoku also said the change may be aimed at making it easier for clients
to do business with Lucasfilm. For example, she said Fox, which is working
with Lucasfilm on "Star Wars," may have had to call people at each of Lucas'
several companies to discuss licensing of video games, toys and home video.
Under a new organization, the job would be accomplished with one phone call,
she said.
"You want to make it one face for the company versus five," Daikoku said.
Prior to Tuesday's announcement, Lucas had made some moves to reorganize
his corporate ventures, which together racked up revenue of $1.5 billion in
2001, according to an estimate by Forbes magazine. Last May, for example,
Lucas sold off THX, his sound design company, for an unspecified sum, to
investors including Creative Labs.
Tim Schafer, a video game designer for LucasArts who left Lucas in 2000
after 10 years to start his own video game company, San Francisco's Double
Fine Productions, said the Lucas reorganization might be smart from a creative,
as well as a business, standpoint.
"We used to wish there was more cooperation between Industrial Light &
Magic and games, and now maybe there will be," Schafer said. "We used to gripe
in the old days that we really could use some of ILM's resources."
Lucasfilm has two future features under development, according to Hale, who
didn't offer firm release dates for them. Lucas's old film-school pal, Steven
Spielberg, will direct the fourth "Indiana Jones" movie, with Harrison Ford
reprising his role as the swashbuckling archaeologist, Hale said.
Meanwhile, Lucas himself is writing the sixth and, he says, concluding
"Star Wars" movie, which he will also direct.
Lucasfilm Ltd. at a glance
Headquarters: San Rafael
Chairman and CEO: George Lucas
Workforce: 2,000
2001 revenue: $1.5 billion
Current projects: Building the $300 million Letterman Digital Arts Center
at the Presidio, which will house 2,500 employees. Working on final chapter of
the "Star Wars" series and another "Indiana Jones" movie, starring Harrison
Ford and directed by Steven Spielberg.
Chronicle staff writer Verne Kopytoff contributed to this report. / E-mail David Armstrong at davidarmstrong@sfchronicle.com.
Remember this game? "3 in Three?" A puzzle game about a number "3" from a text document that got zapped into the inner parts of a computer during a power surge... damn, I wish there was a Mac emmulator on windows just so I could play that game!
aicn needs to have threading and moderation. Then it'd be interesting to read a site that is not 1000 posts in no particular order, but rather threads made up of 30-50 CONVERSATIONS!
They should pit THE WORLD'S FASTEST, GREATEST, 1000-TERA-TERA-BYTE RAM COMPUTER...
against any 5-year-old in CANDYLAND!!! I can't believe it took so many years to realize that there was absolutely NO WAY to be "good" at that game! All luck!:-)
If I ever get negative feedback (4 times), I simply contact the person and explain what happened, and he/she posts a "follow-up" along the lines of "Oops, my bad" "Showed up the next day" etc. THAT'S ALL YOU HAVE TO DO! Duh... It's not perfect, but it's far-from-chaos.
First off, snowmobiles are among the HIGHEST vehicle poluters on the market, so an SUV would be an IMPROVEMENT.
Second, Antarctica is one of the very-useful and practical places where an SUV really would come in handy. Seriously, you expect someone to cross that area in a Camry? It's not likely they'd drive a Naviagator down there, and more likely they'd have a Dodge pickup truck or something.
Someone, some geek, will make a 16k program that incorporates into Kazaa or whatever to see if it's the real thing or not within like 2kilobytes of the download. (don't argue about the specs... 2k, 17k, whatever - point is, if this becomes a reality, people will get around it).
That is a PERFECT analysis in my opinion... something I have wondered since 1990 when I was like "Where the f*ck is this 'super' nintendo that we're promised?" Another thing besides beating PS3 to the launch is that I think Nintendo (and I guess everyone else as well) should return to the "include 1 smash hit" STANDARD with the system (NEs came with Super Mario Bros, Genesis with Sonic, SNES with Mario World). I think that'd be so sweet.
the field's strength would never actually be zero, but would grow more infintessimally weak
I'm no physicist, but isn't that like saying that an ant on the ground has a gravitational effect on te orbit of he stars in the Orion Nebula? I mean technically, putting it in the gravity formula, you do have m1 and m2 (2 objects with mass) as well as a definable distance between them - by your logic this number is never technically zero either. What the parent OBVIOUSLY meant is that P10 can eventually come outside of some sort of sufficient barrier (I'm pretty sure there IS a set "barrier," - just dont know what it is - I'm not an astronomer either...)
Now if only computer manufacturers could make equipment even remotely this sturdy
You want to be running a 1.6 gHz computer in the year 2033? That is, you really would care if you were still able to run a computer TODAY that 1k of ram?
(yes, I do know he didn't mean it that way, but it still sounds weird the way he put it...)
I remember that guy! Wow! I even remember him advertising those non-NES-sanctioned games! I remember wondering why the hell he'd endorse those crappy games. Oh well...
Slashdot Mirror
The Worst Episode EVER was no doubt "All Singing, All Dancing!" All simpsons fans I know cringe at that one!
...was that this was a story about Nintendo 64! Mario Party Rules!!!
You're the asshole
So obviously you are the exact same way... Hating another people.
First they give us this version, and soon we'll have this "special edition" and let's not forget the inevitable "directors edition" and "boxed=set" editions that will be coming in the future!
Hehehe... i don't care though - Matrix rules!
OK, time to burn karma. I don't care.
Take a look at these assholes in iraq celebrating this tragedy at Reuters
What f'ing assholes. Of course, next week if there is footage of celebrations from iraqis there no doubt will be a mass-email campaign trying to deny these celebrations as racist CNN coverage of "Celebration of some soccer victory from 1987" even though they will be wearing brittney spears t-shirts, having contemporary movie/music posters in the background, dancing atop vehicles from 2000+, etc.
I am referring of course to the footage from Sept. 11th, 2001 that showed Palestinians celbrating our tragedy. They later tried to deny this as a "fake" - that CNN used old footage of "a 1987 soccer victory celebration" until it was seen that a) no one in 1987 would be referring to Osama Bin Laden by name b) one boy was wearing a Brazilian soccer star's jersey (Ronaldo, who was maybe 6 in 1987) and c) there were modern cars appearing not available in 1987.
Just like Gary Condit is the man (American) who benifitted the most from Sept 11 diverting attention from his scandal, looks like Scott Peterson is going to bless this event too. If he's innocent, then I apologize, but if not, an guilty man may get off because there is no media pressure to get him convicted.
>My kids are watching cartoons and won't let me change the channel. :(
I did the exact same thing when Challenger blew up. I was 6 years old and I wanted to watch USA Cartoon Express and my parents kept watching the news. I always felt a little weird about that - understandable, but weird.
The Empire is reorganizing.
Marin movie mogul George Lucas said Tuesday he is consolidating four companies bearing his name into a single entity, Lucasfilm Ltd.
Lucas, whose first five "Star Wars" movies grossed a reported $2.1 billion, currently scatters 2,000 special-effects specialists, video game designers and other workers at four companies around Marin County: special-effects shop Lucas Digital, gamemaker LucasArts Entertainment, the lucrative Lucas Licensing and Lucasfilm. Most of those employees will relocate to a planned Digital Arts Center in San Francisco's Presidio in late 2005, according to Lucasfilm spokeswoman Lynn Hale.
In a statement on Tuesday, Lucas, who raced to fortune and fame with "American Graffiti" in 1973, laid out his company's plans to integrate operations.
"During the past 10 years, my companies have functioned relatively independent of each other. We have decided to bring these entities together. . . . This new structure will make it easier for our diverse talents to work as a team."
Simultaneously with news of the reorganization, Lucas announced the departure of Lucasfilm President Gordon Radley, who said in a prepared statement that he is leaving to pursue unspecified opportunities.
Lucasfilm's chief financial officer, Micheline Chau, appears to be the rising star in the organization, as Lucas promoted her to chief operating officer, charged with overseeing the new, unified company.
No mention was made of any layoffs from restructuring.
Privately held Lucasfilm is usually guarded when commenting about internal matters and keeps a relatively low profile between mega-projects such as "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" films. The company appears to be repositioning itself for the time, two or three years off, when the sixth and last of the "Star Wars" movies rolls into cineplexes.
The reorganization comes at a time when Lucasfilm faces some formidable competitors in the digital entertainment realm. Among them are Japan's powerhouse Sony Corp., struggling but massive AOL Time Warner and the animation specialists at Pixar Inc., a company that Lucas sold some time ago to Apple Computer Inc. CEO Steve Jobs. Pixar has subsequently earned critical and commercial success with its sophisticated use of supple computer animation.
"We're definitely looking to the future," Hale said. "It's a good time to do it. It's going to be a unified and diverse entertainment company."
Hale said the semi-autonomous structure of Lucas companies such as Industrial Light & Magic, which does contract work on a variety of Hollywood movies, has worked well in the past, but future needs require fewer barriers to collaboration.
"I think it did work. It built a success in various fields," she said. "We're a stronger company than we've ever been."
Gaile Daikoku, an entertainment analyst for GartnerG2, a research firm, said that cost-cutting could have been one factor behind the reorganization plan. Rolling all the units under one umbrella could eliminate duplicated efforts between the various units and reduce costs, especially in the administrative area.
Daikoku also said the change may be aimed at making it easier for clients to do business with Lucasfilm. For example, she said Fox, which is working with Lucasfilm on "Star Wars," may have had to call people at each of Lucas' several companies to discuss licensing of video games, toys and home video. Under a new organization, the job would be accomplished with one phone call, she said.
"You want to make it one face for the company versus five," Daikoku said.
Prior to Tuesday's announcement, Lucas had made some moves to reorganize his corporate ventures, which together racked up revenue of $1.5 billion in 2001, according to an estimate by Forbes magazine. Last May, for example, Lucas sold off THX, his sound design company, for an unspecified sum, to investors including Creative Labs.
Tim Schafer, a video game designer for LucasArts who left Lucas in 2000 after 10 years to start his own video game company, San Francisco's Double Fine Productions, said the Lucas reorganization might be smart from a creative,
as well as a business, standpoint.
"We used to wish there was more cooperation between Industrial Light & Magic and games, and now maybe there will be," Schafer said. "We used to gripe in the old days that we really could use some of ILM's resources."
Lucasfilm has two future features under development, according to Hale, who didn't offer firm release dates for them. Lucas's old film-school pal, Steven Spielberg, will direct the fourth "Indiana Jones" movie, with Harrison Ford reprising his role as the swashbuckling archaeologist, Hale said.
Meanwhile, Lucas himself is writing the sixth and, he says, concluding "Star Wars" movie, which he will also direct.
Lucasfilm Ltd. at a glance
Headquarters: San Rafael
Chairman and CEO: George Lucas
Workforce: 2,000
2001 revenue: $1.5 billion
Current projects: Building the $300 million Letterman Digital Arts Center at the Presidio, which will house 2,500 employees. Working on final chapter of the "Star Wars" series and another "Indiana Jones" movie, starring Harrison Ford and directed by Steven Spielberg.
Chronicle staff writer Verne Kopytoff contributed to this report. / E-mail David Armstrong at davidarmstrong@sfchronicle.com.
Remember this game? "3 in Three?" A puzzle game about a number "3" from a text document that got zapped into the inner parts of a computer during a power surge... damn, I wish there was a Mac emmulator on windows just so I could play that game!
you mean... actually adjust to the times and adjust your business plan? What a concept! :-)
If you don't retire, how are you going to have toime to sit around all day and complain about teenagers and thir violent music?
"True, in our day, Eminem was considered bad, but not even he promised to kill an enemy of yours for every cd you buy."
EXACTLY!!!
aicn needs to have threading and moderation. Then it'd be interesting to read a site that is not 1000 posts in no particular order, but rather threads made up of 30-50 CONVERSATIONS!
They should pit THE WORLD'S FASTEST, GREATEST, 1000-TERA-TERA-BYTE RAM COMPUTER...
:-)
against any 5-year-old in CANDYLAND!!! I can't believe it took so many years to realize that there was absolutely NO WAY to be "good" at that game! All luck!
If I ever get negative feedback (4 times), I simply contact the person and explain what happened, and he/she posts a "follow-up" along the lines of "Oops, my bad" "Showed up the next day" etc. THAT'S ALL YOU HAVE TO DO! Duh... It's not perfect, but it's far-from-chaos.
2 things...
First off, snowmobiles are among the HIGHEST vehicle poluters on the market, so an SUV would be an IMPROVEMENT.
Second, Antarctica is one of the very-useful and practical places where an SUV really would come in handy. Seriously, you expect someone to cross that area in a Camry? It's not likely they'd drive a Naviagator down there, and more likely they'd have a Dodge pickup truck or something.
It won't work.
Someone, some geek, will make a 16k program that incorporates into Kazaa or whatever to see if it's the real thing or not within like 2kilobytes of the download. (don't argue about the specs... 2k, 17k, whatever - point is, if this becomes a reality, people will get around it).
That is a PERFECT analysis in my opinion... something I have wondered since 1990 when I was like "Where the f*ck is this 'super' nintendo that we're promised?"
Another thing besides beating PS3 to the launch is that I think Nintendo (and I guess everyone else as well) should return to the "include 1 smash hit" STANDARD with the system (NEs came with Super Mario Bros, Genesis with Sonic, SNES with Mario World). I think that'd be so sweet.
Here's hoping public response has progressed beyond "oh no! did he say nuclear?!"
They won't be asking "Did he say nuclear?," they'll be saying "Did he say nucular?
What dot coms are we NOT supposed to hate these days?
Why would the Greeks or the Egyptians make the Hudson River a national park?
I'm no physicist, but isn't that like saying that an ant on the ground has a gravitational effect on te orbit of he stars in the Orion Nebula? I mean technically, putting it in the gravity formula, you do have m1 and m2 (2 objects with mass) as well as a definable distance between them - by your logic this number is never technically zero either. What the parent OBVIOUSLY meant is that P10 can eventually come outside of some sort of sufficient barrier (I'm pretty sure there IS a set "barrier," - just dont know what it is - I'm not an astronomer either...)
You want to be running a 1.6 gHz computer in the year 2033? That is, you really would care if you were still able to run a computer TODAY that 1k of ram?
(yes, I do know he didn't mean it that way, but it still sounds weird the way he put it...)
Flashback
Yup. That was it. It was out for the genesis. And OOTW was on the SNES...
I remember that guy! Wow! I even remember him advertising those non-NES-sanctioned games! I remember wondering why the hell he'd endorse those crappy games. Oh well...
Holy crap that game ruled! It had a sequel - didn't it?