frankly, I'd like to have seen more badass things in the dark suit as vader to show he was EVIL. But I thought the scene came off OK... after all, the point of the scene was that the emporer had a total lock on anakin. The only thing he had to live for he took away himself! HE destroyed his entire live..by himself.. from this point on he's not just the Empororer's henchmen, but a "trusted" friend who is totally commited to only him.
My point is that people are learning to just wait for DVDs which ruins the whole "big movie" Experience. Even a great movie like EP 3 just isn't the same anymore knowing it'll be on dvd by christmas. Of course apathetic theaters don't help either. I've only been in 1 or 2 that really seem to Wow you and even they seem to not be very consistant.
Seriouly though this is ridiculous... the Text of the book is different than a label on the text identifying it's owner... this is where the whole jewish thing jumped the shark a very, very long time ago with all sorts of work arounds to very simple rules. [and that started happening BC!]
They could always add picture too! I mean the thing says nothing about pictures... how stupid are they?
but the problem is that DVD may be making gobs of money but it canabalizes the movie theaters. The industry wants their cake AND eat it too... Once they sell a DVD movie tickets go out the window... to a certian extent the public is learning to wait out for the DVD... that's killing the big box office hits.
Frankly, there's just too much product out there... even for my limited tastes there's times that 5 movies want to "compete" aginst each other when i'd like to see them all... other times there's months with "nothing" interesting at the theatre. it's like cable TV ratings don't mean anything anymore... trying to tie interest in a product to some kind of timed demand just doesn't work anymore.
The problem is the MBAs at the movie companies see video as "lost" sales to eyeballs... because they could have made more getting all of your family in the theater at full price. It's a problem that permeates american business right now. the mega corps aren't interested in steady long term small profits.. everyone wants the big score every time or it's "not worth it" anymore. There's so much money squandered by big companies looking to score that they miss the "real" customers and what product they actually want to pay for!!!
Now is the time for apple to bolster it's oss efforts. they need to make that committment. That was the REAL problem with KHTML...we all expected Apple to make a move via iTunes for a share of the browser market next... they already use KHTML in the iTunes store!! The issue with interopperabiltiy of file formats is that most big companies aren't ready to cut off Macs just yet.. if they could put a mac browswer [a la firefox] on Windows they'd get more coverage.. but apple is too shallow to understand that. If apple made that browser there'd be no need for IE only pages anymore... all of the most compattible browsers would be available for windows. and just happen ot work on Linux and mac too.
Apple needs to take an "enemy-of-my-enemy" approach with OSS. They need to help get Linux fans off the MS teet. They've got to get quicktime and itunes over to linux... even if they simply change it to work in WINE it would help lots of people get off windows.. They're not going to get sales from linux users anyway.. but now's the time to pull everybody else together to show the world there are many more options than just MS.
Frankly, MS has already declared war on the PC.. they did that with XBOX....their intentions are clear. They want the whole pie [phone, pda, workstations, servers, media outlets, etc] Apple holds the last best hope for keeping open systems alive. If apple puts a "face" on openness then the geeks may not buy into it and keep hacking P3s but we can happily tell grandma to get the apple because all the cool stuff we like can be there too.
Intel has denyability. MS is playing a dangerous game with intel by choosing PPC for XB360 and intel needs to send message that they want to keep MS in line. AMD has no such power over MS... intel litterally holds ALL of MS current income on it's hardware.
Intel already lost this much business from MS anyway loosing the next xb.. it's not really that much production and they can always call it a "bad decision". In the grand scheme of things this is just a little spat.
Realize this is only happening now because MS is trying to play "competitor" with intel... It's funny how they fixed the game with AMD until intel caught up because AMD pushed linux. XBox is going for intel's turf... personally I'd expect to see MS have an exclusive agreement RSN with Dell for a rebranded "office" xbox that's the perfect machine.. and based on PPC chips! They already bought the VM company. The writing is on the wall. The only thing intel can do now is save the PC market by attacking MS openly while they're still to valuable to loose... after all AMD isn't going to come running to SAVE MS will they?
This is great for intel too! Intel's chips are capable of far more than they get credit for because MS is holding them back. look at how long MS has held up 64 bit stuff. Openfirmware or what ever they use WILL break compatibility at a hardware level. But for intel that's OK... they get a company that's finally ready to take a gamble on them and build the hardware that shows off intel.. rather than a bunch of also-rans that compete merely on price. Intel gets a premium platform to show off while MS is openly trying to marginalize their business playing them against everybody else.
MS has openly declared war on the Intel/AMD people anyway... to MS the PC is "expendable" they're just trying to find a way to let us down easy... I'd expect a Business branded "XBox" out real soon now that's the perfect office "PC"... and it will be just like what Longhorn was supposed to be. MS has already choosen not to bring intel along. They want the whole pie. MS has also burned bridges with intel choosing PPC over x86 for xbox 360... that's a lot of units lost intel needs to make up.
They can cut Apple a sweet deal because the product will be mostly the same... it's not like their big customer Dell can go anywhere else... MS has them buy the ballz. I personally expect apple to start getting the good stuff first because they'll be able to show it off. I'd also expect the Apple hardware to to 25% better accross the board because they've had 5 years to plot this coup.. and they'll be getting to use all the features intel wishes everybody would use!!! Look at the intel demos... they're begging for somebody like apple to do something cool!
hey, even Einstein had an early marrige and children way before he was famous.. Most famous people are screw-ups that somehow accomplish something brilliant..
OSS is really more like the housing market... would anybody really complain that Home Depot puts plumbers, painters, etc out of work by letting people do it themselves? Or auto parts stores putting mechanics out?
The whole key to OSS is getting to that realization that the average person CAN do it themselves with commonly available tools.. That's the whole point of progress!!! In many ways it's a much better deal for a business.. it would keep customers comming back if done right. Just selling "computers" is easy... that's why walmart can do it. If you want to be a "professional" you've got to bring more to the table.
I'm just help desk and have at least 10 intra company passwords. The network engineers have upwards of 25+ all needed a a moment's notice.
People are highly visual, we can pick out a difference in a picture more subtle than a computer could do easily. more than that, when you go to pics instead of passwords you increase the data availible 1000x. You can hide a lot of keys in the dead space of the picture... and rotate it as much as you want behind the scenes of what the user sees.
Apple runs iTMS to sell iPods... something like this would sell more iPods. After all, who'd seriously buy a pocket-sized sattelite radio? It's a cool toy, but value-wise is pretty wasteful... I held out for the shuffle because the normal iPod was just to expensive for my pocket. Adding radio to iPod would be the sinker to drop the full $299.
The real functionality is all about recording though! If apple could merge in some of the best internet podcasting over sattelite.. saving their money on iTMS bandwidth, then It'd be a must have... but recording sattelite would be a serious RIAA problem. Using it with your MAC/PC and Airport express/airtunes would sell more mac hardware! Could I see a multi-media macmini comming soon?
Note too: I believe XM has ties to DirectTV and Sirius ties to DishNetwork... An apple/dish/sirius combo entertainment/home networking device would rock the market. It wouldn't dominate because MS & DirectTV will always have more power, but it would be a powerful #2.
is that iPods typically are stuffed in coat pockets, or purses while playing... as much for saftey as for convenience. Who's seriouly stupid enough to walk around openly displaying a $500+ photo iPod?
The issue becomes can the sirius radio work "apple well" inside a heavy jacket or purse? From what I've seen the sirius radios work well indoors, but they're always in the open.
There's also the issue of recording rights. Remember that they made a satillite radio for PC....once... I could see the incentive for a few sirius channels for podcasting... but once you open the door to record you open a huge can of worms.
The pro was already a slower 9700. It was the first to hit the price point so they literally used "underclocked" 9700s... there's not much you can push a 9500pro because it's still limited by the cheaper memory they used... When the next 9500 & 9600 came out they used an entirely different core stripped out of the extra piplines...but it could go faster.. so depending on the game, a 9500pro is still a "competive" card.. where the 9600 gets a bit dated
And AOL ended OWNERSHIP of mozilla outright by signing a deal with MS, settling on IE as their default browser, and sending the Moz team out on their own... The "Netscape" release is just rebranded, repackaged mozilla... just like firefox packaged in any boxed linux distro...
They switched bridges from the top spire to the front... it wasn't the same bridge.
under fire AG can go out! in SW ships you have AG and initeral compensators... not entirely the same things. if AG goes down for a little bit, then the planet's gravity will "override" the ships until it gets back under control. remember, ships in SW are not in "orbit" like our primitive term.. they are in powered orbit... so they could have gravity affect the ship if something happens.
As far as ships landing, it was a bit silly. I could see the "Destroyers" being much smaller than their New Hope counterparts... so they look small enough to be "landable". I always thought the Tantive was a corvete and it was always considered a landing craft. Comparing a jedi fighter would be a good case... when it "lands" on the tantive it's about 1/10 the overall leangth... versus the "destroyer" is's about 1/20 the leangth... remember they don't have hangers yet, but a covered bay...it's considerably smaller than a trade federation "donut" ship. Also, we burn thru at least 3 generations of ships in this movie... even the "greys" at the end are still several models earlier than the IMPS from new hope.
except in the tech sector most of the big american companies are rapidly going off shore... Try to find a single 0805 cap or resistor [the staple of surface mount electronics...there's about 100 on a motherboard] made in the USA... Actually, most of the interesting electronic assembly is in the US.. I know for sure Motorolla [nextel] builds their phone's here.. in illinois..[at my last job we shared field service techs from the manufacture with them] but the parts themselves are 90% asian.. not enough to qualify under the DHS rules.
Of course if you go by Value-added and not something as stupid as weight, then there are lots of US companies that can make stuff comparable..in electronics labor & overhead is almost as big as parts, it may cost a little more, but not outrageously more. More than that, we should be able to find somebody that makes that stuff here in the USA... or we're in a pretty sad state if we can't.
but again, "Netscape" is the AOL branded release...it has nothing to do with mozilla anymore execpt they always get the changes for their proprietary product. Netscape != Mozilla anymore. It's just another cheap rebranding scheme... AOL cut the Moz team loose a while ago... they've got no "responsibility" to Netscape anymore either.
But why is it the Moz developer's job to support every possible external combination? The REAL question to ask is why the default linux build DOESN'T work on your custom distro...
If Red Hat is tweaking the hell out of firefox, why are they not rolling the patches back to the moz devs so the default works as quickly as possible? Of course the moz developers can't support every patch they get... so you'd have to accept that you may be choosing to keep YOUR distro incompatible... with the stock release.
But these are "registered" sites.. they require at least a user name to get in...so it should be easy to limit spammers... after all, a normal person is going to have a 10-1 follow-to-post ratio... because you'd be following existing links more than making new ones. if somebody shows up dumping links it would be pretty easy to spot.
but search engines go strictly by a formula... not by "usefulness". Sometimes you want to be suggested rather than randomly pointed... A great example I like is Stumble Upon. It can take you to sites linked to by other people that like similar sites... you can get results "skewed" toward a particular interest...like links from fellow slashdotters. True it's not a "pure" search, but it's based on what YOU like...so it's typically a better search.. also StumbleUpon can help you find stuff you didn't know you were interested in.... making it much better than just a search
The original Yahoo was like that... links were catagorized by hand rather than automated. at the time [in the early days] it was easier to use yahoo because it came up with more relevant sites...not just a text search.
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frankly, I'd like to have seen more badass things in the dark suit as vader to show he was EVIL. But I thought the scene came off OK... after all, the point of the scene was that the emporer had a total lock on anakin. The only thing he had to live for he took away himself! HE destroyed his entire live..by himself.. from this point on he's not just the Empororer's henchmen, but a "trusted" friend who is totally commited to only him.
b. "When 900 years old you reach, look as good you will not"... maybe he was over the hill
My point is that people are learning to just wait for DVDs which ruins the whole "big movie" Experience. Even a great movie like EP 3 just isn't the same anymore knowing it'll be on dvd by christmas. Of course apathetic theaters don't help either. I've only been in 1 or 2 that really seem to Wow you and even they seem to not be very consistant.
now i have to burn my eyes out... how dare you use the name of god on slashdot. That's worse than in vain!!
Seriouly though this is ridiculous... the Text of the book is different than a label on the text identifying it's owner... this is where the whole jewish thing jumped the shark a very, very long time ago with all sorts of work arounds to very simple rules. [and that started happening BC!]
They could always add picture too! I mean the thing says nothing about pictures... how stupid are they?
I want the one autographed by moses!!
is this a screen scroll from the new Sims expansion?
hey it was fun... I was really glad when the 99$ shuffle came out!!!!
Frankly, there's just too much product out there... even for my limited tastes there's times that 5 movies want to "compete" aginst each other when i'd like to see them all... other times there's months with "nothing" interesting at the theatre. it's like cable TV ratings don't mean anything anymore... trying to tie interest in a product to some kind of timed demand just doesn't work anymore.
The problem is the MBAs at the movie companies see video as "lost" sales to eyeballs... because they could have made more getting all of your family in the theater at full price. It's a problem that permeates american business right now. the mega corps aren't interested in steady long term small profits.. everyone wants the big score every time or it's "not worth it" anymore. There's so much money squandered by big companies looking to score that they miss the "real" customers and what product they actually want to pay for!!!
Apple needs to take an "enemy-of-my-enemy" approach with OSS. They need to help get Linux fans off the MS teet. They've got to get quicktime and itunes over to linux... even if they simply change it to work in WINE it would help lots of people get off windows.. They're not going to get sales from linux users anyway.. but now's the time to pull everybody else together to show the world there are many more options than just MS.
Frankly, MS has already declared war on the PC.. they did that with XBOX....their intentions are clear. They want the whole pie [phone, pda, workstations, servers, media outlets, etc] Apple holds the last best hope for keeping open systems alive. If apple puts a "face" on openness then the geeks may not buy into it and keep hacking P3s but we can happily tell grandma to get the apple because all the cool stuff we like can be there too.
Intel already lost this much business from MS anyway loosing the next xb.. it's not really that much production and they can always call it a "bad decision". In the grand scheme of things this is just a little spat.
Realize this is only happening now because MS is trying to play "competitor" with intel... It's funny how they fixed the game with AMD until intel caught up because AMD pushed linux. XBox is going for intel's turf... personally I'd expect to see MS have an exclusive agreement RSN with Dell for a rebranded "office" xbox that's the perfect machine.. and based on PPC chips! They already bought the VM company. The writing is on the wall. The only thing intel can do now is save the PC market by attacking MS openly while they're still to valuable to loose... after all AMD isn't going to come running to SAVE MS will they?
MS has openly declared war on the Intel/AMD people anyway... to MS the PC is "expendable" they're just trying to find a way to let us down easy... I'd expect a Business branded "XBox" out real soon now that's the perfect office "PC"... and it will be just like what Longhorn was supposed to be. MS has already choosen not to bring intel along. They want the whole pie. MS has also burned bridges with intel choosing PPC over x86 for xbox 360... that's a lot of units lost intel needs to make up.
They can cut Apple a sweet deal because the product will be mostly the same... it's not like their big customer Dell can go anywhere else... MS has them buy the ballz. I personally expect apple to start getting the good stuff first because they'll be able to show it off. I'd also expect the Apple hardware to to 25% better accross the board because they've had 5 years to plot this coup.. and they'll be getting to use all the features intel wishes everybody would use!!! Look at the intel demos... they're begging for somebody like apple to do something cool!
hey, even Einstein had an early marrige and children way before he was famous.. Most famous people are screw-ups that somehow accomplish something brilliant..
The whole key to OSS is getting to that realization that the average person CAN do it themselves with commonly available tools.. That's the whole point of progress!!! In many ways it's a much better deal for a business.. it would keep customers comming back if done right. Just selling "computers" is easy... that's why walmart can do it. If you want to be a "professional" you've got to bring more to the table.
People are highly visual, we can pick out a difference in a picture more subtle than a computer could do easily. more than that, when you go to pics instead of passwords you increase the data availible 1000x. You can hide a lot of keys in the dead space of the picture... and rotate it as much as you want behind the scenes of what the user sees.
The real functionality is all about recording though! If apple could merge in some of the best internet podcasting over sattelite.. saving their money on iTMS bandwidth, then It'd be a must have... but recording sattelite would be a serious RIAA problem. Using it with your MAC/PC and Airport express/airtunes would sell more mac hardware! Could I see a multi-media macmini comming soon?
Note too: I believe XM has ties to DirectTV and Sirius ties to DishNetwork... An apple/dish/sirius combo entertainment/home networking device would rock the market. It wouldn't dominate because MS & DirectTV will always have more power, but it would be a powerful #2.
The issue becomes can the sirius radio work "apple well" inside a heavy jacket or purse? From what I've seen the sirius radios work well indoors, but they're always in the open.
There's also the issue of recording rights. Remember that they made a satillite radio for PC....once... I could see the incentive for a few sirius channels for podcasting... but once you open the door to record you open a huge can of worms.
The pro was already a slower 9700. It was the first to hit the price point so they literally used "underclocked" 9700s... there's not much you can push a 9500pro because it's still limited by the cheaper memory they used... When the next 9500 & 9600 came out they used an entirely different core stripped out of the extra piplines...but it could go faster.. so depending on the game, a 9500pro is still a "competive" card.. where the 9600 gets a bit dated
And AOL ended OWNERSHIP of mozilla outright by signing a deal with MS, settling on IE as their default browser, and sending the Moz team out on their own... The "Netscape" release is just rebranded, repackaged mozilla... just like firefox packaged in any boxed linux distro...
under fire AG can go out! in SW ships you have AG and initeral compensators... not entirely the same things. if AG goes down for a little bit, then the planet's gravity will "override" the ships until it gets back under control. remember, ships in SW are not in "orbit" like our primitive term.. they are in powered orbit... so they could have gravity affect the ship if something happens.
As far as ships landing, it was a bit silly. I could see the "Destroyers" being much smaller than their New Hope counterparts... so they look small enough to be "landable". I always thought the Tantive was a corvete and it was always considered a landing craft. Comparing a jedi fighter would be a good case... when it "lands" on the tantive it's about 1/10 the overall leangth... versus the "destroyer" is's about 1/20 the leangth... remember they don't have hangers yet, but a covered bay...it's considerably smaller than a trade federation "donut" ship. Also, we burn thru at least 3 generations of ships in this movie... even the "greys" at the end are still several models earlier than the IMPS from new hope.
This is fun...
Of course if you go by Value-added and not something as stupid as weight, then there are lots of US companies that can make stuff comparable..in electronics labor & overhead is almost as big as parts, it may cost a little more, but not outrageously more. More than that, we should be able to find somebody that makes that stuff here in the USA... or we're in a pretty sad state if we can't.
but again, "Netscape" is the AOL branded release...it has nothing to do with mozilla anymore execpt they always get the changes for their proprietary product. Netscape != Mozilla anymore. It's just another cheap rebranding scheme... AOL cut the Moz team loose a while ago... they've got no "responsibility" to Netscape anymore either.
If Red Hat is tweaking the hell out of firefox, why are they not rolling the patches back to the moz devs so the default works as quickly as possible? Of course the moz developers can't support every patch they get... so you'd have to accept that you may be choosing to keep YOUR distro incompatible... with the stock release.
But these are "registered" sites.. they require at least a user name to get in...so it should be easy to limit spammers... after all, a normal person is going to have a 10-1 follow-to-post ratio... because you'd be following existing links more than making new ones. if somebody shows up dumping links it would be pretty easy to spot.
The original Yahoo was like that... links were catagorized by hand rather than automated. at the time [in the early days] it was easier to use yahoo because it came up with more relevant sites...not just a text search.