I wonder sometimes how people would rate these movies if they somehow could forget they had ever seen them and would be able to turn a fresh eye to them.
Most fans of the original "Battlestar Galactica" agree that the new series is *far* superior, even after the initial grumbling about the sweeping changes such as Starbuck and Boomer being women when the rumors first started going around. Nostalgia doesn't have to be the only factor that determines whether or not someone can judge a new work on its own merits - I believe the scathing judgement passed down on the Star Wars prequels is due to them simply not being good movies rather than a general sentiment of, "it's messing with my childhood, so it must suck!"
I have the "Cylon head" boxed set of the original Galactica series, but let's not kid anyone here - it's because I enjoyed the series as a kid, and looking at it now I can find all kinds of things that just are just truly awful about it. I *loved* the original series when I was a kid, but the new series eclipses it in pretty much every way possible.
Too bad the Star Wars prequels didn't turn out the same way.
I mean, my God, it had everything you could ask for from Star Wars. It had cool battle scenes. That's what Star Wars is about! As an added bonus, it had an actual (interesting) PLOT, not the pile of shit that passed for a plot in the original Star Wars trilogy!
And it had a Darth Vader that had so much sand in his vagina that it strains belief that he could get it all out in the years between RotS and ANH.
The CGI space battles were okay in the new films, but they often seemed kind of over-the-top, and I didn't find them nearly as engaging as the X-wing vs. TIE fighter mixups. One of the bright shining points was the Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan/Darth Maul saber battle near the end of PM, which was completely, totally, and utterly amazing. It made it very disappointing that the Darth Maul character wasn't explored more, and didn't get the opportunity to show more of his prodigious talent with a lightsaber.
It blows my mind why anyone would want to take a okay movie (the only one I'd call "good" was the first one) and plunge it into irrelevancy with a steaming shit-pile of a sequel.
And it's partly because of the crappiness of the newer Star Wars movies (RotS wasn't awful, but it wasn't on par with the originals) that I will be taking great pleasure in shaking the hand of David Prowse next month at Disney's Star Wars Weekends. He is, was, and will always be the REAL Darth Vader. (along with James Earl Jones and Sebastian Shaw, of course) I was somewhat disgusted when I learned that he'd asked Lucas to wear the Vader suit for the end of RotS, but was turned down in favor of Hayden (Whiny Vader) Christiansen.
Yeah, but he did it all by himself. I'd think this kind of thing wouldn't normally be brought out until an appeal, so it takes some nads for a judge in such a high-profile case to put the spotlight on himself and publicly say he screwed up.
I'm not confused at all. You said "law enforcement and the courts", not "federal law enforcement and federal courts". The grandparent poster referred to the FBI specifically, but in most places local law enforcement deals with computer-related crimes as well and can throw you in jail just as easily for said offenses.
Way to go with totally ignoring the point of my response though. Well done.
On the other hand, let's also see what a replacement parts costs comparison between all those machines looks like. My G4-400DP sits idle in the corner because I can get a new desktop machine for LESS than what the replacement Apple power supply costs. (Hey Apple - thanks for that goddamned proprietary 28VDC line in there to support the harebrained ADC hardware instead of just putting a power supply in my display) I can't imagine the current Power Mac parts costs are much better. I might also point out that the G4 is the *only* desktop I've ever owned that's eaten a power supply.
I don't think Class 100 really qualifies as "ultra-cool" in the clean-room world, but it *does* however have a certain cachet of inconvenience as far as having to take a non-trivial amount of time to get into the bunny suit, walk across the 50 feet of sticky mats, through the air showers and into the actual clean-room area only to discover *then* that you have to take a leak. I've had it happen more than once.
I found an unusually large proportion of the follow up comments here to be (+1, Informative) and (+1, Interesting). TFA itself was total infomercial-tastic tripe, however.
I really don't think there is any *real* benefit to be gained here from crucifying a company that, overall, appears to want a friendly relationship OpenSource/Free Software developers and users.
Absolutely there is - making an example of CoreCodec will likely discourage future abuse of an already-bad law, which will benefit a much larger group of people than a small bunch of open-source fans. Whether the company is sorry or not doesn't matter in the least. Neither does their stated desire to work with the open-source community. The fact remains that CoreCodec out-and-out lied on a legal document to the detriment of someone else for their own convenience, and letting that go without any consequences will simply encourage others to do the same. I think we're much better off seeing corporate abuse of copyright laws curbed rather than letting it slide just so we can have a better codec.
They appropriate authority will confirm the appointments with retroactive effect and the congress might actually pass a specific bill authorizing such an retroactive appointment.
It would be interesting to see how they'll square that with the Constitution's language regarding ex post facto laws.
What you're talking about is called image stacking and is often used by amateur astronomers to make up for blur in images due to atmospheric distortion. This only works well with a large number of frames with fairly small frame-to-frame differences though - it's good for creating a sharp composite image of Jupiter from a couple hundred frames, but not so good for sharpening a blurred photo of a moving car from only 2-3 frames, for instance.
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I wonder sometimes how people would rate these movies if they somehow could forget they had ever seen them and would be able to turn a fresh eye to them.
Most fans of the original "Battlestar Galactica" agree that the new series is *far* superior, even after the initial grumbling about the sweeping changes such as Starbuck and Boomer being women when the rumors first started going around. Nostalgia doesn't have to be the only factor that determines whether or not someone can judge a new work on its own merits - I believe the scathing judgement passed down on the Star Wars prequels is due to them simply not being good movies rather than a general sentiment of, "it's messing with my childhood, so it must suck!"
"Excalibur" rocks for sure, but I still have trouble getting past the aluminum armor that everyone seems to be wearing.
I have the "Cylon head" boxed set of the original Galactica series, but let's not kid anyone here - it's because I enjoyed the series as a kid, and looking at it now I can find all kinds of things that just are just truly awful about it. I *loved* the original series when I was a kid, but the new series eclipses it in pretty much every way possible.
Too bad the Star Wars prequels didn't turn out the same way.
I mean, my God, it had everything you could ask for from Star Wars. It had cool battle scenes. That's what Star Wars is about! As an added bonus, it had an actual (interesting) PLOT, not the pile of shit that passed for a plot in the original Star Wars trilogy!
And it had a Darth Vader that had so much sand in his vagina that it strains belief that he could get it all out in the years between RotS and ANH.
The CGI space battles were okay in the new films, but they often seemed kind of over-the-top, and I didn't find them nearly as engaging as the X-wing vs. TIE fighter mixups. One of the bright shining points was the Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan/Darth Maul saber battle near the end of PM, which was completely, totally, and utterly amazing. It made it very disappointing that the Darth Maul character wasn't explored more, and didn't get the opportunity to show more of his prodigious talent with a lightsaber.
OTOH, I can't make cherry Icees at home...
Sure you can, it'll just cost you $15 grand or so to do it, not including consumables.
It blows my mind why anyone would want to take a okay movie (the only one I'd call "good" was the first one) and plunge it into irrelevancy with a steaming shit-pile of a sequel.
A check with lots of zeros, of course.
And it was a shame they stunk too - Ian McDiarmid put in a fantastic performance in all three films, and for me was the real star of the prequels.
And it's partly because of the crappiness of the newer Star Wars movies (RotS wasn't awful, but it wasn't on par with the originals) that I will be taking great pleasure in shaking the hand of David Prowse next month at Disney's Star Wars Weekends. He is, was, and will always be the REAL Darth Vader. (along with James Earl Jones and Sebastian Shaw, of course) I was somewhat disgusted when I learned that he'd asked Lucas to wear the Vader suit for the end of RotS, but was turned down in favor of Hayden (Whiny Vader) Christiansen.
Only if it's a "friend with benefits".
Yeah, but he did it all by himself. I'd think this kind of thing wouldn't normally be brought out until an appeal, so it takes some nads for a judge in such a high-profile case to put the spotlight on himself and publicly say he screwed up.
Really, this just looks like a case of the defense not doing their homework and the prosecution being dishonest.
"Plaintiff" actually, but your point is still valid. I'm sure Mr. Gabriel will make a *wonderful* judge. [rolls eyes]
I'm not confused at all. You said "law enforcement and the courts", not "federal law enforcement and federal courts". The grandparent poster referred to the FBI specifically, but in most places local law enforcement deals with computer-related crimes as well and can throw you in jail just as easily for said offenses.
Way to go with totally ignoring the point of my response though. Well done.
On the other hand, let's also see what a replacement parts costs comparison between all those machines looks like. My G4-400DP sits idle in the corner because I can get a new desktop machine for LESS than what the replacement Apple power supply costs. (Hey Apple - thanks for that goddamned proprietary 28VDC line in there to support the harebrained ADC hardware instead of just putting a power supply in my display) I can't imagine the current Power Mac parts costs are much better. I might also point out that the G4 is the *only* desktop I've ever owned that's eaten a power supply.
You've got an extra zero in there: 730,000 messages x $300 = $219 million.
Perhaps for the same reason they police and prosecute the results of weak door locks?
I don't think Class 100 really qualifies as "ultra-cool" in the clean-room world, but it *does* however have a certain cachet of inconvenience as far as having to take a non-trivial amount of time to get into the bunny suit, walk across the 50 feet of sticky mats, through the air showers and into the actual clean-room area only to discover *then* that you have to take a leak. I've had it happen more than once.
I found an unusually large proportion of the follow up comments here to be (+1, Informative) and (+1, Interesting). TFA itself was total infomercial-tastic tripe, however.
Well, every now and again one gets through the filter. I understand they're working on that though.
"What's a yute?"
I really don't think there is any *real* benefit to be gained here from crucifying a company that, overall, appears to want a friendly relationship OpenSource/Free Software developers and users.
Absolutely there is - making an example of CoreCodec will likely discourage future abuse of an already-bad law, which will benefit a much larger group of people than a small bunch of open-source fans. Whether the company is sorry or not doesn't matter in the least. Neither does their stated desire to work with the open-source community. The fact remains that CoreCodec out-and-out lied on a legal document to the detriment of someone else for their own convenience, and letting that go without any consequences will simply encourage others to do the same. I think we're much better off seeing corporate abuse of copyright laws curbed rather than letting it slide just so we can have a better codec.
They appropriate authority will confirm the appointments with retroactive effect and the congress might actually pass a specific bill authorizing such an retroactive appointment.
It would be interesting to see how they'll square that with the Constitution's language regarding ex post facto laws.
Or even better yet, grow up with a big 'ol bag of guilt because Dad gave up being happy because of them.
Except without the DC-8s and volcanos. I'm pretty sure Xenu is still involved with it somehow though.
In addition to power usage, some measure of how warm they get under load would be useful too.
What you're talking about is called image stacking and is often used by amateur astronomers to make up for blur in images due to atmospheric distortion. This only works well with a large number of frames with fairly small frame-to-frame differences though - it's good for creating a sharp composite image of Jupiter from a couple hundred frames, but not so good for sharpening a blurred photo of a moving car from only 2-3 frames, for instance.