But was it really Darth Maul or some sort of technomage optical illusion to allow him to pull a Sherlock Holmes at Reichenbach Falls type disappearance? Seems to me that Darth Maul has entirely too much merchandising potential to have been done away with so early in the trilogy. Face it, Jar Jar is going to need 3 movies worth of momentum to move as much product as DM already has.
That would be relevant if we were talking about real people in front of a real background, but in this case the background came out of a computer, not nature, and could have been given any focus they wanted to. If they were trying to simulate the way backgrounds get blurry when foreground objects are focused on, they did a very poor (and annoying) job.
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Thank you for a flamefree explanation.
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"Anyone have an AdultCheck ID for the hardcore section?" Right about now I'd say that "nudestickfigures.com" has way more than several. Interesting approach--"get into our site foo.com for free, just enter your username and password for bar.com"
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Not to sound jealous (having been a moderator, I know better than put any stock in their opinions), but how does this rate being moderated up?
Red Hat's current market cap made it, overnight, the 2nd largest publicly held company in the Research Triangle Area, only behind Carolina Power and Light.
Isn't that his annoying voice on those annoying Hardee's "Star" commercials? Geez, it's been *years* since they had a decent ad campaign.
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And now it's back (again), and this time it brought back the other two stories along with about four others that weren't there before (on the page that I get to see). And somewhere during the process my user preferences got reset, but not by me. Is the camera about to pan over to Rod Serling?
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This story seems to have vanished off the main page. I reloaded the main page and it was no longer there. I had cleared my disk and memory cache just before so I'm not loading an older local version. Apparently this time it's not to keep the SEC happy, but because it was/will be posted at 7:30 p.m. EDT, which isn't for another 10 hours.
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First Post! (yes i'm being very sarcastic) If Lucas made the kid that young so that he could be traumatized by leaving his mom behind in slavery, why wasn't it a more traumatic and dramatic scene all around. The kid seems to adjust in just a day or three (nothing like getting to fly a real space ship to perk up your spirits)and two Jedi Knights, the ne plus ultra of good guys in that neck of the universe, seem remarkably unperturbed at the idea of taking her kid and just leaving her there, still owned by a guy who just lost a valuable asset in a wager and who will probably be looking for someone to take it out on. Of course that raises the question of what kind of slaveowner would allow a kid with that much mechanical ability to risk getting killed (and ending his value as a slave) in a race? Or is this George L.'s most subtle racism of all, the "kindly" slaveowner that they were better off being the property of than being free and poor?
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So how about a flashback to show us where Darth Maul came from? And is there any rule that says episodes 7, 8, and 9 couldn't be made concurrently with 2 and 3? It's not like it would spoil any surprise since we started reading the book in the middle. Besides, if we have to wait another 20 some years, I don't think taking my nephew to see them will be quite as big a kick.
Off-topic - sort of - Why, in TPM, did all those computer generated backgrounds have to be so eyestrainingly out of focus whenever there were characters in the foreground?
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And now it's gone again! And took two or three other stories with it--clear case--rented apps--and maybe another one, can't remember for sure, they're popping on and off the main page so quick my head is spinning.
Here's a thought. They're running Lucent hardware. The trouble apparently is related to a recent sotware upgrade install from Lucent. Same upgrade on other Lucent customers not causing problems. Lucent used to be Bell Labs (sort of). Bell Labs used to be part of AT&T (sort of). AT&T and MCI are competitors big time. Co-incidence or conspiracy? (it's the newest Ludlum novel, "The Lucent Gambit")
MCI will still be around when this is over, but will a lot of "mom and pop" ISPs? There's a story on C/NET "ISPs say MCI outage could kill businesses" that's more than a little bit scary. Does MCI have their own ISP business? One that would just as soon see the little guys dry up and blow away? Do they have any corporate buddies that do?
May I suggest the substitution of the phrase "sartorially challenged". BTW, all props to Gil, but I'm afraid it will be televised. It'll be co-opted, corporate-sponsored, promoted, and ratings metered.
Are we ever going to get an explanation for the disappearance Wed. evening (U.S. east coast time) of the "Red Hat IPO Update" story from the main page?
Are we ever going to get an explanation for the disappearance Wed. evening (U.S. east coast time) of the "Red Hat IPO Update" story from the main page? Before you waste a moderation point on this, use one to moderate up the haircut price post.
You're right. It was there and then it disappeared. You can't get there from there but I think you can get there from here http://slashdot.org/article.pl? sid=99/08/11/2156215. Some people seem to be posting to it without noticing the main page disappearance. Anyone who knows what's going on, feel free to tell the rest of us.
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But was it really Darth Maul or some sort of technomage optical illusion to allow him to pull a Sherlock Holmes at Reichenbach Falls type disappearance? Seems to me that Darth Maul has entirely too much merchandising potential to have been done away with so early in the trilogy. Face it, Jar Jar is going to need 3 movies worth of momentum to move as much product as DM already has.
That would be relevant if we were talking about real people in front of a real background, but in this case the background came out of a computer, not nature, and could have been given any focus they wanted to. If they were trying to simulate the way backgrounds get blurry when foreground objects are focused on, they did a very poor (and annoying) job.
Thank you for a flamefree explanation.
"Anyone have an AdultCheck ID for the hardcore section?"
Right about now I'd say that "nudestickfigures.com" has way more than several.
Interesting approach--"get into our site foo.com for free, just enter your username and password for bar.com"
Not to sound jealous (having been a moderator, I know better than put any stock in their opinions), but how does this rate being moderated up?
Red Hat's current market cap made it, overnight, the 2nd largest publicly held company in the Research Triangle Area, only behind Carolina Power and Light.
Isn't that his annoying voice on those annoying Hardee's "Star" commercials? Geez, it's been *years* since they had a decent ad campaign.
And now it's back (again), and this time it brought back the other two stories along with about four others that weren't there before (on the page that I get to see). And somewhere during the process my user preferences got reset, but not by me.
Is the camera about to pan over to Rod Serling?
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This story seems to have vanished off the main page. I reloaded the main page and it was no longer there. I had cleared my disk and memory cache just before so I'm not loading an older local version. Apparently this time it's not to keep the SEC happy, but because it was/will be posted at 7:30 p.m. EDT, which isn't for another 10 hours.
First Post!
(yes i'm being very sarcastic)
If Lucas made the kid that young so that he could be traumatized by leaving his mom behind in slavery, why wasn't it a more traumatic and dramatic scene all around. The kid seems to adjust in just a day or three (nothing like getting to fly a real space ship to perk up your spirits)and two Jedi Knights, the ne plus ultra of good guys in that neck of the universe, seem remarkably unperturbed at the idea of taking her kid and just leaving her there, still owned by a guy who just lost a valuable asset in a wager and who will probably be looking for someone to take it out on. Of course that raises the question of what kind of slaveowner would allow a kid with that much mechanical ability to risk getting killed (and ending his value as a slave) in a race? Or is this George L.'s most subtle racism of all, the "kindly" slaveowner that they were better off being the property of than being free and poor?
So how about a flashback to show us where Darth Maul came from? And is there any rule that says episodes 7, 8, and 9 couldn't be made concurrently with 2 and 3? It's not like it would spoil any surprise since we started reading the book in the middle. Besides, if we have to wait another 20 some years, I don't think taking my nephew to see them will be quite as big a kick.
Off-topic - sort of - Why, in TPM, did all those computer generated backgrounds have to be so eyestrainingly out of focus whenever there were characters in the foreground?
And now it's gone again! And took two or three other stories with it--clear case--rented apps--and maybe another one, can't remember for sure, they're popping on and off the main page so quick my head is spinning.
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Yeah, I've MS stuff go "spft" on me a lot too!
Hope you saw both sotware posts.
Here's another thought. I left the "f" out of software.
(sotware--overimbibing instructions)
Here's a thought. They're running Lucent hardware. The trouble apparently is related to a recent sotware upgrade install from Lucent. Same upgrade on other Lucent customers not causing problems. Lucent used to be Bell Labs (sort of). Bell Labs used to be part of AT&T (sort of). AT&T and MCI are competitors big time. Co-incidence or conspiracy? (it's the newest Ludlum novel, "The Lucent Gambit")
MCI will still be around when this is over, but will a lot of "mom and pop" ISPs?
There's a story on C/NET "ISPs say MCI outage could kill
businesses" that's more than a little bit scary. Does MCI have their own ISP business? One that would just as soon see the little guys dry up and blow away? Do they have any corporate buddies that do?
"No problem"
Gee, I'll bet that's what e-Bay said too.
"So, what do we call the years between 1 AD and 1 BC?"
Don't know about you, but I personally call 'em non-existent.
"will be netcasted!!!!"
with banner ads.
(I believe the actual word would be netcast, think how awkward broadcasted sounds)
May I suggest the substitution of the phrase "sartorially challenged".
BTW, all props to Gil, but I'm afraid it will be televised. It'll be co-opted, corporate-sponsored, promoted, and ratings metered.
Are we ever going to get an explanation for the disappearance Wed. evening (U.S. east coast time) of the "Red Hat IPO Update" story from the main page?
Are we ever going to get an explanation for the disappearance Wed. evening (U.S. east coast time) of the "Red Hat IPO Update" story from the main page?
Before you waste a moderation point on this, use one to moderate up the haircut price post.
You're right. It was there and then it disappeared. You can't get there from there but I think you can get there from here http://slashdot.org/article.pl? sid=99/08/11/2156215. Some people seem to be posting to it without noticing the main page disappearance. Anyone who knows what's going on, feel free to tell the rest of us.
Aren't a bunch of Attorneys General, about 10 or 12 states' worth, fighting this?
(was this story really up for over 2 hours before someone posted? none of whom felt compelled to holler "First Post!"? Is this still Slashdot?)
Nah, let's make it a Ludlum,
"The Penguin Dominance"
or a Dale Brown,
"Flight of the Penguin"