The GIMP's age shows compared to what... Photoshop? Photoshop is 15 years old and is highly funded and costs a lot. I really don't think age has anything to do with it.
I don't know who that guy was that I saw in the actual scene playing Jabba but it definetly WASN'T Marlon Brando. You can see the footage in a special right before the VHS version of special edition episode IV.
They talk like Lucas had this great vision of replacing the actor with the final Jabba all along but I don't buy it. If he did, he wouldn't have let him be designed to be so big in episode VI knowing that he was small in episode IV.
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I also agree about forgetting about physics and having a good time. I don't know about you but I don't go to movies to have a crash course in physics. I go to be entertained for an hour and a half or so. Plus, if movies where totally based in reality there wouldn't be any imagination and some things would be pretty boring. Like watching a home movie of someone taking a routine car trip somewhere.
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I think the reason why those force fields would stop a laser blast and not a human or a droid walking through it is because the laser blast or water hits the field with far more force than a person walking through it. Kind of like seatbelts in a car if you move fast they lock, if you move slow they don't.
Of course, the matrix isn't a documentary and is just pure entertainment so it does break some rules. But, just because something is a "battery" that doesn't mean it's the sole source of power in a machine.
Take cars as an example, the car doesn't run on the battery, unless it's an electric car. It just needs it to provide the spark for the fuel to ignite.
So the thousand or millions of people in the matrix proabably provide the sparks which are needed by the machine's form of fusion. Which isn't possible today, but that movie doesn't take place in the present.
You might argue then why do they maintain the humans if they only need the spark to get the machines going.. but would you also have to say why do we keep car batteries in our cars? =
While I had been one of Litesteps biggest supporters in the past. I feel that now it is lagging behind other desktop replacements for windows in terms of features. Having 300+ modules means nothing if they don't provide the features I want. I have been asking for some more features in the popup menu in terms of skinning.. but only one of the requested features got put in. All other additions seem to be stuff that I couldn't care less about. I guess that goes for litestep development in general. I've kinda lost faith that someone would step forward and code my requested-wanted features into a module or make a new module with the features. To me it seems, in general it's, "If you want a feature, don't hold your breath waiting for it, you may get lucky but again don't hold your breath".
Plus it seems to be hip, or in or chic.. whatever to be minimalist and like blackbox'ish modules.. people seem to be more willing to make blackbox ports or modules than anything else... I might be alone here when I say I don't get too excited over blackbox ports.. I don't get excited over the real thing much less a port..
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The GIMP's age shows compared to what... Photoshop? Photoshop is 15 years old and is highly funded and costs a lot. I really don't think age has anything to do with it.
I don't know who that guy was that I saw in the actual scene playing Jabba but it definetly WASN'T Marlon Brando. You can see the footage in a special right before the VHS version of special edition episode IV. They talk like Lucas had this great vision of replacing the actor with the final Jabba all along but I don't buy it. If he did, he wouldn't have let him be designed to be so big in episode VI knowing that he was small in episode IV.
I also agree about forgetting about physics and having a good time. I don't know about you but I don't go to movies to have a crash course in physics. I go to be entertained for an hour and a half or so. Plus, if movies where totally based in reality there wouldn't be any imagination and some things would be pretty boring. Like watching a home movie of someone taking a routine car trip somewhere.
I think the reason why those force fields would stop a laser blast and not a human or a droid walking through it is because the laser blast or water hits the field with far more force than a person walking through it. Kind of like seatbelts in a car if you move fast they lock, if you move slow they don't.
Of course, the matrix isn't a documentary and is just pure entertainment so it does break some rules. But, just because something is a "battery" that doesn't mean it's the sole source of power in a machine. Take cars as an example, the car doesn't run on the battery, unless it's an electric car. It just needs it to provide the spark for the fuel to ignite. So the thousand or millions of people in the matrix proabably provide the sparks which are needed by the machine's form of fusion. Which isn't possible today, but that movie doesn't take place in the present. You might argue then why do they maintain the humans if they only need the spark to get the machines going.. but would you also have to say why do we keep car batteries in our cars? =
While I had been one of Litesteps biggest supporters in the past. I feel that now it is lagging behind other desktop replacements for windows in terms of features. Having 300+ modules means nothing if they don't provide the features I want. I have been asking for some more features in the popup menu in terms of skinning.. but only one of the requested features got put in. All other additions seem to be stuff that I couldn't care less about. I guess that goes for litestep development in general. I've kinda lost faith that someone would step forward and code my requested-wanted features into a module or make a new module with the features. To me it seems, in general it's, "If you want a feature, don't hold your breath waiting for it, you may get lucky but again don't hold your breath". Plus it seems to be hip, or in or chic.. whatever to be minimalist and like blackbox'ish modules.. people seem to be more willing to make blackbox ports or modules than anything else... I might be alone here when I say I don't get too excited over blackbox ports.. I don't get excited over the real thing much less a port..