They both look like crappy CGI hacks. And the cantina scene changes Han Solo's character in a way it really shouldn't have been.
Seriously, though. I saw the Jabba scene and thought, WTF? Like Jabba wouldn't have just eaten Han Solo or something for stepping on his tail? "Oh, that hurt like hell, but um, okay."
Definitely makes the 5 Worst Star Wars scenes in my book, right up there with bouncing superball Yoda.
Generally, when I buy a movie, I'll get the special if there is one. Otherwise, I'll just get whatever. As for it being common knowledge, how was it made common knowledge? The guy at the store certainly didn't try to stop me. Maybe I don't watch enough TV...
Well, I bought the Fellowship of the Ring not knowing the special edition was coming out later. When it did, I just decided not to buy anything else in the series. Same principle, I think.
I still think the whole "McDonald's/fast food has crappy service" thing is largely self-inflicted (by the customers). I work at one. Granted, not every McDonald's employee is thrilled to be there 100% of the time, but still...
A woman dropped something, napkin/straw/ketchup packet/whatever, on the floor. One of our employees, in street clothes at the time, went to pick it up for her. She stopped the employee, saying, "No dear, that's what they're here for."
I can't tell you how many times people have come in and tried to order things from the "99 cent" menu. (McDonald's, BTW, is the one with the Dollar Menu.) Or tried to order a Whopper. Seriously, if you're going to a restaurant, make sure you know which one you're in.
Ever seen a Playplace in the middle of lunch on the weekends? Odds are it's a mess. You know what though? If you show up with your kids, and you proceed to completely trash the table you're at as well as the floor within a 3-foot radius, are you going to clean it up? Do you tell your children to maybe not throw food on the floor? Of course not. You look around and think, "Gee, this place is a dump."
And that doesn't even count the customers who are just out and out stupid. Some old man came in and thought the lobby was completely trashed. Just beyond belief, the worst kept restaurant he'd ever seen. As I recall, there was a straw wrapper on the floor. One. In the whole lobby.
Contrast this with the guy who decided to complain to a manager that someone was sweeping the floor near where he was eating. He thought this was incredibly unsanitary, since it kicked up dust which must somehow have landed on his food, and suggested that we not clean the store while it is open! I'm waiting for him and the other guy to meet somewhere sometime so they can have at each other.
Oh, and let's not forget the people who think McDonald's has so much money that they're somehow entitled to something extra. And I'm not even talking about the teenagers who steal straw dispensers or deface the washrooms. I'm talking about adults. In one case, one came in (in spanking clean clothes, mind you) and announced quite loudly in front of a line of customers in lobby that he had just gone through the drive-thru and had food dumped all over him. There was one fatal flaw in his plan: the store has no drive-thru.
Bloody hell, if you want to be waited on hand and foot, in a place the customers treat like someone else's house, go to a sit down restaurant and spend 45-90 minutes and $25-40 on the two of you.
If you want to go somewhere where you can trash the place and treat the employees like they're high-school dropouts (when in fact they're 16 and still in school), damned to a life of 50 cents an hour over minimum wage, by all means, go to a McDonalds. You'll be out of there in 20 minutes at a cost of $10-12.
Cripes, these ships are probably going to be pretty small, aren't they? And there won't be much to do? And it's going to take a week?
I wonder if there's any chance that it could use a maglev system. Japan's at 581kph or so. If you could fly straight up at even 500kph that cuts the trip down to 3 days.
This is getting off topic here, but why does everyone make such a big deal about kiddie porn? It's bad for the kids? What, like adult porn is good for the adults?
Or maybe it's just that 18 is too high an age to define as "adult" nowadays. How old are most people when they start having/wanting sex? Completely ignoring any moral issues, should anyone care if someone's having sex if it's consensual?
The whole issue just seems absurd when you realize that an adult can't have sex with someone at 11:45 PM the day before that person's 18th birthday, but it's okay in another 15 minutes.
I'm still waiting for some 15/16/17-year-old kid to videotape him/herself, put it on the net, and be dragged off to juvenile prison for kiddie porn. That would be hysterical.
I'm on a campus network, and although I haven't tried to make games with people in different buildings (which are different subnets), I do know LAN play works.
Actually, the reason (I think) that UDP was added was because there was no implementation of IPX for Mac OS X. When they Carbonized StarCraft, they added UDP to the Mac side first, then released the Windows patch so cross-platform play was again possible.
Yeah, I wondered about that myself. I was curious as to why Pepsi rather than Coke. Maybe the smaller market share means they can put the same number of bottles out and make it seem like more?
In any case, I'd be interested to see how this affects the market share, if at all.
Okay, part of that is basically saying bnetd is good for hackers.
The last paragraph... uh, how is it you can't play over a LAN? If you're not on a LAN, how is bnetd going to avoid your slow internet connection? If it isn't, what's wrong with a custom game? Meet in a private channel.
What Blizzard game doesn't allow LAN play? If Blizzard games aren't self-hosting, why does D2 let me host a TCP/IP game?
I'm not so sure I'd agree with all of that. At least the first paragraph or two.
I went looking for a diamond for my fiancee in the mall first. It drove me absolute nuts that every diamond in the mall had visible scratches on the top facet. And these had "good" polish.
Before this short post turns into a long story, I'll say that I ended up going to bluenile.com, picking out a 5/8 carat, VVS2, F color, ID/ID polish/symmetry diamond from their signature collection ("signature ideal" cut, basically more strict than ideal).
Granted, it cost me just over $2900, but it appraised (independently) for $3700, and the thing looks like glass when cleaned. And there are NO SCRATCHES on the top facet! Or anywhere, for that matter. Woo hoo!
for those not willing or able to use the "offical" channels.
Not able? Were you banned for cheating? Not willing? Unless you live in Australia, what's wrong with you? (I understand Australians pay through the nose for net access.)
the bnetd project really doesn't have any business worrying about authentication!
Well, they also don't have any "business" in interfering with WarCraft III. You have to mess with a registry entry or edit game code, don't you?
Part of this is about companies requiring you to use "specific" company-approved portals...and requiring so in the EULA!
Yeah... they're allowed to do that. The EULA is also there to remind you you can't make copies of the game and sell them for your own profit. EULA != evil.
what would the reaction be if MS forbade you from using, say, Samba on YOUR OWN networks to connect YOUR OWN PCs because they dediced to require windows license verification in AD/W2K3 server connection!!
Uh, people would use FTP? Or Linux?
The short answer is, there's nothing wrong with battle.net. It's perfectly capable of handling its load. Well, except when there's a new D2 hack going on, but if you're playing to hack, play an open char you can hexedit. The point of the realms was to have safe characters, and hacks kinda defeat the point.
Okay, I followed your link, and the link from that, and came across a screenshot. If I didn't know otherwise (I'm still not too certain), I'd assume it was WarCraft II before the graphics were finalized. I'd say shutting it down was pretty justified.
As for cheats on battle.net, well, as far as I know, there aren't too many for War3. As for D2, it's just incredible how people are with that game.
And bnetd couldn't run D2, could it? So much for that excuse.
I'm pretty sure everyone knows bnetd as the only reason the War3 beta was so severely leaked. Does anyone know anyone who's played on it before or since? I don't.
You know, and this is only vaguely related to the "Friday Apple Fun" story, can the RIAA really claim to own silence?
What if I make a bunch of MP3s, with appropriate lengths, filesizes, and ID3 tags, and put them up for share? The catch is, there's no music in them. Just total silence. Granted, I'll piss off everyone who tries to download them, but what happens when the RIAA goes to sue me? Did I infringe their copyright simply by giving the files the same names as song titles?
I don't think anyone's saying that if you really have a need for a large vehicle, that you shouldn't use that vehicle. I don't think anyone's ever said that. If you need a truck, then when people say we need to cut down on trucks and SUVs, they clearly aren't talking to you.
What is more often complained about is people who only think they need a truck or SUV. My girlfriend is a case in point. Much as I would like her to simply get a small car, she won't for a couple reasons:
She doesn't feel safe in a small car.
She's pretty tall, and won't necessarily fit in a small car. (She's just a little shorter than I.)
She claims she does need it: for those rare occasions she actually needs to move something big, like furniture.
Of course, the last one isn't a very good reason. Her father also has a truck, that can carry more than her SUV, and she often asks for his help moving stuff anyway. I also know there are small cars out there that have enough room. Much as I would like her to move to something more fuel-efficient (for money reasons if nothing else), I know she's not going to. Oh well.
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They both look like crappy CGI hacks. And the cantina scene changes Han Solo's character in a way it really shouldn't have been.
Seriously, though. I saw the Jabba scene and thought, WTF? Like Jabba wouldn't have just eaten Han Solo or something for stepping on his tail? "Oh, that hurt like hell, but um, okay."
Definitely makes the 5 Worst Star Wars scenes in my book, right up there with bouncing superball Yoda.
Generally, when I buy a movie, I'll get the special if there is one. Otherwise, I'll just get whatever. As for it being common knowledge, how was it made common knowledge? The guy at the store certainly didn't try to stop me. Maybe I don't watch enough TV...
Well, I bought the Fellowship of the Ring not knowing the special edition was coming out later. When it did, I just decided not to buy anything else in the series. Same principle, I think.
That's not even the worst of it. How about that scene with Jabba? Yeah, the one where Han Solo steps on his tail or something. That was just stupid.
I still think the whole "McDonald's/fast food has crappy service" thing is largely self-inflicted (by the customers). I work at one. Granted, not every McDonald's employee is thrilled to be there 100% of the time, but still...
A woman dropped something, napkin/straw/ketchup packet/whatever, on the floor. One of our employees, in street clothes at the time, went to pick it up for her. She stopped the employee, saying, "No dear, that's what they're here for."
I can't tell you how many times people have come in and tried to order things from the "99 cent" menu. (McDonald's, BTW, is the one with the Dollar Menu.) Or tried to order a Whopper. Seriously, if you're going to a restaurant, make sure you know which one you're in.
Ever seen a Playplace in the middle of lunch on the weekends? Odds are it's a mess. You know what though? If you show up with your kids, and you proceed to completely trash the table you're at as well as the floor within a 3-foot radius, are you going to clean it up? Do you tell your children to maybe not throw food on the floor? Of course not. You look around and think, "Gee, this place is a dump."
And that doesn't even count the customers who are just out and out stupid. Some old man came in and thought the lobby was completely trashed. Just beyond belief, the worst kept restaurant he'd ever seen. As I recall, there was a straw wrapper on the floor. One. In the whole lobby.
Contrast this with the guy who decided to complain to a manager that someone was sweeping the floor near where he was eating. He thought this was incredibly unsanitary, since it kicked up dust which must somehow have landed on his food, and suggested that we not clean the store while it is open! I'm waiting for him and the other guy to meet somewhere sometime so they can have at each other.
Oh, and let's not forget the people who think McDonald's has so much money that they're somehow entitled to something extra. And I'm not even talking about the teenagers who steal straw dispensers or deface the washrooms. I'm talking about adults. In one case, one came in (in spanking clean clothes, mind you) and announced quite loudly in front of a line of customers in lobby that he had just gone through the drive-thru and had food dumped all over him. There was one fatal flaw in his plan: the store has no drive-thru.
Bloody hell, if you want to be waited on hand and foot, in a place the customers treat like someone else's house, go to a sit down restaurant and spend 45-90 minutes and $25-40 on the two of you.
If you want to go somewhere where you can trash the place and treat the employees like they're high-school dropouts (when in fact they're 16 and still in school), damned to a life of 50 cents an hour over minimum wage, by all means, go to a McDonalds. You'll be out of there in 20 minutes at a cost of $10-12.
I'm not sure I want to know how you went through two pairs of underwear in one car ride...
Cripes, these ships are probably going to be pretty small, aren't they? And there won't be much to do? And it's going to take a week?
I wonder if there's any chance that it could use a maglev system. Japan's at 581kph or so. If you could fly straight up at even 500kph that cuts the trip down to 3 days.
I understand Britain tried that once. It's called Australia.
So that makes this just part of the war on drugs.
Well, keep in mind they've currently got it working up to about half an inch. So yeah, they have a ways to go.
Read the articles via meta-mod. Fairly good, but the third one makes it clear she's pretty leftist. Too bad no one can find a balance.
Note to mod: meta-modded "fair".
This is getting off topic here, but why does everyone make such a big deal about kiddie porn? It's bad for the kids? What, like adult porn is good for the adults?
Or maybe it's just that 18 is too high an age to define as "adult" nowadays. How old are most people when they start having/wanting sex? Completely ignoring any moral issues, should anyone care if someone's having sex if it's consensual?
The whole issue just seems absurd when you realize that an adult can't have sex with someone at 11:45 PM the day before that person's 18th birthday, but it's okay in another 15 minutes.
I'm still waiting for some 15/16/17-year-old kid to videotape him/herself, put it on the net, and be dragged off to juvenile prison for kiddie porn. That would be hysterical.
Again, why wouldn't LAN play work?
I'm on a campus network, and although I haven't tried to make games with people in different buildings (which are different subnets), I do know LAN play works.
Actually, the reason (I think) that UDP was added was because there was no implementation of IPX for Mac OS X. When they Carbonized StarCraft, they added UDP to the Mac side first, then released the Windows patch so cross-platform play was again possible.
Yeah, I wondered about that myself. I was curious as to why Pepsi rather than Coke. Maybe the smaller market share means they can put the same number of bottles out and make it seem like more?
In any case, I'd be interested to see how this affects the market share, if at all.
Okay, part of that is basically saying bnetd is good for hackers.
The last paragraph... uh, how is it you can't play over a LAN? If you're not on a LAN, how is bnetd going to avoid your slow internet connection? If it isn't, what's wrong with a custom game? Meet in a private channel.
What Blizzard game doesn't allow LAN play? If Blizzard games aren't self-hosting, why does D2 let me host a TCP/IP game?
I'm not so sure I'd agree with all of that. At least the first paragraph or two.
I went looking for a diamond for my fiancee in the mall first. It drove me absolute nuts that every diamond in the mall had visible scratches on the top facet. And these had "good" polish.
Before this short post turns into a long story, I'll say that I ended up going to bluenile.com, picking out a 5/8 carat, VVS2, F color, ID/ID polish/symmetry diamond from their signature collection ("signature ideal" cut, basically more strict than ideal).
Granted, it cost me just over $2900, but it appraised (independently) for $3700, and the thing looks like glass when cleaned. And there are NO SCRATCHES on the top facet! Or anywhere, for that matter. Woo hoo!
for those not willing or able to use the "offical" channels.
Not able? Were you banned for cheating? Not willing? Unless you live in Australia, what's wrong with you? (I understand Australians pay through the nose for net access.)
the bnetd project really doesn't have any business worrying about authentication!
Well, they also don't have any "business" in interfering with WarCraft III. You have to mess with a registry entry or edit game code, don't you?
Part of this is about companies requiring you to use "specific" company-approved portals...and requiring so in the EULA!
Yeah... they're allowed to do that. The EULA is also there to remind you you can't make copies of the game and sell them for your own profit. EULA != evil.
what would the reaction be if MS forbade you from using, say, Samba on YOUR OWN networks to connect YOUR OWN PCs because they dediced to require windows license verification in AD/W2K3 server connection!!
Uh, people would use FTP? Or Linux?
The short answer is, there's nothing wrong with battle.net. It's perfectly capable of handling its load. Well, except when there's a new D2 hack going on, but if you're playing to hack, play an open char you can hexedit. The point of the realms was to have safe characters, and hacks kinda defeat the point.
Okay, I followed your link, and the link from that, and came across a screenshot. If I didn't know otherwise (I'm still not too certain), I'd assume it was WarCraft II before the graphics were finalized. I'd say shutting it down was pretty justified.
As for cheats on battle.net, well, as far as I know, there aren't too many for War3. As for D2, it's just incredible how people are with that game.
And bnetd couldn't run D2, could it? So much for that excuse.
I'm pretty sure everyone knows bnetd as the only reason the War3 beta was so severely leaked. Does anyone know anyone who's played on it before or since? I don't.
who in turn ripped it off from Tolkien and folklore.
On the other hand, if Blizzard ripped off its characters from D&D, then WHY DO DWARVES FLY on gryphons?
Ah, I see.
Well then, I offer up my collection of songs by Corn, Deaf Leopard, and Outcast.
You know, after reading those names again, suddenly it's kinda funny.
Now if only I had a direct connection to the internet....
You know, and this is only vaguely related to the "Friday Apple Fun" story, can the RIAA really claim to own silence?
What if I make a bunch of MP3s, with appropriate lengths, filesizes, and ID3 tags, and put them up for share? The catch is, there's no music in them. Just total silence. Granted, I'll piss off everyone who tries to download them, but what happens when the RIAA goes to sue me? Did I infringe their copyright simply by giving the files the same names as song titles?
Heads up: different poster now.
I don't think anyone's saying that if you really have a need for a large vehicle, that you shouldn't use that vehicle. I don't think anyone's ever said that. If you need a truck, then when people say we need to cut down on trucks and SUVs, they clearly aren't talking to you.
What is more often complained about is people who only think they need a truck or SUV. My girlfriend is a case in point. Much as I would like her to simply get a small car, she won't for a couple reasons:
Of course, the last one isn't a very good reason. Her father also has a truck, that can carry more than her SUV, and she often asks for his help moving stuff anyway. I also know there are small cars out there that have enough room. Much as I would like her to move to something more fuel-efficient (for money reasons if nothing else), I know she's not going to. Oh well.
The "ideal system" you described is called Microsoft Office on Mac OS X.
How's that for irony?
1. You post on /. that PIT has WiFi.
2.Travelers with a choice between PIT and, say, Cincinnati choose PIT.
3. Profit!!!