To me, the essence of the Hitchhiker's Guide lies in the unpredictable turn of events that Douglas sets up to the reader. From a little girl with the answer to Vogon poetry, leaping to dolphins and mice. How do you retain these elements in such a straightforward media as the movies? How did you manage to "guide" the viewer without loosing the "in this page, for something completely different, we will talk about dolphins"?
That's the part I don't get: These days, Lucas seems to be "the bad director everybody loves to hate!" i still don't get it: either you like his work or you don't, but ranting about destroying a legacy and so on... doesn't sound too sane to me.
Just a small, insignificant, negligible suggestion:
DON'T BOTHER WATCHING IT IF YOU KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO HATE IT.
Stick with yout memories, age well, live long and prosper. I for one don't want to see IV, V and VI remade for a new generation, I want to see the story GL wants to tell. Whether I like it or not, I'm in no position to blame a filmmaker for destroying my childhood.
I don't understand.. why is this wrong/upsetting? It's an interesting idea to see the "Galaxies Opera". If anything, it broadens a view of Lucas' vision of this galaxy. I wouldn't trade the Mos Eisley cantina scene for 10 minutes of space action...
..and it's his movie. See it, lile it, or don't. But pissing and ranting about how he destroyed his own legacy is just ridiculous.
Steve Jobs has been clear in the past: there will be no video iPod. He thinks the movie industry is different from the music industry. A good prediction is adding wireless capabilities and enhanced display - think " iTunes' visualization mode. Groovy.
Well, I hope somebody tells M$ that GMail is not only about storage. The interface is so clean and fast that it's hard to consider any other options, let alone the search capabilities, which I have found really useful. On a sidenote, some friends and I were discussing on how useful it would be to have that search power in our existing Yahoo! Group (which we created back when it was eGroups). We have a lot of content (other than forwarded jokes) worth mining into as the years have passed. This is a war, yes. but I maintain my claim: the winner will not be who stores the most junk, but he who provides the best tools to manage it.
Is Windows really the problem? Who guarantees that another OS will be better, at all times, on a mission-critical application? Personally, I think the answer is not on Windows vs. Others, I think it's more on the availability of code or not. One could argue that an open platform might be easier to patch and deploy. Then again, I'm only speculating. Mission critical systems are not your everyday DVD player.
Excellent! No more "Out of Print" (Hopefully). I don't know if only a few of us have encountered more than one reference book that has been out of print since the mid-80s and is virtually impossible to find.
Yes, "no more eBooks" sounds good, but I'd say "Finally, a great balance".
I don't intend to go on a flamebait, but this kind of news seem to support Bush's "Go to Mars" space program. Yes, there are some of us who think it's great to explore Mars, but not at the expense of other resources. I keep hearing this comments on how government research funding has been redirected towards Mars... this is the flaw. I believe no resources should have been redirected, but instead, new resources created for a new project. Anyway, something to ponder...
Well, I hope they provide a migration toolkit for existing Yahoo! Groups users. I can't wait to search over thousands of chain mail jokes I've shared with my friends over the last 5 years (since Y! Groups was eGroups).
Dream on, dream on...
Eek! Britney Spears (BS) in Starbucks? I go there everyday (yes, I'm addicted, so?) and I've -never- heard a BS song there. Most of the time it ranges between Peter Gabriel and Frank Sinatra, with a lot of things in between... but certainly no Aguilera or BS.
I'll have to ask the Baristas about the music selection. From what they've told me, they get a corporate CD with music in digital format. Insert, push and play...
Oh, this is all in Oregon by the way.
Oh yes, and the soundtrack also has mistakes. Two canons are horrendously overlapped, the motif is altered by two notes in several reprisals and if you listen to it backwards it says "Jay and Silent Bob are better than Spidey".
My point was that maybe there are iMacs already out there on inventory -- with resellers. Instead of introducing a new model, they may just be waiting for the resellers to get rid of their current inventories.
But you're right, even this sounds unrealisitic.
Reminiscent of James Bond's elimination of Blofeld/SPECTRE following the legal battle by Thunderball's Kevin McClory.
However, this may be good news after all: This opens the possibility for new villains and new plot elements. Let's be a little optimistic...
Certainly good news!:)
PostgreSQL is a very robust and complete database, enjoyed by many academic users (mostly because of its excellent implementation of different SQL standards...) It's nice to hear that a company is backing them up now.
UML and Intel, really cool, too. It's not as good as Linus/OSDL, but definitelly equivalent to the Linus/Transmeta years.
So, in general, is this the road for the free world now? Backed up by powerful companies who also benefit? I certainly hope so.
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To me, the essence of the Hitchhiker's Guide lies in the unpredictable turn of events that Douglas sets up to the reader. From a little girl with the answer to Vogon poetry, leaping to dolphins and mice. How do you retain these elements in such a straightforward media as the movies? How did you manage to "guide" the viewer without loosing the "in this page, for something completely different, we will talk about dolphins"?
"Impostures Intellectuelles", anyone? (link)
That's the part I don't get: These days, Lucas seems to be "the bad director everybody loves to hate!" i still don't get it: either you like his work or you don't, but ranting about destroying a legacy and so on... doesn't sound too sane to me.
Just a small, insignificant, negligible suggestion: DON'T BOTHER WATCHING IT IF YOU KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO HATE IT. Stick with yout memories, age well, live long and prosper. I for one don't want to see IV, V and VI remade for a new generation, I want to see the story GL wants to tell. Whether I like it or not, I'm in no position to blame a filmmaker for destroying my childhood.
I don't understand.. why is this wrong/upsetting? It's an interesting idea to see the "Galaxies Opera". If anything, it broadens a view of Lucas' vision of this galaxy. I wouldn't trade the Mos Eisley cantina scene for 10 minutes of space action...
..and it's his movie. See it, lile it, or don't. But pissing and ranting about how he destroyed his own legacy is just ridiculous.
So, do they still have a website? I need to update my copy of Windows 73.
"Just when I thought that I was out they pull me back in." - Woody, Toy Story 3
Steve Jobs has been clear in the past: there will be no video iPod. He thinks the movie industry is different from the music industry. A good prediction is adding wireless capabilities and enhanced display - think " iTunes' visualization mode. Groovy.
This is a big mistake.
He should have gone back in time for "Clerks: The Beginning". That's what people want to see. With CGI.
Well, I hope somebody tells M$ that GMail is not only about storage. The interface is so clean and fast that it's hard to consider any other options, let alone the search capabilities, which I have found really useful. On a sidenote, some friends and I were discussing on how useful it would be to have that search power in our existing Yahoo! Group (which we created back when it was eGroups). We have a lot of content (other than forwarded jokes) worth mining into as the years have passed.
This is a war, yes. but I maintain my claim: the winner will not be who stores the most junk, but he who provides the best tools to manage it.
Is Windows really the problem? Who guarantees that another OS will be better, at all times, on a mission-critical application? Personally, I think the answer is not on Windows vs. Others, I think it's more on the availability of code or not. One could argue that an open platform might be easier to patch and deploy. Then again, I'm only speculating. Mission critical systems are not your everyday DVD player.
Excellent! No more "Out of Print" (Hopefully). I don't know if only a few of us have encountered more than one reference book that has been out of print since the mid-80s and is virtually impossible to find.
Yes, "no more eBooks" sounds good, but I'd say "Finally, a great balance".
OK, Math is a sport. So is Munchkin, then. And movie marathons should be sanctioned, too.
I is an McIntosh user, runin Unics.
I don't intend to go on a flamebait, but this kind of news seem to support Bush's "Go to Mars" space program. Yes, there are some of us who think it's great to explore Mars, but not at the expense of other resources. I keep hearing this comments on how government research funding has been redirected towards Mars... this is the flaw. I believe no resources should have been redirected, but instead, new resources created for a new project. Anyway, something to ponder...
Well, he's evidently lobbying for the new HD-DVD standard. Good news, the codec that will be used is not proprietary. :D
Does this mean Windows Longhorn will now be able to execute ELF binaries? How is this different from Cygwin?
Well, I hope they provide a migration toolkit for existing Yahoo! Groups users. I can't wait to search over thousands of chain mail jokes I've shared with my friends over the last 5 years (since Y! Groups was eGroups). Dream on, dream on...
Eek! Britney Spears (BS) in Starbucks? I go there everyday (yes, I'm addicted, so?) and I've -never- heard a BS song there. Most of the time it ranges between Peter Gabriel and Frank Sinatra, with a lot of things in between... but certainly no Aguilera or BS. I'll have to ask the Baristas about the music selection. From what they've told me, they get a corporate CD with music in digital format. Insert, push and play... Oh, this is all in Oregon by the way.
He said "scientists", not evil minions... >:)
Oh yes, and the soundtrack also has mistakes. Two canons are horrendously overlapped, the motif is altered by two notes in several reprisals and if you listen to it backwards it says "Jay and Silent Bob are better than Spidey".
My point was that maybe there are iMacs already out there on inventory -- with resellers. Instead of introducing a new model, they may just be waiting for the resellers to get rid of their current inventories. But you're right, even this sounds unrealisitic.
It may be that or something simpler: excess of inventory of current iMacs.
Reminiscent of James Bond's elimination of Blofeld/SPECTRE following the legal battle by Thunderball's Kevin McClory.
However, this may be good news after all: This opens the possibility for new villains and new plot elements. Let's be a little optimistic...
Certainly good news! :)
PostgreSQL is a very robust and complete database, enjoyed by many academic users (mostly because of its excellent implementation of different SQL standards...) It's nice to hear that a company is backing them up now.
UML and Intel, really cool, too. It's not as good as Linus/OSDL, but definitelly equivalent to the Linus/Transmeta years.
So, in general, is this the road for the free world now? Backed up by powerful companies who also benefit? I certainly hope so.