Uh...my parents were quite old when the first three came out. They loved them. In fact, an awful lot of adults loved them at the time. So many that the term "blockbuster" was invented to describe Star Wars - people loved the first film so much, they would form queues around an entire city block to try to get in.
And in case you hadn't noticed, this phenomenon has only increased since Episode I came out and it still continues despite the pot shots from the critics. It's a new set of movies in the midst of a new generation. The original poster is right on.
Exactly. Also, the people who enjoyed the originals the most were young when they saw them and that's why they got hooked. Now they are classics. Ask a child of today if he likes the new ones or the old ones and he will probably say the new ones. They are just more interesting to young people, and it's always been that way. Nothing has really changed that much. It's just an older crowd complaining and expecting some profound movie because in their minds the originals were incredible.
No, they won't be. And you can expect a better fight scene than the short and simple one between Maul and Obi-Wan. If that impressed you, this should easily do so.
Residents of Ireland reported seeing lights representing penises and men bending over with apparent gaping holes in the rear over the skies of Dublin. More on this as it becomes available.
But the empire does have evidence (well hints, ok just hunches) that Alderaan maybe have (thought about vaguely) Weapons of Mass Destruction
Not only that, but the Empire believes that Alderaan may be using code in its defense systems that infringes on the Empire's intellectual property. An entire legion of the Empire's lawyers awaits them.
You won't even have to wait that long. They'll probably re-release them next year when all of these electronics companies want to push out the new higher definition DVD format.
Yay... all that money to build up the collection that is soon to be antiquated.
Compare those statistics with computer usage over the last years and you might be surprised how fast things are keeping up. Before you say, "Well the computer can be used for educational purposes", so can TV. There are more than just reality shows on. The Internet doesn't hide children from violent crimes either, in fact it has no censorship AT ALL. Children can access anything once they learn how to use the browser... porn, violence, the Anarchist's Cookbook, you name it. Sure there is software to prevent it, but there's also monitoring your children and a little thing called the VChip.
The world is changing and the omnipresent media shows it to us with little filtration. Don't blame TV for kids seeing bad things, blame the parents' lack of involvement and monitoring.
Instead of watching a little TV, you're now spending more time and money on the Internet, drinking, and women.
Sounds like you've got the solution everyone's been looking for. "Be exactly like me or you're stupid!"
By the way, HDTV is not mandated by the government. You're confused with Digital TV (DTV). The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) standard will now be used instead of the National Television System Committee (NTSC). This really has little (if anything) to do with pricing. If you want it high-definition, then you can fork out the money.
So many slashdotters act like everyone should be on some crusade to stop TV. Just because they aren't entertained by TV means nobody else should be.
Forget the 20-100+ hours you spend a week in front of computers (especially if you work with them). The entertainment industry is one of the biggest industries in the US (if not the biggest). People get bored, and people want something to do. So what if their little TV shows give them something to look forward to in the evening or on a Saturday afternoon? Is that any worse than the obsession of reading internet news sites?
Quit acting like you need to help people cope with their addiction to television. Ironically people who use this argument are often recreational illegal drug smokers. It's all about entertainment folks, don't judge people for the kind they like best.
Well, they lose all the revenue from the sale of X-Boxes...
Unless of course they're taking a loss on those, in which case this is actually good for Microsoft. Uh.
Actually they are taking a loss on the Xboxes. It is the packaged games that they are counting on to make their money back. This emulation technology, if abused, could (and probably will) encourage people to trade/download/serve illegal copies of the games so they don't have to pay for anything.
The author makes it quite clear that this is not his intention, and while that may or may not be a genuine sentiment, I think MS will probably come down on him with the DMCA somehow.
But in Texas, all of the major highways have a specific kind of etching on each side of the road in the pavement. When you go over this with your tire, it creates a really loud noise that vibrates the entire car. It would wake up just about anybody, and I think it's been around for a good number of years.
So if this is what they're talking about, it's pretty effective I think.
You joke as if people here do not have that right, but it has already been shown that such free speech is protected here. Not only that, but you can even distribute source code to exploit it.
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Uh...my parents were quite old when the first three came out. They loved them. In fact, an awful lot of adults loved them at the time. So many that the term "blockbuster" was invented to describe Star Wars - people loved the first film so much, they would form queues around an entire city block to try to get in.
And in case you hadn't noticed, this phenomenon has only increased since Episode I came out and it still continues despite the pot shots from the critics. It's a new set of movies in the midst of a new generation. The original poster is right on.
Exactly. Also, the people who enjoyed the originals the most were young when they saw them and that's why they got hooked. Now they are classics. Ask a child of today if he likes the new ones or the old ones and he will probably say the new ones. They are just more interesting to young people, and it's always been that way. Nothing has really changed that much. It's just an older crowd complaining and expecting some profound movie because in their minds the originals were incredible.
Tsk, tsk...
This is Slashdot, we need a link somewhere.
No, they won't be. And you can expect a better fight scene than the short and simple one between Maul and Obi-Wan. If that impressed you, this should easily do so.
You have to wait until June 4th for that. The sources are already on the mirrors but that doesn't do most people much good.
Mmmmm, lossless goodness, tastes great, less filling.
;)
Less filling? Are you sure you know what lossless is??
People who do not RTFA would notice it would be extremely hard to represent a picture using only 22 uniformly fixed searchlights.
I see the search for the +5 Funny is lost to you, sir.
Residents of Ireland reported seeing lights representing penises and men bending over with apparent gaping holes in the rear over the skies of Dublin. More on this as it becomes available.
You overclock your latest expensive gadget to emulate an outdated, less expensive gadget just for the hell of saying you overclocked it.
But the empire does have evidence (well hints, ok just hunches) that Alderaan maybe have (thought about vaguely) Weapons of Mass Destruction
Not only that, but the Empire believes that Alderaan may be using code in its defense systems that infringes on the Empire's intellectual property. An entire legion of the Empire's lawyers awaits them.
You won't even have to wait that long. They'll probably re-release them next year when all of these electronics companies want to push out the new higher definition DVD format.
Yay... all that money to build up the collection that is soon to be antiquated.
Compare those statistics with computer usage over the last years and you might be surprised how fast things are keeping up. Before you say, "Well the computer can be used for educational purposes", so can TV. There are more than just reality shows on. The Internet doesn't hide children from violent crimes either, in fact it has no censorship AT ALL. Children can access anything once they learn how to use the browser... porn, violence, the Anarchist's Cookbook, you name it. Sure there is software to prevent it, but there's also monitoring your children and a little thing called the VChip.
The world is changing and the omnipresent media shows it to us with little filtration. Don't blame TV for kids seeing bad things, blame the parents' lack of involvement and monitoring.
Instead of watching a little TV, you're now spending more time and money on the Internet, drinking, and women.
Sounds like you've got the solution everyone's been looking for. "Be exactly like me or you're stupid!"
By the way, HDTV is not mandated by the government. You're confused with Digital TV (DTV). The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) standard will now be used instead of the National Television System Committee (NTSC). This really has little (if anything) to do with pricing. If you want it high-definition, then you can fork out the money.
So many slashdotters act like everyone should be on some crusade to stop TV. Just because they aren't entertained by TV means nobody else should be.
Forget the 20-100+ hours you spend a week in front of computers (especially if you work with them). The entertainment industry is one of the biggest industries in the US (if not the biggest). People get bored, and people want something to do. So what if their little TV shows give them something to look forward to in the evening or on a Saturday afternoon? Is that any worse than the obsession of reading internet news sites?
Quit acting like you need to help people cope with their addiction to television. Ironically people who use this argument are often recreational illegal drug smokers. It's all about entertainment folks, don't judge people for the kind they like best.
...but I'm afraid you meant Agent Under Fire. ;)
Well, they lose all the revenue from the sale of X-Boxes... Unless of course they're taking a loss on those, in which case this is actually good for Microsoft. Uh.
Actually they are taking a loss on the Xboxes. It is the packaged games that they are counting on to make their money back. This emulation technology, if abused, could (and probably will) encourage people to trade/download/serve illegal copies of the games so they don't have to pay for anything.
The author makes it quite clear that this is not his intention, and while that may or may not be a genuine sentiment, I think MS will probably come down on him with the DMCA somehow.
But in Texas, all of the major highways have a specific kind of etching on each side of the road in the pavement. When you go over this with your tire, it creates a really loud noise that vibrates the entire car. It would wake up just about anybody, and I think it's been around for a good number of years.
So if this is what they're talking about, it's pretty effective I think.
Instead, it launched the first cold war, and cost the planet millions of lives and a lot of karma.
I don't think you understand the concept of what a cold war is.
Actually if you've been to Best Buy recently and actually looked, they sell SuSE, Red Hat, Mandrake, and maybe even others.
Yeah, it's bad enough that the class they took on Access 97 is no longer useful to them. What would they do if the Start button disappeared?
Who will you sue when it blows up the wrong target?
vi is superior to emacs
Come on now, you have to make it at least mildly believable to work.
You joke as if people here do not have that right, but it has already been shown that such free speech is protected here. Not only that, but you can even distribute source code to exploit it.
Hey now, at least he got a cool unit of measurement for magnetic inductivity named after him!
Ah, who am I kidding... poor fellow.
Ah, yet another person who doesn't recognize the distinction between making something and making something practical and/or useful.
Same thing every time someone mentions Thomas Edison or the Wright Brothers. Get over it.