According to Extended Universe, yes. Luke even has a Sith girlfriend, Mara Jade. But that seems to contradict Yoda's "Only two there are, a master and an apprentice"--at no point were Vader or Palpatine able to train more apprentices if they followed that rule.
Threepio isn't trustworthy. (Look at ESB, he offers to surrender to the Imperials). Artoo is smarter, incomprehensible, and presumably more trustworthy. Besides, throughout the whole series, Artoo knows what's going on, but Threepio just cluelessly follows him around. "What mission? We'll have none of this Obi-Wan Kenobi gibberish!"
The orange patches are for Sandtroopers, who are trained for desert environments such as Tatooine. Also, some of the clones in ep 3 have Imperial-style rank badges!
That's pretty much related to the point that most casualties happen near the beginning of large operations, they don't happen in a constant rate. Call it natural selection.
Does that mean that a 15 year old Swiss child is as mature, on average, as a 13 year old American or a 7 year old Japanese child? Fuck no. They're arbitrary ratings.
The Creation account, and in fact almost all of the book of Genesis up to and possibly including Abraham, is written in a dramatically different style than the rest of Genesis. It was very likely a recounting of pre-existing oral traditions. As Genesis was part of a project to write the history of the Jewish people to date, it perhaps seemed natural to start from the beginning of the universe so far as they understood it. Arguably that does throw out certain notions of divine inspiration, but oh well.
Is there any point in Catholic history that all Fridays were fast days? I doubt it. The way I remember it, all Fridays, Catholics were required to abstain from meat, fish meat being the exception. I don't remember whether this was a subsidy for old European fisheries, a clever way to remember that St. Peter and some of the other Apostles were fishermen, or some adaptation of a pre-existing pagan custom. Knowing Catholic history all three are possible.
Saying that this experiment brings rail guns closer to reality is like saying that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN brings PPCs closer to reality.
Thanks to Steve Jobs, PPCs are now closer to unreality.:(
- divorce of pre G3 architechure from os x support.
The first Power Macintosh G3 went on sale in November 1997. Apple's last pre-G3 product, the PowerBook 2400, was discontinued in May 1998. Mac OS X was first released in March 2001. Therefore, the newest pre-G3 Mac as of the release of Mac OS X was almost three years old. While perhaps unfortunate, it does not demonstrate "utter contempt" to require users to have a system less than three years old to run the very newest OS.
- no support for quartz extreme for earlier ATI chipsets which actually do support it.
All businesses, and for that matter most people, regard things as a question of cost/benefit. Quartz Extreme was released along with Mac OS X Jaguar in August of 2002. Quartz Extreme was an added feature for those machines that could support it, and it was not required for any extra applications to run. Once again, it does not demonstrate "utter contempt" to introduce features that not all users can utilize. As for your claim that older ATi chipsets could be made to work with Quartz Extreme, but Apple chose not to allow them to--Apple has a finite amount of resources and chose not to allocate them to that effort because they didn't believe the benefit justified the cost. While unfortunate, this move did not harm legacy users or make them worse off, so it doesn't demonstrate "utter contempt", only a set of priorities you disagree with.
- no support for external firewire dvd drives in idvd.
iDVD was software Apple released to add value to the DVD drives they were selling. Vendors who sold external firewire DVD drives often include software to add value to their drives. Once again, legacy users are left no worse off. Apple's decision to add value to their own products was a benefit to users of Apple's DVD drives. The fact that users of DVD drives sold by other companies didn't share in this benefit doesn't demonstrate "utter contempt" on Apple's part, merely envy on the part of the customers. This particular decision, by the way, I don't necessarily agree with, but it isn't "utter contempt".
- for a good long time, no support for legacy hardware with 6 pci slots, until a third party stepped in with an external chassis (which is not as elegant a solution) for pro-audio user niche.
The oldest Mac with six PCI slots was the Power Mac 9600, released in February 1997 and discontinued in early 1998. If you're talking about Mac OS X not supporting that hardware, that's redundant to your first complaint above. If you're asserting that Apple failed to abide by the service and support contracts available to Power Mac 9600 owners, I would like you to provide more evidence.
But the forced-hardware-upgrade treadmill has left some customers behind, and Apple should have done more to include those loyal, paying customers.
I don't think Apple counts someone as a "loyal, paying customer" if they would rather whine about Apple not supporting 3, 4, 5 year old machines with their newest software instead of upgrading within a reasonable timeframe. Someone who buys a new Mac every five years isn't loyal and paying, they're someone who bought a Mac five years ago. Apple is catering to their loyal paying customers by rewarding those who upgrade their hardware more often. Legacy users aren't exactly left behind--Mac OS X supported the old beige G3's until October 2003 when Panther was released. That means that for six years legacy users were still able to get the most up-to-date OS. That's not bad.
There's been no indication from them to believe that they're going to do anything to make this a transparent transition for legacy hardware owners. (like me - with a dual 2GHz G5).
Relax. You bought that machine in 2003, 2004? The first Intel-based Mac will be shipping by this time in 2006. Apple's entire product line will be Intel-based by the end of 2007. The worst case scenario is one where Apple chooses to stop supporting Mac OS X
After episode 1, when everyone was calling lucas a racist because the bad guys had a (waaaay over the top) japanese-ish accent
There's always the fact that Lucas was trying to re-make the old science fiction serials of the 30's and 40's. I'm sure those had plenty of ridiculous Japanese accents, given the war propaganda at the time.
Star Wars has racism. Look at the Wookiees! Even Leia uses a racial slur ("walking carpet") to refer to Chewie, and Chewie doesn't get a medal. Even worse, Wookiees are enslaved by the Empire. Imperial crews are all human, even though the Rebels are willing to work with Wookiees, Mon Calamari (Ackbar), etc. Organized crime is filled with ethnic minorities such as Hutts, Rodians, and Twi'leks. (In American history, whenever a new ethnic minority immigrated over, they got involved in organized crime when overwhelming prejudice against them locked them out of legitimate jobs. This is why New York has an Italian mafia to this day.) As another poster has commented, KOTOR has more of this.
The LOSERS here are Apple Customers who have legacy systems. Over the past 5 years or so, Apple has readily demonstrated their utter contempt for people not running the latest and greatest Apple hardware, by cutting off support for older hardware. Us PPC owners are going to be shit on a lot over the next few years.
Apple didn't let HP sell licensed iPods because they were being nice. Apple let HP sell licensed iPods because HP's distribution network was at the time able to move units that Apple itself couldn't move. As this was before the big iPod boom, and as virtually everyone on the planet ended up buying from Apple in the first place, I don't think Apple will repeat that move.
As I recall, Apple and Intel are both multibillion dollar corporations which can alter their respective products within the year between first demonstration and release.
Makes sense. Social psychology studies things we all have in common, so there's less individual variance. Developmental and cognitive psych study things that vary more from person to person.
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Well, that, and it demonstrates the absurdity of such a ratings system in the first place.
That does more to describe Darth Vader's evil than him blowing up a planet of nameless, faceless people.
That was Tarkin, not Vader.
surely the Sith trained others
According to Extended Universe, yes. Luke even has a Sith girlfriend, Mara Jade. But that seems to contradict Yoda's "Only two there are, a master and an apprentice"--at no point were Vader or Palpatine able to train more apprentices if they followed that rule.
Threepio isn't trustworthy. (Look at ESB, he offers to surrender to the Imperials). Artoo is smarter, incomprehensible, and presumably more trustworthy. Besides, throughout the whole series, Artoo knows what's going on, but Threepio just cluelessly follows him around. "What mission? We'll have none of this Obi-Wan Kenobi gibberish!"
The orange patches are for Sandtroopers, who are trained for desert environments such as Tatooine. Also, some of the clones in ep 3 have Imperial-style rank badges!
Pop quiz. Star Wars is:
(a) Cheesy fiction.
(b)Real.
That's pretty much related to the point that most casualties happen near the beginning of large operations, they don't happen in a constant rate. Call it natural selection.
Oddly enough, I've always wondered about that. After all, he does wear a codpiece, although it's flat, unlike the bulbous Stormtrooper codpieces.
But they're fun! Doesn't that count for something? For God's sake, Star Wars is intended to be fun. It's not intended to be serious cinema.
Does that mean that a 15 year old Swiss child is as mature, on average, as a 13 year old American or a 7 year old Japanese child? Fuck no. They're arbitrary ratings.
The Creation account, and in fact almost all of the book of Genesis up to and possibly including Abraham, is written in a dramatically different style than the rest of Genesis. It was very likely a recounting of pre-existing oral traditions. As Genesis was part of a project to write the history of the Jewish people to date, it perhaps seemed natural to start from the beginning of the universe so far as they understood it. Arguably that does throw out certain notions of divine inspiration, but oh well.
diabetics are forced not to eat on Fridays
Is there any point in Catholic history that all Fridays were fast days? I doubt it. The way I remember it, all Fridays, Catholics were required to abstain from meat, fish meat being the exception. I don't remember whether this was a subsidy for old European fisheries, a clever way to remember that St. Peter and some of the other Apostles were fishermen, or some adaptation of a pre-existing pagan custom. Knowing Catholic history all three are possible.
But both are unethical research practices.
Saying that this experiment brings rail guns closer to reality is like saying that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN brings PPCs closer to reality.
:(
Thanks to Steve Jobs, PPCs are now closer to unreality.
- divorce of pre G3 architechure from os x support.
The first Power Macintosh G3 went on sale in November 1997. Apple's last pre-G3 product, the PowerBook 2400, was discontinued in May 1998. Mac OS X was first released in March 2001. Therefore, the newest pre-G3 Mac as of the release of Mac OS X was almost three years old. While perhaps unfortunate, it does not demonstrate "utter contempt" to require users to have a system less than three years old to run the very newest OS.
- no support for quartz extreme for earlier ATI chipsets which actually do support it.
All businesses, and for that matter most people, regard things as a question of cost/benefit. Quartz Extreme was released along with Mac OS X Jaguar in August of 2002. Quartz Extreme was an added feature for those machines that could support it, and it was not required for any extra applications to run. Once again, it does not demonstrate "utter contempt" to introduce features that not all users can utilize. As for your claim that older ATi chipsets could be made to work with Quartz Extreme, but Apple chose not to allow them to--Apple has a finite amount of resources and chose not to allocate them to that effort because they didn't believe the benefit justified the cost. While unfortunate, this move did not harm legacy users or make them worse off, so it doesn't demonstrate "utter contempt", only a set of priorities you disagree with.
- no support for external firewire dvd drives in idvd.
iDVD was software Apple released to add value to the DVD drives they were selling. Vendors who sold external firewire DVD drives often include software to add value to their drives. Once again, legacy users are left no worse off. Apple's decision to add value to their own products was a benefit to users of Apple's DVD drives. The fact that users of DVD drives sold by other companies didn't share in this benefit doesn't demonstrate "utter contempt" on Apple's part, merely envy on the part of the customers. This particular decision, by the way, I don't necessarily agree with, but it isn't "utter contempt".
- for a good long time, no support for legacy hardware with 6 pci slots, until a third party stepped in with an external chassis (which is not as elegant a solution) for pro-audio user niche.
The oldest Mac with six PCI slots was the Power Mac 9600, released in February 1997 and discontinued in early 1998. If you're talking about Mac OS X not supporting that hardware, that's redundant to your first complaint above. If you're asserting that Apple failed to abide by the service and support contracts available to Power Mac 9600 owners, I would like you to provide more evidence.
But the forced-hardware-upgrade treadmill has left some customers behind, and Apple should have done more to include those loyal, paying customers.
I don't think Apple counts someone as a "loyal, paying customer" if they would rather whine about Apple not supporting 3, 4, 5 year old machines with their newest software instead of upgrading within a reasonable timeframe. Someone who buys a new Mac every five years isn't loyal and paying, they're someone who bought a Mac five years ago. Apple is catering to their loyal paying customers by rewarding those who upgrade their hardware more often. Legacy users aren't exactly left behind--Mac OS X supported the old beige G3's until October 2003 when Panther was released. That means that for six years legacy users were still able to get the most up-to-date OS. That's not bad.
There's been no indication from them to believe that they're going to do anything to make this a transparent transition for legacy hardware owners. (like me - with a dual 2GHz G5).
Relax. You bought that machine in 2003, 2004? The first Intel-based Mac will be shipping by this time in 2006. Apple's entire product line will be Intel-based by the end of 2007. The worst case scenario is one where Apple chooses to stop supporting Mac OS X
After episode 1, when everyone was calling lucas a racist because the bad guys had a (waaaay over the top) japanese-ish accent
There's always the fact that Lucas was trying to re-make the old science fiction serials of the 30's and 40's. I'm sure those had plenty of ridiculous Japanese accents, given the war propaganda at the time.
Star Wars has racism. Look at the Wookiees! Even Leia uses a racial slur ("walking carpet") to refer to Chewie, and Chewie doesn't get a medal. Even worse, Wookiees are enslaved by the Empire. Imperial crews are all human, even though the Rebels are willing to work with Wookiees, Mon Calamari (Ackbar), etc. Organized crime is filled with ethnic minorities such as Hutts, Rodians, and Twi'leks. (In American history, whenever a new ethnic minority immigrated over, they got involved in organized crime when overwhelming prejudice against them locked them out of legitimate jobs. This is why New York has an Italian mafia to this day.) As another poster has commented, KOTOR has more of this.
Easy. Earth was colonized by beings from that galaxy.
The LOSERS here are Apple Customers who have legacy systems. Over the past 5 years or so, Apple has readily demonstrated their utter contempt for people not running the latest and greatest Apple hardware, by cutting off support for older hardware. Us PPC owners are going to be shit on a lot over the next few years.
Provide some examples of this "utter contempt".
Apple didn't let HP sell licensed iPods because they were being nice. Apple let HP sell licensed iPods because HP's distribution network was at the time able to move units that Apple itself couldn't move. As this was before the big iPod boom, and as virtually everyone on the planet ended up buying from Apple in the first place, I don't think Apple will repeat that move.
While I could be wrong, I bet it was running on pretty standard PC hardware, not some special woo-woo magic Apple box.
Because as we all know, brief proof-of-concept demonstrations are always identical to the finished product.
As I recall, Apple and Intel are both multibillion dollar corporations which can alter their respective products within the year between first demonstration and release.
Makes sense. Social psychology studies things we all have in common, so there's less individual variance. Developmental and cognitive psych study things that vary more from person to person.
If they're going to sleep with the guy anyway I don't think it matters whether he's a rapist.
Read the fucking English grammar and usage book.