Was anyone bothered by this fundamental change in one of the themes of SW?
What bothered me most about the whole thing wasn't that aspect of it. It was that they bothered to explain any aspect of the force at all.
I really enjoyed the SW movies much more when the Force was some mysterious, unexplainable power that certain people learned to tap into. But the moment they start talking about blood tests and midichlorians then suddenly it becomes techno-bable BS.
It's like any other force of nature or technology. The more unrealistic it is, the more I would prefer them not try to explain it with stupid crap to further drive it home to me that what I'm seeing isn't possible.
I have many other serious gripes with Star Wars. RotJ, TPM, and AotC all did me in for even liking Star Wars at all.
Even if III is really that good, I probably won't enjoy it because it's still built on those other piles of crap.
I ran a CNet Amiga BBS from the early 90's till 99. It started out with one line on an Amiga 2000 and ended up with 10 lines running on a single Amiga 4000 (which I still have, by the way). Overall it was a really well written software package.
This case could be more amusing with the following added components:
FBI: You Tried to launder money to the Soviets, didn't you?
Person: No. I didn't.
FBI: We caught you exchanging money with operatives in soviet russia.
Person: When?
FBI: You know when.
Person: I do?
FBI: Just answer the question.
Person: What question?
FBI: Uh. Encryption! You have encryption software on your computer, don't you?
Person: Yep.
FBI: So, you have something to hide.
Person: Sure, my credit card numbers that I use on line, personal data that could be used for identity theft, business correspondence I don't want my competitors to read, accounting data, that kind of stuff.
FBI: So, you could use this program for illicit purposes.
Person: Why? You wanna see?
FBI: Got any good porn?
Person: Sure. What do you like?
FBI: Children. Young boys preferably.
Person: Man, I'll bet you get to see some really freaky shit in your line of work.
FBI: Man, we feds have the largest porn collections anywhere. And the best drugs, too.
Hmm. How does one use a deep fryer for evil? Open a KFC?
Oh what? Like YOU'VE never heard of a deep fried a baby. Sure, sure. All of those KFC and and french-fry lovers like to stand up and say that a ban would be against their best interests, but even they know the primary reason people get deep fryers is for cooking babies.
Not a fanboy. I actually had high hopes for the original XBox.
If you want links, Google for them. There is a lot of rumor talk both ways, but I think it should be fairly obvious by the lack of any confirmed sources saying that it definately WILL be.
I say that it has been confirmed, though I may be in error stating that now. It occured to me just now that the last time I saw it stated by a major gaming news site was actually many months ago.
While I have no reason to expect that Microsoft has changed that, I find it curious that I can't find the same links now.
Still, most major gaming news sites seem to at least doubt it. And I still personally do as well.
Yes, because the absense of water cooling in the Gamecube meant the XBox was faster, too.
In all actuality, there is every indication to show that the Gamecube is for the most part every bit as powerful as the XBox, with the only real advantage the XBox has over the Gamecube is more memory, and arguably the hard drive (though since it's largely underutilized the fact that it isn't standard in the XBox 360 should speak for itself).
Anyway, when we start talking PowerPC instead of x86, the whole rules on heat and power as well as size totally change. It's entirely possible that the Revolution and Xbox could be more alike than unalike. Though with Revolution having Gamecube compatibility and the Xbox 360 not having much of anything, the XBox 360 could be more powerful and it would still have an uphill battle.
A large backlog of games to play can make or break a system. Anyone who doubts this needs to compare PSP and DS sales figures. (For those who haven't been watching, the DS is killing the PSP globally.)
Sony raised the stakes years ago by pretty much requiring that all consoles be backwards compatible.
Nintendo finally learned this. Microsoft's gaming devision is still too young to "get it", and the lack of Xbox compatibility in the 360 will be it's own undoing, Xbox Live or no Xbox Live.
Actually, I can get rom images off of my GBA easily. Very easily.
All I have to do is plug my fash2advance cable into the GBA and my computers USB port. Then I insert a cartridge (any one) and then store the file on my hard drive.
Wham. Legal Rom Image. (Though some do still argue against that.)
I actually copy my favorite games onto a 256 meg flash cart and carry only it around instead of my originals. The 256 meg cart is enough for at least 4 decent sized games and many more smaller ones.
Keep in mind that while software does need to keep duel-core/processor design in mind to gain the best advantages, a lot of advantages can also be gained by using APIs whose newest versions themselves support such configurations.
By redesigning core APIs of an OS to support dual-core or dual processors then any software using that API may see an improvement when applicable.
As an example, I imagine it would be possible for future versions of DirectX to be heavily multithreaded and thus many games for Windows that use DirectX might gain some of those advantages.
I can't see how you could say Mos Def nailed Ford! There are so many reasons I could go on complaining about Ford. He only did suitably well if compared to Zaphod.
In every series before, Zaphod came off as a bit stupid but only just stupid enough that we don't totally write him off. Sometimes we even caught ourselves wondering if his stupid was just some form of high genius at work.
In this movie. Zaphod is absolutely and without a doubt an idiot. It's hard to even LIKE the character in the movie, and most people I know who like the books rank Zaphod behind Marvin as their favorite characters.
To add insult to injury, not only is he poorly depicted in personailty throughout this movie, he doesn't even have two full heads! That Head-in-Neck deal was a great joke ruined!
The original miniseries on BBC lacked alot of things in the way of cinematography and special effects, not to mention costumes, sets, and lighting. Even some of the acting wasn't the greatest! But the charm was there, full force. The humor was maintained, and even enhanced!
It's those areas this new movie really screwed up.
Though I do admit Arthur was played well, I still didn't like how they reduced him down to a total coward. Lost and confused? Sure, Arthur was that. But a total coward?
Even though there are a lot of things I don't like about it, I do have to admit there are some good bits in this movie. Still, it can't help but feel it's far inferior to it's predecessors.
There are many really good books exploring the subject of "What" a conscience actually is.
Strange loops, recursion, pattern recognition, etc.
When you break our minds down into their basic functions, no single one of them is all that difficult to imagine emulating on sufficiently powerful hardware.
The question is weather or not the end result will be a truly thinking machine in the same way that we think.
heoretically when that time comes thoughts from a machine with the proper software running on the proper hardware will be indistinguishable from thoughts created in a human.
Still, proving that it's got a "mind" will be every bit as difficult as proving that human minds aren't just really complex biological computer programs.
The self referencing "I think therefor I am" concept doesn't actually prove anything. Self awareness might just be a very elaborate illusion used as a motivator for self preservation.
It's a fairly good bet that a robot would work exactly as it's software directed, assuming of course the software is properly written.
The problem that comes into play is the possibility of bugs in that software or unanticipated circumstances.
Take for instance a programmed response to greet a familiar person and act in a prefered fashion. If somehow or another the robot's software mistook a total stranger for someone it recognized, the end result could be fairly predictable.
"Hello Mr. X." "I'm not Mr. X. I'm Ms. Y." "Would you like me to call you Ms. Y from now on, Mr. X?"
The more complex the software, and more complex it's innermost irregularities, the more unpredictable the robot could potentially become.
"Robot, why are you grabbing my ass?" "Sorry, Ms. Y. I was simply doing as you instructed last time we met." "Huh? What are you talking about? Who is Ms. Y?"
btw, your post had no links, so you'll pardon me if I call bullshit on your claims.
As if most of your post didn't already tell us what we needed to know, this final line told us not only were you too stupid to think for yourself, but you're also too stupid to use Google.
There's a reason people like you make most rational Americans very unhappy with the state of our nation. It's the same reason the rest of the world is really getting tired of US bullshit.
To simply, some women are blessed with color receptors that allow them to see a color between the green and red wavelengths. Their idea of the world and it's colors is much more vivid than most people's.
It's almost certain that all tetrachromats would have to be women.
Even someone who is an audiophile will often still have a hard time telling the difference (between 128k and higher) through the shit headphones that often come with MP3 players.:)
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Um. Jim Carrey doesn't really have much range. He just gets lucky once in a while and isn't such a moron in some of his movies.
He would never really work as Indiana Jones. "Ace Ventura and the Temple of Doom" just doesn't have much of a ring to it.
Ford is cool. Carrey is a dork. Two totally different types, for two totally different parts. A "comedy Indy" movie would just be vile.
Was anyone bothered by this fundamental change in one of the themes of SW?
What bothered me most about the whole thing wasn't that aspect of it. It was that they bothered to explain any aspect of the force at all.
I really enjoyed the SW movies much more when the Force was some mysterious, unexplainable power that certain people learned to tap into. But the moment they start talking about blood tests and midichlorians then suddenly it becomes techno-bable BS.
It's like any other force of nature or technology. The more unrealistic it is, the more I would prefer them not try to explain it with stupid crap to further drive it home to me that what I'm seeing isn't possible.
I have many other serious gripes with Star Wars. RotJ, TPM, and AotC all did me in for even liking Star Wars at all.
Even if III is really that good, I probably won't enjoy it because it's still built on those other piles of crap.
A moment of silence for CNet Amiga.
I ran a CNet Amiga BBS from the early 90's till 99. It started out with one line on an Amiga 2000 and ended up with 10 lines running on a single Amiga 4000 (which I still have, by the way). Overall it was a really well written software package.
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This case could be more amusing with the following added components:
FBI: You Tried to launder money to the Soviets, didn't you?
Person: No. I didn't.
FBI: We caught you exchanging money with operatives in soviet russia.
Person: When?
FBI: You know when.
Person: I do?
FBI: Just answer the question.
Person: What question?
FBI: Uh. Encryption! You have encryption software on your computer, don't you?
Person: Yep.
FBI: So, you have something to hide.
Person: Sure, my credit card numbers that I use on line, personal data that could be used for identity theft, business correspondence I don't want my competitors to read, accounting data, that kind of stuff.
FBI: So, you could use this program for illicit purposes.
Person: Why? You wanna see?
FBI: Got any good porn?
Person: Sure. What do you like?
FBI: Children. Young boys preferably.
Person: Man, I'll bet you get to see some really freaky shit in your line of work.
FBI: Man, we feds have the largest porn collections anywhere. And the best drugs, too.
Hmm. How does one use a deep fryer for evil? Open a KFC?
Oh what? Like YOU'VE never heard of a deep fried a baby. Sure, sure. All of those KFC and and french-fry lovers like to stand up and say that a ban would be against their best interests, but even they know the primary reason people get deep fryers is for cooking babies.
Ikaruga -- now that's a lovely little underappreciated gem on the 'cube.
I would have to say that it's games like that which make the GCN worth owning.
The Gamecube by far has the best load times, and this is most evident on games that are developed on all three systems.
Though some games on the PS2 do go a long way to show that intelligent coding and game design can help ease the pains of load times.
God of War (PS2), for instance, streams along well enough that you hardly ever notice any load times.
So while load times might be an issue in general they really don't have to be in every case.
Not a fanboy. I actually had high hopes for the original XBox.
If you want links, Google for them. There is a lot of rumor talk both ways, but I think it should be fairly obvious by the lack of any confirmed sources saying that it definately WILL be.
I say that it has been confirmed, though I may be in error stating that now. It occured to me just now that the last time I saw it stated by a major gaming news site was actually many months ago.
While I have no reason to expect that Microsoft has changed that, I find it curious that I can't find the same links now.
Still, most major gaming news sites seem to at least doubt it. And I still personally do as well.
Yes, because the absense of water cooling in the Gamecube meant the XBox was faster, too.
In all actuality, there is every indication to show that the Gamecube is for the most part every bit as powerful as the XBox, with the only real advantage the XBox has over the Gamecube is more memory, and arguably the hard drive (though since it's largely underutilized the fact that it isn't standard in the XBox 360 should speak for itself).
Anyway, when we start talking PowerPC instead of x86, the whole rules on heat and power as well as size totally change. It's entirely possible that the Revolution and Xbox could be more alike than unalike. Though with Revolution having Gamecube compatibility and the Xbox 360 not having much of anything, the XBox 360 could be more powerful and it would still have an uphill battle.
A large backlog of games to play can make or break a system. Anyone who doubts this needs to compare PSP and DS sales figures. (For those who haven't been watching, the DS is killing the PSP globally.)
Microsoft has already ruined themselves.
Sony raised the stakes years ago by pretty much requiring that all consoles be backwards compatible.
Nintendo finally learned this. Microsoft's gaming devision is still too young to "get it", and the lack of Xbox compatibility in the 360 will be it's own undoing, Xbox Live or no Xbox Live.
So now instead of just overheating... my laptop can have a total meltdown?
Actually, I can get rom images off of my GBA easily. Very easily.
All I have to do is plug my fash2advance cable into the GBA and my computers USB port. Then I insert a cartridge (any one) and then store the file on my hard drive.
Wham. Legal Rom Image. (Though some do still argue against that.)
I actually copy my favorite games onto a 256 meg flash cart and carry only it around instead of my originals. The 256 meg cart is enough for at least 4 decent sized games and many more smaller ones.
Keep in mind that while software does need to keep duel-core/processor design in mind to gain the best advantages, a lot of advantages can also be gained by using APIs whose newest versions themselves support such configurations.
By redesigning core APIs of an OS to support dual-core or dual processors then any software using that API may see an improvement when applicable.
As an example, I imagine it would be possible for future versions of DirectX to be heavily multithreaded and thus many games for Windows that use DirectX might gain some of those advantages.
I can't see how you could say Mos Def nailed Ford! There are so many reasons I could go on complaining about Ford. He only did suitably well if compared to Zaphod.
In every series before, Zaphod came off as a bit stupid but only just stupid enough that we don't totally write him off. Sometimes we even caught ourselves wondering if his stupid was just some form of high genius at work.
In this movie. Zaphod is absolutely and without a doubt an idiot. It's hard to even LIKE the character in the movie, and most people I know who like the books rank Zaphod behind Marvin as their favorite characters.
To add insult to injury, not only is he poorly depicted in personailty throughout this movie, he doesn't even have two full heads! That Head-in-Neck deal was a great joke ruined!
The original miniseries on BBC lacked alot of things in the way of cinematography and special effects, not to mention costumes, sets, and lighting. Even some of the acting wasn't the greatest! But the charm was there, full force. The humor was maintained, and even enhanced!
It's those areas this new movie really screwed up.
Though I do admit Arthur was played well, I still didn't like how they reduced him down to a total coward. Lost and confused? Sure, Arthur was that. But a total coward?
Even though there are a lot of things I don't like about it, I do have to admit there are some good bits in this movie. Still, it can't help but feel it's far inferior to it's predecessors.
In the photo it looks nothing like Marvin.
However, it does seem to have it's head attached upside down.
There are many really good books exploring the subject of "What" a conscience actually is.
Strange loops, recursion, pattern recognition, etc.
When you break our minds down into their basic functions, no single one of them is all that difficult to imagine emulating on sufficiently powerful hardware.
The question is weather or not the end result will be a truly thinking machine in the same way that we think.
heoretically when that time comes thoughts from a machine with the proper software running on the proper hardware will be indistinguishable from thoughts created in a human.
Still, proving that it's got a "mind" will be every bit as difficult as proving that human minds aren't just really complex biological computer programs.
The self referencing "I think therefor I am" concept doesn't actually prove anything. Self awareness might just be a very elaborate illusion used as a motivator for self preservation.
It's a fairly good bet that a robot would work exactly as it's software directed, assuming of course the software is properly written.
The problem that comes into play is the possibility of bugs in that software or unanticipated circumstances.
Take for instance a programmed response to greet a familiar person and act in a prefered fashion. If somehow or another the robot's software mistook a total stranger for someone it recognized, the end result could be fairly predictable.
"Hello Mr. X."
"I'm not Mr. X. I'm Ms. Y."
"Would you like me to call you Ms. Y from now on, Mr. X?"
The more complex the software, and more complex it's innermost irregularities, the more unpredictable the robot could potentially become.
"Robot, why are you grabbing my ass?"
"Sorry, Ms. Y. I was simply doing as you instructed last time we met."
"Huh? What are you talking about? Who is Ms. Y?"
"Your plastic pal who's fun to be with!"
btw, your post had no links, so you'll pardon me if I call bullshit on your claims.
As if most of your post didn't already tell us what we needed to know, this final line told us not only were you too stupid to think for yourself, but you're also too stupid to use Google.
There's a reason people like you make most rational Americans very unhappy with the state of our nation. It's the same reason the rest of the world is really getting tired of US bullshit.
Or they could be good-guys, buy the patent and let everyone use it for free.
Oh, wait, we're talking about Microsoft aren't we? Nevermind.
So is that Bigcorn or Unifoot?
But the question is, what kind of wine do you drink with Twinkies?
I'm betting it should be something in a box.
Tetrachromats
It isn't science-fiction.
To simply, some women are blessed with color receptors that allow them to see a color between the green and red wavelengths. Their idea of the world and it's colors is much more vivid than most people's.
It's almost certain that all tetrachromats would have to be women.
Even someone who is an audiophile will often still have a hard time telling the difference (between 128k and higher) through the shit headphones that often come with MP3 players. :)
Should have been Wal-Mart, but close enough :)
:)
If you reload that page enough, you'll eventually get one that says that, I'm sure. Though it might take you a very long time.