Supposing lightsabers were real, of couse you could bleed to death. If they cauterize a wound, that would work on a fleshwould, but say you cut someone's arm clean off.
The flesh might be cauterized, so small capillaries will be sealed, but that's all. It couldn't possibly cap off a big gaping hole where an artery passed through.
Imagine cutting a pipe in half. You're left with an open pipe. Now imagine cutting a tree in half. You'd be left with a burnt stump. That's the difference.
Joining this conversation has made me at least 13% dumber.
I couldn't get any bittorrent clients to connect on my girlfriend's G5 through her D-Link router (which has absolutely AWFUL setup pages, but at home, I had no problem at all getting any to connect.
I'm sure there are so many different factors involved, but I was really shocked by how fast Azureus was for me. I haven't tried any on a PC, so I can't say for sure what would cause the difference. In the past, I'd take a Cocoa app over Java anyday on OS X, but this one changed my opinion.
Maybe I'm just getting normal performance out of it and the official client and tomato were just really slow.
As for java on PC, I can't even get Yahoo games to work on my nice new Dell at work. I've narrowed it down to two possibilities: 1) Windows sucks or 2)Bill Gates sucks. It requires further study.
I gained a lot of respect for Java apps when I tried Azureus for the first time. It was at least 6-7x faster than the official client or Tomato Torrent on OS X, and it connects to way more hosts for me. Like I said, I'm on OS X, so I've never tried exeem.
Making it easier to get to torrents is all well and good, but let's keep in mind that most of the *legal* stuff available through bittorrent is easy to find as it is.
I dunno, I thought the scene in the Tusken Raider camp was pretty chilling. Just like when you see Owen and Beru's corpses burning after the stormtroopers pay them a visit. You didn't see the actual act, but you knew what happened. You don't need to resort to overt violence, especially if you're at least *trying* to make a film for everyone.
And yeah, I know it's implied again in Episode III, but come on -- a roomful of scared children ask him for help and then later you see them all dead? You know what happens, and not seeing the actual act doesn't make the character any more or less evil.
It's absolutely unnecessary to show the audience. Yes, I realize it takes a skilled director to pull it off. Yes, I know Lucas has blown stuff like this before. *We* haven't seen this scene yet, and I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt. It sounds like he will pull it off, and I'll make my decision when I see it. Until then, I'm hopeful. But showing the audience the actual act isn't necessary. It's called subtlety, and I think it may arguably be better to not show it, rather than having him chase little kids around while he spouts off catchphrases like Freddy Krueger with a lightsaber.
I'll take bad acting and dialog as a valid criticism, but most of the other stuff you just listed are personal gripes.
And for what it's worth, the Trade Federation accent is a mix of Japanese and French, but I don't see why that's so awful. Would a subtitled alien language that everybody magically understands have been better? What if they spoke the alien language with an accent?
By that I mean that people want to see him turn to the dark side. They want to see what, exactly, makes Darth Vader so awful. They want to see him "help the empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi" as Ben says in ANH. Nobody cares about his mommy issues.
Notice that I didn't say the first two were the greatest movies ever. They're not. But I wanted more depth to the Star Wars universe, and I got it.
And personally, nothing is more offensive to me than the musical number Lucas added to ROTJ.
Sometimes I wish I hadn't read every spoiler on millenniumfalcon.com. I know way more about this one going in than any of the previous prequels, but I'm still excited.
Personally, I think most of the hate directed at the previous two, Jar-Jar comments aside, was a media invention. Things get repeated enough and people start to believe it. I'm sure the same thing will happen this time around to some degree, but this is seriously the movie that fans have been waiting for. The previous two were sort of procedural. Sure, it's great to see where Anakin comes from, but admit it -- what you really want is to see him kill children.
MPEG4 compression and local HD channels, something that the cable company can't offer in my area.
Yay for sentence fragments!
Seriously though, at least somebody is finally doing something about HDTV content options. Adopting the hardware isn't the problem. People are dumb -- they'll buy anything new and supposedly better. Most people don't give a rat's ass about quality, that's why they hook up their DVD players to their 60" HDTVs with using the composite cables that came in the box. They just want something bigger than their moron neighbor has. Now that the salesmen at Best Buy and Circuit City can tell them there's actually content, expect even more people to buy TVs too big for their living rooms with money they don't actually have!
I'm willing to concede that I'm not entirely right, at least on the origins, but I think the accepted usage of the expression is not the proper usage. At the very least, it's a point worthy of discussion.
Why does nobody understand that the "taken with a grain of salt" expression means that it needs no flavor. It doesn't need salt. It's plenty salty as it is. You only need a grain. Get it?
Duh, Slashdot.
The problem with Wikipedia is that information is not a democracy. George Washington's birthday is not determined by whatever day most people think it is, but with Wikipedia, errors like that can slip in unnoticed. It's like the people in certain areas who want "intelligen design" to be taught instead of Darwin's scientifically viable theory of evolution. They say things like, "We don't belive Darwin 'round these parts, so we don't want it taught in our schools!" That's great if you're an ignorant redneck, but it doesn't make it right. Wikipedia has a danger of being (or at least becoming) extremely biased, not necessarily for ideological reasons, but through simply through public ignorance.
Well it has always run on Linux. An updated version to run on Linux isn't really as big as an update that will run on Macs is. That said, I'm sure it is newsworthy to Linux people too. Maybe I'm biased, though.
I was looking at the site earlier and didn't immediately notice anything saying if it was running as a native OS X app or through X11? I'd be really tempted to check it out at work, but, well...I'll let you guess the rest.
A five year cycle? Seems to me that they never had much trouble putting out new editions of most of the expensive textbooks every year or two when I was in college, and I only finished two years ago. I swear I saw at least three or four different covers on those damn massive Biology and Calculus textbooks that got progressively more expensive every freakin' year. Good thing I didn't have to buy them.
I see no excuse why any college shouldn't start using this and other similar online texts for the fall semester. If it's good enough for MIT...
It was good because we also got all that MS stuff and Mac OS X for free too...I think the MS deal is done now, but students still get OS X. That worked out because there was something for everybody, but with Napster, Mac and Linux users get nothing, yet they still pay.
We've gotten some big tuition increases at PSU lately (thank god I graduated last year), and the the computer fee has gone up dramatically too. I think when I started in 1997, it was like $40 or something.
1. I know lots of people there, and they've taken pretty hardcore to iTunes at Penn State. I don't know how much they're buying, but they like it, and they want to keep using it for playing. They *don't* want music that won't play on it.
2. That being said, I think most of my friends are technologically more "in the know" than the average student at Penn State.
3. This only affects students who live on-campus. At Penn State, that's only like 12,000 undergrads out of like 35,000. On-campus grad students get this too, but who cares about them? Dorms are for losers with no friends and freshmen.
4. Mac and Linux users are going to flip as well. Part of their $160 going to pay for music they can't even listen to? PSU has rioted over less in the past.
5. Just for clarification, this doesn't come from taxpayer money. The state legislature has been a real bastard about giving Penn State money over the last few years, and they've never funded the computer fee... that's why it's a "fee"... you have to pay it.
6. My prediction: People will use it, but I doubt there's much on there that they want and don't already have. This only affects a portion of the students anyway. Nobody's going to stop using Kazaa/Poisoned/etc, the off-campus people especially.
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Well I guess it goes without saying that once you get tapped a few times with lightsaber, you're unlikely to be doing much moving for a while.
Supposing lightsabers were real, of couse you could bleed to death. If they cauterize a wound, that would work on a fleshwould, but say you cut someone's arm clean off.
The flesh might be cauterized, so small capillaries will be sealed, but that's all. It couldn't possibly cap off a big gaping hole where an artery passed through.
Imagine cutting a pipe in half. You're left with an open pipe. Now imagine cutting a tree in half. You'd be left with a burnt stump. That's the difference.
Joining this conversation has made me at least 13% dumber.
I couldn't get any bittorrent clients to connect on my girlfriend's G5 through her D-Link router (which has absolutely AWFUL setup pages, but at home, I had no problem at all getting any to connect.
I'm sure there are so many different factors involved, but I was really shocked by how fast Azureus was for me. I haven't tried any on a PC, so I can't say for sure what would cause the difference. In the past, I'd take a Cocoa app over Java anyday on OS X, but this one changed my opinion.
Maybe I'm just getting normal performance out of it and the official client and tomato were just really slow.
As for java on PC, I can't even get Yahoo games to work on my nice new Dell at work. I've narrowed it down to two possibilities: 1) Windows sucks or 2)Bill Gates sucks. It requires further study.
I gained a lot of respect for Java apps when I tried Azureus for the first time. It was at least 6-7x faster than the official client or Tomato Torrent on OS X, and it connects to way more hosts for me. Like I said, I'm on OS X, so I've never tried exeem.
Making it easier to get to torrents is all well and good, but let's keep in mind that most of the *legal* stuff available through bittorrent is easy to find as it is.
I dunno, I thought the scene in the Tusken Raider camp was pretty chilling. Just like when you see Owen and Beru's corpses burning after the stormtroopers pay them a visit. You didn't see the actual act, but you knew what happened. You don't need to resort to overt violence, especially if you're at least *trying* to make a film for everyone.
And yeah, I know it's implied again in Episode III, but come on -- a roomful of scared children ask him for help and then later you see them all dead? You know what happens, and not seeing the actual act doesn't make the character any more or less evil.
It's absolutely unnecessary to show the audience. Yes, I realize it takes a skilled director to pull it off. Yes, I know Lucas has blown stuff like this before. *We* haven't seen this scene yet, and I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt. It sounds like he will pull it off, and I'll make my decision when I see it. Until then, I'm hopeful. But showing the audience the actual act isn't necessary. It's called subtlety, and I think it may arguably be better to not show it, rather than having him chase little kids around while he spouts off catchphrases like Freddy Krueger with a lightsaber.
I'll take bad acting and dialog as a valid criticism, but most of the other stuff you just listed are personal gripes.
And for what it's worth, the Trade Federation accent is a mix of Japanese and French, but I don't see why that's so awful. Would a subtitled alien language that everybody magically understands have been better? What if they spoke the alien language with an accent?
By that I mean that people want to see him turn to the dark side. They want to see what, exactly, makes Darth Vader so awful. They want to see him "help the empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi" as Ben says in ANH. Nobody cares about his mommy issues.
Notice that I didn't say the first two were the greatest movies ever. They're not. But I wanted more depth to the Star Wars universe, and I got it.
And personally, nothing is more offensive to me than the musical number Lucas added to ROTJ.
Sometimes I wish I hadn't read every spoiler on millenniumfalcon.com. I know way more about this one going in than any of the previous prequels, but I'm still excited.
Personally, I think most of the hate directed at the previous two, Jar-Jar comments aside, was a media invention. Things get repeated enough and people start to believe it. I'm sure the same thing will happen this time around to some degree, but this is seriously the movie that fans have been waiting for. The previous two were sort of procedural. Sure, it's great to see where Anakin comes from, but admit it -- what you really want is to see him kill children.
OK you get a pass since I had an unnecessary word in my sarcastic response. Even steven.
I'm willing to concede that I'm not entirely right, at least on the origins, but I think the accepted usage of the expression is not the proper usage. At the very least, it's a point worthy of discussion.
Good to see I'm getting *some* backing.
Why does nobody understand that the "taken with a grain of salt" expression means that it needs no flavor. It doesn't need salt. It's plenty salty as it is. You only need a grain. Get it? Duh, Slashdot.
The problem with Wikipedia is that information is not a democracy. George Washington's birthday is not determined by whatever day most people think it is, but with Wikipedia, errors like that can slip in unnoticed. It's like the people in certain areas who want "intelligen design" to be taught instead of Darwin's scientifically viable theory of evolution. They say things like, "We don't belive Darwin 'round these parts, so we don't want it taught in our schools!" That's great if you're an ignorant redneck, but it doesn't make it right. Wikipedia has a danger of being (or at least becoming) extremely biased, not necessarily for ideological reasons, but through simply through public ignorance.
Well it has always run on Linux. An updated version to run on Linux isn't really as big as an update that will run on Macs is. That said, I'm sure it is newsworthy to Linux people too. Maybe I'm biased, though.
I was looking at the site earlier and didn't immediately notice anything saying if it was running as a native OS X app or through X11? I'd be really tempted to check it out at work, but, well...I'll let you guess the rest.
Doh! You beat me to my awesome burn while I skimmed the article!
So are they weary or wary? A little copy editing goes a long way, you know.
We should send him to Australia for a good booting
A five year cycle? Seems to me that they never had much trouble putting out new editions of most of the expensive textbooks every year or two when I was in college, and I only finished two years ago. I swear I saw at least three or four different covers on those damn massive Biology and Calculus textbooks that got progressively more expensive every freakin' year. Good thing I didn't have to buy them. I see no excuse why any college shouldn't start using this and other similar online texts for the fall semester. If it's good enough for MIT...
It was good because we also got all that MS stuff and Mac OS X for free too...I think the MS deal is done now, but students still get OS X. That worked out because there was something for everybody, but with Napster, Mac and Linux users get nothing, yet they still pay.
We've gotten some big tuition increases at PSU lately (thank god I graduated last year), and the the computer fee has gone up dramatically too. I think when I started in 1997, it was like $40 or something.
... you have to pay it.
1. I know lots of people there, and they've taken pretty hardcore to iTunes at Penn State. I don't know how much they're buying, but they like it, and they want to keep using it for playing. They *don't* want music that won't play on it.
2. That being said, I think most of my friends are technologically more "in the know" than the average student at Penn State.
3. This only affects students who live on-campus. At Penn State, that's only like 12,000 undergrads out of like 35,000. On-campus grad students get this too, but who cares about them? Dorms are for losers with no friends and freshmen.
4. Mac and Linux users are going to flip as well. Part of their $160 going to pay for music they can't even listen to? PSU has rioted over less in the past.
5. Just for clarification, this doesn't come from taxpayer money. The state legislature has been a real bastard about giving Penn State money over the last few years, and they've never funded the computer fee... that's why it's a "fee"
6. My prediction: People will use it, but I doubt there's much on there that they want and don't already have. This only affects a portion of the students anyway. Nobody's going to stop using Kazaa/Poisoned/etc, the off-campus people especially.