Not quite. Lucas wanted to show how a force of "indiginous primitives" could handily defeat the best-equipped army in the galaxy. He had originally wanted Wookiees to do this. However, in the first 2 films, Chewbacca showed that Wookies had a great grasp on engineering and technology, thus, he couldn't use them as the "primitive" army that defeats the Empire. As as result, we got Ewoks.
However, ROTS *does* feature the battle of Kashyyyk. One of the final battles of the Clone Wars where we do see *lots* of Wookiees doing what angry Wookies do best!
[i]Honestly, I haven't seen any of the Star Wars movies. I started to watch Episode I, however five minutes after seeing Jar-Jar (before hearing all the controversy surrounding him) I couldn't stand the movie and walked away. Now I will certainly not see II and III, however I may go back and watch the original series.
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Sooooo, what you're saying is you refuse to watch three films because in the first of the three, there is one annoying character in it? Jar-jar has a total of 3 lines in AOTC, and, rumor has it, NONE in ROTS. Whatever.
Gah, you "George Lucas Raped my Childhood" trolls really are just a one-act show, aren't you. Everything he does is just to sell toys and cereal, isn't it?
"Jar-Jar is just for kids" - Bitch, piss, moan.
"TPM wasn't violent enough, he's catering to the kids" - Bitch, piss, moan.
"ROTS is going to be too violent, he's catering to the kids" - Bitch, piss, moan.
Bzzt back at'cha:
Prior to the PG13 rating, it was not entirely uncommon to see boobs in a PG film. And from what I remember, there was no bush in Titanic. Also, a single "Fuck" will certainly not warrant an R rating.
Aces High From the album "Powerslave", c. 1984
Steve Harris
There goes the siren that warns of the air raid
Then comes the sound of the guns sending flak
Out for the scramble we've got to get airborne
Got to get up for the coming attack.
Jump in the cockpit and start up the engines
Remove all the wheelblocks there's no time to waste
Gathering speed as we head down the runway
Gotta get airborne before it's too late.
Running, scrambling, flying
Rolling, turning, diving, going in again
Run, live to fly, fly to live, do or die
Run, live to fly, fly to live. Aces high.
Move in to fire at the mainstream of bombers
Let off a sharp burst and then turn away
Roll over, spin round and come in behind them
Move to their blindsides and firing again.
Bandits at 8 O'clock move in behind us
Ten ME-109's out of the sun
Ascending and turning our spitfires to face them
Heading straight for them I press down my guns
Rolling, turning, diving
Rolling, turning, diving, going in again
Run, live to fly, fly to live, do or die
Run, live to fly, fly to live, Aces high.
They are giving away software for less than the cost of development, which may well be classed as uncompetitive behaviour.
There's no law that says you have to sell a given item at a profit, or even to meet your margins. Companies do this all the time. They'll sell a product below their cost to produce it, then make the money back selling other "services or products" around this product. Look at what MS does with the X-Box.
You see, the RIAA isn't really concerned about "piracy" or "lost revenues". There is soo much more at stake to them than that! The RIAA *controls* the distribution channels of music. In the recent past, if you wanted music, you'd go to a record store, and buy a disc that the RIAA put out. If you lived in a bigger city, you might be able to find a small "indie" store where you could find some self-produced and distributed acts, but these tiny shops are no competition at *all* to the RIAA Beheamoth.
With the advent of broadband, the method of *disributing* the music has been yanked out of the RIAA's hands. Now, that indie artist who would be lucky to move 1000 units can now make their music *available to the entire world* at virtually no cost to themselves!! The power of creating and distributing music is shifting to the side of the artist, not the label, where it has been for the past century. The cost of exposing yourself to a world market 10 years ago was hundreds of thousands - if not millions of -dollars. Now, any artist can produce themselves, record themselves, market and distribute themselves for a few thousand bucks. What do they need a major label for anymore? This is what the RIAA fears. Their hedgemony of producing and distributing "music" is crumbling away.
That's great! How many broadband providers are available in your area? Two? Three? I live in the Phoenix area. We have two choices for broadband. Cable provided by our monopolistic profiteering cable company, or DSL provided by our monopolistic profiteering phone company. What do we do if both of them sign up for this? Jump back to dial-up?
...can you get fanboys up in arms over a piece of PREPRODUCTION ART that was released OVER SIX MONTHS AGO. By the Fucking gods!! I can only imagine what the complaints would sound like back in 1980 when the first conceptual drawings of Yoda were released. Seriously, quit your bitching already.
I had considered a "hybrid" type solution where I use Entity beans for inserts and updates, and some other method (ORM/SQL called from POJO's, etc.) for constrained lookups. However, I think that I'd be doing a lot of redundant work for this (i.e. defining an Entity bean to represent a product, then doing a ORM object for representing a product). I'd rather just use one framework for handling persistance. If you have an example of how you've done something like this in the past without too much pain, please let me know about it!
It was only a couple of days ago that I gave up on doing an Entity Bean solution, and I'm just now looking at Hibernate as a replacement.
I don't see how Hibernate competes with Session beans, as it's Entity beans that handle the persistance layer of your app. In fact, I've read several articles about using Hibernate as a replacement for Entity beans, and using a Stateless Session bean facade to work with your Hibernate objects. This way, you get all the bennies of a J2EE app server and EJB (Scalability, declarative security, declarative transaction management, connection pooling, JNDI services, JMX services, messaging services, etc.) without the pain of trying to model a complex relational database using Entity beans.
I'm actually buried in this arguement right now. I'm currently designing a middleware and persistance architecure for a web application. The following three rules *need* to be followed:
Data stored in the DB is *only* accessed through the persistance layer
The persistance layer must be totally de-coupled from the domain layer.
The persistance layer must be able to retrieve any arbitrary data stored in the DB, bound by any arbitrary constraints.
At first, I tried prototyping this using Entity beans, and I found it to be impossible to meet all of these requirements without wasting a lot of CPU and DB calls. Using EJB, it appears to be next to impossible to use a "finder" to return arbitrarily constrained data. For example, lets say in an E-Commerce app, I have a finder for returning all products, for finding one product by PK, and by finding all products in a certain category. Some months down the road, a requirement comes in that I need to allow users to search for items in a given price range. Not only do I need to build this logic into my web and domain layers, but I must also build a *new* finder for my EJB's. If there are requirements to add fifty new product search criteria, that's fifty new finder methods that need to be built into my Entity beans and deployment descriptors. Yuk!!! My only other alternatve is to do a "findAll()" at the persistance layer, then have the domain layer iterate over the entire dataset and filter out those items that don't meet the criteria. Even bigger "Yuk!".
So now, I'm looking at Hibernate as well as JDO. Looking at the constraint API, I think I'll be able to make this work, and just wrap the whole thing in a session facade pattern.
Thanks for saying what likely 99% of us are thinking!!
Rest assured that the 1% of us who are "down with the Pee-Pants" are laughing at your utter cluelessness.
From the interview we were not given any particular reason to want to know who he is - "Satan likes to torture MC Pee Pants"? WTF? Was that seriously an actual line from a front page interview??
No, it was a very relavant question. Every time that Mc-Pee Pants/Sir Loin/Little Brittle is foiled by the Aqua Teens, he winds up in hell, where he promptly is berated and tormented, regardless of his efforts to start a global demonic pyramid scheme/defraud banks by defaulting on loans for outdoor furniture/raise an army of the undead. Wheras the Wisdom Cube/Dumassahedron is an annoying supervillan at best, he receives *no* torment at the hands of the prince of darkness.
MC PEE PANTS (after being sent to hell): Heeey Satan! Ya'll need a rapper in 'dis Hizzay???
SATAN: This is hell, worm! We only listen to Speed Metal.
SuSe 9.2 is ok as well. The user executing the bomb slows down considerably, and is incapable of running anything worthwhile until the attack ends. But other users aren't affected too horribly.
Don't presume that every fan who grew up with the films shares your feelings of "alienation". For me the prequels have been just as enchanting, just as exciting, and just as flawed as the original films.
I don't think it's a tribute. I think it's just a necessity for telling the story. He's said he isn't aiming for a rating. He's writing the story he wants to write, and if the MPAA says PG-13, so be it.
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Right...unless she's on a public beach surrounded by strangers, many of whom have video cameras.
Ok class, one more time. Repeat after me:
Supershadow is full of shit.
Supershadow is full of shit.
Supershadow is full of shit.
Not quite. Lucas wanted to show how a force of "indiginous primitives" could handily defeat the best-equipped army in the galaxy. He had originally wanted Wookiees to do this. However, in the first 2 films, Chewbacca showed that Wookies had a great grasp on engineering and technology, thus, he couldn't use them as the "primitive" army that defeats the Empire. As as result, we got Ewoks. However, ROTS *does* feature the battle of Kashyyyk. One of the final battles of the Clone Wars where we do see *lots* of Wookiees doing what angry Wookies do best!
[i]Honestly, I haven't seen any of the Star Wars movies. I started to watch Episode I, however five minutes after seeing Jar-Jar (before hearing all the controversy surrounding him) I couldn't stand the movie and walked away. Now I will certainly not see II and III, however I may go back and watch the original series. [/i] Sooooo, what you're saying is you refuse to watch three films because in the first of the three, there is one annoying character in it? Jar-jar has a total of 3 lines in AOTC, and, rumor has it, NONE in ROTS. Whatever.
"Jar-Jar is just for kids" - Bitch, piss, moan.
"TPM wasn't violent enough, he's catering to the kids" - Bitch, piss, moan.
"ROTS is going to be too violent, he's catering to the kids" - Bitch, piss, moan.
Bzzt back at'cha: Prior to the PG13 rating, it was not entirely uncommon to see boobs in a PG film. And from what I remember, there was no bush in Titanic. Also, a single "Fuck" will certainly not warrant an R rating.
The US, while not directly involved in the war, was providing Britain material support accross the atlantic.
From the album "Powerslave", c. 1984
Steve Harris
There goes the siren that warns of the air raid
Then comes the sound of the guns sending flak
Out for the scramble we've got to get airborne
Got to get up for the coming attack.
Jump in the cockpit and start up the engines
Remove all the wheelblocks there's no time to waste
Gathering speed as we head down the runway
Gotta get airborne before it's too late.
Running, scrambling, flying
Rolling, turning, diving, going in again
Run, live to fly, fly to live, do or die
Run, live to fly, fly to live. Aces high.
Move in to fire at the mainstream of bombers
Let off a sharp burst and then turn away
Roll over, spin round and come in behind them
Move to their blindsides and firing again.
Bandits at 8 O'clock move in behind us
Ten ME-109's out of the sun
Ascending and turning our spitfires to face them
Heading straight for them I press down my guns
Rolling, turning, diving
Rolling, turning, diving, going in again
Run, live to fly, fly to live, do or die
Run, live to fly, fly to live, Aces high.
There's no law that says you have to sell a given item at a profit, or even to meet your margins. Companies do this all the time. They'll sell a product below their cost to produce it, then make the money back selling other "services or products" around this product. Look at what MS does with the X-Box.
Not true. Many Atari 2600 games were beatable (think Adventure).
You see, the RIAA isn't really concerned about "piracy" or "lost revenues". There is soo much more at stake to them than that! The RIAA *controls* the distribution channels of music. In the recent past, if you wanted music, you'd go to a record store, and buy a disc that the RIAA put out. If you lived in a bigger city, you might be able to find a small "indie" store where you could find some self-produced and distributed acts, but these tiny shops are no competition at *all* to the RIAA Beheamoth. With the advent of broadband, the method of *disributing* the music has been yanked out of the RIAA's hands. Now, that indie artist who would be lucky to move 1000 units can now make their music *available to the entire world* at virtually no cost to themselves!! The power of creating and distributing music is shifting to the side of the artist, not the label, where it has been for the past century. The cost of exposing yourself to a world market 10 years ago was hundreds of thousands - if not millions of -dollars. Now, any artist can produce themselves, record themselves, market and distribute themselves for a few thousand bucks. What do they need a major label for anymore? This is what the RIAA fears. Their hedgemony of producing and distributing "music" is crumbling away.
That's great! How many broadband providers are available in your area? Two? Three? I live in the Phoenix area. We have two choices for broadband. Cable provided by our monopolistic profiteering cable company, or DSL provided by our monopolistic profiteering phone company. What do we do if both of them sign up for this? Jump back to dial-up?
...can you get fanboys up in arms over a piece of PREPRODUCTION ART that was released OVER SIX MONTHS AGO. By the Fucking gods!! I can only imagine what the complaints would sound like back in 1980 when the first conceptual drawings of Yoda were released. Seriously, quit your bitching already.
Stuuuuuuuuurrrrrmmmmmmmm!!!!
"DaiDiot" is ok. I, personally prefer "DaDildo" when referring to her.
It was only a couple of days ago that I gave up on doing an Entity Bean solution, and I'm just now looking at Hibernate as a replacement.
I'm actually buried in this arguement right now. I'm currently designing a middleware and persistance architecure for a web application. The following three rules *need* to be followed:
- Data stored in the DB is *only* accessed through the persistance layer
- The persistance layer must be totally de-coupled from the domain layer.
- The persistance layer must be able to retrieve any arbitrary data stored in the DB, bound by any arbitrary constraints.
At first, I tried prototyping this using Entity beans, and I found it to be impossible to meet all of these requirements without wasting a lot of CPU and DB calls. Using EJB, it appears to be next to impossible to use a "finder" to return arbitrarily constrained data. For example, lets say in an E-Commerce app, I have a finder for returning all products, for finding one product by PK, and by finding all products in a certain category. Some months down the road, a requirement comes in that I need to allow users to search for items in a given price range. Not only do I need to build this logic into my web and domain layers, but I must also build a *new* finder for my EJB's. If there are requirements to add fifty new product search criteria, that's fifty new finder methods that need to be built into my Entity beans and deployment descriptors. Yuk!!! My only other alternatve is to do a "findAll()" at the persistance layer, then have the domain layer iterate over the entire dataset and filter out those items that don't meet the criteria. Even bigger "Yuk!".So now, I'm looking at Hibernate as well as JDO. Looking at the constraint API, I think I'll be able to make this work, and just wrap the whole thing in a session facade pattern.
Sex is incredibly overrated. Props if you've figured that out sans hindsight. Is it overrated? Or are you just underqualified?
This actually sounds like a retraction. Laura DaDildo has been spouting MS FUD consistently for years now. Why the sudden change in direction?
Rest assured that the 1% of us who are "down with the Pee-Pants" are laughing at your utter cluelessness.
From the interview we were not given any particular reason to want to know who he is - "Satan likes to torture MC Pee Pants"? WTF? Was that seriously an actual line from a front page interview??
No, it was a very relavant question. Every time that Mc-Pee Pants/Sir Loin/Little Brittle is foiled by the Aqua Teens, he winds up in hell, where he promptly is berated and tormented, regardless of his efforts to start a global demonic pyramid scheme/defraud banks by defaulting on loans for outdoor furniture/raise an army of the undead. Wheras the Wisdom Cube/Dumassahedron is an annoying supervillan at best, he receives *no* torment at the hands of the prince of darkness.
MC PEE PANTS (after being sent to hell): Heeey Satan! Ya'll need a rapper in 'dis Hizzay???
SATAN: This is hell, worm! We only listen to Speed Metal.
MC PEE PANTS: Hey man, dat's cool!
SATAN: NO!! It's not! *fireball engulfs PEE PANTS*
We already have. It's called the sun. You know, the bright yellow disk in the sky that revolves around the earth.
The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics only applies to *closed* systems. This creationist "argument" was torn apart as soon as it was uttered.
SuSe 9.2 is ok as well. The user executing the bomb slows down considerably, and is incapable of running anything worthwhile until the attack ends. But other users aren't affected too horribly.
Don't presume that every fan who grew up with the films shares your feelings of "alienation". For me the prequels have been just as enchanting, just as exciting, and just as flawed as the original films.
I don't think it's a tribute. I think it's just a necessity for telling the story. He's said he isn't aiming for a rating. He's writing the story he wants to write, and if the MPAA says PG-13, so be it.