It's because the Star Wars universe consists of more than just the movies. After the original trilogy many novels have been written about what happens to the characters after "Return of the Jedi." All of the plotlines in these novels are approved by George Lucuas himself. Therefore, if he were to create sequels, they would either A) make the novels no longer relevant since he's making movies that don't reflect those stories, or B) He would just be making the novels into movies. (Timothy Zhan's sp?) Admiral Thrawn series would be excellent.
While all of these novels were being created, Lucas publication arm would not allow any to be made Pre "A New Hope" because he always intended to make movies out of the back-story. Therefore the new movies haven't bungled up the universe or plotlines (at least not much). In fact the only books I recall that centered around pre-episode 4 content was the Han Solo trilogy that is a pretty good set of books that tells Han Solo's back story from about age 17 to right about the time he walks into the cantina in episode 4.
This will be tough thing to avoid. I've ready quite a few Star Wars novels in my day and all of them have noteable characters from the movies sprinkled throughout the plotlines. I could see how they might avoid using main characters if they set the television series Pre-episode I or pretty far past episode 6 (post new jedi order?) but for the series to take place between episodes 3 and 4 would require a few staple characters to make regular apperances in order for the audience to become grounded.
I recently watched that amateur Star Wars fan film "Revelations" and without an appearence by Darth Vader, it wouldn't have seemed like Star Wars. The sets and sabers alone just don't draw me in like the cast of characters that everyone is familiar with.
Here's hoping that is an overstatement and we'll see a few familiar faces in the series.
The article talks about how beehive sits on top of struts and makes a long and complex struts-config file a thing of the past.
That would be well and good, but it looks like in their example they are putting the same type of configuration information including flow control into hard coded controller classes instead. How is this any different? Let alone better that using an XML file? One of the main points of the struts-config is to allow the user to change page flow, permissions, navigation, validation options, using XML files that get interperted upon server startup so that these types of changes wouldn't require a new code deployment (and thus a long and arduous testing cycle).
Technology should innovate or at least attempt to build a better mouse-trap. I don't see how Beehive does either of the two. Perhaps there is a better explanation somewhere.
"Would competition regulators look to block this merger??"
IMO the FTC has no interest in getting involved with techonology companies unless it means a way for them to line their pockets. Foremost is that they don't understand the technology and therefore do little to understand the business behind that technology. The FTC usualy waits until the problem is irreversible before they bother to do anything and at that point the only thing they do about it is hit up the monopoly in question for some cash (see Microsoft).
In some round about the FTC reminds me ofa lawyer in a Dilbert cartoon I once read. Dilbert tells the lawyer of his dangerous invention and asks him for legal protection. The lawyer turns him down and tells him that he thinks he could make more money by suing him instead.
The FTC doesn't prevent monopolies anymore, they just try to break them up once they smell green.
Maybe they are doing this just for the sheer enjoyment of it?
I saw Episodes 1/2 on opening day and waited in line about 6 minutes combined. So it's not like they NEED to camp out to get tickets. Which come to think of it makes the whole idea of them standing in line for tickets anywhere, let alone a theatre that isn't even showing the movie... downright sad.
What I'm looking forward to more than the movie is the comedy bit where Triumph the Insult Comic Dog shows up and tells the line camping nerds how nice they are... FOR HIM TO POOP ON!
...without reading TFA, any comment of this sort does not have much value. Maybe if he re-read the article his comment would get a %50 improvement? Maybe his original thoughts were poorly conceived/whatever? This comment MAY be insightful but any comment like this is hardly valuable, that's why I would not even bother to RTFP
"...you can't go wasting time actually reading articles"
That's the entire reason many of us visit/.
So that we can get our Nerd News of the day on one consolidated page without having to read 15 articles, 14 of which don't know how to get to the frickin point.
I've been using Yahoo mail for a long, long time. I rarely have more than 3-5 megabytes of email at any given time, so the fact that my mailbox capacity has increased from 6 to 250 to 1000 megabytes is of no concern. I've tried using G-mail, but I personaly like the yahoo interface better. And while I do get LOTS of spam, their spam filter blocks over 99% of it, and my personal filters take care of most of the rest.
I also like how well Yahoo integrates with other hardware and applications. The email system integrates very well with the Yahoo messenger service and I get notifications and previews even when using Trillian.
When Yahoo mail arrived on the scene, hotmail was the only other free service that was being used to any great extent and Yahoo was superior by leaps and bounds. Over the years I've seen Y!'s webmail interface constantly improved and updated. Even if G-mail were to offer functionality that Yahoo lacks, I can see them integrating (stealing?) the new idea into their own mail system.
While Google may be the leading search engine, I think Yahoo with my.yahoo is still the best web-portal on the internet and has been for a long time.
Yea right on!
Since the hollywood industry isn't the least bit liberal, it's a shame to see some obviously right-winged movie such as Ender's Game getting made.
I may buy this one instead of going to see it in the theatre, I'll file it in my alphabetical collection right between Dead Man Walking and Farenheight 911.
...I'm picturing some unholy union halfway between Spy-Kids 3D and Starship Troopers.
I can feel my philotic connection to Ender being dimished already.
Here's how it's going to happen. You're going to add these items to your list. The poster that adds these items to their list gets to take a ride in my helicopter around New York
Can sell lemonade on street corners
Can be in the same room with Omarosa without strangling her
Can sell ice-cream on streat corners
Be able to kiss Donald Trump's ass.
Be able to say "Stepped Up" 17 times in once sentence
Can secretly sleep with Carol while the cameras aren't rolling
I haven't seen a (legitimate American) business that uses RAR files for any reason. Any company that prohibits users from installing extra software would thus prohibit their users from installing a RAR decompressor. It would also be very easy to delete all incoming RAR files or reject the message with something like "Please send a ZIP file" instead.
Until people start sending ZIP files (which are rejected after being virus-scanned) this is largely a non-threat.
Nice elitest answer there. YOU can't think of a good purpose to use.rar files so therefore we shouldn't bother. I've been using WinRAR from http://www.rarsoft.com/ for years because it has been able to handle.ZIP,.RAR, and most importantly,.tar.gz files for those of us working in a dual windows/unix(linux) environment. Most of the Zip utilities that have been provided by the companies that I work for have provided a client only capable of accessing zip formats.
Also, I prefer the.RAR format BECAUSE other programs have a harder time peeking around in them. Most of the things I put in a.RAR file I want to be kept confidential and I password the file. Granted this isn't top-notch security but it's sufficient to deter most snoopers. (I don't trust network admins.)
File this post under how-do-trolls-get-modded-as-interesting.
I think I'll try setting up a message filter that goes something like this:
This story says *, but what would everyone think if Microsoft(play evil villain music) were to say *.
You unfairly cast assumptions on people's motives. Calling somebody lazy because they prefer movies over books is elitest. Before TV/Film, which form of entertainment do you think the citizenry prefered, live theatre or oratory readings?
Don't kid yourself thinking that reading somehow isn't passive. The words are set in stone and you passively read them and you imagine the scenes and characters that the author describes. You're not exactly doing anything active.
A perfect example of how a movie can spawn more imagination than a book would be to take a quick look at the Star Wars/Star Trek scene. There are hundreds of novels that people have created in these universes... using their imagination, as well as collections of thousands of other creative works such as amateur fiction, fan movies, games, etc. How in the world could that be since movies are so much more passive than books?!
I've read plenty of books in my day, but quite frankly, taking care of my wife, house, 3 month old twin boys, and jobs doesn't exactly leave a lot of time for me to read Neal Stephenson's Baroque trilogy (which I would love to do if I had the time). Yet, I can actualy find time to watch a movie once a week and some book zealot like you comes along and tells people like me that we have short attention spans.
Trust me, if I could somehow stick a cable into my brain and watch a movie or read a book as fast as Neo learned Kung-Fu, I'd gladly do it.
Eminent computer scientist, author, painter, and dot-com millionaire, Paul Graham...
Book recap:
Step 1: Develop rudimentary knowledge of programming.
Step 2: Travel back to 1994 in a time machine.
Step 3: Develop DOT-COM business
Step 4: Sell business in 1999.
Step 5: Fill millionaire lifestyle with useless hobbies like painting.
Text is just a medium to archive information and convey it from one person to another. It has been an efficient system for thousands of years, but I disagree that the medium itself is responsible for any mind expanding side affects. Computers, and more specificly, on-demand rendering technologies are fairly new in the grand scheme of things.
Why do LOTS of people prefer movies over books? It's because they can absorb an entertaining or informative experience in 2 hours rather than the 20+ hours it might take them to read the book. If computer-assisted teaching methods (games?) can allow somebody to LEARN something 10 times faster than they could with a textbook, then I would conclude that the advantages are far greater than the drawbacks.
When this show first came out, I was geared up and ready to enjoy a good Star Trek adventure, but I didn't even make it past the opening credits. Instead of some fun, orchestrated adventure music, we were treated to some American Idol'esque song that reminded me of the opening theme song of "The Greatest American Hero."
Modern TV shows take theme songs for granted, but they are an important part of the 'feel' for the show. Most everyone, sci-fi fan or not, would recognize the theme song to TOS.
On a side note, I don't know the names of any of those Facts of Life girls but I'll remember that d--n theme song the rest of my days.
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It's because the Star Wars universe consists of more than just the movies. After the original trilogy many novels have been written about what happens to the characters after "Return of the Jedi." All of the plotlines in these novels are approved by George Lucuas himself. Therefore, if he were to create sequels, they would either A) make the novels no longer relevant since he's making movies that don't reflect those stories, or B) He would just be making the novels into movies. (Timothy Zhan's sp?) Admiral Thrawn series would be excellent.
While all of these novels were being created, Lucas publication arm would not allow any to be made Pre "A New Hope" because he always intended to make movies out of the back-story. Therefore the new movies haven't bungled up the universe or plotlines (at least not much). In fact the only books I recall that centered around pre-episode 4 content was the Han Solo trilogy that is a pretty good set of books that tells Han Solo's back story from about age 17 to right about the time he walks into the cantina in episode 4.
I hope this helps.
Wow. There are so many Star Wars bashing posts here that somebody needs to modify my post as being Offtopic.
"...but won't feature the main characters."
This will be tough thing to avoid. I've ready quite a few Star Wars novels in my day and all of them have noteable characters from the movies sprinkled throughout the plotlines. I could see how they might avoid using main characters if they set the television series Pre-episode I or pretty far past episode 6 (post new jedi order?) but for the series to take place between episodes 3 and 4 would require a few staple characters to make regular apperances in order for the audience to become grounded.
I recently watched that amateur Star Wars fan film "Revelations" and without an appearence by Darth Vader, it wouldn't have seemed like Star Wars. The sets and sabers alone just don't draw me in like the cast of characters that everyone is familiar with.
Here's hoping that is an overstatement and we'll see a few familiar faces in the series.
The article talks about how beehive sits on top of struts and makes a long and complex struts-config file a thing of the past.
That would be well and good, but it looks like in their example they are putting the same type of configuration information including flow control into hard coded controller classes instead. How is this any different? Let alone better that using an XML file? One of the main points of the struts-config is to allow the user to change page flow, permissions, navigation, validation options, using XML files that get interperted upon server startup so that these types of changes wouldn't require a new code deployment (and thus a long and arduous testing cycle).
Technology should innovate or at least attempt to build a better mouse-trap. I don't see how Beehive does either of the two. Perhaps there is a better explanation somewhere.
"Would competition regulators look to block this merger??"
IMO the FTC has no interest in getting involved with techonology companies unless it means a way for them to line their pockets. Foremost is that they don't understand the technology and therefore do little to understand the business behind that technology. The FTC usualy waits until the problem is irreversible before they bother to do anything and at that point the only thing they do about it is hit up the monopoly in question for some cash (see Microsoft).
In some round about the FTC reminds me ofa lawyer in a Dilbert cartoon I once read. Dilbert tells the lawyer of his dangerous invention and asks him for legal protection. The lawyer turns him down and tells him that he thinks he could make more money by suing him instead.
The FTC doesn't prevent monopolies anymore, they just try to break them up once they smell green.
Maybe they are doing this just for the sheer enjoyment of it?
I saw Episodes 1/2 on opening day and waited in line about 6 minutes combined. So it's not like they NEED to camp out to get tickets. Which come to think of it makes the whole idea of them standing in line for tickets anywhere, let alone a theatre that isn't even showing the movie... downright sad.
What I'm looking forward to more than the movie is the comedy bit where Triumph the Insult Comic Dog shows up and tells the line camping nerds how nice they are... FOR HIM TO POOP ON!
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...without reading TFA, any comment of this sort does not have much value. Maybe if he re-read the article his comment would get a %50 improvement? Maybe his original thoughts were poorly conceived/whatever? This comment MAY be insightful but any comment like this is hardly valuable, that's why I would not even bother to RTFP
"...you can't go wasting time actually reading articles"
/.
That's the entire reason many of us visit
So that we can get our Nerd News of the day on one consolidated page without having to read 15 articles, 14 of which don't know how to get to the frickin point.
...or did any other web developers get their wires crossed when they read "18th International" and thought this had something to do with "I18N"?
I couldn't agree more.
I've been using Yahoo mail for a long, long time. I rarely have more than 3-5 megabytes of email at any given time, so the fact that my mailbox capacity has increased from 6 to 250 to 1000 megabytes is of no concern. I've tried using G-mail, but I personaly like the yahoo interface better. And while I do get LOTS of spam, their spam filter blocks over 99% of it, and my personal filters take care of most of the rest.
I also like how well Yahoo integrates with other hardware and applications. The email system integrates very well with the Yahoo messenger service and I get notifications and previews even when using Trillian.
When Yahoo mail arrived on the scene, hotmail was the only other free service that was being used to any great extent and Yahoo was superior by leaps and bounds. Over the years I've seen Y!'s webmail interface constantly improved and updated. Even if G-mail were to offer functionality that Yahoo lacks, I can see them integrating (stealing?) the new idea into their own mail system.
While Google may be the leading search engine, I think Yahoo with my.yahoo is still the best web-portal on the internet and has been for a long time.
Yea right on!
Since the hollywood industry isn't the least bit liberal, it's a shame to see some obviously right-winged movie such as Ender's Game getting made.
I may buy this one instead of going to see it in the theatre, I'll file it in my alphabetical collection right between Dead Man Walking and Farenheight 911.
...I'm picturing some unholy union halfway between Spy-Kids 3D and Starship Troopers. I can feel my philotic connection to Ender being dimished already.
Can sell lemonade on street corners
Can be in the same room with Omarosa without strangling her
Can sell ice-cream on streat corners
Be able to kiss Donald Trump's ass.
Be able to say "Stepped Up" 17 times in once sentence
Can secretly sleep with Carol while the cameras aren't rolling
-Bill Rancic & Kelly Perdew
Nice elitest answer there. YOU can't think of a good purpose to use
Also, I prefer the
Why do the chins on all the male characters look like a pair of testicles?
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the Eric Cartman theme park marketing strategy.
"We've got this cool new software and YOU CAN'T USE IT, unless we let you!"
File this post under how-do-trolls-get-modded-as-interesting.
I think I'll try setting up a message filter that goes something like this:
This story says *, but what would everyone think if Microsoft (play evil villain music) were to say *.
You unfairly cast assumptions on people's motives. Calling somebody lazy because they prefer movies over books is elitest. Before TV/Film, which form of entertainment do you think the citizenry prefered, live theatre or oratory readings?
Don't kid yourself thinking that reading somehow isn't passive. The words are set in stone and you passively read them and you imagine the scenes and characters that the author describes. You're not exactly doing anything active.
A perfect example of how a movie can spawn more imagination than a book would be to take a quick look at the Star Wars/Star Trek scene. There are hundreds of novels that people have created in these universes... using their imagination, as well as collections of thousands of other creative works such as amateur fiction, fan movies, games, etc. How in the world could that be since movies are so much more passive than books?!
I've read plenty of books in my day, but quite frankly, taking care of my wife, house, 3 month old twin boys, and jobs doesn't exactly leave a lot of time for me to read Neal Stephenson's Baroque trilogy (which I would love to do if I had the time). Yet, I can actualy find time to watch a movie once a week and some book zealot like you comes along and tells people like me that we have short attention spans.
Trust me, if I could somehow stick a cable into my brain and watch a movie or read a book as fast as Neo learned Kung-Fu, I'd gladly do it.
Eminent computer scientist, author, painter, and dot-com millionaire, Paul Graham...
Book recap:
Step 1: Develop rudimentary knowledge of programming.
Step 2: Travel back to 1994 in a time machine.
Step 3: Develop DOT-COM business
Step 4: Sell business in 1999.
Step 5: Fill millionaire lifestyle with useless hobbies like painting.
Text is just a medium to archive information and convey it from one person to another. It has been an efficient system for thousands of years, but I disagree that the medium itself is responsible for any mind expanding side affects. Computers, and more specificly, on-demand rendering technologies are fairly new in the grand scheme of things. Why do LOTS of people prefer movies over books? It's because they can absorb an entertaining or informative experience in 2 hours rather than the 20+ hours it might take them to read the book. If computer-assisted teaching methods (games?) can allow somebody to LEARN something 10 times faster than they could with a textbook, then I would conclude that the advantages are far greater than the drawbacks.
When this show first came out, I was geared up and ready to enjoy a good Star Trek adventure, but I didn't even make it past the opening credits. Instead of some fun, orchestrated adventure music, we were treated to some American Idol'esque song that reminded me of the opening theme song of "The Greatest American Hero."
Modern TV shows take theme songs for granted, but they are an important part of the 'feel' for the show. Most everyone, sci-fi fan or not, would recognize the theme song to TOS.
On a side note, I don't know the names of any of those Facts of Life girls but I'll remember that d--n theme song the rest of my days.