I don't see these movies as a religion but just a lot of fun.
In keeping with with logic of episode 3, Palpatine did tell a story of Darth Plageious (sp?) being able to manipulate minds and that (as you assume) he was able to take that power.
I read a review that stated that Anakin turned into 'evil mode' in a jiffy so I made a mental note to pay attention to that scene and cope up with my own interpretation.
I didn't see it that way. I saw Anakin as not having his own standard and cared more about saving his wife than his own morals. This 'evil mode' was merely the emperor that make that switch for him subconsciously and it didn't become personal until he killed the separatists (that evil eye thing).
The whole 'bow down' scene looked like Anakin was forced (no jokes about acting) to submit to his newmaster.
I would like to see a report of how effective all this airport busy work is.
How many would be terrorists have we caught using these measures?
True story:
We're (Husband,wife, 2 year old son, parents) headed to a state to visit grandparents. We get delayed in a layover state and the airline issues us aall a one way ticket on another flight. My 2 year old son gets flagged as a suspect becaue of the one way ticket. Not I or my father in-law, my 2 year old son! The screeners come up to us and take us to another area. We're not alowed to touch him at this point or we'll be handed to security for resisting. All we can do is follow. The screeners themselves said that this was ridiculous and were apologetic for the procedure they were required to follow. It was pretty terrible to watch him freak out in the hands of another adult but then he said "doctor?" and we said "Yes, they're doctors" to agree with him so he's at least civil.
A) Because it looks cool B) So Ma and Pa Sixpack get an idea of what's happening because C) If it didn't tilt, every movie mistake geek would point it out as it pertains to the Star Wars Universe Physics
I did like the quick shutters on the glass breaking scenes.
Star Wars is fun. Nothing more. There isn't weighty subject matter like Lord of the Rings but just a bunch of fast moving ships, blasters, light sabers, good guys, bad guys, and a plethora of creatures. The sound effects are cool too.
This is our generation Western serial. They had bad dialogue, bad guys, good guys, romances that didn't make sense and quick to evolve, cliffhangers, fast moving horses and trains, gunfights, and secret hideaways.
I call BS. There is no way that a company can be out of business because of a bad backup. No way. Especially one in business for 20 years.
Tape can be demagnetized. Oxides on the tape can deteriorate and seperate. Tapes are more fragile than DVD's.
Restoring Tapes from say BackupExec or the like is a Pain In The A$$ and can take hours if done as incremental.
Restoring tapes from a different machine other than the one that mastered it is yet another hurdle especially in a windows environment.
Having a tape archive from years ago done in a version of backup software that isn't supported anymore and newer tape machines that can't read the older format is extremely counterproductive and isn't worthy of the 'archive' title.
Backups and archives should be just that. Not dependant on 'current' software versions or technology.
How do I know? -I've had to throw away 10 year old tapes because of software and hardware incompatabilities. The 20 year old 5.25 floppies worked but the tapes didn't. -Years of Backup Exec (5 to current) experience. -Years of NTBACKUP experience and don't even get me started on the XP version of NTBACKUP. -A couple of years of the CA backup software. I forget what the name is. -A few years of lesser known backup solutions.
Tarballing on a DVD is fast, cheap, reliable, and easy to restore. I've never had an issue with that.
If you'd see Empire of Dreams, you would see that A New Hope WAS the original title of the episode.
Alan Ladd and 20th Century Fox woudn't have promoted the movie if it did have the Episode 4 because it would have confused the 1977 public.
I had a Sci-Fi magazine from the 70's that clearly stated then that in George Lucas' words:
-Star Wars was a 6 episode story arc. He contemplated 9 but never committed. -Darth Vader wears a suit because he fell in a volcano. -Darth Vader always had twin children. (this was printed before Empire, right after the original release of the first Star Wars movie). I don't think he originally had Leia as the daughter because Leia plants a rather incestous kiss on her brother in Empire Strikes Back.
I remember when the back and inside cover of every phone book had the number to the local police, fire, and hospital (back in the phone monopoly days)
911 is great for a visitor but if you live in a community, it is your duty to know when your trash is picked up, the status quo of the community, and appropriate telephone numbers for whatever services (septic pumps, fire department if you live somewhere where your burn trash, etc...).
Every family with small children know the name of their pediatrician, the location of the office, and the phone number of the office.
True Story:
2 guys unloading goods off a truck at a restaurant where I worked. 1 guy holds the unloading ramp waving to the driver to back up. The driver guns the gas, the truck is in reverse, the ramp hits the back door and the guy holding the ramp gets a finger cut off.
The kids who witness this freak out, I keep my cool. I pickup his finger (which was grey in color and kind of flat) and put it in ice, call 911 and monitor the time.
There is a fire house less than 2 miles away from us so I figure that it shouldn't take that long.
After 15 minutes, I call again.
27 minutes after the first call, they arrive.
A police dispatcher will tell you that calling their desk will result in a faster response time anyway.
Spielberg was to direct 'Return of the Jedi'. Since Lucas doesn't have credits in the beginning of his movies and was fined thousands of dollars for 'Empire Strikes Back' for doing the same as 'A New Hope', Lucas left the DGA. Richard Marquand was not a member of the DGA which is why he was able to direct 'Return of the Jedi'.
This is also the same reason why General Grievous was not voiced by Gary Oldman as was originally credited.
And then there's IE. Either a big blue E or a harmless little butterfly. Non-threatening.
But butterflies lay eggs and from eggs come caterpillars.
Have you ever seen a swarm of caterpillars eat a tomato garden or devour leaves of their preferred tree?
Wasn't Tritium the cause of that warehouse collapse in New York last year? I seem to recall that some vehicles were pulled to the source and there was a small weather disturbance as well.
You can be anywhere (more than you could in the 80's) and make a phone call around the world or to even the ISS space station using relay stations and such. Whatever communication link exists, it can be linked to someones personal phone.
My paper was going to be about how portable phones of then would morph into personal communicators which they are today. I never thought that you could take a picture with them let alone listen to music or watch tv like you can today.
If you want to compare computers of 30 years ago:
Compare the hollywood version of a computer readout from Star Trek or any tv show from the 60's to what Celestia can do. Hell, I might not have believed it if you told me then that you'll be able to fly through the solar system on your own home computer with the detail that Celestia has today.
When I was in high school (Return of the Jedi time), my physics teacher wanted us to write a paper on fictional physics that could happen or something like that.
We had to get our topics approved and I was going to write about Star Trek. I got turned down with "Star Trek is science fiction, not science fact" phrase. Well I wasn't going to talk about warp speed or beaming but about communication, computing, and the turbo lift. I forget what topic I ended up with but it really pissed me off.
It pissed me off because he let another kid write about Star Wars with blasters, artificial gravity, and bionic limbs.
Nedless to say, communication as depicted in Star Trek is here and now and computing has far surpassed what was imagined in the 1966 series.
What I meant was that the latest version of SQL server is STILL SQL 2000. Exchange 2003 is nothing but Exchange 2000 with features promised in Exchange 5.5
There hasn't been a good exploit since Nimda, Code Red, and Slammer in a while for the servers.
I think that bug reports are actually on topic being that a browser is required to view content on this site.
The equivalent would be a billboard on the higway to remind you to change your oil or rotate your tires or even a recall notice on a particular make and model.
I still think Firefox is a better browser than IE because: -it's available on most major platforms, -other platform versions perform the same as each other, -it tries to be standards compliant, -it does take security seriously.
I'm not trying to start a flame war but IE is only available on Windows and when it was available for the Mac, it wasn't the same. As far as Microsoft goes, Windows 2003 hasn't had the security issues that Windows 2000 had _but_ there also hasn't been an update to any of their server products in a while.
I use to hate on-line documentation too but if it's done right, it can be a time saver.
Look at php.net. Far better than any printed book about PHP. Copy and paste code to test. Can't do that from a manual but sometimes typing code does make you 'get it'.
Windows 98 NEVER prompted. Windows ME NEVER prompted. Windows 2000 NEVER prompted. Windows XP NEVER prompted. Windows XP SP2, well looks like they've started so see that this was a problem after all.
I used to be a NBM'er back before Y2K. Being proficient in MS got me a lot of gigs and Y2K was profitable for me. The problem I ran into was that I was fixing problems with the OS and not being productive with the computer tool. Yeah, games are fun, I'm one of the few people who like Urban Assault, I like X-Wing vs Tie fighter, Unreal series, Quake, etc... but as a game machine, Windows is cool. As a power user, I've always had to rebuild my system by 8 months. It just ran better and forced me to clean up my file structure and the registry hacks ended up being detrimental in the long run (mind you that my default installation has quite a few)
Well, I get a free CD of TurboLinux in an SMC ethernet card box and installed it on a spare machine. Didn't have to load network or video drivers or sound card drivers. It worked right out of the box. Once I got used to not having a C:\ drive, I toyed with Mandrake, Suse, and RedHat.
I realized my time learning about Linux was more valuable than fixing problems with WinNT/98/MS/2K. Fell in love with Apache over IIS at about the time Nimda hit. At that point, the only thing keeping me on Windows were my access databases.
I picked up on MySQL and PHP and have said goodbye to Windows. I still have a Windows 2000/98 (dual boot) for games and some compatability tests.
I don't agree with XP's licensing so I don't have it but IE6 on XP renders HTML differently than IE6 on Win2K. I wouldn't mind buying XP if I could get the 'Lite' version for $50 that runs only 3 programs. All I need is IE.
I recently bought an iBook because a 6hr battery rules and installed the same development environment as my Linux systems. Should have bought the power book because 1024x768 is more limiting than I thought.
In my opinion (and I'm sure many others agree), Mac OSX is probably the best OS for all around computing and general purpose. Linux is great if not better except it doesn't have mainstream appeal with outside licensees. Why do we still have to play CSS DVD's in secret? Where's my Quicktime player? (no, mplayer is just a hack workaround. Great player but not properly licensed) I have Quake 3 for Linux and think it's great what Nvidia has done for driver support.
The only thing that makes the Windows platform worthwhile is the volume of 3rd party software. If it weren't for that, MS would have nothing although the Enterprise level AD tools are worth noting.
How the he|| is the GPL forcing people from not buying inflated software. People still have the option of still spending $700 for a MS-SQL license. You DON'T have to use MySQL.
It seems to me that these people represent companies that can't innovate or have an original idea. It's called competition. Everybody benefits.
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I don't see these movies as a religion but just a lot of fun.
In keeping with with logic of episode 3, Palpatine did tell a story of Darth Plageious (sp?) being able to manipulate minds and that (as you assume) he was able to take that power.
I read a review that stated that Anakin turned into 'evil mode' in a jiffy so I made a mental note to pay attention to that scene and cope up with my own interpretation.
I didn't see it that way. I saw Anakin as not having his own standard and cared more about saving his wife than his own morals. This 'evil mode' was merely the emperor that make that switch for him subconsciously and it didn't become personal until he killed the separatists (that evil eye thing).
The whole 'bow down' scene looked like Anakin was forced (no jokes about acting) to submit to his newmaster.
I would like to see a report of how effective all this airport busy work is.
How many would be terrorists have we caught using these measures?
True story:
We're (Husband,wife, 2 year old son, parents) headed to a state to visit grandparents. We get delayed in a layover state and the airline issues us aall a one way ticket on another flight.
My 2 year old son gets flagged as a suspect becaue of the one way ticket. Not I or my father in-law, my 2 year old son!
The screeners come up to us and take us to another area. We're not alowed to touch him at this point or we'll be handed to security for resisting. All we can do is follow.
The screeners themselves said that this was ridiculous and were apologetic for the procedure they were required to follow.
It was pretty terrible to watch him freak out in the hands of another adult but then he said "doctor?" and we said "Yes, they're doctors" to agree with him so he's at least civil.
A) Because it looks cool
B) So Ma and Pa Sixpack get an idea of what's happening because
C) If it didn't tilt, every movie mistake geek would point it out as it pertains to the Star Wars Universe Physics
I did like the quick shutters on the glass breaking scenes.
Star Wars is fun. Nothing more. There isn't weighty subject matter like Lord of the Rings but just a bunch of fast moving ships, blasters, light sabers, good guys, bad guys, and a plethora of creatures.
The sound effects are cool too.
This is our generation Western serial. They had bad dialogue, bad guys, good guys, romances that didn't make sense and quick to evolve, cliffhangers, fast moving horses and trains, gunfights, and secret hideaways.
I call BS.
There is no way that a company can be out of business because of a bad backup. No way. Especially one in business for 20 years.
Tape can be demagnetized.
Oxides on the tape can deteriorate and seperate.
Tapes are more fragile than DVD's.
Restoring Tapes from say BackupExec or the like is a Pain In The A$$ and can take hours if done as incremental.
Restoring tapes from a different machine other than the one that mastered it is yet another hurdle especially in a windows environment.
Having a tape archive from years ago done in a version of backup software that isn't supported anymore and newer tape machines that can't read the older format is extremely counterproductive and isn't worthy of the 'archive' title.
Backups and archives should be just that. Not dependant on 'current' software versions or technology.
How do I know?
-I've had to throw away 10 year old tapes because of software and hardware incompatabilities. The 20 year old 5.25 floppies worked but the tapes didn't.
-Years of Backup Exec (5 to current) experience.
-Years of NTBACKUP experience and don't even get me started on the XP version of NTBACKUP.
-A couple of years of the CA backup software. I forget what the name is.
-A few years of lesser known backup solutions.
Tarballing on a DVD is fast, cheap, reliable, and easy to restore. I've never had an issue with that.
BZZZZT! WRONG
If you'd see Empire of Dreams, you would see that A New Hope WAS the original title of the episode.
Alan Ladd and 20th Century Fox woudn't have promoted the movie if it did have the Episode 4 because it would have confused the 1977 public.
I had a Sci-Fi magazine from the 70's that clearly stated then that in George Lucas' words:
-Star Wars was a 6 episode story arc. He contemplated 9 but never committed.
-Darth Vader wears a suit because he fell in a volcano.
-Darth Vader always had twin children. (this was printed before Empire, right after the original release of the first Star Wars movie). I don't think he originally had Leia as the daughter because Leia plants a rather incestous kiss on her brother in Empire Strikes Back.
That's what I thought after they finally came.
Seriously, if my kids get hurt in or near my house and they can be moved, I will take them to the emergency room myself.
I remember when the back and inside cover of every phone book had the number to the local police, fire, and hospital (back in the phone monopoly days)
911 is great for a visitor but if you live in a community, it is your duty to know when your trash is picked up, the status quo of the community, and appropriate telephone numbers for whatever services (septic pumps, fire department if you live somewhere where your burn trash, etc...).
Every family with small children know the name of their pediatrician, the location of the office, and the phone number of the office.
True Story:
2 guys unloading goods off a truck at a restaurant where I worked. 1 guy holds the unloading ramp waving to the driver to back up. The driver guns the gas, the truck is in reverse, the ramp hits the back door and the guy holding the ramp gets a finger cut off.
The kids who witness this freak out, I keep my cool. I pickup his finger (which was grey in color and kind of flat) and put it in ice, call 911 and monitor the time.
There is a fire house less than 2 miles away from us so I figure that it shouldn't take that long.
After 15 minutes, I call again.
27 minutes after the first call, they arrive.
A police dispatcher will tell you that calling their desk will result in a faster response time anyway.
Spielberg was to direct 'Return of the Jedi'.
Since Lucas doesn't have credits in the beginning of his movies and was fined thousands of dollars for 'Empire Strikes Back' for doing the same as 'A New Hope', Lucas left the DGA.
Richard Marquand was not a member of the DGA which is why he was able to direct 'Return of the Jedi'.
This is also the same reason why General Grievous was not voiced by Gary Oldman as was originally credited.
But butterflies lay eggs and from eggs come caterpillars.
Pretty scary.Have you ever seen a swarm of caterpillars eat a tomato garden or devour leaves of their preferred tree?
Wasn't Tritium the cause of that warehouse collapse in New York last year? I seem to recall that some vehicles were pulled to the source and there was a small weather disturbance as well.
My implication is the cell phone.
You can be anywhere (more than you could in the 80's) and make a phone call around the world or to even the ISS space station using relay stations and such.
Whatever communication link exists, it can be linked to someones personal phone.
My paper was going to be about how portable phones of then would morph into personal communicators which they are today.
I never thought that you could take a picture with them let alone listen to music or watch tv like you can today.
If you want to compare computers of 30 years ago:
Compare the hollywood version of a computer readout from Star Trek or any tv show from the 60's to what Celestia can do.
Hell, I might not have believed it if you told me then that you'll be able to fly through the solar system on your own home computer with the detail that Celestia has today.
That Motorola/Apple deal was mucked up by the cell phone service providers. They wanted their grubby hands on every song transferred to the phone.
You can get it now at Borders for $120.
When I was in high school (Return of the Jedi time), my physics teacher wanted us to write a paper on fictional physics that could happen or something like that.
We had to get our topics approved and I was going to write about Star Trek. I got turned down with "Star Trek is science fiction, not science fact" phrase. Well I wasn't going to talk about warp speed or beaming but about communication, computing, and the turbo lift. I forget what topic I ended up with but it really pissed me off.
It pissed me off because he let another kid write about Star Wars with blasters, artificial gravity, and bionic limbs.
Nedless to say, communication as depicted in Star Trek is here and now and computing has far surpassed what was imagined in the 1966 series.
Kind of like Jerry Lewis
Pic
What I meant was that the latest version of SQL server is STILL SQL 2000.
Exchange 2003 is nothing but Exchange 2000 with features promised in Exchange 5.5
There hasn't been a good exploit since Nimda, Code Red, and Slammer in a while for the servers.
I think that bug reports are actually on topic being that a browser is required to view content on this site.
The equivalent would be a billboard on the higway to remind you to change your oil or rotate your tires or even a recall notice on a particular make and model.
I still think Firefox is a better browser than IE because:
-it's available on most major platforms,
-other platform versions perform the same as each other,
-it tries to be standards compliant,
-it does take security seriously.
I'm not trying to start a flame war but IE is only available on Windows and when it was available for the Mac, it wasn't the same.
As far as Microsoft goes, Windows 2003 hasn't had the security issues that Windows 2000 had _but_ there also hasn't been an update to any of their server products in a while.
I use to hate on-line documentation too but if it's done right, it can be a time saver.
Look at php.net. Far better than any printed book about PHP. Copy and paste code to test. Can't do that from a manual but sometimes typing code does make you 'get it'.
You must be a new Windows user.
Windows 98 NEVER prompted.
Windows ME NEVER prompted.
Windows 2000 NEVER prompted.
Windows XP NEVER prompted.
Windows XP SP2, well looks like they've started so see that this was a problem after all.
I used to be a NBM'er back before Y2K. Being proficient in MS got me a lot of gigs and Y2K was profitable for me.
The problem I ran into was that I was fixing problems with the OS and not being productive with the computer tool. Yeah, games are fun, I'm one of the few people who like Urban Assault, I like X-Wing vs Tie fighter, Unreal series, Quake, etc... but as a game machine, Windows is cool. As a power user, I've always had to rebuild my system by 8 months.
It just ran better and forced me to clean up my file structure and the registry hacks ended up being detrimental in the long run (mind you that my default installation has quite a few)
Well, I get a free CD of TurboLinux in an SMC ethernet card box and installed it on a spare machine. Didn't have to load network or video drivers or sound card drivers. It worked right out of the box.
Once I got used to not having a C:\ drive, I toyed with Mandrake, Suse, and RedHat.
I realized my time learning about Linux was more valuable than fixing problems with WinNT/98/MS/2K.
Fell in love with Apache over IIS at about the time Nimda hit. At that point, the only thing keeping me on Windows were my access databases.
I picked up on MySQL and PHP and have said goodbye to Windows. I still have a Windows 2000/98 (dual boot) for games and some compatability tests.
I don't agree with XP's licensing so I don't have it but IE6 on XP renders HTML differently than IE6 on Win2K. I wouldn't mind buying XP if I could get the 'Lite' version for $50 that runs only 3 programs. All I need is IE.
I recently bought an iBook because a 6hr battery rules and installed the same development environment as my Linux systems. Should have bought the power book because 1024x768 is more limiting than I thought.
In my opinion (and I'm sure many others agree), Mac OSX is probably the best OS for all around computing and general purpose.
Linux is great if not better except it doesn't have mainstream appeal with outside licensees. Why do we still have to play CSS DVD's in secret?
Where's my Quicktime player? (no, mplayer is just a hack workaround. Great player but not properly licensed)
I have Quake 3 for Linux and think it's great what Nvidia has done for driver support.
The only thing that makes the Windows platform worthwhile is the volume of 3rd party software. If it weren't for that, MS would have nothing although the Enterprise level AD tools are worth noting.
Why just not move away from the Microsoft platform altogether?
These light sabers are pretty cool.
I saw one at Borders for $120 and was pretty impressed.
In my day,
There was no PG-13 crap,
Drinking age was 18,
You could see Farrah Fawcett nekid in Saturn 3.
I remember this 'feature' when they said it was going to be available for NT5.
Same vaporware crap we got with Exchange features promised back in 1999.
How the he|| is the GPL forcing people from not buying inflated software. People still have the option of still spending $700 for a MS-SQL license. You DON'T have to use MySQL.
It seems to me that these people represent companies that can't innovate or have an original idea. It's called competition. Everybody benefits.