Not only is it common knowledge that Wormtongue kills Saruman in the Voice of Saruman scene, but there is a production still of the model on the Extended Edition of the Two Towers DVD.
This isn't really news at all. Mark doesn't say what the next trilogy is about. I'm not sure why it's being reported that way. He just talks about how Lucas asked him to do four trilogies total. This was back in 1976. Mark mentions being in Episode 9 and handing his light sabre off to the new Jedi. Nothing more.
Yes, actually, you do. Read more if you want to know already.
*** Spoilers ***
Apparently, Wormtongue pushes him out of the tower at the beginning, right after the encounter with Gandalf (the "Voice of Saruman" chapter from the book). Saruman falls and is impaled on a large spiked wheel.
Let us rally together and write trite "Super Ultra Mega-Expanded Edition" jokes as though you didn't know there has been a theatrical release and an extended release since 2002 and that New Line and Peter Jackson weren't open about it all along. Bonus points for a George Lucas reference, especially if you use "Lucas" as a verb.
Remember, you must exaggerate that there is a theatrical release and then half a year later an expanded release. You must make it sound like there are multiple versions. "Super Duper Triple Mega Ultra Redux Version Mod Me +5 Funny Because I Use Lots Of Adjectives Edition."
I heard Comingsoon's mp3 last night, and I still don't hear where Mark Hamil talks about what the final trilogy is about. At most, he talks about Lucas asking him to do four trilogies back in 1976, back when the plan was still 12 films. Mark Hamil jokes about how these grand sort of thoughts came from all the free time between shots as the effects guys set things up. That's it.
Oh, come on. The very definition of P2P is sharing files. Downloading copyrighted material is in fact sharing. In addition, most if not all of the popular apps automatically share whatever files you're currently downloading. It's silly to put your head in the sand and pretend that 95% of P2P traffic isn't illegal trading of copyrighted files. Everyone knows what's going on, and until there's a way to enforce legal traffic on a P2P network, it'll always be that way, even in spite of legal alternatives like iTunes.
...but downloading copyrighted materials you don't have permission for that belong to someone else is. Let's not forget that a lot of the anti-copyright sentiment around here magically disappears whenever we have a GPL violation article.
At least Senator Kerry claims he will address the outsourcing issue, if he is sincere, I'm sure there are things that can be done to change the tax structure to at least improve the situation.
Take a look sometime at how many of the employees of Heinz and other Kerry-affiliated companies are in the United States.
Kerry Now Claims "Benedict Arnold" Line Does Not Refer To Companies Outsourcing Jobs, Saying "I Support That." Kerry: "But the Benedict Arnold line applied, you know, I called a couple of times to overzealous speechwriters and said 'look that's not what I'm saying.' Benedict Arnold does not refer to somebody who in the normal course of business is going to go overseas and take jobs overseas. That happens. I support that. I understand that." (Jerry Seib, John Harwood and Jacob Schlesinger, "Excerpts From An Interview With John Kerry, The Wall Street Journal, 5/3/04)
Kerry Previously Railed Against "Benedict Arnold" CEOs Shipping Jobs Overseas. Kerry: "My economic policy is not to export American jobs, but to reward companies for creating and keeping good jobs in America. Unlike the Bush Administration, I want to repeal every tax break and loophole that rewards any Benedict Arnold CEO or corporation for shipping American jobs overseas." (Sen. John Kerry, Statement From John Kerry In Response To President Bush's New Economic Report, 2/10/04)
Using "M$" once is kinda funny in a retro 1998 kinda way. Using it twice is mildly annoying. Using it as many times as you did throught out multiple posts displays a commitment to blinded Microsoft-bashing that merely demonstrates the very biased hypocrisy the grandparent was pointing out.
OMG!! a DOLLAR SIGN!!$$ LOlolol M$
I guess Linux distributions don't try to make money either. Or OSTG...which owns this website.
No, but your sysadmin would just set a password on BIOS startup, preventing you from unauthorized rebooting. Who's to say they'd even allow booting from CD? I don't allow it on my network.
Saw this at OSNews with the summary of "Windows makes it easy to quickly download files to iPods and other portable storage devices--a little too easy in the minds of many IT managers.".
The article is a calm, rational article about how IT admins expressed security concerns over the fact that it's so easy to copy files to portable storage devices like iPods and USB drives. Because of this feedback, Microsoft is allowing sysadmins to block access to those devices if they wish.
Fast forward a few hours and I come to Slashdot, and suddenly the summary makes it out like it's a cyber-rights issue. They're even blocking iPods!!! A quick reference to an out-of-context phrase like "the threat posed by digital storage devices," a little bit of twisting so that this sounds like a censoring issue, in addition to a submitter named "slashdotbs" who obviously knows what's going on--and it was a shoe-in that Michael would seize upon this oh-so-important cyber-rights article where Windows actually allows sysadmins to block access to portable storage devices! Gasp!;)
Heh, spoken like someone who has never written a line of graphics code in their life. If you read Carmack's original OpenGL.plan you'll see that he was talking about how much cleaner OpenGL was to call.
I wasn't talking about his original OpenGL.plan from years and years ago (the one he acknowledges is already out of date). I'm talking about his recent issues with ARB (something DirectX had before OpenGL) and other extensions which forced him to consider switching to Direct3D. Watch the QuakeCon video.
I'm pretty sure I've written a lot more graphics code than you're assuming I have.:)
Microsoft never announced the "discontinuement of DX past the current version." DirectNext, as it is being called, is merged with the Avalon display technologies that will be the foundation for Longhorn (and an add-on package for Windows XP). The DirectX technologies are just existing in a different name and integrated more into the desktop.
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Anyone else find that last line pornographic...? ;)
Not only is it common knowledge that Wormtongue kills Saruman in the Voice of Saruman scene, but there is a production still of the model on the Extended Edition of the Two Towers DVD.
Anyone else think a new Spaceballs sequel in this day and age would be funny as hell? Imagine all the jabs at Lucas and the prequel trilogy.
This isn't really news at all. Mark doesn't say what the next trilogy is about. I'm not sure why it's being reported that way. He just talks about how Lucas asked him to do four trilogies total. This was back in 1976. Mark mentions being in Episode 9 and handing his light sabre off to the new Jedi. Nothing more.
Yes, actually, you do. Read more if you want to know already.
*** Spoilers ***
Apparently, Wormtongue pushes him out of the tower at the beginning, right after the encounter with Gandalf (the "Voice of Saruman" chapter from the book). Saruman falls and is impaled on a large spiked wheel.
Let us rally together and write trite "Super Ultra Mega-Expanded Edition" jokes as though you didn't know there has been a theatrical release and an extended release since 2002 and that New Line and Peter Jackson weren't open about it all along. Bonus points for a George Lucas reference, especially if you use "Lucas" as a verb.
Remember, you must exaggerate that there is a theatrical release and then half a year later an expanded release. You must make it sound like there are multiple versions. "Super Duper Triple Mega Ultra Redux Version Mod Me +5 Funny Because I Use Lots Of Adjectives Edition."
I heard Comingsoon's mp3 last night, and I still don't hear where Mark Hamil talks about what the final trilogy is about. At most, he talks about Lucas asking him to do four trilogies back in 1976, back when the plan was still 12 films. Mark Hamil jokes about how these grand sort of thoughts came from all the free time between shots as the effects guys set things up. That's it.
How many people here have looked at technically underage photos of Natalie Portman in a bikini at some point?
"where's the free-beer enterprise-grade Linux we've been expecting?"
*cough* Gentoo?
Because "information wants to be free." Because "the MPAA is evil." Because going to a theater is an "obsolete business model."
Insert your own piracy-apologist reason!
It's called illegal distribution of copyrighted works, what they refer to as "piracy." Look it up.
Oh, come on. The very definition of P2P is sharing files. Downloading copyrighted material is in fact sharing. In addition, most if not all of the popular apps automatically share whatever files you're currently downloading. It's silly to put your head in the sand and pretend that 95% of P2P traffic isn't illegal trading of copyrighted files. Everyone knows what's going on, and until there's a way to enforce legal traffic on a P2P network, it'll always be that way, even in spite of legal alternatives like iTunes.
...but downloading copyrighted materials you don't have permission for that belong to someone else is. Let's not forget that a lot of the anti-copyright sentiment around here magically disappears whenever we have a GPL violation article.
What a load of shit.
Hmm. Only because "M$" is saying it. If Linus said a particular API or technology wasn't useful for the kernel's needs, you'd be praising his insight.
If you've looked at .NET, you'd see that they have. MFC is dead.
At least Senator Kerry claims he will address the outsourcing issue, if he is sincere, I'm sure there are things that can be done to change the tax structure to at least improve the situation.
Take a look sometime at how many of the employees of Heinz and other Kerry-affiliated companies are in the United States.
Kerry Now Claims "Benedict Arnold" Line Does Not Refer To Companies Outsourcing Jobs, Saying "I Support That." Kerry: "But the Benedict Arnold line applied, you know, I called a couple of times to overzealous speechwriters and said 'look that's not what I'm saying.' Benedict Arnold does not refer to somebody who in the normal course of business is going to go overseas and take jobs overseas. That happens. I support that. I understand that." (Jerry Seib, John Harwood and Jacob Schlesinger, "Excerpts From An Interview With John Kerry, The Wall Street Journal, 5/3/04)
Kerry Previously Railed Against "Benedict Arnold" CEOs Shipping Jobs Overseas. Kerry: "My economic policy is not to export American jobs, but to reward companies for creating and keeping good jobs in America. Unlike the Bush Administration, I want to repeal every tax break and loophole that rewards any Benedict Arnold CEO or corporation for shipping American jobs overseas." (Sen. John Kerry, Statement From John Kerry In Response To President Bush's New Economic Report, 2/10/04)
Using "M$" once is kinda funny in a retro 1998 kinda way. Using it twice is mildly annoying. Using it as many times as you did throught out multiple posts displays a commitment to blinded Microsoft-bashing that merely demonstrates the very biased hypocrisy the grandparent was pointing out.
OMG!! a DOLLAR SIGN!!$$ LOlolol M$
I guess Linux distributions don't try to make money either. Or OSTG...which owns this website.
Bitch, bitch, bitch. Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
As if there aren't ways to block zipping up files and accessing Hotmail anyway.
No, but your sysadmin would just set a password on BIOS startup, preventing you from unauthorized rebooting. Who's to say they'd even allow booting from CD? I don't allow it on my network.
Saw this at OSNews with the summary of "Windows makes it easy to quickly download files to iPods and other portable storage devices--a little too easy in the minds of many IT managers.".
;)
The article is a calm, rational article about how IT admins expressed security concerns over the fact that it's so easy to copy files to portable storage devices like iPods and USB drives. Because of this feedback, Microsoft is allowing sysadmins to block access to those devices if they wish.
Fast forward a few hours and I come to Slashdot, and suddenly the summary makes it out like it's a cyber-rights issue. They're even blocking iPods!!! A quick reference to an out-of-context phrase like "the threat posed by digital storage devices," a little bit of twisting so that this sounds like a censoring issue, in addition to a submitter named "slashdotbs" who obviously knows what's going on--and it was a shoe-in that Michael would seize upon this oh-so-important cyber-rights article where Windows actually allows sysadmins to block access to portable storage devices! Gasp!
Heh, spoken like someone who has never written a line of graphics code in their life. If you read Carmack's original OpenGL .plan you'll see that he was talking about how much cleaner OpenGL was to call.
.plan from years and years ago (the one he acknowledges is already out of date). I'm talking about his recent issues with ARB (something DirectX had before OpenGL) and other extensions which forced him to consider switching to Direct3D. Watch the QuakeCon video.
:)
I wasn't talking about his original OpenGL
I'm pretty sure I've written a lot more graphics code than you're assuming I have.
Unreal includes both Direct3D and OpenGL renderers (as well as a software renderer). I'm talking OpenGL-exclusive games. Yes, I read the list.
Are you aware that Carmack was so frustrated with the interfaces of some OpenGL extensions that he almost switched over to Direct3D?
I think the reason many people here are so fond of OpenGL is strictly because it's non-Microsoft and nothing more.
Microsoft never announced the "discontinuement of DX past the current version." DirectNext, as it is being called, is merged with the Avalon display technologies that will be the foundation for Longhorn (and an add-on package for Windows XP). The DirectX technologies are just existing in a different name and integrated more into the desktop.
How about listing something NOT based on the Quake engine?