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those $5 coupons add up to your initial investment. at which point you pay more money.
gah, forget it. this is just to convoluted to be funny. though I did work gMoney into it...
pfft, that's easy. just artificially increase your shipping costs like everyone else does. if you're feeling generous offer a "special paypal haters rebate" if someone pays without using paypal.
If I take a photo of a quaint, rolling hillside I damn well better be the only one selling images of that scene. Anyone else who takes a picture of that area better have a big watermark of my name and contact info embedded across it.
The best reason I've seen for the force being scientific in 1-3 and mysterious/religious in 4-6 is that with the conflict of the Empire this science was lost.
I don't buy it because there is only one generation between the two time periods. Surely there would be plenty who still knew of the science behind the force.
I chalk it up as Lucas trying to re-invent in his hailed original vision.
I'll buy that the ideas of Anakin falling to the dark side and the Senate collapsing were there, but clearly Lucas thought that the post fall and redemption of Anakin was the better story. Probably because he didn't have any idea as to how to fill in the rise and fall of Anakin. "Well let's see...He'll have to train, maybe his mother dies and he'll be tempted by the Dark Side... yeah not much there." When he went back to it midichlorians and corrupt corporations running the Senate was the best he could come up with.
enh, you can take the same ideas and apply it to the original three.
Anakin starts out innocent, trains as a Jedi, falls to the Dark Side because he is incredibly weak, prone to manipulation, and, let's face it, didn't have a good teacher.
Luke starts out innocent, trains as a Jedi, learns that Vader is his father and is really really evil. In confronting him Luke lashes out releasing his hate and almost kills him. Luke is about to fall to the Dark Side but is strong enough to realize what he is doing and stands up for himself.
Both series are about Light and Dark, Rise and Fall. The difference is in order for the second series (1-3) to stand as movies they require 4-6, while 4-6 can stand completely on their own.
I guess in the end I agree that it's about character development. There is a clear path of Anakin is innocent (1), Anakin is clearly tempermental and not really getting the whole Jedi thing (2), Anakin is irrational, easily manipulated, and clueless (3). What's missing is the background, that NS talks about in this article, which lays out how much Anakin has been through and how it has affected him. For the style that has been laid out for the movies it would have been impossible to fit all that into the movie while maintaining a fluid story.
I personally would have been happier with a lot more devoted to Anakin becoming evil. Hell, he probably should have killed his first Jedi at the end of ep2. Spend all of 3 as an attempt to bring him back. The very last of 1 and all of 2 would have been Anakin being pissed about his mother and being a jerk around the Jedi.
Don't get me started on the idea that Anakin has no father. We should have found out in the end of ep2 that the Palpatine is his father.
I think Lucas had it right when he originally decided that Vader's post fall and redemption was the better story. Or maybe he just spent too much time tacking on sensless jabber like the New Droid Army and Gungans.
I'm not sure what you me by a program to re-may the keys.
Any current OS will have the ability to remap the keys for you. Mac OS X, Windows, Linux... I've used Dvorak in each.
The only irritating part is how Windows and certain Linux brands insist on only making the change for new windows or, in the case of Windows, only for the current window (you have to make the change globally and then individually for each open window).
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When I took a QWERTY keyboarding course in high school PopSci or Discover or something ran an article on the Dvorak layout and I figured it was as good a time as any other to learn.
Maybe it was the practice in both layouts at the same time while learning, but I can switch between layouts pretty easily. I'll make a few mistakes in QWERTY at first, but I'll be up at a moderately fast pace soon enough. Switching back to Dvorak is a much faster change.
You'll definitely slow down at first while learning, but I doubt anyone would mix the layouts up while using one or the other.
Well let's see: it has to grab your initial attention by being odd looking enough to be interesting and be annoying enough to immediately drive you away and wish you'd never seen it, while not allowing you to easily ignore it. Even when it's just out of sight, you know it's still there and it still bothers you.
I think it must have something to do with the suggested link between light autism and hard core geekery.
I've taken another look and it's definitely not a shadow. The shadows of the boxes on the ground point in the opposite direction and the portion in question is brighter than the surrounding area. It's either a product of the moving plane/satellite (my money's on the plane) or an artifact of reflected light (I doubt this).
I thougth shadow at first too, but I didn't think shadows appeared lighter or bluer than the surrounding land./. effect prohibits me from double checking.
I think the most interesting thing about the plane capture is that the plane appears double. This is probably due to the combined speed of the plane and satellite as well as how the image was taken. It seems that the plane had moved 30 feet or so in the time that the blue channel was imaged. Does that sound right?
This isn't so much a broken DVD player (Apple's perspective) as it is complying with standards set forth by most physical players. So really they're giving you what you'd expect from a hardware DVD player box that respects the restrictions specified by the disc. Yes there are players out there that ignore these flags and there are rippers that can disable them outright, but do you think Apple is going to try to piss off the MPAA by ignoring them? They might as well create region free drives (something that you can also find a way around online).
the preview currently requires Tiger, so I doubt you'll see a link in your ADC account unless you also have a Tiger seed. it'll probably be available to all developers on the 29th or shortly thereafter.
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plugging into the wall just charges the iPod. plug it into your computer and unmount it. it should charge faster if it's not mounted.
VidCasting? VodCasting?
it's the wave of the future I tells you!
yeah, but you'd also earn around 22,000 points which would earn you almost $250 in Amazon credit. See, you have to look at the whole picture.
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You're really saving $280 with that credit card. You'd be crazy NOT to by it and get the card.
Hmm, I already have the card, but maybe it'd be worth it to sign up for another
gMoney: give us money and we'll immediately distribute it to our advertisers. then use our web search to find your money by searching for the products you desire. if you find and order the right products, you'll receive a $5 coupon for your next purchase.
those $5 coupons add up to your initial investment. at which point you pay more money.
gah, forget it. this is just to convoluted to be funny. though I did work gMoney into it...
pfft, that's easy. just artificially increase your shipping costs like everyone else does. if you're feeling generous offer a "special paypal haters rebate" if someone pays without using paypal.
forget the film, what about the scenary?
If I take a photo of a quaint, rolling hillside I damn well better be the only one selling images of that scene. Anyone else who takes a picture of that area better have a big watermark of my name and contact info embedded across it.
The best reason I've seen for the force being scientific in 1-3 and mysterious/religious in 4-6 is that with the conflict of the Empire this science was lost.
... yeah not much there." When he went back to it midichlorians and corrupt corporations running the Senate was the best he could come up with.
I don't buy it because there is only one generation between the two time periods. Surely there would be plenty who still knew of the science behind the force.
I chalk it up as Lucas trying to re-invent in his hailed original vision.
I'll buy that the ideas of Anakin falling to the dark side and the Senate collapsing were there, but clearly Lucas thought that the post fall and redemption of Anakin was the better story. Probably because he didn't have any idea as to how to fill in the rise and fall of Anakin. "Well let's see...He'll have to train, maybe his mother dies and he'll be tempted by the Dark Side
enh, you can take the same ideas and apply it to the original three.
Anakin starts out innocent, trains as a Jedi, falls to the Dark Side because he is incredibly weak, prone to manipulation, and, let's face it, didn't have a good teacher.
Luke starts out innocent, trains as a Jedi, learns that Vader is his father and is really really evil. In confronting him Luke lashes out releasing his hate and almost kills him. Luke is about to fall to the Dark Side but is strong enough to realize what he is doing and stands up for himself.
Both series are about Light and Dark, Rise and Fall. The difference is in order for the second series (1-3) to stand as movies they require 4-6, while 4-6 can stand completely on their own.
I guess in the end I agree that it's about character development. There is a clear path of Anakin is innocent (1), Anakin is clearly tempermental and not really getting the whole Jedi thing (2), Anakin is irrational, easily manipulated, and clueless (3). What's missing is the background, that NS talks about in this article, which lays out how much Anakin has been through and how it has affected him. For the style that has been laid out for the movies it would have been impossible to fit all that into the movie while maintaining a fluid story.
I personally would have been happier with a lot more devoted to Anakin becoming evil. Hell, he probably should have killed his first Jedi at the end of ep2. Spend all of 3 as an attempt to bring him back. The very last of 1 and all of 2 would have been Anakin being pissed about his mother and being a jerk around the Jedi.
Don't get me started on the idea that Anakin has no father. We should have found out in the end of ep2 that the Palpatine is his father.
I think Lucas had it right when he originally decided that Vader's post fall and redemption was the better story. Or maybe he just spent too much time tacking on sensless jabber like the New Droid Army and Gungans.
that's probably the goatse boot screen that a friend of mine ended up with
buyer(well, you get the idea) beware as they say...
I'm not sure what you me by a program to re-may the keys.
Any current OS will have the ability to remap the keys for you.
Mac OS X, Windows, Linux... I've used Dvorak in each.
The only irritating part is how Windows and certain Linux brands insist on only making the change for new windows or, in the case of Windows, only for the current window (you have to make the change globally and then individually for each open window).
When I took a QWERTY keyboarding course in high school PopSci or Discover or something ran an article on the Dvorak layout and I figured it was as good a time as any other to learn.
Maybe it was the practice in both layouts at the same time while learning, but I can switch between layouts pretty easily. I'll make a few mistakes in QWERTY at first, but I'll be up at a moderately fast pace soon enough. Switching back to Dvorak is a much faster change.
You'll definitely slow down at first while learning, but I doubt anyone would mix the layouts up while using one or the other.
hmmm, how do I mod this as "+1 Annoying"?
Well let's see: it has to grab your initial attention by being odd looking enough to be interesting and be annoying enough to immediately drive you away and wish you'd never seen it, while not allowing you to easily ignore it. Even when it's just out of sight, you know it's still there and it still bothers you.
I think it must have something to do with the suggested link between light autism and hard core geekery.
I've taken another look and it's definitely not a shadow. The shadows of the boxes on the ground point in the opposite direction and the portion in question is brighter than the surrounding area. It's either a product of the moving plane/satellite (my money's on the plane) or an artifact of reflected light (I doubt this).
not that anyone cares at this point...
I thougth shadow at first too, but I didn't think shadows appeared lighter or bluer than the surrounding land. /. effect prohibits me from double checking.
I think the most interesting thing about the plane capture is that the plane appears double. This is probably due to the combined speed of the plane and satellite as well as how the image was taken. It seems that the plane had moved 30 feet or so in the time that the blue channel was imaged. Does that sound right?
true, until Tiger is shipping I presume.
What's Included with Tiger
In the Box
* Installation DVD
http://www.apple.com/macosx/techspecs/
using an AIM account from AOL connects you to the AIM server for text chat and then uses a direct connection for video or audio.
This isn't so much a broken DVD player (Apple's perspective) as it is complying with standards set forth by most physical players. So really they're giving you what you'd expect from a hardware DVD player box that respects the restrictions specified by the disc. Yes there are players out there that ignore these flags and there are rippers that can disable them outright, but do you think Apple is going to try to piss off the MPAA by ignoring them? They might as well create region free drives (something that you can also find a way around online).
the preview currently requires Tiger, so I doubt you'll see a link in your ADC account unless you also have a Tiger seed. it'll probably be available to all developers on the 29th or shortly thereafter.
a preview is available to developers and it'll be available to all at a later date
there was another product named Rendezvous that decided they didn't like Apple using the name. Bonjour is the result
check out the Up To Date program. You can order it today and Tiger will either be a free upgrade or included in the box when you receive it.
your carbon screan breaking app intrigues me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
no really, is the app publicly available?
thanks.