Perhaps it'll help people to start taking the Scriptures literally (in the case of Christianity), and think a bit for themselves. Religion shouldn't have to clash with Science. At all.
Anyway, back to the main topic, there's no mention of what could be creating the hotspot. If it gets confirmed, what could it be? Massive geological activities? A mothership warming up for takeoff perhaps?:)
Ah, E3. Just about the only place where you (and when I say 'you,' I mean us) can see the most awesomest audio hardware ever on one day and witness geeks lining up in a restroom to shake piss-soaked hands with a famous Japanese game designer on the next day. Quite a motherfucking experience. Between avoiding 40 year old boothbabes trying to score a free lunch and running the slalom through stupid fucks that paid $250 a pop to attend, we saw some pretty cool stuff this year.
Which is my whole beef with the story... that's the reason sold to us for Anakin to go to the Dark Side! Seriously, does it add up to you? I honestly thought it'd be something more tangible - perhaps the Jedi Council banning his relationship with Padme, who knows. An argument with Obi Wan gone bad. There's a gazillon options, all better than "Geee, i must murder the whole world so she doesn't die at childbirth". And more credible as well.
BTW, i'd imagine in the Star Wars universe you'd have the medical technology to help someone with problems giving birth.
To be honest the majority of you who didn't like the films probably knew you wouldn't before you ever went to the theater, and went to the movie looking for reasons to hate it. I loved it, and at least liked ep I and II.
Come on. I wanted to like it, but it became evident the emperor had (again) no clothes 30 minutes into the movie. And i wasn't alone, pretty much all of my friends thought the same. It was mindless fun, great to watch (CG galore!)... but boring. Filled with plot holes and poor dialogues. And, the storyline was awful. It seemed to me that since Episodes I & II didn't really add much to the story, Lucas had to fit everything in the two hours of Ep III. It didn't came out good.
Not only that, i actually felt insulted in a couple of scenes. Darth Vader, lord of all evil, yelling "Noooooo!" like a girl? Anakin turning to the Dark Side in 5 minutes? He loves Padme so much... that he slays a group of infants? Darth Vader needs a respirator because he got 3rd degree burns - in a world where they can replace a limb with zero issues? Obi Wan winning a fight because he has the "high ground"? Padme dies because she "lost her will to live"? I could go on for an hour.
I read a lot of reviews online, and was looking forward to this movie - with low expectatives after I & II, but looking forward to it, nevertheless. I felt like i saw a whole different film.
As you pointed, cheesy dialogues, love scenes, character development, etc... the only thing that saves the day (or night if u didnt go to matinee) is that after the movie ends, you think "it was cool how Anakin die and how he become DV, and how he become to the Dark Side, and how Yoda fought Darth Sith...", this is, just the "things" that happened... I think I can not explain myslef here, but for it it was like to see how things happened was the cool thing, but if I had not seen the other movies it would be an ok SciFi movie with terrible effects/dialogue/etc...
I have to disagree, the way the story unraveled was EXTREMELY poor, IMHO. So, basically, Anakin turned to the Dark Side because he was a whiny brat?
(Spoilers below, sort of)
Palpatine: "Kill him".
Anakin: "No, it's not the Jedi way."
Palpatine: "Come on, just do it."
Anakin: "Ah.. well, ok"
Or my favorite...
Sidious: "Join the dark side!"
Anakin: "NO! I'm a Jedi!"
Sidious: "Come on.. do it!"
Anakin: "No.."
Sidious: "Come on now, you fool. Don't be a meanie."
Anakin: "Oh, OK. You're my master now and i'll do what you say!"
Come on, Lucas had 3 MOVIES to get it right, and not only we find Anakin turning into Darth Vader in 5 minutes of plot, it's also because of the most retarded reasons posible. Not to mention the terrible dialogs, the way all Jedis are killed (weren't they Jedi *MASTERS*?! Sheeze...), and the cherry on top: Vader screaming "Nooooo!" with fists up, like it was a teen soap opera. Darth Vader, one of the meanest bad guys in movies ever.
I could go all day with things that were wrong in that film. Just like Matrix Reloaded & Revolutions, i kept my expectations low to avoid dissapointment and got something much worse than i imagined possible.
And on games: Quake III did this. Curved surfaces were stored as such, and tesselated, with LOD, at runtime. And this is an old-school BSP+PVS engine!
Thank God SOMEONE finally brought this up. One of Quake III's selling points was how the engine could do this and other neat stuff not possible before. This is hardly a new thing.
I personally love Chuck Jones work - i've downloaded almost every single one of his cartoons and burned them into DVDs, as sadly Warner Brothers only published a series of "best-of" cartoons DVDs, missing very classics.
Of all of his work, you can argue his renditions of Tom & Jerry were his weakest. Don't get me wrong, they have their moments and are a riot to watch, but they pale in comparison with his original stuff, like Roadrunner, Ralph Wolf, Pepe le Pew, or his cartoons with WB characters. Maybe his heart wasn't as much into it, dunno.
BTW, the "newer" T&J cartoons directed by Chuck Jones are all from the sixties. I saw a couple of newer, "modern" T&J cartoons aired on Cartoon Network (along with atrocities like Tom & Jerry kids), and they were downright painful to watch.
Animaniacs and Pinky & The Brain were the very last *funny* cartoons Cartoon Network ever aired, IMHO. The plots in P&TB particularly were incredible - conquering the word creating a paper mache earth and covering it with free t-shirts? Priceless.
But their "loser"-status can't be all their fault. At some point, we as a society have turned them into these monsters by shunning them, excluding them, or mocking them for their odd and sometimes strange behavior. Perhaps it's some mild autism that they suffer from, or maybe some other neural disease that makes them "different" from most of us (and I use the word loosely) "normals".
Come on, isn't that a *tad* too much? Their behaviour is strange to you; they are happy, they have fun and they don't hurt anybody. Why bother? You said it yourself, you have better things to do with your spare time than critizing movies. They don't, they like it. Tastes vary.
Oh, and it's not a disease; these people are not sick. They just engage in activities most people find odd.
... "why?". The world's becoming globalized - you can argue over and over if this a good or bad thing, but it's the way it is. I also have to wonder how many electronic devices are manufactured in the USA today. Yes, even USA companies have their products built elsewhere. Thanks to that you can buy your computers, consmer and electronic gadgets at the price you pay for them now.
Is there a real motive for such a decision or it's just a "Geee, we're 100% american!" sort of thing?
Huh? No flame intended, but the only reason Steam is sucessful it's because it carried Half-Life 2 - one of the most anticipated games in history.
What else is available through it? HL1? Assorted mods? When Steam grows a respectable games catalogue, we'll know if it's a sucess or not. Not likely to happen either, unless Valve starts publishing new games on their own - other companies are more likely to create their own Steam rather than going through Valve. That'd be nice, having to use 10 different online buying/activation programs for games...
The next step is realizing that freedom (as in GNU) *can* co-exist with proprietary (and dozens of others) ideologies and that BOTH/ALL serve a purpose. Not everyone arrives at this second conclusion (nor do they need to) but getting bent out of shape because someone disagrees with your own idealogical decisions (whether you or I for that matter believe ourselves to be correct is largely irrelevant...whats it change?) seems *just* as silly as the post you were responding too.
I didn't bend out of shape over it. I'm just pointing the sillyness of it (IMHO, of course) - but in the end, each one is entitled to their opinions. I'm not the master of all things true either. If it came out as a troll, sorry; it was not my intention at all.
Having said that, i agree... and it's interesting how some people can't see beyond the OSS world and consider everything CSS "evil" and discard it - and then how some CSS folks consider eveything OSS "cheap" and do the proper.
I don't. To each one its own; that's how it should be. Just don't discard it immediatly because it's paid software, because it IS very good, and the team behind it well deserves recognition and respect.
The finesse is in the details. For example, Opera remembers the tabs opened and their position by default if you close it or crash it (apologizing politely afterwards:). Almost every single feature of Opera is no more than two clicks away, and even then, you can customize panels and toolbars (all of them!) in every imaginable way to have the options you like handy. In that sense, the UI is great, with a nice set of features by default. Don't like them? Modify to your liking!
Then there's other stuff, like the panel toggle - a thin vertical bar on the left, which opens when clicked and provides history, bookmark handling, mail client, a notepad, transfers window and more. A lot of people don't like it, but it's very handy to me. So is the "quick search" feature: type, f.ex, "g trees" in the address bar and it'll load Google with a query for "trees". F12, a.k.a "Quick features" window lets you change the browser ID and switch on/off popups, plugins, gif animation, Java & Javascript, and more, all on the fly.
Opera also extends the backwards/forward history in a neat way: if you're browsing a series of pages like, say, a threaded forum, after a while it "understands" how to go to the next page and will do so if you do the Fwd command, either by keyboard or mouse gesture. I don't know how they do it, but it works flawlessly.
And that's only scratching it. I could be mentioning features for an hour. Biased? Yes:) Like i said, the UI is great.
Now, i know Firefox will support most of this features, either built-in or with extensions. The difference is in the integration - Opera does it with cohesiveness and without getting bloated in the way. If it's there, is because it's useable to someone.
Integration. FireFox integrates these things via extensions, which are platform-dependant and don't behave well with each other, from an UI point of view. Opera is just less clumsy.
BTW (no troll), is there a FireFox extension to do quick searches like in Opera? (you know, "g whatiwanttosearchfor"). I keep trying to use it whenever i have to switch browsers, it's so useful... same with mouse gestures!
From my experience, speed, memory usage and user interface.
Opera renders pages much faster than FF in my system - not only that, it feels more responsive. Why, it escapes me, but it just does. Even scrolling a page is smoother on Opera.
It's memory footprint is way lower than FF. It might not be important to many in these days of +512MB systems, but i use my machine for more than browsing, and being able to have over 50 pages at the time with a minimal performance hit is a plus to me.
And Opera's UI... well, i have to agree with someone here at/. that said one it's and aqquired taste. Once you get used to it, you just can't get back, and other browsers feel.. mm... clumsy, if i may use that word.
There's a lot of other stuff that makes it very useable for me; for example, being able to change the browser ID, disable popups or plugins on the fly ("Quick preferences"), or to load pages without images with a single click. The search system is incredibly useful - f.ex., you type "g query" and it does a search for 'query' in Opera. "x" does the proper for GoogleLinux, "z" for Amazon, and so.
...unless (as is the case for many of us) Opera is off the table from the start because it's not open source."
So, you're not willing to consider software because it's not open source? Even when it might be (*gasp*)... better?
I love Opera. It's a sleek, fast, well designed browser with a terrific user interface. I'm also a full-time Linux user; while i like and support the open source "movement", i do it because it's simply a better OS (for me) than the alternatives. The price is right, of course, but that's not the main reason i chose it. At all. Just chose what's best for your needs. Then see if it's worth it's price. Opera is, for me.
I also like Firefox a lot. It's Mozilla sans-the-bloat, and renders pages very well. Still, it's much slower than Opera and the user interfase still needs polish. It does have some perks i'd love to see in Opera though (like AdBlock), but overall i keep gravitating to Opera. Specially because of the memory footprint and interfase (yes, i know FF supports things like mouse gestures via plugins, and that's why they are no good. Opera was built with that stuff in mind and integrates them perfectly).
She sounds like a great woman. Congratulations to the both of you!
I was kidding before (in case someone missed it), even though i know quite a few women like that... you know, the stereotypical one. How can someone measure love in carats is beyond me.
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Perhaps it'll help people to start taking the Scriptures literally (in the case of Christianity), and think a bit for themselves. Religion shouldn't have to clash with Science. At all.
:)
Anyway, back to the main topic, there's no mention of what could be creating the hotspot. If it gets confirmed, what could it be? Massive geological activities? A mothership warming up for takeoff perhaps?
Ah, E3. Just about the only place where you (and when I say 'you,' I mean us) can see the most awesomest audio hardware ever on one day and witness geeks lining up in a restroom to shake piss-soaked hands with a famous Japanese game designer on the next day. Quite a motherfucking experience. Between avoiding 40 year old boothbabes trying to score a free lunch and running the slalom through stupid fucks that paid $250 a pop to attend, we saw some pretty cool stuff this year.
Make up your damn mind.
Which is my whole beef with the story... that's the reason sold to us for Anakin to go to the Dark Side! Seriously, does it add up to you? I honestly thought it'd be something more tangible - perhaps the Jedi Council banning his relationship with Padme, who knows. An argument with Obi Wan gone bad. There's a gazillon options, all better than "Geee, i must murder the whole world so she doesn't die at childbirth". And more credible as well.
BTW, i'd imagine in the Star Wars universe you'd have the medical technology to help someone with problems giving birth.
To be honest the majority of you who didn't like the films probably knew you wouldn't before you ever went to the theater, and went to the movie looking for reasons to hate it. I loved it, and at least liked ep I and II.
Come on. I wanted to like it, but it became evident the emperor had (again) no clothes 30 minutes into the movie. And i wasn't alone, pretty much all of my friends thought the same. It was mindless fun, great to watch (CG galore!)... but boring. Filled with plot holes and poor dialogues. And, the storyline was awful. It seemed to me that since Episodes I & II didn't really add much to the story, Lucas had to fit everything in the two hours of Ep III. It didn't came out good.
Not only that, i actually felt insulted in a couple of scenes. Darth Vader, lord of all evil, yelling "Noooooo!" like a girl? Anakin turning to the Dark Side in 5 minutes? He loves Padme so much... that he slays a group of infants? Darth Vader needs a respirator because he got 3rd degree burns - in a world where they can replace a limb with zero issues? Obi Wan winning a fight because he has the "high ground"? Padme dies because she "lost her will to live"? I could go on for an hour.
I read a lot of reviews online, and was looking forward to this movie - with low expectatives after I & II, but looking forward to it, nevertheless. I felt like i saw a whole different film.
I love you for that comment. No, i love YOU more. No, no, i love YOU more!.
As you pointed, cheesy dialogues, love scenes, character development, etc... the only thing that saves the day (or night if u didnt go to matinee) is that after the movie ends, you think "it was cool how Anakin die and how he become DV, and how he become to the Dark Side, and how Yoda fought Darth Sith...", this is, just the "things" that happened... I think I can not explain myslef here, but for it it was like to see how things happened was the cool thing, but if I had not seen the other movies it would be an ok SciFi movie with terrible effects/dialogue/etc...
...
I have to disagree, the way the story unraveled was EXTREMELY poor, IMHO. So, basically, Anakin turned to the Dark Side because he was a whiny brat?
(Spoilers below, sort of)
Palpatine: "Kill him".
Anakin: "No, it's not the Jedi way."
Palpatine: "Come on, just do it."
Anakin: "Ah.. well, ok"
Or my favorite
Sidious: "Join the dark side!"
Anakin: "NO! I'm a Jedi!"
Sidious: "Come on.. do it!"
Anakin: "No.."
Sidious: "Come on now, you fool. Don't be a meanie."
Anakin: "Oh, OK. You're my master now and i'll do what you say!"
Come on, Lucas had 3 MOVIES to get it right, and not only we find Anakin turning into Darth Vader in 5 minutes of plot, it's also because of the most retarded reasons posible. Not to mention the terrible dialogs, the way all Jedis are killed (weren't they Jedi *MASTERS*?! Sheeze...), and the cherry on top: Vader screaming "Nooooo!" with fists up, like it was a teen soap opera. Darth Vader, one of the meanest bad guys in movies ever.
I could go all day with things that were wrong in that film. Just like Matrix Reloaded & Revolutions, i kept my expectations low to avoid dissapointment and got something much worse than i imagined possible.
And on games: Quake III did this. Curved surfaces were stored as such, and tesselated, with LOD, at runtime. And this is an old-school BSP+PVS engine!
Thank God SOMEONE finally brought this up. One of Quake III's selling points was how the engine could do this and other neat stuff not possible before. This is hardly a new thing.
I personally love Chuck Jones work - i've downloaded almost every single one of his cartoons and burned them into DVDs, as sadly Warner Brothers only published a series of "best-of" cartoons DVDs, missing very classics.
Of all of his work, you can argue his renditions of Tom & Jerry were his weakest. Don't get me wrong, they have their moments and are a riot to watch, but they pale in comparison with his original stuff, like Roadrunner, Ralph Wolf, Pepe le Pew, or his cartoons with WB characters. Maybe his heart wasn't as much into it, dunno.
BTW, the "newer" T&J cartoons directed by Chuck Jones are all from the sixties. I saw a couple of newer, "modern" T&J cartoons aired on Cartoon Network (along with atrocities like Tom & Jerry kids), and they were downright painful to watch.
Animaniacs and Pinky & The Brain were the very last *funny* cartoons Cartoon Network ever aired, IMHO. The plots in P&TB particularly were incredible - conquering the word creating a paper mache earth and covering it with free t-shirts? Priceless.
Because they're women, man, and they have tits :)
Seriously, is the same reason they put beautiful women in every single commercial oriented to males. We just love to see them. It's simple.
But their "loser"-status can't be all their fault. At some point, we as a society have turned them into these monsters by shunning them, excluding them, or mocking them for their odd and sometimes strange behavior. Perhaps it's some mild autism that they suffer from, or maybe some other neural disease that makes them "different" from most of us (and I use the word loosely) "normals".
Come on, isn't that a *tad* too much? Their behaviour is strange to you; they are happy, they have fun and they don't hurt anybody. Why bother? You said it yourself, you have better things to do with your spare time than critizing movies. They don't, they like it. Tastes vary.
Oh, and it's not a disease; these people are not sick. They just engage in activities most people find odd.
This forced nationalism is strikingly similar to the conditions in pre-WWI Germnay as well. Which is something to think about.
... "why?". The world's becoming globalized - you can argue over and over if this a good or bad thing, but it's the way it is. I also have to wonder how many electronic devices are manufactured in the USA today. Yes, even USA companies have their products built elsewhere. Thanks to that you can buy your computers, consmer and electronic gadgets at the price you pay for them now.
Is there a real motive for such a decision or it's just a "Geee, we're 100% american!" sort of thing?
LOL! You made my day. Mod this guy up!
Huh? No flame intended, but the only reason Steam is sucessful it's because it carried Half-Life 2 - one of the most anticipated games in history.
What else is available through it? HL1? Assorted mods? When Steam grows a respectable games catalogue, we'll know if it's a sucess or not. Not likely to happen either, unless Valve starts publishing new games on their own - other companies are more likely to create their own Steam rather than going through Valve. That'd be nice, having to use 10 different online buying/activation programs for games...
I was about to post the same. The Unreal Engine 3 looks flooring; expect to see games with that graphical quality on your PC soon.
The next Unreal Tournament looks damn sweet aswell.
Crickets were heard chirping in response to announcements from several massively-multiplayer online games
Hehe, well put my friend!
Oh, wait...
The next step is realizing that freedom (as in GNU) *can* co-exist with proprietary (and dozens of others) ideologies and that BOTH/ALL serve a purpose. Not everyone arrives at this second conclusion (nor do they need to) but getting bent out of shape because someone disagrees with your own idealogical decisions (whether you or I for that matter believe ourselves to be correct is largely irrelevant...whats it change?) seems *just* as silly as the post you were responding too.
I didn't bend out of shape over it. I'm just pointing the sillyness of it (IMHO, of course) - but in the end, each one is entitled to their opinions. I'm not the master of all things true either. If it came out as a troll, sorry; it was not my intention at all.
Having said that, i agree... and it's interesting how some people can't see beyond the OSS world and consider everything CSS "evil" and discard it - and then how some CSS folks consider eveything OSS "cheap" and do the proper.
I don't. To each one its own; that's how it should be. Just don't discard it immediatly because it's paid software, because it IS very good, and the team behind it well deserves recognition and respect.
The finesse is in the details. For example, Opera remembers the tabs opened and their position by default if you close it or crash it (apologizing politely afterwards :). Almost every single feature of Opera is no more than two clicks away, and even then, you can customize panels and toolbars (all of them!) in every imaginable way to have the options you like handy. In that sense, the UI is great, with a nice set of features by default. Don't like them? Modify to your liking!
:) Like i said, the UI is great.
Then there's other stuff, like the panel toggle - a thin vertical bar on the left, which opens when clicked and provides history, bookmark handling, mail client, a notepad, transfers window and more. A lot of people don't like it, but it's very handy to me. So is the "quick search" feature: type, f.ex, "g trees" in the address bar and it'll load Google with a query for "trees". F12, a.k.a "Quick features" window lets you change the browser ID and switch on/off popups, plugins, gif animation, Java & Javascript, and more, all on the fly.
Opera also extends the backwards/forward history in a neat way: if you're browsing a series of pages like, say, a threaded forum, after a while it "understands" how to go to the next page and will do so if you do the Fwd command, either by keyboard or mouse gesture. I don't know how they do it, but it works flawlessly.
And that's only scratching it. I could be mentioning features for an hour. Biased? Yes
Now, i know Firefox will support most of this features, either built-in or with extensions. The difference is in the integration - Opera does it with cohesiveness and without getting bloated in the way. If it's there, is because it's useable to someone.
Integration. FireFox integrates these things via extensions, which are platform-dependant and don't behave well with each other, from an UI point of view. Opera is just less clumsy.
BTW (no troll), is there a FireFox extension to do quick searches like in Opera? (you know, "g whatiwanttosearchfor"). I keep trying to use it whenever i have to switch browsers, it's so useful... same with mouse gestures!
From my experience, speed, memory usage and user interface.
/. that said one it's and aqquired taste. Once you get used to it, you just can't get back, and other browsers feel.. mm... clumsy, if i may use that word.
Opera renders pages much faster than FF in my system - not only that, it feels more responsive. Why, it escapes me, but it just does. Even scrolling a page is smoother on Opera.
It's memory footprint is way lower than FF. It might not be important to many in these days of +512MB systems, but i use my machine for more than browsing, and being able to have over 50 pages at the time with a minimal performance hit is a plus to me.
And Opera's UI... well, i have to agree with someone here at
There's a lot of other stuff that makes it very useable for me; for example, being able to change the browser ID, disable popups or plugins on the fly ("Quick preferences"), or to load pages without images with a single click. The search system is incredibly useful - f.ex., you type "g query" and it does a search for 'query' in Opera. "x" does the proper for GoogleLinux, "z" for Amazon, and so.
...unless (as is the case for many of us) Opera is off the table from the start because it's not open source."
So, you're not willing to consider software because it's not open source? Even when it might be (*gasp*)... better?
I love Opera. It's a sleek, fast, well designed browser with a terrific user interface. I'm also a full-time Linux user; while i like and support the open source "movement", i do it because it's simply a better OS (for me) than the alternatives. The price is right, of course, but that's not the main reason i chose it. At all. Just chose what's best for your needs. Then see if it's worth it's price. Opera is, for me.
I also like Firefox a lot. It's Mozilla sans-the-bloat, and renders pages very well. Still, it's much slower than Opera and the user interfase still needs polish. It does have some perks i'd love to see in Opera though (like AdBlock), but overall i keep gravitating to Opera. Specially because of the memory footprint and interfase (yes, i know FF supports things like mouse gestures via plugins, and that's why they are no good. Opera was built with that stuff in mind and integrates them perfectly).
She sounds like a great woman. Congratulations to the both of you!
I was kidding before (in case someone missed it), even though i know quite a few women like that... you know, the stereotypical one. How can someone measure love in carats is beyond me.
You haven't been dating a lot lately, have you? Try explaining that to a woman...