I'm in the USA - western PA right by Pittsburgh. All the stores here carry about the same amount of gamecubes as they do Xboxes and slightly less PS2. At least that's where I live. I own a gamecube and so do most of my freinds. The local cardshop has Super Smash Bros. tournies and that sort of thing. Nintendo is doing just fine around here.
From Nintendo:
"Decades of Games
Revolution will play all of your favorite Nintendo GameCube games, and deliver downloadable access to 20 years of fan-favorite titles originally released for Nintendo 64, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) and even the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)." I would say that qualifies. Check it out at www.nintendo.com/revolution
Mr. Lucas in part may be correct. However I feel he left out a vital factor. The growing emergance of the internet. I believe with technology progressing how it is today soon the quality of home movies will surpass a reasonable standard to where homemade movies can be shown as feature films. Maybe not on the big screen but with the internet as a new distrobution medium I think we will see a time where there is a entire movie industry decicated to online distrubution of homemade movies. Maybe for 2 or 5 dollars a download you see the lastest installment of your faviorite movie series. I firmly believe it's possible. And if the industry keeps going the same way it has been we may see something similar in the music industry. Besides I find real thought provoking content in music and movies to be almost always better when it's homegrown. Meh, just my thoughts.
Maybe you should try Abiword. www.abisource.com It's an open source and simple word processor. I have three office products installed on this computer. Word Perfect came with it when I got it, I downloaded Open Office, and I bought Microsoft Office 2003. Still whenever I just need a word processor I pop open abiword. It works great.
Some have suggested that Microsoft should buy the Opera browser. How do you feel about this? If they did, would you plan to continue with work on the browser? Would you ever work for Microsoft?
Yes they do have a machine that turns pages. I watched a news special on it when google first announced that they'd be scanning in books and it had the machines on it. I wish I could remember where I saw it at. As for how it's verified I don't know.
Jesus died at age 33. Hitler died in 1945. That means if Jesus died 30 years ago, he would have died in 1975...meaning he would have been born in 1942. The year after the attack on Pearl Harbor and the peak of the Nazi and Japanese empires. Thus his birth would have marked the turning point of WWII were he to have died 30 years ago.
Hold on here. I'm not going to in any way turn anti-Christian here but there are some misconceptions I'd like to clear up, not with your post but in general since you brought up the topic. First of all, evolution exists. Every year humans slowly but surely get taller. It happens. Evolution is a varifiable fact. Second, it's exactly like you said. There's no reason religion and science need to clash with eachother. If you view genetic mutation as the will of God, everything works out just fine.
I don't mean to seem condesending but I taught a class for my chruch's bible school this summer. I was teaching 6th and 7th graders. The material I was supposed to present to them would have easily been disproven by any 4th grade science textbook (well maybe not one from Kentucky). The worst part was that the kids were clueless. I asked how long ago they thought Jesus died. One of them in all seriousness thought Jesus died 30 years ago. Yeah that's right, we love Jesus because he stopped Hitler!!! I told them Jesus was a Jew and they didn't believe me till I got a Bible to show them. I'm sorry. I don't know if it's bad parenting or what but if we're to have an open discussion on evolution or any other subject that's touchy for the chruch we need to have some basic understanding about religion itself.
Oh no it's much worse than storm troopers. Suits that amplify strength? Gee why didn't I think of that.....maybe because it's existed in science fiction for years. Do you honestly think it will be long after someone perfects one of these before we're deploying troops with combat suits? How long before we have freakin mechs? Like every science fiction writer on the planet didn't see this coming.
Well I am impressed that it worked but I don't think it's going to imped PC sales at all. I get a new computer about once every year and a half. I still have my old computers, right back to the my frist one from 1993. I still use them all. It's amazing what you can do with old hardware. As long as technology keeps increasing I'll be buying new computers because to be honest, the current ones still don't run fast enough for me.
[Text on screen]
How Star Wars episode IV should have ended...
[Inside the rebel base]
Rebel Commander (briefing troops): Men normally with this information we would take time to make a more intricit plan of attack. However, rather than transmitting the technical readouts of the imperial battlestation and keeping our hidden loctaion safe...Princess Leia insisted on coming back, knowing full well that her ship was being tracked. In short, we have one chance to make this right and it's all Prince Leia's fault.
[On the death star]
Death star Piolet: Sir we have reached the planet Yavin. The rebel base is on a moon orbitting on the other side of the planet. We will be in firing range in 30 minutes.
Death star commander: I say we're in range now. Fire.
-Beeping noises-
-Animation of the death star blowing up the planet-
[Rebel base]
Rebel commander: Well so much for that idea.
[Millenium Falcon]
Chewie: Raaaar.
Han: Boy, you said it Chewie. I was this close to going back and helping those people.
[Text on screen]
The end.
[Diagobah (sp?)]
Yoda: Let him beat you you had to. What will I do now? Go crazy I will.
Obi wan (as a ghost): Oh get over yourself.
*End Transcrip*
My thoughts on the subject: Look if you remember the first time you saw star wars...you didn't hate it. Maybe you have what it's become but what percentage of movies that were made in the 70's would even pass the giggle test if someone tried to release them today? The plot and special effects were something that had never been done before. Sure after 30 years the plot didn't turn out to be bulletproof. All a movie has to do to be a good movie is hold your attention and entertain for the duration it's on the screen. You know what? All the star wars movies (except episode 1) did that for me.
I see the advantages here and in other ways I see the disadvantages. In one way I'm excited at the thought of not having to run a seperate program to download a file using torrents. I even see that it might force other browsers to do the same (I'm betting we see a firefox addon in about a week). I could even picture a time when all webpages are sped up via torrents.
At the same time I'm worried about a browser doing too many things. I'm not going to start using opera just because it can handle torrents but if IE or Firefox starting doing it I would be rather happy. It's kinda like the various PlayStations playing Dvds when competing with a dreamcast or 64.
This also begs the question, will this help make torrents more mainstream? I know plenty of average people who have no idea what a "torrent" is. If more of the general public starts picking it up who knows what will happen with things like piracery. Meh, just my thoughts.
No, Microsoft has had a long record of strongly fighting spammers and their lot. Now Microsoft is releasing antivirus and antispyware tools. What better way to shut down a company that produces so much spyware and other unwanted adds than to buy them. From the deal, they'd not only get the code to the software (which could improve their removal tools) but also valuable code for personalization. I say they should go for it.
All ready got you covered there. In fact if a company were to come out and say, look we don't believe in DRM and we're going to not enforce it at all, then they would have my business hands down.
That's just not true. Well the first part yes. Yes with exactly how the internet works, it is indeed impossible to look at the pictures without downloading them. That doesn't mean that their defense is trying to base a case entirely upon the hopes that people won't understand how the internet works. Consider this...Have you seen goat.cx??? Have you seen Lemonparty.org or any of the other variant pictures? I bet you meant to go there. And just because that Jpeg was in your temp internet files I bet that you would say that you, "possessed" that picture. Guy might deserve to go to jail but simply looking does not mean possession.
Well you're pretty correct in your assertions. Still I would argue that, at least for things like email, it shouldn't be assumed that my mail will be around forever. Think about if your post offices kept copies of all the mail you received, even after you had thrown it away. I think the central argument is indeed about things like the PATROIT act. It's the fact that not only you or even google might be reading your mail but also your government, or the government where the servers are stored.
I'll agree with you on that point. I'd also like to point out that the author doesn't consider that fact that right now the collective group of linux users is more or less out of reach from retaliation. If they were to combine into a single entity they then could be easily attacked. That's why a comparision between them and the mob is more apporiate than them and a labor union. Here's to hoping that we get IT unions and that we don't suffer the same faults as airline workers when we do.
Well the good news is that because it's a National ID we take another step towards the poitn where the people stand up and say, "Enough is enough for god sake". Then because it's from HP, it'll be badly designed and break about once a month (don't think I'll be making too many support calls to help them fix my government tracking device), and thankfully, microsoft is involved so we know it will be bloated and inefficent (I'm still waiting for the open source version).
From the site you linked: Why so high Firefox figures?
W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user. The average user tends to use Internet Explorer, since it comes preinstalled with Windows. Most do not seek out other browsers.
These facts indicate that the browser figures below are not 100% realistic. Other web sites have statistics showing that Internet Explorer is used by at least 80% of the users.
IE is still the dominate browser on the internet. What's more, some users browse using both IE and Firefox. Then there are a select (but growing few) who useing only firefox. Now the reasons for that are up for debate but grandparent is right.
Your right, maybe I was unclear. I just meant that Napster was hosting a scearch and the servers to transfer the content. The Bittorrent website doesn't deal with data transfer of the actual content, they just transfer torrents.
While I do agree with you in your statement that it's the his fault. I'd point out that Bittorrent is more likely to get sued than google if nothing else, but simply for the fact that they not only provide a scearch engine, but a means to use what you find on the scearch engine. I know, it'd be like google making a media player but that's just not how the MIAA and RIAA see it.
I don't think the legal efforts against him will be successfull. Here's why:
When Napster was sued they actually had content in their possession. Not the case here. Even if they were able to prove that you could get content from the network, you aren't technically scearching for the content you get. You're scearching for torrents, which are small files with no real copy righted data in them. They're little road signs that point you where to go. It would be like getting arrested for creating a phone book just because you might be able to find the number of someone who has drugs in the book.
Congrats George. I don't know what other people on here will say about the move or you in general but let me say that this is good. We all respect you for the great work you've done (Depending on how you view EP 1 & 2) and we'll forget about that whole Howard the Duck thing. You've built a lasting legacy but to make sure the tradition carries on....Now and I mean right now before it's too late you have to set up policies and teams the way you want them...so that when you're gone your dream will live on.
Thank you Mister Lucas for all you've done. This makes me think you have the forsight to insure your lasting status as a ledgend.
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I'm in the USA - western PA right by Pittsburgh. All the stores here carry about the same amount of gamecubes as they do Xboxes and slightly less PS2. At least that's where I live. I own a gamecube and so do most of my freinds. The local cardshop has Super Smash Bros. tournies and that sort of thing. Nintendo is doing just fine around here.
From Nintendo:
"Decades of Games
Revolution will play all of your favorite Nintendo GameCube games, and deliver downloadable access to 20 years of fan-favorite titles originally released for Nintendo 64, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) and even the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)."
I would say that qualifies. Check it out at www.nintendo.com/revolution
Mr. Lucas in part may be correct. However I feel he left out a vital factor. The growing emergance of the internet. I believe with technology progressing how it is today soon the quality of home movies will surpass a reasonable standard to where homemade movies can be shown as feature films. Maybe not on the big screen but with the internet as a new distrobution medium I think we will see a time where there is a entire movie industry decicated to online distrubution of homemade movies. Maybe for 2 or 5 dollars a download you see the lastest installment of your faviorite movie series. I firmly believe it's possible. And if the industry keeps going the same way it has been we may see something similar in the music industry. Besides I find real thought provoking content in music and movies to be almost always better when it's homegrown. Meh, just my thoughts.
Maybe you should try Abiword. www.abisource.com It's an open source and simple word processor. I have three office products installed on this computer. Word Perfect came with it when I got it, I downloaded Open Office, and I bought Microsoft Office 2003. Still whenever I just need a word processor I pop open abiword. It works great.
Some have suggested that Microsoft should buy the Opera browser. How do you feel about this? If they did, would you plan to continue with work on the browser? Would you ever work for Microsoft?
Yes they do have a machine that turns pages. I watched a news special on it when google first announced that they'd be scanning in books and it had the machines on it. I wish I could remember where I saw it at. As for how it's verified I don't know.
Jesus died at age 33. Hitler died in 1945. That means if Jesus died 30 years ago, he would have died in 1975...meaning he would have been born in 1942. The year after the attack on Pearl Harbor and the peak of the Nazi and Japanese empires. Thus his birth would have marked the turning point of WWII were he to have died 30 years ago.
Hold on here. I'm not going to in any way turn anti-Christian here but there are some misconceptions I'd like to clear up, not with your post but in general since you brought up the topic. First of all, evolution exists. Every year humans slowly but surely get taller. It happens. Evolution is a varifiable fact. Second, it's exactly like you said. There's no reason religion and science need to clash with eachother. If you view genetic mutation as the will of God, everything works out just fine.
I don't mean to seem condesending but I taught a class for my chruch's bible school this summer. I was teaching 6th and 7th graders. The material I was supposed to present to them would have easily been disproven by any 4th grade science textbook (well maybe not one from Kentucky). The worst part was that the kids were clueless. I asked how long ago they thought Jesus died. One of them in all seriousness thought Jesus died 30 years ago. Yeah that's right, we love Jesus because he stopped Hitler!!! I told them Jesus was a Jew and they didn't believe me till I got a Bible to show them. I'm sorry. I don't know if it's bad parenting or what but if we're to have an open discussion on evolution or any other subject that's touchy for the chruch we need to have some basic understanding about religion itself.
Oh no it's much worse than storm troopers. Suits that amplify strength? Gee why didn't I think of that.....maybe because it's existed in science fiction for years. Do you honestly think it will be long after someone perfects one of these before we're deploying troops with combat suits? How long before we have freakin mechs? Like every science fiction writer on the planet didn't see this coming.
Well I am impressed that it worked but I don't think it's going to imped PC sales at all. I get a new computer about once every year and a half. I still have my old computers, right back to the my frist one from 1993. I still use them all. It's amazing what you can do with old hardware. As long as technology keeps increasing I'll be buying new computers because to be honest, the current ones still don't run fast enough for me.
*Begin Transcript*
[Text on screen]
How Star Wars episode IV should have ended...
[Inside the rebel base]
Rebel Commander (briefing troops): Men normally with this information we would take time to make a more intricit plan of attack. However, rather than transmitting the technical readouts of the imperial battlestation and keeping our hidden loctaion safe...Princess Leia insisted on coming back, knowing full well that her ship was being tracked. In short, we have one chance to make this right and it's all Prince Leia's fault.
[On the death star]
Death star Piolet: Sir we have reached the planet Yavin. The rebel base is on a moon orbitting on the other side of the planet. We will be in firing range in 30 minutes.
Death star commander: I say we're in range now. Fire.
-Beeping noises-
-Animation of the death star blowing up the planet-
[Rebel base]
Rebel commander: Well so much for that idea.
[Millenium Falcon]
Chewie: Raaaar.
Han: Boy, you said it Chewie. I was this close to going back and helping those people.
[Text on screen]
The end.
[Diagobah (sp?)]
Yoda: Let him beat you you had to. What will I do now? Go crazy I will.
Obi wan (as a ghost): Oh get over yourself.
*End Transcrip*
My thoughts on the subject:
Look if you remember the first time you saw star wars...you didn't hate it. Maybe you have what it's become but what percentage of movies that were made in the 70's would even pass the giggle test if someone tried to release them today? The plot and special effects were something that had never been done before. Sure after 30 years the plot didn't turn out to be bulletproof. All a movie has to do to be a good movie is hold your attention and entertain for the duration it's on the screen. You know what? All the star wars movies (except episode 1) did that for me.
I see the advantages here and in other ways I see the disadvantages. In one way I'm excited at the thought of not having to run a seperate program to download a file using torrents. I even see that it might force other browsers to do the same (I'm betting we see a firefox addon in about a week). I could even picture a time when all webpages are sped up via torrents.
At the same time I'm worried about a browser doing too many things. I'm not going to start using opera just because it can handle torrents but if IE or Firefox starting doing it I would be rather happy. It's kinda like the various PlayStations playing Dvds when competing with a dreamcast or 64.
This also begs the question, will this help make torrents more mainstream? I know plenty of average people who have no idea what a "torrent" is. If more of the general public starts picking it up who knows what will happen with things like piracery.
Meh, just my thoughts.
No, Microsoft has had a long record of strongly fighting spammers and their lot. Now Microsoft is releasing antivirus and antispyware tools. What better way to shut down a company that produces so much spyware and other unwanted adds than to buy them. From the deal, they'd not only get the code to the software (which could improve their removal tools) but also valuable code for personalization. I say they should go for it.
All ready got you covered there. In fact if a company were to come out and say, look we don't believe in DRM and we're going to not enforce it at all, then they would have my business hands down.
That's just not true. Well the first part yes. Yes with exactly how the internet works, it is indeed impossible to look at the pictures without downloading them. That doesn't mean that their defense is trying to base a case entirely upon the hopes that people won't understand how the internet works. Consider this...Have you seen goat.cx??? Have you seen Lemonparty.org or any of the other variant pictures? I bet you meant to go there. And just because that Jpeg was in your temp internet files I bet that you would say that you, "possessed" that picture. Guy might deserve to go to jail but simply looking does not mean possession.
Well you're pretty correct in your assertions. Still I would argue that, at least for things like email, it shouldn't be assumed that my mail will be around forever. Think about if your post offices kept copies of all the mail you received, even after you had thrown it away. I think the central argument is indeed about things like the PATROIT act. It's the fact that not only you or even google might be reading your mail but also your government, or the government where the servers are stored.
I'll agree with you on that point. I'd also like to point out that the author doesn't consider that fact that right now the collective group of linux users is more or less out of reach from retaliation. If they were to combine into a single entity they then could be easily attacked. That's why a comparision between them and the mob is more apporiate than them and a labor union. Here's to hoping that we get IT unions and that we don't suffer the same faults as airline workers when we do.
Well the good news is that because it's a National ID we take another step towards the poitn where the people stand up and say, "Enough is enough for god sake". Then because it's from HP, it'll be badly designed and break about once a month (don't think I'll be making too many support calls to help them fix my government tracking device), and thankfully, microsoft is involved so we know it will be bloated and inefficent (I'm still waiting for the open source version).
From the site you linked:
Why so high Firefox figures? W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user. The average user tends to use Internet Explorer, since it comes preinstalled with Windows. Most do not seek out other browsers. These facts indicate that the browser figures below are not 100% realistic. Other web sites have statistics showing that Internet Explorer is used by at least 80% of the users.
IE is still the dominate browser on the internet. What's more, some users browse using both IE and Firefox. Then there are a select (but growing few) who useing only firefox. Now the reasons for that are up for debate but grandparent is right.
Your right, maybe I was unclear. I just meant that Napster was hosting a scearch and the servers to transfer the content. The Bittorrent website doesn't deal with data transfer of the actual content, they just transfer torrents.
While I do agree with you in your statement that it's the his fault. I'd point out that Bittorrent is more likely to get sued than google if nothing else, but simply for the fact that they not only provide a scearch engine, but a means to use what you find on the scearch engine. I know, it'd be like google making a media player but that's just not how the MIAA and RIAA see it.
I don't think the legal efforts against him will be successfull. Here's why:
When Napster was sued they actually had content in their possession. Not the case here. Even if they were able to prove that you could get content from the network, you aren't technically scearching for the content you get. You're scearching for torrents, which are small files with no real copy righted data in them. They're little road signs that point you where to go. It would be like getting arrested for creating a phone book just because you might be able to find the number of someone who has drugs in the book.
Lucky you you get to be right next to the magic....Or um.....I mean I think nows the time to start leasing with the option buy. :-)
Congrats George. I don't know what other people on here will say about the move or you in general but let me say that this is good. We all respect you for the great work you've done (Depending on how you view EP 1 & 2) and we'll forget about that whole Howard the Duck thing. You've built a lasting legacy but to make sure the tradition carries on....Now and I mean right now before it's too late you have to set up policies and teams the way you want them...so that when you're gone your dream will live on.
Thank you Mister Lucas for all you've done. This makes me think you have the forsight to insure your lasting status as a ledgend.
So this brings up the question, who's not willing to pay 5$ a month for music and will insist on downloading it still?