What should they use? Ubuntu is just as bleeding edge, and they would have likely run into similar issues on Debian or openSUSE with having to manually reinstall the driver with each new kernel release.
Some of the issues could be caused by Fedora running a bleeding edge version of X, but in general Fedora isn't worlds different from running Ubuntu or openSUSE as far as stability goes.
I meant to imply that. All it takes is one person to break DRM and then it is worthless because it is stripped for everyone else.
And for many of the pirates, simply the challenge of DRM, or the antagonizing by the executives is enough to motivate them.
No one hacked the PS3 when Linux was a legal and valid option on the console. When Sony decided to piss in the face of their consumers, it motivated GeoHot to truly break the console and release the hack in the wild.
I think you're right that the real motivation was to link the two trilogies and ret-con this idea that the master plan was always to tell an Anakin/Darth Vader arc.
That being said, I don't mind the change as much as others because at least some argument can be made for it.
The end of RotJ doesn't make much sense, but for some reason never gets ripped. Vader's armor stops blaster bolts dead in their tracks. Luke gets blaster with tons of the force lightning, but is fine. Vader a get little reflected on him and then dies from it, despite that armor.
You can throw in this new ret-con to suggest that Darth Vader was kept alive by the Dark Side of the Force, and turning on that extinguished what was left of his life. Only the smallest spark of a mostly dead Anakin remained.
And if Jedi can lift an X-Wing with the Force, or do a super Force Jump, why can't they just fly? Falling in a whole shouldn't kill the Emperor.
I was shown that key, and the key that pops out is fairly small. I was told that key is for locking valuables in the glove box when you give your car to a valet driver.
However, I will see if that key works for the door.
I can give you story after story about major executives who all said digital media will fail, and how consumers don't want digital media, or how it is impossible to do right.
I can give you story after story about executives who insisted consumers will never legally pay for digital media.
I can show you stories of executives saying Hulu was doomed for failure, and NBC only allowed the project to end the debate that putting full episodes of TV on the web was a valid business model.
Hollywood, video game executives and the music industry demand DRM beacause they don't know better. Even worse, they spend money on DRM. It costs them money to "protect their investment", which in turn costs them that much more in tech support and customer nightmares.
That is assuming that every major media partner demands consumers have this processor, which hasn't happened yet.
Do you think iTunes is going to require this? What about Amazon video on demand?
And even then, having a large market share due to an exclusive feature still isn't illegal. Anti-competetive practices are.
For instance, EA has an exclusive partnership with the NFL for video games. That isn't illegal. You can still make a football game like Backbreaker, but Madden commands massive market share due to the exclusive EA license. That is legal and fair. If you don't like it, outbid EA for the NFL license.
Last I heard Lucas was still busy writing the full 100 episodes in advance. They want to write them all at once, film them all at once and sell the package deal to HBO. HBO won't be able to give input as the series goes along or change anything and HBO isn't interested in that. So the two sides are having a stand-off.
We'll see how that goes. Lucas has promised a dark show, like Deadwood in space, heavily focused on bounty hunters killing the last remaining Jedi. I'm rooting that Lucas allows other writers to write the show, and that it happens.
Leonardo DiCaprio was never considered for the role. Lucas wanted a relatively unknown actor who had an athletic background so they would take to the lightsaber duels.
Ryan Phillipe was the other finalist for the role. Hayden Christiansen played the whiny Skywalker as written and directed. He isn't a terrible actor if you see the other things he did.
Lucas made guys like Liam Neeson, Ewan Macgregor and Natalie Portman look like average to poor actors. So why does everyone blame Hayden Christiansen?
And I think the prequels could have been decent with some tweaking, but Lucas made the films outside of a studio, and with no input from others.
I disagree about removing pod-racing. The sequence showed off the new THX sound system developed just for Epsiode 1, and was one of two decent scenes in the movie (along with the Darth Maul duel). A good race/chase sequence is always welcome.
The big problem with Episode 1 is the majority of the film is people sitting around talking, Jar Jar, and an unrealistic/annoying young kid in a lead role.
The seperate trilogies don't include special features. When you buy the boxed set of 6 movies, you get a total of 9 BluRay discs with 30 hours of special features.
And the 6 movie/9 disc set can be had on Amazon's pre-order for $90.
Honestly this change didn't upset me as much as the horrible CGI Jabba with Han stepping on his tail, or Greedo shooting first (looks terrible, and alters the character of Han Solo).
I believe the notion is that Anakin Skywalker died at a young age when he was burned alive and finished his transformation into Darth Vader. Your force ghost represents how you looked when you died. It adds a Frankenstein element to Darth Vader, that he really was more machine than man.
I don't hate the special editions because they do look nicer for the most part. Cloud City in particular looks great in the special editions.
Frank Darabont, one of the best screenwriters on the planet, wanted to write Indy. Lucas demanded certain story elements had to included, and then fired Darabont even though Darabont wrote around those ridiculous ideas.
Spielberg actually used a lot of practical effects for Indy IV that people insist are CGI. But watch the special features on the BluRay and you'll see that crazy alien door was a real device he built.
I don't blame Spielberg and Ford for revisiting something so fun, universally loved and profitable. I blame Lucas for being clueless these days and ruining most things he has touched in the latter half of his life.
A buried alien artifact is activated. Water starts shooting around. The hero and his girlfriend escape as the place goes to shit, and then looks out from a plateau at the landscape changed by the alien artifact.
Search your feelings Skywalker, you know it to be true.
It has been said before, but it needs to be repeated by high-profile writers until Hollywood listens.
DRM will always be cracked. You are not stopping pirates. You are punishing paying customers by treating them like criminals. Hollywood is convinced (like the music industry was) that no one would willingly pay for digital content if they have the capability to pirate it. The reality is that iTunes is the #1 seller of music, with Amazon #2. People do actually like paying for legal, digital content.
People will pirate. DRM isn't the solution. Finding ways to reward paying customers and treating them well is the solution.
When Intel refused to ship purchased product unless a vendor refused to carry AMD, that was illegal. When Intel strong-armed vendors in other ways not to carry AMD, that was illegal.
Offering an exclusive feature with partners is not illegal. That is just an exclusive feature.
Rumors are that Google has leaned on vendors not to push tablets until Honeycomb is out, which is why most of the current Android tablets are from odd small companies. You'll note that Google hasn't allowed the Android Market on most of them.
I'm assuming the core files for the OS would still be installed locally on your HDD to begin with. Then you just download updates, sync your data, and the rest of the bandwidth is comparable to a standard VNC session. Really, the bandwidth would be comparable to many current users.
This retains the advantages of a Chrome netbook (all your data is always magically online and available from all devices without having to worry about backups), and in theory would allow for the installation of proper apps. Add to that Mac styling, and most users won't care about the walled garden even if geeks will be furious.
But it isn't a given either that it will run on phones. They mentioned that there will be a new API for developing apps that can run on either, but there might be a new phone version coming out after Honeycomb that includes these improvements.
Where have you seen any announcement that Honeycomb will run on any phones? Everything we've heard is that Honeycomb will have a new interface specifically for tablets.
Google is trying to eliminate the fragmentation that everyone is complaining about, and also trying to reduce the crappy tablets out there giving Android a bad name.
By setting the minimum bar for Honeycomb at a dual-core A9 they can guarantee a certain experience and consistency for all the apps. They can probably also move to hardware acceleration for composite effects, which they can't do for all the Android cell phone hardware out there.
I'm doing searches again now, but every article I've read has said Obama has been making cuts at NASA, including cancelling their next major mission to the moon.
And again, I wish I had the chart in front of me, but Republicans have spent more on science than Democrats over the past 40 years.
I do agree that a budget should be judged by the President and Congress together, but a President does get credit for proposals they push for that succeed.
Bush publicly lobbied for increased spending on fuel cell research, stem cell research, NASA, and overall science budget.
Obama promised NASA funding and then came in with an ax.
All I've suggested is that this isn't cut and dry. That you can't say all Republicans hate science and all Democrats fund it all day long. You're talking in simplistic black and white views while calling me naive.
Take off your partisan blindfold and focus on the facts.
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What should they use? Ubuntu is just as bleeding edge, and they would have likely run into similar issues on Debian or openSUSE with having to manually reinstall the driver with each new kernel release.
Some of the issues could be caused by Fedora running a bleeding edge version of X, but in general Fedora isn't worlds different from running Ubuntu or openSUSE as far as stability goes.
I meant to imply that. All it takes is one person to break DRM and then it is worthless because it is stripped for everyone else.
And for many of the pirates, simply the challenge of DRM, or the antagonizing by the executives is enough to motivate them.
No one hacked the PS3 when Linux was a legal and valid option on the console. When Sony decided to piss in the face of their consumers, it motivated GeoHot to truly break the console and release the hack in the wild.
I think you're right that the real motivation was to link the two trilogies and ret-con this idea that the master plan was always to tell an Anakin/Darth Vader arc.
That being said, I don't mind the change as much as others because at least some argument can be made for it.
The end of RotJ doesn't make much sense, but for some reason never gets ripped. Vader's armor stops blaster bolts dead in their tracks. Luke gets blaster with tons of the force lightning, but is fine. Vader a get little reflected on him and then dies from it, despite that armor.
You can throw in this new ret-con to suggest that Darth Vader was kept alive by the Dark Side of the Force, and turning on that extinguished what was left of his life. Only the smallest spark of a mostly dead Anakin remained.
And if Jedi can lift an X-Wing with the Force, or do a super Force Jump, why can't they just fly? Falling in a whole shouldn't kill the Emperor.
I was shown that key, and the key that pops out is fairly small. I was told that key is for locking valuables in the glove box when you give your car to a valet driver.
However, I will see if that key works for the door.
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/15-12/mf_morris
I can give you story after story about major executives who all said digital media will fail, and how consumers don't want digital media, or how it is impossible to do right.
I can give you story after story about executives who insisted consumers will never legally pay for digital media.
I can show you stories of executives saying Hulu was doomed for failure, and NBC only allowed the project to end the debate that putting full episodes of TV on the web was a valid business model.
Hollywood, video game executives and the music industry demand DRM beacause they don't know better. Even worse, they spend money on DRM. It costs them money to "protect their investment", which in turn costs them that much more in tech support and customer nightmares.
If they knew better, they wouldn't do it.
That is assuming that every major media partner demands consumers have this processor, which hasn't happened yet.
Do you think iTunes is going to require this? What about Amazon video on demand?
And even then, having a large market share due to an exclusive feature still isn't illegal. Anti-competetive practices are.
For instance, EA has an exclusive partnership with the NFL for video games. That isn't illegal. You can still make a football game like Backbreaker, but Madden commands massive market share due to the exclusive EA license. That is legal and fair. If you don't like it, outbid EA for the NFL license.
Last I heard Lucas was still busy writing the full 100 episodes in advance. They want to write them all at once, film them all at once and sell the package deal to HBO. HBO won't be able to give input as the series goes along or change anything and HBO isn't interested in that. So the two sides are having a stand-off.
We'll see how that goes. Lucas has promised a dark show, like Deadwood in space, heavily focused on bounty hunters killing the last remaining Jedi. I'm rooting that Lucas allows other writers to write the show, and that it happens.
Leonardo DiCaprio was never considered for the role. Lucas wanted a relatively unknown actor who had an athletic background so they would take to the lightsaber duels.
Ryan Phillipe was the other finalist for the role. Hayden Christiansen played the whiny Skywalker as written and directed. He isn't a terrible actor if you see the other things he did.
Lucas made guys like Liam Neeson, Ewan Macgregor and Natalie Portman look like average to poor actors. So why does everyone blame Hayden Christiansen?
And I think the prequels could have been decent with some tweaking, but Lucas made the films outside of a studio, and with no input from others.
I disagree about removing pod-racing. The sequence showed off the new THX sound system developed just for Epsiode 1, and was one of two decent scenes in the movie (along with the Darth Maul duel). A good race/chase sequence is always welcome.
The big problem with Episode 1 is the majority of the film is people sitting around talking, Jar Jar, and an unrealistic/annoying young kid in a lead role.
Star Wars still brings in billions yearly, even without a new movie in the theater. Consumers are voting with their wallets.
The seperate trilogies don't include special features. When you buy the boxed set of 6 movies, you get a total of 9 BluRay discs with 30 hours of special features.
And the 6 movie/9 disc set can be had on Amazon's pre-order for $90.
Honestly this change didn't upset me as much as the horrible CGI Jabba with Han stepping on his tail, or Greedo shooting first (looks terrible, and alters the character of Han Solo).
I believe the notion is that Anakin Skywalker died at a young age when he was burned alive and finished his transformation into Darth Vader. Your force ghost represents how you looked when you died. It adds a Frankenstein element to Darth Vader, that he really was more machine than man.
I don't hate the special editions because they do look nicer for the most part. Cloud City in particular looks great in the special editions.
Frank Darabont, one of the best screenwriters on the planet, wanted to write Indy. Lucas demanded certain story elements had to included, and then fired Darabont even though Darabont wrote around those ridiculous ideas.
Spielberg actually used a lot of practical effects for Indy IV that people insist are CGI. But watch the special features on the BluRay and you'll see that crazy alien door was a real device he built.
I don't blame Spielberg and Ford for revisiting something so fun, universally loved and profitable. I blame Lucas for being clueless these days and ruining most things he has touched in the latter half of his life.
The ending was ripped from Total Recall.
A buried alien artifact is activated. Water starts shooting around. The hero and his girlfriend escape as the place goes to shit, and then looks out from a plateau at the landscape changed by the alien artifact.
Search your feelings Skywalker, you know it to be true.
For all the Slashdot posters who keep begging for Linux support and talking about how big companies constantly ignore you, this is your chance.
Buy AMD. Be vocal that the reason you're buying an AMD video card is because of their driver. Vote with your wallet.
(On the CPU front, you can make an equal case for Intel supporting open source).
It has been said before, but it needs to be repeated by high-profile writers until Hollywood listens.
DRM will always be cracked. You are not stopping pirates. You are punishing paying customers by treating them like criminals. Hollywood is convinced (like the music industry was) that no one would willingly pay for digital content if they have the capability to pirate it. The reality is that iTunes is the #1 seller of music, with Amazon #2. People do actually like paying for legal, digital content.
People will pirate. DRM isn't the solution. Finding ways to reward paying customers and treating them well is the solution.
When Intel refused to ship purchased product unless a vendor refused to carry AMD, that was illegal. When Intel strong-armed vendors in other ways not to carry AMD, that was illegal.
Offering an exclusive feature with partners is not illegal. That is just an exclusive feature.
I just bought a new Rav 4 and it didn't come with a physical key, only a fob. The only physical key I was given was for the glove box.
They specifically want software compositing on current builds designed to be compatible with tons of different phones.
When they demonstrated Honeycomb, they specifically bragged about using the Nvidia Tegra 2 processor for effects.
Rumors are that Google has leaned on vendors not to push tablets until Honeycomb is out, which is why most of the current Android tablets are from odd small companies. You'll note that Google hasn't allowed the Android Market on most of them.
I'm assuming the core files for the OS would still be installed locally on your HDD to begin with. Then you just download updates, sync your data, and the rest of the bandwidth is comparable to a standard VNC session. Really, the bandwidth would be comparable to many current users.
This retains the advantages of a Chrome netbook (all your data is always magically online and available from all devices without having to worry about backups), and in theory would allow for the installation of proper apps. Add to that Mac styling, and most users won't care about the walled garden even if geeks will be furious.
But it isn't a given either that it will run on phones. They mentioned that there will be a new API for developing apps that can run on either, but there might be a new phone version coming out after Honeycomb that includes these improvements.
Where have you seen any announcement that Honeycomb will run on any phones? Everything we've heard is that Honeycomb will have a new interface specifically for tablets.
Google is trying to eliminate the fragmentation that everyone is complaining about, and also trying to reduce the crappy tablets out there giving Android a bad name.
By setting the minimum bar for Honeycomb at a dual-core A9 they can guarantee a certain experience and consistency for all the apps. They can probably also move to hardware acceleration for composite effects, which they can't do for all the Android cell phone hardware out there.
Wasn't that what some of the Republicans were saying? Government control of the internet won't necessarily protect the internet, it might ruin it.
And shouldn't the existing common carrier laws that were designed for phone companies come into play?
I'm doing searches again now, but every article I've read has said Obama has been making cuts at NASA, including cancelling their next major mission to the moon.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/09/AR2010030902594.html
And again, I wish I had the chart in front of me, but Republicans have spent more on science than Democrats over the past 40 years.
I do agree that a budget should be judged by the President and Congress together, but a President does get credit for proposals they push for that succeed.
Bush publicly lobbied for increased spending on fuel cell research, stem cell research, NASA, and overall science budget.
Obama promised NASA funding and then came in with an ax.
All I've suggested is that this isn't cut and dry. That you can't say all Republicans hate science and all Democrats fund it all day long. You're talking in simplistic black and white views while calling me naive.
Take off your partisan blindfold and focus on the facts.