No, those are considered other sites. When people count eBay's traffic, they don't include PayPal, BillMeLater, Skype, StubHub, etc.
Ford has been claiming in all their ads for years that they have the best selling truck on the planet. Right now, since Ford is up and Chevy is in the toilet, that is technically true. But for years and years, it wasn't. GM splits their truck sales under the Chevy and GM brands. Combined, GM sold more trucks than Ford. But GM isn't considered a nameplate for one brand. So Ford could claim they were the best selling truck company, and GM could claim the same thing at the same time.
And if you want to get *really* technical, Microsoft is a partial owner of Facebook. I believe the majority if Facebook stuck is privately owned, but they are the largest company who owns Facebook stock.
So if you lumped in Facebook with every domain that Microsoft owns (Hotmail, Live, Bing, etc.) I'm sure Microsoft/Facebook would come out on top.
So when it comes to damned lies, you're the one who doesn't want to compare apples to apples.
Any transaction through PayPal gets fraud protection. My mother got caught in a phishing scheme. Her bank account and credit cards were all linked through PayPal. They contacted all the banks for her and got all the charges reversed.
Facebook has more traffic than Google, and part of that is because of Zynga games. They are insanely popular. If Google wants to start up a Facebook-killer, then it would help if they can tell people that they can ditch Facebook, and continue their accounts in Zynga games on their service.
There were actually two different Ultima Online 2 projects. The first was called Ultima Online 2 and was cancelled after nearly 3 years of development. Then they repeated the whole process with Utlima X.
All of the Ultima games have massive plotholes and inconsistencies. Heck, in the early Ultima games, you could be a friggin' Hobbit.
Ultima VIII wasn't as much of a massive sandbox as Ultima VII. It was far shorter, more linear, and there was no party. As a stand alone game, Utlima VIII is pretty good actually. As a follow-up to perhaps my favorite PC game of all time, it falls short.
This is the same team that did an Ultima V remake and didn't get a C&D. They reached out to EA, and former Origin employees. This has been a very visible project.
They also released a blank slate version of their project called Project Britania, which allows you to easily make your own Ultima game.
I loved the setting, but I don't understand how some people were spending so long to beat the game. I did every side quest, and tried to get as many achievements as possible in my first play through, and I still beat the game in around 30 hours. I'm a notorious completist who takes his time.
As much as I loved the setting, I wished the gameplay wasn't as simplistic or as short.
Apparently Leia fell in love with Han between A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back, except you didn't see those years in between. Empire Strikes Back must be crap.
You're saying the potential for a kernel-level vulnerability (which hardly should matter because you should have other security methodologies in place) is more important that a bug which corrupts all your data, or breaks your system?
I have to disagree.
Now if you said a bug which GUARANTEES confidential data was trasmitted to others, I'd agree that is as critical as they come.
But that is not what we're talking about.
You're also skipping the second half of my last message. Most shops either never patch, or patch all the time, despite the fact that every kernel release fixes some security issues. You insist that shops would change their decisions if they knew about specific security exploits that are patched.
I disagree. Most shops will continue to operate as they always do.
You're suggesting a security bug guarantees a systemic failure, when really it just means there is a possibility (not even a probability) that you could be exploited under a very specific circumstance. And even then most kernel vulnerabilities should be protected by other means.
However, another bug might cause your partition to corrupt, your system to perform slower, or your system to crash.
One could contend all of those issues are closer to your engine exploding, and more severe than the security exploit.
Linus is doing nothing to stop others from reading the changelogs, or LKML and advertise which bugs fix security issues. He just doesn't believe in specifically advertising these things or else.
And in real life, most people either patch all the time, or don't really patch at all. You suggest that you need to decide whether or not to apply a patch based on security issues, but I'd wager every single kernel release fixes at least one security vulnerability, rendering the argument moot.
The information wouldn't really change anyone's behavior. In every single shop I've ever worked in, 99% of the Microsoft systems get patched every month, unless they can't be taken down due to lack of a maintenance window. The business doesn't decide each month whether or not to patch based on which security vulnerabilities were addressed, because every single month there are security vulnerabilities addressed.
This has been the policy of the Linux kernel for ages.
They don't go out of their way to hide security fixes, but they don't advertise them either. All bugs are treated as bugs. You can read the lengthy changelog.
Linus doesn't believe in calling special attention to closed bugs, because it also alerts people that there are unpatched security holes in earlier versions. Some shops don't patch Linux boxes regularly.
1. I'm not inventing dialog. We see her handed over to Bail Organa. She is raised as a Princess of Alderaan. Generally, if people know you aren't a legitimate child, you aren't considered royalty. It stands to reason she believed she was a true Organa child, and her mother she refereneced is Bail's wife, who died when she was young.
2. We do see him hunt down and kill Jedi in Episode 3. Beyond that, there are 18 years until A New Hope. There are some surivors of the initial purge in Episode 3, which is why Obi Wan and Yoda change the signal at the Jedi Temple. It is apparently implied that somewhere over those 18 years he hunted down the remaining Jedi.
3. The dialog is implicit. I agree. He says he saves them from dying. He doesn't say that he takes people who are already dead and resurrects them, which is exactly what I said.
There is no need to "fill in material". If anything, you're using filler material to bitch. You claim Vader's injuries contradict the original trilogy. Where in the original trilogy are Vader's injuries explicitly stated? In any movie, play, book, whatever, there are actions which take place "off-camera" and are inferred.
For instance, in Phantom of the Opera, most of the love story with Christine and the Phantom is never once shown. It is implied his mentorship of her all occured previous to what is shown to the audience. Reading into that inferrence isn't making crap up. The characters refer to those events in dialog even though they aren't shown.
You're basically bitching the prequels didn't match your assumptions and then claiming that is a contradiction of canon.
Lucas said he was really shocked how fans took to Boba Fett, a minor background character. But they loved the mystery of him.
He never learned that wisdom, and sought to destroy the mystery of the Force. That being said, I like to believe that correlation is not causation. Midichlorians can sense Force Sensitive creatures, and a high midichlorian count is indicative of a strong Force user, but that doesn't mean Midichlorians create the Force.
1. Leia was raised by the Organa family. She was also hailed as a Princess because people believed she truly was the child of Bail Organa. The person she believed was her mother wasn't actually her mother.
2. Lucas said for I think 20 years in various interviews that he always envisioned the Vader/Obi-Wan duel would take place on a volcano planet. I think Starlog magazines were writing about this in the early 80's. I'm not sure why anyone is surprised by something that has been somewhat canon for decades.
Anakin has a lengthy, exhausting duel in the heat and then has his legs chopped off. In the pain and anger of that moment, he didn't think to move himself with telekinesis. Perhaps the pain of dual amputation distracted him. Using telekinesis seems to require full concentration. Yoda couldn't deal with Dooku and use telekinesis at the same time.
3. Never is it suggested that the Sith power in question raises people from the dead, but rather stops one from dying in the first place. And even though he wanted that power to protect Padme, it wasn't enough to push him to the dark side. He stays loyal to the Jedi beliefs basically right up to the point he inadvertently leads to Mace Windu's death. I'd have to assume he'd be expelled from the Jedi order over those events.
It would seem he felt he could never go back, and had no choice but to change allegiances at that point. Immediately killing kids after that seems like a bit of a stretch, but it certainly doesn't directly contradict the original trilogy as you suggest.
Lucas never had a grand vision. He changed his mind all the time. He was just largely stealing from Flash Gordon, Dune, and Hidden Fortress and accidentally created this masterpiece with the original trilogy.
After Episode 1 he promised Ric Olie was going to be a major character in the trilogy, along with Aura Sing. He promised Episode 2 would explain Force Ghosts, and the Episode 3 would.
Early drafts for Star Wars had aliens who used spice to fold space. General Skywalker/Starkiller was the old war veteran, not the farmboy.
He also said when making the original trilogy that the overall storyline was about Luke and restoring the Jedi order. After the prequels, he says the larger story is all about Anakin/Vader.
Lucas is full of shit. But, your three points aren't contradictions.
He is a terrible writer and made the prequels on his own, and not inside of a studio. Not a soul could question him to revise or improve upon what he was doing.
And while 1 was awful, 2 really wasn't terrible, and I'd contend that 3 is actually on par with A New Hope and Return of the Jedi.
And oddly enough people really hated Temple of Doom until Last Crusade came out. Then people hated it for not living up to the first two films. Now people hate Indy IV.
I love Indy, but all 4 are cheesy, unrealistic, and most lack a traditional Hollywood ending where Indy saves the day. Indy gets captured by bad guys who basically get what they want in 1, 3 and 4.
That being said, Lucas is good with concepts, pretty good with directing, and terrible at acting writing scripts. He even admits as such, but still demanded to write the screenplays for the prequels. I never understand why.
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How is a factually true statement a lie?
No, those are considered other sites. When people count eBay's traffic, they don't include PayPal, BillMeLater, Skype, StubHub, etc.
Ford has been claiming in all their ads for years that they have the best selling truck on the planet. Right now, since Ford is up and Chevy is in the toilet, that is technically true. But for years and years, it wasn't. GM splits their truck sales under the Chevy and GM brands. Combined, GM sold more trucks than Ford. But GM isn't considered a nameplate for one brand. So Ford could claim they were the best selling truck company, and GM could claim the same thing at the same time.
And if you want to get *really* technical, Microsoft is a partial owner of Facebook. I believe the majority if Facebook stuck is privately owned, but they are the largest company who owns Facebook stock.
So if you lumped in Facebook with every domain that Microsoft owns (Hotmail, Live, Bing, etc.) I'm sure Microsoft/Facebook would come out on top.
So when it comes to damned lies, you're the one who doesn't want to compare apples to apples.
Any transaction through PayPal gets fraud protection. My mother got caught in a phishing scheme. Her bank account and credit cards were all linked through PayPal. They contacted all the banks for her and got all the charges reversed.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/15/hitwise-says-facebook-most-popular-u-s-site/
How is PayPal evil?
Full disclosure, I'm a PayPal engineer.
Facebook has more traffic than Google, and part of that is because of Zynga games. They are insanely popular. If Google wants to start up a Facebook-killer, then it would help if they can tell people that they can ditch Facebook, and continue their accounts in Zynga games on their service.
There were actually two different Ultima Online 2 projects. The first was called Ultima Online 2 and was cancelled after nearly 3 years of development. Then they repeated the whole process with Utlima X.
All of the Ultima games have massive plotholes and inconsistencies. Heck, in the early Ultima games, you could be a friggin' Hobbit.
Ultima VIII wasn't as much of a massive sandbox as Ultima VII. It was far shorter, more linear, and there was no party. As a stand alone game, Utlima VIII is pretty good actually. As a follow-up to perhaps my favorite PC game of all time, it falls short.
This is an extension of the Ultima V Lazarus code. It is many of the same team members.
This is the same team that did an Ultima V remake and didn't get a C&D. They reached out to EA, and former Origin employees. This has been a very visible project.
They also released a blank slate version of their project called Project Britania, which allows you to easily make your own Ultima game.
With beautiful ANSI graphics!
I loved the setting, but I don't understand how some people were spending so long to beat the game. I did every side quest, and tried to get as many achievements as possible in my first play through, and I still beat the game in around 30 hours. I'm a notorious completist who takes his time.
As much as I loved the setting, I wished the gameplay wasn't as simplistic or as short.
Apparently Leia fell in love with Han between A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back, except you didn't see those years in between. Empire Strikes Back must be crap.
You're saying the potential for a kernel-level vulnerability (which hardly should matter because you should have other security methodologies in place) is more important that a bug which corrupts all your data, or breaks your system?
I have to disagree.
Now if you said a bug which GUARANTEES confidential data was trasmitted to others, I'd agree that is as critical as they come.
But that is not what we're talking about.
You're also skipping the second half of my last message. Most shops either never patch, or patch all the time, despite the fact that every kernel release fixes some security issues. You insist that shops would change their decisions if they knew about specific security exploits that are patched.
I disagree. Most shops will continue to operate as they always do.
The car analogy fails.
You're suggesting a security bug guarantees a systemic failure, when really it just means there is a possibility (not even a probability) that you could be exploited under a very specific circumstance. And even then most kernel vulnerabilities should be protected by other means.
However, another bug might cause your partition to corrupt, your system to perform slower, or your system to crash.
One could contend all of those issues are closer to your engine exploding, and more severe than the security exploit.
Linus is doing nothing to stop others from reading the changelogs, or LKML and advertise which bugs fix security issues. He just doesn't believe in specifically advertising these things or else.
And in real life, most people either patch all the time, or don't really patch at all. You suggest that you need to decide whether or not to apply a patch based on security issues, but I'd wager every single kernel release fixes at least one security vulnerability, rendering the argument moot.
The information wouldn't really change anyone's behavior. In every single shop I've ever worked in, 99% of the Microsoft systems get patched every month, unless they can't be taken down due to lack of a maintenance window. The business doesn't decide each month whether or not to patch based on which security vulnerabilities were addressed, because every single month there are security vulnerabilities addressed.
This has been the policy of the Linux kernel for ages.
They don't go out of their way to hide security fixes, but they don't advertise them either. All bugs are treated as bugs. You can read the lengthy changelog.
Linus doesn't believe in calling special attention to closed bugs, because it also alerts people that there are unpatched security holes in earlier versions. Some shops don't patch Linux boxes regularly.
1. I'm not inventing dialog. We see her handed over to Bail Organa. She is raised as a Princess of Alderaan. Generally, if people know you aren't a legitimate child, you aren't considered royalty. It stands to reason she believed she was a true Organa child, and her mother she refereneced is Bail's wife, who died when she was young.
2. We do see him hunt down and kill Jedi in Episode 3. Beyond that, there are 18 years until A New Hope. There are some surivors of the initial purge in Episode 3, which is why Obi Wan and Yoda change the signal at the Jedi Temple. It is apparently implied that somewhere over those 18 years he hunted down the remaining Jedi.
3. The dialog is implicit. I agree. He says he saves them from dying. He doesn't say that he takes people who are already dead and resurrects them, which is exactly what I said.
There is no need to "fill in material". If anything, you're using filler material to bitch. You claim Vader's injuries contradict the original trilogy. Where in the original trilogy are Vader's injuries explicitly stated? In any movie, play, book, whatever, there are actions which take place "off-camera" and are inferred.
For instance, in Phantom of the Opera, most of the love story with Christine and the Phantom is never once shown. It is implied his mentorship of her all occured previous to what is shown to the audience. Reading into that inferrence isn't making crap up. The characters refer to those events in dialog even though they aren't shown.
You're basically bitching the prequels didn't match your assumptions and then claiming that is a contradiction of canon.
You're demonstrating pretty clear logical fallacies here.
Midichlorians were fucking stupid.
Lucas said he was really shocked how fans took to Boba Fett, a minor background character. But they loved the mystery of him.
He never learned that wisdom, and sought to destroy the mystery of the Force. That being said, I like to believe that correlation is not causation. Midichlorians can sense Force Sensitive creatures, and a high midichlorian count is indicative of a strong Force user, but that doesn't mean Midichlorians create the Force.
1. Leia was raised by the Organa family. She was also hailed as a Princess because people believed she truly was the child of Bail Organa. The person she believed was her mother wasn't actually her mother.
2. Lucas said for I think 20 years in various interviews that he always envisioned the Vader/Obi-Wan duel would take place on a volcano planet. I think Starlog magazines were writing about this in the early 80's. I'm not sure why anyone is surprised by something that has been somewhat canon for decades.
Anakin has a lengthy, exhausting duel in the heat and then has his legs chopped off. In the pain and anger of that moment, he didn't think to move himself with telekinesis. Perhaps the pain of dual amputation distracted him. Using telekinesis seems to require full concentration. Yoda couldn't deal with Dooku and use telekinesis at the same time.
3. Never is it suggested that the Sith power in question raises people from the dead, but rather stops one from dying in the first place. And even though he wanted that power to protect Padme, it wasn't enough to push him to the dark side. He stays loyal to the Jedi beliefs basically right up to the point he inadvertently leads to Mace Windu's death. I'd have to assume he'd be expelled from the Jedi order over those events.
It would seem he felt he could never go back, and had no choice but to change allegiances at that point. Immediately killing kids after that seems like a bit of a stretch, but it certainly doesn't directly contradict the original trilogy as you suggest.
Lucas never had a grand vision. He changed his mind all the time. He was just largely stealing from Flash Gordon, Dune, and Hidden Fortress and accidentally created this masterpiece with the original trilogy.
After Episode 1 he promised Ric Olie was going to be a major character in the trilogy, along with Aura Sing. He promised Episode 2 would explain Force Ghosts, and the Episode 3 would.
Early drafts for Star Wars had aliens who used spice to fold space. General Skywalker/Starkiller was the old war veteran, not the farmboy.
He also said when making the original trilogy that the overall storyline was about Luke and restoring the Jedi order. After the prequels, he says the larger story is all about Anakin/Vader.
Lucas is full of shit. But, your three points aren't contradictions.
If you're *really* curious, you should read this:
http://secrethistoryofstarwars.com/
Spielberg directed all 4 Indy films.
As an internet meme, it gets beat into the ground, but it is 2 seconds in a much larger movie.
Return of the Jedi has Ewoks. People seem to forget how much Ewoks were hated when the movie first came out.
Nothing new ever holds up to idealized versions of prior movies.
Neither. I was just trying to fairly describe what the series is. I appreciate the films for what they are.
Wasn't Roddenberry dead at the time?
He is a terrible writer and made the prequels on his own, and not inside of a studio. Not a soul could question him to revise or improve upon what he was doing.
And while 1 was awful, 2 really wasn't terrible, and I'd contend that 3 is actually on par with A New Hope and Return of the Jedi.
Willow?
American Graffiti?
THX-1138?
And oddly enough people really hated Temple of Doom until Last Crusade came out. Then people hated it for not living up to the first two films. Now people hate Indy IV.
I love Indy, but all 4 are cheesy, unrealistic, and most lack a traditional Hollywood ending where Indy saves the day. Indy gets captured by bad guys who basically get what they want in 1, 3 and 4.
That being said, Lucas is good with concepts, pretty good with directing, and terrible at acting writing scripts. He even admits as such, but still demanded to write the screenplays for the prequels. I never understand why.
I bet he smoked a hella lot of weed.