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Comment "The secret weapon of Star Wars" (Score 3, Interesting) 20

Her contribution to Star Wars must not be underestimated.
George Lucas' original edit of the first film was a mess. She and the other editors moved things around and fixed the pacing.
Do watch: How Star Wars was saved in the edit.

She did edit Empire Strikes Back, even if she did not get a credit. (Star Wars.com did not forget it though), and then The Return of the Jedi.
She was also there behind George Lucas all the way during the production of all three movies in the original trilogy.

Unfortunately, Marcia and George had a messy divorce in 1983, and she had no part in later Star Wars productions (which explains a lot of the prequels...).
However, George Lucas famously sold Pixar to Steve Jobs to pay for the divorce ... and that company then became legendary.

Comment Re:Buzz for this movie is non-existant (Score 1) 87

They must have spent most of the marketing budget on the Superbowl ad ... which I can't remember anything of.

They had invited Adam Savage's YouTube channel to visit sets, props and costumes with Jon Favreau. But I'd think that channel already caters to the grown-up superfans anyway.

They had been inviting some "influensers" to see the first twenty minutes early, but the reaction was pretty "meh".

Comment It was a different time... (Score 4, Interesting) 68

The James Bond stories, as written by Ian Fleming were set in the Cold War and economic expansionism that he lived in.
The sexism was also a product of that time.

The franchise has made less and less sense since Goldeneye, IMHO. Spoofs have felt more like Bond than the official Bond movies have.

I think that if you are going to reboot it (again) at all, then it should again be set in the height of the Cold War.
We see that era in a different light now in retrospect, and there are aspects of that era that I think could be interesting to explore: aspects that the people of the era were blind to because they took it for granted.

Otherwise, what new could you bring to the franchise? Nobody would be interested in some generic spy movie that is James Bond in name only. Or would they?

Comment What is Meta's endgame? (Score 1) 67

I am more concerned with: what is Meta intending to do with the data in the end?

I would never allow an AI agent developed by Meta, ... which is is probably part black box ... to interface with my system as a user.

There are too many opportunities for abuse here.
And we pretty much know that Meta us going to abuse their users -- because that is what they have always done.

Comment I liked that ferry (Score 4, Interesting) 102

I have travelled the ferry between Roedby and Puttgarden several times on a train.
It had felt a little unsafe to get out of the train to leave your belongings behind during the crossing, but it was a nice change of pace.
It was nice to get out on the deck and get a view of the Femern Baelt straight. That is something that future train travellers will be denied.

The worst part was for the train sometimes having to wait for the next ferry. That time should also be accounted for when calculating time savings.

Comment The reason is spite (Score 5, Insightful) 287

There is no ideological, economical or scientific reason for Trump's stance against wind turbines. It is purely out of spite.

This article sums up the background:
How Trump's loathing for wind turbines started with a Scottish court battle.

Back in 2012, Trump had objected to 11 wind turbines which were planned within view from his new golf course in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The wind turbines were eventually built.
He had objected up in the Scottish courts and even appealed as far as the UK Supreme Court.
He lost all the way, and because he is a sore loser he has been an enemy to wind turbines ever since.

BTW. Trump calls wind turbines that creates electricity "windmills".
There is a British idiom "Tilting at Windmills" which means to attack imaginary enemies. It is a reference to the classic novel "Don Quixote". So for a Brit used to the expression, Trump appears even more ridiculous.

(moved out from a thread, so that people can see it)

Comment Don't attribute to ideology that which ... (Score 5, Informative) 287

How Trump's loathing for wind turbines started with a Scottish court battle.

Back in 2012, Trump had objected to 11 wind turbines which were planned within view from his golf course in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The wind turbines were eventually built.
He had objected up in the Scottish courts and even appealed as far as the UK Supreme Court.
He lost all the way, and because he is a sore loser with unbounded meanspiritedness he has been an enemy to wind turbines ever since.

Comment Re:Fail. (Score 1) 45

Imagine it feeling your where your fingers are holding it and using it to distort the image on the screen to make it resemble squeezing a transparent gel ball. .. just to take the current user interface analogy to its extreme.

*shudder*

Comment Re:I enjoyed the video (Score 3, Informative) 62

Up until the mid '90s, most computers were made to have a CRT monitor sit on top of it. I don't think that was a problem.

I used to lug CRT monitors to LAN parties back in the 90s... It was just the way we did it back then.

The mouse here was a common design from Mouse Systems, who also made the same model adapted to the IBM PC and for several other Unix vendors.

Comment Never run Windows on bare metal! (Score 4, Interesting) 68

Linux as host OS is the way.

I think that if you are going to run MS Windows at all, then you should run it in a virtual machine that supports snapshots.
Then, if you'd get a bad Windows Update -- which MS has had a tendency to push out much too often lately -- then you would be able to roll back your Windows installation to a previous snapshot instead of getting a bricked computer.

Your data should also never be on the C: drive, for the same reason.

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