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Comment Re:I never noticed until someone said something (Score 1, Insightful) 420

by cti (#33254700) Attached to: Lucas Promises <em>Star Wars</em> on Blu-Ray in 2011

What I have never forgiven Lucas for is editing Sebastian Shaw out of the final scene of Return of the Jedi. Having Hayden Christiansen show up destroys the ENTIRE arc of Anakin not being completely destroyed. I really think this is a far, far more serious change than Han/Greedo shooting first. But I guess it's just me.

i had no idea that this had happened. i was really hoping to sit out of this discussion and not get upset about star wars like a big nerd, but that is just pathetic.

here is is on youtube if, like me you hadnt seen this till today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1LulT30Qkc

yoda and obiwan appear as they did when they died, why not anakin? why make this change? because you can?
what a joke. what a fat moron.
i guess this is one reason to keep a vcr around somewhere.

HD is cool for some stuff ( I recently bought/saw my first ever movie on bluray, the matirx, and was pleased), but i think a movie with lots of hokey rubber masks and dated haircuts is prolly better off looking a little softer. im sure they'll work some digital magic to smooth over this crap, but this is again just changing something that was perfectly fine to begin with, and future generations get a distorted version of the film and of history....(maybe im getting carried away, but the idea of "modernizing" and "updating" art of any kind for re-release - even star wars).

i understand that everyone wants to make money(so we get this garbage thrown at us now), but hopefully, one day, someone will find it commercially viable to sell the original editions again on an easier to consume format than vhs.

Comment Re:History repeats (Score 0) 497

by cti (#33236030) Attached to: The Coming Onslaught of iPad Competitors

The typical screeds about how Apple's success is due to marketing prowess, reality distortion fields, media sycophancy, etc. are all a bunch of red herrings.

They certainly are not "red herrings," they are relevant and the reason that Apple has been successful this past decade. Case-in-point: they have everyone calling their line of personal computers "Macs" and every other company's products "PCs," despite the fact that the differences at this point are superficial. Apple also has everyone convinced that their products are "better," even though few people can really say what makes Apple products "better" and what Apple products are actually better than. The OLPC XO was very easy to use, yet somehow Sugar/Linux doesn't get the same sort of attention Mac OS X or iOS do. Being easy to use, being polished, being "better" does not get you very far.

despite the fact that the differences at this point are superficial.

ummm...a pretty, usable *nix (OSX) is hardly superficial. ill give you that the hardware is not _that_ different, but even there, i dont know of any all-in-one PC or laptop with comparable build/materials quality to the iMac/macbook(looking good on your desk is nice too, especially as something you look at every day). yea, they're expensive, but if you keep a machine for a few years the difference in price isnt that crazy...even if you HATE it, youve gotta admit it is pretty different from windows/ubuntu/$notOSXos...

Comment Fuck this guy, seriously. (Score 1) 853

by cti (#31913476) Attached to: Gizmodo Blows Whistle On 4G iPhone Loser
This douche-bag's sheer stupidity is the thing that makes me suspect a marketing ploy.
Why are so many of you on this moron's side?

He didnt make a mistake, he made a stupid decision.

There are a lot of people going on about "well things get lost" and "if it was you you wouldn't think it was funny". I lose a lot of shit, especially when I'm drunk, thats why I don't bring my collection of faberge eggs, briefcases full of diamonds, next generation-unreleseased-superhype devices or any other $irreplaceableItems out to the bar....i might get drunk and forget them.

If we are to believe the idea that "maybe it was being tested in bar scenarios" its more than possible to be at a bar without being too drunk to know where your shit is at, and test a phone, getting drunk while doing "work" is just plain irresponsible(most of the time anyway).

If your employer trusts you with a hush hush device, and its your birthday, knowing you will be getting sloshed, why not leave it at home? If he couldn't resist the urge to show off this stupid thing, or just wanted to have it near him on his most special day, then he's an idiot and should be fired, and no one should hire him. No matter how good his code is, he doesn't seem to be able to make the rational, adult decision to not bring his company's stuff out when he's getting fucked up, the dude is a huge liability. Are we supposed to believe that this is the first time this guy got drunk? That he's never heard lady gaga's "Just Dance" and the idea of losing a cellphone at a bar is outside his imagination?

lastly, who the fuck leaves ANY cellphone (even well past shitfaced) on a barstool, nevermind one thats not supposed to exist? I call shenanigans.

conspiracy theory {
Maybe Apple told Gizmodo the only way they wouldn't sue their pants off is if they disgraced this fool who lost the phone in the first place...
}// conspiracy theory
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Y2.01K 269

Posted by kdawson from the wait-till-two-oh-thirty-eight dept.
After our recent discussion of decimal/hexadecimal confusion at the turn of 2010, alphadogg writes in with a Network World survey of wider problems caused by the date change. "A decade after the Y2K crisis, date changes still pose technology problems, making some security software upgrades difficult and locking millions of bank ATM users out of their accounts. Chips used in bank cards to identify account numbers could not read the year 2010 properly, making it impossible for ATMs and point of sale machines in Germany to read debit cards of 30 million people since New Year's Day, according to published reports. The workaround is to reprogram the machines so the chips don't have to deal with the number. In Australia, point-of-sales machines skipped ahead to 2016 rather than 2010 at midnight Dec. 31, rendering them unusable by retailers, some of whom reported thousands of dollars in lost sales. Meanwhile Symantec's network-access control software that is supposed to check whether spam and virus definitions have been updated recently enough fails because of this 2010 problem."
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94 New Species Described By CA Academy of Sciences 52

Posted by samzenpus from the what's-in-a-name dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at the California Academy of Sciences traversed four continents and two oceans to uncover 94 new species in 2009, proving that while sometimes in this digital age the world can feel like a small place, much of it has yet to be explored. Among the 94 discoveries were 65 arthropods, 14 plants, 8 fishes, 5 sea slugs, one coral, and one fossil mammal. Why does it matter? As Dr. David Mindell, Dean of Science and Research Collections at the Academy, explained, 'Humans rely on healthy ecosystems, made up of organisms and their environments. Creating a comprehensive inventory of life on our planet is critical for understanding and managing resources. Yet a great many life-forms remain to be discovered and described.'"
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PageRank Algorithm Applied To the Food Web 94

Posted by Soulskill from the dodo-got-googlebombed dept.
An anonymous reader brings word of a new application for PageRank, Google's link analysis algorithm: monitoring the food web in an ecosystem. A team of researchers found that a modified version of PageRank can predict with great accuracy which species are vital to the existence of others. Quoting: "Every species is embedded in a complex network of relationships with others. A single extinction can cascade into the loss of seemingly unrelated species. Investigating when this might happen using more conventional methods is complicated, as even in simple ecosystems, the number of combinations exceeds the number of atoms in the universe. So, it would be impossible to try them all. Co-author Dr. Stefano Allesina realized he could apply PageRank to the problem when he stumbled across an article in a journal of applied mathematics describing the Google algorithm. 'First of all, we had to reverse the definition of the algorithm. In PageRank, a web page is important if important pages point to it. In our approach, a species is important if it points to important species.'"

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