Sorry to disapoint this is'nt about makeing the Kessel Run in less then 12 Parsecs. I just thought the title was fitting.
On my google news feed, the mainstream media (Fox News, CNN, Washington Post, NY Times, even PC World) is acclaiming the i-Pad to be the next generation of of portable computeing. Said editorials marvel at it's slim and slick design, makeing it out to be something ahead of it's time or shall we say the most top notch thing out there. Something to the effect that the Millinium Falcon was the fastest to make the Kessel Run, thus my analogy.
With the excessive hype around the i-Pad I think some of these editors our blind. To me it seems to be nothing more then a pimped out i-Phone. Apple advertises it on the same level as a laptop; doing gameing, word processing, email, (run of the mill PC stuff), but when you look at the specs it is'nt anywhere close. However it only 30 GBs of HDD space and you pay more for an extra 30. Even the i-pod video had more. In addition the processing power is lacking, and battery life is another issue, among other things.
All in all, in my personal opinion the i-Pad is over hyped. And the hype leading to all these "critically acclaimed" reviews. It's not even on the same playing field as the "Millinium Falcon" as it is advertised to be.
And with that I relinquish my soap box. If you actually own a i-Pad I would love to hear your opinion. Or if your a die hard apple fanatic I would love to hear from you as well.
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Makeing the Kessel Run in less then 12 Parsecs?
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Posté 02 avril 2010 - 04:27
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Some people don't understand this because a parsec is a unit of distance. But the point of the Kessel run is that it goes near a bunch of black holes, so "The Kessel Run" is not a set course, like a race track. Saying that you did the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs means that Han is a daring and yet talented pilot.
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Posté 02 avril 2010 - 04:30
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The "pimped out iPhone" (iPod Touch would be more accurate, I think) is pretty accurate from everything I've seen. They're selling it as a tablet --- but its capabilities are so limited (I don't care if "there's an app for that" --- I want real, open computing) that I wouldn't even consider one unless it was given as a gift, priced at a fifth its current price, or upgraded to allow full installation of OS X.
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Posté 02 avril 2010 - 04:34
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Captain Cornhole wrote...
Sorry to disapoint this is'nt about makeing the Kessel Run in less then 12 Parsecs. I just thought the title was fitting.
On my google news feed...
....Thoughts and comments?
your post is, quite simply, unreadable.
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Posté 02 avril 2010 - 04:36
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Frederic-104 wrote...
Captain Cornhole wrote...
Sorry to disapoint this is'nt about makeing the Kessel Run in less then 12 Parsecs. I just thought the title was fitting.
On my google news feed...
....Thoughts and comments?
your post is, quite simply, unreadable.
More of this. For the love of all that is holy, learn to use a spellchecker. After that, learn to construct complete sentences and string thoughts together in a coherent fashion.
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Posté 02 avril 2010 - 05:06
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Baskervore wrote...
Some people don't understand this because a parsec is a unit of distance. But the point of the Kessel run is that it goes near a bunch of black holes, so "The Kessel Run" is not a set course, like a race track. Saying that you did the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs means that Han is a daring and yet talented pilot.
And also that it takes a fast and powerful ship to get that close without succumbing to their gravitational pull. The Family Guy Star Wars episode always pisses me off for not getting that. Stupid casual fans...
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Posté 02 avril 2010 - 05:24
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It's a bigger Touch. Same old DRM, same restrictive back end. I want this to flop but it won't happen with all those ravenous Apple fanbois.
If it is successful I can see Apple making a push on the personal computing market with this thing. Which would just be bad for everyone. Forced to go through Apple in order to install some drivers or having them tell me what apps are and aren't acceptable for my PC. What a rosy future that would be.
If it is successful I can see Apple making a push on the personal computing market with this thing. Which would just be bad for everyone. Forced to go through Apple in order to install some drivers or having them tell me what apps are and aren't acceptable for my PC. What a rosy future that would be.
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Posté 02 avril 2010 - 01:33
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Daewan wrote...
Frederic-104 wrote...
Captain Cornhole wrote...
Sorry to disapoint this is'nt about makeing the Kessel Run in less then 12 Parsecs. I just thought the title was fitting.
On my google news feed...
....Thoughts and comments?
your post is, quite simply, unreadable.
More of this. For the love of all that is holy, learn to use a spellchecker. After that, learn to construct complete sentences and string thoughts together in a coherent fashion.
Please, so the best you can do is laugh at my grammer mistakes. So it was 10:43 when I wrote this and yes some of my writing could be inproved. But the fact that others where able to read my rant and both of you where not shows something about your intellegnace*.
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Posté 02 avril 2010 - 01:47
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Frieza1987 wrote...
Baskervore wrote...
Some people don't understand this because a parsec is a unit of distance. But the point of the Kessel run is that it goes near a bunch of black holes, so "The Kessel Run" is not a set course, like a race track. Saying that you did the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs means that Han is a daring and yet talented pilot.
And also that it takes a fast and powerful ship to get that close without succumbing to their gravitational pull. The Family Guy Star Wars episode always pisses me off for not getting that. Stupid casual fans...
Actually can I just point out that you are wrong.
They are making a joke about it because originally there was no black holes and all that jazz and that calling a parsec was simply a mistake made in the movie.
The black holes like The Maw etc was retconned in later. Even George Lucas said that The Maw wasnt canon at one point.
I actually have seen the interviews about that episode and they said that they DID know the "reason" that was introduced LATER to EXPLAIN the MISTAKE in the movie and chose to make the joke about it.
Back on topic however - i feel that Apple stuff is overhyped in general.
Their laptops are the same. You spend somewhere in the range of 1000 to 1400 pounds (anywhere from 1200 to 1600 dollars) for Macbook lappy and the specs on it are crap. Seriously. You can buy PC laptops for half the price and double the specs.
Its blatant profiteering on Apple's behalf for gimmicky "cool" gadgets that are at the end of the day mostly useless.
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Posté 02 avril 2010 - 01:50
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Mac users should be more excited for steam and Valve games than those little crappy phone things the hipsters use.
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Posté 02 avril 2010 - 08:31
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FitScotGaymer wrote...
Actually can I just point out that you
are wrong.
They are making a joke about it because originally
there was no black holes and all that jazz and that calling a parsec was
simply a mistake made in the movie.
The black holes like The Maw etc
was retconned in later. Even George Lucas said that The Maw wasnt canon
at one point.
I actually have seen the interviews about that
episode and they said that they DID know the "reason" that was
introduced LATER to EXPLAIN the MISTAKE in the movie and chose to make
the joke about it.
They knew about the Maw and they
still put that joke in there? My bad then, stupid catering to casual fans.
Yes, I know that origionally the use of parsec was a mistake, but the fact is that an explanation was created later to fix it, and anyone who knows the Star Wars EU is aware of it. The Maw is known as canon now, even if it didn't exist at the time of the movie.
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Posté 02 avril 2010 - 08:36
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technology has taken some big jumps in the last 10 years. i can just see people 10 years form now walking around with something like a hologram watch that can be used as a phone, music player, movie player, travel tv and can connect to internet... *drools*
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Posté 02 avril 2010 - 09:06
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I think the iPads success and usefulness goes only so far as how many people are willing to buy it, use it, and develop for it. Which, since it apparently does what an iPhone does, seems to be a lot. That doesn't make it a particularly innovative or good technological breakthrough, and it doesn't have to be the best at what it does. But if only one person buys the better tech while a million buy the other, the one that sold a million wins out.
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Posté 02 avril 2010 - 09:10
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Baskervore wrote...
Some people don't understand this because a parsec is a unit of distance. But the point of the Kessel run is that it goes near a bunch of black holes, so "The Kessel Run" is not a set course, like a race track. Saying that you did the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs means that Han is a daring and yet talented pilot.
But he brings the 12 parsecs up when talking about the Falcon being a fast ship, not about his own skill as a pilot/navigator.
The whole "black holes" thing is just made up by apologist fans trying to cover for the fact that George Lucas didn't know what a parsec is.
Modifié par TheMufflon, 02 avril 2010 - 09:11 .
