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  Star Wars : Episode 1

   • John Reddy
     18/11/1998 00:00:000 UTC

     Well, I got a wonderful file on one of my machines that I think some of

     you might want to look at. :) The trailer to Star Wars, Episode 1 : The

     Phantom Menace

     http://www.reddywhip.org/~jreddy/trailer320.mov

     Ooh baby, looks nifty. :)

       • s******j@d********.**o.com
         27/11/1998 00:00:000 UTC

         In article <1*************.*****.********2@n*****.***l.com>,
         JohnGorno wrote:

         >I saw it on TV: the CG has gotten almost good enough for
         characters, but they

         >still don't move quite right (and the edges don't look natural).
         Other than

         I heard speculation that the CGI shown in the trailer was "first
         cut" stuff.

         It's not as good as the things I've seen for Antz and Bug's Life.

         >that, it looks cool, although it annoys me that it's baby Darth
         Vader and that

         >they have a modern R2 unit hanging around.

         In a thousands-year-old Empire, progress may be slow enough that new
         models

         of things don't appear very often. (Yes, the spaceships are
         different, but

         that's for a GOOD reason. They want to make more money selling toys
         and

         models of them.)

         Stefan

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       • John Reddy
         18/11/1998 00:00:000 UTC

         Uhm, pardon me, but MIME is an accepted standard on the net. Most
         mail and news

         programs do not require a special decoder to read. Even 'tin' and
         'pine', the

         usual UNIX news eaders allow for MIME. See RFCs 2045 through 2049.
         The RFC's

         for can be found at http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/rfc/rfc-front.html

         And a side note, I'm using Nutscrape, not Internet Destroyer.

         Dave Weingart wrote:

         > While muttering something about 'Star Wars : Episode 1'

         > John Reddy was heard to remark:

         > >This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

         > ugh.

         > >--------------B0024C9F34C37F33D73837BF

         > >Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii;

         > > name="jreddy.vcf"

         > double ugh

         > Why do people persist in using broken software that posts to

         > Usenet in MIME? (It could be worse, true...it could have been in
         HTML, which

         > is a guaranteed way to get your message ignored.

            • p*******x@****.com
              19/11/1998 00:00:000 UTC

              While muttering something about 'Star Wars : Episode 1'

              John Reddy was heard to remark:

              >Uhm, pardon me, but MIME is an accepted standard on the net.
              Most mail and news

              Yes, but not for Usenet. For email. For file attachments. Not
              for

              net.news. Which is why people on mailing lists and Usenet tend
              to

              complain about MIME and HTML

              >programs do not require a special decoder to read. Even 'tin'
              and 'pine', the

              >usual UNIX news eaders allow for MIME. See RFCs 2045 through
              2049. The RFC's

              Most UNIX people I know prefer trn, actually, and use tin as a
              last resort.

              (Personally, I don't care for pine and would rather use elm
              from the shell,

              but that's another story altogether)

              >for can be found at
              http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/rfc/rfc-front.html

              Thanks, but if I care to read more RFCs than I've read in my
              life (which is

              way too many over the past decade or so), I can find them
              easily enough.

              >And a side note, I'm using Nutscrape, not Internet Destroyer.

              Fine. So you're using one broken newsposter instead of another.
              And

              that still doesn't excuse the useless vcard

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              yeux."

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       • p*******x@****.com
         18/11/1998 00:00:000 UTC

         While muttering something about 'Star Wars : Episode 1'

         John Reddy was heard to remark:

         >This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

         ugh.

         >--------------B0024C9F34C37F33D73837BF

         >Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii;

         > name="jreddy.vcf"

         double ugh

         Why do people persist in using broken software that posts to

         Usenet in MIME? (It could be worse, true...it could have been in
         HTML, which

         is a guaranteed way to get your message ignored.

         --

         73 de Dave Weingart KA2ESK "L'essentiel est invisible pour les
         yeux."

         mailto:p*******x@****.com -- Saint-Exupery, _Le_Petit_Prince_

         http://www.liii.com/~phydeaux

       • j********o@***.com
         23/11/1998 00:00:000 UTC

         I saw it on TV: the CG has gotten almost good enough for characters,
         but they

         still don't move quite right (and the edges don't look natural).
         Other than

         that, it looks cool, although it annoys me that it's baby Darth
         Vader and that

         they have a modern R2 unit hanging around.

         Gorno