I've said many of the same things, but in much more socially acceptable tone.
I may be wrong, but the bad guys conjured up some magical gun powder in the book and blew up the sewer gate at Helm's Deep or whatever it is in the books as well.
I thought the first movie was the best adaptation, BECAUSE it relied the least on fancy graphics and epic battle scenes. It was the deepest of the movies from a literary stance. The second movie was a boring CGI-fest. The third movie seem rushed to put all the pieces together, which was impossible given Peter Jackson messed with perfectly good pieces from the first two movies.
If you think Jackson butchered these books, you should read The Lovely Bones, then watch the mind-bogglingly stupid movie adaptation.
You forgot to mention that Tomb Raider was successful because it was an early-ish era video game feeding off the success of a movie franchise and the nerd appeal of sexy avatar character.
Other than that Tomb Raider games are pretty lame.
Director hubris. They think they can make classic works even better, because they are such great directors.
I understood moving pieces around to fit into three three-hour movies, but changing stuff and adding stupid love stories to make them more suitable to American Viewing Audiences was just dumb.
Because right or wrong, there are a large amount of people who wont play a computer game because its too "nerd like".
I think a large number of people think some nerd games are nerd like, but think games in general are fun. Some more well adjusted members of society understand that LARPing and playing Quidditch are just a bit too, well, nerdy for most people.
There have been plenty of movies worth going to the cinema for recently. Up! and A Serious Man being two I saw last year that were worth 20x the price of one Avatar ticket!
But your point is good. Most movies suck because most movie viewers suck and will be lining up en masse for Yogi Bear.
The bad economy makes it unpopular for a politician to try to regulate an industry, because to the common buffoon, regulation is done --not in the interest of all of us consumers-- but in the interest of "taking down Big Business".
It's the typical under-educated masses who always vote against their own best interests because they listen to too much talk radio.
That's not the point. The point is that "broadband" has a specific technical definition and if your service doesn't meet that definition, you can't call it that.
When is the last time there has been a high profile case of false advertising in this country? Advertisers are free to make any ridiculous claim they wish--armed with their battalions of attorneys. And with their special interest dollars lining the pockets of the chicken-shit politicians too afraid to take on business in a frail economy, it can only get worse.
We need stricter control about what advertisers can claim in this country.
The most egregious example I've heard lately is "the Leo diamond is the first diamond certified brighter".
Brighter than what?
Seriously, and not every product can be "the best" anything. Any time an advertiser says their product is "the best" they should be sued into oblivion or regulated out of business.
Sorry, but if you type roughly 90-100 wpm using touch typing in the classic sense, you don't just replace a pinky key with a ring finger key, because it's otherwise occupied by the shift key.
Holding the shift key down for more than the single instance you need it slows you down. Not to the point of major crisis, mind you, just an annoyance and minor physical discomfort.
Defense contractor tech writer here--every third word is an acronym, and all system inputs are required to be typed in all caps. Try typing phrases like, "PRESS THE ENTER KEY" without a caps lock key for 8 hours a day.
Except I'm a touch typist, and if the acronym has all of its letters on the left hand, you have to hold the right shift down the entire time. It's a real pain.
Uggh, reminds me of crap like Dragon Naturally Speaking and its ilk. They've been promising voice-to-text for well over 25 years now and it's still not a viable reality. Hell, they still can't promise good OCR yet, let alone voice-to-text.
How do you take notes on a laptop? I type 90 wpm and couldn't keep up with a lecture. I also can't draw diagrams on my laptop very well.
I have no need for an iPad, but this is one case that is hard to deny it's plausibility over a laptop. Still, most students will have both (still have to write papers) and making it easy to synch the two is a good business model. It ensures a company like Apple doesn't undercut one division in favor of the new "in" thing, for starters.
I've been out of college since before students used computers in college, but my wife is a full time student at Texas. She tells me most of the incoming freshman are using laptops, but a lot of them are using iPad with a stylus that captures handwriting. Unless Geology 101 lectures have changed in the past 25 years, I think students would rather have a device to write on than a device to type on, if just to be able to keep up with the lecture and make sensible notes.
So if the main need for a freshman at college is a way to take notes, read assignments, access their student account/email, write papers and pirate music files, then they only need a computer for the latter two.
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I've said many of the same things, but in much more socially acceptable tone.
I may be wrong, but the bad guys conjured up some magical gun powder in the book and blew up the sewer gate at Helm's Deep or whatever it is in the books as well.
I thought the first movie was the best adaptation, BECAUSE it relied the least on fancy graphics and epic battle scenes. It was the deepest of the movies from a literary stance. The second movie was a boring CGI-fest. The third movie seem rushed to put all the pieces together, which was impossible given Peter Jackson messed with perfectly good pieces from the first two movies.
If you think Jackson butchered these books, you should read The Lovely Bones, then watch the mind-bogglingly stupid movie adaptation.
Spoiler Alert: The Princess is another castle.
That's some deep plot right there!
You forgot to mention that Tomb Raider was successful because it was an early-ish era video game feeding off the success of a movie franchise and the nerd appeal of sexy avatar character.
Other than that Tomb Raider games are pretty lame.
Uncharted is the perfect candidate for a popcorn movie
Straight-to-the-trash is the perfect candidate for popcorn movies.
Uncharted was fun because I was playing it. It is not really fun to watch somebody playing it, which is what a movie would be like.
Director hubris. They think they can make classic works even better, because they are such great directors.
I understood moving pieces around to fit into three three-hour movies, but changing stuff and adding stupid love stories to make them more suitable to American Viewing Audiences was just dumb.
George Lucas only cares about making money so he can throw some ewoks into a movie to sell some extra toys to kids.
FTFY.
Because right or wrong, there are a large amount of people who wont play a computer game because its too "nerd like".
I think a large number of people think some nerd games are nerd like, but think games in general are fun. Some more well adjusted members of society understand that LARPing and playing Quidditch are just a bit too, well, nerdy for most people.
There have been plenty of movies worth going to the cinema for recently. Up! and A Serious Man being two I saw last year that were worth 20x the price of one Avatar ticket!
But your point is good. Most movies suck because most movie viewers suck and will be lining up en masse for Yogi Bear.
Games made after movies are even worse than movies made after games!
Anyone else notice the inverse is true as well?
The bad economy makes it unpopular for a politician to try to regulate an industry, because to the common buffoon, regulation is done --not in the interest of all of us consumers-- but in the interest of "taking down Big Business".
It's the typical under-educated masses who always vote against their own best interests because they listen to too much talk radio.
I think the argument is that all of West Texas is statistically insignificant because of Houston, San Antonio, Austin, and DFW.
That's not the point. The point is that "broadband" has a specific technical definition and if your service doesn't meet that definition, you can't call it that.
When is the last time there has been a high profile case of false advertising in this country? Advertisers are free to make any ridiculous claim they wish--armed with their battalions of attorneys. And with their special interest dollars lining the pockets of the chicken-shit politicians too afraid to take on business in a frail economy, it can only get worse.
Doesn't matter. Not everyone needs 250 horsepower, but if the car that is being advertised as having 250 horsepower only has 200, that's bullshit.
We need stricter control about what advertisers can claim in this country.
The most egregious example I've heard lately is "the Leo diamond is the first diamond certified brighter".
Brighter than what?
Seriously, and not every product can be "the best" anything. Any time an advertiser says their product is "the best" they should be sued into oblivion or regulated out of business.
Sorry, but if you type roughly 90-100 wpm using touch typing in the classic sense, you don't just replace a pinky key with a ring finger key, because it's otherwise occupied by the shift key.
Holding the shift key down for more than the single instance you need it slows you down. Not to the point of major crisis, mind you, just an annoyance and minor physical discomfort.
Defense contractor tech writer here--every third word is an acronym, and all system inputs are required to be typed in all caps. Try typing phrases like, "PRESS THE ENTER KEY" without a caps lock key for 8 hours a day.
Yay. I got whooshed by some sort of nerd reference? Care to explain?
Except I'm a touch typist, and if the acronym has all of its letters on the left hand, you have to hold the right shift down the entire time. It's a real pain.
All my hat does is sort students into the proper Hogwarts school. I got Hufflepuff.
Uggh, reminds me of crap like Dragon Naturally Speaking and its ilk. They've been promising voice-to-text for well over 25 years now and it's still not a viable reality. Hell, they still can't promise good OCR yet, let alone voice-to-text.
How do you take notes on a laptop? I type 90 wpm and couldn't keep up with a lecture. I also can't draw diagrams on my laptop very well.
I have no need for an iPad, but this is one case that is hard to deny it's plausibility over a laptop. Still, most students will have both (still have to write papers) and making it easy to synch the two is a good business model. It ensures a company like Apple doesn't undercut one division in favor of the new "in" thing, for starters.
I've been out of college since before students used computers in college, but my wife is a full time student at Texas. She tells me most of the incoming freshman are using laptops, but a lot of them are using iPad with a stylus that captures handwriting. Unless Geology 101 lectures have changed in the past 25 years, I think students would rather have a device to write on than a device to type on, if just to be able to keep up with the lecture and make sensible notes.
So if the main need for a freshman at college is a way to take notes, read assignments, access their student account/email, write papers and pirate music files, then they only need a computer for the latter two.
That's nice, but what does the average non-slashdotter do?
Surf the web, send/receive email, look at some pictures, listen to some music. They don't need a computer.
I'd play WoW on an iPad if they made a client that ran on it.