I don't see it as incompetence so much as just accepting that the way things had been done to that point were not working. The Jedi Order was flawed and Yoda recognized that it needed to come to and end. That helped Luke overcome his sense of failure by understanding that it was as much a problem with the Jedi as with any mistakes he made, and take a leaf from Rey's book to just embrace the Force on a more personal level.
I agree that Poe's story could have been done a little better, with Holdo's actions explained more clearly in particular. But it did set Poe up as a future leader, probably to take over from Leia now that he has learned that heroic victories at any cost are not the way to run a rebellion.
Competition is bad for TV. Look at how many shows get cancelled before the first season has even finished airing. If they don't immediately become massive hits they are mercilessly put to death.
It's bad enough that they cancelled Star Trek after season 3, but these days they would probably have killed it after 8 episodes and not even completed the first season.
There are so many channels and so many shows competing for views that stuff which takes time to become a hit or stuff that is niche like a lot of sci-fi gets cancelled prematurely, if it gets made at all.
Have you ever tried to cancel Amazon Prime? First you have to google the cancellation page because you sure as hell can't find it on their site, and then you have to click "yes, I want to cancel and give up all my benefits" about 15 times before it actually does it.
The ads are just another way to convince you not to cancel by reminding you of stuff that their UI is too crap to help you discover.
I suppose the explanation for things like the hyperspace tracker is that in Star Wars it's very soft sci-fi and they will happily invent a McGuffin if it suits the plot. I think it's interesting that a lot of people are bothered by stuff like that though, because the movie was really about the characters and their personal journeys.
The Monte Carlo stuff was so that Finn could build some empathy for the rebel cause on his journey to becoming a rebel himself. He goes was trying to get away from the rebel fleet to save himself to declaring himself to be "rebel scum" to Phasma, and seeing how it's not just a fight against the Space Nazis but also a fight for all the oppressed citizens of the galaxy is key to that.
Rose ultimately saving Finn from his heroic but mostly pointless suicide run completes his transition, and mirrors Poe's journey from magnificent bastard who goes for the glory and the big wins to someone who sees the bigger picture and importance of building the rebellion up as a movement.
The hyperspace ramming manoeuvre can be explained as relying on having a very large battering ram, in this case the largest ship that the rebellion ever had. Considering that it didn't stop the First Order's pursuit in the end and relied on the tactical error of lining their ships up like that it's probably not something you want to use very often.
This is just nonsense. You can buy Chinese cars in Europe, including BYD ones. Availability is a bit limited but BYD is popular for taxis in London, for example. I've seen some privately owned Chinese SUVs too.
Obviously they meet all European safety standards.
The main limitation is that they can barely keep up with demand in China, and expanding into Europe requires a fair bit of investment. The cars need to be localized (software, manuals, EU requirements) and they need a network for sales and servicing. Realistically they need to find partners in Europe who understand the market and can run the show.
Of course the same thing was said about Japanese and Korean cars, before all the western manufacturers went bankrupt.
Note that passenger cars only, not including commercial vehicles like busses and trucks that BYD also makes.
It will be interesting to see what happens this year, but if you look at the historic numbers BYD is ramping up sales fast so it will probably be close.
They haven't even got standard definition content working properly yet.
Try playing back 60 FPS videos on a Fire TV stick. You get the re-compressed 30 FPS stream. Most streaming boxes and smart TVs have this problem. The only one that properly supports frame rate switching is the Nvidia Shield, and it's really expensive.
Problem is that is a massive disincentive to make your job more efficient. If the result of automating your job is to be punished with redundancy, you are better off not automating.
Why bother re-writing the OS at all? If you want to treat it like a console, hit the metal directly, you don't need the OS.
Make libraries for self-booting games and enough of a Kickstart to run the bootblock from floppy. Throw in some debugging tools to help cross-compile and download from another machine.
I've been wanting to get back in to Amiga coding for ages. I hear that WinUAE makes a good development environment now... Not least because you can do stuff that was impossible on real hardware, like examine DMA slot allocation for maximum optimization.
I was there when Hyperion signed the contract to gain perpetual rights to develop Amiga OS "Classic" and distribute it, including Kickstart. They were the only ones interested in doing it at the time, and Amiga Inc. had no money to pay someone and they were more focused on their stupid Java game platform and other "next generation Amiga" nonsense.
The guys, two brothers, doing most of the coding know what they are doing with Amiga OS. They had developed a fair bit of other stuff for the platform... It's a while back now but I seem to recall they did one of the PPC systems, and a 3D API for the then brand new 3D accelerator cards that could connect to the Blizzard accelerator boards or to Zorro-PCI bridge cards. I remember we had extensive discussions about how to overcome the bandwidth limitations of those systems, which were preventing the 68k CPU from keeping the relatively primitive cards of the day operating at anywhere near 100% load. Just copying the scene geometry over was a bottleneck, let alone swapping textures in and out.
Do what? Take out a newspaper ad? Nah, I'm not wasting my money on that nonsense. And also I don't think the wage gap is a myth.
On the other hand I can simply point to the moderation on any post suggesting that the wage gap is real to prove that the opposite is true, at least on Slashdot.
Note that the second most popular Blu Ray was Black Panther, another movie that vocal online critics claim is complete shit and a terrible, failing movie.
Don't fall for that. There is usually more meta-outrage on YouTube than there was actual outrage in the first place. It's a huge money-maker, because people gleefully buy into the idea that the stupid SJWs were upset. Most of the videos are just copies of each other too, the plagiarism is ridiculous.
The YouTube outrage industry vastly distorts how much actual upset something caused, which in the case of those two examples rounds out to zero. The Last Jedi just because another cash cow for anti-SJW channels.
When I started reading your comment I thought you meant the bogus copy/paste generic criticisms were ruining the genuine critical discussions of the movie.
Same thing happened with Black Panther. Check the IMDB reviews, all variations on the same basic talking points which are mostly just nonsense, or so generic as to be impossible to actually discuss.
Holdo didn't tell Poe about the plan, but maybe she told the other senior staff. Remember he had just been demoted so was not privy to information he would previously have been told.
The light speed attack probably only worked because of the mass of the ship that was used, the largest that the rebels possessed. It wouldn't make sense to sacrifice ships like that when there are other effective weapons. Also keep in mind that it wasn't even that effective - it damaged a lot of ships but it didn't stop the First Order pursuing.
It's interesting that these Russian bot accounts originated a lot of the talking points that people bring up about TLJ. When you see someone making generic complaints without specifying particular aspects of the movie, like "they used the same scene 3 times" or "the writing was really bad" you will usually find that those ideas originated with Russian bots.
That's the key difference between the bots and genuine critics/upset fans. They make complaints that are designed to go viral and which are almost impossible to argue with because they are too generic to refute.
Your anti-straight-white-male theory is rather undermined by the fact that Finn and Poe also had their flaws exposed as part of their plots. The whole movie was about subverting expectations and letting go of the past. Not just past characters, but past solutions to problems.
Take Poe. In the original trilogy his methods worked. Desperate all out attack against high value targets, heavy losses but big victories that eventually brought down the Empire. But it didn't last. The First Order rose out of the ashes, which if you read the books is because while the Emperor and the Death Star 2 were major assets the rebels didn't really cripple the rest of the Imperial Navy or fill the power vacuum.
Poe has to learn to trust commanders and to look at the bigger picture, to plan for the long term.
Finn similarly attempts a suicide attack near the end of the movie, but what good would it have really done in the end? The rebels were still cornered, still holding out hope for rescue by their allies that never came. He learns that not only are things worth fighting for (after initially trying to get away from the rebel fleet), but that grand suicide gestures aren't what matters. Saving your friends, actually the thing that bound everyone together in Empire and RotJ, and building the rebellion is how you win the war.
Is Rey overpowered? I mean Luke is a farmer who over the course of a day or two becomes an ace fighter pilot and manages to infiltrate the Death Star and rescue a high value prisoner. In comparison Rey manages to crash the Falcon into the ground and shows constant doubt that Luke never had. Kylo is fairly dominant in their fight despite his injury, and isn't even trying to kill her.
It was a lot like how Empire was controversial when that came out. After the triumphant first film, with a classic coming of age hero story line, it really subverted expectations. The hero loses pretty badly, the smuggler pirate badass gets frozen in carbonite and now this new guy who started out by betraying him is flying his ship and wearing his clothes.
As for Luke, he explains the problem himself in the movie. He says something like "what did you expect, I'd go out and fight the whole First Order with a laser sword?" If Luke came and solved all their problems it would have been a boring movie, maybe as bad as Yoda fighting the prequels. So they subverted it, Luke is having a crisis of faith as he realizes that the Jedi were flawed and not the solution, and then in the end decides for personal reasons to help the Rebels and his sister out by going and fighting the whole First Order with a laser sword.
There is some nice symmetry there too. The first time he met Leia it was as a hologram. The last time he met Leia he was the projection.
Actually the questioner answered the question already. It's cost. Manuals cost money to prepare and print. If there is a mistake it's not easy to fix. The add weight to the package which increases shipping costs. And in the end most people don't read them anyway.
Go look at some computer manuals from the 80s. They are thick because they teach you how to use a computer. Computers were hard to use back then, often booting directly into BASIC. Even the GUI ones were unfamiliar to most people, especially first time buyers.
Customers mostly don't like manuals either. They prefer stuff that "just works" or is intuitive, and only go to the manual if they have a problem.
The only time manuals make sense is when you need to cover your ass legally, e.g. cars. Even they will stop getting manuals soon I think, since a lot of them are moving to over-the-air software updates that make manuals almost immediately out of date. Not looking forward to that.
You answered your own question there. The reason people go to boot camp is to get over that initial hurdle and get started. A book can work too, but it's often a lot easier to have someone show you the basics with a working system and then go from there on your own. Being able to ask fairly basic questions or have things that don't initially make sense to you clarified is very valuable.
That's pretty much why school isn't just quietly reading books once reading itself is mastered.
Worryingly this is the same excuse Trump used for Trump University being a scam. Even if it's true it's not any better than having been involved at every step.
Wages tend to be a small part of the cost of most goods though. When you look at he volume of bread coming out of factories and the number of people working there, wages don't contribute much to the sale price.
That sounds more like working class. Middle class is a step up, property owning, savings in the bank with a decent retirement to look forward to, lots of disposable income.
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I don't see it as incompetence so much as just accepting that the way things had been done to that point were not working. The Jedi Order was flawed and Yoda recognized that it needed to come to and end. That helped Luke overcome his sense of failure by understanding that it was as much a problem with the Jedi as with any mistakes he made, and take a leaf from Rey's book to just embrace the Force on a more personal level.
I agree that Poe's story could have been done a little better, with Holdo's actions explained more clearly in particular. But it did set Poe up as a future leader, probably to take over from Leia now that he has learned that heroic victories at any cost are not the way to run a rebellion.
Competition is bad for TV. Look at how many shows get cancelled before the first season has even finished airing. If they don't immediately become massive hits they are mercilessly put to death.
It's bad enough that they cancelled Star Trek after season 3, but these days they would probably have killed it after 8 episodes and not even completed the first season.
There are so many channels and so many shows competing for views that stuff which takes time to become a hit or stuff that is niche like a lot of sci-fi gets cancelled prematurely, if it gets made at all.
Have you ever tried to cancel Amazon Prime? First you have to google the cancellation page because you sure as hell can't find it on their site, and then you have to click "yes, I want to cancel and give up all my benefits" about 15 times before it actually does it.
The ads are just another way to convince you not to cancel by reminding you of stuff that their UI is too crap to help you discover.
I suppose the explanation for things like the hyperspace tracker is that in Star Wars it's very soft sci-fi and they will happily invent a McGuffin if it suits the plot. I think it's interesting that a lot of people are bothered by stuff like that though, because the movie was really about the characters and their personal journeys.
The Monte Carlo stuff was so that Finn could build some empathy for the rebel cause on his journey to becoming a rebel himself. He goes was trying to get away from the rebel fleet to save himself to declaring himself to be "rebel scum" to Phasma, and seeing how it's not just a fight against the Space Nazis but also a fight for all the oppressed citizens of the galaxy is key to that.
Rose ultimately saving Finn from his heroic but mostly pointless suicide run completes his transition, and mirrors Poe's journey from magnificent bastard who goes for the glory and the big wins to someone who sees the bigger picture and importance of building the rebellion up as a movement.
The hyperspace ramming manoeuvre can be explained as relying on having a very large battering ram, in this case the largest ship that the rebellion ever had. Considering that it didn't stop the First Order's pursuit in the end and relied on the tactical error of lining their ships up like that it's probably not something you want to use very often.
This is just nonsense. You can buy Chinese cars in Europe, including BYD ones. Availability is a bit limited but BYD is popular for taxis in London, for example. I've seen some privately owned Chinese SUVs too.
Obviously they meet all European safety standards.
The main limitation is that they can barely keep up with demand in China, and expanding into Europe requires a fair bit of investment. The cars need to be localized (software, manuals, EU requirements) and they need a network for sales and servicing. Realistically they need to find partners in Europe who understand the market and can run the show.
Of course the same thing was said about Japanese and Korean cars, before all the western manufacturers went bankrupt.
No it's true, at least it was for the last complete year (2017): https://www.greencarreports.co...
Note that passenger cars only, not including commercial vehicles like busses and trucks that BYD also makes.
It will be interesting to see what happens this year, but if you look at the historic numbers BYD is ramping up sales fast so it will probably be close.
They haven't even got standard definition content working properly yet.
Try playing back 60 FPS videos on a Fire TV stick. You get the re-compressed 30 FPS stream. Most streaming boxes and smart TVs have this problem. The only one that properly supports frame rate switching is the Nvidia Shield, and it's really expensive.
Problem is that is a massive disincentive to make your job more efficient. If the result of automating your job is to be punished with redundancy, you are better off not automating.
Why bother re-writing the OS at all? If you want to treat it like a console, hit the metal directly, you don't need the OS.
Make libraries for self-booting games and enough of a Kickstart to run the bootblock from floppy. Throw in some debugging tools to help cross-compile and download from another machine.
I've been wanting to get back in to Amiga coding for ages. I hear that WinUAE makes a good development environment now... Not least because you can do stuff that was impossible on real hardware, like examine DMA slot allocation for maximum optimization.
I was there when Hyperion signed the contract to gain perpetual rights to develop Amiga OS "Classic" and distribute it, including Kickstart. They were the only ones interested in doing it at the time, and Amiga Inc. had no money to pay someone and they were more focused on their stupid Java game platform and other "next generation Amiga" nonsense.
The guys, two brothers, doing most of the coding know what they are doing with Amiga OS. They had developed a fair bit of other stuff for the platform... It's a while back now but I seem to recall they did one of the PPC systems, and a 3D API for the then brand new 3D accelerator cards that could connect to the Blizzard accelerator boards or to Zorro-PCI bridge cards. I remember we had extensive discussions about how to overcome the bandwidth limitations of those systems, which were preventing the 68k CPU from keeping the relatively primitive cards of the day operating at anywhere near 100% load. Just copying the scene geometry over was a bottleneck, let alone swapping textures in and out.
Do what? Take out a newspaper ad? Nah, I'm not wasting my money on that nonsense. And also I don't think the wage gap is a myth.
On the other hand I can simply point to the moderation on any post suggesting that the wage gap is real to prove that the opposite is true, at least on Slashdot.
Fuck off, Rogue One took a massive shit on Leia's legacy and made the opening of a new hope a joke.
What the actual fuck? Can you please explain that one.
The sales figures for the bluray (absolutely awful) reflect it.
Um, it was the best selling Blu Ray of 2018 to September: http://screencrush.com/blu-ray...
Note that the second most popular Blu Ray was Black Panther, another movie that vocal online critics claim is complete shit and a terrible, failing movie.
Go to Youtube.
Search Last Jedi
Don't fall for that. There is usually more meta-outrage on YouTube than there was actual outrage in the first place. It's a huge money-maker, because people gleefully buy into the idea that the stupid SJWs were upset. Most of the videos are just copies of each other too, the plagiarism is ridiculous.
Here's a study of the recent meta-outrage about the new Doom game: https://youtu.be/l63nY0AYebI
And the same thing happened with Cuphead: https://youtu.be/_-P9_oUV9Gw
The YouTube outrage industry vastly distorts how much actual upset something caused, which in the case of those two examples rounds out to zero. The Last Jedi just because another cash cow for anti-SJW channels.
When I started reading your comment I thought you meant the bogus copy/paste generic criticisms were ruining the genuine critical discussions of the movie.
Same thing happened with Black Panther. Check the IMDB reviews, all variations on the same basic talking points which are mostly just nonsense, or so generic as to be impossible to actually discuss.
Holdo didn't tell Poe about the plan, but maybe she told the other senior staff. Remember he had just been demoted so was not privy to information he would previously have been told.
The light speed attack probably only worked because of the mass of the ship that was used, the largest that the rebels possessed. It wouldn't make sense to sacrifice ships like that when there are other effective weapons. Also keep in mind that it wasn't even that effective - it damaged a lot of ships but it didn't stop the First Order pursuing.
It's interesting that these Russian bot accounts originated a lot of the talking points that people bring up about TLJ. When you see someone making generic complaints without specifying particular aspects of the movie, like "they used the same scene 3 times" or "the writing was really bad" you will usually find that those ideas originated with Russian bots.
That's the key difference between the bots and genuine critics/upset fans. They make complaints that are designed to go viral and which are almost impossible to argue with because they are too generic to refute.
Your anti-straight-white-male theory is rather undermined by the fact that Finn and Poe also had their flaws exposed as part of their plots. The whole movie was about subverting expectations and letting go of the past. Not just past characters, but past solutions to problems.
Take Poe. In the original trilogy his methods worked. Desperate all out attack against high value targets, heavy losses but big victories that eventually brought down the Empire. But it didn't last. The First Order rose out of the ashes, which if you read the books is because while the Emperor and the Death Star 2 were major assets the rebels didn't really cripple the rest of the Imperial Navy or fill the power vacuum.
Poe has to learn to trust commanders and to look at the bigger picture, to plan for the long term.
Finn similarly attempts a suicide attack near the end of the movie, but what good would it have really done in the end? The rebels were still cornered, still holding out hope for rescue by their allies that never came. He learns that not only are things worth fighting for (after initially trying to get away from the rebel fleet), but that grand suicide gestures aren't what matters. Saving your friends, actually the thing that bound everyone together in Empire and RotJ, and building the rebellion is how you win the war.
Is Rey overpowered? I mean Luke is a farmer who over the course of a day or two becomes an ace fighter pilot and manages to infiltrate the Death Star and rescue a high value prisoner. In comparison Rey manages to crash the Falcon into the ground and shows constant doubt that Luke never had. Kylo is fairly dominant in their fight despite his injury, and isn't even trying to kill her.
It was a lot like how Empire was controversial when that came out. After the triumphant first film, with a classic coming of age hero story line, it really subverted expectations. The hero loses pretty badly, the smuggler pirate badass gets frozen in carbonite and now this new guy who started out by betraying him is flying his ship and wearing his clothes.
As for Luke, he explains the problem himself in the movie. He says something like "what did you expect, I'd go out and fight the whole First Order with a laser sword?" If Luke came and solved all their problems it would have been a boring movie, maybe as bad as Yoda fighting the prequels. So they subverted it, Luke is having a crisis of faith as he realizes that the Jedi were flawed and not the solution, and then in the end decides for personal reasons to help the Rebels and his sister out by going and fighting the whole First Order with a laser sword.
There is some nice symmetry there too. The first time he met Leia it was as a hologram. The last time he met Leia he was the projection.
Actually the questioner answered the question already. It's cost. Manuals cost money to prepare and print. If there is a mistake it's not easy to fix. The add weight to the package which increases shipping costs. And in the end most people don't read them anyway.
Go look at some computer manuals from the 80s. They are thick because they teach you how to use a computer. Computers were hard to use back then, often booting directly into BASIC. Even the GUI ones were unfamiliar to most people, especially first time buyers.
Customers mostly don't like manuals either. They prefer stuff that "just works" or is intuitive, and only go to the manual if they have a problem.
The only time manuals make sense is when you need to cover your ass legally, e.g. cars. Even they will stop getting manuals soon I think, since a lot of them are moving to over-the-air software updates that make manuals almost immediately out of date. Not looking forward to that.
You answered your own question there. The reason people go to boot camp is to get over that initial hurdle and get started. A book can work too, but it's often a lot easier to have someone show you the basics with a working system and then go from there on your own. Being able to ask fairly basic questions or have things that don't initially make sense to you clarified is very valuable.
That's pretty much why school isn't just quietly reading books once reading itself is mastered.
Worryingly this is the same excuse Trump used for Trump University being a scam. Even if it's true it's not any better than having been involved at every step.
Wages tend to be a small part of the cost of most goods though. When you look at he volume of bread coming out of factories and the number of people working there, wages don't contribute much to the sale price.
That sounds more like working class. Middle class is a step up, property owning, savings in the bank with a decent retirement to look forward to, lots of disposable income.