Lucas came up with story treatments for a new trilogy, those materials, to put it bluntly, were discarded
This is absolutely the best thing that could have happened to Star Wars. While he did have good ideas back in the 70's, he's long since used up whatever talent he ever had. He single handedly turned his franchise into "mule fritters" with Episodes 1-3. There is no way for the franchise to go but up now that Lucas is no longer involved.
Good riddance. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
The point is that there will be quite a number of fair use cases that end up not being defended in large part because the video (or the channel it's in) doesn't make any money for YouTube. Not only that, they'll probably throw some money at less-than-fully-legitimate fair use videos only because the video (or the channel it's in) does make money for YouTube. For better or worse, It's all about the money.
I would argue that those movies aren't exactly realistic either. Maybe better than some but they still have a long way to go. And they're the exception rather than the rule.
Oh, and I forgot to comment on the fact that I absolutely do not believe you that movies have become more realistic over the years. At all. Because they haven't.
Good for him. With the exception of a very small minority, I never hear people coming out of movies complaining about how unrealistic the action was. Most people just don't care because it doesn't matter. If it's not a documentary, a movie doesn't need to be realistic to be entertaining. Well, except for the nerds living in their parent's basement who spend all their time arguing over minutiae over the internet instead of socializing.
Pretty much everything in every movie is not realistic. Why should blowing up bridges be any different.
Go see movie. Suspend your disbelief. Enjoy it. Go home. Get on with the rest of your life instead of sitting around with nerds over analyzing everything.
I grew up there too. Dad was a Collins man for 40 years. I spent a few years there myself before moving on.
You're pretty spot on in your summary of the town. It's a nice, cheap, quiet place to raise kids in quality school districts. But it's boring as hell. There's an old joke that sums up the town pretty well.
What's the difference between Cedar Rapids and yogurt? Yogurt has culture.
The NewBo district is an attempt to manufacture culture but, like everywhere you try to manufacture culture, it misses the mark. The closest thing to real culture is ~25 miles south in Iowa City. Even so, it's still Iowa. Though weekend road trips to Chicago, Minneapolis, Kansas City, or St. Louis are easy to do. Beyond that, there's really not a whole lot to do but get together with friends and drink while you watch Hawkeye games or minor league sports. Or maybe go drinking in a boat on Coralville reservoir.
The other major drawback is that, from a tech perspective, it's a one horse town. Sure, there are a few tech companies but Rockwell is about 90% or more of the tech scene in Cedar Rapids. And it's as bad as any of the other major corporations out there. And when they have layoffs, you really only have two alternatives. You leave to go somewhere else or you change careers entirely.
For being a flyover state that's mostly flat, there's still a bunch of decent bike trails. There's no mountains, but the rolling hills make it more challenging than a real prairie.
If you like a quiet place to raise a family, you could do worse than Cedar Rapids. But if you like places with a lot of fun things to do, you'll be bored out of your mind.
You can have my VT100 when you pry it from my cold dead hands....
Well, that is if I still had one.
Who am I kidding. I just use whatever comes installed by default. I never did use any really fancy terminal features beyond color displays. XTerm is fine for me. Though I do remember back in the day when the choice would actually affect basic features.
I'm still trying to figure out what the OP is trying to say. The summary is so disjointed it's nearly impossible to follow. Well, unless you have ADHD or.... LOOK! SQUIRREL!!!!.... hey, lets go ride bikes.
I've never heard of a cop pulling over a car for going too slowly. Never once in my life. It had to be an excuse and they were really pulling it over for an illegitimate reason.
That may have been true 20 years ago but modern optimizing compilers will generate the same output whether you embed your assignment in the conditional or do it separately.
Those warnings are useless when your code intentionally uses assignments in conditional expressions because you either ignore the warnings or you turn them off.
I don't believe that you haven't made that error in decades. Well, not if you're still using a C style language. I've been writing code since 1978 and I still make that mistake from time to time. Typos happen. To everyone. It doesn't matter how long you've been in the business.
I would agree with you except for the horrendous number of hours wasted tracking down places where a single equal was used in place of a double. While lexical analysis tools can catch it, and coding standards (like putting the constant/literal value on the LHS) will help, it's still an unnecessarily wide trap that catches too many people.
There is little real benefit to allowing an assignment to be used as a member of an encompassing expression. In fact, that "feature" only promotes overly complex statements that are harder to read and debug. And with optimizing compilers being so good these days, there's no reason not to break a statement into smaller, more readable pieces.
Because you can't derive from context whether you want to treat the variables as strings or numbers because the comparison method is different. Without explicit variable typing, you have to provide a way for the developer wants to perform the comparison.
That's the reason early C had trigraphs. So that you could get the job done on old mainframes that didn't have all of the symbols used by the language.
Problem with that is C (and by derivation C++ and a number of other languages) allows you to use the value from an assignment as a right hand value. That allows both of these constructs:
x = y = z = 5
x = y == z = 5
In the first line, all 3 variables are assigned the value 5. In the second, "z" is assigned the value 5. 5 is then compared to "y" and the truth of that comparison (0 or 1) is assigned to "x". You can't just use one operator for both assignment and comparison. It fundamentally breaks the language. Now, if you want to make your own language that does not allow the results of an assignment to be used as a right hand value (and there are many that don't already), you're more than welcome to do it.
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Read the Han Solo Adventures trilogy. All the holes with Han were filled 35 years ago.
Lucas came up with story treatments for a new trilogy, those materials, to put it bluntly, were discarded
This is absolutely the best thing that could have happened to Star Wars. While he did have good ideas back in the 70's, he's long since used up whatever talent he ever had. He single handedly turned his franchise into "mule fritters" with Episodes 1-3. There is no way for the franchise to go but up now that Lucas is no longer involved.
Good riddance. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Yet one more accident that could have been prevented by Positive Train Control
The point is that there will be quite a number of fair use cases that end up not being defended in large part because the video (or the channel it's in) doesn't make any money for YouTube. Not only that, they'll probably throw some money at less-than-fully-legitimate fair use videos only because the video (or the channel it's in) does make money for YouTube. For better or worse, It's all about the money.
I don't think that's entirely fair since their belief is those same medical services could have been produced without animal experimentation.
Then let the PETA members volunteer to be experimented on in place of the animals.
Which takes us back to my original statement. It's just a movie. Suspend your disbelief. Enjoy it. Be entertained. Go home and get on with your life.
I don't hate nerds. I pity them.
I would argue that those movies aren't exactly realistic either. Maybe better than some but they still have a long way to go. And they're the exception rather than the rule.
Making that pile of crap "realistic" wouldn't have helped. But really, how realistic can you make a movie about a gigantic lizard?
Oh, and I forgot to comment on the fact that I absolutely do not believe you that movies have become more realistic over the years. At all. Because they haven't.
Good for him. With the exception of a very small minority, I never hear people coming out of movies complaining about how unrealistic the action was. Most people just don't care because it doesn't matter. If it's not a documentary, a movie doesn't need to be realistic to be entertaining. Well, except for the nerds living in their parent's basement who spend all their time arguing over minutiae over the internet instead of socializing.
Pretty much everything in every movie is not realistic. Why should blowing up bridges be any different.
Go see movie. Suspend your disbelief. Enjoy it. Go home. Get on with the rest of your life instead of sitting around with nerds over analyzing everything.
I grew up there too. Dad was a Collins man for 40 years. I spent a few years there myself before moving on.
You're pretty spot on in your summary of the town. It's a nice, cheap, quiet place to raise kids in quality school districts. But it's boring as hell. There's an old joke that sums up the town pretty well.
What's the difference between Cedar Rapids and yogurt? Yogurt has culture.
The NewBo district is an attempt to manufacture culture but, like everywhere you try to manufacture culture, it misses the mark. The closest thing to real culture is ~25 miles south in Iowa City. Even so, it's still Iowa. Though weekend road trips to Chicago, Minneapolis, Kansas City, or St. Louis are easy to do. Beyond that, there's really not a whole lot to do but get together with friends and drink while you watch Hawkeye games or minor league sports. Or maybe go drinking in a boat on Coralville reservoir.
The other major drawback is that, from a tech perspective, it's a one horse town. Sure, there are a few tech companies but Rockwell is about 90% or more of the tech scene in Cedar Rapids. And it's as bad as any of the other major corporations out there. And when they have layoffs, you really only have two alternatives. You leave to go somewhere else or you change careers entirely.
For being a flyover state that's mostly flat, there's still a bunch of decent bike trails. There's no mountains, but the rolling hills make it more challenging than a real prairie.
If you like a quiet place to raise a family, you could do worse than Cedar Rapids. But if you like places with a lot of fun things to do, you'll be bored out of your mind.
You can have my VT100 when you pry it from my cold dead hands....
Well, that is if I still had one.
Who am I kidding. I just use whatever comes installed by default. I never did use any really fancy terminal features beyond color displays. XTerm is fine for me. Though I do remember back in the day when the choice would actually affect basic features.
I'm still trying to figure out what the OP is trying to say. The summary is so disjointed it's nearly impossible to follow. Well, unless you have ADHD or.... LOOK! SQUIRREL!!!!.... hey, lets go ride bikes.
I've never heard of a cop pulling over a car for going too slowly. Never once in my life. It had to be an excuse and they were really pulling it over for an illegitimate reason.
OK Mr. Pedantic. If you want to bury your code in superfluous parenthesis just to make a point, go right ahead.
That may have been true 20 years ago but modern optimizing compilers will generate the same output whether you embed your assignment in the conditional or do it separately.
And you've never accidentally edited a double equal to a single in all that time. Sure you haven't.
Those warnings are useless when your code intentionally uses assignments in conditional expressions because you either ignore the warnings or you turn them off.
I don't believe that you haven't made that error in decades. Well, not if you're still using a C style language. I've been writing code since 1978 and I still make that mistake from time to time. Typos happen. To everyone. It doesn't matter how long you've been in the business.
I would agree with you except for the horrendous number of hours wasted tracking down places where a single equal was used in place of a double. While lexical analysis tools can catch it, and coding standards (like putting the constant/literal value on the LHS) will help, it's still an unnecessarily wide trap that catches too many people.
There is little real benefit to allowing an assignment to be used as a member of an encompassing expression. In fact, that "feature" only promotes overly complex statements that are harder to read and debug. And with optimizing compilers being so good these days, there's no reason not to break a statement into smaller, more readable pieces.
Because you can't derive from context whether you want to treat the variables as strings or numbers because the comparison method is different. Without explicit variable typing, you have to provide a way for the developer wants to perform the comparison.
That's the reason early C had trigraphs. So that you could get the job done on old mainframes that didn't have all of the symbols used by the language.
Problem with that is C (and by derivation C++ and a number of other languages) allows you to use the value from an assignment as a right hand value. That allows both of these constructs:
x = y = z = 5
x = y == z = 5
In the first line, all 3 variables are assigned the value 5. In the second, "z" is assigned the value 5. 5 is then compared to "y" and the truth of that comparison (0 or 1) is assigned to "x". You can't just use one operator for both assignment and comparison. It fundamentally breaks the language. Now, if you want to make your own language that does not allow the results of an assignment to be used as a right hand value (and there are many that don't already), you're more than welcome to do it.