Yoy have forgotten to take in to consideration the morbidity rate of the children of the 80 IQ trailer skank. These morons will probably huff paint and die at the age of 9, therefore eliminating their genetic code from future generations.
The ones that live past their fatalistic forays into the Darwin awards top 10 list will probably not be able to get dates with anyone other than their own relatives, thereby increasing the chances that their offspring will be sterile or so damn ugly that no one will ever mate with them.
First let me say that the usual definition of 7 day creationism is not supported in the Bible.
According to the Bible, the Earth existed quite a long time before man was deposited here. Of course most Christians do not understand this because it only is discovered by studying the Bible from the original languages. English translations are not only erroneous on some points, but the true meaning is also hopelessly obscured by linguistic constraints.
Anyone who professes 7 day creationism and also professes that the Bible is the word of God needs to "study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." In other words, they are falsely attributing things to the Bible that do not, in reality, exist within it.
As one who believes in the creation of the earth by God, let me weigh in in your favor on a couple of points.
1) Creationism should not be taught in schools because most Christians do not even take the time to properly study the knowledge that is given to them by their CREATOR. How could we(Christians) expect a state education system to understand what the majority of our own do not.
2) Most Christians do not understand the Bible well enough to state their own case for creationism. Therefore, when confronted by the disciples of the Evolutionary community with their accompanying volumes of scientific research, they become defensive and emotional. Compounding this, sometimes the one who is present evolution as fact is just as arrogant and uninformed as the one who is listening/arguing. Under these circumstances, there is nothing to gain by discussion.
Now let me take issue with one thing, there are more, but this is the most glaring. The facts regarding creation in the bible are quite interesting. Both from a scientific perspective, and from a theological one. However, what most people do not understand is that there are pieces of the "Creation" story all through the Bible, not just in Genesis. Try this one on, the Bible states that the Earth was kept on ice(literal ice) for a very long period of time until God decided it was time for man to inhabit it. Now tell me that dosen't seem interesting from a scientific point of view. Ice ages, the age of the earth, etc... There are quite a few more correlations with the scientific community's view of the origins of the earth that are directly represented in a doccument that is more than 2000 years old. Not interesting???
One more thing: Since we are going to continue presenting evolution in schools, let's give it a fair shake and present the most up to date and verifiable theory of evolution. The theory and it's presentation to me in high school was as weak as most fundamentalist's arguments against it.
Ever see Wild Kingdom where the two strong male dung beetles, or rams, or sloths, or oranguatans or whatever get into a fight over the female? After they punch the dookie out of each other for a couple of hours they are way too bruised and beaten to mount the female. Then, after all that effort and exertion, some wimply little genetic reject walks right up to the female and POW!
Kinda reminds me of the Linux/MS fight. So much effort and exertion between these two, and here comes Apple and POW!
Kinda makes you wonder about that weak little genetic reject...Maybe he's just *SMARTER*?
What I think the original poster was saying is that any abstract academic subject that is learned will quickly be forgotten witout some concrete application to anchor it. This is always a problem with academia. Knowledge that is not used is quickly forgotten. A subject that has little relevance or frame of reference to the one taught is forgotten even faster.
In regards to the "intrinsic logic and beauty": To be quite frank, appreciation of any subject and/or recognition of beauty is subjective. Not everyone will respond to it. The logic is there of course, and that is where I would say to concentrate efforts, but be quick to see those who really appreciate the beauty and provide them with more opportunities to explore the subject.
I agree completely with your description of the standardized test issue. For some students, the tests are a real struggle, and they need to have quite a bit of attention and work to achieve passing scores. For others the tests and the accompanying daily instruction to ready them for the tests are a disheartening bore. The problem is that both categories of students are combined in the same classes. If you REALLY want to teach people about mathematics (or any other academic subjuct for that matter) and get the best possible results, class segregation based upon intellectual ability is the ONLY answer. Those with aptitude can be taught much more quickly. Those needing remediation or who are progressing at a normal pace need to have classes adapted to their learning potential as well. Furthermore, different teaching techniques are going to be more effective based upon the abilities of the students. To lump all of the students together is a waste of money for the state, and a waste of our children's time at school.
In addition I believe that children will perform better in mathematics if they are exposed to higher level math at an earlier age. Not only will they have some familiarity with the subject when the time comes for real instruction, but children with gifts or abilities will be identified earlier.
If the urban legend of Walt Disney being cryogenically-preserved under Disneyland's Pirates of Penzance amusement ride were true [it isn't]...
Of course it's not true. Everyone knows that he's under Cinderella's Castle! Sheesh!
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Man, where do I start...
Why do we need a 350-400 billion military budget yet only a 20 billion dollar school budget?
IF the US government did not spend this paltry ammount on defense we would be attacked by any number or combination of enemies. It is purely the military might and accompanying technologial superiority of the US that prevents invasion and conventinal military attacks on our soil.
...with technologies like this here, the atomic bomb, soon nano technology, just wait until it gets in the hands of bin laden, the next hitler,
Technology is not what made those people dangerous. It was their mindset and methodologies. Furthermore, Bin Laden was decidedly LOW TECH in all the attacks that he has been associated with. Back to point one, the money that we spend on defense is to stop people like Hitler, Bin Laden, etc.
, if I gave some monkeys, a button, and told the monkey not to push the little red button which ends the world, wait lets take it a step further, lets say I give this power to thousands, millions of monkeys.
Lets look at reality for a second... There are people and organizations in this world who are MAKING THEIR OWN "BUTTONS" that they will use in whatever fashon they see fit, on whomever they deem an enemy, for no other justification than their whim. If the United States does not take advantage of the newest and best technologies available SOMEONE else WILL.
So why are we busy creating technology after technology without educating people in how to responsibly use these technologies we create?
Whether for profit, defense, aggression, or out of boredom, someone will discover the next discovery. When they do, someone will use it. How they use it will depend on what they are thinking, not on their education, not what they were taught as a child or an adolescent for that matter. People will make their own decisions. Some will be good, some will be indifferent, some will be evil. If you don't want the evil ones to make lifechanging decisions on your behalf, like whether you daughter will go to a slave camp, you will do something about it. Something like creating technology after technology to defend against people who seek to take advantage of others.
I'd like to see someone start a label that signs artists, gets music recorded, books tours, and gives away mp3s without worrying who copies what. If there is a business model in there somewhere that takes mp3 copying and makes it remunerative, then the first guy to do it will be well rewarded.
This business model already exists in a visual format. It's called TELEVISION. Unfortunately, to make this work for audio we would have to have COMMERCIALS embedded in our CDs. Maybe the business model exists in an analagous format of Cable/Pay television and Free/Network television. Of course with TiVo you blow up the whole equation...
I declare this problem INTRACTABLE...Let's go have a beer.
Certain parts of this document ask a burecratic agency to implicitly expand their own power and political influence. Government bureaucracy is bad enough as it is, we want don't contribute to the problem. Furthermore, if OMB decides to "review" these things, how can we be sure that they will decide something that is in favor of open OS, or, worse yet, if MS will not achieve some complex legal maneuver that will more firmly entrench them in the government habit and policy?
This smacks of the "I don't like the methods, but I do like the outcome" compromise that I am seeing alot of lately on/. posts. If we don't achieve our objectives with integrity and poise how are we different from whoremongers like MS?
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I can't remember the name, but maybe I can describe it and one of you can tell me what the game is so I can download it and relieve this return to adolescence fantasy I have.
Single player game in an area, ascii like characters, looked kinda like rogue but only one room and you fought monsters and you could upgrade your weapons from the bodies of your fallen foes. Had a leader board and such.
Thanks for replying. Unfortunately I was probably a little obtuse in the meaning of my post.
Science also continaly redefines itself Here you are making the same kind of anthopomorphism I was hinting at in my post. Science does nothing on it's own.
People define science, science does not define itself. People create science, science does not create itself. Seems like a small quibble, but when people start to talk of science in the first person it kind of blows my mind. That is what my post was about.
Main Entry: science Pronunciation: 'sI-&n(t)s Function: noun 1 : the state of knowing : knowledge as distinguished from ignorance or misunderstanding 2 a : a department of systematized knowledge as an object of study b : something (as a sport or technique) that may be studied or learned like systematized knowledge 3 a : knowledge or a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws especially as obtained and tested through scientific method b : such knowledge or such a system of knowledge concerned with the physical world and its phenomena : NATURAL SCIENCE 4 : a system or method reconciling practical ends with scientific laws
Do you mean by "Science is by definition All That Exists" that if you don't know or understand something that it does not exist?
Science discovers nothing that was not already there and working quite well without our observation or understanding. Science knows nothing. Science is an application of human knowledge and effort to classify and impose understanding on a system, or THE system, of the observable universe. Unfortunately, even when we observe the laws at work and can accurately predict how they will play out in a given circumstance, we still do not always understand WHY they work. There are still things that science cannot explain that are of tantamount interest to everyone.
"The only true knowledge lies in knowing that you know nothing." Socrates
Nice try, but the analogy is faulty. If "wife==the equipment" then according to your analogy, the electronic equipment would have to make the claim against the "unathorized" user. Furthermore, you (as husband) cannot make a calaim against anyone because you were not the one violated and have no standing in the case. That is, unless this was sometime before women were considered individuals and were considered property or chattel.
Instead of email addresses he used phone numbers. Instead of routers and mail servers, he used phone lines and switches. Would this be considered trespassing, and could he be legally stopped this way? Would it even be an issue? I personally see little difference between the two forms of communication.
I am SURE that the actors are substantially affected by being on a blue screen backdrop. This is probably why everyone keeps complaining about the half-assed acting in the first two prequels. A large part of "getting into character" for actors deals with immersion into the character and the character's world.
Not only that, but directors with a perspective, or ethic, about their work will WANT the immediate background in the original shot. They are looking for something and they will know when they get it. Could you imagine Kubrick trying to shoot on a bluescreen?
Digital may be great for lots of things, and action/sci-fi movies probalby will be great for the digital format. However, where intensity of character and truly great acting are needed I think digital will be a last resort.
My reasoning was based upon the (intentional) correlations between the first Star Wars and Episode 1. There are losts if you think about it: A princess in trouble, a battle against a large installation that culminates with a single ship/pilot (with the help of R2) destroying said installation, the "award ceremony" at the very end of the movie is a carbon copy. There are more, but you can figger em out yerself.
Anyways, Empire was to me the darkest and most intense of the first 3 and therefore the best. I postulated that AOTC would follow in the same format.
It will be interesting to see how my theory plays out over the whole series!
As a certified 745i client advisor, (yes CERTIFIED! I had to watch 10 interactive satellite based training courses, work through 2 CD ROMs, and attend a 3 day seminar in Miami and another one day seminar in my own area) I would like to point out some specific errors in the responses that others have written. Like surfing through three levels of menus just to turn on the defroster.
The AC system (including the aforementioned defroster) has all of the pertinent controls on the dashboard in their "normal" positions. The iDrive system is not needed to manipulate the climate control system at all. You cannot raise the stero's volume at the exact same time as you adjust the passenger-side heat.
See above comment and add that the stereo volume has controls on the steering wheel and also on the center dash where you would expect them to be. Since it is extraordinarily difficult to do something as simple as turning on headlights or changing the radio station, the driver's attention is likely to be diverted from the road.
The headlights are pretty normal too. The switch looks like every other one in the world except it has an automatic setting that makes it where you never even have to touch it again. The radio stations can be changed quite easily. First there is a toggle switch in the steering wheel that will cycle you through 12 preset stations. Second there is a toggle switch on the dash in the "conventional" radio position to change stations. Third, you can say "radio 94.5 fm" and the radio station will be changed to 94.5. Any vehicle that has a user interface so non-intuitive that one needs to pull out the owners manual to adjust the mirrors, figure out how to shift, and turn on headlights is just plain bad design.
Mirrors and lights are just like any other car with power adjusting mirrors and headlights that use a dial on the driver's left side on the dash. The shifter DOES take some getting used to and I will say it was, for me, the HARDEST thing to get used to. Pretty damned easy though.
At this point, I am sooooooo temped to add a lot of flamebait about how none of my 50-70 yr old non-techie clients have had a problem with using the technology, and how it seems that many of the supposed "tech-elite" can't even seem to figure out the easy stuff, but I am waaaaay above that. What I will say is that with the voice command, the "regular controls", the iDrive, and some redundant but more conveniently placed controls (like the ones on the steering wheel), if you have trouble operationg the 745i it is because of TOO MANY choices of how to do something, not because of limitations in the iDrive or any other system in the car for that matter.
Like the BMW and others the MB has a microchip in the key that uses a rolling code system in addition to the physical key to start the car. Stored in the microchip are 2 billion binary codes of fixed length. When you place the key in the ignition the engine management system sends a request for the proper code from the microchip in the key. The microchip then serves up what it thinks is the right code. If the code is correct only then will the EMS send fuel to the engine and power to the starter. To further secure the system, the engine management system then transmits a new code to be used the next time the key is used. So, unless the would be car thief has your key he(or she) is completely out of luck if they are trying to steal your vehicle.
The first year BMW introduced this system their car thefts went down by 83%. Pretty damned effective if you ask me.
The great thing about LoJack is that when you call to report your car stolen 90% of recoveries are made within 20 minutes of the call. This means those rotten bastards that stole your car have a good chance of doing some time.
Of course, the one sure fire way to eliminate those pesky searches is to walk to work wearing only your lab coat. When you get to work, remove the lab coat!
Follow up with comments like: "Hey PAL! Search THIS!" while grabbing various portions of your anatomy, etc etc...
Of course, this behavior could get you fired, which, in turn, would eliminate those pesky searches.
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Yoy have forgotten to take in to consideration the morbidity rate of the children of the 80 IQ trailer skank. These morons will probably huff paint and die at the age of 9, therefore eliminating their genetic code from future generations.
The ones that live past their fatalistic forays into the Darwin awards top 10 list will probably not be able to get dates with anyone other than their own relatives, thereby increasing the chances that their offspring will be sterile or so damn ugly that no one will ever mate with them.
Your request is moot.
First let me say that the usual definition of 7 day creationism is not supported in the Bible.
According to the Bible, the Earth existed quite a long time before man was deposited here. Of course most Christians do not understand this because it only is discovered by studying the Bible from the original languages. English translations are not only erroneous on some points, but the true meaning is also hopelessly obscured by linguistic constraints.
Anyone who professes 7 day creationism and also professes that the Bible is the word of God needs to "study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." In other words, they are falsely attributing things to the Bible that do not, in reality, exist within it.
Vincit qui se vincit.
As one who believes in the creation of the earth by God, let me weigh in in your favor on a couple of points.
1) Creationism should not be taught in schools because most Christians do not even take the time to properly study the knowledge that is given to them by their CREATOR. How could we(Christians) expect a state education system to understand what the majority of our own do not.
2) Most Christians do not understand the Bible well enough to state their own case for creationism. Therefore, when confronted by the disciples of the Evolutionary community with their accompanying volumes of scientific research, they become defensive and emotional. Compounding this, sometimes the one who is present evolution as fact is just as arrogant and uninformed as the one who is listening/arguing. Under these circumstances, there is nothing to gain by discussion.
Now let me take issue with one thing, there are more, but this is the most glaring. The facts regarding creation in the bible are quite interesting. Both from a scientific perspective, and from a theological one. However, what most people do not understand is that there are pieces of the "Creation" story all through the Bible, not just in Genesis. Try this one on, the Bible states that the Earth was kept on ice(literal ice) for a very long period of time until God decided it was time for man to inhabit it. Now tell me that dosen't seem interesting from a scientific point of view. Ice ages, the age of the earth, etc... There are quite a few more correlations with the scientific community's view of the origins of the earth that are directly represented in a doccument that is more than 2000 years old. Not interesting???
One more thing: Since we are going to continue presenting evolution in schools, let's give it a fair shake and present the most up to date and verifiable theory of evolution. The theory and it's presentation to me in high school was as weak as most fundamentalist's arguments against it.
Vincit qui se vincit.
Ever see Wild Kingdom where the two strong male dung beetles, or rams, or sloths, or oranguatans or whatever get into a fight over the female? After they punch the dookie out of each other for a couple of hours they are way too bruised and beaten to mount the female. Then, after all that effort and exertion, some wimply little genetic reject walks right up to the female and POW!
Kinda reminds me of the Linux/MS fight. So much effort and exertion between these two, and here comes Apple and POW!
Kinda makes you wonder about that weak little genetic reject...Maybe he's just *SMARTER*?
Vincit qui se vincit.
What I think the original poster was saying is that any abstract academic subject that is learned will quickly be forgotten witout some concrete application to anchor it. This is always a problem with academia. Knowledge that is not used is quickly forgotten. A subject that has little relevance or frame of reference to the one taught is forgotten even faster.
In regards to the "intrinsic logic and beauty": To be quite frank, appreciation of any subject and/or recognition of beauty is subjective. Not everyone will respond to it. The logic is there of course, and that is where I would say to concentrate efforts, but be quick to see those who really appreciate the beauty and provide them with more opportunities to explore the subject.
I agree completely with your description of the standardized test issue. For some students, the tests are a real struggle, and they need to have quite a bit of attention and work to achieve passing scores. For others the tests and the accompanying daily instruction to ready them for the tests are a disheartening bore. The problem is that both categories of students are combined in the same classes. If you REALLY want to teach people about mathematics (or any other academic subjuct for that matter) and get the best possible results, class segregation based upon intellectual ability is the ONLY answer. Those with aptitude can be taught much more quickly. Those needing remediation or who are progressing at a normal pace need to have classes adapted to their learning potential as well. Furthermore, different teaching techniques are going to be more effective based upon the abilities of the students. To lump all of the students together is a waste of money for the state, and a waste of our children's time at school.
In addition I believe that children will perform better in mathematics if they are exposed to higher level math at an earlier age. Not only will they have some familiarity with the subject when the time comes for real instruction, but children with gifts or abilities will be identified earlier.
If the urban legend of Walt Disney being cryogenically-preserved under Disneyland's Pirates of Penzance amusement ride were true [it isn't]...
Of course it's not true. Everyone knows that he's under Cinderella's Castle! Sheesh!
Man, where do I start...
...with technologies like this here, the atomic bomb, soon nano technology, just wait until it gets in the hands of bin laden, the next hitler,
/rant
Why do we need a 350-400 billion military budget yet only a 20 billion dollar school budget?
IF the US government did not spend this paltry ammount on defense we would be attacked by any number or combination of enemies. It is purely the military might and accompanying technologial superiority of the US that prevents invasion and conventinal military attacks on our soil.
Technology is not what made those people dangerous. It was their mindset and methodologies. Furthermore, Bin Laden was decidedly LOW TECH in all the attacks that he has been associated with. Back to point one, the money that we spend on defense is to stop people like Hitler, Bin Laden, etc.
, if I gave some monkeys, a button, and told the monkey not to push the little red button which ends the world, wait lets take it a step further, lets say I give this power to thousands, millions of monkeys.
Lets look at reality for a second... There are people and organizations in this world who are MAKING THEIR OWN "BUTTONS" that they will use in whatever fashon they see fit, on whomever they deem an enemy, for no other justification than their whim. If the United States does not take advantage of the newest and best technologies available SOMEONE else WILL.
So why are we busy creating technology after technology without educating people in how to responsibly use these technologies we create?
Whether for profit, defense, aggression, or out of boredom, someone will discover the next discovery. When they do, someone will use it. How they use it will depend on what they are thinking, not on their education, not what they were taught as a child or an adolescent for that matter. People will make their own decisions. Some will be good, some will be indifferent, some will be evil. If you don't want the evil ones to make lifechanging decisions on your behalf, like whether you daughter will go to a slave camp, you will do something about it. Something like creating technology after technology to defend against people who seek to take advantage of others.
Not done, but finished.
Hey! Mod this!!! (~GRABS CROTCH~)
I'd like to see someone start a label that signs artists, gets music recorded, books tours, and gives away mp3s without worrying who copies what. If there is a business model in there somewhere that takes mp3 copying and makes it remunerative, then the first guy to do it will be well rewarded.
This business model already exists in a visual format. It's called TELEVISION. Unfortunately, to make this work for audio we would have to have COMMERCIALS embedded in our CDs. Maybe the business model exists in an analagous format of Cable/Pay television and Free/Network television. Of course with TiVo you blow up the whole equation...
I declare this problem INTRACTABLE...Let's go have a beer.
Certain parts of this document ask a burecratic agency to implicitly expand their own power and political influence. Government bureaucracy is bad enough as it is, we want don't contribute to the problem. Furthermore, if OMB decides to "review" these things, how can we be sure that they will decide something that is in favor of open OS, or, worse yet, if MS will not achieve some complex legal maneuver that will more firmly entrench them in the government habit and policy?
/. posts. If we don't achieve our objectives with integrity and poise how are we different from whoremongers like MS?
This smacks of the "I don't like the methods, but I do like the outcome" compromise that I am seeing alot of lately on
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Reminds me of an old Star Trek episode/reference. The Koybayashi Maru, "Can't stand to lose? Change the rules!"
"The only way to learn good judgement is by exercising bad judgement...REPEATEDLY!"---Mom
I can't remember the name, but maybe I can describe it and one of you can tell me what the game is so I can download it and relieve this return to adolescence fantasy I have.
Single player game in an area, ascii like characters, looked kinda like rogue but only one room and you fought monsters and you could upgrade your weapons from the bodies of your fallen foes. Had a leader board and such.
Pretty deep man....
;)
Hey! Quit bogarting the bong!
Hey man!!! EFF YOU and EFF Disney too!!!
1: Focus
2: Desire
3: Motivation
4: Foresight
5: Perseverance
7: Sobriety
If you can find a way to encourage any of these traits in her you will be giving her a gift beyond measure.
"The way to acquire good judgemnt is by exercising bad judgement...REPEATEDLY." --Mom ("REPEATEDLY" added by me)
Nice detail. Mod up this parent.
Thanks for replying. Unfortunately I was probably a little obtuse in the meaning of my post.
Science also continaly redefines itself
Here you are making the same kind of anthopomorphism I was hinting at in my post. Science does nothing on it's own.
People define science, science does not define itself. People create science, science does not create itself. Seems like a small quibble, but when people start to talk of science in the first person it kind of blows my mind. That is what my post was about.
Websters online dictionary
Main Entry: science
Pronunciation: 'sI-&n(t)s
Function: noun
1 : the state of knowing : knowledge as distinguished from ignorance or misunderstanding
2 a : a department of systematized knowledge as an object of study b : something (as a sport or technique) that may be studied or learned like systematized knowledge
3 a : knowledge or a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws especially as obtained and tested through scientific method b : such knowledge or such a system of knowledge concerned with the physical world and its phenomena : NATURAL SCIENCE
4 : a system or method reconciling practical ends with scientific laws
Do you mean by "Science is by definition All That Exists" that if you don't know or understand something that it does not exist?
Science discovers nothing that was not already there and working quite well without our observation or understanding. Science knows nothing. Science is an application of human knowledge and effort to classify and impose understanding on a system, or THE system, of the observable universe. Unfortunately, even when we observe the laws at work and can accurately predict how they will play out in a given circumstance, we still do not always understand WHY they work. There are still things that science cannot explain that are of tantamount interest to everyone.
"The only true knowledge lies in knowing that you know nothing." Socrates
"Know thyself." Same DUDE!
Nice try, but the analogy is faulty. If "wife==the equipment" then according to your analogy, the electronic equipment would have to make the claim against the "unathorized" user. Furthermore, you (as husband) cannot make a calaim against anyone because you were not the one violated and have no standing in the case. That is, unless this was sometime before women were considered individuals and were considered property or chattel.
Consider this...
Instead of email addresses he used phone numbers. Instead of routers and mail servers, he used phone lines and switches. Would this be considered trespassing, and could he be legally stopped this way? Would it even be an issue? I personally see little difference between the two forms of communication.
I am SURE that the actors are substantially affected by being on a blue screen backdrop. This is probably why everyone keeps complaining about the half-assed acting in the first two prequels. A large part of "getting into character" for actors deals with immersion into the character and the character's world.
Not only that, but directors with a perspective, or ethic, about their work will WANT the immediate background in the original shot. They are looking for something and they will know when they get it. Could you imagine Kubrick trying to shoot on a bluescreen?
Digital may be great for lots of things, and action/sci-fi movies probalby will be great for the digital format. However, where intensity of character and truly great acting are needed I think digital will be a last resort.
I *KNEW* that this one would be better.
My reasoning was based upon the (intentional) correlations between the first Star Wars and Episode 1.
There are losts if you think about it: A princess in trouble, a battle against a large installation that culminates with a single ship/pilot (with the help of R2) destroying said installation, the "award ceremony" at the very end of the movie is a carbon copy. There are more, but you can figger em out yerself.
Anyways, Empire was to me the darkest and most intense of the first 3 and therefore the best. I postulated that AOTC would follow in the same format.
It will be interesting to see how my theory plays out over the whole series!
As a certified 745i client advisor, (yes CERTIFIED! I had to watch 10 interactive satellite based training courses, work through 2 CD ROMs, and attend a 3 day seminar in Miami and another one day seminar in my own area) I would like to point out some specific errors in the responses that others have written.
Like surfing through three levels of menus just to turn on the defroster.
The AC system (including the aforementioned defroster) has all of the pertinent controls on the dashboard in their "normal" positions. The iDrive system is not needed to manipulate the climate control system at all.
You cannot raise the stero's volume at the exact same time as you adjust the passenger-side heat.
See above comment and add that the stereo volume has controls on the steering wheel and also on the center dash where you would expect them to be.
Since it is extraordinarily difficult to do something as simple as turning on headlights or changing the radio station, the driver's attention is likely to be diverted from the road.
The headlights are pretty normal too. The switch looks like every other one in the world except it has an automatic setting that makes it where you never even have to touch it again. The radio stations can be changed quite easily. First there is a toggle switch in the steering wheel that will cycle you through 12 preset stations. Second there is a toggle switch on the dash in the "conventional" radio position to change stations. Third, you can say "radio 94.5 fm" and the radio station will be changed to 94.5.
Any vehicle that has a user interface so non-intuitive that one needs to pull out the owners manual to adjust the mirrors, figure out how to shift, and turn on headlights is just plain bad design.
Mirrors and lights are just like any other car with power adjusting mirrors and headlights that use a dial on the driver's left side on the dash. The shifter DOES take some getting used to and I will say it was, for me, the HARDEST thing to get used to. Pretty damned easy though.
At this point, I am sooooooo temped to add a lot of flamebait about how none of my 50-70 yr old non-techie clients have had a problem with using the technology, and how it seems that many of the supposed "tech-elite" can't even seem to figure out the easy stuff, but I am waaaaay above that. What I will say is that with the voice command, the "regular controls", the iDrive, and some redundant but more conveniently placed controls (like the ones on the steering wheel), if you have trouble operationg the 745i it is because of TOO MANY choices of how to do something, not because of limitations in the iDrive or any other system in the car for that matter.
Like the BMW and others the MB has a microchip in the key that uses a rolling code system in addition to the physical key to start the car. Stored in the microchip are 2 billion binary codes of fixed length. When you place the key in the ignition the engine management system sends a request for the proper code from the microchip in the key. The microchip then serves up what it thinks is the right code. If the code is correct only then will the EMS send fuel to the engine and power to the starter. To further secure the system, the engine management system then transmits a new code to be used the next time the key is used. So, unless the would be car thief has your key he(or she) is completely out of luck if they are trying to steal your vehicle.
The first year BMW introduced this system their car thefts went down by 83%. Pretty damned effective if you ask me.
The great thing about LoJack is that when you call to report your car stolen 90% of recoveries are made within 20 minutes of the call. This means those rotten bastards that stole your car have a good chance of doing some time.
Of course, the one sure fire way to eliminate those pesky searches is to walk to work wearing only your lab coat. When you get to work, remove the lab coat!
Follow up with comments like: "Hey PAL! Search THIS!" while grabbing various portions of your anatomy, etc etc...
Of course, this behavior could get you fired, which, in turn, would eliminate those pesky searches.