The reason MSIE is the embedded browser in AOL (and Compuserve) is because AOL wanted to be included in the default Windows install (and on the Desktop) Therefore, M$ told AOL you will use MSIE for your browser or you will not be in Windows.
Of course, at that moment, it was a win-win situation. I question the need for AOL to be a part of Windows any longer, though. I wonder when the agreement they have expires. When/if AOL decides to use Mozilla in their software will it will be time for web designers to scrambler, removing aspects of their pages that are IE specific.
Microsoft's closest competitor in the browser market is Netscape (AKA Mozilla), which is owned by AOL, who uses MSIE as their embedded browser. I don't think any recent developments in the browser market can be considered anti-competitive since AOL can turn the tables in a heartbeat by using Mozilla instead of MSIE in their own software. As soon as Mozilla is complete, it will have a market waiting to have it spoon-fed to them via an "AOL Update."
Yeah, a good job making pretty commercials. The herd works in mysterious ways. If it's flashy and is displayed on prime time television, it's bound to be successful.
If you feel the world is becoming too corporate, drop out. It's been done before. Small communities of like minded people will form and become self suficiant. Communes are not a new idea, but probably an idea who's time has finally come. I am sick and tired of watered down culture myself. In my home town of Oklahoma City(Big Cow City) the local's voted the Outback Steakhouse as the best steak in town. How can a chain restraunt be the best in a town that was practically built on cows? Walmart, Starbucks, Outback Steakhouse, Barnes and Noble, Borders, etc, etc.. All these companies are puting real people out of business.
Drop out, remove yourself from the grid. See if you like it better that way.
IIRC, when AOL was charging by the hour there were two states your session could be in: free and non-free. Stuff like reading pop-ups were in the free section. I also believe things like reading your mail were free, while sending mail was a premium service. To recieve an instant message was free, to send one was not.
Hell, there was even software designed to specifically keep you in the "free" section of AOL for as long as possible during your session
But I find myself wondering how many folks just toss free CDs that are included with products because of the AOL CD-with-everything phenomenon. Some kind of promotional CD comes with almost everything nowadays.
Uhh, yeah, and look where those junk CD's got AOL. Even if only a small percentage of people who pick up a CD in a cerial box install the contents... Well you see where we're going with this... AOL certainly didn't gain it's position by providing the most reliable service.
Where I work, emergency medical personel are routinely seen wheeling someone out on a stretcher. For some time, this was a daily event. With this sort of environment, you'd think someone would raise an eyebrow and investigate the working conditions. Where I work, the majority of workers are Phone Monkeys, this place is commonly called a call-center. These beasts are quickly becoming the place where modern-day bluecaller workers get money. Since there's no heavy machinery or falling objects, OSHA doesn't seem to care. What seems to happen is this:
Company gives you stock options, dangling this carrot in front of you. Imagine: retire by 30. Then the company gives you unreasonable goals, often times terminating your employment if you fail to reach them by a small margin. The result is that the (many) psychologically unstable call center employees go through nervous breakdowns. I fear that someday it will be someone going postal and not simply a nervous breakdown (not to diminish the profound effects of a breakdown). People should be proud of their jobs.
What does this have to with Northwest? It's a job, and it's a job that provides an environment that is unfavorable to it's employees.
Anyways. That's my rant. I wonder if they will come get me and search my computer.
I believe this is a question that should be asked in ALL interviews regardless. It should also be asked in all debates and answered in all political rhetoric. You will get much more insight on a person when they answer this question.
My answer: Because.
I only wish I had some moderation points to play with.. ( :
User Interfaces are the realm of ergonomics specialists and psychologists. Programmers can hash out a usable gui, but are not usually experts in human behavior. How do you convince an ergonomics specialist or a psychologists to help out? Maybe this is something that can be done in an educational facility with cooperation between CS and human usablity related fields.
Why moderate it down? This person has a very valid point that will not find itself in a headline. Realy, Rob, why not put your money where your mouth is?
This is probably just preparation for the upcoming breakup. A rearanged power structure to ensure that the serperate companies are run by the same people.
The new Corel linux is Head and Shoulders above Redhat in the newbie-friendly catagory. The greatest thing about it: they not only use dpkg, they also use apt-get format. You can add debians package servers to the sources.list and install packages from debian using corel's "Corel Update." This works great unless you are going to go with a complete upgrade to Potato, Corel does not play well with Potato... Yet.
Another worth mentioning would be Stormix. They seem to have built a middle-of-the-road distro around Debian. Looks pretty similar to Redhat in philosophy. I need to check it out.
I agree. I've been following the financial news on Linux stocks. It seems that the people who write up these summaries think LNUX IS INDEED Linux. I've seen it referred to as this. To the affect of:
Corel (NASD: CORL), after entering an agreement with Linux (NASD: LNUX), has created the easiest to use version of Linux yet.
Now that is wrong. I don't think it would be a big deal if the BOZO's that write up the news bites would just get it right.
As well: slashdot.org becomes slash.org in these releases...
...The man of the house ruled supreme in his own restroom. When he would feel a large bowel movement coming on, he would gather a newspaper (magazine etc) and a smokable substance (pipe, cigar, cigarette) and head on down to the bathroom to spend a little quality time.
NOW, however, the man spends considerably less time in the restroom with his BM's. Newspapers just don't cut it anymore. A man is lucky to actually finish his smoke before he flushes.
The FreePad will change this! Back are the days of smelly, smokey, informational fun! The freepad will be a hit in many families!
And I recommend it to anyone who already understands how to arrange data. The descriptions of how to organise a db is not for the lay person, the charts could have been more clear. I purchased this book mainly to get a good hardcopy of the MySQL API, but as mentioned in the review, the section covering C programming was lacking. Mainly, this book has opened my mind to the possibility of using scripting languages instead of C, but I'm not that easily sold. This book, in conjuction with a good MySQL tutorial (www.devshed.com) and some source from other interfaces with MySQL, is a good deal.
While we're at it, let's remind them of the fact that they need us more than we need them. There are at least 20 other linux distributions out there and while Caldera has some interesting products, they now are in an open market and should play by the rules.
There are more people who have NOT chosen a Linux distro than people who have... If you catch my drift. This means Caldera can essentially do whatever they please. Prediction: Caldera goes public after many people find Redhat too archaic. The Linux for the Windows user.
It will bomb among the Linux savvy, but will be a hit in the Windows croud (which is much larger...)
Investors LIKE to hear that you have come up with something that gives you an edge over the competition. What they don't like to hear is that you are essentially giving that edge TO the competition. Just consider it a blessing that they are releasing the code at ALL. The Linux market is about to go through a dramatic change. You will see distros competing in a very cutthroat fashion. Caldera will need it's Edge if it wants to pull some mindshare from RH.
When AOL bought Netscape they also got a fist full of Redhat. This is the beginning of a true war. The next step, from my Window(TM), is an attack by AOL into Microsoft's territory: Operating Systems. AOL will distribute a copy of Redhat Linux (With a really dumbed down install, easy as can be) along with AOL client for Linux to everyone with a Snail Mail box. AOL 5.0 could very well be the transition from Windows to Linux as millions of AOL users upgrade their AOL client and are asked if they would like to try Linux instead of Windows. All AOL has to do now is partner with a good Office Suite maker (Corel, Stardivision, IBM?) and use their influence/pockets to help projects like Loki....or am I insane?
When investing in Redhat you are investing in OSS. You are investing in a philosophy, a change in the way a corporation works. So far, Redhat have been good players in the community, why would an IPO make them any different?
Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream is a similar corporation. They donate 7.5% of their profits to what they consider worthy causes. Does this piss off the stockholders? No, it's an understood that Ben and Jerry's stock is more of a movement than a way to get rich. The stockholders believe in B&J and what they are doing. They show their support for this company by buying stock.
So show your support for opensource and Linux and dump a few bucks into the Stock.
Redhat releases their code under GPL, the onlyreal way to keep investors happy is to have investors that believe in the GPL/Opensource.
Maybe they will even throw a cool annual party for stockholders.
This could be the splinter. You think the differences between distros are bad, imagine this:
Amiga/Linux (it would be best if they left the word Linux out of it all together) A system based on a Linux kernel. Amiga specific kernel patches, Amiga specific API layer, Amiga specific filesystem layout. Linux will not be helped if they do this. The only winner would be Amiga, essentially stealing the wind from the Linux sail(as far as hardware vendors are concerned).
On the other hand, there seems to be a link to Linus/Transmeta(!!). This indicates that the Amiga plans are endorsed by Linus, which may be a good thing. We don't know anything about Transmeta. We should wait for a statement from Linus. If Linus does NOT comment on this situation, it becomes obvious that Transmeta is a player in this move.
"To each according to needs from each according to his means" Karl Marx. So.... How does the development of Linux expropriate resources from me to give to those without resources?
Many people use Linux, which is the fruit of the labor of those with the means to produce an operating system. These people who use Linux may not have the means (ability) to produce any code, but they do have a need for the OS. SO, again, there is some communistic facets to the Linux community.
There is nothing preventing a convergence of Libertarianism and Communism. In fact, I would say Libertarianism would be an evolutionary step toward voluntary Communism. Of course, by that time there will be a new name for Communism.
I went ahead and skimmed the page mentioned above. I have come to the conclusion that it's a joke. I hope it is cause I can't stop laughing.
On the Linux=communism note:
I cannot completely disagree with the idea that Linux promotes some degree of communism. Let us take a look at the word:
communism \Com"mu*nism\, n. [F. communisme, fr. commun common.] A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the equal use and advantage of all.
The areas that Linux falls under are the ones that touch on possession and wealth.
In the Linux community (notice the similarities between community and communism? I knew you could!) the code is open to all, everyone has an equal chance of utilising the code to suit their best interests. For those of you challenged ones, this is the abolation of the inequalities in the possession of [intellectual] property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the equal use and advantage of all.
It's not a bad thing! Really. The communism of this century was not real communism. There was no equality. The communism that has been shoved down our throats is more of a beurocracy. Communism is a social system with one class, the USSR had two classes.
I am a communist. I dream of a world where everyone is seen as equal, not the backwards heirarchy we see today. Linux, to me, is a step in the direction of world-wide utopia!
From my [X]window, Linux is everything that is good about communism!
Say, for some strange reason, everyone started wearing pink foam clown noses. Everyone in the world jumps on this, it's the latest craze. Next thing you know, you are the only one left not wearing a pink foam clown nose. Well, why aren't you wearing one? Because it looks stupid of course. You keep this maverick attitude until it becomes too complicated to fight it, so you get your own pink foam clown nose. You are assimilated.
What's the speed limit again? Shea right!
Simple property of reality: Take the path of least resistance. Does a river care if a town is in it's way? People need to wake up and realise that while we (humans) may be the smartest of the monkeys, that does not make us transcend reality. We are subject to the same laws of physics as everything else. Software piracy will continue until it is no longer the path of least resistance.
Speaking of which: What ever happened to copy protection schemes? The C64 had some games that were a bitch to copy. What about dongles? Anything to make the road of piracy bumpier. They just make it too damn easy to pirate things nowadays.
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The films come in these big metal cases. Each case holds 4 reels of film.. Average reel length=20 minutes. Average movie length=120 minutes. These 6 reels are "Built up" on a platter (great big flat sruface that spins the movie out and in). So when a movie is in the theater and may be shown anytime in the near future, it is on this platter, all six reels in one really long piece. To take this movie out of the theater you must 1) know how to break down the movie and put it back on reels 2) Get out the door with two big heavy film cans that are probably painted neon pink 3) be able to do this in the 30 minutes between the showings. Impossible. Inside job, it HAD to be a projectionist, or someone who knows a projection booth who has the trust of theater management and janitorial staff to be allowed inside after hours.
Anakin, who will eventually be Darth Vader, shouldn't be yelling Yippee every five minutes. Anakin leaving home wasn't convincing at all; I think his fate as an actor is pretty much sealed. Looking forward to some Life cereal commercials is he, says Yoda.
The point of Anakin acting like a kid can be easily explained. HE'S A KID. He wasn't born Darth Vader. There's no reason to believe he acted any differently than any other kid. You're supposed to be thinking, "This kid's too cute to be Darth Vader!" His acting falls in line with the other films - campy.
Too many kids and disney-esque characters ruined it for me.
Seems like Jedi had plenty of childrens charactors. Jim Hensen wasn't hired for nothing.
Character development: nearly nonexistant. Mace Windu: 3 lines, and none of them involved the word 'muthafucka'. I was shocked. All in all I give it a 7 out of 10. Hope the Clone Wars has no children/ewoks/wacky cg characters in it, or I just may skip it all together.
Lucas never developed his charactors, this is part one of three movies.. This was the forward. Count on Mace Windu to play an important part in the next two episodes. You're rating is high based on your critique. Of course, noone will miss you at the next movie.
Many people are forgetting just how average the first three movies were. About the only things Lucas has going for him are: 1) classic good vs evil plot(lets face it, the evil is just getting warmed up in this one) and 2) special effects. I like the mythology of Star Wars, the charactors are supposed to be average.
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The reason MSIE is the embedded browser in AOL (and Compuserve) is because AOL wanted to be included in the default Windows install (and on the Desktop) Therefore, M$ told AOL you will use MSIE for your browser or you will not be in Windows.
Of course, at that moment, it was a win-win situation. I question the need for AOL to be a part of Windows any longer, though. I wonder when the agreement they have expires. When/if AOL decides to use Mozilla in their software will it will be time for web designers to scrambler, removing aspects of their pages that are IE specific.
Microsoft's closest competitor in the browser market is Netscape (AKA Mozilla), which is owned by AOL, who uses MSIE as their embedded browser. I don't think any recent developments in the browser market can be considered anti-competitive since AOL can turn the tables in a heartbeat by using Mozilla instead of MSIE in their own software. As soon as Mozilla is complete, it will have a market waiting to have it spoon-fed to them via an "AOL Update."
They must be doing a good job.
Yeah, a good job making pretty commercials. The herd works in mysterious ways. If it's flashy and is displayed on prime time television, it's bound to be successful.
If you feel the world is becoming too corporate, drop out. It's been done before. Small communities of like minded people will form and become self suficiant. Communes are not a new idea, but probably an idea who's time has finally come.
I am sick and tired of watered down culture myself. In my home town of Oklahoma City(Big Cow City) the local's voted the Outback Steakhouse as the best steak in town. How can a chain restraunt be the best in a town that was practically built on cows?
Walmart, Starbucks, Outback Steakhouse, Barnes and Noble, Borders, etc, etc.. All these companies are puting real people out of business.
Drop out, remove yourself from the grid. See if you like it better that way.
IIRC, when AOL was charging by the hour there were two states your session could be in: free and non-free. Stuff like reading pop-ups were in the free section. I also believe things like reading your mail were free, while sending mail was a premium service. To recieve an instant message was free, to send one was not.
Hell, there was even software designed to specifically keep you in the "free" section of AOL for as long as possible during your session
But I find myself wondering how many folks just toss free CDs that are included with products because of the AOL CD-with-everything phenomenon. Some kind of promotional CD comes with almost everything nowadays.
Uhh, yeah, and look where those junk CD's got AOL. Even if only a small percentage of people who pick up a CD in a cerial box install the contents... Well you see where we're going with this... AOL certainly didn't gain it's position by providing the most reliable service.
Where I work, emergency medical personel are routinely seen wheeling someone out on a stretcher. For some time, this was a daily event. With this sort of environment, you'd think someone would raise an eyebrow and investigate the working conditions. Where I work, the majority of workers are Phone Monkeys, this place is commonly called a call-center. These beasts are quickly becoming the place where modern-day bluecaller workers get money. Since there's no heavy machinery or falling objects, OSHA doesn't seem to care. What seems to happen is this:
:
Company gives you stock options, dangling this carrot in front of you. Imagine: retire by 30. Then the company gives you unreasonable goals, often times terminating your employment if you fail to reach them by a small margin. The result is that the (many) psychologically unstable call center employees go through nervous breakdowns. I fear that someday it will be someone going postal and not simply a nervous breakdown (not to diminish the profound effects of a breakdown). People should be proud of their jobs.
What does this have to with Northwest? It's a job, and it's a job that provides an environment that is unfavorable to it's employees.
Anyways. That's my rant. I wonder if they will come get me and search my computer.
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I believe this is a question that should be asked in ALL interviews regardless. It should also be asked in all debates and answered in all political rhetoric. You will get much more insight on a person when they answer this question.
My answer: Because.
I only wish I had some moderation points to play with.. ( :
User Interfaces are the realm of ergonomics specialists and psychologists. Programmers can hash out a usable gui, but are not usually experts in human behavior. How do you convince an ergonomics specialist or a psychologists to help out? Maybe this is something that can be done in an educational facility with cooperation between CS and human usablity related fields.
Why moderate it down? This person has a very valid point that will not find itself in a headline. Realy, Rob, why not put your money where your mouth is?
At the light, everyone get out and change seats.
This is probably just preparation for the upcoming breakup. A rearanged power structure to ensure that the serperate companies are run by the same people.
The new Corel linux is Head and Shoulders above Redhat in the newbie-friendly catagory. The greatest thing about it: they not only use dpkg, they also use apt-get format. You can add debians package servers to the sources.list and install packages from debian using corel's "Corel Update." This works great unless you are going to go with a complete upgrade to Potato, Corel does not play well with Potato... Yet.
Another worth mentioning would be Stormix. They seem to have built a middle-of-the-road distro around Debian. Looks pretty similar to Redhat in philosophy. I need to check it out.
I agree. I've been following the financial news on Linux stocks. It seems that the people who write up these summaries think LNUX IS INDEED Linux. I've seen it referred to as this. To the affect of:
Corel (NASD: CORL), after entering an agreement with Linux (NASD: LNUX), has created the easiest to use version of Linux yet.
Now that is wrong. I don't think it would be a big deal if the BOZO's that write up the news bites would just get it right.
As well: slashdot.org becomes slash.org in these releases...
...The man of the house ruled supreme in his own restroom. When he would feel a large bowel movement coming on, he would gather a newspaper (magazine etc) and a smokable substance (pipe, cigar, cigarette) and head on down to the bathroom to spend a little quality time.
NOW, however, the man spends considerably less time in the restroom with his BM's. Newspapers just don't cut it anymore. A man is lucky to actually finish his smoke before he flushes.
The FreePad will change this! Back are the days of smelly, smokey, informational fun! The freepad will be a hit in many families!
And I recommend it to anyone who already understands how to arrange data. The descriptions of how to organise a db is not for the lay person, the charts could have been more clear. I purchased this book mainly to get a good hardcopy of the MySQL API, but as mentioned in the review, the section covering C programming was lacking. Mainly, this book has opened my mind to the possibility of using scripting languages instead of C, but I'm not that easily sold. This book, in conjuction with a good MySQL tutorial (www.devshed.com) and some source from other interfaces with MySQL, is a good deal.
While we're at it, let's remind them of the fact that they need us more than we need them. There are at least 20 other linux distributions out there and while Caldera has some interesting products, they now are in an open market and should play by the rules.
There are more people who have NOT chosen a Linux distro than people who have... If you catch my drift. This means Caldera can essentially do whatever they please. Prediction: Caldera goes public after many people find Redhat too archaic. The Linux for the Windows user.
It will bomb among the Linux savvy, but will be a hit in the Windows croud (which is much larger...)
Investors LIKE to hear that you have come up with something that gives you an edge over the competition. What they don't like to hear is that you are essentially giving that edge TO the competition. Just consider it a blessing that they are releasing the code at ALL. The Linux market is about to go through a dramatic change. You will see distros competing in a very cutthroat fashion. Caldera will need it's Edge if it wants to pull some mindshare from RH.
When AOL bought Netscape they also got a fist full of Redhat. This is the beginning of a true war. The next step, from my Window(TM), is an attack by AOL into Microsoft's territory: Operating Systems. AOL will distribute a copy of Redhat Linux (With a really dumbed down install, easy as can be) along with AOL client for Linux to everyone with a Snail Mail box. AOL 5.0 could very well be the transition from Windows to Linux as millions of AOL users upgrade their AOL client and are asked if they would like to try Linux instead of Windows. All AOL has to do now is partner with a good Office Suite maker (Corel, Stardivision, IBM?) and use their influence/pockets to help projects like Loki. ...or am I insane?
When investing in Redhat you are investing in OSS. You are investing in a philosophy, a change in the way a corporation works. So far, Redhat have been good players in the community, why would an IPO make them any different?
Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream is a similar corporation. They donate 7.5% of their profits to what they consider worthy causes. Does this piss off the stockholders? No, it's an understood that Ben and Jerry's stock is more of a movement than a way to get rich. The stockholders believe in B&J and what they are doing. They show their support for this company by buying stock.
So show your support for opensource and Linux and dump a few bucks into the Stock.
Redhat releases their code under GPL, the onlyreal way to keep investors happy is to have investors that believe in the GPL/Opensource.
Maybe they will even throw a cool annual party for stockholders.
This could be the splinter. You think the differences between distros are bad, imagine this:
Amiga/Linux (it would be best if they left the word Linux out of it all together)
A system based on a Linux kernel. Amiga specific kernel patches, Amiga specific API layer, Amiga specific filesystem layout. Linux will not be helped if they do this. The only winner would be Amiga, essentially stealing the wind from the Linux sail(as far as hardware vendors are concerned).
On the other hand, there seems to be a link to Linus/Transmeta(!!). This indicates that the Amiga plans are endorsed by Linus, which may be a good thing. We don't know anything about Transmeta.
We should wait for a statement from Linus. If Linus does NOT comment on this situation, it becomes obvious that Transmeta is a player in this move.
"To each according to needs from each according to his means" Karl Marx.
So.... How does the development of Linux expropriate resources from me to give to those without resources?
Many people use Linux, which is the fruit of the labor of those with the means to produce an operating system. These people who use Linux may not have the means (ability) to produce any code, but they do have a need for the OS. SO, again, there is some communistic facets to the Linux community.
There is nothing preventing a convergence of Libertarianism and Communism. In fact, I would say Libertarianism would be an evolutionary step toward voluntary Communism. Of course, by that time there will be a new name for Communism.
I went ahead and skimmed the page mentioned above. I have come to the conclusion that it's a joke. I hope it is cause I can't stop laughing.
On the Linux=communism note:
I cannot completely disagree with the idea that Linux promotes some degree of communism. Let us take a look at the word:
communism \Com"mu*nism\, n. [F. communisme, fr. commun common.] A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the equal use and advantage of all.
The areas that Linux falls under are the ones that touch on possession and wealth.
In the Linux community (notice the similarities between community and communism? I knew you could!) the code is open to all, everyone has an equal chance of utilising the code to suit their best interests. For those of you challenged ones, this is the abolation of the inequalities in the possession of [intellectual] property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the equal use and advantage of all.
It's not a bad thing! Really. The communism of this century was not real communism. There was no equality. The communism that has been shoved down our throats is more of a beurocracy. Communism is a social system with one class, the USSR had two classes.
I am a communist. I dream of a world where everyone is seen as equal, not the backwards heirarchy we see today. Linux, to me, is a step in the direction of world-wide utopia!
From my [X]window, Linux is everything that is good about communism!
Say, for some strange reason, everyone started wearing pink foam clown noses. Everyone in the world jumps on this, it's the latest craze. Next thing you know, you are the only one left not wearing a pink foam clown nose. Well, why aren't you wearing one? Because it looks stupid of course. You keep this maverick attitude until it becomes too complicated to fight it, so you get your own pink foam clown nose. You are assimilated.
What's the speed limit again? Shea right!
Simple property of reality: Take the path of least resistance. Does a river care if a town is in it's way? People need to wake up and realise that while we (humans) may be the smartest of the monkeys, that does not make us transcend reality. We are subject to the same laws of physics as everything else. Software piracy will continue until it is no longer the path of least resistance.
Speaking of which: What ever happened to copy protection schemes? The C64 had some games that were a bitch to copy. What about dongles? Anything to make the road of piracy bumpier. They just make it too damn easy to pirate things nowadays.
The films come in these big metal cases. Each case holds 4 reels of film.. Average reel length=20 minutes. Average movie length=120 minutes. These 6 reels are "Built up" on a platter (great big flat sruface that spins the movie out and in). So when a movie is in the theater and may be shown anytime in the near future, it is on this platter, all six reels in one really long piece. To take this movie out of the theater you must 1) know how to break down the movie and put it back on reels 2) Get out the door with two big heavy film cans that are probably painted neon pink 3) be able to do this in the 30 minutes between the showings. Impossible. Inside job, it HAD to be a projectionist, or someone who knows a projection booth who has the trust of theater management and janitorial staff to be allowed inside after hours.
Anakin, who will eventually be Darth Vader, shouldn't be yelling Yippee every five minutes. Anakin leaving home wasn't convincing at all; I think his fate as an actor is pretty much sealed. Looking forward to some Life cereal commercials is he, says Yoda.
The point of Anakin acting like a kid can be easily explained. HE'S A KID. He wasn't born Darth Vader. There's no reason to believe he acted any differently than any other kid. You're supposed to be thinking, "This kid's too cute to be Darth Vader!" His acting falls in line with the other films - campy.
Too many kids and disney-esque characters ruined it for me.
Seems like Jedi had plenty of childrens charactors. Jim Hensen wasn't hired for nothing.
Character development: nearly nonexistant. Mace Windu: 3 lines, and none of them involved the word 'muthafucka'. I was shocked. All in all I give it a 7 out of 10. Hope the Clone Wars has no children/ewoks/wacky cg characters in it, or I just may skip it all together.
Lucas never developed his charactors, this is part one of three movies.. This was the forward. Count on Mace Windu to play an important part in the next two episodes. You're rating is high based on your critique. Of course, noone will miss you at the next movie.
Many people are forgetting just how average the first three movies were. About the only things Lucas has going for him are: 1) classic good vs evil plot(lets face it, the evil is just getting warmed up in this one) and 2) special effects. I like the mythology of Star Wars, the charactors are supposed to be average.