Well, not so young anyway. Tarkin'd have been in his 50's by this point, probably a captain, and possibly an admiral, if he were really good with politics, which he obviously was in IV.
Now if the Emperor had beaten down Yoda. Granted, Yoda was somewhat messed up, falling all that way, but he looked like he could continue. He would have had a long way to go to get back up to the fleeing Palpadine's level.
Maybe I have a better sense of wonder and imagination than some of you, but this movie wasn't that bad. It's the only movie I've ever seen that was fictional yet you left feeling drained like a real story like Glory, or Shindler's List, or Saving Private Ryan.
Yes, the dialog wasn't the greatest, but even the punk improved somewhat. Portman sure improved a ton.
The whole tone of the movie changed at that one point with the kids. Yes, his turning seemed fast, but they tried to get around that by showing her belly growing, which showed weeks and months were really going by as all this was happening.
The action was first rate, and the CGI wasn't too bad at all. Compare vs. Last Starfighter if you don't think it's come a long way.
The initial space battle was far and away the most complex and visually stunning I've seen. It's all the other SW films + Wolf 359 + Dominion wars + everything else you've seen rolled into one. It did not look particularly fake to me.
If anything, these pipework and bulkhead-clogged ships are way overdone. Anyone whose flown into an airport during the day can tell you how fake those toy cars look down there, all shiny and perfect and slow-moving. The producers have the tough job of making it [b]not seem fake when fake is exactly what ships on that scale would look like in real life.[/b] And "not fake" to our stupid, 6-foot high, 1/20 mile worldview is exactly what we got. Good job on their part.
> Like they never forsaw a dorky guy flying > within range of their unprotected network in an > 50 year old ship and taking it all down with a > simple upload from an iBook.... Sheesh, who's > *that* careless...
Actually, it's not that unreasonable that a homogenous society like the aliens would never have had a hacker problem, and thus would have little to no computer network security capacity.
Now if there were other colonies going around the stars, and they were kept abreast of the situation, they might make some feeble attempts to add security.
Of course, Earth by this time should have reverse-engineered the force fields, lasers, antigrav devices, et al., and begun constructing weaponry in orbit, or at the boundary of the solar system.
One wonders if other colonies will realize this outcome, and send in a massive wave of (attempted) destruction.
Unless Earth is back to fighting about who pas to pay for each other's health care or how much in their social security check. In which case we deserve to die.
Are you sure it's because of Romans not having a 0?
At some point, some guy said, Ok, this is the first year of the calendar. We'll call it year 1. Note: It would be illogical to call it year 0 even if you had a 0 in your number system.
1. The emperor talked about using the dark side to keep things alive. This appears to have completely evaporated in the second half of the movie. Thus it may have been a lie.
2. Was the emperor "faking" losing to Windu for the purpose of turning Anakin? It seems so, although allowing his face to become mutilated seems a bit extreme. Although maybe not for the Sith Lord. Also their tech could clearly repair it so it's more of a temporary badge of honor. Or a badge of "see how bad those power hungry Jedi council people are?"
> unions have also protected and maintained > standards for telephony, safe and reliable > electrical service, quality ironwork in > skyscrapers, steamfitting, safe and reliable > trucking and plumbing --
So the dad who brings home the bacon and maintains a safe household gets to rape his daughter 30 times a day?
Oops, sorry, that's a bit pithy. Ummm...so the dad gets to punch his wife, umm, no, so the dad gets to yeah, I got it! The dad gets to force the wife and kids to kneel in front of him and praise him and make them lick the sweat from his armpits and chew the crud from under his toenails and handwash the railroad tracks from his underwear over and over until they decide to go live in Mexico or China or India?
OOps, my bad. Should be in response to (copy didn't "take" and left previous):
> Remove all those things, and you have where > teachers would be without union organization.
Especially when you take into account lost wages due to a strike, amortized over the following few years. Which, btw, was what one episode of All In The Family was about.
(If there was an error, well, Slashdot should include an Edit button for logged-in posters, just like every other online modern BBS.)
> I get paid more than a 5 year teacher does in > most states and I never graduated college and > have a non-union job.
Especially when you take into account lost wages due to a strike, amortized over the following few years. Which, btw, was what one episode of All In The Family was about.
>> Communism = Equality at the lowest common denominator. > > Well, your sig is at least quite right.
Ironically, it's also accurately descriptive of MMORPGs.
Think about it. Skill matters very little -- it's all stat based. What little skill there is is not in the battles but rather the tracking down of upgrades to your character + the skill of being able to not get festering sores on your behind from camping for decades.
Compare vs. Quake online, wherein real, high skill let you slaughter your opponents by the dozens simultaneously.
Assuming you have skill, which is the whole point vis-a-vis communist levelling, i.e. tearing people down to the lowest common denominator.
Yes, there's skill in the healer/defender/controller/support type classes, but for battle classes? Very little. The only game that benefitted from player "battle skills" I've seen was the scrapper class in City of Heroes, and then only just barely. The Tanker, or fighter types in EQ, AC, Horizons, DAoC, or Star Wars Galaxies, are all little more than statistical arguments at unskilled idiocy.
> "it is at times like this that Linux really > suffers from having a single dictator in > charge; when Linus doesn't understand a > problem, he won't fix it, even if all the > cryptographers in the world are standing > against him.""
An OS dictator over 10 million times the size of Linus has been brought to its knees over lax security.
If Linus' fantasy about mass use of his OS ever remotely comes about, the assault of 30,000 raptors and 2 million scavengers slicing at it continuously will change his tune.
What was that about "You can fool all of the hackers some of the time, and some of the hackers all of the time, but you can't fool 30,000 hackers all of the time...when they turn around, look up, and focus their attention on your OS."
Or maybe more real than announcing you're giving away tens of millions of dollars, then having a parade with a sparse crowd to receive the tossed cash.
That's true. Lisp was the perfect language to run as a scripting language thanks to its interpreter. It should have killed Java and various scripts in one swoop.
Stuffing all your data into a list makes life so much easier and faster for development. What, no structs? What what?
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Well, not so young anyway. Tarkin'd have been in his 50's by this point, probably a captain, and possibly an admiral, if he were really good with politics, which he obviously was in IV.
Now if the Emperor had beaten down Yoda. Granted, Yoda was somewhat messed up, falling all that way, but he looked like he could continue. He would have had a long way to go to get back up to the fleeing Palpadine's level.
Maybe I have a better sense of wonder and imagination than some of you, but this movie wasn't that bad. It's the only movie I've ever seen that was fictional yet you left feeling drained like a real story like Glory, or Shindler's List, or Saving Private Ryan.
Yes, the dialog wasn't the greatest, but even the punk improved somewhat. Portman sure improved a ton.
The whole tone of the movie changed at that one point with the kids. Yes, his turning seemed fast, but they tried to get around that by showing her belly growing, which showed weeks and months were really going by as all this was happening.
The action was first rate, and the CGI wasn't too bad at all. Compare vs. Last Starfighter if you don't think it's come a long way.
The initial space battle was far and away the most complex and visually stunning I've seen. It's all the other SW films + Wolf 359 + Dominion wars + everything else you've seen rolled into one. It did not look particularly fake to me.
If anything, these pipework and bulkhead-clogged ships are way overdone. Anyone whose flown into an airport during the day can tell you how fake those toy cars look down there, all shiny and perfect and slow-moving. The producers have the tough job of making it [b]not seem fake when fake is exactly what ships on that scale would look like in real life.[/b] And "not fake" to our stupid, 6-foot high, 1/20 mile worldview is exactly what we got. Good job on their part.
> Like they never forsaw a dorky guy flying
> within range of their unprotected network in an
> 50 year old ship and taking it all down with a
> simple upload from an iBook.... Sheesh, who's
> *that* careless...
Actually, it's not that unreasonable that a homogenous society like the aliens would never have had a hacker problem, and thus would have little to no computer network security capacity.
Now if there were other colonies going around the stars, and they were kept abreast of the situation, they might make some feeble attempts to add security.
Of course, Earth by this time should have reverse-engineered the force fields, lasers, antigrav devices, et al., and begun constructing weaponry in orbit, or at the boundary of the solar system.
One wonders if other colonies will realize this outcome, and send in a massive wave of (attempted) destruction.
Unless Earth is back to fighting about who pas to pay for each other's health care or how much in their social security check. In which case we deserve to die.
Are you sure it's because of Romans not having a 0?
At some point, some guy said, Ok, this is the first year of the calendar. We'll call it year 1. Note: It would be illogical to call it year 0 even if you had a 0 in your number system.
Some observations:
1. The emperor talked about using the dark side to keep things alive. This appears to have completely evaporated in the second half of the movie. Thus it may have been a lie.
2. Was the emperor "faking" losing to Windu for the purpose of turning Anakin? It seems so, although allowing his face to become mutilated seems a bit extreme. Although maybe not for the Sith Lord. Also their tech could clearly repair it so it's more of a temporary badge of honor. Or a badge of "see how bad those power hungry Jedi council people are?"
> Spoken like somebody who somehow managed to
> miss every single game featuring either Tim
> Duncan or Kevin Garnett.
Who?
> unions have also protected and maintained
> standards for telephony, safe and reliable
> electrical service, quality ironwork in
> skyscrapers, steamfitting, safe and reliable
> trucking and plumbing --
So the dad who brings home the bacon and maintains a safe household gets to rape his daughter 30 times a day?
Oops, sorry, that's a bit pithy. Ummm...so the dad gets to punch his wife, umm, no, so the dad gets to yeah, I got it! The dad gets to force the wife and kids to kneel in front of him and praise him and make them lick the sweat from his armpits and chew the crud from under his toenails and handwash the railroad tracks from his underwear over and over until they decide to go live in Mexico or China or India?
OOps, my bad. Should be in response to (copy didn't "take" and left previous):
> Remove all those things, and you have where
> teachers would be without union organization.
Especially when you take into account lost wages due to a strike, amortized over the following few years. Which, btw, was what one episode of All In The Family was about.
(If there was an error, well, Slashdot should include an Edit button for logged-in posters, just like every other online modern BBS.)
> I get paid more than a 5 year teacher does in
> most states and I never graduated college and
> have a non-union job.
Especially when you take into account lost wages due to a strike, amortized over the following few years. Which, btw, was what one episode of All In The Family was about.
> I get paid more than a 5 year teacher does in
> most states and I never graduated college and
> have a non-union job.
I enjoy your work very much, by the way, Ms. Jameson.
Or the first shot of the Death Star scene...
Didn't think anyone could one-up that Jabba comment, didja? DIDJA?????
>> Communism = Equality at the lowest common denominator.
>
> Well, your sig is at least quite right.
Ironically, it's also accurately descriptive of MMORPGs.
Think about it. Skill matters very little -- it's all stat based. What little skill there is is not in the battles but rather the tracking down of upgrades to your character + the skill of being able to not get festering sores on your behind from camping for decades.
Compare vs. Quake online, wherein real, high skill let you slaughter your opponents by the dozens simultaneously.
Assuming you have skill, which is the whole point vis-a-vis communist levelling, i.e. tearing people down to the lowest common denominator.
Yes, there's skill in the healer/defender/controller/support type classes, but for battle classes? Very little. The only game that benefitted from player "battle skills" I've seen was the scrapper class in City of Heroes, and then only just barely. The Tanker, or fighter types in EQ, AC, Horizons, DAoC, or Star Wars Galaxies, are all little more than statistical arguments at unskilled idiocy.
> The directors guild kicked out Robert Rodriguez
> for giving Frank Miller a directing credit on
> Sin City.
What part of "make a laughing stock out of themselves" didn't you get?
> If you don't follow their rules (using only
> guild talent, putting your credits on the movie
> in the right way, etc) they kick you out.
What part of "moving jobs to Mexico, India, and China" don't the moron unions get?
It's cheaper to use labor in The People's Republic of Canada, for god's sake, than US movie union labor.
Oh come on! You guys aren't thinking right!
Let's see. Is there any director who is:
1. Still alive
2. A big name director (can push thru major league bucks, scriptors, and command the first stringers at Industrial Light and Magic)
3. Has a track record for awesome action movies.
4. Has a track record for awesome Science Fiction Action Movies.
5. Knows what engaging dialogue is.
6. Is not from that terrible Planet of the Speilberg.
7. Has a movie total gross national product roughly equal to Lucas'.
Mmmmmm...is there? Mmmmmm...
> "it is at times like this that Linux really
> suffers from having a single dictator in
> charge; when Linus doesn't understand a
> problem, he won't fix it, even if all the
> cryptographers in the world are standing
> against him.""
An OS dictator over 10 million times the size of Linus has been brought to its knees over lax security.
If Linus' fantasy about mass use of his OS ever remotely comes about, the assault of 30,000 raptors and 2 million scavengers slicing at it continuously will change his tune.
What was that about "You can fool all of the hackers some of the time, and some of the hackers all of the time, but you can't fool 30,000 hackers all of the time...when they turn around, look up, and focus their attention on your OS."
> every machine may be infected with keystroke
> loggers that give governments access to and
> knowledge of 'banned' sites.
Maybe it would be easier if we just asked the American companies building spyware and censorware for the Chinese government to stop it!
Well, let's see.
If you put an inline device that intercepted a photon and rebroadcast it, then:
1. You would have all the info you needed
2. They wouldn't detect it.
I must be missing something.
That should get your porn closeup!
Or maybe more real than announcing you're giving away tens of millions of dollars, then having a parade with a sparse crowd to receive the tossed cash.
> It's not a Sin City
Which is just as well. Marv is one of the few non-superhumans who could beat the holy hell out of Batman at his best.
Reed Flemming, World's Toughest Milkman is the other.
I'd hate to see Marv and Reed in a fight. Son of a bitch that'd be awesome!
> Now, I wouldn't want to hang out in a 120F
> room, but it's not like people don't.
Not unless I was on my back and Jessica Alba (Sin City), Jamie King (same), and Billie Piper (new Dr. Who) were sweating atop me.
Yeah, but let's face it. That's like saying someone invented the penis, but not the dildo itself.
That's true. Lisp was the perfect language to run as a scripting language thanks to its interpreter. It should have killed Java and various scripts in one swoop.
Stuffing all your data into a list makes life so much easier and faster for development. What, no structs? What what?
> Regrettably, I don't remember how the whole thing ended.
The Imp Q came down and vaporized the entire universe for being filled with idiots like that PC person, then recreated it exactly as it was before.
No denizens ever knew it, either. =(