A lot of these characters are STUPID, but I don't think that's a good enough description for a redeeming movie.
That was actually the point of the movie. It's all about the downfall of the Republic, characterized by Queen Amidala's ineffectual term as Senator, and the decadence of the Jedi Order, demonstrated by how even "renegade" Qui Gon Jinn tells Obi Wan to let The Force guide him. When Qui Gon said "There's always a bigger fish" he didnt mean "It sure was lucky that a bigger fish came by", he actually means it. Throughout the entire trilogy all of the Jedi blindly stumble around hoping that The Force will do their thinking for them, and without the Sith to oppose them that approach had worked pretty well for them for a long time.
So the characters in the prequel trilogy weren't mind numbingly stupid because of sloppy writing, it was all part of a larger plan to --
Oh, forget it. I can't keep this up with a straight face. If Lucas had really explored any of those ideas in the films then he could have had something interesting. Instead all we got was a bunch of muppets.
On another topic, I notice in TFA that they reference using a headset instead of talking on the phone. So does this mean that Blue Tooth (which is in the 2.4 GHz range) has less of a health impact than the cellular radio?
I heard that secret government labs were working on a special new kind of headset that uses on ordinary _wire_ to connect to a telephone.
I can't imagine how they have solved all the problems of carrying complex audio signals through something as simple as a wire, but I still predict that this new, previously unheard of, "wirelessless" technology may catch on in a big way over the next twenty years.
So... will Microsoft be making a big donation to Child's Play any time soon?
"This new X Box won't let me play today because it thinks I should get out of bed and do more exercise. It suggests half an hour of jogging. How many weeks did you say it be before I can walk again?"
As a Canadian, to all foreign powers who demand we change our laws to match yours, I say fuck you. Get your house in order before you tell us how to get ours in order.
I don't buy your claim. If you were really a Canadian, you would have asked more politely. And the apologized for how their house wasn't in order, even though it wasn't your fault. And then said the same thing in French.
I'd at least feel less guilty pirating - if I would ever do such a thing - if I knew they were getting paid even when I wasn't.
Technically, Bryan Adams and Celine Dion are getting paid no matter what music you are copying. The blank media levy is divvied up between the top selling artists based on commercial radio airplay.
Like the story about the frogs? throw a frog in boiling water? it jumps out. throw a frog in cold water and slowly boil it? boiled frog.
Actually, if you throw a frog in boiling water it will get burned. If you throw a frog in cold water and heat it it will jump out when the water gets too hot.
[...] continue to watch even more porn as well as do all those other things that overlords do. Pass pointless laws, monitor the pleebs, protect the children, make deals with other alien overlords, etc.
I'm frankly more worried about "But the Pentagon assumed local adversaries wouldn't know how to exploit it, the officials said." than I am about this particular security vulnerability.
I believe that the technical term for that is "Security Through La-la-la-I'm-not-listening!"
Although it has a long and glorious past filled with successes, it's still not a recommended way to secure anything more important than ordering a pizza.
TFA even goes on to admit that the lawnmower battery weighs three times as much as the VAIO's. If you want cheap Li-Ion cells that will run your notebook for under half an hour before giving out, that's fine. Enjoy them.
It's more like if you had a car but the radio doesn't work. You can fully enjoy the car but a feature of the car that is completely disconnected from the core purpose of the vehicle doesn't work.
But ACPI isn't completely disconnected from the core purpose of a notebook computer. The effect is more like having the engine fall out onto the street every time you put the car into reverse than not being able to listen to "Queen's Greatest Hits" while driving.
So because the ACPI is a little buggy the software is complete crap? Never mind every other feature that the software has.
Here is a lovely pastry. It was made with the finest butter, the flour was hand ground by monks, and it is served with cream and tiny bits of shaved chocolate.
Oh, and it is also covered with sprinkles of bacillus anthracis which will cause you to die in agony after you eat it. But just look at all the other wonderful features it has!
Don't you want to eat it? Sure the antrax does pose a teeny tiny little problem, but maybe you could just eat a little bit of it.
(Or do we need a car analogy to explain the problem here?)
It also causes my Inspiron 8200 to crash hard when I try to use ACPI functions. Nvidia has expressed no interest in fixing this bug and that pushes it from "mildly unacceptable to free software hippies and people with obscure unsupported hardware" to "completely useless crap masquerading as software".
I'm not bitter about it but it's a good example of a problem which could easily be fixed in open source software, but can't even be touched in something as closed as the nvidia video driver.
You say that as though cancelling your account might somehow lead to your personal information being purged from Facebook's database and your photos removed from their web servers. Where did you get that idea from?
Fans of "Star Wars" have a chance to see a free screening of the notoriously bad "Star Wars Holiday Special" next week in Minneapolis.
Couldn't they just be covered with honey and tied to an ant hill? Or forced to watch the Uwe Boll Film Festival with their eyes propped open while listening to loud Beethoven music? Why make them watch the Star Wars Holiday Special?
Just because there's a battery powered object in it doesn't mean it's geeky. Hardware hacking involves a little bit more than just cardboard, paper and glue. The whole 'hack' here is "Cut a hole in the card, put your iPhone in the card, make her open the card".
A true hardware geek would be ashamed to own up to this kind of cheap hack. Leaving the whole thing running on battery power non-stop while it's in the mail is just painful. To do the job right you would have to remove the case, fit the LCD panel properly into the card frame, add a switch to keep the whole thing powered off until you pull it out of the envelope, and probably do a little firmware hacking to ensure that the display is up and running the moment it powers up. For bonus marks, source your hardware somewhere other than the Apple store and save yourself about a hundred bucks.
But then again it's a CNET article. You can't expect too much.
If you find yourself buying a whole new printer _with_ink_ for less than the cost of replacement ink, there's probably a reason for it.
The ink cartridges loaded in new printers are often a little bit less than full. Don't be surprised if they turn out to have less than half the ink of the full-priced replacements. There's a weasel term for this, something like "Value Express Promotional Economy Monkey-Spanking Sized Ink Cartridges", but the point is that you're often being sold a nearly empty printer at a cut price just to get you to buy more ink later.
My Dad has a Cloud that my sister and I used to store our homework assignments.
One night, I was writing a paper on it, when all of a sudden it went berserk. The screen started flashing and the whole paper just disappeared. All of it.
And it was a good paper!
I had to cram and rewrite it really quickly. Needless to say, my rushed paper wasn't nearly as good and I blame that Cloud for the grade I got.
And I am totally not stoned right now. Really. Dude.
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That was actually the point of the movie. It's all about the downfall of the Republic, characterized by Queen Amidala's ineffectual term as Senator, and the decadence of the Jedi Order, demonstrated by how even "renegade" Qui Gon Jinn tells Obi Wan to let The Force guide him. When Qui Gon said "There's always a bigger fish" he didnt mean "It sure was lucky that a bigger fish came by", he actually means it. Throughout the entire trilogy all of the Jedi blindly stumble around hoping that The Force will do their thinking for them, and without the Sith to oppose them that approach had worked pretty well for them for a long time.
So the characters in the prequel trilogy weren't mind numbingly stupid because of sloppy writing, it was all part of a larger plan to --
Oh, forget it. I can't keep this up with a straight face. If Lucas had really explored any of those ideas in the films then he could have had something interesting. Instead all we got was a bunch of muppets.
I heard that secret government labs were working on a special new kind of headset that uses on ordinary _wire_ to connect to a telephone.
I can't imagine how they have solved all the problems of carrying complex audio signals through something as simple as a wire, but I still predict that this new, previously unheard of, "wirelessless" technology may catch on in a big way over the next twenty years.
Welcome to the Internet. I can see that this is your first time here.
There is so much for you to see and wish to unsee.
So... will Microsoft be making a big donation to Child's Play any time soon?
"This new X Box won't let me play today because it thinks I should get out of bed and do more exercise. It suggests half an hour of jogging. How many weeks did you say it be before I can walk again?"
Thank you for your helpful comments, Dr. Sokal. We'll be in touch when the committee has made a decision on whether or not to publish your paper.
I don't buy your claim. If you were really a Canadian, you would have asked more politely. And the apologized for how their house wasn't in order, even though it wasn't your fault. And then said the same thing in French.
Technically, Bryan Adams and Celine Dion are getting paid no matter what music you are copying. The blank media levy is divvied up between the top selling artists based on commercial radio airplay.
Actually, if you throw a frog in boiling water it will get burned. If you throw a frog in cold water and heat it it will jump out when the water gets too hot.
Science. It works, bitches.
Just like nobody would ever have been stupid enough to screw Peter Jackson over the Lord of the Rings movies.
Gotcha.
You mean they have already taken over England?
And there will also be cake.
I believe that the technical term for that is "Security Through La-la-la-I'm-not-listening!"
Although it has a long and glorious past filled with successes, it's still not a recommended way to secure anything more important than ordering a pizza.
No way! Why should I change? He's the one who sucks.
TFA even goes on to admit that the lawnmower battery weighs three times as much as the VAIO's. If you want cheap Li-Ion cells that will run your notebook for under half an hour before giving out, that's fine. Enjoy them.
But ACPI isn't completely disconnected from the core purpose of a notebook computer. The effect is more like having the engine fall out onto the street every time you put the car into reverse than not being able to listen to "Queen's Greatest Hits" while driving.
Here is a lovely pastry. It was made with the finest butter, the flour was hand ground by monks, and it is served with cream and tiny bits of shaved chocolate.
Oh, and it is also covered with sprinkles of bacillus anthracis which will cause you to die in agony after you eat it. But just look at all the other wonderful features it has!
Don't you want to eat it? Sure the antrax does pose a teeny tiny little problem, but maybe you could just eat a little bit of it.
(Or do we need a car analogy to explain the problem here?)
It also causes my Inspiron 8200 to crash hard when I try to use ACPI functions. Nvidia has expressed no interest in fixing this bug and that pushes it from "mildly unacceptable to free software hippies and people with obscure unsupported hardware" to "completely useless crap masquerading as software".
I'm not bitter about it but it's a good example of a problem which could easily be fixed in open source software, but can't even be touched in something as closed as the nvidia video driver.
Or hire somebody to do it for you.
You say that as though cancelling your account might somehow lead to your personal information being purged from Facebook's database and your photos removed from their web servers. Where did you get that idea from?
Indeed.
Couldn't they just be covered with honey and tied to an ant hill? Or forced to watch the Uwe Boll Film Festival with their eyes propped open while listening to loud Beethoven music? Why make them watch the Star Wars Holiday Special?
Just because there's a battery powered object in it doesn't mean it's geeky. Hardware hacking involves a little bit more than just cardboard, paper and glue. The whole 'hack' here is "Cut a hole in the card, put your iPhone in the card, make her open the card".
A true hardware geek would be ashamed to own up to this kind of cheap hack. Leaving the whole thing running on battery power non-stop while it's in the mail is just painful. To do the job right you would have to remove the case, fit the LCD panel properly into the card frame, add a switch to keep the whole thing powered off until you pull it out of the envelope, and probably do a little firmware hacking to ensure that the display is up and running the moment it powers up. For bonus marks, source your hardware somewhere other than the Apple store and save yourself about a hundred bucks.
But then again it's a CNET article. You can't expect too much.
If you find yourself buying a whole new printer _with_ink_ for less than the cost of replacement ink, there's probably a reason for it.
The ink cartridges loaded in new printers are often a little bit less than full. Don't be surprised if they turn out to have less than half the ink of the full-priced replacements. There's a weasel term for this, something like "Value Express Promotional Economy Monkey-Spanking Sized Ink Cartridges", but the point is that you're often being sold a nearly empty printer at a cut price just to get you to buy more ink later.
You read one whole paragraph before pronouncing it unreadable? I admire your dedication.
What, like making them watch BloodRayne?
My Dad has a Cloud that my sister and I used to store our homework assignments.
One night, I was writing a paper on it, when all of a sudden it went berserk. The screen started flashing and the whole paper just disappeared. All of it.
And it was a good paper!
I had to cram and rewrite it really quickly. Needless to say, my rushed paper wasn't nearly as good and I blame that Cloud for the grade I got.
And I am totally not stoned right now. Really. Dude.