Luke destroys the Sith and brings balance to the force, not Anakin.
I disagree. In the end of RotJ it is Darth Vader who kills the Emperor, throwing him over the ledge. And he then abandons the Dark Side to return to Luke, effectively "killing" Darth Vader and bringing back Anakin.
The only "characters" throughout all nine movies: c3po and r2d2.
This really is an amazing thing isn't it? Just think about it... These two droids, basically machines, and they are still viable and functional for 60+ years? What technology product today has that kind of lifetime?:)
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.
I could well believe it was a lie... But if you are talking about the Emperor using it to keep himself alive, I've always felt certain aspects of the Force cannot be used on oneself (i.e. why Darth whoever-he-was couldn't save himself after discovering the power). Anakin and the Emperor never claimed to have actually discovered the secret.
allowing his face to become mutilated seems a bit extreme. 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?"
Yes to the 2nd point as he also uses his disfigurement as a badge/motivator in his speech to the Senate.
a) a LS that can sense when it hits another LS, and turn itself off for a tenth of a second. This would allow a LS to 'cut thru' another LS and hit the bad guy who was blocking.
Of course, your opponents would do the same, so you'd both be dead... Not so useful now eh?
b) a LS with an adjustable length. Remember in Episode 2 when the Jedi are surrounded in the arena? Imagine one Jedi yelling 'Down!', and making his LS blade 100 feet long, then rotating in place, cutting down all the surrounding droids at once.
One does expect technologies to have limitations. I don't think every limitation needs to be explained...
c) Jedi who can actually detect the most powerful Sith lord in existense while standing right next to him.
He wouldn't be that powerful then, would he? As Yoda says: "Difficult to understand, the Dark Side is." or something to that effect. If it was as easy as "Oh yeah, that guy there is dark." it wouldn't have made much of a movie.
And why does Yoda retreat when he does? The grammar challenged frog just retreats for no good reason to subject the galaxy to 20+ years of oppression."
I felt this was answered. First, the foreshadowing when Yoda says the prophecy may have been misinterpreted. Then you have movies 4-6 which clearly explain the benefit of a retreat-and-wait strategy. 20+ years of oppression is nothing in the long term (think China).
Also, keep in mind that Anakin DOES end up destroying the Sith when he kills the Emperor in RotJ.
Cant people shut off their s--t and stop talking during movies? These backlit screens nearly blinded me.
I, of course, didn't make use of the device during the previews or the movie. They let us into the auditorium a full 3 hours before the midnight showing started, so I used the time to converse online. So did numerous other folks in the theater.
Ahhh, it's all relative then. So you wouldn't care if some homeless guy ripped you off for a hundred bucks or so. Got it.
No, you are completely missing the point. It has nothing to do with relativity. It has to do with a complete misunderstanding of the impact of this technology on the market. Did Ep III land on BitTorrent? Yes. Did that impact it's first day sales? No.
If anything, the excitement around the movie was probably heightened by early reviews that came out from folks who had seen it illegally. I know I was in a theater auditorium live on a MUD (on my Blackberry, yes I'm a geek) and someone said they had already seen it 12 hours ago but were going again that day. They had also already encouraged others to go see it.
Hollywood seems to believe that everyone is out to rob them. The truth is that when a movie is good, folks WANT to see it on the big screen and folks WANT to reward Hollywood for a job well done.
Where BitTorrent might have an impact would be on a BAD movie -- and that is what I think Hollywood is really worried about. Did you see the backlash against cell phones and SMS after The Hulk came out? It's dissapointing start was largely blamed on early messages floating around telling folks how bad it was, causing them to cancel plans to see it.
I, for one, think Hollywood should embrace technology more. I have a 1-year old child, and seeing the midnight debut of Ep III was a MAJOR hassle. Had they provided me with a legal way to see it in high quality, I would gladly have paid more than a theater price for the convenience.
Ok, all these experts say we'll run out of fossil fuels in about 50 years at our current consumption.
It was recently posited to me that the military will likely solve the fuel problem within the 50 years needed. How can I be so sure? Well, we know that the fuel is running out. We know that other countries (such as China) are securing long-term access to these limited resources. It becomes a strategic imperitive to ensure our military can function on a limited supply.
Now, I'm not big fan of the military (as an organization, not the individuals) but there is one thing they tend to be good at -- coming up with technological solutions to enable them to remain effective. This alone might ensure that funding for the discovery of new sources of energy becomes a national priority even if DARPA leads the way instead of the DoE...
Here's some examples... The DoE's role in "National Security" is here. Alternatively, projects at DARPA here, here, here and here.
Your argument is a terrible justification, because it could be applied to such absurd projects as a 300 ton, hand-carved, gold-plated statue of a cow that get polished daily and re-plated every third Tuesday.
Wasn't that type of activity a major part of the Ancient Egyptian economic and stability model? they certainly kept a lot of people 'employed' (even if the standard of living was low)...
Of course my wife and I will take Thursday off to recover from the midnight showing, but we will both do it with legitimate means. She only works 3 days a week and will arrange her schedule accordingly and I will take earned vacation. So this isn't costing my employer anything. I hope they take that into account in the study...
Maybe you should change your reading preferences. I surf at 1+ and so far your post is the most extreme I've seen. The parent of yours is at 3, but I would hardly call his post "zealotry". Perhaps unsubstantiated opinion, but not "zealotry"... You post, OTOH, looks 10 times as long to go on and on about zealotry... And I'm assuming your use of 'iPOS' is a typo and not an insult or else your post would be entirely self-contradictory.
Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
The problem is when you underestimate either B or C. So X begins to approach the total cost of a recall and management thinks "hmmm... maybe we should go ahead with the recall". Only now your total cost is approaching 2x. If you had just done the recall immeadiately (the honorable thing) you could have limited cost to approximately X.
I own two Toyota vehicles, both have had recalls for minor issues where X was probably far too low to justify the recall. But they did it anyway.
They should make a product which runs ontop of standard protocols (imap, pop3 etc) instead of integrating into propriatory backend systems..
Ummm... They do integrate into POP3 and IMAP4, and I believe my original post stated such. The issue is if you want to do anything more sophisticated. They have to integrate into backend systems to support these more sophisticated capabilities (including server-based contacts, calendar, tasks and notes as well as intranet server integration).
blackberry shouldn't really be promoting exchange
They don't. They support Exchange, Domino and Groupwise on their BES platform which together account for something like 99% of the commercial email server market. And they support POP3 and IMAP4 for the more limited users out there.
Well, my appreciation for Lotus has grown not because of their email client (Notes) but because of the server's (Domino) capabilities and structure. Namely, that you can do a LOT with Domino based databases and they are all inherently web-accessible. This make extension of them to new technologies (including wireless) incredibly easy. This is espescially true in the Blackberry/BES/MDS/Domino environment.
Someone else would have to comment on Groupwise in this area as I have not yet learned much about it.
Oh, and I forgot to mention that when a couple of the folks in the meeting looked VERY worried about losing the added functionality of the BES (MDS, Wireless Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, Notes, etc.) the IT guy looked at the superintendent and said "Well, I was TOLD to buy the cheapest mail server available."
Just thought the story might be illuminating from a cost vs. capability discussion.
I met with a school district today to discuss Blackberry implementation. They used some POP3 mail server I'd never heard of. So, their choices were:
Blackberry Web Client (which is less featured and only solves email)
Desktop Redirector (which requires supporting an app on all desktops that now have to be left running all the time)
An integrated BES/POP3 Product (which costs roughly 3 times a BES alone)
Convert to a supported platform
Now, for a supported platform, they can choose between Domino, Novell or Exchange. Due to the integration and sharing capabilities in the latest MS Office Suite, they are seeking to move to Exchange.
If I had my say, I'd suggest they seriously look at Domino, but that's not my place currently and they seem happy with MS products (if not MS prices).
Great, so now they'll know what you search for, what you visit *and* what you are going to do in the future.
That's not very imaginative... no, they'll just put thing onto your calendar and make you do things in the future!!! And when you go back to your email to figure our what happened you'll see you sent an email RSVP for that event... And if you search it, you'll get a result with your name on the attendee list!
Now try and prove you aren't a terrorist if they say you are...
You know what annoys me?
that all the freaking sentient aliens are pretty much the same size.
why can't we have some superdense 15 foot giants walking around talking trash.
Why are they all the same size?
Would you prefer aliens so small that their entire interplanetary invasion force (due to a small miscalculation is size) gets swalloed whole by a small dog? Oh wait, that would be a different movie...
Why should a foreign worker, about whom nothing is known...
Why do you assume nothing is known about the foreign worker? Just as your credit is checked when you go for employment here, do you assume they do no screening of their candidates there?
The government decides all kinds of interoperability standards for infrastructure
Although they seem to have been incapable for decades now at making government communications systems interoperable. Most local, state and federal radio systems cannot communicate with each other due to a lack of interoperability standards and regulation.
The people with the least money will notice 9$ missing. They usually are budgeting things very closely.
I disagree... Most of the folks I know that make little money in the US are terrible at budgeting. But still, it is clear that they probably could increase their chances of not getting caught with access to more information.
I'd bet you could build profiles of the types of people that would be a lot less likely to notice or to ACT on some small illogical fee or errant charge... Students come to mind for some reason... or maybe base it on types and frequency of purchases...
I find this odd. Many Jobs that I have tried to get they will not give you if you have bad credit because you are a potential security risk. But now those same companies outsource to some of the poorest countries. How is this not a security risk?
You have confused me. Are you mixing credit worthiness with wealthiness? You can have lots more money than the folks in XXX poor country and still be less trustworthy.
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Yes to the 2nd point as he also uses his disfigurement as a badge/motivator in his speech to the Senate.
One does expect technologies to have limitations. I don't think every limitation needs to be explained...
He wouldn't be that powerful then, would he? As Yoda says: "Difficult to understand, the Dark Side is." or something to that effect. If it was as easy as "Oh yeah, that guy there is dark." it wouldn't have made much of a movie.
Also, keep in mind that Anakin DOES end up destroying the Sith when he kills the Emperor in RotJ.
If anything, the excitement around the movie was probably heightened by early reviews that came out from folks who had seen it illegally. I know I was in a theater auditorium live on a MUD (on my Blackberry, yes I'm a geek) and someone said they had already seen it 12 hours ago but were going again that day. They had also already encouraged others to go see it.
Hollywood seems to believe that everyone is out to rob them. The truth is that when a movie is good, folks WANT to see it on the big screen and folks WANT to reward Hollywood for a job well done.
Where BitTorrent might have an impact would be on a BAD movie -- and that is what I think Hollywood is really worried about. Did you see the backlash against cell phones and SMS after The Hulk came out? It's dissapointing start was largely blamed on early messages floating around telling folks how bad it was, causing them to cancel plans to see it.
I, for one, think Hollywood should embrace technology more. I have a 1-year old child, and seeing the midnight debut of Ep III was a MAJOR hassle. Had they provided me with a legal way to see it in high quality, I would gladly have paid more than a theater price for the convenience.
Now, I'm not big fan of the military (as an organization, not the individuals) but there is one thing they tend to be good at -- coming up with technological solutions to enable them to remain effective. This alone might ensure that funding for the discovery of new sources of energy becomes a national priority even if DARPA leads the way instead of the DoE...
Here's some examples... The DoE's role in "National Security" is here. Alternatively, projects at DARPA here, here, here and here.
Of course my wife and I will take Thursday off to recover from the midnight showing, but we will both do it with legitimate means. She only works 3 days a week and will arrange her schedule accordingly and I will take earned vacation. So this isn't costing my employer anything. I hope they take that into account in the study...
I own two Toyota vehicles, both have had recalls for minor issues where X was probably far too low to justify the recall. But they did it anyway.
They don't. They support Exchange, Domino and Groupwise on their BES platform which together account for something like 99% of the commercial email server market. And they support POP3 and IMAP4 for the more limited users out there.
Well, my appreciation for Lotus has grown not because of their email client (Notes) but because of the server's (Domino) capabilities and structure. Namely, that you can do a LOT with Domino based databases and they are all inherently web-accessible. This make extension of them to new technologies (including wireless) incredibly easy. This is espescially true in the Blackberry/BES/MDS/Domino environment.
Someone else would have to comment on Groupwise in this area as I have not yet learned much about it.
Oh, and I forgot to mention that when a couple of the folks in the meeting looked VERY worried about losing the added functionality of the BES (MDS, Wireless Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, Notes, etc.) the IT guy looked at the superintendent and said "Well, I was TOLD to buy the cheapest mail server available."
Just thought the story might be illuminating from a cost vs. capability discussion.
- Blackberry Web Client (which is less featured and only solves email)
- Desktop Redirector (which requires supporting an app on all desktops that now have to be left running all the time)
- An integrated BES/POP3 Product (which costs roughly 3 times a BES alone)
- Convert to a supported platform
Now, for a supported platform, they can choose between Domino, Novell or Exchange. Due to the integration and sharing capabilities in the latest MS Office Suite, they are seeking to move to Exchange.If I had my say, I'd suggest they seriously look at Domino, but that's not my place currently and they seem happy with MS products (if not MS prices).
Now try and prove you aren't a terrorist if they say you are...
If you don't mind my asking, where do you live? Is this available in rural areas as well or are you in one of the major cities?
I'd bet you could build profiles of the types of people that would be a lot less likely to notice or to ACT on some small illogical fee or errant charge... Students come to mind for some reason... or maybe base it on types and frequency of purchases...