The turning of Anakin has much potential as a story, far more than anything else in Star Wars.
Nearly all films involve positive development of characters but negative development can be far more interesting as it isn't a cliche. It's the archetypal Fall of Satan.
The best way is to make him a likeable Han Solo-like rogue. First scene, he’s on the way to being interviewed by the Jedi for initiation. Obi-Wan tells him Yoda isn’t going to be there. Anakin cracks a joke about Yoda visiting his parents. Obi-Wan frustratedly tells him him off and how to behave in the interview. We watch Anakin talking in the interview. The camera pans around to Mace Windu’s viewing point and zooms in briefly on something suspicious about Anakin (perspiration or whatever) but gets distracted by Obi-Wan making a strong case. They admit Anakin for training. Training scene establishes Anakin’s potential with The Force, notably the ability to use Voice powers without weird gestures. Next scene: the protection of Amidala. Anakin starts charming her and because of his lust, kills the would-be assassin, instead of capturing her. In a behind-doors Senate investigation, Anakin tries to use the Voice on Palpatine but it doesn’t work and Yoda notices. Amidala tries to defend Anakin, losing her credibility with Palpatine (which ultimately denies her power to stop him). Palpatine suggests the Jedi are no longer up to the job of protecting Senators. Anakin is kicked out of the Jedi. He is then taken on by Count Dooku (making Christopher Lee's character relevant) and becomes more rogue-ish and thereby more attractive to Amidala – they have a one night stand but Amidala calls it off. Dooku asks Anakin to do increasingly dirty work and reveals he’s also an ex-Jedi. Anakin finds that father figure he’s always lacked. Dooku impresses Anakin with his powers. At the end of Episode I, he says that he learnt more from another master than from Yoda et al.
What is Darth Vader's motivation? It's not enough to say that he turned into a psychopath. You have to show it. You could see a little bit why Anakin killed the sand people but you couldn't see why he killed the Jedi children. Darth Vader is either a psychopathic dictator, or a Sheriff of Nottingham type character. I think it’s better that he’s the former, lusts for power and that power largely comes through worshipping evil. This is why he serves Sidious.
So Episode II is mostly about Anakin’s unknowing initiation into the Sith training. He meets Darth Maul who embarrasses Anakin with his superior Sith skills, but of course hiding his Sith allegiance. Anakin’s relationship with Amidala grows and eventually she gets pregnant. At the end of Episode II, Sidious is revealed.
Episode III is about Sith worship and structure. Anakin learns how to build a red light saber. He starts being jealous of the attention that Sidious gives Darth Maul and plots to kill him. Anakin starts doing anti-Jedi missions with Darth Maul and they run into Obi-Wan. As Obi-Wan takes them both on, Anakin loses the advantage. Darth Maul intervenes but Anakin sees an opportunity to kill the superior Darth Maul and blame it on Obi-Wan, before running away . Obi-Wan tells Amidala who still dies in childbirth. Anakin blames Obi-Wan and they still have the big albeit shorter showdown where he eventually gets his arse kicked in a less noobish way.
Most of us would rather be well-toned than waif-like. Therefore it's not just about burning calories but building muscle. And unless you want to starve yourself, it's much easier to build muscle.
Pearson and Shaw claim that plummeting growth hormone levels is why people over 30 find exercise less beneficial in toning their bodies. They also claim that supplements promoting growth hormone release increase/restore this ability.
The first one is a Cochrane study which means they're vastly better scientists than you.
The second thing you have to remember is that while homeopathy is perfect for testing vs placebo, how on earth do you 'blind' the acupuncturist? What if sham needles have an active therapeutic effect?
The whole double-blind paradigm is broken for acupuncture, all bodywork modalities inc physiotherapy, dental treatment, psychotherapy, cancer treatment etc. And it is deliberately broken by drug companies to skew results in favour of their products.
Opera rarely lets a site fail these days. Part of this is because of webmasters writing code that works with Firefox so there are fewer sites for Opera Software to fix.
What you do get is deliberate sabotage from MS & Google. There are also a surprising number of sites which do browser sniffing and then send Opera bad code. They work fine if you Mask as Firefox (or IE).
Also, Opera Software is the best software company I've dealt with in three decades..
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AMD were extremely slow to push out low power chips.
I think the article is a bit premature. We've yet to see where Bulldozer can go and it's definitely a design aimed at a 6+ core future.
The big question has to be: why are AMD losing money? That's not something the article really answers.
To me, it seems like every market AMD is in, Intel (and soon ARM) are in -- with predatory pricing. Where AMD has chosen to not compete, Intel can charge monopoly prices.
The article makes an interesting point: Intel bet heavily on fabrication plants which are way ahead of the competition. AMD relied on others and has consequently had problems.
Core strengthening is probably important, but you need the right posture for most benefit.
Serrapeptase is entirely experimental - but it's the only thing I could find that might break down scar tissue. I haven't tracked exactly which parts of my leg are numb over time but it seems to have reduced.
AC makes some interesting points if you're willing to go under the knife again.
Did my L4/5 disc in as well as my L5/S1. Had both operated on but in hindsight would have tried osteopathy first.
Don't know if this will help you but I later found out that some of the pain was caused by muscle tension, especially around the facet joints.
I'm taking serrapeptase in hope of reversing the 'permanent' nerve damage (I have sciatic numbness) as well as the scarring from the operation. Also massaging the area helps.
Alexander technique/posture correction is a must - pain teaches us very bad habits which tend to make the problem worse.
No idea why, but a gluten allergy made the problem a lot worse. Overall, I'm about four times better than after my last surgery.
For others reading, toothache can be similarly painful. I was also unable to stand up straight at the age of 16 due to the spasm.
I see your Android, Win95, XP and Linux and raise you...
Maemo, Easy Debian chrooted and WebOS games natively. My N900 can emulate Windows 95, DOS, PSP, Neogeo and probably several others I don't remember. It can also multiboot Kubuntu, Meego and Android.
Most notably with the N900 and N9. The latter is outselling every single WP7 device in spite of not being supplied to Nokia's main markets and Elop basically telling everyone it's dead.
Would have thought/. to be the last place people would complain about having to embed their own codes.
However, I agree totally -- especially when it's using nonstandard tags.
Not sure if this is the biggest problem with Wikipedia. Any subjects where the zealotry is one-sided end up incredibly biased. This is because Wikipedia policy assigns too much scope to consensus, which in turn is decided by how unfriendly the zealots can be to new editors.
I also cheered the other week when I discovered/. had started auto-detecting URLs.
Perhaps someone will start selling completely open modern hardware without trying to lock it down. A bit like Raspberry Pi but in tablet & N900 form factors, consistent across price points ranging from $50 to $600. It would have Nemo or Kubuntu on hence no licensing costs.
"4. The messaging integration. It's very cool that you can send text, facebook, and MSN messages using the native messaging app. If the rumors about Google+ and Skype messaging being integrated soon are true then that would make it that much more indispensable."
Don't all phones do that? N900 has had that plus Skype plus SIP for years. Trillian has had it for about a decade.
And yeah, Android is slowwwwwwwwwwwww. They don't tell you it's interpreted hence half the speed. But it sells hardware good XD
Nokia hardware is still the best. Their high-end phones look amazing, have superb build quality and features you just can't get anywhere else.
Look at the N900: Slide out backlit keyboard. 800x480x65k touch sensitive transreflective screen with front-facing camera and light sensor. Best speakers on any phone. Full USB 2.0 port. 720p output to TV or monitor. 32gb internal Flash. Fully programmable IR, Bluetooth and Wifi. Battery life of 2-3 days.
And this was back in 2009.
N9 has NFC. E7 and Lumias have Clear Black Display which nothing comes near.
They just need to give users the OS they want. How dumb is the board to not realise that?
So why is it being outsold by the N9 with 95% less marketing? The 710 has a faster processor than the N9's A8. Then again, it wouldn't surprise me if Harmattan was just a lot more efficient than WP7.
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Yeah that's good. Could be better though.
The turning of Anakin has much potential as a story, far more than anything else in Star Wars.
Nearly all films involve positive development of characters but negative development can be far more interesting as it isn't a cliche. It's the archetypal Fall of Satan.
The best way is to make him a likeable Han Solo-like rogue. First scene, he’s on the way to being interviewed by the Jedi for initiation. Obi-Wan tells him Yoda isn’t going to be there. Anakin cracks a joke about Yoda visiting his parents. Obi-Wan frustratedly tells him him off and how to behave in the interview.
We watch Anakin talking in the interview. The camera pans around to Mace Windu’s viewing point and zooms in briefly on something suspicious about Anakin (perspiration or whatever) but gets distracted by Obi-Wan making a strong case. They admit Anakin for training.
Training scene establishes Anakin’s potential with The Force, notably the ability to use Voice powers without weird gestures.
Next scene: the protection of Amidala. Anakin starts charming her and because of his lust, kills the would-be assassin, instead of capturing her.
In a behind-doors Senate investigation, Anakin tries to use the Voice on Palpatine but it doesn’t work and Yoda notices. Amidala tries to defend Anakin, losing her credibility with Palpatine (which ultimately denies her power to stop him). Palpatine suggests the Jedi are no longer up to the job of protecting Senators. Anakin is kicked out of the Jedi.
He is then taken on by Count Dooku (making Christopher Lee's character relevant) and becomes more rogue-ish and thereby more attractive to Amidala – they have a one night stand but Amidala calls it off.
Dooku asks Anakin to do increasingly dirty work and reveals he’s also an ex-Jedi. Anakin finds that father figure he’s always lacked.
Dooku impresses Anakin with his powers. At the end of Episode I, he says that he learnt more from another master than from Yoda et al.
What is Darth Vader's motivation? It's not enough to say that he turned into a psychopath. You have to show it. You could see a little bit why Anakin killed the sand people but you couldn't see why he killed the Jedi children.
Darth Vader is either a psychopathic dictator, or a Sheriff of Nottingham type character.
I think it’s better that he’s the former, lusts for power and that power largely comes through worshipping evil. This is why he serves Sidious.
So Episode II is mostly about Anakin’s unknowing initiation into the Sith training. He meets Darth Maul who embarrasses Anakin with his superior Sith skills, but of course hiding his Sith allegiance. Anakin’s relationship with Amidala grows and eventually she gets pregnant. At the end of Episode II, Sidious is revealed.
Episode III is about Sith worship and structure. Anakin learns how to build a red light saber. He starts being jealous of the attention that Sidious gives Darth Maul and plots to kill him. Anakin starts doing anti-Jedi missions with Darth Maul and they run into Obi-Wan. As Obi-Wan takes them both on, Anakin loses the advantage. Darth Maul intervenes but Anakin sees an opportunity to kill the superior Darth Maul and blame it on Obi-Wan, before running away . Obi-Wan tells Amidala who still dies in childbirth. Anakin blames Obi-Wan and they still have the big albeit shorter showdown where he eventually gets his arse kicked in a less noobish way.
Most of us would rather be well-toned than waif-like. Therefore it's not just about burning calories but building muscle. And unless you want to starve yourself, it's much easier to build muscle.
Pearson and Shaw claim that plummeting growth hormone levels is why people over 30 find exercise less beneficial in toning their bodies.
They also claim that supplements promoting growth hormone release increase/restore this ability.
This latter claim has been demonstrated in many animals including pigs:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/m7q0118602n8l37x/
Caffeine also seems to slow lipid (fat) formation:
http://www.ajcn.org/content/79/1/40.short
Both have strong effects for me. I take 200mg of niacin 1-2 hours before exercising and drink coffee with meals.
Many treatments are inherently less testable than others.
That doesn't justify bias against them.
The first one is a Cochrane study which means they're vastly better scientists than you.
The second thing you have to remember is that while homeopathy is perfect for testing vs placebo, how on earth do you 'blind' the acupuncturist? What if sham needles have an active therapeutic effect?
The whole double-blind paradigm is broken for acupuncture, all bodywork modalities inc physiotherapy, dental treatment, psychotherapy, cancer treatment etc. And it is deliberately broken by drug companies to skew results in favour of their products.
Medical science? Don't make me laugh.
Opera rarely lets a site fail these days. Part of this is because of webmasters writing code that works with Firefox so there are fewer sites for Opera Software to fix.
What you do get is deliberate sabotage from MS & Google. There are also a surprising number of sites which do browser sniffing and then send Opera bad code. They work fine if you Mask as Firefox (or IE).
Also, Opera Software is the best software company I've dealt with in three decades..
Where are my mod points... Well done AC.
AMD were extremely slow to push out low power chips.
I think the article is a bit premature. We've yet to see where Bulldozer can go and it's definitely a design aimed at a 6+ core future.
The big question has to be: why are AMD losing money? That's not something the article really answers.
To me, it seems like every market AMD is in, Intel (and soon ARM) are in -- with predatory pricing. Where AMD has chosen to not compete, Intel can charge monopoly prices.
The article makes an interesting point: Intel bet heavily on fabrication plants which are way ahead of the competition. AMD relied on others and has consequently had problems.
Core strengthening is probably important, but you need the right posture for most benefit.
Serrapeptase is entirely experimental - but it's the only thing I could find that might break down scar tissue. I haven't tracked exactly which parts of my leg are numb over time but it seems to have reduced.
AC makes some interesting points if you're willing to go under the knife again.
Did my L4/5 disc in as well as my L5/S1. Had both operated on but in hindsight would have tried osteopathy first.
Don't know if this will help you but I later found out that some of the pain was caused by muscle tension, especially around the facet joints.
I'm taking serrapeptase in hope of reversing the 'permanent' nerve damage (I have sciatic numbness) as well as the scarring from the operation. Also massaging the area helps.
Alexander technique/posture correction is a must - pain teaches us very bad habits which tend to make the problem worse.
No idea why, but a gluten allergy made the problem a lot worse. Overall, I'm about four times better than after my last surgery.
For others reading, toothache can be similarly painful. I was also unable to stand up straight at the age of 16 due to the spasm.
I see your Android, Win95, XP and Linux and raise you...
Maemo, Easy Debian chrooted and WebOS games natively. My N900 can emulate Windows 95, DOS, PSP, Neogeo and probably several others I don't remember. It can also multiboot Kubuntu, Meego and Android.
Most notably with the N900 and N9. The latter is outselling every single WP7 device in spite of not being supplied to Nokia's main markets and Elop basically telling everyone it's dead.
Superiority in marketing superiority in technical excellence. The latter is vastly superior on Nokia's N9.
A quick Google search revealed no stats on what proportion of spam comes from spambots running various operating systems.
As Windows XP doesn't have an outbound firewall and Vista/7's are disabled by default, I think it would be interesting.
Would have thought /. to be the last place people would complain about having to embed their own codes.
However, I agree totally -- especially when it's using nonstandard tags.
Not sure if this is the biggest problem with Wikipedia. Any subjects where the zealotry is one-sided end up incredibly biased. This is because Wikipedia policy assigns too much scope to consensus, which in turn is decided by how unfriendly the zealots can be to new editors.
I also cheered the other week when I discovered /. had started auto-detecting URLs.
Perhaps someone will start selling completely open modern hardware without trying to lock it down. A bit like Raspberry Pi but in tablet & N900 form factors, consistent across price points ranging from $50 to $600. It would have Nemo or Kubuntu on hence no licensing costs.
Dalvik is interpreted code. That's half your speed gone there.
It's that simple.
The phones are gorgeous. The OS is, at least on the surface, pretty good compared to iOS and Android.
What else could it be?
Yeah he forgot to mention "being in shops" and "developers porting the apps before anyone's bought the phone".
"4. The messaging integration. It's very cool that you can send text, facebook, and MSN messages using the native messaging app. If the rumors about Google+ and Skype messaging being integrated soon are true then that would make it that much more indispensable."
Don't all phones do that? N900 has had that plus Skype plus SIP for years. Trillian has had it for about a decade.
And yeah, Android is slowwwwwwwwwwwww. They don't tell you it's interpreted hence half the speed. But it sells hardware good XD
Presumably, you mean a usability pardigm...
... because the locked-down, taxed application, awesome marketing paradigms are kind of the opposite to the N9.
Nokia hardware is still the best. Their high-end phones look amazing, have superb build quality and features you just can't get anywhere else.
Look at the N900:
Slide out backlit keyboard.
800x480x65k touch sensitive transreflective screen with front-facing camera and light sensor.
Best speakers on any phone.
Full USB 2.0 port.
720p output to TV or monitor.
32gb internal Flash.
Fully programmable IR, Bluetooth and Wifi.
Battery life of 2-3 days.
And this was back in 2009.
N9 has NFC.
E7 and Lumias have Clear Black Display which nothing comes near.
They just need to give users the OS they want. How dumb is the board to not realise that?
So why is it being outsold by the N9 with 95% less marketing? The 710 has a faster processor than the N9's A8.
Then again, it wouldn't surprise me if Harmattan was just a lot more efficient than WP7.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3633/apples-a4-soc-faster-than-snapdragon
N9 is the best looking phone out there with the best looking OS. Of course it sells.
Maemo 5 works pretty well, more polished than anything except iOS and, of course, a lot better.
I haven't used Harmattan but apparently it's got a better interface than iOS without being dumbed/locked down.
That's probably why it's sold a million and a half phones in spite of Nokia's best attempts at killing it off.
Hope someone else bumps you.