I'm going to pull numbers out of my ass, so watch out, but you'll get the concept.
Let's suppose 1 out of 20 people who buy an AMD computer overclock (it's probably a lot, lot less than that). Now suppose that 95% of the "defective returns" show evidence of someone overclocking.
Now what are you going to do if you're AMD? Each return costs you the profits on, say, 50 sold chips. Simple and obvious: any chips that were obviously overclocked will have a voided warranty and will not be returned.
That's entirely reasonable.
If it were only that easy for The Gap to tell when women wore this or that outfit to a wedding or dance or something and then returned it.
1. Tatooine -- Yes, it was the home world of Darth, and hence Darth's brother Owen, and hence Luke could have been dropped off to be cared for by Owen by Obi-wan, who stuck around to watch over him, and whom Leia was going to see at the start of the original movie (remember that one?)
The only disgusting thing is that Vader killed his own brother in that same movie simply because Owen didn't know where the droids were. Of course, I doubt that plot point had been in the mind of George while conceiving of the original story line.
The only truly odd coincidence is that Lips ended up going there in the first place, to a planet that happened to have a child whose genetic propensity for the Force was exceedingly rare -- rare on a galactic scale! That such a child happened to be on any planet any one person (even a well-travelled queen) would visit during their lifetime is unlikely. That he was on that planet AND their paths happened to cross is unbelievable.
2. I find it hard to believe Darth invented the Goldenrod brand of protocol droid. More likely he assembled his own Goldenrod from parts of busted other Goldenrods. Don't know what the "official" cannon says of this, but the latter makes the creation much more likely. That he might be some super-AI-programmer at age 7 is not likely.
Of course, he is a super-engineer and natural pilot, all independent of the force and before even learning about The Force.
He's kind of the Paul Atreides of the Star Wars universe. The Kwizatz Haderach, being the first true male Bene Gesserit AND mentat AND well-trained prince AND desert fighter leader AND spice-taker all rolled into one.
Paul Atreides The Kwizats Haderach Usul (the small moon named for a mouse or something), also a power word for a weirding module Can never remember the 4th name Shoot me now
3PO was on that ship because Leia was on that ship. Yes, they were owned by the captain, but he was obviously intimately embedded with the rebels. The droids were obviously more rebel-owned than captain-owned, as evidenced by them obeying Leia's commands to go take the message to Obi-wan. For all we know, they were hanging with Leia all this time as she grew up on Alderaan and were transferred by "ownership" to the captain since Leia was hidden cargo, thus when interrogated they'd say they were owned by the captain and not Leia: queen of spades in the Galactic Empire's most wanted deck.
3. Who met for the first time in the original? Leia, Obi-wan, and Darth all mutually knew or knew of each other, to greater or lesser extent. (Leia a well-known leader of the rebels.) Everyone met Luke for the first time, although in the first movie it was obvious there was some bad blood between Owen and Obi-wan. If Chewbacca never meets Darth in #3, then we won't really have a problem at all (not that there were any scenes in the original 3 that hinted they did or did not know each other.)
As someone old enough to remember actually watching that, all I can remember about it is that it took place on Chewbacca's home planet, with houses in the trees just like would be later duplicated for the Ewoks.
I remember telling someone once, "You know, they wanted to use Chewbacca's home planet for Return of the Jedi, but they wanted a cute toy to sell, so they made Ewoks, which is kind of a pig-latin for Wookee.", and their jaw dropped to the floor. Seemed pretty obvious to me.
> We already know that Bill Gates is Darth Vader > and Microsoft is the Empire...and Linux is the capitalism-hating group of Rebels who wants to put their own king in place and restore the old monarchy.
> > It was contrived enough that he had Anakin make 3PO
I agree, but it seemed obvious that he didn't make him so much as repair him from a bunch of parts of other protocol droids. That, as a child, he "invented" the standard Goldenrod(TM) brand of protocol droid seen all over the place 60 years in the future is ludicrous.
Prior to, I think it was the '88 election, Jeff Greenfield on the nightly news made an editorial, saying something like:
You've been hearing a lot about get-out-the-vote lately. I'm here to say that if you don't really care about the issues, about who wins, stay home. Don't pollute the vote. If you aren't concerned enough about the issues for them to make any emotional difference for you, stay home.
It was a good argument and I've never forgotten it.
Actually, I worked for a year and a half on an "ESS QUE ELL" project before I found out it was also referred to as "Sequel". By that time I was schooling the dorks who I was working with and who had worked on it longer than I.
Be careful who you do and don't hire. Not everyone knows it's not pronounced "lihnux", either.
If you're a programmer on an interview, though, please learn that object oriented programming is not the same thing as and has nothing to do with object oriented design of a software (or other) project.
> Actually, if you picked up the sqaure cover and > oriented it vertically and spun it 45 degrees
If you accelerated the hole along its plane to near lightspeed, like 99.99999%, it would stretch along the diameter in that direction. A manhole cover shooting at it at about 75% of the speed of light in an orthogonal direction should be able to fit through, with minimal stretching itself, it would have ample time to slip thru the enlongated hole.
It's only in the relatively rare world around us that such "features" of "circles" hold true, luckily for the climbers.
Also, if it slides in off-center, it's natural tendency would be to tilt flat, whereas other shapes might tend to tilt vertically, giving the worker an even harder task of placing it.
Witness the rectangular cover dragged partly into place, then it tilts up almost vertically:
Frank: "Ok, Joe, now put your foot on the top and tilt it back down and hook it with your crow in the other hand and pull from that side up and back over."
Joe: "Ok, I got 'er now. Ok, here it ooOOOPS AAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaa.........."
splash
Frank: "Joe! You ok down there? Wait here a minute while I...WATCH OUT! COVER COMIN' DOWN!"
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From Chewie's "ad": twink in search of a bear.
Now that's scary!
> Lucas may be lame, but he's not quite that lame.
Jarjarjarjarjarjarjarjarjarjarjarjar
Look at it from AMD's point of view.
I'm going to pull numbers out of my ass, so watch out, but you'll get the concept.
Let's suppose 1 out of 20 people who buy an AMD computer overclock (it's probably a lot, lot less than that). Now suppose that 95% of the "defective returns" show evidence of someone overclocking.
Now what are you going to do if you're AMD? Each return costs you the profits on, say, 50 sold chips. Simple and obvious: any chips that were obviously overclocked will have a voided warranty and will not be returned.
That's entirely reasonable.
If it were only that easy for The Gap to tell when women wore this or that outfit to a wedding or dance or something and then returned it.
Hehe, jump the shark.
At least they haven't all moved to southern California.
1. Tatooine -- Yes, it was the home world of Darth, and hence Darth's brother Owen, and hence Luke could have been dropped off to be cared for by Owen by Obi-wan, who stuck around to watch over him, and whom Leia was going to see at the start of the original movie (remember that one?)
The only disgusting thing is that Vader killed his own brother in that same movie simply because Owen didn't know where the droids were. Of course, I doubt that plot point had been in the mind of George while conceiving of the original story line.
The only truly odd coincidence is that Lips ended up going there in the first place, to a planet that happened to have a child whose genetic propensity for the Force was exceedingly rare -- rare on a galactic scale! That such a child happened to be on any planet any one person (even a well-travelled queen) would visit during their lifetime is unlikely. That he was on that planet AND their paths happened to cross is unbelievable.
2. I find it hard to believe Darth invented the Goldenrod brand of protocol droid. More likely he assembled his own Goldenrod from parts of busted other Goldenrods. Don't know what the "official" cannon says of this, but the latter makes the creation much more likely. That he might be some super-AI-programmer at age 7 is not likely.
Of course, he is a super-engineer and natural pilot, all independent of the force and before even learning about The Force.
He's kind of the Paul Atreides of the Star Wars universe. The Kwizatz Haderach, being the first true male Bene Gesserit AND mentat AND well-trained prince AND desert fighter leader AND spice-taker all rolled into one.
Paul Atreides
The Kwizats Haderach
Usul (the small moon named for a mouse or something), also a power word for a weirding module
Can never remember the 4th name
Shoot me now
3PO was on that ship because Leia was on that ship. Yes, they were owned by the captain, but he was obviously intimately embedded with the rebels. The droids were obviously more rebel-owned than captain-owned, as evidenced by them obeying Leia's commands to go take the message to Obi-wan. For all we know, they were hanging with Leia all this time as she grew up on Alderaan and were transferred by "ownership" to the captain since Leia was hidden cargo, thus when interrogated they'd say they were owned by the captain and not Leia: queen of spades in the Galactic Empire's most wanted deck.
3. Who met for the first time in the original? Leia, Obi-wan, and Darth all mutually knew or knew of each other, to greater or lesser extent. (Leia a well-known leader of the rebels.) Everyone met Luke for the first time, although in the first movie it was obvious there was some bad blood between Owen and Obi-wan. If Chewbacca never meets Darth in #3, then we won't really have a problem at all (not that there were any scenes in the original 3 that hinted they did or did not know each other.)
Obviously not, since someone with an IQ well into the triple digets decided it was a Troll instead of a witty retort to a neanderthalistic posting.
As someone old enough to remember actually watching that, all I can remember about it is that it took place on Chewbacca's home planet, with houses in the trees just like would be later duplicated for the Ewoks.
I remember telling someone once, "You know, they wanted to use Chewbacca's home planet for Return of the Jedi, but they wanted a cute toy to sell, so they made Ewoks, which is kind of a pig-latin for Wookee.", and their jaw dropped to the floor. Seemed pretty obvious to me.
I hear the Ferenghi, Q, and the Borg are going to make an appearance, too, completely spoiling the previous continuity.
> We already know that Bill Gates is Darth Vader ...and Linux is the capitalism-hating group of Rebels who wants to put their own king in place and restore the old monarchy.
> and Microsoft is the Empire
> > It was contrived enough that he had Anakin make 3PO
I agree, but it seemed obvious that he didn't make him so much as repair him from a bunch of parts of other protocol droids. That, as a child, he "invented" the standard Goldenrod(TM) brand of protocol droid seen all over the place 60 years in the future is ludicrous.
Oh, I don't know. Lips' belly button was almost worth it.
And Yoda's 30 seconds was almost worth it too.
One guy writes a cornball song about Chewbacca and he's some great, beloved character? He's an irritant.
"Chewbacca returns" is scarcely more interesting than "Wedge makes an appearance!"
Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders: ...and I'm glad of it!
Nerd: We're not allowed to hear spoilers here.
Triumph: Who wants to hear a spoiler? Here's a spoiler: You will die alone.
Prior to, I think it was the '88 election, Jeff Greenfield on the nightly news made an editorial, saying something like:
You've been hearing a lot about get-out-the-vote lately. I'm here to say that if you don't really care about the issues, about who wins, stay home. Don't pollute the vote. If you aren't concerned enough about the issues for them to make any emotional difference for you, stay home.
It was a good argument and I've never forgotten it.
> You're still not thinking in 3 dimensions
"He shows intelligence, but is thinking in two dimensions."
Hint: upright the triangle on the ground. You've probably set it along an edge and not on a point. How high is it?
> Just make up a number like 25,563,813 (what?
> You don't beleive that number is correct, prove
> me wrong).
Actually, the number is 25, 563, 812. Don't believe it? Do so at your own risk.
Actually, I worked for a year and a half on an "ESS QUE ELL" project before I found out it was also referred to as "Sequel". By that time I was schooling the dorks who I was working with and who had worked on it longer than I.
Be careful who you do and don't hire. Not everyone knows it's not pronounced "lihnux", either.
If you're a programmer on an interview, though, please learn that object oriented programming is not the same thing as and has nothing to do with object oriented design of a software (or other) project.
That's a rough ballpark to what I got when I thought about it for around 12 seconds.
My reasoning:
A certain number of miles of interstate, 2 or so per intersection, multiply up by similar argument for normal roads in cities, etc. etc.
> Actually, if you picked up the sqaure cover and
> oriented it vertically and spun it 45 degrees
If you accelerated the hole along its plane to near lightspeed, like 99.99999%, it would stretch along the diameter in that direction. A manhole cover shooting at it at about 75% of the speed of light in an orthogonal direction should be able to fit through, with minimal stretching itself, it would have ample time to slip thru the enlongated hole.
It's only in the relatively rare world around us that such "features" of "circles" hold true, luckily for the climbers.
> if you can find me a link that describes and/or
> depicts these (non-circular) shapes (that can't
> fall thru their own hole) (digs his own grave)
Hint: Nobody said they had to be regular polygons, or even concave polygons, or even have any flat sides at all.
NO MICROSOFT JOB FOR YOU!
Umm, "This is not a pipe", sorry, don't know Frenchy.
Only on the Island of Misfit Manhole Covers.
> Equilateral triangles...don't fall in.
They do. Hint: Cut out an equilateral triangle. Set it upright on your desk. How high is it?
Also, if it slides in off-center, it's natural tendency would be to tilt flat, whereas other shapes might tend to tilt vertically, giving the worker an even harder task of placing it.
Witness the rectangular cover dragged partly into place, then it tilts up almost vertically:
Frank: "Ok, Joe, now put your foot on the top and tilt it back down and hook it with your crow in the other hand and pull from that side up and back over."
Joe: "Ok, I got 'er now. Ok, here it ooOOOPS AAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaa.........."
splash
Frank: "Joe! You ok down there? Wait here a minute while I...WATCH OUT! COVER COMIN' DOWN!"
Yeah, lovely.