Think about what would happen if AT&T, Verizon and South Central Bell all went bankrupt at once. Think about the stock market. Think about the mutual funds which presently hold telecom stock and all the pension funds and non-profit endowments that are currently invested in them. Think about trying to get a job in the tech sector when you're competing with all the unemployed telecom workers. Think about broadband deployment in unserved areas for sure.
I'm sure they'll all continue to operate perfectly well indefinitely, under receivership.
Then you're in a rare position to do something about this. Using the formula now:
Get hired by MAFIAA to look for teh evil pie-rates
Hand over a list of the IP addresses of a bunch of US Senators, Representatives, MAFIAA member companies' executives, other very rich and/or powerful people
??? *
Profit! Er, Justice!
* stands for "MAFIAA gets massively ass-reamed from 354 directions at once"
A user wanted to use a camera with our software, but said it wasn't showing up as an option. I asked her if the camera was plugged in; she said no, but said "that shouldn't matter"...
Possibly thought you meant "plugged in" in the same sense that her lamp is "plugged in" -- to a power outlet?
You joke, but pretty much anyone who has ever done usability testing on modern computer systems has run into difficulty with right and left mouse buttons. It is the single, number one, most common usability problem.
Should be "indication that people, in general, are stupid".
Honestly, what?? Isn't this the kind of thing your friend shows you in the first minute after you start "driving"?
You don't need to know the exact capillary constriction/dilation response curve under all types of trauma to know that it's probably best not to whack yourself in the head with an axe handle.
The mini-storage facility I rent from is still using an Apple II (er, sorry, "Apple ][") for all its info-tech needs, plainly visible from the counter. I get letters from them every now and then, and they're always in 9-pin dot matrix on tractor paper. Bless their retro hearts!
a light English accent fits very well in all kinds of situations without drawing attention to any specific time period or place
You do realize that "fits" here implies a judgment call? And that your judgment is not a universal absolute?
It wasn't supposed to be a comedy, and didn't really need comic relief.
Comedies don't need comic relief. Duh. Dramas, on the other hand...
Obviously they aren't simply made of light. I don't know if you noticed but uncontrolled photons don't tend to stand still for very long.
Without getting into a giant geek-fight over fictional technology, let's just say you're imposing several assumtions on these things. And that they're called *light* *sabers*.
People expect a certain kind of movement from a sword, not least because of how the original movies were shot with the actors holding something with actual weight.
You are asserting that the actors were holding just a handle for those fights? That would be a far more impressive bit of acting.
he represented the same sort of calm, peaceful character as the others
You may be confusing aged wisdom with Jedihood.
I was trying to be nice.
You were doing no such thing. You were jumping on the "George Lucas is an idiot and I'm a hundred times smarter" bandwagon. Don't get mad at me just because I happened to be the one to call you on it.
And as for the tone of my post, it was indeed intended to be acerbic.
Nobody has to ask how Merlin's magic or Gandalf's magic works. It's magic, fercryinoutloud! Similarly, there's no need to explain how the Force works. It's the Force fercryinoutloud!
GL wanted to cast an actor with a used-car-salesman slick-talking "Brooklyn accent" as the voice of C-3PO, instead of the smooth English accent of Anthony Daniels. Just think about how awful that movie would have been if such a recognizable modern-day accent were thrust into every other scene
Right, because the English died out centuries ago.
characters saying completely idiot non-fitting dialog like the modern-day-talking announcer at the pod race who says, "Ooooh, that had to hurt!" and the robot captain who looks confused and says, "Does not compute!"
The concept is called "comedy relief". Without it, you have a monotone film.
people waving lightsabers around with no sense of weight or momentum
Exactly how much does a blade made of light weigh?
completely going against the calm, self-assured presence created by Alec Guinness and other Jedi masters from the original trilogy
"Masters"? I think you mean "master". The only other one was Yoda. A sample size of two makes for pretty poor predictive value.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it, as many others have. But it was quite awful
Translation: "I'm better than all of you because I consider something you liked not good enough for me."
Oh well, so much for something being an indicator instead of a cause. Yeah, midichlorians were definitely the jump the shark moment.
I don't understand this attitude. Why is it better for a science fiction movie to rely on fantasy elements than fictional science? You would prefer that there were simply magic in the Star Wars universe than to find out scientific principles were at work?
Right, so Yahoo are bad for grassing up the online activities of a Chinese dissident to their government, but AT&T are good for spying on Americans for their government.
It may interest you to know that there are differing factions within the US. On of those factions condemn both Yahoo! and AT&T.
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- Get hired by MAFIAA to look for teh evil pie-rates
- Hand over a list of the IP addresses of a bunch of US Senators, Representatives, MAFIAA member companies' executives, other very rich and/or powerful people
- ??? *
- Profit! Er, Justice!
* stands for "MAFIAA gets massively ass-reamed from 354 directions at once"Honestly, what?? Isn't this the kind of thing your friend shows you in the first minute after you start "driving"?
Helps to have some context. "Trying different things" was originally followed by "Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?"
Is that you, Mel?
The mini-storage facility I rent from is still using an Apple II (er, sorry, "Apple ][") for all its info-tech needs, plainly visible from the counter. I get letters from them every now and then, and they're always in 9-pin dot matrix on tractor paper. Bless their retro hearts!
Chinese? It sure is! Japanese, to be specific.
Unmanned air traffic control.
All quietly plotting the slow, horrible death of the grandparent poster, no doubt.
That we all institute a moratorium on saying that such-and-such drops, with the intent to mean debuts?
For some people, confirmation bias is a way of life.
And as for the tone of my post, it was indeed intended to be acerbic.
Works pretty well as a "get me to this page I was at the other day but can't remember the URL of, but can remember a few prominent words from" button.
The hell??
Because SAG rules say you get a higher scale when your face is shown onscreen than when it isn't?
You'll have to forgive our desperate, gun-shy search for an alternative to paper ballots; you see, back in 2000, we had this problem with them, and, well, we wound up kinda screwed...
P.S. "Grassing up"??
Or, possibly, wrong parent.
No, no, no. This already is a Beowulf cluster. Of 74-series ICs.