The part of Jar-Jar was smply because he *knows* everyone thinks he's a goof, he admitted to being banished for clumsiness' so he *wants* to do something right and help everyone out and Palpetine manipulates that.
Jar-Jar's "innocent eagerness to help" due to his relationship to the other characters, mostly established by his own ineptness, makes Palpetine's usage of him in the betrayal all the more poignant
I'm not sure if I agree. Basketball has lots of stats as well. So does football, and tennis has gotten pretty cool with the overlay plots of serves and points won.
Baseball plays 162 games a year (and has been around over a 100 years) which gets the stats up into areas that you can start really treating..well..statistically. There's enough sample data to do analysis at levels not possible in other sports
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The expansion of the number of teams to thin out hitting talent.
I keep hearing expansion being used to explain why there are more homeruns and less complete games due to thinning pitching talent
From 1900-1960, there were four; since then, there have been 11. Michael Coffey attributes the increase to:
And Nolan Ryan got seven of those eleven, so I don't think it really says anything
But all this does is push the problem one level higher.
One advantage to doing it that way is that by pushing it higher you push it earlier in the process, were it will be cheaper and easier to fix...and hopefully more obvious as well
and then someone will develop a mod to get past the commercials...
I have so many mixed feelings. Back in the mid 90s, I told some co-workers of mine about my idea of 'corporate sponsership for code'..little messages that would pop up "This software sponsered by Nike" or something. Years, later, the stupid idea actually works in "Adware" and part of my feels stupid for not patening it or something and patr of me feels guilty wondering if I unleashed it somehow
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"Smalltalk" ? :)
But I suppose that if MS could sue over "Windows" then someone could sue MS?
Wouldn't Elmer Fudd pronounce "Lindows" as "Windows"??
"Europeans think 100 miles is a long distance
Americans think 100 years is a long time"
We are the pirates...who don't do anything...
just money...somehow...
The part of Jar-Jar was smply because he *knows* everyone thinks he's a goof, he admitted to being banished for clumsiness' so he *wants* to do something right and help everyone out and Palpetine manipulates that.
Jar-Jar's "innocent eagerness to help" due to his relationship to the other characters, mostly established by his own ineptness, makes Palpetine's usage of him in the betrayal all the more poignant
Star Wars *became* a phenomenon *after* it was released, but nobody was really getting all that excited about it before the release.
Ooops, sorry, misread.
I'm not sure how anyone can regulate the content of spam until hey figure out how to prevent the transmission of it in the first place
Maybe "Empire" but not "Star Wars"
IIRC, Lucas was even hiding on some island when the movie was released for fear it would bomb.
My children, who love the prequels, would disagree
My kids have the same reaction to PM and AotC as I did to the first Star Wars so I tend to give Lucas the benefit of having done something right
I'm not sure if I agree. Basketball has lots of stats as well. So does football, and tennis has gotten pretty cool with the overlay plots of serves and points won.
Baseball plays 162 games a year (and has been around over a 100 years) which gets the stats up into areas that you can start really treating..well..statistically. There's enough sample data to do analysis at levels not possible in other sports
The expansion of the number of teams to thin out hitting talent.
I keep hearing expansion being used to explain why there are more homeruns and less complete games due to thinning pitching talent
From 1900-1960, there were four; since then, there have been 11. Michael Coffey attributes the increase to:
And Nolan Ryan got seven of those eleven, so I don't think it really says anything
Although there's probably some bizarre way a batter could be out without getting a pitch.
I'm there this year. Just a small Roto league n yahoo but man can it be addictive...and time consuming..pouring over stats to get an edge
Or more like Eiffel with pre and post conditions, etc...
or a ot of other languages with data validation written at the begging and ending of each method
But all this does is push the problem one level higher.
One advantage to doing it that way is that by pushing it higher you push it earlier in the process, were it will be cheaper and easier to fix...and hopefully more obvious as well
"Skeet Surfing" from "Top Secret" would probably be appropriate
Didn't help that the original post said "27 year old lady"
Not really a bad idea, actually
and then someone will develop a mod to get past the commercials...
I have so many mixed feelings. Back in the mid 90s, I told some co-workers of mine about my idea of 'corporate sponsership for code'..little messages that would pop up "This software sponsered by Nike" or something. Years, later, the stupid idea actually works in "Adware" and part of my feels stupid for not patening it or something and patr of me feels guilty wondering if I unleashed it somehow
Now why can I see Tim Thomerson as "Jack Deth" in a video game?
Even more scary would be a Sims movie which if it is half as boring as the game it should make a ton of money.
"The Day After Tomorrow"??
It would be the biggest waste of money since I paid my taxes in April.
At least *they* realized it in time