I've seen this a lot over the years, but I thought it was actually a reincarnation of much earlier (pre-linux, maybe old mainframe era?) code with the possible explanation being that at that time it was originally written printers catching fire was a much more common threat than it is today.
Technology isn't the answer to everything. Why not just take your important stuff, or good copies of said stuff, and put it in a safe deposit box? Then you just have to take your key with you when you run out of your house. And even if you lose your key, they can drill it open for a (hefty) fee.
Really, why make it so complex by trying to put everything on USB drive and trying to figure out what encryption's best and scanning everything and...and...and... It's a waste of time.
I'm all for a list of useful open source apps, but a lot of this article seems like silly filler to me. Who really is so bent on being different that they feel the need to delete ftp.exe and notepad.exe and "uninstall" wordpad? I would've been much happier to see a list of good programs laid out categorically with some bulleted Good Features.
But then they wouldn't be able to make you click through 10 pages of advertising, and they'd miss out on those godawful ad links...
Only benefit I can see is that USB could power some of the items (like the iPod) while a line-in couldn't. But seeing as how most people don't usually take too many 8+ hour car trips, I can't see the benefit of USB over line-in.
And for the people complaining about Digital-to-Analog quality and a hiss sound...give me a break, it's in a car. If you can silence the road/wind noise completely, then you can claim hiss on your car stereo is an issue.
Could we, just for a few days, lay off all this racism bullshit? You can't say that the number of criminals running amok is just in the double digits, you have no evidence to back that up. There are still tens(hundreds?) of thousands of people stuck in that city, and obviously there are enough of them causing trouble for people to offer firsthand accounts of a "war zone." Carjackings. Breaking into houses. Stealing jewelry and TV's. And, for god's sake, shooting at rescue workers and police trying to save them.
It doesn't have a GOD DAMN thing to do with black vs. white. Nost of the population of New Orleans is/was black, so it's only natural that most of the criminals are black. But on the other hand, that makes most of the police and public officials black as well.
So let this bullshit go and concentrate instead on offering support in whatever way you can towards the refugees, the survivors, and the rescuers. Once things calm down, hop back up on your "Fight The Oppressive White Man" bandwagon, but for now, just let it go.
The invention generally relates to the field of electronic document processing and, more specifically, to the field of visually emphasizing numerical data contained within an electronic document.
Go the theatre on any given night and look at the hordes of teenagers. Then remember (in the US at least) what a huge and growing portion of the population Senior Citizens are. I'm only 26, and I can't stand watching a movie with boatloads of kids, and I imagine that feeling will just get stronger as I get older.
Add to that the incredible price of a ticket, and the incredible lousiness of most new films, and I think the situation gets much clearer.
I was thinking something similar, but not at all humorously. I post things in my blog that are of some importance to me, and that I think my friends may find interesting. I recommend a website or a book. I show off some pics I took in the mountains. I post a few odds and ends about my daily life so that friends and family can keep up with anything interesting in my day to day life...if they want to. If they want to call me up or have dinner instead of reading the blog they're free to do so. Likewise, you don't have to read about my personal thoughts and views if you don't want to. And honestly, I'd prefer a lot of people DIDN'T read my blog, because it's going to be a waste of time for people who don't know me. In the event I really have some important message to get out to The People, I can rely on my friends to get the ball rolling, but I haven't had much to say to The People yet and I doubt I will.
So the entire world can go elsewhere and ignore my blog completely and we'll all be very happy without me having to "leave the internet" and without you having to ever see what I jot down.
I was going to say "Anyone who suggests that a company like GM is worth anything just isn't thinking correctly" but it looks like some others have pointed that out, although in a less smartass fashion.
Aww hell, I said it anyway.
(Remember kids, Japanese cars are made in the USA too.)
The reason I'm not going to buy one...and I was this close *holds fingers very close together*...is that they are effectively obsolete. They've already told us that they're going to switch to an entirely different architecture. And I don't care what they promise about running old PPC code on new Intel chips, it's never ever that smooth. The last thing I want to do is buy a big beefy dual G5 now, and in 2 years not be able to run new programs. Maybe I'm being overly cynical, but who can say that won't be the case?
However, I think this may spur the sales of the mac minis, as it seems an effective and cheap stopgap while everyone waits for the new Intel machines to start sprouting.
I'm not saying good installers don't exist in linux, it just drives me nuts when people say, "Linux is better because all I have to do is type emerge -xyz blahblah.blah.blah instead of all the crap I have to do in Windows." I think portage absolutely rocks, but not for most people.
But even with good installers there's a problem. As you say, one could use Mandrake Control Centor or Yast or Whatever. But that's different for every distribution. Someone can learn one way easily enough, but then they have to switch for some reason and suddenly it's just different enough to be frustrating.
I realize that the heart and soul of linux is and has been the ability to get exactly what you want, but in order to make linux "ready for the desktop" some things need to be standardized. And a standard way of distributing software, whatever distribution you choose, would go a long way towards making linux everybody friendly. Naturally, experts will continue to buck the trend by using whatever tool they deem most useful or powerful, but Average User just wants to point and click, the same way, every time.
I was going to let the first example go, but here's a second one so I feel I have to mention. Let's consider the install process of SoftwareAppA on Windows. Go to softwareco.com, click download, save to . Finish download, click Setup.exe, click a few things, wait, done.
Now, on Linux we need to do something like "emerge -a 'less world'". Or "urpmi oppenoffice".
Now, for me, you and Linus, the linux version is simpler, smoother, easier. But for the other 90% of computer users, what seems easier? There's a lot of talk about how linux is "almost ready for the desktop" but there are simple things like this that are utterly unintuitive. Going to a website, downloading a file called Setup, and double-clicking on it is fairly straightforward. Esoteric commands are decidedly NOT. If you go to a website and you're not sure what you're looking for, it's all laid out so you can probably find it. If you forget the parameters for the switches for the emerge command, you've got to go look them up. And then you have to type out the package name(s) correctly. Any mistypes and it just doesn't work.
So until Linux gets to the point where the average person can just download a file, and just click to install, it's far from "ready for the desktop." To say that emerge -a 'less world' is easier than doubleclicking a setup file is a poor argument.
When you can rent the DVD of an entire season for $5, I can't see paying $5 per episode. Just my opinion, as I usually only need to watch a movie or tv show once.
It was nice to see your last point. I had to re-read it to make sure it wasn't my imagination. So many people (many of them "experts") say, "Don't put your interests and hobbies on your resume. If they don't concern the job, I don't care!" It seems to me that the interviews I've gone into have been more interesting, and have helped the interviewers know me better because they comment on my 2-line "Interests" section prompting some pleasant anecdote, or reinforcing something we've already talked about.
I think it helps me seem more human, and NOT just a guy who can spit out random facts about IIS or database administration. It's good to see that someone actually agrees with me for a change.
I work on computers in prisons. I think the worst experience I had was in a prison in New Jersey. I was supposed to fly home and not even go to this prison, but they needed me to install computers there ASAP (long story, not worth telling). So I've been away from home (st. Louis) 8 days already, now I have to spend two more in this prison and I have to get the job at least mostly done. I've prepared for the extra days by washing socks and underwear in the hotel sink.
So the first day I'm there, I get there around 7:00 am. Breakfast is a vending machine donut. Mmm. Then it's down to the actual prison, with inmates wandering about. I have to install a rackmount server without a rack. It sits up on a high shelf, monitor, keyboard, etc. So once it's up there and I need to configure it, I have to stand on a stool and still reach. I also have to wheel around a cart with 6 other computers on it and install them in various nooks and crannies around the jail. For those of you who have never been in a jail, they are smelly, dirty, cold, dimly lit, and badly wired. So I finally get all these machines in and configured to see the server. It's maybe noon by now. So back we go to the server, which needs some adjustments, and then I have to work on the client machines in the office next to the server. A relatively pleasant place to be BUT...the cafeteria is right down the hall. And it's being renovated. The only way to renovate concrete is to use a freakin' jack hammer. So that's going on all day long.
I've skipped lunch by this point, hoping to get out and get dinner at a reasonable time. At this point, I have to configure our software, which requires a lot of accounting knowledge and asking the customer what sorts of accounts and transactions he needs. This takes a good long time, yelling over the jackhammer and with a pounding headache. Once that is set up, i have to hand key in the data from their old system, because the vendor of the old system refuses to provide any sort of electronic export of data. Even a comma seperated text file would work. But they won't do it. They claim they can't. So in all this data goes. By 6:00 or so the jack hammer has stopped, but I will still be there for 3 more hours before I'm done. So much for timely dinner.
At the end of it all, I do get dinner, too tired to have a beer though. Back to the hotel with the knowledge that I have another day of this ahead.
We've got a '78 Dodge Van...gas tank recently fell off, but it didn't cost too much to put it back on. The thing gets used about twice a year for hauling lumber.
If your dot matrix ribbon runs out, just find some 4-part forms and take off the top page.:)
Am I the only one who would put something solid behind the transparent screen so I wasn't distracted by the stuff behind it? People walking around back there, maybe the dog running through my documents...it'd tick me off pretty quick.
Origin's Ultima games have had an incredible effect on me over the years. I feel like I actually know all the characters in the games and that maybe, just maybe, I should be living in Britannia (from somewhere between Ultima IV and Ultima VII, I rather like the more civilized Britannian days over the violent wars and seperation of Sosaria). I just haven't found the moongate yet.
It was a sad day when EA took over Origin and destroyed the end of such an incredible line of games. Ultima VIII was sloppy and Ultima IX was painful. Both are decent games, but rather than an incredible moving ending to the 20 year series, it left a bad taste in almost everyone's mouth. And to know that Origin, with Lord British at the helm, will never be able to recreate what should have been nearly brings a tear to my eye.
But I have hope that LB will one day rise again with a new line of games of such richness and realism that I can take my fond memories of Ultima and merge with new experiences in another fantastic world.
In Missouri, we have a pretty effective no call list. We (the state) have made quite a bit of $$ of various telemarketers, including Miss Cleo (did you know she's not really Jamaican!?!?). And I've only gotten telemarking calls from the phone companies (naturally, there are still loopholes for them). If it's implemented right, a state-sponsored list goes a long way.
I read an interesting article in National Geographic some time back about the inflated cost of diamonds and how that really might be something of a myth. According to the article there have been quite a few independent diamond sellers popping up in the last few years and at times have caused some problems for DeBeers to the point where DeBeers actually experienced a brief diamond shortage as they had to drop their prices to compete. By raising their prices back up some they manage to keep supply and demand in line.
Now maybe people saw this as prices dropping from their "normal" levels and ran out to get a deal on a diamond, when in fact prices were dropping to a normal level.
Whether it's based on artificially high "normal" diamond prices or not, there is some market controlled pricing.
And one more little side note, as far as the real value of diamonds, huge diamond mines pull very few large usable stones out of the ground. Most diamonds, when cut and polished, are pretty small (maybe.25 carat or smaller, I don't remember exactly). Finding a chunk of rock that can produce a big (greater than 1 carat) diamond is pretty rare. In my case, my wife has small hands and didn't want a huge rock to drag around so a nice.5 carat diamond was perfect (and didn't cost the outrageous 2-3 months salary men are "supposed to spend" on engagement rings).
My plan is to rent both versions and decide which one I prefer to own. The wife is worried that the extra footage won't be up to snuff and will make the extend-o version lower quality all around. I'm hoping that it will add more depth and detail.
So I guess they suck a few extra bucks out of me, but I'm sure as hell not buying two copies of the same freakin' movie.
If you watch the director's commentary on the Vanilla Sky DVD you'll find that they only cleared out Time Square, and it was only for a few hours on a Sunday morning. Still quite a feet, but nothing like shutting down the whole city.
For most the other NY scenes, they just drove around filming and enjoying the looks on people's faces when they realized that, yes, Tom Cruise just drove by in a mustang.
I've got nothing in particular against Mr. Katz, but the only reason I read this story was because the paragraph on the front page was utterly meaningless. I couldn't figure out if it was a good star wars bit or a bad one...and who knew it had anything to do with spiderman?
As far as the rest is concerned, what should be clear to even the most casual observer is that Attack of the Clones was mediocre, and Spider Man (while I haven't seen it personally) is apparently very good. It only makes sens that a good movie will make more money than a mediocre one that is simply riding on the coat tails of past success.
You can go on all you want about love stories and heroes and whatnot, but I think if Attack of the Clones had good acting and a better script it could've been a much better film, even with a similar plot.
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I've seen this a lot over the years, but I thought it was actually a reincarnation of much earlier (pre-linux, maybe old mainframe era?) code with the possible explanation being that at that time it was originally written printers catching fire was a much more common threat than it is today.
:)
But...I could be wrong.
Technology isn't the answer to everything. Why not just take your important stuff, or good copies of said stuff, and put it in a safe deposit box? Then you just have to take your key with you when you run out of your house. And even if you lose your key, they can drill it open for a (hefty) fee.
Really, why make it so complex by trying to put everything on USB drive and trying to figure out what encryption's best and scanning everything and...and...and... It's a waste of time.
I'm all for a list of useful open source apps, but a lot of this article seems like silly filler to me. Who really is so bent on being different that they feel the need to delete ftp.exe and notepad.exe and "uninstall" wordpad? I would've been much happier to see a list of good programs laid out categorically with some bulleted Good Features.
But then they wouldn't be able to make you click through 10 pages of advertising, and they'd miss out on those godawful ad links...
*grumble*
Only benefit I can see is that USB could power some of the items (like the iPod) while a line-in couldn't. But seeing as how most people don't usually take too many 8+ hour car trips, I can't see the benefit of USB over line-in.
And for the people complaining about Digital-to-Analog quality and a hiss sound...give me a break, it's in a car. If you can silence the road/wind noise completely, then you can claim hiss on your car stereo is an issue.
Could we, just for a few days, lay off all this racism bullshit? You can't say that the number of criminals running amok is just in the double digits, you have no evidence to back that up. There are still tens(hundreds?) of thousands of people stuck in that city, and obviously there are enough of them causing trouble for people to offer firsthand accounts of a "war zone." Carjackings. Breaking into houses. Stealing jewelry and TV's. And, for god's sake, shooting at rescue workers and police trying to save them.
It doesn't have a GOD DAMN thing to do with black vs. white. Nost of the population of New Orleans is/was black, so it's only natural that most of the criminals are black. But on the other hand, that makes most of the police and public officials black as well.
So let this bullshit go and concentrate instead on offering support in whatever way you can towards the refugees, the survivors, and the rescuers. Once things calm down, hop back up on your "Fight The Oppressive White Man" bandwagon, but for now, just let it go.
The invention generally relates to the field of electronic document processing and, more specifically, to the field of visually emphasizing numerical data contained within an electronic document.
I'm clearly in the wrong field.
Go the theatre on any given night and look at the hordes of teenagers. Then remember (in the US at least) what a huge and growing portion of the population Senior Citizens are. I'm only 26, and I can't stand watching a movie with boatloads of kids, and I imagine that feeling will just get stronger as I get older.
Add to that the incredible price of a ticket, and the incredible lousiness of most new films, and I think the situation gets much clearer.
I was thinking something similar, but not at all humorously. I post things in my blog that are of some importance to me, and that I think my friends may find interesting. I recommend a website or a book. I show off some pics I took in the mountains. I post a few odds and ends about my daily life so that friends and family can keep up with anything interesting in my day to day life...if they want to. If they want to call me up or have dinner instead of reading the blog they're free to do so. Likewise, you don't have to read about my personal thoughts and views if you don't want to. And honestly, I'd prefer a lot of people DIDN'T read my blog, because it's going to be a waste of time for people who don't know me. In the event I really have some important message to get out to The People, I can rely on my friends to get the ball rolling, but I haven't had much to say to The People yet and I doubt I will.
So the entire world can go elsewhere and ignore my blog completely and we'll all be very happy without me having to "leave the internet" and without you having to ever see what I jot down.
I was going to say "Anyone who suggests that a company like GM is worth anything just isn't thinking correctly" but it looks like some others have pointed that out, although in a less smartass fashion.
Aww hell, I said it anyway.
(Remember kids, Japanese cars are made in the USA too.)
The reason I'm not going to buy one...and I was this close *holds fingers very close together*...is that they are effectively obsolete. They've already told us that they're going to switch to an entirely different architecture. And I don't care what they promise about running old PPC code on new Intel chips, it's never ever that smooth. The last thing I want to do is buy a big beefy dual G5 now, and in 2 years not be able to run new programs. Maybe I'm being overly cynical, but who can say that won't be the case?
However, I think this may spur the sales of the mac minis, as it seems an effective and cheap stopgap while everyone waits for the new Intel machines to start sprouting.
I'm not saying good installers don't exist in linux, it just drives me nuts when people say, "Linux is better because all I have to do is type emerge -xyz blahblah.blah.blah instead of all the crap I have to do in Windows." I think portage absolutely rocks, but not for most people.
But even with good installers there's a problem. As you say, one could use Mandrake Control Centor or Yast or Whatever. But that's different for every distribution. Someone can learn one way easily enough, but then they have to switch for some reason and suddenly it's just different enough to be frustrating.
I realize that the heart and soul of linux is and has been the ability to get exactly what you want, but in order to make linux "ready for the desktop" some things need to be standardized. And a standard way of distributing software, whatever distribution you choose, would go a long way towards making linux everybody friendly. Naturally, experts will continue to buck the trend by using whatever tool they deem most useful or powerful, but Average User just wants to point and click, the same way, every time.
I was going to let the first example go, but here's a second one so I feel I have to mention. Let's consider the install process of SoftwareAppA on Windows. Go to softwareco.com, click download, save to . Finish download, click Setup.exe, click a few things, wait, done.
Now, on Linux we need to do something like "emerge -a 'less world'". Or "urpmi oppenoffice".
Now, for me, you and Linus, the linux version is simpler, smoother, easier. But for the other 90% of computer users, what seems easier? There's a lot of talk about how linux is "almost ready for the desktop" but there are simple things like this that are utterly unintuitive. Going to a website, downloading a file called Setup, and double-clicking on it is fairly straightforward. Esoteric commands are decidedly NOT. If you go to a website and you're not sure what you're looking for, it's all laid out so you can probably find it. If you forget the parameters for the switches for the emerge command, you've got to go look them up. And then you have to type out the package name(s) correctly. Any mistypes and it just doesn't work.
So until Linux gets to the point where the average person can just download a file, and just click to install, it's far from "ready for the desktop." To say that emerge -a 'less world' is easier than doubleclicking a setup file is a poor argument.
When you can rent the DVD of an entire season for $5, I can't see paying $5 per episode. Just my opinion, as I usually only need to watch a movie or tv show once.
They posted it twice to make up for the 50,000 year delay, give 'em a break.
It was nice to see your last point. I had to re-read it to make sure it wasn't my imagination. So many people (many of them "experts") say, "Don't put your interests and hobbies on your resume. If they don't concern the job, I don't care!" It seems to me that the interviews I've gone into have been more interesting, and have helped the interviewers know me better because they comment on my 2-line "Interests" section prompting some pleasant anecdote, or reinforcing something we've already talked about.
I think it helps me seem more human, and NOT just a guy who can spit out random facts about IIS or database administration. It's good to see that someone actually agrees with me for a change.
-LD
I work on computers in prisons. I think the worst experience I had was in a prison in New Jersey. I was supposed to fly home and not even go to this prison, but they needed me to install computers there ASAP (long story, not worth telling). So I've been away from home (st. Louis) 8 days already, now I have to spend two more in this prison and I have to get the job at least mostly done. I've prepared for the extra days by washing socks and underwear in the hotel sink.
So the first day I'm there, I get there around 7:00 am. Breakfast is a vending machine donut. Mmm. Then it's down to the actual prison, with inmates wandering about. I have to install a rackmount server without a rack. It sits up on a high shelf, monitor, keyboard, etc. So once it's up there and I need to configure it, I have to stand on a stool and still reach. I also have to wheel around a cart with 6 other computers on it and install them in various nooks and crannies around the jail. For those of you who have never been in a jail, they are smelly, dirty, cold, dimly lit, and badly wired. So I finally get all these machines in and configured to see the server. It's maybe noon by now. So back we go to the server, which needs some adjustments, and then I have to work on the client machines in the office next to the server. A relatively pleasant place to be BUT...the cafeteria is right down the hall. And it's being renovated. The only way to renovate concrete is to use a freakin' jack hammer. So that's going on all day long.
I've skipped lunch by this point, hoping to get out and get dinner at a reasonable time. At this point, I have to configure our software, which requires a lot of accounting knowledge and asking the customer what sorts of accounts and transactions he needs. This takes a good long time, yelling over the jackhammer and with a pounding headache. Once that is set up, i have to hand key in the data from their old system, because the vendor of the old system refuses to provide any sort of electronic export of data. Even a comma seperated text file would work. But they won't do it. They claim they can't. So in all this data goes. By 6:00 or so the jack hammer has stopped, but I will still be there for 3 more hours before I'm done. So much for timely dinner.
At the end of it all, I do get dinner, too tired to have a beer though. Back to the hotel with the knowledge that I have another day of this ahead.
That was pretty bad, but it could be worse...
-LD
We've got a '78 Dodge Van...gas tank recently fell off, but it didn't cost too much to put it back on. The thing gets used about twice a year for hauling lumber.
:)
If your dot matrix ribbon runs out, just find some 4-part forms and take off the top page.
-LD
Am I the only one who would put something solid behind the transparent screen so I wasn't distracted by the stuff behind it? People walking around back there, maybe the dog running through my documents...it'd tick me off pretty quick.
That may just be me though...
Origin's Ultima games have had an incredible effect on me over the years. I feel like I actually know all the characters in the games and that maybe, just maybe, I should be living in Britannia (from somewhere between Ultima IV and Ultima VII, I rather like the more civilized Britannian days over the violent wars and seperation of Sosaria). I just haven't found the moongate yet.
It was a sad day when EA took over Origin and destroyed the end of such an incredible line of games. Ultima VIII was sloppy and Ultima IX was painful. Both are decent games, but rather than an incredible moving ending to the 20 year series, it left a bad taste in almost everyone's mouth. And to know that Origin, with Lord British at the helm, will never be able to recreate what should have been nearly brings a tear to my eye.
But I have hope that LB will one day rise again with a new line of games of such richness and realism that I can take my fond memories of Ultima and merge with new experiences in another fantastic world.
~LlamaDragon
In Missouri, we have a pretty effective no call list. We (the state) have made quite a bit of $$ of various telemarketers, including Miss Cleo (did you know she's not really Jamaican!?!?). And I've only gotten telemarking calls from the phone companies (naturally, there are still loopholes for them). If it's implemented right, a state-sponsored list goes a long way.
~LD
I read an interesting article in National Geographic some time back about the inflated cost of diamonds and how that really might be something of a myth. According to the article there have been quite a few independent diamond sellers popping up in the last few years and at times have caused some problems for DeBeers to the point where DeBeers actually experienced a brief diamond shortage as they had to drop their prices to compete. By raising their prices back up some they manage to keep supply and demand in line.
.25 carat or smaller, I don't remember exactly). Finding a chunk of rock that can produce a big (greater than 1 carat) diamond is pretty rare. In my case, my wife has small hands and didn't want a huge rock to drag around so a nice .5 carat diamond was perfect (and didn't cost the outrageous 2-3 months salary men are "supposed to spend" on engagement rings).
Now maybe people saw this as prices dropping from their "normal" levels and ran out to get a deal on a diamond, when in fact prices were dropping to a normal level.
Whether it's based on artificially high "normal" diamond prices or not, there is some market controlled pricing.
And one more little side note, as far as the real value of diamonds, huge diamond mines pull very few large usable stones out of the ground. Most diamonds, when cut and polished, are pretty small (maybe
~LD
My plan is to rent both versions and decide which one I prefer to own. The wife is worried that the extra footage won't be up to snuff and will make the extend-o version lower quality all around. I'm hoping that it will add more depth and detail.
So I guess they suck a few extra bucks out of me, but I'm sure as hell not buying two copies of the same freakin' movie.
~LD
If you watch the director's commentary on the Vanilla Sky DVD you'll find that they only cleared out Time Square, and it was only for a few hours on a Sunday morning. Still quite a feet, but nothing like shutting down the whole city.
For most the other NY scenes, they just drove around filming and enjoying the looks on people's faces when they realized that, yes, Tom Cruise just drove by in a mustang.
I've got nothing in particular against Mr. Katz, but the only reason I read this story was because the paragraph on the front page was utterly meaningless. I couldn't figure out if it was a good star wars bit or a bad one...and who knew it had anything to do with spiderman?
As far as the rest is concerned, what should be clear to even the most casual observer is that Attack of the Clones was mediocre, and Spider Man (while I haven't seen it personally) is apparently very good. It only makes sens that a good movie will make more money than a mediocre one that is simply riding on the coat tails of past success.
You can go on all you want about love stories and heroes and whatnot, but I think if Attack of the Clones had good acting and a better script it could've been a much better film, even with a similar plot.
Just my little opinion.
Older gentleman: "Why do I need a gold-plated printer cable?"
Salesman: "The connection is better, so you get higher quality prints. And it's faster."
-LlamaDragon