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Microsoft Says IBM/Linux Their Biggest Threat
krypt0n0mic0n writes "An article at The Register shows that Microsoft sees IBM and Linux as the biggest threats to their market domination. Microsoft's Eric Rudder is quoted as saying that Linux is a "formidable" challenge and that "IBM is our greatest competitor. In the way they sell products and compete in corporate accounts." It goes on to say that they believe the NET server will be a challenge to these competitors."
It's shameful how bad that movie was compaired to the book. Heinlein is rolling in his grave.
Puppy's only live 12 years and age 6/7 times as fast as people. Cancer would be better, eating away at Microsoft in their old days until there is nothing left.
What?
That's what made it so bad.
The ideals presented in the book are taken out of context and made to look absurdly facist.
In the movie one of the cadets says something like "What good is a knife in a nuke fight anyway? All you gotta do is push a button, SIR!" and then the drill instructor says "Put your hand on that wall!" and throws a knife through his hand and says "The enemy cannot push a button if you disable his hand!"
The drill instructors reply in the book goes like this:
"If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off? Of course not. You'd paddle it. There can be circumstances when it's just as foolish to hit an enemy city with an H-bomb as it would be to spank a baby with an axe. War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him...but to make him do what you want to do. Not killing...but controlled and purposeful violence. But it's not your business or mine to decide the purpose of the control. It's never a soldier's business to decide when or where or how -- or why -- he fights; that belongs to the statesmen and the generals. The statesmen decide why and how much; the generals take it from there and tell us where and when and how. We supply the violence; other people -- 'older and wiser heads,' as they say -- supply the control. Which is as it should be."
... and which of those passages makes for a better movie? The first one.
I'm amazed at all the people who are offended by the Starship Troopers movie. Anyone with half a brain would notice the 'propaganda' style of it within the first 5 minutes. Removing all Heinlein's pointless meandering made for a much better plot-line, and a much more satisfactory film that would have resulted from the director being a Heinlein-worshipping fanboy like yourself.
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