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Blade Runner Is The Best Sci-Fi Film

Posted by michael on from the like-tears-in-rain dept.

Delchanat writes "Now there's scientific proof: according to 60 of the most influential scientists in the world, including British biologist Richard Dawkins and Canadian psychologist Steven Pinker, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982) is the best science fiction film. Late Mr. Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) finished 2nd, followed by George Lucas' Star Wars (1977) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980)." There are several other stories as well: favorite authors, the basics of science fiction, and an excerpt of a new Iain M. Banks novel.

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  1. Frustrated MS developer looking to jump ship by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I've been a Microsoft developer for 10 years and I am ready to jump ship. I dont mind starting over with Linux-based development for the simple reason that I just can't take MS anymore.

    What has me so frustrated? Microsoft never stops developing new technologies and pushing them on the masses. I have had to completely re-invent myself as a developer no less than 3 times in my career... First it was straight C/C++, then it was all about COM, COM was everything and everywhere... ActiveX.. and then it was .NET. Forget everything you ever knew; its all obsolete and .NET is the way to do everything. If you are still writing classic ASP... well you are just a wimp and a loser.

    I can't even get through the monthly issue of MSDN magazine. It is so loaded with "didn't you know this was coming out soon?" and "you should have done your project with WSE extensions 2.0 Beta 2... oh, you didn't know they existed? Well, you are out of date, son". Everything is latest and greatest. What we were using last year is dogcrap and obsolete, not even worth mentioning anymore.

    And it isn't going to stop. VS 2005 is coming out soon and it so loaded with head-spinning new features in the .NET CLR that it would take years to learn it all. SQL Server 2005 is in Beta 2 and it is chock full of redundant features it makes your head spin. Need a messaging platform? Sure, MSMQ and Biztalk work fine, but now SQL Server has an entire platform built in! Yay, something more to learn. Still writing stored procs in T-SQL? Wow, you are so last year. Didn't you know you can write stored procs in C# now? Geez man, get a clue!

    Anyway, seems like Linux guys are having fun using LAMP platform stuff that is just stable and plain works. How do I get a job doing this stuff? Is it possible to make the switch? Any advice welcome... Thanks

    -Frustrated soon-to-be-EX MS developer

    1. Re:Frustrated MS developer looking to jump ship by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Completely offtopic but interesting none the less. If you think linux is not full of changing and new technologies you've got another thing coming. The life of a developer these days is trying to stay ontop of the new technologies and knowing when and where to use which one. This problem isn't only isolated to the I.T. arena. Recording studios have been struggling to keep ontop of the "ever changing" technology, art, and science of recording. Professional recording studios have to reinvest millions of dollars every few years just to keep ontop of things or their studio will be obsoleted.

  2. Re:Top Scientists by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Are you a Chipotle Fan [chipotlefan.com]?

    Anyone who thinks that Chipotle is good is culturally deprived. It's like thinking that McDonalds has good hamburgers, or Disney is a highlight of American civilization.

    Go eat a real burrito. Chipotle is about as tasty as cardboard.

  3. Re:Non sequitur by JamesKPolk · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I'd read the book twice, knew exactly what was going on, and still found the movie to be a total waste of time.

  4. Re:Two words: Bull Shit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you fucking retard. seriously, get your head out of your ass.

  5. um by jafac · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    yes.
    it is.
    No doubt.

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  6. Does anyone get the feeling... by character_assassin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    that this "survey" of the best science-fiction movies was specifically created to generate a high-postcount Slashdot thread?

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  7. Bad choice by Satertek · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Man...Blade Runner was on last night on Spike but I watched Event Horizon on SciFi instead...I'd never seen either, but Event Horizon was OK.

  8. #1 work of human art of all time - AKIRA (manga) by evilmousse · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    ...possibly the illiad & oddyessy.
    but i like akira.

    the 6-compendium set is page after page of ultra-detailed cityscapes, and sits a little higher than a foot when stacked end to end. it's an epic operettic masterpeice with strong classic 'noh' theatre themes; unfolding a tail of decay & rebirth, (imho) very accurately depicting different kinds of power struggles as society is broken by cataclysm. The scope of the story is unbeleivably broad and deep, comparable to the massive character development I see in Greek classics. As far as sci-fi goes, I beleive its' most accurate trait is in its' psychology; the science in the story is heavily eastern in nature, which is a pleasing difference from most the sci-fi I know, based in western science.

    The movie is pleasing but choppy.. like what would happen if you tried to condense a three-day long norse opera into an hour.

    -g

  9. Re:Did you read the book? by PsiPsiStar · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Every time I look at a circle I wonder if there's a hidden message in the simple beauty of the shape...

    You're just asking for a link to Goatse

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