Sometimes in the city you can see an old house with a great design that has an addition that look like it was stapled onto it.
I think that is the case here.
Herbert meant for the story to be contained in a trilogy, liked the success, and tacked on junky sequels to cash in like the Wachowski brothers did with The Matrix.
I finally got around to reading the Dune trilogy a few years ago. Think of all the books that get mentioned as the crown jewels of sci-fi novels. They are all pure crap fiction compared to the Dune Trilogy.
No movie will ever come close to doing right by those books.
However, taken as separate works I thought the Dune movie in the 80s with Sting and the sci-fi channel's mini series were pretty good.
If you haven't, read the Dune trilogy soon. Don't bother with the Dune books that came after that except for the 4th in the series.
This site is by a self described nerd who decided to break out of it and get a social life. It is free. The articles are very good. He had one point that stuck in my head. He wrote that the ability to get intensely interested in something can make someone very successful. He added that what keeps nerds being nerds ( aside from fear ) is that they choose to get interested in things nobody else cares about like. He recommend keeping those interests, but making room for new ones that will bring you into contact with people and give you something to talk about with them:
There are a lot of books out there on how to improve your dating life. A lot of those books are even written with geeks in mind, not that description ever fit me or anyone who reads slashdot......*cough* *cough*:).
Be warned, most of these books are poorly written and the web sites where even the good books are sold are styled in a way where it looks like snake oil is being sold.
However, there is a lot of good stuff out there that actually works.
I highly recommend:
1. Renting a copy of the movie "The Tao Of Steve". It is based on the true story of an obese underachiever who develops a method to get all of the dates he wants despite his disadvantages.
2. Read "Without Embarrassment" by Mike Pilinski. Don't buy it from Amazon, it is overpriced by $30 there. Go to the author's web site. The web site is done poorly and looks like snake oil. Don't let that fool you. Pilinski was one of us, and his book is one of the good ones. You can get the book as an ebook or printed on demand. You have to look around on the site a bit to find the later option.
If you want to read more after this I would start with the "The Game" by Neil Strauss. The author is a professional writer and it shows. Despite the size the book will read like it is only 100 pages. It is very captivating and the book is an excellent overview of the "PUA Community" ( Pickup Artist Community ). This is very valuable, because even the good authors have bogus looking web sites that make it hard to get a good idea of what their products are like.
This wikipedia page also serves as a good overview. Most of the "literature" on this subject falls into about 4 sets of approaches with many, MANY copycats. This page will give you the bottom line -- without having to read a lot of marketing crap -- on each prominent system. I recommend watching the movie and reading "Without Embarrassment" first though:
It seems like every time I come meet a stylish woman she turns out to be a mac-o-phile. Apple is reaping dividends by being stylish, hip with their products in addition to being user friendly. When the afforementioned crowd likes something that something being mainstream becomes a real possibility.
" It offers users smart URL suggestions as they type based on Web searches and their prior Web browsing history."
That sounds like the kind of privacy issue people (rightfully) yell at Google about. Hopefully they will have an _easy to find_ off switch in case you don't want your browser watching where you go.
I agree with your thoughts. They are starting out with good intentions, but time, power, money and new people will corrupt the "do no evil" policy into impotence. As Microsoft came to supplant IBM as the "big evil company", Google may come to supplant Microsoft. Looked at by future historians Microsoft may only be seen as a company that forced its crapware into the market place, while Google may be seen as an Orwellian nightmare having controlled and abused people's personal information.
It is a bit too "tin foil hat" for me, but this FREE movie does provide valuable speculation as to why people should be worried about things like RealID. Here is a short youtube trailer:
If she didn't care about workers getting health care as Walmart Board Member Clinton, why do you think she will care about people like you getting health care if she is elected?
My criteria for choosing what new language to learn would be the language that maximizes both of these at the same time:
1. What language would be good for my career?
2. What language would be interesting / fun to learn?
Many interesting languages. I like programming so I would enjoy learning anything. I have a job and a life. Since there are only so many hours in a day I want to pick something that will lead to more jobs, better paying jobs, and more *interesting* ( fun ) jobs.
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Granular is shooting to be an easy to use Linux distribution. The big question is, what will it do that Ubuntu isn't?
This is disgusting. The professor & the e-book company should be arrested and beaten.
That is one way of looking at it.
Sometimes in the city you can see an old house with a great design that has an addition that look like it was stapled onto it.
I think that is the case here.
Herbert meant for the story to be contained in a trilogy, liked the success, and tacked on junky sequels to cash in like the Wachowski brothers did with The Matrix.
I agree, #2 should shave been part of Dune.
Just my opinion but I don't think anything past the 4th book is worth it.
Double that for the Dune books his family wrote and compiled from his notes.
I finally got around to reading the Dune trilogy a few years ago. Think of all the books that get mentioned as the crown jewels of sci-fi novels. They are all pure crap fiction compared to the Dune Trilogy.
No movie will ever come close to doing right by those books.
However, taken as separate works I thought the Dune movie in the 80s with Sting and the sci-fi channel's mini series were pretty good.
If you haven't, read the Dune trilogy soon. Don't bother with the Dune books that came after that except for the 4th in the series.
This site is by a self described nerd who decided to break out of it and get a social life. It is free. The articles are very good. He had one point that stuck in my head. He wrote that the ability to get intensely interested in something can make someone very successful. He added that what keeps nerds being nerds ( aside from fear ) is that they choose to get interested in things nobody else cares about like. He recommend keeping those interests, but making room for new ones that will bring you into contact with people and give you something to talk about with them:
http://www.succeedsocially.com/
There are a lot of books out there on how to improve your dating life. A lot of those books are even written with geeks in mind, not that description ever fit me or anyone who reads slashdot......*cough* *cough* :).
Be warned, most of these books are poorly written and the web sites where even the good books are sold are styled in a way where it looks like snake oil is being sold.
However, there is a lot of good stuff out there that actually works.
I highly recommend:
1. Renting a copy of the movie "The Tao Of Steve". It is based on the true story of an obese underachiever who develops a method to get all of the dates he wants despite his disadvantages.
2. Read "Without Embarrassment" by Mike Pilinski. Don't buy it from Amazon, it is overpriced by $30 there. Go to the author's web site. The web site is done poorly and looks like snake oil. Don't let that fool you. Pilinski was one of us, and his book is one of the good ones. You can get the book as an ebook or printed on demand. You have to look around on the site a bit to find the later option.
If you want to read more after this I would start with the "The Game" by Neil Strauss. The author is a professional writer and it shows. Despite the size the book will read like it is only 100 pages. It is very captivating and the book is an excellent overview of the "PUA Community" ( Pickup Artist Community ). This is very valuable, because even the good authors have bogus looking web sites that make it hard to get a good idea of what their products are like.
This wikipedia page also serves as a good overview. Most of the "literature" on this subject falls into about 4 sets of approaches with many, MANY copycats. This page will give you the bottom line -- without having to read a lot of marketing crap -- on each prominent system. I recommend watching the movie and reading "Without Embarrassment" first though:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seduction_Community
It seems like every time I come meet a stylish woman she turns out to be a mac-o-phile. Apple is reaping dividends by being stylish, hip with their products in addition to being user friendly. When the afforementioned crowd likes something that something being mainstream becomes a real possibility.
" It offers users smart URL suggestions as they type based on Web searches and their prior Web browsing history."
That sounds like the kind of privacy issue people (rightfully) yell at Google about. Hopefully they will have an _easy to find_ off switch in case you don't want your browser watching where you go.
I agree with your thoughts. They are starting out with good intentions, but time, power, money and new people will corrupt the "do no evil" policy into impotence. As Microsoft came to supplant IBM as the "big evil company", Google may come to supplant Microsoft. Looked at by future historians Microsoft may only be seen as a company that forced its crapware into the market place, while Google may be seen as an Orwellian nightmare having controlled and abused people's personal information.
It is a bit too "tin foil hat" for me, but this FREE movie does provide valuable speculation as to why people should be worried about things like RealID. Here is a short youtube trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuBo4E77ZXo
You can download the movie for FREE and LEGALLY here:
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/
Do you feel better about Hillary Clinton being a Walmart Board member during the 90s when they earned their deserved anti-worker reputation?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wal-Mart#Governance
http://beforewisdom.com/blog/?p=276
Please do not take any offense.
If she didn't care about workers getting health care as Walmart Board Member Clinton, why do you think she will care about people like you getting health care if she is elected?
My criteria for choosing what new language to learn would be the language that maximizes both of these at the same time:
1. What language would be good for my career?
2. What language would be interesting / fun to learn?
Many interesting languages. I like programming so I would enjoy learning anything. I have a job and a life. Since there are only so many hours in a day I want to pick something that will lead to more jobs, better paying jobs, and more *interesting* ( fun ) jobs.