Damn straight. Some people just wait to jump on a reasonable answer, in an attempt to 'one-up' the poster. Your points are all good commentary on thinking about internal organization etc. Of course I also agree with another poster that the guy is a fscking idiot to be asking this type of thing on/.
Sigh, my comment to people when they ask these pie in the sky questions, is if you were going to do it, you would be doing it, not asking/daydreaming about how you should do it.
While others are slamming this movie to various degrees, I enjoyed it for the most part. There were some elements that were imperfect, the length, the fight scenes etc but for me the interesing subject matter outweighed the problems. For exciting fight scenes though, I have to say the Bourne Identity gets my vote right now for best 'Non Matrix Like fight scenes ' in a recent movie. Now, on to the ideas, as one poster mentioned, the directed advertising was interesting, but based on the portrayal in the movie, there must have been some form of directed audio at work. Cruise/Anderton never heard other's ads while walking, only his own. The spiders were interesting, and perhaps a not that unrealistic a technology. ( and besides, imagine what could you do with a Beowolf Cluster of those things.....:-P ) I quite enjoyed the frameshift of how when Cruise/Anderton was a cop we were rooting for the good-guys, and then when the tables turned, we rooted for the 'bad-guy'. Made a good statement that perceptions are based on which side of the rope you stand on. The issues of privacy and security reminded me of elements of the novel I am reading now, Gorky Park. In the novel, many of the things seen in MR are long in place in Russia, just using different mechanisms. In the novel the detective needs to find a missing girl, but he comments in an aside, "It is unnecessary to check the hotels, as it is illegal for residents to stay in a hotel. Everyone is provided state housing, so what legal use would they have of a hotel room". Beautiful. Our current 'freedoms' are window dressing. 9/11 has been a bonanza for the state to gain more control than ever, with full public approval due to FUD.
Sigh.... Yes, yes they do. In fact my company is looking at doing it this fall. It will likely cost millions, take twice as long as planned, meet one quarter of the actual requirements and ultimately be declared a success because too many execs would lose face if it wasn't. While the ideas are noble, it certainly seems that the whole thing is a rather tenuous undertaking. - They just pay me. I don't actually _do_ anything.
Hmm, but is this an attempt to garner marketshare by giving the product away? This model is not alway successful ( as many members here can attest ). Hopefully _not_ the deathnell of Be as we need the variety in the OS space. I have wanted to play with it myself as a longtime Amiga owner from 'days of yore'(tm) but never found the time. The 'Free'ness wasn't the limiting factor for me. I just didn't have time to devote.
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Damn straight. Some people just wait to jump on a reasonable answer, in an attempt to 'one-up' the poster. Your points are all good commentary on thinking about internal organization etc. /.
Of course I also agree with another poster that the guy is a fscking idiot to be asking this type of thing on
Sigh, my comment to people when they ask these pie in the sky questions, is if you were going to do it, you would be doing it, not asking/daydreaming about how you should do it.
As Yoda said, Do, or Do not. There is no try.
While others are slamming this movie to various degrees, I enjoyed it for the most part. There were some elements that were imperfect, the length, the fight scenes etc but for me the interesing subject matter outweighed the problems. For exciting fight scenes though, I have to say the Bourne Identity gets my vote right now for best 'Non Matrix Like fight scenes ' in a recent movie. :-P )
Now, on to the ideas, as one poster mentioned, the directed advertising was interesting, but based on the portrayal in the movie, there must have been some form of directed audio at work. Cruise/Anderton never heard other's ads while walking, only his own.
The spiders were interesting, and perhaps a not that unrealistic a technology. ( and besides, imagine what could you do with a Beowolf Cluster of those things.....
I quite enjoyed the frameshift of how when Cruise/Anderton was a cop we were rooting for the good-guys, and then when the tables turned, we rooted for the 'bad-guy'. Made a good statement that perceptions are based on which side of the rope you stand on. The issues of privacy and security reminded me of elements of the novel I am reading now, Gorky Park. In the novel, many of the things seen in MR are long in place in Russia, just using different mechanisms. In the novel the detective needs to find a missing girl, but he comments in an aside, "It is unnecessary to check the hotels, as it is illegal for residents to stay in a hotel. Everyone is provided state housing, so what legal use would they have of a hotel room". Beautiful.
Our current 'freedoms' are window dressing.
9/11 has been a bonanza for the state to gain more control than ever, with full public approval due to FUD.
Heres looking ahead.........
Sigh.... Yes, yes they do. In fact my company is looking at doing it this fall.
It will likely cost millions, take twice as long as planned, meet one quarter of the actual requirements and ultimately be declared a success because too many execs would lose face if it wasn't.
While the ideas are noble, it certainly seems that the whole thing is a rather tenuous undertaking.
- They just pay me. I don't actually _do_ anything.
Hmm, but is this an attempt to garner marketshare by giving the product away? This model is not alway successful ( as many members here can attest ). Hopefully _not_ the deathnell of Be as we need the variety in the OS space. I have wanted to play with it myself as a longtime Amiga owner from 'days of yore'(tm) but never found the time. The 'Free'ness wasn't the limiting factor for me. I just didn't have time to devote.