Blow it out yer ear, Water-boy. We get taught the same things here at Carleton for half the tuition price.;)
We might not spend as much time on our maths, but we still spend a lot of time on program design and algorithms. Heck, the assignment for this week's a fire department routing system, complete with graphical interface and "shortest route to fire" algorithms, even if you "close" some roads, etc..
Really, though, I think the big problem is what type of people these courses are teaching. There doesn't seem to really be any hardcore "computer low-level systems programming" programs here. You have to go, like, third and fourth year for that stuff.
It could be a while before they teach us what MOV and LEA and MUL do, but I don't mind. In the meantime, I'll be learning how to route traffic.:P
I tend to agree. Could the reviewers please stick to the "for nerd" movies? This is news for nerds, stuff that matters. Not "movies that sucked, so everyone can hate 'em with us."
Wing Commander was made from a computer game. It qualifies. Star Wars, Episode 1 is.. well.. if the plot doesn't qualify, the special effects do.
Either way, they certainly don't deserve their own "headline" space for. Throw them somewhere else, and give us a little list of the current reviews in a slashbox.:)
It's not worse than Lawnmower Man 2..? *whew!* Man, I actually BOUGHT that movie, thinking it'd be great. (Yeah right..) So if the Wing Commander movie's better than Lawnmower Man 2 (which I watched at least twice, and I'm still relatively sane..) then maybe I could watch Wing Commander without too many ill effects.:)
I realize I'm getting fairly off-topic here, but bare with me.
Starship Troopers wasn't so much a parody or hilarious as it was satire about US/UN politics, imo. The whole thing was essentially a story about propaganda. About how we buy into it so easily. And how accepting we are of what our government tells us.
The whole movie was shot as a propaganda film, for the people set in that universe. The point of the whole thing wasn't that the events were supposed to be believeable to us. The point was that they were supposed to be believeable to the people the film was intended for.
And that's where you've got to make the connection; the satire here isn't the film itself. It's us. We're the satirical part of the equation, because we're supposed to believe it. And we do. We accept Clinton's explanation for why he bombed the Iraqis, and ignored Saddam's explanations of take-over rights, just as the people in this film accepted the explanation the government that the aliens were evil, rather than the explanation that the aliens were just protecting their turf against the expanding humans, who were penetrating their home.
I guess it's easier to look at a film like this objectively when you're not american. Or maybe it's just because I'm Canadian..:) Either way, I thought it was a good thought-provoking film. Not for the special effects, or the actual storyline, but more for the manner in which it was presented, and the whys behind why it was presented. And the constant little reminders that 'what you are seeing is what really happened' while everything that 'really happened' has been snipped out. That constant voice saying "Would you like to know more?"
Did anyone else notice how Conditions and Terms, section 4, more or less precludes the possibility of accessing the database through a proxy or firewall?
Additionally, unless I'm reading this incorrectly, they're only saying that you can't access another database while you're accessing theirs. So all you have to do is make sure that your database queries aren't concurrent.
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Point taken. I just meant that if we're going to have movie reviews, then the movies reviewed should probably be nerd-oriented, that's all.
;)
..unless there's a way available to filter out the non-nerd stuff..
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Blow it out yer ear, Water-boy. We get taught the same things here at Carleton for half the tuition price. ;)
:P
We might not spend as much time on our maths, but we still spend a lot of time on program design and algorithms. Heck, the assignment for this week's a fire department routing system, complete with graphical interface and "shortest route to fire" algorithms, even if you "close" some roads, etc..
Really, though, I think the big problem is what type of people these courses are teaching. There doesn't seem to really be any hardcore "computer low-level systems programming" programs here. You have to go, like, third and fourth year for that stuff.
It could be a while before they teach us what MOV and LEA and MUL do, but I don't mind. In the meantime, I'll be learning how to route traffic.
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I tend to agree. Could the reviewers please stick to the "for nerd" movies? This is news for nerds, stuff that matters. Not "movies that sucked, so everyone can hate 'em with us."
.. well .. if the plot doesn't qualify, the special effects do.
:)
Wing Commander was made from a computer game. It qualifies. Star Wars, Episode 1 is
Either way, they certainly don't deserve their own "headline" space for. Throw them somewhere else, and give us a little list of the current reviews in a slashbox.
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It's not worse than Lawnmower Man 2..? *whew!* Man, I actually BOUGHT that movie, thinking it'd be great. (Yeah right..) So if the Wing Commander movie's better than Lawnmower Man 2 (which I watched at least twice, and I'm still relatively sane..) then maybe I could watch Wing Commander without too many ill effects. :)
I realize I'm getting fairly off-topic here, but bare with me.
:) Either way, I thought it was a good thought-provoking film. Not for the special effects, or the actual storyline, but more for the manner in which it was presented, and the whys behind why it was presented. And the constant little reminders that 'what you are seeing is what really happened' while everything that 'really happened' has been snipped out. That constant voice saying "Would you like to know more?"
Starship Troopers wasn't so much a parody or hilarious as it was satire about US/UN politics, imo. The whole thing was essentially a story about propaganda. About how we buy into it so easily. And how accepting we are of what our government tells us.
The whole movie was shot as a propaganda film, for the people set in that universe. The point of the whole thing wasn't that the events were supposed to be believeable to us. The point was that they were supposed to be believeable to the people the film was intended for.
And that's where you've got to make the connection; the satire here isn't the film itself. It's us. We're the satirical part of the equation, because we're supposed to believe it. And we do. We accept Clinton's explanation for why he bombed the Iraqis, and ignored Saddam's explanations of take-over rights, just as the people in this film accepted the explanation the government that the aliens were evil, rather than the explanation that the aliens were just protecting their turf against the expanding humans, who were penetrating their home.
I guess it's easier to look at a film like this objectively when you're not american. Or maybe it's just because I'm Canadian..
Well.. would you?
Did anyone else notice how Conditions and Terms, section 4, more or less precludes the possibility of accessing the database through a proxy or firewall?
Additionally, unless I'm reading this incorrectly, they're only saying that you can't access another database while you're accessing theirs. So all you have to do is make sure that your database queries aren't concurrent.
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You don't suppose these database problems could be a symptom of a Y2K compatibility problem..?
Just a thought..
Anyone wanna start a pool on how soon the network'll crash..?