I've said it before and I'll say it again: Firefly sucked. It deserved to die as early as it did. The movie was a waste of money that should have gone to a superior franchise. Sorry fan boys.
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I wonder how long it will be before EA starts slipping these drugs into the curly fries at the company cafeteria. Why should employees be allowed to sleep when we can reprogram them not to need it?
The name is Charles BOOHER, not BOOKER. This guy is a notoriously eccentric character in the Bay Area programming scene. The Mercury News got his name right:
Am I the only person on Earth who didn't like Firefly? (Apparently not, judging from the ratings). Speaking as a big fan of Whedon's other work and previous underappreciated sci-fi series (like Alien Nation), I was very disappointed in this show. The biggest problem for me was that the characters were simply unengaging. Where was the complexity, the dark inner secrets and tortured private moments? Nothing CLICKED, nothing felt genuine. The whole series was as boring as a season of Enterprise (well, maybe not quite that boring).
Hi Talisman... this is Rincewind, how's it going.:)
I heartily second everything Talisman has said about Nick Fisher 'AKA' Trixter in his message. I played a lot of SubSpace many years ago, and maintained a strategy guide for the game. Trixter was without a doubt the most obnoxious prick in the history of that game (and believe, me this is saying A LOT.)
To give credit where credit is due, he was one of the best SubSpace players out there, and I was a member of his squad (called ONE) at one time. But I did see the error of my ways however, and quit.:)
Nick Fisher is one of those people gifted with a golden tongue and a black heart. Beware all who may have the opportunity to deal with him in the future.
Many software companies gladly proclaim how much they love to hire engineers right out of college. Take this example from a recent NYTimes article about the corporate culture of the e-business software company Calico:
"To maintain that spirit, Calico has made a concerted effort to seek out employees considered likely to fit into its culture, placing a premium on recruiting graduates directly from college or business school."
I see the same sort of statements again and again from various companies. The nature of the software industry is such that the more experience you have, the more limited are your job options. Many startups especially are notorious for refusing to hire anyone who doesn't fit a job description exactly. Granted, experience gives you a higher salary in those jobs you do fit the profile for, but age will increasingly become a liability.
Read the book years ago, I actually enjoyed it immensely... intellectually not in the league of the work Herbert, Brin, etc. put out, but a fun read nonetheless. And I was surprised at how much I liked the movie trailer; after all the negative comments on AICN, I was expecting the worst. In fact, I was far more impressed by the Battlefield Earth trailer than the LoTR trailer, which just seemed like tripe to me. I suspect that 99% of the naysayers out there are just reacting to the Scientology aspect of the whole deal. Come on; the book contain not a single word referencing Scientology or its (bizarre) doctrines, and I don't think the movie will either. To all the anti-scienos: When's the last time you didn't go to a Tom Cruise movie just because he was a Scientologist?
Read the book years ago, I actually enjoyed it immensely... intellectually not in the league of the work Herbert, Brin, etc. put out, but a fun read nonetheless.
And I was surprised at how much I liked the movie trailer; after all the negative comments on AICN, I was expecting the worst. In fact, I was far more impressed by the Battlefield Earth trailer than the LoTR trailer, which just seemed like tripe to me.
I suspect that 99% of the naysayers out there are just reacting to the Scientology aspect of the whole deal. Come on; the book contain not a single word referencing Scientology or its (bizarre) doctrines, and I don't think the movie will either. To all the anti-scienos: When's the last time you didn't go to a Tom Cruise movie just because he was a Scientologist?
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Incorrect - that is not Wolfram's response to Pratt's message, it is a response to an earlier message. Compare the dates.
Why am I seeing this leftist nonsense on the front page of Slashdot? I come here to read about technology, not read liberal rants.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Firefly sucked. It deserved to die as early as it did. The movie was a waste of money that should have gone to a superior franchise. Sorry fan boys.
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I wonder how long it will be before EA starts slipping these drugs into the curly fries at the company cafeteria. Why should employees be allowed to sleep when we can reprogram them not to need it?
The name is Charles BOOHER, not BOOKER. This guy is a notoriously eccentric character in the Bay Area programming scene. The Mercury News got his name right:
News Article
Am I the only person on Earth who didn't like Firefly? (Apparently not, judging from the ratings). Speaking as a big fan of Whedon's other work and previous underappreciated sci-fi series (like Alien Nation), I was very disappointed in this show. The biggest problem for me was that the characters were simply unengaging. Where was the complexity, the dark inner secrets and tortured private moments? Nothing CLICKED, nothing felt genuine. The whole series was as boring as a season of Enterprise (well, maybe not quite that boring).
And this is different from Microsoft's APIs how?
STL is useless for Windows programming for two reasons:
1. Many of its classes that input or output strings are only designed to work with ASCII. If you want to do anything with Unicode, forget it.
2. std::basic_string has no CASE-INSENTIVE comparison routine. This is absolutely necessary for doing anything with Windows pathnames. Again useless.
Hi Talisman... this is Rincewind, how's it going. :)
:)
I heartily second everything Talisman has said about Nick Fisher 'AKA' Trixter in his message. I played a lot of SubSpace many years ago, and maintained a strategy guide for the game. Trixter was without a doubt the most obnoxious prick in the history of that game (and believe, me this is saying A LOT.)
To give credit where credit is due, he was one of the best SubSpace players out there, and I was a member of his squad (called ONE) at one time. But I did see the error of my ways however, and quit.
Nick Fisher is one of those people gifted with a golden tongue and a black heart. Beware all who may have the opportunity to deal with him in the future.
"To maintain that spirit, Calico has made a concerted effort to seek out employees considered likely to fit into its culture, placing a premium on recruiting graduates directly from college or business school."
I see the same sort of statements again and again from various companies. The nature of the software industry is such that the more experience you have, the more limited are your job options. Many startups especially are notorious for refusing to hire anyone who doesn't fit a job description exactly. Granted, experience gives you a higher salary in those jobs you do fit the profile for, but age will increasingly become a liability.
You're good, Siggy. You walk a thin line between the personae of the subversive genius and the blatant toady. A very thin line indeed...
Read the book years ago, I actually enjoyed it immensely... intellectually not in the league of the work Herbert, Brin, etc. put out, but a fun read nonetheless. And I was surprised at how much I liked the movie trailer; after all the negative comments on AICN, I was expecting the worst. In fact, I was far more impressed by the Battlefield Earth trailer than the LoTR trailer, which just seemed like tripe to me. I suspect that 99% of the naysayers out there are just reacting to the Scientology aspect of the whole deal. Come on; the book contain not a single word referencing Scientology or its (bizarre) doctrines, and I don't think the movie will either. To all the anti-scienos: When's the last time you didn't go to a Tom Cruise movie just because he was a Scientologist?
Read the book years ago, I actually enjoyed it immensely... intellectually not in the league of the work Herbert, Brin, etc. put out, but a fun read nonetheless.
And I was surprised at how much I liked the movie trailer; after all the negative comments on AICN, I was expecting the worst. In fact, I was far more impressed by the Battlefield Earth trailer than the LoTR trailer, which just seemed like tripe to me.
I suspect that 99% of the naysayers out there are just reacting to the Scientology aspect of the whole deal. Come on; the book contain not a single word referencing Scientology or its (bizarre) doctrines, and I don't think the movie will either. To all the anti-scienos: When's the last time you didn't go to a Tom Cruise movie just because he was a Scientologist?