The book was a little different. The blame IMO was more on the way the rich old tycoon wanted to exploit the park for profit at any cost. The movie made him out to be a benevolent grandpa wanting to give every kiddie a stuffed sauropod.
The problem with the Aliens franchise is the bad writing. Sequels are usually nothing more than a greed producer's attempt to cash on the last film's rep. If the writers don't have any more to say (and usually this would be determined by the original books/screenplay), then it's almost a sure bet the sequels will suck. All the Aliens sequels besides #2 did nothing more than copy the preceding visual elements. It's just not scary to see the same drooling lunge out of the shadows after 6 movies worth. I think #2 was so successful because it firstly added something to the storyline (i.e. the complete social structure of the Alien) and secondly did it in an original setting. All the others suffer from sequelitis. They're really doing the same thing, but trying to make it look different enough that you won't notice.
Especially ancient ones. I learned about the Earth's precession back in middle school. I remember this because for all of about 2 hours I was teased for being called a "Virgo the Virgin". Yes, I know a horrible thing to call a 12 year-old. But, I also remember salvation came when the astronomer told us about the change in the Earth's orientation that would allow me a technical out.
This reminds me of the policy my college adopted back in the mid-nineties that mandated having personal computers on enrollment. This gave professors the flexibility to mandate computer use, but lifted the burden from the university to provide adequate resources to their students. When questioned about this disparity, the school administrators simply said to get a student loan and buy a computer if you didn't have one.
Great in theory, bad in practice. You know how many laws there are in this country? You're talking about having to constantly renew 200 years of precedent that would require constant updates. Even *if* there was enough time to relitigate all these laws, you'd still end up with token, arbitrary votes just to clear the ledgers.
Try the *huge* protests during the run-up to the Iraq war. We had the largest protests in the history of the world (500,000 in the US and I think 2,000,000 in Spain), yet they barely got a peep of coverage by the mainstream.
Something interesting in these ginned up protest non-stories. You can often see that the cameras are strategically placed to make the protests seem bigger, or at least ambiguous in size. The shots either focus in on a pack, or pan out to cover the whole group out to the edges just as the numbers bleed off.
Hello??? 1996 just called and asked if you woke up yet;) The corporatization of the Democratic party started wtih Bill Clinton and the Democratic Leadership Commission [sic]. They figured that it was too much trouble organizing labor and advocacy groups to get elected when their Republican brethren were getting the same money in one good lunch with a CEO. Kind of like Bono's comments about benefit concerts after meeting with the president [sic] of France (and getting way more donated than any concert would net). So, Clinton led the move walk that line between getting as much corporate cash as you can and appeasing the business community while doing doing as little as you have to to appease your base. Of course, this decimated the Democrats since most of the base, like you, now can't see much difference between the pigs and men.
Part of the massive failure of Windows Mobile is that it tried to be Windows scaled down to 3" screens. Small devices need customized OSs, a square peg with the corners shaved off to fit into a round hole.
Google just returns too many garbage marketing links. Bing isn't vastly better, just slightly. And, I imagine that if people start to migrate, they'll take on the same ad ratios as Google.
But, I bet I buy more CDs than most huge music fans. I have friends who brag about having not bought music in 5-10 years. Take the compensation out of the market and you end up with corporate factory musicians backed by accountants. Buy those CDs either at the concerts or in the stores and keep the music industry strong.
To all the people commenting about operator overloading. It's not a problem when it's used responsibly, but the problem is people abUSE some of C++'s features. So, someone coming in and using a library expecting intuitive behavior gets something wildly eccentric because a developer just wanted a shortcut or hammered a square peg into a round hole.
And, we all know that power corrupts. So, when Joe Shortcut figures out that he can overload the '=' operator to slice his ham sandwich, you invariably end up with illogical, non-intuitively behaving code. Plus, the language in an effort to be ultimately configurable, doesn't take care of some menial, repetitive tasks. That opens the door for insanely dangerous, obscure bugs like object slicing. I wish that the standards community would have just drawn a line in the sand and said "OK, here's the cleaned up, modern version that we made practical at the expense of esoteric powers."
That being said, I have total respect for what Stroustrup accomplished in context.
Assuming this is the same thing legally speaking, the record companies cheated artists and basically dared them to sue. If they got caught, they usually settled for less than the actual amount. So, it was a "heads I win, tails you lose" situation for artists.
I think you're one step back. You increase quality of life. That then reduces infant mortality, gives parents something to do besides work and breed, which then drives down birth rates.
Don't forget that it was ACORN that reported the people returning suspect voter registrations. By law, they had to submit these to the government to keep them from becoming an unsupervised registration screener. By practice, they informed local governments themselves and flagged the suspect registrations.
I'll be getting a new car this summer and I've been doing a lot of research. So many cars have a host of engine trims, then a host of interior feature trims. This would seem to vastly over complicate their manufacturing process. One vehicle I was looking at has a base price of about $26K, but can run up to $40K+ once you build it out with the works!
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The book was a little different. The blame IMO was more on the way the rich old tycoon wanted to exploit the park for profit at any cost. The movie made him out to be a benevolent grandpa wanting to give every kiddie a stuffed sauropod.
The problem with the Aliens franchise is the bad writing. Sequels are usually nothing more than a greed producer's attempt to cash on the last film's rep. If the writers don't have any more to say (and usually this would be determined by the original books/screenplay), then it's almost a sure bet the sequels will suck. All the Aliens sequels besides #2 did nothing more than copy the preceding visual elements. It's just not scary to see the same drooling lunge out of the shadows after 6 movies worth. I think #2 was so successful because it firstly added something to the storyline (i.e. the complete social structure of the Alien) and secondly did it in an original setting. All the others suffer from sequelitis. They're really doing the same thing, but trying to make it look different enough that you won't notice.
Especially ancient ones. I learned about the Earth's precession back in middle school. I remember this because for all of about 2 hours I was teased for being called a "Virgo the Virgin". Yes, I know a horrible thing to call a 12 year-old. But, I also remember salvation came when the astronomer told us about the change in the Earth's orientation that would allow me a technical out.
This reminds me of the policy my college adopted back in the mid-nineties that mandated having personal computers on enrollment. This gave professors the flexibility to mandate computer use, but lifted the burden from the university to provide adequate resources to their students. When questioned about this disparity, the school administrators simply said to get a student loan and buy a computer if you didn't have one.
You don't want to trade in a Bush presidency for a Lieberman vice presidency?
Great in theory, bad in practice. You know how many laws there are in this country? You're talking about having to constantly renew 200 years of precedent that would require constant updates. Even *if* there was enough time to relitigate all these laws, you'd still end up with token, arbitrary votes just to clear the ledgers.
Try the *huge* protests during the run-up to the Iraq war. We had the largest protests in the history of the world (500,000 in the US and I think 2,000,000 in Spain), yet they barely got a peep of coverage by the mainstream.
Something interesting in these ginned up protest non-stories. You can often see that the cameras are strategically placed to make the protests seem bigger, or at least ambiguous in size. The shots either focus in on a pack, or pan out to cover the whole group out to the edges just as the numbers bleed off.
Hello??? 1996 just called and asked if you woke up yet ;) The corporatization of the Democratic party started wtih Bill Clinton and the Democratic Leadership Commission [sic]. They figured that it was too much trouble organizing labor and advocacy groups to get elected when their Republican brethren were getting the same money in one good lunch with a CEO. Kind of like Bono's comments about benefit concerts after meeting with the president [sic] of France (and getting way more donated than any concert would net). So, Clinton led the move walk that line between getting as much corporate cash as you can and appeasing the business community while doing doing as little as you have to to appease your base. Of course, this decimated the Democrats since most of the base, like you, now can't see much difference between the pigs and men.
sorry that should be "...NOT a square peg..."
That way small companies will have even *less* ability to fight the giants in court. Oh wait, that doesn't help at all.
Part of the massive failure of Windows Mobile is that it tried to be Windows scaled down to 3" screens. Small devices need customized OSs, a square peg with the corners shaved off to fit into a round hole.
We'd have the mind-numbing processing power to get my garage door open, and one less US state.
Google just returns too many garbage marketing links. Bing isn't vastly better, just slightly. And, I imagine that if people start to migrate, they'll take on the same ad ratios as Google.
What happens to your clever little theory when our astronauttes have to open all those tightly closed jars of space food?
But, I bet I buy more CDs than most huge music fans. I have friends who brag about having not bought music in 5-10 years. Take the compensation out of the market and you end up with corporate factory musicians backed by accountants. Buy those CDs either at the concerts or in the stores and keep the music industry strong.
To all the people commenting about operator overloading. It's not a problem when it's used responsibly, but the problem is people abUSE some of C++'s features. So, someone coming in and using a library expecting intuitive behavior gets something wildly eccentric because a developer just wanted a shortcut or hammered a square peg into a round hole.
And, we all know that power corrupts. So, when Joe Shortcut figures out that he can overload the '=' operator to slice his ham sandwich, you invariably end up with illogical, non-intuitively behaving code. Plus, the language in an effort to be ultimately configurable, doesn't take care of some menial, repetitive tasks. That opens the door for insanely dangerous, obscure bugs like object slicing. I wish that the standards community would have just drawn a line in the sand and said "OK, here's the cleaned up, modern version that we made practical at the expense of esoteric powers."
That being said, I have total respect for what Stroustrup accomplished in context.
If it works for public policy on promoting wars, it'll work for a silly phone.
Assuming this is the same thing legally speaking, the record companies cheated artists and basically dared them to sue. If they got caught, they usually settled for less than the actual amount. So, it was a "heads I win, tails you lose" situation for artists.
Oh, the humanity!
I think you're one step back. You increase quality of life. That then reduces infant mortality, gives parents something to do besides work and breed, which then drives down birth rates.
no no that was deep space-time exploration. Funny you mentioned that movie since I just bought the DVD last weekend.
Don't forget that it was ACORN that reported the people returning suspect voter registrations. By law, they had to submit these to the government to keep them from becoming an unsupervised registration screener. By practice, they informed local governments themselves and flagged the suspect registrations.
On a semi-related note, I just figured out how insane the markup is for peripherals when you customize your PC on a major vendor's website.
I'll be getting a new car this summer and I've been doing a lot of research. So many cars have a host of engine trims, then a host of interior feature trims. This would seem to vastly over complicate their manufacturing process. One vehicle I was looking at has a base price of about $26K, but can run up to $40K+ once you build it out with the works!