I didn't enjoy this movie all that much. Blade 1 was one hell of a ride, lots of fun, well-paced, interesting stuff. This one mixed in a few things that I think didn't belong:
1. Aliens-style gore and guts. Dragged out autopsies, split-open heads, busted bones poking out of flesh, long drawn-out shots of the Bad Guys' pretty faces.
2. Over-the-top computer-generated camera swooping and panning during the fights. This wouldn't be so bad if it didn't look fricking awful: watch the fight in front of the lights, or the last, wrestling-match style fight ("off the turnbuckle, with a knee to the throat. ooh, piledriver? but he got up before the ref could count to three!")
3. Too many non-character good guys. Blade's posse was supposed to have trained for two years. This should make them hardasses. But no, half of them are pathetic pussies. For instance, watch the redhead. She'll have one situation come up that just demands action, and she'll flake out. I guess they couldn't give her a redshirt, coz it'd clash with the black colour scheme. So many of them die in so many sad and stupid ways, that I wonder why the filmmakers even bothered to introduce us to them. Oh, I know, to drag out the awful yuck of watching them get killed in horrible ways by The Bad Guys.
4. Ultraviolet light does not go around corners. I laughed out loud when I saw that.
5. The filmmakers blow their load early. Yes, it's nice to have one "wow" scene at the beginning that grabs your attention: Strange Days, Matrix, and Snake Eyes got this right. This movie drags it on, and gives you 2 extra ones on top.
6. Dialog that can be summarized as "I know." "I know that you know." "I know that you knew that I know that you'd suspect that I wondered about where you really knew that I was sure about that thing." "Bang, you're dead." can never be a good thing.
Just these superficial flaws made the movie really hard to enjoy. The Matrix comparisons are unjustified.
Your power-grab ultimatum will get you fired, or at least marginalized in the eyes of the power brokers at your company.
What you need is a strategy, a positive discussion, and not a three-option ultimatum. Point out the facts of the situation: you don't think you're doing quality work, your morale is suffering, and you think you can do better. Start talk, start DISCUSSING things with your peers and managers, and see what you can come up with.
There are a lot of possibilities to go from here. "More quality work" is vague and fuzzy. How would you achieve that goal, and how would you measure that quality?
Maybe you'll build a website toolkit which is documented, tested, version-controlled, and can be released to all sites to give them all new features, rather than madly hacked together scripts.
"... and it also appears to be an educational version"
The reason educational versions are so cheap is because you're not entitled to support from MS.
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It's true. Anybody with a credit card can buy themselves a few thousand impressions on any words they like for a pittance.
It is, of course, quite cool, and it is quite obvious what is an advert and what is a legitimate search result.
When I read this headline on theregister, the first thought to go through my mind were "yes! yes! oh, god, yes!". I still feel that way. Google has done the impossible with me: earned even greater respect.
In important principle of XP, almost a corollary of Collective Code Ownership, is that if you have incompetent people, you have to get rid of them, fast, or they're gonna ruin the project and piss people off.
It's glib to say "then they weren't doing XP". I would suggest they were doing the easy parts, not the hard parts.
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That means laws don't apply.
(from eye.net/film/, only without the mangling
I didn't enjoy this movie all that much. Blade 1 was one hell of a ride, lots of fun, well-paced, interesting stuff. This one mixed in a few things that I think didn't belong:
1. Aliens-style gore and guts. Dragged out autopsies, split-open heads, busted bones poking out of flesh, long drawn-out shots of the Bad Guys' pretty faces.
2. Over-the-top computer-generated camera swooping and panning during the fights. This wouldn't be so bad if it didn't look fricking awful: watch the fight in front of the lights, or the last, wrestling-match style fight ("off the turnbuckle, with a knee to the throat. ooh, piledriver? but he got up before the ref could count to three!")
3. Too many non-character good guys. Blade's posse was supposed to have trained for two years. This should make them hardasses. But no, half of them are pathetic pussies. For instance, watch the redhead. She'll have one situation come up that just demands action, and she'll flake out. I guess they couldn't give her a redshirt, coz it'd clash with the black colour scheme. So many of them die in so many sad and stupid ways, that I wonder why the filmmakers even bothered to introduce us to them. Oh, I know, to drag out the awful yuck of watching them get killed in horrible ways by The Bad Guys.
4. Ultraviolet light does not go around corners. I laughed out loud when I saw that.
5. The filmmakers blow their load early. Yes, it's nice to have one "wow" scene at the beginning that grabs your attention: Strange Days, Matrix, and Snake Eyes got this right. This movie drags it on, and gives you 2 extra ones on top.
6. Dialog that can be summarized as "I know." "I know that you know." "I know that you knew that I know that you'd suspect that I wondered about where you really knew that I was sure about that thing." "Bang, you're dead." can never be a good thing.
Just these superficial flaws made the movie really hard to enjoy. The Matrix comparisons are unjustified.
I am getting pounded by this worm. Check out my web traffic graph:
http://bang.dhs.org/mrtg/webhits.html
the part up to 12 noon is the worm; anything above that is slashdot.
I'm on @home, 24.114.*.*.
Your power-grab ultimatum will get you fired, or at least marginalized in the eyes of the power brokers at your company.
What you need is a strategy, a positive discussion, and not a three-option ultimatum. Point out the facts of the situation: you don't think you're doing quality work, your morale is suffering, and you think you can do better. Start talk, start DISCUSSING things with your peers and managers, and see what you can come up with.
There are a lot of possibilities to go from here. "More quality work" is vague and fuzzy. How would you achieve that goal, and how would you measure that quality?
Maybe you'll build a website toolkit which is documented, tested, version-controlled, and can be released to all sites to give them all new features, rather than madly hacked together scripts.
The reason educational versions are so cheap is because you're not entitled to support from MS.
It is, of course, quite cool, and it is quite obvious what is an advert and what is a legitimate search result.
When I read this headline on theregister, the first thought to go through my mind were "yes! yes! oh, god, yes!". I still feel that way. Google has done the impossible with me: earned even greater respect.
It's glib to say "then they weren't doing XP". I would suggest they were doing the easy parts, not the hard parts.
Be can't incorporate public code from Apple in their product without being forced to release their code or just give it up on Apple's say-so.
This is something that is woefully absent from Slashdot lately. You people are getting lazy and it's pissing me off.
Waterloo (where I attended -- B.Math 1997) has a curriculum that gets quite insane. Their Computer Science Club is fine, thanks.