Bah. So hate that guy, don't generalize about the people working and educating those in the field. My girlfriend is a recently-graduated Art History major, with a secondary focus in studio art, specifically sculpture. She worked HARD for her degree, at a state school, in the art department...and got a good education under professors making a pittance and working in one of the most underfunded departments in the US. (Colorado state school art depts.)
I've seen her put more hours toward a sculpture piece than I ever put toward a program in the CS curriculum at the same school, one that is reasonably well-respected. I had the same disdain, until I found that most CS students were rock-stupid slackers, and most art students were rock-stupid slackers...
You'll find lazy people everywhere. Keep that in mind.
The point is that if you use the same seed value for rand(), you get the same path. Having multiple paths is the idea, rather than just one target to optimize for.
Case was burned because he stole from his employers, tried to take an extra cut for himself. Count Zero, the hackers were either independant operators (for pay) or corporate jockeys (for pay). It was all data theft. The obsession with 'jacking' was at most an equal consideration. Biz was the focus.
I loved Pattern Recognition. I have realized that the action-movie pace of the early works were, while entertaining, secondary to his real messages. It's about tech, yeah, but it's also about art, about style, about people, about life, thoughts, etc.
The dangerous crime stories of Burning Chrome and Neuromancer's backdrop are less interesting to me now than the observations of 'Thomassons' in Virtual Light, the cognizance of points in time in which the world changes that Laney can see in Idoru and All Tomorrow's Parties, and the analysis of commerce, style, and 'cool' in Pattern Recognition. The effect of wealth in Count Zero (Virek, Marly). The pain of memory in Mona Lisa Overdrive (Slick Henry).
The Matrix formula in sci-fi-ish fiction is tired. On the book tour for PR, he said that his early short stories were him establishing a 'baseline' for the world as it was, he extrapolated upon it to make Neuromancer. Everything he's written up until PR was based on that. In a way, he said, PR is him establishing a baseline for today. If he feels the need, he can then extrapolate again. I can't wait.
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Wrong. XBox Live Boot Camp. They brought (amongst other people) Gabe and Tycho of Penny Arcade. Check it
Wow. Those things are really impressive. Maybe they just appeal to my aesthetic, but damn...nice link, thanks.
Bah. So hate that guy, don't generalize about the people working and educating those in the field. My girlfriend is a recently-graduated Art History major, with a secondary focus in studio art, specifically sculpture. She worked HARD for her degree, at a state school, in the art department...and got a good education under professors making a pittance and working in one of the most underfunded departments in the US. (Colorado state school art depts.)
I've seen her put more hours toward a sculpture piece than I ever put toward a program in the CS curriculum at the same school, one that is reasonably well-respected. I had the same disdain, until I found that most CS students were rock-stupid slackers, and most art students were rock-stupid slackers...
You'll find lazy people everywhere. Keep that in mind.
The point is that if you use the same seed value for rand(), you get the same path. Having multiple paths is the idea, rather than just one target to optimize for.
Wrong. Read it again.
Case was burned because he stole from his employers, tried to take an extra cut for himself. Count Zero, the hackers were either independant operators (for pay) or corporate jockeys (for pay). It was all data theft. The obsession with 'jacking' was at most an equal consideration. Biz was the focus.
I loved Pattern Recognition. I have realized that the action-movie pace of the early works were, while entertaining, secondary to his real messages. It's about tech, yeah, but it's also about art, about style, about people, about life, thoughts, etc.
The dangerous crime stories of Burning Chrome and Neuromancer's backdrop are less interesting to me now than the observations of 'Thomassons' in Virtual Light, the cognizance of points in time in which the world changes that Laney can see in Idoru and All Tomorrow's Parties, and the analysis of commerce, style, and 'cool' in Pattern Recognition. The effect of wealth in Count Zero (Virek, Marly). The pain of memory in Mona Lisa Overdrive (Slick Henry).
The Matrix formula in sci-fi-ish fiction is tired. On the book tour for PR, he said that his early short stories were him establishing a 'baseline' for the world as it was, he extrapolated upon it to make Neuromancer. Everything he's written up until PR was based on that. In a way, he said, PR is him establishing a baseline for today. If he feels the need, he can then extrapolate again. I can't wait.