This kind of FUD irritates me to no end. Modern cable systems do not have any trouble with file sharing security (read the spec) -- and if you've got NetBIOS open to the world, you're a security hazard waiting to happen. Nope, I don't feel sorry for you.
And, as regards the bandwidth thing: your average DSL line gives you what? 1.5 Mbps? In one 6Mhz channel, cable can deliver 27Mpbs of bandwidth. There's a reason why most cable companies throttle bandwidth down to DSL speeds: it makes bandwidth much more consistent. Even without throttling, depending on your provider, it's highly unlikely that you'd be getting less than 512-1024 Kbps even during peak access hours. Compare that to DSL -- contrary to popular belief, everyone in your neighborhood is still sharing a single T3 trunk (sometimes less), so your neighbors can still impact your bandwidth during peak hours.
I mean, come on. On any network, when you have almost every host accessing data simultaneously, available bandwidth will drop. If the bottleneck isn't in the system itself, it's in the gateway out from there. Having used cable happily for several months now, I can say that I've never experienced these "slowdowns" that everyone talks about. And you can bet I'm on during "peak hours" -- isn't that about what time it is now (4:45 p.m. PDT)?
Ah, wait! I get it! You're nothing more than a cleverly disguised troll. My apologies, everyone. I won't feed him next time.
Um... the original article read "story about a story bookshelf MP3/CD player"; Timothy "fixed" it so that it now reads "story story about a bookshelf MP3/CD player".
I was merely trying to point out something that I thought was funny... I would consider this device a sorry excuse for an MP3 player, in many ways.
I am very sorry you didn't get the joke. Try listening to classical music.
Join me in the worlds longest troll, everyone post a reply to this message and say whatever you want!
What do I want? I want to read Slashdot without the interference of ugly, obscene, petty, first-posting, goatse-linking, natalie-portman-hot-grits-poetry-writing, CmdrTaco gay pr0n, death-of-BSD, lice-ridden-Unix-hackers-with-beards, did I leave anything out? oh yeah, Michael-loving Turd-Report, and every other kind of trolls.
Hmm... did I say that clearly enough? Okay, I'll sum up: I want to read Slashdot without you. Please go away, back to usenet or wherever you came from. Actually, on second thought, don't even go back to usenet. Please take all your computers and give them to someone who will post intelligently.
Side note: I'm posting with my +2 to show how important I think this is. I'm really sick and tired of the S/N ratio around here these days. Please keep in mind that this is an On-Topic reply, albeit to an Off-Topic troll.
Okay, I'll admit that I'm not the best person to ask about this, but what came to mind (yup, I'm a geek) was the bridge of the Enterprise.
Bear with me, I'm serious.
Arrange the main desks into a shallow semicircle, facing one wall. On the wall, you can have whiteboards, charts, an electronic status display, etc. -- general information stuff that the admins might want to look up and see. (Oh yeah... a clock would be good, too.) It sounds like you already have an idea for the workstations themselves.
For announcements, crisis control, and so forth, the team leader could stand with his back to that wall and comfortably address the entire team.
Then, around the perimeter of the room, have repair benches, shelves, cupboards, a fridge in the corner, whatever you feel.
Hmm... geeky, but that's just off the top of my head.
Um... I believe federal law states that no device can be shipped by a common carrier with an active power source attached. (IANAL... the actual wording may be slightly different.) This is the reason why small electronic devices, even when batteries are included, don't have the batteries inserted. AFAIK, any UPS won't have the battery connected out-of-box; a brightly colored sticker on the side will inform you that you must insert tab A into slot B before you can use it.
How they can say that and "no user serviceable parts inside" is a mystery, unless they have somehow redefined the meaning of the word "inside".
This reminds me of a story that I posted to/. once before (unfortunately, I can't find it right now) about when I used to work as a PC technician. For a while, the HP Pavilion (home user) series PCs came with a small shiny sticker stratgically placed so that you couldn't open the case without tearing the sticker. This dissuaded roughly 95% of users from ever opening the case, even though what was printed on the sticker was: "Opening the case will NOT void warranty" or something along those lines.
For the average user, who probably doesn't want to know how it works on the inside anyway, it doesn't take much to discourage them from ever opening the box.
Whoever modded you "Troll" is probably right. Oh well, I'll bite anyway.
If we're talking about the Jewish/Christian God (as your link seems to imply), it's a well-known fact that his name is spelled "Yohdh He' Waw He'", commonly transliterated into English as "Yahweh" or "Jehovah". This is not exactly a hidden secret.
I'm not aware of any Jewish beliefs about a 216-letter name, or even anything close to the mystical powers described in the link you gave. Methinks this is either an obscure cabbalistic fiction or the sheer invention of the screenplay writer.
Oh, and to debunk the "numerology of the Torah" stuff once and for all: although the overall message of the Hebrew Scriptures has stayed intact (the Dead Sea Scrolls, among others, verify the accuracy of the Masoretic text), the actual spelling of various words, the number of letters used, and in some cases even the exact choice of words all vary from manuscript to manuscript.
This stuff is not scientific in any sense of the word, and certainly not up to the rigors of mathematical proof.
Okay, I'll stop there... I don't want to go too far off-topic...
There was a book I read years ago, called "The Ultimate Computer" or something along those lines, and the two hackers in the story went by the handles WORM and SMIK... for some reason the system was limited to four characters, and words beginning with M were reserved or something like that. SMIK was for "super Mike", IIRC.
Well said, sir! That is the most intelligent observation I have yet read in this thread.
Blockquoth the parent:
Anyway, source=speech isn't so bad. Publish source so the world can see your bugs and make its own evaluation, and you're protected. Keep the source secret (like Microsoft) so people have to rely on your representations, and you're responsible for whatever happens.
This is it: the solution to the problem of software liability vs. free software. For big companies like Microsoft, there will be two choices: take responsibility for bugs and failures (read: bugs get fixed) or open the source (read: bugs get fixed). That's a win-win situation.
For free software, the worst case is that this would kill off binary distributions. Red Hat et al might just get insurance and go on as usual, but LFS, Gentoo, etc. will definitely become much more popular.
May I repeat: if this were to happen, it would probably be the best thing to happen to the computer world since... I don't know... since commodity PCs.
Not to necessarily disagree with you, but there are good cars and bad cars in every brand.
My little brother just bought a '78 BMW (a 320-something, IIRC) last week and it broke down three times in the first four days before he finally had it towed to the mechanic. Now, in defense of BMW, this one had been sitting in a friend's garage for over a year -- apparently it developed some kind of electrical problem where the battery occasionally grounds and the car refuses to start.
Anyhow, I'd take my 1999 Honda Civic over my brother's BMW any day of the week. In the spirit of another post in this thread, though, I'd sell my soul for a BMW Z3.
Just kidding. I'm kinda partial to my soul. And a Honda S2000 is pretty schweet too.
(I had tried to post this yesterday, but for some reason none of the CGIs at slashdot were working. Probably some uber-1337 preteen h4x0r thought that DoSing slashdot would help him reach puberty...)
You do know, don't you, that a former Witness, or a former anything, is not necessarily the best source of information? If you really want to know what we believe, and why, I'd recommend you go straight to the horse's mouth: check out the official website or ask the next Witness who knocks on your door.
Now most of them are "normal" Christians. They are not fanatical but they are nice people.
I think you'll find that Jehovah's Witnesses are pretty "normal" too... not fanatical (contrary to popular opinion) and definitely nice people. Any time our beliefs differ from that of the majority, we always have a scriptural reason for it.
As far as being perfect is concerned
Um, let me stop you right there. I never claimed to be perfect, and I'll be the first to admit that I'm just as imperfect as anybody else, and in certain ways even more so. What I said is that I feel obligated to try as hard as I can to do as Jesus did or would do. That's all God (or anybody else, for that matter) can ask: your best.
I cited Romans 7:14-25 previously... here are some others that come to mind: 1 Corinthians 9:16;
Romans 5:6-8 and 5:12, and 2 Corinthians 4:14, 15.
Actually, even if you were a recluse, you still would not be without sin. That's the tragedy of the inherited Adamic sin -- the only way to escape it is by means of Christ's ransom sacrifice, which buys our freedom.
If you read Matt. 25 you will see that you can go to Heaven just for giving a drink of water to a thirsty man, and you can go to Hell for not doing it.
Actually, you're missing the point of what Jesus was saying there. The sheep and the goats are judged based on their conduct, not towards "a thirsty man" (or hungry, naked, sick, etc.) but, as verse 40 points out: "To the extent that you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me."
There is a lot more significance here than simply offering water. It's referring to whether the ones being judged cared for the needs of Christ's brothers (see Romans 8:14-17). This implies also being to recognize who these brothers are -- which is a complex topic.
I think slashdot is not necessarily the best forum for this kind of discussion. If you would like to discuss this further, you're welcome to email me.
Part of the reason why a number of sites look broken in Opera is that Opera breaks sites. I used to be a big Opera fan, and I still use it from time to time, but its support for certain W3C specs (document.createElement() comes to mind) is not only missing, but downright munged.
Opera fakes document.createElement() and returns true, so sites that identify DOM-compliant browsers by this test will assume all is well, but the method doesn't actually do anything, so the site fails without an error. Last I checked, this was something the Opera programmers were "going to get around to" someday.
On the flip side, more and more sites are now supporting Mozilla... even my bank, which I could never get to work with any browser but IE, now looks great in Mozilla (or Galeon).
And that's the thing: every killer feature that made me switch from IE to Opera (when I was running Windows) was there in Galeon on Linux. I've got Opera, but these days Galeon is faster, renders more correctly, and has more truly useful features than Opera.
When I design websites, I'll still keep inserting workarounds for Opera, just as I still keep kludging ugly workarounds for Netscape 4 (icky, icky). Hopefully, though, Opera will eventually become fully standards-compliant, and then we won't have a problem.
disciple literally means "disciplined one" or "follower of a discipline or teaching"
Actually the Greek "mathetes" simply means student or apprentice.
Okay... I was referring to the English "disciple", not the Greek mathetes. You have a valid point, but even so, this does not negate my point that a mathetes of Jesus would not only have to learn about him but also to apply that knowledge in his or her life.
Where in the Bible does it say that you have to live a Christlike life (good luck with that!) in order to be a real Christian?
Um... did you read the comment you replied to? Specifically, the Biblical references I gave?
I'll quote them, from the NIV (not necessarily my favorite translation, but one of the better ones available on the web):
1 Corinthians 11:1: "Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ."
Hebrews 12:1, 2: "... let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. 2 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith,..."
1 Peter 2:21: "To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps."
Numerous others come to mind, including Luke 13:23, 24; John 12:44-48; 1 Timothy 4:10; and James 2:18-20, which says: "Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do. You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that--and shudder. You foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless?..."
If that's a condition then there are hardly any Christians in the world, except maybe for a few saints.
What do you think Jesus meant by Matthew 7:13, 14? "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it."
I agree that there are hardly any Christians -- true Christians -- in the world. Of the people claiming to be Christian, I would say at least 95% are only nominally so.
Yes, it's hard. Jesus never promised otherwise. Read Luke 9:23, 24.
I think you misunderstand. I didn't mean that repentance and conversion was a condition to listening to Jesus, learning about him, etc. -- that would be absurd. But when Jesus invited Matthew Levi to "come be my follower" (in Lu. 5:27), he wasn't talking about literally walking along the same path. Jesus was asking Matthew to become a disciple, and disciple literally means "disciplined one" or "follower of a discipline or teaching"
Certainly, he could (and did) expect good behavior as a result. In fact, what does the word "Christian" mean but to be a disciple, one who tries his or her utmost to follow in Christ's footsteps? See 1 Corinthians 11:1, Hebrews 12:1,2, and 1 Peter 2:21. If someone who was a Christian ceased following Christ's commandments, stopped doing as Christ did (or at least trying his best to do so), he would no longer be legitimately able to call himself a Christian. Hence, it could be said that living a Christlike life is a condition of being a Christian, by definition.
Of course, being imperfect, we cannot always do perfectly as Jesus did -- even the apostle Paul had that problem, as he describes in Romans 7:14-25.
I'm not sure I understand your comment at all. Certainly Jesus welcomed sinners of his day, and welcomes "black hat crackers and warez fiends" today, but on the condition that they repent and turn from that course of conduct.
I know that there are still some areas where two-way cable is not available, but that's the provider's problem, not yours. If you want broadband, don't give money to a provider for shoddy service -- go with a viable alternative.
I would say that if you don't have good cable (the system you're talking about is several years obsolete -- read the parent comment), you probably don't have good phone lines either. Your bottleneck will be the upstream connection, not your routing configuration on your end.
As the AC above me said, why not try full-duplex satellite? I doubt the latency will be much worse than going up the POTS and back down the cable. And these days, the price isn't significantly more either.
The long and the short of it: this is like taking a Model A out for a spin and then wondering why people keep honking at you on the highway. Sure, it's better than walking... just not very much.
Providers are starting to roll out DOCSIS 1.1 systems now, and DOCSIS 2.0 is only a few months out, if you believe CableLabs. Even so, most cable systems should be supporting high-bandwidth symmetric tiered service by next year.
Peter and Valentine are VITAL in order to understand Ender.
Agreed. 100 percent.
But (as I understand it) we aren't talking about cutting Peter and/or Valentine out of the story entirely. We're talking about cutting the whole Locke/Demosthenes subplot. Of course, this leaves Peter and Valentine as both shallow cardboard characters, but I'd be willing to live with that if Ender came across okay.
Even so, Valentine was never really developed until Speaker, and Peter didn't really even become a character until Children of the Mind. (At least in the original series -- Shadow of the Hegemon does a good job of developing his character too.) Card could probably cut the chapters on their political maneuverings and then integrate that into the sequels.
Of course, that makes it hard to do Hegemon, since Bean's email to Locke and Demosthenes toward the end of Ender's Shadow is a vital plot point in the development of his relationship with Peter, and since the script apparently tries to combine Game and Shadow.
Hmmm... I still think he might be able to pull it off, but there's a huge potential for him to blow it. I'm hoping they do it right.
Besides, for it to be 'karma drag-racing' would imply that I karma-whored my way up, which isn't true. I just don't bother posting unless I feel it's something worthwhile.
As a side note, I've decided to keep my sig only until someone comments on it. My new game is to see how quickly I can get someone to comment on my next sig.
Oh, and I'll quote my sig here, just so it's preserved for posterity after I go and change it: "Zero to 50 in only 88 comments!"
Um... 3001 was the final installment of the 2001 series, which was written by Arthur C. Clarke. IIRC, Asimov was dead by the time 3001 came out.
IMHO, Asimov was a far better writer than Clarke.
As far as the characters being "uninspiring and predictable", you should have read the book when you were younger. At very least, you should read the sequels -- Ender's character doesn't even begin to be really developed until Speaker for the Dead.
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And, as regards the bandwidth thing: your average DSL line gives you what? 1.5 Mbps? In one 6Mhz channel, cable can deliver 27Mpbs of bandwidth. There's a reason why most cable companies throttle bandwidth down to DSL speeds: it makes bandwidth much more consistent. Even without throttling, depending on your provider, it's highly unlikely that you'd be getting less than 512-1024 Kbps even during peak access hours. Compare that to DSL -- contrary to popular belief, everyone in your neighborhood is still sharing a single T3 trunk (sometimes less), so your neighbors can still impact your bandwidth during peak hours.
I mean, come on. On any network, when you have almost every host accessing data simultaneously, available bandwidth will drop. If the bottleneck isn't in the system itself, it's in the gateway out from there. Having used cable happily for several months now, I can say that I've never experienced these "slowdowns" that everyone talks about. And you can bet I'm on during "peak hours" -- isn't that about what time it is now (4:45 p.m. PDT)?
Ah, wait! I get it! You're nothing more than a cleverly disguised troll. My apologies, everyone. I won't feed him next time.
I was merely trying to point out something that I thought was funny... I would consider this device a sorry excuse for an MP3 player, in many ways.
I am very sorry you didn't get the joke. Try listening to classical music.
Hmm... did I say that clearly enough? Okay, I'll sum up: I want to read Slashdot without you . Please go away, back to usenet or wherever you came from. Actually, on second thought, don't even go back to usenet. Please take all your computers and give them to someone who will post intelligently.
Side note: I'm posting with my +2 to show how important I think this is. I'm really sick and tired of the S/N ratio around here these days. Please keep in mind that this is an On-Topic reply, albeit to an Off-Topic troll.
Hmm... well, I would say that remains to be seen...
Bear with me, I'm serious.
Arrange the main desks into a shallow semicircle, facing one wall. On the wall, you can have whiteboards, charts, an electronic status display, etc. -- general information stuff that the admins might want to look up and see. (Oh yeah... a clock would be good, too.) It sounds like you already have an idea for the workstations themselves.
For announcements, crisis control, and so forth, the team leader could stand with his back to that wall and comfortably address the entire team.
Then, around the perimeter of the room, have repair benches, shelves, cupboards, a fridge in the corner, whatever you feel.
Hmm... geeky, but that's just off the top of my head.
How they can say that and "no user serviceable parts inside" is a mystery, unless they have somehow redefined the meaning of the word "inside".
This reminds me of a story that I posted to /. once before (unfortunately, I can't find it right now) about when I used to work as a PC technician. For a while, the HP Pavilion (home user) series PCs came with a small shiny sticker stratgically placed so that you couldn't open the case without tearing the sticker. This dissuaded roughly 95% of users from ever opening the case, even though what was printed on the sticker was: "Opening the case will NOT void warranty" or something along those lines.
For the average user, who probably doesn't want to know how it works on the inside anyway, it doesn't take much to discourage them from ever opening the box.
Whoever modded you "Troll" is probably right. Oh well, I'll bite anyway.
If we're talking about the Jewish/Christian God (as your link seems to imply), it's a well-known fact that his name is spelled "Yohdh He' Waw He'", commonly transliterated into English as "Yahweh" or "Jehovah". This is not exactly a hidden secret.
I'm not aware of any Jewish beliefs about a 216-letter name, or even anything close to the mystical powers described in the link you gave. Methinks this is either an obscure cabbalistic fiction or the sheer invention of the screenplay writer.
Oh, and to debunk the "numerology of the Torah" stuff once and for all: although the overall message of the Hebrew Scriptures has stayed intact (the Dead Sea Scrolls, among others, verify the accuracy of the Masoretic text), the actual spelling of various words, the number of letters used, and in some cases even the exact choice of words all vary from manuscript to manuscript.
This stuff is not scientific in any sense of the word, and certainly not up to the rigors of mathematical proof.
Okay, I'll stop there... I don't want to go too far off-topic...
There was a book I read years ago, called "The Ultimate Computer" or something along those lines, and the two hackers in the story went by the handles WORM and SMIK ... for some reason the system was limited to four characters, and words beginning with M were reserved or something like that. SMIK was for "super Mike", IIRC.
Does anyone else remember this?
Blockquoth the parent:
This is it: the solution to the problem of software liability vs. free software. For big companies like Microsoft, there will be two choices: take responsibility for bugs and failures (read: bugs get fixed) or open the source (read: bugs get fixed). That's a win-win situation.For free software, the worst case is that this would kill off binary distributions. Red Hat et al might just get insurance and go on as usual, but LFS, Gentoo, etc. will definitely become much more popular.
May I repeat: if this were to happen, it would probably be the best thing to happen to the computer world since... I don't know... since commodity PCs.
My little brother just bought a '78 BMW (a 320-something, IIRC) last week and it broke down three times in the first four days before he finally had it towed to the mechanic. Now, in defense of BMW, this one had been sitting in a friend's garage for over a year -- apparently it developed some kind of electrical problem where the battery occasionally grounds and the car refuses to start.
Anyhow, I'd take my 1999 Honda Civic over my brother's BMW any day of the week. In the spirit of another post in this thread, though, I'd sell my soul for a BMW Z3.
Just kidding. I'm kinda partial to my soul. And a Honda S2000 is pretty schweet too.
- from Gartner
- from DH Brown
(I had tried to post this yesterday, but for some reason none of the CGIs at slashdot were working. Probably some uber-1337 preteen h4x0r thought that DoSing slashdot would help him reach puberty...)I cited Romans 7:14-25 previously... here are some others that come to mind: 1 Corinthians 9:16; Romans 5:6-8 and 5:12, and 2 Corinthians 4:14, 15.
Actually, even if you were a recluse, you still would not be without sin. That's the tragedy of the inherited Adamic sin -- the only way to escape it is by means of Christ's ransom sacrifice, which buys our freedom.
Actually, you're missing the point of what Jesus was saying there. The sheep and the goats are judged based on their conduct, not towards "a thirsty man" (or hungry, naked, sick, etc.) but, as verse 40 points out: "To the extent that you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me."There is a lot more significance here than simply offering water. It's referring to whether the ones being judged cared for the needs of Christ's brothers (see Romans 8:14-17). This implies also being to recognize who these brothers are -- which is a complex topic.
I think slashdot is not necessarily the best forum for this kind of discussion. If you would like to discuss this further, you're welcome to email me.
Opera fakes document.createElement() and returns true, so sites that identify DOM-compliant browsers by this test will assume all is well, but the method doesn't actually do anything, so the site fails without an error. Last I checked, this was something the Opera programmers were "going to get around to" someday.
On the flip side, more and more sites are now supporting Mozilla... even my bank, which I could never get to work with any browser but IE, now looks great in Mozilla (or Galeon).
And that's the thing: every killer feature that made me switch from IE to Opera (when I was running Windows) was there in Galeon on Linux. I've got Opera, but these days Galeon is faster, renders more correctly, and has more truly useful features than Opera.
When I design websites, I'll still keep inserting workarounds for Opera, just as I still keep kludging ugly workarounds for Netscape 4 (icky, icky). Hopefully, though, Opera will eventually become fully standards-compliant, and then we won't have a problem.
- 1 Corinthians 11:1: "Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ."
- Hebrews 12:1, 2: "... let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. 2 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith,
..."
- 1 Peter 2:21: "To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps."
Numerous others come to mind, including Luke 13:23, 24; John 12:44-48; 1 Timothy 4:10; and James 2:18-20, which says: "Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do. You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that--and shudder. You foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless?I agree that there are hardly any Christians -- true Christians -- in the world. Of the people claiming to be Christian, I would say at least 95% are only nominally so.
Yes, it's hard. Jesus never promised otherwise. Read Luke 9:23, 24.
Actually, I'm one of Jehovah's Witnesses.Certainly, he could (and did) expect good behavior as a result. In fact, what does the word "Christian" mean but to be a disciple, one who tries his or her utmost to follow in Christ's footsteps? See 1 Corinthians 11:1, Hebrews 12:1,2, and 1 Peter 2:21. If someone who was a Christian ceased following Christ's commandments, stopped doing as Christ did (or at least trying his best to do so), he would no longer be legitimately able to call himself a Christian. Hence, it could be said that living a Christlike life is a condition of being a Christian, by definition.
Of course, being imperfect, we cannot always do perfectly as Jesus did -- even the apostle Paul had that problem, as he describes in Romans 7:14-25.
Read Matthew 7:13-23 and Ephesians 4:17-28.
Oh, and Mt. 19:24 doesn't say it's impossible for a rich man to enter the kingdom of the heavens, and it certainly doesn't say anything about hell.
I know that there are still some areas where two-way cable is not available, but that's the provider's problem, not yours. If you want broadband, don't give money to a provider for shoddy service -- go with a viable alternative.
I would say that if you don't have good cable (the system you're talking about is several years obsolete -- read the parent comment), you probably don't have good phone lines either. Your bottleneck will be the upstream connection, not your routing configuration on your end.
As the AC above me said, why not try full-duplex satellite? I doubt the latency will be much worse than going up the POTS and back down the cable. And these days, the price isn't significantly more either.
The long and the short of it: this is like taking a Model A out for a spin and then wondering why people keep honking at you on the highway. Sure, it's better than walking... just not very much.
Providers are starting to roll out DOCSIS 1.1 systems now, and DOCSIS 2.0 is only a few months out, if you believe CableLabs. Even so, most cable systems should be supporting high-bandwidth symmetric tiered service by next year.
Where exactly do you live?
Ever heard this guy play Paganini?
Of course, still not what I would call "pop"...
If CTAATGT binds to GATTACA, then what happens when you throw an invalid U-gene into the mix?
Hint: all this craziness leads to the eventual demise of Law.
Ender's Game?
But (as I understand it) we aren't talking about cutting Peter and/or Valentine out of the story entirely. We're talking about cutting the whole Locke/Demosthenes subplot. Of course, this leaves Peter and Valentine as both shallow cardboard characters, but I'd be willing to live with that if Ender came across okay.
Even so, Valentine was never really developed until Speaker, and Peter didn't really even become a character until Children of the Mind. (At least in the original series -- Shadow of the Hegemon does a good job of developing his character too.) Card could probably cut the chapters on their political maneuverings and then integrate that into the sequels.
Of course, that makes it hard to do Hegemon, since Bean's email to Locke and Demosthenes toward the end of Ender's Shadow is a vital plot point in the development of his relationship with Peter, and since the script apparently tries to combine Game and Shadow.
Hmmm... I still think he might be able to pull it off, but there's a huge potential for him to blow it. I'm hoping they do it right.
IMNSHO, anyway.
"Karma? Where we're going we don't need karma!"
It's funny. Laugh. (tm)
Besides, for it to be 'karma drag-racing' would imply that I karma-whored my way up, which isn't true. I just don't bother posting unless I feel it's something worthwhile.
As a side note, I've decided to keep my sig only until someone comments on it. My new game is to see how quickly I can get someone to comment on my next sig.
Oh, and I'll quote my sig here, just so it's preserved for posterity after I go and change it: "Zero to 50 in only 88 comments!"
IMHO, Asimov was a far better writer than Clarke.
As far as the characters being "uninspiring and predictable", you should have read the book when you were younger. At very least, you should read the sequels -- Ender's character doesn't even begin to be really developed until Speaker for the Dead.