The ending was NOT stupid, and only a little wierd (IMnsHO). It makes sense if you use the grey matter between your ears...or the empty space maybe:P
I've never once in my life been so moved by a movie. The story is simply marvelous, deep and thought-provoking, and my wife and I were so touched it took us the hour drive home to get over it. We cried all the way home. It would not have had near the impact on us had we "left early" as others suggest. The ending is critical to the development of the character of David, and the deeper story that Spielberg was trying to relate would be lost! You'd have left satisfied that you'd seen another good Hollywood offering, but you'd miss out on one of the best experiences you'll ever have at the movies!
And as others have noted, they were not aliens. Gigelow Joe said "One day, they'll all be dead and all that will remain is us," referring to humans and robots (respectively). The narrator (fairy teller) tells us that 2000 years had passed, the world is obviously a frozen wasteland, and then we see they mystery people "download" the knowledge-base in David, as well as start him back up. We also learn that they were seeking out someone with contact with real living people.
If you miss this movie, you're doing yourself a GREAT disservice! We're still discussing it and plumbing its depths. I want to see it again (if I can take having my heart ripped again!)
I have developed an app in tcl for my client. The target system is AIX, which we work with alot. I'm using Postgres for my database.
Now I developed the app on SuSE linux. Here's the machine specs for both:
AIX: F70, 2-way, SCSI drives (no SSA), 1GB RAM
SuSE: PII 333, Standard IDE, 128MB RAM
The tcl code reads stuff from the database, does ALOT of recursive file ops (like rm -r * and cp -r *), and creates a gihungus tar.gz of all those little directories and files.
It takes the VERY EXPENSIVE AIX box about 3 hours to run the process; it takes my $800 linux server less than an hour! Same code. The database is not at fault (runs real fast on AIX). Recursive ops from the shell also cause disk io to peg out, and the box is not at all busy with other things.
SuSE is 6.4, running LVM and ReiserFS. AIX is running AIX 4.3.3 with JFS and LVM.
So what gives? The sys admins are baffled. The bottleneck on the AIX is disk io. The joke around the office is that we'll replace that piece of carp AIX box with a top-of-the-line linux PII!
So is JFS at fault? Is ReiserFS that much faster? Any ideas? Changing databases or languages is not an option, this is a question about FS's, please stick to that.
...or did the author ask that his personal information NOT be posted to the newsgroup, but then he turned around and one-upped that, and posted it to/.!
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The ending was NOT stupid, and only a little wierd (IMnsHO). It makes sense if you use the grey matter between your ears...or the empty space maybe :P
I've never once in my life been so moved by a movie. The story is simply marvelous, deep and thought-provoking, and my wife and I were so touched it took us the hour drive home to get over it. We cried all the way home. It would not have had near the impact on us had we "left early" as others suggest. The ending is critical to the development of the character of David, and the deeper story that Spielberg was trying to relate would be lost! You'd have left satisfied that you'd seen another good Hollywood offering, but you'd miss out on one of the best experiences you'll ever have at the movies!
And as others have noted, they were not aliens. Gigelow Joe said "One day, they'll all be dead and all that will remain is us," referring to humans and robots (respectively). The narrator (fairy teller) tells us that 2000 years had passed, the world is obviously a frozen wasteland, and then we see they mystery people "download" the knowledge-base in David, as well as start him back up. We also learn that they were seeking out someone with contact with real living people.
If you miss this movie, you're doing yourself a GREAT disservice! We're still discussing it and plumbing its depths. I want to see it again (if I can take having my heart ripped again!)
Okay gurus (and I hope someone sees this)!
I have developed an app in tcl for my client. The target system is AIX, which we work with alot. I'm using Postgres for my database.
Now I developed the app on SuSE linux. Here's the machine specs for both:
The tcl code reads stuff from the database, does ALOT of recursive file ops (like rm -r * and cp -r *), and creates a gihungus tar.gz of all those little directories and files.
It takes the VERY EXPENSIVE AIX box about 3 hours to run the process; it takes my $800 linux server less than an hour! Same code. The database is not at fault (runs real fast on AIX). Recursive ops from the shell also cause disk io to peg out, and the box is not at all busy with other things.
SuSE is 6.4, running LVM and ReiserFS. AIX is running AIX 4.3.3 with JFS and LVM.
So what gives? The sys admins are baffled. The bottleneck on the AIX is disk io. The joke around the office is that we'll replace that piece of carp AIX box with a top-of-the-line linux PII!
So is JFS at fault? Is ReiserFS that much faster? Any ideas? Changing databases or languages is not an option, this is a question about FS's, please stick to that.
...or did the author ask that his personal information NOT be posted to the newsgroup, but then he turned around and one-upped that, and posted it to /.!
Did I miss something...
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