I couldn't remember exactly why Rico was disciplined... the point is that in fact, the movie does follow the book, about as well as most movies follow the book they are made from. The tone of the movie is completely different from what Heinlein intended, but I don't think that's a bad thing.
No basic? Really? The Starship Troopers I saw had a long sequence of basic, including the scene where Rico screws up, gets someone killed, and takes a bunch of lashes. I don't know that it's word for word what was in the book (haven't read it in many years) but it was pretty darned close.
In general the movie followed the book plot, but it of course it was done as satire, because what's the alternative? What Heinlein wrote was a fun juvenile book, but pretty hard to take seriously as an adult, and if they tried to make a "serious" film of it, it would have looked ridiculous.
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Well, what else is bitcoin good for? I can either buy goods and services using a stable currency that's accepted by everyone... or I can try to hide transactions using an obscure token whose value fluctuates wildly. Hard to believe the main uses of it aren't illegal.
Just stepped into an organisation running TFS '08 & VS '10.
Coming from a background in open source, using Eclipse, SVN, Bugzilla & TRAC this MS stuff seems like absolute dross to me but I'm not in the position to change it yet.
Anyone have any advice regarding getting up to speed on this stuff. In particular the team I'm working with have NO concept of bug tracking which seems like madness. Is this side of TFS really so terrible?
If you are referring to Bugzilla as your "bug tracker", god help you. What a nightmare of a user interface. It would be easier to track bugs by chiseling them into granite than to use Bugzilla.
Give Visual Studio a chance. I haven't used it for a few years but it's clean and works well. Don't pine for your old environment till you've tried the new.
Using lots of libraries and components is great... when it all works. When your app won't build and you get an obscure error message from some package that you didn't even know you were using, it's not so much fun. I handcrafted make files as well. At least then, I knew what was going on, and what depended on what.
It's more than "bipartisan". It's universal. Where was the outrage when Google was caught slurping up wireless data? There was exactly the same sort of reaction from the tech community: "Oh well, it's ok...". At least you MIGHT be able to elect someone to change the NSA. Who are you going to "elect" to change Google?
Fun to see it transition from "Iran imprisons scientist for having the courage of his convictions" to "USA / Israel evil". Good to know Slashthink is alive & well.
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Lol... this is insightful?
Hit too close to home for Americans? You might want to read your recent European history... you won't have to go too far back.
I couldn't remember exactly why Rico was disciplined... the point is that in fact, the movie does follow the book, about as well as most movies follow the book they are made from. The tone of the movie is completely different from what Heinlein intended, but I don't think that's a bad thing.
No basic? Really? The Starship Troopers I saw had a long sequence of basic, including the scene where Rico screws up, gets someone killed, and takes a bunch of lashes. I don't know that it's word for word what was in the book (haven't read it in many years) but it was pretty darned close.
In general the movie followed the book plot, but it of course it was done as satire, because what's the alternative? What Heinlein wrote was a fun juvenile book, but pretty hard to take seriously as an adult, and if they tried to make a "serious" film of it, it would have looked ridiculous.
Well, what else is bitcoin good for? I can either buy goods and services using a stable currency that's accepted by everyone... or I can try to hide transactions using an obscure token whose value fluctuates wildly. Hard to believe the main uses of it aren't illegal.
Right... because you happen to think YOUR country doesn't monitor electronic communications. Good luck with that one.
Right... because compared to China, Russia, the UK, France, Mexico, Syria, etc, the USA clearly stands out as a bastion of evil.
Who doesn't use Skype?
It's free, easy to use, ubiquitous... only problem is if you are worried that "the cool kids" aren't using it.
You mean the platform that owns 90% of the desktop market? Wow, yeah, that's a problem.
Visual Studio Express is free (zero-cost).
Well, if all you do is move a knight back and forth, chess gets boring. Maybe you should trying playing the game...
Just stepped into an organisation running TFS '08 & VS '10.
Coming from a background in open source, using Eclipse, SVN, Bugzilla & TRAC this MS stuff seems like absolute dross to me but I'm not in the position to change it yet.
Anyone have any advice regarding getting up to speed on this stuff. In particular the team I'm working with have NO concept of bug tracking which seems like madness. Is this side of TFS really so terrible?
If you are referring to Bugzilla as your "bug tracker", god help you. What a nightmare of a user interface. It would be easier to track bugs by chiseling them into granite than to use Bugzilla.
Give Visual Studio a chance. I haven't used it for a few years but it's clean and works well. Don't pine for your old environment till you've tried the new.
Using lots of libraries and components is great... when it all works. When your app won't build and you get an obscure error message from some package that you didn't even know you were using, it's not so much fun. I handcrafted make files as well. At least then, I knew what was going on, and what depended on what.
In the same sense that a computer program that moves a knight back and forth between two squares is playing chess, yes.
since chess can be "botted" I guess it's boring too?
Why on earth would you do that? If you don't enjoy playing WoW, don't play it. Don't mess it up for other people.
Getting rid of cheats makes normal customers applaud.
It's more than "bipartisan". It's universal. Where was the outrage when Google was caught slurping up wireless data? There was exactly the same sort of reaction from the tech community: "Oh well, it's ok...". At least you MIGHT be able to elect someone to change the NSA. Who are you going to "elect" to change Google?
$50k? That's greater that the total cost of all the cars I've owned in the past 35 years (and yes, I buy new, not used).
There is zero need to use electronic devices during taking and landing, so the FAA should play it safe.
Overdramatic, much?
You might try reading 1984, if you really think the present is anything like that novel.
Fun to see it transition from "Iran imprisons scientist for having the courage of his convictions" to "USA / Israel evil". Good to know Slashthink is alive & well.
Yes, if the option is set, a thief can't brute force the password.
If you try to brute-force the pin doesn't the machine wipe the data? At least my ITouch claims that it will do so after 10 bad tries.
As opposed to the solution that solves all problems? Just what would that be? Other than allowing people to make their own choices??