Not really... if that's what you're looking for, I think you want Pushing Tin. I haven't seen Taking Lives, so I'll take SphericalCrusher's word on that.
I also think it's unfair to slam Hackers because it's portrayal of hackers is ludicrous. Of course it's ludicrous. Movies never get our subculture -- or any subculture, for that matter -- right. It's still a fun movie if you're willing to turn your brain off and not get pissed shouting about how much they got wrong.
Jokes about girlfriends and their tastes aside, I'm with nero on this one. AvP was the worst movie I have ever seen. It was worse than I had expected, and I had expected a steaming pile of crap. Paul W.S. Anderson makes Ed Wood look like Hitchcock.
A Tour of the Calculus is a particularly comendable book. It only covers the more basic tenants and theorems of Calculus, but gives you an immense sense of the power behind such theorems and of the near-glacial process which has formed them and the calculus as a whole. Reading it gave me a much deeper understanding of the particular topics it covered, as well as the Calculus and math in general.
So they've programed a great back button. Cool. Now, I love the back button and all - I use it a lot - but I generally like to have a browser to go along with it. This makes no mention of the idea actually being implemented in any current or future browser.
They could certainly build a thin card with a small built in lcd powered by an ultra-thin battery. Such a model would be faintly more expensive, granted, thereby making cards considerably less expendable than a metro card, but it is still feasible. And not prohibitively expensive either, i should clarify.
I mean that my frustration with the windows interface and it's inflexibility was one of many things that convinced me to switch. Linux is wide open to customizability and innovation because of its open-source nature. Shouldn't developers take advantage of that and try new interface ideas to change the ways we use computers, rather than presenting us with clones that fall short of the sub-par products they are attempting to emulate? When software is cloned without creativity and new ideas, it's kind of like making a duplication of an analog tape: each succesive duplicate is going to get worse and worse in quality. I still keep windows installed for games, though.
Linux needs to set itself apart from windows, copying ms's interface detail by detail is not only a waste of effort but harmful to the larger open-source effort. Worse yet, the windows interface is horrible, so of all the interface's to copy exactly, why choose one of the worst out there?I want a great interface when I'm using my computer, not the same old interface that frustrated me enough to get me to install linux in the first place.
Does this mean that my phone will have more static? I didn't realize that was possible. Even worse, If Microsoft gets hold of the mobile market, they may introduce a service similiar to Nextel's direct connect, only worse, which means we'll have exponentially more people screaming their private conversations for all to hear. Oh, joy.
True, this would seem to be a flaw in the system. Perhaps this could be negated by employing elements of google's ranking methods to ensure that pages are useful. Mixing in such cross checks could really strengthen and balance an entanglement system.
I disagree. While any experienced programmer should know the basic syntax requirements of any language they work in, an integral part of the whole coding process is the computer. It's a psychological connection: coding and the keyboard/computer. e.g. the physical act of tapping on a keyboard and the sound of keys can help you code more effectively. Coding in such an unnatural way as writing with pen and paper is detrimental to ease of coding and could easily throw off even an experienced programmer. Besides, the thought process of coding ususally overlooks all the little details, like;s and whatnot. Those are things you add in after you get your thoughts out, if you tend to overlook them the first time through. It's this thought process that makes coding an incremental process, where you start with your thoughts and build them into a form that can be compiled. It's this building process that makes written tests requiring large, accurate blocks of code to be written (especially under a time constraint) to be extremely unfair and innacurate as a measure of any programmer's skill.
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Not really... if that's what you're looking for, I think you want Pushing Tin. I haven't seen Taking Lives, so I'll take SphericalCrusher's word on that. I also think it's unfair to slam Hackers because it's portrayal of hackers is ludicrous. Of course it's ludicrous. Movies never get our subculture -- or any subculture, for that matter -- right. It's still a fun movie if you're willing to turn your brain off and not get pissed shouting about how much they got wrong.
Jokes about girlfriends and their tastes aside, I'm with nero on this one. AvP was the worst movie I have ever seen. It was worse than I had expected, and I had expected a steaming pile of crap. Paul W.S. Anderson makes Ed Wood look like Hitchcock.
I assumed they simply meant cyber sex, but your idea is much classier. "Ohhhhhhhhhhh, FORTRAN!"
But it ain't happening any time soon. Nevertheless: D, anybody?
A Tour of the Calculus is a particularly comendable book. It only covers the more basic tenants and theorems of Calculus, but gives you an immense sense of the power behind such theorems and of the near-glacial process which has formed them and the calculus as a whole. Reading it gave me a much deeper understanding of the particular topics it covered, as well as the Calculus and math in general.
So they've programed a great back button. Cool. Now, I love the back button and all - I use it a lot - but I generally like to have a browser to go along with it. This makes no mention of the idea actually being implemented in any current or future browser.
They could certainly build a thin card with a small built in lcd powered by an ultra-thin battery. Such a model would be faintly more expensive, granted, thereby making cards considerably less expendable than a metro card, but it is still feasible. And not prohibitively expensive either, i should clarify.
I mean that my frustration with the windows interface and it's inflexibility was one of many things that convinced me to switch. Linux is wide open to customizability and innovation because of its open-source nature. Shouldn't developers take advantage of that and try new interface ideas to change the ways we use computers, rather than presenting us with clones that fall short of the sub-par products they are attempting to emulate? When software is cloned without creativity and new ideas, it's kind of like making a duplication of an analog tape: each succesive duplicate is going to get worse and worse in quality. I still keep windows installed for games, though.
Linux needs to set itself apart from windows, copying ms's interface detail by detail is not only a waste of effort but harmful to the larger open-source effort. Worse yet, the windows interface is horrible, so of all the interface's to copy exactly, why choose one of the worst out there?I want a great interface when I'm using my computer, not the same old interface that frustrated me enough to get me to install linux in the first place.
We need innovation, not duplication.
Does this mean that my phone will have more static? I didn't realize that was possible. Even worse, If Microsoft gets hold of the mobile market, they may introduce a service similiar to Nextel's direct connect, only worse, which means we'll have exponentially more people screaming their private conversations for all to hear. Oh, joy.
True, this would seem to be a flaw in the system. Perhaps this could be negated by employing elements of google's ranking methods to ensure that pages are useful. Mixing in such cross checks could really strengthen and balance an entanglement system.
I disagree. While any experienced programmer should know the basic syntax requirements of any language they work in, an integral part of the whole coding process is the computer. It's a psychological connection: coding and the keyboard/computer. e.g. the physical act of tapping on a keyboard and the sound of keys can help you code more effectively. Coding in such an unnatural way as writing with pen and paper is detrimental to ease of coding and could easily throw off even an experienced programmer. Besides, the thought process of coding ususally overlooks all the little details, like ;s and whatnot. Those are things you add in after you get your thoughts out, if you tend to overlook them the first time through. It's this thought process that makes coding an incremental process, where you start with your thoughts and build them into a form that can be compiled. It's this building process that makes written tests requiring large, accurate blocks of code to be written (especially under a time constraint) to be extremely unfair and innacurate as a measure of any programmer's skill.