Line up all your current hard drives and USB drives, and force them to watch as your slowly destroy one of the obsolete drives. Then tell them this is what will happen to them if they EVER give you write errors or get bad sectors!
The fact that a "nutty fan of the book" isn't panning the movie (and even enjoyed it) is a pretty positive sign. Usually even great screen adaptations get slammed by die-hard fans (Lord of the Rings springs to mind).
Maybe at first she thought it was a bridge to Somewhere. Like to Ted Stevens mansion. Or an NRA meeting.
As for polar bears, what have they ever done for us? Except give us delicious Klondike bars.
But seriously. I'm interested to see her and Biden square up in the VP debate. It's sure to be the most interesting VP debate since Stockdale's famous gaffe.
Yeah, no doubt they will translate the sequels to the silver screen if this first one is a financial success. They'd do fine with Dune Messiah and Children of Dune, as both are fairly "screen-friendly". But God Emperor really is impossible to translate to film. That's not to say they wouldn't try. But it would almost certainly suck.
> Yes, they may well better understand what is to BE coded, but most that I've seen are damn sure not qualified to actually DO the coding.
It's all subjective isn't it. From personal experience I'd disagree.
Having worked as a programmer for 8 years now (through several jobs and languages), and fortunately been unemployed during that time for about 4 months total, I've worked with a lot of other IT folk. I myself don't have a CS major. I started one but after spending a year learning skills I deemed to be useless and esoteric I changed to an Arts major. And on reflection I definitely stand by my decision.
From my experience there is almost no correlation between a CS degree and good coding. This has also been the consensus among friends who do have CS degrees (and who are overwhelmingly excellent programmers). I've worked with a couple of guys who have had Masters in CS and have been stunningly incompetent (they couldn't understand core concepts). Conversely, most of the guys I've worked with that didn't have CS or engineering degrees designed and wrote solid, clean, efficient code.
Unfortunately, Microsoft and the music industry are already taking steps to prevent this from happening in the future.
Long live the open source movement!
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Wrong. Windows95 had full preemptive multitasking.
That still makes it a Johnny-come-lately compared to AmigaOS.
Line up all your current hard drives and USB drives, and force them to watch as your slowly destroy one of the obsolete drives. Then tell them this is what will happen to them if they EVER give you write errors or get bad sectors!
Fear can be a powerful weapon!
The fact that a "nutty fan of the book" isn't panning the movie (and even enjoyed it) is a pretty positive sign. Usually even great screen adaptations get slammed by die-hard fans (Lord of the Rings springs to mind).
Maybe at first she thought it was a bridge to Somewhere. Like to Ted Stevens mansion. Or an NRA meeting. As for polar bears, what have they ever done for us? Except give us delicious Klondike bars. But seriously. I'm interested to see her and Biden square up in the VP debate. It's sure to be the most interesting VP debate since Stockdale's famous gaffe.
Yeah, no doubt they will translate the sequels to the silver screen if this first one is a financial success. They'd do fine with Dune Messiah and Children of Dune, as both are fairly "screen-friendly". But God Emperor really is impossible to translate to film. That's not to say they wouldn't try. But it would almost certainly suck.
> Yes, they may well better understand what is to BE coded, but most that I've seen are damn sure not qualified to actually DO the coding.
It's all subjective isn't it. From personal experience I'd disagree.
Having worked as a programmer for 8 years now (through several jobs and languages), and fortunately been unemployed during that time for about 4 months total, I've worked with a lot of other IT folk. I myself don't have a CS major. I started one but after spending a year learning skills I deemed to be useless and esoteric I changed to an Arts major. And on reflection I definitely stand by my decision.
From my experience there is almost no correlation between a CS degree and good coding. This has also been the consensus among friends who do have CS degrees (and who are overwhelmingly excellent programmers). I've worked with a couple of guys who have had Masters in CS and have been stunningly incompetent (they couldn't understand core concepts). Conversely, most of the guys I've worked with that didn't have CS or engineering degrees designed and wrote solid, clean, efficient code.
Unfortunately, Microsoft and the music industry are already taking steps to prevent this from happening in the future. Long live the open source movement!
D'oh!
> unlike Homer Simpson, the FBI doesn't know the difference between fission and fusion.
"It's pronounced nu-cu-lar!", Homer Simpson