IMHO, "Ender's Game" is a good story, it just lacks the genius quality some science fiction and fantasy has of showing the reader a glimpse into a whole universe different from the one we live in.
"Foundation" had that. "Dune" had that easily and in spades. Even "Harry Potter" had it. Hell, fucking "Animorphs" for children had it. "Ender's Game" pretty much didn't have it.
Oh, I'm not saying that some smart comp-sci undergrads can't write real code and get payed for it. The CS department here tells all its students to have their first internship or whatnot doing just that by the summer after sophomore year.
I just think that, more than other industries, computing encourages almost everyone with an idea and far too much coffee to make a go at a startup company.
As a member of a religion that firmly prohibits the practice of witchcraft and wizardry, I rather resent that.
My point? The fact that modern science isn't prohibited means that my religion clearly delineates between science and magic. Science is finding out how the world works *all on its own when we're not looking*. Technology is applying that.
Magic is trying to break the rules that science uncovers, usually through an appeal to metaphysical entities.
Ender's game was written for the adolescent mentality.
Re-read it again when you're a little older - it's just trash. Barely any plot, and a deus-ex-machina ending which anybody over the mental age of eight could've seen coming long before the story's midpoint.
Puts it right next to the Harry Potter books - except those were explicitely marketed to the younger crowd. Tell ya what - compare Ender's Game with, say, The Martian Chronicles or I, Robot or Stranger in a Strange Land and let me know if you see a slight difference in the complexity of the story being told, eh?
Naw, those are much too simple. Want a *really* complex story? Go read the Foundation trilogy, or better yet, any book in the original Dune series.
Aw bullshit. I've seen that "Monomyth" stuff, and quite frankly there's so many damn ways to rearrange the "monomyth" that it fails to constitute a single story any longer! Campbell just wrote up in book form what anyone could have found on tvtropes.org, and it definitely doesn't mean that any story someone tells now is just a retelling of some "original hero-story".
Yeah, but how many comp sci undergrads know enough actual computer science to successfully figure out a clever, sale-able solution to a problem that someone actually needs solved?
The "undergrad entrepreneurs" that *I* know are just a bunch of kids in 100-level classes who are trying to start a gaming studio. Admittedly, they seem to be making progress on a game of some sort, and all the best luck to them, but I don't see how they're going to compete in the market with some product of one or two years' undergrad comp sci education.
Nah, it's just that the cellphone market has been catering to 17-year-old girls.
I'm a 19-year-old male, and all I want my phone to do is make calls and, just as importantly, receive calls. I have a laptop that does email, music (so does my iPod), video (so does my iPod), gaming, and document editing.
Fuck expensive convergence devices. The iPhone is only really interesting because of its user interface.
Exactly. Get that printed on the cake, and force someone to prove the statement false mathematically (ie: without referencing the fact that they can see and touch a cake) before anyone can eat cake.
Just a guess: Ridiculously hot zombies who only want a few hours of grinding disease-free love without exchanging phone numbers. BRRRAIIINNNSS!!! BBBBBRRRRAAAAIIIIINNNNSSSS!
I bought my 2007, 15-inch Macbook Pro because I wanted a machine running a Unix-based OS that would just work without having to fuck around with the drivers (and especially without contaminating my system with Windoze drivers *COUGH*NDISWRAPPER*COUGH*). Wish granted, even though I now dual-boot it with Ubuntu for when I need to do dev work.
What should the repositories look like when correct? All I've ever done is add a few third-party repos, which I've temporarily disabled for the upgrade.
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That was before the Bush Administration.
Now we often punish children by showing them what Torgo's Powder is made of.
IMHO, "Ender's Game" is a good story, it just lacks the genius quality some science fiction and fantasy has of showing the reader a glimpse into a whole universe different from the one we live in.
"Foundation" had that. "Dune" had that easily and in spades. Even "Harry Potter" had it. Hell, fucking "Animorphs" for children had it. "Ender's Game" pretty much didn't have it.
Oh, I'm not saying that some smart comp-sci undergrads can't write real code and get payed for it. The CS department here tells all its students to have their first internship or whatnot doing just that by the summer after sophomore year.
I just think that, more than other industries, computing encourages almost everyone with an idea and far too much coffee to make a go at a startup company.
As a member of a religion that firmly prohibits the practice of witchcraft and wizardry, I rather resent that.
My point? The fact that modern science isn't prohibited means that my religion clearly delineates between science and magic. Science is finding out how the world works *all on its own when we're not looking*. Technology is applying that.
Magic is trying to break the rules that science uncovers, usually through an appeal to metaphysical entities.
You've never read "Dune", have you? It easily meets or passes the real world for sheer situational complexity.
Re-read it again when you're a little older - it's just trash. Barely any plot, and a deus-ex-machina ending which anybody over the mental age of eight could've seen coming long before the story's midpoint.
Naw, those are much too simple. Want a *really* complex story? Go read the Foundation trilogy, or better yet, any book in the original Dune series.Puts it right next to the Harry Potter books - except those were explicitely marketed to the younger crowd. Tell ya what - compare Ender's Game with, say, The Martian Chronicles or I, Robot or Stranger in a Strange Land and let me know if you see a slight difference in the complexity of the story being told, eh?
Aw bullshit. I've seen that "Monomyth" stuff, and quite frankly there's so many damn ways to rearrange the "monomyth" that it fails to constitute a single story any longer! Campbell just wrote up in book form what anyone could have found on tvtropes.org, and it definitely doesn't mean that any story someone tells now is just a retelling of some "original hero-story".
There are new things under the sun.
Yeah, but how many comp sci undergrads know enough actual computer science to successfully figure out a clever, sale-able solution to a problem that someone actually needs solved?
The "undergrad entrepreneurs" that *I* know are just a bunch of kids in 100-level classes who are trying to start a gaming studio. Admittedly, they seem to be making progress on a game of some sort, and all the best luck to them, but I don't see how they're going to compete in the market with some product of one or two years' undergrad comp sci education.
Come on, Citadel Studios, prove me wrong!
Yeah, the way people wait so long nowadays just seems very weird to me.
Then again, maybe that's because my parents waited until they were 34 and 45, and my brother and I both have various horrible allergies.
And now my mother is going through menopause while I'm in college. Oy gevalt.
Naw, they couldn't be anorexic and obese at the same time!
So being bitten by a radioactive spider gave you necrotic lesions and hideous gaping wounds, but you keep walking around?
That's not superpowers! That's being a ZOMBIE!
We need a team of sanitizers over here, NOW!
I just friended you for that, Spidey.
HAI-HA! You went to RPI!!! Neener-neener neener!
So *that's* why so many members of my school's Sci-Fi/Fantasy club belong to the Neo-Pagans!
And it also explains my weird habit of acting like a zombie whenever I feel awful.... Bbbrrraaiiiiinnnnssss.... Toooo muuucchhh HvZ.....
BBrrrnrrraaaaiiiiinnssss,...
RTFT: Read the Fucking Talmud.
Congratulations. You are officially the first person to bring a Linux issue back to Rambam.
Nah, it's just that the cellphone market has been catering to 17-year-old girls.
I'm a 19-year-old male, and all I want my phone to do is make calls and, just as importantly, receive calls. I have a laptop that does email, music (so does my iPod), video (so does my iPod), gaming, and document editing.
Fuck expensive convergence devices. The iPhone is only really interesting because of its user interface.
Exactly. Get that printed on the cake, and force someone to prove the statement false mathematically (ie: without referencing the fact that they can see and touch a cake) before anyone can eat cake.
On that note, see if "21" is out on DVD yet.
Who says we wouldn't be here? Why should only the particular set of fundamental axioms and constants we observe support human(oid) life?
Maybe with another set of fundamentals we'd just have a race of Great Old Ones walking around asking the same damn questions we do.
See Asimov's "The Gods Themselves".
Actually, I did the upgrade yesterday and it went over just fine. Took a damn long time, but now it runs like a dream.
Looks nice, too.
I bought my 2007, 15-inch Macbook Pro because I wanted a machine running a Unix-based OS that would just work without having to fuck around with the drivers (and especially without contaminating my system with Windoze drivers *COUGH*NDISWRAPPER*COUGH*). Wish granted, even though I now dual-boot it with Ubuntu for when I need to do dev work.
Hmmm... upgrade-manager -c seems to recognize the distro upgrade. Why doesn't starting through the GUI do that?
Sorry for all the questions, I'm a Linux oldbie but an Ubuntu newbie.
What should the repositories look like when correct? All I've ever done is add a few third-party repos, which I've temporarily disabled for the upgrade.