Lots of stupid references in A.I
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Review: A.I.
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I saw the movie yesterday. Christ was I pissed at the end.
It started all well. It was creepy. Haley Joel Osment was excellent. William Hurt was good. Photography, soundtrack, everything was right and fit, except for the stupid teddy bear, a shameless reference to "Ewoks".
Then the second third of the movie came. It was
"E.T", "Schindler's List", "Mad Max 3: Beyond the Thunder Dome", "Wizard of Oz", "Waterworld", "Blade Runner", all mixed together. But it was still tolerable. The movie could have ended right there, with the boy locked forever in the bottom of the sea. It would have been a sad, bittersweet ending, like the endings in Kubrick films.
Then the final third. God was that awful! The aliens with heads looking like Philco Predictas! The hair and DNA thing, argh! I felt like I was watching "Glen or Glenda": now it ends! No, it doesn't! Now it will end! No, it still doesn't end! My God, can't Hollywood stand a sad ending???
I agree.
I've been using perl a lot since last year, mostly for web development. It's very easy to use, and powerful at the same time - the native treatment of regular expressions, the freely available modules that do almost everything (CPAN and others) and the native handling of lists and hashes makes perl a lovely language for rapid development. And yes, you can write readable and maintainable perl if you want to, the same way one would write easy to read and maintainable C or even C++. With a language as flexible as perl, writing good or bad code is a programmer's decision; one has the *freedom* of choosing one's way of programming, based on one's needs or will.
There's a good book about security on Linux: "Linux Firewalls", by Robert Ziegler, New Riders editors. It talks about ipfw, ipchains and all that stuff about setting up a "formal" firewall. You might want to take a look at it.
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I saw the movie yesterday. Christ was I pissed at the end.
It started all well. It was creepy. Haley Joel Osment was excellent. William Hurt was good. Photography, soundtrack, everything was right and fit, except for the stupid teddy bear, a shameless reference to "Ewoks".
Then the second third of the movie came. It was "E.T", "Schindler's List", "Mad Max 3: Beyond the Thunder Dome", "Wizard of Oz", "Waterworld", "Blade Runner", all mixed together. But it was still tolerable. The movie could have ended right there, with the boy locked forever in the bottom of the sea. It would have been a sad, bittersweet ending, like the endings in Kubrick films.
Then the final third. God was that awful! The aliens with heads looking like Philco Predictas! The hair and DNA thing, argh! I felt like I was watching "Glen or Glenda": now it ends! No, it doesn't! Now it will end! No, it still doesn't end! My God, can't Hollywood stand a sad ending???
I agree. I've been using perl a lot since last year, mostly for web development. It's very easy to use, and powerful at the same time - the native treatment of regular expressions, the freely available modules that do almost everything (CPAN and others) and the native handling of lists and hashes makes perl a lovely language for rapid development. And yes, you can write readable and maintainable perl if you want to, the same way one would write easy to read and maintainable C or even C++. With a language as flexible as perl, writing good or bad code is a programmer's decision; one has the *freedom* of choosing one's way of programming, based on one's needs or will.
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Of course, Babelfish uses Systran technology.
There's a good book about security on Linux: "Linux Firewalls", by Robert Ziegler, New Riders editors. It talks about ipfw, ipchains and all that stuff about setting up a "formal" firewall. You might want to take a look at it.