Anyone else think of bladerunner, like this is some lost footage. The lighting, the old fancy clock, the techy video game.

Like savants -- able to do amazing things, but the details of day to day are too much?

In reply to this comment by oritteropo:
Pardon my butting in, but you may be interested to know that plenty of programmers would be just as baffled by the different embed styles as non-programmers. Some are really techie types, others... well... just aren't. I recall working with some who had trouble turning on their workstations
>> ^ant:

NP. BTW, I am not a programmer either.

Only idiots will correct people on pronunciation of brand names that the company insists on. Most of my techie contacts in computer hardware wholesale or retail call it "Ay-sus", the way it's called since it... forever. Only the idiot sales and marketing people insists that it's called "Ah-soos". Similar things occurs with "SuSE linux" and "Ubuntu linux".

Thanks.

>> ^bleedmegood:

I, personally, am not a Christian. I believe there is something greater than us...an order underlying
the chaos (I call it God). I just gained a great deal of respect for you for voicing your faith on vs, because you are in the minority. Nothing irritates me more than the majority who will rally for open-mined tolerance towards the islamic faith in one breath and mock christianity in the next. I just wanted you to know that I have nothing but respect for those who declare their faith even in the face of ridicule.
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I am a Christian and a techie. They work fine together for me. Even at Christian university I went to (Azusa Pacific University), we have techies, science, etc. as well.

I am a Christian and a techie. They work fine together for me. Even at Christian university I went to (Azusa Pacific University), we have techies, science, etc. as well.

Hello! Just back this minute from seeing the film. I have a few comments to make which may involve SPOILERS.

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Hmmm.

The short review is - what a load of disappointing and quite frankly tedious crap.

Oh Nolan why are you getting worse with each film? Who honestly thinks LDC is an actor with enough charisma to hold a film like this? He really wasn't enough for this role. Why the fuck does Nolan insist on having that thuddingly monotonous soundtrack pounding over virtually every single scene of dialogue? Why not give the actors some space instead of making it feel rushed and forcing them into layering soundbites for only the sake of exposition? Why not make this about the performances rather than worship the god of pacing? (it certainly didn't feel like 148 minutes I'll give him that).

Sorry, that girl he hires? Where was that maze she designed? Oh fuck that, we want a shortcut now. And why is Leo's dad (Michael Caine again for some reason) offering up students to do dodgy work? And what was she studying? Extraction 101? What world is this that dreams can be hacked in this way? This is never explained. Should we expect to see the flying cars out the window? Has cancer been eradicated in this world? How many other people are doing this shit?

And Leo with a bad case of dead wife syndrome (DWS). You know if you want to keep pulling that trick you might want to make it better than it was in Memento. Which is hard to do. Mainly because Guy Pearce is a better actor who makes you feel something about his character. Sympathy, disgust, shock, whatever. Something. LDC is like balsa wood in comparison.

But maybe I'm being too hard on Leo. Maybe the problem is with the script. I was surprised to find I had no problems following what was supposed to be a twisty, layered plot. I didn't see multiple plots criss-crossing and tying my mind up in knots - you want that? Try a James Ellroy novel. I still find Memento a mind-bending watch. The dream within a dream scenario is as hard to imagine as a box within another box. And here that's all that Nolan is concerned about. He loves the techie aspects of this. How does box C behave in box B. Oh B is jiggling about so C is getting all shook up. And do we get to care much about the inception itself? Nope. I thought this was a big missed opportunity to play the complex mind-games required to crack the subject. But in between explosions there wasn't much time for that.

Nolan has become a slightly more sophisticated version of the recent fanboy directors. But he's still thoroughly crass and obvious and doesn't have the talent to explore the spaces between what initially seem like promising ideas. But dreams? Hell, I enjoyed the more straightforward japes of Dreamcape and that was a long time ago.

But I am surprised that so many love this - I'd ask that you think about the characters. State what was memorable about them and what made them interesting. What did this film actually say that was of substance? Strip away the artifice and what are you actually left with?

I saw Total Recall, again, a few days ago. It was better than this.

I don't get it, if all those computers in the room managed to connect to wifi, then why didn't the new iPhone do it? Or does this mean you won't be able to use iPhone wifi at any place where a lot of techies come together?

>> ^rottenseed:

pry pry pry
SO are you not gonna be "around" any longer or are you declaring your resignation from the role of techie?


Both I guess, but I'll probably still check out the top 15 every now and then.

*pry *pry *pry

SO are you not gonna be "around" any longer or are you declaring your resignation from the role of techie?

Well to be fair, people have also said that stories of Apple demanding too much control over their users were exaggerations.

oh...ok
well i dont know if this will help at all, but this excerpt from avast scan log may hold a clue.
perhaps one of your pages links to this other site.
i'm not a techy so i may be way off base here....just trying to help.

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12/13/2009 10:51:33 AM SYSTEM 1648 Sign of "HTML:Iframe-inf" has been found in "http://pixhost.eu/avaxhome/avaxhome/2007-08-10/Brooke_Burke_Z13X.jpg\{gzip}" file.

les

Kids is supposed to be videos that are suitable for kids, but it hasn't really stayed that way. Teens was what I came up with when i'd had my channel idea turned down for controversial. Which ended up being a channel anyway. And I aint complaining

There are sooo many channels needed that aren't even close to being made yet, I really think geek covers techy stuff

My first thoughts were.... how boring this is compared to the other neat toys coming out....

what is this utility they speak of..

i want to be dazzled and confused while i hack the internet... god damn developers trying to be useful? wtf. boring.

NOTE TO GOOGLE: E-MAIL ALREADY WORKS. STOP PRESENTING YOUR FANCY NEW INSTANT MESSENGER LIKE SOME 14 YEAR OLD COULDNT HAVE DESIGNED IT IN 5 MINUTES!!! YOU GET PAID FOR THIS!! AHHHHHHH OUT OF TOUCH TECHIES

Thanks everybody. I really wasn't expecting such nice replies. I'm feeling all warm and fuzzy. Wanna feel?


>> ^Deano:
Even though I stopped building PCs a while ago this sort of thing fascinates me. But I hate the bit when you fire it up and nothing happens....

Tell me about it. I'm so excited, but also very worried about finally try booting up tomorrow. I have most components put together and all my cables are nice and tied together. I'll definitely have to take pictures when I have it complete.


>> ^rougy:
I am so totally turned on right now.
Oh, I'm drooling!

Hehe. Thanks! Yeah, those blue lights are pretty, but I'm more of a practical techie than an aesthetic one for my own builds. That lighted case fan is already too much as far as I'm concerned.


>> ^blutruth:
I would say two things:
First, make sure the UPS you purchase has a connected equipment replacement warranty...

Thanks a lot. Them's be some very useful tips.


>> ^Edeot:
Which video card did you choose?
What's the final cost of the build? (I'm too lazy to punch it all into Newegg.)
Why didn't you spring a little extra for a Core i7? Sure it would cost more on the CPU and motherboard, but at least you'd be future proof on RAM and processor upgrades.

Re: Video card: See update above.

Re: Total price: I think it was roughly $600. A bit more than I was aiming for, but there were a few unexpected costs (like the $100 video card and the pair of IDE to SATA adapters). Yeah, the i7 would definitely have been a nice purchase, but I already put the stretch to my dollar to afford the Q9400, so an extra $60 was pretty much out of the question.

Oh, and I scrapped the floppy because I didn't want the cable running through the middle of the beautiful open space and obstructing airflow. Finally got my first USB thumb drive instead, just so I can be sure I'm able to easily flash my BIOS.

Hahaha, proof that Gizmodo is full of tech-bigots.

... or not? http://gizmodo.com/5065133/the-truth-about-the-apple-tax Interesting.

Seriously, I learned to compute on C64s, GUIs on a B&W Mac, trackballs on an ICON, how to suffer in DOS4.2, how to overcome suffering in DOS6.0, how to be tempted with throwing things out of windows with a defective 1st gen blueberry iMac, the glories of Linux with our webserver, the agony of said webserver being wiped out without a backup because my techie didn't have one for some reason, and the happiness of an employee-generated copy of Vista.

I've experienced the glory joy and pain of many different forms of tech. Bring it on moreso.