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Dark City - One of the best. Don't know if it is like "Chung Kuo" or "Forever War" - I'll have to check them out.
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There seriously was a lot of trash in the fifties and sixties as well.
We just don't remember those.
Or do you remember "The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy", "The killer Shrews" or "Attack of the Giant Leeches"?
The fact that everyone knows about "Plan 9 from outer space" is just because it's been dubbed it the "worst film ever made"
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My hope is that someday, someone like Ridley Scott or the like would take up the Gateway series by Fredrick Pohl[^].
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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I think Gateway might work better as a TV series rather than a movie - just like The Expanse there's too much detail to make a movie I think.
Good books though!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Yeah, you're probably right. You can't skip on the detail in Gateway or you lose the big reveal at the end of the 4th novel. I don't count the 5th, because it has nothing to do with the main story line; however, it would make great filler episodes between the main story line.
Come to think of it, Gateway would lend itself to more seasons beyond the main story line.
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Science fiction movies don't sell.
Fantasy/adventure movies sell.
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In my experience as a science-fiction reader and moviegoer, it is very hard to adapt (hard) science fiction books to a movie format.
Everyone hates them, or the actor portraying the books characters.
(disclaimer I don't know those 2 authors or book series)
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Read a book?
I am reading "Enter the Dawniverse"!
This inspired by true events. It's an account of survival and daring do, that follows a bronze age tribe, as it takes on a galactic apex predator!
Both moving and informative!
modified 4-May-21 20:45pm.
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"Proper" is in the eye of the beholder, I think. I don't know why anyone has never made a movie of any of the Isaac Asimov books. "I Robot" was an abomination. The only thing it had in common with the book was the title.
I like some humor in my SF movies too. "Repo Man", "Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension", "Earth Girls Are Easy", the whole "Men in Black" series, just to name a few.
I too, think that "Blade Runner", and "RoboCop" were terrific. "Jurassic Park" was worth seeing just for the visual effects.
I believe the problem with movies made from SF books is twofold.
First, it is extremely difficult to condense a book, any book, down to Movie length. Truly exceptional screen writers are necessary, and there are not many of them out there.
Second the unexceptional screen writers think they can write better than the author of the book. "I Robot" is a perfect example.
For that reason, movies made from original scripts are far superior to adaptations of books.
Isaac Asimov's Foundation series would make a great TV series. Almost any of William Gibson's books, particularly "Agency" and or "The Peripheral" would too. Any of Robert Heinlein's books "Stranger in a Strange Land" or "Friday" too. Terry Pratchett and his co-author's "Long Earth" series of books, likewise.
Finally, a 50's movie not mentioned, is "Creature from the Black Lagoon" which I saw when I was 8 years old and gave me nightmares for months after.
BTW: I really hated the movie "I Robot".
Science Fiction Rules!
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I found one aspect of the film "I Robot" rather interesting and enjoyable. Namely the logical reason the robots attempted to overcome humanity.
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Quote: Isaac Asimov's Foundation series would make a great TV series.
It will be available soon on Apple TV+
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that's enough to make me get Apple TV!
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The difference may be slight but one of the conundrums I find myself in is using a ternary operator to handle a default vs non-default assignment.
Simplified:
function whatEver(inVal=NULL) {
if(inVal==NULL)
inVal = internalDefault;
inVal = (inVal==NULL)?internalDefault:inVal;
}
The first should be a touch more efficient as it only does an assignment when necessary, but generally an insignificant difference.
So - what would you do, and, do you ever pause and consider it before choosing?
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Make it sexy.
Keep code as clean and readable as possible.
In the grand scheme of things, the compiler will make it efficient whatever the way you write it.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Seen to many times where efficiency is the winning choice for code that is only hit a few times. Efficiency usually only matters on code that is hit 100s of thousands of times or more.
Clean Code Rules!!!!!
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if(inVal==NULL)
{
inVal = internalDefault;
}
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I love the matching braces! When did they invent that???
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Rusty Bullet wrote: I love the matching braces! When did they invent that??? Probably 'they' invented it c1970 but I suspect it had been used earlier. See Indentation style - Wikipedia[^] for Allman braces and match the date with BSD Berkeley Software Distribution - Wikipedia[^]
It is definitely the way I was shown for Algol 60 (although the braces were then tokens called begin and end) and the one that I have used ever since. Many other folks have independently 'invented' it. If K&R's bracing is TOOTBS (The One and Only True Brace Style, Allman's bracing is TOOLBS (The One and Only Logical Brace Style) or TOOSBS (The One and Only Sensible Brace Style). Much, much, much easier for matching starts and ends of blocks; much, much, much easier for finding mismatched braces.
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TOOTBS is for me. Staggered braces were invented by publishers trying to squeeze more code on a page to save paper. It was anti-readable. The problem with squeezing the code for publishing was that people learned from books, and learned the wrong style. Publishing should remain as publishing and readable code should be the norm for actual coding, but then I am opinionated toward readability and maintainability.
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C# has the null coalescing operator
inVal = inVal ?? internalDefault;
Or with C# 8+
inVal ??= internalDefault;
It doesn’t get much cleaner and clearer that that.
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I like the question colon, you can use it inline like
printf("You have " + count + " new email" + (count <> 1 ? "s" : "" ));
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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This is a problem for internationalisation (== i18n). Not all languages behave like English re plurals.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Twas just the easiest example I could think of.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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I usually write:
void whatEver (int inval = internalDefault) I want to let users see what the function does in case of a NULL value. Otherwise I would have to document what happens when parameter is NULL.
function whatever(inval=NULL) is simply not C/C++.
Quote: do you ever pause and consider it before choosing
I consider every line in my programs. This would be no exception.
EDIT: Note that in C++ default value is written in the header file or wherever the function is declared not in the implementation as your code seems to suggest.
Mircea
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