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Comment Lies, Damn Lies and... (Score 1) 535

These results may be correct sure but their data collection mechanism seems highly suspect.

The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, MSN, Yahoo!, Wikipedia and YouTube are used to calculate the ratings.

..very scientific. Vendors in particular strike me as a particularly trustworthy source, citing anything that will sell them products.

Comment Re:Yes, you are the only one (Score 1) 325

I find it likely that we are the quiet majority, actually. Those films barely made any sense because they skipped so much. It is very unlikely that the washed masses were able to pick up a story from it. The first one was good, but the second ones were just too dull. I couldn't even finish watching the third one. The movie was over-hyped, and a lot of people just got swept up in it.

Hopefully The Hobbit will be better. This book lends itself slightly better for a movie format, since there was action and comedy in pretty much every chapter.

I think it extremely likely that the washed masses followed *exactly* what was going on, hence the extremely large revenue. They didn't really skip that much either, Case in point : the Old Forest and Barrow Downs are a great part of the first book - but do they really add that much to the overall narrative? - Beyond a Numenorean blade that came in real handy for stabbing the Witch King somewhat later and some "ring-a-ding dillos" from a maia hippy, what would it have really added except another 45 minutes to the movie... precious little.

I also heard at Dragon*Con there is a strong possibility that they will be making two movies for the Hobbit (cha-ching) - with the split point as yet unrevealed. The episodic nature of the book will also be stretched into a more ongoing narrative.

Comment Re:Looks ok (Score 5, Funny) 137

Well, you gotta give it to Microsoft this time. It seems that these patents are all real and do cover significant innovation and no prior art. What's right is right. When you invent something you have to protect your invention.

After all patents were made to protect the little inventor from big companies, and this is a great example of the patent system working beautifully

Thanks Steve for your comments.

Comment DO Both (Score 1) 834

Get experience, get a degree part time - you might even get your employer to pay for it. Education is always good. More experience is always good. With This plan you can get both.

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