http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090837/

I can't believe I wasted my money on this movie. I download 99% of the movies I want to watch, and I just had to support Card for this movie, and I was completely let down.

Having Bernard in Ender's army, and one his squadron leaders had me questioning whether or not the guy who wrote the screenplay had ever read the book!

In short, don't waste your money!

I just posted that on my FB page, but suggested adblock plus with fanboy and easylist filers

I first started learning about programming on my Commodore 64, real minor stuff around 10.

Then I got a dial up modem, and found a wonderful program called mIRC, and I started learning to script.

After learning to write scripts in mIRC for 2 years, and transferring to a new school, I tried getting into the AP classes in high school. The only problem is that they only offered the classes to juniors and seniors... Once I was finally able to take these classes (Turbo Pascal and VB) I was finally knew what I wanted to do with my life.

Luckily once I got to college these classes helped me jump to second year courses and fly by all the BS intro to computer classes.

Ignore all that crap. Didn't bother to read as Snark suggested.

Referencing an earlier comment "laser placement" to paraphrase. Not that I know how reliable that would be, however, I have seen some interesting articles dealing with the orienting of objects with lasers.

BTW most interesting conversation I've seen at /. in a while here.

Oh wait, I signed up for that and it didn't work. Why would I think this "option" would be treated any different?

I would suggest finding a used Laptop if you want to avoid windows 8. I work for a used computer sales company and we have 40 to 50 laptops a month that we sell with windows 7, vista, and even XP.

Also check Craigslist.

If you aren't buying used I don't know where you might find somebody still selling machines with windows 7.

Sophmore year was basically "introduction to computers" giving the basic history from Babbage to the PC, covering apple, and the start of Microsoft buying DOS. After that the only thing we were taught was Lotus 1-2-3 on Windows 3.1. The next year the school upgraded and we were running windows 98 with whatever MS Office suite was available at the time. This was the depressing part. These were things I was fortunate enough to learn before I went to high school. Being the teacher's assistant is definitely not much fun.

Next was drafting with Autocad, which was really just the basics on CAD and mostly focused on the basics of paper and pencil drafting.

Computer Science was available my Junior and Senior year. The first teacher we had didn't actually keep a grade book and when asked to write an essay on what I had learned in his class for the final project I wrote a large goose egg, handed it in 5 minutes after class started and still made a 90 for the year...

Senior year was taught by the same teacher who was teaching intro to computers and she was way out of her depth. At this time I had been scripting in mIRC for the last three years and had a pretty good grasp on variables, functions, writing modularly, and once again was set in the role of teacher's assistant... When I started CS2 I realized taking time to learn Pascal in CS1 did actually teach me a lot of the fundamentals of CS. I may not have cared much for the first teacher because of his teaching method, but the ideas sunk in.

I graduated in 99.

Sadly, most of the people my age don't seem to know how to do much more than write a document or the very basics of spreadsheets. Then again, I also live in a tiny town of 80,000.

Hit the Minecraft crowd up. Some of our interns just couldn't stop talking about it. I just didn't get the appeal.

Damn it! I've been saying socialist all these years.

Considering that 70% of their manufacturing is now taking place in China, it's not hard to believe. Reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvl5Gan69Wo&feature=player_embedded

No, I said I'm not perfect. If you didn't get that concept, maybe you need to go back to sku sku sku school, where they seem to have failed to teach our current sheep herd the most basic principles needed to get by in life, but some how managed to pass them through grade after grade until they got out into the real world. Woe is the general tax payer who actually has to pay for them and theirs...

Do you have any idea what it's like to listen to somebody read out loud and struggle to make it through a few paragraphs in a story because they can't fucking read? Did you know these same people are driving on our streets, unable to read or comprehend the guidelines motorists need to know? Oh wait, we're all winners, nobody is behind the curve...

Yes! Absolutely this technology could save my life! Do I want it in my vehicle? NO! Not until the day I decide I want it. At that time I can call On Star, provided by Government Motors.

I don't have to cost the government, YOU and other taxpayers, a dime! I don't have insurance. Why? I'm not married and I don't have any children. Who would benefit? Well insurance companies for one, and now if I still don't buy insurance I get fined / taxed (however you see it) thanks to Obamacare. Yep, I decide not to be a burden to society while I pay for those that do. Funny how what I worked for doesn't benefit me, but takes care of somebody else.

Fuck that!

WTF do you think I'm talking about? I'm trying to save you untold thousands over the course of your natural working years in life. Do you have any idea how many people and how much new equipment it will take to answer all of these "emergency" calls that may be nothing more than some dumb ass who backed into his own garage door? My long term medical costs are only covered if I CHOOSE to ask the government for assistance because of my current position. My lack of insurance usually means I won't be able to get long term help unless I make that choice. I'm a fucking white male. That fact alone means I most likely won't see the light of day from behind the wall of paper work and red tape that would be thrown up in my face. Gotta take care of the fucking illegals and minorities first. So I don't have the obsessive need to live like most people... So sue me, and get your money's worth before the government takes it all...