I liked the fact it wasn't quite realistic, and I do think the film makers knew it too. It made him look a little more deranged, a little more mad. The effect worked for me.

I liked the film. Very different in tone to the first - my kids love the first (eldest is 9) but I doubt they'd get on well with the second. That's fine though - the film is aimed at mid-to-late thirties like me, people who saw the original and wanted it taken one step further. Lots of doom-laden portentous imagery, but that's fine.

I would have liked more of Tron himself, and felt slightly cheated of a big Tron/Clu showdown. Still, it's a minor point - I really enjoyed the whole thing. I think one thing that helped me do this was staying away from all pre-film publicity and speculation other than the initial trailer. I had no preconception coming into the film, and I'm sure I enjoyed myself more as a result.

Cheers,
Ian

Was running SunOS 4 (Solaris was SunOS 5), which is roughly contemporary to the original Tron, but slightly later (exactly as would be needed to have set up the new Grid). He was also running iostat, and the blk_writes went up as the laser switched on.

Somebody, somewhere, cared about that scene.

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Ian

No, it shouldn't. At that point it loses trust - I can no longer consider the information to be free of commercial conflicts of interest.

There's already enough problems with the editor model - let's not add more.

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Ian

Are you disappointed by Citizen Kane because the clever camera work doesn't jump out at you?

Deathly irony there. Citizen Kane is in part so famous exactly because the clever camera work jumped out at you. It's an effects-based film, with a first-time director showing off various then-new techniques.

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Ian

Hack a car gps onto some random address generator, start a timer, and race across town!

Welcome to London.

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Ian

If even one of them works, doesn't that mean I have to push them just to be sure?

Exactly. If you press a control that doesn't work you lose nothing. If you fail to press a control that does work you lose functionality. Whilst I agree with the effect they're suggesting, presenting it using examples of deliberately wiring-in dummies is ridiculous. If they then go back and ask people if they believed the button in question actually worked, well then there's the begins of the data we actually need for this.

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Ian

'The BBC's technology correspondent, on the other hand, reckons: "it's safe to assume that Times Newspapers has yet to achieve the same revenues from its paywall experiment that were available when its website was free."'

No it isn't. It's possible to believe it (and so do I) but it's not safe to assume anything. Data please.

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Ian

Hi - hope you get this, saw your reply a bit late.

Thanks for that. My dad died last year, in his sleep and surrounded by all his family (including me). Couldn't have scripted a better ending. Like your uncle, he did a lot of work afterwards for his community - starting and running a youth club for instance, to help out with kids who had little to do.

He didn't talk that much about what really went on. I have some stories, but it was only when we went through his things that we realised he'd kept things like the Eisenhower letter from before the landings. He did describe Belsen, which they simply couldn't believe when they saw it. People like your Uncle and my dad - they had a tough time of it, and we owe them a lot.

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Ian

You're right - Cromwell. Have just looked it up. Mentions the Mk IV used by the 11th Armoured. Thanks again.

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Ian

Thanks. Having done some reading just now it seems my dad was in the 11th Armoured Division - does that help narrow it down? I'm genuinely curious.

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Ian

Ah, here come the armchair heroes who've played some WWII game and think they know everything. Clearly you're right - I'm lying. Obviously I have massive amounts to gain from lying on Slashdot about my dad's achievements.

Bluntly, you are being daft. Did you not notice the language I couched it in? I'm no WWII expert and don't intend to be one, I'm recounting stories I was told as a kid by my dad. There'll be people who know more than me about this and will correct me - 'lying' doesn't begin to come into it.

Here's my dad guarding Belson, by the way. Picture 1 and Picture 2. They were one of the first forces into the area - please let me know when you've achieved a tenth as much.

Anyway, that link shows my dad to have been in the 11th Armoured Division. It seems you're right - not Berlin, but Lubeck and Neustadt. So yes, turns out I'm inaccurate. But lying? No.

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Ian

My dad drove a tank in WWII. I believe one of the Churchills but I'm no war historian and I'm happy to be shown otherwise. He was in the Normandy landings and eventually in the invasion of Berlin too.

Thing is, the German tanks had bigger guns and longer ranges - significantly longer. There was apparently a speed advantage to the British tank (I'm going by what I was told, again I'm not a WWII-buff by any means) though, so what they used to do was lure the German tank into a village, then drive round back of them. The German guns were so big they couldn't turn them in in a normal street with buildings on either side whereas the smaller British tank certainly could. Not sure this was by design, but they took any advantage they could of course and I'm told that this trick was used by my dad a number of times.

Cheers,
Ian