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Tron Legacy Exposed 320

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday July 27, 2009 @01:47PM from the end-of-line dept.

KingofGnG writes "Disney has chosen the San Diego Comic-Con International to present its new sci-fi project: the sequel to Tron. The classic movie from 1982 dealt with video games, virtual reality and 3D graphics when none of those things were widely popular. The new movie has got an official title and synopsis now, and they've released the very first trailer from the movie (this time without silly censorship) together with some concept art and the teaser poster." No matter how silly the movie is, they'll at least get my money for sheer nostalgia.

The Technology of Neuromancer After 25 Years 203

Posted by timothy on Sunday July 05, 2009 @08:15AM from the where-were-you-when-it-came-out dept.

William Gibson's Neuromancer was first published 25 years ago. Dr_Ken writes with an excerpt from an article at MacWorld that delves into the current state of some of the technology that drives the book: "'Neuromancer is important because of its astounding predictive power. Gibson's core idea in the novel is the direct integration of man and computer, with all the possibilities (and horrors) that such a union entails. The book eventually sold more than 160 million copies, but bringing the book to popular attention took a long time and a lot of word-of-mouth. The sci-fi community, however, was acutely aware of the novel's importance when it came out: Neuromancer ran the table on sci-fi's big three awards in 1984, winning the Hugo Award, the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award, and the Nebula Award.'"

Comment Re:"Best" debugger is no debugger (Score 2) 257

by robwells on Saturday December 16, 2000 @06:39AM (#554733) Attached to: What Debugger Can You Use For Multithreaded Apps?

The is what Kernighan & Pike say in their excellent book "The Practice of Programming." (And I agree..)

As they say, "...we tend not to use debuggers beyond getting a stack trace or the value of a variable or two. One reason is that it is easy to get lost in the details of complicated data structures and control flow; .... It is more helpful to use the debugger to discover the state of the program when it fails, then think about how the failure could have happened. ..."

Just my 0.02...

R.

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