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Comment on Primer Movie – Scene by Scene Explanation by Pat

Pat — Fri, 11 May 2012 22:53:16 +0000

The “party hero thing” is the crux of the movie. It is to prevent Rachel from being shot by the crazy-ex boyfriend. This is what originally happened and why they are trying to “reverse engineer a perfect moment.” This is also why Granger traveled back in time. Remember, Rachel is Granger’s daughter. Granger had invested in Abe and Aaron and they used his money to make the original time machine. At some point, whether they explicitly told him about time travel or not, Granger became aware that Aaron and Abe had invented it and it was housed in the storage locker. When his daughter was killed by her crazy ex-boyfriend at the party, he attempted to go back in time to change things. The reason Granger goes into a coma when Abe is around is because any discussion with Granger would make Abe decide to activate the failsafe. If this happened, Abe would return to a time before the chain of events leading to Granger being made aware of the time machine. Granger couldn’t travel back in time in a time machine he did not know about. This is a paradox.

Great review of a great movie.

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Comment on About by Kiran

Kiran — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:59:16 +0000

I was trying to get in touch with some of the developers through blogs . As i was searching for such blogs on Google i could find out your blog ,i need your valuable help and mentoring regarding Development and programming. I am a Computer Science Grad from Bangalore,India . Can u please guide me as to how can i be a developer/programmer. Any advice that u can give in this regard.

Comment on Who’ll Watch the Watchmen? by David Merrigan

David Merrigan — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:49:53 +0000

Nooo Francis.I really liked the Watchmen. Its probably that it was one of my favourite comics and I thought the story line was pretty decent. I have to admit that the acting was pretty dire but I don’t think anything could have put me off it really.Rorschach’s last words in the directors cut “No compromise, Not even in the face of Armageddon” is one of my favourite quotes from any film. If you ever do decide to try out the comics check out Preacher http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preacher_(comics). I haven’t found anything better yet. Nice one on the audible Job dude. Listening to Game of Thrones part one atm although I didn’t pay for it!!

Comment on Stream a webcam using Javascript, NodeJS, Android, Opera Mobile, Web Sockets and HTML5 by ket

ket — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:11:21 +0000

Thanks for demonstrate this awesome feature, but what is the ws.js? you did not include it in here. Is there any other software behind this to get it done?

Comment on Sencha Touch 2.0 MVC in 5 minutes or less by Anx

Anx — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 01:04:02 +0000

Thanks for this tutorial. I am not able to make it work in SAP. I have downloaded the commercial Sencha Touch 2 version and there is no “sencha-touch-all-debug-w-comments.js” file. I tried using the other debug file and still can’t see anything on chrome.

Also, what debugger or Editor are you guys using for development?

Thanks for reading my rant!

Anx

Comment on Explanation of the Movie ‘Stay’ by Ann

Ann — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:39:27 +0000

I agree with all the excellent interpretations of this movie. I came here to look for an explanation too. Although, I wouldn’t recommend this movie to watch for someone who is grieving the loss of someone they love. My mother just passed away a short time ago, and I still am not accepting her death. When I watched this movie, and then at the end, watched Henry (Ryan Gosling) lingering between life and death, I just grieved for my Mother all the more. But, the movie is very good and is very deep once it is explained by someone with an understanding of psychology. Its either a hated or loved movie, no in-between. I hated the movie at first. I had fallen asleep watching it, and was dreaming of my mother, and then woke up to the end of the movie with Henry dying. I was so depressed and wanted to see my mother. I had been thinking about this movie for a few days and wanted to see what everyone’s explanation of the movie was. Now it makes sense.

Comment on Explanation of the Movie ‘Stay’ by Mitch H

Mitch H — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:07:48 +0000

I missed the part of the crash as well on TV yesterday. However in the end scene it became clear for me that in the ‘real world’ none of the charecters had a connection, that the whole thing I did see had taken place in Henry’s brain. All the interpersonal relations in the ‘dream world’ only exist in Henry’s mind while he’s trying to find peace. He’s overwelmed by feelings of guilt, the characters in the dream world are nothing more then a visualisation by Henry’s brain of an internal struggle he’s dealing with while he actualy is dying on the bridge.

As soon as in the real world he’s told the accident wasn’t his fault, that his front tire blew and there was nothing he could have done, he seems to find his peace.

I think this movie was a briliant masterpiece none the less, life´s not allways about happy endings, nor does it always make sence. It´s just Henry´s death experienced from both views, his and the people that are witnessing it.

Comment on Explanation of the Movie ‘Stay’ by Sea

Sea — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:11:54 +0000

It was a great movie, but i missed the beginning of the movie (also the crash) so i actually didnt really understand the story when it was finished but i had some clues. Now ive read some explanations and i get it. I feel bad for missing the beginning of the movie..

Comment on Stream a webcam using Javascript, NodeJS, Android, Opera Mobile, Web Sockets and HTML5 by Francis

Francis — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:15:39 +0000

You could make an ad-hoc network between the PC and the phone. That’s what I did in this demo.