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Absolutely... that Cam keeps running again and again; that Cam and Donna keep entertaining a project that will ultimately end up the way Mutiny did (even if their friendships survives); that they resort to old feel-good crutches even if in the shape of new ideas; that Cameron’s mind cannot stop bringing Joe up, trying to get Haley to disclose his whereabouts; that she childishly complains about his abrupt departure and yet again fail to realize her fault in it; that Donna cannot help but bring up that “I have an idea” in an effort to stop Cam from leaving...yet again, just like at the end of season 3 when she tried to win her over with World Wide Web.
There are no real closures, that’s why Cam and Joe don’t get to say a proper goodbye (by the time she is remotely ready to do it, he is long gone), that is why Donna and Cam will fall into same traps, that is why new ideas will always come up, old partnerships and emotions awoken, just when you think you closed your door to them.
Joe seems to have left this merry-go-around, but the question is for how long ...
This following excellent review is exactly on point of recursion... and says it so eloquently:
“And while Halt and Catch Fire offers each of its main characters resolution in the form of self-reinvention...the show’s biggest accomplishment is keeping the messy histories that took place before intact and ever-present... Like the Centipede cabinet or even John’s old Cardiff Electric radio camouflaged in a box of memorabilia, it’s all still there lurking in the past, always ready and available to be re-tooled or revisited, even if it ultimately can’t lead to new possibilities.”
https://kotaku.com/the-arcade-cabinet-bridging-four-seasons-of-halt-and-ca-1819489134
Also, equally beautiful on recursion
And a terrific analysis that touches upon that Centipede and what it signifies. This is probably one of my favorite analysis of the show
https://kotaku.com/the-arcade-cabinet-bridging-four-seasons-of-halt-and-ca-1819489134
If you watch any decent amount of YouTube, you should be aware of VPNs that allow you to watch Netflix content in other countries. Not all VPNs are capable of doing so (mine doesn't) but I think NordVPN and ExpressVPN both claim to be able to let you do that.
You may like, "When wizards stay up late" as well:
Description from Amazon:
Twenty five years ago, it didn't exist. Today, twenty million people worldwide are surfing the Net. Where Wizards Stay Up Late is the exciting story of the pioneers responsible for creating the most talked about, most influential, and most far-reaching communications breakthrough since the invention of the telephone.
In the 1960's, when computers where regarded as mere giant calculators, J.C.R. Licklider at MIT saw them as the ultimate communications devices. With Defense Department funds, he and a band of visionary computer whizzes began work on a nationwide, interlocking network of computers. Taking readers behind the scenes, Where Wizards Stay Up Late captures the hard work, genius, and happy accidents of their daring, stunningly successful venture.
The internet was worldwide in universities, many in Europe and that included Eastern Europe, and I am certain S. Korea, Japan. Though upon further review Mainland China might not have, Hong Kong and Taiwan did though.
The internet and people using it as a communications tool snuck up on totalitarian governments. Edu students and faculty usenet posting and emailing tended to come from the bottom up. Not every country had available usenet at every university, but almost every European country had a node or could find one. Massive internet in Western Europe both university and governments, as well.
It was very much a scenario where the West was learning of and in some cases being told information from behind the closed countries, and this helps in turn focus attention on them, bring Western media, all that stuff.
Rarely used by folks slinging Fortran or Cobol and even C, but for Cameron? Who (per the show) wrote previous apps in Prolog? Who certainly would be familiar with Lisp as it was a major "teaching language" for formal CS at the time? She even obliquely refers to recursion (w/o using the word) in Season 3 in her battle against Frick and Frack. Finally, I'm no Cameron Howe, not even close, and I knew what recursion was in the 80s, and so did all the other serious programmers I knew at the time.
To folks who aren't programmers, you probably would have only been jarred by the fact that this is only the second time ever Cam has refered to what she learned in school. (The first time was in Season One, when she cites "The Mythical Man-Month" as "the only useful book I ever read in college".)
But for actual coders, that was really unsettling.
Hi, can someone help me please. I've installed ExpressVPN with the hopes of watching it on US netflix but it's not showing up for me. Is this a problem with the VPN maybe? I'm 99% sure it's supposed to be available on US Netflix from what I've read...
Perhaps I got different results than you.
Most of my results were IMDB and Amazon links, with a few torrent sites. Torrents do not necessarily equate to viruses, and I don't see any "spam" sites. Here's my first 2 Google results:
Legit torrent site:
http://www.tvsubtitles.net/subtitle-1497-2-es.html
Fucking DVD on Amazon (if you don't want to buy the legit DVDs, don't bitch about Torrent sites):
https://www.amazon.com/Halt-Catch-Fire-Temporada-Spanish/dp/B06XWW32WC
You want something for free, and you want someone to somehow ensure everything you download is "safe"?
Fuck off, find it yourself. I gave you an honest answer. I wasn't being a jerk - you chose to read it that way. I qualified my initial answer because many people say "Google it" in a snarky way, which I went out of my way to say was not my intention.
Go buy the DVDs. They have the Spanish subs.
Perhaps I got different results than you.
Most of my results were IMDB and Amazon links, with a few torrent sites. Torrents do not necessarily equate to viruses, and I don't see any "spam" sites. Here's my first 2 Google results:
Legit torrent site:
http://www.tvsubtitles.net/subtitle-1497-2-es.html
Fucking DVD on Amazon (if you don't want to buy the legit DVDs, don't bitch about Torrent sites):
https://www.amazon.com/Halt-Catch-Fire-Temporada-Spanish/dp/B06XWW32WC
You want something for free, and you want someone to somehow ensure everything you download is "safe"?
Fuck off, find it yourself. I gave you an honest answer.
I love the CRT effects -- I've actually got a copy of Cool Retro Term installed on my desktop.
Come to think of it, you could probably use a C64 webfont, with the graphics characters included, to make your site look exactly like Mutiny's landing page, CRT bloom and all. Nothing against the ST font you're using, of course.
Edit: http://style64.org/c64-truetype -- available as a freeware WOFF, and the license allows for this usage.
Definitely the first that comes to mind. Want to see the true story?
It isn't the same, but for what it is worth I really like iWoz. And I really like H&CT, so maybe we have similar taste!!!
Also: Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made
Literally? Probably not. Thematically? Potentially. For instance, many of the main characters in Neuromancer have a penchant for hard drug use, which causes the occasional problem for them. That being said, I think any comparisons you might draw between the two would be apples-to-oranges -- in Neuromancer, it fits in well with the transhumanist cyberpunk vibe (check out Iain M Banks' Culture series if the genre intrigues you), whereas I feel Gordon's cocaine use will be less a gimmick to create a dark atmosphere and more a means to magnify the ups and downs of his character arc.