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Filename: +gus1
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File size: 144A bytes
Load address: 2B206576
Exec address: 31737567
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File contents
Reently I watched a film on TV which I have wanted to see for some time,
Shindler's List produced by the much hailed Steven Spelberg.

As most people will know Steven Spelberg's first really big film was
Poltergeist, which along with The Omen and The Exorcist set a new standard
in the genre. Spelberg's offering had a few flaws, little girl disappears,
parents find it rather funny, and it had the ubiquitous baddie in the form
of the owner of the property development company, but the baddie is a
mainstay of the American film, it was nevertheless an excellent film
because the characters were complex, knowable and largely likable. 

His following films played on the vicariousness of American society with
the principal character being deliberatly underdeveloped. The themes of
beings from outer space and baddies in the form of the government were
nothing new. Personally I didn't enjoy any of these which I saw. I find it
difficult to accept that beings might come from outer space and be
incapable of avoiding unplesent attention from mear Earthlings. But
of course I'm a cynic. 

Jaurasic Park used a different plot, though not a new one, Frankenstien's
Monster springs to mind and continued the vicarious theme.

Then came Shindler's List. 

Now there really can't be anyone who hasn't heard the stories of what went
on during that period, each telling tries to bring out some new and even
more dreadful and gruesome tales but nothing can really shock anyone now.

This story was billed as a lone business man who risked his life to save
lots of people. It stared Liam Neeson, who has considerable talent and
could hopefully over come the inevitable casting of Ben Kingsley as a
leading oppressed.

The story of Shindler was scant and almost incidental. The croud scenes
looked like a home movie done with school children in one take. The
baddies were really bad, I thought the character of the camp commandant
might have been the ideal opportunity for Alan Rickman to reprise his
Sherriff of Nottingham character. As it was no one seemed to have more
than one character trait.

The filming was second rate, the story was dull and boring, the acting was
amateurishness, the lighting looked like it had been done with a table
lamp and over all this was perhaps a film which holds up Steven Spelberg
as someone who had one lucky hit, a few big budget yet undeserved
successes and is now seen in his true colours, a rich Hollywood lauralite
who is trying to revive his flagging carreer for a little bit longer by
ranting standard versions of history daring anyone to find fault with his
word so that the inference can be drawn that the fault is infact with the
established version of history.

Like a number of people I have been continualy surprised at how seemingly
intellegent people can be continually taken in by the hype surrounding
each new development in the PC market however slight and insignificant and
be led to abandon their existing kit to buy the latest offering.

I read a report in the Times by a journalist called Nigel Hawkes where he
reports on some computers developed in several parts of America called
Beowolf computers. What makes these interesting is firstly that they are
made out of obsolete Pentium processors. Secondly that their performance
for some tasks is in excess of the latest IBM mainframe. No details are
given apart from saying that several Pentium Pro computers have been
linked together. An analagy of this might be a group of ordanary mortals
working together to fight Mike Tyson. Though I wouldn't fancy being one of
the ordanary mortals.

Personally I find this interesting. I have been thinking for some time
that the ecconomic mania which is driving the computer industry and a
sizable chunk of the ecconomy is bound to eventually break when computer
buyers allow their intellegence to regain control of their competitivness.
This development may yet be the tip of that iceberg, Older technology
might not be dumped so readly and the vast incomes which computer company
are making from each new technology might start to dry up. Prices of older
computers will rise and development of newer computers will grind to an
almost halt.

I really don't think this is going to have an affect on 8 bit Acorns. I
will be surprised if it extends back further than 386 PCs. What it will do
is encourage development of 8 bit processors into everyday electronic
controls. These are sadly lacking as is most of the digital technology.
Yet these processors and their support chips have proved the test of time.
They are reliable, robust and of course easy to design, assemble and
program since much of the ground work has been done. 

The down side is that this will cause a global slowing down on the
ecconomy. If I'm right.

Please keep the submissions comming in. And please remenber to contact EUG
if you have any problems, giving as much detail of the problem as you can,
and your computer, type of disc interface, any other addons and such. EUG
has surprisingly few problems given the complexities of compiling it and
the number of different machines it is used on but when problems do occur
I really need to know so I can fix it.

Gus 01705 781168


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