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看外国人怎么评论李连杰和成龙 [中英文对照]
The Da Vinci Code （达.芬奇密码）
感觉有点象小时候看的寻宝故事。比如说，象丁丁历险记中的【红色克拉母的宝藏】。
整个故事的节奏还挺紧凑的，看了两个半小时也不觉得闷。
耶稣是人不是神。对基督徒来讲是个大问题，可对我来讲没什么大感觉。不过我倒是对里面提到的一些历史事件很感兴趣。
Movie review: Understanding the Universe
“How the world was created?” “What will it be at the end of the world?” These are the questions we asked when we were small. The adults’ answers sometimes were very interesting. But those are not the truths. When I dug into books and tried to find it out, I realized that the adults actually do not have answer.
This video shows us how human are trying to understand the universe by probing far beyond the Milky Way, from our sun, nebulas and supernovas to the theory of Black Hole and Big Bang. Likes many other Discovery programs, it presents problems in a very simple, direct way, yet it is informative and interesting.
Movie review: 12 Weeks With Geeks
It is a documentary about a software project development. Four interns worked in the Fog Creek Software for the Copilot project. They worked for 3 months and delivered the first version of the application.
I learnt about Fog Creek Software from the book and the blog Joel On Software. The book gives some very interesting and enlightening explanations on software engineering and project management.
I expected that I could find out from this movie in details how Joel led a team to develop software, web application particularly. I’d thought this movie would show me something like collecting user specifications, making plan, working on code, fixing bugs and so on. But the movie actually is about the life and thoughts of the developers. You can not learn project management skills from this movie. Rather, it is about what makes a dream office, team, or life to geeks, the software developers here.
Though they kept saying they have to work over night, long hours, they all looked very happy and satisfied. They had very nice workstations, though lack of privacy, and comfortable dorms. They grew tomato, went jogging, and had parties. They made fun out of samll or senseless things in life. For example, they tried hard to figure out whether they could escape the building by jumping to the next block in case of fire.
The movie gives me some senses of how the start-up gets started in the US too. But it does not go deep into that. It does not show how and where you can get funds or what you should do after complete the development.
Overall, it is an interesting movie. I would suggest the viewers to read the Joel On Software before or after the movie.
The driving force (for the hackers) is usually a combination of the desire to get rich, the desire for power, and the desire to sort of make something. And they (are) kind of overlap. – from the movie.