Unfortunately AMC is pay access only for me unless they've posted the
pilot for free (and probably not). I liked Kevin's Smith's "Comic Book
Men" but refuse to pay as much for a half-hour show as a full hour show
streaming.
I ran into a race condition problem recently trying to run javascript in
an Android webview which sometimes runs the javascript before the
webview is finished initializing and returns the wrong screen dimensions
(default 320x240). Had to ad a workaround to the library I was using
and finally Google acknowledges the bug and are going to fix it next
release.
On 06/01/2014 12:51 PM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
I seem to remember that you liked "Silicon Valley," which I found too
silly to bother with. Here's another one for your perusal.
Check out "Halt and Catch Fire," the new AMC series starring Lee Pace
(from "Pushing Daisies").
The IMDB description is "Set in the early 1980s, series dramatizes the
personal computing boom through the eyes of a visionary, an engineer
and a prodigy whose innovations directly confront the corporate
behemoths of the time. Their personal and professional partnership
will be challenged by greed and ego while charting the changing
culture in Texas' Silicon Prairie."
The first few words, displayed on the screen at the beginning of the
series, are:
HALT AND CATCH FIRE (HCF):
An early computer command that sent the machine into a race condition,
forcing all instructions to compete for superiority at once.
Control of the computer could not be regained.
The first episode is actually pretty interesting, and for a show about
nerds, it's pretty fuckin' dynamic. Great babe, too, in newcomer
Mackenzie Davis.
