I think it was rather nice of Salon to let one of the unemployed Techies they interviewed make use of their office computers so he could print out his resume.
Do you even know *why* DS9 was so different from TNG? Because TNG was starting to get boring with all those nice and almost flawless characters and another series like that would be very boring. Instead, DS9 was different. A lot more shades of grey, flawed characters with dark sides and yes, perhaps not always the most positive view of the future.
DS9 desprately tried to be all dark and realistic, but it couldn't do a story arc to save its life, and failed miserably at character development. While relying on the RESET button at every turn.
The people in charge have proven they cannot write themselves out of a wet paper bag....well actually they can, but it requires a new particle of the week and 40 minutes of pure Celine Dion-grade melodrama. And no matter how bad or potentially life-changing the whole experiance is, no one will remember it ever again. There will be no mention of it, and all it's effects will be purely short term.
This pisses me off like nothing else.
- The Trek writers cannot develop characters that are remotely believeable. Only mindless, one dimensional cliche's.
- They cannot handle character development. They tried on DS9, but it was always herky-jerky and forced. People didn't develop over time, they developed in one of their two or three designated character development episodes. Even then they couldn't convince anybody with an IQ above 74 that it was remotely natural and believeable. At the end of TNG, everybody was almost exactly the same as they were Season 1. Let's not even mention Voyager.
- They cannot handle long-term story arcs. The Trek way is to start a war in one ep and forget about it for oh......8 episodes or so, with a few infrequent cut and paste mentions here and there. Even then, you can forsee the outcome 3 seasons in advance. Their "surprises" are incredibly weak and convoluted. God forbid they start a conflict in an ep that isn't the season finale!
- No character ever dies unless the actor playing them asks for more money or quits in frustration when the writers can't think of anything to do with them. Everybody has their nice 6 year contract.
- The writers cannot come up with a new and exciting story, most of it is recycled from other Trek shows, and even if they can write a script you could consider "passable" everything is neatly wrapped up by the end of the hour.
- Did I mention the Trek universe has zero consequences?
- The surroundings are always sterile and unrealistic. Unless you count the one, single "plot-device-personal-possesion" each major character has.
- Everyone is obsessed with the 20th century and makes references almost exclusively to this time period.
- The solution to any problem is a particle-of-the week/technical thing we have never heard of before. While the "realistic" and "logical" soltion is impossible because of veteron radiation or something.
- The Federation believes itself to be infallible.
- All bad guys are one-dimensional caricatures who either die or come around to the infallible Federation way of doing things. Not to mention the fact they look like 50 other aliens we have seen.
I could go on for hours.....is it any wonder why a lot of people who watch B5 for long enough get so disgusted with Trek?
It's depressing to think the brain-trust behind the past decade of incresingly mediocre Trek has been handed the reigns once again.
Oh well, let's hope "Crusade" comes back.
Any Trek refugees are welcome in the land of Babylon 5, right now Season 5 is winding up on SciFi. Season 1 should begin again on March 9th.
Only 47,000 variations on this track, and 2.5 million songs to go.
I guess they'll have to listen to each one of the last variation just to make sure. Or else face a shitstorm when anther band gets banned for having a song with the same title.
I thought *my* last data-entry job could get mind-numbing.
Actually, I was a Mac user from 1994-2000 to be exact. (My iMac's analog video card burned out like so many others and I'm now Mac-less and not going back).
Amelio screwed up, but he also cut the crap out of Apple and basically did all the dirty work, and then, before he had a chance to actually move the company forward, Steve had him kicked out. Jobs came back and "saved" the company. If Amelio hadn't done what he had done there wouldn't of been an Apple for Steve to come back to, or there wouldn't have been one for very long after his return.
John Heilemann explains how Microsoft was brought down by the arrogant, delusional monomania of its founder, a man who had clearly come to believe in his own immortality and was unable to grasp the realities of the world.
You can easily replace "Microsoft" with "Apple" and have a quite accurate description of future events. (In my opinion anyway)
I am sure NHK has a lot of influence, right? The people in charge must have some really "high-up" connections, right?
So why don't they have the Japanese government ask the aliens to send a giant (but thanks to advanced alien technology, inexpensive) radio reflector into space so that after a few decades, our signals will come right back to us! Then we can have them received by a hyper-accurate radio telescope/transmitter on Earth that will send them back out again! No one will ever know! (As opposed to some radical new storage technology suddenly appearing on Earth!)
The process could continue until we can invent a cheap archiving process capable of permanently storing all of our valuable data.
If planetary disaster were to strike, I'd hate to think that the only remaining A/V content would be a few burned out Napster servers with nothing but Britney Spears / Limp Bizkit tracks, and a couple of hard drives containing Cartman's mom in a German schisse video.
After the impending nuclear halocaust, I hate to think the only survivors will be Cockroaches, Pokemon and the Power Puff Girls....damn.
I just hope for humanity's sake, they don't archive Star Trek Voyager!
Someone better slip they guys at the network a fifty to make sure Babylon 5 is preserved for all time. (Along with visual records of Natalie Portman, Mel C, Alison Hannigan and Sarah Polley);-)
(Normally I am quite critical of Apple, the Mac and Steve Jobs himself. This is one situation where I feel I need to make an exception....)
Steve Jobs may have a reputation as a control freak, but even he didn't always get his way , especially when it came to the Mac.
Many of us know about his demand for 3 mouse buttons, but few know about his instistance that the first Mac be priced at $1,299. For what they were selling at the time, it would have truly been a computer for the rest of us, and would have lived up to all the hype.
However Scully decided he wanted to make a lot of money. His idea was "forget about things like userbase, and pay attention to stock prices!"
The introductory price of $2,499 was an insult to everything the Mac was supposed to be about.
Jobs complained to Scully, who along with Jean Louis Gasse (yep, THAT one) raved about how wonderful it would be when Apple was charging $10,000 for Macs . Which they did.
It only went downhill from there.....
The marketshare rose slowly, then fell dramatically. Gasse fought licensing of the Mac for years, then bitched endlessly when Apple refused to give Be their specs.
Then, 2 years ago, Jobs finally got his chance to ship a $1,299 All-In-One Mac. Finally laying to rest the demons from when he first started to lose control.....
I think it was the Maxis,sense of humor...maybe they lost it when EA bought them out?
When you compare SC3000 with 2000, not only do you have more features, like additional disasters, the newspapers, arcos, etc. You also have more personality. Nice touches like the inane llama obession popping up everywhere (and no, broccoli doesn't come close in 3000).
My feeling after playing the game was that something happened between 1993/1994 and 1998/1999. I am not quite sure what it was. Perhaps the connection to the users was lost, maybe The Powers That Be insisted on a toned down and....hemoginized Sim City to appeal to the new Win95 drone/soccar-mom demographic. Dedicated Gamers vs. Blind Consumers.
Anyway, call me crazy, but SC2000 felt like a personal work of art. A game made by a small, tight-knit team of dedicated artists. With all its humor and innuendo, it seemed like there was a secret we all shared.
3000 on the other hand, looks and feels like a product. Games By Comittee. Harsh. Sterile. Bland. All the humor and fun seemes forced.
I hope Loki did a much better job porting it to Linux than MacKiev did bringing it to the Mac.
I hope no one at Maxis wonders why the game didn't sell well, I don't think you have to look further than the (in my opinion) absolute shit job done on it. It was the slowest, most crappily ported game since the days of ultra quick DOS conversions, done by people who seemed to have no idea what a mouse was, or the menu bar for that matter.
Wanna save a game? Hit save and wait....and wait......and wait.....
Wanna compare the speed between your G3 233 and G4 500? Don't bother! There is no improvement whatsoever!
Should I mention the little annoyances.like the 300MB or so install, the mandatory 300MB dedicated swap file, the extra 100MB of OS level VM it needed. And of course, the CD requirement on top of it all.
All I can say is, thank God Maxis came to their senses and didn't forgo porting the Sims because of this incident and that they didn't go for the lowest bidder this time 'round. Westlake Interactive did a fabulous job on The Sims, I only wish they had a chance to work their magic on SC3000 as well.
The article focuses on the fact the X-Box is so much better than Windows, easier, with less configuration problems, etc. And if Windows didn't suck so much, we wouldn't need the X-Box.
My question is, why should we pay Microsoft more money to replace something of theirs that should be perfectly capable of dealing with what we demand of it?
worker bee hung out at the Apple Insider Forums and was considered to be a unreliable source at first. This all changed after he was proven right about the new products at MacWorld NY.
He published the iBook specs, and then Apple pulled the plug on Mr.Bee.
Regardless of whether you think Apple was right or wrong, it is clear that after worker bee's leaks the information didn't really spread that far. Only after Apple started issuing dozens of subpoenas and publishing the information themselves via their PR people did their terribly confidential trade screts leak to a more widespread audience and the mainstream news outlets.
So when Apple takes Mr.Bee to court, are they going to fess up to the damages they themselves caused? Or blame it all on him? Probably the latter. I highly doubt the courts will pay attention to the large Apple Rumor community and the fact Apple themselves legitimized the claims and in the process, spread the information far and wide, causing the damage they were so hurt by.
Personally, I believe this is partly to remove the units when they have gone down in value to the point where it is inexpensive enough for Apple, and most importantly, to remove the products that were not designed under the reign of Steve.
If you thought the TAMs were collectors items now...
This isn't about an office exactly, but a place where I did a lot of work.
My high school (the one I have since graduated from) was built in 1967. Needless to say, it showed its age. It was filled with lots of day-glo orange and green furniture, had indirect lighting, wood paneling, high ceilings and earthtones everywhere. The classrooms were huge.
Overall, it was an extremely cozy place. The building was warm and inviting to staff and students alike.
Then, they realized they needed some more space. So they spent my sophomore through senior years renovating and expanding. The result was horrible.
The school suffered under what I call the 1990s Sterility Movement. White walls, white floors, white ceilings, white concrete, white furniture and row after row of bright white, eye assaulting florescant lights. What little color there was ended up in the little bits of trim here and there, even then it was neutral colors.
This was supposed to be "refreshing" and the minute amount of color was supposed to provide "flair", but instead it utterly destroyed the character of the place. There was no doubt in anyone's mind we had suffered a $77 million downgrade.
I suppose they were trying for the yuppie/soccer mom house design. Where the whole place is horribly bright white and feels like a museum.
I beg any architect or building project manager out there, PLEASE do not give in to making whatever office, school, etc you are responsible for, feel like a hospital. Add some color! Add some character! Making everything hideously white will not make the people who have to deal with it happy!
How can you not remember Young Einstein? It has to be one of the funniest movies ever! How can you claim a movie showing live kittens being made into a pie at a Australian Psychiatric Hospital is NOT INFLUENTIAL!!!!?????
When I worked at a video store, I would loop this movie endlessly!
Some people have, and will complain about/. posting this kind of story. However, this has to be one of the most nerd-centric stories articles to show up in a long time.
This is a welcome break from the screaming headlines like:
GNOME ADDS A NEW DEFUALT BUTTON TO THE PANEL!!!!! LINUX USERS REJOICE!!!! KDE PLANS COUNTEROFFENSIVE WITH NEW DESKTOP BACKGROUND!!!!!This may change the course of GUIs on Linux forever.
And of course....MOZILLA M192282 ON FTP MIRRORS EVERYWHERE!!!!Project leaders "Strangely similar to the last 192,00 versions, how odd."
Not to mention Kernel 2.6pre939393 REALESED!!!!! Linus: "I am not quite sure what I did, I think a friend of mine got drunk and copied all the source and then pasted it in again at the end commented out.....might as well send it out, eh?
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I think it was rather nice of Salon to let one of the unemployed Techies they interviewed make use of their office computers so he could print out his resume.
DS9 desprately tried to be all dark and realistic, but it couldn't do a story arc to save its life, and failed miserably at character development. While relying on the RESET button at every turn.
Damnit! Let it die already!
The people in charge have proven they cannot write themselves out of a wet paper bag....well actually they can, but it requires a new particle of the week and 40 minutes of pure Celine Dion-grade melodrama. And no matter how bad or potentially life-changing the whole experiance is, no one will remember it ever again. There will be no mention of it, and all it's effects will be purely short term.
This pisses me off like nothing else.
- The Trek writers cannot develop characters that are remotely believeable. Only mindless, one dimensional cliche's.
- They cannot handle character development. They tried on DS9, but it was always herky-jerky and forced. People didn't develop over time, they developed in one of their two or three designated character development episodes. Even then they couldn't convince anybody with an IQ above 74 that it was remotely natural and believeable. At the end of TNG, everybody was almost exactly the same as they were Season 1. Let's not even mention Voyager.
- They cannot handle long-term story arcs. The Trek way is to start a war in one ep and forget about it for oh......8 episodes or so, with a few infrequent cut and paste mentions here and there. Even then, you can forsee the outcome 3 seasons in advance. Their "surprises" are incredibly weak and convoluted. God forbid they start a conflict in an ep that isn't the season finale!
- No character ever dies unless the actor playing them asks for more money or quits in frustration when the writers can't think of anything to do with them. Everybody has their nice 6 year contract.
- The writers cannot come up with a new and exciting story, most of it is recycled from other Trek shows, and even if they can write a script you could consider "passable" everything is neatly wrapped up by the end of the hour.
- Did I mention the Trek universe has zero consequences?
- The surroundings are always sterile and unrealistic. Unless you count the one, single "plot-device-personal-possesion" each major character has.
- Everyone is obsessed with the 20th century and makes references almost exclusively to this time period.
- The solution to any problem is a particle-of-the week/technical thing we have never heard of before. While the "realistic" and "logical" soltion is impossible because of veteron radiation or something.
- The Federation believes itself to be infallible.
- All bad guys are one-dimensional caricatures who either die or come around to the infallible Federation way of doing things. Not to mention the fact they look like 50 other aliens we have seen.
I could go on for hours.....is it any wonder why a lot of people who watch B5 for long enough get so disgusted with Trek?
It's depressing to think the brain-trust behind the past decade of incresingly mediocre Trek has been handed the reigns once again.
Oh well, let's hope "Crusade" comes back.
Any Trek refugees are welcome in the land of Babylon 5, right now Season 5 is winding up on SciFi. Season 1 should begin again on March 9th.
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Only 47,000 variations on this track, and 2.5 million songs to go.
I guess they'll have to listen to each one of the last variation just to make sure. Or else face a shitstorm when anther band gets banned for having a song with the same title.
I thought *my* last data-entry job could get mind-numbing.
Actually, I was a Mac user from 1994-2000 to be exact. (My iMac's analog video card burned out like so many others and I'm now Mac-less and not going back).
Amelio screwed up, but he also cut the crap out of Apple and basically did all the dirty work, and then, before he had a chance to actually move the company forward, Steve had him kicked out. Jobs came back and "saved" the company. If Amelio hadn't done what he had done there wouldn't of been an Apple for Steve to come back to, or there wouldn't have been one for very long after his return.
Apple actually did a hell of a lot better after he wasn't there to screw things up anymore.
You can easily replace "Microsoft" with "Apple" and have a quite accurate description of future events. (In my opinion anyway)
...they aren't planning to use above ground explosions.
PROTESTERS- "Free Tibet!"
CHINA- "Sorry guys, we got rid of it Thursday"
I am sure NHK has a lot of influence, right? The people in charge must have some really "high-up" connections, right?
So why don't they have the Japanese government ask the aliens to send a giant (but thanks to advanced alien technology, inexpensive) radio reflector into space so that after a few decades, our signals will come right back to us! Then we can have them received by a hyper-accurate radio telescope/transmitter on Earth that will send them back out again! No one will ever know! (As opposed to some radical new storage technology suddenly appearing on Earth!)
The process could continue until we can invent a cheap archiving process capable of permanently storing all of our valuable data.
If planetary disaster were to strike, I'd hate to think that the only remaining A/V content would be a few burned out Napster servers with nothing but Britney Spears / Limp Bizkit tracks, and a couple of hard drives containing Cartman's mom in a German schisse video.
After the impending nuclear halocaust, I hate to think the only survivors will be Cockroaches, Pokemon and the Power Puff Girls....damn.
;-)
I just hope for humanity's sake, they don't archive Star Trek Voyager!
Someone better slip they guys at the network a fifty to make sure Babylon 5 is preserved for all time. (Along with visual records of Natalie Portman, Mel C, Alison Hannigan and Sarah Polley)
BattleBots is a cool concept and from what I gather a great show (I haven't gotten around to actually watching it yet :-) )
However one thing puzzles me...*why* is it on Comedy Central of all networks? It's sort of like showing Babylon 5 on TNN!
(Normally I am quite critical of Apple, the Mac and Steve Jobs himself. This is one situation where I feel I need to make an exception....)
Steve Jobs may have a reputation as a control freak, but even he didn't always get his way , especially when it came to the Mac.
Many of us know about his demand for 3 mouse buttons, but few know about his instistance that the first Mac be priced at $1,299. For what they were selling at the time, it would have truly been a computer for the rest of us, and would have lived up to all the hype.
However Scully decided he wanted to make a lot of money. His idea was "forget about things like userbase, and pay attention to stock prices!"
The introductory price of $2,499 was an insult to everything the Mac was supposed to be about.
Jobs complained to Scully, who along with Jean Louis Gasse (yep, THAT one) raved about how wonderful it would be when Apple was charging $10,000 for Macs . Which they did.
It only went downhill from there.....
The marketshare rose slowly, then fell dramatically. Gasse fought licensing of the Mac for years, then bitched endlessly when Apple refused to give Be their specs.
Then, 2 years ago, Jobs finally got his chance to ship a $1,299 All-In-One Mac. Finally laying to rest the demons from when he first started to lose control.....
I think it was the Maxis,sense of humor...maybe they lost it when EA bought them out?
When you compare SC3000 with 2000, not only do you have more features, like additional disasters, the newspapers, arcos, etc. You also have more personality. Nice touches like the inane llama obession popping up everywhere (and no, broccoli doesn't come close in 3000).
My feeling after playing the game was that something happened between 1993/1994 and 1998/1999. I am not quite sure what it was. Perhaps the connection to the users was lost, maybe The Powers That Be insisted on a toned down and....hemoginized Sim City to appeal to the new Win95 drone/soccar-mom demographic. Dedicated Gamers vs. Blind Consumers.
Anyway, call me crazy, but SC2000 felt like a personal work of art. A game made by a small, tight-knit team of dedicated artists. With all its humor and innuendo, it seemed like there was a secret we all shared.
3000 on the other hand, looks and feels like a product. Games By Comittee. Harsh. Sterile. Bland. All the humor and fun seemes forced.
I hope Loki did a much better job porting it to Linux than MacKiev did bringing it to the Mac.
I hope no one at Maxis wonders why the game didn't sell well, I don't think you have to look further than the (in my opinion) absolute shit job done on it. It was the slowest, most crappily ported game since the days of ultra quick DOS conversions, done by people who seemed to have no idea what a mouse was, or the menu bar for that matter.
Wanna save a game? Hit save and wait....and wait......and wait.....
Wanna compare the speed between your G3 233 and G4 500? Don't bother! There is no improvement whatsoever!
Should I mention the little annoyances.like the 300MB or so install, the mandatory 300MB dedicated swap file, the extra 100MB of OS level VM it needed. And of course, the CD requirement on top of it all.
All I can say is, thank God Maxis came to their senses and didn't forgo porting the Sims because of this incident and that they didn't go for the lowest bidder this time 'round. Westlake Interactive did a fabulous job on The Sims, I only wish they had a chance to work their magic on SC3000 as well.
The article focuses on the fact the X-Box is so much better than Windows, easier, with less configuration problems, etc. And if Windows didn't suck so much, we wouldn't need the X-Box.
My question is, why should we pay Microsoft more money to replace something of theirs that should be perfectly capable of dealing with what we demand of it?
Does anyone else see the screwed logic in this?
worker bee hung out at the Apple Insider Forums and was considered to be a unreliable source at first. This all changed after he was proven right about the new products at MacWorld NY.
He published the iBook specs, and then Apple pulled the plug on Mr.Bee.
Regardless of whether you think Apple was right or wrong, it is clear that after worker bee's leaks the information didn't really spread that far. Only after Apple started issuing dozens of subpoenas and publishing the information themselves via their PR people did their terribly confidential trade screts leak to a more widespread audience and the mainstream news outlets.
So when Apple takes Mr.Bee to court, are they going to fess up to the damages they themselves caused? Or blame it all on him? Probably the latter. I highly doubt the courts will pay attention to the large Apple Rumor community and the fact Apple themselves legitimized the claims and in the process, spread the information far and wide, causing the damage they were so hurt by.
OSS is great in many ways, the philosiphy is good, etc.
That has already been established. There is one thing however, that will keep commercial software alive for a long, long time.
People who don't want to wait for it, will pay for it.
So now we have the NeXT Cube, the Cobalt Qube, the X-Box, the Mac Cube and the N-Cube!
Couls somebody pass me a sphere?
Apple is also offering a trade in program for a problem with buzzing in the Bose speaker system and power supply of the 20th Anniversary Macintosh
Personally, I believe this is partly to remove the units when they have gone down in value to the point where it is inexpensive enough for Apple, and most importantly, to remove the products that were not designed under the reign of Steve.
If you thought the TAMs were collectors items now...
This isn't about an office exactly, but a place where I did a lot of work.
My high school (the one I have since graduated from) was built in 1967. Needless to say, it showed its age. It was filled with lots of day-glo orange and green furniture, had indirect lighting, wood paneling, high ceilings and earthtones everywhere. The classrooms were huge.
Overall, it was an extremely cozy place. The building was warm and inviting to staff and students alike.
Then, they realized they needed some more space. So they spent my sophomore through senior years renovating and expanding. The result was horrible.
The school suffered under what I call the 1990s Sterility Movement. White walls, white floors, white ceilings, white concrete, white furniture and row after row of bright white, eye assaulting florescant lights. What little color there was ended up in the little bits of trim here and there, even then it was neutral colors.
This was supposed to be "refreshing" and the minute amount of color was supposed to provide "flair", but instead it utterly destroyed the character of the place. There was no doubt in anyone's mind we had suffered a $77 million downgrade.
I suppose they were trying for the yuppie/soccer mom house design. Where the whole place is horribly bright white and feels like a museum.
I beg any architect or building project manager out there, PLEASE do not give in to making whatever office, school, etc you are responsible for, feel like a hospital. Add some color! Add some character! Making everything hideously white will not make the people who have to deal with it happy!
Gnome certainly is (serious competition to the Mac or Windows)
This is definately a Linux myth!
I simply refuse to accept the fact they ignored "Cool As Ice", Vanila Ice's motion picture debut! What a classic.
A 95 minute commercial...
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I guess you missed my sarcasm...
How can you not remember Young Einstein? It has to be one of the funniest movies ever! How can you claim a movie showing live kittens being made into a pie at a Australian Psychiatric Hospital is NOT INFLUENTIAL!!!!?????
When I worked at a video store, I would loop this movie endlessly!
Some people have, and will complain about /. posting this kind of story. However, this has to be one of the most nerd-centric stories articles to show up in a long time.
This is a welcome break from the screaming headlines like:
GNOME ADDS A NEW DEFUALT BUTTON TO THE PANEL!!!!! LINUX USERS REJOICE!!!! KDE PLANS COUNTEROFFENSIVE WITH NEW DESKTOP BACKGROUND!!!!! This may change the course of GUIs on Linux forever.
And of course....MOZILLA M192282 ON FTP MIRRORS EVERYWHERE!!!! Project leaders "Strangely similar to the last 192,00 versions, how odd."
Not to mention Kernel 2.6pre939393 REALESED!!!!! Linus: "I am not quite sure what I did, I think a friend of mine got drunk and copied all the source and then pasted it in again at the end commented out.....might as well send it out, eh?