From the description they've given, it sounds like it won't be a remake at all. More than likely, it'll be a crap series that was inspired by a creatively handicapped producer seeing an episode on TV late one night.
What bugs me most about this is that the relevance of the Prisoner was in its setting and mood and social commentary. It sounds like this will have a different setting, different mood, and no doubt different social commentary. Why not actually create something (gasp!) original at that point?
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Let me also add...
Two words: Central location. It's frustrating as all hell to go to one web forum for Solaris info, another one for Sun hardware discussion, one or two for adventure games, four for fencing, a dozen for audio info and another half a dozen for video, when usenet provides them ALL with a single, unified, consistent interface.
Web forums suck for anyone but the deeply and monotonically obsessed.
If, and I say IF the patent is valid from a 'no prior art' and is not intuitively obvious, then the complaint is rather suspect.
"The Public Patent Foundation... also asks the US Patent Office to take notice of Compression Labs' "aggressive assertion" of its patent, which it says is causing substantial public harm."
If the patent is valid and the public has used it regardless, then they are within their rights (legal and quite likely moral) to defend it.
"I don't know if gaming addiction is less serious than drug addiction"
It's not a question of severity, but of characteristics.
Gaming "addiction" is a psychological problem that mimics the symptoms of chemical addiction, and has unfortunately been given the same name. Without considering whether one is more serious than the other, it must be realised that psychological addiction is NOT the same as physiological addiction. This is the fundamental mistake being made by far too many people in the press, in casual conversation, on/., and even in clinics.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Or in other words, do some research on addiction before spouting off. Your definition is nothing more than your impression of what addiction is, and you have even less right than the OP to define it, simply because nothing he said was wrong (whereas what you said is utterly wrong).
Scripting should do it. Failing that, beat the users until they learn to make one extra mouse click for every new document they create. That's what we did, and it seems to be working. The best part is the side effects--more people are using XML files instead of stupid.doc files all the time.
No coke use in my background. However, I was a medicinal chemist before I got into computing and know something of the nature of addiction. Somewhat like you I suspect, I get utterly pissed off at people who don't understand the difference between psychological (pseudo-) and physiological (true) addiction. Let's lay it out for people right here:
Psychological addiction (gaming, sex, gambling, possibly running) is a learned response. This is Pavlov's dog, taken to the extreme. It is tied to the personality of the user. Yes, some people kill themselves with it, but it's not the same as...
Physiological addition (crack, heroin, rock, sometimes nicotine)is a long biochemical process started with a receptor binding to the psychoactive compound. It has clinically measureable (and measured) properties, which lead to the symptoms.
"Psychological addiction" is so named because it has symptoms that mimic (sometimes very closely) those of physiological addiction. However: the stimulus is completely different, the reaction is somewhat different, and the withdrawal is dependent more on the person's mental makeup than on their inalterable body chemistry.
So in other words, chemical addiction should be treated chemically when possible (methadone) and brutally if necessary, whereas psychological addiction should be treated with counselling, and chemically if necessary (antidepressants, most likely).
First of all, take the quotes away from "abusers."
You're entirely right that no one gets HIV from drug abuse per se. Take junk away from a horse addict for a few days, and then tell him that all you've got is a dirty needle, and see how much he cares. The nature of addiction is that people will subject themselves to poor hygeine, dangerous situations, and the like in order to feed their addiction, if necessary.
He's not. He's paying $8.99 for a CD. Downloading the entire thing at $1.69 would cost >$30, and not provide the CD, cover, or liner notes. Paying $30 or more for the equivalent of an album would be insane, which was his entire point.
My first thought too. However, more and more companies are coming out with "CDs" which aren't CDDA at all, and suffer the same DRM problem.
The obvious answer is to not buy these albums, which is exactly what I've been doing. Pity, because I wanted to get the last Ben Harper album, but no one is getting my business if this is how they behave.
No, it actually agrees with me quite a bit. I said, "...the problem here is that there are enough blind managers in existence to hire your useless ass." and if you're getting paid, then it's entirely true.
OK, I'll grant that his comment was entirely out to lunch. However, you said:
"Moreover, the chemical properties of H2O and D2O are exactly the same. Deuterium is slightly toxic for altogether different reasons than chemical properties."
Deuterium's toxicity primarily comes from inhibition of the cell division mechanism, which in turn comes from a change to the hydrogen bond strength. All straight chemical thermodynamics and biochemistry.
"3. No second guessing. If you hire a guy because he is an expert on ABC, and he gives you his best educated guess on an issue about ABC, give him the benefit of the doubt. Don't go asking a wannabe geek that read ABC for Dummies for his opinion. And please, don't go back to the expert to tell him "so and so says you are wrong." It is stupid."
This is true, but if a valid concern about his opinion comes up, he should be able to defend it. That's why he's an expert in the first place, but it also gives him a chance to fix mistakes before making the company dependent on them.
A lot of it is in approach. You can usually legitimately get away with something like; "Someone suggested (x) as an alternative to your plan. I'm curious if you have any thoughts on the idea." If need be, make sure they understand that their idea is still the official plan, and you're looking for clarification rather than a defence.
Interesting idea, and close to accurate, but I'm not sure it's feasible.
Don't overmanage, certainly. However, no one works without some management input. Expectations, deadlines and priorities need to come from management. Dealing with business units, budgets, and similar infighting should be performed primarily by management, who acts as a buffer between them and you.
The point of a good manager is to define their staffs' jobs, provide the resources to accomplish it, and deal with the consequences of both success and failure. Ideally a manager will be almost unnoticed, but that's not to say that they're not managing their group--they're just doing it well.
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From the description they've given, it sounds like it won't be a remake at all. More than likely, it'll be a crap series that was inspired by a creatively handicapped producer seeing an episode on TV late one night.
What bugs me most about this is that the relevance of the Prisoner was in its setting and mood and social commentary. It sounds like this will have a different setting, different mood, and no doubt different social commentary. Why not actually create something (gasp!) original at that point?
Let me also add...
Two words: Central location. It's frustrating as all hell to go to one web forum for Solaris info, another one for Sun hardware discussion, one or two for adventure games, four for fencing, a dozen for audio info and another half a dozen for video, when usenet provides them ALL with a single, unified, consistent interface.
Web forums suck for anyone but the deeply and monotonically obsessed.
What the fuck does dyslexia have to do with this?
This explains most of the guests on Maury, and such trash shows. No, I'm _not_ kidding.
"Osama bin Laden, for example, is almost certainly a psychopath"
As is George Bush jr. Rather sad, isn't it?
If, and I say IF the patent is valid from a 'no prior art' and is not intuitively obvious, then the complaint is rather suspect.
... also asks the US Patent Office to take notice of Compression Labs' "aggressive assertion" of its patent, which it says is causing substantial public harm."
"The Public Patent Foundation
If the patent is valid and the public has used it regardless, then they are within their rights (legal and quite likely moral) to defend it.
SO what? If the format isn't broken, then MS can fix bloody IE!
"I don't know if gaming addiction is less serious than drug addiction"
/., and even in clinics.
It's not a question of severity, but of characteristics.
Gaming "addiction" is a psychological problem that mimics the symptoms of chemical addiction, and has unfortunately been given the same name. Without considering whether one is more serious than the other, it must be realised that psychological addiction is NOT the same as physiological addiction. This is the fundamental mistake being made by far too many people in the press, in casual conversation, on
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Or in other words, do some research on addiction before spouting off. Your definition is nothing more than your impression of what addiction is, and you have even less right than the OP to define it, simply because nothing he said was wrong (whereas what you said is utterly wrong).
Ah! That makes some sense, then.
.doc files all the time.
Scripting should do it. Failing that, beat the users until they learn to make one extra mouse click for every new document they create. That's what we did, and it seems to be working. The best part is the side effects--more people are using XML files instead of stupid
"who cares what is underneath"
On slashdot? Everybody!!!!
So do tell...
"Ok I'll shut up now so you all can tell me what a loser I am."
Why bother, when you did such an eloquent job of doing it yourself?
"and we have users that move around (and no, Roaming Profiles are not an option for us)"
Without roaming profiles, how would this be any different in MS Office land?
No coke use in my background. However, I was a medicinal chemist before I got into computing and know something of the nature of addiction. Somewhat like you I suspect, I get utterly pissed off at people who don't understand the difference between psychological (pseudo-) and physiological (true) addiction. Let's lay it out for people right here:
Psychological addiction (gaming, sex, gambling, possibly running) is a learned response. This is Pavlov's dog, taken to the extreme. It is tied to the personality of the user. Yes, some people kill themselves with it, but it's not the same as...
Physiological addition (crack, heroin, rock, sometimes nicotine)is a long biochemical process started with a receptor binding to the psychoactive compound. It has clinically measureable (and measured) properties, which lead to the symptoms.
"Psychological addiction" is so named because it has symptoms that mimic (sometimes very closely) those of physiological addiction. However: the stimulus is completely different, the reaction is somewhat different, and the withdrawal is dependent more on the person's mental makeup than on their inalterable body chemistry.
So in other words, chemical addiction should be treated chemically when possible (methadone) and brutally if necessary, whereas psychological addiction should be treated with counselling, and chemically if necessary (antidepressants, most likely).
First of all, take the quotes away from "abusers."
You're entirely right that no one gets HIV from drug abuse per se. Take junk away from a horse addict for a few days, and then tell him that all you've got is a dirty needle, and see how much he cares. The nature of addiction is that people will subject themselves to poor hygeine, dangerous situations, and the like in order to feed their addiction, if necessary.
Brilliant! At least someone understood what that godawful article actually said.
He's not. He's paying $8.99 for a CD. Downloading the entire thing at $1.69 would cost >$30, and not provide the CD, cover, or liner notes. Paying $30 or more for the equivalent of an album would be insane, which was his entire point.
Heh. Good work. Best troll of the night.
My first thought too. However, more and more companies are coming out with "CDs" which aren't CDDA at all, and suffer the same DRM problem.
The obvious answer is to not buy these albums, which is exactly what I've been doing. Pity, because I wanted to get the last Ben Harper album, but no one is getting my business if this is how they behave.
No, it actually agrees with me quite a bit. I said, "...the problem here is that there are enough blind managers in existence to hire your useless ass." and if you're getting paid, then it's entirely true.
OK, I'll grant that his comment was entirely out to lunch. However, you said:
"Moreover, the chemical properties of H2O and D2O are exactly the same. Deuterium is slightly toxic for altogether different reasons than chemical properties."
Deuterium's toxicity primarily comes from inhibition of the cell division mechanism, which in turn comes from a change to the hydrogen bond strength. All straight chemical thermodynamics and biochemistry.
"My only objection is that "get away with" implies bad things for some non-technical managers."
For what it's worth, I agree 100%. I was simply too exhausted to come up with a better way of wording it, but writing 'get away with' galled me.
So as I understand what you're saying, thermodynamics isn't chemistry?
"3. No second guessing. If you hire a guy because he is an expert on ABC, and he gives you his best educated guess on an issue about ABC, give him the benefit of the doubt. Don't go asking a wannabe geek that read ABC for Dummies for his opinion. And please, don't go back to the expert to tell him "so and so says you are wrong." It is stupid."
This is true, but if a valid concern about his opinion comes up, he should be able to defend it. That's why he's an expert in the first place, but it also gives him a chance to fix mistakes before making the company dependent on them.
A lot of it is in approach. You can usually legitimately get away with something like; "Someone suggested (x) as an alternative to your plan. I'm curious if you have any thoughts on the idea." If need be, make sure they understand that their idea is still the official plan, and you're looking for clarification rather than a defence.
Interesting idea, and close to accurate, but I'm not sure it's feasible.
Don't overmanage, certainly. However, no one works without some management input. Expectations, deadlines and priorities need to come from management. Dealing with business units, budgets, and similar infighting should be performed primarily by management, who acts as a buffer between them and you.
The point of a good manager is to define their staffs' jobs, provide the resources to accomplish it, and deal with the consequences of both success and failure. Ideally a manager will be almost unnoticed, but that's not to say that they're not managing their group--they're just doing it well.
Part of the problem here is that there are enough blind managers in existence to hire your useless ass.
Unless you work entirely in a vacuum, you're inevitably going to cause more problems than you fix with your "uber-code."
Not toeing the party line is fine. Being an arrogant asshole is unacceptable and unprofessional, no matter what your technical skills are like.