I hated the ending. The unilateral decision to get rid of all technology for everybody was both absurd, short-sighted, and just plain stupid. Why not give people a choice at least? And why the hell would the humans decide to live like cavemen on a strange planet without at least medical technology? There are probably viruses, bacteria, and parasites that would wipe out the colonials. So are we to believe that simple non-life threatening infections now all of a sudden become deadly because of the basic lack of antibiotics?
And what about food? With farming and all what happens during a drought? Hell, what about simple things like books to read, pencils and pens to write with? The whole premise that the colonials all, all off a sudden decide to become essentially Amish after living with technology all their lives is just catastrophically asinine. Fuck, why not at least not destroy the ships in orbit, leave one Raptor on Earth so that the different settlements can be checked in on from time-to-time. Hell, what happened to the sense of wonder and awe of the colonials in that why wouldn't they at least search for other inhabitable planets just in case Earth like gets hit by a comet or asteroid or some other natural disaster befalls Earth and the Colonials need to get the hell outta there.
Ug, what an unbelievably crappy ass implausible ending to an otherwise awesome series... Am I the only one that feels like this???
Agreed. They spent so much time trying to build a democracy and restore the notions of civilized discourse [often turning to drunken stupor where boundless amounts of booze materialized], but then when you come to a planet 150.000 removed from our present day, did the authors pause to think how likely they would be received--besides being treated as food with Cannibalism running amuck?
Sorry, it was beyond the pale pre-school in depth.
What about "The Prophets" a la DS9? Or Stargate's Ascension. There they're called aliens. Here they're called angels. It may not be intellectually satisfying to those hard rationalists who eschew any notion of spirituality in SF, but it's a common thread, going back to Arthur C Clarke and beyond.
DS9 was dog ass boring. Stargate's state of Ascension is a well-known, agnostic approach to evolution of Energy but if you recall, ascended humans [ancients], has nothing to do with the creation of species, planets, the Universe, etc., as the Alpha and the Omega.
Sure they colonized thousands of planets [yeah right], but the Universe and all it's laws of physics, energy forms, etc., were already there and thus there to experiment upon and discover all it holds--to evolve our collective body of wisdom.
The finale was reasonably good, but I would have preferred the last scene to have been Adama on top of the hill next to Laura's grave. What follows after that, although necessary to explain the existence of the "imaginary" Gaius/Six characters, seemed awfully cheesy to me. I'm talking "Galactica 1980" cheesy. I also didn't find the universal acceptance of the "hey, let's discard every scrap of technology and be cavemen!" idea to be realistic or practical in the least.
No, Deus Ex Machina requires the resolution to drop in that moment, without story support. God suddenly appears, and fixes things.
That's not at all what BSG did. BSG pre-seeded their resolutions a year or more in advance. Sure, they were miracles, but they were miracles we'd been told a year ago would happen, all the finale did was show us exactly how they happened.
You can not like the way it was resolved, but that doesn't mean it was Deus Ex Machina.
A lot of times when you see something like that, it is a cop out. But not in this case.
The story - in its entirety - was about something divine moving mankind/cylonkind like pawns. People have destinies in this show, real ones. All throughout.
So it's not like they just slapped a Deity into the ending to tie things up. Nothing else at that point would have sufficed.
We could get this board as ugly as the SciFi board or we could cite the number of flaws that a certain Digg poster did, but in the end, Moore admitted to making it up as they went.
True. For the life of me I can't figure out how come they've been so slow to the game with BioAlgae, other than the fact they don't own squat in patents on such solutions.
This is where PetroSun Inc with it's innate lead in this area is gong to be the big winner.
What I really want in my phone is full integration of communication methods I normally use. Can I connect to a 802.11 wireless network and launch Skype and Yahoo Instant Messenger (with voice, of course)? No, I don't mean over cellular network.
The telcos are connected to this phone. What makes you think AT&T wants you to circumvent them using Skype?
The new SDK will allow developers to control accessories attached to the dock adapter. I'm really hopeful someone will make a card reader...it would so nice to bring a 32GB iPod touch on trips instead of a MacBook Pro.
Tired of lugging around a laptop with those "Girls Gone Wild" business meetings?
If you're initial procreation is a couple of minutes, you truly have to hang on the child rearing as something to enjoy. Holy crap! A few minutes means you were doing it all wrong.
I don't meet the average. I'm hitting 40, with my engineering and computer science backgrounds, while still having no children, but two divorce certificates to boot!
I'm thankful I have no dependents with this economy.
Nothing chaps my hide more than some pin dick getting paid 20-30% more for a basic business management degree over hard science degrees of all engineering fields.
It glorifies the drunk frat boy and mocks the rest as if they don't have the brains [intuition] and maturity to realize they worked tenfold more to receive far less.
In 1972 the average starting wage for a mechanical engineer [b.s.] was 31K USD. In 1990 it had virtually remained unchanged.
Who in their right mind wants to become fiscally insolvent but with the bragging rights of, ``Oh yeah! Well I'm smarter than you!,'' only to have the pin dick respond, ``Really? Define smarter,'' leaving you realizing how used you have become.
That speaks volumes to either the ignorance of the developers or the myopic altruism of the developers. You take your pick. Do you want to leach off your family and never make money, thus guaranteeing yourself a life of obscurity or do you want to make money and help your family out by paying your own way?
Then again, you can always live in obscurity through being a perpetual grad student moving from one Masters/PhD to the next. Even then you eventually have to do research and generate income or you're the biggest overeducated douchebag battling Stallman for who has the biggest beard. Even he gets paid for his work, though he'd give you the impression that he's a charity case and this [GPL] is his Magnum Opus to the World.
Have you payed your $100 yet? I think you're missing one step... which is not the 'become a developer' part.. it's the 'become a distributor' part... which is what the articles should say.
Anyone can become a developer without a license etc. etc. but to become a distributor you need Apple's blessing and a contract, which appears to be taking longer and longer to get.
It seems rather obvious that Apple has realized with the emergence of some 50,000 applications that they are re-addressing the store design to create a structure and ultimately make it easier to sift through what will inevitably become > 100,000 in less than a year. Application saturation will create a law of diminishing returns when trying to sift between great and mediocre applications.
Of course, its incumbent upon the developer to find their niche and not become one of countless similar functioning applications, if they want to make money and get faster approval. That requires them to sift through the categories and not just write a half ass application trying to ride the wave of iPhone expansion.
If you're a newbie to any programming platform it's going to be hard. Your original comment about OS X iPhone being hard to program, followed up by if you already are a Mac developer it's easy to program for supports my statement.
The key is for seasoned developers who know C/C++/Java and have no moronic bigoted view regarding ObjC notation to comment on the simplicity or difficulty of Cocoa.
Having the experience of with or without Cocoa it's a no-brainer. Cocoa does the heavy lifting and learning ObjC is easy. It also clarifies the MVC paradigm immensely.
It's an appealing thought. But is also works in reverse.
Do we really want the other worlds' explorers coming here? Let's see what we humans have done to new lands: genocide, penal colony, battleground, food resource, or tourist trap. I vote we use Kepler to watch out for the scumballs, so we can prepare to zap them before they arrive.
With progress comes challenges, change, loss and gains. Earth is supposed to be one giant Man in the Bubble? I think not.
Yikes! Opera peaks at 250MB, and stays there. They really need to work on the memory issues. Even though I don't even touch computers with less than 4GB RAM, it's pretty sick to see 25% of that eaten by a web browser.
Sure it peaks there at 105% CPU while the retarded programming handles Flash, ultimately resulting in a zombie process that needs to be killed.
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I hated the ending. The unilateral decision to get rid of all technology for everybody was both absurd, short-sighted, and just plain stupid. Why not give people a choice at least? And why the hell would the humans decide to live like cavemen on a strange planet without at least medical technology? There are probably viruses, bacteria, and parasites that would wipe out the colonials. So are we to believe that simple non-life threatening infections now all of a sudden become deadly because of the basic lack of antibiotics?
And what about food? With farming and all what happens during a drought? Hell, what about simple things like books to read, pencils and pens to write with? The whole premise that the colonials all, all off a sudden decide to become essentially Amish after living with technology all their lives is just catastrophically asinine. Fuck, why not at least not destroy the ships in orbit, leave one Raptor on Earth so that the different settlements can be checked in on from time-to-time. Hell, what happened to the sense of wonder and awe of the colonials in that why wouldn't they at least search for other inhabitable planets just in case Earth like gets hit by a comet or asteroid or some other natural disaster befalls Earth and the Colonials need to get the hell outta there.
Ug, what an unbelievably crappy ass implausible ending to an otherwise awesome series... Am I the only one that feels like this???
Agreed. They spent so much time trying to build a democracy and restore the notions of civilized discourse [often turning to drunken stupor where boundless amounts of booze materialized], but then when you come to a planet 150.000 removed from our present day, did the authors pause to think how likely they would be received--besides being treated as food with Cannibalism running amuck?
Sorry, it was beyond the pale pre-school in depth.
What about "The Prophets" a la DS9? Or Stargate's Ascension. There they're called aliens. Here they're called angels. It may not be intellectually satisfying to those hard rationalists who eschew any notion of spirituality in SF, but it's a common thread, going back to Arthur C Clarke and beyond.
DS9 was dog ass boring. Stargate's state of Ascension is a well-known, agnostic approach to evolution of Energy but if you recall, ascended humans [ancients], has nothing to do with the creation of species, planets, the Universe, etc., as the Alpha and the Omega.
Sure they colonized thousands of planets [yeah right], but the Universe and all it's laws of physics, energy forms, etc., were already there and thus there to experiment upon and discover all it holds--to evolve our collective body of wisdom.
The finale was reasonably good, but I would have preferred the last scene to have been Adama on top of the hill next to Laura's grave. What follows after that, although necessary to explain the existence of the "imaginary" Gaius/Six characters, seemed awfully cheesy to me. I'm talking "Galactica 1980" cheesy. I also didn't find the universal acceptance of the "hey, let's discard every scrap of technology and be cavemen!" idea to be realistic or practical in the least.
What does Adama do with his ship?
No, Deus Ex Machina requires the resolution to drop in that moment, without story support. God suddenly appears, and fixes things.
That's not at all what BSG did. BSG pre-seeded their resolutions a year or more in advance. Sure, they were miracles, but they were miracles we'd been told a year ago would happen, all the finale did was show us exactly how they happened.
You can not like the way it was resolved, but that doesn't mean it was Deus Ex Machina.
Just read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina
Even It has evolved in interpretation, but it's clear that Ron loves Deus ex machina.
The god explanation is such a cop out.
I thought the "You know it doesn't like that name." was a nice touch and opened it up quite a bit more than just "God did it".
Or a fellow writer suggested that to avoid being completely panned by critics.
The god explanation is such a cop out.
A lot of times when you see something like that, it is a cop out. But not in this case.
The story - in its entirety - was about something divine moving mankind/cylonkind like pawns. People have destinies in this show, real ones. All throughout.
So it's not like they just slapped a Deity into the ending to tie things up. Nothing else at that point would have sufficed.
We could get this board as ugly as the SciFi board or we could cite the number of flaws that a certain Digg poster did, but in the end, Moore admitted to making it up as they went.
True. For the life of me I can't figure out how come they've been so slow to the game with BioAlgae, other than the fact they don't own squat in patents on such solutions.
This is where PetroSun Inc with it's innate lead in this area is gong to be the big winner.
What I really want in my phone is full integration of communication methods I normally use. Can I connect to a 802.11 wireless network and launch Skype and Yahoo Instant Messenger (with voice, of course)? No, I don't mean over cellular network.
The telcos are connected to this phone. What makes you think AT&T wants you to circumvent them using Skype?
Grow a f'n brain!
The new SDK will allow developers to control accessories attached to the dock adapter. I'm really hopeful someone will make a card reader...it would so nice to bring a 32GB iPod touch on trips instead of a MacBook Pro.
Tired of lugging around a laptop with those "Girls Gone Wild" business meetings?
You've now achieved what Palm devices could do ten years ago.
Now it actually works.
You have to be empathic? Are you implying that it's innate in women?
I agree on the notion that your genitals don't predetermine your ability to raise children.
If you're initial procreation is a couple of minutes, you truly have to hang on the child rearing as something to enjoy. Holy crap! A few minutes means you were doing it all wrong.
I don't meet the average. I'm hitting 40, with my engineering and computer science backgrounds, while still having no children, but two divorce certificates to boot!
I'm thankful I have no dependents with this economy.
Bingo.
Nothing chaps my hide more than some pin dick getting paid 20-30% more for a basic business management degree over hard science degrees of all engineering fields.
It glorifies the drunk frat boy and mocks the rest as if they don't have the brains [intuition] and maturity to realize they worked tenfold more to receive far less.
In 1972 the average starting wage for a mechanical engineer [b.s.] was 31K USD. In 1990 it had virtually remained unchanged.
Who in their right mind wants to become fiscally insolvent but with the bragging rights of, ``Oh yeah! Well I'm smarter than you!,'' only to have the pin dick respond, ``Really? Define smarter,'' leaving you realizing how used you have become.
Contract out to Springer Verlag. They don't accept Word.
Correct. Existence is a Continuum.
You don't even have the balls to use a handle when writing your Neocon list of defunding?
That speaks volumes to either the ignorance of the developers or the myopic altruism of the developers. You take your pick. Do you want to leach off your family and never make money, thus guaranteeing yourself a life of obscurity or do you want to make money and help your family out by paying your own way?
Then again, you can always live in obscurity through being a perpetual grad student moving from one Masters/PhD to the next. Even then you eventually have to do research and generate income or you're the biggest overeducated douchebag battling Stallman for who has the biggest beard. Even he gets paid for his work, though he'd give you the impression that he's a charity case and this [GPL] is his Magnum Opus to the World.
Have you payed your $100 yet? I think you're missing one step... which is not the 'become a developer' part.. it's the 'become a distributor' part... which is what the articles should say.
Anyone can become a developer without a license etc. etc. but to become a distributor you need Apple's blessing and a contract, which appears to be taking longer and longer to get.
It seems rather obvious that Apple has realized with the emergence of some 50,000 applications that they are re-addressing the store design to create a structure and ultimately make it easier to sift through what will inevitably become > 100,000 in less than a year. Application saturation will create a law of diminishing returns when trying to sift between great and mediocre applications.
Of course, its incumbent upon the developer to find their niche and not become one of countless similar functioning applications, if they want to make money and get faster approval. That requires them to sift through the categories and not just write a half ass application trying to ride the wave of iPhone expansion.
If you're a newbie to any programming platform it's going to be hard. Your original comment about OS X iPhone being hard to program, followed up by if you already are a Mac developer it's easy to program for supports my statement.
The key is for seasoned developers who know C/C++/Java and have no moronic bigoted view regarding ObjC notation to comment on the simplicity or difficulty of Cocoa.
Having the experience of with or without Cocoa it's a no-brainer. Cocoa does the heavy lifting and learning ObjC is easy. It also clarifies the MVC paradigm immensely.
What's the moral justification against Abortion, but for mass Animal slaughter for consumption? Let me guess! The Bible!
I'm Pro-Choice/Pro-responsibility and an Omnivore.
I've always wanted to travel to other worlds.
It's an appealing thought. But is also works in reverse.
Do we really want the other worlds' explorers coming here? Let's see what we humans have done to new lands: genocide, penal colony, battleground, food resource, or tourist trap. I vote we use Kepler to watch out for the scumballs, so we can prepare to zap them before they arrive.
With progress comes challenges, change, loss and gains. Earth is supposed to be one giant Man in the Bubble? I think not.
Yikes! Opera peaks at 250MB, and stays there. They really need to work on the memory issues. Even though I don't even touch computers with less than 4GB RAM, it's pretty sick to see 25% of that eaten by a web browser.
Sure it peaks there at 105% CPU while the retarded programming handles Flash, ultimately resulting in a zombie process that needs to be killed.
I can't be the only one who thought of this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_Objects_Framework
NeXT, now Apple has patents on this stuff predating this with DBKit.