In April, Joe Straczynski, creator of B5, had this to say in reference to Sci-Fi passing on the Legend of the Rangers series:
The SciFi Channel has indicated that it's moving away from space shows, with all the hardware/alien stuff that goes with it.
Farscape is, of course, a space show, so I saw this coming. It was surprising that it stayed on the schedule this season, but not surprising that its stay of execution was only temporary.
And now, for a small question from me... What is the point of a science fiction channel without science fiction?
To that end, he composed a piece which involved a pianist holding his hands over a piano keyboard for 4 minutes and 33 seconds. The music was not silence, but rather the sound of the audience slowly realising to what was going on.
So what you're saying is John Cage was a classical music troll.
Dialup's been out of style, with broadband getting so popular, but now that all the broadband providers are restricting their service to as close to dialup levels as possible (at 3 times the price, often with a year contract), will dialup become popular again?
And if this happens, will dialup providers who don't suck start to appear?
Or will the now dialup-bandwidth broadband go down to prices which fit the bandwidth ($15 would be good), filling that low-cost gap?
Or will, most likely, service continue to get worse, more restrictive, slower, and less reliable, while prices rise? And at the same time, dialup providers continue dying?
It fails with more complex bands, however. I put in four bands:
Caravan Camel Soft Machine Matching Mole
Google failed to provide even one more Canterbury band (or prog band). Though comes up with something if I add a popular progrock band, like King Crimson, to the mix.
Get your Death Certification. In other words, kill yourself.
Go ahead, read all the comments. You'll see the same thing that I found out from experience. No one cares about your education. No one cares about certifications. They want to know if you can THINK.
Unfortunately, managers are not able to tell a good thinker any more than desert hyenas can tell a good ice skater, so they substitute experience. Two years of experience isn't enough. You'd have a tough time with four years or more in this economy, but below that, you have 0% chance.
"Working in IT is a tax on people poor at math."
You can't get more experience, since no one will hire you. Like I said, the best thing for anyone new to IT is to get their DC. It doesn't take a lot of money for fees, study guides, or classes, and if you fail the first time, you can try again as many times as you need to.
Just hope there's no afterlife. Dying and waking up somewhere else is like getting your MCSE and applying to Be.
What does this mean? Having never worked at a bookstore, I don't know what it means for a book to come with sales stickers on....
The book was Dianetics, which is the big Scientologist book. The reason they show up at bookstores with price stickers already on them is because of the Scientologists' bestseller plan:
1) Everyone goes out and buys Dianetics. 2) Give the copies of Dianetics to the "church." 3) The church ships the books back out to retail stores.
The end product is that Dianetics goes sky-high in the bestseller lists, without costing the church typical manufacturing costs. And bookstores get copies of the book already with sales stickers on.
The Replay has some sharing capabilites built in, the Tivo doesn't. I think it's the ability to swap recordings between two Replay units that they're objecting to.
I didn't know that. Can recordings be swapped to non-ReplayTV machines (which might have the ability to save a permanent copy, like a CD)?
Could someone reply to this and answer a question I have, which none of these articles has answered? Why SonicBlue, and not Tivo? What's the difference between these two PVRs that lets Tivo get off scott free?
I can't afford either, but from all I've read, they're the same thing: digital VCRs. Maybe ReplayTV should have copied Tivo.
So wait, Nike tried to say that lying in advertising was protected by free speech? I don't believe it.
Hwell... I suppose in a perfect world it would be protected, and in a perfect world, their opponents would be able to attach a response saying, "the statement you just heard was a lie," the same as as a followup to a/. post.
However, deceptive advertising has been against the law for a while. Nike is grasping at straws.
I wonder. If any of you have wandered through the cereal aisle, you know that children's cereals have now started to package CD-ROMs instead of regular prizes. If you look closely, you see that these CD's all have a little AOL logo. That's right, they're AOL CDs, meant to sucker kids into installing AOL on their parents' computers.
How long until the first AOL CD is found inside an atom (1000 microns free[1]!)? When found, will it make it so the electron microscopes can no longer view non-AOL atoms?
[1] Yes I know it's a unit of distance, but if parsecs can be an unit of time, microns can be too; thanks, Lucas.
Whatever it's called, the result of this single-handed, civic-minded tinkering from Thailand could lead to a day when firemen carry catapults in their trucks as well as ladders.
Help! Help! Fire! Someone save me!
[Sound of catapult launching]
Help! Hel--OOOOOOF!
[Sound of unconscious body being consumed by fire]
A judge mandates that a company spy on its users? How long until Kazaa spyware is not just legal, but mandatory (and the programmers at Lavasoft are sent to prison)?
"Anyone else involved with the decision to substitute a PC network for an AS400 for critical data should be killed and then eaten to prevent them from being revived."
I'm up for that. Let's take it to Kitchen Stadium. How will the Iron Chef create a brilliant meal from the flesh of municipal IT morons? One thing is for sure: it'll involve either foie gras or caviar.
These people have jobs and can eat regularly, while other people, such as me, who understand just how crap PCs are, go without eating. Add to that the fact that they put aside their backup contingencies OVER A YEAR before migration could be completed (the second article says they still have 6 months of data entry to go), and I think it's quite a fair plan that they should be eaten. And boy am I hungry.
The game continues to look great - and combined with its release date being right around Warcraft III, I suspect sleep will not be an option.
I hope this doesn't mean Hemos intends to buy a game from Blizzard, and means he plans on doing like Largo and getting a copy from someone on IRC. Because he couldn't actually read Slashdot and send money to that company.
Exactly. Eric Flint almost got there, but missed out on the final important step: Read, Don't Buy.
Harlan Ellison is a very good writer. He's worth reading. It doesn't matter that he's become an utterly clueless asshole (he wasn't nearly so bad until Eternal September began). His writing still stands as good writing on its own, just the same as Chick Corea's piano playing is the best in the business despite him being a $cientologist.
Harlan Ellison is a clueless prick. He's not worth sending money to. No one should buy anything he writes until, at the least, he's dead. Now this doesn't mean to refuse to read Harlan's writings. Don't boycott reading. If you have a library, use that, and if you don't, pirate.
What Ogg needs in an alt.binaries group. Say what you want about usenet compared to P2P, there is a strong music community there, and more bandwidth moving than, probably, anything but multimedia or ISOs.
With a nice beginning of, say, 100 oggs a day, it could swiftly grow to thousands. Especially if the hard/impossible-to-find stuff (that no one will post in MP3) were posted.
This guy has a masters (political science) and a bachelor's (business management) degree. Yet he works at the local supermarket? Unless he owns the place the going to college was not worth it for this guy (even then perhaps not).
And welcome to the modern world. College isn't worth that much. For instance, I have a computer engineering degree. I WISH I could get a job at a supermarket. It's definite that no one is willing to hire me to engineer computers.
People who are educated often, when they can work at all, work jobs at minimum wage. I've known dozens. It's been like this since the 90s, and getting worse every year. So people shouldn't give this guy too much of a hard time for it.
The logic behind winmodems was to reduce the hardware costs and drive down the prices. My question is how much cheaper can they really drive these prices down. Right now you can pick up a wireless ethernet card for $50. Modems are runing as low as $30 for comparison.
Modems used to be about $50, and still are (retail... online you can find them cheaper, of course). This looks like no change, but when you consider that you couldn't buy a hardware modem if you wanted to, unless you want to pay almost double for an external modem, and the store makes $30-40 more profit per internal modem than they used to, it's a compelling change.
If WiFi goes the way of WinModems, chances are they'll still cost you the same, but that won't keep them from taking over the market.
Postal was short as hell... way too short... but it had details, fun, gameplay. I wouldn't call it realistic; it was exaggerated in a lot of ways. But it had a lot of playability, and just the right details to make it seem more realistic than it was.
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Gov. Gray Davis received more than $1 million in contributions from banks, insurance companies and other corporations that opposed Speier's bill.
Looks like the banks are getting good use out of eGray. And who says the Internet can't be profitable.
If they aren't going to do space shows, does that mean SG1 is doomed? How about the rest of the Dune movies?
As far as I know, SG1 was only supposed to be one extra season, which means it will have fulfilled its purpose. Of course, I could be mistaken.
Don't know the status of the Dune miniseries. They don't fit into the JohnEdwards Channel philosophy, but contracts may have been signed already.
Farscape is, of course, a space show, so I saw this coming. It was surprising that it stayed on the schedule this season, but not surprising that its stay of execution was only temporary.
And now, for a small question from me... What is the point of a science fiction channel without science fiction?
To that end, he composed a piece which involved a pianist holding his hands over a piano keyboard for 4 minutes and 33 seconds. The music was not silence, but rather the sound of the audience slowly realising to what was going on.
So what you're saying is John Cage was a classical music troll.
I like that.
Dialup's been out of style, with broadband getting so popular, but now that all the broadband providers are restricting their service to as close to dialup levels as possible (at 3 times the price, often with a year contract), will dialup become popular again?
And if this happens, will dialup providers who don't suck start to appear?
Or will the now dialup-bandwidth broadband go down to prices which fit the bandwidth ($15 would be good), filling that low-cost gap?
Or will, most likely, service continue to get worse, more restrictive, slower, and less reliable, while prices rise? And at the same time, dialup providers continue dying?
I know which possibility I'm betting on.
It fails with more complex bands, however. I put in four bands:
Caravan
Camel
Soft Machine
Matching Mole
Google failed to provide even one more Canterbury band (or prog band). Though comes up with something if I add a popular progrock band, like King Crimson, to the mix.
Get your Death Certification. In other words, kill yourself.
Go ahead, read all the comments. You'll see the same thing that I found out from experience. No one cares about your education. No one cares about certifications. They want to know if you can THINK.
Unfortunately, managers are not able to tell a good thinker any more than desert hyenas can tell a good ice skater, so they substitute experience. Two years of experience isn't enough. You'd have a tough time with four years or more in this economy, but below that, you have 0% chance.
"Working in IT is a tax on people poor at math."
You can't get more experience, since no one will hire you. Like I said, the best thing for anyone new to IT is to get their DC. It doesn't take a lot of money for fees, study guides, or classes, and if you fail the first time, you can try again as many times as you need to.
Just hope there's no afterlife. Dying and waking up somewhere else is like getting your MCSE and applying to Be.
What does this mean? Having never worked at a bookstore, I don't know what it means for a book to come with sales stickers on....
The book was Dianetics, which is the big Scientologist book. The reason they show up at bookstores with price stickers already on them is because of the Scientologists' bestseller plan:
1) Everyone goes out and buys Dianetics.
2) Give the copies of Dianetics to the "church."
3) The church ships the books back out to retail stores.
The end product is that Dianetics goes sky-high in the bestseller lists, without costing the church typical manufacturing costs. And bookstores get copies of the book already with sales stickers on.
The Replay has some sharing capabilites built in, the Tivo doesn't. I think it's the ability to swap recordings between two Replay units that they're objecting to.
I didn't know that. Can recordings be swapped to non-ReplayTV machines (which might have the ability to save a permanent copy, like a CD)?
Could someone reply to this and answer a question I have, which none of these articles has answered? Why SonicBlue, and not Tivo? What's the difference between these two PVRs that lets Tivo get off scott free?
I can't afford either, but from all I've read, they're the same thing: digital VCRs. Maybe ReplayTV should have copied Tivo.
So wait, Nike tried to say that lying in advertising was protected by free speech? I don't believe it.
/. post.
Hwell... I suppose in a perfect world it would be protected, and in a perfect world, their opponents would be able to attach a response saying, "the statement you just heard was a lie," the same as as a followup to a
However, deceptive advertising has been against the law for a while. Nike is grasping at straws.
I wonder. If any of you have wandered through the cereal aisle, you know that children's cereals have now started to package CD-ROMs instead of regular prizes. If you look closely, you see that these CD's all have a little AOL logo. That's right, they're AOL CDs, meant to sucker kids into installing AOL on their parents' computers.
How long until the first AOL CD is found inside an atom (1000 microns free[1]!)? When found, will it make it so the electron microscopes can no longer view non-AOL atoms?
[1] Yes I know it's a unit of distance, but if parsecs can be an unit of time, microns can be too; thanks, Lucas.
Whatever it's called, the result of this single-handed, civic-minded tinkering from Thailand could lead to a day when firemen carry catapults in their trucks as well as ladders.
Help! Help! Fire! Someone save me!
[Sound of catapult launching]
Help! Hel--OOOOOOF!
[Sound of unconscious body being consumed by fire]
A judge mandates that a company spy on its users? How long until Kazaa spyware is not just legal, but mandatory (and the programmers at Lavasoft are sent to prison)?
"Anyone else involved with the decision to substitute a PC network for an AS400 for critical data should be killed and then eaten to prevent them from being revived."
I'm up for that. Let's take it to Kitchen Stadium. How will the Iron Chef create a brilliant meal from the flesh of municipal IT morons? One thing is for sure: it'll involve either foie gras or caviar.
These people have jobs and can eat regularly, while other people, such as me, who understand just how crap PCs are, go without eating. Add to that the fact that they put aside their backup contingencies OVER A YEAR before migration could be completed (the second article says they still have 6 months of data entry to go), and I think it's quite a fair plan that they should be eaten. And boy am I hungry.
Looks like the perfect plate for Homer Simpson's car.
The game continues to look great - and combined with its release date being right around Warcraft III, I suspect sleep will not be an option.
I hope this doesn't mean Hemos intends to buy a game from Blizzard, and means he plans on doing like Largo and getting a copy from someone on IRC. Because he couldn't actually read Slashdot and send money to that company.
Right?
I won't buy anything new from Ellison.
Exactly. Eric Flint almost got there, but missed out on the final important step: Read, Don't Buy.
Harlan Ellison is a very good writer. He's worth reading. It doesn't matter that he's become an utterly clueless asshole (he wasn't nearly so bad until Eternal September began). His writing still stands as good writing on its own, just the same as Chick Corea's piano playing is the best in the business despite him being a $cientologist.
Harlan Ellison is a clueless prick. He's not worth sending money to. No one should buy anything he writes until, at the least, he's dead. Now this doesn't mean to refuse to read Harlan's writings. Don't boycott reading. If you have a library, use that, and if you don't, pirate.
Read, Don't Buy.
What Ogg needs in an alt.binaries group. Say what you want about usenet compared to P2P, there is a strong music community there, and more bandwidth moving than, probably, anything but multimedia or ISOs.
With a nice beginning of, say, 100 oggs a day, it could swiftly grow to thousands. Especially if the hard/impossible-to-find stuff (that no one will post in MP3) were posted.
Just an idea.
This guy has a masters (political science) and a bachelor's (business management) degree. Yet he works at the local supermarket? Unless he owns the place the going to college was not worth it for this guy (even then perhaps not).
And welcome to the modern world. College isn't worth that much. For instance, I have a computer engineering degree. I WISH I could get a job at a supermarket. It's definite that no one is willing to hire me to engineer computers.
People who are educated often, when they can work at all, work jobs at minimum wage. I've known dozens. It's been like this since the 90s, and getting worse every year. So people shouldn't give this guy too much of a hard time for it.
I didn't make enough money last year to have to file a return. Wheee! Thank you, George W!
The logic behind winmodems was to reduce the hardware costs and drive down the prices. My question is how much cheaper can they really drive these prices down. Right now you can pick up a wireless ethernet card for $50. Modems are runing as low as $30 for comparison.
... online you can find them cheaper, of course). This looks like no change, but when you consider that you couldn't buy a hardware modem if you wanted to, unless you want to pay almost double for an external modem, and the store makes $30-40 more profit per internal modem than they used to, it's a compelling change.
Modems used to be about $50, and still are (retail
If WiFi goes the way of WinModems, chances are they'll still cost you the same, but that won't keep them from taking over the market.
http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/periodictable.html
Neat. I've been a fan of Michael Swanwick (the author) since Vacuum Flowers.
Arsenic IS good.
Re: Postal
... way too short ... but it had details, fun, gameplay. I wouldn't call it realistic; it was exaggerated in a lot of ways. But it had a lot of playability, and just the right details to make it seem more realistic than it was.
Only a pyschotic could enjoy that game.
God that was a fun game.
Postal was short as hell
Yikes! Things have been bad in New Jersey for a while (telecom slump). How are they elsewhere?
Bad. I've been trying to get a minimum wage job to pay the rent for over a year, but because of my technical background I am treated as a pariah.
I'll be homeless soon.