Call a 'Rage Quit' whatever you want: I call it a tantrum. If your purpose is to walk out as some kind of revenge for imagined (or even real) abusiveness by your boss, your co-workers or TPTB, I guess dumping a can of gasoline on your head and self-immolating is about as effective...for you. And as/.ers all say, "I'm all I care about."
Instead, bear in mind that unless you are outrageously mobile and able to take a gig several states (or continents) away, you are probably a specialist in a regional market: You will likely find yourself working with some of these people again, and their opinion of you will matter in your future employment.
The fact that at-will employment means that an employer can kick the feet out from under you in 3 seconds with a 2 second head start doesn't mean jack in the long run: That is how the world wags. My favorite manager was pole-axed *this week* for political reasons: He was gone before his morning cuppa cooled.
If you want to keep working (and eating) you will think first about the effect that your spazz-out will have on you 5-10-15 years down the line. I've concluded that anyone who wants to stay employed whether full time or contract will guard their reputation jealously. Sure, I've had a 'fantasy rage quit' script in my head. I've also had the sense to keep it there. The pay-off has been 23 years of employment at 8 companies on both coasts and a total of only 10 months of unemployment in that time, 5 months each, once voluntarily. The gravy has been dozens of people that I can reach out to who will vouch for me and help me find work quickly if I needed help. An employee who has had manure poured on them and manages to quit with grace and dignity will be remembered as someone you want to work with again. The tantrum rage quit will make great office gossip for years to come, but nobody is going to help them if they're hurtin'.
HE also built a hybrid system by which a series of tranport wagons, each with its own hub-on-motor AWD, which all chained together so that they provided with electrical power generated by an IC engine at the rear of the train. The sucker wasn't fast, but could move incredibly heavy equipment.
I remember Linus' flame of AT (who's minix NG he had essentially taken over.) I can see it from both sides: AT had it coming by asserting that Linus was WRONG in implimenting a monolithic kernel, not just that it was not what AT would have chosen. Linus had it coming by using someone else's maillist to jumpstart development on his kernel and then not having the good graces to set up his own newsgroup when it was clear that he had substantially over stayed his welcome.
My point, which you seemed to have missed in a 'forest for the trees' sort of way, is that Linus has habitually (I consider the AT flame to be abberrant, and if you check the rest of his public comments, you'll find this true) been fine with anyone doing anything the way that they prefer to...as long as they don't insist that he MUST do it their way. That's what hacks him off about religion, kernel design or whatever. "If I can get Microsoft to change, and compete on quality, I've won." In 1999.
What a change some time and comfort brings. Gnome works for me. Linus says that no one should be encouraged to use Gnome because it doesn't work for HIM. This begins to sound remarkably like William Gates, III. As another poster has noted, people listen to Linus, whether he likes it or not. Insert your standard Spiderman moral here: "With much power..."
I owe a great debt to Linus and other kernel folks (and app folks, RMS is scary individual but I appreciate his skill, though I wouldn't trade-in my tact to get it) but that doesn't mean that people will follow you. I'm not a programmer, just an SA and a hardware wonk with a hell of a lot of servers with my name on a label that says "If trouble, contact". I listen to smart people. But I only take the ones seriously who grasp the basic UNIX dictum that "There is more than one way to solve a given problem." When I start hearing that there is only one way, that's when I decouple respect from my attention. I pay attention to what Bill Gates says. I don't respect him at all. But one would be foolish not to pay attention. I'm beginning to wonder if Linus is headed down the same road.
I've been noting it over a about a three year period. His early humility that many found attractive in a leader has given way to the hubris typical of someone like RMS. (Smarts have nothing to do with it; they will only get you so far.)
I've used KDE and GNOME and presently use GNOME at home and at work because it meets my modest needs. Perhaps KDE has improved drastically since I used it in the SUSE 8 days; then it was so unstable I could cause it to crash by staring at the screen too hard. GNOME is more bloated than I'd like, and occasionally wonky if you are the type that wants to hole up in a dark closet, under a blanket and "play with yourself", reconfiguring your desktop repeatedly because you don't have any real work to do. If I leave the config alone, it is stable and doesn't give me any grief.
Perhaps I'll take the plunge and switch to KDE when the next Ubuntu rolls. But it would be a shock for my wife, who I have finally gotten broken in to GNOME. She operates in both the Windows and GNOME desktop environments, and doesn't have to (and doesn't WANT to) drop to the command line in either.
Ralph Nader meant to make things safer with the airbag: he didn't. He took away the owner's (owner's!) ability to get himself out of a jamb. The addiction to battle-carrier sized cars was the natural extension of his philosophy: don't let the stupid human be responsible for himself.
Gladwell does an exceptional job of showing how Nader and the airbag made us FEEL safer. And people with SUVs and airbags FEEL safer. But it doesn't have anything to do with the statistics.
There is plenty of tech that is purely mechanical and would do well with fuel metering, emissions, etc. But since we put a computer in every other damn thing, why not a ton and a half of plastic and steel going fast.
Don't flame if you haven't read the gladwell article. Then if you disagree, chew me out. But LOOK at it.
I can't wait until MSFT is controlling the 'fly by wire' car. That's when I'm dropping out to go raise goats.
Dell's customers (esp corp desktop) are not asking for AMD, they're screaming for it. The combination of the cooler running, lower power consumption and performance all in one box makes for a very desireable combo when you're trying to hold down the cost of running hundreds or thousands of desktop systems, but the system cost, as well as the power and cooling cost.
I built a 150 node AMD cluster last year of the IBM 326s. This sucka really hauls the mail. Now I'm going to do a simple BIOS flash to all of the nodes and replace the CPUs with dual cores. I expect the processing capacity to cause micro-tears in space-time. Just don't stand too close when we fire it up.:^)
first ep was 10m, second weas 7.3 (great weather that weekend, remember?) and ep 3 came in at 8.3m which was higher than the wedding of his royal frogness and the rotweiller princess.
By contrast, Farscape, even at it's tops in the USA was doing only 3m.
Most show developers would sell their soul for those kind of ratings, so yea, it's a hit.
Almost all of the very greatest minds in science have been people who believe in something that they can't prove. Even without a spiritual dimension, that thing can be called a 'theory'. How you view the world, even through the lense of less than 100% certainty, changes you. Hooray for God and other less empirical ideas.
Between knowing them and their work, and you shooting that hole in your face off, I'll side with them. Maybe I shouldn't be feeding you, trollboy, but the sheer towering cockiness I hear leaking out of your skull leads me to hope I never have to put my life on the line for one of your scientific theories.
The only total F**king moron here is you, troll boy. This is about ADULT stem cells, not fetal stem cells, a distinction lost on drooling idiots like yourself.
Sure, My mother. I can't say I blame her. She'd prefer to talk to people she knows about things she cares about. Much of her internet experience has been like getting mugged in a third world bazaar. Between the pimps (pushing porn) the dope peddlers (pushing viagra) and the spammers pushing everything else that you might want but don't need...Remind me again why this is good?
I can't say that her views and mine line up, but I understand where she is coming from. Imagine how relieved you'd be it chop down your mailbox if you came home every day to a pile of circulars that buried your front yard?
I'm increasingly of the opinion that more communication needs to take place face to face. I may send an email to a colleage down the hall when its full of information. But for conversation (that discussion *about* the info) I get off my fat A and walk down the hall.
Human beings were not designed with an RJ45 jack in their fore-head. I think we're sacrificing a quality of life and we don't even know it yet. Technology is great for passing data. It's lousy for blowing in a girl's ear.
Sounds like RedHat licensing to me. We just signed a deal with them for the bazillion installations we have and the cost of support is more than our MSFT contract by a considerable amount. TCO my ass!
Install Linux? These people don't know how to SPELL Linux.
A more helpful (and less expensive) recommendation would be to suggest they dump the system and go to WalMart to buy a Lindows (ahem, sorry...Linspire) box.
This is the consumer, dude. This is not the pencil-neck pocket-protector set. Would you recommend that the poor jane-average motorist rebuild their engine? Could you? Don't be foolish.
Hate to say it; I'm with the folks who would prefer to explore by robot and orbiting camera first. That buys us time to do a a nanotube 'beanstalk' right.
What a shame that the only thing that has frequently motivated us to look to the skies and spend the money to get there is fear and politics.
I would agree with the other poster: 'going strong' is relative. I'd submit that Farscape had gotten off it's track early in the 4th season with real duds like Coup by Clam. When we hit the stride again was when they got back into the series aspect (as opposed to the encapsulated story format, which alway came out uneven on FS) and then the show went back into warp-drive.
SG1 never lit my fire; I can't say why. Perhaps it's because I never gave it much of a chance, the other part was that SCIFI jumped in where it left Showtime: No opportunity to pick it up from the beginning.
I've decided that Firefly and Farscape are my kind of Sci-Fi, not just because they have crackling dialog and decent effects, but because they are character and plot driven. That's where I left ST:Enterprise; The characters and plots were so inbred that the only thing left to geek out over was the tech. And that's not what its about for me. For me, the best Sci-Fi is about resetting characters and plots in a new environment so that we can look at relationships and event with a new set of eyes. Asimov and Heinlein did this brilliantly. Joss Wheadon does it too. Sadly, I don't get that groove from what I've seen of SG1.
SCIFI treated Henson pretty shabbily when they were producing the original series, and backed out of the series for the 5th season when Henson wouldn't take less money for the same number of episodes delivered (as well as SCIFI insisting that they should get virtually unlimited re-run rights, which would tie up the series syndication in the USA for a long time. You know SCIFI: they'd run it in repeats until it was dead if they could do it for free.)
The fact that Henson would back up in the arms of SCIFI for the American distribution is really odd, as it was SCIFI that made such a mess of it in the first place. But I think someone needs to read the fine print: SCIFI's exclusive license to run repeats ends this fall (they had a 2 year contract.)
I'd be willing to bet my leather Scorpy suit that Henson hooked a deal for distribution in return for an extension of SCIFI's lock on the American distribution. And it means that fans are stuck with SCSFI's crappy attitude toward hard science-fiction and their decision that "Sci-Fi" means Horror-Fantasy.
So expect SCSIFI to make a big hoorah that "We're bringing this signature show back because we care about and listen to our fans." Phooey. I cancelled my extended cable because after Farscape and Firefly went off-air, there wasn't any decent Sci-Fi left to watch on SCIFI. Tremors2? Fear Factor?
I'll camp out at a friend's place for the mini-series, but I'm not going to sign up with SCIFI again until they demonstrate that they are proactive, rather than reactive.
I think the only way to make this work is to put control in the hands of an international body. Like ICANN, only with real teeth this time. Then it can't get 'bought' by a monopoly or someone looking to cripple a market segment for their own gain.
The other options is a consortium run along the same lines, with financial contribution by the tier 1 backbone providers, but the actual policy and control mechanisms managed by a either the above mentioned international body, or a non-profit corp.
Essentially, they say SCO is smoking the good stuff and not sharing;
From the press release: "There is no non-compete provision in those contracts, and the pending acquisition of SUSE LINUX does not violate any agreement between Novell and SCO."
They also mention that SCO hasn't bothered to call THEM.
I used to be impressed by RH's shoving the edge in the enterprise, but I've had to recommend against continuing with RHAS at my company because of the falling behind in storage addressing. RH paraded RHAS 3 into our offices crowing that it could address 256 LUNs. We have already had to move our systems to SLES 8 because they will support 2048 LUNs. How am I supposed to take RHAS seriously for the enterprise when SLES 8 (and any other commercial Unix) have already licked a problem like this years ago?
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Note: site is/.ed so claims of plastic fish are questionably.
Before the heat question, did any fool consider what the hell being that close to that much EM is going to do to the fish? All fish use (to a greater or lesser degree) a lateral line system (a series of sensors embedded in their scales running horizontally along their bodies) which uses EM fields for navigation. Fish like The Clown Knife and the Elephant Fish are nocturnal hunters and use their LLS exclusively.
This idea is about as cruel and stupid as trapping your average socially crippled geek in a cage with the Sunday potluck crowd. How would you feel after the first hour? The second day? The third week?
What cruel and thoughtless stupidity will the human race come up with next?
Uh...dipshit? Did you actually read the Salon article? Nah. You're too smart for that. You've got it all figured out. That's why your comments are a waste of calories to read; you're too bum-ass lazy to do your homework and discuss the SUBJECT, rather than blabbing just hear the clatter of your own keys.
Since you apparently didn't have time to read the article, I'll do a little 'previously on SCI-FI' for you
1. First show to ever organize it's very noisy and media savvy International revolt *entirely* over the internet, six months prior to the end of the show because...
2. The fans and the creators (Henson Co) and actors communicate by email & IRC, which is how the fans were tipped by the producers that SCI-FI had reneged on paying for their share of the promised fifth season. (It's shown in 13 countries, but since your lazy ass probably doesn't know the names of any of them, I'll just focus on this one.)
3. The fan/creator relationship is completely unique in the industry as comments from the fans, communicated by IRC, directly affected the direction the show went.
4. Within 24 hours of the news breaking over IRC (with the producer tapping the news out from the studios in Australia, oops; you know where that is, right?) SCI-FI channel's IRC had crashed from the overload, the PBX had crashed from the phone load and CNN was covering the massive internet coordination, which is why TV-Guide, Entertainment Weekly and Salon are all still giving it press this week, seven months after it 'should have' faded quietly away.
5. The universal response from media critics (ya know...non-geeks) and industry people was that SCI-FI had lost their @#$&*^ marbles by giving up the only show that made the stinking channel watchable.
So...exactly what rock have you been under? You're entitled to whatever your opinion is about the show, but the SHOW isn't the subject; the subject is the new and unique way the internet has been integral to the development, production and fan activism regarding the show, a distinction that you apparently missed while rushing to assault us with your off-topic opinions.
Read the article, bub, before you shoot off that hole in your face.
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Call a 'Rage Quit' whatever you want: I call it a tantrum. If your purpose is to walk out as some kind of revenge for imagined (or even real) abusiveness by your boss, your co-workers or TPTB, I guess dumping a can of gasoline on your head and self-immolating is about as effective...for you. And as /.ers all say, "I'm all I care about."
Instead, bear in mind that unless you are outrageously mobile and able to take a gig several states (or continents) away, you are probably a specialist in a regional market: You will likely find yourself working with some of these people again, and their opinion of you will matter in your future employment.
The fact that at-will employment means that an employer can kick the feet out from under you in 3 seconds with a 2 second head start doesn't mean jack in the long run: That is how the world wags. My favorite manager was pole-axed *this week* for political reasons: He was gone before his morning cuppa cooled.
If you want to keep working (and eating) you will think first about the effect that your spazz-out will have on you 5-10-15 years down the line. I've concluded that anyone who wants to stay employed whether full time or contract will guard their reputation jealously. Sure, I've had a 'fantasy rage quit' script in my head. I've also had the sense to keep it there. The pay-off has been 23 years of employment at 8 companies on both coasts and a total of only 10 months of unemployment in that time, 5 months each, once voluntarily. The gravy has been dozens of people that I can reach out to who will vouch for me and help me find work quickly if I needed help. An employee who has had manure poured on them and manages to quit with grace and dignity will be remembered as someone you want to work with again. The tantrum rage quit will make great office gossip for years to come, but nobody is going to help them if they're hurtin'.
HE also built a hybrid system by which a series of tranport wagons, each with its own hub-on-motor AWD, which all chained together so that they provided with electrical power generated by an IC engine at the rear of the train. The sucker wasn't fast, but could move incredibly heavy equipment.
I remember Linus' flame of AT (who's minix NG he had essentially taken over.) I can see it from both sides: AT had it coming by asserting that Linus was WRONG in implimenting a monolithic kernel, not just that it was not what AT would have chosen. Linus had it coming by using someone else's maillist to jumpstart development on his kernel and then not having the good graces to set up his own newsgroup when it was clear that he had substantially over stayed his welcome.
My point, which you seemed to have missed in a 'forest for the trees' sort of way, is that Linus has habitually (I consider the AT flame to be abberrant, and if you check the rest of his public comments, you'll find this true) been fine with anyone doing anything the way that they prefer to...as long as they don't insist that he MUST do it their way. That's what hacks him off about religion, kernel design or whatever. "If I can get Microsoft to change, and compete on quality, I've won." In 1999.
What a change some time and comfort brings. Gnome works for me. Linus says that no one should be encouraged to use Gnome because it doesn't work for HIM. This begins to sound remarkably like William Gates, III. As another poster has noted, people listen to Linus, whether he likes it or not. Insert your standard Spiderman moral here: "With much power..."
I owe a great debt to Linus and other kernel folks (and app folks, RMS is scary individual but I appreciate his skill, though I wouldn't trade-in my tact to get it) but that doesn't mean that people will follow you. I'm not a programmer, just an SA and a hardware wonk with a hell of a lot of servers with my name on a label that says "If trouble, contact". I listen to smart people. But I only take the ones seriously who grasp the basic UNIX dictum that "There is more than one way to solve a given problem." When I start hearing that there is only one way, that's when I decouple respect from my attention. I pay attention to what Bill Gates says. I don't respect him at all. But one would be foolish not to pay attention. I'm beginning to wonder if Linus is headed down the same road.
I've been noting it over a about a three year period. His early humility that many found attractive in a leader has given way to the hubris typical of someone like RMS. (Smarts have nothing to do with it; they will only get you so far.)
I've used KDE and GNOME and presently use GNOME at home and at work because it meets my modest needs. Perhaps KDE has improved drastically since I used it in the SUSE 8 days; then it was so unstable I could cause it to crash by staring at the screen too hard. GNOME is more bloated than I'd like, and occasionally wonky if you are the type that wants to hole up in a dark closet, under a blanket and "play with yourself", reconfiguring your desktop repeatedly because you don't have any real work to do. If I leave the config alone, it is stable and doesn't give me any grief.
Perhaps I'll take the plunge and switch to KDE when the next Ubuntu rolls. But it would be a shock for my wife, who I have finally gotten broken in to GNOME. She operates in both the Windows and GNOME desktop environments, and doesn't have to (and doesn't WANT to) drop to the command line in either.
No, I do mean the airbag.
It's been about six months since I've read them. Is there something germane relative to this thread? (Seriously.)
RMW
Yes, I mean the EFI box, too.
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Ralph Nader meant to make things safer with the airbag: he didn't. He took away the owner's (owner's!) ability to get himself out of a jamb. The addiction to battle-carrier sized cars was the natural extension of his philosophy: don't let the stupid human be responsible for himself.
http://www.gladwell.com/2004/2004_01_12_a_suv.htm
Gladwell does an exceptional job of showing how Nader and the airbag made us FEEL safer. And people with SUVs and airbags FEEL safer. But it doesn't have anything to do with the statistics.
There is plenty of tech that is purely mechanical and would do well with fuel metering, emissions, etc. But since we put a computer in every other damn thing, why not a ton and a half of plastic and steel going fast.
Don't flame if you haven't read the gladwell article. Then if you disagree, chew me out. But LOOK at it.
I can't wait until MSFT is controlling the 'fly by wire' car. That's when I'm dropping out to go raise goats.
RMW
Dell's customers (esp corp desktop) are not asking for AMD, they're screaming for it. The combination of the cooler running, lower power consumption and performance all in one box makes for a very desireable combo when you're trying to hold down the cost of running hundreds or thousands of desktop systems, but the system cost, as well as the power and cooling cost.
:^)
I built a 150 node AMD cluster last year of the IBM 326s. This sucka really hauls the mail. Now I'm going to do a simple BIOS flash to all of the nodes and replace the CPUs with dual cores. I expect the processing capacity to cause micro-tears in space-time. Just don't stand too close when we fire it up.
first ep was 10m, second weas 7.3 (great weather that weekend, remember?) and ep 3 came in at 8.3m which was higher than the wedding of his royal frogness and the rotweiller princess.
By contrast, Farscape, even at it's tops in the USA was doing only 3m.
Most show developers would sell their soul for those kind of ratings, so yea, it's a hit.
And you are...who?
Why should you opinion matter?
Almost all of the very greatest minds in science have been people who believe in something that they can't prove. Even without a spiritual dimension, that thing can be called a 'theory'. How you view the world, even through the lense of less than 100% certainty, changes you. Hooray for God and other less empirical ideas.
Between knowing them and their work, and you shooting that hole in your face off, I'll side with them. Maybe I shouldn't be feeding you, trollboy, but the sheer towering cockiness I hear leaking out of your skull leads me to hope I never have to put my life on the line for one of your scientific theories.
RMW
The only total F**king moron here is you, troll boy. This is about ADULT stem cells, not fetal stem cells, a distinction lost on drooling idiots like yourself.
Get some facts before you shoot your hole off.
Sure, My mother. I can't say I blame her. She'd prefer to talk to people she knows about things she cares about. Much of her internet experience has been like getting mugged in a third world bazaar. Between the pimps (pushing porn) the dope peddlers (pushing viagra) and the spammers pushing everything else that you might want but don't need...Remind me again why this is good?
I can't say that her views and mine line up, but I understand where she is coming from. Imagine how relieved you'd be it chop down your mailbox if you came home every day to a pile of circulars that buried your front yard?
I'm increasingly of the opinion that more communication needs to take place face to face. I may send an email to a colleage down the hall when its full of information. But for conversation (that discussion *about* the info) I get off my fat A and walk down the hall.
Human beings were not designed with an RJ45 jack in their fore-head. I think we're sacrificing a quality of life and we don't even know it yet. Technology is great for passing data. It's lousy for blowing in a girl's ear.
Sounds like RedHat licensing to me. We just signed a deal with them for the bazillion installations we have and the cost of support is more than our MSFT contract by a considerable amount. TCO my ass!
RMW
Are you a moron?
Install Linux? These people don't know how to SPELL Linux.
A more helpful (and less expensive) recommendation would be to suggest they dump the system and go to WalMart to buy a Lindows (ahem, sorry...Linspire) box.
This is the consumer, dude. This is not the pencil-neck pocket-protector set. Would you recommend that the poor jane-average motorist rebuild their engine? Could you? Don't be foolish.
It had to be said.
Although I am dubious about the long term effects of Billy Idol (or KISS for that matter) on my potted pansies. (Potted....nevermind...)
RMW
Hate to say it; I'm with the folks who would prefer to explore by robot and orbiting camera first. That buys us time to do a a nanotube 'beanstalk' right.
What a shame that the only thing that has frequently motivated us to look to the skies and spend the money to get there is fear and politics.
RMW
At least the interface on OSX looks better. The poor Ford looks like something a stylist would produce as revenge against his employer.
I would agree with the other poster: 'going strong' is relative. I'd submit that Farscape had gotten off it's track early in the 4th season with real duds like Coup by Clam. When we hit the stride again was when they got back into the series aspect (as opposed to the encapsulated story format, which alway came out uneven on FS) and then the show went back into warp-drive.
SG1 never lit my fire; I can't say why. Perhaps it's because I never gave it much of a chance, the other part was that SCIFI jumped in where it left Showtime: No opportunity to pick it up from the beginning.
I've decided that Firefly and Farscape are my kind of Sci-Fi, not just because they have crackling dialog and decent effects, but because they are character and plot driven. That's where I left ST:Enterprise; The characters and plots were so inbred that the only thing left to geek out over was the tech. And that's not what its about for me. For me, the best Sci-Fi is about resetting characters and plots in a new environment so that we can look at relationships and event with a new set of eyes. Asimov and Heinlein did this brilliantly. Joss Wheadon does it too. Sadly, I don't get that groove from what I've seen of SG1.
Thanks for replying.
My $.02
RMW
Now THATS funny! ROFLMAO!
I gotta use that.
Sets are good for about 4 seasons. They were due to be rebuilt anyway.
RMW
SCIFI treated Henson pretty shabbily when they were producing the original series, and backed out of the series for the 5th season when Henson wouldn't take less money for the same number of episodes delivered (as well as SCIFI insisting that they should get virtually unlimited re-run rights, which would tie up the series syndication in the USA for a long time. You know SCIFI: they'd run it in repeats until it was dead if they could do it for free.)
The fact that Henson would back up in the arms of SCIFI for the American distribution is really odd, as it was SCIFI that made such a mess of it in the first place. But I think someone needs to read the fine print: SCIFI's exclusive license to run repeats ends this fall (they had a 2 year contract.)
I'd be willing to bet my leather Scorpy suit that Henson hooked a deal for distribution in return for an extension of SCIFI's lock on the American distribution. And it means that fans are stuck with SCSFI's crappy attitude toward hard science-fiction and their decision that "Sci-Fi" means Horror-Fantasy.
So expect SCSIFI to make a big hoorah that "We're bringing this signature show back because we care about and listen to our fans." Phooey. I cancelled my extended cable because after Farscape and Firefly went off-air, there wasn't any decent Sci-Fi left to watch on SCIFI. Tremors2? Fear Factor?
I'll camp out at a friend's place for the mini-series, but I'm not going to sign up with SCIFI again until they demonstrate that they are proactive, rather than reactive.
RMW
I think the only way to make this work is to put control in the hands of an international body. Like ICANN, only with real teeth this time. Then it can't get 'bought' by a monopoly or someone looking to cripple a market segment for their own gain.
The other options is a consortium run along the same lines, with financial contribution by the tier 1 backbone providers, but the actual policy and control mechanisms managed by a either the above mentioned international body, or a non-profit corp.
RMW
Essentially, they say SCO is smoking the good stuff and not sharing;
_ br ief/archive/2003/11/pr03042.html
From the press release:
"There is no non-compete provision in those contracts, and the pending acquisition of SUSE LINUX does not violate any agreement between Novell and SCO."
They also mention that SCO hasn't bothered to call THEM.
http://www.novell.com/news/press/pressroom/news
I used to be impressed by RH's shoving the edge in the enterprise, but I've had to recommend against continuing with RHAS at my company because of the falling behind in storage addressing. RH paraded RHAS 3 into our offices crowing that it could address 256 LUNs. We have already had to move our systems to SLES 8 because they will support 2048 LUNs. How am I supposed to take RHAS seriously for the enterprise when SLES 8 (and any other commercial Unix) have already licked a problem like this years ago?
Note: site is /.ed so claims of plastic fish are questionably.
Before the heat question, did any fool consider what the hell being that close to that much EM is going to do to the fish? All fish use (to a greater or lesser degree) a lateral line system (a series of sensors embedded in their scales running horizontally along their bodies) which uses EM fields for navigation. Fish like The Clown Knife and the Elephant Fish are nocturnal hunters and use their LLS exclusively.
This idea is about as cruel and stupid as trapping your average socially crippled geek in a cage with the Sunday potluck crowd. How would you feel after the first hour? The second day? The third week?
What cruel and thoughtless stupidity will the human race come up with next?
Uh...dipshit? Did you actually read the Salon article? Nah. You're too smart for that. You've got it all figured out. That's why your comments are a waste of calories to read; you're too bum-ass lazy to do your homework and discuss the SUBJECT, rather than blabbing just hear the clatter of your own keys.
Since you apparently didn't have time to read the article, I'll do a little 'previously on SCI-FI' for you
1. First show to ever organize it's very noisy and media savvy International revolt *entirely* over the internet, six months prior to the end of the show because...
2. The fans and the creators (Henson Co) and actors communicate by email & IRC, which is how the fans were tipped by the producers that SCI-FI had reneged on paying for their share of the promised fifth season. (It's shown in 13 countries, but since your lazy ass probably doesn't know the names of any of them, I'll just focus on this one.)
3. The fan/creator relationship is completely unique in the industry as comments from the fans, communicated by IRC, directly affected the direction the show went.
4. Within 24 hours of the news breaking over IRC (with the producer tapping the news out from the studios in Australia, oops; you know where that is, right?) SCI-FI channel's IRC had crashed from the overload, the PBX had crashed from the phone load and CNN was covering the massive internet coordination, which is why TV-Guide, Entertainment Weekly and Salon are all still giving it press this week, seven months after it 'should have' faded quietly away.
5. The universal response from media critics (ya know...non-geeks) and industry people was that SCI-FI had lost their @#$&*^ marbles by giving up the only show that made the stinking channel watchable.
So...exactly what rock have you been under? You're entitled to whatever your opinion is about the show, but the SHOW isn't the subject; the subject is the new and unique way the internet has been integral to the development, production and fan activism regarding the show, a distinction that you apparently missed while rushing to assault us with your off-topic opinions.
Read the article, bub, before you shoot off that hole in your face.