Now if someone could just get my trash bin to the street on Wednesday mornings without my involvement...that would be weinning technology.
That's already offered: Maid Service. Subscription based. And not only will it get your trash can out to the street, it'll pick the trash that isn't even IN your trash can and get it to the street!
At the last company I worked for, we wouldn't have gotten a single project completed if we had a system like this in place. We (developers) all used software that was not registered... and LOTS of it. Management of course told us to go ahead and use it right away anyways (because of project deadlines) and they would take care of getting the licenses. (which they never did)
And what do you know, one morning they warned us all about removing all un-licensed software. That afternoon they layed a couple of us off. (obviously covering their @$$... i still can't believe i didn't see it coming.)
FINALLY! A DVD player that supports Cascading Style Sheets!
Heh. Exactly what I was thinking...
But seriously, what's the deal with the "features" section in there? It "Supports DVD menus and navigation" (big whoop) and yet "Basic video controls like pause, fast forward are not implemented".
"Pardon my French, but Cameron is so tight, that if you stuck a lump of liquid nitrogen up his ass, in two weeks, you'd have a semiconductor."
-Ferris Bueller (if the movie was created a few years from now)
You didn't read the text that went along with the graphic:
Each full color band from blue to red represents about 2.8 cm (slightly more than 1 inch) of ground movement in the direction of the radar satellite. In this case, four concentric color bands show that the surface moved toward the satellite (mostly upward) by as much as 10 cm (about 4 inches) sometime between August 1996 and October 2000...
It isn't "rippled" ground; it is a single raise in the land. The colorscheme they used is just confusing.
I would like to inform you of an increasing problem with our society lately... it is called SPAM.
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yadda yadda yadda... more text and hyperlinks...
even a link to "Remove you from our mailing list" (which actually just adds you to 3 other newsletters/mailing lists that you don't want)... ...
Thank you for your time.
PS. If you don't send this to 30 people within the next 5 minutes, you will have bad luck for the rest of your life.
Out of curiousity (and as a fellow writer coming out of college), why do these online "experiments" produce episodic stories at all? Why not release the whole story in one shot?
Obviously so they can have the readers come back again and again to the site looking for the next chapter, constantly making more money for displaying banner ads on the screen for each visit.
While some intellectual property might be more beneficial if it were "open-sourced" (for example: software), I believe some should most definitely NOT be (fiction). Software could be contributed to by many sources to be improved upon, whether it is additional functionality, more efficiency, better user interface, etc.... Fictional works written by individuals should more-than-likely not be improved upon or rewritten by additional authors. (If this were the case, we'd probably have about 30 different versions of "Star Wars: ANH" trying to explain "the Force" and midichlorians.) Fiction should remain the property of the author and if they wish to charge a fee to have access to their works, then so be it.
If authors could not make money on their writings, do you honestly think that we would have any more (or at least as many) writers? (Of course, other than people who find that they have a free time after their current job and family time etc...) Sure, I have no doubt the Steven King would have no problem writing more, because he's made money already and can probably live off of that for the rest of his life (although I have no idea what type of lifestyle he leads), but any writer would never consider getting into this business if you can't make a living off of it. (Unless, of course, you have a sugar-daddy on the side. But how many of us are lucky enough to have THAT?)
I completely agree with everything you said... plus a few more issues.
Age depictions: Paul is supposed to be 15. He looks a tad over 20 to me... but then again, maybe people age differently in the future. Mohaim looked a tad younger than I would have expected as well.
Character: Guildsman looked like a cross between one of the creatures from "The Abyss" and BatBoy.
Weaponry: The crysknives (if that's what they really were) look like polished metal, rather than "a milky white substance...".
The Litany: They recited the "litany against fear" incorrectly.
Yes, I understand. I may be overly-critical of this, but I just got a little disturbed with how many things I thought were just plain wrong in this (first part of the) miniseries. It just shocked me that this was supposed to be 6 hours long and it turns out that parts are missing from this that were included in the first movie (referring to the escape of Paul and Jessica as well as the slightly better character development of Dr. Yueh... he at least had more than 7 lines in the first movie!)
All-in-all, I think that this has been (so-far) a decent miniseries... but that's because I read the book(s) first. And we all know that to completely enjoy a movie and not have to sit through watching it nit-picking every little detail that the director interpreted in his own way, we should NOT read the book first. (Jurasic Park, Sphere, The Hobbit, Interview With a Vampire, Battlefield Earth (HA! Not that it was a good read in the first place)... need I go on?)
I guess I basically have 2 points to make here: 1. There doesn't exist enough funding for all of these space exploration projects to be initiated 2. What little funding that DOES exist, is (tried to be) put towards more practical uses.
I'm sure there are PLENTY of individuals that want those places in our solar system (Pluto, Charon, etc...) to be explored. The problem (as always) is FUNDING these research projects. Just look at the X33;! They've put around $1 billion into creating the "new space shuttle", and they still have nothing to show for it. And yet, the government will probably continue to dump money into the project until it eventually gets off the ground. (pun intended) This is because this project (assuming they get something out of it that works) will allow us to move equipment into space faster and cheaper.
I'm sorry, but figuring out what our solar system was comprised of hundreds or thousands of years ago or whatever, will not make the slightest difference in allowing us to further explore our solar system. Figuring out how to get us off of this rock and then figuring our how to survive on another one should be the first step. After that, THEN we can worry about what lies further out in our system. What good is it to try to learn what is out there when we can't really DO anything with that information. Sure, sure, now you're thinking "it's knowledge. We need to know blah blah..." but again, if we're not going to DO anything with Pluto, then why bother studying it for now? Let focus on more immidiate/practical goals first.
I would NOT want one of these implanted into my body. Now, if they simply put the chip into a latex glove, wristband, armband, ankleband, etc... so I could put it on and take it off whenever I wanted, then I might consider getting one. But then again, this wouldn't be completely secure then. You could take someone else's glove by accident/on purpose and everyone (e-businesses and the tracking company(ies) would think that you are a different person.
What viewers or players are out already to view this new format? I haven't heard-of or seen anything that implements MP4. (Geez, I didn't even think it was even close to being released yet!)
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Now if someone could just get my trash bin to the street on Wednesday mornings without my involvement...that would be weinning technology.
That's already offered: Maid Service. Subscription based. And not only will it get your trash can out to the street, it'll pick the trash that isn't even IN your trash can and get it to the street!
At the last company I worked for, we wouldn't have gotten a single project completed if we had a system like this in place. We (developers) all used software that was not registered... and LOTS of it. Management of course told us to go ahead and use it right away anyways (because of project deadlines) and they would take care of getting the licenses. (which they never did)
And what do you know, one morning they warned us all about removing all un-licensed software. That afternoon they layed a couple of us off. (obviously covering their @$$... i still can't believe i didn't see it coming.)
I just threw mine against the wall to try it out (and I didn't even throw it that hard) and now it has a crack on the top corner of the screen!
Heh. Exactly what I was thinking...
But seriously, what's the deal with the "features" section in there? It "Supports DVD menus and navigation" (big whoop) and yet "Basic video controls like pause, fast forward are not implemented".
?!?
"Pardon my French, but Cameron is so tight, that if you stuck a lump of liquid nitrogen up his ass, in two weeks, you'd have a semiconductor."
-Ferris Bueller (if the movie was created a few years from now)
Each full color band from blue to red represents about 2.8 cm (slightly more than 1 inch) of ground movement in the direction of the radar satellite. In this case, four concentric color bands show that the surface moved toward the satellite (mostly upward) by as much as 10 cm (about 4 inches) sometime between August 1996 and October 2000...
It isn't "rippled" ground; it is a single raise in the land. The colorscheme they used is just confusing.eh. What can I do. It was at a "5 Funny" a while ago... now I see that it has been knocked down to "3 Offtopic".
Apparently some moderator(s) just didn't get the joke.
Thanks for the review. I might have picked up this book by accident!
I was expecting a book by the mafia and/or the CIA about brainwashing a Dallas stripclub owner named Jack.
I would like to inform you of an increasing problem with our society lately... it is called SPAM.
...
...
yadda yadda yadda... more text and hyperlinks...
even a link to "Remove you from our mailing list" (which actually just adds you to 3 other newsletters/mailing lists that you don't want)...
Thank you for your time.
PS. If you don't send this to 30 people within the next 5 minutes, you will have bad luck for the rest of your life.
Obviously so they can have the readers come back again and again to the site looking for the next chapter, constantly making more money for displaying banner ads on the screen for each visit.
I don't completely agree.
While some intellectual property might be more beneficial if it were "open-sourced" (for example: software), I believe some should most definitely NOT be (fiction). Software could be contributed to by many sources to be improved upon, whether it is additional functionality, more efficiency, better user interface, etc.... Fictional works written by individuals should more-than-likely not be improved upon or rewritten by additional authors. (If this were the case, we'd probably have about 30 different versions of "Star Wars: ANH" trying to explain "the Force" and midichlorians.) Fiction should remain the property of the author and if they wish to charge a fee to have access to their works, then so be it.
If authors could not make money on their writings, do you honestly think that we would have any more (or at least as many) writers? (Of course, other than people who find that they have a free time after their current job and family time etc...) Sure, I have no doubt the Steven King would have no problem writing more, because he's made money already and can probably live off of that for the rest of his life (although I have no idea what type of lifestyle he leads), but any writer would never consider getting into this business if you can't make a living off of it. (Unless, of course, you have a sugar-daddy on the side. But how many of us are lucky enough to have THAT?)
So God hacked a little while coding us. Big deal. Are YOU gonna tell him he's got some buggy and inefficient code in there?
We'll all be eagerly awaiting the news... and all we'll get is a crummy Terrance and Phillip Fart-Chip 2000 or something.
Age depictions: Paul is supposed to be 15. He looks a tad over 20 to me... but then again, maybe people age differently in the future. Mohaim looked a tad younger than I would have expected as well.
Character: Guildsman looked like a cross between one of the creatures from "The Abyss" and BatBoy.
Weaponry: The crysknives (if that's what they really were) look like polished metal, rather than "a milky white substance...".
The Litany: They recited the "litany against fear" incorrectly.
Yes, I understand. I may be overly-critical of this, but I just got a little disturbed with how many things I thought were just plain wrong in this (first part of the) miniseries. It just shocked me that this was supposed to be 6 hours long and it turns out that parts are missing from this that were included in the first movie (referring to the escape of Paul and Jessica as well as the slightly better character development of Dr. Yueh... he at least had more than 7 lines in the first movie!)
All-in-all, I think that this has been (so-far) a decent miniseries... but that's because I read the book(s) first. And we all know that to completely enjoy a movie and not have to sit through watching it nit-picking every little detail that the director interpreted in his own way, we should NOT read the book first. (Jurasic Park, Sphere, The Hobbit, Interview With a Vampire, Battlefield Earth (HA! Not that it was a good read in the first place)... need I go on?)
I guess I basically have 2 points to make here:
1. There doesn't exist enough funding for all of these space exploration projects to be initiated
2. What little funding that DOES exist, is (tried to be) put towards more practical uses.
I'm sure there are PLENTY of individuals that want those places in our solar system (Pluto, Charon, etc...) to be explored. The problem (as always) is FUNDING these research projects. Just look at the X33 ;! They've put around $1 billion into creating the "new space shuttle", and they still have nothing to show for it. And yet, the government will probably continue to dump money into the project until it eventually gets off the ground. (pun intended) This is because this project (assuming they get something out of it that works) will allow us to move equipment into space faster and cheaper.
I'm sorry, but figuring out what our solar system was comprised of hundreds or thousands of years ago or whatever, will not make the slightest difference in allowing us to further explore our solar system. Figuring out how to get us off of this rock and then figuring our how to survive on another one should be the first step. After that, THEN we can worry about what lies further out in our system. What good is it to try to learn what is out there when we can't really DO anything with that information. Sure, sure, now you're thinking "it's knowledge. We need to know blah blah..." but again, if we're not going to DO anything with Pluto, then why bother studying it for now? Let focus on more immidiate/practical goals first.
Babysteps people. Babysteps.
I would NOT want one of these implanted into my body. Now, if they simply put the chip into a latex glove, wristband, armband, ankleband, etc... so I could put it on and take it off whenever I wanted, then I might consider getting one. But then again, this wouldn't be completely secure then. You could take someone else's glove by accident/on purpose and everyone (e-businesses and the tracking company(ies) would think that you are a different person.
...instead of "Bad", just start replacing the files with Metallica song clips!
What viewers or players are out already to view this new format? I haven't heard-of or seen anything that implements MP4. (Geez, I didn't even think it was even close to being released yet!)