Climate change could be good... in the Patent World. Global warming in the Patent World might cause such violent storms that the ensuing peace would be a long time of great calm. A new age of the Patent World, in which technology will thrive without the chaos caused by unstable patents.
The different artistic talents are fine. They're not what irk fans.
1. Extended universe timeline
Many books had already been written to fill out the extended universe. (And IMHO some of them were pretty good.) All them were painstakingly cross referenced so as to not conflict with one another, and especially to not conflict with the movies. However, George Lucas has (for better or worse, your call) taken the liberty to override the fan base timeline.
Some of these changes don't cause conflicts, such as "Did Han or Greedo shoot first?". Others may, such as Droids which was orginally set 200 years before the movies (as compared to Anakin building C-3PO).
Retroactive changes have been made to fit the pieces together.
2. Star Wars style
The original movies followed a few characters as they etched their little mark in a great (pun intended) universe. This gave the Star Wars universe a feeling of being enormous and unexplored. This gave people a desire to enter that universe to see more of it, thereof the massive fanbase and extended universe.
The prequel movies were... well, episode 1 was a Disney movie with "little boy hero and his comic sidekick". Episode 2 was primarily about a romance, and episode 3 sums it up... basically they were all about Anakin. It's fine for a movie to focus on a character. The problem, I think, was that it gave the feeling that much of the "great universe" now revolved around one character (diminishing the universe), rather than following the character within this grand universe.
I believe that one of the main falldowns with alot of fiction is that worlds are built around the characters and their stories. But whenever you start by building a world, and then tell the story within that world, you tend to get a much more interesting world that readers/viewers can escape into and want more of. You don't have this problem if you write a story about "today" because "today" is already a fully fleshed out world. I think that's partly why so many people are turned off by sci-fi and fantasy, often without being aware of it.
So, does it all really matter? Well, if you mess with something that is cherished by many people, then you better mess with it responsibly, or else you shall incur the wrath of those who feel they lose out.
If you manage to convince people that you're a (relatively) good guy who is outside the law, then you can become classed as a rebel with a cause. Such people are often seen as heroes (like Robin Hood). If you pull that off, then you might get off the hook while getting others to be chased instead.
Seriously? Green glowing cats due to virus infection in a lab?!? Talk about comic book joke sci-fi... only for real. Totally awsome! Funnier than sharks with frikkin' lazer beams.
When I was a kid I lamented the boring age I was born into. I woz wrong. Can't wait to see what the next few decades will bring. Or should we be afraid, very afraid?
(I wonder how my cat would react if he met a glowing cat in the front yard at night.)
Why not modernise the "winning design" of faxes? It would be completely backwards compatible while providing an upgrade path to e-mail. The new end point would (of course) be either a computer program or a printer/scanner. But...
- a scanner would take a stack of pages, just like fax machines do, instead of requiring users to carefully and manually position each page in turn.
- You would bridge the gap between the telephone number system and e-mail system by using IP telephony and providing a service that converts telephone numbers to e-mail addresses. There's your upgrade path. You might even profit a little from the service.
Knowing about different currencies is a matter of knowledge, not belief.
Knowledge and belief are different things. I was taught both the bible and science. I chose to believe in science. But from what I know, science is not taught to many who live in the Bible Belt, in which case they'd be unlikely to have enough knowledge to choose what to believe in.
Of course, I may be wrong about US education, and that's where I cede to you, as one should not judge about things one knows too little about.
Sure, technical skills are important for work, but life skills are important for living. Higher education should be career focused, but basic education should be about learning life's basics. Few people have the inclination to learn general knowledge, so if they don't learn it at school, then when are they ever going to learn it?
When I was in school we had subject called "Awareness subjects" (very rough translation, essentially "General Knowledge") in which we learnt geology, astronomy, ecology, botany, anatomy, sex education (round 1, before we hit our teens), local geography and world geography, etc. etc. Only when I moved country (Australia), did it become apparent that I knew more about the world than my new friends.
How can this be important? Let me give you a couple of examples from San Diego:
1. Swedish team is having a "team building day" along the San Diego beach. (Ah, those were the days.:) Our boss is paying for the hire equipent.
Shop attendant: Your accent... where are you from?
My boss: We're from Sweden.
Shop attendant: Where's that? (Okay, I can accept that. After all, it's a small country of no relevance, right?)
My boss: In Europe.
Shop attendant: Oh, I've heard Europe is no good... ...akward silence...
Shop attendant: Do they have pizza in Europe?
2. Financial application being developed for use on both sides of the Atlantic. A San Diego developer is hard coding dollar signs.
European developer: Why are you hard coding in dollar signs everywhere?
Californian developer : They're money fields. (With an "Isn't that obvious?" expression.)
European developer: We don't use dollars where I come from.
Californian developer : What? Don't you have money?
Seriously... how do you reply to that?
I would be afraid to hire people like that, regardless of what degrees and technical expertise they may have.
To be fair, I've met lots of Californians who are extremely knowledgeable about the world. (So why the massive discepancy? Not talking about the Bible Belt here.)
Anyway, with that level of ignorance being pretty common, how do you expect the people of such a nation to be taken seriously? With such general ignorance, how can the people be expected to vote sensibly? Is this deliberate to create a lower working class, where people know enough to work, but not enough to question?
Back to topic:
Laptops in schools will teach computer skills, and hopefully when doing research for general knowledge subjects, kids will learn about the big world outside. They're also useful tools for visualising maths. Very useful tools indeed for a wide range of subjects, along with paper and pens. But it's not all about getting a job. Don't forget lifes basics.
I don't know... a protracted internet guerilla war could make the Chinese lose alot of face, while giving the People's Liberation Army no cohesive army to fight. This "firmer stance" is intended to prevent exactly such a war.
Yup. That's why it's referred to as pushing data to or pulling data from the the internet. I think the great elasticity and extreme tenuity of the pneumatic tubes is why they call it an ethernet cable.
As it is, we're hoping and waiting for a fix that may never come, or may come to late. If we felt that a quick fix simply was not an option then perhaps we would resign ourselves to getting down to business and implementing what we have.
Of course, we would be even better off hedging our bets by doing both.
By making comparisons with modern animals, such as whales, which give birth to larger, single young and then go on to care for them, Dr O'Keefe and his colleague, Luis Chiappe from the museum, attempt to infer something about plesiosaur behaviour.
... plesiosaurs, the authors suggest, might have been doting parents.
But Dr Smith was less convinced. He said that it was "certainly quite possible... but is very speculative".
Of course it's speculative, but it's still plausible. I would expect any animal who gives birth to one young at a time to spend time with its offspring until the offspring is strong enough to survive on its own.
The more we learn, the more it seems to me that different epochs of life on Earth were in many ways much more familiar than we used to believe. If only we could see into the past...
A little off topic...
When you get right down to it, behaviour doesn't fossilise
True, mostly. But sometimes we get very lucky... Velociraptor vs. Protoceratops. This gave some insight to how velociraptors used their big claws. (For gripping and stabbing, not slashing.)
Wow! Honestly, that's a little scary. That they're in a bubble is obvious, but I didn't know that the bubble is quite that thin. If China's stability fails (economic or otherwise) while we're still in this economic climate, then the economic tsunami would be more than a little concerning.
That's as sensible as claiming that economic growth can continue without end. Energy and resource constraints make unlimited speed of growth impossible, even if some grey-goo spills on the floor.
Though in terms of fiction, it's an interesting concept.:)
We need to store them in huge vaults, protected by robots (golems). Perhaps some day some little guy will investigate with a band of adventurers (murderous looters, really) and they'll trip over every security measure put in place.
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Climate change could be good... in the Patent World. Global warming in the Patent World might cause such violent storms that the ensuing peace would be a long time of great calm. A new age of the Patent World, in which technology will thrive without the chaos caused by unstable patents.
(Feels weird writing new age stuff.)
The different artistic talents are fine. They're not what irk fans.
1. Extended universe timeline
Many books had already been written to fill out the extended universe. (And IMHO some of them were pretty good.) All them were painstakingly cross referenced so as to not conflict with one another, and especially to not conflict with the movies. However, George Lucas has (for better or worse, your call) taken the liberty to override the fan base timeline.
Some of these changes don't cause conflicts, such as "Did Han or Greedo shoot first?". Others may, such as Droids which was orginally set 200 years before the movies (as compared to Anakin building C-3PO).
Retroactive changes have been made to fit the pieces together.
2. Star Wars style
The original movies followed a few characters as they etched their little mark in a great (pun intended) universe. This gave the Star Wars universe a feeling of being enormous and unexplored. This gave people a desire to enter that universe to see more of it, thereof the massive fanbase and extended universe.
The prequel movies were... well, episode 1 was a Disney movie with "little boy hero and his comic sidekick". Episode 2 was primarily about a romance, and episode 3 sums it up... basically they were all about Anakin. It's fine for a movie to focus on a character. The problem, I think, was that it gave the feeling that much of the "great universe" now revolved around one character (diminishing the universe), rather than following the character within this grand universe.
I believe that one of the main falldowns with alot of fiction is that worlds are built around the characters and their stories. But whenever you start by building a world, and then tell the story within that world, you tend to get a much more interesting world that readers/viewers can escape into and want more of. You don't have this problem if you write a story about "today" because "today" is already a fully fleshed out world. I think that's partly why so many people are turned off by sci-fi and fantasy, often without being aware of it.
So, does it all really matter? Well, if you mess with something that is cherished by many people, then you better mess with it responsibly, or else you shall incur the wrath of those who feel they lose out.
If you manage to convince people that you're a (relatively) good guy who is outside the law, then you can become classed as a rebel with a cause. Such people are often seen as heroes (like Robin Hood). If you pull that off, then you might get off the hook while getting others to be chased instead.
Perhaps, but Apple might have avoided the Streisand effect if they had quietly let it through.
Seriously? Green glowing cats due to virus infection in a lab?!? Talk about comic book joke sci-fi... only for real. Totally awsome! Funnier than sharks with frikkin' lazer beams.
When I was a kid I lamented the boring age I was born into. I woz wrong. Can't wait to see what the next few decades will bring. Or should we be afraid, very afraid?
(I wonder how my cat would react if he met a glowing cat in the front yard at night.)
A magnet on the right makes one tell the truth, but a magnet on the left makes one more sinister.
Why not modernise the "winning design" of faxes? It would be completely backwards compatible while providing an upgrade path to e-mail. The new end point would (of course) be either a computer program or a printer/scanner. But...
- a scanner would take a stack of pages, just like fax machines do, instead of requiring users to carefully and manually position each page in turn.
- You would bridge the gap between the telephone number system and e-mail system by using IP telephony and providing a service that converts telephone numbers to e-mail addresses. There's your upgrade path. You might even profit a little from the service.
...which why there are so many us.
Ironic really, that after so much good fucking, we end up so badly fucked.
Knowing about different currencies is a matter of knowledge, not belief.
Knowledge and belief are different things. I was taught both the bible and science. I chose to believe in science. But from what I know, science is not taught to many who live in the Bible Belt, in which case they'd be unlikely to have enough knowledge to choose what to believe in.
Of course, I may be wrong about US education, and that's where I cede to you, as one should not judge about things one knows too little about.
make a tank look like other objects, such as a cow
("Many bothans died to bring us these plans." Yes, it's an attempt at humour.)
Sure, technical skills are important for work, but life skills are important for living. Higher education should be career focused, but basic education should be about learning life's basics. Few people have the inclination to learn general knowledge, so if they don't learn it at school, then when are they ever going to learn it?
When I was in school we had subject called "Awareness subjects" (very rough translation, essentially "General Knowledge") in which we learnt geology, astronomy, ecology, botany, anatomy, sex education (round 1, before we hit our teens), local geography and world geography, etc. etc. Only when I moved country (Australia), did it become apparent that I knew more about the world than my new friends.
How can this be important? Let me give you a couple of examples from San Diego:
1. Swedish team is having a "team building day" along the San Diego beach. (Ah, those were the days. :) Our boss is paying for the hire equipent.
...akward silence...
Shop attendant: Your accent... where are you from?
My boss: We're from Sweden.
Shop attendant: Where's that? (Okay, I can accept that. After all, it's a small country of no relevance, right?)
My boss: In Europe.
Shop attendant: Oh, I've heard Europe is no good...
Shop attendant: Do they have pizza in Europe?
2. Financial application being developed for use on both sides of the Atlantic. A San Diego developer is hard coding dollar signs.
European developer: Why are you hard coding in dollar signs everywhere?
Californian developer : They're money fields. (With an "Isn't that obvious?" expression.)
European developer: We don't use dollars where I come from.
Californian developer : What? Don't you have money?
Seriously... how do you reply to that?
I would be afraid to hire people like that, regardless of what degrees and technical expertise they may have.
To be fair, I've met lots of Californians who are extremely knowledgeable about the world. (So why the massive discepancy? Not talking about the Bible Belt here.)
Anyway, with that level of ignorance being pretty common, how do you expect the people of such a nation to be taken seriously? With such general ignorance, how can the people be expected to vote sensibly? Is this deliberate to create a lower working class, where people know enough to work, but not enough to question?
Back to topic:
Laptops in schools will teach computer skills, and hopefully when doing research for general knowledge subjects, kids will learn about the big world outside. They're also useful tools for visualising maths. Very useful tools indeed for a wide range of subjects, along with paper and pens. But it's not all about getting a job. Don't forget lifes basics.
I don't know... a protracted internet guerilla war could make the Chinese lose alot of face, while giving the People's Liberation Army no cohesive army to fight. This "firmer stance" is intended to prevent exactly such a war.
So I'm not sure who I'd bet on.
I am American, so I use the term, "our country," to refer to the United States
Unfortunately that behaviour is not limited to the US, which is what saves the US from the following...
this kind of crap is going to render our country irrelevant if it keeps going on much longer
I can't understand why it has to be so hard to find mature, intelligent, responsible people to run a country, when such people exist in every country.
Yup. That's why it's referred to as pushing data to or pulling data from the the internet. I think the great elasticity and extreme tenuity of the pneumatic tubes is why they call it an ethernet cable.
As it is, we're hoping and waiting for a fix that may never come, or may come to late. If we felt that a quick fix simply was not an option then perhaps we would resign ourselves to getting down to business and implementing what we have.
Of course, we would be even better off hedging our bets by doing both.
Please excuse my ignorance and curiosity. How was the allergy discovered and how serious is it?
(I imagine he's been vaccinated once, and that it was a rather unpleasant experience.)
Could it be because teachers teach and students learn, and teachers are seldom students?
I always have a shortcut to Notepad readily available for doing just that: stripping out formatting.
Yeah, a movie in which the characters just sit there staring would be a little dull. Can't imagine Will Smith sitting still for very long though. ;)
By making comparisons with modern animals, such as whales, which give birth to larger, single young and then go on to care for them, Dr O'Keefe and his colleague, Luis Chiappe from the museum, attempt to infer something about plesiosaur behaviour.
... plesiosaurs, the authors suggest, might have been doting parents.
But Dr Smith was less convinced. He said that it was "certainly quite possible... but is very speculative".
Of course it's speculative, but it's still plausible. I would expect any animal who gives birth to one young at a time to spend time with its offspring until the offspring is strong enough to survive on its own.
The more we learn, the more it seems to me that different epochs of life on Earth were in many ways much more familiar than we used to believe. If only we could see into the past...
A little off topic...
When you get right down to it, behaviour doesn't fossilise
True, mostly. But sometimes we get very lucky... Velociraptor vs. Protoceratops. This gave some insight to how velociraptors used their big claws. (For gripping and stabbing, not slashing.)
fine example of military pork spending.
ie. It will happen when pigs fly, then they will be cooked in mid air.
Wow! Honestly, that's a little scary. That they're in a bubble is obvious, but I didn't know that the bubble is quite that thin. If China's stability fails (economic or otherwise) while we're still in this economic climate, then the economic tsunami would be more than a little concerning.
That's as sensible as claiming that economic growth can continue without end. Energy and resource constraints make unlimited speed of growth impossible, even if some grey-goo spills on the floor.
Though in terms of fiction, it's an interesting concept. :)
Yeah, that was when Will Smith destroyed the alien mother ship in Independence Day, wasn't it?
(I don't live in the US. ;)
We need to store them in huge vaults, protected by robots (golems). Perhaps some day some little guy will investigate with a band of adventurers (murderous looters, really) and they'll trip over every security measure put in place.