Yes. Wonderfalls lasted all of 4 broadcast episodes, and I had programmed the ReplayTV to save 3 of them. I got busy, so by the time I went to check it out I had lost the first episode.
I really, really liked the second episode. It was amazing, really cool with a catch phrase that meant different things throughout the episode. Remembering just those few words was enough for me to remember basically the entire episode, for several weeks; that is excellent programming, in several senses of the term.
The third was okay, and I didn't much care for the fourth (the catch phrase was negative, like "get off your ass" or something). Then, when I finally got to see the first episode, it wasn't nearly as good as the second. That's probably why it was cancelled; I don't know the numbers, but I'd bet many of the people who tuned in for the first one didn't bother to watch the excellent second one.
Later I got the DVD with the entire first season, and it got better. Weird family dynamics, and of course you want Eric to hook up with her, and a really cool thrilling life-threatening (and taking) ending.
It'd be neat to see where they go with it, if they made more. And the theme song was excellent as well, done by Randy Newman.
Great! When they come for you, it'll only be you who'll speak up for you.
I mean, for fuck's sake, how hard is it to stamp a hand? Clubs do it all the time, and it generally lasts for a few days. Rotate the colors and patterns, and it'll be real tough to enter without paying--and will cost a whole hell of lot less.
THAT'S why I think this is sinister. Not because I'm paranoid (which isn't a bad way to look at the world, as long as it doesn't paralyze you); merely because I'm efficient and there are others who think like me, and if a company choose to be less efficient than they can be then there must be a reason.
That reason could be that management is incompetent, but then the board should fire their asses in short order. And something that gives a private company the ability to scan fingerprints (will you be able to determine whether the guts underneath the scanning area had been upgraded?), well, that just smells like fish and lemons.
I'm just reminded of the beginning of the newly-uncanceled Family Guy, and their first episode back. You know, where he lists of shows canceled by FOX for like 5 minutes. I've seen many of these series, and I know they're awesome.
I'm somewhat amazed that they didn't mention John Doe. That was on after Firefly, and I really liked it.
Family Guy, "North by North Quahog"
Peter: "Everybody, I got bad news - we've been canceled!"
Lois: "Oh no, Peter how could they do that?"
Peter: "Well unfortunately Lois, there's just no more room on the schedule. We've just gotto accept the fact that Fox has to make room for teriffic shows like Dark Angel, Titus, Undeclared, Action, That 80's Show, Wonderfalls, Fastlane, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Skin, Girls' Club, Cracking Up, The Pitts, Firefly, Get Real, Freaky Links, Wanda at Large, Costello, The Lone Gunmen, A Minute with Stan Hooper, Normal Ohio, Pasadena, Harsh Realm, Keen Eddie,The Street, American Embassy, Cedric the Entertainer, The Tick, Louie, and Greg the Bunny."
Lois: "Is there no hope?"
Peter: "Well I suppose if ALL THOSE SHOWS go down the tubes, we might have a shot." (cue intro music)
And, because I wrote this one down too, here's another funny moment from the episode:
They go on 2nd honeymoon but Peter wrecks the car and they end up at a truck stop:
Lois: "Peter there's a hooker on the bed!"
Peter: "Stand perfectly still, Lois. Their vision is based on movement."
Hooker (after pause): "Where'd you go?"
I've written some interesting infrastructure for my employer. If someone else hired me (and the rest of my team), I couldn't very well take it with me, though [...]
Exactly, and that's the same point that the GP was making, although slightly more abiguously: Linus can design a new OS and architecture and infrastructure, using the knowledge and skills he gained while working on Linux, without having to put that new OS under the GPL as long as he didn't cut-and-paste (or retype, I'm not talking loopholes here--he can be hired, just as Dave Cutler and his team were hired away from DEC).
Dave Cutler did no copying of code. If you try running any portion of NT under VMS it won't work. They may be similar architecturally, but then so are most OSes--they all have memory management, for example, and device drivers to abstract talking to hardware.
The other responder said a lot more, but yes, you're right, police and hospitals use Windows. So? Your followup doesn't follow your initial statement at all, which was "Why the hell should the computing industry revolve around moms and pops who can't use a computer in the first place?"
So which are you in favor of? Making it easier to use, or making it less crash-prone? Or saying fuck it, if you can't learn to drive (compute) then you deserve what you get? You seem to be all over the map. Are you sober? (I'm not, so if I'm misinterpreting you, well, fuck it.)
Sure, I did (RTFS, or RTFB) after thinking "buckyball", and saw that, in my browser, the words "Bill" and "C-60" were on separate lines so I didn't parse them the same way. Dude.
The automotive industry didn't revolve around people who can't drive. Why the hell should the computing industry revolve around moms and pops who can't use a computer in the first place?
Duh? Misusing a computer won't (generally) result in loss of life.
I think that's really the only point I need to make, although there are others available.
Thanks. I got a neat image of Civilization-type railroads (Civ I, that is, where you could move infinitely on a railroad).
The Internet is a lot like a Civilization railroad: you can move stuff around, to all corners of the globe (and off it!), for essentially zero cost. It is an inflection point, and we haven't finished absorbing it yet.
[...] guns do not kill without a person pulling the trigger.
Someone else remarked on this with ways in which a gun can be fired accidentally. Thanks to technology and robot drones, we have ways in which Iraqis can be killed without a human pulling the trigger as well.
Of course, it's a human that designed it, and likely it's not fully autonomous (yet). I just read a short story by Philip K. Dick which is very pertinent, and has a really cool twist ending; it was "Second Variety", about the killing machines of the future.
Problem with "death penalty for crimes other than murder" is that it gives the criminal more motivation to kill the victim so that they can't report the identity of the criminal.
This is, in fact, how it worked in the "good old days" in England: they had the death penalty for pickpockets, so Oliver Twist's contemporaries learned not only to steal, but also to kill.
Now, killing your victim when your victim is a faceless entity somewhere out there (possibly in another country) becomes a bit more difficult. Still, the threat of terrorism from your government is still applicable: they pass this law, and now I'm not only afraid of murderers, I'm afraid of pickpockets as well. So passing that law increased the fear of citizens, and therefore was an act of terrorism.
That's already been skewed when it comes to owning property... just try not paying your property taxes one year and just see how long your "property" stays yours.
That's already part of the law. "Real estate" isn't so named because it's "not artificial"; rather, "real" comes from "royal", meaning that the land you're inhabiting is owned by the king.
Once you get your mind around that concept, the idea of losing your "real estate" for not paying property taxes makes more sense. Of course, having to pay taxes in the first place is the reason we dumped tea, and over a 3% tax, not the > 50% taxes we currently pay in the USA!
So I agree with you in spirit, but in this world I'll pay my taxes.
I'm going to attach this comment here, because it relates to your sig and someone else's, and is very OT as far as military is concerned:
The first rule of PATRIOT act is do not talk about PATRIOT act
You're right about that. Someone else's sig is "Labeling something that ISN'T terrorism AS terrorism IS TERRORISM!"
Therefore, the USA PATRIOT (or "U SAP AT RIOT") act is, itself, terrorism: it creates the fear in all US citizens that, if they say or do the wrong thing, they could wind up in jail on foreign soil for potentially forever!
Which means: the terrorists didn't like the freedom we have in America, and decided to do something about it. They ultimately got the PATRIOT act put into law. The terrorists won.
That's pretty fucking scary. Tits in games? WHO GIVES A FUCK WHEN OUR SOLDIERS ARE DYING??? 30,000 humans and how many billions, and people are getting worked up over sex? Jesus Fucking Christ, people are sick.
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I really, really liked the second episode. It was amazing, really cool with a catch phrase that meant different things throughout the episode. Remembering just those few words was enough for me to remember basically the entire episode, for several weeks; that is excellent programming, in several senses of the term.
The third was okay, and I didn't much care for the fourth (the catch phrase was negative, like "get off your ass" or something). Then, when I finally got to see the first episode, it wasn't nearly as good as the second. That's probably why it was cancelled; I don't know the numbers, but I'd bet many of the people who tuned in for the first one didn't bother to watch the excellent second one.
Later I got the DVD with the entire first season, and it got better. Weird family dynamics, and of course you want Eric to hook up with her, and a really cool thrilling life-threatening (and taking) ending.
It'd be neat to see where they go with it, if they made more. And the theme song was excellent as well, done by Randy Newman.
I mean, for fuck's sake, how hard is it to stamp a hand? Clubs do it all the time, and it generally lasts for a few days. Rotate the colors and patterns, and it'll be real tough to enter without paying--and will cost a whole hell of lot less.
THAT'S why I think this is sinister. Not because I'm paranoid (which isn't a bad way to look at the world, as long as it doesn't paralyze you); merely because I'm efficient and there are others who think like me, and if a company choose to be less efficient than they can be then there must be a reason.
That reason could be that management is incompetent, but then the board should fire their asses in short order. And something that gives a private company the ability to scan fingerprints (will you be able to determine whether the guts underneath the scanning area had been upgraded?), well, that just smells like fish and lemons.
That's an odd business plan, for them to pay for personal visits from career actors who vomit on you from behind...
"What's it going to do, blink us to death?"
I'm somewhat amazed that they didn't mention John Doe. That was on after Firefly, and I really liked it.
And, because I wrote this one down too, here's another funny moment from the episode:Dave Cutler did no copying of code. If you try running any portion of NT under VMS it won't work. They may be similar architecturally, but then so are most OSes--they all have memory management, for example, and device drivers to abstract talking to hardware.
What's that, an Australian sandwich? (I came from a land down under...)
Blipverts will shock your br-br-brain.
The fortune is surprisingly apt: "Knebel's Law: It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics."
(Yes, I'm a mean drunk, like Superman...)
Either you really fucked up your links, or you plagiarized ( "Let no one else's work evade your eyes" )...
So which are you in favor of? Making it easier to use, or making it less crash-prone? Or saying fuck it, if you can't learn to drive (compute) then you deserve what you get? You seem to be all over the map. Are you sober? (I'm not, so if I'm misinterpreting you, well, fuck it.)
Sure, I did (RTFS, or RTFB) after thinking "buckyball", and saw that, in my browser, the words "Bill" and "C-60" were on separate lines so I didn't parse them the same way. Dude.
Wow, thanks! I just had to google "windows 95 rolling stones" to recall the song... "Start Me Up"... LOL
Duh? Misusing a computer won't (generally) result in loss of life.
I think that's really the only point I need to make, although there are others available.
The Internet is a lot like a Civilization railroad: you can move stuff around, to all corners of the globe (and off it!), for essentially zero cost. It is an inflection point, and we haven't finished absorbing it yet.
I amuse me. Laugh at the geek.
Someone else remarked on this with ways in which a gun can be fired accidentally. Thanks to technology and robot drones, we have ways in which Iraqis can be killed without a human pulling the trigger as well.
Of course, it's a human that designed it, and likely it's not fully autonomous (yet). I just read a short story by Philip K. Dick which is very pertinent, and has a really cool twist ending; it was "Second Variety", about the killing machines of the future.
This is, in fact, how it worked in the "good old days" in England: they had the death penalty for pickpockets, so Oliver Twist's contemporaries learned not only to steal, but also to kill.
Now, killing your victim when your victim is a faceless entity somewhere out there (possibly in another country) becomes a bit more difficult. Still, the threat of terrorism from your government is still applicable: they pass this law, and now I'm not only afraid of murderers, I'm afraid of pickpockets as well. So passing that law increased the fear of citizens, and therefore was an act of terrorism.
That's already part of the law. "Real estate" isn't so named because it's "not artificial"; rather, "real" comes from "royal", meaning that the land you're inhabiting is owned by the king.
Once you get your mind around that concept, the idea of losing your "real estate" for not paying property taxes makes more sense. Of course, having to pay taxes in the first place is the reason we dumped tea, and over a 3% tax, not the > 50% taxes we currently pay in the USA!
So I agree with you in spirit, but in this world I'll pay my taxes.
Or, more temporary, a bed of nails screwed to the rack next to the fans?
(I have several myself, the cyanide is a joke. Laugh.)
This may be just picking nits, but how many citizens have you seen turn to "dealing alcohol to make money"?
Very few, I'd believe. Although that's how the mob got started in the 1920s, and that's how they're continuing to make money today (in illegal drugs).
Legalization would solve so many (too many?) issues. But it's not an option, not in the USA.
However, I agree 100% with what you said.
Yep. Take for example the Shakers, who forbade sex among their followers.
Small wonder they died out!
You're right about that. Someone else's sig is "Labeling something that ISN'T terrorism AS terrorism IS TERRORISM!"
Therefore, the USA PATRIOT (or "U SAP AT RIOT") act is, itself, terrorism: it creates the fear in all US citizens that, if they say or do the wrong thing, they could wind up in jail on foreign soil for potentially forever!
Which means: the terrorists didn't like the freedom we have in America, and decided to do something about it. They ultimately got the PATRIOT act put into law. The terrorists won.
That's pretty fucking scary. Tits in games? WHO GIVES A FUCK WHEN OUR SOLDIERS ARE DYING??? 30,000 humans and how many billions, and people are getting worked up over sex? Jesus Fucking Christ, people are sick.
So Strunk and White is actually a Cliff's Note of its very own: for the English language.
Yeah, because after then the drugs kick in and they're on their way to Fear and Loathing in Outer Space...
The raven in Discworld is named "Quoth".