The main problem with Firefly was that Fox showed them out of order, with The Train Robbery as the first episode on tv. I watched about 1/2 hour of it and turned it off. Wasn't until Serenity movie hit cheap DVD's at Costco that I watched it and then picked up the entire series. Watching it in the order Whedon filmed them, it was a lot better.
'Course, I've heard that Fox has a revolving door with upper management and it's usually a new manager coming in who kills off shows of his predecessor, sorta' like a dog pissing on another dog's spot.
Having a choice of free app with advertising is not a choice the poster above wants users to have. Why are you trying to push choice on folks that other folks don't want them to have? Why do you hate A'merkins?;-)
Or you have the choice of which to run. Or maybe a way to run iPhone OS has a shell over OS X.
Back in OS9 days, they had a shell for schools and children that looked similar to iPhone OS, with just a bunch of icons to click to start apps. Everything was saved to a hidden folder that could only be accessed from within apps (much the way some Office users use the file dialog to move files around). There was also a key combo to get past this of course.
Having an iPhone OS shell over a regular OS would be great for folks like my Mom. Course, in another couple versions, a tablet with keyboard may be all she needs anyways.
Aaaaugh! Worst production car design I ever came across was an '85 Camaro Berlinetta. You had to part drop, part slide in to the drivers seat, if you didn't want to remove your left knee cap on the dash. Then there was the deal with the turn signal being a flat piece of plastic sticking out of the dash and not on the steering column. Always kept bumping it. The radio/cassette player was on this stalk that was free standing (with a big chunk of dash behind it sculpted back) and when it broke, well, no replacing it and no where to install a new system (early 90's, not a lot of choice in car audio then). There was no glove box either, just another large swath a sculpted plastic that served no purpose. Now, all that being said, yeah, full digital dash and STNG curves made it look cool as hell but trying to use it? Bleah. I drove that damn car for over 100,000 miles and it was the inspiration for me to go in to industrial design. Was so glad once I sold it and got a '69 Camaro. Much better layout and high back bucket seats were more comfortable. Go figure.
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Heh. My Newton 2100 can surf the web wirelessly and play mp3's. But yeah, wasn't easy to get it doing this. iPod Touch is much nicer implementation.
The main problem with Firefly was that Fox showed them out of order, with The Train Robbery as the first episode on tv. I watched about 1/2 hour of it and turned it off. Wasn't until Serenity movie hit cheap DVD's at Costco that I watched it and then picked up the entire series. Watching it in the order Whedon filmed them, it was a lot better.
'Course, I've heard that Fox has a revolving door with upper management and it's usually a new manager coming in who kills off shows of his predecessor, sorta' like a dog pissing on another dog's spot.
Bummer.
Oh man, I hate Token ring. Brooksstone networking is much cooler and easier to comprehend.
So obvious a non-phone maker made it.
Ooh, Stand on Zanzibar is one I could see being done like BSG or HBO Rome.
Short stories I'd like to see made in to movies:
The Return, Omnilingual and Keeper by H. Beam Piper.
Put Vikings on it?
A man with a radio up his nose?
Good thing iphones don't multi-task.
Having a choice of free app with advertising is not a choice the poster above wants users to have. Why are you trying to push choice on folks that other folks don't want them to have? Why do you hate A'merkins? ;-)
So... don't be an iPhone users? Isn't that a choice?
Don't forget, if you use the Ad API, Apple provides the clients and takes 40% (or was it 30%?).
Or you have the choice of which to run. Or maybe a way to run iPhone OS has a shell over OS X.
Back in OS9 days, they had a shell for schools and children that looked similar to iPhone OS, with just a bunch of icons to click to start apps. Everything was saved to a hidden folder that could only be accessed from within apps (much the way some Office users use the file dialog to move files around). There was also a key combo to get past this of course.
Having an iPhone OS shell over a regular OS would be great for folks like my Mom. Course, in another couple versions, a tablet with keyboard may be all she needs anyways.
What is this 'party' that you speak of?
And then flipping through the manual looking for word 6 of paragraph 2 on page 12 so you could actually play it.
Stoopid SIM Earth!
There are seven seas but only 1,3, 4, or 5 oceans.
Yup, O2 life is the gray goo run amok!
My stove and microwave clocks are off.
Yeah, yeah, where's their patent submission?
Uh-huh, that's what I thought. Freakin' alien anonymous posters. Go back to Alienastistan or wherever you're posting from.
Fashion obsessed girlfriend?
You mean the one who had every Diesel Sweeties t-shirt?
Find humans with alien proportions?
Aaaaugh! Worst production car design I ever came across was an '85 Camaro Berlinetta. You had to part drop, part slide in to the drivers seat, if you didn't want to remove your left knee cap on the dash. Then there was the deal with the turn signal being a flat piece of plastic sticking out of the dash and not on the steering column. Always kept bumping it. The radio/cassette player was on this stalk that was free standing (with a big chunk of dash behind it sculpted back) and when it broke, well, no replacing it and no where to install a new system (early 90's, not a lot of choice in car audio then). There was no glove box either, just another large swath a sculpted plastic that served no purpose. Now, all that being said, yeah, full digital dash and STNG curves made it look cool as hell but trying to use it? Bleah. I drove that damn car for over 100,000 miles and it was the inspiration for me to go in to industrial design. Was so glad once I sold it and got a '69 Camaro. Much better layout and high back bucket seats were more comfortable. Go figure.
That we require pants out in public? Yes.
So... you'd need 10 iPhones to do a Celtic Cross Tarot layout?
Hmmm... people slapping down touch screens for Magic?