Not the TV show which is cheery in comparison to the comic book where everyone is constantly dying, and their situation seems hopeless. Technically his is fantasy fiction not science fiction, but I don't really care.
I thought the movie was good. Didn't always make sense but it was entertaining and thought-provoking, and I liked the ending when he ends-up as a baby. It was nominated by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films for an award.
Where would I go to read the short story of Butterfly Effect?
How about "modern SF" in general? I spent some time reading the Hugo nominees and most of the stories were depressing. I couldn't decide if I should vote, or just say "Why bother? It's all pointless anyway" like Marvin the Depressed Robot.
One older SF writer (sorry forget who) actually wrote an essay encouraging authors to write something CHEERY for a change with a positive outcome. The magazine which published the esaay is runing a contest around that theme.
There's the famous Star Trek story "City on the Edge of Forever". The original script by Harlan Ellison is even darker, with people in the engineering section of the ship dealing drugs (which is how the doctor ends-up going nutty -- a bad trip).
I just read a story last year in one of Gardner Dozois' Best of the Year anthologies. It involved humans boarding a generation ship that would travel to a new galaxy (50,000 years). The first 1000 years were not too bad but over time the humans became dumber-and-dumber, as they had no more challenging task then to scrub the floors/walls/ceiling and keep the ship clean. After 25,000 years they were walking on all fours & no longer bothering to wear clothes (or speak).
At that point the generation ship was intercepted by a faster-than-light ship that "rescued" the simian-like human beings. I imagine they ended-up in a zoo. (If you have a chance I would recommend buying all of Dozois' annual anthologies. If you like Outer Limits' method of telling a different story each week, you'll like these books.)
If it looks like a Mac and quacks like a Mac and runs OS X like a Mac, it's a Mac. So where would I go to buy one of these Hackintosh PCs? I'd like to try OS 10.8 but don't want to spend $600 to do it. (And besides: an i5 Mac at 2 GHz is sloooow.)
I can understand the error. With each passing year the EU is looking more like a single, united country than even the U.S. country. Just last week I read the UK has to "ask permission" before they can rollout rural broadband expansion. Even U.S. states do not need to do that. They just do it.
Why do people automatically assume ONE bad device == all such devices are bad? It's called "birth mortality". When a device is not properly assembled and dies early (or other serious flaws). Just because 1 Mac suffered birth defects does not mean the other 100,000 Macs were bad. Your school should have simply traded the bad Mac for a good Mac.
>>>On the off-chance you're actually serious - you really think Yahoo isn't collecting exactly the same data as Google?
Wow you dense cracka The point is to separate the information so no one company has all the data. Google knows what videos I watch but not my email or search or browsing habits. Yahoo has my email habits. Duckduckgo has search habits. Mozilla & Opera have the browser history/cookies. NONE have a complete profile.
I would have ate at my desk anyway. And when they fired me, call the State Dept. of Labor to show them photos the the one-table breakroom. Not providing adequate breaktime facilities for eating is a violation of State law. I could walk-away with millions in punative damages. Of course the reality is they wouldn't fire you, because they know they'd be sued.
Yahoo mail to avoid google mail Yahoo (or duckduckgo) to avoid google search Mozilla or Opera browser to avoid google browser And so on. I have not found a workaround for youtube, but I don't like having google gathering all this data about me & creating a profile. I want to use alternatives as much as possible.
>>>I read many things that go under 'specialist literature'. Trouble is, there is so much (good) stuff to read that I one of the ways I select what to read is "is it available as an e-book?".
Same here but in magazine format. My filter: "Is the e-magazine cheaper then the paper magazine?" So far the only one that is cheaper is Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine ($12 instead of $34). The other magazines like Asimovs and Analog charge the same amount even though they are not wasting money on postage.
So I buy the physical magazines, read them, and sell them on ebay. Net cost overall is Annual subscription price minus $15. The paper ends-up being less money.
If you guys keep disassembling Super Nintendos (and PS1s and Atari 2600s and N64s) pretty soon there won't be any left for us to play. It will end-up like the Japanese Zero airplane (only two left). It saddens me to see people destroying an item that is no longer being made & therefore becoming more-and-more rare with each passing day.
>>>There are almost certainly more people running FireFox on computers that have 32GB of ram
Windows Home (the most common distribution) doesn't even allow RAM sizes bigger than 16GB..... so I suspect the number of people with 32 is near-zero. In fact a quick search on google revealed the most common RAM size of web surfers is only 2GB. So YES it would be advantageous for Firefox (and Chrome) to use as little memory as possible instead of gobbling-up every bit of space.
I specifically use Opera because it runs fantastic on low-ram situations. Piss on Firefox, Chrome and their lazy programmers that don't know how to conserve their resources. Fucking memory hogs.
>>>I'm rather happy when my AV program does update even when I don't tell it to do so.
Would you still be happy when your PC no longer boots? Oh well. This reminds me of the guy who used to overcharge his batteries. "They can handle going to 2.5V" he would say. Then his garage burned down. (Then he whined like a child about how it was everybody else's fault except their own.) Some people just don't learn until something breaks.
You failed to explain how it's humanly possible to read 300 tabs at the same time. I bet 250 of those tabs haven't been viewed by yourself in several days..... so you might as well bookmark them, close them, and reopen them weeks later when you actually use them.
Not ONE example of a youtube uploader who has been targeted via the DMCA process to get their home address. You stupid anti-arab racist mother fucker. Put on a white cape so you'll make an easier target for my gun..... I hate racist trash.
What you should have done, instead of wasting time on slashdot, was hired the best lawyer you could find and sued both Youtube and the local tv station for copyright infringement.
$150,000 fine for every instance. You would have won. (And $150,000 is a lot more scratch then whatever you earn on youtube ad-rewards).
The DMCA law is not flawed. It is better than what we had before when an ISP could just yank your video & you had no way to get it restored. You just got screwed. ----- At least under DMCA you have a legally-protected right over your videos. The ISP must restore your video, else they lose their immunity and can be sued in a court of law.
>>>(2)(c) while the person filing the infringement notice was in the wrong so was the uploader (e.g. neither of them holds the copyright), the item remains offline
Youtube/websites/ISPs are forbidden from acting as judges. They are not allowed to decide "the user is not the copyright owner" and leave it offline. At that point they lose their immunity and can be sued in a court of law. (And yes I would sue them if it happened to me, because I love a fight.)
How small? One tower for every two homes in order to eliminate the 3GB and give people as much data as they want? Yes that would work, but at that point you might as well just skip the cellular internet, and go with fiber direct to the home.
So your video of yourself jamming on your guitar is taken-off youtube for 10 days. Ooooo. You've really been harmed (not). The alternative before DMCA was your video taken-off permanently, and there's no way to get it reactivated. You want to go back to those dark days?
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The Walking Dead.
Not the TV show which is cheery in comparison to the comic book where everyone is constantly dying, and their situation seems hopeless. Technically his is fantasy fiction not science fiction, but I don't really care.
I thought the movie was good. Didn't always make sense but it was entertaining and thought-provoking, and I liked the ending when he ends-up as a baby. It was nominated by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films for an award.
Where would I go to read the short story of Butterfly Effect?
How about "modern SF" in general? I spent some time reading the Hugo nominees and most of the stories were depressing. I couldn't decide if I should vote, or just say "Why bother? It's all pointless anyway" like Marvin the Depressed Robot.
One older SF writer (sorry forget who) actually wrote an essay encouraging authors to write something CHEERY for a change with a positive outcome. The magazine which published the esaay is runing a contest around that theme.
There's the famous Star Trek story "City on the Edge of Forever". The original script by Harlan Ellison is even darker, with people in the engineering section of the ship dealing drugs (which is how the doctor ends-up going nutty -- a bad trip).
I just read a story last year in one of Gardner Dozois' Best of the Year anthologies. It involved humans boarding a generation ship that would travel to a new galaxy (50,000 years). The first 1000 years were not too bad but over time the humans became dumber-and-dumber, as they had no more challenging task then to scrub the floors/walls/ceiling and keep the ship clean. After 25,000 years they were walking on all fours & no longer bothering to wear clothes (or speak).
At that point the generation ship was intercepted by a faster-than-light ship that "rescued" the simian-like human beings. I imagine they ended-up in a zoo. (If you have a chance I would recommend buying all of Dozois' annual anthologies. If you like Outer Limits' method of telling a different story each week, you'll like these books.)
A 1920x1080 video is a 1920x1080 video. The video won't look any better just because you up the monitor resolution higher than those specs.
Same on Ebay.
Still run into problems with deficient sellers.
If it looks like a Mac and quacks like a Mac and runs OS X like a Mac, it's a Mac. So where would I go to buy one of these Hackintosh PCs? I'd like to try OS 10.8 but don't want to spend $600 to do it. (And besides: an i5 Mac at 2 GHz is sloooow.)
I can understand the error. With each passing year the EU is looking more like a single, united country than even the U.S. country.
Just last week I read the UK has to "ask permission" before they can rollout rural broadband expansion. Even U.S. states do not need to do that. They just do it.
Why do people automatically assume ONE bad device == all such devices are bad? It's called "birth mortality". When a device is not properly assembled and dies early (or other serious flaws). Just because 1 Mac suffered birth defects does not mean the other 100,000 Macs were bad. Your school should have simply traded the bad Mac for a good Mac.
>>>On the off-chance you're actually serious - you really think Yahoo isn't collecting exactly the same data as Google?
Wow you dense cracka
The point is to separate the information so no one company has all the data. Google knows what videos I watch but not my email or search or browsing habits. Yahoo has my email habits. Duckduckgo has search habits. Mozilla & Opera have the browser history/cookies. NONE have a complete profile.
I would have ate at my desk anyway.
And when they fired me, call the State Dept. of Labor to show them photos the the one-table breakroom. Not providing adequate breaktime facilities for eating is a violation of State law. I could walk-away with millions in punative damages.
Of course the reality is they wouldn't fire you,
because they know they'd be sued.
Got a source that's not Google marketing?
Yahoo mail to avoid google mail
Yahoo (or duckduckgo) to avoid google search
Mozilla or Opera browser to avoid google browser
And so on.
I have not found a workaround for youtube, but I don't like having google gathering all this data about me & creating a profile. I want to use alternatives as much as possible.
>>>I read many things that go under 'specialist literature'. Trouble is, there is so much (good) stuff to read that I one of the ways I select what to read is "is it available as an e-book?".
Same here but in magazine format. My filter: "Is the e-magazine cheaper then the paper magazine?" So far the only one that is cheaper is Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine ($12 instead of $34). The other magazines like Asimovs and Analog charge the same amount even though they are not wasting money on postage.
So I buy the physical magazines, read them, and sell them on ebay. Net cost overall is Annual subscription price minus $15. The paper ends-up being less money.
If you guys keep disassembling Super Nintendos (and PS1s and Atari 2600s and N64s) pretty soon there won't be any left for us to play. It will end-up like the Japanese Zero airplane (only two left). It saddens me to see people destroying an item that is no longer being made & therefore becoming more-and-more rare with each passing day.
>>>$999 is almost $1300??
Why are Apple fans so clueless? Hey I like Apple too..... I just don't like their luxury-level pricetags:
$1199 i7 equipped Mac with 8GB ram/1.5TB drive
$25 ApplePort to HDMI connector
*1.06 sales tax
==========
almost $1300
>>>There are almost certainly more people running FireFox on computers that have 32GB of ram
Windows Home (the most common distribution) doesn't even allow RAM sizes bigger than 16GB..... so I suspect the number of people with 32 is near-zero. In fact a quick search on google revealed the most common RAM size of web surfers is only 2GB. So YES it would be advantageous for Firefox (and Chrome) to use as little memory as possible instead of gobbling-up every bit of space.
I specifically use Opera because it runs fantastic on low-ram situations. Piss on Firefox, Chrome and their lazy programmers that don't know how to conserve their resources. Fucking memory hogs.
>>>I'm rather happy when my AV program does update even when I don't tell it to do so.
Would you still be happy when your PC no longer boots? Oh well. This reminds me of the guy who used to overcharge his batteries. "They can handle going to 2.5V" he would say. Then his garage burned down. (Then he whined like a child about how it was everybody else's fault except their own.) Some people just don't learn until something breaks.
You failed to explain how it's humanly possible to read 300 tabs at the same time. I bet 250 of those tabs haven't been viewed by yourself in several days..... so you might as well bookmark them, close them, and reopen them weeks later when you actually use them.
Not ONE example of a youtube uploader who has been targeted via the DMCA process to get their home address. You stupid anti-arab racist mother fucker. Put on a white cape so you'll make an easier target for my gun..... I hate racist trash.
What you should have done, instead of wasting time on slashdot, was hired the best lawyer you could find and sued both Youtube and the local tv station for copyright infringement.
$150,000 fine for every instance. You would have won. (And $150,000 is a lot more scratch then whatever you earn on youtube ad-rewards).
The DMCA law is not flawed. It is better than what we had before when an ISP could just yank your video & you had no way to get it restored. You just got screwed. ----- At least under DMCA you have a legally-protected right over your videos. The ISP must restore your video, else they lose their immunity and can be sued in a court of law.
>>>(2)(c) while the person filing the infringement notice was in the wrong so was the uploader (e.g. neither of them holds the copyright), the item remains offline
Youtube/websites/ISPs are forbidden from acting as judges. They are not allowed to decide "the user is not the copyright owner" and leave it offline. At that point they lose their immunity and can be sued in a court of law. (And yes I would sue them if it happened to me, because I love a fight.)
>>>More towers with smaller broadcast domains?
How small? One tower for every two homes in order to eliminate the 3GB and give people as much data as they want? Yes that would work, but at that point you might as well just skip the cellular internet, and go with fiber direct to the home.
So your video of yourself jamming on your guitar is taken-off youtube for 10 days. Ooooo. You've really been harmed (not). The alternative before DMCA was your video taken-off permanently, and there's no way to get it reactivated. You want to go back to those dark days?