1. I, Robot
2. Paycheck
3. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
4. Minority Report
5. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
6. The Matrix: Reloaded
7. Signs
8. The Matrix: Revolutions
9. Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones
10. Men in Black II
Mind you it would be limited by things like Star Wars ANH being released waaayyyy before Netfilx ever existed, but the list is interesting.
FOX certainly stacked the odds against it. From the wikipedia article:
As I was reading the Wikipedia entry, it dawned on me: TV, Film, Books, Comics, Table top RPG... When are we going to see a Serenity video game? Talk about an open ended setting for new characters/stories or an online game. Joss?!?!? You listening?
I think Serenity hasn't been around long enough to sink in to the culture properly, but god, such a good movie. Firefly was a good series too.
I have a pair of friends (BF/GF unit) that aren't into sci-fi at all. She is arguably the least sci-fi person I have known in a long time. She admits to seeing "that trek thing" but didn't like it. He's just not interested usually.
First the boyfriend saw a couple of episodes of Firefly with me (I have the DVDs) and got really exited to see Serenity. I took them both. The very next day they borrowed my DVD set and watched all of Firefly for the next week.
I'm sure there of hundreds of stories like mine. Give that movie/series to pretty much anyone and I'll bet they like it. It's got a broad appeal and no weird looking costumes. Everyone can identify with working hard (even if what you do is nefarious) and having to defend it in some way. That's it's essence. Within 2-5 years it will be a landmark film, IMHO.
Wow. I just read the Fox version. It wasn't the original version that I had read. Here's the one I read. The difference is subtle but interesting. A round of spin for everyone!
The most disconcerting thing, though, is the growing presence of fat guys in kilts.
That would be Steve's doing. He founded the company up in your town. I got mine from him waaayyy back when he was selling them personally at a booth in Pike Market. I don't wear mine to work though. They were originally meant for construction workers.
Ms Moss believes money should be no object when it comes to dressing well.
So this basically boils down to "These damn geeks don't spend like we got those 'bling' kids to". I was soooo hoping for some pictures of the most daring/oblivious of our kind. Oh well. If my company dress code says I can wear tee shirts, then I can. What the hell is so wrong with that?
And your post is good except this is about Sony's electronic products, not music.
Have you watched TV lately? Ever seen a game/reality show? Watch one and count the plugs for products. Keep an eye out for the upcoming holidy buying guides featured in print, radio and tv. The plugs for product are there just as bad as for music. How about going to see a game at 3Com... err Pacbell... err SBC Park here in San Francisco? How about going to see a movie or eat at the Sony Metreon? What cell phone is Paris Hilton talking into today? What product is sponsoring the latest band's tour?
The marketing is blurred between the product lines to ensure brand loyalty today. Music, gadgets, celebrity... It's all being marketed together.
Since you can host a blog for free in about a million places, I really don't see this as much of an infringement on anyone's right to speak..... She's a lot better off doing that, too, because the software requires maintenance that most people don't want to learn about or bother with.
Ah, but what's the EULA for the blog site? How about sharing photos? Who gets copyrights to those? To open a Myspace account today, she is unwittingly dealing with News Corp. (Fox News) for example.
Consolidation has also made for a central point of failure. If blogging meant a node for each blog, shutting down opposing views with cease and desist letters would not be so simple for large corporations to do today. How hard it is to shut down P2P for major media is a great example of how this diversity could have made dissent harder to silence.
I'm not thinking of it to help everyone be a geek, I'm thinking of it as a way in which we as people originally had more control and a more diverse landscape.
Don't forget that most major broadband ISPs block known server ports and restrict you from running servers in their EULA. At first it was so businesses didn't just start using broadband in lieu of "premium" accounts. Too bad, because broadband is so common now that it's what most businesses use anyway. The only real "cost" the ISP incurrs by making them use a "premium" account is a higher bandwidth cap and un-blockings some ports. It's an anachronistic practice, but greed keeps it going.
Running a personal wiki or having a photo-share server for friends seems like a technical imposibility to most lay people because of this. The truth is, most of it can be done with easy to use software today. It should be trivial for the end user. Run an installer and start going. I seem to remember dreams of this being what the internet was for - back in the day... Remember when having a webcam wasn't mainly just for IM?
Yes I know that script kiddies have made this idea a playground for malware and things need to be blocked upstream for authentication-less ports sometimes. I do firmly believe that if everyone knew it was initially prety much their right to add their info to the internet, MS would have never been so lax and security would have had the focus by all of us that it should have gotten. The software that enables a home desktop to be a server would be way more mature due to popularity. In some ways, IM epitomizes this need to share with eachother.
nonsense... planning ahead does not equal comments in your code... planning ahead, as you mentioned at first, can be in many forms, and hopefully takes place long before you open up your favorite text editor to write some code...
If you have prelimary docs, then just open them in a text editor and cut-n-paste from them as you go. How hard is that? Don't tell me you're one of those who writes a design doc, only looks at it rarely and imagines "I remember it all" (I'm hoping you're not, you seem smarter than that). That's not planning, that's getting the general meetings out of the way then running away to code off the cuff.
Referencing the documents that the PHB/customer helped write also makes your comments easier for them to understand. Not to mention something the PHB/customer is actually happy to look at (gasp!). It usually makes for better and more consistant documentation - especially if you add in minor "this is for that" line comments where needed.
When it comes down to it, it's actually a lazier way to go in some respects even. It's been a huge time saver and a check against feature creep for me in many cases. Try it and you may never go back.
Write your comments first, then code to match the comments.
This is why Design Documents are so important. For those sitting there thinking "// checks if x == y then proceeds" is a good comment, the rest of us call this "comment first" idea "planning". It has been working well for coding since the begining and has worked for other things for centuries if not millenia. The most frightening thing to think when handed old code is "My god! They never had more than a meeting of planning for this pile!" Bad or after the fact comments betray a lack of planning every time. Not commenting is almost a downright admission.
When I see code like this, I have turned to my current boss/client and said "You didn't plan this thing very well at all did you?" on many occasions. That question always gets a look of guilt quicker than two teens with no clothes on when her dad walks in. When you explain how you noticed so quickly, you can see the look of "How did I get here? Do I know what I'm doing?" wash over their face a few times over as they think of everything else they are in charge of in the same light... and wonder if their mistakes are always that obvious to others. I remember one PHB wo implemented a "Code Review" the very next day. Fun! Sad, sadistic, pitiful fun - but still fun sometimes.
I wish I had mod points for you Webmoth. You hit the nail on the head dead square. Even countersunk it a little.
If Acme doesn't sell at discount to the brick-and-mortar stores, they will go out of business because they can't compete with the web stores, and potential customers won't have anywhere they can go to see an actual Wizmaster. (Or Acme has to set up "demonstration stores", where they demonstrate but don't necessarily sell stuff. The high-street stores save them this expense.)
Your analogy is good except for the advertising involved with music. Consider if Acme had MTV, VH1, BET, E!, Entertainment Tonight and all of the other tv outlets in addition to the godawful amount of people playing the Wiz5K on the radio plus magazines interviewing the makers of the 5K at every opportunity plus the Wiz5K 2005 North American Tour. Hell, you'd have to nearly enter a sensory dep environment to avoid the newest Wizmaster... the public is most likely already dreaming of the 6K and it hasn't even been made yet. The interviewers keep asking about it.
Gladly, nothing is quite like the modern music intdustry. The amount the big players are saturating us is quite insane already. The only reason to have hard product in the stores for the likes of Sony is to villify anything that isn't a hard product including the sales mechanism. It's their soapbox and they'll be damned if they let you insult it. The only way they'll let that soapbox be ruined is by bashing it over your head, which we are now watching them do. I hope that thing falls apart soon. The headache is killing me.
I do trust that Yahoo will do anything, given enough money.
I bet this is just something new to add as part of the 'feature' list for an ISP partner (Definitely AwOL, but Yahoo will probably re-package it for others such as SBC Yahoo! perhaps). At least after a certain exclusive period for AOL. Another bullet point for the marketing brochure, website and commercial.
Anti-virus protection [show me details]
Spyware Protection [show me details]
Faster downloads [show me details]
Secure and Verified(TM) Downloads! [show me details]
Stupidity Sandbox(TM) [show me details]
Free mouse condom and NooB(TM) tee shirt [show me details]
Maybe it got pulled for some reason or something else happened... When I clicked it routed the request to www-128.ibm.com and all of the pictures loaded cleanly for Google's cached copy, so I'm betting they have a little capacity ready to go. After a minute of looking at Google's link to the real page, the problem seems to be the "?ca=dgr-lnxw01DB2xmlPHP" at the end of the posted link. Here's a workig link for the IBM copy. Here's the google cache if you want it too.
Interesting spelling wise perhaps, but ultimately it is a faulty line of logic.
Not trying to be a jerk or anything, but that's part of what makes it a joke. I think the number of people who have taken this thread seriously has only made it funnier to me. Sick mind, I guess.
Where exactly do you see the letter 'd' in the word congratulations? I used to think Slashdot might someday cater to the intellectual programmer. Sadly, I've realized that day will never come. Only morons like yourself dwell here. I am officially done with Slashdot.
Over a common misspelling in a quickly jotted post for a story that didn't even make the front page? Everyone say it with me: "No more Anonymous Coward! He left forever over something minor! Yay!" Oh wait...
(bet you came back to see if I replied, didn't you? Who's the moron now? Oh yeah, both of us are: I replied. Oh well.)
You've given me endless hours (some stacked into consecutive non-sleeping days) of fun and inspiration. In return, I've given you (id) some cash. You rock!
Oh, and other people won too... Well good for them(ish). Just kidding. Congrads all! I only know of JC reading/., so I'm betting he'll get this digital pat on the back.
You got me. Somehow this one got moderated insightful and people posted replies that took me seriously. I mean c'mon, I was just watching the Daily Show and Colbert before I posted. I was in a silly mood. Maybe it's all-jokes-must-be-taken-seriously night and they didn't tell us. Wacky, aint it?
Slashdot Mirror
1. I, Robot
2. Paycheck
3. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
4. Minority Report
5. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
6. The Matrix: Reloaded
7. Signs
8. The Matrix: Revolutions
9. Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones
10. Men in Black II
Mind you it would be limited by things like Star Wars ANH being released waaayyyy before Netfilx ever existed, but the list is interesting.
First the boyfriend saw a couple of episodes of Firefly with me (I have the DVDs) and got really exited to see Serenity. I took them both. The very next day they borrowed my DVD set and watched all of Firefly for the next week.
I'm sure there of hundreds of stories like mine. Give that movie/series to pretty much anyone and I'll bet they like it. It's got a broad appeal and no weird looking costumes. Everyone can identify with working hard (even if what you do is nefarious) and having to defend it in some way. That's it's essence. Within 2-5 years it will be a landmark film, IMHO.
You would love O'Reilly vs Donahue. I hope Phil runs for office someday.
The marketing is blurred between the product lines to ensure brand loyalty today. Music, gadgets, celebrity... It's all being marketed together.
Consolidation has also made for a central point of failure. If blogging meant a node for each blog, shutting down opposing views with cease and desist letters would not be so simple for large corporations to do today. How hard it is to shut down P2P for major media is a great example of how this diversity could have made dissent harder to silence.
I'm not thinking of it to help everyone be a geek, I'm thinking of it as a way in which we as people originally had more control and a more diverse landscape.
Running a personal wiki or having a photo-share server for friends seems like a technical imposibility to most lay people because of this. The truth is, most of it can be done with easy to use software today. It should be trivial for the end user. Run an installer and start going. I seem to remember dreams of this being what the internet was for - back in the day... Remember when having a webcam wasn't mainly just for IM?
Yes I know that script kiddies have made this idea a playground for malware and things need to be blocked upstream for authentication-less ports sometimes. I do firmly believe that if everyone knew it was initially prety much their right to add their info to the internet, MS would have never been so lax and security would have had the focus by all of us that it should have gotten. The software that enables a home desktop to be a server would be way more mature due to popularity. In some ways, IM epitomizes this need to share with eachother.
Referencing the documents that the PHB/customer helped write also makes your comments easier for them to understand. Not to mention something the PHB/customer is actually happy to look at (gasp!). It usually makes for better and more consistant documentation - especially if you add in minor "this is for that" line comments where needed.
When it comes down to it, it's actually a lazier way to go in some respects even. It's been a huge time saver and a check against feature creep for me in many cases. Try it and you may never go back.
When I see code like this, I have turned to my current boss/client and said "You didn't plan this thing very well at all did you?" on many occasions. That question always gets a look of guilt quicker than two teens with no clothes on when her dad walks in. When you explain how you noticed so quickly, you can see the look of "How did I get here? Do I know what I'm doing?" wash over their face a few times over as they think of everything else they are in charge of in the same light... and wonder if their mistakes are always that obvious to others. I remember one PHB wo implemented a "Code Review" the very next day. Fun! Sad, sadistic, pitiful fun - but still fun sometimes.
I wish I had mod points for you Webmoth. You hit the nail on the head dead square. Even countersunk it a little.
Gladly, nothing is quite like the modern music intdustry. The amount the big players are saturating us is quite insane already. The only reason to have hard product in the stores for the likes of Sony is to villify anything that isn't a hard product including the sales mechanism. It's their soapbox and they'll be damned if they let you insult it. The only way they'll let that soapbox be ruined is by bashing it over your head, which we are now watching them do. I hope that thing falls apart soon. The headache is killing me.
Maybe it got pulled for some reason or something else happened... When I clicked it routed the request to www-128.ibm.com and all of the pictures loaded cleanly for Google's cached copy, so I'm betting they have a little capacity ready to go. After a minute of looking at Google's link to the real page, the problem seems to be the "?ca=dgr-lnxw01DB2xmlPHP" at the end of the posted link. Here's a workig link for the IBM copy. Here's the google cache if you want it too.
(bet you came back to see if I replied, didn't you? Who's the moron now? Oh yeah, both of us are: I replied. Oh well.)
Oh, and other people won too... Well good for them(ish). Just kidding. Congrads all! I only know of JC reading /., so I'm betting he'll get this digital pat on the back.