"The Discovery rolled over from the Orbiter Processing Facility to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center this morning. May 15th is the scheduled launch for STS-114.
May 15th!?!?!? It'll be out of date by then and they'll have to upgrade everything!
I was at NASA last month and got to see the payload for the space station thru lots of glass and I have to wonder, how far behind is the space station at this point?"
Not to worry, maintenance and such have been outsourced to Venus.
but if the game is rated Mature and the stores are required to card people who are buying it then either there are some terribly impressionable 18+ year olds out there who haven't found their cult yet...
Sadly 18 isn't a magic number, where people suddenly become more mature. Look at G. W. Bush, he said he grew up at 40! (after doing considerable drugs, alcohol and foolin' around in the very best tradition of families with political power and wealth.)
or some parents need to do a better job of screening what they buy their kids. Neither scenario means that we need the government involved.
Without government getting involved, or threatening to do so, you wouldn't have that rating. Believing in self-regulating industy is like the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus.
maybe i'm gittin' old... but GTA is pretty fvcking twisted for a 18 y.o. to be playing... sorry, but it really, really is morally vapid. game or no game, there's no need to plant those seeds.
First off, this game isn't free, it's for profit. It's simply an escallation of a genre of game which probably are the merger of FPS, 1on1 combat and racing with a little RPG sprinkled over it to give it some place to go. What's probably a good exercise is trying to guess what the next iteration will be like.
It really is pretty sorry when you realize you don't mind sitting at a screen and wiping out a bunch of lives. The thing of it is, you never realized yourself becoming less sensitive about life.
When I came out of cancer treatment, something I wouldn't wish on anyone, I experienced a twinge at watching the Deathstar blow apart in Star Wars. You know that thing is full of people, many would not actually have been evil. Yet that's OK because it's fiction and they were serving the Empire, right?
Discussion is a good thing. If you read further into the Australian article this appears more a political tack than anything substantive. Even so, I've seen some of the GTA footage and wonder where we're going. Fantasy is OK, to what point? Discussion is
important because while people are forced to defend opinions rather than simply bully the opposing view, options are open. I've thought Free Speach, regarding the content of video games to be a pretty tawdry use of constitutional protection. But years ago I could
sacrifice the corpse of a @ at an altar in NetHack, granted it was very graphic, but I haven't tried that to anyone on the street lately.
I remember reading about how wonderful alcohol was, while in Jr. High and Highschools. Never Cry Wolf, by Farley Mowat, painted a lovely picture of something called "wolf juice" which was (IIRC) half whiskey and half beer. This book was
required reading for some classes. Should I blame Mr. Mowat for how much I spend on ales, porters and stouts these days? I suggest a few million to conduct a meaningful study. If it's approved, I'll see you all down at the bar, first round is on me.
It is true.
Slashdot is a Mac advocacy site!
I usually hate it when people say this, but it's true!!! Oh, the horror.
Most/. advocacy seems to stem from the following:
Macs aren't Microsoft (unless you used Word or something on them)
You can install Linux on them (not that you can't even an electric toothbrush these days)
They were an underdog, which made those really cool Apple ][ computers back in the day (some of us have the emulators installed on our PC's and still fiddle with them.)
They had a sense of style, which the monolithic PC companies still can't seem to get (PC's, seen them lately? Was Dell/HP styling inspired by pinching a loaf?)
They were evolving, which always inspires some hope.
I always throught basing OS-X on BSD was a good move. Sounds more attractive to me than the old MacOS, especially from someone with a long background in c.
I don't see how they can do anything else given the complexity of the problem and the fact that this does need to be addressed with a fresh set of laws that replace (rather than add to) the existing.
Indeed, many legal observers say the high court is likely to leave the law largely as is and if it wants a different outcome, to ask Congress to change the copyright law.
Sometimes problems aren't really all that complex, if you take a step back from them and find the correct framework to place them in. Remember the Supreme Court is there to determine how the constitution applies in this case.
I'd really love it if they tacked on some strong clarification, underscoring our right to Fair Use, but they may take a simple approach that all P2P cannot be treated the same as those who use it for piracy, whereas MPAA/RIAA would like to kill all P2P, regardless what it's use is.
Nothing like watching a great show and having to minimize the link for the latest viagra pill with your kids.
And to think, TiVo use to be a quality DVR...
Might as well just cross them off the list of "Good Guys" as if the deal with ComCast shouldn't have already strongly suggested that, but consider TiVo have had this ability in there all along and, like summoning a sleeper agent to commit some dastardly act (like replace all your Guinness with Budweiser.)
Like, you think that titanium, and the equipment required to work titanium comes cheap? Cheaper than sand?
The downside of working silicon from sand to semiconductors is it creates some pretty toxic wastes and doesn't do well for the environment where the best grades of sand are obtained.
I confess I've always had a problem with power sources that do silicon. Snooty bastards, what with their made up verbs and their rock music...
How about consumer devices that rely so much on silicon? I've wondered why germanium or something else with a lower switching voltage isn't used more often.
"Maybe if he pitched it as a reality show, a la The Apprentice. That might be entertaining..."
Nowthat qualifies as a disturbing vision. What would a bunch of trekkies be fighting for the chance to be? Captain of an imaginary starship? Chance to date a woman? A shower? Associate producer of the next doomed Trek series?
Visualize a show that puts the most die-hard Trek fans through some paces of a 'Starfleet Academy' and they must complete stages, solve puzzles and maybe even answer some trivia.
The prize?
It should be obvious: King Star Trek Geek! Money would be a plus, but being able to attend your next ST convention, or heck even tour them, as the ultimate Star Trekker would probably be all some could ever hope for.
But isn't Spock like x00 years old? So when the humans are teens, say 30 years younger then Mr. Spock would still be x00 - 30 and still not a teen. But this is crazy. As much as I like the StarTrek universe I think the series should be put on hold (remember in the 80's) to allow our minds to become interested in the shows again.
I think there was some problem with ST Canon. Apparently Spock was about the same age as Kirk when they went through academy together. The was mentioned somewhere that at the time of the series both were around 100 years old. That's what future science had done for aging.
It smells like one of those things that has half a chance of working if you chuck canon and is doomed to failure if you don't. Kirk would unfortunately be a very cocky fellow and I think we've seen enough of that stereotype on TV already.
Effective cast:
Spock: Brainy, yet unassuming
McCoy: Face planted in medical books all the time
Kirk: Natural leader, is brash, adventurous and gets them into trouble and somehow they always get back out of it, maybe with only a scar or two. After all, they need to learn.
William Shatner recently pitched an 'Academy' show to Paramount.
Um.. I read this and immediately had a disturbing vision
The series would feature teen versions of the Classic Star Trek characters Kirk, Spock and McCoy, and be set at Starfleet Academy.
Ah, not what I thought, but not exactly a thrilling concept.
The studio turned Shatner down, but he's not letting go of the idea: Pocket Books has asked him to write a two-novel series based on the 'Starfleet Academy' concept. Also, Shatner apparently went over the head of Trek head honcho Rick Berman to pitch his idea straight to the head of Paramount - maybe after Enterprise ends and Berman leaves the franchise, the studio will be more inclined to listen to Shatner?"
Maybe if he pitched it as a reality show, a la The Apprentice. That might be entertaining...
I consider it an important and useful civic act to poison the noosphere with false data in order to throw off the pundits, pollsters, advertisers and fraudsters.
Name: Andrew Nonymuss
Occupation: Executive Assisstant to the Vice Peon of Menial Affairs
Income: 400,000 zorkmids (I don't know what that is in dollars
Age: 39.14246575342465753424657534246575
Ethnic: Some of the above, but in no particular order.
Have you bought any of our products before? Only when I couldn't find anything else to disembowel a Kodiak Marmoset with.
Were you satisfied with it? Why don't you ask the Marmoset?
Would you buy any of our products again? Only if it's that or be stoned by an angry mob.
Reminds me of several schools of higher learning with 'Institute' in their names, changing to 'College' or 'University' because, as some said, 'Institute' sounded like a medical facility (for people a few beans short of a burrito.) Though I'd say they nerver heard of MIT, it's places like AdTI that seem to lend the theory some credibility.
Spielberg would make a dog's dinner out of it and call it a movie. (Not so much a knock at Spielberg as at most attempts to capture PKD on the screen: much the same as the way a killing jar captures butterflies.)
Really. Rather see Ridley Scott up there for Alien and Blade Runner, further he's bringing back Andromeda Strain.
An excellent point, further, because of his success a smattering of other authors, such as Michael Stackpole (who languished at FASA for a while, doing some pretty damn good BattleTech novels) got some real exposure.
Besides Asimov and Bradbury, I would have thought for sure that he'd be there. The Dune series (and not just the first book!) is a serious contender for greatest work of SF/Fantasy ever written.
Someone correct me and tell me that I just missed him!
Tell me about it. I used to work in a library and had to look after the sci-fi section for months. What about Clifford Simak? Ben Bova? Alice Sheldon (aka James Tipree)?
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May 15th!?!?!? It'll be out of date by then and they'll have to upgrade everything!
I was at NASA last month and got to see the payload for the space station thru lots of glass and I have to wonder, how far behind is the space station at this point?"
Not to worry, maintenance and such have been outsourced to Venus.
Sadly 18 isn't a magic number, where people suddenly become more mature. Look at G. W. Bush, he said he grew up at 40! (after doing considerable drugs, alcohol and foolin' around in the very best tradition of families with political power and wealth.)
or some parents need to do a better job of screening what they buy their kids. Neither scenario means that we need the government involved.
Without government getting involved, or threatening to do so, you wouldn't have that rating. Believing in self-regulating industy is like the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus.
I dunno about games, but I'm pretty sure we've seen plenty of it from politics.
"She's outflanking us! Push the joystick further to the right!"
First off, this game isn't free, it's for profit. It's simply an escallation of a genre of game which probably are the merger of FPS, 1on1 combat and racing with a little RPG sprinkled over it to give it some place to go. What's probably a good exercise is trying to guess what the next iteration will be like.
It really is pretty sorry when you realize you don't mind sitting at a screen and wiping out a bunch of lives. The thing of it is, you never realized yourself becoming less sensitive about life.
When I came out of cancer treatment, something I wouldn't wish on anyone, I experienced a twinge at watching the Deathstar blow apart in Star Wars. You know that thing is full of people, many would not actually have been evil. Yet that's OK because it's fiction and they were serving the Empire, right?
I remember reading about how wonderful alcohol was, while in Jr. High and Highschools. Never Cry Wolf, by Farley Mowat, painted a lovely picture of something called "wolf juice" which was (IIRC) half whiskey and half beer. This book was required reading for some classes. Should I blame Mr. Mowat for how much I spend on ales, porters and stouts these days? I suggest a few million to conduct a meaningful study. If it's approved, I'll see you all down at the bar, first round is on me.
Most /. advocacy seems to stem from the following:
Macs aren't Microsoft (unless you used Word or something on them)
You can install Linux on them (not that you can't even an electric toothbrush these days)
They were an underdog, which made those really cool Apple ][ computers back in the day (some of us have the emulators installed on our PC's and still fiddle with them.)
They had a sense of style, which the monolithic PC companies still can't seem to get (PC's, seen them lately? Was Dell/HP styling inspired by pinching a loaf?)
They were evolving, which always inspires some hope.
did I miss anything?
That said... BSD is dy^H^Hthriving.
Sometimes problems aren't really all that complex, if you take a step back from them and find the correct framework to place them in. Remember the Supreme Court is there to determine how the constitution applies in this case.
I'd really love it if they tacked on some strong clarification, underscoring our right to Fair Use, but they may take a simple approach that all P2P cannot be treated the same as those who use it for piracy, whereas MPAA/RIAA would like to kill all P2P, regardless what it's use is.
I believe it's called Guidance.
Might as well just cross them off the list of "Good Guys" as if the deal with ComCast shouldn't have already strongly suggested that, but consider TiVo have had this ability in there all along and, like summoning a sleeper agent to commit some dastardly act (like replace all your Guinness with Budweiser.)
Adios TiVo. Rot in hell.
I wonder if they use tantalum capacitors in the electronic circuits. People mine that stuff with their bare hands, until it kills them.
What about Upsidasium, then you save the problem of launching satellites with these solar panels. They just go up by themselves.
The downside of working silicon from sand to semiconductors is it creates some pretty toxic wastes and doesn't do well for the environment where the best grades of sand are obtained.
How about consumer devices that rely so much on silicon? I've wondered why germanium or something else with a lower switching voltage isn't used more often.
Titanium, that's so 1900's.
Nowthat qualifies as a disturbing vision. What would a bunch of trekkies be fighting for the chance to be? Captain of an imaginary starship? Chance to date a woman? A shower? Associate producer of the next doomed Trek series?
Visualize a show that puts the most die-hard Trek fans through some paces of a 'Starfleet Academy' and they must complete stages, solve puzzles and maybe even answer some trivia.
The prize?
It should be obvious: King Star Trek Geek! Money would be a plus, but being able to attend your next ST convention, or heck even tour them, as the ultimate Star Trekker would probably be all some could ever hope for.
I think there was some problem with ST Canon. Apparently Spock was about the same age as Kirk when they went through academy together. The was mentioned somewhere that at the time of the series both were around 100 years old. That's what future science had done for aging.
It smells like one of those things that has half a chance of working if you chuck canon and is doomed to failure if you don't. Kirk would unfortunately be a very cocky fellow and I think we've seen enough of that stereotype on TV already.
Effective cast:
Spock: Brainy, yet unassuming
McCoy: Face planted in medical books all the time
Kirk: Natural leader, is brash, adventurous and gets them into trouble and somehow they always get back out of it, maybe with only a scar or two. After all, they need to learn.
Um.. I read this and immediately had a disturbing vision
The series would feature teen versions of the Classic Star Trek characters Kirk, Spock and McCoy, and be set at Starfleet Academy.
Ah, not what I thought, but not exactly a thrilling concept.
The studio turned Shatner down, but he's not letting go of the idea: Pocket Books has asked him to write a two-novel series based on the 'Starfleet Academy' concept. Also, Shatner apparently went over the head of Trek head honcho Rick Berman to pitch his idea straight to the head of Paramount - maybe after Enterprise ends and Berman leaves the franchise, the studio will be more inclined to listen to Shatner?"
Maybe if he pitched it as a reality show, a la The Apprentice. That might be entertaining...
Name: Andrew Nonymuss
Occupation: Executive Assisstant to the Vice Peon of Menial Affairs
Income: 400,000 zorkmids (I don't know what that is in dollars
Age: 39.14246575342465753424657534246575
Ethnic: Some of the above, but in no particular order.
Have you bought any of our products before? Only when I couldn't find anything else to disembowel a Kodiak Marmoset with.
Were you satisfied with it? Why don't you ask the Marmoset?
Would you buy any of our products again? Only if it's that or be stoned by an angry mob.
Reminds me of several schools of higher learning with 'Institute' in their names, changing to 'College' or 'University' because, as some said, 'Institute' sounded like a medical facility (for people a few beans short of a burrito.) Though I'd say they nerver heard of MIT, it's places like AdTI that seem to lend the theory some credibility.
What about all the junk science the current administration is accepting as fact? Whoever's behind all that should be up for a 'Science Fiction' award.
like 10 to 20 in Allenwood
Really. Rather see Ridley Scott up there for Alien and Blade Runner, further he's bringing back Andromeda Strain.
Maybe he'll get enough exposure, with the H2G2 Movie out there in front of people, for next year.
Pop stuff, mostly. JP series was horrible compared to the books. I'd give him a nod for close encounters, but that's about it.
What about the Michael Crichton, the guy who wrote the JP books?
Closer to the hearts of /.ers, what about Gene Roddenberry?
An excellent point, further, because of his success a smattering of other authors, such as Michael Stackpole (who languished at FASA for a while, doing some pretty damn good BattleTech novels) got some real exposure.
Love or hate Star Wars, he's had a great impact.
Tell me about it. I used to work in a library and had to look after the sci-fi section for months. What about Clifford Simak? Ben Bova? Alice Sheldon (aka James Tipree)?
at least not L. Ron Hubbard