Man... The guy will have his version of War of The Worlds come out shortly afterwards. Why would this be? I don't especially associated him with Sci-Fi. Is this a ploy of some sort?
Lord knows there's a heck of a lot of authors who have done more for Sci-Fi than his films.
What if you only did 19%?
Or 18%? 17%? Where do they start saying..
"hey...you need to work less on what you are supposed to and more on your side project."
Let's consider this...
Manager: Hey, welcome to our team, we're all going to be working on a great, exciting project! Are you all looking forward to a fun challenge that can add cool new features and attract more customers?
Employee: [Yeah, right, exciting for you, but not for me, mister millionaire manager.] Yeah.
Manager: Excellent! Ok, we've all got new workstations, the latest and greatest, installed with all the tools you should need, but if you need anything else just scribble it down and zap it over to me, I want to make sure you have everything you need.
Employee: [Yeah, everything you need to squeeze every last drop of blood out of me, you capitalist pig.] Ok.
Manager: Further, don't worry about your hours, come in late work late, come in early leave early, whatever, just so long as you can all make necessary meetings and hook up with each other when you need to.
Employee: [Yeah, you'd really like it if I came in early and left late, mister exploiter.] Cool.
Manager: And I'll have a caterer bring you lunches, snacks and drinks, whatever you like, just jot it down and I'll add to the list. Don't forget to take breaks now and then, we don't want anyone to burn out.
Employee: [Why not, because then you'd have to go find some other guy to wring the life out of?]
Manager: Oh, and one last thing, we did really well last quarter and everyone will get an additional bonus in their check. We'll also throw a party on Saturday where you can all kick back and have some brews and listen to a live band and bring your kids for a pool party and lots and lots of food.
Employee: [You'd just like me to slave away on things and then choke on damn eggroll, wouldn't you, you bastard.] Wow!
Manager: Carsten, you ok? You look a bit down?
Employee: [Yeah, trodden under your oppressive boot.] Oh, I'm fine.
Manager: Ok... but why don't you take the rest of the day off, have a long weekend. Heck here's some tickets to see the Warriors, if you can't use them, pass them to someone else.
Employee: [You'd like that, wouldn't you, me sitting in the third row just as a fight breaks out and I get mauled by some genetic freak.] Uh, thanks.
Yeah, I can see how working for such a place could suck...
So you work on your personal project then google owns it? It seems like it would be more worthwhile to do them on your own time then.
Get ready, this may come as a shock, but some people actually do contribute to their employer's welfare, because they realize what's good for their employer is good for them. I can see where people who feel unfriendly to an employer would develop their own special projects at home, especially if morale has sunk pretty low at the workplace or the company doesn't seem to be fairing well and the employee only has a job to lose, rather than an idea which would be sold off in a portfolio of patents/copyrights.
As many people at Google have shares in the company and stand to gain much more, I can see where they may kick in some good ideas, especially if they wouldn't have much of an opportunity of developing them further wihtout quitting and raising some venture capital and hiring a bunch of employees (who may wish to withhold their own best efforts) into a startup.
Friday the 13th is supposedly when the Knights Templar were rounded up and arrested, in order to be tortured to death for daring to rival the church in stature and power.
that Friday the 13th is the last day for Star Trek Enterprise. Maybe it's no such bad luck after all. Now all we need is someone to step on a crack and break Braga and Berman's backs, and the circle of life will be complete.
Friday the 13th will come on a Friday that month! I'll have to watch the TV from underneath my bed.
So, what is most unluck about that day? Having to see the end of the series? Actually the idea of seeing the show wrapped up with a show set several years later is rather interesting, giving some opportunity for hindsight. It would be nice if more shows ended their run like that, but usually the axe just falls and the show fails to appear in its time-slot.
"Terra Prime," will be a direct continuation of "Demons," scheduled to air on the 6th of May. In this episode, the Enteprise tries to stop a human isolationist leader, played by Peter Weller, who's threatening to destroy Starfleet Command....
"These Are The Voyages..." will be set six years after the other fourth-season episodes, and will see Archer and the rest of the crew return home for the decommissioning of the Enterprise, as well as the signing of the Federation charter.
Then Lexus will appear on the main view screen, the science officer will analyze it to be
an early 21st century craft which ran on fossil fuels and contains a crew of accountants. The captain will order phasers set to kill and fired with extreme predjudice, while engineering hails the bridge to indicate all power has suddenly failed. A crew of workmen will enter the bridge
and start dismantling things and taking away props, phasers and rubber ears. (similar to the old SNL skit)
Exactly, meaning DeCSS. I can proudly wear my shirt with the code printed on it in Canada without fear... hmm. doesn't have that rebel feel when I think about it...
"Just don't press the snooze button and keep your current alarm clock!"
"Why not just get up when the alarm goes off the first time? I always wake up and face the day with a smile."
"I disabled the snooze button on my clock so I always have to get up"
fsck dat. I got a wind up alarm clock years ago and stick with it. It's devious enough that it has the deviousness to get faster during the damn night (change in spring temperature?) Can't say I've ever missed a wake-up that I've really needed. Take these windup clocks on trips too, can't trust power and such.
I ran the NAFTA agreement through a GOP Decoder Ring(TM) and found it boiled down to: "Make sure the rich stay rich" So it's anyone's guess how they'll translate that.
The Canadian government has reportedly said no to the DMCA. It released its plans for copyright reform today with a limited anti-circumvention provision that would not cover the likes of DeCSS. It even avoided the U.S. "notice and takedown system"
Yeah, warm up your vocal chords for a round of "Blame Canada", because the bombs will be dropping any moment now.
Why? Because sites will host this stuff all over Canada with impunity, that's why. What're we going to do, block sites at the border?
And old joke (but not as old as the numbered joke one.)
It was based upon Abbott and Costello's 'Who's on First' sketch and is a bit past it's prime, with Hu Jintao being leader of pretty much everything in PR of China, now.
as any comedian will tell you, it is all in the delivery. the material is important, but delivery is MUCH more important...
I've been listening to a lot of old radio comedy shows, Jack Benny, Phil Harris, Bob Hope, Fred Allen, etc. and these were all done before a live audience, while broadcast live over radio.
They bomb, they screw up, it still leaves the audiences howling with laughter. There's something about building up to a joke or expectation on the part of the audience. These people even laughed at their own jokes and so did the audience. At least on one occasion there's like laughter as the punchline is fumbled, the audience laughs and the comedian tries again and keeps screwing up and the audience keeps laughing, even harder until the comedian fires off something like "good thing we're professionals" and finally finish the joke off. Fun to listen to, even after 60 years in some cases.
Indeed, where else could you sit, pay a few $ a pint or a couple more for cocktails, and listen to recycled humor regurgitated by amatures?
Come to think of it, that's what American Idol pretty much is, especially if you're paying a cable bill to watch it...
It's probably going to catch on a bit. Some people think Karoke is dead, but they just started it at a local pub and it draws a big crowd. After a couple pints your singing voice is pretty well gone, but no such worry with telling jokes, except it may throw off your timing.
Longer than that. Some guy comes into the pub, 'sings' Hotel California in a flat voice and I'm so aggrevated I leave. I could hear that off-key voice in my head most of the way home. Finally something came on the car radio to replace it.
In the prison cafeteria, a new inmate's first lunch is interrupted by someone behind him shouting out, "431!"
There's a chorus of laughter before another voice a way off shouts, "218" Again, much laughter. The new guy asks an old con sitting
beside him what's with the numbers and laughter. The old guy replies, "Most of the guys have been in here so long that they know
all the jokes by number. Go ahead, try one." The new guy says, "But I don't know what jokes go with what numbers!" The old con replies,
"doesn't matter, just toss any number out." So the new guy shouts, "687!" Silence. The old guy says, "try a different one", so the new guy shouts "439!" Again, silence. The new guy shouts out a third number, "714!" Which is again met by silence.
The old guy says, "eh, I guess some guys just can't tell a joke."
BTW, Karoke still draws a lot of drunk or soon to be at a local pub.
If you're not a regular follower of the BBC, there are large structural changes and job cuts afoot. Remember those glorious days you could
catch the World Service via shortwave in North America? I still can, from the Carribean. But where am I supposed to watch the latest
Dr. Who? Are there BBC TV channels carried via satellite? Will I be able to download it? I get blocked from live sports casts, which usually
say 'to UK only'
It could be an overuse of quotation marks, or it could be a sarcastic reference to the false concept of "English" as a monolithic, standardised language.
Like French...
Z95 Rocks Paris! (actually heard on Paris, FR FM radio)
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Maybe he'd work it into a book which Speilberg could make a movie out of.
Lord knows there's a heck of a lot of authors who have done more for Sci-Fi than his films.
Let's consider this...
Yeah, I can see how working for such a place could suck...Get ready, this may come as a shock, but some people actually do contribute to their employer's welfare, because they realize what's good for their employer is good for them. I can see where people who feel unfriendly to an employer would develop their own special projects at home, especially if morale has sunk pretty low at the workplace or the company doesn't seem to be fairing well and the employee only has a job to lose, rather than an idea which would be sold off in a portfolio of patents/copyrights.
As many people at Google have shares in the company and stand to gain much more, I can see where they may kick in some good ideas, especially if they wouldn't have much of an opportunity of developing them further wihtout quitting and raising some venture capital and hiring a bunch of employees (who may wish to withhold their own best efforts) into a startup.
Here's what the Wiki has to say about Friday 13th
It's actually a reference to Church La Femme's famous fear of the Friday the 13th's.
Friday the 13th will come on a Friday that month! I'll have to watch the TV from underneath my bed.
So, what is most unluck about that day? Having to see the end of the series? Actually the idea of seeing the show wrapped up with a show set several years later is rather interesting, giving some opportunity for hindsight. It would be nice if more shows ended their run like that, but usually the axe just falls and the show fails to appear in its time-slot.
Then Lexus will appear on the main view screen, the science officer will analyze it to be an early 21st century craft which ran on fossil fuels and contains a crew of accountants. The captain will order phasers set to kill and fired with extreme predjudice, while engineering hails the bridge to indicate all power has suddenly failed. A crew of workmen will enter the bridge and start dismantling things and taking away props, phasers and rubber ears. (similar to the old SNL skit)
Exactly, meaning DeCSS. I can proudly wear my shirt with the code printed on it in Canada without fear... hmm. doesn't have that rebel feel when I think about it...
fsck dat. I got a wind up alarm clock years ago and stick with it. It's devious enough that it has the deviousness to get faster during the damn night (change in spring temperature?) Can't say I've ever missed a wake-up that I've really needed. Take these windup clocks on trips too, can't trust power and such.
Hmm. Better check the exchange rates on Altairian Dollars, Flainian Pobble Beads and the Triganic Pu.
Has anyone contacted Alan Greenspan about this?
Man. That's one dead pixel.
I ran the NAFTA agreement through a GOP Decoder Ring(TM) and found it boiled down to: "Make sure the rich stay rich" So it's anyone's guess how they'll translate that.
Yeah, warm up your vocal chords for a round of "Blame Canada", because the bombs will be dropping any moment now.
Why? Because sites will host this stuff all over Canada with impunity, that's why. What're we going to do, block sites at the border?
It was based upon Abbott and Costello's 'Who's on First' sketch and is a bit past it's prime, with Hu Jintao being leader of pretty much everything in PR of China, now.
Eaten at Wendy's lately?
Soooooo... played any video games lately?
Wasn't this something along the lines of humor being like a butterfly, as you disect it the thing dies in the process.
I've been listening to a lot of old radio comedy shows, Jack Benny, Phil Harris, Bob Hope, Fred Allen, etc. and these were all done before a live audience, while broadcast live over radio.
They bomb, they screw up, it still leaves the audiences howling with laughter. There's something about building up to a joke or expectation on the part of the audience. These people even laughed at their own jokes and so did the audience. At least on one occasion there's like laughter as the punchline is fumbled, the audience laughs and the comedian tries again and keeps screwing up and the audience keeps laughing, even harder until the comedian fires off something like "good thing we're professionals" and finally finish the joke off. Fun to listen to, even after 60 years in some cases.
Indeed, where else could you sit, pay a few $ a pint or a couple more for cocktails, and listen to recycled humor regurgitated by amatures?
Come to think of it, that's what American Idol pretty much is, especially if you're paying a cable bill to watch it...
It's probably going to catch on a bit. Some people think Karoke is dead, but they just started it at a local pub and it draws a big crowd. After a couple pints your singing voice is pretty well gone, but no such worry with telling jokes, except it may throw off your timing.
Longer than that. Some guy comes into the pub, 'sings' Hotel California in a flat voice and I'm so aggrevated I leave. I could hear that off-key voice in my head most of the way home. Finally something came on the car radio to replace it.
I mean, where the hack was this when I needed it?
BTW, Karoke still draws a lot of drunk or soon to be at a local pub.
If you're not a regular follower of the BBC, there are large structural changes and job cuts afoot. Remember those glorious days you could catch the World Service via shortwave in North America? I still can, from the Carribean. But where am I supposed to watch the latest Dr. Who? Are there BBC TV channels carried via satellite? Will I be able to download it? I get blocked from live sports casts, which usually say 'to UK only'
Note to /. ed: 'too-bad'
Like French...
Z95 Rocks Paris! (actually heard on Paris, FR FM radio)
Reminds me of a Bop dictionary in a MAD from the 50's
"Pin those Hollywood eyes!" -> "See those beautiful girls"
"Like man, that cat is the most" -> "That man is impressive"
"This cat is gone" -> "I'm leaving/I'm dazzled"