don't talk about "ruining the reputation" and "devaluing previous Star Trek". that's crap. Star Trek is far too big for that.
I wish I could agree, but after nearly fifteen years of Berman crapping all over Roddenberry's work, he's made it start to stink.
if the original motion picture didn't ruin the show, then Enterprise sure as hell won't.
What are you talking about? The first two ST movies were great! One one more cerebral -- real "big idea" Star Trek stuff. Two was action-adventure. The best of what ST has to offer.
I haven't really liked any of the others that much. (If any movie could kill a franchise, it's the fifth one -- truly an embarassment.) Undiscovered Country was okay. But I can't forgive Berman for what he did to the TNG universe in Generations -- the emotion chip *and* the Borg queen?
The Enterprise series is just rigor mortis setting in.
If want to see the re-animated corpse of Star Trek -- look at what I just found on IMDB - "Star Trek XI" -- "In this prequel to James T. Kirk's era, but set after the era of 'Enterprise', the Romulans are close to beginning a war with Earth."...I think I'm going to puke.
If you have an opportunity to, chuck it and use Subversion instead..
Seconded. From a development standpoint, it takes a couple days to get used to the new way of doing things (revision # tracking is project-based, not file-based; branches and tags are really the same thing), but the features it offers (directory tracking, file moving, etc) are worth the switch!
If we can a plant 225 light years away, does that mean we have definitively ruled out the existence of planets in the solar systems close to us? If so, are planets rare?/me notes to look this stuff up later this evening.
My oldest girl is now 4 1/2 years old. She has been using a computer for about a year now.
She goes to playhousedisney.com, nickjr.com, pbskids.org and a few others. These web sites are very educational as well as entertaining. She knows how to use bookmarks. She's sent me some email postcards from the these sites. (we have a list of family emails taped onto the monitor.)
She groks the whole WIMP interface. She plays Pototo Guy and Tux Paint.
We have a number of age-appropriate educational software titles that we have to boot into Windows for her to use.
Now that our family computer primarily runs Linux, I see that children's educational software is a giant hole in the Linux offerings. Even the basic stuff you buy in the discount bins at Office Depot is many times better than any of the open source "educational" software packages. I wouldn't mind so much if I could get *any* of the commercial Win packages to run under WINE, but none have worked so far. (I've only tried a few). The lack of a shockwave/director player/plugin for Linux really hurts as well.
She plays this game a lot lately: http://www.freeworldgroup.com/onlinegames /map/inde x.html
And now she recognizes most of the states.
On the hardware side, I've taken the computer apart a couple of times (when upgrading hardware) and she was right there with me, looking inside at the guts of the system. I pointed out the ram, processor, hard drive, etc. She enjoyed that.
And it's not as if she spends an inordinate of time on the computer. She still plays with dolls. She still plays in the dirt in the back yard. Our refrigerator is still covered in crayon drawings.
<proud daddy> I firmly believe this exposure, and a child's natural curiosity, has gone a long way toward helping her read at a 2nd grade level at 4 1/2 years old. She got several Captain Underpants and Magic Treehouse books for Christmas, and she's already read those to herself! </proud daddy>
Kids take to computers like a fish takes to water. My second child is just now 7 months. One of her toys is an old keyboard with the cord removed. I don't see a "minimum' age at all.
According to the data on my SkillMarket site, php (on the languages page) is holding steady. The data tracked is a bit different, however (Job listings vs search engines hits).
While in much of the world the above can't be taken for granted, most of us who read Slashdot already have this. We're probably not going to get shot in the street;
True, but wedgies, swirlies, and getting stuffed into lockers are dangers we face everyday.
The western flank of Cumbre Vieja volcano on the island of La Palma in the Canaries is going to slide into the Atlantic one of these days: a diagonal fracture has already separated it from the main body of the volcano, and only friction still keeps it attached.
If it's just sitting there, waiting to fall into the ocean (with catastrophic results), why don't we start disassembling it now? There's got to be a safe way to slowly rip it apart and reduce the potential risk.
If not nuclear bombs, then TNT, or jackhammers. Whatever. Just rip it apart and throw it into the ocean piece by piece, safely.
If there's any truly useful area for robots, this is it. Send a whole fleet of robots up there armed with pickaxes, to reduce the mountain to dust and rubble, slowly, over the course of a couple decades or longer.
If one foundation can build the Craze Horse Memorial over a time frame of 65 years (and counting!), surely this is possible.
If you are an editor (or publisher) you have to pay other people (or news agencies etc.) for the content they deliver.
I disagree that payment for content is a defining characteristic of editing.
Pick up a copy of the latest Writer's Market. There are *tons* of *print* publications that publish and edit (and sell) content submitted by writers that don't get paid -- voluntarily.
I don't want to be defending the guy -- he may be a sleazebag for all I know. If it's plaigarism or even unauthorized (but credited) reproduction, then yeah, it's a legal issue. But if he's "adding value" and the parent post suggests he is, then he's adding value. I didn't RTFA, so I don't know.
It seems some people think he's cheating. Maybe he is. I don't know. But the parent post describes 'editing', and evidently thinks he's a bad editor and is overpaid. That may be the case.
It's called "editing." It's a profession. I'm completely ignorant of Roland other than what you say here, but I find nothing objectionable about the practice (so long as he cites the source material and does not plaigerize).
But I've heard people talk about the rise of "freelance editors" (cherry-pick the best stories from multiple sources, add context, etc.) for a while. Maybe he's the first?
Slashdot Mirror
BSG explores ideas of how we define God, and who is eligible for religeon, and stuff that Star Trek wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.
That's just it. Star Trek used to do that! At least in pre-Berman TNG.
if you don't like it DON'T WATCH IT YOU 'TARD
...I think I'm going to puke.
Okay. Enterprise sucks. I don't watch it.
don't talk about "ruining the reputation" and "devaluing previous Star Trek". that's crap. Star Trek is far too big for that.
I wish I could agree, but after nearly fifteen years of Berman crapping all over Roddenberry's work, he's made it start to stink.
if the original motion picture didn't ruin the show, then Enterprise sure as hell won't.
What are you talking about? The first two ST movies were great! One one more cerebral -- real "big idea" Star Trek stuff. Two was action-adventure. The best of what ST has to offer.
I haven't really liked any of the others that much. (If any movie could kill a franchise, it's the fifth one -- truly an embarassment.) Undiscovered Country was okay. But I can't forgive Berman for what he did to the TNG universe in Generations -- the emotion chip *and* the Borg queen?
The Enterprise series is just rigor mortis setting in.
If want to see the re-animated corpse of Star Trek -- look at what I just found on IMDB - "Star Trek XI" -- "In this prequel to James T. Kirk's era, but set after the era of 'Enterprise', the Romulans are close to beginning a war with Earth."
Is this a rhetorical question?
...By this point it rates about as funny as a slashdot meme.
I, for one, welcome our new slashdot meme overlords.
In Soviet Russia, the meme's slashdot you!
Imagine a beowulf cluster of slashdot memes.
If you have an opportunity to, chuck it and use Subversion instead..
Seconded. From a development standpoint, it takes a couple days to get used to the new way of doing things (revision # tracking is project-based, not file-based; branches and tags are really the same thing), but the features it offers (directory tracking, file moving, etc) are worth the switch!
That the Serenity trailer will be airing in this movie also.
Do you know if this is online anywhere?
Do we REALLY want cinematic versions of every frickin' comic
I won't be satisfied until I see 'Secret Wars' and 'Crisis Of Infinite Earth' on the big screen.
Even better - Al Franken as Stuart Smalley as Galactus.
Ethics for the 'Hammer' Age
Ethics for the 'Television' Age
Ethics for the 'Microwave' Age
Ethics for the 'Anthropomorphized Labor-Reducing Tool' Age.
I, for one, welcome our new soccer-playing robot overlords.
How does this compare against Bluefish? Which *does* run on a Mac, and now that I check, I see that they finally went gold.
If we can a plant 225 light years away, does that mean we have definitively ruled out the existence of planets in the solar systems close to us? If so, are planets rare? /me notes to look this stuff up later this evening.
No.
Unless you live in India, then the answer is Yes.
I should point out the following as an addendum:
I've been reading to my kid daily since she was about 18 months old.
We don't watch commercial TV, but I do subscribe to netflix.
Mozilla's adblock extension keeps her away from ads when she visits web sites.
My oldest girl is now 4 1/2 years old. She has been using a computer for about a year now.
s /map/inde x.html
She goes to playhousedisney.com, nickjr.com, pbskids.org and a few others. These web sites are very educational as well as entertaining. She knows how to use bookmarks. She's sent me some email postcards from the these sites. (we have a list of family emails taped onto the monitor.)
She groks the whole WIMP interface. She plays Pototo Guy and Tux Paint.
We have a number of age-appropriate educational software titles that we have to boot into Windows for her to use.
Now that our family computer primarily runs Linux, I see that children's educational software is a giant hole in the Linux offerings. Even the basic stuff you buy in the discount bins at Office Depot is many times better than any of the open source "educational" software packages. I wouldn't mind so much if I could get *any* of the commercial Win packages to run under WINE, but none have worked so far. (I've only tried a few). The lack of a shockwave/director player/plugin for Linux really hurts as well.
She plays this game a lot lately:
http://www.freeworldgroup.com/onlinegame
And now she recognizes most of the states.
On the hardware side, I've taken the computer apart a couple of times (when upgrading hardware) and she was right there with me, looking inside at the guts of the system. I pointed out the ram, processor, hard drive, etc. She enjoyed that.
And it's not as if she spends an inordinate of time on the computer. She still plays with dolls. She still plays in the dirt in the back yard. Our refrigerator is still covered in crayon drawings.
<proud daddy>
I firmly believe this exposure, and a child's natural curiosity, has gone a long way toward helping her read at a 2nd grade level at 4 1/2 years old. She got several Captain Underpants and Magic Treehouse books for Christmas, and she's already read those to herself!
</proud daddy>
Kids take to computers like a fish takes to water. My second child is just now 7 months. One of her toys is an old keyboard with the cord removed. I don't see a "minimum' age at all.
According to the data on my SkillMarket site, php (on the languages page) is holding steady. The data tracked is a bit different, however (Job listings vs search engines hits).
John Stewart -- The Most Powerful Comedian In News.
While in much of the world the above can't be taken for granted, most of us who read Slashdot already have this. We're probably not going to get shot in the street;
True, but wedgies, swirlies, and getting stuffed into lockers are dangers we face everyday.
The western flank of Cumbre Vieja volcano on the island of La Palma in the Canaries is going to slide into the Atlantic one of these days: a diagonal fracture has already separated it from the main body of the volcano, and only friction still keeps it attached.
If it's just sitting there, waiting to fall into the ocean (with catastrophic results), why don't we start disassembling it now? There's got to be a safe way to slowly rip it apart and reduce the potential risk.
If not nuclear bombs, then TNT, or jackhammers. Whatever. Just rip it apart and throw it into the ocean piece by piece, safely.
If there's any truly useful area for robots, this is it. Send a whole fleet of robots up there armed with pickaxes, to reduce the mountain to dust and rubble, slowly, over the course of a couple decades or longer.
If one foundation can build the Craze Horse Memorial over a time frame of 65 years (and counting!), surely this is possible.
That monsters in the first pic has a HUGE FRICKIN NIPPLE!
see for youself. -- it's casting its own shadow.
It's time to Revisualize the universe.
If you are an editor (or publisher) you have to pay other people (or news agencies etc.) for the content they deliver.
I disagree that payment for content is a defining characteristic of editing.
Pick up a copy of the latest Writer's Market. There are *tons* of *print* publications that publish and edit (and sell) content submitted by writers that don't get paid -- voluntarily.
I don't want to be defending the guy -- he may be a sleazebag for all I know. If it's plaigarism or even unauthorized (but credited) reproduction, then yeah, it's a legal issue. But if he's "adding value" and the parent post suggests he is, then he's adding value. I didn't RTFA, so I don't know.
It seems some people think he's cheating. Maybe he is. I don't know. But the parent post describes 'editing', and evidently thinks he's a bad editor and is overpaid. That may be the case.
The slashdot connection is interesting, however.
It's called "editing." It's a profession. I'm completely ignorant of Roland other than what you say here, but I find nothing objectionable about the practice (so long as he cites the source material and does not plaigerize).
But I've heard people talk about the rise of "freelance editors" (cherry-pick the best stories from multiple sources, add context, etc.) for a while. Maybe he's the first?
... why our intelligence community can't catch Osama bin Laden -- they are being used as flunkies for the MPAA/RIAA.
I feel so much safer knowing those dangerous file-sharers are off the Net and no longer threatening the American way of life.
I can now look forward to the next riveting season of MTV Cribs and see millions of dollars being wasted by morons with good lawyers.
Since the html-ized article is spread across 9 whole page ad-filled pages, maybe you should read the printer friendly page instead.