How come we can see the laser beams? And why are they so freaking slow? The movie is so dense that light has a hard way throught it.
How come we can hear in the vaccum of space? The space in movies isn't fully empty to let director shout "Action!". It's kinda half empty. Or half full.
How come we only have inertia when dramatic events occur? Inertia is the force of nature that keeps us watching this movie.
How come nearly every alien species lives in an earth-like atmosphere? Because the cost of live is cheaper and better the aliens comes to take over the jobs of honest working humans that are becoming unemployed.
How come slowing down is infinitely easier than speeding up? This is easily demonstrated by an easy home experiment. Just start running... into a wall.
Java is free since you don't need to pay for it. It's not open source in the sense that you can download SUN's sources but you can't distribute modified versions except for educational purposes AFAIK.
What about this plot: in the first episode the universe ends and then... er... wait a second... mmmh, it seems I can only think about variations of Voyager.
It needs to get back to its roots. Let the characters have flaws, let them make mistakes. Put irony and humor into it in difficult situations. Make the leaders make difficult choices. Make it interesting again with good stories, not practically perfect people and a lot of references to Shakespeare.
I agree fully with this. Enterprise is so like: "we are the good spaces scouts that go merrily, and the bad bad alien that hates us because we are so cute, bad alien bad! but if we just explain to them they will like our so cool uniforms!". Just kill them and let Straczynski and Bryce Zabel try something new. That's what SCI-FI is about anyway. BTW, anybody noted that the article says that Manny Coto -creator of Odyssey 5- will take over for the next season? At least I expect more "real" language from what characters in O5 use to say:-)
Then A Scanner Darkly you may like, but I still recomend to try some short stories first. "A Scanner..." isn't trully SCIFI but IMHO is one of the best PKD novels. Of the short stories about drugs I remember Faith of our fathers, that one is scary!
its not just about the writer comming up with some weird technology, but realy the writer making commentary about humanity (or life in general)
You should really read some more. PKD it's like that for me. Try a collection of short stories, many of them are incredible original, brilliant and ironic. Then if you like some more novels. Not all are good, but each is unique. The key in "Do Androids..." is how humans and androids are different only in empathy, and that makes all the difference. PKD wasn't into technology so he didn't care about the hard science in SCI-FI.
Why not? If that 50Mb of crap allows me to program easier I'm for it. In fact we distribute our Java app with in a single Linux installer CD. OS+Java Runtime+app and there's still a lot of free space on the CD. I don't usually distribute perl scripts to windows users because they usually don't have perl, so I see your point, but for today standars 50Mb isn't a lot. BTW, Java install in its own directory so you can have many versions in the same machine, I don't know what.Net does to Windows system these days but I assume that is pretty much uninstallable.
May be in mathematics but in software development releases you can approach infinitely to 1.0 without ever come close. Sometimes it even goes farther away while approaching!
I didn't saw any speed difference between mozilla and firefox on my pc. Firefox wasn't all that stable and mozilla is as its best. I may try again when there's a Multizilla plugin for firefox. Frankly mozilla is as good, fast, stable and featured now as I wanted it to be years ago when using Netscape 4.x. I don't see the driver to change right now.
And a standalone viewer would be cool. MS used to have standalones viewers for office, don't know now. Perhaps a simple app that xsl openoffice to rtf to open with wordpad would not be difficult.
You are wrong. This is just a library, it's not part of standard libs of the language. So this isn't fragmenting anything. And Sun can't prevent (why would want?) anyone to make their own libraries, as long as they don't change the standard base library, like SWT which works on Java, you choose to use or not. That may do a little fragmentation, but it does run over Java anyway. It's not like J++ which changed the language with propietary reserved words.
I agree somewhat with the last part: what Sun should do is not open or close, but make a better implementation, which Apple's one seems to show is possible.
People, I'm disgusted with the little knowledge of history slashdotters show. Every one here should know that the first computer was created by Spock with silver forks when he and Captain Kirk traveled to the past and the tricorder failed. Is this news for nerds or what?
is like Prejudice, great on your mouth, but you didn't tried nor analized its (possible) merits, just judged from the language it's written. How do you know it doesn't work? Barf.
PD: I used Azureus BitTorrent client and is cool for me. Top 1 download in Sourceforge.net right now. It's written in Java also.
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Oh no! And I was sure it couldn't be worst...
How come we can see the laser beams? And why are they so freaking slow?
The movie is so dense that light has a hard way throught it.
How come we can hear in the vaccum of space?
The space in movies isn't fully empty to let director shout "Action!". It's kinda half empty. Or half full.
How come we only have inertia when dramatic events occur?
Inertia is the force of nature that keeps us watching this movie.
How come nearly every alien species lives in an earth-like atmosphere?
Because the cost of live is cheaper and better the aliens comes to take over the jobs of honest working humans that are becoming unemployed.
How come slowing down is infinitely easier than speeding up?
This is easily demonstrated by an easy home experiment. Just start running... into a wall.
Glad to help.
Firefly would have been such a better name for that browser...
Java is free since you don't need to pay for it. It's not open source in the sense that you can download SUN's sources but you can't distribute modified versions except for educational purposes AFAIK.
No, no and yes but in text mode.
Deep Babylon 9?
What about this plot: in the first episode the universe ends and then... er... wait a second... mmmh, it seems I can only think about variations of Voyager.
It needs to get back to its roots. Let the characters have flaws, let them make mistakes. Put irony and humor into it in difficult situations. Make the leaders make difficult choices. Make it interesting again with good stories, not practically perfect people and a lot of references to Shakespeare.
:-)
I agree fully with this. Enterprise is so like: "we are the good spaces scouts that go merrily, and the bad bad alien that hates us because we are so cute, bad alien bad! but if we just explain to them they will like our so cool uniforms!".
Just kill them and let Straczynski and Bryce Zabel try something new. That's what SCI-FI is about anyway.
BTW, anybody noted that the article says that Manny Coto -creator of Odyssey 5- will take over for the next season? At least I expect more "real" language from what characters in O5 use to say
Paranoid eh? Is that what they want you to say?
Then A Scanner Darkly you may like, but I still recomend to try some short stories first. "A Scanner..." isn't trully SCIFI but IMHO is one of the best PKD novels.
Of the short stories about drugs I remember Faith of our fathers, that one is scary!
I pressed reply to answer that they didn't even tried, when I did read ALL the message :-)
Just mod parent up.
its not just about the writer comming up with some weird technology, but realy the writer making commentary about humanity (or life in general)
You should really read some more. PKD it's like that for me. Try a collection of short stories, many of them are incredible original, brilliant and ironic. Then if you like some more novels. Not all are good, but each is unique.
The key in "Do Androids..." is how humans and androids are different only in empathy, and that makes all the difference. PKD wasn't into technology so he didn't care about the hard science in SCI-FI.
Why not? If that 50Mb of crap allows me to program easier I'm for it. In fact we distribute our Java app with in a single Linux installer CD. OS+Java Runtime+app and there's still a lot of free space on the CD. .Net does to Windows system these days but I assume that is pretty much uninstallable.
I don't usually distribute perl scripts to windows users because they usually don't have perl, so I see your point, but for today standars 50Mb isn't a lot.
BTW, Java install in its own directory so you can have many versions in the same machine, I don't know what
Yeah, that's why I don't use any OS for anything serious: it requires a huge kernel on each machine...
1, 10000. That would make... er... two numbers. Wasn't that pretty fast?
Why not? Give a reason.
BTW templates error messages stink, at least in GCC and Visual C++.
May be in mathematics but in software development releases you can approach infinitely to 1.0 without ever come close. Sometimes it even goes farther away while approaching!
I didn't saw any speed difference between mozilla and firefox on my pc. Firefox wasn't all that stable and mozilla is as its best. I may try again when there's a Multizilla plugin for firefox.
Frankly mozilla is as good, fast, stable and featured now as I wanted it to be years ago when using Netscape 4.x. I don't see the driver to change right now.
If that's the case fixing it would have the added advantage of reducing Mozilla overall use of resources, a Good Thing anyway.
And a standalone viewer would be cool. MS used to have standalones viewers for office, don't know now. Perhaps a simple app that xsl openoffice to rtf to open with wordpad would not be difficult.
No way! I vote for FreeNetOpenApacheBSD_without_licence_issues_but_pa tents_maybe.
You are wrong. This is just a library, it's not part of standard libs of the language. So this isn't fragmenting anything. And Sun can't prevent (why would want?) anyone to make their own libraries, as long as they don't change the standard base library, like SWT which works on Java, you choose to use or not. That may do a little fragmentation, but it does run over Java anyway. It's not like J++ which changed the language with propietary reserved words.
I agree somewhat with the last part: what Sun should do is not open or close, but make a better implementation, which Apple's one seems to show is possible.
People, I'm disgusted with the little knowledge of history slashdotters show. Every one here should know that the first computer was created by Spock with silver forks when he and Captain Kirk traveled to the past and the tricorder failed. Is this news for nerds or what?
That would be /etc/etera.
Don't worry, they will be called T-1000.
is like Prejudice, great on your mouth, but you didn't tried nor analized its (possible) merits, just judged from the language it's written. How do you know it doesn't work?
Barf.
PD: I used Azureus BitTorrent client and is cool for me. Top 1 download in Sourceforge.net right now. It's written in Java also.