I don't have to consider boycotting XBoxes. I haven't owned a game console since the Super Nintendo.
Now if I could completely avoid Windows... That would be something.:)
Just about every movie with an "action" sequence has ripped off, or other made fun of the Matrix since it came out. I'm wondering if the brothers in charge of the Matrix franchise are going to address this in any way in the one of the next two movies.
And by addressing, I mean, point out and poke fun at the spoofing in other movies, and some slight verbal comment that be the effect of: 'Not everybody can slow down time correctly.' (Better written of course, and slipped into the script just so...)
But for the first time, I think Katz might be right, (one of the signs of the coming apocalypse.)
Bullet Time, and other such Matrix effects are getting old, quick.
Okay, straying offtopic, I know, but after this it stops. Please don't mod down..:)
Can you send the name of that particular poem/song to me? I've only heard of the song version before.
To be back on topic to save myself, did anybody notice the old clipper ship in the background of what I presume was a cramped captian's quarters? Oh course you did? Oh, okay...:)
In order to save time, here is the end line to many of the posts here.
Back to my...
...Voyager reruns for REAL soft porn
...Deep Space Nine reruns for REAL Klingons
...The Next Generation reruns for REAL acting
...The Original Series reruns for the REAL Humans and Vulcans bickering
...Babylon 5 reruns for REAL scripting
...Buffy the Vampire Slayer for REAL soft porn... er, Gen X,Y programming?
The theme song doesn't work, I agree. There is no reason we can't have some nice orchestration here. The show may be geared towards 'Gen-Xers' as someone said in the previous thread, but geez. The soft porn angle is old too. That was the -only- thing that saved Voyager. Mind you, it worked, but if they are going to rely on showing breasts everytime the ratings get low, this show is eventually going to tank.
Other than that, the Klingons will just allow some humans to walk into their chamber. In the early days, I thought they liked us no better than the Vulcans. And we saw how snobby they were. Although, when we finally do meet new species there will be a lot of interspecies bickering going on until humanity gets used to the idea that maybe we're not the big cheese anymore.
On a local note, my broadcaster needs to get their antenna back into shape so they don't screw up the signal every other minute again.
One day a American, Jacob, and his friend, Bubba, decided to take a tour of Europe. They arrived in England and started site seeing around town. Everywhere that they went, people would shout out "Hello Bubba!" Bubba would just nod, or say hello back. They continued on to France, and the situation was the same. Everyone would call out to Bubba. Well Jacob was very curious about this, and that night he talked to Bubba.
"Bubba, everyone here and in England seem to know you so well, what gives?"
"Oh, I'm just popular, that's all."
It seemed like a odd explanation, but Jacob let it drop. The next day, they visited Germany. Again, everybody was saying hello to Bubba, and Jacob just couldn't understand, so he mentioned to Bubba again.
"Bubba, come on man, what gives? People in three different nations are calling out to you."
"They just know me, that's all. I'm very well networked."
Once again, Jacob let it drop at that.
On the next day, they went through Italy. And wouldn't you know it, everyone called out to Bubba by name. Jacob couldn't stand it any longer.
"Bubba, what is going on?"
"Nothing, they just know me, that's all. Everybody does."
"Everybody? No way."
"Yes Jacob, everybody. Look, tomorrow, we're going to visit the Vatican, right? I'll get myself a private audience with the Pope to prove it."
They made a small wager, and set out to the Vatican the next day. Then, Bubba disappeared for awhile. Later on, the Pope gave an appearance to the crowd that day, and at his right side, was none other than Bubba. Jacob was completely mystified. He picked up a conversation with the man next to him.
"I can't believe it! Everywhere I go he knows everybody! And now he is standing up there!" Jacob cried up to the man. To which, the man replied, "You mean the man standing next to Bubba?"
I'm confused here, first you say: let the franchise die an honorable death as soon as possible.
Then, as we all know, you state that: Voyager started out "okay", but got really weak late in the second season.
There is no honorable death for the franchise right now. Voyager killed that possibility. The best thing they could have done was keep the series to one show at a time, and make damn sure that the writers on that one series were 1st class. If you kill the franchise off now, it's dead completely. You almost have to give it Star Trek 10 and one more series to half way rescue it from the complete mishandling Voyager gave it.
Even you discount some bad plots here and there, always using the
"particle-of-the-week", or Seven's Borg NanoSaviors cuts the rest of anything out of it. Can't we have complicated plots that involve real thinking and skill instead of technobabble to get out of? Almost every episode of Babylon 5 used critical thinking skills in order to get out of sticky situations. And I loved that series for it.
I thought they would call it the Satellite of Love? Besides, what are the tourists going to do on their 20 day stay asides from watch movies, and play with Manos, the hands of fate?
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Right now in the printer field, Compaq printers are just Lexmarks with the Compaq name slapped on top. Lexmark is owned by IBM. How quickly will Compaq printers continue be discontinued? How will IBM/Lexmark respond to that?
Not that I really care, I think Lexmarks are crap compared to my HP anyways, but it is a potential point for minor fallout between IBM and HP.
When will their sensors be intelligent enough to see and determine size and shape of lego pieces? That way, you can build a complex Lego robot to go out, and assemble more of itself.
Program what you want, go away, come back and 20 robots are now working on it for you...
As one who until very recently worked for IBM supporting the OS/2 base code (kernel, shell, file-system, etc), I can attest that OS/2 is very much alive and kicking, and plans are in place to keep it so until at least 2006 (when the last of the support contracts expire).
First of all, if you worked on around the days of 2.1, and 3.0 Warp. Thank You. I loved that product, and ran it as my daily OS for some time, and only then and again dual booted to PC DOS 7. (Another nice and quality product.)
IBM might have 'dropped the ball', as someone I saw here put it, but there were a number of mitigating factors that led to this, not the least of which were a total lack of OEM supportskip a fewManagement basically came to the (correct) assumption that we were never going to out-market or beat MS in the consumer space, and there wasn't much point in fighting a losing battle.
I think they had a fighting chance at it. Now, I cannot verify this at all, but I heard a nasty rumor that one of the Ziff Davis Mags had a top 10 software in one of its magazines back then. OS/2 Warp 3 went to #2 or #3, and then the #(*%@ cancelled the column. It was picked back up several months later when OS/2 was back down to #9 or so, and quickly fell off the chart. When you only had 3.1 Windows Apps to content with, and OS/2 was running them infinately more stable than 3.1 could, it sold.
I won't even get into the ammount of co-developed code that I know for a _FACT_ M$ took from the OS/2 co-development and put into NT (secretly, mind you) before the big bomb dropped and they announced the 'divorce' form IBM to develop NT on their own. Bahh.
Unfortunately, the hasn't been the last time any company, even as big as IBM has gotten the short end of the stick. Hopefully, it will be one the ending factors into MS.
Anyway, this is truning into a rant.
I haven't had this much fun on a OS/2 talk in years.
All I wanted to say was that OS/2 is not now marketed as a consumer OS, and it will not be so ever again (obviously). We took too many lumps from that fight, and there's still a lot of money to be made from clients who still need to run a lot of those legacy apps in a stable and secure environment, but (wisely) don't want to have to sell their soul to Redmond to do it.
Sadly though, I don't see OS/2 being marketed as anything these days, and asides from the corporate accounts it was sold to years ago, I don't see it being maintained. At least not for anything other than legacy, we (IBM) made a deal with company X, and we (IBM) are going to stick by it.
Once again, I loved OS/2 but I think it is dead. And I would love to see another OS come back around whether it be Linux or something else to run Windows apps to get the end user in the door. Also, I read once that 'the command line should always be useful, but never nessiacary.' (sic) (somewhere in a Mac OS X comment I believe.)
OS/2 gets minor lip service from IBM, thats it.
A few years ago, around the release of OS/2 Warp 4, a few of us tried starting up a OS/2 User Group here in town. After the first couple months, even the IBM guy didn't show up. But besides that, there hasn't been a REAL new version of OS/2 since then (1996), and they've shown no gusto to develop a new one. If you want a alternative OS for end users from IBM, you've got nothing.
Those service pack updates they released last year do not amount to support.
Compounding our problem, President Bush has unequivocally stated that no federal funding will be available for human stem cell research on future embryos. Astonishingly, he insists that he will not change his mind.
Doesn't federal funding usually come with all sorts of nice can and can not dos? If you eliminate federal funding, and let people donate $160 million dollar funding, you eliminate the whims of Congress which change almost daily with each poll. Or only once each century, when they finally get back around to the issue.
The last viable alternative I saw was IBM's OS/2. Where you could run Windows 3.1 programs, and there was a nice base of native OS/2 apps. Then, IBM dropped the ball, did not include support to run Windows 95 apps in OS/2 Warp 4, and then continued to shoot themselves in the foot until they just gave up. But for a couple years there before Windows 95 apps took off, and people stopped making OS/2 apps, it was my OS of choice.
But again, the main thing here is, if you want the public mass to use Linux or whatever over Windows, you will have to be able to use 99.9% of Windows apps in that operating system.
Tooth loss is one thing I never really thought about for a manned mission to Mars, but it is just one thing. What are the other problems we have to solve to send humans to another planet? Besides the obvious DVD region jokes, and money from Washington DC?
You have to send enough people so that they all don't go crazy. We will have to a system like HAL in the long run?
Creating Artificial Gravity, most likely only way to go...
Are there any ideas to shorten trip time?
Are we going to send a unmanned mission to set up a nice cushy environment for the astronauts to stay at once we're there? A small bio-dome? How will that work?
What exactly are we going for anyways? Search for water, search for life like bacteria? Origins of the universe or solar system?
How long will it take for permanent Moon/Mars colonies, 100+ years? Why will we need those?
Is there any better comprehensive list out there listing all the dangers with possible solutions on space travel out there?
Because 1.0 is a *happy*, *feel-good* version number. Because you not obsessed with 1.0 like the rest of us, you must neither be *happy*, or *feel-good* about yourself. This is most probably the cause of a deeper or underlying problem. Since you refuse to be *happy* like the rest of us complaining and generally b*tching, you obviously must need therapy.
You see, version numbers are of ultra-importance. Microsoft sold umpteen billions of Windows 95 because of a 91.9 difference in their last version, 3.1. Then, when 98 released, not everyone upgraded, because a version difference of 3 is pathetic compared to 91.9. So be *happy* and smile when Mozilla reaches 1.0 We guarantee you will *feel-good* about yourself when you do...
When will we ever have something to record live feed TV though, and keep it around. Tivos machines are nice, and all, but I need to record Jay and Silent Bob when it first premires on the boob tube. That way I can dig out Katz' review out of the dust and laugh myself stupid again... (You are going to keep doing reviews, right Katz?);)
Yes, but the more programmers you hire to push it out, you start losing quality. Projects can get so big that it bogs down. You can also have it too small that nothing ever gets done, but I don't think that's the case here.
Geez Katz, according to all of your dismal movie reviews, Hollywood will have fell into the ocean under it's own deprived weight in 30 years. And since I doubt that computer generated movies will have much life rebreathed into them in 30 years because the tech will be so much better, I guess we're gonna be SOL...
How then the apes on earth rebuild the memorial for Thade? The apes took over, have kept our current cars working perfectly for 100 years, (I can't keep mine working for 10) and know about events on far away planets... Those weren't futuristic looking technology packing apes. Just looks like todays stuff.
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I don't have to consider boycotting XBoxes. I haven't owned a game console since the Super Nintendo. :)
Now if I could completely avoid Windows... That would be something.
You'd better be careful on those index page posts, before you know it Microsoft will say that they have been endorsed by Slashdot!
> I want an X-Box so bad, or as I would call it, a DOA3-Box.
Didn't the Navy use NT?
You can sign up and fix their computers every other week...
Just about every movie with an "action" sequence has ripped off, or other made fun of the Matrix since it came out. I'm wondering if the brothers in charge of the Matrix franchise are going to address this in any way in the one of the next two movies.
And by addressing, I mean, point out and poke fun at the spoofing in other movies, and some slight verbal comment that be the effect of: 'Not everybody can slow down time correctly.' (Better written of course, and slipped into the script just so...)
But for the first time, I think Katz might be right, (one of the signs of the coming apocalypse.)
Bullet Time, and other such Matrix effects are getting old, quick.
Okay, straying offtopic, I know, but after this it stops. Please don't mod down.. :)
:)
Can you send the name of that particular poem/song to me? I've only heard of the song version before.
To be back on topic to save myself, did anybody notice the old clipper ship in the background of what I presume was a cramped captian's quarters? Oh course you did? Oh, okay...
It got a little better thru the show, but the feed here stopped for a sec, blanked for a second and then continued every other minute.
In order to save time, here is the end line to many of the posts here.
Back to my...
...Voyager reruns for REAL soft porn
...Deep Space Nine reruns for REAL Klingons
...The Next Generation reruns for REAL acting
...The Original Series reruns for the REAL Humans and Vulcans bickering
...Babylon 5 reruns for REAL scripting
...Buffy the Vampire Slayer for REAL soft porn... er, Gen X,Y programming?
The theme song doesn't work, I agree. There is no reason we can't have some nice orchestration here. The show may be geared towards 'Gen-Xers' as someone said in the previous thread, but geez. The soft porn angle is old too. That was the -only- thing that saved Voyager. Mind you, it worked, but if they are going to rely on showing breasts everytime the ratings get low, this show is eventually going to tank.
Other than that, the Klingons will just allow some humans to walk into their chamber. In the early days, I thought they liked us no better than the Vulcans. And we saw how snobby they were. Although, when we finally do meet new species there will be a lot of interspecies bickering going on until humanity gets used to the idea that maybe we're not the big cheese anymore.
On a local note, my broadcaster needs to get their antenna back into shape so they don't screw up the signal every other minute again.
"Bubba, everyone here and in England seem to know you so well, what gives?"
"Oh, I'm just popular, that's all."
It seemed like a odd explanation, but Jacob let it drop. The next day, they visited Germany. Again, everybody was saying hello to Bubba, and Jacob just couldn't understand, so he mentioned to Bubba again.
"Bubba, come on man, what gives? People in three different nations are calling out to you."
"They just know me, that's all. I'm very well networked."
Once again, Jacob let it drop at that.
On the next day, they went through Italy. And wouldn't you know it, everyone called out to Bubba by name. Jacob couldn't stand it any longer.
"Bubba, what is going on?"
"Nothing, they just know me, that's all. Everybody does."
"Everybody? No way."
"Yes Jacob, everybody. Look, tomorrow, we're going to visit the Vatican, right? I'll get myself a private audience with the Pope to prove it."
They made a small wager, and set out to the Vatican the next day. Then, Bubba disappeared for awhile. Later on, the Pope gave an appearance to the crowd that day, and at his right side, was none other than Bubba. Jacob was completely mystified. He picked up a conversation with the man next to him. "I can't believe it! Everywhere I go he knows everybody! And now he is standing up there!" Jacob cried up to the man. To which, the man replied, "You mean the man standing next to Bubba?"
Or this tasty cappuccino, loaded with sugar!
let the franchise die an honorable death as soon as possible.
Then, as we all know, you state that:
Voyager started out "okay", but got really weak late in the second season.
There is no honorable death for the franchise right now. Voyager killed that possibility. The best thing they could have done was keep the series to one show at a time, and make damn sure that the writers on that one series were 1st class. If you kill the franchise off now, it's dead completely. You almost have to give it Star Trek 10 and one more series to half way rescue it from the complete mishandling Voyager gave it.
Even you discount some bad plots here and there, always using the "particle-of-the-week", or Seven's Borg NanoSaviors cuts the rest of anything out of it. Can't we have complicated plots that involve real thinking and skill instead of technobabble to get out of? Almost every episode of Babylon 5 used critical thinking skills in order to get out of sticky situations. And I loved that series for it.
B. Scientists do have very real work to do up there, but how much real work will space tourists have to do for 20 days?
I thought they would call it the Satellite of Love? Besides, what are the tourists going to do on their 20 day stay asides from watch movies, and play with Manos, the hands of fate?
Not that I really care, I think Lexmarks are crap compared to my HP anyways, but it is a potential point for minor fallout between IBM and HP.
Program what you want, go away, come back and 20 robots are now working on it for you...
First of all, if you worked on around the days of 2.1, and 3.0 Warp. Thank You. I loved that product, and ran it as my daily OS for some time, and only then and again dual booted to PC DOS 7. (Another nice and quality product.)
IBM might have 'dropped the ball', as someone I saw here put it, but there were a number of mitigating factors that led to this, not the least of which were a total lack of OEM support skip a few Management basically came to the (correct) assumption that we were never going to out-market or beat MS in the consumer space, and there wasn't much point in fighting a losing battle.
I think they had a fighting chance at it. Now, I cannot verify this at all, but I heard a nasty rumor that one of the Ziff Davis Mags had a top 10 software in one of its magazines back then. OS/2 Warp 3 went to #2 or #3, and then the #(*%@ cancelled the column. It was picked back up several months later when OS/2 was back down to #9 or so, and quickly fell off the chart. When you only had 3.1 Windows Apps to content with, and OS/2 was running them infinately more stable than 3.1 could, it sold.
I won't even get into the ammount of co-developed code that I know for a _FACT_ M$ took from the OS/2 co-development and put into NT (secretly, mind you) before the big bomb dropped and they announced the 'divorce' form IBM to develop NT on their own. Bahh.
Unfortunately, the hasn't been the last time any company, even as big as IBM has gotten the short end of the stick. Hopefully, it will be one the ending factors into MS.
Anyway, this is truning into a rant.
I haven't had this much fun on a OS/2 talk in years.
All I wanted to say was that OS/2 is not now marketed as a consumer OS, and it will not be so ever again (obviously). We took too many lumps from that fight, and there's still a lot of money to be made from clients who still need to run a lot of those legacy apps in a stable and secure environment, but (wisely) don't want to have to sell their soul to Redmond to do it.
Sadly though, I don't see OS/2 being marketed as anything these days, and asides from the corporate accounts it was sold to years ago, I don't see it being maintained. At least not for anything other than legacy, we (IBM) made a deal with company X, and we (IBM) are going to stick by it.
Once again, I loved OS/2 but I think it is dead. And I would love to see another OS come back around whether it be Linux or something else to run Windows apps to get the end user in the door. Also, I read once that 'the command line should always be useful, but never nessiacary.' (sic) (somewhere in a Mac OS X comment I believe.)
OS/2 gets minor lip service from IBM, thats it. A few years ago, around the release of OS/2 Warp 4, a few of us tried starting up a OS/2 User Group here in town. After the first couple months, even the IBM guy didn't show up. But besides that, there hasn't been a REAL new version of OS/2 since then (1996), and they've shown no gusto to develop a new one. If you want a alternative OS for end users from IBM, you've got nothing.
Those service pack updates they released last year do not amount to support.
Doesn't federal funding usually come with all sorts of nice can and can not dos? If you eliminate federal funding, and let people donate $160 million dollar funding, you eliminate the whims of Congress which change almost daily with each poll. Or only once each century, when they finally get back around to the issue.
But again, the main thing here is, if you want the public mass to use Linux or whatever over Windows, you will have to be able to use 99.9% of Windows apps in that operating system.
- You have to send enough people so that they all don't go crazy. We will have to a system like HAL in the long run?
- Creating Artificial Gravity, most likely only way to go...
- Are there any ideas to shorten trip time?
- Are we going to send a unmanned mission to set up a nice cushy environment for the astronauts to stay at once we're there? A small bio-dome? How will that work?
- What exactly are we going for anyways? Search for water, search for life like bacteria? Origins of the universe or solar system?
- How long will it take for permanent Moon/Mars colonies, 100+ years? Why will we need those?
Is there any better comprehensive list out there listing all the dangers with possible solutions on space travel out there?You see, version numbers are of ultra-importance. Microsoft sold umpteen billions of Windows 95 because of a 91.9 difference in their last version, 3.1. Then, when 98 released, not everyone upgraded, because a version difference of 3 is pathetic compared to 91.9. So be *happy* and smile when Mozilla reaches 1.0 We guarantee you will *feel-good* about yourself when you do...
Was that over the top?
When will we ever have something to record live feed TV though, and keep it around. Tivos machines are nice, and all, but I need to record Jay and Silent Bob when it first premires on the boob tube. That way I can dig out Katz' review out of the dust and laugh myself stupid again... (You are going to keep doing reviews, right Katz?) ;)