I might have partially agreed with you on some points.
For continuity B5 still wins. For logic B5 still wins.
Some of the things that happened in BSG did so because the writer needed them to happen, listening to the podcasts it was clear that they knew they could not back it up or seemed wrong - they had a story and damn if anything got in the way.
Yet the show was still enjoyable, up until the recent episodes which seem to be just a little to contrived.
BSG is experiencing the rabid fanboi surge all good shows have. It will be telling to see when some turn on their favorite show.
Making a movie would be. Fortunately he has too much integrity to recast G'khar and the Doctor (both who passed away). Someone after money would not have blinked.
These short films come across as a writer's dream come true. How many writers could get a studio to basically pay for these types of films? If JMS is successful it might be a whole new market.
Now, the idea of a B5 MMORPG - uh, no thank you. I still want an official space combat simulator out of these people... I got the free mousepad and such from the failed attempt.
Give me a turn based strategy game (MOO2 style) and a Flight Simulator and I will set for life, err, until the next big thing
You have to take risks, work your butt off, and be a little lucky.
Did you see the recent article on the 10 dumbest internet sales ideas that made money?
Does that give you a hint?
Look, there are many successful people who had a great many stupid ideas. The nice thing is that the stupid ideas they had are usually forgotten, unless they already are rich and then they get ridiculed for awhile until their next big success.
People constant rant that the middle class has no chance. Well that is bunk. Hell you picked lawyers and such (with unrealistic views of what the majority get into) and many of them came from middle class families. Lots of doctors are the same way.
Do you have what it takes to dedicate 8+ years to learn a trade, and then another 8-16 to be very successful at it?
Most people don't. That is what separates those who make the transition from lower/middle/upper to the ranks of millionaires. Many people reach a level of contentment. They are happy and see no reason to push. For others its a dream worth obtaining.
Got to love some of the typical whine responses I saw, about how wasteful it is, especially throwing out the guilt card. I don't what is worse, posters throwing the guilt card or race card. Seems the whiners always have a deck to play with. Yet society doesn't move on without people having dreams and the incentive to get there.
There probably are a lot of HS/College students this day looking to go to space. Many will plan for it and only a few will succeed. A lot of that success is from hard work and dedication. Sure luck will help but if you count on it you are already half way to failing.
The common thread among the guys we label "the owners" of the company I work for is that they put in more hours than most people imagine. Two of them are over 75 and they still "work". The spend their freetime alright, but they still work. Yet they got where they were because they did put in the hours. Do you have what it takes to put in 60-80 hours a week for dozens of years?
So, middle class or not, a spacewalk is possible for almost anyone. The key is making it happen. Hell, who knows, by the time you have the money needed you probably will have found something else to do with it. You might even be one to shut the whiners up by dedicating large amounts to hunger!
If you want to conquer the market then hit it where it makes the most sense.
Small cars already get great mileage, some regular cars get better mileage than hybrids (Civic)
No, make it a SUV, Explorer size or bigger. They have the space underneath so you don't have to cram or take trunk space, they usually are truck based suspensions, and they get hideous mileage so the change in perspective would be much greater.
If you sell it to the public in a USEFUL package they might just surprise you.
Till then, keep your little cars. If I want small I will ride my motorcycle. I use 4-wheel vehicles for their utility, not because I want to. (and yes, I own a SUV, a Murano - hybrid comes in 08)
they truly have nothing better that they *want* to do. The *want* is the key. Oh sure they have better things to do but that takes more effort than sitting down at a computer and playing a game. I personally know someone who lost a house over his obsession. It can be very real and it can be very hard on their friends. You really cannot understand how difficult it is to make someone you know and like to see that what they are doing is not good for them.
The ease of success in WOW is one of its major attractions. You don't have to be a great gamer to succeed, you just need time. That is the key, success, even in a video game provides the gratification they will not work for otherwise.
Let others dicate how you spend your time. After all your enjoyment should not come at the expense of some loser whose only method to have stuff is to take from others.
Yup, whats next? Let the government take my rights too? Better yet, let the government take my gun and my iPod and give it to this deserving soul who lost life's lottery?
I'm less worried about the drug companies
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and more worried about the fanatics who go out of their way to stop genetic engineering, even on plants. No matter the benefit to man these nature nazis will destory, impede, and otherwise FUD even the most beneficial discovery.
Drug companies will use this if their costs are lower and the chance for profit remains the same. I do have a question, why shouldn't the drug companies make money from something they work to create?
If it was so damn important for a government to step in a take the work of a private corporation for the "public good" which many people love to claim then why wasn't the government involved in the first place?
Corporations may be evil in some people's books but they are one of the best ways to focus the abilities of many individuals to the betterment of society. If someone must make a profit while improving society I say "more money to them".
Improving life isn't free, we are just lucky the cost is only money.
Frankly, he should have told them to stuff it. I figure what happened is that they went full on developing the video iPod and supporting software figuring they could bully their way over the studios. Now with the hardware in hand and no progress he is being forced to do something to move the new product.... aren't shareholders wonderful - can't let the carpet ride end.
Still, no way, no how. I don't care who packages the DRM of this sort. Its wrong. If I pay for it I want access to it when I want to access it. Otherwise refund me when it expires.
Nissan has a unit which connects through my satellite wiring, my car was prewired, that will allow me to control my iPod from the built-in stereo. This will also allow me to control the iPod via the steering wheel controls.
I honestly am not sure whats worse, being able to use it this way with all the distractions it may cause, or not having the option available. I will figure that out for myself.
Still it makes one wonder, should functions which inherently distract you from driving be prevented by the hardware? I know some navigation functions are disabled if the vehicle is moving, why not other functions?
I can change radio stations without visual queues but selecting playlists isn't going to be as easy. Sometimes I think answering your cellphone should shut your car off.
when that results in half your usuable vehicles being lost.
The 2% number might mean something if we didn't need the main piece back. As such, that number is only good for people who love to toss numbers around without including the context of them
Why should even some regular college degrees deserve respect? Countless colleges allow students to pass through the system with degrees simply because they excel at sports. Many pass on students who only get through sub-par course.
That college degree doesn't come with a grade point average, is a C student at your local state university going to do as well as someone with a higher average from an online university?
Besides, doesn't this smack of elitism? We still have cases where some degrees are worth more than others. Some colleges are looked down upon because in truth the education they provide is better. Why not discriminate based on the fact that applicant A's football team regulary hands your school's ass to it every year?
Education is what you make of it. Public education is no longer about turning out good students who are well balanced with the skills needed to enter the real world. Its a damn jobs program with a bunch of social engineering thrown in to convince kids that the government knows whats good for them.
And quit parroting the teacher union's crap they spew about home schooling.
Look, anyone can find examples of students both home schooled and public schooled and use that as reasons to support their side of the story. Fact is home school kids do just fine in society, many scoring far higher than their peers.
home schooling is villified by those who fear its results. Common methods include claims of lack of socialization with peers or religious dogma. Usually the "religious angle" is played out more up north than elsewhere.
You can expect similar arguments from the Teachers Unions and those who are held in its thrall to any advance in education which leads to a loss of their power and influence.
First off, why in the world would you turn on power saving modes when benchmarking for performance? The emphasis on the test was to determine which processors performed best playing games at their highest settings.
Next, Kyle closes the article suggesting for future proofing to buy an Intel. He does state that if you already have a high end AMD to not bother as the difference isn't noticable.
The one thing I take away from the article is that Intel has finally met AMD. It no longer is AMD is for gaming and Intel for everything else. For the lifetime of the P4 it has always been AMD leading the pack, when it comes to gaming computers and price points.
Also, since he already gives the FX price why should he repeat it. His comparisons of the price points for the two Intel chips was to make the reader aware that the performance difference doesn't warranted the price difference. He closed out the article with the statement supporting Intel.
What more do you want? Hey, we can all find bias whereever we want, too many of you go out of your way to do so
Starflight used a similar process to render planets, but their goal was to repeat the same pattern each time. This allowed them to cram nearly 800 unique worlds on two 360k diskettes. Of course they managed to make a good looking Earth as well.
just a few people want to play with words to make ideas their own. As he pointed out in his rebuttal a lot of the ideas that are being set out for today are compatible if not part of the ideas he espoused.
I do agree with one item, weed out your worst. It is true. You will come to find that that passionate ones will not be lost in this. I'm in a company which doesn't do this, its a good old boy club. As such we still make money but never really move forward. We have so much deadwood it stifles innovation. The only time things change is when someone dies or retires.
Privacy laws are a good idea for minors. Yet too many times they are being used to strip the rights from parents. The schools want control, they will use this idea of giving students "rights" by taking them from the parents and in the end the students will be no better off.
One thing that has been common among "progressive schools" is that parents lose many of their rights governing the activities of their children once they cross the threshold of the school. For a society which likes to admonish parents for not holding their children accountable, discipling them, many think its okay for schools to usurp the parents choices. If you diminish the values of parents the children will lose respect for those values and you get the problem you claim you were trying to avoid.
In many areas of the country the schools have been too invasive into families and worse they are nearly immune to correction. This is just another symptom of failing schools. When on the downward spiral you make damn sure all those who can criticize you fear you in one way or another. An "unusual" mark on a child - automatic suspicion of child abuse. Too thin, child abuse. Too fat, child abuse. DFACs should know!!! Bad grades, must be from a bad home environment; again child abuse!
Want absurd? One guy at work mentioned that a neighbor got a letter from the school's counselor. Seems the kid didn't like what he did or did not get in his lunch his mom sent him to school with. The school actually wrote a letter suggesting that the parents aceed to their child's wishes or give him money to buy a school lunch or snacks!!!
Too many of the schools are run by arrogant self style intellectuals. Another person at work recently moved so his wife could teach in a new school district all to get out from overbearing peers whose views of how children and parents should be handled came close to being unethical. There are many good teachers and administrators but too many are cowed by those who know the system and use it againts "non-conforming teachers", students, and even parents.
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with fantasy as it tends to be world/region specific.
Sci-Fi for the most part is locked into this idea of being multisystem with starships, though a good sci fi never has to leave the world its based on.
Whose next?
I'll take egotistical game developers for $600 Alex
I might have partially agreed with you on some points.
For continuity B5 still wins. For logic B5 still wins.
Some of the things that happened in BSG did so because the writer needed them to happen, listening to the podcasts it was clear that they knew they could not back it up or seemed wrong - they had a story and damn if anything got in the way.
Yet the show was still enjoyable, up until the recent episodes which seem to be just a little to contrived.
BSG is experiencing the rabid fanboi surge all good shows have. It will be telling to see when some turn on their favorite show.
Making a movie would be. Fortunately he has too much integrity to recast G'khar and the Doctor (both who passed away). Someone after money would not have blinked.
... I got the free mousepad and such from the failed attempt.
These short films come across as a writer's dream come true. How many writers could get a studio to basically pay for these types of films? If JMS is successful it might be a whole new market.
Now, the idea of a B5 MMORPG - uh, no thank you. I still want an official space combat simulator out of these people
Give me a turn based strategy game (MOO2 style) and a Flight Simulator and I will set for life, err, until the next big thing
You have to take risks, work your butt off, and be a little lucky.
Did you see the recent article on the 10 dumbest internet sales ideas that made money?
Does that give you a hint?
Look, there are many successful people who had a great many stupid ideas. The nice thing is that the stupid ideas they had are usually forgotten, unless they already are rich and then they get ridiculed for awhile until their next big success.
People constant rant that the middle class has no chance. Well that is bunk. Hell you picked lawyers and such (with unrealistic views of what the majority get into) and many of them came from middle class families. Lots of doctors are the same way.
Do you have what it takes to dedicate 8+ years to learn a trade, and then another 8-16 to be very successful at it?
Most people don't. That is what separates those who make the transition from lower/middle/upper to the ranks of millionaires. Many people reach a level of contentment. They are happy and see no reason to push. For others its a dream worth obtaining.
Got to love some of the typical whine responses I saw, about how wasteful it is, especially throwing out the guilt card. I don't what is worse, posters throwing the guilt card or race card. Seems the whiners always have a deck to play with. Yet society doesn't move on without people having dreams and the incentive to get there.
There probably are a lot of HS/College students this day looking to go to space. Many will plan for it and only a few will succeed. A lot of that success is from hard work and dedication. Sure luck will help but if you count on it you are already half way to failing.
The common thread among the guys we label "the owners" of the company I work for is that they put in more hours than most people imagine. Two of them are over 75 and they still "work". The spend their freetime alright, but they still work. Yet they got where they were because they did put in the hours. Do you have what it takes to put in 60-80 hours a week for dozens of years?
So, middle class or not, a spacewalk is possible for almost anyone. The key is making it happen. Hell, who knows, by the time you have the money needed you probably will have found something else to do with it. You might even be one to shut the whiners up by dedicating large amounts to hunger!
If you want to conquer the market then hit it where it makes the most sense.
Small cars already get great mileage, some regular cars get better mileage than hybrids (Civic)
No, make it a SUV, Explorer size or bigger. They have the space underneath so you don't have to cram or take trunk space, they usually are truck based suspensions, and they get hideous mileage so the change in perspective would be much greater.
If you sell it to the public in a USEFUL package they might just surprise you.
Till then, keep your little cars. If I want small I will ride my motorcycle. I use 4-wheel vehicles for their utility, not because I want to. (and yes, I own a SUV, a Murano - hybrid comes in 08)
Retail does NOT include corporate or contract sales.
12% of Retail sales is impressive, but Apple also had the advantage of all new products.
Lets see what it looks like this time next year.
they truly have nothing better that they *want* to do. The *want* is the key. Oh sure they have better things to do but that takes more effort than sitting down at a computer and playing a game. I personally know someone who lost a house over his obsession. It can be very real and it can be very hard on their friends. You really cannot understand how difficult it is to make someone you know and like to see that what they are doing is not good for them.
The ease of success in WOW is one of its major attractions. You don't have to be a great gamer to succeed, you just need time. That is the key, success, even in a video game provides the gratification they will not work for otherwise.
I read that Intel's 4x4 is a hack, 2 sockets.
So once again they don't have a real product?
which is why crimes committed witha firearm continue to rise in the UK.
hmmm...
the same people who use guns in violent crime are the same as those in the UK.
IOW - the very same people the laws were designed to prevent from having guns in the first place.
Let others dicate how you spend your time. After all your enjoyment should not come at the expense of some loser whose only method to have stuff is to take from others.
Yup, whats next? Let the government take my rights too? Better yet, let the government take my gun and my iPod and give it to this deserving soul who lost life's lottery?
and more worried about the fanatics who go out of their way to stop genetic engineering, even on plants. No matter the benefit to man these nature nazis will destory, impede, and otherwise FUD even the most beneficial discovery.
Drug companies will use this if their costs are lower and the chance for profit remains the same. I do have a question, why shouldn't the drug companies make money from something they work to create?
If it was so damn important for a government to step in a take the work of a private corporation for the "public good" which many people love to claim then why wasn't the government involved in the first place?
Corporations may be evil in some people's books but they are one of the best ways to focus the abilities of many individuals to the betterment of society. If someone must make a profit while improving society I say "more money to them".
Improving life isn't free, we are just lucky the cost is only money.
Say it ain't so.
I can't wait to see the sugar coating.
Frankly, he should have told them to stuff it. I figure what happened is that they went full on developing the video iPod and supporting software figuring they could bully their way over the studios. Now with the hardware in hand and no progress he is being forced to do something to move the new product.... aren't shareholders wonderful - can't let the carpet ride end.
Still, no way, no how. I don't care who packages the DRM of this sort. Its wrong. If I pay for it I want access to it when I want to access it. Otherwise refund me when it expires.
Nissan has a unit which connects through my satellite wiring, my car was prewired, that will allow me to control my iPod from the built-in stereo. This will also allow me to control the iPod via the steering wheel controls.
I honestly am not sure whats worse, being able to use it this way with all the distractions it may cause, or not having the option available. I will figure that out for myself.
Still it makes one wonder, should functions which inherently distract you from driving be prevented by the hardware? I know some navigation functions are disabled if the vehicle is moving, why not other functions?
I can change radio stations without visual queues but selecting playlists isn't going to be as easy. Sometimes I think answering your cellphone should shut your car off.
when that results in half your usuable vehicles being lost.
The 2% number might mean something if we didn't need the main piece back. As such, that number is only good for people who love to toss numbers around without including the context of them
you are kidding right?
Why should even some regular college degrees deserve respect? Countless colleges allow students to pass through the system with degrees simply because they excel at sports. Many pass on students who only get through sub-par course.
That college degree doesn't come with a grade point average, is a C student at your local state university going to do as well as someone with a higher average from an online university?
Besides, doesn't this smack of elitism? We still have cases where some degrees are worth more than others. Some colleges are looked down upon because in truth the education they provide is better. Why not discriminate based on the fact that applicant A's football team regulary hands your school's ass to it every year?
Education is what you make of it. Public education is no longer about turning out good students who are well balanced with the skills needed to enter the real world. Its a damn jobs program with a bunch of social engineering thrown in to convince kids that the government knows whats good for them.
And quit parroting the teacher union's crap they spew about home schooling.
Look, anyone can find examples of students both home schooled and public schooled and use that as reasons to support their side of the story. Fact is home school kids do just fine in society, many scoring far higher than their peers.
home schooling is villified by those who fear its results. Common methods include claims of lack of socialization with peers or religious dogma. Usually the "religious angle" is played out more up north than elsewhere.
You can expect similar arguments from the Teachers Unions and those who are held in its thrall to any advance in education which leads to a loss of their power and influence.
First off, why in the world would you turn on power saving modes when benchmarking for performance? The emphasis on the test was to determine which processors performed best playing games at their highest settings.
Next, Kyle closes the article suggesting for future proofing to buy an Intel. He does state that if you already have a high end AMD to not bother as the difference isn't noticable.
The one thing I take away from the article is that Intel has finally met AMD. It no longer is AMD is for gaming and Intel for everything else. For the lifetime of the P4 it has always been AMD leading the pack, when it comes to gaming computers and price points.
Also, since he already gives the FX price why should he repeat it. His comparisons of the price points for the two Intel chips was to make the reader aware that the performance difference doesn't warranted the price difference. He closed out the article with the statement supporting Intel.
What more do you want? Hey, we can all find bias whereever we want, too many of you go out of your way to do so
or did they make sure it could install?
Starflight used a similar process to render planets, but their goal was to repeat the same pattern each time. This allowed them to cram nearly 800 unique worlds on two 360k diskettes. Of course they managed to make a good looking Earth as well.
/. readers suddenly realize they are not the center of the universe.
just a few people want to play with words to make ideas their own. As he pointed out in his rebuttal a lot of the ideas that are being set out for today are compatible if not part of the ideas he espoused.
I do agree with one item, weed out your worst. It is true. You will come to find that that passionate ones will not be lost in this. I'm in a company which doesn't do this, its a good old boy club. As such we still make money but never really move forward. We have so much deadwood it stifles innovation. The only time things change is when someone dies or retires.
Privacy laws are a good idea for minors. Yet too many times they are being used to strip the rights from parents. The schools want control, they will use this idea of giving students "rights" by taking them from the parents and in the end the students will be no better off.
One thing that has been common among "progressive schools" is that parents lose many of their rights governing the activities of their children once they cross the threshold of the school. For a society which likes to admonish parents for not holding their children accountable, discipling them, many think its okay for schools to usurp the parents choices. If you diminish the values of parents the children will lose respect for those values and you get the problem you claim you were trying to avoid.
In many areas of the country the schools have been too invasive into families and worse they are nearly immune to correction. This is just another symptom of failing schools. When on the downward spiral you make damn sure all those who can criticize you fear you in one way or another. An "unusual" mark on a child - automatic suspicion of child abuse. Too thin, child abuse. Too fat, child abuse. DFACs should know!!! Bad grades, must be from a bad home environment; again child abuse!
Want absurd? One guy at work mentioned that a neighbor got a letter from the school's counselor. Seems the kid didn't like what he did or did not get in his lunch his mom sent him to school with. The school actually wrote a letter suggesting that the parents aceed to their child's wishes or give him money to buy a school lunch or snacks!!!
Too many of the schools are run by arrogant self style intellectuals. Another person at work recently moved so his wife could teach in a new school district all to get out from overbearing peers whose views of how children and parents should be handled came close to being unethical. There are many good teachers and administrators but too many are cowed by those who know the system and use it againts "non-conforming teachers", students, and even parents.