"As time goes on, I expect Wikipedia to become increasingly useless for anything by a small segment of popular culture."
Agreed. It might have something to do with the "One Page to Rule Them All" model for wikipedia. Unsettled types seem to park on or claim a bit of knowledge and just outlast people who might actually know the subject being claimed.
Non Notability is just one of the weapons in the weird subculture of knowledge warfare that goes on inside wikipedia. Definitely seems to turn off a large proportion of casual submitters.
This is personally why I try to use it as little as possible.
"Wi-fi only android devices will always be subpar as they aren't allowed in the google marketplace, and there for won't be given the energy they deserve."
Thanks for writing this. I had no idea this was the case. Seems EXTREMELY short sighted on Goog's part and I hope this changes.
(Been looking at rooting a Nook myself. Happy to see I'm not the only one tempted by the price point tablets should be at.)
This part of the whole flash debate is what is really interesting. What is it about Adobe that just can't seem to get Flash right? After all this time and they aren't even really close to anything other than a half assed kludge? Adobe just never shows any sign that they want or are even REALLY trying to get a fully functional ARM port, let alone a Linux port. (I even hear gripes about OSX Flash...)
They have to know that they are in a race for time here, and most probably have already lost.
I'm not condoning the exclusion of Flash as choice, quite the opposite, as walled gardens always lead to eventual rebellion it seems, but Hot Crispy Christ Adobe. Is Ballmer somehow related to or running the vision for mobile flash?
Such a tremendous lead, with web video alone, and you just starve it in a corner?
Why is it that everything connected to web video in any way is just so cursed? (Thank you Google & Moz for trying to change this.)
To get my rant back on topic:
Ipads are DEFINITELY a luxury toy, but I have to thank Apple for sparking the fire of competition in this segment. Now, after 15 years of waiting for real tablets, we may finally be 5 years out from having good ones! ; )
Gah. Why have I spent so much time threading myself through a bunch of nerdy girls text fighting about toys? Just disappointing myself about myself to make it near halfway through this inanity.
By the way, add me to the list that wants more ram and better rez. I'll get a tablet when they are better in a couple of years past this gen. Definitely been waiting for tablets and touch to take hold, but I don't believe we are quite there yet. No matter what spin on it there is, I don't like having someone choose "No Flash for YOU". (Yes, I know of all the concerns and Adobe's dimwitted programming, but I'd rather choose for myself thank you.) I do credit Apple for jump starting a languishing segment that I have such faith in, but walled gardens, no matter how lush at any given time, still make my pee burn. (I look forward to those comments...)
I am quite a fan of Jonathan Ive's design team, though I can't afford more than sub 500$ laptops at the moment, (which is the real sweet spot deal right now no matter how shiny Ipads are).
I recently heard that 98% of GSW's are caused by guns, but the NRA tells me that Glenn Beck is fighting the coming Caliphate and I shouldn't worry about it.
(Left intentionally incomprehensible so that it makes logical sense to RepubliTea drinkers...)
Pointless fucking isn't what happened in the SG:U episode in question. This scene and the reasons surrounding it were what made SG:U great in my opinion. Great writing and plotting there. (Not to mention it leads to Lou Diamond Phillips getting his ass kicked, which just makes for great television!)
The stones led to some of the best shows of the series!
I also thought SG:U was the best of the ridiculously long franchise. The cheese and endless plot repeats of the first 15 YEARS is what was tiresome. The Wraith was by a LONG way more emo than anything in Universe. Hand sucking, life force vampires with Kiss makeup and LITERALLY FACELESS soldier drones? Jesus. Crispy. Fucking. Christ.
There were bright spots in 1&A, don't get me wrong, but those bright spots were when a character displayed an emotional depth that made us care about that character even more. (Example: Daniel dying the first time in SG:1, Rodney stuck in a puddle jumper at the bottom of the ocean in SG:A.)
Saying that Universe was too much like a soap opera is a bullshit whine. Any show with character evolution could have this pegged to it. (The first 15 years of SG more closely resembled soaps with their stock characterizations and shallow motivations.)
What I LOVED about SG:U is the same thing that BSG and now "The Walking Dead" were/are doing; exploring the stories of flawed characters who are in situations where they are COMPLETELY fucked and fighting to just survive.
Serialized SciFi with emotional depth is what is rare and in danger right now. Especially if/when Fringe is canceled and Supernatural stops living on borrowed time.
Fuck all the haters. You can watch crap like Sanctuary (I can DANCE!!!) and PrimeEval (so bad that I don't even want to quote a line) for poorly done cheese. (Not Dr Who's excellently executed cheese, mind you.)
The AMC or Starz model may be the only way great, non cheesy, SciFi will have a chance in the future.
I was looking for a comment where someone said it may be beneficial to both. If you didn't state it, I was going to. If they get a few more fractions of a second of my eyeball time to satisfy my info cravings, then that is literally a small price to pay on my end. If you are as distractable as I am when I'm searching, then most likely the extra ad time is just background noise as you concentrate on what you are looking for initially. (If that even make sense?)
It's just Google optimizing us along with algorithms.
Honestly. M$ had such a lead in the small and smart gadget category. YEARS of leading up from PDA's with "on the market" research and usage data. Then they just stall the category as good enough, again, for years. Did they disband the group like they did with IE?
It blows my mind that they can just cede the market to Google & Apple after all of their work. To NEVER get seriously going on a touch based OS or let the "Surface" UI and hardware to expand across their products.
Madness that Ballmer's stodgy brain is still leading the company when it is obviously time for another Bill Gates style refocus, because their collective ass is starting to reek.
They definitely need a FRESH mind at the top that lets some of their much-heralded "Innovation" out of their labs for once. Or maybe they just want to innovate mice.
WM7 already feels like an "also ran" before the first device gets shipped. That may change, but man are they getting to the party late. I bet that even HP will beat M$ with WebOS in numbers sold at first. (But if history repeats, M$ will make up for it in time and billions of expenditure.)
I can just see Microsoft as a new Junior HS student: "Hey, I just made this lunch that took me a decade to finish. You want it while I go make another one?"
I was initially excited when I learned that Flash was going to incorporate video, because of the state of internet video at the time. RealPlayer, Quicktime or WM just seemed like nightmares of fragmentation, (especially what real turned into.) Flash seemed like a good place to de-facto standardize on if that was going to be our only collective choice. Adobe has consistently dropped the ball on performance and security ever since they acquired Macromedia for Flash.
How is it that a company the size of Adobe can't seem to find enough programming resources or vision to finally fix Flash and/or roll out updates that don't take years? I just don't understand how they can't even seem to accidentally make it better even once, (ex. Microsoft getting an acceptable OS out after many missteps.)
As far as staying on topic, I personally don't mind a walled garden product like the Ipad shaking things up creatively for awhile if the product category has completely stagnated. We've _almost_ had an intriguing tablet for too long and it was getting aggravating watching the potential be wasted. At least there is now a roaring fire in a great category that up til now only saw smoldering kludges.
I may not completely like what the Ipad and Iphone are, but I'm quite excited to see what and how they will be competed against. (Like hopefully getting rid of Ballmer the seat warmer...)
The irony generator in this Verse is fun, eh? I was looking for the Via disk corruption fix forever until I finally gave up and upgraded. Couldn't seem to hunt down the problem the entire time I used that AthlonXP Aopen board. Now I find that it was a simple change in the BIOS? Damn!
Well thanks Creative! Because of you I finally went to the M-Audio Delta 1010lt piped through a 1972 Marantz 1060 amp into some Sennheiser HD280 Pros.
Creative, without your craptasticness I would never have known what things ACTUALLY sound like outside the arena of Ipod buds and cheap Sony monitor headphones!!!
This is the only show on TV that has given me joy. Period. I was happy when I watched. That hasn't happened with any other show since I was a kid and was watching schlock like Knight Rider and The A Team. I didn't know any better then. This show is different. This show was genuine, and I genuinely felt for the characters. More than once the show has brought me to tears with the Aeryn & John arc. I was astounded that I could feel so much for a space opera. This show has, single handedly, restored my faith that good writing & production can slip past the yes-wo/men every now and then to inspire a cherished few.
Good people must stand up and try to find more of these holes in the fabric of sanitized corporate culture products. Otherwise money and the lowest common, disinterested intellects will win the day.
Do other creative types understand the magnitude of of this cancellation and Futurama's? It means that good sci-fi doesn't matter. It's about the cash instead of heart. Cheap it out and the numbers will be the same.
Our only worthwhile reaction will be to get out and create what we believe to have heart. Then fight with everything we have to get it realized and inspire others to do the same.
Money begets money. Empathy and heart do not figure in to that.
lets introduce some of the crazies on the extremes of our culture to make it fashionable to start wearing masks as protest. Like hats were stylish, (for well, god... forever,) in the 40's. (at least that's what the movies I have watched have burned into my brain as being our culture then.)
start wearing masks everytime you go outside. Critical Mass(r) of people all wearing masks around in Tampa Bay. First the crazies with ski masks and hats and big 70's Carly Simon sunglasses crop up.
Then the skate/punks/alienated youth start to throw fashion in the mix and masks become an unstoppable trend that thwarts the software.
The Boys don't end up buying the software until much later, when everyone else has snuck the software and cheap cameras into the community.
we are looking at inevitability with these things.
or do you not view your unconsious disregard of the gas station and grocery/convenience store camera's as creeping towards this fork of culture?
who needs to write sci-fi when you can live it?
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I remember the show. My stepdad does too and has wondered where the hell those guys went...
Didn't they cobble it together in their garage?
The real problem is to find the killer app for it. More than likely to be in games I imagine, if someone is ever able to make a transparent, layred E-ink solution. They could print them out like the phones we're supposed to see this summer.
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"As time goes on, I expect Wikipedia to become increasingly useless for anything by a small segment of popular culture."
Agreed. It might have something to do with the "One Page to Rule Them All" model for wikipedia. Unsettled types seem to park on or claim a bit of knowledge and just outlast people who might actually know the subject being claimed.
Non Notability is just one of the weapons in the weird subculture of knowledge warfare that goes on inside wikipedia. Definitely seems to turn off a large proportion of casual submitters.
This is personally why I try to use it as little as possible.
If Time is a force does that mean that I can count on Bullshit being a dimension?
"Wi-fi only android devices will always be subpar as they aren't allowed in the google marketplace, and there for won't be given the energy they deserve."
Thanks for writing this. I had no idea this was the case. Seems EXTREMELY short sighted on Goog's part and I hope this changes.
(Been looking at rooting a Nook myself. Happy to see I'm not the only one tempted by the price point tablets should be at.)
"Sometimes you need a crazy girlfriend so that you know not to do that anymore."
You, sir, should justifiably feel temporarily wise AND awesome for this analogy!
(Although I have a few friends who should follow that nugget and don't...)
Does this mean you pine for the days of WANG?
And yes, my dad brought one home for awhile before he decided on an Atari 800.
(I'm still cursed...)
This part of the whole flash debate is what is really interesting. What is it about Adobe that just can't seem to get Flash right? After all this time and they aren't even really close to anything other than a half assed kludge? Adobe just never shows any sign that they want or are even REALLY trying to get a fully functional ARM port, let alone a Linux port. (I even hear gripes about OSX Flash...)
They have to know that they are in a race for time here, and most probably have already lost.
I'm not condoning the exclusion of Flash as choice, quite the opposite, as walled gardens always lead to eventual rebellion it seems, but Hot Crispy Christ Adobe. Is Ballmer somehow related to or running the vision for mobile flash?
Such a tremendous lead, with web video alone, and you just starve it in a corner?
Why is it that everything connected to web video in any way is just so cursed? (Thank you Google & Moz for trying to change this.)
To get my rant back on topic:
Ipads are DEFINITELY a luxury toy, but I have to thank Apple for sparking the fire of competition in this segment. Now, after 15 years of waiting for real tablets, we may finally be 5 years out from having good ones! ; )
Gah. Why have I spent so much time threading myself through a bunch of nerdy girls text fighting about toys? Just disappointing myself about myself to make it near halfway through this inanity.
By the way, add me to the list that wants more ram and better rez. I'll get a tablet when they are better in a couple of years past this gen. Definitely been waiting for tablets and touch to take hold, but I don't believe we are quite there yet. No matter what spin on it there is, I don't like having someone choose "No Flash for YOU". (Yes, I know of all the concerns and Adobe's dimwitted programming, but I'd rather choose for myself thank you.) I do credit Apple for jump starting a languishing segment that I have such faith in, but walled gardens, no matter how lush at any given time, still make my pee burn. (I look forward to those comments...)
I am quite a fan of Jonathan Ive's design team, though I can't afford more than sub 500$ laptops at the moment, (which is the real sweet spot deal right now no matter how shiny Ipads are).
(Sorry for the troll, just felt good as a lark)
I recently heard that 98% of GSW's are caused by guns, but the NRA tells me that Glenn Beck is fighting the coming Caliphate and I shouldn't worry about it.
(Left intentionally incomprehensible so that it makes logical sense to RepubliTea drinkers...)
Pointless fucking isn't what happened in the SG:U episode in question. This scene and the reasons surrounding it were what made SG:U great in my opinion. Great writing and plotting there. (Not to mention it leads to Lou Diamond Phillips getting his ass kicked, which just makes for great television!)
The stones led to some of the best shows of the series!
I also thought SG:U was the best of the ridiculously long franchise. The cheese and endless plot repeats of the first 15 YEARS is what was tiresome. The Wraith was by a LONG way more emo than anything in Universe. Hand sucking, life force vampires with Kiss makeup and LITERALLY FACELESS soldier drones? Jesus. Crispy. Fucking. Christ.
There were bright spots in 1&A, don't get me wrong, but those bright spots were when a character displayed an emotional depth that made us care about that character even more. (Example: Daniel dying the first time in SG:1, Rodney stuck in a puddle jumper at the bottom of the ocean in SG:A.)
Saying that Universe was too much like a soap opera is a bullshit whine. Any show with character evolution could have this pegged to it. (The first 15 years of SG more closely resembled soaps with their stock characterizations and shallow motivations.)
What I LOVED about SG:U is the same thing that BSG and now "The Walking Dead" were/are doing; exploring the stories of flawed characters who are in situations where they are COMPLETELY fucked and fighting to just survive.
Serialized SciFi with emotional depth is what is rare and in danger right now. Especially if/when Fringe is canceled and Supernatural stops living on borrowed time.
Fuck all the haters. You can watch crap like Sanctuary (I can DANCE!!!) and PrimeEval (so bad that I don't even want to quote a line) for poorly done cheese. (Not Dr Who's excellently executed cheese, mind you.)
The AMC or Starz model may be the only way great, non cheesy, SciFi will have a chance in the future.
But their phones were just so damn sexy, how could you refuse? And then they came in more 5 more colors along with buttons instead of the rotary dial.
KNEEL BEFORE MY 5 NEW COLORS OF WONDER!!!!
I was looking for a comment where someone said it may be beneficial to both. If you didn't state it, I was going to. If they get a few more fractions of a second of my eyeball time to satisfy my info cravings, then that is literally a small price to pay on my end. If you are as distractable as I am when I'm searching, then most likely the extra ad time is just background noise as you concentrate on what you are looking for initially. (If that even make sense?)
It's just Google optimizing us along with algorithms.
Someone mod this gentleman up...
Honestly. M$ had such a lead in the small and smart gadget category. YEARS of leading up from PDA's with "on the market" research and usage data. Then they just stall the category as good enough, again, for years. Did they disband the group like they did with IE?
It blows my mind that they can just cede the market to Google & Apple after all of their work. To NEVER get seriously going on a touch based OS or let the "Surface" UI and hardware to expand across their products.
Madness that Ballmer's stodgy brain is still leading the company when it is obviously time for another Bill Gates style refocus, because their collective ass is starting to reek.
They definitely need a FRESH mind at the top that lets some of their much-heralded "Innovation" out of their labs for once. Or maybe they just want to innovate mice.
WM7 already feels like an "also ran" before the first device gets shipped. That may change, but man are they getting to the party late. I bet that even HP will beat M$ with WebOS in numbers sold at first. (But if history repeats, M$ will make up for it in time and billions of expenditure.)
I can just see Microsoft as a new Junior HS student:
"Hey, I just made this lunch that took me a decade to finish. You want it while I go make another one?"
Sheer Madness...
I was initially excited when I learned that Flash was going to incorporate video, because of the state of internet video at the time. RealPlayer, Quicktime or WM just seemed like nightmares of fragmentation, (especially what real turned into.) Flash seemed like a good place to de-facto standardize on if that was going to be our only collective choice. Adobe has consistently dropped the ball on performance and security ever since they acquired Macromedia for Flash.
How is it that a company the size of Adobe can't seem to find enough programming resources or vision to finally fix Flash and/or roll out updates that don't take years? I just don't understand how they can't even seem to accidentally make it better even once, (ex. Microsoft getting an acceptable OS out after many missteps.)
As far as staying on topic, I personally don't mind a walled garden product like the Ipad shaking things up creatively for awhile if the product category has completely stagnated. We've _almost_ had an intriguing tablet for too long and it was getting aggravating watching the potential be wasted. At least there is now a roaring fire in a great category that up til now only saw smoldering kludges.
I may not completely like what the Ipad and Iphone are, but I'm quite excited to see what and how they will be competed against. (Like hopefully getting rid of Ballmer the seat warmer...)
1. Maybe the satellite that crashed into the ocean in "Cloverfield" had some sort of nanotechnology in it.
2. Nanotech self replicates and converts resources into "Grey Goo".
3. Goo evolves on turbo into Cloverfield monster.
4. Humans retaliate with further nanotech that leads to the events in the novel: "Bloom" written by Wil McCarthy.
It's too late, the end is Bill Nye...
That's why I hate Europe. Heads popping off all the time, and vomit everywhere.
I believe you are thinking of the Canadians...
(South Park reference of how Canadians speak, of course.)
I know it is sickeningly overused, but where will they get the tiny sharks for these tiny lasers?
We all know the answer...
Seamonkeys!!!!
The irony generator in this Verse is fun, eh? I was looking for the Via disk corruption fix forever until I finally gave up and upgraded. Couldn't seem to hunt down the problem the entire time I used that AthlonXP Aopen board. Now I find that it was a simple change in the BIOS? Damn!
Well thanks Creative! Because of you I finally went to the M-Audio Delta 1010lt piped through a 1972 Marantz 1060 amp into some Sennheiser HD280 Pros.
Creative, without your craptasticness I would never have known what things ACTUALLY sound like outside the arena of Ipod buds and cheap Sony monitor headphones!!!
you're right. Thanks for reminding me about this.
The show didn't make much sense if you didn't see it from the beginning. Some of my peeps told me this as well.
Bring on the next generation of distribution that will allow great programming like this to survive. PLEASE!
The future will be P2P'd
This is the only show on TV that has given me joy. Period. I was happy when I watched. That hasn't happened with any other show since I was a kid and was watching schlock like Knight Rider and The A Team. I didn't know any better then. This show is different. This show was genuine, and I genuinely felt for the characters. More than once the show has brought me to tears with the Aeryn & John arc. I was astounded that I could feel so much for a space opera. This show has, single handedly, restored my faith that good writing & production can slip past the yes-wo/men every now and then to inspire a cherished few.
Good people must stand up and try to find more of these holes in the fabric of sanitized corporate culture products. Otherwise money and the lowest common, disinterested intellects will win the day.
Do other creative types understand the magnitude of of this cancellation and Futurama's? It means that good sci-fi doesn't matter. It's about the cash instead of heart. Cheap it out and the numbers will be the same.
Our only worthwhile reaction will be to get out and create what we believe to have heart. Then fight with everything we have to get it realized and inspire others to do the same.
Money begets money. Empathy and heart do not figure in to that.
Sad times indeed.
lets introduce some of the crazies on the extremes of our culture to make it fashionable to start wearing masks as protest. Like hats were stylish, (for well, god... forever,) in the 40's. (at least that's what the movies I have watched have burned into my brain as being our culture then.)
start wearing masks everytime you go outside. Critical Mass(r) of people all wearing masks around in Tampa Bay. First the crazies with ski masks and hats and big 70's Carly Simon sunglasses crop up.
Then the skate/punks/alienated youth start to throw fashion in the mix and masks become an unstoppable trend that thwarts the software.
The Boys don't end up buying the software until much later, when everyone else has snuck the software and cheap cameras into the community.
we are looking at inevitability with these things.
or do you not view your unconsious disregard of the gas station and grocery/convenience store camera's as creeping towards this fork of culture?
who needs to write sci-fi when you can live it?
I remember the show. My stepdad does too and has wondered where the hell those guys went...
Didn't they cobble it together in their garage?
The real problem is to find the killer app for it. More than likely to be in games I imagine, if someone is ever able to make a transparent, layred E-ink solution. They could print them out like the phones we're supposed to see this summer.
is this why someone looking like a cmdrtaco spoofer has taken the bid up to over 5K $amolies?
e m& item=1126537064
check it out:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIt
Of course it would have to come from the Iraqi desert...
Perhaps we should start some kind of "MAIL THAT FRIGGIN THING BACK, LOADED!!!" day that looms like the pending actors guild strike?
That would be the day that postal carriers dread more than XmAs.