I kind of envy having a government so willing to go to bat for its native industry that it's willing to go as far as to steal IP for them. In my country, the government is more than happy to sit back and watch all its industries outsource and lay off everyone, and nationalism is regarded as a bad word. China, if nothing else, believes in China.
A VC once told me that before he invests in a start-up, he drives by their offices at 9pm on Friday night. If the parking lot is empty, that company is going to fail.
Isn't that a self-fulfilling prophecy? I mean, if every VC demands this, then of course every company not meeting these standards will fail--because they won't be able to get any venture capital funding.
Like it or not, people love them. They're the TV equivalent of the RomCom--predictable pleasure food that makes you feel good, and never challenges or surprises.
It would be better than most of this crap. But still, animation is very expensive (especially on an established show where the voice cast and animators ain't gonna work for cheap). Even if they wanted to pick up a show that's already been cancelled twice, I doubt they could afford it.
I really don't think many of you appreciate how hard it will be to actually get to the water on the moon (in any usable form, anyway). IIRC, it's scattered in tiny amounts and mixed in with regolith. Getting to it will be less like digging a well and more like industrial gold mining. Hell, we have a hard enough time doing desalinization in large quantities on earth, and that's a LOT easier.
It will be several orders of magnitude easier to save this planet, and survive almost any conceivable disaster, than it will ever be to colonize any other body in this solar system (or likely any other system within any possible reach).
Groening had nothing to do with Futurama, other than lending his name to it. I don't even think he was the showrunner on the Simpsons after the first season. If you listen to the commentary tracks on either series, you'll probably understand why (while everyone else talks about the writing and satire that made those series great, all he talks about is the animation, as if people were tuning into the Simpsons for the animation quality).
The Simpsons became a ghost ship a long time ago. The crew died, no one was at the helm, yet it kept sailing on--for no apparent reason and with no one particularly wanting it too. A like a ghost ship, it's a pretty hideous, decayed version of its former self--way more sad than noble now.
Please don't. And I say this as a huge Futurama fan from the beginning. The Comedy Central episodes were just fucking awful, even worse than those movies they did. You just can't go home again.
If they're making them for Amazon, chances are they were already turned down by the networks and cable channels. Even "House of Cards" was first pitched to HBO, Showtime, and AMC. If no one else was even willing to produce a pilot, you can bet they're pretty godawful.
The vast majority of pilots are utter crap. That's why they usually don't release them to the public. Very proposed series that produce pilots get greenlit, even fewer last beyond one season, and much rarer than even that is one that's actually any good.
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Just eliminating Flash and Javascript for example would eliminate a vast majority of the world's browsing headaches.
If you know of a language that will do what Flash and Javascript will do with no headaches, please share it with us.
Well what video card do you use then? Please, do share.
But corporations are wonderful and Jesus will use capitalism and tax cuts to save us, right?
Film at eleven!!
I kind of envy having a government so willing to go to bat for its native industry that it's willing to go as far as to steal IP for them. In my country, the government is more than happy to sit back and watch all its industries outsource and lay off everyone, and nationalism is regarded as a bad word. China, if nothing else, believes in China.
You're ALL doing programming all wrong!! Just ask this guy.
A VC once told me that before he invests in a start-up, he drives by their offices at 9pm on Friday night. If the parking lot is empty, that company is going to fail.
Isn't that a self-fulfilling prophecy? I mean, if every VC demands this, then of course every company not meeting these standards will fail--because they won't be able to get any venture capital funding.
Try running OS2/Warp for a while and see how they treat you!
They already tried it.
no more sitcoms
Like it or not, people love them. They're the TV equivalent of the RomCom--predictable pleasure food that makes you feel good, and never challenges or surprises.
It would be better than most of this crap. But still, animation is very expensive (especially on an established show where the voice cast and animators ain't gonna work for cheap). Even if they wanted to pick up a show that's already been cancelled twice, I doubt they could afford it.
The New York Post is only slightly more credible than a homeless guy on a street corner mumbling to an invisible friend. Slightly
It was probably someone looking to retaliate for Justin Bieber.
Or at least, that's how I picture it in my head.
What color is the sky in your world?
I really don't think many of you appreciate how hard it will be to actually get to the water on the moon (in any usable form, anyway). IIRC, it's scattered in tiny amounts and mixed in with regolith. Getting to it will be less like digging a well and more like industrial gold mining. Hell, we have a hard enough time doing desalinization in large quantities on earth, and that's a LOT easier.
please don't trample those footprints. I may want to gaze on them myself some day.
I doubt you need to worry about either possibility.
It will be several orders of magnitude easier to save this planet, and survive almost any conceivable disaster, than it will ever be to colonize any other body in this solar system (or likely any other system within any possible reach).
you must be new to computers...
If you think Linux and OSX can compete with Windows on games, you must be new to this universe.
I like Linux too, but I'm not fucking insane.
Someone on 4chan said it best: "Anyone claiming to represent anon is not anon."
Groening had nothing to do with Futurama, other than lending his name to it. I don't even think he was the showrunner on the Simpsons after the first season. If you listen to the commentary tracks on either series, you'll probably understand why (while everyone else talks about the writing and satire that made those series great, all he talks about is the animation, as if people were tuning into the Simpsons for the animation quality).
The Simpsons became a ghost ship a long time ago. The crew died, no one was at the helm, yet it kept sailing on--for no apparent reason and with no one particularly wanting it too. A like a ghost ship, it's a pretty hideous, decayed version of its former self--way more sad than noble now.
Please don't. And I say this as a huge Futurama fan from the beginning. The Comedy Central episodes were just fucking awful, even worse than those movies they did. You just can't go home again.
If they're making them for Amazon, chances are they were already turned down by the networks and cable channels. Even "House of Cards" was first pitched to HBO, Showtime, and AMC. If no one else was even willing to produce a pilot, you can bet they're pretty godawful.
The vast majority of pilots are utter crap. That's why they usually don't release them to the public. Very proposed series that produce pilots get greenlit, even fewer last beyond one season, and much rarer than even that is one that's actually any good.