By no means did I mean that that was all there was to the Book character. I do believe he was a very religious man in the show. That does not mean he did not have a life before he found his religion. That is what is good about these characters. The depth behind them. The fact that we are even talking about it is a good thing. How often do you talk about the layers of captians Sisko(DS9) or Sheridan(B5)?
I think you have it all wrong. This was simply one of the best shows on TV period. Not simply best Sci-fi show, best show overall.
I made several other people fans of the show by just letting borrow my DVDs. These are female, non-geeks who hate anything sci-fi who simply love the show and were shocked that it had been cancelled.
I don't know if you actually watched the show but it was the western motiff was just a small part of the show and only played a part in some of the episodes.
The dialog cheesy and cookie cutter characters? Come on!! The dialog is great and very original. The characters were also unique. We had a legal prostitute, former military soldier (low rank, not a general of anything) turned business man, gorgeous amazonian warrior, not entirely loyal hired muscle, former minister looking for his way, very feminine female mechanic, dorky, talented pilot who landed the amazon and a weakly, gifted doctor who risked everything to save his sister.
I don't know about you, but that is an extremely original group of characters thrown together in a very plausible way. I have never watched Cowboy beebop so I can't comment on that. What I can do is comment on is the quality of this show.
I never post on/. but I had to on this. Go see this movie. You won't be sorry.
I am so sick of people considering integrated software bloat. Its how you integrate things that make it bloated, not the fact that it is. People need to stop thinking about email as the only possible type of communication that you can have. If I right click on a contact, I want a list of options to come up that allow me to call, fax, IM, email or page a person. When I do one of those things, I want it recorded and associated with that user. We need to exand our concept of an "email client" to be a communication client.
I used to be a consultant in Goldmine. Goldmine has some serious drawbacks when you start trying to customize it. Dont get me wrong, it's an excellent piece of software for what it is intended to do, but a lot of things have been added to the software and they have tried to keep backwards compatibility between versions.
Some problems you may encounter is generating a "RECID". Goldmine has a proprietary way to generate unique identifiers for db records. Last time I knew the only way to do it was through their COM API or they have some SQL Server Stored Procedures that can do it as well.
Also, the DB structure is not exactly straightforward. Fields mean different things depending on what type of record it is. Address1 could mean "PC Type". The only way to know is to look at the documentation.
GM has some documentation on this stuff. Check their FTP site.
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By no means did I mean that that was all there was to the Book character. I do believe he was a very religious man in the show. That does not mean he did not have a life before he found his religion. That is what is good about these characters. The depth behind them. The fact that we are even talking about it is a good thing. How often do you talk about the layers of captians Sisko(DS9) or Sheridan(B5)?
I think you have it all wrong. This was simply one of the best shows on TV period. Not simply best Sci-fi show, best show overall.
/. but I had to on this. Go see this movie. You won't be sorry.
I made several other people fans of the show by just letting borrow my DVDs. These are female, non-geeks who hate anything sci-fi who simply love the show and were shocked that it had been cancelled.
I don't know if you actually watched the show but it was the western motiff was just a small part of the show and only played a part in some of the episodes.
The dialog cheesy and cookie cutter characters? Come on!! The dialog is great and very original. The characters were also unique. We had a legal prostitute, former military soldier (low rank, not a general of anything) turned business man, gorgeous amazonian warrior, not entirely loyal hired muscle, former minister looking for his way, very feminine female mechanic, dorky, talented pilot who landed the amazon and a weakly, gifted
doctor who risked everything to save his sister.
I don't know about you, but that is an extremely original group of characters thrown together in a very plausible way. I have never watched Cowboy beebop so I can't comment on that. What I can do is comment on is the quality of this show.
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I am so sick of people considering integrated software bloat. Its how you integrate things that make it bloated, not the fact that it is. People need to stop thinking about email as the only possible type of communication that you can have. If I right click on a contact, I want a list of options to come up that allow me to call, fax, IM, email or page a person. When I do one of those things, I want it recorded and associated with that user. We need to exand our concept of an "email client" to be a communication client.
I used to be a consultant in Goldmine. Goldmine has some serious drawbacks when you start trying to customize it. Dont get me wrong, it's an excellent piece of software for what it is intended to do, but a lot of things have been added to the software and they have tried to keep backwards compatibility between versions.
Some problems you may encounter is generating a "RECID". Goldmine has a proprietary way to generate unique identifiers for db records. Last time I knew the only way to do it was through their COM API or they have some SQL Server Stored Procedures that can do it as well.
Also, the DB structure is not exactly straightforward. Fields mean different things depending on what type of record it is. Address1 could mean "PC Type". The only way to know is to look at the documentation.
GM has some documentation on this stuff. Check their FTP site.