I have to agree that this fascination with boot/shutdown time is like some new made up metric. "My machine can boot in 32 seconds." "HA! Mine can boot in 30!" Shut the fuck up. It takes 2 seconds to sneeze, for Chupacabra's sake! And unless you're rebooting, who cares what the shutdown time is? In which case, call it "reboot time." In which case, talk about how often you have to reboot.
"Long story short: unless the code takes a turn for the worse in the next year or so, we can look forward to some speedier computing once Windows 8 is released." Talking about hedging your bet, dude. "Unless the US economy gets better, we can look to some more unemployment." Unless "All you base are belong to us," it's still ours. Unless your iPod has sex with you, lame. ("No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.")
Well, there were some metrics. But you're right, when I went to the review, Ghostery popped up 15 or so trackers. Don't think I ever saw that many on one page.
I was thinking the same thing. I'm a fan of LE Modesitt, and none of his stuff is on the list. So what, I'll live. What I do find especially funny are the posters who are freaking out about having fantasy and sci-fi next to each other. You'd think that the Twilight series was included under the hard sci-fi section from their reactions. Though I have noticed, at least here, that those who proclaim to be big hard sci-fi readers tend to disparage nearly everything else. They can't stand the 'stepping discs' of Niven's Puppeteers. "Too much magic."
If you get your panties into this much of twist over these type of things, are you even enjoying reading that much?
And on top of all that, it would probably been renamed "YaBing!" Which would have been great just for the amount of jokes that could have come out of that.
Would an element of intent be needed to be proven? If my company has a bad string of luck or I'm just incompetent, wouldn't it be OK then to buy back the stock? I know other companies have gone public and then rebought their stock (no, I can't think of them now, and it's not many), and I don't think anyone blinked at it.
And how the FUCK did I forget to mention Wash dying in Serenity?!?!?!!?!?
Though the AC's idea of sticking in the new series between the original and Serenity is a good idea. There is no real timeline connection between the 2, so it could run as long as it wanted to.
I think the parent was talking more about the people living near the Mississippi River that get flooded every 10 years or so (if not more often). There are large areas of the US that flood on a regular basis, and people go and rebuild there.
The only one I can think of off the top of my head is the NFL's Game Day package, which is available only via satellite in the US, but is also on cable in Canada. But you still have the option of getting a satellite. All US sports are broken up into regional areas, which mostly makes sense because I don't think a whole lot of Philadelphians want to watch the LA Clippers. But, the sports leagues also have internet packages that give you access to every game.
So I'm thinking that the situation is completely different in the US than Europe.
Except that many of the steps are automated- "The overall process is mostly automated, with McAfee's system looking for keywords on a site to classify it. We have crawlers that try to classify websites automatically." Well, isn't that nice. Shouldn't have any problems there.
For the real people- "The team also looks at more sensitive subjects, such as pornography. “In those cases, it takes a human to take a look at it, to figure out if it’s more hardcore or if it’s more of an erotic website – that’s really something that automation couldn’t do reliably.” Think about it, students looking at porn.
And, "The training is basically going through a number of websites and the various ratings so they get a basic idea. I’m not quite sure how exactly they work... You could probably start rating websites after one day of seeing various categories"
Isn't that great, a bunch of kids doing whatever after looking at porn for a day. Of course, we are talking about McAfee here. No way this can't go wrong.
Seinfeld ratings were dropping (plus it was costing a ton per episode by the end) Never watched 3rd Rock. Newsradio was a shadow of itself after Hartman got killed (bitch!) I remember watching Dark Skies, but have no idea what it was about now. Star Trek just ran itself into the ground (a prequel series, really?). Give it 5-10 years and a new one should pop up, especially since the latest movie did well. Space Above and Beyond was a great show. Great cast, nice plot. No one watched (and a crap ending).:(
I'll throw in Firefly & Sports Night with your list. But at least they ended well (Sports Night more so than Firefly, unless you add in Serenity).
That's one part of YouTube. But then there are the thousands of clips from TV shows, movies, sports, and games. The only time I see "original" content on YouTube is when someone gives me a link to a funny clip of a dog dancing or something. The rest of the time I am looking for a specific sports play, a scene from a movie/TV show, etc. About the only time I browse is when I type in "funny monkey." (Hey, I find monkeys funny)
I'd love this, too, if the original team came back. Especially Whedon and the writing crew. Unfortunately, Shepherd is dead.:( 'Castle' seems to be doing well, so don't know if you could get Fillion back any time soon. Might be best just to leave it be. Would be a shame if a revival tarnished the show.
That's the problem with the GP. Anything that can't be explained in current terms is, by default, fantasy. "Hard" scifi, in his view, just takes current tech (maybe 10 years future tech) and applies it to something we may be able to do in a decade or 3. After that, you are into the speculative region, as you pointed out quite well.
Lots of neat things have happened in the past 150 years. A whole lot more interesting things will happen in the next 150.
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"Old hobbits die hard."
Was he taking Viagra?
I have to agree that this fascination with boot/shutdown time is like some new made up metric. "My machine can boot in 32 seconds." "HA! Mine can boot in 30!" Shut the fuck up. It takes 2 seconds to sneeze, for Chupacabra's sake! And unless you're rebooting, who cares what the shutdown time is? In which case, call it "reboot time." In which case, talk about how often you have to reboot.
"Long story short: unless the code takes a turn for the worse in the next year or so, we can look forward to some speedier computing once Windows 8 is released."
Talking about hedging your bet, dude.
"Unless the US economy gets better, we can look to some more unemployment."
Unless "All you base are belong to us," it's still ours.
Unless your iPod has sex with you, lame. ("No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.")
Oh, sweet sweet Cthulhu, my timing couldn't have been worse (better?)!
Well, there were some metrics.
But you're right, when I went to the review, Ghostery popped up 15 or so trackers. Don't think I ever saw that many on one page.
Oh yeah, too Lijit to Quit.
(now where are my dance pants....)
I was thinking the same thing. I'm a fan of LE Modesitt, and none of his stuff is on the list. So what, I'll live. What I do find especially funny are the posters who are freaking out about having fantasy and sci-fi next to each other. You'd think that the Twilight series was included under the hard sci-fi section from their reactions. Though I have noticed, at least here, that those who proclaim to be big hard sci-fi readers tend to disparage nearly everything else. They can't stand the 'stepping discs' of Niven's Puppeteers. "Too much magic."
If you get your panties into this much of twist over these type of things, are you even enjoying reading that much?
And on top of all that, it would probably been renamed "YaBing!"
Which would have been great just for the amount of jokes that could have come out of that.
Would an element of intent be needed to be proven? If my company has a bad string of luck or I'm just incompetent, wouldn't it be OK then to buy back the stock? I know other companies have gone public and then rebought their stock (no, I can't think of them now, and it's not many), and I don't think anyone blinked at it.
Proper parenting would be to put the child in a playpen with a badger. Teaches the kids to be ready for Thunderdome in about 30 years.
And how the FUCK did I forget to mention Wash dying in Serenity?!?!?!!?!?
Though the AC's idea of sticking in the new series between the original and Serenity is a good idea. There is no real timeline connection between the 2, so it could run as long as it wanted to.
Ah, OK. Must have messed that up with another show (Friends?). Maybe Seinfeld was due to salary demands, then?
I think the parent was talking more about the people living near the Mississippi River that get flooded every 10 years or so (if not more often). There are large areas of the US that flood on a regular basis, and people go and rebuild there.
I just wish someone would come up with 2 different terms. One for general global warming, and one for man-made global warming.
Monkeys- all results are "banana"
Kangaroo- all results are "jumping"
Dog- "Snausages!"
Australia & Drop Bear- "best deals on caskets"
The only one I can think of off the top of my head is the NFL's Game Day package, which is available only via satellite in the US, but is also on cable in Canada. But you still have the option of getting a satellite. All US sports are broken up into regional areas, which mostly makes sense because I don't think a whole lot of Philadelphians want to watch the LA Clippers. But, the sports leagues also have internet packages that give you access to every game.
So I'm thinking that the situation is completely different in the US than Europe.
Wow, haven't heard about those suckers before. Must be pricey since I can't find prices anywhere. Cool stuff.
Wonder if Roddenberry knew about that?
Except that many of the steps are automated-
"The overall process is mostly automated, with McAfee's system looking for keywords on a site to classify it. We have crawlers that try to classify websites automatically."
Well, isn't that nice. Shouldn't have any problems there.
For the real people-
"The team also looks at more sensitive subjects, such as pornography. “In those cases, it takes a human to take a look at it, to figure out if it’s more hardcore or if it’s more of an erotic website – that’s really something that automation couldn’t do reliably.”
Think about it, students looking at porn.
And,
"The training is basically going through a number of websites and the various ratings so they get a basic idea. I’m not quite sure how exactly they work... You could probably start rating websites after one day of seeing various categories"
Isn't that great, a bunch of kids doing whatever after looking at porn for a day. Of course, we are talking about McAfee here. No way this can't go wrong.
Seinfeld ratings were dropping (plus it was costing a ton per episode by the end) :(
Never watched 3rd Rock.
Newsradio was a shadow of itself after Hartman got killed (bitch!)
I remember watching Dark Skies, but have no idea what it was about now.
Star Trek just ran itself into the ground (a prequel series, really?). Give it 5-10 years and a new one should pop up, especially since the latest movie did well.
Space Above and Beyond was a great show. Great cast, nice plot. No one watched (and a crap ending).
I'll throw in Firefly & Sports Night with your list. But at least they ended well (Sports Night more so than Firefly, unless you add in Serenity).
That's one part of YouTube. But then there are the thousands of clips from TV shows, movies, sports, and games. The only time I see "original" content on YouTube is when someone gives me a link to a funny clip of a dog dancing or something. The rest of the time I am looking for a specific sports play, a scene from a movie/TV show, etc. About the only time I browse is when I type in "funny monkey." (Hey, I find monkeys funny)
I'd love this, too, if the original team came back. Especially Whedon and the writing crew. Unfortunately, Shepherd is dead. :(
'Castle' seems to be doing well, so don't know if you could get Fillion back any time soon.
Might be best just to leave it be. Would be a shame if a revival tarnished the show.
Thought of another- Star Trek style communicator, i.e. cell/sat phones. Except ours plays Angry Birds, too!
That's the problem with the GP. Anything that can't be explained in current terms is, by default, fantasy. "Hard" scifi, in his view, just takes current tech (maybe 10 years future tech) and applies it to something we may be able to do in a decade or 3. After that, you are into the speculative region, as you pointed out quite well.
Lots of neat things have happened in the past 150 years. A whole lot more interesting things will happen in the next 150.
Replicators, sorta. As in the emerging 3D printers.
Thanks for the clarifications from everyone.