I'm sure there are lots of people who'd love Babylon 5 but just haven't got around to watching it yet. The fact that it takes about 1 1/2 series to pick up works against it but those early, seemingly pointless episodes quite often do have relevance later on!
Writing that it made me a little bit sad for SCC. The first season of B5 really was hard going and I think the only reason that the network let them carry on was because Straczynski was so insistent about his vision of a five season story arc. They could quite easily have cancelled it after season 2 and we'd never have had the greatest Sci-Fi saga ever broadcast on TV.
Maybe if Friedman had been a bit more of a visionary it'd have blossomed.
I learnt this lesson the hard way when a close friend decided to ring me at 1am to bug me about a Linux problem. I don't even remember what the issue was, he was just a bit stressed cos he'd spent hours trying to figure something out and I had promised to help him whenever he had problems.
I told him what to do in about three sentences and passed out again. This taught me you don't encourage friends to switch to Linux.
Oh, and Ubuntu is a terrible start to Linux. Debian forever! (seriously: you only install Debian once, beyond that it sorts itself out)
As harsh as the AC above is, they definitely have a point. You can't see Glau's bones in her arms and, from carefully studying all the large size pictures I found find of her on Google Image search (some of the most worthwhile studying I've ever done...) I believe that those are her natural boobs.
Breasts are pretty much the first thing to go on a woman when they stop eating - they're mostly made of fat after all. After that you can see the bones in their arms and also the bone structure in the face becomes clearly visible.
Victoria Beckham is one of the classic celebrity examples of someone who doesn't eat enough. Notice the fake breasts - you can clearly see her right nipple through that top, it points slightly up and to the right - and you can see her cheek bones far too clearly.
I'm not saying she has a proper eating disorder as that would be totally unfair and impossible for me to know. I'm just pointing out that that's what people start to look like when they do have a disorder. Obviously it can get far worse; I've known an adult woman whose weight fell to about 4 stone.
Summer Glau is physically perfect, neither too fat nor too thin. We should have her preserved, naked and petrified, for all time!
I think it works as a closed paradox. Without giving a spoiler, there is a similar paradox involving a character in Babylon 5. The Vorlons refer to him as "The Closed Circle" as he, with their help, goes back in time and leads to the circumstances that allow him to go back in time.
As a frequent rail traveller I'll take issue with that. Whilst prices have increased massively, the quality of service has improved on the West Coast Main Line. Of course that probably has something to do with the billions of pounds of public money that have been pumped into the private operators and Railtrack (now Network Rail). If British Rail had seen that amount of state funding I bet they could have done at least a good a job, if not better.
Godfrey v Demon, however, did have a chilling effect on Usenet provision in the UK because no ISP wants to have to police their Usenet service in such a fashion. Hosting a full Usenet service is (or at least was in those days) expensive just in hardware terms, adding people to police take-down notices is a burden too far.
T2 didn't give 3DR $12m. They gave Infogrames $12m because they thought the rights were worth that much. 3DR saw none of that money.
Aside from a "small advance" (no specifics besides that statement, given the sums + timeframe involved plus what publishers were giving out back then a few tens of thousands is a safe assumption) from GTI in '97, DNF has been entirely self-funded by 3DR.
This is just an attempt by T2 to grab the Duke rights from 3DR now that they have no money to defend themselves. They'll most likely argue "bad faith" because the publishing rights they bought clearly had no development schedule or milestones attached. I'll bet there's a fair amount of ego involved too, what with GeorgeB3DR telling T2 to "STFU" back in either '01 or '02.
Your post is yet another instance of someone thinking US law extends around the world...
We don't have common carriers here in the UK. If we did then we wouldn't have had Godfrey v Demon Internet Service.
To save you from a Google: Mr Godfrey sued Demon Internet because someone posted something libellous about him in a Usenet group. The court found that, by hosting Usenet servers, Demon Internet had republished the libel and were therefore liable. This is why, AFAIK, no ISPs in the UK host their own Usenet service anymore. The ISPs that do offer Usenet as part of their package use third-party providers hosted outside the UK.
Your post makes no sense. Nobody in the UK over the age of 20? So you think he makes music for teenagers and little kiddies?
The funny thing about Bragg is that whilst he's always willing to give uncritical support to the Labour regime of the day, his songs are actually quite critical of them and their policies. The track "O Freedom" from his latest album is about Labour's policy of locking up terrorist suspects without a proper trial or letting them know the evidence against them. That system has been taken apart (I think...) but it was actually worse than gitmo because these people were arrested in this country.
I'm not a fan of Bragg, mainly because I'm not a fan of folk-rock, but I know lots of people who are. Most of them are in their 20s but I'd expect that's because most of my friends are in their 20s. They're all active socialists and trade-unionists so it's to be expected that Bragg would speak to them.
If you venture outside of the mainstream, you're sure to find plenty of Bragg fans here in the UK.
If you're trying to be ironic with that post, well...
NIN and Radiohead both got their start with major labels. Interestingly Radiohead simply used the free release of In Rainbows, in low-quality 160kbps mp3, as a publicity stunt whereas you can download all of NIN's new work in better than CD quality from nin.com.
Which is why it's a limited edition. Not like that counts for much these days, my limited edition of NIN's The Slip is 64,784 out of 250,000 and I bought that a few months after it went on sale.
The data seems to have been safe against anything BUT intentional, malicious violence.
Or a freak accident in the datacentre, or theft, or a really stupid mistake by the website operator.
Depending on a failover server for backups is an accident waiting to happen. I know you don't blame a homeowner if their house gets robbed when they leave all the doors and windows open but most policies wouldn't pay out in those conditions either.
In that time I went all over the place doing every quest I could get my hands on and never once met another person
Er, what? I played Eve for a month and was constantly bumping into people. I joined a mining corp due to the promise of easy money and help with ship upgrades within my first week. The player community was fantastic and so was the game, the only thing that turned me off was the time investment required.
I find it hard to believe that you spent a month in Eve and didn't meet any other people.
T2 did not offer to buy it for $30m. They offered 3DR $5m for continued development if they handed over all the rights in return and said if 3DR didn't like it they could get the publishing rights back if they paid them $30m, meaning any other publisher would have to come up with $35m to see the game finished.
This is clearly a tactical move by T2 to acquire the Duke rights.
I was requesting a feature btw, browsers should just be smarter about javascript hosts being down. If you load a webpage that references a script from a different domain and then that script times out whilst trying to load, it wouldn't be hard to just have a record of unreachable scripts.
Every time you try to load a remote script just check against the unreachable scripts and see if it's OK to try asking for that script again. This would be great for whenever services like Google Analytics are down because they don't cause any problems when turned off but cause problems when they are timing out.
e-mail is supposed to be reliable because of its distributed nature.
You seem to be missing the point of what I'm saying. When your email server is down, you can't send or receive mail. This leads to lots of irate phone calls about why you haven't replied to or sent some email. When everyone's email is down, you get the occasional call about how it sucks that email is down because so-and-so wanted you to do <trivial task>.
Even better, more complicated things that involve moving attachments have to be postponed which leaves you to catch up with your real work! Plus nobody gets irate because everyone has the same problem.
Cloud is not offloading all mail to one central server nor putting all files to Amazon S3, it doesn't even exist yet... Right now, Cloud is just an icon for that overpriced me.com (dotmac) service:)
Yea, we've all noticed that "The Cloud" doesn't exist yet. TFS was made a comment about how scary the thought of running email on the cloud was due to the fact of it being a single point of failure, I'm making the point that's not such a bad thing.
Incidentally, the organisation I work for has a centralised email service and completely prohibits the use of all external mail services for security reasons (all the popular ones are blocked for good measure). The situation I outline above about how the occasional email downtime is a nice little break to get on with real work is from personal experience.
I look forward to a future where The Cloud makes those moments possible for all:)
Browsers should be smarter about that. Maybe if they remembered that certain hosts are down and so stop trying to load scripts from them? They could periodically retry unreachable script-hosts in the background and then ask the user if they wanted to reload all relevant tabs.
The problem with remotely hosted scripts isn't just limited to Google or cloud apps, it's a more general issue and browsers should be able to handle it with grace.
They didn't detect LSD, they detected lysergic acid. Lysergic acid is used in the production of LSD so most likely they happened to air near a clandestine lab.
When it's just your mail server down, everyone else gets annoyed at you because you're not {gett,receiv}ing mail they're {sending, expecting from} you. When the cloud is down, everyone can just chill and be thankful that they're not going to log on to find a whole stream of new emails.
This sucks for docs though but using a completely cloud based doc solution is a bit mental. Even if you're mobile it's best to have a local copy to save on battery life.
I think full regular expression support is a very bad thing to expose to the general public even if you have the computing power of Google: it'd be a recipe for a DoS attack.
Whilst you could safeguard against simple regex that are designed to consume massive amounts of CPU without actually matching anything (worthwhile) for anything non-trivial the only way to find out if it's going to eat up lots of CPU or what it's going to match is to execute it.
Better symbol matching and proper literal string matches would be nice though.
BTW, you can do alternation: (regex|"regular expression").
Why does manually changing DNS servers work only temporarily? Can't you just host a DNS server and give your employees the IP for that? It'd mean having to service DNS requests for all your employees private internet usage plus it might break some CDNs but it seems like the simplest solution.
You could also loan employees suitable ADSL / cable routers that you configure, something with a decent small DNS server in it that you can configure to serve your intranet hostnames but defer to the users ISP for internet hosts. Obviously that's expensive though.
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It was a crisis for him, and as far as I'm concerned he's a total sweetie. And it was a weekend.
It's good to have friends you can be like that with, ya know?
I'm sure there are lots of people who'd love Babylon 5 but just haven't got around to watching it yet. The fact that it takes about 1 1/2 series to pick up works against it but those early, seemingly pointless episodes quite often do have relevance later on!
Writing that it made me a little bit sad for SCC. The first season of B5 really was hard going and I think the only reason that the network let them carry on was because Straczynski was so insistent about his vision of a five season story arc. They could quite easily have cancelled it after season 2 and we'd never have had the greatest Sci-Fi saga ever broadcast on TV.
Maybe if Friedman had been a bit more of a visionary it'd have blossomed.
No! No!
Please mod the parent down to 2. Moderation hints shouldn't be moderated up themselves.
If they're offensive then mod them down, of course.
I learnt this lesson the hard way when a close friend decided to ring me at 1am to bug me about a Linux problem. I don't even remember what the issue was, he was just a bit stressed cos he'd spent hours trying to figure something out and I had promised to help him whenever he had problems.
I told him what to do in about three sentences and passed out again. This taught me you don't encourage friends to switch to Linux.
Oh, and Ubuntu is a terrible start to Linux. Debian forever! (seriously: you only install Debian once, beyond that it sorts itself out)
As harsh as the AC above is, they definitely have a point. You can't see Glau's bones in her arms and, from carefully studying all the large size pictures I found find of her on Google Image search (some of the most worthwhile studying I've ever done...) I believe that those are her natural boobs.
Breasts are pretty much the first thing to go on a woman when they stop eating - they're mostly made of fat after all. After that you can see the bones in their arms and also the bone structure in the face becomes clearly visible.
Victoria Beckham is one of the classic celebrity examples of someone who doesn't eat enough. Notice the fake breasts - you can clearly see her right nipple through that top, it points slightly up and to the right - and you can see her cheek bones far too clearly.
I'm not saying she has a proper eating disorder as that would be totally unfair and impossible for me to know. I'm just pointing out that that's what people start to look like when they do have a disorder. Obviously it can get far worse; I've known an adult woman whose weight fell to about 4 stone.
Summer Glau is physically perfect, neither too fat nor too thin. We should have her preserved, naked and petrified, for all time!
I think it works as a closed paradox. Without giving a spoiler, there is a similar paradox involving a character in Babylon 5. The Vorlons refer to him as "The Closed Circle" as he, with their help, goes back in time and leads to the circumstances that allow him to go back in time.
As a frequent rail traveller I'll take issue with that. Whilst prices have increased massively, the quality of service has improved on the West Coast Main Line. Of course that probably has something to do with the billions of pounds of public money that have been pumped into the private operators and Railtrack (now Network Rail). If British Rail had seen that amount of state funding I bet they could have done at least a good a job, if not better.
I think that was the point :)
That's a very fair point and it's taken.
Godfrey v Demon, however, did have a chilling effect on Usenet provision in the UK because no ISP wants to have to police their Usenet service in such a fashion. Hosting a full Usenet service is (or at least was in those days) expensive just in hardware terms, adding people to police take-down notices is a burden too far.
Late reply, but...
T2 didn't give 3DR $12m. They gave Infogrames $12m because they thought the rights were worth that much. 3DR saw none of that money.
Aside from a "small advance" (no specifics besides that statement, given the sums + timeframe involved plus what publishers were giving out back then a few tens of thousands is a safe assumption) from GTI in '97, DNF has been entirely self-funded by 3DR.
This is just an attempt by T2 to grab the Duke rights from 3DR now that they have no money to defend themselves. They'll most likely argue "bad faith" because the publishing rights they bought clearly had no development schedule or milestones attached. I'll bet there's a fair amount of ego involved too, what with GeorgeB3DR telling T2 to "STFU" back in either '01 or '02.
Your post is yet another instance of someone thinking US law extends around the world...
We don't have common carriers here in the UK. If we did then we wouldn't have had Godfrey v Demon Internet Service.
To save you from a Google: Mr Godfrey sued Demon Internet because someone posted something libellous about him in a Usenet group. The court found that, by hosting Usenet servers, Demon Internet had republished the libel and were therefore liable. This is why, AFAIK, no ISPs in the UK host their own Usenet service anymore. The ISPs that do offer Usenet as part of their package use third-party providers hosted outside the UK.
There is no common carrier defence in UK law.
Your post makes no sense. Nobody in the UK over the age of 20? So you think he makes music for teenagers and little kiddies?
The funny thing about Bragg is that whilst he's always willing to give uncritical support to the Labour regime of the day, his songs are actually quite critical of them and their policies. The track "O Freedom" from his latest album is about Labour's policy of locking up terrorist suspects without a proper trial or letting them know the evidence against them. That system has been taken apart (I think...) but it was actually worse than gitmo because these people were arrested in this country.
I'm not a fan of Bragg, mainly because I'm not a fan of folk-rock, but I know lots of people who are. Most of them are in their 20s but I'd expect that's because most of my friends are in their 20s. They're all active socialists and trade-unionists so it's to be expected that Bragg would speak to them.
If you venture outside of the mainstream, you're sure to find plenty of Bragg fans here in the UK.
If you're trying to be ironic with that post, well...
NIN and Radiohead both got their start with major labels. Interestingly Radiohead simply used the free release of In Rainbows, in low-quality 160kbps mp3, as a publicity stunt whereas you can download all of NIN's new work in better than CD quality from nin.com.
It's all about sales.
Which is why it's a limited edition. Not like that counts for much these days, my limited edition of NIN's The Slip is 64,784 out of 250,000 and I bought that a few months after it went on sale.
The data seems to have been safe against anything BUT intentional, malicious violence.
Or a freak accident in the datacentre, or theft, or a really stupid mistake by the website operator.
Depending on a failover server for backups is an accident waiting to happen. I know you don't blame a homeowner if their house gets robbed when they leave all the doors and windows open but most policies wouldn't pay out in those conditions either.
It's just an incredible level of negligence.
In that time I went all over the place doing every quest I could get my hands on and never once met another person
Er, what? I played Eve for a month and was constantly bumping into people. I joined a mining corp due to the promise of easy money and help with ship upgrades within my first week. The player community was fantastic and so was the game, the only thing that turned me off was the time investment required.
I find it hard to believe that you spent a month in Eve and didn't meet any other people.
T2 did not offer to buy it for $30m. They offered 3DR $5m for continued development if they handed over all the rights in return and said if 3DR didn't like it they could get the publishing rights back if they paid them $30m, meaning any other publisher would have to come up with $35m to see the game finished.
This is clearly a tactical move by T2 to acquire the Duke rights.
What does the unicorn burger taste like in this mystical land in which you live?
HEATHEN!
I love unicorns and I won't let you eat them!
I was requesting a feature btw, browsers should just be smarter about javascript hosts being down. If you load a webpage that references a script from a different domain and then that script times out whilst trying to load, it wouldn't be hard to just have a record of unreachable scripts.
Every time you try to load a remote script just check against the unreachable scripts and see if it's OK to try asking for that script again. This would be great for whenever services like Google Analytics are down because they don't cause any problems when turned off but cause problems when they are timing out.
e-mail is supposed to be reliable because of its distributed nature.
You seem to be missing the point of what I'm saying. When your email server is down, you can't send or receive mail. This leads to lots of irate phone calls about why you haven't replied to or sent some email. When everyone's email is down, you get the occasional call about how it sucks that email is down because so-and-so wanted you to do <trivial task>.
Even better, more complicated things that involve moving attachments have to be postponed which leaves you to catch up with your real work! Plus nobody gets irate because everyone has the same problem.
Cloud is not offloading all mail to one central server nor putting all files to Amazon S3, it doesn't even exist yet ... Right now, Cloud is just an icon for that overpriced me.com (dotmac) service :)
Yea, we've all noticed that "The Cloud" doesn't exist yet. TFS was made a comment about how scary the thought of running email on the cloud was due to the fact of it being a single point of failure, I'm making the point that's not such a bad thing.
Incidentally, the organisation I work for has a centralised email service and completely prohibits the use of all external mail services for security reasons (all the popular ones are blocked for good measure). The situation I outline above about how the occasional email downtime is a nice little break to get on with real work is from personal experience.
I look forward to a future where The Cloud makes those moments possible for all :)
Browsers should be smarter about that. Maybe if they remembered that certain hosts are down and so stop trying to load scripts from them? They could periodically retry unreachable script-hosts in the background and then ask the user if they wanted to reload all relevant tabs.
The problem with remotely hosted scripts isn't just limited to Google or cloud apps, it's a more general issue and browsers should be able to handle it with grace.
happened to air
Doh, happened to sample air...
They didn't detect LSD, they detected lysergic acid. Lysergic acid is used in the production of LSD so most likely they happened to air near a clandestine lab.
Methinks a weekend in Madrid is in order :)
When it's just your mail server down, everyone else gets annoyed at you because you're not {gett,receiv}ing mail they're {sending, expecting from} you. When the cloud is down, everyone can just chill and be thankful that they're not going to log on to find a whole stream of new emails.
This sucks for docs though but using a completely cloud based doc solution is a bit mental. Even if you're mobile it's best to have a local copy to save on battery life.
I think full regular expression support is a very bad thing to expose to the general public even if you have the computing power of Google: it'd be a recipe for a DoS attack.
Whilst you could safeguard against simple regex that are designed to consume massive amounts of CPU without actually matching anything (worthwhile) for anything non-trivial the only way to find out if it's going to eat up lots of CPU or what it's going to match is to execute it.
Better symbol matching and proper literal string matches would be nice though.
BTW, you can do alternation: (regex|"regular expression").
Failing that...
Why does manually changing DNS servers work only temporarily? Can't you just host a DNS server and give your employees the IP for that? It'd mean having to service DNS requests for all your employees private internet usage plus it might break some CDNs but it seems like the simplest solution.
You could also loan employees suitable ADSL / cable routers that you configure, something with a decent small DNS server in it that you can configure to serve your intranet hostnames but defer to the users ISP for internet hosts. Obviously that's expensive though.