"Fizzled" is perhaps too strong a word. Wing Commander IV arguably had better plot, acting, and even gameplay than Wing Commander III (even if the Kilrathi were not as prominent, and the enemy wasn't as clear-cut... felt more like Firefly than Last Starfighter). Wing Commander Prophecy, despite gradually being overshadowed by the FreeSpace series, seemed to do OK even without Roberts' guidance.
Still, you're highly right in that without its vision, most game (or television, or movie) series disintegrate rapidly.
Turner does indeed suck! But not Ted, necessarily.
Actually, Ted no longer has a major role at Turner Broadcasting... it's just a minor cog in the $50b-losing AOLTW Vamp-I mean Empire.
Kellner was one of the key figures in forcing him out, if I'm not mistaken.
Kellner also decried Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I have no sympathy for the man. Why doesn't he go get more Smallville episodes, without-credit ripping off the Bruce Wayne concept that was proposed two years before?
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Of course, Handspring tends to customize their OSes heavily to fit their hardware. 3.1H and 3.5.2H(x) are relatively substantial retrofits. I love the fact that the PalmOS is such a streamlined, efficient tool. I think as its own company, focused on the OS, they could really do some good. OTOH it could shake Palm's grip on the market further... but if the market really expands, hey, maybe there's room.
But Hewlett-Com-Packard will probably follow PriceWaterhouseCoopers' example and come up with some ridiculous combi-logo defying all aesthetic and practical logic.
Like a big string of cursive characters with random capitalizations and fonts embedded.
(Also, all our HP calculators will have to change their branding).
Time to fire up the GIMP and get cracking with a new subject logo!
The trick here is that when the trial started, Netscape was griping that IE would somehow find its way to being the dominant browser due to Microsoft's sneaky tricks and evil influence.
The year is 2000. Educated guess is that MSIE claims more than 60% of the browser market. If Windows and IE had been split two years ago, it would have been a whole different story-- Netscape could have retained its dominance on the Windows platform before MSIE and Win95/98 had all their APIs happily fused into a homogeneous juggernaut.
On the other hand, at this point, two companies would see the IE people leverage their Windows dominance to grab the other OSes. If MS's breakup does as much damage to the Windows monopoly as [we] all hope, then it will be much more critical for Netscape (AOL?) to retain cross-platform dominance.
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Firefly, like Futurama, was something we hadn't seen before at all. What's amazing is how well they were done off the bat.
"Fizzled" is perhaps too strong a word. Wing Commander IV arguably had better plot, acting, and even gameplay than Wing Commander III (even if the Kilrathi were not as prominent, and the enemy wasn't as clear-cut... felt more like Firefly than Last Starfighter). Wing Commander Prophecy, despite gradually being overshadowed by the FreeSpace series, seemed to do OK even without Roberts' guidance.
Still, you're highly right in that without its vision, most game (or television, or movie) series disintegrate rapidly.
Turner does indeed suck! But not Ted, necessarily.
Actually, Ted no longer has a major role at Turner Broadcasting... it's just a minor cog in the $50b-losing AOLTW Vamp-I mean Empire.
Kellner was one of the key figures in forcing him out, if I'm not mistaken.
Kellner also decried Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I have no sympathy for the man. Why doesn't he go get more Smallville episodes, without-credit ripping off the Bruce Wayne concept that was proposed two years before?
Of course, Handspring tends to customize their OSes heavily to fit their hardware. 3.1H and 3.5.2H(x) are relatively substantial retrofits. I love the fact that the PalmOS is such a streamlined, efficient tool. I think as its own company, focused on the OS, they could really do some good. OTOH it could shake Palm's grip on the market further... but if the market really expands, hey, maybe there's room.
Arr, it may be redundant.
But Hewlett-Com-Packard will probably follow PriceWaterhouseCoopers' example and come up with some ridiculous combi-logo defying all aesthetic and practical logic.
Like a big string of cursive characters with random capitalizations and fonts embedded.
(Also, all our HP calculators will have to change their branding).
Time to fire up the GIMP and get cracking with a new subject logo!
The trick here is that when the trial started, Netscape was griping that IE would somehow find its way to being the dominant browser due to Microsoft's sneaky tricks and evil influence.
The year is 2000. Educated guess is that MSIE claims more than 60% of the browser market. If Windows and IE had been split two years ago, it would have been a whole different story-- Netscape could have retained its dominance on the Windows platform before MSIE and Win95/98 had all their APIs happily fused into a homogeneous juggernaut.
On the other hand, at this point, two companies would see the IE people leverage their Windows dominance to grab the other OSes. If MS's breakup does as much damage to the Windows monopoly as [we] all hope, then it will be much more critical for Netscape (AOL?) to retain cross-platform dominance.
Look at that, my Loonie is up.