"Early on, B5 was compared to Trek, but it turned out to be something different."
Actually at a certain point, people started comparing Trek to B5. Unfavorably. (Particularly when DS9 introduced the conflict with the Klingons, as well as longer story arcs...many people thought it was contrived as a response to B5.)
That is true...it's hard to figure out what's going on in the series without checking out the Web pages, and you really have to watch about three episodes in a row before you start figuring out who's doing what to whom, and why. But it's worth the effort.
For the record, the first B5 episode I saw was "A Distant Star," mid-season 2. It took some time, but I managed to figure things out from there, especially since "The Coming of Shadows," a key plot-point episode, came not long thereafter. I later picked up the early episodes I'd missed when TNT started playing them.
How much did my wife and I love the series? If you look on the inside of our wedding bands, you'll see inscribed there: "Faith manages." (from "Confessions and Lamentations," season 2)
"Who am I? I am Susan Ivanova. Commander. Daughter of Andrei and Sophie Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance and the boot that is going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart. I am Death incarnate, and the last living thing that you're ever going to see. God sent me."
And, with that, her White Star begins opening a serious can of whoop-ass on the Earthforce ships...
I have seen both Bush/Cheney and Pete Coors (Republican Senate candidate) signs defaced with swastikas near my workplace in Wheat Ridge. (There are also large signs for Congressman Bob Beauprez (also Republican) nearby, but I haven't seen any vandalism to them...probably because Beauprez' campaign headquarters is in this same office park.)
It makes me want to say, "Whoever's doing this, STOP. This is uncool and un-American."
(And boy, am I glad I've already locked in my vote...thank heaven for early voting in Colorado.)
The new JibJab animation uses the tune of "Dixie," which is quite a bit older than "This Land Is Your Land." I'm not quite sure how old, but I do know that Abraham Lincoln ordered it played shortly after Lee's surrender in the Civil War, suggesting it was well-known as of 1865. It's decidedly in the public domain by now!
I know that businesses have now started to implement messaging programs for their internal networks.
Uh-huh. At the place I work now, we implemented this not long ago. (Ironically, I had to help one of the network guys fix up the jabberd config file so everything worked.) With IM plus a "chat room" for the company, it saves a lot of time E-mailing, telephoning, or walking around.
Good strategy. I don't mod down very often myself; most frequently, I look for posts scored 3 that are deserving of being tipped "over the edge" to make them always-visible, and give them the little push they need.
Actually, Apple has been supporting this protocol, in their iChat software. It uses Rendezvous to get two nodes connected, but the message traffic between them is XMPP.
For anybody reading this: This is based on the movie The Right Stuff, in which Gordo Cooper would ask, "Who's the best pilot you ever saw?" and, when his listener was stumped, would say, "You're looking at him."
One would presume that, after St. Peter delivered that last line, Gordo would bust out laughing, and St. Peter would wave him through, saying, "Go on, Gordo, Al and Gus are waitin' for ya..."
I know that this represents the culmination of many years of effort on the part of many people, both at Jabber Inc. and in the open-source community, especially Peter Saint-Andre, Jabber architect and evangelist extraordinaire. And, of course, without Jeremie Miller, none of this would even exist.
To all my former colleagues: this is an historic day for Jabber, for instant messaging, and for the Internet. Congratulations!
A very sad milestone on a day already marked by two other great space milestones. Let us pledge to carry on our efforts to reach out into space, so that Gordo's heroics, and those of all those other astronauts, will not have been in vain.
As for the knowledge of the processor, I did mention that I have Gene Kranz's book, Failure Is Not An Option. (A signed copy, yet.) He talked about the simulation run and the computer errors in the chapter entitled, "SimSup Wins The Final Round." (The book even discusses the software patch they had to make for Apollo 14 to lock out the abort switch--the one the author of the simulator gives as a "Final Exam"--but only in general terms.) But I've always been a nut for space stuff; I'm the sort of geek who gets misty-eyed at the end of Apollo 13, and who can follow along with all the major milestones of a Shuttle launch from T-9:00 to MECO.
(No, I never worked for NASA, if that's what you're thinking. Unfortunate for me.:-) )
Right...1201 was "Executive overflow - no vacant areas." The computer was simply unable to complete all its jobs in the course of a major cycle.
Gene Kranz's book Failure Is Not An Option talks about simulating the moon landing, and seeing 1201 alarms coming up and the controllers unable to deal with them. Kranz ordered an abort after a 1201 alarm...but it turned out that was the wrong thing to do. Dick Koos, the simulation supervisor, told him, "This was not an abort. You should have continued the landing. The 1201 computer alarm said the computer was operating to an internal priority. If the guidance was working, the control jets were firing, and the crew displays updating, all the mission-critical tasks were getting done." They wound up figuring out rules on which program alarms would terminate descent...and the list did not include the 1201 or 1202 (similar) alarms.
Good thing, too, because both of those alarms occurred on Apollo 11's descent. Buzz Aldrin reported that it seemed to happen when they had a computer display of time, range-to-go, and altitude up. They continued the landing, which was eventually successful; the alarms didn't seem to affect the LM computer performance any.
I think he's confused Star Trek with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Specifically, the Joo Janta 200 Superchromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses, which turn totally black at the first sign of danger.
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Of course, they seemed to stick to straightforward draw or stud games on the Enterprise...I never once saw them playing Texas Hold'em.
From the article: "Neither Kroger Co., with 2,500 supermarkets and multi-department stores, nor Wal-Mart Stores Inc., with 1,500 stores that sell groceries, have groceries online."
Not quite true. King Soopers, a Denver-area chain owned by Kroger, has a service called "HomeShop." It is available in our area, but I've never tried it.
The author also left out the desireability of taking Advanced Placement examinations and getting college credit for them. I myself took two years' worth of calculus in high school, got a score of 5 (top score) on both AP exams, and, as a result, got 10 units' credit and credit for 2 quarters of calculus in college.
I also took AP US History and Physics, got a 5 on one and a 4 on the other, and racked up an additional 15 units plus a few other requirements knocked off. The added units meant that I was considered a "sophomore" after my first quarter of college, which gave me higher priority at scheduling time (and less time spent waiting in long Schedule Adjustment lines). And I understand that a lot of kids these days are doing even better than I did at the AP game...
The "arms race" has definitely begun. And, from all indications thusfar, this one will be hard-fought.
In the end, though, if this stays a technology arms race, Apple will lose. Why? Because most of the smart people in the world don't work for Apple. (That's also true even for Microsoft, incidentally.)
Apple will have to take another tack if they want to preserve the integrity of the iTunes DRM. What that'll be, I dunno, but I hope they don't resort to suing their customers.
Well, I personally have gotten spam from them (or, if not technically "from" them, at least, it was advertising their services), and I've never been a customer of theirs, or filled out any forms on their site, or had anything to do with them. And, until I see some evidence that they're not spamming, I never will be a customer of theirs, either.
You're right, the E-mails you've gotten from them aren't spam. Doesn't mean they're blameless, though, as we're clearly talking about two different things.
I decided not to do business with Netflix a while back, because they send spam. (That's not my page, but the guy who posted it apparently got the same spam messages I did.) I encourage everybody to avoid doing business with them until they stop abusing our inboxes.
He was unhappy with the way Netscape had handled Mozilla, and with the way AOL was handling, well, pretty much everything really. He says, "Now I'm in a more honest line of work: now I sell beer."
Got news for you...all console makers sell their product below cost, and have for many years. They make it up on the games, though, which actually winds up making them more money than in the days of $300 consoles and $30 games. (Keep in mind that the console makers collect license fees even on third-party game titles, because the titles have to be officially licensed to run on the consoles. This not only ensures a revenue stream, but keeps third-party publishers from flooding the market with cheap, crappy games, which is part of what caused the video game crash of 1983.)
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Actually at a certain point, people started comparing Trek to B5. Unfavorably. (Particularly when DS9 introduced the conflict with the Klingons, as well as longer story arcs...many people thought it was contrived as a response to B5.)
For the record, the first B5 episode I saw was "A Distant Star," mid-season 2. It took some time, but I managed to figure things out from there, especially since "The Coming of Shadows," a key plot-point episode, came not long thereafter. I later picked up the early episodes I'd missed when TNT started playing them.
How much did my wife and I love the series? If you look on the inside of our wedding bands, you'll see inscribed there: "Faith manages." (from "Confessions and Lamentations," season 2)
And, with that, her White Star begins opening a serious can of whoop-ass on the Earthforce ships...
Hey, if Andre's going to be our new overlord, I'm down with that. :-)
It makes me want to say, "Whoever's doing this, STOP. This is uncool and un-American."
(And boy, am I glad I've already locked in my vote...thank heaven for early voting in Colorado.)
The new JibJab animation uses the tune of "Dixie," which is quite a bit older than "This Land Is Your Land." I'm not quite sure how old, but I do know that Abraham Lincoln ordered it played shortly after Lee's surrender in the Civil War, suggesting it was well-known as of 1865. It's decidedly in the public domain by now!
Uh-huh. At the place I work now, we implemented this not long ago. (Ironically, I had to help one of the network guys fix up the jabberd config file so everything worked.) With IM plus a "chat room" for the company, it saves a lot of time E-mailing, telephoning, or walking around.
Good strategy. I don't mod down very often myself; most frequently, I look for posts scored 3 that are deserving of being tipped "over the edge" to make them always-visible, and give them the little push they need.
Actually, Apple has been supporting this protocol, in their iChat software. It uses Rendezvous to get two nodes connected, but the message traffic between them is XMPP.
One would presume that, after St. Peter delivered that last line, Gordo would bust out laughing, and St. Peter would wave him through, saying, "Go on, Gordo, Al and Gus are waitin' for ya..."
To all my former colleagues: this is an historic day for Jabber, for instant messaging, and for the Internet. Congratulations!
Erbo - Former employee, Jabber Inc., Denver, CO
"Go, Hot Dog, GO!!!!!"
A very sad milestone on a day already marked by two other great space milestones. Let us pledge to carry on our efforts to reach out into space, so that Gordo's heroics, and those of all those other astronauts, will not have been in vain.
As for the knowledge of the processor, I did mention that I have Gene Kranz's book, Failure Is Not An Option. (A signed copy, yet.) He talked about the simulation run and the computer errors in the chapter entitled, "SimSup Wins The Final Round." (The book even discusses the software patch they had to make for Apollo 14 to lock out the abort switch--the one the author of the simulator gives as a "Final Exam"--but only in general terms.) But I've always been a nut for space stuff; I'm the sort of geek who gets misty-eyed at the end of Apollo 13, and who can follow along with all the major milestones of a Shuttle launch from T-9:00 to MECO.
(No, I never worked for NASA, if that's what you're thinking. Unfortunate for me. :-) )
Gene Kranz's book Failure Is Not An Option talks about simulating the moon landing, and seeing 1201 alarms coming up and the controllers unable to deal with them. Kranz ordered an abort after a 1201 alarm...but it turned out that was the wrong thing to do. Dick Koos, the simulation supervisor, told him, "This was not an abort. You should have continued the landing. The 1201 computer alarm said the computer was operating to an internal priority. If the guidance was working, the control jets were firing, and the crew displays updating, all the mission-critical tasks were getting done." They wound up figuring out rules on which program alarms would terminate descent...and the list did not include the 1201 or 1202 (similar) alarms.
Good thing, too, because both of those alarms occurred on Apollo 11's descent. Buzz Aldrin reported that it seemed to happen when they had a computer display of time, range-to-go, and altitude up. They continued the landing, which was eventually successful; the alarms didn't seem to affect the LM computer performance any.
I think he's confused Star Trek with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Specifically, the Joo Janta 200 Superchromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses, which turn totally black at the first sign of danger.
Of course, they seemed to stick to straightforward draw or stud games on the Enterprise...I never once saw them playing Texas Hold'em.
That was my thought...they violated the Eleventh Commandment.
Not quite true. King Soopers, a Denver-area chain owned by Kroger, has a service called "HomeShop." It is available in our area, but I've never tried it.
I also took AP US History and Physics, got a 5 on one and a 4 on the other, and racked up an additional 15 units plus a few other requirements knocked off. The added units meant that I was considered a "sophomore" after my first quarter of college, which gave me higher priority at scheduling time (and less time spent waiting in long Schedule Adjustment lines). And I understand that a lot of kids these days are doing even better than I did at the AP game...
In the end, though, if this stays a technology arms race, Apple will lose. Why? Because most of the smart people in the world don't work for Apple. (That's also true even for Microsoft, incidentally.)
Apple will have to take another tack if they want to preserve the integrity of the iTunes DRM. What that'll be, I dunno, but I hope they don't resort to suing their customers.
You're right, the E-mails you've gotten from them aren't spam. Doesn't mean they're blameless, though, as we're clearly talking about two different things.
I decided not to do business with Netflix a while back, because they send spam. (That's not my page, but the guy who posted it apparently got the same spam messages I did.) I encourage everybody to avoid doing business with them until they stop abusing our inboxes.
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nscp/aol (Part 2)
He was unhappy with the way Netscape had handled Mozilla, and with the way AOL was handling, well, pretty much everything really. He says, "Now I'm in a more honest line of work: now I sell beer."
Got news for you...all console makers sell their product below cost, and have for many years. They make it up on the games, though, which actually winds up making them more money than in the days of $300 consoles and $30 games. (Keep in mind that the console makers collect license fees even on third-party game titles, because the titles have to be officially licensed to run on the consoles. This not only ensures a revenue stream, but keeps third-party publishers from flooding the market with cheap, crappy games, which is part of what caused the video game crash of 1983.)