If GEICO, Allstate and a few other biggies were smart, they'd foot the bills to equip various police departments of large metropolitan areas.
For example, here in the D.C. area, it might be cheaper for said insurance companies to help equip the Montgomery & PG county police on the MD side, rather than have to reimburse owners for stolen Lexus', Hondas and Toyotas (even though they rarely, if ever give you the full value).
It might also save them the costs of having to repair stolen vehicles that are recovered.
My father used to tell me stories of when he was stationed in WWII in the Aleutian Islands, preparing as a SeaBee for the invasion of Japan. One of the stories that continued to amaze him was the deployment of Native Americans to handle communications, now populary referred to as Code Talkers.
Not only did they transmit messages in code, but they added a nice little touch, all transmissions were forwarded in their native dialects. Both my father and I would chortle at the prostpect of some enemy intercept trying to figure out Cherokee.
It makes me wonder, especially when you consider the costs of snooping everone's transmissions... if it just wouldn't be too expensive if we not only encrypted our transmissions, but perhaps had an IRC in which we could roll our own dialects via tools like Bison in which only you, and your buddy on the other end would possess the necessary grammar file.
Sure, I'm sure the employer and their lawyers could still crack it... but perhaps the process would become so expensive that they'll just move onto hammering the putz down the hall who continues to spew open text.
Boycotts are a funny thing. They often don't work unless you get a huge majority to play along. I can see it now... a bunch of publishers boycott amazon... yeah, I said publishers, mostly because authors aren't the guys doing the book distribution.
So let's say Sybex pulls out, but then O'Reilly begins to gobble up their market share. How long do you think it'll be before Sybex authors start screaming at their publisher to sell on Amazon ?
Second, many publishers offer books to authors at 40% or 50% off... so... an enterprising author buys 100 of his own books, sells them as "used" or "almost new"... and authographed.... and if possible, via his own affiliates site. The person who gets the short end... the publisher.
There's also one other side to this story. Like drugs, practices like selling used books won't go away as long as there is demand. For example, I recently purchases a book on setting up a BeoWulf cluster, another on XML-PRC and yet another on SOAP... each for about $18... well below their sticker-shock prices of $30 to $40. For me, it was alot easier than slugging it out on E-Bay...
... which is where these books would be sold if Amazon wasn't offering them straight-up.
I was just thinking about incorporateing a Google search on my websites after an impressive experience with a few websites that employed their Free WebSearch plus SiteSearch feature.
This is even better. With this feature, I'll be able to SSI and/or push results using something as simple as SoapLite to get the job done.
I sure hope other content providers are taking note. Imagine how useful (not to much fun) it would be to snap up stuff from places like MoreOver.Com?
Yup, that's what the salesman told us back in 1984 or 1985 in some computer store downtown NYC.
My friend/co-worker, Mike X. decided to go to CompuLand or something like that, to see the new line of PC clones. When we got to the store, someone straight out of Saturday Night Fever began to pitch us a system with the integrity of a used car salesmen.
When we started asking questions about the operating system, he perceptively asked us, with a wonderfully Broolynese accent "... you guys are programmers, right ?"
He went on, now with a bit of body English "... well I'm a programmer, you're a programmer... you know... you can write your own operating system... I did."
Appearently Mike had the same thought at the same moment I did... only he voice his "... hey, if you can write an operating system, what are you doing here ?"
Needless to say, the salesguy left us alone from therein.
A quick trip to the IEEE's online store, and about $300 bucks will give you all the gory details you need to measure software quality... provided you consider that software quality synonyous with programmer productivity.
For example. In grad school, we took the 1992, IEEE Standard for a Software Quality Metrics Methodology, along with GNU Flex, and wrote a program that would slice-n-dice C & C++ programs against a table of measureable metrics for code readability and reusability.
Of course, we had a blast testing it against winning entries from the 9th International Obfuscated C Code Contest. But we also noticed that there were just some things that it would never be able to test. For exmaple, while our little app spotted code that was uncommented, it could not tell us whether or not the comments were useful or relevant.
Point is, judging code and productivity is always (or at least until HR offices are equipped with Beowulf's) going to have a subjective element. Because lets' face it, when it comes down to it, many bosses really only care that the job gets done on-time and under-budget.
Or what's that great line from the movie "War Games"... Hell, I'd piss on a spark plug if I thought it'd help.
... consider the following partial-prohibition legislations. The Brady Bill and the Clean Air Act. Like them or hate them, their effectiveness is limited because determined manufacterers found loopholes. In the case of fire arms, the manufacterers made some cosemetic and title changes, essentially selling the same weapon under a different name or classification. Same is true with emissions standards, where the auto makers created an entirely new vernacular to get around the law.
Obviously this bill is aimed at MSFT. Like them or hate them, I would think their lawyers might employ similar tactics to get around the letter of the law. They're selling "services"... perhaphs via an offshore offshoot names PatchSoft... only they're not kiddng around.
Once again, only penalizing those of us who can't afford big-bad lawyers with even larger price tags.
... what I find scary was that the company for whom I worked for at the time sent me to Hong Kong back in 95 to show them a biometric identification system.
It was a system similar to INSPASS, only it did NOT offer a 14 character OCR-B/passport-like encoding of the Hand Geometry, but instead had on a GemPlus card both a facial and a fingerprint image.
Of course, having several former Hong Kong natives on my development team, they warned me that it was likely that we wouldn't "sell" the system... but rather give them opportunity for reverse engineering.
The demonstration was very interesting. It was at their version of "Customs" department. Most of the individuals we came into contact were warm, friendly and knowledgable. However during the actual demonstration, there were a couple of very cheap suits (unusual for Hong Kong) in the back of the room, asking questions in Chinese.
No surprise when the hardware we sent over got hung up by their "Customs" for several weeks before it came back to us. I sure hope they didn't get too pissed when I low-level formatted the hard drive before we left the country.
I'd be very interested in seeing the system now. They had at the time asked some questions like, can we use it to trigger a door lock... a design version that was essentially a glass man-trap.
Later that day, I visited with a missionary who just got out of prison for smuggling Bibles into the mainland. I cried when Hong Kong was turned back over to the Chinese.
It was one of the most beautiful and intriguing places I had ever visited.
... just so long as I never have to program on Sequent iron, and that it's insidious operating system ever again. Of course, that was 10 years ago when Dynix, trying to be the best of both worlds, was really neither ATT nor Berkly !
... of coure the other problem was indeed the expense, leaving us in situations where we had to program at odd hours and off-days because the client couldn't affort a "development" machine.
... two issues which I would hope are sovled a 16-way Xeon for $2K... hence, making it a REAL-world bargain.
I think someone else made the comparison between Java and Object Pascal, so I won't go there, except to quote Hejlsberg.
"First of all, C# is not a Java clone. In the design of C#, we looked at a lot of languages. We looked at C++, we looked at Java, at Modula 2, C, and we looked at Smalltalk. There are just so many languages that have the same core ideas that we're interested in, such as deep object-orientation, object-simplification, and so on."
I guess the killer question is, is this lawsuit really a veiled threat because of the potential success C#, or because XP doesn't include the Java VM?
I for one cannot say. Both of these giants are vying for world domination, one through J2EE, the other through.NET. Which one will win, I can't say.
As a programmer, I just want tools that help me get the job done so I can go home and play with the kids at night.
As a programmer, Sun and Microsoft matter to me only in that I need to be able to deliver products that are stable, fast and flexible.
Which is why much of my previous Java programming on Win32 platforms used the MSFT runtime versus Sun's. Yes, I was coding myself into an evil-empire box, but that's what the client wanted, despite my warnings.
One of the reasons I used the MSFT runtime was because it was fast-fast-fast, and it was much easier (at least for me) to instantiate windows, COM services, etc. than it was via straight-up J2EE.
If I were Sun, what I would have done was NOT sued them to remove it, and NOT sue them now to put it back in... but rather I would say "we can sue you... or you can teach us how to improve our runtime on Win32 as well as other operating systems."
Oh wait, I just snapped-back into reality.. I fofgot there are egos on both sides.. and much to be gained and lost financially and in terms of world domination.
While findings could be used by "either side of the origins debate", as you so interestingly put it, it does support your claim that we're merely at the end of the beginning of scientific discovery.
A prospect that both thrills me and frightens me all at once.
I do to things to my websites. One is a link not visible to the naked eye called "email.html" or "contacts.html"... which of course leads to a spam-chaff page.
Another link, who's color is the same as the page, and is very small print, located somewhere where the user usually doesn't click... is a mailto:abuse@[127.0.0.1]...
Now if I could just figure out a quick way to replace [127.0.0.1] with the IP of the visitors upstream provider... yeah, that might hurt !-)
I live near D.C. and go into town often enough to encounter one of these cameras. Which bothers me. I mean I'm no scofflaw, but I have been to traffic court and seen the "machinery" at work. I can envision the judge & paralegal laughing hysterically in his quarters after I've demanded to face my accusors.
Which makes me think, even though I'm not planning on anything illegal, how do I protect my privacy?
Do I take on an "offensive" strategy with some sort of jamming or "herf" technology?
Do I emply "good defense" and cover/obfuscate myself, my car and everything else with various array sof prophylactic devices ?
Or do I go dysfuncational either by living in a state of denial, or by becoming a hermit/prisoner in my own home ?
I still have an empty spot on my heart, both for the crew of Apollo 1 and the Challenger. My father worked for NASA during the space race up until 10 years ago. I was neat getting the 8x10 publicity pictures for reports, the walls, etc.
Even though I'm an old poop now, I still keep a few hanging, and one wall, is the crew of the Apollo 1 to remind me not to take things for granted.
Yeah, I know, I sound like a big wuss... but think about it.
In spite of this tragedy, we still managed to put a man on the moon with little more than vaccum tubes and slide rules !
What an old fart I am. I remember cutting my teeth back in the 80's on Turbo C 1.0... and nearly did back flips when they finally got the Windows IDE right with C++ 5.0 some ten years later.
Let's hope it doesn't take them as long to give us a familiar interface. Sure, the command line would be nice, considering Borland's robust libraries and deep oop capabilities... but an IDE would be even sweeter.
I hear ya... I owned some Amazon stock... got out as it was tumbling. I told my broker... "I don't want to own shares in a company that I no longer buy from..." which is what I told him once I discovered the discounts on technical books at ReadMe.Doc...
These domain names are fun, but nothing beats and original like WebPagesThatSuck.com...
or a better yet.... nothing says suck like grabbing your nemises domain name before they did original owner of PETA.Com... here are some examples via WPTS : Domain Names
Yeah, okay, a title that is a bit over the top, but anyone who has desired to develop software for the Palm has had to endure a rather long-winded and unecessarily difficult registration process. Not only do they want all your vital signs via an online registration, but then they insist you fill out some forms and fax or mail it to them.
Not an impossible situation, but it took me 4 weeks before I could get the SDK up an running. Good thing I wasn't in a hurry !
Perhaps the new structure will get them to ease-up and OPEN up their SDK so the entire OS community can get busy writing applications without having to sign away their first born child.
I was discussing the film with a former Army Ranger who was invited to the premiere in D.C. He moved on to fly choppers a year or two before the Somalia fubar, but not before he recieved combat wings for Panama, as well as some nifty ribbons for Desert Storm.
His assessment was that the story was about as accurate as Hollywood is with other such historic subject matter. Many of the timelines and events were either compressed, attributed to a single character, or abbreviated. Such is to be expected when you reduce 2 months of bad planning and a 15 hour fire-fight into 2.5 hours.
While he was very complimentary of the technical accuracy, the portrayal of Ranger moxy and the fast-paced action, he did wish the film would have hammered a bit more at the mismanagement that created cluster-*uck e.g. Les Aspin turning down requests to send in armor & air support because of "how it would look" (see links below).
That said, he's all for seeing it again as a bunch of us do a men's night this week... provided we can get tickets!
BTW, here's a review I read on Epinions that includes some quotes and some of the order of battle from the book, Black Hawk Down... that make for some informative reading for potential movie-goers.
I'll admit. I have no clue who or what Zim is. I don't get cable (by choice), so Nick's a choice. That said, I did see in this discussion statements to the effect that "it's the best thing since the Simpsons."
Now I do know who/what the Simpons are, and am wondering... if Zim is as good, then is there a possibility that it would be picked-up by another network, cable or otherwise ?
My 2 cents about "why"... has me thinking tht AOL might want to offer their own out-of-the-box-internet-ready-computers... bundle them with a subscription as well... the only problem... the operating system. If all a user wants to do is surf, and occasionally write a document to their local county council person... wouldn't RH and some office-suite, alonge with Netscrape get it done ? All for $399.99 ?
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If GEICO, Allstate and a few other biggies were smart, they'd foot the bills to equip various police departments of large metropolitan areas.
For example, here in the D.C. area, it might be cheaper for said insurance companies to help equip the Montgomery & PG county police on the MD side, rather than have to reimburse owners for stolen Lexus', Hondas and Toyotas (even though they rarely, if ever give you the full value).
It might also save them the costs of having to repair stolen vehicles that are recovered.
My father used to tell me stories of when he was stationed in WWII in the Aleutian Islands, preparing as a SeaBee for the invasion of Japan. One of the stories that continued to amaze him was the deployment of Native Americans to handle communications, now populary referred to as Code Talkers.
... if it just wouldn't be too expensive if we not only encrypted our transmissions, but perhaps had an IRC in which we could roll our own dialects via tools like Bison in which only you, and your buddy on the other end would possess the necessary grammar file.
... but perhaps the process would become so expensive that they'll just move onto hammering the putz down the hall who continues to spew open text.
Not only did they transmit messages in code, but they added a nice little touch, all transmissions were forwarded in their native dialects. Both my father and I would chortle at the prostpect of some enemy intercept trying to figure out Cherokee.
It makes me wonder, especially when you consider the costs of snooping everone's transmissions
Sure, I'm sure the employer and their lawyers could still crack it
Boycotts are a funny thing. They often don't work unless you get a huge majority to play along. I can see it now ... a bunch of publishers boycott amazon ... yeah, I said publishers, mostly because authors aren't the guys doing the book distribution.
... so ... an enterprising author buys 100 of his own books, sells them as "used" or "almost new" ... and authographed .... and if possible, via his own affiliates site. The person who gets the short end ... the publisher.
... each for about $18 ... well below their sticker-shock prices of $30 to $40. For me, it was alot easier than slugging it out on E-Bay ...
So let's say Sybex pulls out, but then O'Reilly begins to gobble up their market share. How long do you think it'll be before Sybex authors start screaming at their publisher to sell on Amazon ?
Second, many publishers offer books to authors at 40% or 50% off
There's also one other side to this story. Like drugs, practices like selling used books won't go away as long as there is demand. For example, I recently purchases a book on setting up a BeoWulf cluster, another on XML-PRC and yet another on SOAP
... which is where these books would be sold if Amazon wasn't offering them straight-up.
I was just thinking about incorporateing a Google search on my websites after an impressive experience with a few websites that employed their Free WebSearch plus SiteSearch feature.
This is even better. With this feature, I'll be able to SSI and/or push results using something as simple as SoapLite to get the job done.
I sure hope other content providers are taking note. Imagine how useful (not to much fun) it would be to snap up stuff from places like MoreOver.Com?
Yup, that's what the salesman told us back in 1984 or 1985 in some computer store downtown NYC.
... you know ... you can write your own operating system ... I did."
... only he voice his "... hey, if you can write an operating system, what are you doing here ?"
My friend/co-worker, Mike X. decided to go to CompuLand or something like that, to see the new line of PC clones. When we got to the store, someone straight out of Saturday Night Fever began to pitch us a system with the integrity of a used car salesmen.
When we started asking questions about the operating system, he perceptively asked us, with a wonderfully Broolynese accent "... you guys are programmers, right ?"
He went on, now with a bit of body English "... well I'm a programmer, you're a programmer
Appearently Mike had the same thought at the same moment I did
Needless to say, the salesguy left us alone from therein.
A quick trip to the IEEE's online store, and about $300 bucks will give you all the gory details you need to measure software quality ... provided you consider that software quality synonyous with programmer productivity.
... Hell, I'd piss on a spark plug if I thought it'd help.
For example. In grad school, we took the 1992, IEEE Standard for a Software Quality Metrics Methodology, along with GNU Flex, and wrote a program that would slice-n-dice C & C++ programs against a table of measureable metrics for code readability and reusability.
Of course, we had a blast testing it against winning entries from the 9th International Obfuscated C Code Contest. But we also noticed that there were just some things that it would never be able to test. For exmaple, while our little app spotted code that was uncommented, it could not tell us whether or not the comments were useful or relevant.
Point is, judging code and productivity is always (or at least until HR offices are equipped with Beowulf's) going to have a subjective element. Because lets' face it, when it comes down to it, many bosses really only care that the job gets done on-time and under-budget.
Or what's that great line from the movie "War Games"
... consider the following partial-prohibition legislations. The Brady Bill and the Clean Air Act. Like them or hate them, their effectiveness is limited because determined manufacterers found loopholes. In the case of fire arms, the manufacterers made some cosemetic and title changes, essentially selling the same weapon under a different name or classification. Same is true with emissions standards, where the auto makers created an entirely new vernacular to get around the law.
... perhaphs via an offshore offshoot names PatchSoft ... only they're not kiddng around.
Obviously this bill is aimed at MSFT. Like them or hate them, I would think their lawyers might employ similar tactics to get around the letter of the law. They're selling "services"
Once again, only penalizing those of us who can't afford big-bad lawyers with even larger price tags.
... what I find scary was that the company for whom I worked for at the time sent me to Hong Kong back in 95 to show them a biometric identification system.
... but rather give them opportunity for reverse engineering.
... a design version that was essentially a glass man-trap.
It was a system similar to INSPASS, only it did NOT offer a 14 character OCR-B/passport-like encoding of the Hand Geometry, but instead had on a GemPlus card both a facial and a fingerprint image.
Of course, having several former Hong Kong natives on my development team, they warned me that it was likely that we wouldn't "sell" the system
The demonstration was very interesting. It was at their version of "Customs" department. Most of the individuals we came into contact were warm, friendly and knowledgable. However during the actual demonstration, there were a couple of very cheap suits (unusual for Hong Kong) in the back of the room, asking questions in Chinese.
No surprise when the hardware we sent over got hung up by their "Customs" for several weeks before it came back to us. I sure hope they didn't get too pissed when I low-level formatted the hard drive before we left the country.
I'd be very interested in seeing the system now. They had at the time asked some questions like, can we use it to trigger a door lock
Later that day, I visited with a missionary who just got out of prison for smuggling Bibles into the mainland. I cried when Hong Kong was turned back over to the Chinese.
It was one of the most beautiful and intriguing places I had ever visited.
... just so long as I never have to program on Sequent iron, and that it's insidious operating system ever again. Of course, that was 10 years ago when Dynix, trying to be the best of both worlds, was really neither ATT nor Berkly !
... hence, making it a REAL-world bargain.
... of coure the other problem was indeed the expense, leaving us in situations where we had to program at odd hours and off-days because the client couldn't affort a "development" machine.
... two issues which I would hope are sovled a 16-way Xeon for $2K
I guess the killer question is, is this lawsuit really a veiled threat because of the potential success C#, or because XP doesn't include the Java VM?
I for one cannot say. Both of these giants are vying for world domination, one through J2EE, the other through
As a programmer, I just want tools that help me get the job done so I can go home and play with the kids at night.
As for the similarities and differences between C# & Java, I'll leave that up to smarter people than myself, including one lengthy article by Dare Obasanjo entitled "A Comparison of Microsft's C# Programming Language to Sun Microsystem's JAVA Programming Language.
.
As a programmer, Sun and Microsoft matter to me only in that I need to be able to deliver products that are stable, fast and flexible.
... but rather I would say "we can sue you ... or you can teach us how to improve our runtime on Win32 as well as other operating systems."
.. I fofgot there are egos on both sides .. and much to be gained and lost financially and in terms of world domination.
Which is why much of my previous Java programming on Win32 platforms used the MSFT runtime versus Sun's. Yes, I was coding myself into an evil-empire box, but that's what the client wanted, despite my warnings.
One of the reasons I used the MSFT runtime was because it was fast-fast-fast, and it was much easier (at least for me) to instantiate windows, COM services, etc. than it was via straight-up J2EE.
If I were Sun, what I would have done was NOT sued them to remove it, and NOT sue them now to put it back in
Oh wait, I just snapped-back into reality
You may have a point there. I just read an interesting article entitled "Earth formed quicker than thought."
While findings could be used by "either side of the origins debate", as you so interestingly put it, it does support your claim that we're merely at the end of the beginning of scientific discovery.
A prospect that both thrills me and frightens me all at once.
Yes, I do ... and yes, your solution is both as QUICK as it is ELEGANT.
Tanx !
Yup, whois will give me all that great data ...
... what I was talking about was doing it "QUICKLY" when a person visits the site.
I do to things to my websites. One is a link not visible to the naked eye called "email.html" or "contacts.html" ... which of course leads to a spam-chaff page.
... is a mailto:abuse@[127.0.0.1] ...
... yeah, that might hurt !-)
Another link, who's color is the same as the page, and is very small print, located somewhere where the user usually doesn't click
Now if I could just figure out a quick way to replace [127.0.0.1] with the IP of the visitors upstream provider
I live near D.C. and go into town often enough to encounter one of these cameras. Which bothers me. I mean I'm no scofflaw, but I have been to traffic court and seen the "machinery" at work. I can envision the judge & paralegal laughing hysterically in his quarters after I've demanded to face my accusors.
Which makes me think, even though I'm not planning on anything illegal, how do I protect my privacy?
Do I take on an "offensive" strategy with some sort of jamming or "herf" technology?
Do I emply "good defense" and cover/obfuscate myself, my car and everything else with various array sof prophylactic devices ?
Or do I go dysfuncational either by living in a state of denial, or by becoming a hermit/prisoner in my own home ?
I still have an empty spot on my heart, both for the crew of Apollo 1 and the Challenger. My father worked for NASA during the space race up until 10 years ago. I was neat getting the 8x10 publicity pictures for reports, the walls, etc.
... but think about it.
Even though I'm an old poop now, I still keep a few hanging, and one wall, is the crew of the Apollo 1 to remind me not to take things for granted.
Yeah, I know, I sound like a big wuss
In spite of this tragedy, we still managed to put a man on the moon with little more than vaccum tubes and slide rules !
What an old fart I am. I remember cutting my teeth back in the 80's on Turbo C 1.0 ... and nearly did back flips when they finally got the Windows IDE right with C++ 5.0 some ten years later.
... but an IDE would be even sweeter.
Let's hope it doesn't take them as long to give us a familiar interface. Sure, the command line would be nice, considering Borland's robust libraries and deep oop capabilities
I hear ya ... I owned some Amazon stock ... got out as it was tumbling. I told my broker ... "I don't want to own shares in a company that I no longer buy from ..." which is what I told him once I discovered the discounts on technical books at ReadMe.Doc ...
These domain names are fun, but nothing beats and original like WebPagesThatSuck.com ...
.... nothing says suck like grabbing your nemises domain name before they did original owner of PETA.Com ... here are some examples via WPTS : Domain Names
or a better yet
Yeah, okay, a title that is a bit over the top, but anyone who has desired to develop software for the Palm has had to endure a rather long-winded and unecessarily difficult registration process. Not only do they want all your vital signs via an online registration, but then they insist you fill out some forms and fax or mail it to them.
Not an impossible situation, but it took me 4 weeks before I could get the SDK up an running. Good thing I wasn't in a hurry !
Perhaps the new structure will get them to ease-up and OPEN up their SDK so the entire OS community can get busy writing applications without having to sign away their first born child.
I'll just assume for the sake of argument, that the thread is genuine and that Alan Cox is torqued ... or at least appears to be torqued.
... considering AOL's deep pockets, it seems to me risky, but effective means of negotiating a hike in one's salary.
I mean after all, if I just bagged a nomination as the top young technology innovator by Technology Review, I too might make a fuss
His assessment was that the story was about as accurate as Hollywood is with other such historic subject matter. Many of the timelines and events were either compressed, attributed to a single character, or abbreviated. Such is to be expected when you reduce 2 months of bad planning and a 15 hour fire-fight into 2.5 hours.
While he was very complimentary of the technical accuracy, the portrayal of Ranger moxy and the fast-paced action, he did wish the film would have hammered a bit more at the mismanagement that created cluster-*uck e.g. Les Aspin turning down requests to send in armor & air support because of "how it would look" (see links below).
pbs:frontline
boston herald
... provided we can get tickets!
... that make for some informative reading for potential movie-goers.
That said, he's all for seeing it again as a bunch of us do a men's night this week
BTW, here's a review I read on Epinions that includes some quotes and some of the order of battle from the book, Black Hawk Down
epinions:black hawk down
I'll admit. I have no clue who or what Zim is. I don't get cable (by choice), so Nick's a choice. That said, I did see in this discussion statements to the effect that "it's the best thing since the Simpsons."
... if Zim is as good, then is there a possibility that it would be picked-up by another network, cable or otherwise ?
Now I do know who/what the Simpons are, and am wondering
My 2 cents about "why" ... has me thinking tht AOL might want to offer their own out-of-the-box-internet-ready-computers ... bundle them with a subscription as well ... the only problem ... the operating system. If all a user wants to do is surf, and occasionally write a document to their local county council person ... wouldn't RH and some office-suite, alonge with Netscrape get it done ? All for $399.99 ?