First off, from the subject line, no, this is not a post about how getting the hiccups during a job interview can kill your hopes and dreams.
From the article: another (theory is) that they prevent amniotic fluid entering the lungs (of babies). If their purpose is to prevent liquid getting into the lungs, points out Christian Straus at Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital in Paris, you would expect the closure of the glottis to be associated with the contraction of the muscles used for breathing out, as in a cough, not those for breathing in.
Would someone like to explain to Mr. Straus that there is a greater chance of aspirating amniotic fluid when one is breathing in, than when one is breathing out!?!
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I'd just prefer that they remove the moderation cap for interviews. Then the best voted comments will deinitely have a better shot at getting in. If some of them happen to be funny, then so be it.
Speed is not the problem. Is there more to us than quanta is the question and the problem. What if you could build a quantum duplicate without destroying the original. Which one would be the real you?
If the entire sum of our being is composed of our physical components as opposed to stored in our physical components, then there is no difference.
Either way, it's not speed that's the problem, it's a question of identity.
Does anyone else feel a parallel to when the Catholic Church went along "censoring" all the great works of art
No, these people are not a body or a committee, these are individuals. If they were demanding that all films were edited to suit their values then that would be wrong, but they are not.
Personally, I feel art should be left alone.
That's an excellent summation. I think it should be kept at the personal level and not the government mandated level.
Nintendo's games are golden. They are the games I go to over and over when I want to just gel out and have fun. When I think back over the years to the games I have the best memories of, most of them were made by Nintendo. Zelda (all of them), Metroid (all of them), Super Mario Bros (again, all of them), Mario Kart, Pikmin, etc... Not that other people haven't made good games (Konami, Capcom... those were the good old days), but for games that I could stick in the console, fire up and enjoy, Nintendo was the best.
One other thing: has anyone noticed how quickly Nintendo's Gamecube games start? (Here, I mean specifically the ones made by Nintendo.) I can usually have the power on and be playing in the amount of time it would take to get past the first developer's logo on a PS2 game.
Anyway, all that to say this. I look forward to a new console by Nintendo, but whether they made a new console or not, I look forward mostly, to their games.
he keeps on insisting and he repeats several times through the "interview" customers want it. I don't know which customers he means. The OEM? The indivigual lusers who go into CompUSA and buy an HP with XP preinstalled? I built my own system a year ago by buying the indivigual components and putting them together. I certanly don't care to have a TCPA enabled BIOS. I am a customer too.
His customers are motherboard manufacturers, not end users.
No, there is no point, or at least there's not one single point. Yes, PCI-SIG had to deal with the legal side of things, and they covered that quite thoroughly. But they failed miserably at the Public Relations side of things. You say they had to send the letter to defend their trademark, and maybe so, but it wouldn't hurt to call him first and let him know it was a legal matter and he probably would have taken it much better. Also, there are other legal ways to handle things than using a C&D letter, like negotiating with him to make it an official site, or to bring it under IBM as they suggested in the letter.
No, PC manufacturers learned from luggage manufacturers who learned from sack makers, who learned from Thog, the first caveman to make his wife grow her hair long and therefore, portable;)
Never leave an experiment unattended. Never dump the results of your experiments in the same place, they can sometimes cross-react and form a dangerous mixture.
Of course the only danger here is that you or some hapless passerby will be endowed with super powers...
*raises eyebrows* Excuse me? We've "become" multi-tasking capable? Humans have been multi-tasking capable for thousands of years. It's part of our nature. And who, exactly, doesn't "realize" this, as you assert?
Yeah, the interrrupt nature of our society has done nothing to increase the natural multi-tasking abilities of people...
I don't mean to rip on you SerpentMage
What are you like when you mean to rip on someone? This is not a formal request for a whuppin'
I just get irritated at people who not only think they've just "discovered" something that's obviously extremely old, but who also think they're in some sort of elite few who know it. Sorry to burst your bubble, but you're not that special. Virtually everyone multi-tasks, you just don't see it because you're too in awe of your own mastery of simultaneously reading Slashdot and watching Star Trek, while compiling a kernel.
Hmmm... let's reread his post and see where he mentions "discovering" multi-tasking (or "discovering" anything for that matter). He does say "I multi-task and it was something I honed over years. Nasty foolish hobbit, it thinks it can improve a skill.
Again, this is a ridiculous statement, offered only to serve your own ego. I challenge you to find me one single professor anywhere on the planet who sincerely believes that "classes are supposed to be boring." That's absurd. No one thinks that.
I would have thought anyone would interpret his statement as professor's don't realize their clasees are boring. I challenge you to find me one person on the planet who is so anal and nitpicking that they.... oh, nevermind.
I don't mean to be picking apart your post comment-by-comment Kombat, but I just did. Maybe you can make fun of my spelling. I haven't even checked for typos.
both of which making the criminal even more dangerous if he suspects the inhabitants to shoot them on sight.
No, the fact that I may shoot him on sight makes me more dangerous. Remember, he is either desperate or sick. You already agreed to that. How can he be made more dangerous by me having a gun??? It's more dangerous for me if I don't have one and some sicko is in my house looking to murder/rape/do who knows what to someone.
By the way, if you have a counter argument, I'd love to hear it.
The sage of Lik-Sang has continued with Dan Gillmor's recent visit to the region.
This has gone too far!! I have never before heard of the sage of Lik-Sang, but I am sure he is a member of a venerable monastic order. Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo should stick to the world of electronics and leave the sage alone.
Ooh, unless this is about the herb. Then I don't care what they do. *Sigh* I'm gonna have to read the article, aren't I....
'Course the story has no details - post anything else you can find below.
Translation: This sounds neat. It might be another hoax, but then we do have a reputation to keep up. I holpe the readers come through and make this an interesting article, cause right now, we got crap...
This book will set you free!!!
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Read this book and know your otherworldy legacy. I have always known that I was special. I have know this in the darkness of my childhood bedroom, in the silence of my high school isolation, in the stirring of hormonal urges beyond the reckoning of men. Beneath my skin flows the blood of aliens. Within my cells the DNA of the Starborn has lain dormant. But no more. Even know, as I begin to know my latent powers, I am unprepared for the weight of their significance. My hearing has become supernatural. Many are the nights I lay in bed listening to the thump of bass, unsure if it is from the apartment above me, in a home blocks away, or the headphones of my neighbor. I am changed. My eyes have become perfect. I can see heat, it's soft waves distorting the air above pavement. I see small particles in the air, tiny creatures framed against the blue sky, spots of light appear before my eyesordinary man could possess. At times a shiver after glancing at the sun, no doubt my eyes analyzing its roiling surface. I have senses that no mortal could possess. Sometimes a chill passes through my spine and bumps appear along my arms, my hair stands on end. Somewhere in the universe a great things has happened and my alien blood cries out in despair. I yearn for the cosmos. Der Voron has given me hope. No longer must I feel alone, perhaps these things that I have felt and seen are not unique to me. Perhaps my isolation is at an end. Alien brothers, reveal yourself without fear of reprisal. I welcome you with open arms.
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Just as an aside, the "added scene" with Gimli and Aragorn is not at all added, but merely modified. In the book, Eomer and Aragorn go out to hold run the marauders away from the gate that they are attempting to access. They slip out a postern door, attack, are ambushed, and then saved by Gimli. Since Eomer was not at Helm's Deep until the end, Gimli was substituted.
As for this comment: In interviews, Peter Jackson has acknowledged that he thought the books were too "dense" and that they needed to be "simplified" for the average person who was unfamiliar with Tolkien. In the same interview, his justification for all this is that "there is a lot of money at stake here". So much for PJ being our savior from the Hollywood infection. I think you are a bit off base.
Silly Jackson, feeling that he owes some sort of monetary return to his investors. I've already posted a comment concerning the fact that I was disappointed by the film, however, the only real "mistake" I thought Jackson made was in the oversimplification of Faramir.
My take on the move (Spoiler warning)
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First some background: When I first saw The Fellowship of the Ring, I had not read the books in over five years, and thus, I missed several of the less obvious modifications made to the story line. Of course, I noticed the absence of Tom Bombadil, the failure to acquire the Westernesse swords from the mounds of the barrow wight, the deletion of Galadriel's gift giving (generously reinstated in the Extended Edition), the substitution of Arwen for Glorfindel, and so forth. But there were an equal or greater number of things that I did not notice at the time: such as Barliman Butterbur's failure to give Gandalf's letter to Frodo, I did notice that Barliman barely remembered Gandalf, but I had forgotten that Gandalf never promised to meet Frodo at the Prancing Pony, and that he had not been present at the departure of Frodo from the Shire. I could not remember exactly when Anduril was reforged, I had forgotten that Gandalf, not Gimli suggested the path through Moria, nor did I remember the warg fight that took place between the Fellowship's defeat at Carhadras and their descent into Moria. The list goes on and on. Nevertheless, FOTR was magical, and not once did an omission or addition jar me from my reverie.
Would that it were so with the Two Towers. Perhaps it is primarily my fault. In the past year I have reread the entire series more than once, I have practically memorized certain sections, I have immersed myself in war and sorrow and the rising shadow of Mordor. I enjoyed the movie, and I will see it again. But I wanted more. It is the subtle moments that make the story shine for me. The moments of greatness revealed, of veiled danger, the cruel mercies of the Orcs, the politics of Sauron and Saruman, and the cleverness of Merry and Pippin. It is such moments as when Aragorn announces himself to Eomer, show Anduril and reveals his hidden kingliness that takes my breath away. I know that Jackson is painting a more troubled Aragorn, a king who fears his destiny and hesitates to claim a forgotten crown, but I long for the Aragorn of the novels, the king who bides his time and knows that his day is coming. I missed the strength of Faramir. Of his ability to perceive the ring and it's power, to understand his brother's weakness and avoid that same fate, and his quick conclusion that the ring must be sent beyond temptation. I did not understand the necessity of changing Theoden from a king crippled by a manipulative advisor, to a victim of Saruman's wizardry.
Credit must be given though to every scene in which Gollum graced the screen. There has never been a CGI character so flawlessly placed on screen with so complete a repertoire of inhuman emotion. Also excellent were the Ents, the battles, the acting, the sets, the mood, the wargs.... For all my criticism, the simple truth is this: it is not that the movie is not excellent, it is that the book is even more so. A movie can only do so much to reveal the inner thoughts of a man without resorting to narration or soliloquy, and LOTR is full of such moments. Is the Two Towers a wonderful movie? Indeed. Did it meet my every expectation? No, but in retrospect, I'm not sure that it would have been possible.
In another much more recent bit of creative fantasy, one main character points out that humans need the little stories and lies in childhood as practice. Practice for believing in the big, important things. Things like Honor and Justice.
Couldn't pass up the chance to echo your plug for Terry Pratchett. The book, Hogfather, from which you paraphrase, is probably my favorite of the series, possibly tied with The Fifth Elephant. Pratchett is one of the few authors that I feel strongly enough to beg people to give him a chance. He is occasionally classified as a comic writer, a typification that I believe represents only the tiniest aspect of his ability. I recommend a rather unorthodox approach to his novels. Read Men at Arms, first. It's in my opinion the best introduction to the Discworld. It also introduces one of the most prevalent primary and referenced story lines, that of the City Watch of Ankh-Morpork. Go buy it today. It's nearly Christmas and you're a geek. You owe it to yourself.
PVR's will definitely cause a decrease in ad watching overall. This is mainly because there are too many ads for the viewer to sit through. The result should be that ad costs are revisited. I'm sure that there are shows that people tend to watch in person such as live events and news shows. Commercials during these events should cost more and could potentially be more frequent. Two other factors should also be weighed: 1. There is a point at which commercals are useful to the viewer (e.g. new items on the market, sales at food locations, upcoming shows, etc.) 2. There is a number of commercials per hour that would be non-intrusive enough that viwers would find it unnecessary to skip them. Charge more per commercial and reduce the # of commercials. Advertisers will pay. They will have no choice. The other option is legislation. It's easier and insures that current business practices stay practical. That's what I think they will do.
Foundation, Ender's Game, many of Arthur C. Clarke's novels, and lots of other sci-fi classics are proposed every year, sometimes several times a year to different studios. Usually, there is some sort of timing or technological issue that makes them unacceptable, such as an interested director being available along with the requisite actors, and interested studio, a period of time since the last sci-fi movie was released, the belief that they can convincingly and interestingly sell the message of the book and still make a tidy profit, etc.
With Ender's Game, the issue is the number of capable child actors needed for the film. In the case of the Foundation series, from what I understand, most script writers have a problem balancing the story between highlighting the ideals of Hari Seldon (the decay of civilization, the development of psychohistory, etc) and an action packed engaging film. Most scripts have either been snoozers (i.e. geeks would probably like them, but everybody else would... YAWN.... zzzz) or an overly action packed filmed that would alienate the diehard fans and make the movie seem to be The Fast and the Furious II: The Psychohistorian's Gambit.
My bad. This only goes to show that comfy clothes is a positive indicator for at least two different types of drugs. Astounding!!! My grandmother: stoner or crackhead? Only her German Shepherd knows for sure.
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First off, from the subject line, no, this is not a post about how getting the hiccups during a job interview can kill your hopes and dreams.
From the article: another (theory is) that they prevent amniotic fluid entering the lungs (of babies). If their purpose is to prevent liquid getting into the lungs, points out Christian Straus at Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital in Paris, you would expect the closure of the glottis to be associated with the contraction of the muscles used for breathing out, as in a cough, not those for breathing in.
Would someone like to explain to Mr. Straus that there is a greater chance of aspirating amniotic fluid when one is breathing in, than when one is breathing out!?!
I'd just prefer that they remove the moderation cap for interviews. Then the best voted comments will deinitely have a better shot at getting in. If some of them happen to be funny, then so be it.
Speed is not the problem. Is there more to us than quanta is the question and the problem.
What if you could build a quantum duplicate without destroying the original. Which one would be the real you?
If the entire sum of our being is composed of our physical components as opposed to stored in our physical components, then there is no difference.
Either way, it's not speed that's the problem, it's a question of identity.
Does anyone else feel a parallel to when the Catholic Church went along "censoring" all the great works of art
No, these people are not a body or a committee, these are individuals. If they were demanding that all films were edited to suit their values then that would be wrong, but they are not.
Personally, I feel art should be left alone.
That's an excellent summation. I think it should be kept at the personal level and not the government mandated level.
Nintendo's games are golden. They are the games I go to over and over when I want to just gel out and have fun. When I think back over the years to the games I have the best memories of, most of them were made by Nintendo. Zelda (all of them), Metroid (all of them), Super Mario Bros (again, all of them), Mario Kart, Pikmin, etc... Not that other people haven't made good games (Konami, Capcom... those were the good old days), but for games that I could stick in the console, fire up and enjoy, Nintendo was the best.
One other thing: has anyone noticed how quickly Nintendo's Gamecube games start? (Here, I mean specifically the ones made by Nintendo.) I can usually have the power on and be playing in the amount of time it would take to get past the first developer's logo on a PS2 game.
Anyway, all that to say this. I look forward to a new console by Nintendo, but whether they made a new console or not, I look forward mostly, to their games.
Obviously they hired that kid who programmed his own browser.
I wonder how many lines of code and how much time this job took?
he keeps on insisting and he repeats several times through the "interview" customers want it. I don't know which customers he means. The OEM? The indivigual lusers who go into CompUSA and buy an HP with XP preinstalled? I built my own system a year ago by buying the indivigual components and putting them together. I certanly don't care to have a TCPA enabled BIOS. I am a customer too.
His customers are motherboard manufacturers, not end users.
You're missing the point.
No YOU are missing the point,
No, there is no point, or at least there's not one single point. Yes, PCI-SIG had to deal with the legal side of things, and they covered that quite thoroughly. But they failed miserably at the Public Relations side of things. You say they had to send the letter to defend their trademark, and maybe so, but it wouldn't hurt to call him first and let him know it was a legal matter and he probably would have taken it much better. Also, there are other legal ways to handle things than using a C&D letter, like negotiating with him to make it an official site, or to bring it under IBM as they suggested in the letter.
No, PC manufacturers learned from luggage ;)
manufacturers who learned from sack makers, who
learned from Thog, the first caveman to make his wife
grow her hair long and therefore, portable
This is purely a congratulatory post. I needed my breakfast dose of parody, and that definitely hit the spot. Thanks!!
Unless of course you are a nasty heratic.
Like me??
Long live Hera, queen of the gods!!!
Never leave an experiment unattended. Never dump the results of your experiments in the same place, they can sometimes cross-react and form a dangerous mixture.
Of course the only danger here is that you or some hapless passerby
will be endowed with super powers...
*raises eyebrows* Excuse me? We've "become" multi-tasking capable? Humans have been multi-tasking capable for thousands of years. It's part of our nature. And who, exactly, doesn't "realize" this, as you assert?
Yeah, the interrrupt nature of our society has done nothing to increase the natural multi-tasking abilities of people...
I don't mean to rip on you SerpentMage
What are you like when you mean to rip on someone? This is not a formal request for a whuppin'
I just get irritated at people who not only think they've just "discovered" something that's obviously extremely old, but who also think they're in some sort of elite few who know it. Sorry to burst your bubble, but you're not that special. Virtually everyone multi-tasks, you just don't see it because you're too in awe of your own mastery of simultaneously reading Slashdot and watching Star Trek, while compiling a kernel.
Hmmm... let's reread his post and see where he mentions "discovering" multi-tasking (or "discovering" anything for that matter). He does say "I multi-task and it was something I honed over years. Nasty foolish hobbit, it thinks it can improve a skill.
Again, this is a ridiculous statement, offered only to serve your own ego. I challenge you to find me one single professor anywhere on the planet who sincerely believes that "classes are supposed to be boring." That's absurd. No one thinks that.
I would have thought anyone would interpret his statement as professor's don't realize their clasees are boring. I challenge you to find me one person on the planet who is so anal and nitpicking that they.... oh, nevermind.
I don't mean to be picking apart your post comment-by-comment Kombat, but I just did. Maybe you can make fun of my spelling. I haven't even checked for typos.
both of which making the criminal even more dangerous if he suspects the inhabitants to shoot them on sight.
No, the fact that I may shoot him on sight makes me more dangerous. Remember, he is either desperate or sick. You already agreed to that. How can he be made more dangerous by me having a gun??? It's more dangerous for me if I don't have one and some sicko is in my house looking to murder/rape/do who knows what to someone.
By the way, if you have a counter argument, I'd love to hear it.
Yeah, but then I feel pretty silly most days, so it's no biggie.
The sage of Lik-Sang has continued with Dan Gillmor's recent visit to the region.
This has gone too far!! I have never before heard of the sage of Lik-Sang, but I am sure he is a member of a venerable monastic order. Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo should stick to the world of electronics and leave the sage alone.
Ooh, unless this is about the herb. Then I don't care what they do.
*Sigh* I'm gonna have to read the article, aren't I....
'Course the story has no details - post anything else you can find below.
Translation: This sounds neat. It might be another hoax, but then we do have a reputation to keep up. I holpe the readers come through and make this an interesting article, cause right now, we got crap...
Read this book and know your otherworldy legacy.
I have always known that I was special. I have know this in the darkness of my childhood bedroom, in the silence of my high school isolation, in the stirring of hormonal urges beyond the reckoning of men. Beneath my skin flows the blood of aliens. Within my cells the DNA of the Starborn has lain dormant. But no more.
Even know, as I begin to know my latent powers, I am unprepared for the weight of their significance. My hearing has become supernatural. Many are the nights I lay in bed listening to the thump of bass, unsure if it is from the apartment above me, in a home blocks away, or the headphones of my neighbor. I am changed. My eyes have become perfect. I can see heat, it's soft waves distorting the air above pavement. I see small particles in the air, tiny creatures framed against the blue sky, spots of light appear before my eyesordinary man could possess. At times a shiver after glancing at the sun, no doubt my eyes analyzing its roiling surface. I have senses that no mortal could possess. Sometimes a chill passes through my spine and bumps appear along my arms, my hair stands on end. Somewhere in the universe a great things has happened and my alien blood cries out in despair. I yearn for the cosmos.
Der Voron has given me hope. No longer must I feel alone, perhaps these things that I have felt and seen are not unique to me. Perhaps my isolation is at an end. Alien brothers, reveal yourself without fear of reprisal. I welcome you with open arms.
Just as an aside, the "added scene" with Gimli and Aragorn is not at all added, but merely modified. In the book, Eomer and Aragorn go out to hold run the marauders away from the gate that they are attempting to access. They slip out a postern door, attack, are ambushed, and then saved by Gimli. Since Eomer was not at Helm's Deep until the end, Gimli was substituted.
As for this comment: In interviews, Peter Jackson has acknowledged that he thought the books were too "dense" and that they needed to be "simplified" for the average person who was unfamiliar with Tolkien. In the same interview, his justification for all this is that "there is a lot of money at stake here". So much for PJ being our savior from the Hollywood infection. I think you are a bit off base.
Silly Jackson, feeling that he owes some sort of monetary return to his investors. I've already posted a comment concerning the fact that I was disappointed by the film, however, the only real "mistake" I thought Jackson made was in the oversimplification of Faramir.
First some background: When I first saw The Fellowship of the Ring, I had not read the books in over five years, and thus, I missed several of the less obvious modifications made to the story line. Of course, I noticed the absence of Tom Bombadil, the failure to acquire the Westernesse swords from the mounds of the barrow wight, the deletion of Galadriel's gift giving (generously reinstated in the Extended Edition), the substitution of Arwen for Glorfindel, and so forth. But there were an equal or greater number of things that I did not notice at the time: such as Barliman Butterbur's failure to give Gandalf's letter to Frodo, I did notice that Barliman barely remembered Gandalf, but I had forgotten that Gandalf never promised to meet Frodo at the Prancing Pony, and that he had not been present at the departure of Frodo from the Shire. I could not remember exactly when Anduril was reforged, I had forgotten that Gandalf, not Gimli suggested the path through Moria, nor did I remember the warg fight that took place between the Fellowship's defeat at Carhadras and their descent into Moria. The list goes on and on. Nevertheless, FOTR was magical, and not once did an omission or addition jar me from my reverie.
Would that it were so with the Two Towers. Perhaps it is primarily my fault. In the past year I have reread the entire series more than once, I have practically memorized certain sections, I have immersed myself in war and sorrow and the rising shadow of Mordor. I enjoyed the movie, and I will see it again. But I wanted more. It is the subtle moments that make the story shine for me. The moments of greatness revealed, of veiled danger, the cruel mercies of the Orcs, the politics of Sauron and Saruman, and the cleverness of Merry and Pippin. It is such moments as when Aragorn announces himself to Eomer, show Anduril and reveals his hidden kingliness that takes my breath away. I know that Jackson is painting a more troubled Aragorn, a king who fears his destiny and hesitates to claim a forgotten crown, but I long for the Aragorn of the novels, the king who bides his time and knows that his day is coming. I missed the strength of Faramir. Of his ability to perceive the ring and it's power, to understand his brother's weakness and avoid that same fate, and his quick conclusion that the ring must be sent beyond temptation. I did not understand the necessity of changing Theoden from a king crippled by a manipulative advisor, to a victim of Saruman's wizardry.
Credit must be given though to every scene in which Gollum graced the screen. There has never been a CGI character so flawlessly placed on screen with so complete a repertoire of inhuman emotion. Also excellent were the Ents, the battles, the acting, the sets, the mood, the wargs.... For all my criticism, the simple truth is this: it is not that the movie is not excellent, it is that the book is even more so. A movie can only do so much to reveal the inner thoughts of a man without resorting to narration or soliloquy, and LOTR is full of such moments. Is the Two Towers a wonderful movie? Indeed. Did it meet my every expectation? No, but in retrospect, I'm not sure that it would have been possible.
In another much more recent bit of creative fantasy, one main character points out that humans need the little stories and lies in childhood as practice. Practice for believing in the big, important things. Things like Honor and Justice.
Couldn't pass up the chance to echo your plug for Terry Pratchett. The book, Hogfather, from which you paraphrase, is probably my favorite of the series, possibly tied with The Fifth Elephant.
Pratchett is one of the few authors that I feel strongly enough to beg people to give him a chance. He is occasionally classified as a comic writer, a typification that I believe represents only the tiniest aspect of his ability.
I recommend a rather unorthodox approach to his novels. Read Men at Arms, first. It's in my opinion the best introduction to the Discworld. It also introduces one of the most prevalent primary and referenced story lines, that of the City Watch of Ankh-Morpork. Go buy it today. It's nearly Christmas and you're a geek. You owe it to yourself.
PVR's will definitely cause a decrease in ad watching overall. This is mainly because there are too many ads for the viewer to sit through.
The result should be that ad costs are revisited. I'm sure that there are shows that people tend to watch in person such as live events and news shows. Commercials during these events should cost more and could potentially be more frequent.
Two other factors should also be weighed:
1. There is a point at which commercals are useful to the viewer (e.g. new items on the market, sales at food locations, upcoming shows, etc.)
2. There is a number of commercials per hour that would be non-intrusive enough that viwers would find it unnecessary to skip them. Charge more per commercial and reduce the # of commercials.
Advertisers will pay. They will have no choice.
The other option is legislation. It's easier and insures that current business practices stay practical. That's what I think they will do.
All your neural pathways are belong to us...
HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!
Foundation, Ender's Game, many of Arthur C. Clarke's novels, and lots of other sci-fi classics are proposed every year, sometimes several times a year to different studios.
Usually, there is some sort of timing or technological issue that makes them unacceptable, such as an interested director being available along with the requisite actors, and interested studio, a period of time since the last sci-fi movie was released, the belief that they can convincingly and interestingly sell the message of the book and still make a tidy profit, etc.
With Ender's Game, the issue is the number of capable child actors needed for the film. In the case of the Foundation series, from what I understand, most script writers have a problem balancing the story between highlighting the ideals of Hari Seldon (the decay of civilization, the development of psychohistory, etc) and an action packed engaging film. Most scripts have either been snoozers (i.e. geeks would probably like them, but everybody else would... YAWN.... zzzz) or an overly action packed filmed that would alienate the diehard fans and make the movie seem to be The Fast and the Furious II: The Psychohistorian's Gambit.
My bad.
This only goes to show that comfy clothes is a
positive indicator for at least two different types
of drugs. Astounding!!! My grandmother: stoner or
crackhead? Only her German Shepherd knows for sure.