The article says the rocket was meant to reach suborbital flight and return and had no problems, so apparently this was a test flight, but if that's the case they why was it carrying real cargo instead of a test cargo? I mean, imagine if the rocket had exploded a few miles up, or had crashed in the ocean.
The original RPG had a clunky system, but that's not Marvel's fault (mutant character gen rules were cool, though). The updated version was better, and the new diceless version is great.
I completely agree on the lawsuit, and with MS at the helm of this MMO I don't have any hopes for the final product.
This guy has 5000 desktops to manage in 14 buildings, and you expect him to "Hire programmers to create solutions that are even better adapted than the ones" he currently uses? Why don't you hire programmers to do it for him, and while you're at it cure cancer and end world hunger.
And don't forget to shove a broom up your ass so that you sweep the floor when you walk.
I was raised attending Independent and Southern Baptist churches and was "saved" at age 14, and now that I'm older and have read more I can say they tend to not be Christ-like. Rather, they tend to be more hateful and exclusionary than other denominations. You disagree? These are the same churches that preach that homosexuals are to be ostracized and hated, yet Christ would have ministered and protected them, just as he did with the prostitute who was about to be stoned.
Fundamentalists are too invested in behaving self-righteously and proclaiming how persecuted they are to turn the other cheek and love their enemies as Christ instructed. Jesus said, "As you do to the least among you, you do to me." Well, considering how Fundamentalist Christians treat homosexuals, Roman Catholics, liberals, Moslems, and anyone else who disagrees with them, they do wrong by Christ all the time.
This is way too close to Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake for comfort. Not a good book by her usual standards (not in the same class as A Handmade's Tale) but still really disturbing in parts.
Listen, I don't worship Joss Whedon. I respect a great deal of the writing that the man has made, and I really wish he'd gotten the chance to give us 22 hours of Firefly per year instead of this one movie, but hey, we got something. Many shows never get another chance. Now, what do you expect Whedon to say? "We're getting screwed by the suits again so let's just be pissed off and spread flame in online forums?" You can spew at other fans if you'd like, but I'd rather encourage other people to turn out for Serenity's opening weekend and buy the Series DVDs.
For a Firefly fan, you're awfully bitter. We're getting Serenity, so calm down. Now, remember that a Fox exec admitted to mismanaging the show, which he did, so there is a strong case.
And just in case you get to thinking that I'm one of those "crappy" Whedon fans, I watched Firefly from the first airing of "The Train Job" and I've participated in every fan campaign from the Variety ad through all of the letter writing campaigns, etc.
Here here. Firefly was the best show on television in its time, and BSG has taken its place. If you enjoy BSG and haven't seen Firefly, get the DVDs and I promise you that you won't be disappointed. Also, look for the feature film, Serenity", later this year.
It's more necessary in SF than in other genres. The power that SF brings to a writer in her/her toolkit is the ability to mask contemporary issues that the audience is likely to be too biased to view objectively. Religion is just such an issue. By dealing with the religious issues of the Colonials and the Cylons, the writers of BSG can, for example, actually speak to the religious issues of Christian or Islamic Fundamentalists, which they could never do directly.
Michael, you're an idiot. I can't believe that the post you chose to publish is one that contains spoilers. I really didn't want to know anything about this episode until I saw it tonight, but you've ruined that for me.
Yes, it is expected to take out skyscrapers. Read the BBC article or see the BBC produced television documentary. The wave is expected to be several hundred feet high and 30-40 km deep. If those numbers are close to accurate, NYC will be completely washed away.
That's how many Spybot found on my father's machine after I installed it this past weekend. And the funny thing was he was initially less concerned about the malware that IE had silently allowed to install on his machine than the constant popups that IE allowed. I used Spybot to rid him of the malware and installed Firefox to 1) make sure he wouldn't get nearly as much malware in the future and 2) block all those popups. He's really happy now.
I find the idea that you've got a better chance at finding originality in Fantasy then SF astounding. Fantasy has been, for the past several decades, purely derivative of Tolkein. The only contemporary Fantasy stories that I'm aware of that successfully buck this trend are the "Harry Potter" books and the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" series. In almost anything else you see on the shelf or on the screen you've got elves that look very much like Tolkein's, dwarves that look very much like Tolkein's, etc.
I agree that, while substantial differences between languages obviously exist, the main reason that I've seen for Python's adoption (or lack thereof) comes down to style. I have friends who just hate the lack of braces, or some punctuation that ends a block. Those of you who love Python may find that silly, and maybe it is, but style does matter, and style boils down to taste. Some Algol-family coders like the open curly-brace on the same line, and others like it on the following line, and both argue their perference is the most readable.
I also know may coders who grew up on Perl (I am one, myself) who developed a disdain for Python simply because every Python fan they met would greet them by saying, "Python can do more things than Perl and Perl sucks!" In my personal experience, Python-coders have distinguished themselves as the most zealous (that's in comparison with fans of C/C++, Perl, Java, PL/SQL, LISP and SmallTalk), and unfortunately that has also translated into the most obnoxious.
Nearly twice as many projects as Python, almost three times as many as VB, and more than a third as many as C or C++ is low? For a scripting language? I think these numbers prove the versatility and popularity of Perl.
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You're right... you don't get it. If you think your VCR "does the same thing" as TiVo, then you don't understand what TiVo does.
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Enough with the crying "Wolf!" already. First, the difficulty of explaining a PVR was going to kill TiVo, then copyright zealots were going to kill TiVo (remember when Dvorack said using TiVo was "theft"?), then Microsoft's UltimateTV was going to kill TiVo, then Replay's ability to file swap was going to kill TiVo, then negative press was going to kill TiVo (such as when Advertising Age Magazine published an article claiming that more U.S. households had outhouses then had TiVos), then new competition from settop boxes was going to kill TiVo. When TiVo was a smaller company people said that its small size would kill it, and then when it grew larger they said that its larger size would kill it.
Since TiVo gets press everytime somebody thinks up a new reason for it to die, that must mean that a lot of people love it and care to read news and rumors relating to it, and based on that I'll make my prediction. I predict that TiVo will die when people stop wondering about when it will die.
Dude, I'm really sorry, but your taste is in your ass. The acting was fantastic. Mary McDonnell's performance alone was worthy of an Emmy nomination.
And, when you write things like, "It wasn't true enough to the original, I saw several technical inconstancies," we must all collectively reply, "Don't be such a freakin' geek."
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The article says the rocket was meant to reach suborbital flight and return and had no problems, so apparently this was a test flight, but if that's the case they why was it carrying real cargo instead of a test cargo? I mean, imagine if the rocket had exploded a few miles up, or had crashed in the ocean.
The original RPG had a clunky system, but that's not Marvel's fault (mutant character gen rules were cool, though). The updated version was better, and the new diceless version is great.
I completely agree on the lawsuit, and with MS at the helm of this MMO I don't have any hopes for the final product.
This guy has 5000 desktops to manage in 14 buildings, and you expect him to "Hire programmers to create solutions that are even better adapted than the ones" he currently uses? Why don't you hire programmers to do it for him, and while you're at it cure cancer and end world hunger.
And don't forget to shove a broom up your ass so that you sweep the floor when you walk.
Yeah, the editors are out to get you. Btw, so is the Boogeyman, Evil Santa, and the minions of Wario. Paranoid much?
In all seriousness, this type of "look at how persecuted I am" routine is what really hurts your public image.
I was raised attending Independent and Southern Baptist churches and was "saved" at age 14, and now that I'm older and have read more I can say they tend to not be Christ-like. Rather, they tend to be more hateful and exclusionary than other denominations. You disagree? These are the same churches that preach that homosexuals are to be ostracized and hated, yet Christ would have ministered and protected them, just as he did with the prostitute who was about to be stoned.
Fundamentalists are too invested in behaving self-righteously and proclaiming how persecuted they are to turn the other cheek and love their enemies as Christ instructed. Jesus said, "As you do to the least among you, you do to me." Well, considering how Fundamentalist Christians treat homosexuals, Roman Catholics, liberals, Moslems, and anyone else who disagrees with them, they do wrong by Christ all the time.
This is way too close to Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake for comfort. Not a good book by her usual standards (not in the same class as A Handmade's Tale) but still really disturbing in parts.
Listen, I don't worship Joss Whedon. I respect a great deal of the writing that the man has made, and I really wish he'd gotten the chance to give us 22 hours of Firefly per year instead of this one movie, but hey, we got something. Many shows never get another chance. Now, what do you expect Whedon to say? "We're getting screwed by the suits again so let's just be pissed off and spread flame in online forums?" You can spew at other fans if you'd like, but I'd rather encourage other people to turn out for Serenity's opening weekend and buy the Series DVDs.
In other words, I'd rather keep flying.
For a Firefly fan, you're awfully bitter. We're getting Serenity, so calm down. Now, remember that a Fox exec admitted to mismanaging the show, which he did, so there is a strong case.
And just in case you get to thinking that I'm one of those "crappy" Whedon fans, I watched Firefly from the first airing of "The Train Job" and I've participated in every fan campaign from the Variety ad through all of the letter writing campaigns, etc.
Here here. Firefly was the best show on television in its time, and BSG has taken its place. If you enjoy BSG and haven't seen Firefly, get the DVDs and I promise you that you won't be disappointed. Also, look for the feature film, Serenity", later this year.
It's more necessary in SF than in other genres. The power that SF brings to a writer in her/her toolkit is the ability to mask contemporary issues that the audience is likely to be too biased to view objectively. Religion is just such an issue. By dealing with the religious issues of the Colonials and the Cylons, the writers of BSG can, for example, actually speak to the religious issues of Christian or Islamic Fundamentalists, which they could never do directly.
I completely agree that the miniseries was excellent. The best I've seen yet on the Sci-Fi Channel, and one of the best period.
Michael, you're an idiot. I can't believe that the post you chose to publish is one that contains spoilers. I really didn't want to know anything about this episode until I saw it tonight, but you've ruined that for me.
Yes, it is expected to take out skyscrapers. Read the BBC article or see the BBC produced television documentary. The wave is expected to be several hundred feet high and 30-40 km deep. If those numbers are close to accurate, NYC will be completely washed away.
That's how many Spybot found on my father's machine after I installed it this past weekend. And the funny thing was he was initially less concerned about the malware that IE had silently allowed to install on his machine than the constant popups that IE allowed. I used Spybot to rid him of the malware and installed Firefox to 1) make sure he wouldn't get nearly as much malware in the future and 2) block all those popups. He's really happy now.
Yes, please, I'd like to hear more.
Amen. Ditto. Bump. Here here.
Thank you. We've been reading about Berners-Lee's Semantic Web since at least 2001. How do the /. editors get to thinking this is news?
I find the idea that you've got a better chance at finding originality in Fantasy then SF astounding. Fantasy has been, for the past several decades, purely derivative of Tolkein. The only contemporary Fantasy stories that I'm aware of that successfully buck this trend are the "Harry Potter" books and the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" series. In almost anything else you see on the shelf or on the screen you've got elves that look very much like Tolkein's, dwarves that look very much like Tolkein's, etc.
Read Usula K. Le Guin's introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness.
I agree that, while substantial differences between languages obviously exist, the main reason that I've seen for Python's adoption (or lack thereof) comes down to style. I have friends who just hate the lack of braces, or some punctuation that ends a block. Those of you who love Python may find that silly, and maybe it is, but style does matter, and style boils down to taste. Some Algol-family coders like the open curly-brace on the same line, and others like it on the following line, and both argue their perference is the most readable.
I also know may coders who grew up on Perl (I am one, myself) who developed a disdain for Python simply because every Python fan they met would greet them by saying, "Python can do more things than Perl and Perl sucks!" In my personal experience, Python-coders have distinguished themselves as the most zealous (that's in comparison with fans of C/C++, Perl, Java, PL/SQL, LISP and SmallTalk), and unfortunately that has also translated into the most obnoxious.
Nearly twice as many projects as Python, almost three times as many as VB, and more than a third as many as C or C++ is low? For a scripting language? I think these numbers prove the versatility and popularity of Perl.
You're right ... you don't get it. If you think your VCR "does the same thing" as TiVo, then you don't understand what TiVo does.
Enough with the crying "Wolf!" already. First, the difficulty of explaining a PVR was going to kill TiVo, then copyright zealots were going to kill TiVo (remember when Dvorack said using TiVo was "theft"?), then Microsoft's UltimateTV was going to kill TiVo, then Replay's ability to file swap was going to kill TiVo, then negative press was going to kill TiVo (such as when Advertising Age Magazine published an article claiming that more U.S. households had outhouses then had TiVos), then new competition from settop boxes was going to kill TiVo. When TiVo was a smaller company people said that its small size would kill it, and then when it grew larger they said that its larger size would kill it.
Since TiVo gets press everytime somebody thinks up a new reason for it to die, that must mean that a lot of people love it and care to read news and rumors relating to it, and based on that I'll make my prediction. I predict that TiVo will die when people stop wondering about when it will die.
Dude, I'm really sorry, but your taste is in your ass. The acting was fantastic. Mary McDonnell's performance alone was worthy of an Emmy nomination.
And, when you write things like, "It wasn't true enough to the original, I saw several technical inconstancies," we must all collectively reply, "Don't be such a freakin' geek."