Their stock absolutely tanked. They failed to react properly to their markets sourroundings, but were big enough and fat enough to sheield the top brass from failure.
Law and order, La Law, CSI, CSI Miami, Law and Order SVU?
Or do you mean ER, Third Watch, Crossing Jordan, etc?
Maybe you meant Baywatch, Baywatch Nights, V.I.P?
You couldn't mean Star Trek, Star Trek TNG, Star Trek DS9, Star Trek Voyager, or Star Trek Enterprise?
Whereas 30 something had a cult following, Quantum Leap did okay, Farscape failed without trying to differentiate itself too much, John Doe is surviving, Six Feet Under is fighting, yadda, yadda, yadda.
Even the Sopranos is pretty much recycled, and now it's spawning its share of crap.
The general television viewers are nothing more than sheeple, too dumb to think on their own, and use the opinions of the masses to avoid indiviual thought, and the Neilson ratings to verify their intelligence. You can quote me on that. McLuhan would have.
You missed one. The average person would rather watch a formulated, farmiliar plot over and over, rather than have to think about something new. Same script, different setting, jumble the characters around, and boom! Instant hit. That's why there's been a vulcan on every star trek so far (Data==Vulcan), save DS9, and they had to bring in characters from TNG to offset this.
You start digging, and EVERYONE has something that they're not proud of. It might not be illegal, but technically, neither is getting a bj'er in the oval office.
Everyone has a skeleton in their closet. Everyone has some dark, dirty secret, that although not illegal, may show some character flaw which could be embarassing, or destructive. You just gotta dig.
Hell you dig deep enough and in the right place, you might just find some things that I'm not proud of. And that's the stuff that I don't want you, the neighbours, or the family dog digging up.
I'd probably have no time left to actually maintain and improve the systems...
Let alone posting to/.
But in all seriousness, should this evil come to pass, how far is far enough without harming users rights. Content based policing may not be an option, but what about content throttling, traffic graphs, etc. And as a byproduct, all the new equipment needed to do this would have the added byproduct of improving network quality. Now if you could only get the government to approve grants for the upgrade, you'd be all set.
Sooner or later these patents are going to strangle communications completely. This would be no different if I were to patent a method in which 'two or more people can hold a conversation over a medium which converts the spoken word of one party into a format which can be understood by the second party, and vice versa', then charge everyone the next time they want to hold a press conference, debate, meeting, etc.
Yeah, but nothing is rendered in final per se, but used to generate previews for the CAD designer. Resizing, rotating, zooming, transparencies, etc. are all used for verification, all of which can't be done entirely in wireframe. Once the designer is confident in his designs, they aren't completely rendered, but rater small portions, or passed entirely to machines to do the work. The computers don't need to see every detail, nor do the machinist, but the designer has to make sure that he's not piercing a mold's waterjacket with an ejector pin hole, and to do that he needs to see the design, and more importantly, to manipulate it. Technically it is a limitation of the user to fail to envision the entire project in 3d using a 2d rendering, but we are, after all human.
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If you have to ask, you're not privelidged enough for the answer.
Maybe that was the problem...
Their stock absolutely tanked. They failed to react properly to their markets sourroundings, but were big enough and fat enough to sheield the top brass from failure.
Law and order, La Law, CSI, CSI Miami, Law and Order SVU?
Or do you mean ER, Third Watch, Crossing Jordan, etc?
Maybe you meant Baywatch, Baywatch Nights, V.I.P?
You couldn't mean Star Trek, Star Trek TNG, Star Trek DS9, Star Trek Voyager, or Star Trek Enterprise?
Whereas 30 something had a cult following, Quantum Leap did okay, Farscape failed without trying to differentiate itself too much, John Doe is surviving, Six Feet Under is fighting, yadda, yadda, yadda.
Even the Sopranos is pretty much recycled, and now it's spawning its share of crap.
The general television viewers are nothing more than sheeple, too dumb to think on their own, and use the opinions of the masses to avoid indiviual thought, and the Neilson ratings to verify their intelligence. You can quote me on that. McLuhan would have.
You mean survival of the fattest, don't you?
You missed one. The average person would rather watch a formulated, farmiliar plot over and over, rather than have to think about something new. Same script, different setting, jumble the characters around, and boom! Instant hit. That's why there's been a vulcan on every star trek so far (Data==Vulcan), save DS9, and they had to bring in characters from TNG to offset this.
Then why did Cleopatra 2525 fail, where Baywatch succeeded?
Should this be true, I can now consider my quest complete!
I shall now prepare for the age-old ritual of seppuku.
Can I keep my nick when I get reincarnated?
Micro$oft!
Been here long?
Google:
Searched the web for Office.
Results 1 - 10 of about 78,600,000. Search took 0.10 seconds.
Start sending the letters!
as an interesting side note, the first link is US Copyright Office
Why, he'll still be able to play with the boobies, they'll just be lower.
Not anymore he can't.
Road Rage incidents... Maybe.
High unemployment rate... Sure
Hooker beatings... I can see that
Poor driving skills... I guess
But discontent... No way man, that game fucking rocks!
The little motorcycles were killer, although nothing like playing motorcycle crash for distance in 3d.
Punching the Hare Krishnas was fun too.
Nice that you're being helpful and all, but you got trolled. Check out the guy's homepage.
Succinct answer tho.
Yes, I always leave margin for error.
And before you ask, hookers. Lots and lots of hookers.
You start digging, and EVERYONE has something that they're not proud of.
It might not be illegal, but technically, neither is getting a bj'er in the oval office.
Everyone has a skeleton in their closet. Everyone has some dark, dirty secret, that although not illegal, may show some character flaw which could be embarassing, or destructive. You just gotta dig.
Hell you dig deep enough and in the right place, you might just find some things that I'm not proud of. And that's the stuff that I don't want you, the neighbours, or the family dog digging up.
Actually, I'd damn near piss myself if a waitress told me that. I'd still dine and dash them, but I'd be doing it with a wet crotch.
Or WOMD. Hello, Saddaam, this is Chirac. (Hoah-hoah-hoah) We Sures gives dem da runs-around, no? Nows, can I buys some of dat dere Anthrax?
Good Job Myriad! Once again, bringing idiocy to its penultimate level is the best way to get the point across.
Skeletons in the closet,
AWG
I'd probably have no time left to actually maintain and improve the systems...
/.
Let alone posting to
But in all seriousness, should this evil come to pass, how far is far enough without harming users rights. Content based policing may not be an option, but what about content throttling, traffic graphs, etc. And as a byproduct, all the new equipment needed to do this would have the added byproduct of improving network quality. Now if you could only get the government to approve grants for the upgrade, you'd be all set.
In that case, ol' Gee Dubya is going to get some snail-mail spam
Sooner or later these patents are going to strangle communications completely. This would be no different if I were to patent a method in which 'two or more people can hold a conversation over a medium which converts the spoken word of one party into a format which can be understood by the second party, and vice versa', then charge everyone the next time they want to hold a press conference, debate, meeting, etc.
It's very ineffective when you have a total power outage. Trade-off is speed vs. reliability
Yeah, but nothing is rendered in final per se, but used to generate previews for the CAD designer. Resizing, rotating, zooming, transparencies, etc. are all used for verification, all of which can't be done entirely in wireframe. Once the designer is confident in his designs, they aren't completely rendered, but rater small portions, or passed entirely to machines to do the work. The computers don't need to see every detail, nor do the machinist, but the designer has to make sure that he's not piercing a mold's waterjacket with an ejector pin hole, and to do that he needs to see the design, and more importantly, to manipulate it. Technically it is a limitation of the user to fail to envision the entire project in 3d using a 2d rendering, but we are, after all human.