Sure it would make good TV, but how much longer do you think that COPS would be allowed to stay on the air? No police would let them do ride alongs if they showed police abuse.
Invent and create are really two different things. Al Gore did in fact sponser the legislation to create the internet. And that's all he ever claimed. Back in the 80s when he did that, he was the only guy on capital hill who really did "get it" about technology. To try to twist that to "invent" is just stupid. Did Eisenhower "invent" the interstate highway system. No, but he did ask Congress to pass the legislation to create it - and then he signed the bill.
Tim Berners Lee invented HTML and HTTP. That's not the internet. Without HTTP there is still FTP, Gopher, Telnet, and a jillion other internet protocols.
First of all, I can't see how anyone could have honestly modded this as off topic.
Second, God I hope so! The biggest difference to me between the SciFi channel series and the original is that I really want to see Starbuck naked in this one.
The average Anime cartoon has a plot that affords camp entertainment at best. The dialog is stilted and the plots don't make any fucking sense. I'm not going to watch that stupid crap.
I don't think that Hollywood has anything to worry about. Anime is only going to appeal to a small minority - mostly of small children and adults who are stoned.
A friend of mine took his little son to see the Pokemon movie. I asked him what he thought of it. He said that he didn't think any adult in the theatre had any idea what the movie was about at all. (He certainly didn't.)
I used to watch Sailor Moon with my daughter when she was little. She loved it, but the plot made basically no sense to me.
If they tried to make a live action American sitcom with a plot like Anime, you'd end up with a show about like "Small Wonder" or "Webster" only worse.
That's why you need to keep the information confidential between you and the other companies which is what Apple does. Remember how pissed they were when ATI sent out an early press release that blew the cover on some new G4 systems?
Second, you need to forcast realistically. In gaming, there is really no execuse for a marketer to draw a line in the sand and say that a product is irrelevant after a certain date. If it is a good game, it will do fine. The importance of forcasting the release date is so that you can coordinate other parts of the product release. So, my thinking is that you want to use normal software "good forcasting" practices to make sure you hit the date you pick. That starts with picking a realistic date - not letting it be dictated by marketing.
When you pitch a movie idea, it has to be pitchable in one sentance, or often just a phrase.
How do you pitch an original idea with a phrase or sentance? It's very hard. Mostly, you don't.
I recall hearing a story on NPR's "This American Life" about pitching movie scripts. The script was described as "Jaws with Paws" which was a hook to mean that the plot was similar to the movie Jaws, but that the vilified animal was a cat or dog (I don't remeber exactly).
In any media there are always a certain amount of obvious ideas. Over time, new ideas become harder and harder to come up with. New good ideas are even harder to come up with. However, there is still plenty of room for new good ideas in film. There is plenty of room for good films. Still, most films are derivative crap.
This should surprise no one. Still, I'm constantly amazed by the fact that people rant and rave about Hollywood/Music Industry/Video Gaming Industry/Software Industry/etc. not being open enough to new ideas. It is difficult to think of a new good idea and execute it.
I've heard it before. When I first heard about DSL, I had dial up and envied my friend who had the money for an ISDN line in his house. The hype was the DSL worked with POTS and since everyone has POTS, then everyone could have DSL.
I've got a question or two along these lines. Is there a common binary format that I can distribute Linux software in? Or do I still have to ship the source and have my users compile it themselves?
This is a real question, not a troll. I'm going to be recommending whether to do a Linux version of some commercial software. I need to know if I can ship a single binary like we do on Mac and Windows.
Also, is there an installer other than Install Anywhere that works in Linux?
Can I target all Linux distros easily with a C/C++ app?
There's a difference between professionals and McSlaves. For example, most university professors get a certain amount of money for computers and software and can buy whatever they want. If all your company is doing is running Office, then giving your people the choice of what system to use is probably a good way to make them happy. I'm kind of far out on this curve, but I wouldn't work at a company that would not allow me to use a Mac.
No, but the flipside of the "marketing" they are pushing is that women can't do things with computers that aren't "easy". So, when you staff an IT position, you would avoid hiring a woman based on this incorrect thinking.
I am confident enough in my male identity to speak up when I don't understand something or when I think it is too hard to learn regardless of the gender of the person demonstrating it.
For the record, I still think Linux is too hard to use on the desktop to be worthwhile rolling out in a big org (or for my personal use.) This despite the fact that my 8 year old daughter uses it.
Do you think any of this hardware might ever make it onto eBay? I personally would love to have a Soviet clone of a western computer as a novelty "thing to have".
Try a few hundred (maybe even thousand) Macs. I used to a Mac developer at Microsoft. We had plenty of machines.
When I was there, they were getting rid of some of their first generation PowerPC Macintoshes. I think in one day they threw away like 500 PowerMac 6100,7100, and 8100s. These were all working units that were going to the landfill because they were out of date. Most companies would have donated them to schools, but Microsoft doesn't donate their used Macs to schools because they figure that's one fewer DOS or Windows license that they won't sell.
And it wasn't like those 500 machines weren't being replaced. They were replacing them with G3s and G4s at that time just as fast as they were throwing the old ones out.
...I'd recommend spending a lot of time programming and teaching yourself some really new and really sought after technology. Currently, I'd recommend Microsoft.Net.
Unfortunately I can't tell you what will be hot 5-10 years down the road.
I guess I was thinking "The Emperor's New Groove", "Brother Bear", "Aladdin", "Lion King", "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", need I go on?
I skipped "Freaky Friday", although I was unlucky enough to see the crappy original movie when I was a kid. I saw Pirates of the Caribbean, which sucked.
"The Apple Dumpling Gang", all of the Love Bug movies. The series of movies about the kicking mule. Uggh!
If you buy an xBox, but don't buy any games, that is pretty much the worst case scenario for MS because they are loosing money on the hardware. However, you benefit them because you increase their install base.
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Sure it would make good TV, but how much longer do you think that COPS would be allowed to stay on the air? No police would let them do ride alongs if they showed police abuse.
Invent and create are really two different things. Al Gore did in fact sponser the legislation to create the internet. And that's all he ever claimed. Back in the 80s when he did that, he was the only guy on capital hill who really did "get it" about technology. To try to twist that to "invent" is just stupid. Did Eisenhower "invent" the interstate highway system. No, but he did ask Congress to pass the legislation to create it - and then he signed the bill.
Tim Berners Lee invented HTML and HTTP. That's not the internet. Without HTTP there is still FTP, Gopher, Telnet, and a jillion other internet protocols.
First of all, I can't see how anyone could have honestly modded this as off topic.
Second, God I hope so! The biggest difference to me between the SciFi channel series and the original is that I really want to see Starbuck naked in this one.
Are you fucking kidding me???
The average Anime cartoon has a plot that affords camp entertainment at best. The dialog is stilted and the plots don't make any fucking sense. I'm not going to watch that stupid crap.
I don't think that Hollywood has anything to worry about. Anime is only going to appeal to a small minority - mostly of small children and adults who are stoned.
A friend of mine took his little son to see the Pokemon movie. I asked him what he thought of it. He said that he didn't think any adult in the theatre had any idea what the movie was about at all. (He certainly didn't.)
I used to watch Sailor Moon with my daughter when she was little. She loved it, but the plot made basically no sense to me.
If they tried to make a live action American sitcom with a plot like Anime, you'd end up with a show about like "Small Wonder" or "Webster" only worse.
That's why you need to keep the information confidential between you and the other companies which is what Apple does. Remember how pissed they were when ATI sent out an early press release that blew the cover on some new G4 systems?
Second, you need to forcast realistically. In gaming, there is really no execuse for a marketer to draw a line in the sand and say that a product is irrelevant after a certain date. If it is a good game, it will do fine. The importance of forcasting the release date is so that you can coordinate other parts of the product release. So, my thinking is that you want to use normal software "good forcasting" practices to make sure you hit the date you pick. That starts with picking a realistic date - not letting it be dictated by marketing.
When you pitch a movie idea, it has to be pitchable in one sentance, or often just a phrase.
How do you pitch an original idea with a phrase or sentance? It's very hard. Mostly, you don't.
I recall hearing a story on NPR's "This American Life" about pitching movie scripts. The script was described as "Jaws with Paws" which was a hook to mean that the plot was similar to the movie Jaws, but that the vilified animal was a cat or dog (I don't remeber exactly).
In any media there are always a certain amount of obvious ideas. Over time, new ideas become harder and harder to come up with. New good ideas are even harder to come up with. However, there is still plenty of room for new good ideas in film. There is plenty of room for good films. Still, most films are derivative crap.
This should surprise no one. Still, I'm constantly amazed by the fact that people rant and rave about Hollywood/Music Industry/Video Gaming Industry/Software Industry/etc. not being open enough to new ideas. It is difficult to think of a new good idea and execute it.
I'll use NASA's software the next time I need to:
1. Waste billions.
2. Fake a moon landing.
3. Get lost on the way to Mars.
4. Kill seven people.
I've heard it before. When I first heard about DSL, I had dial up and envied my friend who had the money for an ISDN line in his house. The hype was the DSL worked with POTS and since everyone has POTS, then everyone could have DSL.
Not true by half.
Oh, I totally read that as "they" meaning "women in general".
it demonstrates that yes, in fact, a woman can use Linux, when they cannot (yet).
You just proved my point.
First, Macs aren't twice as expensive as PCs by a long shot. A Mac is about the same price as a name brand PC.
:-)
And as for my job, I'm a Macintosh programmer
I've got a question or two along these lines. Is there a common binary format that I can distribute Linux software in? Or do I still have to ship the source and have my users compile it themselves?
This is a real question, not a troll. I'm going to be recommending whether to do a Linux version of some commercial software. I need to know if I can ship a single binary like we do on Mac and Windows.
Also, is there an installer other than Install Anywhere that works in Linux?
Can I target all Linux distros easily with a C/C++ app?
There's a difference between professionals and McSlaves. For example, most university professors get a certain amount of money for computers and software and can buy whatever they want. If all your company is doing is running Office, then giving your people the choice of what system to use is probably a good way to make them happy. I'm kind of far out on this curve, but I wouldn't work at a company that would not allow me to use a Mac.
No, but the flipside of the "marketing" they are pushing is that women can't do things with computers that aren't "easy". So, when you staff an IT position, you would avoid hiring a woman based on this incorrect thinking.
I am confident enough in my male identity to speak up when I don't understand something or when I think it is too hard to learn regardless of the gender of the person demonstrating it.
For the record, I still think Linux is too hard to use on the desktop to be worthwhile rolling out in a big org (or for my personal use.) This despite the fact that my 8 year old daughter uses it.
I have never mistakenly put my digital watch on upside down
Then you aren't Professor Hubert Farnsworth.
(Specifically in the episode 1ACV08 "A Big Piece of Garbage".)
Do you think any of this hardware might ever make it onto eBay? I personally would love to have a Soviet clone of a western computer as a novelty "thing to have".
I'm not gay either, but I think Apple is doing a good thing to help equality by doing this.
What you really mean is that you hate gay people. That's a very different thing than being gay.
All Microsoft has to do is issue a "security patch" that re-directs Google HTTP requests to MSN Search.
As long as W is in the WhiteHouse and Ashcroft is attorney general, they don't have to worry about anti-trust.
Then, they can just say that Google is a terrorist org and if you use Linux or Mac to get to it, then you are terrorist too.
Then write it in HTML and put it online.
Try a few hundred (maybe even thousand) Macs. I used to a Mac developer at Microsoft. We had plenty of machines.
When I was there, they were getting rid of some of their first generation PowerPC Macintoshes. I think in one day they threw away like 500 PowerMac 6100,7100, and 8100s. These were all working units that were going to the landfill because they were out of date. Most companies would have donated them to schools, but Microsoft doesn't donate their used Macs to schools because they figure that's one fewer DOS or Windows license that they won't sell.
And it wasn't like those 500 machines weren't being replaced. They were replacing them with G3s and G4s at that time just as fast as they were throwing the old ones out.
I predict that they will open the Linux BU 2 years after Linux has made Microsoft totally irrelevent.
Nasa has a multi-billion dollar annual budget and they can't afford one gigabyte flash card?
...I'd recommend spending a lot of time programming and teaching yourself some really new and really sought after technology. Currently, I'd recommend Microsoft .Net.
Unfortunately I can't tell you what will be hot 5-10 years down the road.
I guess I was thinking "The Emperor's New Groove", "Brother Bear", "Aladdin", "Lion King", "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", need I go on?
I skipped "Freaky Friday", although I was unlucky enough to see the crappy original movie when I was a kid. I saw Pirates of the Caribbean, which sucked.
"The Apple Dumpling Gang", all of the Love Bug movies. The series of movies about the kicking mule. Uggh!
If you buy an xBox, but don't buy any games, that is pretty much the worst case scenario for MS because they are loosing money on the hardware. However, you benefit them because you increase their install base.