Did you hear about the guy who invented a formula that would grow hair on a billiard ball?
He died penniless, because no one wanted a hairy billiard ball.
But hairy balls stay warmer in the cold months of winter.
How will we be able to recognize our fellow/.'ers at the beach in this new world?
Just because we have hair in all the right places doesn't mean we won't still be pasty white.. not too hard to pick out against a crowd of people with good tans. Now, if said/.'er is laying out on a beach with white sand, then they may blend in and not be noticed.;)
Same deal with me. I recently moved and decided I didn't need cable that bad. I just watched Farscape at my girlfriend's apt.
I know there's not much chance you'll see this since you posted AC but you might want to cancel your satellite now and spend the money on the DVDs. Season 3 is being released now from advfilms.
The ratings were good for cable, but the budget was fucking massive for cable
I was under the impression that the budget wasn't really all that high since the filming was done in Australia. I could be wrong though.. I don't know what an average cable show costs.
but now that Taken and Children of Dune have appeared not only in TV Guide and Entertainment Weekly, but also magazines like Time and Newsweek, there really isn't any reason for Sci-Fi to keep Farscape.
Funny thing about that.. I wanted to watch both of these until they cancelled Farscape. Now I'm not too interested in watching anything else SciFi has to offer.
...this show, but no one seems upset that all those who supposedly love this show didn't watch it and help give it good ratings to make it feasible to continue making this show? If the show is that good, then why weren't there enough of you watching it? Seems like Sci-Fi held their end of the bargain and you guys didn't.
I realize this is probably flame bait but I watched it every week and every day when they reran it from the beginning. I seriously doubt the people complaining didn't watch it. They may not all have sent letters to SciFi complaining but I'm pretty sure they at least watched the show.
Incidentally, I'm guessing the fact that I can't get to www.savefarscape.com right now means that there were quite a few other people upset by the episode.
I still can't believe that thank you message at the end. Farscape was my favorite show and renewed my faith in SciFi after Sliders but they just lost all of that. The only good thing to come from this is that I won't need to spend $50/mo on cable since Farscape was the only show on any cable station that I really enjoyed.
I just finished up writing my letter to SciFi.. it ends with 'Thank *you* for four great years SciFi, I won't be tuning in any more.'
1. Students - Many colleges have a deal with Microsoft so that any of their students can get various MS software really cheap. For example, get a copy of Windows XP and Visual Studio for $5 per cd. Losing that would be bad when competing with other colleges that offer it.
2. Staff and Faculty - I work at a fairly small university but we're large enough to have people who insist on using what they're familiar with, whether that's Unix, Windows or a MAC.
3. Software and Administrative systems - Most of our Administrative software isn't exactly friendly to OS's other than Windows.
While I'm all for promoting Linux, I'm also a person that believes in using the best tool for a particular task and in some cases that's a Microsoft product. I think requiring a college to not use anything from Microsoft would be more of a detrement than $800,000 per year could make up for.
"It's like I was told in driving class; stab a man to death, you risk life in prison. Run him over, you risk seven years. Same crime, different punishments, all due to a completly superfluous detail."
I didn't learn anything like that in my driver's ed class.. thanks for the tip.:)
I hadn't heard of the game boy player until now.. thanks.:)
I thought it was kind of dumb that if I really liked a game and wanted to be able to play it on my gamecube and gba that I would have to buy 2 copies of the game. Although, I imagine playing the gameboy version of something on my gamecube wouldn't look as good as the gamecube version.
" PHP protect all your pages so if a counter increments by a certain count within a certain amount of time (say 30 mins or an hour) for the next 2 hours, it will remove all of the inline images, run them through an ascii-art converter, and replace it, so you're transferring at most a couple kilobytes of text which is gzip compressable through most browsers now and checks every 2 hours until the slashdot (or fark, or k5, or memebutt) effect subsides... Any techheads wanna get crackin'?"
It's an interesting idea but it could make things worse. I was just using bg_ascii to convert some images to color ascii. My first test was on a 480x480 jpg that was about 33kb. The corresponding html looked neat(and was a little bigger) but it was about 170kb.
Of course, this might still be a neat project, have it check to see if someone is using lynx and then substitute the ascii images in that case.:) (lynx supports color right? it's been a while since I used it)
if for no other reason than the simple fact that I hate Verizon and Time Warner. My electric company on the other hand has always been on my good side.
"Tell the corporations that if people are much cheaper to hire in Bangladesh or India, move your management and marketing types there, too, not just the people that do real and honest work"
I tried that when I was a poor college student but I got back aches from sitting on the floor hunched over my computer. You really should try using a desktop and chair. You'd be amazed at the effect on your gaming skills.
There was an Outer Limits episode similar to that. Basically there were these really smart aliens that gave us the ability to transport people and what it did was send all of the information about the person so they could be recreated. Then when they got the ok from the other place, they destroyed the original. Well, the basis of this episode was that there was a problem during transport so the guy in charge of destructing didn't get the ok and therefore didn't destroy the original. She had all kinds of mental issues from the transportation and he became her friend. She was the first woman that he connected with since his wife and child died. Then he was told the transportation did work ok and he had to either kill her or they would take all their transportation technology away.
"Telemarketers will absolutely not hang up the phone just by you saying 'no' politely. A national DNC would mean that those people could make a single phone call, and never have to feel bad about wanting to hang up on a telemarketer."
You got that one right. I remember one time I was on my crappy portable phone and I started unscrewing the antenna while the guy was blabbing because I was in a creative mood. He didn't give up even through all the static and me saying that I couldn't understand him.:)
"I used to opt-out of spam. (I don't anymore since now I know it's stupid.) Whenever I opted-out I would stop getting spam from that domain... and start getting the exact same spam from a different domain. How could you prove it's the same company?"
Maybe someone can jump in with an RFC link or something here but I think there's a limit on the length of a domain and characters that can be used so don't give up, you'll get them all some day.:)
Others (I know one personally) will laugh and hand the list over to their call center as a list of verified numbers. If someone goes after them, they will weasel out of the lawsuit via claims of clerical errors.
Surely this person isn't your friend so why don't you find a way to 'educate' him on why he's wrong?:)
finally, there will be a group that takes the list to another country and sets up a call center there.
I think there's 1 small barrier to that compared to email thought. The cost of making a phone call to another country that the telemarketer would incur with this scheme.
Slashdot Mirror
Did you hear about the guy who invented a formula that would grow hair on a billiard ball? He died penniless, because no one wanted a hairy billiard ball.
But hairy balls stay warmer in the cold months of winter.
How will we be able to recognize our fellow /.'ers at the beach in this new world?
/.'er is laying out on a beach with white sand, then they may blend in and not be noticed. ;)
Just because we have hair in all the right places doesn't mean we won't still be pasty white.. not too hard to pick out against a crowd of people with good tans. Now, if said
Don't forget snood. :) I actually saw a copy of snood for the gamecube at Toys R Us.
Same deal with me. I recently moved and decided I didn't need cable that bad. I just watched Farscape at my girlfriend's apt.
I know there's not much chance you'll see this since you posted AC but you might want to cancel your satellite now and spend the money on the DVDs. Season 3 is being released now from advfilms.
The ratings were good for cable, but the budget was fucking massive for cable
I was under the impression that the budget wasn't really all that high since the filming was done in Australia. I could be wrong though.. I don't know what an average cable show costs.
but now that Taken and Children of Dune have appeared not only in TV Guide and Entertainment Weekly, but also magazines like Time and Newsweek, there really isn't any reason for Sci-Fi to keep Farscape.
Funny thing about that.. I wanted to watch both of these until they cancelled Farscape. Now I'm not too interested in watching anything else SciFi has to offer.
I realize this is probably flame bait but I watched it every week and every day when they reran it from the beginning. I seriously doubt the people complaining didn't watch it. They may not all have sent letters to SciFi complaining but I'm pretty sure they at least watched the show.
Incidentally, I'm guessing the fact that I can't get to www.savefarscape.com right now means that there were quite a few other people upset by the episode.
scifi sucks
I still can't believe that thank you message at the end. Farscape was my favorite show and renewed my faith in SciFi after Sliders but they just lost all of that. The only good thing to come from this is that I won't need to spend $50/mo on cable since Farscape was the only show on any cable station that I really enjoyed.
I just finished up writing my letter to SciFi.. it ends with 'Thank *you* for four great years SciFi, I won't be tuning in any more.'
paintball gun? I usually want something less forgiving like a rocket launcher built into the front like a 007 car.
1. Students - Many colleges have a deal with Microsoft so that any of their students can get various MS software really cheap. For example, get a copy of Windows XP and Visual Studio for $5 per cd. Losing that would be bad when competing with other colleges that offer it.
2. Staff and Faculty - I work at a fairly small university but we're large enough to have people who insist on using what they're familiar with, whether that's Unix, Windows or a MAC.
3. Software and Administrative systems - Most of our Administrative software isn't exactly friendly to OS's other than Windows.
While I'm all for promoting Linux, I'm also a person that believes in using the best tool for a particular task and in some cases that's a Microsoft product. I think requiring a college to not use anything from Microsoft would be more of a detrement than $800,000 per year could make up for.
IE6 IS the kitchen.. and Windows is the house. Or maybe a better analogy would be that IE6 is the toilet of the Windows bathroom. :)
"It's like I was told in driving class; stab a man to death, you risk life in prison. Run him over, you risk seven years. Same crime, different punishments, all due to a completly superfluous detail."
:)
I didn't learn anything like that in my driver's ed class.. thanks for the tip.
I hadn't heard of the game boy player until now.. thanks. :)
I thought it was kind of dumb that if I really liked a game and wanted to be able to play it on my gamecube and gba that I would have to buy 2 copies of the game. Although, I imagine playing the gameboy version of something on my gamecube wouldn't look as good as the gamecube version.
What about Western Digital's Data Lifeguard tools. Those come on a floppy and are still useful.
" PHP protect all your pages so if a counter increments by a certain count within a certain amount of time (say 30 mins or an hour) for the next 2 hours, it will remove all of the inline images, run them through an ascii-art converter, and replace it, so you're transferring at most a couple kilobytes of text which is gzip compressable through most browsers now and checks every 2 hours until the slashdot (or fark, or k5, or memebutt) effect subsides... Any techheads wanna get crackin'?"
:) (lynx supports color right? it's been a while since I used it)
It's an interesting idea but it could make things worse. I was just using bg_ascii to convert some images to color ascii. My first test was on a 480x480 jpg that was about 33kb. The corresponding html looked neat(and was a little bigger) but it was about 170kb.
Of course, this might still be a neat project, have it check to see if someone is using lynx and then substitute the ascii images in that case.
if for no other reason than the simple fact that I hate Verizon and Time Warner. My electric company on the other hand has always been on my good side.
"Tell the corporations that if people are much cheaper to hire in Bangladesh or India, move your management and marketing types there, too, not just the people that do real and honest work"
:)
I wish I had some mod points for you.
" Don't use a desktop!"
I tried that when I was a poor college student but I got back aches from sitting on the floor hunched over my computer. You really should try using a desktop and chair. You'd be amazed at the effect on your gaming skills.
His head! It's on backwards!
Why didn't anyone tell me my ass was so big?
There was an Outer Limits episode similar to that. Basically there were these really smart aliens that gave us the ability to transport people and what it did was send all of the information about the person so they could be recreated. Then when they got the ok from the other place, they destroyed the original. Well, the basis of this episode was that there was a problem during transport so the guy in charge of destructing didn't get the ok and therefore didn't destroy the original. She had all kinds of mental issues from the transportation and he became her friend. She was the first woman that he connected with since his wife and child died. Then he was told the transportation did work ok and he had to either kill her or they would take all their transportation technology away.
"Telemarketers block you!"
That's how it is in the US. Telemarketers block me from coding and sleeping and doing anything else productive with my life.
"Telemarketers will absolutely not hang up the phone just by you saying 'no' politely. A national DNC would mean that those people could make a single phone call, and never have to feel bad about wanting to hang up on a telemarketer."
:)
You got that one right. I remember one time I was on my crappy portable phone and I started unscrewing the antenna while the guy was blabbing because I was in a creative mood. He didn't give up even through all the static and me saying that I couldn't understand him.
"I used to opt-out of spam. (I don't anymore since now I know it's stupid.) Whenever I opted-out I would stop getting spam from that domain... and start getting the exact same spam from a different domain. How could you prove it's the same company?"
:)
Maybe someone can jump in with an RFC link or something here but I think there's a limit on the length of a domain and characters that can be used so don't give up, you'll get them all some day.
doh
:)
-thought +though
I swear I clicked the Preview button and it just submitted it instead.
Others (I know one personally) will laugh and hand the list over to their call center as a list of verified numbers. If someone goes after them, they will weasel out of the lawsuit via claims of clerical errors.
:)
Surely this person isn't your friend so why don't you find a way to 'educate' him on why he's wrong?
finally, there will be a group that takes the list to another country and sets up a call center there.
I think there's 1 small barrier to that compared to email thought. The cost of making a phone call to another country that the telemarketer would incur with this scheme.