I haven't seen the commercial, nor have I watched Farscape since the first season, but I wrote Scifi.com when I heard they were cancelling the show. Why? At Dragon*Con this year (I'm pretty sure it's the largest science fiction / fantasy convention in the world), Farscape had an insanely large following. D*C had to make a special category for Farscape in the costume contest because there were so many people showing up dressed as Farscape characters.
If nothing else can be said for it, this show has one devoted audience. Maybe some of the main actors wanted to leave or maybe it's one of those "the numbers never lie" situations. But nonetheless, to have Scifi toss it away seems like a bad idea.
Didn't we already cover this? Right after Minority Report came out (where they did this) I thought we had an article that said essentially "yes it's annoying as fsck and it's coming to a grocery store near you!"
I thought I'd point out that the article is from a UK site where they give the price in British Pounds, so the "$184M" price tag is actually a £184M price tag which is more like US$300M.
Microsoft playing "catch-up"? Nonsense. Only, what, 9% of the internet users out there use browsers other than IE? Of that, how many of those alternate browsers have tabbed browsing and of those clients using those browsers how many actually *use* tabs?
I agree that Microsoft is scanning around and implementing good features, but no one other than/.'ers will ever know they got the idea from someone else. You're only playing 'catch-up' if there's something to catch-up to. IE has over 90% of the internet userbase, I'd say *that* was something to catch-up to.
LOL... are you trying to imply--even though sofware engineering jobs (arguably much more difficult than network administration) weren't "safe" from outsourcing--that network/unix admin jobs are somehow impervious to the cheap labor coming from Russia and India? Dream on, buddy.
so... anyone other than me thinking "damn, he should have put that amazon.com link in via his account for referral points"... lol. probably make enough dough to grab a book or two for xmas:)
(though he'd probably get a lot of flak from ppl for making use of it, even though it is a legitimate referral.:P)
I can see that domain becoming very useful to a whole heck of a lot of subjects once this PanIP thing runs down. Heck, the EFF could turn over a ton of "hey look what X company is doing"... like when those guys remixed Beck's music into crazy new stuff and the label for Beck tried to sue them for copyright infringement... (which was of course not true and completely ironic, since Beck himself has been questioned about his sources for musical accompanyment..;])
Re:Can someone suggest a reading list?
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RIP: Charles Sheffield
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I've only read a few of his books, but Godspeed was a good one. The premise is that humans learned to control the Einstein-Rosen Bridge (I think that's the right name) where you essentially bend space, push through, and come out on the other side of the universe. Faster-than-light travel. (Like in the movie Event Horizon, only without the retarded evil dimension nonsense.) So because of this we've populated the universe with little human colonies that were all part of this hive network. Then one day the supply ships stopped coming. All the ships they sent out through the ERB never came back, so they had to start fending for themselves. This story follows a group of people from one planet as they attempt to find the rest of human civilization again. pretty cool.
I also read Tomorrow and Tomorrow, which started out really cool but probably should have been a short story. Basically this classical musician's wife dies of a rare sickness and so he has her cryogenically frozen so that she can be fixed and reborn. But he wants to be there when she wakes up, so he has to come up with a bunch of money in order to freeze himself too as well as keep them both on ice for the duration... He also realizes that no one is just going to decide to wake him and his wife up because they're nice people. They're going to need a reason to wake him up. (Which I thought was a very astute observation.) So he spends the next few years making uninteresting (to him) movie soundtracks and so on that sell well for money then once he has enough he goes around and interviews everyone he thinks will become 'the 21st century Mozart/Shakespeare/etc.'
Anyway, he spends the rest of the book racing through time trying to wake his wife. My opinion through most of it was that it was very well done and a fantastically interesting vision of the future, but in the end the main character was overwhelmingly obsessed with his lovly late wife.:/ But that aside, it was really cool.
Hm... I thought Thundercats and Transformers were anime too, actually. but yeah, they both rock. did you know cartoon network is planning a new He-Man series? sacrelidge, i say.;)
it's running pretty slow for me, but working. Also, I went there and had *30* moderation points waiting for me! wow! why's that? also, what is "brak"? are there others like it?
What I did today:
Well my 'blog website is down today. I dunno why. Golly. Luckily enough I found another website (as you can see) where I could babble on and on about absolutely nothing.
Felix, (my roommate's cat) is doing just fine, thank you for asking. Did you see the X-Files re-run last week? Oh dear, look at the time. Maybe the normal blog website is back up. *hope*hope*
the point is that it has nothing at all to do with morals. eBay is a corporation interested in making money and keeping the money it's made, which means they don't want to be sued by large rich conglomerates like the RIAA. If that means they get sued by Joe Shmoe, the random musician, so be it. He'll be much easier to deal with than the RIAA.
first, it's "qualm" not "quarm", and secondly, the moral dilemma of selling pr0n vs. the "moral" dilemma of selling *possibly* pirated music is completely unrelated. Pr0n is legal, selling copies of music is not (though why sci-fi conventions can sell pirated copies of everything under the sun with no worries of being sued into oblivion I don't know). So it's not even a double standard.
well, i'd say that if they didn't take that into account it'd drop our listing lower than 17th:P making it impossible to get news behind 50 layers of red tape, that is.
I mean, his website looked like it was slow, not his car.;D
Re:Yeah, posting the links to the video...
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Go X10 Speed Racer!
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well.. here's at least a pic of his cool little RC car. I copied it to my website since his looked like it was really slow. so if it does go down at least you can still see what the car looks like (unless you guys slashdot me simply because of that one image.. lol..)
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I dunno, but I'm sure there'll be plenty of businesses out there throwing in a couple BS copies of Linux simply to spur some discounts ;)
I've always wondered how companies like this made money to keep going... surely it's expensive to keep all that going...
If nothing else can be said for it, this show has one devoted audience. Maybe some of the main actors wanted to leave or maybe it's one of those "the numbers never lie" situations. But nonetheless, to have Scifi toss it away seems like a bad idea.
Didn't we already cover this? Right after Minority Report came out (where they did this) I thought we had an article that said essentially "yes it's annoying as fsck and it's coming to a grocery store near you!"
... link directly to videos on some poor shmuck's site. Surely they'll be able to withstand the onslaught of /.'ers. Oh wait... :P
I thought I'd point out that the article is from a UK site where they give the price in British Pounds, so the "$184M" price tag is actually a £184M price tag which is more like US$300M.
I agree that Microsoft is scanning around and implementing good features, but no one other than /.'ers will ever know they got the idea from someone else. You're only playing 'catch-up' if there's something to catch-up to. IE has over 90% of the internet userbase, I'd say *that* was something to catch-up to.
LOL... are you trying to imply--even though sofware engineering jobs (arguably much more difficult than network administration) weren't "safe" from outsourcing--that network/unix admin jobs are somehow impervious to the cheap labor coming from Russia and India? Dream on, buddy.
I'm never going to see my girlfriend again.
(though he'd probably get a lot of flak from ppl for making use of it, even though it is a legitimate referral. :P)
assuming they can keep from being slashdotted :P lol. (it's running pretty slow at this point and /. just posted it!)
I can see that domain becoming very useful to a whole heck of a lot of subjects once this PanIP thing runs down. Heck, the EFF could turn over a ton of "hey look what X company is doing" ... like when those guys remixed Beck's music into crazy new stuff and the label for Beck tried to sue them for copyright infringement... (which was of course not true and completely ironic, since Beck himself has been questioned about his sources for musical accompanyment..;])
I also read Tomorrow and Tomorrow, which started out really cool but probably should have been a short story. Basically this classical musician's wife dies of a rare sickness and so he has her cryogenically frozen so that she can be fixed and reborn. But he wants to be there when she wakes up, so he has to come up with a bunch of money in order to freeze himself too as well as keep them both on ice for the duration... He also realizes that no one is just going to decide to wake him and his wife up because they're nice people. They're going to need a reason to wake him up. (Which I thought was a very astute observation.) So he spends the next few years making uninteresting (to him) movie soundtracks and so on that sell well for money then once he has enough he goes around and interviews everyone he thinks will become 'the 21st century Mozart/Shakespeare/etc.'
Anyway, he spends the rest of the book racing through time trying to wake his wife. My opinion through most of it was that it was very well done and a fantastically interesting vision of the future, but in the end the main character was overwhelmingly obsessed with his lovly late wife. :/ But that aside, it was really cool.
Hm... I thought Thundercats and Transformers were anime too, actually. but yeah, they both rock. did you know cartoon network is planning a new He-Man series? sacrelidge, i say. ;)
"hey, i read that some scientist said something might be possible one day!" :P
LOL... but... isn't your username from one? (granted it was from the movie based off the series but...)
it's running pretty slow for me, but working. Also, I went there and had *30* moderation points waiting for me! wow! why's that? also, what is "brak"? are there others like it?
... you probably *didn't* read last week's article on the same thing ... ;)
What I did today: Well my 'blog website is down today. I dunno why. Golly. Luckily enough I found another website (as you can see) where I could babble on and on about absolutely nothing. Felix, (my roommate's cat) is doing just fine, thank you for asking. Did you see the X-Files re-run last week? Oh dear, look at the time. Maybe the normal blog website is back up. *hope*hope*
the point is that it has nothing at all to do with morals. eBay is a corporation interested in making money and keeping the money it's made, which means they don't want to be sued by large rich conglomerates like the RIAA. If that means they get sued by Joe Shmoe, the random musician, so be it. He'll be much easier to deal with than the RIAA.
first, it's "qualm" not "quarm", and secondly, the moral dilemma of selling pr0n vs. the "moral" dilemma of selling *possibly* pirated music is completely unrelated. Pr0n is legal, selling copies of music is not (though why sci-fi conventions can sell pirated copies of everything under the sun with no worries of being sued into oblivion I don't know). So it's not even a double standard.
well, i'd say that if they didn't take that into account it'd drop our listing lower than 17th :P making it impossible to get news behind 50 layers of red tape, that is.
if we were to fry these guys up... would that make us cannibals?
I mean, his website looked like it was slow, not his car. ;D
well.. here's at least a pic of his cool little RC car. I copied it to my website since his looked like it was really slow. so if it does go down at least you can still see what the car looks like (unless you guys slashdot me simply because of that one image.. lol..)