on a side note, i wonder if A Christmas Story was the first example of having a 3rd person Narrator voice over using the grown up voice of the main character who is a kid... and, did the producers of The Wonder Years and currently Everyone Hates Chris have to pay a royalty fee for using this 'treatment' since such things can be copyrighted?
If they'd wanted market-adverse names they would have gone with: Aging Anteater and Cranky Cow, though Cordial Cock has that almost dirty sound to it.... and I once new an Avid Ass, I worked at a post-production studio as an intern and that guy was so not cool....
Instead of www.domain.com let's use us.domain.com and eu.domain.com, etc and then break it down by state/province and then city
This would at least allow for several orders of differentiation.... we do it with phone numbers.. ie: prefixes instead of suffixes
This way you could have multiple companies/individuals, etc. as.com or whatever which would still be semantically correct but have them further identified by their region
You could register: us.va.richmond.shoegallery.com for a website/address for a business named Shoe Gallery in Richmond Virginia
Then someone else who had the bright idea of calling their business Shoe Gallery but was located across the country in Oregon could get us.oregon.portland.shoegallery.com
If the brand is a Registered Trademark in your state, you get to have us.oregon.shoegallery.com
If the brand is a Registered Trademark in the US, you get us.shoegallery.com
You could pay to receive a similar license for use in other countries if you had a presence there and did not conflict with an existing brand
The city level domain would be tied to the business address listed for billing purposes
This would allow non-national brands to co-exist in the same country under the same name (which is perfectly legal to do via DBA and business license per city), though you'd still have to respect Trademark laws ie: you couldn't claim us.ohio.bfe.sony.com just because there was no Sony store in your city.
This would also allow businesses to set up local storefronts more effectively, instead of having to ask for your zip code to determine your locality, then redirecting you... all sorts of interesting scenarios come up in fact.
Firstname.Lastname addresses could be organized more effectively.... though they should be.org (to avoid a new tld) not.com ie: us.washington.medina.bill.gates.org
Notice the extra . between first and last... now Melinda can have her own address too.... and any other overshadowed Gates'ians in Medina, WA can have an address as well... though this still could be a problem for the many (Joe Kim)s in the various 'Korea Towns' but it's better odds than they have now.
And that's the whole point right... to give everyone a fair chance to have an address which is unique AND non-trivial
Without belaboring the point, there are better organizational methods than new suffixes... and in fact those should be reserved for functional purposes as they are now....com should mean a commercial entity,.org should be a non-profit organization (whether a foundation or simply a family group or individual). Use prefixes to add organizational hierarchies... the most effective and least likely to be non-trivial being regional categories.
Using existing Trademark laws to enforce claims, existing franchises can be respected and yet a mom-and-pop can elect to go with an available local domain in the beginning and then escalate their claim as it becomes a regional brand and then a national brand without having to pay up front. The courts would decide who can claim a national Trademark in the event that two regional brands decided to go national at the same time or wanted to instituted their claim in advance against competing brands at the national level... most likely there would be a payoff/settlement and the business who wanted it the most, had the resources to follow through on their claim would get the name, though the business wanting the national brand would have a tough time if they only had one physical address, no matter how big their bank account is.
The biggest issue would be when a business or organization changes physical address.... they would also have to register a new virtual address, if you move out of your city, or your state... though not as big as you might think at first, no bigger than changing phone numbers or physical address really, simply notify interested parties of the new business web address or individual web address as you would for your street address. Certainly not as convenient as being lucky enough to get yourname.com and keep it forever, but who's that lucky anyways? and do they deserve to get all the glory?
"The Chinese government issued a decree two weeks ago that all PCs will need to have a licensed operating system software installed before leaving the factory gates in an effort to crack down on piracy."
should be read:
The Chinese government issued a decree two weeks ago that all PCs will need to have a licensed operating system software installed before leaving the GATES factory in an effort to crack down on piracy.
I can see it already... every 'internet' patent out there will now be 'reinvented' as a 'wireless' patent...
IPL A) "My client patented 'wireless' streaming media!, time for a lawsuit party!"
IPL B) "hold on, my client patented 'wireless' one-click buying... you won't get very far with that streaming media without me!"
IPL C) "Hey now, my client patented 'wireless' media plugins for 'wireless' browsers'... neither of you gets bupkiss without me!
IPL D) "Haha, my client trumps you all... 'wireless' Linux!"
IPLs A, B and C) "Stupid D, Linux is GPL;-p you can't make any money there..."
IPL D) "But, but, but my client SWEARS that he invented it and has promised me like 30% of the winnings!!!!!!, well I'll get paid a boat load to fight for it anyways!"
All IP Lawyers: "SWEET!!!!!!!"
...then the world will end, judgement day at last, damn you 'wireless' technology, ARGHHHHH....
This would be great for solar powered applications or processing driven by human body processes, ie: where the voltage won't always be consistent, yet the processor can still function consistently even if not at the same speed... it will continue computing effectively and accurately regardless of it's energy supply without the need for a large (relative to use) battery or capacitor....
I'm thinking of apps like micro cpus for embedded implants or for environmental sensors running on solar power
If nothing else an added benefit would be that they can continue operating at lower speeds while the power supply is running out, slow down operations in synch with amount of battery power left
Just make friends with the staff and let one of them know you're using the restroom and to keep and eye on your laptop... though you're stil at risk for a planned heist... at least you'll start getting free coffee now and then;-p
Huh? It sounds like the 49/51 thing worked perfectly... the 51 guy made a decision and now is responsible for it.... ie: his company is now losing all it's customers to the guy he fired... bet the Board feels pretty stupid about voting your father out right about now...
My MBP has same whine as all others, in addition when I hook it up to my 30in. HDCinema Display the signal degrades after the MBP heats up.... I'm thinking it's all from the same hardware problem... leaking electricity somewhere, which causes a) electrical hissing b) the case to gain a charge and heat up beyond what it's supposed to c) dirty signal through the dual DVI port
I have a *10 serial number, so I'm expecting to be able to just swap it out with a new MBP at the Apple store.... I've already done so once, since an Apple Genius saw the pixel sparking and pronounce my first MBP DOA.
This is really great news to me, as I love everything else about the machine.... excepting the lack of photoshop performance, but I knew that going in...
Heheheheh you must have something against Sweden;-p.se is already a TLD...
In any case you wouldn't be searching for the coat of arms for Amsterdam in.XXX so just turn on.XXX filtering and you'd get all the references to Amsterdam without the porn sites... voila, a much better search result, unless of course you were looking for porn 'from Amsterdam' in which case xxx isn't a very good search term as it's already such a generic accepted placeholder for porn.
Getting around filters... suddenly that porn outlet is the target of an investigation into selling porn to underage... which is the whole point. It's like the red light district... it makes it easier for patrons to find and harder for underage would be patrons to access without drawing attention to themselves, either from their parents or the authorities (which would only get involved if the business were actually soliciting to minors).
Morality nazis just don't want to appear to be giving their support to something that legitimizes pornography. SO instead we have porn abolition, which is much the same as alcohol abolition in that the suppliers still sell their product and people still buy, but there is no regulation of quality and no means of officially monitoring or regulating product access to minors.
I'd like to be able to block ads from.xxx and emails from.xxx and if i wanted to see some fat titties I'd like to go to google and do a search on.xxx and not see this: fat titties.
This company Avamar is an archive to disk specialist.
Disclosure: I am a shareholder and former employee. I haven't worked there for 2 years so this info is a little out of date... but they've been improving it susbstantially in that time frame so use this as a baseline.
They are not a disk to disk staging server company like EMC. They focus on data archival on disk... have a system called RAIN (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Nodes.. or Independent Nodes, both are correct) which uses N-Level parity like a RAID array but across server nodes, 4 disk 1 or 2U servers in a rack... which allows for swapping out new nodes on the fly w/o data loss.
Additionally they use an advanced Content Addressed Storage algorithm which does CAS at the byte level instead of the file level tagging your data for date/time/location/backup etc. as well as providing a base for a technique called Commonality Factoring which factors out common data across files before it's ever transferred (happens in the background on the client during scheduled analysis windows) and for many applications, reduces storage and transfer amounts by up to 90%.... meaning you can backup a lot more data to a 1TB system than with standard compression. 3-5 TB of real world data is typical for a 1TB system, which includes all the incrementals you can stand... hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, with checkpoints at any point in time you flag or schedule and a policy management system for deleting incrementals and saving checkpoints permanently.
Their client server architecture allows for remote backups easily and for doing remote mirroring for disaster recovery scenarios. Remote mirroring costs extra, a software plugin called Replicator.
Intel uses Axion (their software) for archiving chipset blueprints. Goldman Sachs uses Axion for storing archived financial and legal data. Visa is using Axion for storing digital versions of checks. Nasa uses Axion for storing signal data from satellites and radio antennaes.
Base system comes in around 40k but call for a demo and sales pitch... they'll bring out a CAT (Commonality Assessment Test) to show you how much of your own data they can archive. The first run will take a day to get a level 0 snapshot, then subsequent backups will take between an hour and 3 hours to do what a tape system will take 12 hours or more to do every single time, even with software like Veritas or EMCs Legato acquired stuff....
They support all standard OS's used in servers and their clients support Windows, Linux, Oracle, MSSQL, Exchange and Solaris. Also they support VTL for use as a backup to your CLARION system which means the server will look like a tape system and can be managed as such....
Finally they do encryption on server, before transmission if required for remote backup. Allow for online access to data 24/7 with full search capabilities and network mapping for mounting a backup directly on your administrative client that looks like a normal filesytem... oh yeah and a web based filebrowser for doing individual or directory sized restores if you just want to grab an archived copy of something small... rather than having to do a full restore w/ all the incremental restores, etc. just to get at one file
AH, but you see we pulled in 3 million last year and plan to do about 12 this year.... sales people who do their jobs well really do bring the jobs in.
also.. I don't want to deal with ignorant clients all day... that's what the Account managers are for, basically public relations...
I get paid very well to just focus on design and interactive all day.
Sure less people on payroll would mean more for each but we'd be struggling in a crappy little industrial office space instead of working in a nice 4rth floor suite in a well maintained office building... just so we could work on small projects for small clients, instead of working on 200k projects for much more organized and professional businesses.
All depends on what you want out of life I suppose.
And billion dollar companies don't have any office work right?
I work in a design firm and we have exactly the number of macs as we have designers... 5. The company has 30 employees. The other 25 run Windows, mostly cause cheap hardware is fine for accounting and sales staff => gets the job done... also we find out if a web design is IE compatible right away...
No imaginaton.... DRM is funny i tell ya... no different than making jokes about censorship, paying taxes or any of a number of dry topics that have the potential for absurdity.
Applets are embedded objects... AJAX is inline. Big difference. I can't degrade gradefully from Applets... either they work or they don't... AJAX let's me add user experience if it's supported and degrade back to a less nice but still functional user experience. Sure the current stuff available is being rolled out quickly and haphazardly without a fallback state being defined but this will not be the case for long. This is the same reasoning for why I prefer AJAX over Flash for interactive UI elements... though adding Flash to the User Experience level as the highest possible is an option, with AJAX as a fallback and plain html w/ forms as the lowest.
Sorry, but much like Xerox lost the right to their name as a verb, Super Hero is now a part of the English language. They should have been enforcing this for the last 20 years at least. Strangley though I'm at a loss for an example of someone else using Super Hero in a title... lots of descriptions, just can't think of any titles. (edit.. there's a band called SuperHero apparently).
I CAN think of a lot of other Comic book IP that has been infringed over the years.... to the benefit of Marvel and DC... lots of pop culture that kept their characters, etc. in the public eye while comic books themselves fell out of favor with the ADD generation.
I thought I'd seen that somewhere... well, there's no such thing as a new idea.... makes the other guy who said he's glad I don't write TV scripts look dumb;-p
Just wish someone else on/. felt confident enough to share their own plot line wishlists... could be funny.
Just cause you've got no imagination, don't blame it on me.... a plot device is a plot device is a plot device... with good dialogue and snappy slapstick physical humor you can make anything funny... but to make something smart and funny, well you need a good plot device.
I think having a robot automatically update the way Windows does, then find out that he's been installed with an update which has DRM in it that won't allow him to uninstall it without circumventing the DRM (which is illegal), is hilarious... then going on a crazy adventure, which would of course involve a few old friends (Robot Devil comes to mind... ), all to find a patch that would leave him exactly where he was before the update... possibly going all the way to Sweden to talk to a notorious DRM hacker's head, or back in time to use download his original firmware from himself... who knows, it could go anywhere.
There's a lot of people who would relate to the goose chase that is ridding oneself of an unwanted software update and all the craziness involved, just to get back to where you started... it's at least as good as SLURM...
You're absolutely correct. I just wanted to point out the importance of not looking at the technology as this extreme application. It could just as easily be used as a very effective micro-motor. The flexibility of something like this which has so much room for performance loss while still being useful.... now that is encouraging.
Really? I thought the whole point of smart cartoons was to do what live action shows never can.... point out the absurdity of the real world by lampooning it with over-the-top fictional versions while keeping a few important kernels of truth intact, just to keep you from dismissing the whole thing as foolishness.
Or maybe you think a show about a freakin' delivery service makes for a good sitcom? IF so, go watch King of Queens... maybe more to your liking. Try to find anything smart or interesting on that show and you're going to have an aneurism.
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*warning - off topic wondering follows*
on a side note, i wonder if A Christmas Story was the first example of having a 3rd person Narrator voice over using the grown up voice of the main character who is a kid... and, did the producers of The Wonder Years and currently Everyone Hates Chris have to pay a royalty fee for using this 'treatment' since such things can be copyrighted?
If they'd wanted market-adverse names they would have gone with: Aging Anteater and Cranky Cow, though Cordial Cock has that almost dirty sound to it.... and I once new an Avid Ass, I worked at a post-production studio as an intern and that guy was so not cool....
Instead of www.domain.com let's use us.domain.com and eu.domain.com, etc and then break it down by state/province and then city
.com or whatever which would still be semantically correct but have them further identified by their region
.org (to avoid a new tld) not .com ie: us.washington.medina.bill.gates.org
.com should mean a commercial entity, .org should be a non-profit organization (whether a foundation or simply a family group or individual). Use prefixes to add organizational hierarchies... the most effective and least likely to be non-trivial being regional categories.
This would at least allow for several orders of differentiation.... we do it with phone numbers.. ie: prefixes instead of suffixes
This way you could have multiple companies/individuals, etc. as
You could register: us.va.richmond.shoegallery.com for a website/address for a business named Shoe Gallery in Richmond Virginia
Then someone else who had the bright idea of calling their business Shoe Gallery but was located across the country in Oregon could get us.oregon.portland.shoegallery.com
If the brand is a Registered Trademark in your state, you get to have us.oregon.shoegallery.com
If the brand is a Registered Trademark in the US, you get us.shoegallery.com
You could pay to receive a similar license for use in other countries if you had a presence there and did not conflict with an existing brand
The city level domain would be tied to the business address listed for billing purposes
This would allow non-national brands to co-exist in the same country under the same name (which is perfectly legal to do via DBA and business license per city), though you'd still have to respect Trademark laws ie: you couldn't claim us.ohio.bfe.sony.com just because there was no Sony store in your city.
This would also allow businesses to set up local storefronts more effectively, instead of having to ask for your zip code to determine your locality, then redirecting you... all sorts of interesting scenarios come up in fact.
Firstname.Lastname addresses could be organized more effectively.... though they should be
Notice the extra . between first and last... now Melinda can have her own address too.... and any other overshadowed Gates'ians in Medina, WA can have an address as well... though this still could be a problem for the many (Joe Kim)s in the various 'Korea Towns' but it's better odds than they have now.
And that's the whole point right... to give everyone a fair chance to have an address which is unique AND non-trivial
Without belaboring the point, there are better organizational methods than new suffixes... and in fact those should be reserved for functional purposes as they are now...
Using existing Trademark laws to enforce claims, existing franchises can be respected and yet a mom-and-pop can elect to go with an available local domain in the beginning and then escalate their claim as it becomes a regional brand and then a national brand without having to pay up front. The courts would decide who can claim a national Trademark in the event that two regional brands decided to go national at the same time or wanted to instituted their claim in advance against competing brands at the national level... most likely there would be a payoff/settlement and the business who wanted it the most, had the resources to follow through on their claim would get the name, though the business wanting the national brand would have a tough time if they only had one physical address, no matter how big their bank account is.
The biggest issue would be when a business or organization changes physical address.... they would also have to register a new virtual address, if you move out of your city, or your state... though not as big as you might think at first, no bigger than changing phone numbers or physical address really, simply notify interested parties of the new business web address or individual web address as you would for your street address. Certainly not as convenient as being lucky enough to get yourname.com and keep it forever, but who's that lucky anyways? and do they deserve to get all the glory?
"The Chinese government issued a decree two weeks ago that all PCs will need to have a licensed operating system software installed before leaving the factory gates in an effort to crack down on piracy."
should be read:
The Chinese government issued a decree two weeks ago that all PCs will need to have a licensed operating system software installed before leaving the GATES factory in an effort to crack down on piracy.
IPL A) "My client patented 'wireless' streaming media!, time for a lawsuit party!"
IPL B) "hold on, my client patented 'wireless' one-click buying... you won't get very far with that streaming media without me!"
IPL C) "Hey now, my client patented 'wireless' media plugins for 'wireless' browsers'... neither of you gets bupkiss without me!
IPL D) "Haha, my client trumps you all... 'wireless' Linux!"
IPLs A, B and C) "Stupid D, Linux is GPL
IPL D) "But, but, but my client SWEARS that he invented it and has promised me like 30% of the winnings!!!!!!, well I'll get paid a boat load to fight for it anyways!"
All IP Lawyers: "SWEET!!!!!!!"
This would be great for solar powered applications or processing driven by human body processes, ie: where the voltage won't always be consistent, yet the processor can still function consistently even if not at the same speed... it will continue computing effectively and accurately regardless of it's energy supply without the need for a large (relative to use) battery or capacitor....
I'm thinking of apps like micro cpus for embedded implants or for environmental sensors running on solar power
If nothing else an added benefit would be that they can continue operating at lower speeds while the power supply is running out, slow down operations in synch with amount of battery power left
Just make friends with the staff and let one of them know you're using the restroom and to keep and eye on your laptop... though you're stil at risk for a planned heist... at least you'll start getting free coffee now and then ;-p
And intelligent bank robbers get away every day.... not to mention burlars who can disable your home / car alarms, etc....
An alarm is only there to prevent stupid thieves, which is why they only lower your insurance for theft... not render it meaningless.
Huh? It sounds like the 49/51 thing worked perfectly... the 51 guy made a decision and now is responsible for it.... ie: his company is now losing all it's customers to the guy he fired... bet the Board feels pretty stupid about voting your father out right about now...
My MBP has same whine as all others, in addition when I hook it up to my 30in. HDCinema Display the signal degrades after the MBP heats up.... I'm thinking it's all from the same hardware problem... leaking electricity somewhere, which causes a) electrical hissing b) the case to gain a charge and heat up beyond what it's supposed to c) dirty signal through the dual DVI port
I have a *10 serial number, so I'm expecting to be able to just swap it out with a new MBP at the Apple store.... I've already done so once, since an Apple Genius saw the pixel sparking and pronounce my first MBP DOA.
This is really great news to me, as I love everything else about the machine.... excepting the lack of photoshop performance, but I knew that going in...
Heheheheh you must have something against Sweden ;-p .se is already a TLD...
.XXX so just turn on .XXX filtering and you'd get all the references to Amsterdam without the porn sites... voila, a much better search result, unless of course you were looking for porn 'from Amsterdam' in which case xxx isn't a very good search term as it's already such a generic accepted placeholder for porn.
In any case you wouldn't be searching for the coat of arms for Amsterdam in
Getting around filters... suddenly that porn outlet is the target of an investigation into selling porn to underage... which is the whole point. It's like the red light district... it makes it easier for patrons to find and harder for underage would be patrons to access without drawing attention to themselves, either from their parents or the authorities (which would only get involved if the business were actually soliciting to minors).
.xxx and emails from .xxx and if i wanted to see some fat titties I'd like to go to google and do a search on .xxx and not see this: fat titties.
Morality nazis just don't want to appear to be giving their support to something that legitimizes pornography. SO instead we have porn abolition, which is much the same as alcohol abolition in that the suppliers still sell their product and people still buy, but there is no regulation of quality and no means of officially monitoring or regulating product access to minors.
I'd like to be able to block ads from
This company Avamar is an archive to disk specialist.
Disclosure: I am a shareholder and former employee. I haven't worked there for 2 years so this info is a little out of date... but they've been improving it susbstantially in that time frame so use this as a baseline.
They are not a disk to disk staging server company like EMC. They focus on data archival on disk... have a system called RAIN (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Nodes.. or Independent Nodes, both are correct) which uses N-Level parity like a RAID array but across server nodes, 4 disk 1 or 2U servers in a rack... which allows for swapping out new nodes on the fly w/o data loss.
Additionally they use an advanced Content Addressed Storage algorithm which does CAS at the byte level instead of the file level tagging your data for date/time/location/backup etc. as well as providing a base for a technique called Commonality Factoring which factors out common data across files before it's ever transferred (happens in the background on the client during scheduled analysis windows) and for many applications, reduces storage and transfer amounts by up to 90%.... meaning you can backup a lot more data to a 1TB system than with standard compression. 3-5 TB of real world data is typical for a 1TB system, which includes all the incrementals you can stand... hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, with checkpoints at any point in time you flag or schedule and a policy management system for deleting incrementals and saving checkpoints permanently.
Their client server architecture allows for remote backups easily and for doing remote mirroring for disaster recovery scenarios. Remote mirroring costs extra, a software plugin called Replicator.
Intel uses Axion (their software) for archiving chipset blueprints. Goldman Sachs uses Axion for storing archived financial and legal data. Visa is using Axion for storing digital versions of checks. Nasa uses Axion for storing signal data from satellites and radio antennaes.
Base system comes in around 40k but call for a demo and sales pitch... they'll bring out a CAT (Commonality Assessment Test) to show you how much of your own data they can archive. The first run will take a day to get a level 0 snapshot, then subsequent backups will take between an hour and 3 hours to do what a tape system will take 12 hours or more to do every single time, even with software like Veritas or EMCs Legato acquired stuff....
They support all standard OS's used in servers and their clients support Windows, Linux, Oracle, MSSQL, Exchange and Solaris. Also they support VTL for use as a backup to your CLARION system which means the server will look like a tape system and can be managed as such....
Finally they do encryption on server, before transmission if required for remote backup. Allow for online access to data 24/7 with full search capabilities and network mapping for mounting a backup directly on your administrative client that looks like a normal filesytem... oh yeah and a web based filebrowser for doing individual or directory sized restores if you just want to grab an archived copy of something small... rather than having to do a full restore w/ all the incremental restores, etc. just to get at one file
AH, but you see we pulled in 3 million last year and plan to do about 12 this year.... sales people who do their jobs well really do bring the jobs in.
also.. I don't want to deal with ignorant clients all day... that's what the Account managers are for, basically public relations...
I get paid very well to just focus on design and interactive all day.
Sure less people on payroll would mean more for each but we'd be struggling in a crappy little industrial office space instead of working in a nice 4rth floor suite in a well maintained office building... just so we could work on small projects for small clients, instead of working on 200k projects for much more organized and professional businesses.
All depends on what you want out of life I suppose.
And billion dollar companies don't have any office work right?
I work in a design firm and we have exactly the number of macs as we have designers... 5. The company has 30 employees. The other 25 run Windows, mostly cause cheap hardware is fine for accounting and sales staff => gets the job done... also we find out if a web design is IE compatible right away...
New kill mantra.... apple+option+esc
come on, everyone's doing it... it's like the ctrl+alt+delete your parents used to do
No imaginaton.... DRM is funny i tell ya... no different than making jokes about censorship, paying taxes or any of a number of dry topics that have the potential for absurdity.
Applets are embedded objects... AJAX is inline. Big difference. I can't degrade gradefully from Applets... either they work or they don't... AJAX let's me add user experience if it's supported and degrade back to a less nice but still functional user experience. Sure the current stuff available is being rolled out quickly and haphazardly without a fallback state being defined but this will not be the case for long. This is the same reasoning for why I prefer AJAX over Flash for interactive UI elements... though adding Flash to the User Experience level as the highest possible is an option, with AJAX as a fallback and plain html w/ forms as the lowest.
Oh so obsoleteness of a robot and ludditism is a more riveting topic for a cartoon about a fictional future than DRM and anti-circumvention laws?
anyways, 'nuff said
Sorry, but much like Xerox lost the right to their name as a verb, Super Hero is now a part of the English language. They should have been enforcing this for the last 20 years at least. Strangley though I'm at a loss for an example of someone else using Super Hero in a title... lots of descriptions, just can't think of any titles. (edit.. there's a band called SuperHero apparently).
I CAN think of a lot of other Comic book IP that has been infringed over the years.... to the benefit of Marvel and DC... lots of pop culture that kept their characters, etc. in the public eye while comic books themselves fell out of favor with the ADD generation.
Funny thing is that it apparently was the basis for the plot of an episode.... I just didn't realize it had already been made ;-p
/.er who knew better
link to the
so nyeh!
I thought I'd seen that somewhere... well, there's no such thing as a new idea.... makes the other guy who said he's glad I don't write TV scripts look dumb ;-p
/. felt confident enough to share their own plot line wishlists... could be funny.
Just wish someone else on
Just cause you've got no imagination, don't blame it on me.... a plot device is a plot device is a plot device... with good dialogue and snappy slapstick physical humor you can make anything funny... but to make something smart and funny, well you need a good plot device.
I think having a robot automatically update the way Windows does, then find out that he's been installed with an update which has DRM in it that won't allow him to uninstall it without circumventing the DRM (which is illegal), is hilarious... then going on a crazy adventure, which would of course involve a few old friends (Robot Devil comes to mind... ), all to find a patch that would leave him exactly where he was before the update... possibly going all the way to Sweden to talk to a notorious DRM hacker's head, or back in time to use download his original firmware from himself... who knows, it could go anywhere.
There's a lot of people who would relate to the goose chase that is ridding oneself of an unwanted software update and all the craziness involved, just to get back to where you started... it's at least as good as SLURM...
You're absolutely correct. I just wanted to point out the importance of not looking at the technology as this extreme application. It could just as easily be used as a very effective micro-motor. The flexibility of something like this which has so much room for performance loss while still being useful.... now that is encouraging.
Really? I thought the whole point of smart cartoons was to do what live action shows never can.... point out the absurdity of the real world by lampooning it with over-the-top fictional versions while keeping a few important kernels of truth intact, just to keep you from dismissing the whole thing as foolishness.
Or maybe you think a show about a freakin' delivery service makes for a good sitcom? IF so, go watch King of Queens... maybe more to your liking. Try to find anything smart or interesting on that show and you're going to have an aneurism.