If you actually read the whole article you'll see the stuff about Tivo at the end. Seeing as Strangeberry was about 'broadband content delivery' it's not too much of a stretch to see Tivo team up with Netflix to allow Tivo users to download movies using Strangeberry tech. They didn't mention Strangeberry specifically in the article but the Tivo-Netflix connection is there and Strangeberry could be the tools to make it happen.
My favorite BBS at the time had a hookup to a national X-Files forum going right when the show started. After a while we decided it would be a good idea to think of a term for X-Files fans like Trekkies for Star Trek fans. I eventually thought of x-philes and it was liked by all. A little while later I was reading an X-Files magazine and saw fans of the show called X-Philes for the first time. I have no way of knowing if I was the first to use it but I haven't been able to find any other references from an earlier date (although if someone finds one, I'd like to see it).
Another favorite memory was my friend and I just about taking over the entire universe in the Tradewars game on the local BBS. I loved that game.
That's a lovely in-a-perfect-world libertarian style argument but doesn't really work.
1) Walmart is pretty much the only employer for women and older people in a lot of the small towns they operate in. That's one of the reasons they like small towns. Not everyone can just leave a job and instantly get another one.
2) Not all Walmart suppliers had these stringent demands placed on them when they started selling to Walmart. Over time Walmart has become a majority of a lot of its suppliers income. If you don't like the quite unreasonable demands Walmart places on you, they hand a huge chunk of your business to your nearest competitor and you probably lose your company.
There are two real reasons that most wireless ISPs don't market to homes: cost and equipment. Most wireless equipment is more expensive and the monthly fee is usually about $100 a month, out of the range most people are willing to pay. The other problem is that wireless installs usually entail putting a tower or pole of some sort up. In my experience (I'm the sysadmin for an ISP that does a lot of wireless) as soon as people see the pole that has to be attached to their home they balk. Especially if there are trees around the home that have to be gotten over. If you talk to a sales person at the ISP and tell them that you are willing to pay and willing to have the pole installed, they shouldn't refuse you. That doesn't mean they won't refuse obviously but they would be stupid to pass up the business.
I think the point is that those authors you list aren't selling very many books, which is a good estimate of the popularity of their writing (yes I know Cory's book is freely downloadable). What's selling is Star Trek and fantasy. Even the big 'space opera' books that are selling well now are arguably more influenced by Fantasy than science fiction. The Big Trends in sci-fi just aren't looking forward the way they used to. And of the ones that are looking forward, most of them are horribly bound up in jargin and technobabble and lose touch with what made science fiction good in the first place, a sense of humanity.
The Wired article listed the laser machines at $10,000 and the sunlight machine at $1,000. The sunlight machines are new and so I'd imagine the prices will drop as more of them are sold so the price difference will only get more in favor of the sunlight machine.
I'm not a doctor but I believe there are many surgeries that are difficult/impossible to do with scalpel instead of a laser (many cancer removals for example). For poor areas (many of which happen to be in sunlight rich areas) this is a good way to get those surgeries done without having to buy the laser system.
All you have to do is convince all of the companies involved (bandwidth owners, hardware manufacturers, administrators, etc.) to work for free and you'll be all set.
Seriously. Every part of the chain costs money. Eventually somebody is going to be putting money from their pocket into somebody elses so unless you want to pay $10,000 for a network card and have the network card companies pass everybody's share along, you're going to have to pay a subscription of some sort.
Walmart doesn't tend fo "compete" in the same way as other companies. Since they make up such a large percentage of sales of things like movies, CDs, and magazines they make a lot of demands on distributors that other companies can't ask for. This puts their competition on a very un-level playing field and has the result of killing or severely weakening any threats to Walmart's dominance. That is _not_ good for the consumer in the long run.
One more thing I won't be buying from Walmart. whoohoo!
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The poster is making references to the X-Men since it's about mutants, albeit very different types of mutants.
Stryker is the villain in X-Men 2. Another version of the same character was the villain in the X-Men comic book storyline "God Loves, Man Kills" which the movie is aparently similar to.
Dark Phoenix Saga refers to an X-Men comic storyline in which Jean Grey is taken over by the Phoenix force and tries to kill everybody. I haven't seen X2 but apparently it suggests that the next sequel will be based on the Dark Phoenix storyline.
Of course they're going straight from Dallas to LA, with no stop in Albuquerque. Since the freeway between those two cities goes right through here, maybe I'll be able to at least watch the trucks go by, a single tear streaming down my cheek.
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Cite your references please. A lot of smart people have been working on this for a long time and they have actual data to back up their assertions. You do not as far as I can see. Just because you don't think it will happen doesn't mean it's not going to.
That was the first episode I thought of when I saw what they had picked for the worst. That episode was the first one where I actually had to agree that the show had started to suck.
Maybe the writers at EW are like most fans and have blocked that show from their memory.:)
This is probably the saddest thing I've ever read. I'm not which part is actually the saddest though, the time the guy put into whining about a damn game or that it was posted on Slashdot as a "news" item. This is a lengthy, whiny EQ messageboard post and should have stayed there.
Oh no, this game sucks and the people playing it are dumb enough to keep paying to play it even though they hate it. Call the National Guard! For pete's sake, get a damn life, turn off the computer, find something else to do. Even if you do say you're "addicted", there's nothing physical to the addiction, you're not going to have withdrawls or anything. Sheesh.
So I have to upgrade to a new, more expensive, Tivo2 just to have the ability to pay an extra fee to get the new functionality? Nevermind if you think this new ability to do MP3s and pictures is valuable, you have to pay extra for it, on top of paying for the new Tivo? I think I'll just spend a hundred on a new giant harddrive and upgrade my current Tivo.
This attack has generally been considered "piddly and unintelligent" according to people who are actually in charge of running things on the net. Here's a good quote from the NANOG mailing list:
"when uunet or at&t takes many customers out for many hours, it's not
a problem
when an attack happens that was generally not even perceived by the users, it's a major disaster
i love the press"
With something like the root nameservers, if it was an important attack, you would have noticed. I run an ISP and we had zero complaints, even from the Everquest whiners who complain at the drop of a hat about anything.
I think you just need permission to launch. They don't want people building giant rockets in their backyard and then blowing up 10 feet off the ground, destroying the neighborhood.
Plus, a space bound commercial rocket looks a lot like a Russia bound government nuke so you need to prevent misunderstandings.
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If you actually read the whole article you'll see the stuff about Tivo at the end. Seeing as Strangeberry was about 'broadband content delivery' it's not too much of a stretch to see Tivo team up with Netflix to allow Tivo users to download movies using Strangeberry tech. They didn't mention Strangeberry specifically in the article but the Tivo-Netflix connection is there and Strangeberry could be the tools to make it happen.
My favorite BBS at the time had a hookup to a national X-Files forum going right when the show started. After a while we decided it would be a good idea to think of a term for X-Files fans like Trekkies for Star Trek fans. I eventually thought of x-philes and it was liked by all. A little while later I was reading an X-Files magazine and saw fans of the show called X-Philes for the first time. I have no way of knowing if I was the first to use it but I haven't been able to find any other references from an earlier date (although if someone finds one, I'd like to see it).
Another favorite memory was my friend and I just about taking over the entire universe in the Tradewars game on the local BBS. I loved that game.
It's sort reporting the fact that blueberries are blue.
Except that blueberries are not, in fact, blue. There is no truly blue food. It's a fact, look it up.
That's a lovely in-a-perfect-world libertarian style argument but doesn't really work.
1) Walmart is pretty much the only employer for women and older people in a lot of the small towns they operate in. That's one of the reasons they like small towns. Not everyone can just leave a job and instantly get another one.
2) Not all Walmart suppliers had these stringent demands placed on them when they started selling to Walmart. Over time Walmart has become a majority of a lot of its suppliers income. If you don't like the quite unreasonable demands Walmart places on you, they hand a huge chunk of your business to your nearest competitor and you probably lose your company.
There are two real reasons that most wireless ISPs don't market to homes: cost and equipment. Most wireless equipment is more expensive and the monthly fee is usually about $100 a month, out of the range most people are willing to pay. The other problem is that wireless installs usually entail putting a tower or pole of some sort up. In my experience (I'm the sysadmin for an ISP that does a lot of wireless) as soon as people see the pole that has to be attached to their home they balk. Especially if there are trees around the home that have to be gotten over. If you talk to a sales person at the ISP and tell them that you are willing to pay and willing to have the pole installed, they shouldn't refuse you. That doesn't mean they won't refuse obviously but they would be stupid to pass up the business.
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I think lots of economists can explain these things. The question is are they reading slashdot?
I think the point is that those authors you list aren't selling very many books, which is a good estimate of the popularity of their writing (yes I know Cory's book is freely downloadable). What's selling is Star Trek and fantasy. Even the big 'space opera' books that are selling well now are arguably more influenced by Fantasy than science fiction. The Big Trends in sci-fi just aren't looking forward the way they used to. And of the ones that are looking forward, most of them are horribly bound up in jargin and technobabble and lose touch with what made science fiction good in the first place, a sense of humanity.
The Wired article listed the laser machines at $10,000 and the sunlight machine at $1,000. The sunlight machines are new and so I'd imagine the prices will drop as more of them are sold so the price difference will only get more in favor of the sunlight machine.
I'm not a doctor but I believe there are many surgeries that are difficult/impossible to do with scalpel instead of a laser (many cancer removals for example). For poor areas (many of which happen to be in sunlight rich areas) this is a good way to get those surgeries done without having to buy the laser system.
We do have higher bandwidth on phone lines. It's called DSL.
All you have to do is convince all of the companies involved (bandwidth owners, hardware manufacturers, administrators, etc.) to work for free and you'll be all set.
Seriously. Every part of the chain costs money. Eventually somebody is going to be putting money from their pocket into somebody elses so unless you want to pay $10,000 for a network card and have the network card companies pass everybody's share along, you're going to have to pay a subscription of some sort.
Walmart doesn't tend fo "compete" in the same way as other companies. Since they make up such a large percentage of sales of things like movies, CDs, and magazines they make a lot of demands on distributors that other companies can't ask for. This puts their competition on a very un-level playing field and has the result of killing or severely weakening any threats to Walmart's dominance. That is _not_ good for the consumer in the long run.
One more thing I won't be buying from Walmart. whoohoo!
The poster is making references to the X-Men since it's about mutants, albeit very different types of mutants.
Stryker is the villain in X-Men 2. Another version of the same character was the villain in the X-Men comic book storyline "God Loves, Man Kills" which the movie is aparently similar to.
Dark Phoenix Saga refers to an X-Men comic storyline in which Jean Grey is taken over by the Phoenix force and tries to kill everybody. I haven't seen X2 but apparently it suggests that the next sequel will be based on the Dark Phoenix storyline.
Of course they're going straight from Dallas to LA, with no stop in Albuquerque. Since the freeway between those two cities goes right through here, maybe I'll be able to at least watch the trucks go by, a single tear streaming down my cheek.
I've setup the website ComicsConnector.com for specifically this purpose. Comics Connector is an online catalog devoted to independent comics. In addition to the catalog, we have a Features section with interviews, our exclusive Interview Yourself! feature and articles about comics. Check it out!
Cite your references please. A lot of smart people have been working on this for a long time and they have actual data to back up their assertions. You do not as far as I can see. Just because you don't think it will happen doesn't mean it's not going to.
That was the first episode I thought of when I saw what they had picked for the worst. That episode was the first one where I actually had to agree that the show had started to suck.
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Maybe the writers at EW are like most fans and have blocked that show from their memory.
I gave up voting your post Funny to tell that you you're going strait to Hell. :)
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You got the talking part done.
This is probably the saddest thing I've ever read. I'm not which part is actually the saddest though, the time the guy put into whining about a damn game or that it was posted on Slashdot as a "news" item. This is a lengthy, whiny EQ messageboard post and should have stayed there.
Oh no, this game sucks and the people playing it are dumb enough to keep paying to play it even though they hate it. Call the National Guard! For pete's sake, get a damn life, turn off the computer, find something else to do. Even if you do say you're "addicted", there's nothing physical to the addiction, you're not going to have withdrawls or anything. Sheesh.
So I have to upgrade to a new, more expensive, Tivo2 just to have the ability to pay an extra fee to get the new functionality? Nevermind if you think this new ability to do MP3s and pictures is valuable, you have to pay extra for it, on top of paying for the new Tivo? I think I'll just spend a hundred on a new giant harddrive and upgrade my current Tivo.
You must have stumbled onto the wrong discussion site. Your comment is reasonable and shows actual knowledge of the facts of the case.
"when uunet or at&t takes many customers out for many hours, it's not a problem
With something like the root nameservers, if it was an important attack, you would have noticed. I run an ISP and we had zero complaints, even from the Everquest whiners who complain at the drop of a hat about anything.when an attack happens that was generally not even perceived by the users, it's a major disaster
i love the press"
I think you just need permission to launch. They don't want people building giant rockets in their backyard and then blowing up 10 feet off the ground, destroying the neighborhood.
Plus, a space bound commercial rocket looks a lot like a Russia bound government nuke so you need to prevent misunderstandings.
Actually it's a Simpsons' show quote check. From the episodes about "Who Shot Mr. Burns".