Hardware cost is nothing compared to the cost and maintenance of Adobe CS4, Avid or Final Cut Suite, Maya, AutoCad, MS Office, a Laser printer, a large format ink jet, or for that matter a community of users.
Once certs are generated to run all software on all hardware*, these kids running around with cracked apps are going to vanish into memories of the Old West.
kulakovich
* anyone else working on developing for the iPhone? Yeah.
Never has there been such a parallel in our history. The Prohibition in the United States, from 1920 to 1933, and the Information Prohibition, 1996-2010.
A close second is the novel Dune and the parallel to the Clinton/Bush/Obama triumvirate.
The system will need to send electrons to the surface constantly, creating a massive current on a 32,000 mile line. Even if you J-Hook the thing over the point and bring it back into the atmo, it is going to make a mess.
We are better off using this nano-reinforced material to either a) create a 1km wide column that is devoid of atmosphere (and hence no resistance) or b) create a 1km volume capable of containing vacuum, as per Diamond Age, creating the lightest possible lighter-than-air vehicles to SSTO.
Your brain has a lot more info to account for than the whipper-snappers do. They are all still glomming everything into two or three clusters, like not-work, work and GIRLS?!.
Therefore, work to associate your content within your clusters, like a file system. Calendar entries and other triggers can prompt that data. Never forget the value of a post-it note.
If you have derived enjoyment from the space opera/trading game genre, then you will most likely enjoy Firefly - and you may not know that until you read it here. Joss Whedon has done a terrific job capturing the nature of these games, intentional or not. There are many other reasons to enjoy Firefly, this is just one. That SciFi is making a boost on this show again is worthy of note if you are science fiction fan of any sort.
Because I have the boxed set, and too many people to loan it too.
And because the more people that see it and enjoy it, the more likely this momentum will continue to build and there will be new seasons.
Let's face it: Some shows have had more seasons than they should, while this show was put down with many years ahead of it. Sure, it wasn't for everyone, but Joss has left it open to a little creative re-working. There are character openings, and an opportunity to make Serenity a little less goose like in profile.
To be blunt: if SciFi wants money, they need to invest in this show. Buy it off Fox, and spin three seasons of Joss's production payroll. Look at the Trek phenomenon's origins as a lesson in profit if nothing else.
All that redesign and we still don't have a spellchecker for people like me? =)
revenue
revenue
revenue
Seriously though - SciFi pays Joss, let him do whatever he wants, agree to can it in two seasons up front. What could go wrong?
~ kulakovich
Slashdot Mirror
Hardware cost is nothing compared to the cost and maintenance of Adobe CS4, Avid or Final Cut Suite, Maya, AutoCad, MS Office, a Laser printer, a large format ink jet, or for that matter a community of users.
Once certs are generated to run all software on all hardware*, these kids running around with cracked apps are going to vanish into memories of the Old West.
kulakovich
* anyone else working on developing for the iPhone? Yeah.
I would always favor social welfare over a space plane in this decade.
Temporal Penalty: 10 years. Please throw your cell phone in the nearest garbage collection unit, and pick up your Pentium II laptop at the door.
kulakovich
bump
ohai - I was thinking more Atreides/Beast Rabban/Paul especially given the past 20 years, the Fremen, etc.
/tongue-in-cheek-sorta-odd-though
Never has there been such a parallel in our history. The Prohibition in the United States, from 1920 to 1933, and the Information Prohibition, 1996-2010.
A close second is the novel Dune and the parallel to the Clinton/Bush/Obama triumvirate.
Enjoy your history humans, you're living it.
~kulakovich
-- and all of it will happen again.
LHC is used as an example, misleading headline written by Fox News. -1
~kulakovich
These guys have a one trick pony. Once we've seen the trick, no one will pay. ~kulakovich
...is right around the corner...
kulakovich
The system will need to send electrons to the surface constantly, creating a massive current on a 32,000 mile line. Even if you J-Hook the thing over the point and bring it back into the atmo, it is going to make a mess.
We are better off using this nano-reinforced material to either a) create a 1km wide column that is devoid of atmosphere (and hence no resistance) or b) create a 1km volume capable of containing vacuum, as per Diamond Age, creating the lightest possible lighter-than-air vehicles to SSTO.
kulakovich
Your brain has a lot more info to account for than the whipper-snappers do. They are all still glomming everything into two or three clusters, like not-work, work and GIRLS?!.
Therefore, work to associate your content within your clusters, like a file system. Calendar entries and other triggers can prompt that data. Never forget the value of a post-it note.
kulakovich
... will be EXACTLY like 1984... Twenty four years. Oh well. They had a good run.
doot doooooo doo-doo-doo.
> It is not clear who exactly flies the fighter jet,
Hint: The Google AI
Use of hysterical: +1
...and in three years they will always be $9.99.
kulakovich
I'm pretty sure this is how the cosmic microwave background radiation is generated.
~kulakovich
The Artifex Created The Primer
There are Many Copies
They Have a Plan
kulakovich
Not sure where the old man would stand on it now that we have wireless everything else...
I'm off to check which story it was.
kulakovich
"You can not stop the signal." =)
kulakovich
/guessing that simplified didn't show up but the pinyin did
//found at serenityfirefly.com
This is news for Nerds. Stuff that matters.
If you have derived enjoyment from the space opera/trading game genre, then you will most likely enjoy Firefly - and you may not know that until you read it here. Joss Whedon has done a terrific job capturing the nature of these games, intentional or not. There are many other reasons to enjoy Firefly, this is just one. That SciFi is making a boost on this show again is worthy of note if you are science fiction fan of any sort.
kulakovich
Because I have the boxed set, and too many people to loan it too.
And because the more people that see it and enjoy it, the more likely this momentum will continue to build and there will be new seasons.
Let's face it: Some shows have had more seasons than they should, while this show was put down with many years ahead of it. Sure, it wasn't for everyone, but Joss has left it open to a little creative re-working. There are character openings, and an opportunity to make Serenity a little less goose like in profile.
To be blunt: if SciFi wants money, they need to invest in this show. Buy it off Fox, and spin three seasons of Joss's production payroll. Look at the Trek phenomenon's origins as a lesson in profit if nothing else.
kulakovich
Hah!, Ouch! and, Well put. Just trying to drive up interest. More than "Hey. There is stuff."
kulakovich
~ trying to convey the hope that it will be one season among many, eventually!
All that redesign and we still don't have a spellchecker for people like me? =) revenue revenue revenue Seriously though - SciFi pays Joss, let him do whatever he wants, agree to can it in two seasons up front. What could go wrong? ~ kulakovich