I don't think you should apologize for your comments. Television shows exist for one purpose and that is to make someone money. You wouldn't try to raise 1 million to save n'sync, would you?
Lots of public theaters could be run for a year on a million dollars. That's art. This is TV - give me a break. But it's their money so whatever makes them happy.
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That is a good point you make. I guess I have a real hard time seeing popular art (which
is what I consider television shows - I don't actually watch tv, though I do have one to
watch DVD's and VHS movies) as "real" art. I donate money on a regular basis to the
Cleveland Orchestra because I feel that their art is something that I wish to support and
because their youth outreach programs get so many children interested in music (which
demonstrably provides a positive impact on their educational development). I see
something like a television show strictly in the realm of the marketplace - it's a
consumer good and exists only to make someone money. Hence my stand that investing
time and money to save something like a television show would be akin to convincing a
snack food company to continue to produce their twinky-doodles. I never would have thought
that someone considers twinky-doodles an art.
Like I said, good point.
In a world with starving children, people suffering the ravages of war, and
so much intolerance and hatred over race, creed, gender, etc. - I find it hard
to believe that this thing was so important to anyone. Granted, it's a free
country and you have a right to spend your time and money how you like, but
did anyone think about how much good that effort and money could have done
if applied differently?
I understand the sentiment - I would be bummed if Rowling decided to never
publish another Potter book again, or if for some unexplicable reason the next
two LotR movies were never released. I would hope that I could take that
energy and turn it into something productive. Spend some time volunteering
at the local hospital, teach some neighborhood kids the joy of reading. Send
that money to the Leukemia foundation or even the EFF. Trade some of that
short-term joy for a lasting legacy.
Anyway, I guess whatever brings you joy.
I am an ignorant fool, but from my understanding of X86-64 there are advantages over typical 32 bit x86 code. Most of these have to do with a rather arcane assembly interface that every x86 implementation has to respect. The new x86-64 specific instructions allow for some wonderful optimizations that otherwise would never be allowed in the 32 bit space - things that would have been nice to have in x86 assembly but the limited number of registers wouldn't permit. I'm pretty sure Ars Technica had a good article about this recently, but I can't seem to find it.
I doubt this will do incredible things for Apache or most other services we depend on, but I still can't wait to get a sledgehammer in my boxen!:)
If I recall correctly the planet had seven stars. Great book, by the way. If only I could stop reading Harry Potter long enough to revisit it.:)
Actually, while I'm on it Nemesis also by Asimov was another great book, and it's about a star orbited by a hot gas giant. <SPOILER!> People are trying to colonize the moon around the GG, but can't because of a sentient microbial form of life.
Re:Microbes would be ... depressing.
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Nice post. In a way though, I think it would be nice to travel around our solar system finding bacteria and algea everywhere. That makes intelligent life such a precious commodity (maybe we'll stop killing each other over assinine ideas like "religion"). Yet it leaves open the "what if" possibility that we will find our intergalactic counterparts someday.
I'm also amused at the thought of being like bacteria to some other form of life. "Oh shit - humans AGAIN! Hand me the raid, Zorg."
Everyone's favorite news site (after/. of course), The Onion still uses the meta keyword tag. Of course, I don't know that a person searching for "God", "Christ" and "monkey" would exactly be expecting to land there.
But then I don't know where exactly the would be expecting to land...
Seems to me that currently 38.59% of Apache servers run mod_php and 36.83% run mod_perl. Not only that, but the number of mod_perl server is growing (quickly!) and the number of mod_php is shrinking.
Trends and stats aren't worth the paper they are printed on, but it does help to have something to back you up when you say it.
I have one on my desk. They grow well in any light and you can pick one up from a home despot^Wdepot or grocery store for a few bucks. Here is some official looking information about them:
Also there are some incredibly talented hearing impaired musicians. The most famous example (perhaps) is Evelyn Glennie, who is "profoundly deaf" (as opposed to "totally deaf") and the world's only full-time professional classical percussion soloist.
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Just thought I'd be annoying.
Lots of public theaters could be run for a year on a million dollars. That's art. This is TV - give me a break. But it's their money so whatever makes them happy. </opinion>
That is a good point you make. I guess I have a real hard time seeing popular art (which is what I consider television shows - I don't actually watch tv, though I do have one to watch DVD's and VHS movies) as "real" art. I donate money on a regular basis to the Cleveland Orchestra because I feel that their art is something that I wish to support and because their youth outreach programs get so many children interested in music (which demonstrably provides a positive impact on their educational development). I see something like a television show strictly in the realm of the marketplace - it's a consumer good and exists only to make someone money. Hence my stand that investing time and money to save something like a television show would be akin to convincing a snack food company to continue to produce their twinky-doodles. I never would have thought that someone considers twinky-doodles an art.
Like I said, good point.
In a world with starving children, people suffering the ravages of war, and so much intolerance and hatred over race, creed, gender, etc. - I find it hard to believe that this thing was so important to anyone. Granted, it's a free country and you have a right to spend your time and money how you like, but did anyone think about how much good that effort and money could have done if applied differently?
I understand the sentiment - I would be bummed if Rowling decided to never publish another Potter book again, or if for some unexplicable reason the next two LotR movies were never released. I would hope that I could take that energy and turn it into something productive. Spend some time volunteering at the local hospital, teach some neighborhood kids the joy of reading. Send that money to the Leukemia foundation or even the EFF. Trade some of that short-term joy for a lasting legacy.
Anyway, I guess whatever brings you joy.
I am an ignorant fool, but from my understanding of X86-64 there are advantages over typical 32 bit x86 code. Most of these have to do with a rather arcane assembly interface that every x86 implementation has to respect. The new x86-64 specific instructions allow for some wonderful optimizations that otherwise would never be allowed in the 32 bit space - things that would have been nice to have in x86 assembly but the limited number of registers wouldn't permit. I'm pretty sure Ars Technica had a good article about this recently, but I can't seem to find it.
:)
I doubt this will do incredible things for Apache or most other services we depend on, but I still can't wait to get a sledgehammer in my boxen!
Actually, while I'm on it Nemesis also by Asimov was another great book, and it's about a star orbited by a hot gas giant. <SPOILER!> People are trying to colonize the moon around the GG, but can't because of a sentient microbial form of life.
I'm also amused at the thought of being like bacteria to some other form of life. "Oh shit - humans AGAIN! Hand me the raid, Zorg."
But then I don't know where exactly the would be expecting to land...
everywhere and mod_perl is not? Let's ask securityspace.com:
http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/man.
Seems to me that currently 38.59% of Apache servers run mod_php and 36.83%
run mod_perl. Not only that, but the number of mod_perl server is growing
(quickly!) and the number of mod_php is shrinking.
Trends and stats aren't worth the paper they are printed on, but it does
help to have something to back you up when you say it.
Regards,
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http://www.ext.vt.edu/departments/envirohort/facts heets/pottedplants/nephthy.html
Also there are some incredibly talented hearing impaired musicians. The most famous example (perhaps) is Evelyn Glennie, who is "profoundly deaf" (as opposed to "totally deaf") and the world's only full-time professional classical percussion soloist.
http://www.evelyn.co.uk/