On the DVD commentary for the episode, David (X.) Cohen indicates that Doohan was pitched the idea, but immediately and unequivocally replied, "No."
DeForest Kelley was in the episode, and he was in even poorer health, considering that he was already dead. If health were the driving factor behind Doohan's declining the offer, I'm sure Cohen/Groening/etc. would have taken the courtesy to animate him in the episode as well, even if they didn't give him any lines.
You know, it's amazing that Kevin Flynn had such trouble getting the info he needed to hang Ed Dillinger out to dry, considering that the password for the Master Control Program was "master".
I guess we've come a long way in the past quarter century. Except when it comes to choosing passwords.
On the other hand, Shatner was willing to poke fun at his own hubris:
Nimoy: Melllvar, you have to respect your actors. When I was directing Star Trek IV, I got a magnificent performance out of Bill because I respected him so much. Shatner: And when I directed Star Trek V, I got a magnificent performance out of me, because I respected me so much!
(* Site has anti-deep-linking measures in place - copy and paste link)
DNF's problem is just poor leadership at the developer level. I agree that if there really is no project management, then there's a great risk of coming up with nothing but vapor.
However, a competent project manager employed by the developer should be able to define milestones for his project regardless of whether they have a separate publisher to satisfy or not. With those milestones in the hands of the developer, rather than the publisher, they can be dependent upon meeting goals instead of ship dates. As long as those target goals aren't too ambitious at the outset and don't continually change, there should be no problem.
Paypal has worked just fine for the past year for collecting maintenance donations for a website I co-maintain. If all you're doing is accepting donations, this is probably as good a way to handle it as any. Since your site visitors can use credit cards to donate via Paypal, they don't need to register their own accounts. If they're especially paranoid, they can visit their bank's website - they should type in the URL on their CC statement, though, rather than guess it or Google for it - to get a virtual account number.
Agreed. In fact, most four-year degree programs are set up so that, as long as you have a very general idea what direction you're headed (engineering, liberal arts, science), you can get probably to the middle of your second year before you need to declare a major and start taking the classes required by that major. The first two or three semesters will end up being all core classes required regardless of your major. If you get close to that point and still don't have a clue, talk to your chosen school's academic counseling staff for some guidance.
College keeps your life from speeding along too quickly, in a sense. Take advantage of that now, especially since you aren't yet sure what you want to do. Otherwise, you'll soon enough be married with three kids working at a convenience store, and it'll be nearly impossible to take the time to improve yourself.
By the way, I know several people who took their time off (usually about a summer's worth, traveling around Europe) once they finished their four-year degree. As for me, I've been dodging Real Life for the past almost six years in graduate school;)
Essentially, this would be the same as focused political action groups taking on issues that stretch outside their regular domain. (For example, Sierra Club takes a particular stance on family planning in the US under the guise of population control.) What happens is that support for the organization wanes, as people who believe in the organization's original founding principles but not the arbitrarily added ones are forced to decide between dropping their support or compromising their beliefs.
Besides, the use of software to kill people isn't as cut-and-dried as some would have it. Take the Cold War nuclear weapons program. Nary a nuclear-warhead-tipped missile has ever been fired in anger. So, is the purpose of the software in this case to kill people, or to prevent killing?
Insert other examples here of the military being used to save lives, sometimes even while killing other people. If lives are saved by killing those who would take those lives, is the purpose of the software to kill people or to prevent killing?
That's one reason I'm proud of my hick roots, because we have at least one 70-year-old who posts to Slashdot *and* has the guts to defend himself in a life-or-death situation.
Signed, a fellow West Virginian (born and raised, anyway)
It's good that CC companies put a lot of effort into handling fraudulent charge complaints. Why is it, though, that the same care isn't taken to prevent real identity theft by preventing people from fraudulently opening new lines of credit in another person's name? Serious question here, not a flame.
You'd think they'd be waaay smarter than that. Costco was practically guaranteed to get charged back, meaning they'd be out the merchandise with no money to show for it.
I still don't get why game developers feel like they need publishers in this day and age of ubiquitous Internet connections and BitTorrent file distribution. What the industry needs is some nonstandard (read: non-publisher) sources of capital, so that developers can make and sell games under their own judgment without being burdened by marketroid PHB know-it-alls pulling their strings. Combine this with a sales model that utilizes the Internet to get games (legally) from the developer to the consumer, and publishers suddenly become obsolete.
The OP is probably at an institution where they have a site subscription to Science (most American universities worth their salt do, for example), so when they go to the link they get the article right away. If Hemos is somewhere that has a site subscription to Science, he'd get the same thing, and it would be a relatively subtle thing to figure out whether nonsubscribers can read the article or not.
Creating these hacks is really like taking the silverware and plates out of a restaurant when you know you are really paying just for the food.
Or perhaps it's more like bringing your own tupperware with you when you go to the restaurant, so that you can take the food with you and eat it anywhere you want.
I actually came up with an idea back 5-6 years ago for something like slashdot forums for scientists to comment on individual papers in a big archive.
That sounds like a great idea to me. For niche fields, a person could pretty much set something like that up themselves, examining recent conference submissions or journal articles. For the larger fields (especially anything in medicine), it would be a rather tremendous undertaking, though.
Slashdot Mirror
Bender: "Thanks a lot, Takei. Now everybody knows!"
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On the DVD commentary for the episode, David (X.) Cohen indicates that Doohan was pitched the idea, but immediately and unequivocally replied, "No."
DeForest Kelley was in the episode, and he was in even poorer health, considering that he was already dead. If health were the driving factor behind Doohan's declining the offer, I'm sure Cohen/Groening/etc. would have taken the courtesy to animate him in the episode as well, even if they didn't give him any lines.
You know, it's amazing that Kevin Flynn had such trouble getting the info he needed to hang Ed Dillinger out to dry, considering that the password for the Master Control Program was "master".
I guess we've come a long way in the past quarter century. Except when it comes to choosing passwords.
Contrast this with George Takei, Deforest Kelly, or Jimmy Doohan who have always been big supporters of Trek fandom.
Doohan refused to appear on Futurama reprising his role as Scotty, which is why he got replaced by the fake character Welshie.*
On the other hand, Shatner was willing to poke fun at his own hubris:
Nimoy: Melllvar, you have to respect your actors. When I was directing Star Trek IV, I got a magnificent performance out of Bill because I respected him so much.
Shatner: And when I directed Star Trek V, I got a magnificent performance out of me, because I respected me so much!
(* Site has anti-deep-linking measures in place - copy and paste link)
For whatever reason, people seem to have forgotten one important detail:
Christmas isn't for another nine months.
DNF's problem is just poor leadership at the developer level. I agree that if there really is no project management, then there's a great risk of coming up with nothing but vapor.
However, a competent project manager employed by the developer should be able to define milestones for his project regardless of whether they have a separate publisher to satisfy or not. With those milestones in the hands of the developer, rather than the publisher, they can be dependent upon meeting goals instead of ship dates. As long as those target goals aren't too ambitious at the outset and don't continually change, there should be no problem.
Don't worry. Roland Piquepaille will be along anytime now to balance things out.
A computer is only as secure as its user. Are they going to man these two naked Macs with total noobs, to make it a fair contest?
Paypal has worked just fine for the past year for collecting maintenance donations for a website I co-maintain. If all you're doing is accepting donations, this is probably as good a way to handle it as any. Since your site visitors can use credit cards to donate via Paypal, they don't need to register their own accounts. If they're especially paranoid, they can visit their bank's website - they should type in the URL on their CC statement, though, rather than guess it or Google for it - to get a virtual account number.
Agreed. In fact, most four-year degree programs are set up so that, as long as you have a very general idea what direction you're headed (engineering, liberal arts, science), you can get probably to the middle of your second year before you need to declare a major and start taking the classes required by that major. The first two or three semesters will end up being all core classes required regardless of your major. If you get close to that point and still don't have a clue, talk to your chosen school's academic counseling staff for some guidance.
;)
College keeps your life from speeding along too quickly, in a sense. Take advantage of that now, especially since you aren't yet sure what you want to do. Otherwise, you'll soon enough be married with three kids working at a convenience store, and it'll be nearly impossible to take the time to improve yourself.
By the way, I know several people who took their time off (usually about a summer's worth, traveling around Europe) once they finished their four-year degree. As for me, I've been dodging Real Life for the past almost six years in graduate school
Essentially, this would be the same as focused political action groups taking on issues that stretch outside their regular domain. (For example, Sierra Club takes a particular stance on family planning in the US under the guise of population control.) What happens is that support for the organization wanes, as people who believe in the organization's original founding principles but not the arbitrarily added ones are forced to decide between dropping their support or compromising their beliefs.
Besides, the use of software to kill people isn't as cut-and-dried as some would have it. Take the Cold War nuclear weapons program. Nary a nuclear-warhead-tipped missile has ever been fired in anger. So, is the purpose of the software in this case to kill people, or to prevent killing?
Insert other examples here of the military being used to save lives, sometimes even while killing other people. If lives are saved by killing those who would take those lives, is the purpose of the software to kill people or to prevent killing?
Quoth my previous post:
What the industry needs is some nonstandard (read: non-publisher) sources of capital
That's one reason I'm proud of my hick roots, because we have at least one 70-year-old who posts to Slashdot *and* has the guts to defend himself in a life-or-death situation.
Signed, a fellow West Virginian (born and raised, anyway)
The other time I just opened my vest to a knife wielding mugger, we both smiled and he ran off like Carl Lewis doing the 100.
Hence the saying, "Always bring a gun to a knife fight."
It's good that CC companies put a lot of effort into handling fraudulent charge complaints. Why is it, though, that the same care isn't taken to prevent real identity theft by preventing people from fraudulently opening new lines of credit in another person's name? Serious question here, not a flame.
Costco accepted a card past it's expiration date,
You'd think they'd be waaay smarter than that. Costco was practically guaranteed to get charged back, meaning they'd be out the merchandise with no money to show for it.
What? The theme music sucked even worse after they jazzed it up.
I'm confused now - does this mean Worf shot J.R.?
I still don't get why game developers feel like they need publishers in this day and age of ubiquitous Internet connections and BitTorrent file distribution. What the industry needs is some nonstandard (read: non-publisher) sources of capital, so that developers can make and sell games under their own judgment without being burdened by marketroid PHB know-it-alls pulling their strings. Combine this with a sales model that utilizes the Internet to get games (legally) from the developer to the consumer, and publishers suddenly become obsolete.
The OP is probably at an institution where they have a site subscription to Science (most American universities worth their salt do, for example), so when they go to the link they get the article right away. If Hemos is somewhere that has a site subscription to Science, he'd get the same thing, and it would be a relatively subtle thing to figure out whether nonsubscribers can read the article or not.
I just wanted to take a moment and praise the well-written original post in this thread.
Too bad all this chadwick guy did was copy the first two paragraphs of the linked article verbatim, without providing attribution.
and approximately 18 inches on each edge
Or so we'd like to think.
That there borders on negligence. Not for Vonage, but for you.
He would be equally as "negligent" if he had no phone service at all - perhaps even more so.
Creating these hacks is really like taking the silverware and plates out of a restaurant when you know you are really paying just for the food.
Or perhaps it's more like bringing your own tupperware with you when you go to the restaurant, so that you can take the food with you and eat it anywhere you want.
I actually came up with an idea back 5-6 years ago for something like slashdot forums for scientists to comment on individual papers in a big archive.
That sounds like a great idea to me. For niche fields, a person could pretty much set something like that up themselves, examining recent conference submissions or journal articles. For the larger fields (especially anything in medicine), it would be a rather tremendous undertaking, though.