Imagine the strategic fleet-action gameplay of the first one combined with the story-driven greatness of the second one with modern technology? It could be the winning-est winner that ever won- straight from the state of Winnesota!
I have to agree, reading this can be frustrating to a seasoned posix user but the truth is linux just isn't that simplified iPod solution that appeals to the vast majority of consumers. I use Ubuntu almost exclusively and thrive in a linux environment but my girlfriend doesn't want to use my computer. It's not that she isn't smart, it's that she sees it as this obtuse, obnoxious affront to the status quo. We know it's not, but that's an example of one of several perceptual barriers Linux is going to have to vault over.
I don't understand why people complain about idle, the last few times I've seen it it's brought something outstanding to my attention. This is a great example of what I'm talking about, reading this was like a classic somethingawful review, fabulous.
That may be more about ease of development; all the linux tools are freely available while there are license and development tool complications for porting to the Mac.
I think the next release of Ubuntu has some really bleeding edge new features and testing is probably not going well. XGL alone is a bit of a gamble(though I cannot wait to have it running soon after a full install) and I think he's looking at some of the QA for some of these features and flinching. I don't blame him but the community will be there for it, so let it delay 6 weeks if they think that's enough time to make some significant resolution to the quality of the distribution, otherwise let it fly and see if it stabilizes with the increased interest.
When I say 8 percent I don't mean people with 4-year degrees, I mean people in the world lucky enough to pick what kind of sftware they can use. There are plenty of non-degree holders who get to be that picky. But yeah, 8 percent is a total guess as to that figure.
I respectfully disagree, I like KDE but there is absolutely a need for simplification in the linux world. I think Gnome was chosen for Ubuntu, for example, for very sound reasons. The notion that simplifying your interface being an idiot attractor is true, but that's not a bad thing. Idiots are people too, when we talk about our interfaces and what software we like we have to understand that we are perhaps an exlusive 8 percent of the world population, if that. There are a lot of people out there that haven't had the educational opportunities we enjoy. Giving them free software they can use seems like something we shouldn't sneer at.
I think they are from Australia. I think the HD eps are being shown on a station in Australia and then are trickling onto torrent sites.
It's more than just about performance
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Stability is a major factor; AMD once had a legacy of crash-happy platforms. I don't believe this to be true now, but Dell when they look at these things they weigh heat production, power consumption all as factors; including reputation. I think AMD has great technology now, I don't think that can be denied. But Dell markets on slightly different criteria than people the who build their own systems(yeah I know that statement is obvious, but its obviousness makes a point).
I think the scope of my perspective is sci-fi in general. I was stating that sci-fi has some progressive credibility as a genre, sort of shifting out from the Twilight Zone to more "hard sf". In this way I mean shifting away from being a mix with fantasy(twilight zone again, sometimes fantasy sometimes SF). Anyways, my point is that I don't think my point is TV-specific. Blade Runner and a few things from the 80s, "Outland" for example, were creating what I felt to be an interesting direction for SF media(the AV part of it anyways).
As for STTNG it wasn't always golden but I think it provided me with quite a few good hours of entertainment that was far from brainless. I said in the other offshoot thread from my original post here that I liked the older Star Trek concept of suspension of disbelief(mafia planet was an examply I gave). And you're right, if you didn't enjoy it we probably don't have much in common when it comes to sci-fi entertainment which obviously is fine by me. People spend time and effort on many things outside my immediate interests, life would be boring if we all had the same taste.
As for the DS9 thing the point I was making is that I think in an effort to capitalize on the direction B5 pushed sf fandom, other shows of the genre compramised their own premises. Sure this isn't B5's fault, but it does make me less inclined to invite the offending presence into the writer's chair.
I think this was a show that debuted just over a decade after Blade Runner, during Star Trek The Next Generation's run. I think these are pretty high bars. And it seems to be B5 really prompted the later Treks as well as some of the other science fiction productions to start to really over-emphasize the action components of their storytelling. Suddenly DS9 was all about amassing fleets and tedious politics leading up to large scale combat that may or may not ultimately occur. This is what I mean by lowering the bar.
As for having seen it, I watched about a season's worth of episodes. Sure I'm no expert but it's enough to get a good idea of the series.
Well, as I have watched about a season's worth of episodes I can't really do a blow-by-blow critique here. But I have seen enough to be entitled to an opinion. And it is simply the B5 I saw was an emphasis on the combat rules of its universe and characters I thought were really simple and somewhat shallow. I mean I could give a few examples of why I think this, but I think its fair to say I don't think my opinion is an unreasonable one.
You're absolutely right about B5 and Trek's universes. This was an approach to sci-fi that is pretty far divorced from Trek. The Trek motif is really about setting up oddity situations; beaming down to a planet that is a mofia dominated mirror of 20th century earth for example. Sure the odds of that happening in our universe are really, really remote. But it wasn't about having a vision of the future, it was about explaining the present in a way we would have to take a good long look at rather than rely on our old assumptions. I just find B5's approach to be shallow.
Honestly I feel that babylon 5 really lowered the bar for sci-fi. I know a lot of people liked it but I think it was a step backwards; an emphasis on ships and energy cannons more than the themes and purpose. I believe that during its run it really prompted a sort of "lowest common denominator" ratings war with other shows of its time, when it started getting popular other shows *cough* Deep Space Nine developed a similar tendency. I think the more cerebral approach to sci-fi the better, it's supposed to be about ideas and human nature. I really think Bab5 was sorely lacking in that department. (besides there were a lot of hammy performances) I don't mean to start a flame war, but I think if science finction's credibility were a car, Babylon 5 put a nasty dent in it's fender.
This is good news. I think this is one of the best science fiction series to air in my lifetime. I suppose its telling that Star Trek the Next generation was backed by a few of the same people. Anyways, I hope to see many more seasons, so saw we all.
I think going into the future we should be optimizing our ground traffic rather than pioneering the z-axis. No matter how efficiently we accomplish flight, there is no erasing the amount of newton's force it takes to defy gravity. I like the notion of flying cars, and it intuitively feels like the next step but I think it's something a wasteful decadent civilization would do before optimizing its mass transit and ground traffic systems. Admittedly it would seem America is just the place for a pilot program(no pun intended) for this, but I think it's the wrong direction for us to be going down. A traffic system as depicted in "Minority Report" seems much more viable, crowded interstates of meticulously computer guided vehicles carefully structured to avoid rush hour traffic jams.
No such thing as bad publicity, if we are going to stop these people slashdot should not post stories covering their saleable goods. On such a high traffic site like this, it may actually net them a sale.
The killer app I think that may have potential to be front runner is Cube.
www.cubeengine.com
It's not super pretty but its really got a lot of potential, and it really illustrates a lot of the strengths of the open source model. It has innovative features, an ingame map editor for instance.
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Imagine the strategic fleet-action gameplay of the first one combined with the story-driven greatness of the second one with modern technology? It could be the winning-est winner that ever won- straight from the state of Winnesota!
I have to agree, reading this can be frustrating to a seasoned posix user but the truth is linux just isn't that simplified iPod solution that appeals to the vast majority of consumers. I use Ubuntu almost exclusively and thrive in a linux environment but my girlfriend doesn't want to use my computer. It's not that she isn't smart, it's that she sees it as this obtuse, obnoxious affront to the status quo. We know it's not, but that's an example of one of several perceptual barriers Linux is going to have to vault over.
This is likely to be uninformative but I'm a huge fan of Rockbox, I've been running it trouble free for nearly a year on my mp3 player.
I don't understand why people complain about idle, the last few times I've seen it it's brought something outstanding to my attention. This is a great example of what I'm talking about, reading this was like a classic somethingawful review, fabulous.
That may be more about ease of development; all the linux tools are freely available while there are license and development tool complications for porting to the Mac.
I think the next release of Ubuntu has some really bleeding edge new features and testing is probably not going well. XGL alone is a bit of a gamble(though I cannot wait to have it running soon after a full install) and I think he's looking at some of the QA for some of these features and flinching. I don't blame him but the community will be there for it, so let it delay 6 weeks if they think that's enough time to make some significant resolution to the quality of the distribution, otherwise let it fly and see if it stabilizes with the increased interest.
When I say 8 percent I don't mean people with 4-year degrees, I mean people in the world lucky enough to pick what kind of sftware they can use. There are plenty of non-degree holders who get to be that picky. But yeah, 8 percent is a total guess as to that figure.
I respectfully disagree, I like KDE but there is absolutely a need for simplification in the linux world. I think Gnome was chosen for Ubuntu, for example, for very sound reasons. The notion that simplifying your interface being an idiot attractor is true, but that's not a bad thing. Idiots are people too, when we talk about our interfaces and what software we like we have to understand that we are perhaps an exlusive 8 percent of the world population, if that. There are a lot of people out there that haven't had the educational opportunities we enjoy. Giving them free software they can use seems like something we shouldn't sneer at.
I think they are from Australia. I think the HD eps are being shown on a station in Australia and then are trickling onto torrent sites.
Stability is a major factor; AMD once had a legacy of crash-happy platforms. I don't believe this to be true now, but Dell when they look at these things they weigh heat production, power consumption all as factors; including reputation. I think AMD has great technology now, I don't think that can be denied. But Dell markets on slightly different criteria than people the who build their own systems(yeah I know that statement is obvious, but its obviousness makes a point).
I think the scope of my perspective is sci-fi in general. I was stating that sci-fi has some progressive credibility as a genre, sort of shifting out from the Twilight Zone to more "hard sf". In this way I mean shifting away from being a mix with fantasy(twilight zone again, sometimes fantasy sometimes SF). Anyways, my point is that I don't think my point is TV-specific. Blade Runner and a few things from the 80s, "Outland" for example, were creating what I felt to be an interesting direction for SF media(the AV part of it anyways). As for STTNG it wasn't always golden but I think it provided me with quite a few good hours of entertainment that was far from brainless. I said in the other offshoot thread from my original post here that I liked the older Star Trek concept of suspension of disbelief(mafia planet was an examply I gave). And you're right, if you didn't enjoy it we probably don't have much in common when it comes to sci-fi entertainment which obviously is fine by me. People spend time and effort on many things outside my immediate interests, life would be boring if we all had the same taste. As for the DS9 thing the point I was making is that I think in an effort to capitalize on the direction B5 pushed sf fandom, other shows of the genre compramised their own premises. Sure this isn't B5's fault, but it does make me less inclined to invite the offending presence into the writer's chair.
I think this was a show that debuted just over a decade after Blade Runner, during Star Trek The Next Generation's run. I think these are pretty high bars. And it seems to be B5 really prompted the later Treks as well as some of the other science fiction productions to start to really over-emphasize the action components of their storytelling. Suddenly DS9 was all about amassing fleets and tedious politics leading up to large scale combat that may or may not ultimately occur. This is what I mean by lowering the bar. As for having seen it, I watched about a season's worth of episodes. Sure I'm no expert but it's enough to get a good idea of the series.
Well, as I have watched about a season's worth of episodes I can't really do a blow-by-blow critique here. But I have seen enough to be entitled to an opinion. And it is simply the B5 I saw was an emphasis on the combat rules of its universe and characters I thought were really simple and somewhat shallow. I mean I could give a few examples of why I think this, but I think its fair to say I don't think my opinion is an unreasonable one.
You're absolutely right about B5 and Trek's universes. This was an approach to sci-fi that is pretty far divorced from Trek. The Trek motif is really about setting up oddity situations; beaming down to a planet that is a mofia dominated mirror of 20th century earth for example. Sure the odds of that happening in our universe are really, really remote. But it wasn't about having a vision of the future, it was about explaining the present in a way we would have to take a good long look at rather than rely on our old assumptions. I just find B5's approach to be shallow.
Honestly I feel that babylon 5 really lowered the bar for sci-fi. I know a lot of people liked it but I think it was a step backwards; an emphasis on ships and energy cannons more than the themes and purpose. I believe that during its run it really prompted a sort of "lowest common denominator" ratings war with other shows of its time, when it started getting popular other shows *cough* Deep Space Nine developed a similar tendency. I think the more cerebral approach to sci-fi the better, it's supposed to be about ideas and human nature. I really think Bab5 was sorely lacking in that department. (besides there were a lot of hammy performances) I don't mean to start a flame war, but I think if science finction's credibility were a car, Babylon 5 put a nasty dent in it's fender.
This is good news. I think this is one of the best science fiction series to air in my lifetime. I suppose its telling that Star Trek the Next generation was backed by a few of the same people. Anyways, I hope to see many more seasons, so saw we all.
I bet someone else has made this comparison, but Snowcrash anyone? Looking at a viral image...
I think going into the future we should be optimizing our ground traffic rather than pioneering the z-axis. No matter how efficiently we accomplish flight, there is no erasing the amount of newton's force it takes to defy gravity. I like the notion of flying cars, and it intuitively feels like the next step but I think it's something a wasteful decadent civilization would do before optimizing its mass transit and ground traffic systems. Admittedly it would seem America is just the place for a pilot program(no pun intended) for this, but I think it's the wrong direction for us to be going down. A traffic system as depicted in "Minority Report" seems much more viable, crowded interstates of meticulously computer guided vehicles carefully structured to avoid rush hour traffic jams.
No such thing as bad publicity, if we are going to stop these people slashdot should not post stories covering their saleable goods. On such a high traffic site like this, it may actually net them a sale.
The killer app I think that may have potential to be front runner is Cube. www.cubeengine.com It's not super pretty but its really got a lot of potential, and it really illustrates a lot of the strengths of the open source model. It has innovative features, an ingame map editor for instance.