Feel free to look for more on your own. Critical acclaim for Farscape is not difficult to find, especially with the awards, and top ratings (for SciFi) that the show has brought in.
"or about the same chances as the whole crew dying."
Which makes sense, when you think about it.. how many times has only a single astronaut died?
If the deaths only happened on flights that ended catastrophically, the chance of dying on a flight is going to be the same as the chance of the flight ending catastrophically. Which means that there are still pretty good odds of coming back from a flight in one peice.
Everyone should just use four spaces -- eight is absurd, and only very few people use two. No one uses three or five or any of that.
Hey... I use three-space indentation!
Actually, I think the most common tab widths I've seen have been four and five. Three would be right under those, and I've seen lots of *nix-based code that uses two. I do agree that eight is absurd, though.:-p
I was wondering that myself.. I also pair my braces up in the same column, it makes it *really* easy to skim through code and add new stuff in the correct place. I think I got that and 3-space indentations from whatever references I first learned C++ from. Keeps things reasonably spaced, without wasting much space (aside from the extra line for the beginning brace).
It also means that my perl scripting tends to be just as readable as my C programming. Beats me how people can say perl is a write-only language.
Renfew is the name of the town, not the person. All they have is a paper signed with the initials "C.M." and a location of Renfew, which is a far cry from knowing who the paper was written by.
Check the link in this article under the words "Slammer Worm" and you'll find an earlier Slashdot article about this worm, posted on Sunday morning, with the title of "MS SQL Server Worm Wreaking Havoc".
" The moderation system is inherently flawed; some cluess f_ck says the bleeding obvious ("everything dies") and some other clueless f_ck mods him up as "insightful", because both clueless f_cks are too clueless to realize the point..."
And then someone else mods it *down*, and gets called a "clueless f_ck" for that (or gets the standard "moderators are all on crack" rant, or the "dang slashdot moderator groupthink" rant, or the "don't moderate because you disagree, post instead" rant). And everything is evened out in the end.
Or, at least, that's the theory. It usually doesn't work too badly. And anyone who puts too much stock in the moderation points needs to be hit with a clue-by-four, unless the post has been modded down to "-1, flamebait" (in which case it's ok to put some stock in the moderation, but only if it's still taken with a grain of salt)
Of course! If we're the only intelligent life in the universe, there *must* be some intelligent non-life that got us started (or, at least, intelligent life *outside* the universe)!:)
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Personally, I was clued in by the 'tres3 writes "I stumbled across this.."'
That's a fairly standard quotation format, attributing the quoted text to tres3. It's similiar to an article in a newspaper quoting things from a Associated Press article.. the newspaper writer didn't write the quoted bits.
'sides, your user number isn't all that far away from mine.. you should be used to the format around here by now!:)
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What really sent me into orbit was Dow's response to all of this. While writing this submission I noticed that I have become a victim of The Yes Men and "Dow's" response is actually one of their parodies!
Perhaps you should have made a New Year's Resolution to raise your reading comprehension.
Especially since you somehow think michael told you anything was from Dow, when the Slashdot article clearly states that tres3 was the writer... the only portion not quoted from tres3 is the last seven words: "We did an earlier story on this."
Actually, I would think it would be much more proper for such a person to reveal that he works for Disney, but clearly state that he is not speaking on Disney's behalf. That way, readers get warned that he has a vested interest in the outcome, but he makes it clear that he's stating his own opinion.
By posting something that supports Disney as a "simi-anonymous citizen", he has left himself and Disney completely open to accusations of astroturfing... assuming that the comment was posted by the *real* Lelyveld, of course.
Hmm.. if only I had a working scanner, I could post up a copy of the nude poster of her that I have. She's really not all that bad, though a little thin and young-looking for my tastes...
Actually, it's half of a season left. The last 11 episodes of the fourth season start airing on Sci Fi in January. And, thanks to Sci Fi not informing them about the cancellation until the last day of filming, they end on a "To be continued.."
I loved that show! Only worked with the older technology, though.. the sequel show where they tried to update the image was absolutely horrid.
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Last time I checked, helicopters didn't tend to glide all that well either (sometimes akin to rocks).
A lot of helicopters have the ability to decouple the blades from the engine in the case of an engine failure, alowing a much more controlled landing than would be possible if the blades simply stopped. The momentum of the blades allows the helicopter to stay in the air a lot longer, in a sort of glide. You're more committed to an immediate landing than in some planes, but it's still a lot better than simply plummeting to the ground...
Not only that, but they are assuming that every blank CD-R is being bought to either be given away with a copy of music you bought, or to copy music you haven't bought. Because, of course, it's impossible that people might actually copy music *legally*...
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Someone forgot to turn on their sarcasm detector before reading...
Except that the "crash" part isn't necessary... it can be set to any number of things and still cause the crash.
Does this mean that the people in the US are just crazy or are they pretty darn funny?
Yes.
You ask, we deliver:
Some examples of critical acclaim
Feel free to look for more on your own. Critical acclaim for Farscape is not difficult to find, especially with the awards, and top ratings (for SciFi) that the show has brought in.
"or about the same chances as the whole crew dying."
Which makes sense, when you think about it.. how many times has only a single astronaut died?
If the deaths only happened on flights that ended catastrophically, the chance of dying on a flight is going to be the same as the chance of the flight ending catastrophically. Which means that there are still pretty good odds of coming back from a flight in one peice.
Everyone should just use four spaces -- eight is absurd, and only very few people use two. No one uses three or five or any of that.
:-p
Hey... I use three-space indentation!
Actually, I think the most common tab widths I've seen have been four and five. Three would be right under those, and I've seen lots of *nix-based code that uses two. I do agree that eight is absurd, though.
I was wondering that myself.. I also pair my braces up in the same column, it makes it *really* easy to skim through code and add new stuff in the correct place. I think I got that and 3-space indentations from whatever references I first learned C++ from. Keeps things reasonably spaced, without wasting much space (aside from the extra line for the beginning brace).
It also means that my perl scripting tends to be just as readable as my C programming. Beats me how people can say perl is a write-only language.
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip...
I know, don't feed the trolls, but..
Microsoft's EULA adds restrictions onto the restrictions already created by copyright.
GPL removes or lessens the restrictions created by copyright.
Big difference, and no conflict.
Renfew is the name of the town, not the person. All they have is a paper signed with the initials "C.M." and a location of Renfew, which is a far cry from knowing who the paper was written by.
Check the link in this article under the words "Slammer Worm" and you'll find an earlier Slashdot article about this worm, posted on Sunday morning, with the title of "MS SQL Server Worm Wreaking Havoc".
" The moderation system is inherently flawed; some cluess f_ck says the bleeding obvious ("everything dies") and some other clueless f_ck mods him up as "insightful", because both clueless f_cks are too clueless to realize the point..."
And then someone else mods it *down*, and gets called a "clueless f_ck" for that (or gets the standard "moderators are all on crack" rant, or the "dang slashdot moderator groupthink" rant, or the "don't moderate because you disagree, post instead" rant). And everything is evened out in the end.
Or, at least, that's the theory. It usually doesn't work too badly. And anyone who puts too much stock in the moderation points needs to be hit with a clue-by-four, unless the post has been modded down to "-1, flamebait" (in which case it's ok to put some stock in the moderation, but only if it's still taken with a grain of salt)
No, no, not "she". MS Nature... those folks in Redmond have found another standard to embrace and extend...
Of course! If we're the only intelligent life in the universe, there *must* be some intelligent non-life that got us started (or, at least, intelligent life *outside* the universe)! :)
Personally, I was clued in by the 'tres3 writes "I stumbled across this.."'
:)
That's a fairly standard quotation format, attributing the quoted text to tres3. It's similiar to an article in a newspaper quoting things from a Associated Press article.. the newspaper writer didn't write the quoted bits.
'sides, your user number isn't all that far away from mine.. you should be used to the format around here by now!
What really sent me into orbit was Dow's response to all of this. While writing this submission I noticed that I have become a victim of The Yes Men and "Dow's" response is actually one of their parodies!
Perhaps you should have made a New Year's Resolution to raise your reading comprehension.
Especially since you somehow think michael told you anything was from Dow, when the Slashdot article clearly states that tres3 was the writer... the only portion not quoted from tres3 is the last seven words: "We did an earlier story on this."
psssst...
It *is* BS.
It's a joke. Completely spoiler-free. And how do you spoil a movie that's been in book form for decades?!?!?!
Of course, Microsoft has *never* made changes that broke commercial windows products...
*glances at the cd rack with quite a few games that stopped working after Win95...*
Actually, I would think it would be much more proper for such a person to reveal that he works for Disney, but clearly state that he is not speaking on Disney's behalf. That way, readers get warned that he has a vested interest in the outcome, but he makes it clear that he's stating his own opinion.
By posting something that supports Disney as a "simi-anonymous citizen", he has left himself and Disney completely open to accusations of astroturfing... assuming that the comment was posted by the *real* Lelyveld, of course.
Hmm.. if only I had a working scanner, I could post up a copy of the nude poster of her that I have. She's really not all that bad, though a little thin and young-looking for my tastes...
Actually, it's half of a season left. The last 11 episodes of the fourth season start airing on Sci Fi in January. And, thanks to Sci Fi not informing them about the cancellation until the last day of filming, they end on a "To be continued.."
I loved that show! Only worked with the older technology, though.. the sequel show where they tried to update the image was absolutely horrid.
Last time I checked, helicopters didn't tend to glide all that well either (sometimes akin to rocks).
A lot of helicopters have the ability to decouple the blades from the engine in the case of an engine failure, alowing a much more controlled landing than would be possible if the blades simply stopped. The momentum of the blades allows the helicopter to stay in the air a lot longer, in a sort of glide. You're more committed to an immediate landing than in some planes, but it's still a lot better than simply plummeting to the ground...
That said, I want his car... ...any of 'em.
How about one of the wrecked ones?
Not only that, but they are assuming that every blank CD-R is being bought to either be given away with a copy of music you bought, or to copy music you haven't bought. Because, of course, it's impossible that people might actually copy music *legally*...