Thing 2: How is this a good thing to do? Aren't they basically stating that they don't understand how or why this is occurring, but they want to destroy something to figure out what goes on behind it? When are they planning to do this? December 21st, 2012?
They're scientists and engineers. "Break something to see how it works" is how scientists and engineers of all walks of life think. They're just thinking bigger than most. I gotta salute them for that.
Curiously enough, they DID make a short online radio series in the Tex Murphy world set after the events of Overseer. It was intended more or less as a teaser for a future TM game or to spark interest in one, and it was handled fairly well. Written by the original story writers and voice-acted by the actors/actresses used in the FMVs. So I'd say a Tex Murphy movie would be more likely a good idea than you'd think.
Shame the radio series ended on a cliffhanger hook to a game that never came to be after Microsoft bought out Access (the company, not the database)...
[...] and I think its time for 3rd party plugins to completely disappear from web browsers. I've held the plugin belief for over 10 years.
I certainly don't hold that belief. If not for third party plugins, we'd have to trust that all the major browsers would support any new, as-yet-unknown technologies as they come out, all on a timeframe that allows for people to test it and get used to it, else web browsers would stagnate pretty quickly, or we'd wind up with a walled garden of web technology, wherein only what the major browsers say goes into their browsers, first-party, goes in.
For example, PNG support was once just a third-party plugin. If nobody was able to use it, nobody would've even known it existed. It never would have taken off and become integrated into any modern browser nowadays, and we'd still be stuck with GIFs. SVG support, too. That was once just a third-party plugin (by Adobe, even). Would anyone have bothered to put that into web browsers if Flash could've done everything they needed back then? Who would've heard of it, or even cared about it?
Given the flexible nature of the web, we need some way to quickly extend the functionality of web browsers to keep up with it, else both get held back.
Guys, seriously, the cadence worked for Ruby on Rails, and the silly reference might have worked for Python on Planes if they went through with it, but you're going to have to come up with a better name than Snails on Methamphetamine if you ever want to make COBOL a "cool" programming language.
Shouldn't it just be a matter of requiring the user to allow the mount of the iPhone side? That is, I believe, how Android handles the problem. Nothing can be mounted until the user tells the phone to allow it, which must be done from the home screen, which cannot be accessed without the sign in pattern.
Almost. You can mount the SD card from anywhere you can access the notification bar, not just the home screen (it just shows up as a plain ongoing notification). Still does require your sign in pattern (if you have one set and aren't already logged in).
Of course, you could also just yoink the SD card from the phone and find an adapter if you really wanted to.:-)
Unless that is how it is supposed to work but for whatever reason isn't happening on Lucid Lynx?
I'm not familiar with iPhones, but if Lucid Lynx can do this without any user or OS intervention on the iPhone's side, I'm guessing Apple was going for security through obscurity. Namely, using a filesystem or network protocol that OS X is trained to ignore (unless iTunes asks), that Windows doesn't know what to do with (unless iTunes is installed and asks), and that they thought wasn't installed on most Linux distros by default (which may have been true before, but apparently isn't with Lucid... has anyone tested this with earlier Ubuntus?).
As obtuse as PCMCIA and SCSI are as names, they're far easier to recognize at a glance (even if SCSI's pronunciation became "scuzzy", which probably isn't what they had in mind when they made the acronym) than Pfnartlekaboom, or however it's supposed to be pronounced. The consumer world really, REALLY doesn't want to have to read a pronunciation guide just to figure out how to say it, let alone take advanced classes just to spell it. If Phunklezoom as a technology catches on, I can assure you the common name will become "Vorm" or something similar within a month.
And I don't think 802.3, the IEEE standard for the physical and link layers, ever really gained name recognition in the not-geek consumer world (CAT-5, 10baseT, 100baseT, all yes, 802.3, not so much).
how much would it really take to add a phone to a 3DS? Surely it has more than enough processing power, the displays are crisp, it has touch screen already... only issue I could see would be adding an antenna.
Hardware-wise, there's probably not much stopping them. I mean, there was a cell phone adapter for the Japanese GBA (their version of Mario Kart Super Circuit used it, for instance), so it's not entirely out of the question.
It's more a matter of getting cell phone companies to subsidize it, at least in the US (which is still a huge market). Sure, you could sell an unsubsidized $600+ phone (well, two versions of it for both GSM and CDMA, three if you count T-Mobile's wacky 3G frequency), and some people would buy it, but without some phone provider subsidizing it, the vast bulk of the market would ignore it. And after the N-Gage's spectacular failure, I don't think Nintendo's willing to take a big chance on losing that much money on the console to make it up with games in THIS case.
So it's a lot less a technical restriction and more a restriction as a product of the current cell phone market atmosphere (again, at least in the US). And stop calling me Shirley.
Several publications are also reporting that a Linux version of Steam has been confirmed, and is expected within the next few months.
So, assuming this is legit, using my handy-dandy Valve Time Conversion Dartboard, we can expect a Linux Steam client and Source Engine port... oh... sometime between March of next year and August of 2015. Still, a better time frame than we had before, and better than we usually get from Valve!
Next time, they should think ahead in a case like this. They should have mounted a camera on Galaxy 15, broadcasting simple video on the transponders, preferably on separate circuits and with separate processing. Then, if the sat goes down like this BUT the transponders are still... um... transponding, try to track it enough so you can watch it crash into AMC-11 from its own perspective.
Maybe youtube should try to police the material for a few days as a demonstration of how ridiculous such an attempt would be.
What human beings think when they see this:
1. Request is made for YouTube to police everything. 2. YouTube grudgingly complies. 3. Obvious difficulties are revealed. 4. YouTube cannot keep up. 5. People see and realize the problems, reconsider.
What executives think when they see this:
1. Request is made for YouTube to police everything. 2. YouTube grudgingly complies. 3. Someone else is doing the work for them; delegation successful, YouTube is now entirely responsible, this is no longer the concern of those requesting it. 4. Any future difficulties in this are obviously failures on YouTube's fault. Report as such. 5. Keep going until YouTube is dead; this is called "beating the competition". Declare victory.
The FCC said the technology cannot be used on a particular movie once it is out on DVD or Blu-Ray, or after 90 days from the time it is first used on that movie, whichever comes first.
Wait, wait. What?
So let me get this straight... once the movie is released on DVD or Blu-Ray, the technology is not allowed to be used on it? As in, this only (theoretically) affects... what, just the movies that hit PPV a week or so before they hit DVD/Blu-Ray? That's it?
I mean, that's weak not just from a technological standpoint. That's weak the whole way around. Do people actually pirate movies off of PPV to any extent to make this even worthwhile? Do people actually USE PPV that much? I thought it was all DVD/Blu-Ray copies or leaked theatre reels or whatnot.
It would really help if they fixed that up and brought back some of their other franchises: RARE's properties, Kirby, Bomberman...
Rare is owned by Microsoft now and therefore probably aren't in a big hurry to make, say, a new Banjo-Kazooie game on the Wii (though admittedly they HAVE released a few games on Nintendo's portables since then).
A Wii Kirby game has been rumored for a while, but they've made DS Kirby games since the Wii's release.
Bomberman is made by Hudson Soft, not Nintendo, and regardless, there IS a multiplayer online Bomberman game in the Wii Shop.
And at this point, I'll gleefully be a hypocrite to my own corrections to you and say it would be nice to see a Wii remake of Blast Corps (one of Rare's first N64 games).:-)
It's possible that cat hair is different enough from human hair so as to not give it the oil-absorbing properties, sure. But I think that's a bit moot; the problem isn't them getting enough hair. At least according to the summary, the problem is that they don't have enough people to PROCESS the human hair they get.
So, sorry, shedding season still doesn't have that much an upside. Better luck next time.:-)
What really amuses me is this part (emphasis mine):
SCO contends the jury could have meant various things by its verdict that do not preclude Stewart from ordering the transfer.
So if I understand this correctly, SCO is asserting that the default state of this case should somehow be that SCO gets the rights to UNIX, and that it requires an explicit verdict from a jury to stop this transfer.
It's as if The Fonz found a way to jump the shark the other way around and it just kept getting better and better.
Call in a consulting team, get a quote for reworking it. Doesnt that neatly solve the problem?
Now presenting: The Bean Counter - A one-act play.
You: "This code is a mess! It was written by a bunch of low-grade college kids for cheap and is impossible to maintain! We need to call in a consulting team to get a quote for-"
(in a flurry of papers, a tweed-suited bean counter appears, apparently from a pocket dimension, as there is no visual evidence to suggest where he came from, nor are there any obvious entrances to where he is standing now. You don't even recall him ever working in the company before; he just IS)
Bean Counter: "NO! We need to save money over that plan! The money must be saved! SAVE IT! It's endangered!"
You: "But... save money over what?"
Bean Counter: (eyes grow wide) "MONEY! You save MONEY!!! Now look, we can easily solve this problem by hiring a bunch of low-grade college kids for cheap. That'll save us all sorts of money. Do this now."
You: "But that's what got us in this mess in the first place! We can't-"
Bean Counter: "Listen, you young punk, I know how money works. You don't. I've already gone over all the specs, and these college kids can write the same amount of codes for much less per-code than some fancy-schmansy overpriced professional. See this chart? It proves it."
You: "That's not how code works! There's quality concerns that-"
Bean Counter: (now furious) "DO YOU SEE THE CHART? LOOK AT THE CHART! THE CHART! THE CHART! It CLEARLY shows that the college kids can write an average of 650 lines of code more than your stupid 'trained professionals' per every dollar spent. That's called 'economical', you miserable snot! Are you TRYING to run this company into the ground?"
You: "Do you even understand the basic economics of programming at all?"
Bean Counter: "No! I don't waste my precious time and money with your worthless hobbies! I understand MONEY. Now shut up and do whatever it is you're paid to do, I've already got your boss putting MY plan in motion."
Okay, I'll admit I'm most likely in a drastic minority, but I like paper game manuals. I sort of like having some concept of how to play before turning the game on and having to sit through some heavy-handed and badly-written tutorial (worse if they try to voice-act it into the actual story, which frequently* produces disastrous results). Plus, the whole thing about a paper manual just feels better to me than an online one.
But, all things considered, they're most likely doing this because depressingly few people read the damn things anymore, what with the aforementioned heavy-handed tutorials being in the game itself, online versions of the manuals, and, sadly, people who, during online multiplayer matches, will stop everyone else to ask how you do things covered in the manual in the first place.
So honestly, despite my own personal misgivings over it, I can't fault Ubisoft at all for this. Why should they bother wasting money on developing paper instruction manuals when nobody's going to bother even looking at them, right to the point of stubbornly refusing to read them? They can claim it's for some green initiative, but it's business sense, plain and simple.
*: No, not "always", and no, I don't need examples provided.
And in next week's episode, everyone in town is sporting the latest "davidwr" fashion line, made from a material with a very curious and somehow familiar feel to it, and it all grows into a giant overblown ordeal with global recognition, the adults showing off their davidwrs on fashion show catwalks, and sorts of hijinx and tomfoolery until someone cleans out their dryer hose and finds out where it all came from...
Dist Bowl? Is that what happens to a hard drive when you install too many versions of Linux?
It's the final game of the DFL season, played by the champions of the ADC (APT Distro Conference) and the RDC (RPM Distro Conference). Last year's Debian versus Fedora Core game was great, what with the upset at the end when rc.local kicked an extra packet for the win.
Actually, I think Joss would have been an ideal candidate for remaking the UK Avengers.
To be honest, while I'm not at all a Whedonite... Whedonistic? While I'm not at all that, I would have to agree, he would be perfect for directing a movie based on John Steed and whoever he had with him at the time (they'd probably choose Mrs. Peel, as she sort of became iconic with the show). Pity shame that someone else DID try a big-screen Avengers not-too-long-ago, and if I'm not mistaken, that left a bad enough taste in everyone's mouths that I doubt they'd ever try it again...
So yeah, welcome to Marvel 2010! It's the same movie, just with an updated roster!
User 1: I'm Spartacus! *BLAM* User 2: I'm... I'm Spartacus! *BLAM* User 3: Um... I'm Spartacus? *BLAM* (User 4 just shakes nervously) *BLAM* *BLAM* Soldier 1: That last one was just for fun! No more backtalk! Soldier 2: Look at that! We're running out of users! They must be doing something illegal! Get our senator on the line!
Looking over the comments so far, I guess I really am a pathetic video game nerd after all, since the first thing I thought with the combination of "Japanese", "Designer", and "Space Suit" was Space Channel 5, and it looks like nobody else did.
*sigh* I guess I'll go dig myself a basement to dwell in now...
Hard to say, really. I mean, from a blunt, immediate standpoint, it IS rather a bit silly and useless, but thinking long-term, if they can pull something like this off, this may be a precursor to treating space travel more like a casual thing (i.e. making science fiction into reality). I'd say it fits in not-Idle.
Now, if this WERE the future and we were already casually going to our colonies on the moon, and THEN someone decided to do something like this, then that'd DEFINITELY be something in Idle.
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Thing 2: How is this a good thing to do? Aren't they basically stating that they don't understand how or why this is occurring, but they want to destroy something to figure out what goes on behind it? When are they planning to do this? December 21st, 2012?
They're scientists and engineers. "Break something to see how it works" is how scientists and engineers of all walks of life think. They're just thinking bigger than most. I gotta salute them for that.
Funnily enough email addresses with the word spam on them get no spam at all , the word is stripped by pretty much every sniffer out there :)
Pfft. Says you.
The Tex Murphy Series - maybe
Curiously enough, they DID make a short online radio series in the Tex Murphy world set after the events of Overseer. It was intended more or less as a teaser for a future TM game or to spark interest in one, and it was handled fairly well. Written by the original story writers and voice-acted by the actors/actresses used in the FMVs. So I'd say a Tex Murphy movie would be more likely a good idea than you'd think.
Shame the radio series ended on a cliffhanger hook to a game that never came to be after Microsoft bought out Access (the company, not the database)...
[...] and I think its time for 3rd party plugins to completely disappear from web browsers. I've held the plugin belief for over 10 years.
I certainly don't hold that belief. If not for third party plugins, we'd have to trust that all the major browsers would support any new, as-yet-unknown technologies as they come out, all on a timeframe that allows for people to test it and get used to it, else web browsers would stagnate pretty quickly, or we'd wind up with a walled garden of web technology, wherein only what the major browsers say goes into their browsers, first-party, goes in.
For example, PNG support was once just a third-party plugin. If nobody was able to use it, nobody would've even known it existed. It never would have taken off and become integrated into any modern browser nowadays, and we'd still be stuck with GIFs. SVG support, too. That was once just a third-party plugin (by Adobe, even). Would anyone have bothered to put that into web browsers if Flash could've done everything they needed back then? Who would've heard of it, or even cared about it?
Given the flexible nature of the web, we need some way to quickly extend the functionality of web browsers to keep up with it, else both get held back.
Guys, seriously, the cadence worked for Ruby on Rails, and the silly reference might have worked for Python on Planes if they went through with it, but you're going to have to come up with a better name than Snails on Methamphetamine if you ever want to make COBOL a "cool" programming language.
Shouldn't it just be a matter of requiring the user to allow the mount of the iPhone side? That is, I believe, how Android handles the problem. Nothing can be mounted until the user tells the phone to allow it, which must be done from the home screen, which cannot be accessed without the sign in pattern.
Almost. You can mount the SD card from anywhere you can access the notification bar, not just the home screen (it just shows up as a plain ongoing notification). Still does require your sign in pattern (if you have one set and aren't already logged in).
Of course, you could also just yoink the SD card from the phone and find an adapter if you really wanted to. :-)
Unless that is how it is supposed to work but for whatever reason isn't happening on Lucid Lynx?
I'm not familiar with iPhones, but if Lucid Lynx can do this without any user or OS intervention on the iPhone's side, I'm guessing Apple was going for security through obscurity. Namely, using a filesystem or network protocol that OS X is trained to ignore (unless iTunes asks), that Windows doesn't know what to do with (unless iTunes is installed and asks), and that they thought wasn't installed on most Linux distros by default (which may have been true before, but apparently isn't with Lucid... has anyone tested this with earlier Ubuntus?).
You try casually walking into a bank with a ford mustang concealed on your person before donning a clown mask and sticking the place up..
If you physically CAN conceal a Ford Mustang on your person when you walk into a bank, I certainly wouldn't try to stop you from robbing it.
As obtuse as PCMCIA and SCSI are as names, they're far easier to recognize at a glance (even if SCSI's pronunciation became "scuzzy", which probably isn't what they had in mind when they made the acronym) than Pfnartlekaboom, or however it's supposed to be pronounced. The consumer world really, REALLY doesn't want to have to read a pronunciation guide just to figure out how to say it, let alone take advanced classes just to spell it. If Phunklezoom as a technology catches on, I can assure you the common name will become "Vorm" or something similar within a month.
And I don't think 802.3, the IEEE standard for the physical and link layers, ever really gained name recognition in the not-geek consumer world (CAT-5, 10baseT, 100baseT, all yes, 802.3, not so much).
Of course, H.264 is also a pretty lame name...
how much would it really take to add a phone to a 3DS? Surely it has more than enough processing power, the displays are crisp, it has touch screen already... only issue I could see would be adding an antenna.
Hardware-wise, there's probably not much stopping them. I mean, there was a cell phone adapter for the Japanese GBA (their version of Mario Kart Super Circuit used it, for instance), so it's not entirely out of the question.
It's more a matter of getting cell phone companies to subsidize it, at least in the US (which is still a huge market). Sure, you could sell an unsubsidized $600+ phone (well, two versions of it for both GSM and CDMA, three if you count T-Mobile's wacky 3G frequency), and some people would buy it, but without some phone provider subsidizing it, the vast bulk of the market would ignore it. And after the N-Gage's spectacular failure, I don't think Nintendo's willing to take a big chance on losing that much money on the console to make it up with games in THIS case.
So it's a lot less a technical restriction and more a restriction as a product of the current cell phone market atmosphere (again, at least in the US). And stop calling me Shirley.
Several publications are also reporting that a Linux version of Steam has been confirmed, and is expected within the next few months.
So, assuming this is legit, using my handy-dandy Valve Time Conversion Dartboard, we can expect a Linux Steam client and Source Engine port... oh... sometime between March of next year and August of 2015. Still, a better time frame than we had before, and better than we usually get from Valve!
Next time, they should think ahead in a case like this. They should have mounted a camera on Galaxy 15, broadcasting simple video on the transponders, preferably on separate circuits and with separate processing. Then, if the sat goes down like this BUT the transponders are still... um... transponding, try to track it enough so you can watch it crash into AMC-11 from its own perspective.
And, air it live on PPV. Instant money!
Maybe youtube should try to police the material for a few days as a demonstration of how ridiculous such an attempt would be.
What human beings think when they see this:
1. Request is made for YouTube to police everything.
2. YouTube grudgingly complies.
3. Obvious difficulties are revealed.
4. YouTube cannot keep up.
5. People see and realize the problems, reconsider.
What executives think when they see this:
1. Request is made for YouTube to police everything.
2. YouTube grudgingly complies.
3. Someone else is doing the work for them; delegation successful, YouTube is now entirely responsible, this is no longer the concern of those requesting it.
4. Any future difficulties in this are obviously failures on YouTube's fault. Report as such.
5. Keep going until YouTube is dead; this is called "beating the competition". Declare victory.
The FCC said the technology cannot be used on a particular movie once it is out on DVD or Blu-Ray, or after 90 days from the time it is first used on that movie, whichever comes first.
Wait, wait. What?
So let me get this straight... once the movie is released on DVD or Blu-Ray, the technology is not allowed to be used on it? As in, this only (theoretically) affects... what, just the movies that hit PPV a week or so before they hit DVD/Blu-Ray? That's it?
I mean, that's weak not just from a technological standpoint. That's weak the whole way around. Do people actually pirate movies off of PPV to any extent to make this even worthwhile? Do people actually USE PPV that much? I thought it was all DVD/Blu-Ray copies or leaked theatre reels or whatnot.
Wow. That just seems... sad.
It would really help if they fixed that up and brought back some of their other franchises: RARE's properties, Kirby, Bomberman...
Rare is owned by Microsoft now and therefore probably aren't in a big hurry to make, say, a new Banjo-Kazooie game on the Wii (though admittedly they HAVE released a few games on Nintendo's portables since then).
A Wii Kirby game has been rumored for a while, but they've made DS Kirby games since the Wii's release.
Bomberman is made by Hudson Soft, not Nintendo, and regardless, there IS a multiplayer online Bomberman game in the Wii Shop.
And at this point, I'll gleefully be a hypocrite to my own corrections to you and say it would be nice to see a Wii remake of Blast Corps (one of Rare's first N64 games). :-)
It's possible that cat hair is different enough from human hair so as to not give it the oil-absorbing properties, sure. But I think that's a bit moot; the problem isn't them getting enough hair. At least according to the summary, the problem is that they don't have enough people to PROCESS the human hair they get.
So, sorry, shedding season still doesn't have that much an upside. Better luck next time. :-)
Sand, obviously.
What really amuses me is this part (emphasis mine):
SCO contends the jury could have meant various things by its verdict that do not preclude Stewart from ordering the transfer.
So if I understand this correctly, SCO is asserting that the default state of this case should somehow be that SCO gets the rights to UNIX, and that it requires an explicit verdict from a jury to stop this transfer.
It's as if The Fonz found a way to jump the shark the other way around and it just kept getting better and better.
Call in a consulting team, get a quote for reworking it. Doesnt that neatly solve the problem?
Now presenting: The Bean Counter - A one-act play.
You: "This code is a mess! It was written by a bunch of low-grade college kids for cheap and is impossible to maintain! We need to call in a consulting team to get a quote for-"
(in a flurry of papers, a tweed-suited bean counter appears, apparently from a pocket dimension, as there is no visual evidence to suggest where he came from, nor are there any obvious entrances to where he is standing now. You don't even recall him ever working in the company before; he just IS)
Bean Counter: "NO! We need to save money over that plan! The money must be saved! SAVE IT! It's endangered!"
You: "But... save money over what?"
Bean Counter: (eyes grow wide) "MONEY! You save MONEY!!! Now look, we can easily solve this problem by hiring a bunch of low-grade college kids for cheap. That'll save us all sorts of money. Do this now."
You: "But that's what got us in this mess in the first place! We can't-"
Bean Counter: "Listen, you young punk, I know how money works. You don't. I've already gone over all the specs, and these college kids can write the same amount of codes for much less per-code than some fancy-schmansy overpriced professional. See this chart? It proves it."
You: "That's not how code works! There's quality concerns that-"
Bean Counter: (now furious) "DO YOU SEE THE CHART? LOOK AT THE CHART! THE CHART! THE CHART! It CLEARLY shows that the college kids can write an average of 650 lines of code more than your stupid 'trained professionals' per every dollar spent. That's called 'economical', you miserable snot! Are you TRYING to run this company into the ground?"
You: "Do you even understand the basic economics of programming at all?"
Bean Counter: "No! I don't waste my precious time and money with your worthless hobbies! I understand MONEY. Now shut up and do whatever it is you're paid to do, I've already got your boss putting MY plan in motion."
(end scene)
Okay, I'll admit I'm most likely in a drastic minority, but I like paper game manuals. I sort of like having some concept of how to play before turning the game on and having to sit through some heavy-handed and badly-written tutorial (worse if they try to voice-act it into the actual story, which frequently* produces disastrous results). Plus, the whole thing about a paper manual just feels better to me than an online one.
But, all things considered, they're most likely doing this because depressingly few people read the damn things anymore, what with the aforementioned heavy-handed tutorials being in the game itself, online versions of the manuals, and, sadly, people who, during online multiplayer matches, will stop everyone else to ask how you do things covered in the manual in the first place.
So honestly, despite my own personal misgivings over it, I can't fault Ubisoft at all for this. Why should they bother wasting money on developing paper instruction manuals when nobody's going to bother even looking at them, right to the point of stubbornly refusing to read them? They can claim it's for some green initiative, but it's business sense, plain and simple.
*: No, not "always", and no, I don't need examples provided.
And in next week's episode, everyone in town is sporting the latest "davidwr" fashion line, made from a material with a very curious and somehow familiar feel to it, and it all grows into a giant overblown ordeal with global recognition, the adults showing off their davidwrs on fashion show catwalks, and sorts of hijinx and tomfoolery until someone cleans out their dryer hose and finds out where it all came from...
Dist Bowl? Is that what happens to a hard drive when you install too many versions of Linux?
It's the final game of the DFL season, played by the champions of the ADC (APT Distro Conference) and the RDC (RPM Distro Conference). Last year's Debian versus Fedora Core game was great, what with the upset at the end when rc.local kicked an extra packet for the win.
Actually, I think Joss would have been an ideal candidate for remaking the UK Avengers.
To be honest, while I'm not at all a Whedonite... Whedonistic? While I'm not at all that, I would have to agree, he would be perfect for directing a movie based on John Steed and whoever he had with him at the time (they'd probably choose Mrs. Peel, as she sort of became iconic with the show). Pity shame that someone else DID try a big-screen Avengers not-too-long-ago, and if I'm not mistaken, that left a bad enough taste in everyone's mouths that I doubt they'd ever try it again...
So yeah, welcome to Marvel 2010! It's the same movie, just with an updated roster!
This is Verizon we're dealing with, remember...
User 1: I'm Spartacus!
*BLAM*
User 2: I'm... I'm Spartacus!
*BLAM*
User 3: Um... I'm Spartacus?
*BLAM*
(User 4 just shakes nervously)
*BLAM*
*BLAM*
Soldier 1: That last one was just for fun! No more backtalk!
Soldier 2: Look at that! We're running out of users! They must be doing something illegal! Get our senator on the line!
Looking over the comments so far, I guess I really am a pathetic video game nerd after all, since the first thing I thought with the combination of "Japanese", "Designer", and "Space Suit" was Space Channel 5, and it looks like nobody else did.
*sigh* I guess I'll go dig myself a basement to dwell in now...
Hard to say, really. I mean, from a blunt, immediate standpoint, it IS rather a bit silly and useless, but thinking long-term, if they can pull something like this off, this may be a precursor to treating space travel more like a casual thing (i.e. making science fiction into reality). I'd say it fits in not-Idle.
Now, if this WERE the future and we were already casually going to our colonies on the moon, and THEN someone decided to do something like this, then that'd DEFINITELY be something in Idle.