I like OMHSS best too, as many of the characters showed real character development, including 007. In most other movies there is no real character development, even when the lead goes through experiences that should lead to some.
I think that's why I liked the modern Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, Craig's portrayal is allowed to both suffer and grow from his experiences.
Haven't seen Skyfall yet to see if that continues or not. I hope that it does.
In everyone else's defense, they've been terribly inconsistent about the "the Doctor" versus "Doctor Who" throughout the show's 50 years. There was an era when the license plate on a vehicle of the Doctor's was "WHO", and the credits have occasionally listed the actor as "Doctor Who" as opposed to "the Doctor". Then there was the overemphasis on the question mark throughout at least Peter Davison's and Colin Baker's years, and that might have extended into the Sylvester McCoy years, can't remember for certain.
In my opinion, the 1996 TV movie that everyone claims to abhor has a lot more in common with the modern show than it does with the original run. It's almost like we needed a scapegoat for the change to be accepted, like how the George Lazenby James Bond movie is less well received even though one could argue that it's a much more coherent story than many of the other movies...
Okay, I'm curious as to how the business model for this works. Aren't most TV networks ad-supported? If the human isn't really paying attention to the TV then the human isn't going to really pay attention to the ads, and obviously the pet doesn't have the ability to make financial transactions on their own, and unlike kids' TV programming, can't nag the human into buying things for them...
...for reasons old or new, this isn't exactly a surprise.
It's unfortunate that there's no practical solution to avoid the use of third-party systems with cell-phones while still enjoying the data redundancy benefits that are the entire point of those devices...
This makes me wonder if there'll be a general code review of browser extensions like HTTPS Everywhere and HTTPS Finder and the like. I hope that they aren't compromised.
Okay, what do they want that they have to set up shop in Oklahoma to get it?
Can they not afford the installation if they're not subsidized?
Why not just avoid Oklahoma, or is this an attempt to get something at a federal level and this is basically a combination of campaign contributions and lobbying?
Windows 95 did something important, it created both a go-to button for the bulk of tasks for the novice user, it created an intuitive (albeit clunky underneath) method to handle files as a component of the user interface, and it showed a list of active applications on-screen with the taskbar.
Initially Apple left off an easy way to manage open applications. I've seen lots of people confused over where their Clarisworks was because it was running but hidden and they didn't know how to switch to it. I've seen people confused in Windows 3.x because their running programs looked more like files on the desktop, and their files weren't on the desktop, and god-help-them if someone minimized Program Manager.
Unfortunately when it comes to the mainstream, those are really the only two that have significant market penetration.
Heh. I'm no developer nor have I ever been and I loaded Linux for the first time in many years over the weekend for a new box. When Gnome loaded, my first though was, "What the hell is this?"
My second thought was, "Maybe KDE still looks a little like HP's CDE and will actually make sense". When I have a chance I may give it a shot.
Yes, but the public, in general, liked Chik-Fil-A before the scandal.
Ender's Game isn't mainstream. It may be in the mainstream of Science Fiction, but it's not mainstream as in Star Trek or Star Wars or even Blade Runner. It simply isn't going to be in the public consciousness in the same way, even with Ford and Kingsley on the cast.
I enjoyed the book when I read it, but I've tried reading other Card books and haven't been as impressed.
The future isn't going to be Roddenberry's Star Trek or Orwell's 1984 or Huxley's Brave New World, the future will be Gilliam's Brazil. Arguably with interoperability problems we're already there, especially in light of the fact that they missed "Tsarnaev" because someone misspelled it...
You know what schools routinely test high in the local school district? "Basic" schools. Schools that use paper and pencils and chalk, and don't have any computers in the classrooms other than the teacher's computer for attendance. These schools are successful because they don't have any distractions, and because they have good discipline. They keep the kids busy learning, and they challenge the kids.
Men did science and designed buildings and created medical cures and invented complex machines without computers. Hell, men put other men on the Moon with minimal computers, basically single-purpose guidance systems.
People can think critically, analytically, without computers or other fancy machines. I argue that as long as general-purpose computers are put before kids they're a bigger distraction than they are an asset. If that computer can do anything other than what the curriculum is the kid will do that instead of the curriculum.
Last I checked, there are ways to get around a requirement to have a Google account to use Android, with the caveat that many features that rely on such an account either don't work or don't work as well.
To me, Android's strength is that the individual handset really doesn't matter. I could lose or destroy my phone and just get another, resync to my Google account, and the bulk of what's important will be right back there again, like my contacts list.
I don't like the developing privacy problems and how "cloud" makes it worse, but I'd expect any service that's this connected would have this kind of problem, regardless of who it's from. Apple, for example...
Maybe someone has or should make an application that works kind of like the old Palm Desktop, that hotsyncs with the phone when it's either bluetoothed or plugged in via USB...
I'm to the point with an automatic for a Chrysler small block that I can usually grab every tool needed for pulling a 904 or 727 out in a single pass. Battery cable, exhaust X-pipe, differential yoke, cooling lines, starter, torque converter inspection plate, torque converter-to-flexplate, linkages, rear crossmember, bell housing, etc. I've had the transmission out and swapped in again in a couple of hours.
I'm not a mechanic either. I'm a computer guy, who got into cars because I screwed up my computers hobby by making it my profession. And I'm in Phoenix. I went junkyarding yesterday because I found out about another Cordoba in a yard and they're rare enough that I didn't feel I could wait to go strip it.
I've really strongly considered running a LeMons car, but I don't like the popular-vote-crush rule. I don't mind the K-lined-after-rollover rule or the dollar figure cap, but I'm not going to risk the time, effort, and money in getting to run in the race only to have the car crushed halfway through.
Now we can introduce even more people to tinker toys that they'll never use after they get out of school!
How about concentrating on reading comprehension, mathematics, and basic sciences, or if one does go into "trades", go into real trades that have proven to be durable careers...
Not everyone gets to be a rocket scientist when they grow up, and we need to tailor our education systems to present high-but-attainable options. There's no dishonor in being a certified journeyman welder or an electrician or even a plumber, and all can pay very well if the individual learns the skills needed.
Okay, I'll play... I've been restoring a '78 Chrysler Cordoba and an '82 Dodge D350 crew cab shortbed. For the Cordoba I've built a 408 stroker from a 360 small block, gone through several 904 transmissions before giving up and going to the 727 transmission, and am mid-process going through the body and interior. For the crew cab, I've begun collecting parts and have been gathering information for a Cummins swap in place of the current 318.
...no it isn't... It's a BMW with some stuff added to it for effect.
Don't get me wrong, I like it, but if it were going to be a real-life version of that car it'd probably have to be based on an actual finned car from the day, like an Imperial or Cadillac or Lincoln.
I've mused about cloning the ambulance from Cannonball Run, taking a hospital gurney and bolting it down half-hanging-out the open back doors. I've also contemplated entering a Chrysler Town and Country minivan with the fake wood panelling, and naming the car "I've got a Woody" so that the announcer could have a little bit of fun with it.
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That just proves that it's more like Brave New World than it is like 1984.
Even the IRS' computers should choke on how to process that one for awhile...
Yep... If I remember, Tristan wasn't an especially good driver either, and Sigfried's Rover spent a lot of time in the body shop on account of that...
I like OMHSS best too, as many of the characters showed real character development, including 007. In most other movies there is no real character development, even when the lead goes through experiences that should lead to some.
I think that's why I liked the modern Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, Craig's portrayal is allowed to both suffer and grow from his experiences.
Haven't seen Skyfall yet to see if that continues or not. I hope that it does.
In everyone else's defense, they've been terribly inconsistent about the "the Doctor" versus "Doctor Who" throughout the show's 50 years. There was an era when the license plate on a vehicle of the Doctor's was "WHO", and the credits have occasionally listed the actor as "Doctor Who" as opposed to "the Doctor". Then there was the overemphasis on the question mark throughout at least Peter Davison's and Colin Baker's years, and that might have extended into the Sylvester McCoy years, can't remember for certain.
In my opinion, the 1996 TV movie that everyone claims to abhor has a lot more in common with the modern show than it does with the original run. It's almost like we needed a scapegoat for the change to be accepted, like how the George Lazenby James Bond movie is less well received even though one could argue that it's a much more coherent story than many of the other movies...
Doctor who?
Step 1, spend about a decade getting a PhD.
Step 2, work for another, more senior researcher for a decade, building up credit in academic research.
Step 3, spend another decade writing grant proposals and doing research that ties into others' research or acts to confirm or refute others' research.
Step 4, write this grant proposal and begin this study
Step 5, profit!
Don't worry that it only took 30 years to get there...
Sometimes I think that the world can stand for a little mystery...
Okay, I'm curious as to how the business model for this works. Aren't most TV networks ad-supported? If the human isn't really paying attention to the TV then the human isn't going to really pay attention to the ads, and obviously the pet doesn't have the ability to make financial transactions on their own, and unlike kids' TV programming, can't nag the human into buying things for them...
...for reasons old or new, this isn't exactly a surprise.
It's unfortunate that there's no practical solution to avoid the use of third-party systems with cell-phones while still enjoying the data redundancy benefits that are the entire point of those devices...
This makes me wonder if there'll be a general code review of browser extensions like HTTPS Everywhere and HTTPS Finder and the like. I hope that they aren't compromised.
Okay, what do they want that they have to set up shop in Oklahoma to get it?
Can they not afford the installation if they're not subsidized?
Why not just avoid Oklahoma, or is this an attempt to get something at a federal level and this is basically a combination of campaign contributions and lobbying?
Which brings us back to "Don't be evil" again...
...is starting to either redefine "evil" or "don't"... Haven't figured out which yet...
I know that politics makes for strange bedfellows, but this seems to head a little out of the norm.
Maybe that terrible James Bond movie with the Korean guy turning into Hugh Grant wasn't as far off-the-mark as we thought it was...
Windows 95 did something important, it created both a go-to button for the bulk of tasks for the novice user, it created an intuitive (albeit clunky underneath) method to handle files as a component of the user interface, and it showed a list of active applications on-screen with the taskbar.
Initially Apple left off an easy way to manage open applications. I've seen lots of people confused over where their Clarisworks was because it was running but hidden and they didn't know how to switch to it. I've seen people confused in Windows 3.x because their running programs looked more like files on the desktop, and their files weren't on the desktop, and god-help-them if someone minimized Program Manager.
Unfortunately when it comes to the mainstream, those are really the only two that have significant market penetration.
Heh. I'm no developer nor have I ever been and I loaded Linux for the first time in many years over the weekend for a new box. When Gnome loaded, my first though was, "What the hell is this?"
My second thought was, "Maybe KDE still looks a little like HP's CDE and will actually make sense". When I have a chance I may give it a shot.
Yes, but the public, in general, liked Chik-Fil-A before the scandal.
Ender's Game isn't mainstream. It may be in the mainstream of Science Fiction, but it's not mainstream as in Star Trek or Star Wars or even Blade Runner. It simply isn't going to be in the public consciousness in the same way, even with Ford and Kingsley on the cast.
I enjoyed the book when I read it, but I've tried reading other Card books and haven't been as impressed.
...as long as no one is there to tickle it, it'll be fine...
The future isn't going to be Roddenberry's Star Trek or Orwell's 1984 or Huxley's Brave New World, the future will be Gilliam's Brazil. Arguably with interoperability problems we're already there, especially in light of the fact that they missed "Tsarnaev" because someone misspelled it...
You know what schools routinely test high in the local school district? "Basic" schools. Schools that use paper and pencils and chalk, and don't have any computers in the classrooms other than the teacher's computer for attendance. These schools are successful because they don't have any distractions, and because they have good discipline. They keep the kids busy learning, and they challenge the kids.
Men did science and designed buildings and created medical cures and invented complex machines without computers. Hell, men put other men on the Moon with minimal computers, basically single-purpose guidance systems.
People can think critically, analytically, without computers or other fancy machines. I argue that as long as general-purpose computers are put before kids they're a bigger distraction than they are an asset. If that computer can do anything other than what the curriculum is the kid will do that instead of the curriculum.
Last I checked, there are ways to get around a requirement to have a Google account to use Android, with the caveat that many features that rely on such an account either don't work or don't work as well.
To me, Android's strength is that the individual handset really doesn't matter. I could lose or destroy my phone and just get another, resync to my Google account, and the bulk of what's important will be right back there again, like my contacts list.
I don't like the developing privacy problems and how "cloud" makes it worse, but I'd expect any service that's this connected would have this kind of problem, regardless of who it's from. Apple, for example...
Maybe someone has or should make an application that works kind of like the old Palm Desktop, that hotsyncs with the phone when it's either bluetoothed or plugged in via USB...
Heh. "Formula-Un" might be a good name for a competing circuit actually...
I'm to the point with an automatic for a Chrysler small block that I can usually grab every tool needed for pulling a 904 or 727 out in a single pass. Battery cable, exhaust X-pipe, differential yoke, cooling lines, starter, torque converter inspection plate, torque converter-to-flexplate, linkages, rear crossmember, bell housing, etc. I've had the transmission out and swapped in again in a couple of hours.
I'm not a mechanic either. I'm a computer guy, who got into cars because I screwed up my computers hobby by making it my profession. And I'm in Phoenix. I went junkyarding yesterday because I found out about another Cordoba in a yard and they're rare enough that I didn't feel I could wait to go strip it.
I've really strongly considered running a LeMons car, but I don't like the popular-vote-crush rule. I don't mind the K-lined-after-rollover rule or the dollar figure cap, but I'm not going to risk the time, effort, and money in getting to run in the race only to have the car crushed halfway through.
Now we can introduce even more people to tinker toys that they'll never use after they get out of school!
How about concentrating on reading comprehension, mathematics, and basic sciences, or if one does go into "trades", go into real trades that have proven to be durable careers...
Not everyone gets to be a rocket scientist when they grow up, and we need to tailor our education systems to present high-but-attainable options. There's no dishonor in being a certified journeyman welder or an electrician or even a plumber, and all can pay very well if the individual learns the skills needed.
Okay, I'll play... I've been restoring a '78 Chrysler Cordoba and an '82 Dodge D350 crew cab shortbed. For the Cordoba I've built a 408 stroker from a 360 small block, gone through several 904 transmissions before giving up and going to the 727 transmission, and am mid-process going through the body and interior. For the crew cab, I've begun collecting parts and have been gathering information for a Cummins swap in place of the current 318.
...no it isn't... It's a BMW with some stuff added to it for effect.
Don't get me wrong, I like it, but if it were going to be a real-life version of that car it'd probably have to be based on an actual finned car from the day, like an Imperial or Cadillac or Lincoln.
I've mused about cloning the ambulance from Cannonball Run, taking a hospital gurney and bolting it down half-hanging-out the open back doors. I've also contemplated entering a Chrysler Town and Country minivan with the fake wood panelling, and naming the car "I've got a Woody" so that the announcer could have a little bit of fun with it.