This is expected to become the largest ever fan campaign to bring a television show back from cancellation.
Stop me when I've mentioned a fan campaign you've actually heard of. Like the campaign to get the third season of the original Star Trek. Or the one that got a Space Shuttle renamed. Or all those DVDs that got Family Guy back in regular episodes and Futurama in direct-to-DVD movies. Or the ridiculous amount of money Save Enterprise raised that threatened to make the fifth season purely on fan money (which, of course, led to all the controversy, but eh).
TV shows get cancelled. Millions are outraged. Then millions forget until Fox screws up the next show.
Wait, CBS you say? Weird. The token/. response doesn't work here. I think teh slash-verse is going to assplode!
On behalf of the Taurahe people, I for one am highly offended at the implication that our peaceful, majestic city in the clouds needs cleaning up. Our Bluffwatchers are some of the most efficient custodians I have ever seen, and our program to recycle waste products into compost to aid in Arch Druid Runetotem's morrorwgrain research sets an example for capital cities across Azeroth.
Despite our bovine nature, and its accompanying production of large piles of waste product, we boast of the cleanest cities on Azeroth or Outlands, free from the usual blight of urban sprawl, like the putrid sewers of Undercity, the molten magma "waste processing" of Ironforge, or the dumbasses in Stormwind who let a dragon take over the city just because she could shapeshift into a "hawt bb." Meanwhile, we have continued to maintain a healthy tourism industry, and, unlike our druidic friends in Darnassus, people actually go to Thunder Bluff on purpose, not just because their cat hit the mouse and they were trying to go to Winterspring to farm.
In summary, I expect a full apology to be delivered to Cairne by the end of the week. Reparations in the form of well chewed grass, some decent low level balance druid armor, or a free pass to/spit on all rogues, both Alliance and Horde, would be acceptable.
Final scene:
Battlestar Galactica (the original) flies across the screen, with Lorne Green uttering the words "So say..." as the new Battlestar Galactica flies in from the other direction, and Edward James Almos says "...we all."
- RDM is the final Cylon, and this whole "plan" has been to show everyone what Voyager could have been with decent writing and a little continuity of shuttlecraft, battle damage, etc. - William Shatner is the ship's cook. - Scott Bakula will finally get to leap out of Brother Cavell when they find Earth. - Fry and Leela will be married. - Q will appear and say that humanity has once again proved itself worthy of existing for at least more study, but that we'll never actually see him again so the storyline is left open but dead. - The Baltar is a Prophet. - Adama tells Starbuck he's her father, then cuts off her hand. Due to budget constraints, in the very next scene, she'll get a new hand, and that'll be the end of that. - A centurion is left on a mid-industrial civilized planet, and they begin to shake their heads around as they walk so their entire lives will be lived in shakey-cam mode. - FEMA was behind the whole "nuke the colonies" thing so they could take over the government, but when the plot is exposed, everyone just laughs at how stupid it is to think that FEMA could have come up with such an elaborate plan. - The Fifth Element is Tricia Helfer. - The Cylons are really the "humans" as we know them, and the humans are really the "Cylons," and they've all been living in an 18th century village with a major highway just beyond those trees over there that noone but some blind chick has been able to find. - The centurions almost overthrow the human-looking Cylon models, but are majorly nerfed in 2.1 and can't take all those pots at once any more. - Lee keeps hearing "Save Starbuck. Save the world" but realizes his world has already been nuked a couple times so screw it.
If the poster had mentioned that the dSLR camera did better in other areas and had suggested that high end camera phones might displace dedicated point and shoot digital cameras, I would not have a problem with the comments.
Those are my thoughts exactly. Having used consumer point and shoots for the past 8 or 9 years, and just recently purchased a dSLR, it's obvious even to an untrained pro-sumer that the flexibility and overall quality of dSLRs are hard to beat (in the digital world). Point and shoots, however, vary greatly, and almost never do well in all but the most well lit conditions with low ISO and quick shutters. Camera phones could match this easily, plus have the added benefit of being part of a gadget you already have in your pocket.
Do the submitters even read the articles now? For both photo conditions tested, they found that the dSLR (a Canon 400D) better - "highest level of detail" in medium light and the best-lit and most focused shot overall in low light. All they mentioned were that the N95 camera phone showed more vibrant colors in the medium light conditions, and that that was probably due to post-processing.
If I recall correctly, originally the requirement was remote access, but when that went nowhere, they allowed entrants to submit URLs that would be navigated to via Safari. Check out Engadget for more details...
On the other, an investment adviser has called Microsoft's entire gaming business a 'disastrous endeavor'.
Most investment advisors (the ones with an "o", not the ones with an "e") are mad at Microsoft because they have little to no debt, a ton of cash, and a healthy but not spectacular dividend. Yet they remain a viable company, making money and what-not. It kills me how little room for innovation is allowed in what most financial people use to define a "success." Whether the gaming division has made money to date or not, and I'm no Microsoft fan, you have to admit that branching out into something other than purely software and gaining a market-leading position is a Good Thing in the long-term for the shareholders (like myself).
...the shooting at UT-Austin back in the 1960s? Someone see Counter-Strike in a premonition?
Seriously, gamers aren't "grappling" with anything. It's the idiots on TV who can't seem to get ratings from speaking intelligent, well-thought, insightful words and have to resort to fear-mongering and dumbassery (TM). Nothing for anyone to see here, please move along.
Actually, that was my point. Many believe we should have equal quantity simply because they believe there's equality in ability. In reality, we have neither - some people are better than others at certain tasks, and you can't just look at gender, race, economics, etc. to find a dividing line and expect it to be indicative of ability. Just because more men do something doesn't necessarily mean they are better at it than women, or that the field is somehow better at attracting men than women. It could just be that there's an inequality in interest, which isn't something you can combat in all cases.
Should there be more men going to beauty school just to balance out the demographics a bit?
But, in grade school, teacher said everyone is equal, so shouldn't there be equal numbers of everyone in everything?
Chalk this one up to another "politically correct" falsehood. People aren't equal - don't keep someone from doing something they like, but don't change an entire system of educational thought simply because there isn't a 1:1 ratio in all categories. Do change it, however, because it doesn't work, or because some in the field do a poor job educating real thinkers and instead churn out platform-addicted code junkies.
You're probably on to something there. The popular idea that China is the next economic and social superpower has a major flaw - they're still politically communist, regardless of their market practices. That'll hold back true expansion no matter what you make for the rest of the world or how much you sell it for.
The "next big thing"? India. Maybe Eastern Europe, but doubtful. Russia is probably closer to a civil war (or revolution) than anyone wants to admit, and Iron Curtain or no, a destabilized Russia will always weigh heavily on Eastern Europe, at least until the EU can solidify there.
And that's the Saturday Night Political Rant. Join us next week to hear why Microsoft should buy the UN to curb Google.
I hadn't really poked around the WoW site source too much, but was more just impressed that someone actually used the technology (whether it was done well or not). Bad practice is never something you want to see, but any try will at least get it out there in the open so we can evaluate whether it's a good idea or not. I did have some trouble with it in FF 1.6 when they first launched it, but have been using Safari and FF2 so I'm not sure if they ever fixed that.
And I've used CSS for, but am not nearly as big a fan of it as I am CSS for the web. I was thinking that maybe using an XSLT to put something in MS Office XML or other XML document formats to not only print, but to eliminate the need for all those goofy "Export to..." APIs out there.
Sorry for the double-reply - hit Submit before the thought completed in my head.
Advanced selector support in CSS3 could also help with reducing the need for tons of classes and such. But that's also an implementation issue - Safari is pretty good, Mozilla and Opera are getting better, but even IE7 doesn't support all the CSS2 selectors, let alone the CSS3 ones.
For those not familiar, I'd encourage checking out the full list of selectors - especially the nth-child and attribute ones, which could make a huge difference for paragraph spacing, drop caps, and, most commonly, the "zebra striping" in data tables, forums, email apps, etc. Check out Andy Clarke's Transcending CSS (http://www.transcendingcss.com/) for a really great look at advanced CSS3 features that will make you hate browser manufacturers even more and make you wish all these things were actually usable in today's web.
That would also be great. XSLT really has the potential to take presentation beyond the web that CSS just isn't built to do. CSS is good for now, but the future should look much more like XSLT. I'd love to be able to markup a document, then build one XSLT for a web page, one for a printed document, etc.
But then again, the only major site I've seen using XSLT is www.worldofwarcraft.com (and perhaps the rest of Blizzard's sites, but haven't really poked around them much in a while). Remember, it took Wired and others switching over to pure CSS to get everyone's attention. More major sites using XSLT would go a long long way.
Some of that is in the CSS3 and further specs, like the advanced layout module, but those are beyond the reach of even the latest versions of FF, Opera, KHTML, etc. at the moment.
But, really, XHTML 1.1 is a great standard, and instead of moving ahead, let's try to get everyone to use it first. It hasn't been updated in forever (forever in web terms, of course) because the push has been to get everyone to actually use standards, and to get browser support of CSS2 and eventually CSS3 complete across all platforms and engines.
Just glancing over it, the HTML5 standards up at WHATWG worry me slightly. There seems to be a lot fo presentational/non-structural markup sneaking back in. Not necessarily as obvious as some of the older tags that were dropped in HTML4/XHTML1, but still. We have to keep in mind the separation of powers - XHTML/HTML for markup, CSS for presentation, and DOM for scripting - or things will just get way too complicated again.
Make things easier and more accessible for the developer/design? Sure. Add presentational content to HTML so he/she doesn't have to learn how to properly use CSS and the DOM? No. Do this, and it'll open the floodgates for everyone (MSFT) to add "special" tags to further "help" the developer/designers. Next think you know we'll be running around with a bunch of "Works best in..." graphics like its 1998 again (only this time we'll be using PNGs or JPEG2000s instead of GIFs).
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This is expected to become the largest ever fan campaign to bring a television show back from cancellation.
Stop me when I've mentioned a fan campaign you've actually heard of. Like the campaign to get the third season of the original Star Trek. Or the one that got a Space Shuttle renamed. Or all those DVDs that got Family Guy back in regular episodes and Futurama in direct-to-DVD movies. Or the ridiculous amount of money Save Enterprise raised that threatened to make the fifth season purely on fan money (which, of course, led to all the controversy, but eh).
TV shows get cancelled. Millions are outraged. Then millions forget until Fox screws up the next show.
Wait, CBS you say? Weird. The token /. response doesn't work here. I think teh slash-verse is going to assplode!
On behalf of the Taurahe people, I for one am highly offended at the implication that our peaceful, majestic city in the clouds needs cleaning up. Our Bluffwatchers are some of the most efficient custodians I have ever seen, and our program to recycle waste products into compost to aid in Arch Druid Runetotem's morrorwgrain research sets an example for capital cities across Azeroth.
/spit on all rogues, both Alliance and Horde, would be acceptable.
Despite our bovine nature, and its accompanying production of large piles of waste product, we boast of the cleanest cities on Azeroth or Outlands, free from the usual blight of urban sprawl, like the putrid sewers of Undercity, the molten magma "waste processing" of Ironforge, or the dumbasses in Stormwind who let a dragon take over the city just because she could shapeshift into a "hawt bb." Meanwhile, we have continued to maintain a healthy tourism industry, and, unlike our druidic friends in Darnassus, people actually go to Thunder Bluff on purpose, not just because their cat hit the mouse and they were trying to go to Winterspring to farm.
In summary, I expect a full apology to be delivered to Cairne by the end of the week. Reparations in the form of well chewed grass, some decent low level balance druid armor, or a free pass to
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(Azjol-Nerub)
seven major issues cosmologists should address in the following ten years
1. Move to a better hosting service.
It a form of "meat." (emphasis on the quotes)
Final scene: Battlestar Galactica (the original) flies across the screen, with Lorne Green uttering the words "So say..." as the new Battlestar Galactica flies in from the other direction, and Edward James Almos says "...we all."
They're Cylons - they count starting at 0. Number Six is actually index 5 in the array ;D
They have. In the finale, we'll find out that:
- RDM is the final Cylon, and this whole "plan" has been to show everyone what Voyager could have been with decent writing and a little continuity of shuttlecraft, battle damage, etc.
- William Shatner is the ship's cook.
- Scott Bakula will finally get to leap out of Brother Cavell when they find Earth.
- Fry and Leela will be married.
- Q will appear and say that humanity has once again proved itself worthy of existing for at least more study, but that we'll never actually see him again so the storyline is left open but dead.
- The Baltar is a Prophet.
- Adama tells Starbuck he's her father, then cuts off her hand. Due to budget constraints, in the very next scene, she'll get a new hand, and that'll be the end of that.
- A centurion is left on a mid-industrial civilized planet, and they begin to shake their heads around as they walk so their entire lives will be lived in shakey-cam mode.
- FEMA was behind the whole "nuke the colonies" thing so they could take over the government, but when the plot is exposed, everyone just laughs at how stupid it is to think that FEMA could have come up with such an elaborate plan.
- The Fifth Element is Tricia Helfer.
- The Cylons are really the "humans" as we know them, and the humans are really the "Cylons," and they've all been living in an 18th century village with a major highway just beyond those trees over there that noone but some blind chick has been able to find.
- The centurions almost overthrow the human-looking Cylon models, but are majorly nerfed in 2.1 and can't take all those pots at once any more.
- Lee keeps hearing "Save Starbuck. Save the world" but realizes his world has already been nuked a couple times so screw it.
Slurm Queen: As for you, you will be submerged in Royal Slurm which, in a matter of minutes, will transform you into a Slurm Queen like myself.
Small Glurmo #1: But, Your Highness, she's a commoner. Her Slurm will taste foul.
Slurm Queen: Yes! Which is why we'll market it as New Slurm. Then, when everyone hates it, we'll bring back Slurm Classic, and make billions!
(thanks to The Neutral Planet)
I'd take WoW, then when I'm bored of running endgame instances, I'd just spam "RESCUE ME PLZ" in the major cities chat and someone would come find me!
Pot, kettle, etc. etc.
If the poster had mentioned that the dSLR camera did better in other areas and had suggested that high end camera phones might displace dedicated point and shoot digital cameras, I would not have a problem with the comments.
Those are my thoughts exactly. Having used consumer point and shoots for the past 8 or 9 years, and just recently purchased a dSLR, it's obvious even to an untrained pro-sumer that the flexibility and overall quality of dSLRs are hard to beat (in the digital world). Point and shoots, however, vary greatly, and almost never do well in all but the most well lit conditions with low ISO and quick shutters. Camera phones could match this easily, plus have the added benefit of being part of a gadget you already have in your pocket.
Do the submitters even read the articles now? For both photo conditions tested, they found that the dSLR (a Canon 400D) better - "highest level of detail" in medium light and the best-lit and most focused shot overall in low light. All they mentioned were that the N95 camera phone showed more vibrant colors in the medium light conditions, and that that was probably due to post-processing.
This is a really big discovery...
And that, my friends, is the understatement of the millennium.
Drat! I AM TEH L0S3R!
Ew... Where did that come from? I need to get out more.
Actually, to be next-gen, you need to add flashy graphics or random Ajax to your blog as well, since that is already the current-gen business model.
If I recall correctly, originally the requirement was remote access, but when that went nowhere, they allowed entrants to submit URLs that would be navigated to via Safari. Check out Engadget for more details...
On the other, an investment adviser has called Microsoft's entire gaming business a 'disastrous endeavor'.
Most investment advisors (the ones with an "o", not the ones with an "e") are mad at Microsoft because they have little to no debt, a ton of cash, and a healthy but not spectacular dividend. Yet they remain a viable company, making money and what-not. It kills me how little room for innovation is allowed in what most financial people use to define a "success." Whether the gaming division has made money to date or not, and I'm no Microsoft fan, you have to admit that branching out into something other than purely software and gaining a market-leading position is a Good Thing in the long-term for the shareholders (like myself).
...the shooting at UT-Austin back in the 1960s? Someone see Counter-Strike in a premonition?
Seriously, gamers aren't "grappling" with anything. It's the idiots on TV who can't seem to get ratings from speaking intelligent, well-thought, insightful words and have to resort to fear-mongering and dumbassery (TM). Nothing for anyone to see here, please move along.
Actually, that was my point. Many believe we should have equal quantity simply because they believe there's equality in ability. In reality, we have neither - some people are better than others at certain tasks, and you can't just look at gender, race, economics, etc. to find a dividing line and expect it to be indicative of ability. Just because more men do something doesn't necessarily mean they are better at it than women, or that the field is somehow better at attracting men than women. It could just be that there's an inequality in interest, which isn't something you can combat in all cases.
Should there be more men going to beauty school just to balance out the demographics a bit?
But, in grade school, teacher said everyone is equal, so shouldn't there be equal numbers of everyone in everything?
Chalk this one up to another "politically correct" falsehood. People aren't equal - don't keep someone from doing something they like, but don't change an entire system of educational thought simply because there isn't a 1:1 ratio in all categories. Do change it, however, because it doesn't work, or because some in the field do a poor job educating real thinkers and instead churn out platform-addicted code junkies.
Wish I had mod points...
You're probably on to something there. The popular idea that China is the next economic and social superpower has a major flaw - they're still politically communist, regardless of their market practices. That'll hold back true expansion no matter what you make for the rest of the world or how much you sell it for.
The "next big thing"? India. Maybe Eastern Europe, but doubtful. Russia is probably closer to a civil war (or revolution) than anyone wants to admit, and Iron Curtain or no, a destabilized Russia will always weigh heavily on Eastern Europe, at least until the EU can solidify there.
And that's the Saturday Night Political Rant. Join us next week to hear why Microsoft should buy the UN to curb Google.
I hadn't really poked around the WoW site source too much, but was more just impressed that someone actually used the technology (whether it was done well or not). Bad practice is never something you want to see, but any try will at least get it out there in the open so we can evaluate whether it's a good idea or not. I did have some trouble with it in FF 1.6 when they first launched it, but have been using Safari and FF2 so I'm not sure if they ever fixed that.
..." APIs out there.
And I've used CSS for, but am not nearly as big a fan of it as I am CSS for the web. I was thinking that maybe using an XSLT to put something in MS Office XML or other XML document formats to not only print, but to eliminate the need for all those goofy "Export to
Sorry for the double-reply - hit Submit before the thought completed in my head.
Advanced selector support in CSS3 could also help with reducing the need for tons of classes and such. But that's also an implementation issue - Safari is pretty good, Mozilla and Opera are getting better, but even IE7 doesn't support all the CSS2 selectors, let alone the CSS3 ones.
For those not familiar, I'd encourage checking out the full list of selectors - especially the nth-child and attribute ones, which could make a huge difference for paragraph spacing, drop caps, and, most commonly, the "zebra striping" in data tables, forums, email apps, etc. Check out Andy Clarke's Transcending CSS (http://www.transcendingcss.com/) for a really great look at advanced CSS3 features that will make you hate browser manufacturers even more and make you wish all these things were actually usable in today's web.
That would also be great. XSLT really has the potential to take presentation beyond the web that CSS just isn't built to do. CSS is good for now, but the future should look much more like XSLT. I'd love to be able to markup a document, then build one XSLT for a web page, one for a printed document, etc.
But then again, the only major site I've seen using XSLT is www.worldofwarcraft.com (and perhaps the rest of Blizzard's sites, but haven't really poked around them much in a while). Remember, it took Wired and others switching over to pure CSS to get everyone's attention. More major sites using XSLT would go a long long way.
Some of that is in the CSS3 and further specs, like the advanced layout module, but those are beyond the reach of even the latest versions of FF, Opera, KHTML, etc. at the moment.
..." graphics like its 1998 again (only this time we'll be using PNGs or JPEG2000s instead of GIFs).
But, really, XHTML 1.1 is a great standard, and instead of moving ahead, let's try to get everyone to use it first. It hasn't been updated in forever (forever in web terms, of course) because the push has been to get everyone to actually use standards, and to get browser support of CSS2 and eventually CSS3 complete across all platforms and engines.
Just glancing over it, the HTML5 standards up at WHATWG worry me slightly. There seems to be a lot fo presentational/non-structural markup sneaking back in. Not necessarily as obvious as some of the older tags that were dropped in HTML4/XHTML1, but still. We have to keep in mind the separation of powers - XHTML/HTML for markup, CSS for presentation, and DOM for scripting - or things will just get way too complicated again.
Make things easier and more accessible for the developer/design? Sure. Add presentational content to HTML so he/she doesn't have to learn how to properly use CSS and the DOM? No. Do this, and it'll open the floodgates for everyone (MSFT) to add "special" tags to further "help" the developer/designers. Next think you know we'll be running around with a bunch of "Works best in