Well, he did say Free and Open could be bundled together, presumably as a single category.
As a scale outlining the weight of strings attached, it's useful at that level. Thing is, some feel that the presence of certain strings are more desirable than their absence. A grid may be more appropriate, mapping two (or more) qualities and assigning names to their intersections.
An article that details how Open Source is being hijacked by Microsoft and the sort via 'Shared Source' licenses and how Open Source licenses have become so much more confusing. Is there a way to read that sentence such that it makes grammatical sense? An article is what?
Everything can be "harmful to minors" in some way.
They should just take all these protectionism laws to their logical extreme conclusion and make it illegal for minors to possess money (cash, credit, or debit), to sell anything directly to a minor, and for minors only be allowed to receive goods or services purchased or approved by an authorized parent or legal guardian, unless he/she has emancipated-minor status (verifiable proof required at point-of-sale). School cafeterias would be exempted.
Then they'll just have to deal with the "harmful" stuff kids can get for free.
Nah, that'll never happen. The toy, candy, and soft drink companies (to name only three) wouldn't stand for it.
Still, it might make for an interesting city ordinance in Springfield, Quahog, or South Park.
She was President in that episode. It was third season, the Liberator was still around, and she hadn't presumably been killed in its destruction and adopted the identity of Commissioner Sleer.
However, "Moloch" was three episodes after "Rumors of Death" in which Dayna questioned what happened to the Rebellion and why Earth was still being ruled by creatures like Servalan. I've taken that as they have not been paying attention, they've only gone up against the Federation deliberately once (and just in name of piracy), and their meddling in RoD actually helped crush a major victory of the Rebellion, and killed the latest rebel leader.
And speaking of Bartolemew, perhaps she too was careful to stay in the shadows, never seen, stalking each person who knew her as Servalan and personally killing them off. The Federation certainly wasn't up to modern standards of tracking everyone everywhere in everything they do, given how many people successfully went into hiding throughout the run of series. They were more THX 1138 than they were 1984.
And yet we never hear of [replication technology] again. Perhaps we would have if we followed the Federation storyline, or the storyline of the Rebellion, rather than the limited perspective of Blake, Avon, and the rest.
And perhaps they should restart the series with more perspective. I've had a thought of seeing two concurrent TV series that were tied to each other more tightly. Instead of the occasional crossover of characters, events in both series would be concurrent but portrayed from opposing perspectives. A new Batman series with a companion series Gotham P.D. where you could get two perspectives on the same events. I think this would be even more interesting in a Blakes 7 remake as two series: one following the crew, the other The Federation.
And TV is trending this way now, though the closest they've gotten to actually doing it on television are Battlestar Galactica: Razor and certain episodes of Lost. There's Trois couleurs: Rouge, Trois couleurs: Bleu, and Trzy kolory: Bialy that reference each other, but I have seen only "Rouge", and from what I understand their connections are just tangential.
Really, there are too many demands on gloves and hands already to burden them with this. Sew this into jackets, arm bands, wrist bands, whatever, but not into gloves. Or, I don't know, build it into the grip(s) of the gun? I mean, if it's important they not take their hands off the weapon...?
The worst thing they can do is aim it at kids, with Orac as a cute robot or something awful like that. How about Orac as a bald dwarf who keeps himself to himself so no one knows what kinds of arms (weapons) he has?
I needs to get me the entire series on DVD, damnit. They originally promised they'd have it for the US market, but that never panned out. I imported the UK releases from Amazon.co.uk. I actually have two copies of Season 3 because I just had to get the one with the Liberator model in the blister pack. (I would have ordered it in the first place if Amazon had properly described it or included a picture.) I have two DVD players switched to region-free mode and RPC-1 firmware on the drives in my computers.
I wish they'd put more into the CG they used for the disks (how about something unique for each disk instead of one graphic for each season), and didn't linger so long on the series logo at the end. And whose idea was it to turn the two overlapping circles into a twisted ribbon?
If I get a BD-R drive, I'll probably burn myself a Blu-Ray SD set of disks. But I still need a ripper that will break up menus into reassemble-able assets.
Have you seen the ending of Blake's 7? The ending has to be more than seen. It must also be heard, specifically, the sound effects used after the camera goes black and the credits roll.
They had to get rid of the Liberator set because it creaked audibly when the actors walked on it. Interesting then that the demolition scenes of both The Liberator and Scorpio revealed them to be identically rigged, as if they were on the same set.
the brilliant ending of Season Two (the destruction of the Federation) was undercut by a pathetic reversion to business-as-usual in Season Three (oh look, the Federation's back). Surely that would be down to the brilliant leadership of Servalan, within a year ruthlessly seizing the resources necessary to rebuild the Federation, even neglecting the Liberator and its crew in order to rebuild her rule of law.
A major turning point had to be the episode "Moloch" where she acquired replication technology to rebuild the fleet, as well as expert systems to control them.
Servalan: And how many of these devices are there? Grose: Dozens. Hundreds. I use them for everything. Food, clothing, building, engineering -- oh, yes, some of them are very big. You'd be surprised. Servalan: Very well, Section Leader, you've convinced me. There are ways I could put this system to profitable use. Grose: A great many ways, Madam President. More ways than you've begun to realize. But that isn't why I summoned you to Sardos. [Grose nods at Lector and hands him a card. Lector moves to the machine, and inserts the card.] Servalan: Would you say that again? Grose: I brought you here because you had something I hadn't. Something I needed. A pattern. [He gestures at the hemisphere's screen, which now shows a Federation starship.] Servalan: A Mark Two star- -- That's my ship. Grose:My ship. The flagship of a fleet that grows with every hour.
Indeed, a logical extension of replication technology that Star Trek never really pursued. Not even the Borg tried using replication technology to turn entire worlds into energy and then into more ships.
Their only saving grace was that the Sardoans hadn't managed to record the pattern of the Liberator!
the effects were atrocious. Especially the cartooned-in white lines around the transporting people. Actually its a quite ingenious use of the color-keying process to highlight the outline of the remaining content and an expanding or contracting circle wipe. It also neatly covers over flaws in the border of the color-keying process where some of the keyed-out background shows up as a slight halo effect in whatever color background was removed (usually blue or green).
No, the video wobble effect for dematerialization in a teleport bay was cheesier.
I seem to remember that one of the space ships was made from a pair of hair dryers glued together That would be the ship Space Commander Travis arrived on Star One in. It was on screen for mere seconds, yet it is always the one brought up.
The new Doctor Who series are being released on DVD in the US and aired on the Sci-Fi Channel and BBC America. It has also been made available for regional PBS stations to air.
Another mentioned The Mighty Boosh being available on iTunes. I'm not familiar with the series.
Blakes 7 is available on DVD from Amazon.co.uk and they will ship to the US. You can change the region on a computer's DVD player to region 2 to play it (typically only five times), which should fall within the realm of legality. Or even install two drives, keeping one on region 1 and another on region 2, if you can find player software that won't complain about it. Some DVD players have ability to change their regions built-in, some to region-free, and will perform the necessary conversion of the PAL content.
They counted the two computers too. (Aurac and Zen) Orac, as in oracle, not gold. There was also Slave in the last series/season.
I particularly enjoyed how Slave was obsequious to the human crew, but still saw himself superior to other computers, even Orac. And that both were voiced by the same person:
Orac: A formal application was laid before the High Council on Earth within the last thirty days. I could get you the exact date-- Slave: Uh, I don't wish to interrupt, Master... Orac: Then kindly don't. Slave: I wasn't talking to you. Orac: You were attempting to override a superior system. Be silent!
I got the DVDs a few years ago but the show had aged so badly I couldn`t make it through the first season. I got the DVDs sent from Amazon UK to the US. Even purchased Season 3 a second time to get the blister pack with a model of The Liberator included (an apparent loophole in the inability to get UK toys shipped to the US). I convert what DVD players and drives I can to be region-free for this and other imported PAL titles (some of which eventually saw NTSC release in the US, often for much less money like The Tomorrow People).
I'm trying to introduce a friend to the series, who likes Farscape which I found to be similar in some respects to Blakes 7, but he seems to consider watching B7 torture.
Yes, if you aren't concerned that your multipurpose folding pliers tool thing only works one time before it needs to be discarded. Just like real life. (Damn things broke the first time I used them. Squeezed too hard and broke the joint.)
Please explain to me how water arrows are used to disable fluorescent lighting. I always knew it could be done somehow! Well, you know how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes? Same basic principle.
Rapid Onset, Vital Passage and Sudden Thrust. The titles may conjure images of blitzkrieg, Sounds more like pr0n. I rearranged the order to, "Sudden Thrust, Vital Passage, and Rapid Onset," and found it to describe the acquisition of a sexually transmitted disease.
Maybe if all the people that complained about the indications that the Bush administration has been greedy and unethical actually went out and actively tried to get them indicted. You can't indict while he's still in office. The equivalent for a sitting President is impeachment, and Pelosi is the gatekeeper blocking any impeachment attempt.
And this concludes another lesson in "Why the hell didn't I file for patents on all my Sci-fi novels in the 60s?" Because they would have expired in the 80s, long before they would become viable for implementation. Patents only last 20 years.
Magneto Hydrodynamic Explosive Munition (MAHEM) They should have thrown in a Y so the system could have been called MAYHEM. But by spelling it correctly they would have a harder time getting a trademark.
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Does the Information Security Research Team make any memorabilia coins? I imagine an INSERT coin would be quite desirable.
Well, he did say Free and Open could be bundled together, presumably as a single category.
As a scale outlining the weight of strings attached, it's useful at that level. Thing is, some feel that the presence of certain strings are more desirable than their absence. A grid may be more appropriate, mapping two (or more) qualities and assigning names to their intersections.
Everything can be "harmful to minors" in some way.
They should just take all these protectionism laws to their logical extreme conclusion and make it illegal for minors to possess money (cash, credit, or debit), to sell anything directly to a minor, and for minors only be allowed to receive goods or services purchased or approved by an authorized parent or legal guardian, unless he/she has emancipated-minor status (verifiable proof required at point-of-sale). School cafeterias would be exempted.
Then they'll just have to deal with the "harmful" stuff kids can get for free.
Nah, that'll never happen. The toy, candy, and soft drink companies (to name only three) wouldn't stand for it.
Still, it might make for an interesting city ordinance in Springfield, Quahog, or South Park.
However, "Moloch" was three episodes after "Rumors of Death" in which Dayna questioned what happened to the Rebellion and why Earth was still being ruled by creatures like Servalan. I've taken that as they have not been paying attention, they've only gone up against the Federation deliberately once (and just in name of piracy), and their meddling in RoD actually helped crush a major victory of the Rebellion, and killed the latest rebel leader.
And speaking of Bartolemew, perhaps she too was careful to stay in the shadows, never seen, stalking each person who knew her as Servalan and personally killing them off. The Federation certainly wasn't up to modern standards of tracking everyone everywhere in everything they do, given how many people successfully went into hiding throughout the run of series. They were more THX 1138 than they were 1984. And yet we never hear of [replication technology] again. Perhaps we would have if we followed the Federation storyline, or the storyline of the Rebellion, rather than the limited perspective of Blake, Avon, and the rest.
And perhaps they should restart the series with more perspective. I've had a thought of seeing two concurrent TV series that were tied to each other more tightly. Instead of the occasional crossover of characters, events in both series would be concurrent but portrayed from opposing perspectives. A new Batman series with a companion series Gotham P.D. where you could get two perspectives on the same events. I think this would be even more interesting in a Blakes 7 remake as two series: one following the crew, the other The Federation.
And TV is trending this way now, though the closest they've gotten to actually doing it on television are Battlestar Galactica: Razor and certain episodes of Lost. There's Trois couleurs: Rouge, Trois couleurs: Bleu, and Trzy kolory: Bialy that reference each other, but I have seen only "Rouge", and from what I understand their connections are just tangential.
I wish they'd put more into the CG they used for the disks (how about something unique for each disk instead of one graphic for each season), and didn't linger so long on the series logo at the end. And whose idea was it to turn the two overlapping circles into a twisted ribbon?
If I get a BD-R drive, I'll probably burn myself a Blu-Ray SD set of disks. But I still need a ripper that will break up menus into reassemble-able assets.
A major turning point had to be the episode "Moloch" where she acquired replication technology to rebuild the fleet, as well as expert systems to control them.
Servalan: And how many of these devices are there?
Grose: Dozens. Hundreds. I use them for everything. Food, clothing, building, engineering -- oh, yes, some of them are very big. You'd be surprised.
Servalan: Very well, Section Leader, you've convinced me. There are ways I could put this system to profitable use.
Grose: A great many ways, Madam President. More ways than you've begun to realize. But that isn't why I summoned you to Sardos.
[Grose nods at Lector and hands him a card. Lector moves to the machine, and inserts the card.]
Servalan: Would you say that again?
Grose: I brought you here because you had something I hadn't. Something I needed. A pattern.
[He gestures at the hemisphere's screen, which now shows a Federation starship.]
Servalan: A Mark Two star- -- That's my ship.
Grose: My ship. The flagship of a fleet that grows with every hour.
Indeed, a logical extension of replication technology that Star Trek never really pursued. Not even the Borg tried using replication technology to turn entire worlds into energy and then into more ships.
Their only saving grace was that the Sardoans hadn't managed to record the pattern of the Liberator!
No, the video wobble effect for dematerialization in a teleport bay was cheesier.
The new Doctor Who series are being released on DVD in the US and aired on the Sci-Fi Channel and BBC America. It has also been made available for regional PBS stations to air.
Another mentioned The Mighty Boosh being available on iTunes. I'm not familiar with the series.
Blakes 7 is available on DVD from Amazon.co.uk and they will ship to the US. You can change the region on a computer's DVD player to region 2 to play it (typically only five times), which should fall within the realm of legality. Or even install two drives, keeping one on region 1 and another on region 2, if you can find player software that won't complain about it. Some DVD players have ability to change their regions built-in, some to region-free, and will perform the necessary conversion of the PAL content.
I particularly enjoyed how Slave was obsequious to the human crew, but still saw himself superior to other computers, even Orac. And that both were voiced by the same person:
Orac: A formal application was laid before the High Council on Earth within the last thirty days. I could get you the exact date--
Slave: Uh, I don't wish to interrupt, Master...
Orac: Then kindly don't.
Slave: I wasn't talking to you.
Orac: You were attempting to override a superior system. Be silent!
I'm trying to introduce a friend to the series, who likes Farscape which I found to be similar in some respects to Blakes 7, but he seems to consider watching B7 torture.
We need to find the keymaster.
Well, for one, you won't be allowed to paint it red.