>Just an hour later, the TrekUnited fund for sponsoring >production of a fifth Enterprise season surpassed 50,000$, >with contributions having sped up thanks to the tremendous > positive attention for TrekUnited's bold mission as well as a > single contribution of 5000$ by a devoted fan.
No please. Don't pay for this. It sets a really bad precedent. It's bad enough folks pay exorbitant prices for DVDs or VHS tapes of anything Trek, be it old episodes of TOS, let alone actually donating money for a show that will be completely profitable with national commercials paid for by others.
Add to that the possiblity that it could be placed on the Sci-Fi channel, makers and mismanagers of every brand of sci-fi dooms a show just making it's way out of mediocre writing into the land of little-to-no funding.
We would be better off seeing the show die before a single penny of donation money be used to produce a season of Trek.
Something the old man used to do to make us change the toilet paper... Mom found a $20 bill in the toilet paper roll, so the kids from then on out changed it every time it was empty for the chance to look and see if there was another big bill in there...
What works for the bathroom, obviously works for EULA.
I seem to remember Victoria's Secret being sued for providing different pricing to different types of callers, sending out different catalogs with different pricing to the same types of consumers. Realistically, to avoid that all I have to do is announce somewhere than anyone can purchase it four different ways, but you have to know enough to ask for it via the right 'catalog' or 'type of user'. That way, it's buyer beware.
You either do the homework, and ask the right questions and pay what you want to pay, or don't do the homework and get screwed because you didn't care enough to look for the right kind of discount.
1) It seems crazy to stop getting the valuable information Hubble continues to give us despite not being the perfect telescope. It makes more sense to replace it BEFORE downing it, since it would pay to keep an eye on the sky for Near Earth Objects at a minimum right?
2) Why doesn't NASA ask one of the other research groups out there if they want to care for Hubble? If NASA doesn't want the responsibility anymore, can't they sell it to a corporate entity like Coca Cola or Virgin? How about selling it to a company that likes research or could benefit from the research at hand? There has to be some company...the SAIC's of the world who would be interested in learning as much as possible to make itself more effective. Hubble can help in that regard if it wants to pursue space contracts right? How about selling it to a government?.. How about Great Britain, or China, or some other government that wants their own space program? We never saw any problem selling ships to Great Britain or some other country when they needed hardware in the past, why stop now?
This is from the... Only a Geek Would Notice This... department...
But I'd be laughing pretty hard if Microsoft was about to launch a GPS product.
#1) It's a pretty good bet only Geeks care about Geeky things like GPSes. #2) If you want to know about truely geeky things you come to Slashdot. #3) Slashdot readers care deeply about strange, unusual and stupid Patents. #4) It's probably safe to presume at this point that Microsoft will come out with a GPS.
My Completely Unfounded Conclusion: Either way this is either suggestive advertising or Free advertising. This is all free advertising. Because hey -- you, the slashdot reader -- might be considering geocaching or just the cooleness of general geekery. If M$ is about to launch a very cool GPS product you'll probably go look....
I really have to agree with you. However, I will say this- this show wouldn't be doomed if Berman & Co. (and by company I mean the parent company Universal/Vivendiwhatever) didn't coast along with "take no chances at all" content.
Give the writers a little more freedom with what they can produce..... or if the writers really honestly do have freedom, then get some new ones... alot of the fan fiction out there points at some really well polished, decent writing that deserves a shot at scripts.
Bottom line that's the recipe to survive and thrive, not coast and die.
From my own experience I've seen project after project screwed because there was no one person in charge, and that people above and adjacent to projects had to get their imprint on the project in some way before it went live.
Let's face it, the Federal Government isn't run like a business. It also has little to no real accountability, and anyone brave enough to be in charge would insist on having a committee around him or her to make sure blame could be spread (or transferred) around if something goes wrong.
Another aspect to this isn't that the DEVELOPERS wanted to have a hand in how it worked, behaved, etc...it's that because of the need to seek 'consensus' between everyone at every level involved before it even gets to the developers (and because of the fact that administrative committies are so large in the gov) that requirements on nearly every project change. Forget the developers even having a hand in this. Requirements on these projects change in mid-stream and end stream all the time. They do it, and it extends the life of the project. There is rarely one visionary (or one real point of contact) in the gov given the rights to control how a project is to be built, resolved, etc. In the end, it's a flustercluck, and no bones about it.
"Um... Sure, I can see it'd be frustrating, but dude it's a *game*."
Point of game: Entertainment. Game not in operation: Not entertainment. Cost of Game: $50
Next you'll be telling me it's OKAY that the NHL isn't fulfilling the contract it has with it's fans because the *PLAYERS* aren't talking to the *OWNERS*.
Hey Microsoft...It's all fine and dandy to make accusations about Linux security via Sendmail or some other basic factor, but let's get something straight. When a security hole is found under Windows, what's the average time between fixes, compared to the response time between fixes under the Linux platform?
Just some random speculation here but I'd bet the average response time from the Linux community is MUCH faster to perceived bugs. I have yet to see Microsoft come up with a much better response time to Kernel problems than the typical "within the week of discovery" (and sometimes within a few hours) response time.
Events take place, people change, policies have to change.
If Kerry wasn't able to do what he wanted to do as Senator and didn't push forward a bill for something specific, I have no problem with that. Plenty of lawmakers, judges and otherwise have taken on different crusades throughout their political lives and done just fine without having to have spoken of it, or acted on it before.
It's not called 'Waffling', it's called paying attention to what your constituents really need or want and acting on it. Every politician should be entitled to do something 'new' if they so choose. However, if you didn't do it in the first four years of your job, THEN I can't expect you'd do it in the NEXT four years of the SAME job.
Kerry is much more likely to do new and interesting things as a President, while Bush is not. As an incumbent, Bush is pushing for Status Quo. Simple fact there.
Something tells me everytime a followup to this story goes out on/., someone's going to be mentioning this joke... again... and again.. and again... and again......
Wait a minute... wasn't the industry supposed to be selling their CD's at a reduced cost now anyway because it now costs a miniscule amount of money to make per CD?
Not so long ago they were taken to court over the unchanging prices... so how does that play into this?
I can only presume now that because of this "cave in" they'll start feeling yet more pressure from other companies to limit times for their content as well.
Stupid. This is going to limit our rights and features on one of the best devices known to man in this age of information and bad tv that I can watch anytime.
Okay, but realistically... take $573,000,000. If you agree there are 1000 songwriters, composers, music publishers (combined with executives who get their share)... that's only $573,000 per 'employee'.
How the heck are they going to pay for their backyard jacuzzi's with all that theft going on?
I don't look at having to burn a CD to bring it into my IPOD a problem. I'm going to want to back up ANYTHING I download from Microsoft anyway, especially if there's any concern that virii might be involved at some time in the future.. I can eliminate any possiblity of a virus arriving on my IPOD by pushing it to CD first. Best to keep MS's Banannas away from my Apples.
Okay, I can understand Java, C++ or C#...but VB.NET??????
Perl, Python, PHP and other languages are obviously the kinds of languages you really don't bother compiling. Java, C++ and C# make all sorts of sense as far as being compiled for speed, etc.
But VB.NET??? Blech.
The technology hype life cycle has essentially been pioneered by Microsoft.
1. Announce a technology "idea", that someone else pioneered, that's nowhere near complete in terms of development. 2. Develop it for months, maybe years, producing a lull in the market. 3. Finally release it, but in Beta. 4. Finally complete the beta, making the thing gold while it should still be nothing more than a beta. 5. Start "round 2" of producing a product that should still be in beta, and call it version 2. 6. Announce version 2, three months after you decide what the feature set will be, and start working on it. 7. continue the cycle.
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>Just an hour later, the TrekUnited fund for sponsoring
>production of a fifth Enterprise season surpassed 50,000$, >with contributions having sped up thanks to the tremendous
> positive attention for TrekUnited's bold mission as well as a
> single contribution of 5000$ by a devoted fan.
No please. Don't pay for this. It sets a really bad precedent. It's bad enough folks pay exorbitant prices for DVDs or VHS tapes of anything Trek, be it old episodes of TOS, let alone actually donating money for a show that will be completely profitable with national commercials paid for by others.
Add to that the possiblity that it could be placed on the Sci-Fi channel, makers and mismanagers of every brand of sci-fi dooms a show just making it's way out of mediocre writing into the land of little-to-no funding.
We would be better off seeing the show die before a single penny of donation money be used to produce a season of Trek.
Something the old man used to do to make us change the toilet paper... Mom found a $20 bill in the toilet paper roll, so the kids from then on out changed it every time it was empty for the chance to look and see if there was another big bill in there...
What works for the bathroom, obviously works for EULA.
Bachelor of Science in Game Design Management, 4 Years of Study, 3 of which can be contracted out to developers in India or China.
Maybe it just looks like it's being flung out of the galaxy...
Alternatively it could be US flying at great speed toward to the Black Hole.
I believe it's a legal matter.
I seem to remember Victoria's Secret being sued for providing different pricing to different types of callers, sending out different catalogs with different pricing to the same types of consumers. Realistically, to avoid that all I have to do is announce somewhere than anyone can purchase it four different ways, but you have to know enough to ask for it via the right 'catalog' or 'type of user'. That way, it's buyer beware.
You either do the homework, and ask the right questions and pay what you want to pay, or don't do the homework and get screwed because you didn't care enough to look for the right kind of discount.
Can't we save Hubble?
.. How about Great Britain, or China, or some other government that wants their own space program? We never saw any problem selling ships to Great Britain or some other country when they needed hardware in the past, why stop now?
1) It seems crazy to stop getting the valuable information Hubble continues to give us despite not being the perfect telescope. It makes more sense to replace it BEFORE downing it, since it would pay to keep an eye on the sky for Near Earth Objects at a minimum right?
2) Why doesn't NASA ask one of the other research groups out there if they want to care for Hubble? If NASA doesn't want the responsibility anymore, can't they sell it to a corporate entity like Coca Cola or Virgin? How about selling it to a company that likes research or could benefit from the research at hand? There has to be some company...the SAIC's of the world who would be interested in learning as much as possible to make itself more effective. Hubble can help in that regard if it wants to pursue space contracts right? How about selling it to a government?
This is from the... Only a Geek Would Notice This... department...
;D
But I'd be laughing pretty hard if Microsoft was about to launch a GPS product.
#1) It's a pretty good bet only Geeks care about Geeky things like GPSes.
#2) If you want to know about truely geeky things you come to Slashdot.
#3) Slashdot readers care deeply about strange, unusual and stupid Patents.
#4) It's probably safe to presume at this point that Microsoft will come out with a GPS.
My Completely Unfounded Conclusion: Either way this is either suggestive advertising or Free advertising. This is all free advertising. Because hey -- you, the slashdot reader -- might be considering geocaching or just the cooleness of general geekery. If M$ is about to launch a very cool GPS product you'll probably go look....
Just a thought..
I really have to agree with you. However, I will say this- this show wouldn't be doomed if Berman & Co. (and by company I mean the parent company Universal/Vivendiwhatever) didn't coast along with "take no chances at all" content.
Give the writers a little more freedom with what they can produce..... or if the writers really honestly do have freedom, then get some new ones... alot of the fan fiction out there points at some really well polished, decent writing that deserves a shot at scripts.
Bottom line that's the recipe to survive and thrive, not coast and die.
Stupid Trek Makin Bozos.
Controversy is readership my friend.
Readership is Advertising (minimum 1 ad per page mind you)...
Advertising is MONEY.
Slashdot=Controversy=Constituency is Reading or Scanning Content=Advertising=Money.
What will aliens think when they see "Get your X-Lax, Corner of Wyse and Main" spread across the night sky on a visit to Chicago?
I for one would rather impress an external intelligence rather than frighten them away with promises of comfortable bowel movements.
Uh... it does when I convert it from M$'s format... ;D
From my own experience I've seen project after project screwed because there was no one person in charge, and that people above and adjacent to projects had to get their imprint on the project in some way before it went live.
Let's face it, the Federal Government isn't run like a business. It also has little to no real accountability, and anyone brave enough to be in charge would insist on having a committee around him or her to make sure blame could be spread (or transferred) around if something goes wrong.
Another aspect to this isn't that the DEVELOPERS wanted to have a hand in how it worked, behaved, etc...it's that because of the need to seek 'consensus' between everyone at every level involved before it even gets to the developers (and because of the fact that administrative committies are so large in the gov) that requirements on nearly every project change. Forget the developers even having a hand in this. Requirements on these projects change in mid-stream and end stream all the time. They do it, and it extends the life of the project. There is rarely one visionary (or one real point of contact) in the gov given the rights to control how a project is to be built, resolved, etc. In the end, it's a flustercluck, and no bones about it.
Next you'll be telling me it's OKAY that the NHL isn't fulfilling the contract it has with it's fans because the *PLAYERS* aren't talking to the *OWNERS*.
Shesh. The things we put up with.
Hey Microsoft...It's all fine and dandy to make accusations about Linux security via Sendmail or some other basic factor, but let's get something straight. When a security hole is found under Windows, what's the average time between fixes, compared to the response time between fixes under the Linux platform?
Just some random speculation here but I'd bet the average response time from the Linux community is MUCH faster to perceived bugs. I have yet to see Microsoft come up with a much better response time to Kernel problems than the typical "within the week of discovery" (and sometimes within a few hours) response time.
OMG! Don't say that! Might be TRUE...
Events take place, people change, policies have to change.
If Kerry wasn't able to do what he wanted to do as Senator and didn't push forward a bill for something specific, I have no problem with that. Plenty of lawmakers, judges and otherwise have taken on different crusades throughout their political lives and done just fine without having to have spoken of it, or acted on it before.
It's not called 'Waffling', it's called paying attention to what your constituents really need or want and acting on it. Every politician should be entitled to do something 'new' if they so choose. However, if you didn't do it in the first four years of your job, THEN I can't expect you'd do it in the NEXT four years of the SAME job.
Kerry is much more likely to do new and interesting things as a President, while Bush is not. As an incumbent, Bush is pushing for Status Quo. Simple fact there.
Something tells me everytime a followup to this story goes out on /., someone's going to be mentioning this joke... again... and again.. and again... and again......
Wait a minute... wasn't the industry supposed to be selling their CD's at a reduced cost now anyway because it now costs a miniscule amount of money to make per CD?
Not so long ago they were taken to court over the unchanging prices... so how does that play into this?
I can only presume now that because of this "cave in" they'll start feeling yet more pressure from other companies to limit times for their content as well.
Stupid. This is going to limit our rights and features on one of the best devices known to man in this age of information and bad tv that I can watch anytime.
I am prepared to send 007 out with a horde of them to annihilate Dr. No.
I am not sure what we'll do after THAT however.
Maybe enter one into the Olympics somewhere.
Okay, but realistically...
take $573,000,000.
If you agree there are 1000 songwriters, composers, music publishers (combined with executives who get their share)... that's only $573,000 per 'employee'.
How the heck are they going to pay for their backyard jacuzzi's with all that theft going on?
You mean that's NOT what it's for? Sorry, had to say that. Okay, so when does I2 become mainstream? Why doesn't COVAD support it yet?
I don't look at having to burn a CD to bring it into my IPOD a problem. I'm going to want to back up ANYTHING I download from Microsoft anyway, especially if there's any concern that virii might be involved at some time in the future.. I can eliminate any possiblity of a virus arriving on my IPOD by pushing it to CD first. Best to keep MS's Banannas away from my Apples.
Okay, I can understand Java, C++ or C#...but VB.NET?????? Perl, Python, PHP and other languages are obviously the kinds of languages you really don't bother compiling. Java, C++ and C# make all sorts of sense as far as being compiled for speed, etc. But VB.NET??? Blech.
The technology hype life cycle has essentially been pioneered by Microsoft.
1. Announce a technology "idea", that someone else pioneered, that's nowhere near complete in terms of development.
2. Develop it for months, maybe years, producing a lull in the market.
3. Finally release it, but in Beta.
4. Finally complete the beta, making the thing gold while it should still be nothing more than a beta.
5. Start "round 2" of producing a product that should still be in beta, and call it version 2.
6. Announce version 2, three months after you decide what the feature set will be, and start working on it.
7. continue the cycle.