I would think, with the Batman franchise continuing on into an eco-crazy millenium, Batman wouldn't convert the Batmobile into an dually-wheeled SUV! How about at least a Bat-hybrid?!
But then again, what do I know -- he's got a fire-breathing mega-engine on the back of that... and that's DEFINITELY not environmentally friendly.
If he was really an environmentally conscious super-hero, he'd take the bus!
Well, if you give them the benefit of the doubt (and you buy the "patriotic hymn" stuff), you could say they are parodying "This Land" by showing/saying look what has become of the idealised America of this song.
Star Trek Voyager. Lost and isolated from their main command, ultimately trying to get home. New aliens, no inter-show crossover (unless the ratings are really suffering). Yawn. Voyager is a dog of a show. Hope this doesn't end up the same.
This idea has been flogged to death- off the top of my head, The Time Tunnel and Sliders are just 2 more examples of this "lost" theme. After all, how long can you get teased about the prospect of them returning home before you get bored to tears with it? But at least this show with have some advantages in story building by having a base of operations, thus providing some continuity ala ST:DS9.
1. Java is not open-sourced and falls out of use like most closed standards eventually do.
Wha..? Java is not a closed standard. See the Java Community Process. Sun's implementation is closed. I disagree that "most" closed standards fall out of use. Many survive.
2. Java is released as open-source and they lose control of it.
Well, the Linux kernal is open-source and yet Linus maintains quite a lot of control over it. No doubt Sun's people would still have a lot of control because they're the most familiar with it, and it is/was their baby. This happens with a lot of open source projects.
3. Java is released under a pussyfoot-shared-source-with-lots-of-restrictions- but-we'll-call-it-open-source license which alienates the OSS crowd and causes open rebellion. Same outcome as #1, only quicker.
Unfortunately I think that we'll see something like this. Rebellion? Well, no, people are using it now under its closed paradigm. Many people will use it regardless of its closed or openess (or varying levels in between).
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I would think, with the Batman franchise continuing on into an eco-crazy millenium, Batman wouldn't convert the Batmobile into an dually-wheeled SUV! How about at least a Bat-hybrid?!
But then again, what do I know -- he's got a fire-breathing mega-engine on the back of that... and that's DEFINITELY not environmentally friendly.
If he was really an environmentally conscious super-hero, he'd take the bus!
Hey, as long as they don't have Jar Jar as Robin.
Well, if you give them the benefit of the doubt (and you buy the "patriotic hymn" stuff), you could say they are parodying "This Land" by showing/saying look what has become of the idealised America of this song.
;-)
Good luck to them, it was a hilarious *parody*
If I were a multi-billion dollar software giant, with FUD and spin.
If I were a solitary pleb software engineer, with plenty of alcohol.
I hang my diminished geek head in shame ;-)
Star Trek Voyager. Lost and isolated from their main command, ultimately trying to get home. New aliens, no inter-show crossover (unless the ratings are really suffering). Yawn. Voyager is a dog of a show. Hope this doesn't end up the same.
This idea has been flogged to death- off the top of my head, The Time Tunnel and Sliders are just 2 more examples of this "lost" theme. After all, how long can you get teased about the prospect of them returning home before you get bored to tears with it? But at least this show with have some advantages in story building by having a base of operations, thus providing some continuity ala ST:DS9.
Open source, but not necessarily "free as in beer".
1. Java is not open-sourced and falls out of use like most closed standards eventually do.
- but-we'll-call-it-open-source license which alienates the OSS crowd and causes open rebellion. Same outcome as #1, only quicker.
Wha..? Java is not a closed standard. See the Java Community Process. Sun's implementation is closed. I disagree that "most" closed standards fall out of use. Many survive.
2. Java is released as open-source and they lose control of it.
Well, the Linux kernal is open-source and yet Linus maintains quite a lot of control over it. No doubt Sun's people would still have a lot of control because they're the most familiar with it, and it is/was their baby. This happens with a lot of open source projects.
3. Java is released under a pussyfoot-shared-source-with-lots-of-restrictions
Unfortunately I think that we'll see something like this. Rebellion? Well, no, people are using it now under its closed paradigm. Many people will use it regardless of its closed or openess (or varying levels in between).
Seriously, what ridiculously mismanaged system is he running? I reboot my win2k and XP systems maybe once a month, if that.
Only once a month (or so). Wow.
$ uptime
11:39 up 239 days, 14min, 6 users, load average: 0.35, 0.56, 0.70
I just couldn't resist. Why should you have to reboot at all? Why should the normal use of typical software bring down an OS?
MS do a great job of managing our expectations... downwards.
Ho ho! I just checked and wierdows.com isn't registered. Now to get rich...
:-(
1. Register name and put up site
2. Wait for Microsoft to notice
3. ???
4. Profit!
or more likely:
4. Lawsuit
Our corporate info sec nazis^H^H^H^H^H net nanny's blocked the location. Seems they think everything .cx is unsuitable for our impressionable eyes.
Probably worth as much as my dot com era stock options.
The price of capitalism is marketing
Oh! Peer to peer! I thought a new phrase had been coined- pirate to pirate. ;-)