I would have been happy to link to the story, but it doesn't seem to be online anywhere; in fact, I can't even find anywhere to buy it even in ebook form from fictionwise.com or peanutpress.com...although I could have sworn I originally read it after getting it from one of those ebook sites. Maybe it was from tale.com, which has since gone under?
Can someone point out what was especially good about it?
Although fans have all sorts of reasons for loving this show, I think it boils down to excellent, convention-defying writing, a great cast with amazing chemistry from the first scene, and seamless transitions between entertaining action, riveting drama, and ROTFLMAO humor/comedy all within one 45 minute episode. Check out episodes like 'Our Mrs. Reynolds' our 'Out of Gas' for the best examples of this.
Oh, and downloads of the TV eps are available here, but only for a short while longer, so get them while you can!
this is the worst news every. this pretty much is the last nail in the coffin for the series. they're gonna wrap everything up for us fans and send us on our way!
Actually, no. Joss Whedon's original movie script did this, but after seeing the amazing DVD sales, the powers that be asked Joss to re-write the script to be 'more of a springboard to an eventual series return'...
Our market is small and developers are few, but we get the job done...Open Source and Free Software isn't the only way to do software, but it can many times be the better way to do software from a quality and agility standpoint...
Are you sure that quality/agility isn't a consequence of a small market with a few, focused developers and a small number of clients, rather than a consequence of using/providing open source and free software?
What about all those people who you really wouldn't mind getting e-mail from who decided it wasn't worth going through this hassle to send you a message so just decided not to?
(anecdotally, from many accounts, Indians tend not to raise questions, or think independently when a design sucks, etc.)
Worse yet, this will bite the US Software industry in the ass when we suffer from brain drain - when software engineering is no longer a sought after degree.
Then the Indians will start their own companies, and eat our lunches.
The same Indians you characterize as non-independent-thinking, unquestioning, uncreative, and poor-designers?
The scam works because the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) requires banks to make money from cashier's, certified, or teller's checks available in one to five days. Consequently, funds from checks that might not be good are often released into payees' accounts long before the checks have been honored by their issuing banks. High quality forgeries can be bounced back and forth between banks for weeks before anyone catches on to their being worthless, by which time victims have long since wired the "overpayments" to the con artists who have just taken them for a ride.
>I'll work cheaper if I can choose where I live and work.
Yes, but how much cheaper? I'm sure that corporations would love to employ thousands of domestic telecommuters for the same price as they are paying engineers/programmers in India or China, if for no other reason than the good PR they would get for it. Of course, if we could import the cost-of-living from those areas here, then we might actually be able to get by for that much (little) money.
Let me also add that Buddhism, as originally taught by Siddhartha Gautama (sp?) was never intended to have much religious or metaphysical overtones, but rather to provide a set of guidelines for living your life free from the suffering that attachment/desire causes (a modern-day equivalent would probably be a good self-help book about dealing with/avoiding stress). He specifically did NOT want to be deified, although he certainly was by many. A good book on this topic is Stephen Batchelor's "Buddhism without Beliefs".
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I would have been happy to link to the story, but it doesn't seem to be online anywhere; in fact, I can't even find anywhere to buy it even in ebook form from fictionwise.com or peanutpress.com...although I could have sworn I originally read it after getting it from one of those ebook sites. Maybe it was from tale.com, which has since gone under?
There's a great science fiction story on the topic of finding fossilized evidence of past life on Mars called "The Carhart Shale", by Grant Callin, which appeared, among other places, in Analog Science Fiction and Fact [v113 #12, October 1993].
I also recommend Neal Stephenson's excellent essay on the topic of GUIs, In the Beginning was the Command Line
They are calling the movie 'Serenity'? Now what am I supposed to do with all these Firefly Movie posters?
What about all those people who you really wouldn't mind getting e-mail from who decided it wasn't worth going through this hassle to send you a message so just decided not to?
It's paraphrased from my favorite show, Firefly. Which incidentally was recently released on DVD
From snopes:
The scam works because the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) requires banks to make money from cashier's, certified, or teller's checks available in one to five days. Consequently, funds from checks that might not be good are often released into payees' accounts long before the checks have been honored by their issuing banks. High quality forgeries can be bounced back and forth between banks for weeks before anyone catches on to their being worthless, by which time victims have long since wired the "overpayments" to the con artists who have just taken them for a ride.
>I'll work cheaper if I can choose where I live and work. Yes, but how much cheaper? I'm sure that corporations would love to employ thousands of domestic telecommuters for the same price as they are paying engineers/programmers in India or China, if for no other reason than the good PR they would get for it. Of course, if we could import the cost-of-living from those areas here, then we might actually be able to get by for that much (little) money.
Let me also add that Buddhism, as originally taught by Siddhartha Gautama (sp?) was never intended to have much religious or metaphysical overtones, but rather to provide a set of guidelines for living your life free from the suffering that attachment/desire causes (a modern-day equivalent would probably be a good self-help book about dealing with/avoiding stress). He specifically did NOT want to be deified, although he certainly was by many. A good book on this topic is Stephen Batchelor's "Buddhism without Beliefs".