Ernest : Hey Vern, have ya heard how great that there US of A is? I mean I used ta think they were not all that but now they're gosh darn good neighbors. We should stop over with some cold ones, KnowhutImean?
I Robot wasn't that bad if you consider it a story in the Robot series and forget the book. I actually liked it once I got past the disappointment of not seeing anything from the book on the screen. It's worth watching. It shouldn't make you regret your 2 hours, like I do from seeing the "sci fi" called Knowing.
Firefly was great fun. Then again I'm a fan of Whedon's style of the witty characters and back and forth. I think people get worked up because it wasn't given a chance and was still developing. His Dollhouse show got good once it was established and they were able to go from fantasy island style hooker of the week to real sci fi.
I've seen various things about Morgan Freeman making a Rama movie. That could fit in the confines of a movie if written well enough. The old man war's trilogy - while not on par with the great series of sci fi - is still good and simple enough to fit in a movie structure too and in talks to be on the screen. You mentioned Known Space and I I know I'd love to see the ringworld brought to life in full CGI splendor.
The problem with a lot of the great sci fi series is the sheer scope and then cramming into 2 hours. Sci-fi, when it was sci fi, did enjoyable to watch miniseries of Dune and Children of Dune. Honestly better than anything his kid has managed to write set in the Dune Universe! As HBO is doing the Game of Thrones, maybe the networks like HBO, Showtime, Starz, etc will decide to do more book series. After all the Walking Dead is great tv series when it would have been just another 2 hour zombie movie.
This whole story doesn't surprise me, and yes - jurors can be the bottom of the barrel. Civil cases don't seem to need facts at all, just opinion to give out large cash awards.
A number of decades ago I sat through a civil case decided by jury on damages caused by a son quitting his job at his parent's company. There had be no contracts involved, son just got fed up and quit. The jury consisted of 2 employed people and everyone else was not employed. 1 guy looked like he hadn't bathed in ages and nodded off quite a bit. The trial lasted a week, verdict was for 40k. We were told that the 2 employed wants 0, a few women wanted 100 because how dare a son do that, and they settled on 40 to just get it over with.
Retrial would have cost at least as much as verdict, and next jury could have found for more so those on trial ate it and moved on. Since then I've decided I won't skip out of jury duty if called since they need some smart people on them!
So when will anonymous or other groups make a coordinated attempt to post links to copyrighted material to all the major media sites like fox, nbc, nytimes, etc?
The loopsholes are a huge problem. As we saw last year, Google paid a 2.4% income tax. Sure all big corps have piles of tax lawyers on staff to pay the least tax possible, Google is staying competitive. However there's some serious inequity to all of the smaller companies that can't afford to find the loopholes or pay the politicians to create loopholes for them.
“Climate change” is politically correct nonsense, but Republican pollster Frank Luntz and George W. Bush are to blame, not Al Gore. Luntz sold the phrase to Bush: “Climate change” is less frightening than “global warming.” While “global warming” has catastrophic connotations attached, “climate change” suggests a more controllable challenge. Bush agreed.
Republican political appointees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where I was a biologist, forced scientists to always use “climate change” instead of the accurate and alarming “global warming.”
Further in that wikileak article it discusses how some of the same researchers later went down to Guatemala and deliberately infected people. I thought I had linked to the actual Guatemala article but the article wasn't misinformation.
Yeah, we're supposed to trust the same government that infected people with Syphilis to safely irradiate the population without notification. Of course if the gov causes enough fear so no one wants to go out in public it may cut down on terrorism.
Here I was hoping/. would give pointers for any of us wanting to pick up a little extra cash. Unfortunately it wasn't even a good read, I was hoping for at least something like The Cathedral of Criminals and the Bazaar.
I'm not sure of the current rules, but the older ones said that if an ISP offered broadband in a single home for a zipcode, that zipcode was considered broadband ready.
I still wish Google would assign engineers to bugs/features more readily. Something as simple as extending bluetooth discovery to more than 120 seconds has been requested for over a year now. While I know there are a lot of feature requests for a whole OS sometimes it seems like there's a rush for new and not so much demand for upkeep. Oh well maybe in a few more point releases this will get addressed and be a reason to upgrade phones. There just might be a method to their madness, sell more phones.
Matters where you live but in my corner of Michigan (GTE, then verizon, just sold to frontier) tone is a $5 additional charge on the landline. It may have changed in the last 2 years when I dropped the line but I doubt it. I took great pleasure in hearing the pulse since that meant they had to specially program my line to work with the new equipment. When I ran an ISP I made sure to tell every customer about that. It didn't hurt the dialup speeds but did save customers a few bucks and cost the phone company more.
In the rural area it was not uncommon for lines to go down. Bad weather, hitting the greentree phone boxes, farming or construction digging into the telco lines.
There is a death star civilian story called "Death Star". It was one of the sci fi bookclub books I missed cancelling. While I mostly avoid the after series of books once they got past the few good writers and started taking stories from anyone, this was a decent read but not up to the Timothy Zahn books. They did show there were the 'just doing my job' grunts. Also a lot of bad cop mentality with the storm troopers. The best part tho, was that the exhaust vent was a hack addon because of a pointy hair boss didn't do a complete engineering study. But yeah, the "good guys" did blow up a lot of civilian contractors.
I helped out with the local small group of Boy Scouts awhile ago. It was kind of shocking that the first chapter of the new book was all about child abuse. Of course there was also the whole 2 adults in every situation, even if you're at a stadium event bathroom. While I can understand the reasoning it was still pretty sad. The local chapter folded into a larger chapter and I had no further desire to help out.
I agree with you there, you don't have to be a loon to be a libertarian. From most posting on/. I think the tech crowd overwhelmingly likes personal responsibility more than pointy haired bosses / government in every minor issue.
However I do like a good conspiracy theory. Since some of the original seed money for facebook did come from previous CIA employee ran firms I wouldn't doubt some close government ties. But if anyone thinks facebook is private they're insane to begin with.
Those were fun shirts. "This is an illegal circumvention device" were a common sight around the office for awhile. A "Sony wants this shirt off my back" would be good too.
Of course skepticism is pro-science. Here on/. we're objecting to teachers teaching science that doesn't adhere to the scientific method. If some teacher wants to toss aside real science and give non peer reviewed crackpot ideas the same or better standing, that's just wrong.
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If you thought those various 10 commandment monuments caused issues, image what some university sanctioned phallic pillar to honor Hermes would do.
Ernest : Hey Vern, have ya heard how great that there US of A is? I mean I used ta think they were not all that but now they're gosh darn good neighbors. We should stop over with some cold ones, KnowhutImean?
I Robot wasn't that bad if you consider it a story in the Robot series and forget the book. I actually liked it once I got past the disappointment of not seeing anything from the book on the screen. It's worth watching. It shouldn't make you regret your 2 hours, like I do from seeing the "sci fi" called Knowing.
Firefly was great fun. Then again I'm a fan of Whedon's style of the witty characters and back and forth. I think people get worked up because it wasn't given a chance and was still developing. His Dollhouse show got good once it was established and they were able to go from fantasy island style hooker of the week to real sci fi.
I've seen various things about Morgan Freeman making a Rama movie. That could fit in the confines of a movie if written well enough. The old man war's trilogy - while not on par with the great series of sci fi - is still good and simple enough to fit in a movie structure too and in talks to be on the screen. You mentioned Known Space and I I know I'd love to see the ringworld brought to life in full CGI splendor.
The problem with a lot of the great sci fi series is the sheer scope and then cramming into 2 hours. Sci-fi, when it was sci fi, did enjoyable to watch miniseries of Dune and Children of Dune. Honestly better than anything his kid has managed to write set in the Dune Universe! As HBO is doing the Game of Thrones, maybe the networks like HBO, Showtime, Starz, etc will decide to do more book series. After all the Walking Dead is great tv series when it would have been just another 2 hour zombie movie.
Seems like a less stylish way to requote Napoleon : Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence
This whole story doesn't surprise me, and yes - jurors can be the bottom of the barrel. Civil cases don't seem to need facts at all, just opinion to give out large cash awards.
A number of decades ago I sat through a civil case decided by jury on damages caused by a son quitting his job at his parent's company. There had be no contracts involved, son just got fed up and quit. The jury consisted of 2 employed people and everyone else was not employed. 1 guy looked like he hadn't bathed in ages and nodded off quite a bit. The trial lasted a week, verdict was for 40k. We were told that the 2 employed wants 0, a few women wanted 100 because how dare a son do that, and they settled on 40 to just get it over with.
Retrial would have cost at least as much as verdict, and next jury could have found for more so those on trial ate it and moved on. Since then I've decided I won't skip out of jury duty if called since they need some smart people on them!
So when will anonymous or other groups make a coordinated attempt to post links to copyrighted material to all the major media sites like fox, nbc, nytimes, etc?
It's not fake! The creature from Jekyll Island says it's just fine.
The loopsholes are a huge problem. As we saw last year, Google paid a 2.4% income tax. Sure all big corps have piles of tax lawyers on staff to pay the least tax possible, Google is staying competitive. However there's some serious inequity to all of the smaller companies that can't afford to find the loopholes or pay the politicians to create loopholes for them.
I doubt those 10 dollar registrations meant much after AOL bought nullsoft for 400 million. Now that's a success story!
Actually 'climate change' was created by republican political consultants in the Bush era to sound less scary, not because of some nefarious scheme by climate scientists.
“Climate change” is politically correct nonsense, but Republican pollster Frank Luntz and George W. Bush are to blame, not Al Gore. Luntz sold the phrase to Bush: “Climate change” is less frightening than “global warming.” While “global warming” has catastrophic connotations attached, “climate change” suggests a more controllable challenge. Bush agreed. Republican political appointees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where I was a biologist, forced scientists to always use “climate change” instead of the accurate and alarming “global warming.”
Further in that wikileak article it discusses how some of the same researchers later went down to Guatemala and deliberately infected people. I thought I had linked to the actual Guatemala article but the article wasn't misinformation.
Yeah, we're supposed to trust the same government that infected people with Syphilis to safely irradiate the population without notification. Of course if the gov causes enough fear so no one wants to go out in public it may cut down on terrorism.
Here I was hoping /. would give pointers for any of us wanting to pick up a little extra cash. Unfortunately it wasn't even a good read, I was hoping for at least something like The Cathedral of Criminals and the Bazaar.
I'm not sure of the current rules, but the older ones said that if an ISP offered broadband in a single home for a zipcode, that zipcode was considered broadband ready.
I still wish Google would assign engineers to bugs/features more readily. Something as simple as extending bluetooth discovery to more than 120 seconds has been requested for over a year now. While I know there are a lot of feature requests for a whole OS sometimes it seems like there's a rush for new and not so much demand for upkeep. Oh well maybe in a few more point releases this will get addressed and be a reason to upgrade phones. There just might be a method to their madness, sell more phones.
Matters where you live but in my corner of Michigan (GTE, then verizon, just sold to frontier) tone is a $5 additional charge on the landline. It may have changed in the last 2 years when I dropped the line but I doubt it. I took great pleasure in hearing the pulse since that meant they had to specially program my line to work with the new equipment. When I ran an ISP I made sure to tell every customer about that. It didn't hurt the dialup speeds but did save customers a few bucks and cost the phone company more.
In the rural area it was not uncommon for lines to go down. Bad weather, hitting the greentree phone boxes, farming or construction digging into the telco lines.
There is a death star civilian story called "Death Star". It was one of the sci fi bookclub books I missed cancelling. While I mostly avoid the after series of books once they got past the few good writers and started taking stories from anyone, this was a decent read but not up to the Timothy Zahn books. They did show there were the 'just doing my job' grunts. Also a lot of bad cop mentality with the storm troopers. The best part tho, was that the exhaust vent was a hack addon because of a pointy hair boss didn't do a complete engineering study. But yeah, the "good guys" did blow up a lot of civilian contractors.
I helped out with the local small group of Boy Scouts awhile ago. It was kind of shocking that the first chapter of the new book was all about child abuse. Of course there was also the whole 2 adults in every situation, even if you're at a stadium event bathroom. While I can understand the reasoning it was still pretty sad. The local chapter folded into a larger chapter and I had no further desire to help out.
I agree with you there, you don't have to be a loon to be a libertarian. From most posting on /. I think the tech crowd overwhelmingly likes personal responsibility more than pointy haired bosses / government in every minor issue.
However I do like a good conspiracy theory. Since some of the original seed money for facebook did come from previous CIA employee ran firms I wouldn't doubt some close government ties. But if anyone thinks facebook is private they're insane to begin with.
Shame, we won't be able to yell out 'Help! Help! I'm being repressed!'
and if the car went left right left right A B start, you has 1up!
I'd prefer the invincibility mode to make rush hour driving way faster. Or at least to survive hitting potholes.
The florida supreme court found that news stations don't have to tell the truth so reporters aren't protected by the whistleblower laws.
So the Intelligently Designed vaccine won't win against Evolution?
Those were fun shirts. "This is an illegal circumvention device" were a common sight around the office for awhile. A "Sony wants this shirt off my back" would be good too.
Of course skepticism is pro-science. Here on /. we're objecting to teachers teaching science that doesn't adhere to the scientific method. If some teacher wants to toss aside real science and give non peer reviewed crackpot ideas the same or better standing, that's just wrong.