Schools exist to prepare students for the real world, for jobs. teaching them to use macs is unrealistic in that regard. mac has about a 10th of the market share. Teaching mac helps them on 10% of all computers, teaching windows... 90%. Why waste time and money? Teaching linux would be even more wasteful. Sad to say.
"Tax oil (BEFORE refining). Try this thought experiment. Tax oil. Consumption goes down (supply/demand etc.). Competing suppliers respond with lower prices barrel prices in an attempt to keep market share. We (as a nation) effectively pay *less* for our oil AND our consumption rate decreases AND new markets are created for energy effiency AND alternative sources of energy become more attractive AND greenhouse gas emmisions decrease."
Consumption would not go down by enough to make a difference. Most people will not give up or reduce their mobility by driving less. Especially americans, those without cars in the US are 5th rate citizens because everything is so spread out. Public transport can amerliorate this somewhat.
What would happen is the prices of EVERYTHING would go up by the tax you are suggesting we put on oil.
When pansies whine about "no blood for oil", they fail to realize that oil is the blood of the industrialized world. So we either have to give up our way of life and go tribal, or deal with reality. When the price oil goes up, or the supply goes down (same net effect), not only does it mean that your road trip to florida will cost more, but groceries will cost more. Every thing at Target will cost more because their trucks still run on the oil you've taxed. Total cost of living goes up for EVERYONE. Your dollar doesn't get you as much as before. Your rent goes up because your landlord is spending more on gas too. If you make 500$ a week and your rent, food, transport and everything else gets more expensive, you still aren't making any more than you were.
Now some may argue that our material luxuries are not worth blood shed. But lets realize that what happens on the micro scale will also hit the macro. Your state government is paying more for its police patrol cars, so they have to reduce the number of cars. The state government is finding schools more expensive to operate, so no raises for the teachers. The fed level must also make sacrifices... so we scale back the nice and fun projects like medical research and foriegn aid.
In france they tried to encourage ppl to use the trains and busses by racheting up the price of gas. It failed, ppl would rather pay more and keep their cars. For some it the commute was the only privacy they had.
It is not about the price of oil, it is about finding new SOURCES of energy. Ideally cheaper and cleaner sources. Here we refer to the age old truth of FAST, CHEAP, GOOD... Pick TWO. In the case of energy it might be CLEAN, CHEAP, AVAILIBLE. In our case zero point energy is not availible. Cold Fusion will be clean and cheap when it becomes availible. As it is, oil is cheap and availible.
@ Soon i'll be able to strap into a veritech and waste some zentradi.
@ i can't wait for psionics to be used in more tech. Ages ago i dreampt of video games that respond to emotion.
@ Gah i hope sci-fi doesn't do it. The only series they did that i liked was BattleStar. DL deserves a full hollywood budget. With halle berry as that ship captain, and leslie neilsen as Fizban. maybe jennifer garner as laurana.
@ Isn't it illegal to have offense weapons in space? We could have gotten away with "star wars" as a way to defend ourselves, but i'm pretty sure that building attack systems in space is right out.
"Why should I be required to make my source code available?"
@ How could you be required to do that? Who could require that of you?
"If I worked on a project and the source code was available, what is to prevent Mr.X somewhere from literally lifting ideas or code from my work. Why should I then have to spend thousands of dollars in litigation?"
@ If that is your concern, don't publish OS code, it is that simple. Those who CHOOSE to publish OS do so with the intent that other WILL lift their code and improve/change it. For my own work, if i spent 100 hrs designing a game, and someone thinks enough of it to rip it, great! That is why i have a day job. i also like the idea that not having a price attached to my work, means that a potential player need not choose between "food" or "game".
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
"Why do you think that ALL software should?"
@ Who is the you here? A specific post or a general you?
"If you buy my software and have a security issue, talk to me about it. Those kinds of issues can be sorted out better by clients talking to the companies."
@ It is great that you listen to the needs of your clients. However comma many companies, particalarly the larger ones, don't give a damn about quality or security.
"True, we could get bug fixes, more eyes on the code, blah blah blah... but at the end of the day, if a customer of mine can go and download my software, compile it themselves, and just say screw off to me and my licensing costs, what's my motivation?"
@ Your motivation is yours to determine. If you want to make things OS, go for it, if you don't, DON'T. i make OS game material, i have no desire to get rich from it, and i like the idea of people using my work without having to shell out their hard earned money. Perhaps when you've made your fortune you might consider giving something back to the ppl who paid your rent and bought your food. It is an INDIVIDUAL choice to make/use OS products. i personally believe that every time someone gives of themselves, the world as a whole benefits, and the one doing the giving does as well. Are we in a Star Trek like world without greed and materialism? Nope... not yet. OS is a step in that direction.
"I know, someone's going to come up with... service it, charge for maintenance, support, etc. BULLSH*T! We make software that the whole point is that it's easy to administer, that my customers aren't going to need a legion of "support" IT folks, and their associated costs, and that customization is easy out of the box without spending a fortune."
@ Not all users will need that kind of support, only those who can't manage it on their own.
"From a buyer side of things, personally, I think the "write code, give it away for free, charge for support" business model is practically extortion."
@ No, it is not even close to extortion. As i said, not everyone needs support. Plus there are plenty of ways of getting free support. No one using linux is obligated to buy support. Charging for support is not much different than charging for a new version of the Op Sys every other year, while leaving the software so buggy that it constantly must be updated, or that you have to hire ppl to maintain them or send your ppl to take classes to learn how to use the stuff. So let's not pretend that proprietary software makers are somehow noble or less incidious. Gates is a billionaire, linus is prolly not even a millionaire.
" I'll pay for the 10%, because it enables myself and my staff to operate more efficiently, effectively and ultimately for less costs, and makes the actual cost of the software irrelevant."
@ But that is your choice to pay for that, and you no doubt pass that on to your customers. The OS ideals are not about the present, but rather the future, not what IS, but what SHOULD BE. If linux distro's aren't pretty enough today, they will be soon. If they don't have that 10% yet, they will someday. But it is not your place to tell OS developers how to use their time, nor theirs to tell you what to charge.
@ The cost of the software is relevant in some cases. The US Gov't sends $10B to bill gates each year to keep up on software. Imagine instead next year they spend $1B on training ppl to use some free linux, and OpenOffice. Maybe even $1B to make a free and open linux or totall new Op Sys and then give that away. After a few years the gov't has converted and ppl are trained and used to it. TCO goes way down. That 10 becomes 1 or 2 billion a year. Let's be pessimistic and say... $5B a year in training and upkeep. That $5B left over each year can be spent on schools, universities, health care, research, going to mars, new bombers, soap for hippies, or maybe even given back to the ppl who earned it.
"Free software may work for large businesses in the server room, but frankly, for the small business person trying to make a living, the last thing I'm doing is giving away our blood sweat and tears!"
@ No one asked you to do so, nor should they. It YOUR choice. The people who make OS products do so because they love the challenge, they like the idea of doing something to benefit others (think of it as volunteer work), and most importantly, they have an eye toward the future.
"The Munich transition troubles have little to do with Linux, and a lot to do with the fact that they are having trouble dealing with the rest of the Windows-using world."
@ i find this sentence to be self-defeating, if i take your meaning correctly.... Dealing with a windows-using world *is* a big trouble with L i n u x . IF they were still using windows, THEN they wouldn't be having trouble dealing with the windows-using world.
@ That is one of the reason's i'm not ready to give up my windows machine just yet. At least with a mac (which i loathe, hate, detest and revile), there is some chance of being able to share info. MS Office is availible on mac. Business pretty much runs on MS Office. i use OpenOffice whenever i can, but still i often have to convert the files to something the MS Office can use, because that is what everyone else has.
@ That is perhaps the good side of a OS monopoly... everyone can talk to everyone else. Perhaps monopoly isn't the right term, maybe homogeny is more apt. More OSes means less ability to share data, or at least more complexity in sharing. One of my clients has over 100 PCs, using 3 different versions of windows... even that is a pain in the A$$, if they threw mac or linux into the mix... forget about it. But they could never do that because there is no-one in a 50 mile radius who could set-up and maintain them, let alone show them how to use it. i hope that trend will change.
@ Relating to that issue: i don't have tons of time on my hand, so which is a better use of my time? Spending 100hrs studying mac/linux and learning basic functions -OR- spending 100hrs studying advanced functions in windows. The former would help me with about 1/10th of all desktops. The latter helps me with the other 9/10ths. It is no contest.
@ As for macs and linuxes not getting virii: once red hat or some other distro gets a significant market share THE VIRII WILL COME. If mac keeps making prettier and prettier cases and by some pact with satan gain ground on the desktop market, they will get hit by spyware and virii too.
@ And no, i'm not a fan of u$oft, and i love the open source ethic. i have been pushing for use of opensource tools every chance i get, and hope that someday the future will be "open".
@ Are there any open source kernels other than linux?
@ If i had the patience to be an engineer/programmer, psionics would be my focus. Ever since Robotech the idea of NUI (neural user interface) has fascinated me. Combined with high quality VR the possiblities are bogglesome.
@ Few people can pass the NSA's security checks. And given the incredible importance of what the NSA does, they have very high standards. They won't even talk to you if your college GPA wasn't in the B+ range. Even then, the competition is enough for them to pick and choose. Given the 'quality' of uSoft's code, it is hard to make a case for their programmers being better. The NSA simply cannot allow a "uh... sir, we need to reboot keyhole again" scenario. NSA's systems work at a level of complexity that would make amazon.com's db look like a recipe site.
@ War never solved any problem... well, except for ending the british occupation of america, ending slavery in america, end the german conquest of europe (TWICE), end the holocaust against the jews, keep the southern half of korea free, liberate kuwait from iraq, liberate afganistan from the taliban, liberate iraq from saddam....
@ THERE *ARE* EVIL PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD, EVIL PEOPLE WILL USE VIOLENCE, THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT OUR MORALS OR YOUR PACIFISM
@ The unwashed ignorami think that if we just hug them enough and talk long enough that the evil doers will change their ways... and REALITY has proven this wrong 99.9999999% of the time. SOMETIMES THE ONLY WAY TO STOP EVIL IS BY FORCE.
@ And *no*, i am NOT saying that violence is good, or that it should be the first option, or even the tenth. But it is childish to assume that if your heart is full of enough love and THC that the bad guys will behave. Sometimes you have to kill them or at least hurt them enough to make them stop. !
@ Ask a serial rapist which is more effective at stopping him:
a) "please don't hurt me because I'm so nice"
b) Swift Kick to the Groin
@ When option A fails, one must be prepared to apply option B, OR become the next victim.
@ in the only Paranoia game i experienced, i was given the Test, the one where they ask questions like "What would you do if the computer was wrong?". Quickly i asked the computer if it was treasonous to suggest that the computer could be wrong, it said "Yes". So i killed the much higher ranking test administrator, and for the rest of the session, the computer liked me! i lost 3 clones, about one per hour.... One was when someone had a laser that could change its color, ROYGBIV. Stupidly i said, "Oh like a rainbow."
@ Does anyone know if it is d20 based?
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"Eh? You are right in spirit but wrong in facts. SciFi passed on FireFly already, as did all the cable stations it was offered to."
@ There is a difference between being wrong and not having a bit of trivia, such as firefly being turned down.
"Fox didn't exactly replace FireFly with "Fastlane" either since that show has also been cancelled. "
@ It WAS replaced by fastlane in the sense that fastlane was given its time slot, and was allowed to finish the season.
"And if you didn't hear, Charisma Carpenter is rumored to be up for WONDER WOMAN. I guess the timing is right since she'll be posing for Playboy later this year."
@ Sweet merciful crap! my life will be complete when i get that issue! Even after having a baby she's one of the hottest of the hot. Wonder Woman the movie? or TV show? Hmm, that could have potential... esp if she buffs up for it. *sigh*
Most WB shows are kinda lame. The stats show Angel beating West Wing, an award winning show, and they are going to can it???
What the fuck, over?
Go to renewangel.com and do some petitioning stuff if you want to help the show stick around.
If Angel does not get another season, i would hope for something with Spike and/or Willow. Spike is my favorite character on any TV show. i would also love to see Sci-Fi pick up Firefly, that show was headed for greatness. Alas it was on Fox and they cut it to replace it with "Fast and the Furious" the TV show....
Movies of the Buffiverse would rock.
@ There are no cheats for PS as it is all server based and all the servers are run by sony. There are some exploit behaviors, but every one can use them equally. Skill is good, but organization is king in PS. A gaggle of cooperative players can beat a gaggle of L33T players who are playing solo. Join a big outfit or an ultra organized one, and you'll have a blast.
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"It makes you want to think that there is a God with a plan."
@ For about a second or two... and then you'd realize that these things would exist with or without us to observe them or a deity to put them there. For instance, a^2 + b^2 = c^2 would be true if the universe NEVER EXISTED. 2 + 2 = 4 would be true after the universe ceased to exist. The golden ratio might pop up so often because that is what was necessary to make something work!
@ This sort of thinking is a really weak effort to support the claim that an invisible pink unicorn farted the universe one day. Given any serious thought it is just plain wishful thinking.
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The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall
mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots. Thank you.
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THAT would be called Artificial WISDOM....
We'll call it ROLEPLAYING!
And he's a damn good rapper too! mchawking.com
Schools exist to prepare students for the real world, for jobs. teaching them to use macs is unrealistic in that regard. mac has about a 10th of the market share. Teaching mac helps them on 10% of all computers, teaching windows... 90%. Why waste time and money? Teaching linux would be even more wasteful. Sad to say.
"Tax oil (BEFORE refining). Try this thought experiment. Tax oil. Consumption goes down (supply/demand etc.). Competing suppliers respond with lower prices barrel prices in an attempt to keep market share. We (as a nation) effectively pay *less* for our oil AND our consumption rate decreases AND new markets are created for energy effiency AND alternative sources of energy become more attractive AND greenhouse gas emmisions decrease." Consumption would not go down by enough to make a difference. Most people will not give up or reduce their mobility by driving less. Especially americans, those without cars in the US are 5th rate citizens because everything is so spread out. Public transport can amerliorate this somewhat. What would happen is the prices of EVERYTHING would go up by the tax you are suggesting we put on oil. When pansies whine about "no blood for oil", they fail to realize that oil is the blood of the industrialized world. So we either have to give up our way of life and go tribal, or deal with reality. When the price oil goes up, or the supply goes down (same net effect), not only does it mean that your road trip to florida will cost more, but groceries will cost more. Every thing at Target will cost more because their trucks still run on the oil you've taxed. Total cost of living goes up for EVERYONE. Your dollar doesn't get you as much as before. Your rent goes up because your landlord is spending more on gas too. If you make 500$ a week and your rent, food, transport and everything else gets more expensive, you still aren't making any more than you were. Now some may argue that our material luxuries are not worth blood shed. But lets realize that what happens on the micro scale will also hit the macro. Your state government is paying more for its police patrol cars, so they have to reduce the number of cars. The state government is finding schools more expensive to operate, so no raises for the teachers. The fed level must also make sacrifices... so we scale back the nice and fun projects like medical research and foriegn aid. In france they tried to encourage ppl to use the trains and busses by racheting up the price of gas. It failed, ppl would rather pay more and keep their cars. For some it the commute was the only privacy they had. It is not about the price of oil, it is about finding new SOURCES of energy. Ideally cheaper and cleaner sources. Here we refer to the age old truth of FAST, CHEAP, GOOD... Pick TWO. In the case of energy it might be CLEAN, CHEAP, AVAILIBLE. In our case zero point energy is not availible. Cold Fusion will be clean and cheap when it becomes availible. As it is, oil is cheap and availible.
@ Soon i'll be able to strap into a veritech and waste some zentradi. @ i can't wait for psionics to be used in more tech. Ages ago i dreampt of video games that respond to emotion.
@ Opera's install is one third the size of Moz's. And has been the faster browser for several years now. *shrugs*
@ Gah i hope sci-fi doesn't do it. The only series they did that i liked was BattleStar. DL deserves a full hollywood budget. With halle berry as that ship captain, and leslie neilsen as Fizban. maybe jennifer garner as laurana.
@ Isn't it illegal to have offense weapons in space? We could have gotten away with "star wars" as a way to defend ourselves, but i'm pretty sure that building attack systems in space is right out.
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"Why should I be required to make my source code available?" @ How could you be required to do that? Who could require that of you? "If I worked on a project and the source code was available, what is to prevent Mr.X somewhere from literally lifting ideas or code from my work. Why should I then have to spend thousands of dollars in litigation?" @ If that is your concern, don't publish OS code, it is that simple. Those who CHOOSE to publish OS do so with the intent that other WILL lift their code and improve/change it. For my own work, if i spent 100 hrs designing a game, and someone thinks enough of it to rip it, great! That is why i have a day job. i also like the idea that not having a price attached to my work, means that a potential player need not choose between "food" or "game". http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html "Why do you think that ALL software should?" @ Who is the you here? A specific post or a general you? "If you buy my software and have a security issue, talk to me about it. Those kinds of issues can be sorted out better by clients talking to the companies." @ It is great that you listen to the needs of your clients. However comma many companies, particalarly the larger ones, don't give a damn about quality or security.
"True, we could get bug fixes, more eyes on the code, blah blah blah... but at the end of the day, if a customer of mine can go and download my software, compile it themselves, and just say screw off to me and my licensing costs, what's my motivation?" @ Your motivation is yours to determine. If you want to make things OS, go for it, if you don't, DON'T. i make OS game material, i have no desire to get rich from it, and i like the idea of people using my work without having to shell out their hard earned money. Perhaps when you've made your fortune you might consider giving something back to the ppl who paid your rent and bought your food. It is an INDIVIDUAL choice to make/use OS products. i personally believe that every time someone gives of themselves, the world as a whole benefits, and the one doing the giving does as well. Are we in a Star Trek like world without greed and materialism? Nope... not yet. OS is a step in that direction. "I know, someone's going to come up with... service it, charge for maintenance, support, etc. BULLSH*T! We make software that the whole point is that it's easy to administer, that my customers aren't going to need a legion of "support" IT folks, and their associated costs, and that customization is easy out of the box without spending a fortune." @ Not all users will need that kind of support, only those who can't manage it on their own. "From a buyer side of things, personally, I think the "write code, give it away for free, charge for support" business model is practically extortion." @ No, it is not even close to extortion. As i said, not everyone needs support. Plus there are plenty of ways of getting free support. No one using linux is obligated to buy support. Charging for support is not much different than charging for a new version of the Op Sys every other year, while leaving the software so buggy that it constantly must be updated, or that you have to hire ppl to maintain them or send your ppl to take classes to learn how to use the stuff. So let's not pretend that proprietary software makers are somehow noble or less incidious. Gates is a billionaire, linus is prolly not even a millionaire. " I'll pay for the 10%, because it enables myself and my staff to operate more efficiently, effectively and ultimately for less costs, and makes the actual cost of the software irrelevant." @ But that is your choice to pay for that, and you no doubt pass that on to your customers. The OS ideals are not about the present, but rather the future, not what IS, but what SHOULD BE. If linux distro's aren't pretty enough today, they will be soon. If they don't have that 10% yet, they will someday. But it is not your place to tell OS developers how to use their time, nor theirs to tell you what to charge. @ The cost of the software is relevant in some cases. The US Gov't sends $10B to bill gates each year to keep up on software. Imagine instead next year they spend $1B on training ppl to use some free linux, and OpenOffice. Maybe even $1B to make a free and open linux or totall new Op Sys and then give that away. After a few years the gov't has converted and ppl are trained and used to it. TCO goes way down. That 10 becomes 1 or 2 billion a year. Let's be pessimistic and say... $5B a year in training and upkeep. That $5B left over each year can be spent on schools, universities, health care, research, going to mars, new bombers, soap for hippies, or maybe even given back to the ppl who earned it. "Free software may work for large businesses in the server room, but frankly, for the small business person trying to make a living, the last thing I'm doing is giving away our blood sweat and tears!" @ No one asked you to do so, nor should they. It YOUR choice. The people who make OS products do so because they love the challenge, they like the idea of doing something to benefit others (think of it as volunteer work), and most importantly, they have an eye toward the future.
@ That is the way O-S should be done!
"The Munich transition troubles have little to do with Linux, and a lot to do with the fact that they are having trouble dealing with the rest of the Windows-using world." @ i find this sentence to be self-defeating, if i take your meaning correctly.... Dealing with a windows-using world *is* a big trouble with L i n u x . IF they were still using windows, THEN they wouldn't be having trouble dealing with the windows-using world. @ That is one of the reason's i'm not ready to give up my windows machine just yet. At least with a mac (which i loathe, hate, detest and revile), there is some chance of being able to share info. MS Office is availible on mac. Business pretty much runs on MS Office. i use OpenOffice whenever i can, but still i often have to convert the files to something the MS Office can use, because that is what everyone else has. @ That is perhaps the good side of a OS monopoly... everyone can talk to everyone else. Perhaps monopoly isn't the right term, maybe homogeny is more apt. More OSes means less ability to share data, or at least more complexity in sharing. One of my clients has over 100 PCs, using 3 different versions of windows... even that is a pain in the A$$, if they threw mac or linux into the mix... forget about it. But they could never do that because there is no-one in a 50 mile radius who could set-up and maintain them, let alone show them how to use it. i hope that trend will change. @ Relating to that issue: i don't have tons of time on my hand, so which is a better use of my time? Spending 100hrs studying mac/linux and learning basic functions -OR- spending 100hrs studying advanced functions in windows. The former would help me with about 1/10th of all desktops. The latter helps me with the other 9/10ths. It is no contest. @ As for macs and linuxes not getting virii: once red hat or some other distro gets a significant market share THE VIRII WILL COME. If mac keeps making prettier and prettier cases and by some pact with satan gain ground on the desktop market, they will get hit by spyware and virii too. @ And no, i'm not a fan of u$oft, and i love the open source ethic. i have been pushing for use of opensource tools every chance i get, and hope that someday the future will be "open". @ Are there any open source kernels other than linux?
@ If i had the patience to be an engineer/programmer, psionics would be my focus. Ever since Robotech the idea of NUI (neural user interface) has fascinated me. Combined with high quality VR the possiblities are bogglesome.
@ Few people can pass the NSA's security checks. And given the incredible importance of what the NSA does, they have very high standards. They won't even talk to you if your college GPA wasn't in the B+ range. Even then, the competition is enough for them to pick and choose. Given the 'quality' of uSoft's code, it is hard to make a case for their programmers being better. The NSA simply cannot allow a "uh... sir, we need to reboot keyhole again" scenario. NSA's systems work at a level of complexity that would make amazon.com's db look like a recipe site.
@ War never solved any problem... well, except for ending the british occupation of america, ending slavery in america, end the german conquest of europe (TWICE), end the holocaust against the jews, keep the southern half of korea free, liberate kuwait from iraq, liberate afganistan from the taliban, liberate iraq from saddam.... @ THERE *ARE* EVIL PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD, EVIL PEOPLE WILL USE VIOLENCE, THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT OUR MORALS OR YOUR PACIFISM @ The unwashed ignorami think that if we just hug them enough and talk long enough that the evil doers will change their ways... and REALITY has proven this wrong 99.9999999% of the time. SOMETIMES THE ONLY WAY TO STOP EVIL IS BY FORCE. @ And *no*, i am NOT saying that violence is good, or that it should be the first option, or even the tenth. But it is childish to assume that if your heart is full of enough love and THC that the bad guys will behave. Sometimes you have to kill them or at least hurt them enough to make them stop. ! @ Ask a serial rapist which is more effective at stopping him: a) "please don't hurt me because I'm so nice" b) Swift Kick to the Groin @ When option A fails, one must be prepared to apply option B, OR become the next victim.
@ rotflmao @ The Toast/Cat hover tank is just around the corner!
@ in the only Paranoia game i experienced, i was given the Test, the one where they ask questions like "What would you do if the computer was wrong?". Quickly i asked the computer if it was treasonous to suggest that the computer could be wrong, it said "Yes". So i killed the much higher ranking test administrator, and for the rest of the session, the computer liked me! i lost 3 clones, about one per hour.... One was when someone had a laser that could change its color, ROYGBIV. Stupidly i said, "Oh like a rainbow." @ Does anyone know if it is d20 based?
"Eh? You are right in spirit but wrong in facts. SciFi passed on FireFly already, as did all the cable stations it was offered to." @ There is a difference between being wrong and not having a bit of trivia, such as firefly being turned down. "Fox didn't exactly replace FireFly with "Fastlane" either since that show has also been cancelled. " @ It WAS replaced by fastlane in the sense that fastlane was given its time slot, and was allowed to finish the season. "And if you didn't hear, Charisma Carpenter is rumored to be up for WONDER WOMAN. I guess the timing is right since she'll be posing for Playboy later this year." @ Sweet merciful crap! my life will be complete when i get that issue! Even after having a baby she's one of the hottest of the hot. Wonder Woman the movie? or TV show? Hmm, that could have potential... esp if she buffs up for it. *sigh*
Most WB shows are kinda lame. The stats show Angel beating West Wing, an award winning show, and they are going to can it??? What the fuck, over? Go to renewangel.com and do some petitioning stuff if you want to help the show stick around. If Angel does not get another season, i would hope for something with Spike and/or Willow. Spike is my favorite character on any TV show. i would also love to see Sci-Fi pick up Firefly, that show was headed for greatness. Alas it was on Fox and they cut it to replace it with "Fast and the Furious" the TV show.... Movies of the Buffiverse would rock.
@ There are no cheats for PS as it is all server based and all the servers are run by sony. There are some exploit behaviors, but every one can use them equally. Skill is good, but organization is king in PS. A gaggle of cooperative players can beat a gaggle of L33T players who are playing solo. Join a big outfit or an ultra organized one, and you'll have a blast.
"It makes you want to think that there is a God with a plan." @ For about a second or two... and then you'd realize that these things would exist with or without us to observe them or a deity to put them there. For instance, a^2 + b^2 = c^2 would be true if the universe NEVER EXISTED. 2 + 2 = 4 would be true after the universe ceased to exist. The golden ratio might pop up so often because that is what was necessary to make something work! @ This sort of thinking is a really weak effort to support the claim that an invisible pink unicorn farted the universe one day. Given any serious thought it is just plain wishful thinking. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_pink_unicor n
"By eliminating covalence inhibitors we can create triple-dense carbohydrates... thus the so-called SUPER donut." - Homer (in some commercial)
The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots. Thank you. -- Military school Commandant's graduation address, "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson"