H2G2 actually has a "giant board of chairmen": unlike Wikipedia, it has had formal editorial oversight from the outset, with a heirarchy of trusted contributors, edit approval etc. etc.
(The BBC already sells a lot of content, such as the various BBC channels in international markets, the DVDs, etc. And they're not deleting H2G2, as the summary explains.)
I'm not sure that his family necessarily want the responsibility and expense of providing hosting, oversight and support to the community. However if you'd RTFA, or even the summary, you'd see that they are not "shelving" or "destroying" H2G2.
Seasons 2 through 4 of B5 are really great. There's a proper arc there, and because they thought they were getting cancelled after S4 they pretty much threw every good idea they had at the show and wrapped up everything.
Then they did a season 5, which we will not talk of again.
I don't think I ever saw it pitched as being an accurate assessment of "fringe science". Certainly they were going on about how it was off-the-mainstream science but I didn't for one second believe that meant anything plausible.
Regarding the characters and plot, give Season 2 a shot. There was a well-publicised and conscious bit of gear-changing at that point to address exactly the Lost-like issues you mention, so it starts cranking out explainations for the existing mysteries (and new drama as a consequence of those revelations) while spending a great deal of time trying to develop the characters.
I have no idea what the hell the post title here has to do with the story. There's no indication that Google's blaming the ASF for anything, in any of the primary reporting on the story.
There are a few episodes in the middle of season 2, centering around Walter, that are some of the best TV drama, and best TV science fiction, I have ever seen. The show deserves to live for that kind of bravery alone.
You're referring to Famitsu's "all-time top 100" reader poll, presumably. Such polls tend to exaggerate the popularity of recent titles. Both the PS2 and GameCube versions of Resident Evil 4 got into the top 100 as seperate entries, for example, and it ranked FFX as the greatest game ever made. Not that those aren't good titles, but I suspect they wouldn't rank as well if the poll were repeated today.
He collated the information and distributed it, for one. By analogy, compare noticing the file cabinet's been left unlocked and telling someone, against photocopying everything, giving it to the gossip sheets, and then couting on those to tell someone.
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FWIW the idea seems to have taken off in the mobile space, where programs are expected to go cap-in-hand to the OS and ask for permissions already, for resource management purposes. Perhaps with the influx of tablets running mobile OSes, the idea will gain more traction in the home computing space.
While I'm sure the target demographic would appreciate that for luxury items, online shopping is typically exactly the same price as retail for groceries in the UK, so it doesn't make a great case for internet access as a necessity.
Probably this was planned long before Squeenix's finances became a cause for concern. Frankly given the cost of blockbuster game development these days, any company that's not looking to reuse the assets and the engine in DLC or a sequel is making a bad decision.
I'm pretty sure that if you were to email Ben Goldacre right now claiming that all medicine's effectiveness is psychosomatic, you'd not get a very positive response.
The placebo effect causes physiological and behavioural changes in the believer, and through social interaction, those around them. However its effects are strongly bounded. You cannot arbitrarily generalise the observation, any more than I could suppose from the existence of gravity that all forces are attractive.
Arthur C. Clarke's introductions to the 2001 and (IIRC) Rama sequels state explicitly that they're separate works, covering similar themes with similar characters, but that they do not follow directly from their predecessors, and that he always favoured the story over consistency wherever the two were in conflict. I always thought that was a better way of working, albeit the kind of thing that drives people desperate to turn fiction into circumscribed, consistent "universes" completely nuts.
Jackson wasn't going to make either, he was the producer on both projects. Blomkamp was the guy he picked to do the Halo movie, and when that fell through, Jackson gave him a free reign to make any project he wanted. Blomkamp chose to expand his own Alive in Joburg.
Alien happened when O'Bannon took a "mysterious alien pyramid" story and a "gremlin attacks WW2 airplane" story, neither of which he could get to work, and combined them. The series didn't have anything resembling "a universe" until Aliens' spin-offs.
It's exactly as it should be as far as accusations of mischief by the content providers are concerned, but that's likely to comically underestimate the amount of actual piracy that's going on.
If Rapidshare doesn't inspect its users' uploads, how do they know that only a minority of uploads are pirate? Genuinely stumped for a good hypothesis here, just trawling the web for Rapidshare links and classifying them doesn't strike me as an easy thing to automate.
Vaccine manufacturers are normally shielded from liability because there's a special court soley to hear vaccine liability claims, and a special fund they pay into in order to settle those claims. It's not that they're immune from liability, it's that their liability has been formalised and systematised outside of normal tort law.
Yes, it could just be that he just didn't have a scientific mindset. I'm sure he wouldn't be the first medical researcher who saw something in the data and went out to prove it existed, rather than investigate its existence. However changing one's data, at all, is such an important part of medical ethics that I find it hard to believe that he didn't know what he was doing was at least frowned upon.
Mainstream science actually rejected the link, because Wakefield's solitary study couldn't be replicated and didn't support the sorts of things he was claiming anyway. Vaccine-autism proponents were a vocal minority of nonspecialists trotted out by the media in a misplaced effort to provide "balance", having more in common with climate change denial, than the climate change consensus.
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H2G2 actually has a "giant board of chairmen": unlike Wikipedia, it has had formal editorial oversight from the outset, with a heirarchy of trusted contributors, edit approval etc. etc.
What a great idea.
(The BBC already sells a lot of content, such as the various BBC channels in international markets, the DVDs, etc. And they're not deleting H2G2, as the summary explains.)
I'm not sure that his family necessarily want the responsibility and expense of providing hosting, oversight and support to the community. However if you'd RTFA, or even the summary, you'd see that they are not "shelving" or "destroying" H2G2.
Seasons 2 through 4 of B5 are really great. There's a proper arc there, and because they thought they were getting cancelled after S4 they pretty much threw every good idea they had at the show and wrapped up everything.
Then they did a season 5, which we will not talk of again.
I don't think I ever saw it pitched as being an accurate assessment of "fringe science". Certainly they were going on about how it was off-the-mainstream science but I didn't for one second believe that meant anything plausible.
Regarding the characters and plot, give Season 2 a shot. There was a well-publicised and conscious bit of gear-changing at that point to address exactly the Lost-like issues you mention, so it starts cranking out explainations for the existing mysteries (and new drama as a consequence of those revelations) while spending a great deal of time trying to develop the characters.
I have no idea what the hell the post title here has to do with the story. There's no indication that Google's blaming the ASF for anything, in any of the primary reporting on the story.
While such an accusation could be levelled at season 1 and much of season 2, season 3 has been quite rigorously, carefully structured IMO.
There are a few episodes in the middle of season 2, centering around Walter, that are some of the best TV drama, and best TV science fiction, I have ever seen. The show deserves to live for that kind of bravery alone.
Nintendo released their first glossy white device back in 2006 with the DS Lite. Design moves on a bit in five years.
You might want to complain if your plumbing was fine until they doubled the water pressure on the main, yeah.
You're referring to Famitsu's "all-time top 100" reader poll, presumably. Such polls tend to exaggerate the popularity of recent titles. Both the PS2 and GameCube versions of Resident Evil 4 got into the top 100 as seperate entries, for example, and it ranked FFX as the greatest game ever made. Not that those aren't good titles, but I suspect they wouldn't rank as well if the poll were repeated today.
He collated the information and distributed it, for one. By analogy, compare noticing the file cabinet's been left unlocked and telling someone, against photocopying everything, giving it to the gossip sheets, and then couting on those to tell someone.
FWIW the idea seems to have taken off in the mobile space, where programs are expected to go cap-in-hand to the OS and ask for permissions already, for resource management purposes. Perhaps with the influx of tablets running mobile OSes, the idea will gain more traction in the home computing space.
While I'm sure the target demographic would appreciate that for luxury items, online shopping is typically exactly the same price as retail for groceries in the UK, so it doesn't make a great case for internet access as a necessity.
Probably this was planned long before Squeenix's finances became a cause for concern. Frankly given the cost of blockbuster game development these days, any company that's not looking to reuse the assets and the engine in DLC or a sequel is making a bad decision.
I'm pretty sure that if you were to email Ben Goldacre right now claiming that all medicine's effectiveness is psychosomatic, you'd not get a very positive response.
The placebo effect causes physiological and behavioural changes in the believer, and through social interaction, those around them. However its effects are strongly bounded. You cannot arbitrarily generalise the observation, any more than I could suppose from the existence of gravity that all forces are attractive.
Arthur C. Clarke's introductions to the 2001 and (IIRC) Rama sequels state explicitly that they're separate works, covering similar themes with similar characters, but that they do not follow directly from their predecessors, and that he always favoured the story over consistency wherever the two were in conflict. I always thought that was a better way of working, albeit the kind of thing that drives people desperate to turn fiction into circumscribed, consistent "universes" completely nuts.
Jackson wasn't going to make either, he was the producer on both projects. Blomkamp was the guy he picked to do the Halo movie, and when that fell through, Jackson gave him a free reign to make any project he wanted. Blomkamp chose to expand his own Alive in Joburg.
Alien happened when O'Bannon took a "mysterious alien pyramid" story and a "gremlin attacks WW2 airplane" story, neither of which he could get to work, and combined them. The series didn't have anything resembling "a universe" until Aliens' spin-offs.
It's exactly as it should be as far as accusations of mischief by the content providers are concerned, but that's likely to comically underestimate the amount of actual piracy that's going on.
If Rapidshare doesn't inspect its users' uploads, how do they know that only a minority of uploads are pirate? Genuinely stumped for a good hypothesis here, just trawling the web for Rapidshare links and classifying them doesn't strike me as an easy thing to automate.
Vaccine manufacturers are normally shielded from liability because there's a special court soley to hear vaccine liability claims, and a special fund they pay into in order to settle those claims. It's not that they're immune from liability, it's that their liability has been formalised and systematised outside of normal tort law.
Yes, it could just be that he just didn't have a scientific mindset. I'm sure he wouldn't be the first medical researcher who saw something in the data and went out to prove it existed, rather than investigate its existence. However changing one's data, at all, is such an important part of medical ethics that I find it hard to believe that he didn't know what he was doing was at least frowned upon.
Mainstream science actually rejected the link, because Wakefield's solitary study couldn't be replicated and didn't support the sorts of things he was claiming anyway. Vaccine-autism proponents were a vocal minority of nonspecialists trotted out by the media in a misplaced effort to provide "balance", having more in common with climate change denial, than the climate change consensus.