Not everyone has the sames tastes that you do. If all there was to see here was Linux/Unix/MS/Apple/open source articles and rants, people would get bored and no longer visit Slashdot (including me).
If you don't like an article, do like I do: just ignore it. Skip over it. Why are you even reading this article if it offends you so?
You may or may not be aware of this, but they also have polarized glasses for 3D movies. If you've ever been to a 3D show at a theme park, this is what they use.
Is there a good reason to keep the franchise going, other than money?
Millions will watch it...
You just answered your own question - millions will watch it. They'll watch it at least as long as it takes to find out if it's good or horrible.
It could be good. The 'Clone Wars' cartoons seem to be well liked, though it may not have reached a very large audience.
If they get it right, it could be as successful as 'Smallville' or some of the 'Star Trek' series. I thought 'The Young Indiana Jones' TV show was very good, but it never reached a large audience. Maybe because the age of Indy in the stories jumped around too much.
I wonder what channel the show might end up on. Fox?
I had one of those AM/FM/cassette/phonograph stereos that I made numerous mix tapes with. Ah, I miss being able to do that.
I also remember pranks that we used to do to people, like record their snoring at night - just to prove to them that they did - then play it back in front of everyone. Try doing that with a CD.
Or how about recording something, say - a sound. I have a whole side of a ninety minute tape with the sound of the dishwasher running on it. Why, you ask? Because my son, as a baby, would fall asleep quicker to sound of it.
And lets not forget that Watergate was all about tape recordings. Couldn't have busted Nixon without the lowly cassette tape.
Christmas special
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Originally, I was going to ask if it is possible to make a Christmas special that doesn't suck (a la The Star Wars Holiday Special, but then I came across this, where it says:
"Russell is giving nothing away about what will happen in the Christmas special, although he does reveal that there will be a regeneration sequence in which ninth Doctor Chris becomes tenth Doctor David."
That actually sounds like it could be interesting. The article also gives away some other small spoilers.
I can certainly understand the rant. I've felt the same way when that has happened to me.
If it makes you feel any better (probably not) but it took nearly 24 hours from the time I submitted it until this story was posted. I submitted the story at (my time zone) 12:35 PM on Thursday, June 9th and it finally was put up at 11:52 AM on Friday, June 10th.
I think that if the content of two stories is equal, the editors will tend to take the the first submission they receive.
I've also had stories rejected that were later posted by someone else. When I think philosophically on it, I decide that either my submission came in later than the posted story or the other story was better (for whatever reason) than mine in the editors' eyes.
The calculators belong to the Virginia Department of Education. Have a look:
The state specifically asked Texas Instruments two years ago to wipe out the fraction function on its calculators if it wanted to sell them to Virginia's schools, said Lois A. Williams, a middle-school math specialist with the Virginia Department of Education.
Students need to work with fractions the old-fashioned way, with a paper and pencil, as required by the state, she said.
Texas Instruments disabled the key that converted numbers into fractions and left it blank on the calculator. The calculator passed a review by officials at Texas Instruments and the staff of the state's math department, Williams said.
It was one of four calculator models approved by the state for use in middle schools.
On a side note though, the 7th grader (future slashdotter?) is being rewarded with a low-key ceremony for discovering this "hack". His teacher said, "His fellow students were so proud of him and congratulatory. They thought it was really, really cool. They didn't call him a nerd or anything."
I'm trying to decide if I (and my fellow slashdotters) should be offended by that comment...
How about this? The Death Star can travel from Alderaan to the Yavin system at faster-than-light-speed, but when it does get there, it gets in orbit around Yavin IV (conveniently on the opposite side of the planet from where the moon with the Rebel base is).
Then it takes another 15-20 minutes to get around the planet so that the moon will be in range of the Death Star's weapon. Why didn't they just come straight at them instead?
Oh, that's right. There wouldn't have been a reason for "The Empire Strikes Back" and "The Return of the Jedi" then.
The graphics make this look like fun. I just hope players aren't so immersed in playing that they forget about their surroundings. Otherwise we'll be seeing "Student Run Over By Car While Playing Pacman" headlines and giving out "Darwin" awards.
>>under the high Martian UV flux if water and nutrient requirements for growth were met.
>These appear to be pretty large caveats on feasibility.
That was my thinking also. Plus, there are certainly enough ifs there:
... if the microbes happen to survive a trip to Mars,
... if if a Mars rover fell off a cliff or a spacecraft broke open in a crash so that microbes inside might find a toehold for survival,
... if they were shielded by just 1 millimeter of soil,
... if water is available where the microbes end up on Mars,
... and if nutrient requirements for growth were met.
What would be the odds of all those requirements being met? Not impossible, but certainly improbable with just probes.
But, I've alway felt that where ever humans go, they change the environment whether intentional or not. If humans go to Mars, just their being there will influence whatever location they are in and quite possibly begin a terra-forming process inadvertantly.
The pressure is on scientists and researchers to "get published". The more often their papers are published, the more prestige they have, the better jobs, and yes, more money thrown at them.
I would guess that all the more exciting topics have been thoroughly covered before. Either that, or companies have paid for these studies to further their cause.
Another thought is that maybe they didn't find a more exciting answer other than the obvious one, so they just went ahead and published the non-earth-shattering results anyway.
All this prequel business is based on a very flimsy rumor, anyway. Here is the story according to the original source:
"Another scooper, MK, wrote in with his story of meeting none other than George Lucas, while in Hawaii on his (MK's) honeymoon. MK had this to say about his chance encounter with the Master:
I was vacationing at the Mandarin Oriental in Hawaii for my honeymoon in 2004. I ran into George Lucas and his family on the beach there. I was sitting in a hammock, just about to get up, and he asked me if I was done. I said yes and began to leave....
He said so "Where are you from"... I said I was from NY. He said "Are you here for the shoot?" I said no, "Here on my honeymoon."
I told him I was a big STAR WARS fan and was anxiously awaiting the conclusion of the most recent trilogy.
I asked him if STAR WARS was going to end with this next installment and.
He said, "'Star Wars' will never end. My involvement may, but the story will go on...."
I said what do you think would be more interesting.... telling a story prior to PHANTOM MENANCE or after RETURN OF THE JEDI?
(Lucas) said, no question about it, prior to PHANTOM MENACE. He said, that if he did ever do another storyline.... that he would do when the Jedi regained control of the universe from the Dark Lords (there were many of them) 800 years before PHANTOM MENACE. And a young Jedi named Yoda was instrumental in the effort.
None of these stories are (or can truly be) confirmed at this moment, so only time will tell.
For all we know, maybe this will be the premise for the TV show that Lucas was talking about more recently.
Futurists and futurologists have been around for a while now, seen as early as the 1950's. They just hadn't come up with that title yet.
Futurologists look at trends in technology and try to predict how they will affect society and impact human lives.
In the early eighties, I took a college course in futurology for a humanities credit. In that class we focused on Alvin Toffler, author of "Future Shock" which came out in 1970 and "The Third Wave" which came out in 1980. He's seen by some as first official (and most influential thus far) futurologist and coined terms that we use every day, such as 'information overload'.
Politics is politics is politics. Whether anti-Chinese, anti-Japanese, or anti-Vulcan, if a blog doesn't say what the government of China wants it to say, it'll disappear.
That one is kinda cute, but the one with Darth Vader was just sad.
A guy scratches a winning game piece that say "You win a million dollars."
Then the doorbell rings. When the guy opens the door, Vader is there. Vader says, "I am your father."
The guy deduces that Vader is just trying to get a chunk of the million he's just won and shakes his head no. Then he shuts the door in Vader's face, while Vader continues on with, "I am you brother... uncle...cousin!
When I was younger, Darth Vader was a great "bad guy" who commanded respect from everyone. He never came across as undignified.
Now he is reduced to a shill for Pepsi, as a character that people laugh at. How sad is that?
One - Luke picks up and turns on the lightsaber that Obi Wan gave him upon first meeting him, with Obi Wan telling him that it was his father's. Luke has no problem turning it on and using it. Can this mean that it shows Obi Wan that he has the power of "the force"? It definitely shows that Luke needs no training in order to get it to work.
Later, Luke lost that light saber when he lost his hand. Somehow, he had to build his own after that, I guess, though it's never addressed (I suppose he learned from Yoda while he was Yoda's apprentice). That would show Vader that he has come into his own power, because only a mature Jedi would be able to do that.
Two - I think that this was covered in The Jedi Academy Trilogy by Kevin J. Anderson. Luke opens his own Jedi training center and part of the training involves finding the appropriate crystal that works with your individual powers, iirc, and building your own lightsaber. Each apprentice Jedi had to be able to do this before they were masters. Very interesting to read, if you are curious about that aspect.
I may be misremebering a few things, but I'm sure that someone will correct me if I am.
Will Google Web Accelerator affect my server load or usage statistics?
It depends on whether your pages are cacheable. You can identify page requests prefetched by Google Web Accelerator through the HTTP header X-moz: prefetch. You can learn more about this header on the Mozilla website.
Am I reading this right? If the page has been cached at Google, Google will use that cache for the preloading. And webmasters can do certain things to aid the prefetching function.
So it sounds to me that if the website being slashdotted is cache-able (and the slashdotters have this accelerator), it could ease the website's server load.
Compare this with other online newpaper websites, for instance - AZCentral (which is the online version of the Arizona Republic). Take a
look at their prices for their archived articles.
* Single-article purchase - $2.50
* 24-hour pass, 10 articles - $9.95
* 3-article pack - $6.95
Good for one week from purchase.
* 10-article pack - $21.95
Good for one month from purchase.
* 25-article pack - $49.95
Good for one month from purchase.
* 40-article pack - $79.95
Good for one month from purchase.
Doing long-term research?
* 500-article pack - $995
Good for one year from purchase.
* 1,000-article pack - $1,995
Good for one year from purchase.
And this is just for a local paper! NewsLibrary.com, the "go-between" for the AZCentral archives, boasts 694 newspapers and other news sources that you can search - for a price.
The New York Times archives look like a deal compared to those.
Send the info to ebay (spoof@ebay.com)- they have a whole department set aside for pursuing these. As I stated in another post previously, here is the link that tells what to do with this info:
Slashdot Mirror
Free Domo Kun, Ackbar, or Mustard man action figure in every box.
How could you not include Wil's own Aqualad on that list?!?
Do you really want to live in such a boring, monotone world?
Oh, silly me, since you played it safe and posted as an 'Anonymous Coward', I guess I have my answer.
Not everyone has the sames tastes that you do. If all there was to see here was Linux/Unix/MS/Apple/open source articles and rants, people would get bored and no longer visit Slashdot (including me).
If you don't like an article, do like I do: just ignore it. Skip over it. Why are you even reading this article if it offends you so?
Taco has already said that he posts stories that he finds interesting. Now for some required reading/homework:
Taco's response to "That's not News For Nerds!"
Taco's "Omelette" rant"
You may or may not be aware of this, but they also have polarized glasses for 3D movies. If you've ever been to a 3D show at a theme park, this is what they use.
You just answered your own question - millions will watch it. They'll watch it at least as long as it takes to find out if it's good or horrible.
It could be good. The 'Clone Wars' cartoons seem to be well liked, though it may not have reached a very large audience.
If they get it right, it could be as successful as 'Smallville' or some of the 'Star Trek' series. I thought 'The Young Indiana Jones' TV show was very good, but it never reached a large audience. Maybe because the age of Indy in the stories jumped around too much.
I wonder what channel the show might end up on. Fox?
I had one of those AM/FM/cassette/phonograph stereos that I made numerous mix tapes with. Ah, I miss being able to do that.
I also remember pranks that we used to do to people, like record their snoring at night - just to prove to them that they did - then play it back in front of everyone. Try doing that with a CD.
Or how about recording something, say - a sound. I have a whole side of a ninety minute tape with the sound of the dishwasher running on it. Why, you ask? Because my son, as a baby, would fall asleep quicker to sound of it.
And lets not forget that Watergate was all about tape recordings. Couldn't have busted Nixon without the lowly cassette tape.
I can certainly understand the rant. I've felt the same way when that has happened to me.
If it makes you feel any better (probably not) but it took nearly 24 hours from the time I submitted it until this story was posted. I submitted the story at (my time zone) 12:35 PM on Thursday, June 9th and it finally was put up at 11:52 AM on Friday, June 10th.
I think that if the content of two stories is equal, the editors will tend to take the the first submission they receive.
I've also had stories rejected that were later posted by someone else. When I think philosophically on it, I decide that either my submission came in later than the posted story or the other story was better (for whatever reason) than mine in the editors' eyes.
I'm trying to decide if I (and my fellow slashdotters) should be offended by that comment...
How about this? The Death Star can travel from Alderaan to the Yavin system at faster-than-light-speed, but when it does get there, it gets in orbit around Yavin IV (conveniently on the opposite side of the planet from where the moon with the Rebel base is).
Then it takes another 15-20 minutes to get around the planet so that the moon will be in range of the Death Star's weapon. Why didn't they just come straight at them instead?
Oh, that's right. There wouldn't have been a reason for "The Empire Strikes Back" and "The Return of the Jedi" then.
The graphics make this look like fun. I just hope players aren't so immersed in playing that they forget about their surroundings. Otherwise we'll be seeing "Student Run Over By Car While Playing Pacman" headlines and giving out "Darwin" awards.
>>under the high Martian UV flux if water and nutrient requirements for growth were met.
>These appear to be pretty large caveats on feasibility.
That was my thinking also. Plus, there are certainly enough ifs there:
... if the microbes happen to survive a trip to Mars,
... if if a Mars rover fell off a cliff or a spacecraft broke open in a crash so that microbes inside might find a toehold for survival,
... if they were shielded by just 1 millimeter of soil,
... if water is available where the microbes end up on Mars,
... and if nutrient requirements for growth were met.
What would be the odds of all those requirements being met? Not impossible, but certainly improbable with just probes.
But, I've alway felt that where ever humans go, they change the environment whether intentional or not. If humans go to Mars, just their being there will influence whatever location they are in and quite possibly begin a terra-forming process inadvertantly.
The pressure is on scientists and researchers to "get published". The more often their papers are published, the more prestige they have, the better jobs, and yes, more money thrown at them.
I would guess that all the more exciting topics have been thoroughly covered before. Either that, or companies have paid for these studies to further their cause.
Another thought is that maybe they didn't find a more exciting answer other than the obvious one, so they just went ahead and published the non-earth-shattering results anyway.
Kinda like my post...
For all we know, maybe this will be the premise for the TV show that Lucas was talking about more recently.
Futurists and futurologists have been around for a while now, seen as early as the 1950's. They just hadn't come up with that title yet.
Futurologists look at trends in technology and try to predict how they will affect society and impact human lives.
In the early eighties, I took a college course in futurology for a humanities credit. In that class we focused on Alvin Toffler, author of "Future Shock" which came out in 1970 and "The Third Wave" which came out in 1980. He's seen by some as first official (and most influential thus far) futurologist and coined terms that we use every day, such as 'information overload'.
Politics is politics is politics. Whether anti-Chinese, anti-Japanese, or anti-Vulcan, if a blog doesn't say what the government of China wants it to say, it'll disappear.
Exactly. When you have to follow the party line or face being "removed" - either your blog or you (going to jail) - what would there be to say?
The people are effectively gagged there as far as politics are concerned, which seems to be one of the hottest topics for blogging here in the U.S.
Thats just what I needed. Reading those reviews helped to lower my expectations a great deal. Now I should be able to enjoy the movie. Thanks!
That one is kinda cute, but the one with Darth Vader was just sad.When I was younger, Darth Vader was a great "bad guy" who commanded respect from everyone. He never came across as undignified.
Now he is reduced to a shill for Pepsi, as a character that people laugh at. How sad is that?
Christmas in the Stars!! featuring "What Can You Get a Wookiee for Christmas (When He Already Owns a Comb?)"...
Hey! I loved that song!
Ooh, there's a copy of that record for sale on ebay for $28. Think I'll go look for mine.
I don't think that the ejected passengers thought that this situation was very survivable...
Two things:
One - Luke picks up and turns on the lightsaber that Obi Wan gave him upon first meeting him, with Obi Wan telling him that it was his father's. Luke has no problem turning it on and using it. Can this mean that it shows Obi Wan that he has the power of "the force"? It definitely shows that Luke needs no training in order to get it to work.
Later, Luke lost that light saber when he lost his hand. Somehow, he had to build his own after that, I guess, though it's never addressed (I suppose he learned from Yoda while he was Yoda's apprentice). That would show Vader that he has come into his own power, because only a mature Jedi would be able to do that.
Two - I think that this was covered in The Jedi Academy Trilogy by Kevin J. Anderson. Luke opens his own Jedi training center and part of the training involves finding the appropriate crystal that works with your individual powers, iirc, and building your own lightsaber. Each apprentice Jedi had to be able to do this before they were masters. Very interesting to read, if you are curious about that aspect.
I may be misremebering a few things, but I'm sure that someone will correct me if I am.
So it sounds to me that if the website being slashdotted is cache-able (and the slashdotters have this accelerator), it could ease the website's server load.
Compare this with other online newpaper websites, for instance - AZCentral (which is the online version of the Arizona Republic). Take a look at their prices for their archived articles.
* Single-article purchase - $2.50
* 24-hour pass, 10 articles - $9.95
* 3-article pack - $6.95
Good for one week from purchase.
* 10-article pack - $21.95
Good for one month from purchase.
* 25-article pack - $49.95
Good for one month from purchase.
* 40-article pack - $79.95
Good for one month from purchase.
Doing long-term research?
* 500-article pack - $995
Good for one year from purchase.
* 1,000-article pack - $1,995
Good for one year from purchase.
And this is just for a local paper! NewsLibrary.com, the "go-between" for the AZCentral archives, boasts 694 newspapers and other news sources that you can search - for a price.
The New York Times archives look like a deal compared to those.
Send the info to ebay (spoof@ebay.com)- they have a whole department set aside for pursuing these. As I stated in another post previously, here is the link that tells what to do with this info:
t heft-spoof.html
http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/id-account-
As far as I know, you don't have to be a registered member to report these phishers.