Has it occurred to you that this is Regeneration number 10 for the doctor if you count Paul McGann? He has two more, then what will they do?
I'm going to post a crazy idea that I'd love to see - The Doctor regenerates into The Master and we run the series from the other direction so to speak.
Yes, I already know it'll never happen but it's a neat idea...
I'm not certain what you're trying to say since your sentence is badly mangled,
Dyslexia's a b1tch, I tend to drop part of what I'm thinking between my mind and my fingers. Sorry if I was unclear.
I agree that Linux is a serious alternative to Windows, and I too wish lots of people would move to Linux or OS X, but that has nothing to do with this article.
My point was that Visual Basic is ONLY on Windows and only for developing on Windows. Switching to a different development platform allows development for different OS up to and INCLUDING Windows. The more people that switch to a different platform for development as well as daily use the more push there will be to develop for other platforms.
However I did not state that clearly and apologize. Although I'm a little irritated by your apparent accusation that I was attempting to get modded up. I rarely post and never to do anything but say what I want to say.
I'm also not surprised that you went off topic and mentioned Linux and OS X just to get modded up. Seems like standard/. behavior.
You want to enlighten me how in a discussion about development systems being patented and alternative development platforms is off topic? Or am I feeding a Troll here?
Vote with your money against such business practices, use competitive products.
Indeed. With RealBasic being priced about equal to Visual Basic and Ubuntu being free I see very little reason to develop for a proprietary platform these days.
Now granted the user base is *ahem* considerably larger for Windows but I think that will change and is changing now.
To use the old cliche "Build it and they will come."
Especially if you can show a cost savings to the upper level of manglement.;-)
Ubuntu and the like are pretty close and things like Eclipse and RealBasic are giving people the tools to develop for the Linux platform easily. Hopefully it won't be long before people start moving the majority to Linux or OS X rather than the minority.
There are impermeable asphalt roads all over the world, of course. Think of all the drainage pipes in Manhattan that just empty into its rivers. Maybe there is some clever way with old tires filter that water passively.
I'm wondering if there isn't some way to use that sort of filtering as a good base for roads made from the old tires themselves.
The tires that run on the road become the roads and filter water as an added bonus.
There are those of us who would leave, too, were it not for family and friends. Those connections keep people in even far more repellent places.
Indeed.
As a 17+ year I/T geek I can get a job elsewhere in the world but due to having an autistic daughter and a wife who is almost sheeple I choose to stay for the moment.
My current hope is that I can open my wife's eyes before it's too late...
There were actually plans during the cold war to put nuclear weapons on the moon and have orbiting, nuclear-armed satellites. These plans were scrapped with the adoption of the Outer Space Treaty, which affirms that "the common interest of all mankind in the progress of the exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes."
Our beloved "Leader-in-Chimp" doesn't respect his own laws and you expect him, as well as the rest of the government, to respect a treaty from the 60's?
Guess again.
They'll put weapons up there if they can. And everybody else will put weapons up there in response or in aticipation.
At my office we are dependent on a remote AS400 system to do billing, purchasing, receiving, shipping, etc. To this end they installed a T1 through (at the time) SBC. This was great at first because our internet connection speed went up allowing our engineers to receive large 3D models and massive pdf files and such.
Unfortunately this didn't last long.
It lasted until the first time it rained really hard. Then it went down. SBC fixed it by changing pairs and we were up and running again.
This happened repeatedly over the next 5 years. Somewhere during the process we upgraded the phone system to use an E1/ISDN PRI circuit that was, unfortunately, on the same set of wires. Now after it rains we either have phones or internet go down. And SBC just keeps changing pairs...
I will say this - no company should ever have laminated signs with the circuit number and "The internet is down." Ever.
Worse yet we have no other connectivity choices than to maybe pay Comcast $10k to run a cable to our building. And their reliability is often worse than SBC from what I hear.
Somewhere in the back of my head (in the most ridiculous part) I am hoping they are cancelling it to ressurect Firefly, like they did with SG1 to begin with. I know this isn't true, and will never happen, but what is life but useless hope.
This would make me very very happy in my brown coat.;-)
ECW is the highest-rated show on Sci-fi. It's also the highest rated show on ad-supported cable that airs on tuesday primetime. ECW is making money for sci-fi. Hopefully, they will use that money to bankroll more good science fiction shows.
Then in my opinion:
1) They've attracted the wrong audience.
2) They've decided that they can't attract the right audience - or they don't know how.
3) They have become even more suit infested and this is the beginning of the vampyric draining of the SciFi network.
If it's the first then they need to do more research. They should be researching Science Fiction/Fantasy conventions and Renaissance Faires not just Nielsen ratings. They may be doing that - I don't know. But if this first point is true then they are not doing it right.
The second point goes right along with the first. From what I've seen of the programming on SciFi I suspect there are only a few at that channel that truly understand what Science Fiction/Fantasy is all about. (And before you flame me for including Fantasy at least that's within the realm of possibility for this channel unlike ECW or WWTBAS.)
My greatest fear though is it's the last one. SciFi Channel has made enough money to attract the hungry vampires from other corporate cultures and is going to go down the drain very shortly leaving only a husk of its former self.
Lastly - you mentioned budget and that ECW was making money for them that they could use to fund other good SciFi shows. Look back at some of the truly popular SciFi stuff from the past. Look at what kinds of budgets they had. I'm sure you can think of at least a half-dozen good shows that had little or no budget but were fantastic! That tells me that good SciFi doesn't need a lot of money but rather someone to care about the genre and to have good writers and good actors. Often some of the best of those don't cost a lot. If SciFi Channel can afford ECW it can afford to make new series.
Ugh. ECW. I gotta believe they put that on there because it was cheap.
Selling your soul because it's cheap is no excuse. If they want to have good happy viewers they need to put out what they want to see. I can't honestly believe anybody asked for ECW.
But otherwise, I dunno - SG-1 had a ten year run. I was annoyed when they canceled Farscape, and god only knows that other shows haven't gotten a fair shake there (G vs E, anyone?), but I think now's a good time for SG-1 to take its curtain call.
I can see the curtain call because of the actors but not much else. The fanbase is still quite strong and vocal and watch this stuff almost religiously. Despite jokes..."Stargate is Farscape with 50% less muppets!";-)
And remember, for every ECW, or Who Wants to be a Superhero (which I'm told is actually not bad), there's a Eureka.
While I admire Stan Lee for sticking around and being active WWTBAS is some of the worst crap I've ever seen. If we wanted a "reality" show we'd watch Reality TV NOT SciFi!
As for Eureka? I love it but not to the extent that I'd pay extra $$$ per month to see it.
All I have to say is "Battlestar Gallactica". Sci-Fi could be preparing yet another great series, far better than Stargate SG-1. Even if they aren't, they're showing Doctor Who, which is again far better than SG-1.
Yes but BSG is available through the website or iTunes with only a day delay. And Dr. Who is available on DVDs. (Though I wish they'd start putting the entire Dr. Who series on DVDs. *grumble*)
So, really, SciFi Channel is going in a direction that will put it out of business. At least in my opinion that is.
I guess Sci-Fi needs more space for shitty B monster movies, fantasty crap and "wrasslin'"...
Explain that one to me please? They cancel things like Farscape and SG-1 but put the ECW on there??
We should probably start calling it the B-Channel. B for Bad.
Oh well. If they keep canceling shows I'll be able to lower my DirecTV bill by going to the basic package that doesn't have them on it. If one of their shows turns out to be good enough to escape their massive suckage it'll show up on some other channel or DVDs.
Slashdot Mirror
As hackers attempt to hack Google TiSP into their toilets and install Linux on the public "water treatment servers". ;-)
Duplicate story as far as I can tell: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/0 8/0041200
Has it occurred to you that this is Regeneration number 10 for the doctor if you count Paul McGann? He has two more, then what will they do?
I'm going to post a crazy idea that I'd love to see - The Doctor regenerates into The Master and we run the series from the other direction so to speak.
Yes, I already know it'll never happen but it's a neat idea...
WTF is a JImmy Dean sandwich?
:-)
It's sort of like a home version of a McDonald's Sausage Biscuit.
On that note - an Interview with The Sun.
I'm not certain what you're trying to say since your sentence is badly mangled,
Dyslexia's a b1tch, I tend to drop part of what I'm thinking between my mind and my fingers. Sorry if I was unclear.
I agree that Linux is a serious alternative to Windows, and I too wish lots of people would move to Linux or OS X, but that has nothing to do with this article.
My point was that Visual Basic is ONLY on Windows and only for developing on Windows. Switching to a different development platform allows development for different OS up to and INCLUDING Windows. The more people that switch to a different platform for development as well as daily use the more push there will be to develop for other platforms.
However I did not state that clearly and apologize. Although I'm a little irritated by your apparent accusation that I was attempting to get modded up. I rarely post and never to do anything but say what I want to say.
I'm also not surprised that you went off topic and mentioned Linux and OS X just to get modded up. Seems like standard /. behavior.
You want to enlighten me how in a discussion about development systems being patented and alternative development platforms is off topic? Or am I feeding a Troll here?
Vote with your money against such business practices, use competitive products.
;-)
Indeed. With RealBasic being priced about equal to Visual Basic and Ubuntu being free I see very little reason to develop for a proprietary platform these days.
Now granted the user base is *ahem* considerably larger for Windows but I think that will change and is changing now.
To use the old cliche "Build it and they will come."
Especially if you can show a cost savings to the upper level of manglement.
Anybody?
*crickets chirping*
Yeah...me neither...
Ubuntu and the like are pretty close and things like Eclipse and RealBasic are giving people the tools to develop for the Linux platform easily. Hopefully it won't be long before people start moving the majority to Linux or OS X rather than the minority.
There are impermeable asphalt roads all over the world, of course. Think of all the drainage pipes in Manhattan that just empty into its rivers. Maybe there is some clever way with old tires filter that water passively.
I'm wondering if there isn't some way to use that sort of filtering as a good base for roads made from the old tires themselves.
The tires that run on the road become the roads and filter water as an added bonus.
Ok, let's rename the project to "green fusion power" and let everyone know it's hydrogen energy we are speaking about! :-)
Semi-Organic Atom Compression
"Get SOACed today!"
;-)
Seriously I have the greatest respect for environmentalists but some of them take it too far.
There are those of us who would leave, too, were it not for family and friends. Those connections keep people in even far more repellent places.
Indeed.
As a 17+ year I/T geek I can get a job elsewhere in the world but due to having an autistic daughter and a wife who is almost sheeple I choose to stay for the moment.
My current hope is that I can open my wife's eyes before it's too late...
There were actually plans during the cold war to put nuclear weapons on the moon and have orbiting, nuclear-armed satellites. These plans were scrapped with the adoption of the Outer Space Treaty, which affirms that "the common interest of all mankind in the progress of the exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes."
Our beloved "Leader-in-Chimp" doesn't respect his own laws and you expect him, as well as the rest of the government, to respect a treaty from the 60's?
Guess again.
They'll put weapons up there if they can. And everybody else will put weapons up there in response or in aticipation.
I'm recalling a sick B movie where prisoners were fitted with collars linked to the perimeter - try to escape and the head is blown up.
If I'm not mistaken this was in The Running Man as well.
At my office we are dependent on a remote AS400 system to do billing, purchasing, receiving, shipping, etc. To this end they installed a T1 through (at the time) SBC. This was great at first because our internet connection speed went up allowing our engineers to receive large 3D models and massive pdf files and such.
Unfortunately this didn't last long.
It lasted until the first time it rained really hard. Then it went down. SBC fixed it by changing pairs and we were up and running again.
This happened repeatedly over the next 5 years. Somewhere during the process we upgraded the phone system to use an E1/ISDN PRI circuit that was, unfortunately, on the same set of wires. Now after it rains we either have phones or internet go down. And SBC just keeps changing pairs...
I will say this - no company should ever have laminated signs with the circuit number and "The internet is down." Ever.
Worse yet we have no other connectivity choices than to maybe pay Comcast $10k to run a cable to our building. And their reliability is often worse than SBC from what I hear.
Napster!? I was getting mp3s off of Usenet back in the day!
;-)
(This joke would have been a lot funnier had my user ID been lower than yours.
Somewhere in the back of my head (in the most ridiculous part) I am hoping they are cancelling it to ressurect Firefly, like they did with SG1 to begin with. I know this isn't true, and will never happen, but what is life but useless hope.
;-)
This would make me very very happy in my brown coat.
US Wrestling has always been about the story lines so why not SF Wrestling - Klingons vs Borgs and such.
Now that I might buy as being SciFi Channel material but not the ECW.
I was unaware of this. Even having to pay for a multiregion player or hack mine that's still a good deal.
I take it these ore not on something like Amazon.uk?
ECW is the highest-rated show on Sci-fi. It's also the highest rated show on ad-supported cable that airs on tuesday primetime. ECW is making money for sci-fi. Hopefully, they will use that money to bankroll more good science fiction shows.
Then in my opinion:
1) They've attracted the wrong audience.
2) They've decided that they can't attract the right audience - or they don't know how.
3) They have become even more suit infested and this is the beginning of the vampyric draining of the SciFi network.
If it's the first then they need to do more research. They should be researching Science Fiction/Fantasy conventions and Renaissance Faires not just Nielsen ratings. They may be doing that - I don't know. But if this first point is true then they are not doing it right.
The second point goes right along with the first. From what I've seen of the programming on SciFi I suspect there are only a few at that channel that truly understand what Science Fiction/Fantasy is all about. (And before you flame me for including Fantasy at least that's within the realm of possibility for this channel unlike ECW or WWTBAS.)
My greatest fear though is it's the last one. SciFi Channel has made enough money to attract the hungry vampires from other corporate cultures and is going to go down the drain very shortly leaving only a husk of its former self.
Lastly - you mentioned budget and that ECW was making money for them that they could use to fund other good SciFi shows. Look back at some of the truly popular SciFi stuff from the past. Look at what kinds of budgets they had. I'm sure you can think of at least a half-dozen good shows that had little or no budget but were fantastic! That tells me that good SciFi doesn't need a lot of money but rather someone to care about the genre and to have good writers and good actors. Often some of the best of those don't cost a lot. If SciFi Channel can afford ECW it can afford to make new series.
Ugh. ECW. I gotta believe they put that on there because it was cheap.
;-)
Selling your soul because it's cheap is no excuse. If they want to have good happy viewers they need to put out what they want to see. I can't honestly believe anybody asked for ECW.
But otherwise, I dunno - SG-1 had a ten year run. I was annoyed when they canceled Farscape, and god only knows that other shows haven't gotten a fair shake there (G vs E, anyone?), but I think now's a good time for SG-1 to take its curtain call.
I can see the curtain call because of the actors but not much else. The fanbase is still quite strong and vocal and watch this stuff almost religiously. Despite jokes..."Stargate is Farscape with 50% less muppets!"
And remember, for every ECW, or Who Wants to be a Superhero (which I'm told is actually not bad), there's a Eureka.
While I admire Stan Lee for sticking around and being active WWTBAS is some of the worst crap I've ever seen. If we wanted a "reality" show we'd watch Reality TV NOT SciFi!
As for Eureka? I love it but not to the extent that I'd pay extra $$$ per month to see it.
All I have to say is "Battlestar Gallactica". Sci-Fi could be preparing yet another great series, far better than Stargate SG-1. Even if they aren't, they're showing Doctor Who, which is again far better than SG-1.
Yes but BSG is available through the website or iTunes with only a day delay. And Dr. Who is available on DVDs. (Though I wish they'd start putting the entire Dr. Who series on DVDs. *grumble*)
So, really, SciFi Channel is going in a direction that will put it out of business. At least in my opinion that is.
I guess Sci-Fi needs more space for shitty B monster movies, fantasty crap and "wrasslin'"...
Explain that one to me please? They cancel things like Farscape and SG-1 but put the ECW on there??
We should probably start calling it the B-Channel. B for Bad.
Oh well. If they keep canceling shows I'll be able to lower my DirecTV bill by going to the basic package that doesn't have them on it. If one of their shows turns out to be good enough to escape their massive suckage it'll show up on some other channel or DVDs.
We already know what life after Earth will be like, just watch Titan A.E.
;-)
I refuse to live on a planet named 'Bob'!
Though I'm betting The Church of the Subgenious would be thrilled.
So... when can I order it for myself? I'd love to have such a nice little laptop.
There's a third-party pledge page to get one laptop for $300 which funds giving two more to needy people.
We are due for a deadly infectious disease that will wipe out a good portion of our civilization.
;-)
Sou you're saying we should delay launching the "B" Ark?