Let me first state that I am approaching this from the direction of math and physics, hence the problems in other fields of research are not addressed. I trawl the arXiv daily, looking for interesting material, and I absolutely love being able to download preprints for free. However, so much of the tax-funded work out there is inaccessible to the average citizen who can't shell out $800-$1500 per journal. When a researcher is working at a public university, using government grants, their output should be freely and easily accessible, period. Unfortunately, the system of publishing currently in place is an archaic relic from days of yore, when everyone doing science had "Sir" in front of their names.
I have to agree. With the events in the Hobbit, there woud be no way to squash it all into a 2-3 hour movie without severly truncating most of the substantive content. I actually thought that putting all of the LotR into three movies essentially ruined it, as it became a surreal mashup of the various themes. The situation with the Hobbit would be more pronounced, as the various phases of the story would take significant time to be unfurled on a screen, and the process the reader goes through should be preserved in the screen adaptation. You have to remember that Tolkien is more than action and dialogue.
I've actually found myself retreating on occasion to the likes of Spartacus and Ben Hur - epics that bore the fruits of patient storytelling. Now, I realize that you need to be realistic when you plan a film, but the story in The Hobbit would likely not survive the translation to two-hour eyecandy.
Question: Does anyone know if this affects the 64-bit driver? I have the firmware extracted from BCMWL564.SYS, and I'm not too concerned, but you never know...
I guess I'd better be wary about booting into XP (32-bit).
At least FreeBSD is still somewhat safe - I had to go through Hell to get WiFi working on my laptop. It was sort of like being sent alone into the forest on your 13th brithday with only a knife, and expected to emerge as a fully indoctrinated member of the tribe... err, or something.
I'm not sure about episodes, but the scifi moments that stand out most for me are the end of the the ST:TNG season 3 finale The Best of Both Worlds, Part I, and the beginning of the BSG episode Downloaded, in which Alternate Baltar is first seen.
I have some life, but it's a slippery slope, isn't it?
Agreed. But I also liked TOS - I still get shivers when I reflect on Spock's parley with the Horta. Best to worst: DS9 > TNG > TOS > Voyager > Enterprise. I'm sure everyone is rivetted.
Go to pick up a probably and statistics text book and start studying this thing called a normal distribution.
The problem is that a show like Firefly will have a niche audience. So, sampling average viewers is inaccurate, as a whole lot of scifi fans will watch Firefly and *cough*Stargate*cough*, while a tiny percentage of overall viewers will watch those shows. In other words, the weight given to that segment of the sample is far smaller than it should be.
SciFi has been running scifi.com related campaigns for Atlantis and BSG lately, and I would deduce - logically - that they've been getting good data from that, but some of the statements made by executives have rendered said logic inapplicable. They seem to have rejected my reality and substituted their own.
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I'm surprised by the lack of a Sam Harris link in your post, so here's one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCofmZlC72g
So are Google's people a bunch of tight-asses, or do they just need some bran?
Let me first state that I am approaching this from the direction of math and physics, hence the problems in other fields of research are not addressed. I trawl the arXiv daily, looking for interesting material, and I absolutely love being able to download preprints for free. However, so much of the tax-funded work out there is inaccessible to the average citizen who can't shell out $800-$1500 per journal. When a researcher is working at a public university, using government grants, their output should be freely and easily accessible, period. Unfortunately, the system of publishing currently in place is an archaic relic from days of yore, when everyone doing science had "Sir" in front of their names.
I don't know why parent has score 0. Breathing underwater is the first thing I thought of.
I have to agree. With the events in the Hobbit, there woud be no way to squash it all into a 2-3 hour movie without severly truncating most of the substantive content. I actually thought that putting all of the LotR into three movies essentially ruined it, as it became a surreal mashup of the various themes. The situation with the Hobbit would be more pronounced, as the various phases of the story would take significant time to be unfurled on a screen, and the process the reader goes through should be preserved in the screen adaptation. You have to remember that Tolkien is more than action and dialogue.
I've actually found myself retreating on occasion to the likes of Spartacus and Ben Hur - epics that bore the fruits of patient storytelling. Now, I realize that you need to be realistic when you plan a film, but the story in The Hobbit would likely not survive the translation to two-hour eyecandy.
Question: Does anyone know if this affects the 64-bit driver? I have the firmware extracted from BCMWL564.SYS, and I'm not too concerned, but you never know... I guess I'd better be wary about booting into XP (32-bit).
At least FreeBSD is still somewhat safe - I had to go through Hell to get WiFi working on my laptop. It was sort of like being sent alone into the forest on your 13th brithday with only a knife, and expected to emerge as a fully indoctrinated member of the tribe... err, or something.
ZMA
Thin ice, my friend.
I'm not sure about episodes, but the scifi moments that stand out most for me are the end of the the ST:TNG season 3 finale The Best of Both Worlds, Part I, and the beginning of the BSG episode Downloaded, in which Alternate Baltar is first seen.
I have some life, but it's a slippery slope, isn't it?
Agreed. But I also liked TOS - I still get shivers when I reflect on Spock's parley with the Horta. Best to worst: DS9 > TNG > TOS > Voyager > Enterprise. I'm sure everyone is rivetted.
The problem is that a show like Firefly will have a niche audience. So, sampling average viewers is inaccurate, as a whole lot of scifi fans will watch Firefly and *cough*Stargate*cough*, while a tiny percentage of overall viewers will watch those shows. In other words, the weight given to that segment of the sample is far smaller than it should be.
SciFi has been running scifi.com related campaigns for Atlantis and BSG lately, and I would deduce - logically - that they've been getting good data from that, but some of the statements made by executives have rendered said logic inapplicable. They seem to have rejected my reality and substituted their own.
So, mindless tools have been excluded from the Linuverse? Now we just need the kernel to die everytime a user connects to myspace.
"Super Mario Galaxy" sounds incredibly Japanese. Please tell that Mario shoots lasers out of his eyes, or fights Godzilla.
"Making an arm of swiss cheese?"
I, for one, welcome our Korean overlords.
I bet Nemesis looks exactly like the Sun, but with a stylish 200,000-mile-wide Evil Spock goatee.
Or an Evil Crichton beard?
Happyweed!
I believe the correct term for being fired for bloggin about the company is "being dooced".