2.8 minutes x 200 days x 100,000,000 workers with email = 56 billion minutes ~= 1 billion work hours. The median hourly wage is $18.
The scarier fact is not the fact that some slashdotter came up with that equation in probably about 5 minutes, but the fact that some 9-to-5, liberal arts grad lemming working in some downtown office building was actually paid to come up with the same thing, and probably took the better part of 5 months to get there.
It's somewhat sad to see Enterprise go. I personally liked the series, although I didn't think much of the Nazis In Space or the time travel trash. But overall, there were some decent, thought provoking episodes in the series. On the other side, I can see that if they're not getting decent ratings, and nobody's really watching it, it probably is time to simply move on to something else.
They brought back Next Generation about 15 years ago (1990?), which was a great show, and everyone was very excited to see Star Trek resurrected (I guess sort of the same way we're excited to see Battlestar Galactica resurrected today). Then DS9 came along, which got some decent followers (but still not as much as TNG). So they came out with Voyager, actually while DS9 was still going on. This brought back more fans, but not necessarily the ones that were followers of DS9. So this basically gave you two camps: a) those that like DS9 and b) those that like voyager. By the time voyager ended its 7 year run, the series had pretty much peaked (a long time ago), and things were pretty much maxxed out. So then, along comes Enterprise, with the goal of bringing back all the Star Trek fans once again. Despite a decent opener, and much fanfare/press, it never really, "catches the wave," of the seriously rabid sci-fi/trek fans. The writing is mediocre, they're running out of ideas and trying desperately not to rip off plot ideas from the other shows. So then, to try and stir that pot a bit, they introduce the whole time travel stuff, and then Nazis in Space (wtf?). To top the failure off with an even bigger faux paus, they move the series to Friday night opposite Stargate (and now Battlestar Galactica; which seemingly is just about the last nail in the Trek coffin).
Overall, the Star Trek series (from TOS to ENT) were all decent shows, but they've somewhat been running on "borrowed time" these past few years, so it's probably best to give it a rest and take a break for awhile. If, sometime in the future (20-25 years from now), there's a hunger for Star Trek once more, perhaps new writers/producers will have the creativity to give a totally new series with the same "feel" as the originally Trek without beating this horse even further.
As for UPN, all I can say about this network is, after Enterprise leaves, this POS is going to go downhill, real quick! It will probably find its way to the same trash heap that G4TechTV (or whatever it's called now) has come to. UPN/Paramount obviously doesn't give a rip about attracting the sci-fi demographic anymore. Just look at their current lineup:
* All of Us
* America's Next Top Model
* Enterprise (until May)
* Eve
* Girlfriends
* Half & Half
* Kevin Hill
* One on One
* Missy Elliot Project
* Second Time Around
* Veronica Mars
* WWE Smackdown!
Looks like the network is focused on getting the teeny-bopper, reality TV junkie, african american demographics. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing, but Star Trek Enterprise just doesn't seem to fit well into this mix,... As for me, none of the other shows really appeal much to me, so you can probably bet that I won't be watching UPN after Enterprise. Well, ok, America's Top Model might show might be interesting from a purely visual/sexual point-of-view:-)
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Likewise, I did an image search on msn.com for "William H. Gates, III", which only returns 11 images of Bill. There's also four pictures of some older guy who's apparently Bill's dad, and three pictures of Gates Hall, a building named after either of the two (some kind of law school).
Performing an MSN Image Search for "Bill Gates", returns 2,134 images from a variety of web servers, although newsimg.bbc.co.uk seems to be the most popular server that offers images. They apparently didn't screen these, because the 6th and 10th images are Bill's Albuquerque arrest photo, and the ninth photo is a PhotoShopped image of Bill holding up a bright red nazi-like flag and saluting in nazi-esque fashion,...
Slashdot Mirror
The scarier fact is not the fact that some slashdotter came up with that equation in probably about 5 minutes, but the fact that some 9-to-5, liberal arts grad lemming working in some downtown office building was actually paid to come up with the same thing, and probably took the better part of 5 months to get there.
It's somewhat sad to see Enterprise go. I personally liked the series, although I didn't think much of the Nazis In Space or the time travel trash. But overall, there were some decent, thought provoking episodes in the series. On the other side, I can see that if they're not getting decent ratings, and nobody's really watching it, it probably is time to simply move on to something else. They brought back Next Generation about 15 years ago (1990?), which was a great show, and everyone was very excited to see Star Trek resurrected (I guess sort of the same way we're excited to see Battlestar Galactica resurrected today). Then DS9 came along, which got some decent followers (but still not as much as TNG). So they came out with Voyager, actually while DS9 was still going on. This brought back more fans, but not necessarily the ones that were followers of DS9. So this basically gave you two camps: a) those that like DS9 and b) those that like voyager. By the time voyager ended its 7 year run, the series had pretty much peaked (a long time ago), and things were pretty much maxxed out. So then, along comes Enterprise, with the goal of bringing back all the Star Trek fans once again. Despite a decent opener, and much fanfare/press, it never really, "catches the wave," of the seriously rabid sci-fi/trek fans. The writing is mediocre, they're running out of ideas and trying desperately not to rip off plot ideas from the other shows. So then, to try and stir that pot a bit, they introduce the whole time travel stuff, and then Nazis in Space (wtf?). To top the failure off with an even bigger faux paus, they move the series to Friday night opposite Stargate (and now Battlestar Galactica; which seemingly is just about the last nail in the Trek coffin). Overall, the Star Trek series (from TOS to ENT) were all decent shows, but they've somewhat been running on "borrowed time" these past few years, so it's probably best to give it a rest and take a break for awhile. If, sometime in the future (20-25 years from now), there's a hunger for Star Trek once more, perhaps new writers/producers will have the creativity to give a totally new series with the same "feel" as the originally Trek without beating this horse even further. As for UPN, all I can say about this network is, after Enterprise leaves, this POS is going to go downhill, real quick! It will probably find its way to the same trash heap that G4TechTV (or whatever it's called now) has come to. UPN/Paramount obviously doesn't give a rip about attracting the sci-fi demographic anymore. Just look at their current lineup: * All of Us * America's Next Top Model * Enterprise (until May) * Eve * Girlfriends * Half & Half * Kevin Hill * One on One * Missy Elliot Project * Second Time Around * Veronica Mars * WWE Smackdown! Looks like the network is focused on getting the teeny-bopper, reality TV junkie, african american demographics. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing, but Star Trek Enterprise just doesn't seem to fit well into this mix,... As for me, none of the other shows really appeal much to me, so you can probably bet that I won't be watching UPN after Enterprise. Well, ok, America's Top Model might show might be interesting from a purely visual/sexual point-of-view :-)
Performing an MSN Image Search for "Bill Gates", returns 2,134 images from a variety of web servers, although newsimg.bbc.co.uk seems to be the most popular server that offers images. They apparently didn't screen these, because the 6th and 10th images are Bill's Albuquerque arrest photo, and the ninth photo is a PhotoShopped image of Bill holding up a bright red nazi-like flag and saluting in nazi-esque fashion,...
Der Fuhrer Bill
To be fair, a Google Image Search for "Sergey Brin", returns 500 images, and a similar search for "Larry Page", returns 1,140 images.