Actually, you miss that point that for communication to occur, there must be a sender and a receiver. In the case of China, they have crippled the receivers. Sure, the rest of us have unfettered access, but the Chinese do not.
The other aspect to this is that if China can effectively block access to information for most people, it can also be done here.
Most of us on this board are savvy enough to get around most restrictions etc, but the general population on the net doesn't have a clue.
There will always be room and demand for good stores and entertainment. Somewhere along the line, Star Trek lost it's way.
And actually, a number of the sci-fi writers he mentioned, and others, did create for the original star trek. It suffered greatly in the later series when writing essentially became a closed shop.
As a Canadian, I am glad we don't have kooks like creationists on the same scale. They are an oddity here. Far be it from me to tell people south of the border how to live (in spite of how the shrub and condominiumlisalisalisa go about things), but I would like to point out that this small vocal group are making you guys look and sound like a bunch of hillbillies.
And Monkey, these kooks do not respond to reason. To them reason is the anti-religion.
Trek was originally about realism as well. They talked to NASA scientists and others in making the show. Most of the tech in the show had some basis in tody's theory. They also had the kick-ass sci-fi writers of the day penning scripts. Something that rarely happened after that first series. How many Star Trek scripts got high awards and acclaim after TOS. Especially after they became a closed shop. After a point, they maintained a stable, stuck to it, and Trek became weak.
Gritty realism is just a fad thing people want in their stories right now. Reality doesn't have to be gritty, but to be on TV, you have to be entertaining. That's where you need to have the character interactions to capture people if you're not going to mezmerize them with constant action.
The inability of many TV writers and actors to get that is probably the root cause of most of the crappy TV out there. The abilty to grasp that same concept is also what's given us our best TV.
Actually, we won't be, we'll go back to competing against the US which is what led to the unified north american market as it is today. We shut down slaughter capacity in favour of shipping cattle to the US for processing in exchange to more access to the US market. Right now, most provinces are in the process of rebuilding that lost slaughter capacity. Then we'll go back to putting our higher quality beef (and pork) into direct competition with the US. We did it before, we'll do it again.
And we don't bury our mad cows.
I think, speaking as a Canadian, that I am actually glad no one is spitting on ordinary US citizens who are getting screwed by the DCMA act themselves. This is, as other have eloquently put, the industry bribing/pressuring politicians to do their bidding. The want to do it to us (Canadians). Pity, they can only do it to Americans.
Judging by how American politicians behave, I can see why most Americans freak out at the notion of ginving them too much power.
Well anyway, there is this thing called a border, and this thing called sovereignty, and last time I checked, it still stands. As a Canadian, I could care less that some political hack doesn't like our refusal to follow American ways of doing things. So issue a report and wave a finger, I would rather be known for pissing in the RIAA's cornflakes than I would for going around trying to tell everyone else how to live.
I don't disagree that the show has become better, nor do I disagree with you about the other series, but I think it's largely too late. I think Enterprise had to be strong out of the gate after the debacle that was Voyager. Problem is that now not many are giving Enterprise a chance.
The thing is, the older Star Treks were about people in space, they were not about space. With Voyager and Enterprise, none of the characters seemed to connect with viewers. They were caricatures of people in the trek universe. Awfully hard to warm up to them. I liked the mirror epsiodes for example, but when Archer got worked up and got ranting about "the ship", he sounded to me like Daffy Duck.
I mean, did you ever really care about the people in Voyager or Enterprise.
What you say is true about the fans being tired of the present combine's trek, in fact they could probably have a Star Trek channel showing nothing but re-runs of old Trek shows and movies as they have so much content (no, I'm not advocating that!). Thing is, this was their choice to make. They could have dragged the festering corpse of Enterprise for the full seven years much like they did Voyager. They cancelled. Yay.
But these guys are big-ego types. They aren't going to admit they were wrong, they are not going to say their stories sucked, nor are they going to say their vision was not the right one for the franchise. You are never going to get some apology or admission of error on their part. TV, like Hollywood, just doesn't work like that.
Maybe the next producers will bad mouth the old ones, but that's probably the best you can hope to get.
I don't think the industry will die, but I think it's about to run into the wall PC's have run into which is diminishing annual sales of hardware. The new video cards haven't sold anywhere near as well as ATI and nVidia would like, nor have the PC's themselves. Somewhere along the line, the machines became powerful enough to do what people want without taxing the hardware. The new upcoming consoles, despite the hype, will be an incremental increase over the last consoles despite the hype. Hardware sales used to be driven by the software, but consumer software (games or apps) is so far behind the power curve that it's going to take some time to catch up. It's different on the professional end, but the numbers don't compare to the consumer end.
The companies have got used to people buying their systems without question, but I think that is going to change. After the initial rush of early adopters, I suspect sales will slip downwards. Are the games the same to a large extent? Sure they are. They say there are only about five or six stories told by people, and it's just the details and presentation that make people want to hear them. The same is true for games. We'll buy then for the same reason people watch banal TV over and over. You gotta have a hobby. We will rave over few though and we won't be buying hardware as often.
Call it the maturation and saturation of an industry.
Let me see, since I woke up this morning I learned that you can now go to jail for having a movie in a shared folder, in Florida you can shoot someone dead in your house and the prosecutor is to assume you were in the right, a senator is moving to ban all books written by gays or containing gay characters, European digitization of literature is seen as an attack on American interests (Google), Bill Gates wants unrestricted access to import foreign tech workers and Wal-Mart has used the DCMA act to squash a parody. I'm going back to bed before I read the Scopes Monkey Trial will be going back to appeal
That's unclear. If you have a supeona, it's a legal order and you have to comply. You don't get the option, so somehow I doubt the university actually received a supeona. Something about this doesn't add up.
If the RIAA had a court order, the school would have to comply, if not, why would the school open itself up to legal action from the student if no charges have been laid?
The RIAA is dumb, but then they have shown that over and over again.
Sorry, I agree with the troll. Acrobat is a piece of crap. I don't care who does it, someone bring forth a viable alternative. Acrobat really is a bloated piece of crap with a worse loading time than an oil tanker
They do get to use it. It's a priviledge, not a right. All I can say is that if you are an A student then it just goes to show that everyone who says american public schools provide a McEducation are right. No wonder damn near every country in the world shows higher test scores than the US.
Kids like you are the No. 1 argument in favour of abortion. If you were my kid I hold your head under the bath water until your feet stopped kicking.
Actually, it's from the crack school of marketing. Release a buggy product, give them one free call of support, and then nail them once they're hooked.
Frankly, as others said, parenting is a lot of hard work. And you must be consistent. As for them doing things other than what they were taught, get real, all kids do things that would curl their parent's hair. The best thing I've done is told the kids that if they abused their net priviledges, I would lock them out of the machine via the bios. And I've done it. I also pointed out that if the case was opened and the password cleared via jumper that the next time they went to used the computer it would have a keylock on it and the next time they used a computer in the house AMD would be marketing 512 bit CPU's
They know I mean it, because I've followed through on everything else I've said. That's the key, them knowing you will follow through, first time, every time. And that's regardless of how much they whine
I have to say I am looking forward to the episode. I never got into the original Dr. Who, but this version is much better and has a great deal of potential. Kind of like the new battlestar galactica which stomps all over the original. Maybe with the crash of ST Enterprise we may actually start to see some good sci-fi. There is actually a wealth of old shows that could be reborn with modern equipment and effect. Maybe some of the old Gerry Anderson shows (but not that god awful space 1999). None the less, bring on the golden salt shakers with the tinny voices!
Yes, paying off cops is just part of how the market works. It's a tradition dating back to cops eating for free, the pinkertons, and even well before that.
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Actually, you miss that point that for communication to occur, there must be a sender and a receiver. In the case of China, they have crippled the receivers. Sure, the rest of us have unfettered access, but the Chinese do not.
The other aspect to this is that if China can effectively block access to information for most people, it can also be done here.
Most of us on this board are savvy enough to get around most restrictions etc, but the general population on the net doesn't have a clue.
Nope. Then again, after the company was sold in the sixties, maybe
You know what American Standard is associated with
They are in the business of selling product. If everything else has been done, the answer has always been to add more. Witness 2 for 1 pizza.
I have a 9600XT and haven't found anything it won't run. Why would I buy something else? Of course that won't help the manufacturer.
Frankly the RIAA are starting to remind me of the "a commie under every bed" mentality.
There will always be room and demand for good stores and entertainment. Somewhere along the line, Star Trek lost it's way.
And actually, a number of the sci-fi writers he mentioned, and others, did create for the original star trek. It suffered greatly in the later series when writing essentially became a closed shop.
As a Canadian, I am glad we don't have kooks like creationists on the same scale. They are an oddity here. Far be it from me to tell people south of the border how to live (in spite of how the shrub and condominiumlisalisalisa go about things), but I would like to point out that this small vocal group are making you guys look and sound like a bunch of hillbillies.
And Monkey, these kooks do not respond to reason. To them reason is the anti-religion.
Trek was originally about realism as well. They talked to NASA scientists and others in making the show. Most of the tech in the show had some basis in tody's theory. They also had the kick-ass sci-fi writers of the day penning scripts. Something that rarely happened after that first series. How many Star Trek scripts got high awards and acclaim after TOS. Especially after they became a closed shop. After a point, they maintained a stable, stuck to it, and Trek became weak.
Gritty realism is just a fad thing people want in their stories right now. Reality doesn't have to be gritty, but to be on TV, you have to be entertaining. That's where you need to have the character interactions to capture people if you're not going to mezmerize them with constant action.
The inability of many TV writers and actors to get that is probably the root cause of most of the crappy TV out there. The abilty to grasp that same concept is also what's given us our best TV.
Actually, we won't be, we'll go back to competing against the US which is what led to the unified north american market as it is today. We shut down slaughter capacity in favour of shipping cattle to the US for processing in exchange to more access to the US market. Right now, most provinces are in the process of rebuilding that lost slaughter capacity. Then we'll go back to putting our higher quality beef (and pork) into direct competition with the US. We did it before, we'll do it again. And we don't bury our mad cows.
I think, speaking as a Canadian, that I am actually glad no one is spitting on ordinary US citizens who are getting screwed by the DCMA act themselves. This is, as other have eloquently put, the industry bribing/pressuring politicians to do their bidding. The want to do it to us (Canadians). Pity, they can only do it to Americans. Judging by how American politicians behave, I can see why most Americans freak out at the notion of ginving them too much power. Well anyway, there is this thing called a border, and this thing called sovereignty, and last time I checked, it still stands. As a Canadian, I could care less that some political hack doesn't like our refusal to follow American ways of doing things. So issue a report and wave a finger, I would rather be known for pissing in the RIAA's cornflakes than I would for going around trying to tell everyone else how to live.
I don't disagree that the show has become better, nor do I disagree with you about the other series, but I think it's largely too late. I think Enterprise had to be strong out of the gate after the debacle that was Voyager. Problem is that now not many are giving Enterprise a chance.
The thing is, the older Star Treks were about people in space, they were not about space. With Voyager and Enterprise, none of the characters seemed to connect with viewers. They were caricatures of people in the trek universe. Awfully hard to warm up to them. I liked the mirror epsiodes for example, but when Archer got worked up and got ranting about "the ship", he sounded to me like Daffy Duck.
I mean, did you ever really care about the people in Voyager or Enterprise.
What you say is true about the fans being tired of the present combine's trek, in fact they could probably have a Star Trek channel showing nothing but re-runs of old Trek shows and movies as they have so much content (no, I'm not advocating that!). Thing is, this was their choice to make. They could have dragged the festering corpse of Enterprise for the full seven years much like they did Voyager. They cancelled. Yay.
But these guys are big-ego types. They aren't going to admit they were wrong, they are not going to say their stories sucked, nor are they going to say their vision was not the right one for the franchise. You are never going to get some apology or admission of error on their part. TV, like Hollywood, just doesn't work like that.
Maybe the next producers will bad mouth the old ones, but that's probably the best you can hope to get.
I don't think the industry will die, but I think it's about to run into the wall PC's have run into which is diminishing annual sales of hardware. The new video cards haven't sold anywhere near as well as ATI and nVidia would like, nor have the PC's themselves. Somewhere along the line, the machines became powerful enough to do what people want without taxing the hardware. The new upcoming consoles, despite the hype, will be an incremental increase over the last consoles despite the hype. Hardware sales used to be driven by the software, but consumer software (games or apps) is so far behind the power curve that it's going to take some time to catch up. It's different on the professional end, but the numbers don't compare to the consumer end.
The companies have got used to people buying their systems without question, but I think that is going to change. After the initial rush of early adopters, I suspect sales will slip downwards. Are the games the same to a large extent? Sure they are. They say there are only about five or six stories told by people, and it's just the details and presentation that make people want to hear them. The same is true for games. We'll buy then for the same reason people watch banal TV over and over. You gotta have a hobby. We will rave over few though and we won't be buying hardware as often.
Call it the maturation and saturation of an industry.
I was hoping for something more substantial than a bitter rant
few will ever see, let alone use Why is that?
Let me see, since I woke up this morning I learned that you can now go to jail for having a movie in a shared folder, in Florida you can shoot someone dead in your house and the prosecutor is to assume you were in the right, a senator is moving to ban all books written by gays or containing gay characters, European digitization of literature is seen as an attack on American interests (Google), Bill Gates wants unrestricted access to import foreign tech workers and Wal-Mart has used the DCMA act to squash a parody. I'm going back to bed before I read the Scopes Monkey Trial will be going back to appeal
That's unclear. If you have a supeona, it's a legal order and you have to comply. You don't get the option, so somehow I doubt the university actually received a supeona. Something about this doesn't add up.
If the RIAA had a court order, the school would have to comply, if not, why would the school open itself up to legal action from the student if no charges have been laid?
The RIAA is dumb, but then they have shown that over and over again.
Sorry, I agree with the troll. Acrobat is a piece of crap. I don't care who does it, someone bring forth a viable alternative. Acrobat really is a bloated piece of crap with a worse loading time than an oil tanker
They do get to use it. It's a priviledge, not a right. All I can say is that if you are an A student then it just goes to show that everyone who says american public schools provide a McEducation are right. No wonder damn near every country in the world shows higher test scores than the US. Kids like you are the No. 1 argument in favour of abortion. If you were my kid I hold your head under the bath water until your feet stopped kicking.
Actually, it's from the crack school of marketing. Release a buggy product, give them one free call of support, and then nail them once they're hooked.
Frankly, as others said, parenting is a lot of hard work. And you must be consistent. As for them doing things other than what they were taught, get real, all kids do things that would curl their parent's hair. The best thing I've done is told the kids that if they abused their net priviledges, I would lock them out of the machine via the bios. And I've done it. I also pointed out that if the case was opened and the password cleared via jumper that the next time they went to used the computer it would have a keylock on it and the next time they used a computer in the house AMD would be marketing 512 bit CPU's
They know I mean it, because I've followed through on everything else I've said. That's the key, them knowing you will follow through, first time, every time. And that's regardless of how much they whine
I'm thinking about UFO which I liked as a kid (when I saw it as an adult I realized how truly bad it was). Updated it could be quite good.
I have to say I am looking forward to the episode. I never got into the original Dr. Who, but this version is much better and has a great deal of potential. Kind of like the new battlestar galactica which stomps all over the original. Maybe with the crash of ST Enterprise we may actually start to see some good sci-fi. There is actually a wealth of old shows that could be reborn with modern equipment and effect. Maybe some of the old Gerry Anderson shows (but not that god awful space 1999). None the less, bring on the golden salt shakers with the tinny voices!
Yes, paying off cops is just part of how the market works. It's a tradition dating back to cops eating for free, the pinkertons, and even well before that.