i shouldn't be surprised that so many comments are taking the high-horse of the "pussification" of america. after-all its an easy one to take. censorship must be bad. those pansies at Sesame Street are just scared of lawsuits, right?
Wrong. Placing a label on a DVD that some would take (rightly so) at first glance as a kids show is responsible action if that kids show has actors (including puppets) modeling behavior that you might not want your kids to engage in. This stuff was shot almost 40 years ago. Just because "My mom smoked and drank while she was pregnant and we never sat in a car seat and we shot each other in the head with BB guns...etc" doesn't mean that times have changed and that we haven't learned anything.
The pithy pot-shots at PBS are misplaced. The story here is that we have learned a lot in 40 years about how children, especially young children learn and model behavior. And yes, parents are key. So quit dogging on someone for doing something right. And in case you are wondering, I don't let my kids watch ANY TV. I do, however let them watch an occasional movie and i appreciate knowing what it contains first. I also watch what they eat, read them books at night and am teaching my oldest (he's 2 and a half) to build computers.
So please, cut the folks at PBS a break. Sesame Street today is a great show and is really a good influence for kids. And before you start spouting off about how kids should toughen up, try having some yourself, and then let me know how much you want them to smoke and drink and drive fast cars. there are plenty of better ways to learn that stuff than from the TV - my kids uncle comes to mind....
i wonder how much of an issue this would be if this weren't such a good show/season for scifi. "The show saw bigger gains in the viewers age 25 to 54 demographic (seven percent), and viewers 18 to 49 (4 percent)." http://www.gateworld.net/galactica/news/2006/10/se ason_three_premieres_with_strong_ratings.shtml
seems like everyone was cool with the arrangement last month. or else, why would the first three have gone up without a problem?
i couldn't agree more. Nerdom Unite! if you see a story on M$ and you hate them, then try to post something informative to help folks like me understand what the problem is. you don't need to remind me that they are a heartless corporate juggarnaught or that run hoary hedgehog on your whitebox or you have never gotten a virus because you are cool mac user.
and if you are a moderator, please mod these things down, or at least don't mod up. i know humor is relative, but after a few posts of "that was fast?", or "that's news?" maybe we can stop modding things as funny and go for redundant.
my own opinion is that that some things work better on ie. its just a fact. my default browser has been FF since tabbed browsing, and also to support their work, but now that ie has some of that same functionality, i am using it even more because i tend to go to it for a few sites that i use for work that demand it.
security hasn't been an issue with either browser (nor was it when i used Maxthon, or Opera).
I'm just a little suprised at the comments about MySpace. Clearly i am in a minority of/. readers who actually enjoys and uses MySpace. Granted, i only began using it a few weeks ago, but i have actually had fun using html and then teaching it to my friends so they can improve their pages. but most importantly, i have reconnected with a lot of old friends who now live in other cities. No other social networking website i have used before has been able to do that for me.
The real item of interest i thought was the "average usage time" stat. MySpace users average over 2 hours/session. Thats on par with ebay and Yahoo. and twice that of Google. thats a lot of ads. ads = $ = power whether the techno-istas poo-poo it or not.
they just called them iMacs.
but seriously, it shouldn't surprise Mac lovers that this is now the case. Apple made a brand on a market that never wanted to upgrade a componet or otherwise "deal with" their computers. I know there are serious Mac users out there, so please don't get me wrong. But when you crack open my old Blueberry iMac, Lo and Behold! Its a Laptop inside. The same technology that makes the Mini viable, is what has been pushing laptops into the forefront.
At my office, the first question we ask new employees is "laptop or desktop?". Only one person took the desktop and thats because we already had it set up, she really didn't care, and we needed to get rid of it. The rest of us can work at the coffeeshop or park, receiving calls via cel phone and email updates from the office. I really don't understand why you would want a desktop at this point.
from the site: http://www.elevator2010.org/site/primer.html
"# The ribbon is 62,000 miles long, about 3 feet wide, and is thinner than a sheet of paper. It is made out a material called Carbon Nanotube Composite.
# The climbers travel at a steady 200 miles per hour, do not undergo accelerations and vibrations, can carry large and fragile payloads, and have no propellant stored onboard."
so lets see . . . 62,000/200 = 310 hours! how many times do i have to listen to Kraftwerk?
"There have been rumors about various scripts that supposedly are set in the 1950s, have Soviets for enemies, and include Indy's brother and a lost continent. Although many fans hope that Atlantis is the central point of the story, Lucas mentioned a while ago that he plans for Adam and Eve to play a large part in the movie, leading most to believe that the Garden of Eden will be the main point of the movie." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jones
sounds good to me, whatever it is. i wouldn't mind a little ILM updating for the old dog. Indy has always been a favorite of mine, but i wonder what else might have to change to meet the new markets of today.
yeah, i am fully inspired with confidence in HP's data management. i work for a small non-profit and they recently called to say they were coming over to work on our servers and wanted permission to do so. we told them we didn't have any HP servers and that even if we did, they wouldn't be allowed to work on them. they called back five minutes later and asked were we located at such-and such address. we said, yes we were, but that again, we didn't have and never would have HP servers and didn't this seem like a good time to check their records. the tech said, "you're a liar". well, a few more minutes go by and yet another tech calls to inquire about their service call. at this point, we repeat the above information - yes this is our location and yes this is our phone number, but no, we didn't call and did we mention we don't even have HP servers. the tech's response was, "Have you been drinking?".
so great, the masters of data management will be in charge of a national ID system. i can see it now - "Yes, officer, i do live here, and that is my phone number, but my name isn't Osama!"
i'm not sure what the fuss is all about. if you read the cnet article that is linked, its pretty unsubstantial and, well, pretty much says nothing. the sub headline reads "Counterfeit DVDs and cigarettes may be funding terrorists."
Wow! thanks for the news-flash. terrorists may be recieving money from illegal activity. as has been pointed out in other posts, this shouldn't come as a shock to anyone. what shocks me is the response to a largely uninformative article. but then again, i guess i am now just as guilty as the rest.
oh well, guess i'll go engage in some form of legal commerce so the terrorists don't win.
The issue isn't who is going to put a stop to it as much as who has the vision to implement it. Griffin may have a plan, but without leadership on the executive level to champion the cause, there will be no real progress in space. blame the enemy as well (or lack thereof). when Kennedy launched the US into the space-race, it may have been genuine zeal for the cause, or maybe the fact that somebody else got the jump on us had more to do with it (and the subsequent groundswell of support).
so keep your spaceboots on for now, there hasn't been much promise of leadership from either political party recently and last time i checked Osama wasn't hiding out on Mars. hey, now there's an idea . . .
And Hungarian Horntails, as we all know, are black with yellow eyes. Looks to me like they are trying to pass of an older Swedish Short-Snout on us with prostetics attached to the tail.
Plus, has anyone noticed anything different about Dumbledore lately? Its almost as if he's been replaced by a look-alike . . .
first off it shouldn't be surprising to anyone that the trailer is flashy or full of action. Whedon no doubt wants it to appeal to as broad an audience as possible in the trailers. while there is ample footage to get fans motivated to see the film, the trailer isn't meant get fans to go - its meant to get jane and john moviegoer to show up and prove Whedon's "unique vision" was just misplaced on the small screen. Fanboy and Fangirl would be excited with a 10 minute trailer of River talking to sticks, but G. Public needs a little more incentive.
that being said, i think the "action shots" included in the trailer bode well for the overall quality of the film. we get a Reaver on the ship, an Assasin (bounty hunter?) on their trail, some entaglement with a larger Alliance issue than River and undoubtedly more. Whedon has always said this will be a reintroduction of the story and characters done the way he originally envisioned. imagine STNG pilot on the big screen as a 2 hour movie with the benefit of rewrites.
we also hear some familiar terse remarks from Mal and a great comment by Wash showing he still has the same dry wit as in the series. if two hours of dialogue gets distilled to just one or two catchy (but not cliche)clips, then we can all rest easy. its not like we had to see Data saying, "Lock an Load"
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i shouldn't be surprised that so many comments are taking the high-horse of the "pussification" of america. after-all its an easy one to take. censorship must be bad. those pansies at Sesame Street are just scared of lawsuits, right? Wrong. Placing a label on a DVD that some would take (rightly so) at first glance as a kids show is responsible action if that kids show has actors (including puppets) modeling behavior that you might not want your kids to engage in. This stuff was shot almost 40 years ago. Just because "My mom smoked and drank while she was pregnant and we never sat in a car seat and we shot each other in the head with BB guns...etc" doesn't mean that times have changed and that we haven't learned anything. The pithy pot-shots at PBS are misplaced. The story here is that we have learned a lot in 40 years about how children, especially young children learn and model behavior. And yes, parents are key. So quit dogging on someone for doing something right. And in case you are wondering, I don't let my kids watch ANY TV. I do, however let them watch an occasional movie and i appreciate knowing what it contains first. I also watch what they eat, read them books at night and am teaching my oldest (he's 2 and a half) to build computers. So please, cut the folks at PBS a break. Sesame Street today is a great show and is really a good influence for kids. And before you start spouting off about how kids should toughen up, try having some yourself, and then let me know how much you want them to smoke and drink and drive fast cars. there are plenty of better ways to learn that stuff than from the TV - my kids uncle comes to mind....
i wonder how much of an issue this would be if this weren't such a good show/season for scifi.e ason_three_premieres_with_strong_ratings.shtml
"The show saw bigger gains in the viewers age 25 to 54 demographic (seven percent), and viewers 18 to 49 (4 percent)." http://www.gateworld.net/galactica/news/2006/10/s
seems like everyone was cool with the arrangement last month. or else, why would the first three have gone up without a problem?
i couldn't agree more. Nerdom Unite! if you see a story on M$ and you hate them, then try to post something informative to help folks like me understand what the problem is. you don't need to remind me that they are a heartless corporate juggarnaught or that run hoary hedgehog on your whitebox or you have never gotten a virus because you are cool mac user.
and if you are a moderator, please mod these things down, or at least don't mod up. i know humor is relative, but after a few posts of "that was fast?", or "that's news?" maybe we can stop modding things as funny and go for redundant.
my own opinion is that that some things work better on ie. its just a fact. my default browser has been FF since tabbed browsing, and also to support their work, but now that ie has some of that same functionality, i am using it even more because i tend to go to it for a few sites that i use for work that demand it. security hasn't been an issue with either browser (nor was it when i used Maxthon, or Opera).
I'm just a little suprised at the comments about MySpace. Clearly i am in a minority of /. readers who actually enjoys and uses MySpace. Granted, i only began using it a few weeks ago, but i have actually had fun using html and then teaching it to my friends so they can improve their pages. but most importantly, i have reconnected with a lot of old friends who now live in other cities. No other social networking website i have used before has been able to do that for me.
The real item of interest i thought was the "average usage time" stat. MySpace users average over 2 hours/session. Thats on par with ebay and Yahoo. and twice that of Google. thats a lot of ads. ads = $ = power whether the techno-istas poo-poo it or not.
This is why i keep all my money in a wad stuffed in shoebox under the bed. That way i always know where to find it - right next to the porn.
they just called them iMacs.
but seriously, it shouldn't surprise Mac lovers that this is now the case. Apple made a brand on a market that never wanted to upgrade a componet or otherwise "deal with" their computers. I know there are serious Mac users out there, so please don't get me wrong. But when you crack open my old Blueberry iMac, Lo and Behold! Its a Laptop inside. The same technology that makes the Mini viable, is what has been pushing laptops into the forefront.
At my office, the first question we ask new employees is "laptop or desktop?". Only one person took the desktop and thats because we already had it set up, she really didn't care, and we needed to get rid of it. The rest of us can work at the coffeeshop or park, receiving calls via cel phone and email updates from the office. I really don't understand why you would want a desktop at this point.
from the site: http://www.elevator2010.org/site/primer.html
"# The ribbon is 62,000 miles long, about 3 feet wide, and is thinner than a sheet of paper. It is made out a material called Carbon Nanotube Composite. # The climbers travel at a steady 200 miles per hour, do not undergo accelerations and vibrations, can carry large and fragile payloads, and have no propellant stored onboard."
so lets see . . . 62,000/200 = 310 hours! how many times do i have to listen to Kraftwerk?
link is here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?story Id=4677825
I heard about it this morning. It sounds better over coffee.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jones
sounds good to me, whatever it is. i wouldn't mind a little ILM updating for the old dog. Indy has always been a favorite of mine, but i wonder what else might have to change to meet the new markets of today.
yeah, i am fully inspired with confidence in HP's data management. i work for a small non-profit and they recently called to say they were coming over to work on our servers and wanted permission to do so. we told them we didn't have any HP servers and that even if we did, they wouldn't be allowed to work on them. they called back five minutes later and asked were we located at such-and such address. we said, yes we were, but that again, we didn't have and never would have HP servers and didn't this seem like a good time to check their records. the tech said, "you're a liar". well, a few more minutes go by and yet another tech calls to inquire about their service call. at this point, we repeat the above information - yes this is our location and yes this is our phone number, but no, we didn't call and did we mention we don't even have HP servers. the tech's response was, "Have you been drinking?".
so great, the masters of data management will be in charge of a national ID system. i can see it now - "Yes, officer, i do live here, and that is my phone number, but my name isn't Osama!"
i'm not sure what the fuss is all about. if you read the cnet article that is linked, its pretty unsubstantial and, well, pretty much says nothing. the sub headline reads "Counterfeit DVDs and cigarettes may be funding terrorists." Wow! thanks for the news-flash. terrorists may be recieving money from illegal activity. as has been pointed out in other posts, this shouldn't come as a shock to anyone. what shocks me is the response to a largely uninformative article. but then again, i guess i am now just as guilty as the rest. oh well, guess i'll go engage in some form of legal commerce so the terrorists don't win.
The issue isn't who is going to put a stop to it as much as who has the vision to implement it. Griffin may have a plan, but without leadership on the executive level to champion the cause, there will be no real progress in space. blame the enemy as well (or lack thereof). when Kennedy launched the US into the space-race, it may have been genuine zeal for the cause, or maybe the fact that somebody else got the jump on us had more to do with it (and the subsequent groundswell of support). so keep your spaceboots on for now, there hasn't been much promise of leadership from either political party recently and last time i checked Osama wasn't hiding out on Mars. hey, now there's an idea . . .
And Hungarian Horntails, as we all know, are black with yellow eyes. Looks to me like they are trying to pass of an older Swedish Short-Snout on us with prostetics attached to the tail. Plus, has anyone noticed anything different about Dumbledore lately? Its almost as if he's been replaced by a look-alike . . .
first off it shouldn't be surprising to anyone that the trailer is flashy or full of action. Whedon no doubt wants it to appeal to as broad an audience as possible in the trailers. while there is ample footage to get fans motivated to see the film, the trailer isn't meant get fans to go - its meant to get jane and john moviegoer to show up and prove Whedon's "unique vision" was just misplaced on the small screen. Fanboy and Fangirl would be excited with a 10 minute trailer of River talking to sticks, but G. Public needs a little more incentive. that being said, i think the "action shots" included in the trailer bode well for the overall quality of the film. we get a Reaver on the ship, an Assasin (bounty hunter?) on their trail, some entaglement with a larger Alliance issue than River and undoubtedly more. Whedon has always said this will be a reintroduction of the story and characters done the way he originally envisioned. imagine STNG pilot on the big screen as a 2 hour movie with the benefit of rewrites. we also hear some familiar terse remarks from Mal and a great comment by Wash showing he still has the same dry wit as in the series. if two hours of dialogue gets distilled to just one or two catchy (but not cliche)clips, then we can all rest easy. its not like we had to see Data saying, "Lock an Load"