someone could create the guide tomorrow, right?
I mean, I guess it wouldn't have the GPS, or a live feed....but photo/color iPod can hold like 60 gig right there.
http://www.apple.com/ipod/color/
and the entire wiki database is only 4.2 gig
while the english parts, just 1.5 gig
http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/TablesDatabas eSize.htm
of course, that may say more about what's missing in the wikipedia than how easy it would be to cart it around in your hand. but a good start, no?
(at least the wikipedia and THHGTTG seem to have the same feel -- both have got the cavalier roving (roving in a cybersense) researchers whose information at best may be considered unreliable..
But at least the wiki-entry for "Earth" is longer than "mostly harmless". It's neat that the wikipedia article actually mentions that phrase though.)
(:
Yes, I think part of the problem has to do with the idea of Star Trek itself.. in our current entertainment world ((being dumbed down Reality TV garbage)).. but perhaps as much a problem is the way these programs get to us, by networks or cable or syndication.
here's an excerpt of an interview with The Man himself, in 1991:
Alexander: Of late, the headlines have been saying that the networks have been losing audience share. We have cable networks and shortly we will have direct satellite-to-home broadcasting. Do you think in five or ten years there will still be a place for the networks?
Roddenberry: There will be a place for them, but they will be just a part of the broad spectrum of communications. The world of three networks carrying the most important messages is long gone. One method of broadcasting -- syndication -- is so much better than networks! Syndication allows you control of your program. The evolution of programming is changing rapidly.
When you deal with networks, you deal with a lot of people who do not have the experience to make the decisions they make about programming and scripts. I make essentially the same decisions the network people would make, except that I don't have to answer directly to a network hierarchy....
I feel syndication is what let TNG become the success that it did. There was clearly good hype behind it, but the first season or two were really bad. And me, I'm a big fan.. but it was bad. But syndication is much more flexible, can reach people at any time, and TNG was able to get its footing and finally take off.
But who actually watches UPN? I mean, even if you -wanted- to watch the network, they don't make it easy.
It may not seem like a lot, but ABC/CBS/NBC/FOX have got this 95% to 97% access to the nation's households.. while WB and UPN have 84%-86% access. (So if your show is being compared to others on a basis of 2.1 million viewers to 1.9 million viewers, that 10% penalty right there is potentially making a 200,000 person difference.)
Worse than that however--- the few times I've tried watching Enterprise in the States (I'm Canadian, we get Enterprise on the cable Space channel only (another problem)) the UPN reception was horrible! No other stations had this problem those nights, but UPN in this city would cut in and out, making it utterly unwatchable. So I'd change channels, with plans to download the episode later when I got home. So I wonder how many other people have the same problem with a third rate UPN station or affilate.
.Anyway. I don't want to rant too long but.. five more things, in brief: TNG had great, thoughtful, supsensful 30 second teasers for upcoming episodes while the VOY/ENT ads that UPN airs are loud, utterly idiotic garbage;; UPN has its own interests at heart, its own expensive bottom line to worry about;; All the while UPN is trying to make a name for itself at the big kids table, -- so UPN plans their national program schedule to compete against top programs on other networks,,, while a syndicated station would try to pick up viewers in a timeslot that is most open for their local market;; And up in Canada anyway, you can only get ENT on Space, a station included in a package that costs an extra 15-20 dollars more than basic cable-- while TNG used to air around here on 'Global', a basic cable network-- and that takes a bite out;; and, unfortunately, "Reality TV" is what most people apparently want these days, rather than a thoughtful, well written, suspensful TV show;; lastly, even though I enjoyed it, Enterprise wasn't a very well written show in its first 2 1/2 seasons.... but its writing trumped TNGs first couple season in just about every single way. It's just unfortunate that Enterprise won't be getting the same chances that TNG g
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someone could create the guide tomorrow, right? I mean, I guess it wouldn't have the GPS, or a live feed.. ..but photo/color iPod can hold like 60 gig right there.
http://www.apple.com/ipod/color/
and the entire wiki database is only 4.2 gig
while the english parts, just 1.5 gig
http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/TablesDatabas eSize.htm
of course, that may say more about what's missing in the wikipedia than how easy it would be to cart it around in your hand. but a good start, no?
(at least the wikipedia and THHGTTG seem to have the same feel -- both have got the cavalier roving (roving in a cybersense) researchers whose information at best may be considered unreliable..
But at least the wiki-entry for "Earth" is longer than "mostly harmless". It's neat that the wikipedia article actually mentions that phrase though.)
(:
Yes, I think part of the problem has to do with the idea of Star Trek itself.. in our current entertainment world ((being dumbed down Reality TV garbage)).. but perhaps as much a problem is the way these programs get to us, by networks or cable or syndication.
here's an excerpt of an interview with The Man himself, in 1991:
I feel syndication is what let TNG become the success that it did. There was clearly good hype behind it, but the first season or two were really bad. And me, I'm a big fan.. but it was bad. But syndication is much more flexible, can reach people at any time, and TNG was able to get its footing and finally take off.
But who actually watches UPN? I mean, even if you -wanted- to watch the network, they don't make it easy.
It may not seem like a lot, but ABC/CBS/NBC/FOX have got this 95% to 97% access to the nation's households.. while WB and UPN have 84%-86% access. (So if your show is being compared to others on a basis of 2.1 million viewers to 1.9 million viewers, that 10% penalty right there is potentially making a 200,000 person difference.)
Worse than that however--- the few times I've tried watching Enterprise in the States (I'm Canadian, we get Enterprise on the cable Space channel only (another problem)) the UPN reception was horrible! No other stations had this problem those nights, but UPN in this city would cut in and out, making it utterly unwatchable. So I'd change channels, with plans to download the episode later when I got home. So I wonder how many other people have the same problem with a third rate UPN station or affilate.
.Anyway. I don't want to rant too long but.. five more things, in brief: TNG had great, thoughtful, supsensful 30 second teasers for upcoming episodes while the VOY/ENT ads that UPN airs are loud, utterly idiotic garbage;; UPN has its own interests at heart, its own expensive bottom line to worry about;; All the while UPN is trying to make a name for itself at the big kids table, -- so UPN plans their national program schedule to compete against top programs on other networks,,, while a syndicated station would try to pick up viewers in a timeslot that is most open for their local market;; And up in Canada anyway, you can only get ENT on Space, a station included in a package that costs an extra 15-20 dollars more than basic cable-- while TNG used to air around here on 'Global', a basic cable network-- and that takes a bite out;; and, unfortunately, "Reality TV" is what most people apparently want these days, rather than a thoughtful, well written, suspensful TV show;; lastly, even though I enjoyed it, Enterprise wasn't a very well written show in its first 2 1/2 seasons.... but its writing trumped TNGs first couple season in just about every single way. It's just unfortunate that Enterprise won't be getting the same chances that TNG g