Now a days those in charge are only interested in making a quick buck. Building an audience takes time. Being a science fiction fan I find most SciFi shows last one season and disappear. I look at the videos I have in my collection of SciFi and most are one season: Almost Human, Terra Nova, Etc. You have to let people know about the show. Do you think Dr. Who would have the audience it has now if the powers in charge today were in charge. Dr. Who became a hit only after many years and this started with PBS showing them. PBS started to show them in the 70's and it wasn't until 2005 when it returned that it started to get a largte following. Other shows outside of the SciFi arena that are great show don't last either. Take the recent show Forever. It was good and had potential to be good but disappeared quick without really solving the show. Thank goodness someone had the brains to see s show like Firefly as something good and have a movie made to tie up the loose ends. Of course the fan base forced it but it still shows the big shots running the networks have no clue on how to do anything. They believe on doing shows for the audience that demand very little brains.
I remember watching an interview with Herbert that talked about the type of leader paul was based on. In the end I thought he was talking about Pres. Obama not someone from the 1980's. Eerie......
Actually, as one of those amiga snobs, I would love to see it run on the x86-64 hardware. AmigaOS ran with less ram and multitasked better than windows does in low memory settings. The problem is that they (the new developers) have a weak minded viewpoint on making money from old amiga users. The make it for dead or a dying hardware platform and fail to embrace the common one. Oh to run AmigaOS on my windows machine is a dream come true. But it willnever happen. Just like running the mac OS X on a stock x86-64 machined without hacks.
I remember the old Amiga days that ran on shareware and freeware software. It was cheap, cheaper than windows stuff, and ran with less bug. And if there were bug the author was easy to contact a fix thew problem. I have one app with my Ipod touch called Recipes that there was a problem with the sending the recipe by email and I contacted the author and actually responded to the problem, found it, and said he would fix it. That's like the old days..
And true I usually stop playing with some 20 percent of the apps but most were free anyway.
Those I use I use alot.
I would have gotten one but when I logged in to my t-mobile page to upgrade I found out that I would have to pay 2 times the amount a new customer would have to pay. At 350 buck it's just too much.
I just packed up my amiga. The cost of upgrading the 4000 was too high.
But I still play with it with UAE the wonderful amiga emulation. The prgrams at version one and run faster than my 4000. And runs AmigaOS 3.9. I run it on my laptop so I can say I have an Amiga laptop:)
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Now a days those in charge are only interested in making a quick buck. Building an audience takes time. Being a science fiction fan I find most SciFi shows last one season and disappear. I look at the videos I have in my collection of SciFi and most are one season: Almost Human, Terra Nova, Etc. You have to let people know about the show. Do you think Dr. Who would have the audience it has now if the powers in charge today were in charge. Dr. Who became a hit only after many years and this started with PBS showing them. PBS started to show them in the 70's and it wasn't until 2005 when it returned that it started to get a largte following. Other shows outside of the SciFi arena that are great show don't last either. Take the recent show Forever. It was good and had potential to be good but disappeared quick without really solving the show. Thank goodness someone had the brains to see s show like Firefly as something good and have a movie made to tie up the loose ends. Of course the fan base forced it but it still shows the big shots running the networks have no clue on how to do anything. They believe on doing shows for the audience that demand very little brains.
I remember watching an interview with Herbert that talked about the type of leader paul was based on. In the end I thought he was talking about Pres. Obama not someone from the 1980's. Eerie......
Just to let you know the IPod Touch being discussed here is the 6th gen, dumbdown version. The 5th gen is much different than you described http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipod/family/ipod_touch .
Read this post and see why the article mentioned above is wrong. http://thedigitalbits.com/#mytwocents
Actually, as one of those amiga snobs, I would love to see it run on the x86-64 hardware. AmigaOS ran with less ram and multitasked better than windows does in low memory settings. The problem is that they (the new developers) have a weak minded viewpoint on making money from old amiga users. The make it for dead or a dying hardware platform and fail to embrace the common one. Oh to run AmigaOS on my windows machine is a dream come true. But it willnever happen. Just like running the mac OS X on a stock x86-64 machined without hacks.
I remember the old Amiga days that ran on shareware and freeware software. It was cheap, cheaper than windows stuff, and ran with less bug. And if there were bug the author was easy to contact a fix thew problem. I have one app with my Ipod touch called Recipes that there was a problem with the sending the recipe by email and I contacted the author and actually responded to the problem, found it, and said he would fix it. That's like the old days.. And true I usually stop playing with some 20 percent of the apps but most were free anyway. Those I use I use alot.
I would have gotten one but when I logged in to my t-mobile page to upgrade I found out that I would have to pay 2 times the amount a new customer would have to pay. At 350 buck it's just too much.
I just packed up my amiga. The cost of upgrading the 4000 was too high. But I still play with it with UAE the wonderful amiga emulation. The prgrams at version one and run faster than my 4000. And runs AmigaOS 3.9. I run it on my laptop so I can say I have an Amiga laptop :)