These filler episodes are necessary. It makes for good scifi because it describes in greater detail the situation that the refugees are in. Think of a good scifi novel that spends half a chapter explaining a particular piece of technology or a particular social construct and why it exists.
Take Unfinished Business, it was a great insight into how the military is coping with the great pressures that are on them. The black market episode demonstrated an inevitability in human behavior, or how about the episode where the chief starts a general strike. These "filler" episodes simply attempt to portray the ENTIRE picture, not just space dog fights and strange mythology, which of course are great, but it's not the whole story.
This is what makes BSG science fiction, as opposed to a space opera.
Sure, they are useful tools, but standing behind a laptop looks really stupid on stage. Dance. Sing. Play some other instrument as well. Anything. Just don't stand behind you laptop looking like an idiot. If that's all your music is, press it to CD and give it to a DJ to play. That can be good too... but Live Music requires doing something Live that is visible to the audience!
I agree whole heartedly. I am an electronic musician but I hate standing on stage bobbing my head infront of a laptop. I AT LEAST bring my Oxygen8 to shows so I can AT LEAST play lead melodies and tweak knobs live. I've played the piano for years and years so that helps as well.
I've seen a lot of electronic acts and the ones that impressed me the most were the least pre programmed sets. Infected Mushroom, a trance act, is a very live act. They jam hard on their nordleads and junos. Squarepusher has a laptop, messes up the knobs, and destroys cognitive responses with his bass. Juno Reactor, laptop, live guitars, drumming, vocals.
uZiq, Luke Vibert, Astral Projection, Talamasca, and various others were disapointing because there was nothing very "live" about it. Luke Vibert and uZiq didn't even have knob boxes.
I love electronic music, I love the freedom it affords me, but I can never stand for alienation of actual LIVE shows and while I may bring my laptop with me on stage, I utterly REFUSE to be that artist who stands behind his laptop with a glowing apple bobbing his or her head and thats it.
Simply put: Live shows are not just about the music, it's about the performance.
During the early 90ies, I went to the principle and requested blue prints of my high school so I could make a Doom map. I asked teachers to pose so I could take pictures of them and turned them into sprites and used their voices. One teacher pushed a desk into a misbehaving student so he replaced the Cyberdemon and instead of shooting rockets, he shot desks at you.
No one cared. Most thought it was an interesting idea and one teacher had fun shooting himself.
All this on top of the fact that I was a violent kid in high school, constantly got into trouble, and was essentially a troublemaker.
The last place I worked at, I turned my office and surrounding areas into a counter strike source map with the help of another employee. We mapped out the surrounding area which included a police station. The police were suspicious at first, but after explaining where we worked and what the project was, they wanted to play the map. This was only three years ago.
These days North America seems to have descended back into a Salem witch hunt. The slightest notion that you might be a teeny tiny bit off center and suddenly you're arrested, subjected to psychological tests, put on medication by court orders, and for what? To keep the population safe? I certainly didn't kill anyone, in real life, and I certainly don't plan to. Instead, I'll take out my frustration on ragdoll NPCs and/or get laid. Either one works pretty well at preventing me from murder.
Step 1: Install Windows Step 2: Change to Windows Classic Step 3: Desktop Background to image of my choice or color black
Computer is now customized to my liking.
FreeBSD: Step 1: Install FreeBSD Step 2: Locate the ports I want installed and compile a list of make install clean commands into one command Step 3: Periodically check for config menus
Inner city living won't give you clear water. Clean, free of pestilance maybe, but tastes good? No.
Thats where brita filters come in. The only time I buy bottled water is when it's 3am, liquored up, and an hour away from home.
GMail supports POP. So you could just setup an account in your mail client at work. I use IMAP for my personal email at work. Barring that, I can VNC / Remote desktop to my windows machine and use the mail client there. Barring that I can SSH into my server and check my imap server there.
You're a spy. You're sent in to infiltrate a terrorist organization in some self sustaining desert town full of impoverished potential recruits for the terrorist organization.
Shortwave is a common technology amongst these kinds of towns. Radios have been around for over 100 years now I believe (if not almost 100 years). Your laptop, PDA, or other fancy high tech equipment is going to give you away.
Advertisers, marketers, they want to adjust society to create market friendly conditions for their products. This doesn't have a high success rate.
This "Web 2.0" thing, is basically the advent of millions of people expressing their lives and opinions openly and freely and now marketers and advertisers have a gauge on society and where it's headed before it even gets there. This isn't about MARKET trends, this is about SOCIETAL trends and right now the suits of the world have trillions of bytes of information at their disposal to make decisions on what the new product will be and how it will be sold to the masses.
This is DEFINITELY not a bubble that will burst at all. Welcome to the new way of doing business. This will be both great and horrible for the masses. Because of society exposing itself like never before, "underground" cultures are going to be exploited far more quickly. Originality will be harder than ever to achieve. At the same time, we'll probably start seeing less focus-less advertising that is just trying to get anyone anywhere to buy a product they don't want or need.
// Make this a nice neat config file and include it obviously @parties = (respectiveOfficers,directors,agents,servants,empl oyees,parents,subsidiaries,affiliatedCompanies,att orneys,successors,assigns); if (in_array(@parties, $complainant)) { die('released each other from any and all claims, demands, damages, losses, liabilities, rights or causes of action, including but not limited to any claim for attorneys fees'); }
Ok, so that MAY look like perl, and MAY use a php function, but you get the jist of it
"Can I borrow this book?" "No." "What, why not?" "It's not mine." "So?" "So I can't lend you something that isn't mine." "You're not good! You're evil!"
Google doesn't own the images. Gaia was using those images through Google. If Gaia was using those images through Google, and Google didn't own them, then it's up to Google to flex some muscle and make it stop.
EVE Online has mass apeal because it fills the opposite side of geekdom.
EVE Online is to scifi what Dune is to Scifi WoW is to fantasy what LOTR is to fantasy.
They are the extremes of their respective genres and this is why EVE won't die.
I agree with everything else you said though. This joining forces won't really do anything at all and nothing will change, nothing interesting will come of it.
don't forget how we like to go on irc and message forums and remind everyone that we are superior to americans...
oh yes,mod me flamebait, but 99% of all flamewars are canadians telling americans "hey, you're an american, your opinion is sinking in the ocean because my superior canadian intellect sunk it"
Funny you say that...
I withdrew money from a diebold created bank machine owned and operated by the CIBC bank.
The next day, my personal bank (not CIBC) set my withdrawl limit to $1 and claimed my card was compromised as a result of withdrawing money from a bad bank machine.
Slashdot Mirror
"Hollywood will be able to say anything they want, whenever they want,"
If I'm not mistaken, thats the whole idea of freedom of speech right?
This is for latency.
If the defensive silos are further away, they have more time to target properly.
These filler episodes are necessary. It makes for good scifi because it describes in greater detail the situation that the refugees are in. Think of a good scifi novel that spends half a chapter explaining a particular piece of technology or a particular social construct and why it exists.
Take Unfinished Business, it was a great insight into how the military is coping with the great pressures that are on them. The black market episode demonstrated an inevitability in human behavior, or how about the episode where the chief starts a general strike. These "filler" episodes simply attempt to portray the ENTIRE picture, not just space dog fights and strange mythology, which of course are great, but it's not the whole story.
This is what makes BSG science fiction, as opposed to a space opera.
Greatest reference to TPB on slashdot ever
I agree whole heartedly. I am an electronic musician but I hate standing on stage bobbing my head infront of a laptop. I AT LEAST bring my Oxygen8 to shows so I can AT LEAST play lead melodies and tweak knobs live. I've played the piano for years and years so that helps as well.
I've seen a lot of electronic acts and the ones that impressed me the most were the least pre programmed sets. Infected Mushroom, a trance act, is a very live act. They jam hard on their nordleads and junos. Squarepusher has a laptop, messes up the knobs, and destroys cognitive responses with his bass. Juno Reactor, laptop, live guitars, drumming, vocals.
uZiq, Luke Vibert, Astral Projection, Talamasca, and various others were disapointing because there was nothing very "live" about it. Luke Vibert and uZiq didn't even have knob boxes.
I love electronic music, I love the freedom it affords me, but I can never stand for alienation of actual LIVE shows and while I may bring my laptop with me on stage, I utterly REFUSE to be that artist who stands behind his laptop with a glowing apple bobbing his or her head and thats it.
Simply put: Live shows are not just about the music, it's about the performance.
During the early 90ies, I went to the principle and requested blue prints of my high school so I could make a Doom map. I asked teachers to pose so I could take pictures of them and turned them into sprites and used their voices. One teacher pushed a desk into a misbehaving student so he replaced the Cyberdemon and instead of shooting rockets, he shot desks at you.
No one cared. Most thought it was an interesting idea and one teacher had fun shooting himself.
All this on top of the fact that I was a violent kid in high school, constantly got into trouble, and was essentially a troublemaker.
The last place I worked at, I turned my office and surrounding areas into a counter strike source map with the help of another employee. We mapped out the surrounding area which included a police station. The police were suspicious at first, but after explaining where we worked and what the project was, they wanted to play the map. This was only three years ago.
These days North America seems to have descended back into a Salem witch hunt. The slightest notion that you might be a teeny tiny bit off center and suddenly you're arrested, subjected to psychological tests, put on medication by court orders, and for what? To keep the population safe? I certainly didn't kill anyone, in real life, and I certainly don't plan to. Instead, I'll take out my frustration on ragdoll NPCs and/or get laid. Either one works pretty well at preventing me from murder.
I'm feeling lucky
Windows:
Step 1: Install Windows
Step 2: Change to Windows Classic
Step 3: Desktop Background to image of my choice or color black
Computer is now customized to my liking.
FreeBSD:
Step 1: Install FreeBSD
Step 2: Locate the ports I want installed and compile a list of make install clean commands into one command
Step 3: Periodically check for config menus
Computer is now customized to my liking.
Inner city living won't give you clear water. Clean, free of pestilance maybe, but tastes good? No. Thats where brita filters come in. The only time I buy bottled water is when it's 3am, liquored up, and an hour away from home.
GMail supports POP. So you could just setup an account in your mail client at work. I use IMAP for my personal email at work. Barring that, I can VNC / Remote desktop to my windows machine and use the mail client there. Barring that I can SSH into my server and check my imap server there.
one of my favorite quotes from futurama ever
"I bet those windmills will keep those turtles cool"
"WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY! GOOD NIGHT!"
Vista locks down DRM enabled media. Don't put DRM in your media, and you won't have problems.
story line is fine, it will probably end in a fourth season.
The ratings are falling because who the hell watches TV on a friday night? Wait till the show is moved to 10pm sunday, then we'll see ratings go up.
You're a spy. You're sent in to infiltrate a terrorist organization in some self sustaining desert town full of impoverished potential recruits for the terrorist organization. Shortwave is a common technology amongst these kinds of towns. Radios have been around for over 100 years now I believe (if not almost 100 years). Your laptop, PDA, or other fancy high tech equipment is going to give you away.
Advertisers, marketers, they want to adjust society to create market friendly conditions for their products. This doesn't have a high success rate.
This "Web 2.0" thing, is basically the advent of millions of people expressing their lives and opinions openly and freely and now marketers and advertisers have a gauge on society and where it's headed before it even gets there. This isn't about MARKET trends, this is about SOCIETAL trends and right now the suits of the world have trillions of bytes of information at their disposal to make decisions on what the new product will be and how it will be sold to the masses.
This is DEFINITELY not a bubble that will burst at all. Welcome to the new way of doing business. This will be both great and horrible for the masses. Because of society exposing itself like never before, "underground" cultures are going to be exploited far more quickly. Originality will be harder than ever to achieve. At the same time, we'll probably start seeing less focus-less advertising that is just trying to get anyone anywhere to buy a product they don't want or need.
I welcome any sensible debate on this...
Windmills do not work that way, GOOD NIGHT
I already put a disclaimer up about that, what more do you want from me! :(
I think I would rather do this:
Ok, so that MAY look like perl, and MAY use a php function, but you get the jist of it
"Can I borrow this book?"
"No."
"What, why not?"
"It's not mine."
"So?"
"So I can't lend you something that isn't mine."
"You're not good! You're evil!"
Google doesn't own the images. Gaia was using those images through Google. If Gaia was using those images through Google, and Google didn't own them, then it's up to Google to flex some muscle and make it stop.
10 + 7.7 = 17.7, not 18.
EVE Online has mass apeal because it fills the opposite side of geekdom.
EVE Online is to scifi what Dune is to Scifi
WoW is to fantasy what LOTR is to fantasy.
They are the extremes of their respective genres and this is why EVE won't die.
I agree with everything else you said though. This joining forces won't really do anything at all and nothing will change, nothing interesting will come of it.
If someone working for paypal got raped, many would consider it eye-for-an-eye vegence.
paypal rapes you, you rape paypal back.
unfortunately corporations are represented via human beings so its the human beings that are made to suffer...
don't forget how we like to go on irc and message forums and remind everyone that we are superior to americans...
oh yes,mod me flamebait, but 99% of all flamewars are canadians telling americans "hey, you're an american, your opinion is sinking in the ocean because my superior canadian intellect sunk it"
Funny you say that... I withdrew money from a diebold created bank machine owned and operated by the CIBC bank. The next day, my personal bank (not CIBC) set my withdrawl limit to $1 and claimed my card was compromised as a result of withdrawing money from a bad bank machine.
The two usually go together don't they?