Next: wouldn't high numbers watching reruns of old shows only tell advertisers that they can continue to get away with broadcasting reruns? If nobody watched, then perhaps that would send a signal that people are finally sick of watching endless hours of Star Trek, Andromeda and other reruns and new product is required.
Might you understand that if nobody watched the reruns that the compaies MIGHT think that nobody gave a f**k about the shows anymore, at all?
I do not advocate propping-up a show ad infinitum; I merely suggest that it be done for the first couple of rerun cycles so that it appears there are viewers who did not see it the first time and, hopefully, it will provoke the production companies to create more new material for subsequent seasons. They're taking us for a ride with the advertising: let's take them for a ride drumming-up the numbers for more new material. The show's already cancelled, so what's to lose? If one more season can be created then maybe, MAYBE, viewers WILL pick up on it on their own and promote interest in continuing it even further. That they will swear-off creating new sci-fi altogether just because one show may tank seems a bit unrealistic - especially since they're hardly creating GOOD new shows NOW anyway.
Finally, what if fans took all that time spent watching reruns, got a second job and mailed the extra pay to the producers, instead of watching the same shows over and over?
In my post I said nothing about watching the show - just making sure that there was a way for the time to be counted for the show.
It's also extremely important to fans to have the show on their digital cable boxes because the devices can be polled - a 'watch' is counted as such whether you're really sitting in front of the tube or not.
I program my box to start-up for all the shows in which I have an interest (the box only draws about 30 watts) and if I'm not around I just punch-off the power button on the set itself (or be running a DVD thru the other A/V port, or a split-off signal of another channel thru the set's RF port). Viewer-counts are what make the cable companies and producers/underwriters take notice.
You'd be surprised how many DOS boxes and controllers are still out there running custom.EXE's for data acquisition and control and stuff (hooray for QuickBasic 4.5!)... I've got three of them under my responsibility - they've been in-place for yearsandyears and are still doing their jobs without so much as a hiccup.
I downloaded the animated GIF and pulled it into ImageJ (http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/index.html). My intent was to examine the frame immediately after the flare (which was frame 11) for any evidence of lingering heat.
I don't see any kind of change in the surface before/after - does anyone yet know if maybe it ricocheted back up again? 15 seconds/frame probably wouldn't show anything further...
The whole issue is one the allies had to deal with throughout WWII since they had cracked enigma and so wanted to act on the intelligence without letting the axis know that we could read their codes.
Um, I think the Allies didn't exactly HAVE those problems. They only had to justify the intelligence for themselves - they did not have civilian groups demanding 'full disclosure', media making an idiot-simple circus out of 'spying' coverage, or enemies crying to a u.n. they they were being 'unfair'...
"...it struck a wire attached to a tower used to protect the spacecraft from such strikes at the launch pad -- but it created a lightning field around the vehicle..."
SO, then: it's a lightning protection system for the shuttle that didn't protect the shuttle systems from lightning (and a power surge)... Yup - that's nasa.
...but more of a realist: what percentages of shuttles have gotten-off on-time-first-time-no-probs, have been delayed for technical reasons, have been delayed for weather, and whatever-else?
No - they just took a flip-flop out of the clock chain. In another 18 months they'll do it again - just think: in three years they can eliminate an entire 7470!
Nope - proxies and emailers are on the banned list. Anyway, the _request_ would still contain the target URL - a proxy prevents the target from knowing _you_; NOT you from knowing the target.
They filter at my workplace too; and log all outgoing URLs with their times.
Every month the individual gets 3 emails: the first consists of each domain name accessed (first-level names), with the number of requests sent to it, the second email is a list of ALL requests with times, the third is some stats: top-hundred most-browsed in the company & each one's # of hits, total requests gone out, etc....
The first month it went out everyone was QUITE sobered. The second month's stats were CONSIDERABLY lowered (there had been the thought of publicly listing each individual's total # requests per month; but that list never materialized - and everyone was told that their particular supervisor had access to the individual's lists).
> Anyone remember "2001, A Space Odyssey?" Heywood Floyd is rocketed from Earth to an orbiting space station, which is... half-built. (http://dayton.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGES/SMALL/GPN-2003-0 0 093.jpg)
Maybe so: but compare the size of it and its apparent utility (what the movie showed taking place on it) to this orbital version of'Dogpatch' (http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/136653main_s11 4e7221_high.jpg).
It seems like all they're ever doing is fixing it and waiting for the next food/oxygen delivery (and someone's impending ride home).
I own a Tivo and I have dishnetwork(echostar). anyone with a DVR system that isn't Tivo thinks it's the same. It's not the same.
Please tell those of us who have neither tivo or dishnetwork what kind(s) of difference(s) there are. I've considered both companies in the past, but can't see paying someone else a subscription fee for the crap that's available.
Earlier Friday, a Texas court had ruled that EchoStar was forbidden to sell its DP-501, DP-508, DP-510, DP-721, DP-921, DP-522, DP-625, and DP-942 DVRs, and that customers would be forbidden to use them within 30 days of the ruling.
Dear mr. judge - has anybody yet told you today to go play with yourself?
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Is it now SOP to do that 'flip-over-fly-by'-thing to try to look for damage?
Finally, somebody else who appreciates Rejewski's work!
Plainly, he was the giant 'upon whose shoulders everyone else stood' when it came to defeating the Enigma process.
A decent place to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Rejewski
Might you understand that if nobody watched the reruns that the compaies MIGHT think that nobody gave a f**k about the shows anymore, at all?
I do not advocate propping-up a show ad infinitum; I merely suggest that it be done for the first couple of rerun cycles so that it appears there are viewers who did not see it the first time and, hopefully, it will provoke the production companies to create more new material for subsequent seasons. They're taking us for a ride with the advertising: let's take them for a ride drumming-up the numbers for more new material. The show's already cancelled, so what's to lose? If one more season can be created then maybe, MAYBE, viewers WILL pick up on it on their own and promote interest in continuing it even further. That they will swear-off creating new sci-fi altogether just because one show may tank seems a bit unrealistic - especially since they're hardly creating GOOD new shows NOW anyway.
Finally, what if fans took all that time spent watching reruns, got a second job and mailed the extra pay to the producers, instead of watching the same shows over and over?
In my post I said nothing about watching the show - just making sure that there was a way for the time to be counted for the show.
It's also extremely important to fans to have the show on their digital cable boxes because the devices can be polled - a 'watch' is counted as such whether you're really sitting in front of the tube or not.
I program my box to start-up for all the shows in which I have an interest (the box only draws about 30 watts) and if I'm not around I just punch-off the power button on the set itself (or be running a DVD thru the other A/V port, or a split-off signal of another channel thru the set's RF port). Viewer-counts are what make the cable companies and producers/underwriters take notice.
But these are euro-schmucks. And besides, the EU has probably instituted some kind of ban on the use of the American invention RS-232.
And don't forget insulative qualities: have the canine whiz on it a few times too (electrolytes)!
You'd be surprised how many DOS boxes and controllers are still out there running custom .EXE's for data acquisition and control and stuff (hooray for QuickBasic 4.5!)... I've got three of them under my responsibility - they've been in-place for yearsandyears and are still doing their jobs without so much as a hiccup.
I downloaded the animated GIF and pulled it into ImageJ (http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/index.html). My intent was to examine the frame immediately after the flare (which was frame 11) for any evidence of lingering heat.
A cropped version of the result is at http://i4.tinypic.com/2corgvq.gif. It shows frames 10-16.
Pretty neat! It looks like it _did_ kick up some dust.
This article [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5313078.s tm] says he was filming for a show when it happened.
Any bets when/where (which internet site) the footage will show up?
Dear god: PLEASEohPLEASEohPLEASEohPLEASEohPLEASE!
This page: http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/News/Smart1/ says that the camera's resolution was 0.3 seconds of arc, which equals about 500 meters, per pixel.
I don't see any kind of change in the surface before/after - does anyone yet know if maybe it ricocheted back up again? 15 seconds/frame probably wouldn't show anything further...
You're right - I hadn't remembered Churchill dilemma concerning Coventry.
>> If bring Dell and Apple batteries on [a] plane what would happen?
Sammy Jackson would probably want to star in the m-f movie, maybe?
ANYthing that generates sound in OSX can be saved to a file in many different formats.
Um, I think the Allies didn't exactly HAVE those problems. They only had to justify the intelligence for themselves - they did not have civilian groups demanding 'full disclosure', media making an idiot-simple circus out of 'spying' coverage, or enemies crying to a u.n. they they were being 'unfair'...
Anybody ever see 'M' (1921, Peter Lorre, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022100/)?
The German government can't catch the child murderer, but the criminals of the underworld go after him, catch him, and administer their own justice.
"...it struck a wire attached to a tower used to protect the spacecraft from such strikes at the launch pad -- but it created a lightning field around the vehicle..."
SO, then: it's a lightning protection system for the shuttle that didn't protect the shuttle systems from lightning (and a power surge)... Yup - that's nasa.
...but more of a realist: what percentages of shuttles have gotten-off on-time-first-time-no-probs, have been delayed for technical reasons, have been delayed for weather, and whatever-else?
No - they just took a flip-flop out of the clock chain. In another 18 months they'll do it again - just think: in three years they can eliminate an entire 7470!
Money talks, and self-promotion is everything? She's just another high-paying piece of baggage.
Nope - proxies and emailers are on the banned list. Anyway, the _request_ would still contain the target URL - a proxy prevents the target from knowing _you_; NOT you from knowing the target.
They filter at my workplace too; and log all outgoing URLs with their times.
Every month the individual gets 3 emails: the first consists of each domain name accessed (first-level names), with the number of requests sent to it, the second email is a list of ALL requests with times, the third is some stats: top-hundred most-browsed in the company & each one's # of hits, total requests gone out, etc....
The first month it went out everyone was QUITE sobered. The second month's stats were CONSIDERABLY lowered (there had been the thought of publicly listing each individual's total # requests per month; but that list never materialized - and everyone was told that their particular supervisor had access to the individual's lists).
Guilt-induced self-policing DOES work.
> Anyone remember "2001, A Space Odyssey?" Heywood Floyd is rocketed from Earth to an orbiting space station, which is ... half-built. (http://dayton.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGES/SMALL/GPN-2003-0 0 093.jpg)
1 4e7221_high.jpg).
Maybe so: but compare the size of it and its apparent utility (what the movie showed taking place on it) to this orbital version of'Dogpatch' (http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/136653main_s1
It seems like all they're ever doing is fixing it and waiting for the next food/oxygen delivery (and someone's impending ride home).
Please tell those of us who have neither tivo or dishnetwork what kind(s) of difference(s) there are. I've considered both companies in the past, but can't see paying someone else a subscription fee for the crap that's available.
Dear mr. judge - has anybody yet told you today to go play with yourself?
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