What's the difference between Facebook, Google, et. al. taking themselves offline compared to the government doing it for them? From an end user's perspective, there is no difference.
It's the difference between a dude in Tunisia setting himself on fire in political protest and the cops taking him away to be disposed of quietly. Choice. Freedom. Yes, if you get freedom to decide for yourself, that means the people running Google and Facebook get freedom too. It's part of the overall concept. And when people see that Google, Facebook, et al are willing to hurt themselves to stop this legislation, it might pique a little interest.
Nothing. It does make them stupid though. You'd think they'd want as many apps as they can get (and young minds learning their platform). Developers, Developers, Developers!
I recently watched a few episodes, just to see what it was about. I love both scifi and steampunk, so I should be the target audience for a space western like that.
But it's not Steampunk. It's pure sci-fi with some cultural western and Chinese flair on the outer-rim colony planets (not unlike star wars and star trek). Get further into the series and you'll see some core planets.
It was... OK, I guess. The acting and writing were mediocre (A bit too many cliches, etc. but tolerable)
That's where you part ways with a lot of us. Compare whedon's writing to Lucas or any trek, and you'll find character growth and clever interplay of personal goals.
and the special effects were OK (when taking into account the budget constraints they probably had).
CG will look dated because CG always looks dated. If you can ignore it while watching B5 or ST:TNG, then you can ignore it anywhere.
The setting itself was nice, though there wasn't that much originality if you're already well familiar with the genre.
genre? Cowboy bebop and... What else exactly?
Really, it was on par with Farscape: I wouldn't change the channel when it's on but I wouldn't go out of my way to recommend it to a friend.
Firefly keeps within its universe's setting. No aliens (all human colonies), no magic (so no episodes like Catspaw or That Old Black Magic), no sound in space, very little lasers (mass drivers still being better bang for your buck). Watch far enough, and you'll find they don't even have regular interstellar travel (it's only been done once, long ago). The only super-science they have is gravity manipulation, and it powers engines, lifts, keeps feet on the deck, and allows for insane accelerations. But very little "quasi harmonic nucleon polarity reversal" talk.
So I found myself wondering... why do some people love it so much? Is there some specific aspect of the show that they consider well made or what?
Did you like dr horrible's singalong blog? This show was written just as well. Humans like a little bit of cliche. Without it, there's little structure, like in an art film. But they also like surprises, and this series has a lot.
I was taught that a 100 watt light would safely thaw a frozen water line if kept in an enclosed area without burning down the house.
It does. It also keeps a small outside dog or cat house warm. Stronger benefit more than "heat" lamps: they're not overly hot, and you can tell from a good distance whether they've gone out.
Seriously. Are you going to watch the next batman 7 months after release, or are you going to the nearest Imax?
I don't have to grab the marshmallow right away. I'm the kind that waits for the promise of "two marshmallows later" to be fulfilled. I've waited my whole life to see "the next batman", I'm pretty sure I can wait seven more months (but it's usually not that long; two months).
Eventually they will discover a killer app that they must be able to run on their device of choice - and then discover that since they went the iPhad route, they are completely denied the chance to use it.
Already happened with tethering and copy/paste. iPhone users stuck through the hard times through three phone upgrades before they almost got what they wanted.
"It seems we lost 100,000 customers after we announced we weren't going to charge the $2. I guess they really wanted to pay us $2 more. Reinstate the fees!"
With stuff like DynDNS why do you need a static IP anywhere?
Whenever I'm SSH'd into work from home, I have to remember to run screen because my IP address changes almost nightly, and it seems to be always when I'm in the flow.
That's what I read the title as. I thought of Marvin and Data. Of the two, only Data is an android, and while Marvin might be many ages-of-the-universe old, Data's head is three hundred years older than his body.
It's a technical problem that is being solved incrementally over a period of years so that there aren't eventually widespread shortages or other major problems (NAT is pretty much the two digit year format).
NAT is more like checking the code to make sure a jump from 99 to 00 won't hurt anything, then sticking with the two-digit format. It's IPv4, but it's a semi-solution.
I'm not sure if it's supposed to be a deliberate parody of religion, or genuine crazy.
I'd say genuine crazy considering he got the story wrong and there are plenty of Bibles around for reference. God didn't muddle the languages to keep dictators from ruling everyone. He did it because mankind was reaching the heavens and "nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them!" Why that was considered a bad thing is not mentioned (pride?).
RT (Perl) or Traq (PHP) will both track tickets well enough. There are plenty of other open source web-based help desk programs, and installing such software and configuring apache falls within your sysadmin role. Yay.
Technically, any politician automatically becomes a stateman posthumously because a politician dying intrinsically is doing something great for the country. There can be living statesmen though.
People also never seem to consider man hours involved in supporting something. We don't have an unlimited number of IT staff (we have 3 in our case, and some students)
Ah, but the school has hundreds of more students available to be sysadmin interns. "Deputize them all" say the researchers!
I want to open 5 ports in the company's firewall and run some software as Admin on my workstation? Yea, scrutinize away! I want to install Angry Birds on my company phone to screw around a little during my lunch break? As long as it's OK with my manager, what the hell does IT care? Is Angry Birds going to steal the corporation's payroll records?
Maybe. Maybe worse. Have you vetted it? Relying on Apple to have vetted it is stupid. And maybe this version is innocuous, but the update carries the malware load.
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Closing Google is for many people the same as closing the Internet. How to go to a site without a search box?
You can't now that Firefox has removed the URL bar.
What's the difference between Facebook, Google, et. al. taking themselves offline compared to the government doing it for them? From an end user's perspective, there is no difference.
It's the difference between a dude in Tunisia setting himself on fire in political protest and the cops taking him away to be disposed of quietly. Choice. Freedom. Yes, if you get freedom to decide for yourself, that means the people running Google and Facebook get freedom too. It's part of the overall concept. And when people see that Google, Facebook, et al are willing to hurt themselves to stop this legislation, it might pique a little interest.
Not when Facebook is reduced to one horizontal line of text at a time like ed. That's tough to filter out.
How will they know about altavista without googling for "+'search engine' -google -bing"?
What about this makes them evil?
Nothing. It does make them stupid though. You'd think they'd want as many apps as they can get (and young minds learning their platform). Developers, Developers, Developers!
I recently watched a few episodes, just to see what it was about. I love both scifi and steampunk, so I should be the target audience for a space western like that.
But it's not Steampunk. It's pure sci-fi with some cultural western and Chinese flair on the outer-rim colony planets (not unlike star wars and star trek). Get further into the series and you'll see some core planets.
It was... OK, I guess. The acting and writing were mediocre (A bit too many cliches, etc. but tolerable)
That's where you part ways with a lot of us. Compare whedon's writing to Lucas or any trek, and you'll find character growth and clever interplay of personal goals.
and the special effects were OK (when taking into account the budget constraints they probably had).
CG will look dated because CG always looks dated. If you can ignore it while watching B5 or ST:TNG, then you can ignore it anywhere.
The setting itself was nice, though there wasn't that much originality if you're already well familiar with the genre.
genre? Cowboy bebop and... What else exactly?
Really, it was on par with Farscape: I wouldn't change the channel when it's on but I wouldn't go out of my way to recommend it to a friend.
Firefly keeps within its universe's setting. No aliens (all human colonies), no magic (so no episodes like Catspaw or That Old Black Magic), no sound in space, very little lasers (mass drivers still being better bang for your buck). Watch far enough, and you'll find they don't even have regular interstellar travel (it's only been done once, long ago). The only super-science they have is gravity manipulation, and it powers engines, lifts, keeps feet on the deck, and allows for insane accelerations. But very little "quasi harmonic nucleon polarity reversal" talk.
So I found myself wondering... why do some people love it so much? Is there some specific aspect of the show that they consider well made or what?
Did you like dr horrible's singalong blog? This show was written just as well. Humans like a little bit of cliche. Without it, there's little structure, like in an art film. But they also like surprises, and this series has a lot.
I believe GP was referring to the need to use dos2unix and unix2dos.
I was taught that a 100 watt light would safely thaw a frozen water line if kept in an enclosed area without burning down the house.
It does. It also keeps a small outside dog or cat house warm. Stronger benefit more than "heat" lamps: they're not overly hot, and you can tell from a good distance whether they've gone out.
* Heat. ie intentionally inefficient because both heat and light are needed from one light fixture.
Seriously. Are you going to watch the next batman 7 months after release, or are you going to the nearest Imax?
I don't have to grab the marshmallow right away. I'm the kind that waits for the promise of "two marshmallows later" to be fulfilled. I've waited my whole life to see "the next batman", I'm pretty sure I can wait seven more months (but it's usually not that long; two months).
Eventually they will discover a killer app that they must be able to run on their device of choice - and then discover that since they went the iPhad route, they are completely denied the chance to use it.
Already happened with tethering and copy/paste. iPhone users stuck through the hard times through three phone upgrades before they almost got what they wanted.
"It seems we lost 100,000 customers after we announced we weren't going to charge the $2. I guess they really wanted to pay us $2 more. Reinstate the fees!"
Who shows their teeth when smiling?
People who never had to wear braces in middle school. That's when I learned to smile with my lips closed.
With stuff like DynDNS why do you need a static IP anywhere?
Whenever I'm SSH'd into work from home, I have to remember to run screen because my IP address changes almost nightly, and it seems to be always when I'm in the flow.
That's what I read the title as. I thought of Marvin and Data. Of the two, only Data is an android, and while Marvin might be many ages-of-the-universe old, Data's head is three hundred years older than his body.
It's a technical problem that is being solved incrementally over a period of years so that there aren't eventually widespread shortages or other major problems (NAT is pretty much the two digit year format).
NAT is more like checking the code to make sure a jump from 99 to 00 won't hurt anything, then sticking with the two-digit format. It's IPv4, but it's a semi-solution.
I'm not sure if it's supposed to be a deliberate parody of religion, or genuine crazy.
I'd say genuine crazy considering he got the story wrong and there are plenty of Bibles around for reference. God didn't muddle the languages to keep dictators from ruling everyone. He did it because mankind was reaching the heavens and "nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them!" Why that was considered a bad thing is not mentioned (pride?).
skinny people are worthless in the winter.
Tell that to practically every scandinavian I've ever met.
RT (Perl) or Traq (PHP) will both track tickets well enough. There are plenty of other open source web-based help desk programs, and installing such software and configuring apache falls within your sysadmin role. Yay.
Technically, any politician automatically becomes a stateman posthumously because a politician dying intrinsically is doing something great for the country. There can be living statesmen though.
'Bigger innovation labs and companies are holding back on numerous innovations until they can properly monetize them.'
And citizens are holding on to their money until they see something worth buying. Innovate, dammit!
How long before Apple reproduces the iPhone market model on the Mac ?
Two, three years, tops. They stated their intent when the iPhone came out, and everything they've done since supports their intent.
People also never seem to consider man hours involved in supporting something. We don't have an unlimited number of IT staff (we have 3 in our case, and some students)
Ah, but the school has hundreds of more students available to be sysadmin interns. "Deputize them all" say the researchers!
I want to open 5 ports in the company's firewall and run some software as Admin on my workstation? Yea, scrutinize away! I want to install Angry Birds on my company phone to screw around a little during my lunch break? As long as it's OK with my manager, what the hell does IT care? Is Angry Birds going to steal the corporation's payroll records?
Maybe. Maybe worse. Have you vetted it? Relying on Apple to have vetted it is stupid. And maybe this version is innocuous, but the update carries the malware load.
"Moot" and "moat" aren't even homophones, damnit!
"Not that there's anything wrong with that."