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Comment Re:Battlestar; Just the 4th Season (Score 1) 922

You could fix BSG with clever editing and a different title card at the end. Rather than have them DISCARD antibiotics and advanced industry, just point out that 30,000 people aren't enough to actually sustain an industrial society. ie. "We're out of tylium, the antiobiotics are gone, we're running an energy deficite. We've got thirty years at most before we're all fighting over the scraps." Then move the the "landing" up to about 5,000 years ago and make Hera the MRCA rather than mitochondrial eve (which they misunderstood anyway) and voila. Then they've actually made an interesting point, since the arrival of the Colonist actually corresponds with the very beginning of "civilization" on Earth.

Comment Depends on what you're doing with it. (Score 1) 124

If all you want to do is theme it and go, then it's pretty awesome. It's out of the box functionality exceeds software costing $100,000. If you need to customize anything, then be prepared to enter a dimension where pain and chaos reign, complicated doesn't even cover it, and there's almost zero good documentation.

Comment Re:Not so different from Google (Score 1) 582

Of the ten results on Google, eight are about why WINDOWS is so expensive. Of the ten results on Bing, eight are about why MACs are so expensive. One result on each page is why vinyl windows are so expensive.

I seem to recall that searching for anything related to a Google product will return Google's product at or near the top.

That couldn't be because you searched for a Google product could it? If you do a search for "gmail sucks" the results are comparable, though.

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Eye In the Sky For City Crime Fighting 389

Tiger4 writes "The mayor of the City of Lancaster in the Antelope Valley of southern California is considering a high-definition video flying platform to aid in crime fighting. The aircraft, would circle the city constantly, able to zoom in on activity spots instantly. 'You never know when you are being watched or followed. It would be stupid to commit a crime. You see it with such detail,' said Mayor R. Rex Parris, who took a ride last week in a camera-equipped airplane with pilot Dick Rutan. 'I have every hope that Lancaster will be the first city to deploy it. I've never been so excited about anything.' Dick Rutan is the same pilot who flew around the world non-stop in the Voyager, custom built by his brother Burt Rutan at Scaled Composites in Mojave." The aircraft is nothing special, a garden-variety Cessna or the like, but "the camera is an example of technology developed for and used by the military making a transition to civilian applications, Rutan said."

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