Whenever I try to walk on a step that isn't there, or if I misjudge the slope of the ground, I stumble. So should the simulation become to engrossing and you get distracted, you'll end up on your face the first time you try to navigate some uneven virtual terrain and the floor is still level.

It has an extra lowercase "l" at the end, remove that and it works.

Quite right, but adding a macro language to HTML moves it much closer in that direction, as it adds a more declarative rather than imperative feel. Note that I fully support imperative markup, but if you're going to do that, you might as well use a real language.

I can think of a few alternatives. Lua, while usually thought of as a programming language, started out as a data description language, and still does that job well. JSON is basically JavaScript initializers. Hell, even S-expressions at least have the advantage of being less cluttered. There are plenty of existing, standardized plaintext formats for representing structured data, and just about all of them are better than HTML/XML. I guarantee you'd find _any_ of them more readable than HTML/XML, even if it was the first time you'd seen it.

HTML, XML, and really the whole SGML family kind of suck-- ugly syntax, annoying to hand-edit, lots of boilerplate, and the list of faults go on. The idea of writing actual programs in such a language is terrifying.

Exactly what I was going to say. How much does it take to run the IRS and its international equivalents, the US Mint and its equivalents, and the conventional banking system? It isn't nothing, that's for sure.

That's part of what I liked about Seasons 3 and 4-- there was a major mind-blowing plot twist (a "wham episode") every single week. It was, as I said, thoroughly awesome. On the other hand, the episodes I liked from Season 5 were mostly the smaller-scale, character-driven ones (Long Night of Londo Molari, Day of the Dead,) rather than the story-driven ones.

Wanna talk socks?

_Legend of the Rangers_ was, at one point, a very promising pilot. What happened to keep the show out of production, how would history be different if it had gotten made?

Seriously? B5 was awesome in Season 4, and although Season 5 was kind of a letdown as a whole, it also had a few really good episodes.

Can you list any examples of shows that have changed your approach to Science Fiction since Babylon 5 was written? For example, the latent success of Firefly showed how smaller-scale science fiction can be effective. How have you been influenced by Firefly or any other show post-B5?

I must confess, I still don't get OnLive. Sure, you can have powerful hardware rendering immaculate frames, but then you have to use lossy compression to get those frames to the screen, so you probably end up with inferior visual quality (and a subpar framerate.) Not to mention the latency concerns others have mentioned here-- OnLive might be fine for a single-player game, where there's only one round-trip, but a multiplayer game? Not a chance.

I happen to know did a limited production run of these replicas, and gave some away to friends. (NOTE: long interview.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3fLntnhlgA

In fact, the author has become part of the free-market solution, by inadvertently "auditing" the quality of Yahoo and Hotmail's email service, and motivating their customers to demand better.

This story just goes to show, anyone can install and use Low-Orbit Ion Cannon, even if he or she doesn't understand how the Internet works. No matter where you fall on the "hacker" definition debate, it's pretty clear that these people aren't hackers.