Comment Re:Doesn't matter what he did (Score 1) 465
That's because Voyager didn't have characters, it had character roles.
That's because Voyager didn't have characters, it had character roles.
Agreed. Better Off Ted was fast realizing itself as a decent replacement for Arrested Development.
Wow, that's a highly effective explanation. And a car analogy to boot.
It's a video, but a very well done post-mortem tutorial on what Google Wave was and why it was (potentially) awesome.
http://www.cracked.com/video_18209_google-wave-pissed-off-tutorial.html
"Google Wave: You Don't Deserve It"
The computer they're running on does.
Preemptive: yes, you can buy older mac hardware too. You can get macs sub $500, and even sub $200 depending on what you want.
Whoa, driving on the road charged by GPS? Hell yes please! Take that money and push it back into developing a modern travel infrastructure. Awesome.
They weren't going to Earth until Kirk took command.
Sounds like documenting a nice CLI is easy and a crappy GUI is hard.
Not 7.1 surround sound?
I use blu-ray for the quality movies that I want to max out my home theater. For watching anything else Netflix or Hulu is perfectly adequate.
Naked DSL (or dry loop DSL): no phone, just DSL. Cheap, fast, easy. Verizon has plans from $20 to $40 per month.
I'm pulling down a mere 50K as a web developer for a major university. I have a wife, a kid, a mortgage, monthly payments into retirement and other savings accounts and we manage to do alright on my single income. Budgeting: it's not that hard.
Yeah, but in this case the free software is really subpar.
Anecdotes? Yeah!
When I'm doing reading for a course I write out my thoughts and key points in simplenote or notational velocity, then go over the reading again, then go over my notes again with new insights. I can close my eyes and visualize the ascii diagrams and notations and salient points; and also reference them quickly in class.
With Kindle and iBooks I can highlight and attach notes (timestamped notes!) to passages of text and then search *them* in addition to the actual text. Win, so much win.
We've got that now. d20srd + myth-weavers = rules and character sheets on the iPad
I could even tie in a dice rolling application that tracks statuses and their corresponding effects on the dice, but I still prefer physical dice.
That situation is the end result of really bad planning; that doesn't mean that that's the only way to do it.
What good is a ticket to the good life, if you can't find the entrance?