Tuesday Tabs
Yeah, it’s tuesday. The days just keep sneaking up on me.
· “You Don’t Understand Our Audience” - Technology Review
Technology is changing TV, but the networks don’t want to be changed…
· Six Reasons Why Star Trek Should Stay Dead - io9
For me the big one is “Obsessive continuity and reveling in cheese” - reimagining a show is the new remake.
· Jay-Z launching record label with Apple - The Boy Genius Report
If this is true, it’s a whole new thing for Apple. Hmm, interesting…
· The Mozilla / Firefox IPO* - Part 2: Mozilla Responds - Silicon Alley Insider
First I thought “dumbest idea ever”, then I thought, “welllll maybe”, now I think, wouldn’t be terrible, but public companies tend to have very short term vision, which isn’t always great.
· Newfangled DRM Even Better At Punishing Paying Customers - techdirt
It just keeps on getting worse. And worse.
· Majority of new PCs ship without Windows Vista, Gates (unintentionally) reveals - iTnews
How do you spin this? These are two stats straight from Gates’ mouth!
· Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow? - CrossTalk
My own CS education consisted mostly of Scheme which I loved and then C++ which I found reasonably fun.
January 8th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
6 reasons Star Trek should stay dead was a dumb article. For one I disagree with almost every point, particularly the cold war era analogy which is just plain stupid. I think a lot of “old school trekkers” take the show far more seriously than the writers of the show itself. It’s good vs evil in space, and it’s an overall feeling (thank you Gene) that life can be simpler and better. Cold war my winning side ass. I think the show Enterprise was an amazing show. Can’t say I liked DS9 or Voyager (I know Howie will yell at me) but Enterprise moved me like next gen did. If they don’t come back with another Star Trek series in the next 10 years I will be shocked. They just started to get the next gen vibe goin’ when it got canned. Oh well, I suppose whatever happens I will still have to work, so who cares.
January 9th, 2008 at 8:48 am
Heh! I’m not much of a trekk(ie/er) so I dunno about all that - but it looked pretty interesting to me - the Trek world is getting too heavy with the continuity - I think they need a fresh start. But that’s just me.